How could the arresting police officers feel anything but humiliation that they are ordered to arrest people for such a ‘crime’? Perhaps they enjoy their work. Perhaps they sleep more soundly knowing the world has one less little cannabis plant in it.
Keeping America safe. From a non-toxic plant grows naturally in at least a dozen American states.
The people of the 22nd century are going to look back and shake their heads in disbelief that such pettiness existed in our days; that adherence to outdated, ridiculous laws ruined the lives of otherwise non-criminal people.
What a fucking joke.
What a con.
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“Baboons live in a peaceful society in which not aggression but friendship achieves the desired result.
“Baboons are individuals; each has its own temperament and idiosyncrasies, each has its own desires and goals … scientific papers cannot express the fundamental charm, the fleeting social entanglements, the perishable moments of a baboon’s life.
“A contemplation of baboons can help humankind correct a skewed vision of itself.”
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Another mainstream media story, this time from the New York Times, pushing the new reality where news consumers will supposedly have to soon start paying digital cash to read stories, columns and watch news video online. I’ve been reading about this for getting onto two years, and and it seems no closer to reality. Not much new in this story, but this final quote says it all about the biggest problem Old Media dinosaurs like Rupert Murdoch face :
“One of the problems is newspapers fired so many journalists and turned them loose to start so many blogs. They should have executed them. They wouldn’t have had competition. But they foolishly let them out alive.”
Too many bloggers and citizen journos willing to work for free.
For paid news content to work, and to generate the kinds of profits that media empires were once built on, the majors will have to eliminate the competition, including thousands of non-professional bloggers and ex-journos, who still want to keep writing, regardless of how justly or unjustly they are compensated for their work and effort.
Of course, Rupert Murdoch could stop paying himself and his family tens of millions of dollars a year, and eliminate one of the biggest costs of mega-corporate media : paying the massive executive salaries of those who don’t do any journalism any at all.
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I didn’t have a whole lot of religious belief to begin with: we were the only family on the street who didn’t go to church. But it was a big part of Irish society. When I was born, something like 96% of Ireland went to mass every week. It’s not like that now, partially because the church has collapsed. I do think it’s perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It’s just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I’m close to and my work – it’s not complicated.
Heard something on the roof. Sounds like hooves or something. I’m loading the shotgun. I’m going to have a look. Shoot first, questions later.
Oh God, I think I just did something terrible. In the dark, the bell the old fat white-bearded bloke was holding looked just like a pistol.
The old bloke fell off the roof when I shot him. He’s flopping around on the lawn. He’s wearing red, so I can’t tell if he’s bleeding.
There’s a whole load of frigging reindeer on my roof. I’m reloading. One of them looks pissed. His nose is glowing bright red. Taking aim.
Took out two of the reindeer on my roof with one shell. Good eating. After butchering I can fit maybe five carcasses in the deep freeze.
If I’d known they were flying reindeer I wouldn’t have shot ‘em so fast. They’d be damn handy, better than a jetpack. Killed 4, rest flew away.
The old bloke I blew off my roof just croaked “R…uuudolph!” and that rednose deer crawled over to him. I thought it was dead. Tough deer.
If I am right, I can do em both with one cartridge. Seems to be a lot of crying, shrieking, screaming kids here now. Sirens coming closer.
Yeah, bit of a bad scene. Kids and parents are hysterical. They all seem to know who this white bearded dying bloke is. I can’t finish him now. Dammit.
I’ve had to barricade myself inside my house. Screaming kids are trying to smash the windows. I left the deer carcasses on the lawn. Dammit.
Jeez, they got a cop on a speaker. They’re saying this is a siege, and “You Shot Santo Claws, You Fuck!”. I was defending my property.
That Santo Claws bloke wasn’t as bad off as I thought. He just tried to kick in the front door. Cops told him to stop. He didn’t. He got tasered
Police negotiator says he understands my plight, says I was in my right to blow that old fuck off my roof, but he still has to arrest me.
I said yes to a lawyer who offered representation after winching down from a TV news helicopter. Seven figure TV, book & movie deal on the cards. Coming out now.
Lawyer said I might have to do two months, then I’d be out and set. That Santo Claws fucker who landed reindeer on my roof is okay.
Apparently, I am “The Stupid Fuck Who Ruined Christmas!” according to the newspaper front pages around the world today.
I don’t remember ever hearing about this Santo Claws bloke, and his very hard to believe story of delivering presents to kids, worldwide.
Lawyer says his name is actually ‘Santa Claus’ and is beloved by children across the world. Says I have to start saying “Merry Christmas.” It’s part of the plea deal. So ditto that. I still don’t get it.
Mel Gibson’s playing me in the movie. It’s called I Shot Santa. Jack Thompson is playing the old fat bloke in red I blew off my roof. They got cool robot deer.
This Santa Claus fucker is suing the studio making our movie. He says the title, I Shot Santa, violates his trademark. I don’t get paid until 1st day of production.
I may have to shoot him again.
Merry Christmas.
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A solid piece of War On Terror hard news by Kurt Nimmo. He lists known or suspected Al Qaeda terrorists who’ve worked for, or been trained by, the CIA :
- Vinnell bombing leader Khaled Jehani (worked for the CIA in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Afghanistan)
- USS Cole bomber Jamal al-Badawi (worked for the CIA in Bosnia)
- Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, the “spiritual leader of the CIA-backed mujaheddin” (according to the Boston Globe) who was considered by the CIA and Special Forces officers to be “valuable asset” (until he was set-up and convicted for the World Trade Center bombings in 1993) and also flew around on the CIA’s dime
- the key player and former Grand Poobah of the CIA mujahideen operation in Afghanistan, Abdullah Azzam, the founder of Maktab al-Khidamat (the organization received hundreds of millions in U.S. dollars via the CIA) who was blown to bits prior to Osama’s ascension to the al-Qaeda throne. Azzam was also a frequent flier to the United States, land of the Great Satan.
A strange ad from a 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics encourages Americans to embrace an “attractive future” by home-breeding huge South American toads for the US canned frogs’ legs market :
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The market for lickable hallucinogenic toads would have been much bigger.
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“I think if they [Israel] are to do anything, the most likely period is after our elections and before the inauguration of the next president. I don’t think they will do anything before our election because they don’t want to affect it. And they’d have to make a judgment whether to go during the remainder of President Bush’s term in office or wait for his successor.”
“It will have to make a decision soon, and it will be no surprise if Israel strikes by year’s end. Israel’s choice could determine whether Iran obtains nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future.”—John Bolton, The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2009
An Israeli airstrike on Iran always seems to be just around the corner for former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, no matter what the circumstances. Around the same time as the Fox News statement, he expanded on his opinion in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, saying that an Obama victory would “rule out” military action. Nevertheless, a year later he was still saying, “you would have to bet” that Israel would soon launch an attack, Obama or not.
To put Bolton’s warning in perspective, he was advocating military action against Iran back in 2007, saying “our time is limited.”
The rest of the Foreign Policy list is an excellent look at just how wrong politicians, journalists, government agencies, financial experts and spin masters can be at predicting the future.
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The video quality is rough as guts, but the material is absolutely killer :
Sam Kinison, 1986 :
You notice anybody who ever tries to help, we shoot ‘em? You notice that? They get shot. We knock them off.
“Oh, he’s trying to make the world a better place to live. Shoot him!”
Anybody, right? Abraham Lincoln….
Remember Saddat? Saddat was going to bring peace to the Middle East. Yeah, good luck pal. It’s like, “Saddat, you’re doing a wonderful job, we decided to have a parade for you. Where something bright and sit down front.”
Anybody.
We shoot anybody who tries to help. Ghandi, The Kennedys….
Martin Luther King. “I have a dream…” thwwpppt! “Oh, I have a head wound!”
That’s how it is. It’s “Well, he’s got a dream, we better nip it in the bud before it’s a concept.”
Imagine any stand-up comedian appearing on commercial TV today unleashing such radical, challenging, truthful material.
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Update, Dec. 21 : Rage Against The Machine have the UK Number One Single for Christmas, and sent tens of thousands of pounds the way of a homeless charity. Frontman Zack De La Rocha declares victory for real music with something to say over corporate production line pop blech :
“…I just want to say we want to thank everyone for participating in this incredible, organic grass roots campaign.
“It’s more about the spontaneous action taken by young people in the UK to topple this very sterile pop monopoly. When young people decide to take action they can make what’s seemingly impossible, possible.”
Previously….
An online fan campaign through FaceBook and Twitter sees Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name Of heading for the Number One spot on the UK charts for Christmas. The main competition is another godawful, cheesy Simon Cowell production line pukefest.
Rage Against The Machine are invited onto BBC Radio 5, they get a few minutes to shred Cowell and his nasty mega-million dollar business of the exploitation and humiliation of teenagers. Then RATM perform a live version of the song that fans are using to revolt against meaningless corporate radio crap :
“Get rid of it!” “We asked them not to do it, but they did it anyway.”
What did they think Rage Against The Machine were going to do? Comply with their request?
The finale is “Fuck You, I Won’t Do What You Tell Me”.
The whole song is about NOT COMPLYING.
Morons.
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So my main message in today’s meeting was very simple: that America’s banks received extraordinary assistance from American taxpayers to rebuild their industry — and now that they’re back on their feet, we expect an extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy.
And I made very clear that I have no intention of letting their lobbyists thwart reforms necessary to protect the American people. If they wish to fight common-sense consumer protections, that’s a fight I’m more than willing to have.
The way I see it, having recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayers, our banks now have a greater obligation to the goal of a wider recovery, a more stable system, and more broadly shared prosperity.
Obama needs to go into those meetings with a baseball bat by his side.
Let’s take a closer look at those faces :
No, not a lot of laughs in that room.
I take that as a good sign.
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Back in the days before CGI, movie monsters and creatures had to be sculpted, cast, assembled and built.
Two great videos from the early 1980s follow, on the artists who made the monsters and creatures. And to fans of magazinese like Fangoria, Starlog and Cinemafastique back then, these guys were indeed true artists. These creature and special make-up effects created achieved a level of fame and legend that no CGI artist today has attained.
Carlo Rambaldi, Dick Smith, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin. Special effects freaks like me used to go see movies solely because they made the monsters, and their names were nearly always featured in the opening titles, alongside the producer, director and writer(s).
CGI artists don’t seem to generate anything like that kind of idolisation. Must have been an 80s thing.
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