Monday, March 31, 2003
The Dead Kennedy's vs. Jello Biafra.
Who would have thought it would ever come to this?
Dead Kennedy's point.
Alternative Tentacles counterpoint.
"Punk's not dead, It just deserves to die, When it becomes another stale cartoon"-from Chickenshit Conformist by Dead Kennedy's
Saturday, March 29, 2003
War is Stupid
"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" - Mohandas Gandhi
"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace" - Benjamin Franklin
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
"We're not made by God to mass kill one another ... and that's backed up by the Gospel. Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying." - Father Philip Berrigan
Quotes from www.warisstupid.com
Tags: quotes, war is stupid, m/a/z/e
Friday, March 28, 2003
Kinky Sex Makes The World Go Around - Dead Kennedy's (1987)
Greetings... This is the Secretary at the State Department of the United States... We have a problem. The companies want something done about this sluggish world economic situation... Profits have been running a little thin lately and we need to stimulate some growth... Now we know there's an alarming high number of young people roaming around in your country with nothing to do but stir up trouble for the police and damage private property. It doesn't look like they'll ever get a job... It's about time we did something constructive with these people... We've got thousands of 'em here too. They're crawling all over... The companies think it's time we all sit down, have a serious get-together - and start another war... The president? He loves the idea! All those missiles streaming overhead to and fro... Napalm... People running down the road, skin on fire... The Soviets seem up for it... The Kremlin's been itching for the real thing for years. Hell, Afghanistan's no fun... So whadya say?... We don't even have to win this war. We just want to cut down on some of this excess population... Now look. Just start up a draft; draft as many of those people as you can. We'll call up every last youngster we can get our hands on, hand 'em some speed, give 'em an hour or two to learn how to use an automatic riffle and send 'em on their way... Libya? El Salvador? How 'bout Northern Ireland? Or a 'moderately repressive regime' in South America? We'll just cook up a good Soviet threat story in the Middle East - we need that oil... We had Libya all ready to go and Colonel Khadafy's hit squad didn't even show up. I tell ya... that man is unreliable. The Kremlin had their fingers on the button just like we did for that one... Now just think for a minute - we can make this war so big - so BIG... The more people we kill in this war, the more the economy will prosper... We can get rid of practically everybody on your dole queues if we plan this right. Take every loafer on welfare right off our computer rolls... Now don't worry about those demonstrators - just pump up your drug supply. So many people have hooked themselves on heroin and amphetamines since we took over, it's just like Vietnam. We had everybody so busy with LSD they never got too strong. Kept the war functioning just fine... It's easy. We've got our college kids so interested in beer they don't even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again. Put a nuclear stockpile in their back yard, they wouldn't even know what it looked like... So how 'bout it? Look - war is money. The arms manufacturers tell me unless we get our bomb factories up to full production the whole economy is going to collapse... The Soviets are in the same boat. We all agree the time has come for the big one, so whadya say?!?... That's excellent. We knew you'd agree... the companies will be very pleased.
Thursday, March 27, 2003
Quote
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Things that piss me off...
Lawyers for two Texas men arrested in their bedroom are asking the court Wednesday to overturn their convictions for sodomy under a state "Homosexual Conduct'' law. This was in 1998, take a wild guess who was governor.
Brian Deneke, murdered at 19. His killer sentenced to 10 years probation, later violating parole to receive a sentence of 8 years. Same state, same governor.
Mississippi ratifies the 13th amendment, 130 years after the fact. What kind of message does that send? (Note: scroll down to the very bottom.)
Two teenagers sentenced to life, another to death for the murder of three 8 year old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Lacking any physical evidence to convict, prosecution used the defendants dress (black clothes, rock t-shirts), their taste in music (Metallica), and the bungled "confession" of Jessie Misskelly Jr., possessor of a 72 IQ.
Death
Who has the death penalty and who doesn't.
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Random War Babble
Thanks for the oil suckers!
$74.7 Billion to take over liberate Iraq?
Meanwhile 8.5 million Americans are out of work.
As of 03.21.03 the federal deficit is $6,460,674,090,486.67 or approximately $22,234.74 per person in the United States.
It's the economy, stupid!
Not a good time to be a Dolphin either.
1,379,031 CPU years & counting.
How does the computing power of Seti@home compare with existing supercomputers?The most powerful computer, IBM's ASCI White, is rated at 12 TeraFLOPS and costs $110 million. SETI@home currently gets about 15 TeraFLOPs and has cost $500K so far. <--Wow.
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Decapitation
This is beyond gross. Seriously, if you have a weak stomach do not check out this link.
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Something tells me these people are not our friends.
A 1994 investigation by the Senate Banking Committee turned up dozens of biological agents shipped to Iraq during the mid-'80s under license from the Commerce Department, including various strains of anthrax, subsequently identified by the Pentagon as a key component of the Iraqi biological warfare program.-Source: Washington Post
Throughout the Bush family's decades of public life, the American press has gone out of its way to overlook one historical fact - that through Union Banking Corporation (UBC), Prescott Bush, and his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, along with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, financed Adolf Hitler before and during World War II.-Source: Clamor Magazine
"I had a firm policy that I wouldn't do anything in Iraq, even arrangements that were supposedly legal." And yet, as the Financial Times eventually proved, Cheney oversaw $23.8 million in sales to Iraq in 1998 and 1999. Cheney, who collected a $36 million salary before becoming vice president, essentially profited from the destruction of Iraq that he oversaw as secretary of defense during the Gulf War. And while the oil-rig and equipment sales were legal -- a 1998 U.N. resolution gave Iraq the right to rebuild its oil industry -- Cheney's firm sold through European subsidiaries "to avoid straining relations with Washington and jeopardizing their ties with President Saddam Hussein's government," according to a November 2000 Financial Times report. -Source: Salon (3rd page)
Tags: Bush, Cheney, Iraq, m/a/z/e
Sunday, March 16, 2003
Marilyn Manson Ate My Girlfriend
I watched an entire video by this band last night thinking it was a skit on Saturday Night Live or Mad TV, little did I know I was on the Christian channel. With a title like Marilyn Manson Ate My Girlfriend, can you blame me? In other religious news the second coming is apparently a fish, and George W. is the antichrist.
Friday, March 14, 2003
Freedom's just another word for fries.
"Lawmakers struck a lunchtime blow against the French and put "freedom fries" on the menu." This reminds me of when professional wrestling in a rare and weird show of political correctness changed the term for weapons brought into the ring from "foreign objects" to "international objects."
If they really wanted to piss off the French why not just assassinate Jerry Lewis?
Random Search Strings
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Propaganda
Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours.
And all the letters are the same.
A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Rock," in 11 newspapers, including Snohomish, Wash.
The Olympian received two identical letters signed by different hometown soldiers: Spc. Joshua Ackler and Spc. Alex Marois, who is now a sergeant. The paper declined to run either because of a policy not to publish form letters.
The five-paragraph letter talks about the soldiers' efforts to re-establish police and fire departments, and build water and sewer plants in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where the unit is based.-The Olympian
Sunday, March 09, 2003
Over 20 Million Served
Over 20 million ordained since 1959, the Universal Life Church. Ordained in under three minutes, perfect for those of you on the go. Speaking of churches, anyone seen Bob lately?
Submariner
Not your father's submarine. But seriously, if anyone has $78 million to spare, let me know.
Friday, March 07, 2003
Uhh....
I uh, watched some of the uh, Presidential news conference last night. Same old, same old-your basic political rhetoric, kill Saddam and all that jive. The thing that struck me the most was how many times the man went, "uh." George W. was averaging about six "uh's" per question. This is the President of the United States? He sounded like he was sixteen explaining to Barbara what that green stuff she found in his sock drawer was (or perhaps more appropriately, the white stuff). I kept waiting for him to bust out with, "Uh, we didn't rehearse that answer. Next question." It would have been funny if it wasn't so sad. No, the real humor came today. Check out the transcripts from CNN and MSNBC. All the "uh's" have been replaced with well placed comma's and dashes making his train-wreck of a press conference read almost poignant and thoughtful. Example: "BUSH: Well, first, I...you know, I appreciate societies in which people can express their opinion. That society - free speech stands in stark contrast to Iraq." Replace those comma's and dashes with "uh's" and you have a pretty good idea of how it really sounded. It sure was nice of them to pretty up the president's speech like that and all. They'd never do that to the rest of the news, would they?
Tags: Bush, uhhh, m/a/z/e
Dr. Tongue's
Portland's coolest store, Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Collectible Toys. It's hard to find a place that carries a glow in the dark chainsaw wielding Elvira action figure.
That Feel (Waits/Richards)
Well there's one thing you can't lose
It's that feel
Your pants, your shirt, your shoes
But not that feel
You can throw it out in the rain
You can whip it like a dog
You can chop it down like an old dead tree
You can always see it
When you're coming into town
Once you hang it on the wall
You can never take it down
But there's one thing you can't lose
And it's that feel
You can pawn your watch and chain
But not that feel
It always comes and finds you
It will always hear you cry
I cross my wooden leg
And I swear on my glass eye
It will never leave you high and dry
Never leave you loose
It's harder to get rid of than tattoos
But there's one thing you can't do
Is lose that feel
You can throw it off a bridge
You can lose it in the fire
You can leave it at the altar
But it will make you out a liar
You can fall down in the street
You can leave it in the lurch
Well you say that it's gospel
But I know that it's only church
And there's one thing you can't lose
And it's that feel
It's that feel
Tags: Tom Waits, Lyrics, That Feel, m/a/z/e
Thursday, March 06, 2003
Cleveland Memories
I lived in Cleveland, Ohio for three months, and have had a borderline unhealthy obsession with it ever since. So why not start things off right with a smattering of Cleveland links- guaranteed to thrill and delight. Cleveland's punk rock past and present. Drink your way through the Beer Tour at the Winking Lizard Tavern. Take the Marilyn Manson Tour of Cleveland and surrounding areas courtesy of Cleveland.com.
Tags: Cleveland, Ohio, m/a/z/e
Anagrams
Ran an anagram generator on my name. If you haven't got enough from television, even my name fits the national mood. Some of the results: amass cereal Iraqi, massacre Iraqi ale, America Iraq sales. Weird.
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