MMMMM… my favorite dish… Chickenhawk Supreme. So we spent the 1970s and ’80s enduring some truly nauseating propaganda flicks, mostly on the order of “We could have won VietNam, if only” and a long string of excuses that even though the country was bombed repeatedly, one accounting of it is that there was more aerial bombardment of VietNam (south, not that it matters, we weren’t at war with either the south or the north) than was used on Japan in World War 2.
I can’t vouch for that but we sure are paying a lot of money, still, for all the expended ordnance… even with that “our hands were tied and we couldn’t do all the damage we wanted to do” say WHUUUTT? But we didn’t unleash Steven Seagal or Sly Stallone or John Wayne or Ah-nuld Governater or Walker, Texas Ranger on them.

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Only thing missing, several things actually, are the bales of Marijuana and the suspects. The only thing tying immigration and Smuggling to his shooting is his testimony.
And, really, Pigs LIE. They lie even when they don’t have to lie. But any time they fire a shot, for whatever the real reason is, they’ll LIE about the person at whom they’re shooting. Happens, so it seems, every damn day. They lie to cover their guilt when they arrest somebody for the non-crime of talking back to them. They Lie to cover their use of tasers, beatings while the inmate is handcuffed, and the jailhouse “Suicides” which are quite often the actions of Killer Kops. They have accomplices who regularly accept anything that spews forth from their Lying Pig Snouts. Judges, Prosecutors, the jail doctors (themselves deputized Kops who aren’t going to ever testify against their fellow PIGS.) and the Coroner, also a Pig who won’t testify against his fellow Pigs.
But even lacking anything beyond the word of the PIG, Fox News and all the “Back the Badge ” MORONS who infest this nation are going to chant that it WAS Illegal Aliens, that it WAS marijuana smuggling… Because that’s their level of intelligence. Or lack thereof.

Hacker David Kernell blew the whistle on then-governor Sarah Palin’s illegal use of personal emails to evade the State of Alaska’s record-keeping requirements. For guessing her password and posting her emails in public, Kernell is found guilty of four felony counts, while Palin mocks the justice system from her pedestal on Fox News. From abuse of authority, influence peddling, to turning tricks for the oil industry, it’s not like obstructing justice didn’t fit her MO.

Since all available national resources are being called in to fight what’s the worst unnatural disaster and getting worse, to smite us in a long while, it pays to recognize one huge fact. The equally Corporate Welfare To The Oil Industry wars against Afghan and Iraqi people (for Corporate Profit-not “freedom”) and the beneficiaries of this hastily pulled in Public Largesse, an Oil Corporation, BP, which presumably has more corporate money available than the entire U.S. Government does, is “big-assing” us on the subject of actually having to eventually repay the U.S. and State governments…

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First we need to define a few basic terms. Jealousy and Envy are often used interchangeably. They are not interchangeable. Jealousy is the notion that somebody else wants what you have, whether it’s based in truth or in sick fear. Envy is the desire to possess something somebody else has.

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Confused about how much oil is spilling from BP’s offshore Deepwater Horizon catastrophe? When British Petroleum was asked, there was no spill, then an admitted manageable leak which TV pundits assured would produce a “sheen.” Viewers who thought they heard that the Coast Guard discovered the flow had become 42,000 gallons a day can be excused for their confusion when the accepted figure became 5,000. Because now the unit of measurement is barrels. The scale of the disaster suffered such an inflation that the PR currency had to be devalued. Never mind that gas is still priced by the gallon. BP officials insist the size of the spill is irrelevant, their damage mitigation will be unwavering. Let’s hope their standard for what constitutes contamination is not devalued. 5,000 barrels, by the way equals 210,000 gallons.

Actually in French it would be jeu du jour which is kind of a really bad pun.
But, in China, a day care center/preschool was the scene of a knife attack.
I didn’t read past the headline, sue me. 28 people stabbed, no word in the headline how many died, no word how many were kids.
The motive isn’t given either, but if it were, it would sound like gnarblsgnashsnarlwhipframdoodle.
In short, it wouldn’t make any sense to an actual sentient person anyway.
I know the standard arguments this will arouse, I bet if I turned on Bile O’Liely or whatever twit is holding forth on Hate-TV and Hate-Radio right now I’d hear “See, if one of the kids had a gun it would never have happened”
News Flash, China has Universal Conscription, meaning everybody in the whole damned country learns how to use guns at one point in his life. They also make quite a few guns, so many in fact that they sell them on the export market. Those SkS machine guns that are ever so popular up on Rampart Range, for instance.

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This time it’s “Only” two workers missing, if they’ve not yet been found.
That makes a significant majority though, to the two Coal Miners who are missing.
This one is in Kentucky.

Found on the web: My favorite artists’ conceptualization of a purported Prophet Mohammad, employing contemporary populist art mediums of Croc, some ghetto Croc bling, and post-modern irreverence.

COLORADO SPRINGS- The local Springs ACLU chapter is challenging the national office’s position on the recent Citizens United victory and I’m torn. I am as anti-corporate as the next rabid class-war insurgent, but the longstanding corporate personhood abomination is a separate abuse than the oppression of civil liberties. It’s clear that one impacts the other, but until we clarify who’s a “who,” the ACLU is determined to exclude no one from First Amendment protection. Make sense?

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The Coast Guard is going to set fire to the oil slick from the Deepwater corporate boo-boo. Deliberately. You know, the Coast Guard DO get first pick of the finest confiscated Recreational Psychopharmaceuticals.

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Corporate disinformation
Ha ha ha ha ha
Public media pretends to balance
Ha ha ha ha ha
Laughing at the newspeople laughing at us
Ha ha ha ha ha
NPR’s WAIT WAIT DON’T TELL ME trivializes being uniformed
Ha ha ha ha ha
Genocide, lost freedoms, the rich stealing all,
Illegal wars, torture, environmental disaster,
All too much solemnity for NPR,
Ha ha ha ha ha
The joke’s on us — Oh lighten up
Ha ha ha ha ha

Impersonate an astronaut? Criticize defense contractors? I have no idea. But at the airport, welcome to the tertiary security check delay, where they dust your hands for potential explosive residue.

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I mean, it’s like they think they own Him, or at least the copyright on His name… It’s because it’s the Ultimate Chickenhawk Ethos… Somebody Else dies and they profit from it.

The same uptick of seismic activity which prompted Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi to condemn Western immodesty might be the best reason not to shake your breasts at Mother Earth in defiance of another earthquake. BOOBQUAKE organizers want to show Iran’s fundamentalists that American women can titillate with disdain for religious superstitions, although the mullah’s Rube Goldberg ipso facto seems appealingly pagan to me. Of course the refutation to be made with #BoobQuake (or #PantsQuake depending on the lure you’re shaking) counts on plate tectonics not batting an eye. How arrogantly Western to presume Mother Nature does not respond to us.

Things you learn while cleaning out your spam folder. Get bigger breasts. Get a bigger penis, get a scholarship to the Police Academy. (???) cash in on your GI bill, join the Army, get compensation from the Nigerian Government for being a victim of a Nigerian scam, just give them all your identification and a valid bank account they can Clean out errr.. transfer the funds to… Classic Viagra, not just regular Viagra, no SIR! It’s CLASSIC and of course goes well with whatever dope makes your breasts bigger. AND… The Chicago Police have been offered from two Illinois Legislators assistance in the form of National Guard troops. OK so that was on the way to the mail folder on Yahoo. But the story is legit.

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What was with the new face on SNL, cracking jokes on Weekend Update about Girl Scout Cookies? Was it a staff writer getting his on-camera big break? With unoriginal candle-holding to Gary Gulman’s cookie rap? I’ll bet the SNL regulars wouldn’t touch the shtick because it was pure product placement.

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Not really. He said they died in pursuit of a better life. But since the Coal Companies and other Corporate owners of West Virginia aren’t going to actually invest anything in developing some other way for the people who live there to survive, and the people have not nearly enough opportunity to build their own enterprises, it IS a cycle of corporate slavery.

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The US Coast Guard has confirmed that an oil spill has indeed ensued after the Louisiana drilling platform explosion which claimed 11 lives. Suspicions now grow that Deepwater Horizon may have deliberately scuttled the damaged offshore rig yesterday lest images of the inevitable spill would depict the cause, reigniting the damning imagery that has long tarred oil industry efforts to pollute America’s coasts with the hazardous rigs. Instead of seeing a platform atop a massive oil slick, the public will see a despoiled patch of undefined size and origin; lacking a structure from which viewers could derive the disaster’s scale, or the felonious facility to damn for the deed.

Overheard from a celebrated activist who normally advocates direct-action over electoral wait-and-see, having joked that voting only encourages false expectations:
 
“I voted for Obama, but after he renewed the Patriot Act,
I vowed never to vote again.”
(Applause.)
“But if Sarah Palin runs again, I’ll vote.”
(Applause.)
 
And that’s the role Sarah Palin plays: bad cop to the lesser evil.

COLORADO COLLEGE– How did this opportunity elude local activists? It used to be a visit by a sitting senator merited an in-your-face STOP FUNDING THE WAR welcome. Tonight Colorado College will host Washington insider Senator Michael Bennet and his Colorado pro-war challenger Andrew Romanoff for a debate at the Worner Center, purportedly to resolve which is the corporate shill and which merits the trust of local Democrats. Coloradans For Peace wants both to discuss atoning for their pro-corporate records.

Another Torturer let off the hook by a Bush-appointee “prosecutor”. I was going to edit the “cowardly” part out of the title, but then, beating a bound and helpless person isn’t exactly a hallmark of courage “Perverts” because people who beat and torture prisoners, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, the El Paso County CJC, are in fact rapists. They get sexually aroused from the pain of others, and the more helpless their victims, the better they enjoy it.

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He’s promising to invest all the available funds, if he’s elected to the office of state Treasurer, into Double A rated corporations. Like for instance the AA rated derivatives of mortgages, and the derivatives of the derivatives, assigned by Goldman Sachs, who had a significant multi BILLION dollar horse in the race. Yep, not satisfied with ripping off everybody in America BEFORE being caught, they’re running a Corporate Tool for Treasurer so they can take ALL the public funds from the State of Colorado using the same kind of scams. Very nice fellows.

“but Brutus says that Caesar was ambitious… and Brutus was an Honorable Man”
 
Now, I’ve been accused of being insane, satanic, stupid and a criminal for demanding more evidence than a Police Report as proof that Hemeless people are all criminals.

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Now that President Obama has said that the new Arizona Statute that allows for Racial Profiling, meaning anybody who “looks Mex” has to carry documents proving that he is in the country legally, is “misguided”… Oh, my, how Tyrannical and Anti-Christ level Hateful of him to say that, even though the law is Racist through-and-through.

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