Ben Franklin Bridge

From Franklin Square Park, Philadelphia.

Lorikeet

At the Philadelphia Zoo:

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After listening to a future tech strategy briefing from a major software company, I realized that the actual message they were delivering could be boiled down to, "We're going with this newly acquired product, dumping these while continuing support, phasing out that, etc." The actual presentation, however, was layered with a thick coat of bullshit, which stretched the webcast out to over two hours.

I think bullshit must be the standard, necessary transport protocol for business. In order to get from the decision-makers to the decision-sufferers, it must be wrapped in bullshit packets for delivery by marketing and communications departments. Our job is to strip away the bullshit headers and reduce the information back to its essentials. It's just like http, only with bullshit!

Some Grade-A Crazy

My favorite from a sampling of email to Slashdot:

On Fri, 30 Nov, ****** wrote:
"I'm in search for one of your representatives, or National Security. I have been able to read ********** mind. I showed up at *********, in Eugene, Oregon and let him know about the money that he stole from government agencies, including the FBI, which ironically protects him. He thought I was undercover or believed I was a human computer; which he still may believe. He witnesses that his computers talk to me, as if I were one of them. I can tell what program his computers are on and what they are interlocking with most of the time. He gave me a 400 million dollar check that day, as I sat there reading his mind explaining to him what I knew. At that point he had 8-10 billion dollars of government money/funding hidden away. But after the planes went down he stole over a 100 billion. He used Mike's pin# and password to get into National Security. He helped himself into instruments and institutions, and began using them incorrectly and illegally. I am offering National Security or any Representative a lot of my money to help me put this man away. It seems he is being protected by the forces I need. He is station #3 of the HAARP Project and I'm in search for anyone ready to earn a lot of money; for actually representing the United States of America the Right Way. He's been looking into the minds of his people and brainwashing them, so he will not be seen. I can read his mind faster than any instrument, and ironically he seems he has to answer my questions like I was a machine. When I listen, I can hear him telling people he's playing God and to digest this information; or to Change their mind. Another one he uses, line one--, line two--, line three--, Lock and Load, which also seems to convince people that he is innocent. He changes the information nightly so he won't be seen, for he is a computer programmer as you will soon see. I've even tried try to get the HAARP to tune into me, so they could see me which would see him. This is just the beginning of what I know. Eugene, Oregon's FBI seem to be full of idiots or his "Change Your mind Method" is working pretty damn good. Right now I get denied as they listen to him and not me. But COME ON PEOPLE, He wrote me a $400 Million dollar check. (SO, WAKE UP! FBI, because you are obviously, virtually blind),. This Nation seems to be lacking people like me. That can discover people like ********** and his black market industry."

Read the whole thing, as they say.

Jerome Corsi: Professional Liar

Spread the word; fight the bullshit:
Fight the Smears | Unfit for Publication

Let's leave this political shit hit man without a shred of public credibility.

Since Our Political Press Has Become Such A Joke...

...it's no wonder they've been supplanted by a comedian.

Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America? - NYTimes.com

Though this spot is the program’s mocking sendup of itself and the news media’s mania for self-promotion, it inadvertently gets at one very real truth: the emergence of “The Daily Show” as a genuine cultural and political force. When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN. And a study this year from the center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism concluded that “ ‘The Daily Show’ is clearly impacting American dialogue” and “getting people to think critically about the public square.”

Why Does John McCain Hate Our Troops?

Inspired by alicublog, I looked up the Senate vote on Amendment 16 to Senate Bill 256 from 2005, otherwise known as the Bankruptcy Bill. This amendment, sponsored by Dick Durbin, sought to protect US troops from the worst excesses of the bill.

Guess how McCain voted.

Jerome Corsi: Partisan Extremist

Media Matters:
Despite "all my apologies" for bigoted comments, Corsi reportedly scheduled to appear on "pro-White" radio show

Jerome Corsi: Dishonest and honor-free in 2004, and now in 2008.

Fucker

Mukasey Won’t Pursue Charges in Hiring Inquiry - NYTimes.com

Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday rejected the idea of criminally prosecuting former Justice Department employees who improperly used political litmus tests in hiring decisions, saying he had already taken strong internal steps in response to a “painful” episode.

Official Bush Administration Ass-Coverer, Capo of the Mukasey Crime Family, presents Americans with another shameless episode of dereliction of duty. Impeach this human anal cyst before he can do it again.

Another Way In Which McCain Is Just Like Bush

Bush's impotent whining over the Russian invasion of Georgia make obvious the striking parallel between our foreign policy situation and McCain's presidential campaign. They've both painted themselves into a corner.

Bush couldn't credibly threaten Russia militarily in any way (except nuclear), largely because of Iraq, and Putin knows it. He cannot keep his rash promises to the Georgian people. I'd actually like to think that even the Bush crowd isn't insane enough to launch World War III just yet. I'd like to think that. But with William the Bloody and other Neocon shit-for-brains hot on the issue, I'm just not so sure. But our options are few or none in coming to Georgia's aid. Bush does, however, credibly threaten such vile enemies as the Endangered Species Act and slays those dragons that he can.

McCain also has limited options in his battle with Obama. Beset by his own mediocrity, his souring marriage to the Washington press corps, Obama's rock-star popularity and the horrible domestic zeitgeist bequeathed to him by Bush and the rest of the Republicans, McCain can only go negative; negative in the most shallow, vapid and dishonest way (not to say that America doesn't have a bottomless appetite for the vapid and shallow). But he couldn't run an uplifting, positive, issues-based campaign even if he wanted to. Bush and McCain are probably thrilled that Russia has reared it's ugly hegemonistic head just now; a little shot of Cold War nostalgia could only help their political situation.

How can McCain guide us through these stormy foreign policy seas when he's shown such limited strategic vision in his campaign?

Obama's Tire Inflation Tip

Could have come directly from this US Government (approved by the Bush Administration!!) fact page:

Tips to improve your Gas Mileage

Republicans must mock a sensible gas-saving tip; only dirty fucking hippies would want to save gas.

Obama recommended proper tire inflation as an example of a no-or-low-cost action that consumers can take themselves to save AS MUCH OR MORE MONEY than all the ANWR drilling could save them over the lifetime of the deposits. It emphasizes the fact that the only beneficiaries of ANWR/ US Coastal drilling would be the oil companies, who are already rolling in our cash from the recent skyrocketing gas prices. It emphasizes the fact that any saving to the US consumer resulting from domestic drilling would be chump change.

I'm sure some Republicans are smart enough to realize this, and are just lying for political expediency (and the inherent, natural dishonesty so common to the breed). Laugh all you want, assholes. When the pump runs dry, it runs dry for everyone, your descendants included.

As a bonus, remember that any savings you get from good vehicle maintenance goes directly into YOUR pocket as a pre-tax savings. It won't enrich John McSame's new-found oil baron friends at all. So we all know just who's pulling McSame's strings now.