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from tuesday, january 23 2007

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state of the union

"strongly we will use strength to bestrongen our strongness for strongiliciousness is strongtastic"

my prediction for this year:

"the state of our union is stronger than ever"

this is a truly frightening display

produced by a system designed to keep americans uneducated and docile

through the programmed ineptitude of starving the beast:

"In education, unfunded federal testing requirements and special education mandates compel financially strapped states and local governments to bleed the beast at its source.

It is a prescription for the systemic failure of public education, which the new Republicans (and like minded Democrats) will use to demonize teachers and reissue the call for privatization in the form of school vouchers.

Why have no politicians demanded that private schools (predominantly religious and the beneficiaries of privatization) receiving public funds be held to the same accountability standards as public schools?"

if only americans had someone to look up to

hd porn

now you can see naked people in high definition

"Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette.

Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing high-definition DVDs.

They have discovered that the technology is sometimes not so sexy.

The high-definition format is accentuating imperfections in the actors —

from a little extra cellulite on a leg to wrinkles around the eyes."

i personally won't buy it

everything is better in high-def

except porn

imperfections are not sexy

so when you can't discern them

your brain makes them perfect for you

dawkins

dawkins does lynchburg

"Many of the questioners announced themselves as either students or faculty from Liberty, rather than from Randolph Macon which was my host institution.

One by one they tried to trip me up, and one by one their failure to do so was applauded by the audience.

Finally, I said that my advice to all Liberty students was to resign immediately and apply to a proper university instead.

That received thunderous applause, so that I almost began to feel slightly sorry for the Liberty people.

Only almost and only slightly, however."

istanbul

a true crossroads for all of humankind

Day 431

from friday, january 19 2006

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my high's

from thursday, january 18 2006

basketball

$1,200,000,000,000.00

what can $1.2 trillion buy?

"$1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign — a doubling of cancer research funding, treatment for every American whose diabetes or heart disease is now going unmanaged and a global immunization campaign to save millions of children’s lives.

Combined, the cost of running those programs for a decade wouldn’t use up even half our money pot. So we could then turn to poverty and education, starting with universal preschool for every 3- and 4-year-old child across the country. The city of New Orleans could also receive a huge increase in reconstruction funds.

The final big chunk of the money could go to national security. The recommendations of the 9/11 Commission that have not been put in place — better baggage and cargo screening, stronger measures against nuclear proliferation — could be enacted. Financing for the war in Afghanistan could be increased to beat back the Taliban’s recent gains, and a peacekeeping force could put a stop to the genocide in Darfur."

or we could spend $300 million a day rebuilding iraq

this is the first time taxes have not been raised during wartime

and the bushies are just dying to cut taxes on the wealthiest of us

which means our children and their children will pay for this bullshit war

while a couple greedy maggots get rich quick

off the lives of americans they've brainwashed to believe they're fighting a good cause

sarcasm

“A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility." ~Lawrence G. Lovasik

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy." ~Bryant H. McGill

“Owww look at me Marge, I'm making people Happy! I'm the magical man, from Happy Land, who lives in a gumdrop house on Lolly Pop Lane!!!!...... By the way I was being sarcastic..." ~Homer Simpson

reverse terrorism

step one: lose the loserman

joe wants this war more than bush, if that's possible

so when the decider announces the new strategy of adding another 20,000 targets to the battlefield

joe could not be happier and bush can claim bullshit bipartisanship.

i love how these two nuts get along so well

and now that joe is the new chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,

he can refuse to investigate how the bushies fucked up katrina

i understand that america has a "special" relationship with israel

i don't understand why that relationship is not linked to the war in iraq?

or the upcoming wars in iran and syria?

why is everyone afraid to talk about israel?

even proud joe

religion devalues life

people risk their lives and fight because they think they will be rewarded in heaven

would young americans fight in iraq if they knew heaven did not exist?

would young muslims strap explosives to their bodies if they knew heaven did not exist?

joe is now holding america hostage

if he doesn't get what he wants from the dems

he can switch party and return control of the senate to the bushies

who's the terrorist now?

mad world

fuckin'

brawlin'

idiots

a school board in seattle is going to restrict students from watching "An Inconvenient Truth" because some idiot complained

here's his logic:

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old.

"The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

condoms prevent disease and unwanted pregnancy

the earth is slightly more than 14,000 years old

but he's upset that everyone isn't being told that everything is going to burn up?

lol

this is really amazing

here we have two schools of thought

both agree that the earth is going to get hotter

one bases their belief on scientific data that can be seen and measured

the other is trusting someone's interpretation of a book written by god knows who

and written a long long time before we started burning fossil fuels and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere

and the idiot who believes in the book wins?

who the hell wants to believe everything is going to burn up?

that's batshitinsanity!!!

anyone who doesn't believe global warming exists is an idiot

i would imagine those who fight global warming initiatives do understand the link to human activity

but they're being paid lots and lots of money by those who pollute

so they can brainwash idiots like Frosty Hardison

desire

i want a goddamn iphone right meow

buck fush

bush want's more troops in iraq

colbert want's more troops in iraq

olbermann gets it right, as usual

the american people don't want more troops in iraq

i'm sure the 100,000 contractors in iraq wouldn't mind a friendly face

and a little more protection

and of course the religious nuts of the world are happy

like joementum lieberman

do you think the iraqis want more troops?

saddam was a bad guy, but he was our guy

and the poor people living in a region full of oil

are forced to suffer in a warzone.

america has to maintain troop presence

to keep the country together

so that they can control the oil

if they did not, the country would split into three

each ethnicity governing their own portion of oil

so instead of letting these people

(whose country did not attack ours ever)

control the oil they were born over

we're gonna force them to live together