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Archive for February, 2010


Debacle on Ice!!!

So, since the “Miracle on Ice” way back when, the One time out of oh, let’s see, ALL the times the U.S. played hockey in the Olympics, that they won a gold, against the Soviets, somehow proved that Capitalism was better than communism…
I guess this loss to Canada is positive proof that the Canadian Subsidized (socialized) Medicine must be superior to that of the U.S.
Oh, and the times the U.S. LOST to the Soviets, it’s because the Soviets cheated. Like Munich, 72, Soviets took the gold in basketball and the Americans refused to take the silver. My opinion is that the basketball team from that game were and still are crybaby sore losers. It’s GAMES, people… Things Normal People would do for amusement, get a little exercise, and most important, teach the kiddoes about how to be Good Sports. Like going on a 38 year crying binge for losing a Basketball game.


Yanks overseas pretend to be Canadian but how do you do that in Vancouver?

Since the overt militarization of Pax Americana, US citizens traveling the world are advised to pretend they’re Canadians. It only took this week’s unexpected team USA victory over Canada in men’s Olympic hockey, to ignite anti-American feelings. Even before the games began, the USOC’s USA House was the only hospitality venue whose address was not made public, conveniently too because it was safely not open to the public. Now visitors leaving USA House are reminded not to wear or behave in any fashion that would distinguish them as Americans as they make their way to their accommodations.

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Norway ties USA for Olympic gold

Does it matter really in transnational games between warmonger countries? Nearly all Winter Olympic participants are NATO occupiers of Afghanistan. Though Norway was among several who condemned the Iraq invasion, its oil company is complicit in exploiting Iraq’s oil.

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More people who do not muchly good speak the English tongue…

ren·e·gade  /ˈrɛnɪˌgeɪd/ [ren-i-geyd]
–noun
1. a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
2. an apostate from a religious faith.
–adjective
3. of or like a renegade; traitorous.
Synonyms: Traitor, Snake, Turncoat, Oath-breaker, Treaty Breaker.
 
John McCain on Press the Meat this morning, sponsored by a Wall Street Powerhouse, Edward Jones Investments. Lying his arse off about how he’s bipartisan on the Health Care bill when he joined every single one of his (R) Comrades in voting against it. Apparently in Renegade Republicanspeak, “Bipartisan” means the Democrats have to suck much Republican Ass.
Ran as a “Maverick” which doesn’t mean anything like “not one of the herd”, it means steers claimed by a notoriously lazy Texas free-range rancher named John Maverick. Who didn’t bother to brand or earmark any of his steers, just the lead cows. Any Steer or cow following them would be just a part of “His” herd. The Wall Street Bankers who sponsored today’s Lie-Fest, their advertisement “If you believe in the Renegade idea of face-to-face with your broker”

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Suomi hockey team beats Slovenska for bronze at 2010 Jeux Olympiques

Finland beats Slovakia for 3rd placeWhat does it say across the front of the Finnish hockey jersey “SUOMI?” Is that an acronym or an internet initialism? While it could be enthusiasm for Olympic mascot Sumi, Suomi is Finnish/Saami for what they call their country. Apparently the Finns didn’t get the memo about bringing Olympic text into uniform English-compliance.

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You can’t even trust Goobers anymore

By “goobers” I mean Goober Peas. That staple of American Diet in more ways than you can possibly imagine unless you’re allergic to them, Once Again being recalled due to bacteria that exist naturally in the digestive tracts of Carnivores. In this case, like the LAST recall, which was only last year, about this time, it’s Salmonella.

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“It’s God’s Punishment on the U.S. and Chile for State-sponsored Terrorism”

Why not? The Reich Wing tried it with Katrina, with Haiti, Sumatra… Hell (literally) Our Phriend Pastor Phred Phelps even said it of 9/11.
Speaking of course of the Very recent earthquake in Chile and the resulting tsunami which may or may not threaten the West Coast and Hawaii… both U.S. properties.

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Medal count reflects Wealthy Olympics

The US media ranks the US ahead in the Vancouver Winter Olympics based on most medals won. The non-American consensus rates competitors according to their gold, Germany often leading. If your average win is silver, it does seem queer to declare yourself in first place. Not to mention that total wins appear irrevocably linked to the size of the teams fielded. Inspired by 538 giving 2010 odds based on statistical analysis, I thought about other likely predictors. Number of athletes and population size are both outweighed by Per Capita Income as the deciding factor for final rankings. Read more »


Christian on Christian Crime Spree, ongoing…

The nationalities of those identified as the hijackers on 9/11… 15 Saudis, 2 UAE, one Lebanese and one Egyptian, all of them U.S. allies in the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan.
U.S. and Allied Casualties on D-Day, D-Day, 2499 Verified American dead, 10,000 ALLIED soldiers.
Fox (Ministry of Propaganda) puts total at 4000 and as high as 9000.
Killed by the “Christian” cultures of Italy and Germany.
That doesnt count the French Civilians killed by actions of both sides, nor the Christian Italians and Germans killed by the Christian British, French, Canadian, U.S., Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Belgian, just to name the major players.
None of the 9/11 hijackers were either Iraqi or Afghan.

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For the Climate Deniers…

Bill O’Lie-ly said this January was the coldest on record. Perhaps he could learn a little science, specifically mathematics. If not then he could learn how to ask people whose business it is to provide scientifically sound information to for instance the Shipping Industry, farmers and the U.S. Military, none of whom are much noted for Radical Left Wing thought processes. Like NOAA, who reported that the average global ground temperature Increased by very nearly a full degree C.
The IBM corporate model is founded in a mission statement they made back in 1945. When they got the funding to build the first “supercomputers” (Analog Calculators, actually, the “AC” part of their names) ENIAC and UNIVAC. That they would be able to predict major weather events a year in advance.

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Rachael Flatt will not be assimilated

Rachael Flatt is neither fat nor homely, but it doesn’t take an Olympic judge to downgrade her prospects in figure skating. Embarrassingly, sports commentators were poised to preempt confused TV viewers from sitting up in alarm. Who is this stout little duckling flailing, albeit with precision, among our swans? The awkward freshness of Flatt’s execution made it look all the more miraculous, but I think the between-the-lines verdict was that Flatt flunked her screen test.

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NOLA Ku Klux Koverup.

“A culture of deception and secrecy” sounds so very much like the Klan. Except for a couple of crucial divergences, The Klan has defectors at a rate that’s an order of Magnitude above the percentage of Cops who’ll actually testify against their fellow Pigs
And they wonder why their Fellow “Heroes” get killed and assaulted so often
Could it be that somebody who has fallen afoul of their Ku Klux Kulture knows damned well that he’ll never get a REAL legitimate hearing in a court where the Cops, the Judge, the Prosecutor and if he’s not Rich the Public Defen Pretender belong to the same Old Boy Clique and the “guilty until proven Innocent or a sufficient bribe is paid” rule is in full force?

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Hummer DEAD! “Proud Conservative” driving the Ultimate Welfare Cadillac

Yep, the gas guzzling (6 miles to the gallon) Replacement Penis is no longer being manufactured! Marketed to people who feel cheated, abused, picked upon, bullied, IMPOTENT, ridiculed… “Pay $50,000 (base price) for our Worthless Piece of Shit and Become An Instant Bad-Ass, who people will look up to, people will respect you and stop making fun of you just because you’re a Pathetic Wimp!”

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But here in this graveyard, it’s still no man’s land…

The countless white crosses
in mute witness stand
To man’s blind indiff’rence
to his fellow man
And to a whole generation That were butchered, and Damned.
Sacrifice is something that makes holy. Not “something that makes dead”.
The last surviving Canadian veteran of World War One died last night. He was 15 when he enlisted, and when the Canuckistan Army found out they didn’t send him into the meat grinder. That’s good.
There were millions of others not so lucky, many of them recruited using false ID and the Armies “unofficially” consented. Wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean, Ay? Make a (dead) man out of the lad.
Then the segue into the REAL meat of the story, the “shared sacrifice” of Canucks and Yanks to “make a better (Superior Culture) world for the Afghans”
Lyin’ sacks of shit, those propagandists.

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From our favorite Fascist (and church-statue Target…)

Ok so he didn’t personally approve it
But, here’s a little censorship for us from Sunny Italy, where you can find the famous Italian Sunny Beaches, like the prosecutor in the case linked above. Seems some juvenile delinquents posted a video on Google of them committing a Hate Crime against an Autistic kid. Four of them. They were then expelled from school. Good, yes? But not so fast… for the “crime” of not seeing the video before it was posted on their site, the top dogs of Google were slammed with criminal prosecution in Italy for “privacy laws”.

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City revives debtors’ prison fast-track

Homeless - give them a hand, not the boot
COLORADO SPRINGS- Despite impassioned resistance to the city’s proposed tough-love homeless self-help ordinance, the city council held firm. Move your butts, and poop, and personal crap off our land, or face fines and work camp.


I just THOUGHT it was another Columbine..

So, on the same day Pueblo County decided not to allow concealed handguns on Campus… (why would anybody even consider such a jackass move in the first place? Is America in a Downward I.Q. Spiral of some sort?) (Concealed Carry applies even if you have the gun on your hip…)
But what I thought was a Kid Taking Daddy’s Gun to school in his lunchbox, happens all too often… was instead a Grown-Up taking a hunting rifle to the school and just going student shootin’… “Be Vewwy vewwy quiet… I’m hunting KIDS!… huhuhuhhuhhuhhu…”

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Respect…

Why do the same cops and their tame Social Workers who Demand, under threat of punishment, that we automatically and unconditionally “respect” THEM,
Refuse to unconditionally and automatically respect US? Saying that we have to comply and conform to THEIR arbitrary orders, dress and appearance code, even the language we speak among ourselves? Or in the case of the Hotel Owner in Taos, and the cases of Muhammad Ali and Ojore Lutalo, that we take and accept the “White” names, either the ones we were given when we were born into the Slave System, or like in Taos, where the people were supposed to abandon the culture in which they were raised in order to please their White Anglo Saxon Master?

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New OAS- Sans Canada and the U.S.

The BBC cited Economic policies more than anything else, and left out one very important one…
The U.S. Navy actively assisted the British Navy in their war-for-profit against Argentina in the early 80s.
It was kind of an Open Secret at Charleston Naval Station. The Seamen weren’t supposed to talk about it, because it violated the OAS Treaty, for one member state to take sides with a non-member state against other member states. Reagan wasn’t one for keeping treaties.

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Surving on Separate Rats.

The “rats” is short for “rations” and it means somebody in the military who doesn’t live in a dorm or barracks.
It’s an extra in your Monthly Eagle Shit… (paycheck) that’s supposed to make nice for the rent, groceries and travel expenses of living off base.
When I was in the Air Force (many years ago of course) I was in dorms, thus, I paid 6 bucks a month for dorm room rent. If I had been married at the time it would have been impractical, especially with dependents. Separate Rats is the closest the Military pays to giving you extra just because you’ve got extra dependents. They’re not fond of Airmen and Soldiers having dependents, more paperwork for one thing, plus when they kill you with their stupid wars they have to take care of your widow and orphans until the last kid turns 18.
They’d rather pay for a cheap coffin, a cheaply dug grave on stolen (bought really cheaply at gunpoint) land and wash their hands of the matter. The “buy the farm” 10,000 dollar insurance policy is from a private contractor. Not the Pentagon.
Surviving on the not-adequate Separate Rats pay is a little tricky, so here’s some solutions.

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A bias for unsustainable development

Native American encampment
Squalor? Which have the bigger carbon footprint? Tents or houses?


“Separating the Sheep from the Wolves in Afghanistan”

A more polite version of the “Human Shields” crap the Pentagon puts out. Oh, and IDF. And, let’s see, the VietMinh, North Korea, the Boxer Rebellion,Oh Here’s One, the Rebellion in the British Colonies on the eastern coast of North America a couple hundred years ago.
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Vancouver 2010 Olympic destinations

Olympic sites

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Remember the horrendous scandal and the Media Blitz(es) That followed?

Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina… Used government money to finance Argentine Tryst. A full Seven Hours every day for a month analyzing the story and berating him…. woops didn’t happen… Sorry.

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Richard Cheneys Pacemaker, in a bid to save all mankind…

Attempted to quit today. He’s in the hospital. I know, I know, morgue would be better, but that’ll happen eventually.
According to a legend which I just made up on the spot, he actually had been taken to the morgue quite a few times over his Misspent Voyage in this Vale of Tears. He couldn’t talk his way out of it, people wouldn’t believe him when he said he was still alive. So he hired a doctor and attorney to accompany him everywhere, bars, whorehouses, opium dens, Baby-eating parties… and convince people that he was still alive.

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