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Ah, the weakness of the panglossian arguement.
All things fucked in this
world of ours, and exactly where you can stick it.
Melethalwen.com
Online gallery for Tina Contes.
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The place
where Joe gives you all the things that make him such a dork, so now
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03/29/05
"What's Funnier?"
EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name
WASHINGTON, DC—Days after unveiling new
power-plant pollution regulations that rely on an industry-favored
market-trading approach to cutting mercury emissions, EPA Acting
Administrator Stephen Johnson announced that the agency will remove the "E"
and "P" from its name. "We're not really 'environmental' anymore, and we
certainly aren't 'protecting' anything," Johnson said. "'The Agency' is a
name that reflects our current agenda and encapsulates our new function as a
government-funded body devoted to handling documents, scheduling meetings,
and fielding phone calls." The change comes on the heels of the Department
of Health and Human Services' January decision to shorten its name to the
Department of Services.
What do YOU
think?
Tom DeLay Took Father Off Life Support in 1988
The Los Angeles Times has revealed that House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay's family went through a similar ordeal as Schiavo's family.
While Delay has denounced the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube as "an act
of barbarism", he supported allowing his father to be taken off life support
16 years ago. In 1988, Delay's father suffered a freak accident and went
into a coma. He was kept alive by intravenous lines and oxygen equipment.
Then when his kidneys failed, the DeLay family decided against connecting
him to a dialysis machine. Charles Delay died on Dec. 14, 1988 surrounded by
his family. Tom Delay's mother said "There was no point to even really
talking about it. There was no way [Charles] wanted to live like that. Tom
knew - we all knew - his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way."
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"Guatamalan Coffee Picker Happy if Single Person Starts Day Alert"
"Pablo Paredes Faces Court Martial For Refusing to Fight in Iraq"
02/26/05
The Old Man buddy icons.
03/25/05
The Long Emergency
What's
going to happen as we start running
out of cheap gas to guzzle?
By JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7203633?pageid=rs.NewsArchive
&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1111689845570&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.104
Very succinct
and thorough. Just needs
Energy,
Nature & Society: Chapter 1 of
The Party's Over
by Richard Heinberg mixed in there for
some real perspective.
"The few Americans who
are even aware that there is a gathering global-energy predicament usually
misunderstand the core of the argument. That
argument states that we don't have to run out
of oil to start having severe problems with industrial civilization and its
dependent systems. We only have to slip over
the all-time production peak and begin a slide down the arc of steady
depletion.
The term "global
oil-production peak" means that a turning point will come
when the world produces the most oil it will ever
produce in a given year and, after that, yearly production will
inexorably decline."
" In March, the Department of
Energy released a report that officially
acknowledges for the first time that peak oil is
for real and states plainly that "the world
has never faced a problem like this. Without massive mitigation more than a
decade before the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will not be
temporary." "
I'm still
chuckling over "Some "cornucopians" claim that the Earth has
something like a creamy nougat center of "abiotic" oil..."
Energy body wants brakes on fuel consumption
"In forming its
conclusions the IEA tacitly admits that extra police would be needed in
these circumstances to stop citizens breaking the bans. Even the cost of
those extra patrols are part of the IEA's study"
North
Korea threatens US with war
PTI[ FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2005 11:49:29 AM ]
Photo: veer.com
Created: 25.03.2005 16:45 MSK (GMT +3), Updated:
17:35 MSK,
MosNews
Russian oil companies once again failed to achieve full oil
reserve replacement in 2004, with newly discovered deposits representing
only 72 percent of the total output, Sergei Fyodorov, an official with the
Russian Natural Resources Ministry said on Friday, March 25.
Fyodorov said that Russia added only 330 million tons (2.4 billion barrels)
in new reserves against 2004 output of 458 million tons. He also said that
between 1999 and 2003 reserve replacement ran at 85 percent of output.
Russian oil output has risen by more than 50 percent since 1999 to over 9.3
million barrels per day and represented the bulk of new oil coming from
outside the oil cartel OPEC.
Growth has slowed in the past months due to
several factors such as the Kremlin’s dismemberment of oil major
 Yukos,
export bottlenecks, higher taxes and the lack of new
easily recoverable reserves.
03/24/05
Please allow me to reintroduce myself,
mynameis
Chris, and I do not exist
it's just some shit that a kid did just for kicks
an effort of the last ditch
to stop the steel from slittin the wrist
thick in the midst of life being a bitch, of just being chris
that's when the little fucker just started flipping the script
cleaning his kicks, clearing his throat, bettin the chips
that there's a bunch of kids like him with no rims
no checks, no chicks, no switches to flip
like edward scissorhands with mad salivia glands
mcchris spits like a kid when he is really is a man
and he really is a fan of the skywalker clan
and any other band claiming that they're weakerthan
started out a solo mission, quickly became round up
of any underdog, any unloveable pound pup
any motherfuck who's a thug thanks to bad luck
any punk that's drunk cuz he aint found love.
April 3,
The Social, Orlando
April 7, State Theater, St. Pete
 03/23/05
Bet you thought I'd
forgotten how to date my entries.
Today's DemocracyNow! headline is actually cuz it's
funny...
Navy SEALs Sues Press Agency Over Abuse Photos
Meanwhile, members of the special forces unit Navy SEALs have sued the
Associated Press for publishing photographs showing Navy SEALs abusing Iraqi
detainees. One photo shows servicemen in Iraq sitting on hooded and
handcuffed detainees. One detainee had a gun to his head. Others appeared to
be covered in blood. The Navy SEALs has asked a federal court to bar the
Associated Press from distributing the photos anymore
claiming that the news agency had violated
copyright and privacy law.
Abuse photos!
Original Pirate Material!
03/22/05
Bet you thought I'd
forgotten how to make buddy icons
                   
Monday, March 21st, 2005
U.S. Broadcast Exclusive: Secret U.S.
Plans For Iraq's Oil Spark Political Fight Between Neocons and Big Oil
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In an explosive new report, investigative journalist
Greg Palast charges that President Bush was planning to invade Iraq before
the September 11th attacks and was considering two very different plans
about what to do with Iraq's oil. The plans reportedly sparked a political
fight between neoconservatives and big oil companies. Greg Palast joins us
in our firehouse studio and we air his exclusive report, "Secret U.S. Plans
For Iraq's Oil" for the first time in this country. [includes rush
transcript]
Cuz if this was a real
problem,
it
would be in the news or something.
Congressman Bartlett had this to say on the floor of the House yesterday:
"What now? Where do we go now? One observer, Matt Savinar, who has
thoroughly researched the options, and this is not the most optimistic
assessment, by the way, but may be somewhat realistic, he starts out by
saying, Dear Readers, civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon.
I hope not. This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult,
apocalypse Bible sect or conspiracy theory society. Rather, it is a
scientific conclusion of the best-paid, most widely respected geologists,
physicists and investment bankers in the world. These are rational,
professional, conservative individuals who are absolutely terrified by the
phenomenon known as global peak oil."
In explaining Jevon's Paradox, the gentleman from Maryland employed the
example of a small businessman who cuts his electric bill from $1,000 to
$500, and then uses that money to expand his business.
In explaining the energy-density of fossil-fuels, he employed the example
of a person attempting to push a three-ton SUV down the road.
Later, Congressmean Bartlett concluded by saying:
"Is there any reason to remain optimistic or hopeful? Let me go back to
Matt Savinar, that not-too-optimistic journalist. ``If what you mean is
there any way technology or the market or brilliant scientists or
comprehensive government programs are going to hold things together or
solve this for me or allow for business to continue as usual, the answer
is no. On the other hand, if what you really mean is is there any way that
I still can have a happy, fulfilling life, in spite of some clearly grim
facts, the answer is yes. But it is going to require a lot of work, a lot
of adjustments, and probably a bit of good fortune on your part.''
Overall, Mr. Bartlett's presentation was extremely thorough - put some
time aside to go through the whole thing. If you had handed me the
presentation without telling me who it came from, I would have assummed
it came from the likes of Richard Heinberg. It is really that good. He
even mentions Easter Island.
Way to go, Congressman Bartlett. The Sixth District of Maryland is in good
hands when it comes to peak oil.
$100 Oil Is Realistic Inside of Two Years
Extremists have warned for years of an impending economic disaster due
to the end of oil; the movement is dubbed "Peak Oil." It posits that one
day all the oil in the world will be depleted, prices will soar and
disaster will ensue. And many are saying that day has come.
State Propaganda: How Government Agencies Produce Hundreds of Pre-Packaged
TV Segments the Media Runs as News
According to a major expose in The New York Times,
federal agencies under the Bush administration - from the State Department
to Agriculture to the Transportation Security Administration - have been
producing hundreds of pre-packaged TV segments that have been broadcast on
local stations as real news. We speak with John Stauber of PR Watch, which
has been tracking the rise of government and corporate-produced news for
years. [includes rusht transcript - partial]
11 Mar 2005
Published on 9 Mar 2005 by
Aljazeera.net.
Archived on 11 Mar 2005.
US report acknowledges peak-oil
threat.
HERE IS THE FULL TEXT OF THE
DOE REPORT
by By Adam Porter in Perpignan, France
It has long been denied that the US government bases any
policy around the idea that global oil production may be in terminal
decline.
But a new US government-sponsored report, obtained by
Aljazeera.net, does exactly that.
Authored by Robert L. Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert
Wendling and entitled the Peaking of World Oil production: Impacts,
Mitigation, & Risk Management, the report is an assessment requested by the
US Department of Energy (DoE), National Energy Technology Laboratory.
It was prepared by Hirsch, who is a senior energy programme adviser at the
private scientific and military company, Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC).
They work extensively on defence and geopolitical issues for clients,
including many for the US government.
Advisory roles
Among current job openings at SAIC are positions at Fort Benning (formerly
School of the Americas) and a private military contract to help retrain the
Albanian air force in Tirana.
Hirsch has held a wide variety of positions in the US energy hierarchy
including senior energy analyst at the Rand Corporation, through to a
presidentially appointed assistant administrator for solar, geothermal and
advanced energy systems.
He has also previously worked for the US Department of Energy on numerous
advisory committees, including the DoE Energy Research Advisory Board.
This new report follows on from two presentations by Hirsch last year. One
on 1 March to the same National Energy Technology Laboratory and another on
14 June last year at the Annapolis Centre for Science Based Public Policy.
Here Hirsch laid down his ideas on the peak of oil production.
The Annapolis Centre for Science-based Public Policy is a group which has
received $658,000 in funding from Exxon Mobil since 1998. It openly disputes
the idea that global warming is the result of burning fossil fuels.
But this brand new senior-level report on "peak oil" is unprecedented in US
government circles. It is not just the existence of the report itself that
is such a landmark in the current oil debate. Its conclusions also pull no
punches.
Uncertain timing
"World oil peaking is going to happen," the
report says. Only the "timing is uncertain".
The effects of any oil peak are similarly not ignored. Specifically, the
impact on the economy of the United States. "The
development of the US economy and lifestyle has been fundamentally shaped by
the availability of abundant, low-cost oil. Oil scarcity and several-fold
oil price increases due to world oil production peaking could have dramatic
impacts ... the economic loss to the United States could be measured on a
trillion-dollar scale," the report says.
The authors of the report also dismiss the power of the markets to solve any
oil peak. They call for the intervention of governments. But also they
rather worryingly point to a need to exclude public debate and environmental
concerns from the process. They say this is needed to speed up
decision-making.
"Intervention by governments will be required, because
the economic and social implications of oil peaking would otherwise be
chaotic. But the process will not be easy. Expediency may require major
changes to ... lengthy environmental reviews and lengthy public involvement."
Hirsch notes, despite arguments from the major oil companies and producer
nations, that new finds of oil are not replacing oil consumed each year.
Despite the advances in technology reserves are becoming increasingly
difficult to replace.
Three scenarios
The report sees "a world moving from a long period in
which reserves additions were much greater than consumption, to an era in
which annual additions are falling increasingly short of annual consumption.
This is but one of a number of trends that suggest the world is fast
approaching the inevitable peaking of conventional world oil production".
The report then takes three possible scenarios and outcomes. Firstly
that energy replacement solutions, or "mitigation" as the report states, are
started 20 years before any "peak".
Secondly that solutions are only enacted
10 years before any peak and, thirdly, that solutions are only put into
practice as the peak becomes apparent.
In what some may see as an optimistic assessment, the authors believe 20
years is enough time to limit damage from any peak. However, they point out
that "if mitigation were to be too little, too late, world supply/demand
balance will be achieved through massive demand destruction".
(XMH
:, here's what it actually says:
•
Waiting until world oil production peaks before taking crash program
action would leave the world with a
significant liquid fuel deficit for more than two decades.
• Initiating
a mitigation crash program 10 years before
world oil peaking helps considerably but
still leaves a liquid fuels shortfall roughly
a decade after the time that oil would have peaked.
•
Initiating a mitigation crash program 20
years before peaking appears to offer the possibility of avoiding a world
liquid fuels
shortfall for the forecast period.)
Demand destruction is a modern way of saying catastrophic
recessions and
shortages. But as well as these predictions, the
report lays out "signals" it believes will be apparent in the run-up to any
peak. This is perhaps the most worrying aspect of the report, as
it seems to describe the very events
that are taking place at the moment.
Supply insecurity
"As world oil peaking is approached, excess production
capacity ... will disappear, so that even minor supply disruptions will
cause increased price volatility as traders, speculators, and other market
participants react to supply/demand events," the report says.
"Simultaneously, oil storage inventories are likely to
decrease, further eroding security of supply, aggravating price volatility,
and further stimulating speculation ... oil could become the price setter in
the broader energy market, in which case other energy prices could well
become increasingly volatile and unpredictable."
The report highlights a series of ways to minimise any impacts. From
increased fuel efficiency to technological help in stopping the practice of
"oil-left-behind" or non-extractable oil and various forms of new liquid
fuels, liquefied coal and gas-to-liquids.
But in its conclusion the report makes troubling reading, noting that "the
world has never faced a problem like this. Without massive mitigation more
than a decade before the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will not be
temporary. Previous energy transitions were gradual and evolutionary. Oil
peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary".
This report is the clearest signal yet that the U.S government is taking the
subject of "peak oil" seriously. Yet it remains to be seen what actions can
be taken to stop this potentially "revolutionary" change.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editorial Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There's a copy of the Hirsch report available here:
www.hilltoplancers.org/stories/hirsch0502.pdf (1.2 MB)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Original article
available here.
U.S. Trade Deficit Hits $58.3 Billion as Chinese Imports Surge
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050311-015158-8628r
http://www.forbes.com/energy/2004/05/12/cx_da_0512topnews.html
http://www.forbes.com/management/2005/03/07/cx_da_0307topnews.html
http://www.forbes.com/services/2005/02/16/cx_da_0216topnews.html
From Robert L. Hirsch's Report:
Reserves and production should not be confused. Reserves estimates are
but
one factor in estimating future oil production from a given reservoir. Other
factorsinclude production history, understanding of local geology, available
technology,oil prices, etc. An oil field can have large estimated reserves,
but if the field is past its maximum production, the remaining reserves will
be produced at a declining rate. This concept is important because
satisfying increasing oil
demand not only requires continuing to produce older oil reservoirs with
their
declining production, it also requires finding new ones, capable of
producing
sufficient quantities of oil to both compensate for shrinking production
from older
fields and to provide the increases demanded by the market.
C. Production Peaking
World oil demand is expected to grow 50
percent by 2025.
To
meet that demand, ever-larger volumes of oil will have to be produced.
Since oil production from individual reservoirs grows to a peak and
then declines, new reservoirs must be continually discovered and brought into
production to compensate for the depletion of older reservoirs. If large
quantities of new oil are not discovered and brought into production somewhere
in the world, then world oil production will no longer satisfy demand.
That point is called the peaking of world conventional oil
production.
When world oil production peaks, there will still
be large reserves remaining.
Peaking means that the rate of world oil production cannot increase;
it also
means that production will thereafter decrease with time.
4U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, International
Energy Outlook –
2004, April 2004
Or, the one I get entirely
too much of...
With a history of failed forecasts, why
revisit the issue now?
The reasons are as follows:
1. Extensive drilling for oil and gas has provided a
massive worldwide database;
current geological knowledge is much more extensive than in years past,
i.e., we
have the knowledge to make much better estimates than previously.
2. Seismic and other exploration technologies have
advanced dramatically in
recent decades, greatly improving our ability to discover new oil
reservoirs.
Nevertheless, the oil reserves discovered per exploratory well began
dropping
worldwide over a decade ago. We are finding less and less oil in spite of
vigorous efforts, suggesting that nature may not have much more to provide.
3. Many credible analysts have recently become much
more pessimistic about
the possibility of finding the huge new reserves needed to meet growing
world
demand.
4. Even the most optimistic forecasts
suggest that world oil peaking will occur in less than 25 years.
5. The peaking of world oil production
could create enormous economic
disruption, as only glimpsed during the 1973 oil embargo and the 1979
Iranian oilcut-off.
Accordingly, there are compelling reasons for in-depth, unbiased
reconsideration...
504. The US Department of Energy
addresses Peak Oil
The US Department of Energy has submitted the following article for
inclusion in this Newsletter
The Mitigation of the
Peaking of World Oil Production
Summary of an Analysis, February 8,
2005
A recently completed study for the U.S. Department
of Energy analyzed viable technologies to mitigate oil shortages associated
with the upcoming peaking of world oil production. 1
Commercial or near-commercial options include improved
vehicle fuel efficiency, enhanced conventional oil recovery, and the
production of substitute fuels. While research
and development on other options could be important, their commercial
success is by no means assured, and none offer near-term solutions.
Improved fuel efficiency in the world’s
transportation sector will be a critical element in the long-term reduction
of liquid fuel consumption, however, the scale of effort required will
inherently take time and be very expensive. For example, the U.S. has a
fleet of over 200 million automobiles, vans, pick-ups, and SUVs. Replacement
of just half with higher efficiency models will require at least 15 years at
a cost of over two trillion dollars for the U.S. alone. Similar conclusions
generally apply worldwide.
Commercial and near-commercial options for
mitigating the decline of conventional oil production include: 1) Enhanced
Oil Recovery (EOR), which can help moderate oil production declines from
older conventional oil fields; 2) Heavy oil/oil sands, a large resource of
lower grade oils, now produced primarily in Canada and Venezuela; 3) Coal
liquefaction, an established technique for producing clean substitute fuels
from the world’s abundant coal reserves; and 4) Clean substitute fuels
produced from remote natural gas.
For the foreseeable future, electricity-producing
technologies, e.g., nuclear and solar energy, cannot substitute for liquid
fuels in most transportation applications. Someday, electric cars may be
practical, but decades will be required before they achieve significant
market penetration and impact world oil consumption. And no one has yet
defined viable options for powering heavy trucks or airplanes with
electricity.
To explore how these technologies might contribute,
three alternative mitigation scenarios were analyzed: One where action is
initiated when peaking occurs, a second where action is assumed to start 10
years before peaking, and a third where action is assumed to start 20 years
before peaking.
Estimates of the possible contributions of each
mitigation option were developed, based on crash program implementation.
Crash programs represent the fastest possible implementation - the best
case. In practical terms, real-world action is certain to be slower.
Analysis of the simultaneous implementation of all
of the options showed that an impact of roughly 25 million barrels per day
might be possible 15 years after initiation. Because conventional oil
production decline will start at the time of peaking, crash program
mitigation inherently cannot avert massive shortages unless it is initiated
well in advance of peaking. Specifically,
* Waiting until world conventional oil production
peaks before initiating crash program mitigation leaves the world with a
significant liquid fuel deficit for two decades or longer.
1 Hirsch, R.L., Bezdek, R.H, Wendling, R.M.
Peaking of
World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management.
DOE NETL.
February 2005.
1
* Initiating a crash program 10 years before world
oil peaking
would
help considerably but
would still result in a worldwide liquid fuels
shortfall, starting roughly a decade after the time that oil would have
otherwise peaked.
* Initiating crash program mitigation 20 years
before peaking offers the possibility of avoiding a world liquid fuels
shortfall for the forecast period.
Without timely mitigation, world
supply/demand balance will be achieved through massive demand destruction
(shortages), accompanied by huge oil price increases, both of which would
create a long period of significant economic hardship worldwide.
Other important observations revealed by the analysis included the
following:
1. The date of world oil peaking is not known with
certainty, complicating the decision-making process. A fundamental problem
in predicting oil peaking is uncertain and politically biased oil reserves
claims from many oil producing countries.
2. As recently as 2001, authoritative forecasts of
abundant future supplies of North American natural gas proved to be
excessively optimistic as evidenced by the recent tripling of natural gas
prices. Oil and natural gas geology is similar in many ways, suggesting that
optimistic oil production forecasts deserve to be viewed with considerable
skepticism.
3. In the developed nations, the economic problems
associated with world oil peaking and the resultant oil shortages will be
extremely serious. In the developing nations, economic problems will be much
worse.
4. While greater
end-use efficiency is essential in the long term, increased efficiency alone
will be neither sufficient nor timely enough to solve the oil shortage
problem in the short term. To preserve
reasonable levels of economic prosperity and growth,
production of large amounts of substitute liquid fuels will be required.
While a number of substitute fuel production technologies are currently
available for deployment, the massive construction effort required will be
extremely expensive and very time-consuming, even on a crash program basis.
5. Government intervention will be essential,
because the economic and social impacts of oil peaking will otherwise be
chaotic, and crash program mitigation will need to be properly supported.
How and when governments begin to seriously address these challenges is yet
to be determined.
Oil peaking discussions should focus primarily on
prudent risk management, and secondarily on forecasting the timing of oil
peaking, which will always be inexact. Mitigation initiated earlier than
required might turn out to be premature, if peaking is slow in coming. If
peaking is imminent, failure to act aggressively will be extremely damaging
worldwide.
World oil peaking represents a problem like none
other. The political, economic, and social stakes are enormous. Prudent risk
management demands urgent attention and early action.
From ASPO NEWSLETTER.
Syrian President Concerned of U.S. Attack
Meanwhile pressure continues to mount on Syria from both the U.S. and
Israel. Syrian President Bashar Assad told the Italian newspaper "La
Repubblica," "the language used by the White House
indicates a campaign similar to the one that preceded the attack on Iraq."
GOP Congressman Calls for Nuking Syria
In Washington, Republican Congressman Sam Johnson of Texas has recommended
to President Bush that the U.S. consider attacking Syria with nuclear
weapons. Johnson recently told a church gathering, "Syria
is the problem. Syria is where those weapons of mass destruction are, in my
view. You know, I can fly an F-15, put two nukes on 'em and I'll make one
pass. We won't have to worry about Syria anymore."
And, in case you weren't certain we're in fuckin
Wonderland....
Paul Wolfowitz
Considered to Head World Bank
The Financial Times is reporting that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz has emerged as a leading candidate to become the next president of
the World Bank to replace James Wolfensohn. Wolfowitz was a chief architect
of the Iraq invasion and is one of the leading neoconservative voices inside
the Bush administration. Also being considered is Randall Tobias, former
head of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly.
<----- Here's the rest of 'em.
Wolfowitz, "ideological father" of...PNAC!
(repost follows.)
The
Project For the New American Century
has written to congress
calling for a draft.
Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces
January 28, 2005
"In the last three years, PNAC has gotten every single
thing it placed on its wish list
*
back in 2000. This is why its letter is so disturbing. The ideological
architects of this disastrous Iraq invasion are stating flatly that the
American military is being bled dry, and that the ranks must be replenished
before that military can be used to push into Iran, Syria and the other
targeted nations. The 'D' word screams out from between the lines. All the lip
service paid to the Iraq elections by these people does not contrast well with
their cry for more warm bodies to feed into the meat grinder.
Lyndon Johnson was excited about voter turnout in
Vietnam in September 1967. Eight years, three presidents and millions of dead
people later, that excitement proved to have been wretchedly illusory"
- From Will
Vote for Food
Ok. Enough with the heaviness for a little while, I hope.
Dig on
Freakingnews.com ahwile.
 Wednesday,
February 23rd, 2005
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) on the Iraq War &
the Bush Presidency
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( It does seem that Dr.
Thompson
chose to end his own life, this is simply a wee bit eerie and
thought it worth bringing up. -X )
HUNTER S.
THOMPSON: Let's keep hitting on this because I doubt that
George Bush is going to go away before the next two years anyway.
He should be run out of office. He should resign
right now, in my opinion. I did call for his resignation, but I don't
think we would have a groundswell immediately for that. There will be
a lot of people who agree with me.
MARY SUMA: Down the road?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON: Well, no,
in a year. I mean, the --
MARY SUMA: Will we be at war in
a year, Hunter?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON: I think so,
without a doubt. Like I said, we've been at war for 13 years. We've
been bombing that country that long and we've cut off everything, all
their food, books, you know, close -- cut off all imports of books
over there.
MARY SUMA: Have you ever been
there?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON: Excuse me?
MARY SUMA: Have you ever been
over there?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON: I don't
think so. Not in any way that I was impressed by. I probably have gone
through it or stopped there. I don't really know Iraq. I made a point
of getting to know it a lot better. It was a very advanced,
progressive country, had, what, 90% literacy, health care for the
whole entire population. They were doing well, prosperous, high
literacy. Many more book stores per capita in Iraq than there are in
this country. Many. No more. We bombed their children. We killed their
husbands and wives and we bombed them, and we saw her, and we're going
to do it again. Just random killing like that,
mass killing to force a population to get rid of Saddam so we can move
in and take over and control the oil, God damn it, if that's not evil,
I don't know what would be. You know,
Bush, he’s really the evil one in here. Well, more than just him.
We're the Nazis in this game, and I don't like it. I'm embarrassed and
I'm pissed off. Yeah. I mean to say something and I think a lot of
people in this country agree with me. A lot more never say anything.
We'll see what
happens to me if I get my head cut off in the next week by -- it's
always unknown Bush [inaudible] strangers who commit suicide right
afterward. No witnesses. They have a new kind of crime.
MARY SUMA: Is that the CIA kind of crime?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON: Oh, absolutely. Anyone who’s a
successful criminal has got a crime. Absolutely no witnesses, no
records. We can go on and on. I have to be restrained on the subject.
 Hunter S.
Thompson 1937-2005:
Dead of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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News Updates
Article by Ralph Steadman
George W Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my
friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn't vote for
these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today - and
we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever. Who does
vote for these dishonest shitheads? - HST, Kingdom of Fear, 2003
Bill Maher on Jeff Gannon
02/15/05 Bush's
Class-War Budget
By
PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: February 11, 2005
 t
may sound shrill to describe President Bush as someone who takes food from the
mouths of babes and gives the proceeds to his millionaire friends. Yet his
latest budget proposal is top-down class warfare in action. And it offers the
Democrats an opportunity, if they're willing to take it.
First, the facts: the budget proposal really does take food from the mouths
of babes. One of the proposed spending cuts would make it harder for working
families with children to receive food stamps, terminating aid for about 300,000
people. Another would deny child care assistance to about 300,000 children,
again in low-income working families.
And the budget really does shower largesse on millionaires even as it
punishes the needy. For example, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
informs us that even as the administration demands spending cuts, it will
proceed with the phaseout of two little-known tax provisions - originally put in
place under the first President George Bush - that limit deductions and
exemptions for high-income households.
More than half of the benefits from this backdoor tax cut would go to people
with incomes of more than a million dollars; 97 percent would go to people with
incomes exceeding $200,000.
It so happens that the number of taxpayers with more than $1 million in
annual income is about the same as the number of people who would have their
food stamps cut off under the Bush proposal. But it costs a lot more to give a
millionaire a break than to put food on a low-income family's table: eliminating
limits on deductions and exemptions would give taxpayers with incomes over $1
million an average tax cut of more than $19,000.
It's like that all the way through. On one side, the budget calls for program
cuts that are small change compared with the budget deficit, yet will harm
hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable Americans. On the other side, it
calls for making tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, and for new tax breaks for
the affluent in the form of tax-sheltered accounts and more liberal rules for
deductions.
The question is whether the relentless mean-spiritedness of this budget
finally awakens the public to the true cost of Mr. Bush's tax policy.
Until now, the administration has been able to get away with the pretense
that it can offset the revenue loss from tax cuts with benign spending
restraint. That's because until now, "restraint" was an abstract concept, not
tied to specific actions, making it seem as if spending cuts would hurt only a
few special interest groups.
But here we are with the first demonstration of restraint in action, and look
what's on the chopping block, selected for big cuts: the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, health insurance for children and aid to law
enforcement. (Yes, Mr. Bush proposes to cut farm subsidies, which are truly
wasteful. Let's see how much political capital he spends on that proposal.)
Until now, the administration has also been able to pretend that the budget
deficit isn't an important issue so the role of tax cuts in causing that deficit
can be ignored. But Mr. Bush has at last conceded that the deficit is indeed a
major problem.
Why shouldn't the affluent, who have done so well from Mr. Bush's policies,
pay part of the price of dealing with that problem?
Here's a comparison: the Bush budget proposal would cut domestic
discretionary spending, adjusted for inflation, by 16 percent over the next five
years. That would mean savage cuts in education, health care, veterans' benefits
and environmental protection. Yet these cuts would save only about $66 billion
per year, about one-sixth of the budget deficit.
On the other side, a rollback of Mr. Bush's cuts in tax rates for high-income
brackets, on capital gains and on dividend income would yield more than $120
billion per year in extra revenue - eliminating almost a third of the budget
deficit - yet have hardly any effect on middle-income families. (Estimates from
the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution show
that such a rollback would cost families with incomes between $25,000 and
$80,000 an average of $156.)
Why, then, shouldn't a rollback of high-end tax cuts be on the table?
Democrats have surprised the Bush administration, and themselves, by
effectively pushing back against Mr. Bush's attempt to dismantle Social
Security. It's time for them to broaden their opposition, and push back against
Mr. Bush's tax policy.
E-mail: krugman@nytimes.com
02/08/05
Investment 2005
Assessing the Petroleum Factor
by Ronald R. Cooke
The Cultural Economist
Author, "Oil, Jihad &
Destiny"
February 4, 2005
If 2005 were a conventional economic environment, we could invest as we have in
the past. Look for industry and market trends, check out the economic
indicators, keep an eye on the politicians, and then – with this information in
hand - evaluate individual stocks and bonds. But 2005 is not a conventional
economic environment. The old rules of investing are useful, but they ignore an
essential truth - petroleum has become a wild card.
Investing in 2005 is like walking
across a minefield. The landscape may look benign, we may think we know what is
happening to us, but then – boom! Investors are blindsided by an unfavorable
political event, or a SNAFU in oil production, transportation, or refining.
Consuming nations are threatened with a worldwide oil shortage that rattles the
stock and bond markets.
So we have to look at the stock
market in two ways. There is the conventional "everything goes right" approach,
and the "what if" approach. Conventional stock market evaluation assumes we know
that the past, however deviously, will tend to repeat itself. If everything
"goes right" our economic environment follows old familiar conventions. By
contrast, the "what if" approach adds the paranoia of the unexpected or unwanted
surprise that promises to blast away all conventional thinking.
The "Everything Goes Right" Numbers.
We humans collectively produced
just over 29.7 Bbl of oil in 2004. Of this amount, 5.2 Bbl (17.5% of the world's
production) was extracted and refined in North America (United States, Canada
and Mexico). We consumed 29.6 Bbl of oil during this period, and this left us
with a little surplus at the end of the year. North American users accounted for
9.0 Bbl (30.4%) of world consumption. The big news was the sharp increase in
Asia/Pacific oil consumption (including China and India) which grew at a rate of
6.8 percent. The price of light oil averaged $41.00 per barrel.
If geology, transportation and
refining are the only challenges to production, the oil industry can plan on
delivering 30.4 Bbl in 2005. Assuming projected economic growth rates are
correct, users will consume about 30.2 Bbl in 2005. And again, assuming no
disruptions to production, transportation and refining, and given the surplus
currently in the "pipeline", we should have a narrow – but workable – margin of
production over consumption. Asia/Pacific consumption is projected to increase
by 4.1 percent. The price of light oil should drop to an average of $37.00 per
barrel.
During 2004, the United States
experienced an inflation rate of 2.7 percent, an unemployment rate of 5.4
percent, and a GDP growth of 6.6 percent (all in current dollars). Gasoline
prices for all grades averaged about $2.00 per gallon.
Looking ahead to 2005, the United
States can reasonably expect an inflation rate of 3.5 percent, an unemployment
rate of 5.1 percent and an annual GDP growth of 6.7 percent (or about 3 percent
in "real" inflation adjusted terms). Gasoline prices, for all grades, should
average $1.84.
Unfortunately, 2005 Will Not be Perfect.
The ghosts of anxiety lurk around
the corner. The "Everything Goes Right" forecast is based on the mathematics of
an econometric model. Unfortunately, economic history – which provides the data
for any model – is unable to account for the foreword dynamics of an ever
changing global economy. Cultural forces (including those of politics and
religion), resource depletion, population migration, consumer confidence,
international cash flows, debt financing, and technological innovation are all
examples of change that are difficult to quantify. They are, never-the-less, a
very real part of our economic future. We thus have to make an evaluation of the
individual elements of our model against these dynamics in order to interpret
our economic forecast.
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The Dollar. The American
dollar will continue to decline against the currencies of its primary trading
partners. Worries about America's load of government, corporate and consumer
debt will increase.
-
Inflation. The current
account deficit will continue to grow. A weakening dollar will increase the
price Americans pay for imported goods and services. Limits to world resource
production will drive up the price of basic commodities. Wholesale prices have
been increasing and this will continue into 2005.
-
Oil. Further disruption
in the production, transportation and refining chain is highly likely, sending
oil prices considerably higher until the fear of shortages subside. This will
retard GDP growth, have a mild upward impact on inflation, and exacerbate
unemployment problems. The bigger the disruption, the larger the economic
impact. Oil shortages, real or perceived, could unleash recessionary forces on
the economies of the industrialized nations.
-
War. The psychological
pain and increasing costs of war will weigh heavily on the American economy in
2005. The Islamists have drawn a line of blood in the sands of Iraq. They have
a clear objective: drive the infidel out of the Middle East. Western
politicians are divided, spineless, and unprepared for the consequences.
Further terrorist attacks are being planned against European and American
targets. The potential economic impact of these events are a wild card we hope
will stay in the deck.
-
Debt. If the American
housing market experiences a substantial dislocation (i.e. tank), then the
market for mortgage debt will implode, sending the value of Mortgage Backed
Securities downward. International lenders are already wary of America's
capital and consumer debt. Any dislocation in any debt market could easily
spread into treasury, public and corporate bonds. The ensuing chain reaction
will trigger debt instrument defaults. If this scenario happens, the entire
global banking system will be under an enormous financial stress.
Let's evaluate the odds. Further
deterioration in the dollar: 100%. But we don't know how far it will slide, or
if it will recover. Higher inflation: 100%. But we don't know how high it will
go before the end of 2005. Oil disruptions: 100%. But we don't know if there
will be sufficient damage to cause oil shortages or how long these shortages
will last. War and terrorism: 100%. But it is difficult to assess their impact
on the economy. Debt crisis: 70%. If all goes well in 2005, there will be no
debt crisis. But in order for this to happen, everything else has to work. No
economic or political screw-ups to shake investor confidence.
The net impact of these scenarios
does not bode well for the American economy. Under the best of circumstances,
the decline of the dollar, higher prices for goods and services, and a loss of
confidence in American debt will send inflation well over 3.5 percent. The
American Federal reserve will be forced to raise interest rates. Unemployment
will exceed 5 percent. GDP growth will be less than 6.7 percent (in current
dollars). World stock and bond markets will bobble like a cork.
Oil in 2005.
Although short term oil shortages
are probable in 2005, they will not be caused by a depletion of oil resources.
In 2003, seven new large scale oil projects were brought on line and another 9
projects were added in 2004. In 2005, up to 18 new projects will come on line.
New drilling projects in Saudi Arabia promise to increase that nations capacity
to more than 10 million Bl per day by the end of 2005. Assuming relative peace
in Iraq, that nation's capacity should increase by 1.7 million Bl per day by
2006.
Our conclusion. Producers will
have the capacity to ship enough oil to cover growing world demand in 2005.
Weather or not they will be able to get it to the consumer is another matter.
Oil Beyond 2005.
Unfortunately, we humans are
running out of new large scale drilling projects. We might see 11 new projects
in 2006 and another 3 projects in 2007. That makes 2007 a pivotal year. At this
point (or perhaps we should say – by that year), existing worldwide well
production will be dropping faster than new capacity is coming on-line. A study
published by Petroleum Review points out that about a third of the world's oil
production is currently coming from mature oil fields that have a projected
production decline of four percent per year. Global production from existing
wells is therefore contracting at a rate of over 1 million Bl per day every
year. We should also note that approximately 70 percent of the world's oil now
comes from basins that were discovered and drilled over 25 years ago. Although
there will be enough capacity to satisfy demand in 2006, the excess of capacity
over consumption will begin to shrink. A study by Exxon-Mobile shows that
non-OPEC crude and condensate production will plateau by 2010 and begin to
decline by 2017. Any new increase in oil production will have to come from
Natural Gas Liquids, tar sands and shales, OPEC condensate, and OPEC oil wells.
Will the discovery of new large
scale oil projects save us? In 2000, there were 16 discoveries of 500 million Bl
of oil, in 2001 there were 8 large scale discoveries, and in 2002 there were 3
such discoveries. In 2003 there were no large scale discoveries of oil.
Furthermore, the rate of depletion has exceeded the rate of discovery since the
1980s. We consume more than 2 barrels of oil for every one found in a new
discovery.
Going forward, higher oil prices
and recessionary economic activity will put a downward pressure on consumer
demand. The Best Case scenario described in my book "Oil, Jihad and Destiny"
assumes no disruptions occur from cultural conflict and a relatively modest
annual increase in Middle Eastern production. In this scenario, reduced demand
delays peak oil production until 2021. However, the Production Crisis described
in "Oil, Jihad and Destiny" makes – according to most of my peers – a more
realistic assessment of world oil production. Peak oil production occurs much
sooner.
That said, we should be aware that
any qualified economic scenario will show that production, transportation
and refining disruptions will cause transient oil shortages long before we
humans have reached the theoretical peak of oil production.
And it's all downhill from there.
© 2005 Ronald R. Cooke
Guest Expert on
Financial Sense Newshour
Ronald R. Cooke
The Cultural Economist
Author: Oil, Jihad and Destiny
02/04/05
You Are Worthless. by Scott Dikkers. Click to turn pages.
01/31/2005
The
Project For the New American Century
has written to congress
calling for a draft.
Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces
January 28, 2005
"In the last three years, PNAC has gotten every single
thing it placed on its wish list
*
back in 2000. This is why its letter is so disturbing. The ideological
architects of this disastrous Iraq invasion are stating flatly that the
American military is being bled dry, and that the ranks must be replenished
before that military can be used to push into Iran, Syria and the other
targeted nations. The 'D' word screams out from between the lines. All the lip
service paid to the Iraq elections by these people does not contrast well with
their cry for more warm bodies to feed into the meat grinder.
Lyndon Johnson was excited about voter turnout in
Vietnam in September 1967. Eight years, three presidents and millions of dead
people later, that excitement proved to have been wretchedly illusory"
- From Will
Vote for Food
Dear Senator Frist, Senator Reid, Speaker Hastert, and Representative Pelosi:
The United States military is too small for the responsibilities we are
asking it to assume. Those responsibilities are real and important. They are not
going away. The United States will not and should not become less engaged in the
world in the years to come. But our national security, global peace and
stability, and the defense and promotion of freedom in the post-9/11 world
require a larger military force than we have today. The administration has
unfortunately resisted increasing our ground forces to the size needed to meet
today's (and tomorrow's) missions and challenges.
So we write to ask you and your colleagues in the legislative branch to take
the steps necessary to increase substantially the size of the active duty Army
and Marine Corps. While estimates vary about just how large an increase is
required, and Congress will make its own determination as to size and structure,
it is our judgment that we should aim for an increase in the active duty Army
and Marine Corps, together, of at least 25,000 troops each year over the next
several years.
There is abundant evidence that the demands of the ongoing missions in the
greater Middle East, along with our continuing defense and alliance commitments
elsewhere in the world, are close to exhausting current U.S. ground forces. For
example, just late last month, Lieutenant General James Helmly, chief of the
Army Reserve, reported that "overuse" in Iraq and Afghanistan could be leading
to a "broken force." Yet after almost two years in Iraq and almost three years
in Afghanistan, it should be evident that our engagement in the greater Middle
East is truly, in Condoleezza Rice's term, a "generational commitment." The only
way to fulfill the military aspect of this commitment is by increasing the size
of the force available to our civilian leadership.
The administration has been reluctant to adapt to this new reality. We
understand the dangers of continued federal deficits, and the fiscal difficulty
of increasing the number of troops. But the defense of the United States is the
first priority of the government. This nation can afford a robust defense
posture along with a strong fiscal posture. And we can afford both the necessary
number of ground troops and what is needed for transformation of the military.
In sum: We can afford the military we need. As a nation, we are spending a
smaller percentage of our GDP on the military than at any time during the Cold
War. We do not propose returning to a Cold War-size or shape force structure. We
do insist that we act responsibly to create the military we need to fight the
war on terror and fulfill our other responsibilities around the world.
The men and women of our military have performed magnificently over the last
few years. We are more proud of them than we can say. But many of them would be
the first to say that the armed forces are too small. And we would say that
surely we should be doing more to honor the contract between America and those
who serve her in war. Reserves were meant to be reserves, not regulars. Our
regulars and reserves are not only proving themselves as warriors, but as
humanitarians and builders of emerging democracies. Our armed forces, active and
reserve, are once again proving their value to the nation. We can honor their
sacrifices by giving them the manpower and the materiel they need.
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution places the power and the duty to
raise and support the military forces of the United States in the hands of the
Congress. That is why we, the undersigned, a bipartisan group with diverse
policy views, have come together to call upon you to act. You will be serving
your country well if you insist on providing the military manpower we need to
meet America's obligations, and to help ensure success in carrying out our
foreign policy objectives in a dangerous, but also hopeful, world.
The following from:
Blood Money, also by William Rivers Pitt, it turns
out. So, a big shout out to Mr. Pitt tonight. Thanks for the 411.
Who is PNAC? Its
members include:
 *
Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the PNAC founders, who served as Secretary
of Defense for Bush Sr.;
*
I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's top national security assistant;
*
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, also a founding member, along with four
of his chief aides including;
*
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, arguably the ideological father of
the group;
*
Eliot Abrams, prominent member of Bush's National Security Council, who was
pardoned by Bush Sr. in the Iran/Contra scandal;
*
John Bolton, who serves as Undersecretary for Arms Control and International
Security in the Bush administration;
*
Richard Perle, former Reagan administration official and present chairman of
the powerful Defense Policy Board;
*
Randy Scheunemann, President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, who
was Trent Lott's national security aide and who served as an advisor to
Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2001;
*
Bruce Jackson, Chairman of PNAC, a position he took after serving for years as
vice president of weapons manufacturer Lockheed-Martin, and who also headed
the Republican Party Platform subcommittee for National Security and Foreign
Policy during the 2000 campaign. His section of the 2000 GOP Platform
explicitly called for the removal of Saddam Hussein;
*
William Kristol, noted conservative writer for the Weekly Standard, a magazine
owned along with the Fox News Network by conservative media mogul Ruppert
Murdoch.
This letter came out 8 days after the inauguration, and
three days before Generalissimo Busho announced he's willing to pay
$100,000-$250,000 per dead soldier!
How 'bout that shit, kiddies. Scared yet?
Also, I'm going to make the font pack for my site available until I fix
embedding.
I will have a permanent link on the left. Tell your friends. Send
more cops.
I'm sorry I'm not very much fun anymore. I never really was to begin with.
01/02/2005
Peak Oil is now in the
Boston Herald and the
US News
and World Report
From the Boston Herald:
Enjoy the ride up ``Hubbert's peak.''
The descent might not be so fun.
After a 34 percent spike in the price of crude oil this past year, many industry
experts and economists are wondering whether something larger was at play during
2004 - such as the early signs of the ``Hubbert's peak'' theory coming true.
The Dissent?
He noted that the ``pre-reserves'' of
1 trillion barrels are, at today's world oil consumption rate, enough to last 35
years
Except our consumption WILL increase (See the
US News
and World Report article)
35 years ignores that the rate of extraction
will drop off. THAT'S THE PEAK!
He criticized the ``Hubbert's
peak'' theory as unreliable and overused. ``We don't know enough about the
globe's oil fields,'' he said. ``There's a lot undiscovered.''
No. There's not.
There's too much good stuff to cover in the US News article, read it for
yourself, but I will leave you with their concluding paragraph....
"The first message American consumers need to hear,"
says A. G. Edwards's O'Grady, "[is] if you think
the price of oil and gasoline has been volatile, you ain't seen nothin' yet."
01/01/2005!
Current Situation & 2005 Projections
" So for the next two years prices will tend to be soft, though they will remain
volatile due to production disruptions caused by natural catastrophe, warfare
and a host of other causes. In other words, we may have a cushion for the next
couple years. But how are we going to use it? If we provoke supply disruptions,
the price will bounce up. Once the disruption is over, prices will drop. "
The Real Dirty Bombs: Depleted Uranium
" “A flying rod of solid uranium 18-inches long and three-quarters of an
inch in diameter,” is what becomes of a DU tank round after it is fired, Rokke
said. Because Uranium-238 is pyrophoric, meaning it burns on contact with air,
DU rounds are burning as they fly.
When the DU penetrator hits an object it breaks up and causes secondary
explosions, Rokke said. “It's way beyond a dirty bomb,” Rokke said, referring to
the terror weapon that uses conventional explosives to spread radioactive
material. "
http://www.corporatepolicy.org/
"An epidemic of fraud has begun to overwhelm the government: 38
potential criminal cases are still under investigation, while 75 had been closed
or referred to other investigative agencies. Contractors are beginning to drop
out because security costs are too high, while legal shell games are being used
to escape accountability under the False Claims Act and other laws traditionally
used to hold government contractors accountable. Read our year-end report on the
Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004. To go directly to the list, click
here.
Corporations
funded the candidates.
Diebold counted the
votes. Sinclair
told us who to vote for, and so of course war profiteers like
Halliburton and
its ex-CEO Dick Cheney won. Business Week called it the day before the election:
the clear winners of this years election are corporations. And now they are
poised to collect. But it's also clear that corporate accountability and
economic justice are the populist issues of the future. For our 2004 election
analysis click
HERE."
Removed Breaking News since it's not being updated
anymore... his
Prepare page is growing,
though.
For energy related newziness head to
http://www.energybulletin.net/
12/06/2004
Vanderbilt University Offers Class on Peak Oil.
http://www.vanderbilthustler.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/12/01/41ad52a5c5331
The school Ryan Rexroth went to. Respected private University.
Not a fringe theory, folks.
Kenneth Deffeyes, mentioned in the article as a primary
textbook, predicts that we have already passed the peak and are currently
plateuing.
One line that I hear more and more frequently is "What's the
point in worrying about it if it's inevitable?" and "It's not going to be as bad
as you think as quick as you think."
I don't think it's going to be very quick at all, but it's
already happening. Unless you're on your way to Fallujah, like John Camisa, you
may have many many years ahead of you. They promise to be increasingly
unpleasant as wealth crumbles and poverty skyrockets. The best thing you can do
is to try and make every year pleasant but prepare for the future.
Even if
only mentally, so you know what's coming and why.
11/24/2004
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11/19/2004
Summary:
- Irregularities
associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 excess votes
or more to President George W. Bush in Florida.-
-Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with
electronicvoting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in
support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be
explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in
voter turnout, or size of Hispanic/Latino population.
-In Broward County alone, President Bush appears to have
received approximately 72,000 excess votes.
-We can be 99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to
chance.
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/election04_WP.pdf
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/election04_Sum.pdf
11/18/2004
Pennywise buddy icons? Pennywise buddy icons.
       
Thanks to
Pennywise the Dancing Clown for the screenshots.
Plus, this black guy that
got turned white
by liver pills.
Note: Fixed bad image link for T-shirt below.
11/17/2004
Russia Developing New Nuclear Missile
U.S. to
deploy Hyper Missiles
Government looking at military draft lists
11/15/2004
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11/12/2004
Keith Olbermann's Countdown on Voting
Fraud
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11/6/2004
An open letter to John Fucking Kerry.
11/5/2004
Not that it matters, but for the record...
Kerry Won - Here Are The Facts
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Eminem's
Mosh Music Video -
Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba
http://www.guerrillanews.com/videos/video.php?id=27
Scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel and re-energize and rewind
I give sight to the blind, my insight through the mind
I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time
It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight, you take it as I'mma whip someone's ass
If you don't understand, don't even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or at least shows no difficulty multi-task
And in juggling both perhaps mastered his craft
Slash entrepreneur who has helped launch a few more rap acts
Who's had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his career typical manure moving past that
Mr. kisses ass crack, he's a class act
Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back
Chorus:
Come along! Follow me! As I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on! give me hope! give me strength!
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors (c'mon)
All the people up top on the side and the middle
Come together lets all form and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black
Don't matter what color, all that matters we're gathered
together
To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)
Chorus.
Imagine it! pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this
coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head
noddin'
How could we allow something like this without
pumping our fists?!
Now this is our final hour.
Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six...
Teen million people, Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al-Queda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more
blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face,
MOSH
NOW OR DIE
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight.
Chorus.
And as we proceed,
To Mosh through this desert storm,
In these closing statements, if they should argue
Let us beg to differ
As we set aside our differences
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
And Mosh for the future of our next generation
To speak and be heard
Mr. President, Mr. Senator
Do you guy's hear us...hear us...*laughing* (Hailie)
10/17/04
Jon Stewart is not fucking
kidding.
10/16/04
NEXT THURSDAY
FBI took the hard drives of IMC servers in the UK
| The FBI issued an order to Rackspace in the US (Indymedia's provider
with offices in the US and London) to remove physically one of our servers.
The order was so short term that Rackspace had to give away our hard drives
in the UK.
The servers hosted numerous local IMCs. If you find a site is down: that
might be the reason
The reason why the hard drives were taken are unknown. check here for
more (and reguraly updated)
background information. |
INFORM YOURSELF...
Richard Heinberg and New Society Publishers have made the first chapter of The
Party's Over available in .pdf format in collaboration with
Bestofallpossibleworlds.org
The fundamentals of Peak Oil are here in as accessible format as possible. The
essential physics of energy and eco systems are explained, as well as the
terribly brief history of modern industrial society from a basis of increasing
energy availability. The problem is, we face a decline in the usefulness of
remaining oil sources, and alternatives do not supply enough net energy and can
not substitute for oil's countless applications. Oil is a precursor for all
things. The Party's Over is a precursor for understanding
Peak Oil. Click the book for the first chapter of
Party's Over Adobe Acrobat...
AdbeRdr60_enu_full.exe I don't try to get people to buy
things, pretty much because I rarely buy things, but if this chapter makes sense
to you, you owe it to yourself to get a hold of a copy of the real whole book. I
have a couple in circulation, but if you've got twenty bucks,
get the thing.
This is the first stop for the real story of Peak Oil. Ideally, the second stop
is independent research, but if it's a bother to even examine one argument, try
this. Heinberg carefully explains everything you need to know from different
disciplines to understand the situation, then tells the story of the World as We
Know It. Our gratuitous consumption and the scale of our living are things
we've surely all considered, or at least formed an opinion about, but probably
not this comprehensively. The magnitude of our dependence on cheap oil and it's
spectrum-wide implications are outlined undeniably. The problem is not and has
never been "running out". The problem is the systemic failures as it becomes
more dear, and the reasons why this outcome is inevitable. The statistics are
all here, the history speaks for itself, and if you're so damn sure we can keep
on living like this, what's the challenge in actually hearing what someone who
says it ain't so has to say. Eh? If not, don't talk to me about it, because I'm
sick of hearing conventional wisdom bandied about as if it made any fucking
sense. Peak Oil aside, this is a fundamental reader for life
as a living being on this planet simply for the mechanisms of energy. If more
people understood the world in these terms, we would probably behave as a much
saner species.
Bestofallpossibleworld.org's Peak Oil Page
Richard Heinberg's Museletter Website
...OR SHUT THE FUCK UP
The implications and inevitabilities of declining energy availability are
slapped down by a lawyer who can lay out a packed paragraph and doesn't kinda go
for that fuckin around.
The Q&A format is fantastic for the subject matter, and this would make a decent
primer, but I recommend finishing Party's Over first, because when Savinar says
things likes "thermodynamically viable" or "EROEI" he assumes you're
familiar with the concepts. Heinberg makes them identifiable for anyone.
Click the Book for the WHOLE BOOK. Full
Site Here.
Because he moves so quickly through material, summarizing concepts examined in
detail in Party's Over, he has time to touch on...practically every aspect of
the impending crash. His sections on the economics of debt and money as a
representation of energy are indispensable, as they constitute the actual
systemic failure of our modern world and will be the agents of this collapse.
This book is cold, gritty and relentless. These are our circumstances. TOAIO has
no interest in cushioning your comprehension of this, he just wants to smack
some silly ideas out of your head. Also, anyone who enjoys their fantasy complex
regarding the motivating factors of contemporary politics probably ought to just
go on waving their flag and not read this book because... fuck it, right? USA.
USA.
In both TPO and OAIO the history of this situation is repudiated with timeless
quotes which transport it from the realm of being a "cult" or "fringe
theory" or "conspiracy" to a long-term crisis which has developed, been
forewarned, ignored, and is now looming imminent.
. Matt Savinar also maintains the best archive of oil crash related headlines at
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html
Watch the crash as it unfolds.
Or, as an old friend of mine was fond of saying, the Danger Is Here.
And please... try to die as quietly as possible. 09/25/04
No comment necessary.
09/15/04
Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
"The Americans Scarcely Control Any of the Country" - Iraq
Descends into Chaos
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YOUTH CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR VOTING, SEX
Votergasm.org seeks 100,000 young people to pledge sex with voters on
election night and withhold sex from non-voters
(New York, NY) Increase voter turn-on. That’s the idea behind
Votergasm.org, an ambitious new youth campaign helmed by a group of
recent Columbia and Harvard grads who are seeking to increase youth voting and
sexual activity. Their goal: send 100,000 first-time youth voters to polls for
the 2004 elections, and catalyze 250,000 orgasms by the morning of November 3.
They’re asking Votergasm.org’s visitors to pledge to have sex
with a voter on election night—and withhold sex from non-voters until the next
presidential election. Since their launch last week, over 1,000 people have
pledged to do just that.
“Voting is hot,” said Votergasm.org director and spokeswoman
Michelle Collins. “And young voters are hot for each other.
Votergasm.org is a way to channel our generation’s patriotism into sex,
and vice versa. Election Day should be an erotic national youth festival, an
orgy of democracy and civic participation.”
To encourage election-night sex on campuses, Votergasm.org is
kicking off an aggressive and outrageous swing-state advertising campaign this
Thursday. The ad buy, starting with U-Penn’s Daily Pennsylvanian, will soon
expand to college newspapers in Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Colorado, Michigan,
Iowa, and Missouri.
At Votergasm.org, visitors can register to vote, host or locate
election-night Votergasm parties, and sign the
Votergasm Pledge to have sex with—and only with—fellow voters. The site
also features steamy instructional pictorials of young, scantily-clad male and
female voters demonstrating civic actions such as requesting an absentee ballot,
and a Hot-or-Not-style game in which visitors judge the political orientation of
people who upload their photos to the site.
“Many people think of politics as dirty. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Politics can be clean, invigorating, and beautiful – like sex,” Collins
continued. “When we looked at the statistics from the 2000 elections, we were
shocked. Millions of young people didn’t vote—and an even larger number did not
have sex that night. Never again.”
Votergasm.org is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization that
seeks to reverse two disturbing trends in American society: low voting rates
among young people, and unacceptably low rates of youth sexual activity.
The Faces of 1,000 Soldiers
with ensuing buddy icon.
09/10/04 Boy howdy.
http://www.sss.gov
has been COMPLETELY re-vamped.
Selective Service is all tuned
up and ready to go, but... there's no draft coming. But just in case of a draft,
they have brand-new, people-friendly sections on
What Happens In a Draft, "fast
facts" on how you can't cop out with college or canada, (with
FAQ's and
all... all new.) but they're not preparing for a draft. They have a
new director and are set to
make a readyness report to the President in 2005, but there's no need for a
draft. Rumsfeld has previous put Iran "on
notice!", and contends that they're
aiding
Iraqi Insurgents, but we won't need any more soldiers. Oh, Hey
Ladddieess.... you're safe for now, however
"While
maintaining that it was not necessary to register or draft women, the DOD review
concluded "the success of the military will increasingly depend upon the
participation of women"
So hurry now, and
Register Online!
Have some fucking buddy icons. 
Ivan Action
09/02/04
 
Anybody notice the preacher that came on after the speech? <---
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For all my XMH fans in the Atlanta area,
http://www.dragoncon.org/people/mcchri.html
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Private investigators get so much better spam than the rest of you shmoes.
" Government
statistics have shown that 80% - 90% of all terrorist attacks occur while the
victim and/or family members are traveling by automobile.
http://www.daksindustries.com
"
Latest website work in Progress...
Hey, here's
something you should do... Windows Messenger runs constantly on most
machines, it's a bitch to disable... obviously, if you're actively using it,
it's... ok, but the program is a security issue. Use
This
to disable it.
Great site
for checking port vulnerabilities 08/14/04 I
may end up eating my words about the severity of this storm, but I hope not
because boy does the fertilizer waste at Piney Point not need to flood into the
bay. See, it's been sitting in this leaky retention lake, and they have no
plants to process it, so the plan has been to eventually dump it into the gulf
of mexico. Phosphate
Nightmare Group
Seeks Solution for Wastewater Woes Map
of Piney Point
08/13/04
"Scary Scary Scary!!" Says Jeb Bush.
The Whole Fucking City of Tampa is advised to pick the shelves clean, then flee! flee! and go stay and shop at Disney for the weekend while this storm fucks off to Galveston or whatever equally likely path the TOTALLY UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER SYSTEM takes. Or did everyone in Florida suddenly forget how this works? Like Bonnie...which I drove right through today. Didn't have to roll up the window once. Oh well. It allready worked. Economic stimulus and crowd control all in one. I'm sure the boys down on MLK are having a field day... in everyone's stuff.
Key Westers Just shitting themselves
Meanwhile, here is a list of hotels that will be more than happy to accomodate you.
I hope when you come the weather will be clement.
I wonder where all the cubans evacuated to.
08/10/04
Mysticalhead.net:
"More popular in Seychelles than Bananadance.net!"
07/31/04
A Robot For You.
 Phew.
07/30/04
IF YA
SMELLL-
WHAT
BARAcK!
IS COOKIN'!
Oh yes. You must click... for his
entrance music.
07/26/04
 Dean,
Nader Debate Role of Third Parties on npr.org
http://boston.indymedia.org/ Streaming radio from the DNC
07/18/04
 The
buddy icon comes in regular and now, Jawline flavor!
Images
courtesy of danbrijbag.com
07/17/04 I couldn't not post
this,
so I had to bring the site back early.
No major changes, except now I can use
any fonts I
want.
As cool as HST Buddy Icons?
VS  
...this could get seriously fuckin' ugly, folks...
Also, The
Presidents of the United States of America are the most underrated band EVER.
Time will prove me right.
"all I can do/is just pour some tea for two/and state
my point of view/but it's not sane." I just want someone to say to me..(no
ho ho ho)...I'll always be there when you wake
The monkey speaks his mind!
Say hi to the monkey! the monkey likes you!
No, no.. he won't bite... as long as you're nice to
him.
yyyyyyeah!
...bo bo bo.
06/06/04
http://www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com
06/04/04
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/022704_draft_goff.html
05/31/04
I'll be moving all the
Draft
Shit to it's own page at
Bestofallpossibleworlds.org, but...
Selective Service has this to say about the draft. Emphasis, of
course, mine.
Notwithstanding recent stories in the news
media and on the Internet, Selective Service is not getting ready to
conduct a draft for the U.S. Armed Forces -- either with a special
skills or regular draft.
Rather,
the Agency remains
prepared
to manage a draft
if and
when
the President and the Congress so direct. This responsibility has
been ongoing since 1980 and is nothing new. Further, both the
President and the Secretary of Defense have stated on more than one
occasion that there is no need for a draft for the War on Terrorism
or any likely contingency, such as Iraq. Additionally, the Congress
has not
acted
on any proposed legislation to reinstate a draft. Therefore,
Selective Service
continues to refine its plans
to be prepared as is required by law, and to register young men who
are ages 18 through 25.
So lemme break this down real quick
Despite stories in the media?? I didn't hear this shit on CNN, I
tell you that.
· Oh,
they’re just Pre PAAARRREED That’s good.
So long as they’re ready for
·
….WHEN THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
SO DIRECT.
·
Has not acted…as of today….S
89 and HR 163 won't be pushed yet.
·
…but we’re refining our plans
Oh yeah, and this
thing.
05/29/04
Pending Draft Legislation Targeted
for Spring 2005
The Draft will
Start in June 2005
|
|
|
There is pending legislation in the
House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time
the program's initiation so the draft can begin at early as
Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential election. The
administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now,
while the public's attention is on the elections, so our action
on this is needed immediately.
$28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System
(SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as
early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must report to Bush on
March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for
decades, is ready for activation. Please see website:
www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the sss annual
performance plan - fiscal year 2004.
The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all
10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots
nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic,
military experts and influential members of congress are
suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog"
in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on
"terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to
draft.
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year,
http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/default.asp entitled
the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "to provide for the
common defense by requiring
that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United States,
including women, perform a period of military service
or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national
defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." These
active bills currently sit in the committee on armed services.
Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the
Vietnam era.
College and Canada will not be
options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a "smart
border declaration," which could be used to keep would-be draft
dodgers in. Signed by Canada's minister of foreign affairs, John
Manley, and U.S. Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge,
the declaration involves a 30-point plan which implements, among
other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and
departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more
equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher
education as a shelter.
Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service until the
end of their current semester. Seniors would have until the end
of the academic year.
Even those voters who currently support US actions abroad may
still object to this move, knowing their own children or
grandchildren will not have a say about whether to fight. Not
that it should make a difference, but this plan, among other
things, eliminates higher education as a shelter and includes
women in the draft.
The public has a right to air their opinions about such an
important decision.
Please send this on to all the friends, parents, aunts and
uncles, grandparents, and cousins that you know. Let your
children know too -- it's their future, and they can be a
powerful voice for change!
Please also contact your representatives to ask them why they
aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and
contact newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why
they're not covering this important story.
Courtesy of
congress.org
...The Danger is Extremely Fucking
Here. |
05/29/04
Exile With Ties to C.I.A. Is Named
Premier of Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 28 — Iyad Alawi, an Iraqi
neurologist known for his close ties to the Central Intelligence
Agency, was chosen Friday to be the country's interim prime minister
when the Americans transfer sovereignty here on June 30. (...)
Dr. Alawi is the leader of the Iraqi National Accord, an umbrella
organization he set up in 1991 with the help of the United States
government. A former member of the Baath Party, Dr. Alawi broke with
Mr. Hussein and fled the country for London in 1971, where he lived
for most of the time until Mr. Hussein's fall. In
the 1990's until now, Dr. Alawi, backed by the C.I.A., was the
soft-spoken foil to Ahmad Chalabi, the flamboyant exile to whom he
is related through marriage. Mr. Chalabi, backed by the Pentagon,
funneled what appears to have been erroneous intelligence to the
United States government that helped persuade the Bush
Administration to invade Iraq last year "
By DEXTER FILKINS
Published: May 29, 2004
Full @rticle @ Nytimes
*sniff* makes me so proud.
Oh, and what's on the news? Well, the
President is busy breaking in the new WWII memorial, so it would be
tacky to cover any activities in Iraq today. I'm
watching CNN, Fox and MSNBC to see who mentions this appointment...
so far, nothing. Tearjerking stuff about Pat Tillman, The
Memorial... ok, Najaf.. that's good.. Ah! This section is called
LATEST FROM IRAQ...a drive-by shooting... AAAND nothing at all.
Ah, finally. Something
on CNN... they mention the same points as the
new york times. Phew. I was
really scared for a minute there. Fox casually mentioned there had
been an appointment in a single sentence. Fox also, interestingly,
describes the prisoner abuse as "being forced to wear hoods over
their heads and stand in 120 degree rooms". I guess you can't say "raped
with plungers" on TV.
WHOAH. As I made this page, the article from
the clip above was removed from the headlines at NY Times and is
listed at the bottom under "International".
05/22/04
Yeaap, got this beauty falling backwardass off a trailer onto the
steps of an old Italian count's manor house. Incidentally, if anyone
feels like helping me and Erich move his shit to Winter Haven...
y'know for exercise or whatever... go ahead and poke my wound
to get a hold of me. One for Gandalf...
05/20/04
Hey Dave, I've been looking at your photos and I noticed a pattern
emerging.
Number One
Number
Two
Number Three
Images Courtesy of
05/08/04
DISASTER!
The F Show in Tampa is cancelled.
http://www.geocities.com/foffmusic/news.html
* The Green Room show in Tampa has been canceled. The Green Room
has changed hands and is now a hip hop club. We'll be rescheduling a
show for later in the year for Tampa at a different venue.
mmph. Maybe we can talk them into
playing at Yukon Studios.
Needs Must Show Love for MC Chris
Buddy Icon.
05/07/04
I love it when the coolest possible thing happens by accident.
Click big.
I didn't notice the odd etchings in the rocks when I took this shot.
These ancient peoples must have been truly stupid, as they chose to
carve on the jagged, nasty bit and left the nice, smooth white bit
untarnished. Perhaps they weren't thinking clearly from all the
smoke trapped in their cave. Click for detail on the markings.
Life on the Front Line,
Courtesy of
http://www.time.com/
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040510-631972,00.html
 
 He
used to be such a nice kid, too.
05/06/04
There once was a fellow named Noel
With a fierce and insatiable pole
without any restraint
he'd dive straight for that taint
but don't worry, he'll soon be paroled
Just a few floating heads for your day, and a
little Groomy
Grim, compliments of
bananandance.net.
04/28/04
By Request...
Daily Show? Daily Show. Daily Show lays the Kerry
-vs- Bush Service Record Arguement to Rest.
04/21/04
*nonchalantly* So, I'll be getting some people together to go see
F in Ybor may 14th if you wanna
go.
04/20/04
aaaand a big shout out to
Obaghai on his day of
awakening.
This is entirely too fucked up. Joe drew that illustration as a
doodle, see. I posted it on XMH, then this weekend I saw Encino man.
/14/04
"What is this now, Gamgee? The ninth, tenth time?
Are the
lembas worth it? Look at me when I'm talking to you!"
04/13/04
United States Geological Survey's overhead of the Hill.
3/04/04
Dick Cheney has crawled up your ass and died.
Congratulations, you found the little prick.
What crawled up your ass and DIED?
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New icons...
2/29/04
2/23/04
Flash Mob Supercomputers are ...pretty
cool.
2/19/04
Would you LOOK at that ass??
LOOK at it!!
I mean, come ON!!
...LOOK at that
ASS!! 2/18/04
I love you all...I really do.
But if I never see any of you ever again, don't take it personally.
It's just that I just bought Hit and Run,
Vice City and SW:
Galaxies...
...and I may be gone a little while.
2/13/04
Grahh.. I still can't bring myself to cut the page like I'm
s'posed'ta because of that Transmet page. It's too damn cool. I was
really gonna do it this time.
Oh well. Anyway, the NY Times
has a really good breakdown of all the candidate's stances on the
Issues. They've still got everyone up there, even those who've
pulled out, but whatever. It's good for contrast I guess. That link
starts at abortion just cuz it's the first one. The different issues
are up on the right. You might need a membership to access it,
but go ahead and join. It's free, they don't give out your address
as long as you unclick Yes! I would like to recieve special offers!
as per the usual, and hey, you'll have access to all of the NY Times
for free every day. If you don't feel like fucking with it, just use
mine. It's Krimminel /
nytimes
Also, the plane being hit by lightning is squooshed. Clicky for the
non-distorted ver.
2/9/04
2/6/04
2/4/04
Do a Google search for dan
brijbag. Feel lucky.
I can't bring myself to remove the Transmetropolitan comic at the
bottom of the page. Click it and someone made a list where you can
buy'em.
Which you could do right now, if you wanted.
create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide
1/31/04
Taylor's
entertaining the shit out of me these days.
1/30/04
Ok, I'm a God among men. I have a 300mhz system running as a shared
workstation on a local network. Remote Desktop Connection is
enabled, and limits the video resolution to 640x480, 256 colors.
I did all of this because my computer is too fast to play Gabriel
Knight I.
This is my desktop. The window is the other computer.
Got some cool
shit I just scanned at school. Mostly photos from camping.
They're large, so dialup users beware.
Man. I just have no sympathy for dialup users anymore.
Or people with shitty screen resolutions.
Contemporize, man.
1/29/04
So, if you have a Danbrijbag.com address, it' working now.
Just go
to http://www.danbrijbag.com
to login.
Choose "New Server"
Great Moments in My Own Personal
History:
Item Number Now: TayTay says really funny shit
tgoodwill**: Yeah, everyone
should be fine.. i just thought I caught all those mbox errors..
they just need to get an email first so that postfix creates their
maildir
Ketekkitian: oh ok
Ketekkitani: so should i email them?
tgoodwill** :It wouldnt hurt
tgoodwill**:just give 'em a
quick hows your father
1/28/04
Would you like to win a Date With Brak?
1/25/04
Ladies and Gentlemen...I give to you...
THE FARTING PREACHER
Shamelessly stolen from
http://www.ebaumsworld.com
Go to Video, and check the GI Joe shit & the Mario deal.
1/24/04
Hey, my scanner works again. Whee. ...slowfuckingpieceofshite...
1/21/04
Jesus.
04. Can't get used to typing that. Whatthefuck.
Ok, Wanna hear a fun song? Here's a fun project...
1. Download Realplayer. Make sure
it's the free one. (Trust me, there is one.)
(Also, afterwards,
make sure you disable StartCenter. No one needs it. Is wasteful.)
2. Go to http://gdradio.com/
Choose your bandwidth
3. While RealPlayer is a-playin', go to View,
Now Playing
4. Double click tracks until you reveal the one that says
"Robert Hunter Old Cabell Hall U of Va. 9-25-86 Side B"
It shuffles them, so I dunno which clip it'll be.
5. Play that, and fast wind to 44% or
18 minutes into it
6. Listen...he'll be talking about doing a show in
New Orleans. ...love
this tune.
7. Enjoy the rest of it. There's some great shows available here.
Hunter does a beautiful "Box of Rain" afterwards.
Thanks to the good folks at
GDradio.com 1/18//04
Iowa Caucuses start Monday. Re-vamped the site. Got DSL.
Here's the shit I've added for others to enjoy lately
Grateful Dead- Till The Mornin' Comes
ACDSEE
Classic install.exe
Mojo Nixon- The Polka Polka
Why Do They Hate Us? Article
Cell Phones Cause Brain Damage in Rats
Some Guitar Chords
Trying out typical tacky website shit over here to your right. Deal
with it. I'll be posting some pics of the roadtrip
as soon as I sort through them. The Dead, however, have posted some pics on
their New Years Setlist Site
12-10-03 Hey Cats-n-Kittens, I am OUT. In my
absence, cling true to the teachings of the first Hose Of Polyester Worship
and Horizontal Throbbing Teenage Desire and Our Lady Of The White Go-Go-
Boot, Lord of the Forty Watt Undulating Bubbling Lava Lamp Apocalyptic
No-Pizza-Take-Out-After-Twelve Shrine of the Wrasslin' Jeeesus Achy Breaky
Love Tabernacle from Nashville, TN: *
1. Sacred cows make good burgers if you know what temperature to cook'em at,
friends. 2.It takes a big man to cry, and an even bigger man to laugh at
that man 3. Two wrongs ain't never made nothing right, c'ept in Spring
Hill on a Friday Night yeah, ok, it's weak and stolen but I gots
other things on my mind. 11-24-03
AND THE WINNER IS: MAGE WAAGE
...partially because it's really good.
....mostly because he's the only one who submitted squat.
11-17-03 Happy Birthday
JOSHUA OF RICHARDS!
May
your days be long upon the Earth!
The years ahead may seem difficult, but it's all just a part of growing up.
Before you know it, your body will begin to tell you things... give
you...thoughts. Just remember they are
evil
and must be repressed at all costs. Also, don't worry about what the other
kids say, it's what's inside that counts.
And what birthday is complete without
PARTY GAMES!!
 Click
the image to load full size... whoever comes up with the best caption by
Next Monday (The 24th, you Nobel prize winners) Wins...Some...thing!
For those who can't tell, Keith is pointing at
Kristen and I on the floor of the van. Whether you choose to make this
relevant to your entry is a matter of personal artistry, I'm just letting
you know. (It took me awhile to figure it out myself.) No rules, just make
with the funny. Email your
entries to xupa@mysticalhead.net
11-14-03 Damn. Someone just pointed out that the link to Keith's Birthday
Pics is wrong. DAMMIT.
CLICK HERE if you haven't seen them yet.
XMH!! will likely be stagnant for awhile... there are great things
afoot at
DANBRIJBAG.COM 11-05-03
HTTP://WWW.TELLUSTHETRUTH.ORG 11-04-03 Welcome Back. First
things first...
DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE
CALLA
has been released. Go get it, but don't tell me a
MOTHERFUCKINGTHING. Clicky yes yes on the cover for
Stephen's choice of fine online retailers. (Barnes and Noble is three bucks
cheaper.)
I also found this pretty amusing... some
guy wrote a book and called it KING (of the) DARK TOWER, presumably
so when you see the cover it says
KING...DARK TOWER. Bet it suckered alot of blind assholes at airports.
Not linking to him, he's plenty clever enough on his own, I tell ya.
(People who bought this book also bought:
The Secret Life of Bees: A Novel Sue Monk Kidd)
See?? Assholes.
Secondly, it is only sporting to
announce that for those of you who haven't already received
subpoenas, KEITH DUPREE, THE GURN, THE PANTS, THE GOOCH
is now
LEGALLY DRUNK
10-04-03
I'm so fucking disgusted by the shamelessness and
disrespect that's taken over the internet. The lengths that people will go
to to bombard you with their crap...
Advertising has gone completely berserk. The code
that is run in your average popup does to your computer the equivalent of
breaking in to your house and hot gluing posters to your walls, ceilings and
furniture. I'm just completely blown away by how exploitative they are.
I mean, I keep tight security controls, and somehow
a fucking lyrics website can drop programs on my system that will try to
blow a hole in my security so it can send my entire history cache and
network settings back to home base, so some
dipshit's marketing analysis
software can best decide how to serve
my needs.
Anyway, I'm bringing this up again because it just
fucked with me, Thank god I monitor
every process and IP connection on my box at all times ...and for those of
you who lack the expertise, something can be done anyway. (I use
ZoneAlarm to limit what can access
the net. You should too. I'll add an explanation on this lovely gem later.
Do this other stuff first.)
Firstly,
uninstall or disable any popup blockers you may have
installed. They're all bullshit. They just feed
you the advertisements they want you to see, or they just don't work. The
free ones, especially. Just giant backdoors in your computer.
Second,
uninstall any stupid little piece of shit program you don't need running.
If it was free, guess what, they're going to take it out of your
ass, and they are COMPROMISING YOUR
SECURITY. People want crap like WeatherBug and MySearch, but they also want
to be able to use credit cards securely. ANY PROGRAM YOU HAVE RUNNING CAN BE
LISTENING TO YOU.
Thirdly, and this is how lots of shit
like Gator and Clock Syncronizer and MySearch and BonziBuddy and PornGate
and NewNet and BLAH BLAH BLAH GETS INSTALLED...
Go into Internet Explorer - Options - Internet
Settings - Advanced and make sure "Enable Install On Demand (anything) is
NOT CHECKED. ....and if you still get
these popups that say "Do you want to install and run A Good Fuck In The Ass
from disgusting.net?"
CLICK "NO" GODDAMNIT!!
And Fourth... and if this is the
ONLY thing you do, for
god's sake do it...
INSTALL, UPDATE AND RUN
ADAWARE 6
from lavasoft.de
Remove anything it finds.
This will solve 99% of yout popup problems. It finds and removes
malicious and spying code and applets that some jerkoff thought was
perfectly ok to infect you with so he could make a buck on a clickthrough
from a banner. It is a truly wonderful piece of software, and it's
totally free...the people who make and
distribute this make money off the business version, and distribute a
free home version, because they are good human beings on a level with
Charles Lewis, who honestly
want to Help People Not Get Fucked Over
By Greed.
10-01-03
Just thought I'd take a minute to share my
thoughts on receiving the "red carpet treatment" from Bank Of America, in
the form of a movie review book mailed to me recently in a bright red
carboard box.
I'm offended you would waste my money on such a trite token effort. I have
to pay $3 every time I want to deal with an actual human teller more than
once a billing cycle, but you can afford to distribute pop culture guides?
You want to serve me better?
-Drop monthly and teller fees. Or at least come up with a better line than.
"...because we know students don't have time to stand in line for a teller,
so it's easier to use the ATM."
-Stop replacing efficient machines with slow, talking touch screens. (Fast
Cash used to mean FAST CASH...not more menus and advertisements)
-Improve actual banking (or at least banking-related) services and stop
sending out irrelevant nonsense just so I see your logo in my mailbox one
more time that month. You're not making anyone feel special.
...red carpet treatment.
Just a few suggestions. Got some more, if you're interested.
Playing with a Message Board. Got Something to Say?
09-27-03
Gerda
Lerner
A Pioneer
of Women's History
...and I bet she's seen a lot of dick in her day.
Sorry, had to get that out. Gonna go write this
paper now.
Actual artifacts are also a much more
illustrative and dramatic example than a description in a book. Suppose you
were to ask Gerda Lerner, "Say Gerda Lerner, what in the world makes you
think that Greek fathers would leave female offspring in the woods to die?"
Yeah, she could probably produce some old law codes stating that this wasn't
illegal, but wouldn't you be more impressed if she shoved a real dead baby
in your face?
Written documents can also be misleading. It is said that storytelling is
the world's oldest profession (after prostitution, of course.)(Lerner) And
it would be a real shame for someone to unearth a work of fiction and
presume truth from it. Take for example the Bible. If all we had to go on
was this perpetually re-translated book, we may be inclined to believe that
the Earth is actually a mere nine thousand years old. Phew! Good thing the
planet has tectonic plates, eh?
09-26-03
Kevan.org
made a kickass
Zombie Infection Simulation.
We're talking HOURS of fun, here, folks. For me, anyway.
Est-ce que je peux réserver votre
premier enfant né pour l'usage spécial de mon groupe?
09-25-03
Tonight, Special Guests
BRUCE CAMPBELL
SPACE GHOOOOST
Use WINAMP to
listen on:
broadband
dialup
09-18-03
Wanna see my Niece? Huh? Huh? Wanna?
Want some Silmarillion Buddy Icons??
Huh?
In Other News....
Yeesss, this dumb shit is back. I give it
fifteen days, max.
09-17-03
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deo! sn't mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist
and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh?
09-15-03
09-07-03
I'm...so ashamed, but I liked my answer. Feel free to punch me in the
nose.
"You must remember this, a kiss is still a
kiss". Your romance is Casablanca. A
classic story of love in trying times, chock
full of both cynicism and hope. You obviously
believe in true love, but you're also
constantly aware of practicality and societal
expectations. That's not always fun, but at
least it's realistic. Try not to let the Nazis
get you down too much.
What Romance Movie Best Represents Your Love Life?
brought to you by Quizilla
09-02-03
So, Kris. Whatcha been up to. Oh, not much.
I really need to knock off this Buddy Icon crap Quickly.
I know you're dying to get your disgusting hands
on the new signature MIDI and Official Power Metal of XMH!!, currently
rocking your lame ass through a tinny set of speakers near you. Well,
HERE, asshole. DRAGONHEAR- err,
FORCE! Anyone who wants to put together a trip to Bloodstock,
lemme know.
I'm extremely tired and I'm out of material, so I'm
going to have someone else entertain you, you ungrateful huddled masses
seeking refuge from life's grim reality with a few moments of cheerful
nonsense, pausing only to eat a clubhouse sandwich and pick your teeth with
a matchbook cover... ohhhwhattaworld, whattaworld...
www.talklikeapirate.com
07-23-03
"Information
in the Holographic Universe"
Stolen from
Scientific American. Written
by JACOB D. BEKENSTEIN
(ZIP file. creates sub-dir for graphics.)
I added the sidebars
and graphics to the printer-friendly version. If you enjoy this article,
please visit their site and click the advertisers, or buy the frigging
magazine. I'd feel bad, but they posted it online, dissemination information
is more important, and it's the fucking UNIVERSE.
Quantum physics buffs take note:
Field Theory has theoretically taken a shit for
INFORMATION!
07-22-03
I can't believe I'm stealing a link from someone
calling themselves "xemolyx"
with a sraight, albeit pouty, face... but...holy shit!
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/16/Hernando/Shortcut_good_for_cla.shtml
I can't believe this... if I could have left after
my junior year... Ohman. I'm not...I....fuuuuck.
07-20-03
CONGRATULATIONS,
ME!!!
I AM THE NUMBER ONE XUPA ON THE
INTERNET!
Used to be you could search for
Xupa on
any site and you'd find a thousand Portuguese websites and not one reference
to my gear. NOW, go to www.google.com
and type in simply Xupa
and hit I'm Feeling Lucky.
YEAHHH MOTHERFUCKER!!
I'm also the number 2
XMH on
many engines.
Shove that up your ass, cocksmoker who parked
xmh.net
and wanted me to pay $2000 for it.
This means now I must do something more to
make this site worthwhile.
It also means that anything anyone doesn't want up... you'd really best
let me know.
Xupa!'s Mystical HEAD!! ... under construction,
soon...?
Meanwhile, today's dose of bullshit...
This should be pretty self-explanitory.
LATER THAT DAY...
Just so Keith knows we're hardon
serious...
Talk about too much good news for
one day, eh kids?
07-19-03
Gonna go and not get picked to be an extra in
Punisher. But dig my funky
Publicity
Shot.
Also dig the scrumptuousness of
Noel's
and a little shot I call "It's
time to go to bed".
07-17-03
Jesus...has it really been over a month since I
updated this. Well I suppose that's because I didn't have anything worth
sharing with you good people.
Well
That's
No
Longer the
Case!
I proudly give to you....
"THE
BALLAD OF BILBO BAGGINS " by Leonard
Nimoy.
....just you remember
who finds the wicked shit. Is it Tunak Tunak? It's close...
...and
the Reviews are in:
TheMedievalDead: I have no words
TheMedievalDead: I am scared
~*Aurora*~: bryan........why must you frighten me
so
Mwahahahaha....
Also, someone wanted me to post
this. I
guess it's funny.
06-12-03
The
TRANSISTOR is 50 YEARS OLD TODAY!
Happy Birthday, Transistor! Thanks for
revolutionizing electronics!
(...I think. I mean, mixed blessing and all.. but...Yeah, wtf, Thanks.)
READ A BOOK!!!
06-11-03
http://www.rense.com/general38/boy.htm
...No comment.
06-08-03
Wanna read something pretty funny? Try Kazaa
claiming it has a "No Spyware" policy.
http://www.kazaa.com/us/privacy/nospyware_policy.htm
They clealy state it installs no
spyware...Just
Doubleclick,
Cydoor
and
Savenow. ...That's all.
For those allready
infected, I recommed
strongly
Adaware from Lavasoft.
After you install it, make sure you update it before running.
This program rules all, it'll find every last trace of bullshit.
06-02-03
 Pack
it Up! Pack it in!
DanBrijbag.com is set to
begin!
05-20-03
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
A real gangsta ass nigga plays his cards right
A real gangsta ass nigga never runs his fuckin mouth
cuz real gangsta ass niggas don't start fights
And niggas always got a high cap
Showin all his boyz how he shot'im
But real gangsta ass niggas don't flex nuts
cuz real gangsta ass niggas know they got'em
And everything's cool in the mind of a gangsta
cuz gangsta ass niggas think deep
up 365 and yo 24-7
cuz real gangsta ass niggas don't sleep
And all I gotta say to you wanna-be, gonna-be
cocksuckin' pussyeatin' prankstas
is when your fly gal's down-
what the fuck you gonna do?
Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta
05-16-03
Function!! Function!! Function!!
Delete files you didn't mean to? Wondering
what happened to "Undelete"? Sick to death of having to see Noel's face ever
time you walk into work? Well I can only help you with the first two... the
rest is up to God. (Well...I could take care of it, but it wouldn't come
cheap.)
Click
HERE TO
DOWNLOAD a little proggy called FileRevival
After installation, go to Help / About /
Enter Registration code.
Enter Name:
Registered Code:
17B106AF69
05-12-03
Who da
pimp
(No, really..who da pimp? It's me or her, I can't decide...)
05-11-03
Stupid Joey just sent me
this great
pic from his prom.
Probably won't be doing a whole lot with XMH for
awhile...I really need to
kick out the JAMS
and bring the Beat back.
Consequently, feel free to contact me at any hour of the day or night since
for the next week I have no need to recognize traditional day/night cycles
and have no intention of doing so. I haven't given "frenzied pre-dawn
ravings" a decent run lately.
If only I had some GTA.
No emoticon will suffice for my frowny.
4-30-03
jesus. this new F album fucking sucks.
4-22-03
EARTH DAY!
Don't drive anywhere today!
or turn off the
fucking air
conditioner!
or don't dump
radioactive waste on
middle eastern nations!
or on your
OWN FUCKING TROOPS...
or don't vote for
these retard criminals ...later.
...or just don't
breed!
This...has
nothing to do with anything but I found it looking up
Madonna Getting Hacked on
thesmokinggun.com .. a bunch of
celenbrity
mugshots, including Noelle Bush, Bill
Gates, Marshall Maethers and
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Hey, Eddie Guerrero
did
steal my car!
4-22-03
I also suppose I ought to warn everyone that I've
gotten my hands on another F
album.
DESTRUCTION AHEAD!
So...that'll probably be the focus of the next
posting.
The Onion Moment:
Should the US
Impose Limits on Incredibly Stupid Shit?
Kid Rock
Starves To Death- MP3 Piracy Blamed
Bush
Seeks U.N. Support for "U.S. Does Whatever It Wants" Plan
...didn't find the article I wanted, though.
Good thing I keep backups of the really good shit.
I Should Not Be Allowed To Say The Following Things About
America
04-10-03
 Dragonball
Z.
Cartoon Network.
5:30.
The Kid Buu fights.
Epic climax. Massive series.
I've never seen DBZ like this.
...it's...awesome.
Inspired a few more
icons.
04-09-03
MERRIGAN / LEWIS
2004
VOTE JUSTICE!
04-06-03
CAR BOMB
2/3 mug of Guinness Extra Stout
1/3 oz. Jameson's Irish Whiskey
1/3 oz. Kahlua
1/3 oz. Bailey's Irish Cream
Directions: Fill a mug with 2/3
Guinness and a shot glass with the liqueurs. Drop the shot glass into the
mug and chug it down.
Try not to let the shot glass hit your teeth.
Also, a knockout tune by Negativland
4-05-03
When visiting downtown Kenosha, be sure to visit
lovely Hobbs Park, home of the nation's only known wormhole.
Also worth seeing is the home of the boy who
mysteriously disappeared into it in the late 80's, as well as our advanced
modern mental health care facilities located in the Black Hill area of town,
from which he escaped.
Happy Birthday, Chole... if you're
out there.
Springstead
principal suspended
DEBORAH BACON
dbacon@hernandotoday.com
SPRING HILL - The principal of
Springstead High School has been suspended with pay, pending an
investigation into allegations involving possible substance abuse.
The investigation swirling around
Dot Dodge could be a topic of discussion at the April 15 regular board
meeting. Full
Article
That's right folks, here at XMH!!
we bring the news that matters to viewers like
you.
03-31-03
  Terrorism
Readiness
BUDDY ICONS!
Images courtesy of Ready.gov For
explanations of these icons, visit
http://www.theboxset.com/Message.htm
03-30-03
Just colorized this groovy pic of Xupa!, Larry &
Chuck.
Not sure it's totally done but
check it out
3-27-03
Few
items of importance: Tonight, on THE
MANLY ORACLE (Being an online radio show broadcasting out of UCF's
Knightcast studio)
SPACE GHOST
is going to be calling in and conducting an interview. You can send in
questions via-email and you can
listen to the program with
Winamp
<=ACTUAL LINK TO WINAMP 2.6! YOU NEEDN'T DEAL
WITH 3'S BULLSHIT ANY LONGER! PULL THAT CRAP AND DOWNLOAD THIS EXCELLENT,
SIMPLER, OLDER VERSION! Down with Crapware!!
But anyway...
Listen- Hi-Fi
Listen- Lo-Fi
The show begins at 10:00 PM EST
And, in furthur cool news, The
Dead have a summer tour
posted.
I just tried to find a link to Space Ghost and
found out Ghost Planet doesn't have a website, but
ADULT SWIM does, and by God that's
a worthwhile chunk of programming. The bad news is, I found out they're
going to be showing Dragonball GT soon. Grrr..
Lessee...there was something else...it'll come to
me as soon as this hangover wears off. (Yeah,
ain't it cool when you decry the
tippling life, then go get a sixer once you've got some spare cash, and come
home to another sixer? Actually, it was kinda cool. So screw you.)
03-24-03
Had a pretty wicked party the other night. Here's
some cherished moments.
"To Honor! To gettin' on'er, stayin' on'er, and if
you can't cum in'er, cum on'er!
-Dana, on the first shot.
" Bleeeaaggghhhhhhhhhhh *thump!* "
-on the sixth shot.
03-10-03
It's a sad thing when you are your own 100th hit.
Gail Fosler of The Conference Board says the
economy has a solid base and we're all OK. For some reason....I just don't
trust her.
On a much lighter note, here's just a straight link
I think anyone will enjoy.
WWW.HOMESTARRUNNER.COM
My favorite so far is
Strong Bad's Email.
Ok, I've just been informed I'm the last person to
know about Homestar Runner. ...blow me.
03-05-03
The lunatics are in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And everyday the paperboy brings more
So Jeb Bush wants to re-vote on the
classroom size amendment, even though it was roundly approved, because
"I believe we must go back to the
voters and have them make a decision with all the information in hand,
information about the new challenges our state faces and information about
the massive tax increases that will be necessary," Bush said.
Even though, as mentioned earlier in
the article,
Bush, Florida's only Republican
governor to win re-election, campaigned unsuccessfully last fall against the
class-size amendment, warning at the time that its cost would "block out
the sun."
And he also wants to re-vote on the
bullet train, which has been approved TWICE. But here's the kicker:
Bush later said he thought the
re-vote should take place before lawmakers return to
Tallahassee next year. Three-quarters of both the
120-member House and 40-member Senate must approve to put them before voters
in a special election.
These Bush boys sure know alot about
policymaking.
Here's the full article.
As Gurn's mom once so aptly put it ....
!!!!!!!!!
Hehehe, ohyeah, I almost forgot...
the good bit....
"Vanity Fair, in an article
for it's March 11 edition, says (Michael Jackson) attended a voodoo ritual
three years ago in Switzerland where a witch doctor (sic) promised that
director Stephen Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and 23 other people on
Jackson's list of enemies would die.
Jackson, who underwent a
"blood bath" as a part of the ritual, then ordered his formal business
adviser, Myung-Ho Lee, to wire $150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo cheif
named Baba, who sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony, Vanity Fair
writer Maureen Orth reports." -compiled from wire reports.
Full Article Here
My only question is...Switzerland??
All Blue Material Stolen
from the Orlando Sentinel, a
smeggy rag if there ever was one.
(Hint: They're the same link.)
02-21-03
Have a little fire,
scarecrow. Some nuclear explosions for your day.
AtomicBombExplosion.avi
Hiroshima.asf
02-19-03
NOO! NOT BLACK LEAF!! I'M GONNA DIE!!
Even if you don't game...
you should check this comic strip by Christian visionary and Cosmic Crusader
Jack Chick out. ...wwwwwow. Funny shit. It's almost like it's a parody of
everything ever said about D&D... except they're serious. A good review of
this is here.
"(Dungeons and Dragons) is
about not liking the way God runs the universe and thinking you can do a
better job yourself."
Man...I couldn't agree
more.
02-14-03
National Lampoon's BORED OF THE RINGS (txt)
Hilarious
send-up of LOTR... a must-read for fans of the books. Laugh-out-loud funny
shit. Read it. I don't feel guilty posting this because the only copies you
can buy now are secondhand anyway..
ICP - Bizaar - 08 -My Axe.mp3
Anyone who
plays a Dwarf ought to hear this. Plus it's just another damn good ICP tune.
I don't feel guilty posting THIS because the Carnival will carry on. Click
the Hatchetman for their site.
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