Anyhow here are some music vids i've digged recently: more...
03/09/07
What a Fag This guy needs to read this. Just in case the link gets gone in a week...the Pentagon's top general (Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)called
homosexuality immoral, and said he'd fiercely oppose changing the "don't ask, don't tell" gayness.
Shouldn't he
be spending his time blowing up the middle east or something? more...
03/07/07
This Scooter Libby Shit - or 'Why You Should Care' Polititians
lie more than they tell the truth...it's obvious to anyone with a clue.
So Libby lied to a grand jury and now he's in trouble. Big
whoopdie-do right? Right. The real story behind this case is not the
actual case itself but the details surrounding the origins of this
scandal. The fucking rotten piece of shit media has completely
side-stepped the roots of this issue and spent all of it's time talking
about the stupid and relatively unimportant matter of who leaked the
information that Wilson's old lady was a CIA agent, thus blowing her
cover. Not cool, but the much more important issue is what wilson
wrote that had Cheney's panties so far up his fat crack.
There is clear evidence that Cheney knew Saddam never tried to
buy anything from Niger, a full year before the president used that as
a selling point in his speech: If Cheney knew, then the President
knew, and if the president knew yet chose to LIE in order to pitch his
war...!
03/06/07
Castro sticks it to the man - I love it From Wikipedia:
Friction with the U.S. developed as the new government began
expropriating property owned by major U.S. corporations (United Fruit
in particular) and announced plans to base the compensation on the
artificially low property valuations that the companies themselves had
kept to a fraction of their true value so that their taxes would be
negligible.[36]
The
part i love is where Castro bases his compensation to the corporations of
nationalized properties on the artificially low valuations the
corporations themselves set to rob the cuban people of tax dollars. I
love it.
I
think a very important factor to remember when doling out blame for the
conditions in cuba are the motives as revealed by the actions that
triggered the USA's actions against cuba: namely the nationalization
of major industries...the same thing happened in iran. The usa would
like you to believe that the conditions in cuba are maintained because
castro refuses to end his totalitarian single party system of
government and build a democratic government, but if you look at the
iran scenario i briefly described here
you'll notice that the usa doesn't REALLY give a flying shit about
democracy...it's the undustrial assets we are concerned with, and the iran scenario reveals clearly that the USA places industrial intrests well above democracy. more...
03/04/07
What happens when you pour coke on raw pork?
"Definition of Taenia solium
Taenia solium: The pork tapeworm. Contracted from eating undercooked or
measly pork (pork infected with the larval forms of the tapeworm).
Taenia solium causes two different diseases -- taeniasis and
cysticercosis.
Taeniasis develops when the adult tapeworm infests the human intestine.
The worm can grow to be 3-6 feet (0.9-1.8 m) long there. It usually
causes no symptoms but the host becomes a continuous source of taenia
eggs in the feces which may contaminate food.
Cysticercosis develops when people (or pigs) eat food contaminated with
taenia eggs. The eggs cross the digestive tract, enter the circulation,
and lodge in the tissues (usually the brain or muscles).
The life cycle proceeds as humans ingest undercooked pork containing
the cysticercus (larva); the worm emerges and anchors in the intestinal
wall, and the worm grows and becomes a new and continuous source of
contamination.
Also known as the armed tapeworm, solitary tapeworm and the measly tapeworm. Synonyms include Taenia armata and Taenia dentata."
02/27/07
Maybe I just need to learn to Breakdance I have this nagging suscpicion that if all my problems would be solved if I just learned to breakdance.
It looks like it would be a good workout (check out these strength moves) and it beats the hell out of jogging or lifting weights.
Fuck pilates! Learn to breakdance instead!
I need to get some linoleum or something.
02/21/07
The Word "Addiction" Over
the past year or two i've seen more and more articles labeling video
games with the word 'addiction'...specifically my game of choice 'World
of Warcraft'. It's caused me to think about the word, its meaning, and
the negative connotations that it evokes. I've come to the conclusion
that the word is much much more than a clinical definition of behavior
or compulsion. Its a word that is often used simply because the
activity its used to describe is one we don't approve of.
If
you generally disapprove of people sacrificing their family life, and
all their free time to amass wealth you might say they were addicted to
money, addicted to their career, addicted to work, etc. But if you're
Dick Cheney you might think those people are admirable pillars of
business, community, success.
If you're an ugly fat girl who's
convinced yourself that you are happy with your weight, you might view
a super-fit girl who works out for an hour per day as obsessed with
being thin, obsessed with achieving the social stereotype of female
beauty...addicted to working out.more...
02/12/07
Well not much new.
I
got my hunter to 70 (world of warcraft) now i need to figure out how i
want to play this new endgame blizzard has designed for me. I think
i'll probably spec for pvp rather than raiding since it's more
agreeable with logging in and out whenever the hell i feel like it, and
it doesn't force me to interact with people as much as raiding does.
(for the non-mmoers: pvp = player vs player combat in various
battlegrounds and arenas, and raiding = co-ordinating times and
schedules with guildmates to get 25-man raids together to get into
dungeons, kill epic monsters, and get phat lootz - it's really all
about how you want to get the gear that will allow you to crush as many
people as possible in pvp)
I'll write more soon, but now i have to get my girls some lunch.
1/23/07
What do you want from life?
A
good friend of mine asked me a very basic question that we would all do
well to answer. "What do you want from your life?" Actually it was
two questions. The other being "If you were to look at yourself as an old man, what do you hope to have done?" more...
01/19/07
Bye Bye World It's all
over for me...my copy of world of warcraft - the burning crusade
arrived on the 16th, and i've had my head in the game almost every
minute i can spare since then. Nothing interferes with my
'hangout time' with Alaina, and 'baby duty' but between those two
things i find lots of time to play. I generally drag my ass out
of bed by 5am which normally buys me an extra 2 hours every day to
play...afternoon nap gives me about 1.5 hours if the kids co-operate,
and on the weekends Alaina will take the kids on errands which buys me
more time.
Why "waste my time"? Well everything's ultimately a waste of time, and World of Warcraft beats the shit out of real life.
01/11/07 World of Warcraft Surpasses 8 Million Subscribers Worldwide
Besides
me who are all these retards? Well this site has been one of my
favorite sites over the years for mmo demographic information: The Daedalus Gateway
If
you're like most people, the first mistaken presumption you may make is
the average age of MMO players. According to the Daedalus Project it's
about 26, but in the gaming cirlces i seem to travel in it feels more
like 30 something. I've been in a few guilds that had multiple people
in their 50's...men and women. It's hard to imagine what motivates a
grandmother to play these games, but I was in guilds in 2 different
games and played right next to grandmothers...One was actually a guild
leader, and big-time pvp leader. I still remember her barking orders
like a military commander over ventrillo. more...
01/07/07 Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science ExxonMobil Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups, and Create Confusion
ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics,
as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the
scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the
issue. more...
01/06/07 Cancer on my mind
Alaina had an abdomen muscle removed a few days ago because it had been
taken over by cancer. This one's no longer with us...
As
a result I've spent the better part of the past 3 days at the hospital,
and I have cancer on my mind. So i'm continuing my previous
subject which is the correlation between diet and cancer.
Here
are a few more links associating the consumption of animal products and
cancer, and one discussing the link between alchohol and cancer:
I'm
lazy, and not a doctor or a scientist...read other people's
words...basically all our western diseases of affluence are caused by
the consumption of animal products. Dairy products cause osteoperosis,
and cancer. Huge studies have shown the clear link.
The China-Cornell-Oxford Project
The largest, most comprehensive study ever done in the history of
medicine examines the relationship between diet and disease.
The findings in a nutshell...
"What made this project especially remarkable is that, among the many
associations that are relevant to diet and disease, so many pointed to
the same finding: people who ate the most animal-based foods got the
most chronic disease." more...
01/01/07 An Oil Industry Lobbyist runs our Council on Environmental Quality The
chief-of-staff of the Council on Environmental Quality is Phil
Cooney...a lawyer and oil industry (American Petroleum Institute)
lobbyist before he was hired by this administration to oversee our air
quality problems. Is that just insane or what?? I almost don't have
to even say anything other than that, but as impossible as it seems it
gets even worse... more...
01/01/07
More extreme conflicts of interest - Monsanto's Government Ties In
writing the above blurb about the oil industry lobbyist who now heads
our Council on Environmental Quality, I remembered this list of extreme
conflicts of interest between Monsanto, our government, and the
FDA/USDA.
In case you don't know who Monsanto is, you probably should read a
little bit about who they are because unless absolutely everything you
eat comes from verified organic sources (monsanto also opperates many
"organic" companies) you are eating their products...These guys develop
and produce such lovely products as Agent Orange, Roundup, PCBs, Dioxins, Bovine Growth Hormone, and Asparatame.
They also engineer and produce most of the world's genetically
modified foods ranging from genetically modified grains to genetically
modified livestock, and fish. They also ran the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory in the 40's which was part of the Manhattan
Project, and helped develop the world's first nuclear weapons. Is
it just me or does anyone else feel uneasy that the same company who
engineered agent orange is now developing much of the world's food
sources? more...
12/31/06
The IRAN Problem In 1953 the USA in collusion with Great Britain staged a coupe to remove the first democratically elected prime minister of Iran - Mohammad Mossadegh.
Mossadegh spent the bulk of his early political career working to
install a democratic government in Iran to replace the corrupted system
of Monarchy, and stop the exploitation of Iran by foreign-owned
corporations...primarily Great Britain's British Petroleum (BP)(then
named "Anglo-Iranian Oil Company). I bought $30 worth of gas from BP
yesterday. In 1951 Mossadegh was named Time magazine's "Man of the
Year" beating out Eisenhower and Douglas McArthur even!
Why did
the USA remove this hero of democracy to hand over power to Iran's
monarchy? Because after years of failed negotiations to increase Iran's
royalties from it's own oil fields (that BP had tapped and was shipping
to Great Britain and the USA) the prime minister (Mossadegh) enforced
the Oil Nationalization Act which effectively stopped foriegn-ownedoil companies from exploiting Iran's oil.
In the immoral, covetous eyes of the west, Oil is apparently greater than all. Fuck democracy.
When
I think of shit like this I think of the Republican party. Famous
for
placing economic interests above all. Fuck global warming.
Fuck the
environment. Fuck worker's rights. Fuck human rights. Fuck
Christ. Fuck God. Fuck morality. If it makes economic
sense, and we can get away with it, then it's justified.
How
the fuck did this party get associated with the religious right??
They act like they are the moral compass for America when they
shit on God's work (human life...the planet). They shit on
Christ's compassion. They shit on
morality. "What would Christ do?" the Republican party replies
"who
gives a fuck?" Their only concern is "Is it profitable?" more...
12/24/06 I've
always kept an eye on what the Flaming Lips were doing, but although
their message always seemed really cool i never developed an
appreciation for their sound. And that's still mainly true, but then
along comes "Do You Realize?" (listen to the whole thing on their main page
...please...click on the music tab, and then select the "Yoshimi
Battles The Pink Robots" album or watch the whole video on their videos
page).
Anyhow that song kicks my fucking ass. It's so lovely,
sad, beautiful I can't listen to it without coming to tears. The music
is pretty nice, but the message just slaughters me. I want to take it
with me. I want to live it every second of every day for the rest of
my life (but i can't). more... 12/20/06 sign this shit: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/OutNow/ This disaster has gone on way to long. sign this shit too: http://www.ceasefirecampaign.org/
12/19/06 Like don't eat animals or something...seriously stop eating them.
The
following information has been known for decades, but only by a few
"quacks" and tree-hugging environmental freaks. Thank satan it's
finally been incorporated into a report published by a respectable
organization...the UN.
Livestock a major threat to environment - Remedies urgently needed
29 November 2006, Rome - Which causes more greenhouse gas emissions, rearing cattle or driving cars?
Surprise!
According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more
greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent –
than transport. It is also a major source of land and water
degradation. more...
12/18/06
U.S. Ate 777 Mad Cows The
USDA says it isn't testing for mad cow as a protective measure to the
population, they are testing simply to "surveil" how widespread the
problem may be. In other words, they're not testing to prevent infected
cows from entering the food chain as many other countries do, they just
want to get an estimate of how many mad cows are likely in the U.S.
food chain.
The
answer, from their own testing, is now available: statistically, there
have been at least 777 cows with mad cow disease which have probably
entered the food chain since U.S. testing began. more...
12/16/06 I just added a few pics of Rowan's treehouse, and our pergola to my random stuff page, and a new engine house i built on my train page.
12/13/06 In hearing about Jimmy Carter's new book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" I thought 'yeah! you tell 'em Jimmy!', but then I'm like most people and don't know what the fuck i'm talking about.
My idea was that the UN or allied nations or whatever they called
themselves right after WW2 grabbed the Palestinian's land, handed it to
Jews, and called it Israel. Thus unjustly displacing the
Palestinians. It turns out to be not quite so simple more...
12/11/06 Watched "Who Killed the Electric Car?" last night. Cool little documentary.
"It
was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It
ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American
technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few
who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors
crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? WHO
KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of
the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how
they reverberated through the halls of government and big business." more...
12/06/06 It costs 470
billion dollars
per year to run the US military. The total cost of the Iraq
war is 347
billion dollars
so far. Imagine,
just imagine the incredible good that 347 billion dollars could have
been used for in developing nations.
And if we spent just half of the military budget (235 billion dollars) on
global programs for suffering nations would we even need a military?
If so, how much money would that reduced military require to
opperate?
Why is it necessary to
spend 7 times more than China (the next country on the list of military
budgets)? more...
11/29/06 So if Saddam's slaughter
of a few thousand people deserves the death
penalty, what does the Bush administration deserve for directly killing
maybe 10ish thousand (complete guess)and indirectly killing 40ish
thousand more? If bush is indeed the commander in chief then
he is ultimately responsible for 50ish thousand Iraqi deaths and
deserves at
least the death penalty (or maybe 4 or 5 death penalties stacked on top
of each other). And what about the deaths of the coalition forces? The
department of denfense has confirmed3131 coalition
deaths, and 2882 of those are Americans. Bush killed 2882
Americans.
Man he's sure giving Saddam some stiff competition.more...
11/28/06 In the decision-making
tree that is my life are there any 'wrong' branches?
11/24/06 Crack my Nutz Being
that the day after american thanksgiving is the official day to drag
out all your xmas decorations I unearthed my old pal...my redneck
nutcracker. more...
11/22/06 Seitan Thanksgiving is the day after tomorrow,
and I'm making some Seitan.
Seitan is essentially a fake meet made out of wheat gluten.
Wheat
gluten is what's left of wheat flour if you make a ball of dough, and
rinse it a billion times until most of the starch is gone, and what's
left is a very high protein flour. That's too much of a pain
in the
ass so thank Satan it's readily available in grocery stores in a power
form. more...
11/18/06 Global
wealth distribution Pumping
money out of the country is bad, but is it fair that Americans get to
enjoy such an incredibly high standard of living while the rest of the
world must settle for something less...often FAR less? ...what's a compassionate
layperson supposed to think about free trade? more...
11/17/06
Hegemony
Crickets Pinnochio!
Started reading Chomsky's
HEGEMONY
OR SURVIVAL this morning.
The
first short chapter talks
mainly about the concept that the USA is ruled by a small elite
minority, while the majority's role is that of a mindless herd that
gets to occasionally stomp it's hooves in support of one elite group or
the other. more...
11/16/06 Am I
depressed or is it just that most things generally suck ass?
To me it seems like realism more than 'depression'.
If most
things generally suck ass, and most people are generally not depressed
what's going on? Are they blocking the suckage out?
Are
they lacking the capacity to recognize the suckage and yearn
for
change? Are they consciously ignoring all the aspects of
existence that suck or is it some kind of unconscious self-defense
mechanism that does the job for them? more...
11/15/06
With
Xmas fast approaching I've upgraded our pos little train set, and set
out to create what I jokingly refer to as our "winter wonderland". It's
not much of a wonderland yet, but i'm working on it
so get off my back already. One great aspect of having kids
is that they give you an excuse to do childish things. Things you wanted to do when you were a
kid, but didn't have the power to make happen.
Model trains are one of those things. more...
