“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS”
I’ve said some far out stuff myself, so far be it for me to say that it would be terrible if a Satanic Death Cult paid the Fox and Friends morning show a visit. They’d be a hell of an interesting interview if nothing else. But even more than I love that idea, I love the completely absurd and ridiculous quotes from a Fox News article talking about John Cusack’s Satanic Death Cult (which would be a bad-ass band name). In the article, Dr. Carole Lieberman had this to say about what John Cusack said:
“His provocative tweets could easily incite a rabid fan to commit violent acts against Fox News Headquarters and others he names. Fans could not only be influenced because of their devotion to Cusack, the man, but also because of their love for one of the characters he plays.“
Emphasis mine. Exactly what the hell is she expecting to happen here? An army of Lloyd Dobler-crazed left wing extremists to go to Fox News headquarters and murder everyone, set to a Peter Gabriel soundtrack?
Looking at this article (read it; it’s a classic example of predators eating their own), I spotted this in the comments section:
We’re a party that isn’t a party. We’re a political movement that won’t stand for being co-opted by politicians. We think an 18 candidate field in an obscure district is worth repudiating the closest thing we have to a friend in Congress. We’re for less government intervention, unless we’re talking about a woman’s uterus. We’re against government health care, unless we’re talking about Medicare. We’re against government spending, but don’t touch Medicare. We’re for making each worker’s social security contributions their own private retirement fund, but don’t touch benefits to current recipients. We think Obama is a socialist for bailing out GM and Chrysler, and we worship Ronald Reagan, who bailed out Chrysler. We hate socialism, and don’t you dare touch social security. We’re all for the constitution, except when it allows you to build a mosque.
One of the best and most truthful descriptions you’ll ever read about the so-called “Tea Party”. In fact, it’s a pretty apt description of many people beyond the Tea Party.
That just flashed by on my screen. This is what’s happened, apparently (from Bleeding Cool, more at link):
Details are sketchy, but it appears that one person wearing a Harry Potter shirt was stabbed in the face with a pen because they refused to swap seats, during a Marvel Studios presentation. A stretcher was needed and blood was spilled.
Wasn’t I just grumbling to myself that I wish I’d gone to SDCC this year again? Too much nerdrage for my blood.
Here is why a lot of sane people are opposed to the tunnel project, today. For those who have no idea what this is about, short-short version: we have an elevated waterfront highway for Interstate 99. It’s old, will collapse in a major earthquake, and be a big mess with death and chaos. Short sighted politicians are trying every last dubious and unethical trick in the book to ram through a tunnel project, that would run under the length of Seattle, as the new I-99 route. There’s a whole laundry list of reasons why this is bad, but I’m not getting into all that. My gripe is simpler and primordial.
There is language on the state level that any cost overruns in the project must be absorbed by “Seattle area” people. Some of us are just opposed until there is a 100% ironclad unbeatable written legal assurance that cost overruns will be borne equally on the state level, with no additional fiscal burden on the local populace, for a state-level project.
If the Tacoma Narrows bridge falls into the water, we’re not going to make Tacoma-area residents shoulder 1%-50% of the theoretical cost of a replacement bridge because it’s in their backyard. We’d spread 100% of the cost across all state residents… as it should be.
The tunnel needs to be put in stasis until that same situation is setup here and the state acknowledges it. If they won’t, no tunnel. Simple as that.
On the very same day that Blizzard Entertainment announced that in several months they would require all “message board” posters to post under “real names” as covered by Slashdot here, we see a news report that the same ‘real name’ system in-game has already been proven easy to crack and exploit real names.
On a lark, I stuck the names of various Blizzard executives into Google. Without any effort, I found the political contribution history and satellite photos of their various private homes online. I now know how much one of the Blizzard founders paid for their rather nice family residence, and know which schools their children go to. They have a nice swimming pool out back.
How easy to find? Trivial. Click here, for example. A major figure from Blizzard Entertainment lives somewhere on that photo, but I won’t say who or where exactly. All that from a trivial public records search, and all done in less than two minutes. Why does Blizzard want to expose all their players this way?
If this goes through, the moment a single player is hurt “in real life” because of it, I can pretty much guarantee that some zealous fan will post all the information I didn’t here about basically all the Blizzard staff in payback. Who wins if this goes through? More proof this is a bad idea: video game fanatic stabs other player in real life after hunting them. Blizzard is stupidly playing with fire here.
Next morning update:
Apparently, any mention of this USA Today story is being excised from the Warcraft forums, that confirms Blizzard now has some sort of contracted financial deal to integrate Battle.net into Facebook.
The main complaint thread on Warcraft is now 21,000+ posts long, with duplicates and repostings (and who knows what else) being trimmed off. It’s over 1,000 pages long. There are similar threads in all the major non-English language Warcraft threads. I suppose that’s what happens when you piss off 12,000,000 players, and let the media dictate the discussion. It’s also now hit Facebook.
They’re already at $2.65 billion as of yesterday, June 27th. If the rate doesn’t change it will put them at $5.95 billion by July 31 and $9.05 billion by August 31, and $12.05 billion by September 30. That’s assuming a lot: relief wells work, no more underwater screw ups, and NO storms interrupting them. It also assumes that the deep sea plumes of oil just… don’t do anything. Land, for example. Remember we’re still only seeing a fraction of the oil on the beaches.
$12.05B between now and end of September. BP’s net income in all 2009 was $16.58 billion.
Team Fortress 2 is an inexpensive first person shooter from Valve that is simple, and insanely, ludicrously fun. Guys run out, guys shoot and blow each other up. That’s it. Graphically it’s like Pixar’s The Incredibles but with doofy 1960s and 1970s overtones. If you survive 2+ minutes without being very, very graphically blown apart, you’re doing awesome. TF2 also allows anyone to create custom maps. There are some that are literally amazing and pure gaming bliss. Some suck. Then there is this…
He Who Walks Behind The Litter Box: Yogg Kitteh
Seriously, I don’t even know where to begin: the Old One cat screaming, shooting laser beams from it’s eyes; the Heil Hitler death rays the demon cat god sprays; or the fact it’s screams unleash flights of giant flesh ripping honey bees.
NOTE: This is not an easy video to watch. It’s brutal. That’s why everyone needs to watch it. Please post this video to your Facebook, Twitter, blogs, or wherever else you can.
You can use this shortened URL: http://bit.ly/ccGfdm Don’t credit me–just spread it out wide.
A full military SWAT assault in the middle of the night. Shoot two dogs. All in the presence of a 7-year old child. And for what? A tiny bag of marijuana?
What a joke our “war on drugs” has become. What was the financial cost of this raid? What will be the long-term cost of this raid for the police and the community of Columbia when the inevitable lawsuits arrive? What will be the human cost to this poor family for using a drug that’s arguably less harmful than alcohol (when’s the last time you heard of someone beating up their spouse after smoking a joint)?
It’s 1920-1933 all over again. Prohibition of alcohol was proven by history to an unmitigated disaster and complete waste of everyone’s collected time. How many people died and had their lives ruined because some religious fools decided that it was ‘immoral’ or ‘criminal’ for us?
New boss, same as the old boss.
Stop using the “War on Drugs” against regular people. The US government from the birth of Ronald Reagan’s “War on Drugs has created the modern gang problems and wholesale destruction of families as surely as religious groups (and the US officials who failed to heed the facts of separation of church and state) literally handed the bullets to Al Capone and other mobsters for the deaths they caused during Prohibition. Target the crystal meth dealers. The crack cocaine dealers. The parasites that destroy and consume entire communities whole, ripping the living flesh from them.
Spare the regular people.
End the damn Second Prohibition, already, so that we can stop destroying families and move past our failed history.
I think I’ve posted maybe two recipes in ten years, but this one was too good not to share. Plus, I wanted to save my own version for myself to make again. I was going to make some chicken breast and pasta tonight, when I found one of those little “Try Foods” recipe cards in the meat department of our grocery store for a Chipotle Chicken Chili dish (the original recipe is at the end of this post). I wasn’t feeling like chipotle so I hacked the original recipe, and it’s really good. Mine isn’t quite as healthy as the original. I used 1.5 pounds of chicken, which seemed to be good to make it a bit ‘denser’ and meatier.
It’s more of a rich and kind of spicy chicken tomato soup than a chili. Don’t make fun of me for my spice selections (they baffled my wife, as I generally have no idea what I’m doing in the kitchen, but they seemed to work really well here). For the chocolate and cheese melted into the dish, I just think it adds to the texture. I could be wrong, and probably am, but there you go…
It’s got a weird sweetness to it as a finished dish and just enough of a burn that you’re aware of it. Should be served piping hot.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes
3 slices slab bacon
1 1/2 lb. bonlesss, skinless chicken breast cut into small bite size pieces
1 small onion, chopped
1 (14-oz) can low-sodium, fat free chicken broth
3 (14.5-oz) cans diced tomatoes with green chilies, undrained
1 (15 oz) can black beans, rinced and drained
Cholula regular hot sauce
several squares of dark chocolate
about 8 oz of jack & cheddar shredded cheese
olive oil
black pepper
Worcestershire sauce (no sane reason, but I did it and it worked)
basil
dill
paprika (sweet or hot)
garlic powder or chopped garlic
bag of shredded cheddar cheese to top bowls afterward
sour creme to top bowls
Set oven to Warming temperatures. In a large pot, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Transfer bacon to a plate lined with paper towels to drain. Add chicken pieces to the pot (use the same pot and bacon grease); saute 4 minutes. I splashed a bit of of olive oil on it and scraped off bacon remnants stuck to the pan. Add some black pepper to the chicken. Crumple up the bacon while the chicken is cooking. When the chicken is just beginning to brown, throw out paper towel, toss the chicken on the bacon, and stick it in the oven to warm. If you’re not using fresh garlic toss a few dashes of garlic powder on the chicken as well, as it’s being cooked.
Add onion to pot; saute 2 minutes. Saute the garlic here if you’re using fresh garlic.
Add broth, tomatoes, beans and a healthy few splashes of the Cholula.
If using garlic powder, add a dash. Dash of basil and dill, several dashes of paprika, few splashes of Worcestershire.
Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low.
Return chicken and bacon to the pot; simmer, uncovered, 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
After boiling ten minutes crumble and stir in the chocolate and 4 oz of jack & cheddar. Do the other 4 oz about 5 minutes later.
Ladle chili into soup bowls. Top with shredded cheddar cheese and a small dollop of sour creme (recommended).
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This was the original recipe; I found it’s on most recipe sites.
Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 27 minutes
Serves 6
(Find in the food search for one serving at 275 calories)
2 bacon slices
1 lb. bonlesss, skinless chicken breast cut into small bite size pieces
1 small onion, chopped
1 (14-oz) can low-sodium, fat free chicken broth
3 (14.5-oz) cans diced tomatoes with green chilies, undrained
1 (15 oz) can black beans, rinced and drained
1/2 tsp. chipotle seasoning
4 oz. shredded sharp Cheddar cheese (1 cup)
Sliced fresh japepenos & sour cream (optional)
In a large pot, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Transfer bacon to a plate lined with paper towels to drain. Add chicken pieces to the pot; saute 4 minutes. Remove chicken and keep warm.
Add onion to pot; saute 2 minutes.
Add broth, tomatoes, beans and chipotle seasoning; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low.
Return chicken and bacon to the pot; simmer, uncovered, 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Ladle chili into 6 soup bowls. Top with cheese, and if desired, serve with jalepenos and sour cream.
Genesis 1:3: At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.
Yeah, you’ve heard of cheezburger, and you has had it. But I Can Haz Cheezburger is not when cats evolved into ruling mankind — the history of the Internet and cats, as of 2010, is ten years old. It all began way back in the late 1990s, but nobody knows for sure exactly when. We don’t know when the first Internet Cat was made, but we know the first one known by man:
Example flyer posted in cat ghettos.
At some point in the 1990s, Bay Fly Magazine from Portland, Oregon printed that, spreading religious intolerance of cats like a demented anti-kitten Chick Tract. Someone scanned the flyer, and began sending it around in e-mail when the World Wide Web was still just a deformed fugly beast populated by Blink Tags that dwelled in the hearts of the Mosaic Web Browser. It wouldn’t be the last time people would call for the mass execution of kittens at human hands. It wasn’t long before we began to enslave and grow Bonsai Kittens in the year 2000.
Grown at MIT, man's first attempt to understand cats.
Next came the Punk Kittens on Rathergood, who began to preach their new religion free of man’s bottling influence:
Preaching through music.
But we weren’t done with the kittens yet, and that old hate from the 1990s was coming back in full force. Later in 2002, the people at Fark.com stopped their persecution and intolerance toward North Carolina’s higher education system (Duke sucks) long enough to turn their bigotry on kittens and human sexual expression, when this old hateful language resurfaced, combined with Japanese religious iconography.
The dark days of Japan's Kitten Purge, before the coming of Maru.
At some time in 2005, 4chan began the high holy day of Caturday, which then then got spread onto Livejournal, and finally had it’s own Caturday Livejournal group in 2006.
Caturday, before open religious expression was possible.
At this point, Caturday was still underground. You had to know a cat, be on 4chan, or know someone who knew someone. That all changed for the world on the day that Happycat was discovered, sometime around 2004. While Caturday was an underground religion, the world was about to get the Good Word, because the kitty messiah had been busy out wandering the desert that is Something Awful from 2003 onwards, unknown by the wider world. Behold, Happy Cat.
He was happy.
Then this happened, and Happycat came down from the mountain bearing the words of Ceiling Cat…
At last, thanks to his message, humans paid attention to the Internets.
Icanhascheezburger.com has registered in January, 2007, and the rest was history. But lest anyone ever forget, Icanhascheezburger.com is just a site. The Happycat was the Moses of the Internet Cat. Icanhascheezburger.com and their empire of related web sites, while nice, are like the Mormons of the Cat World: later generations that just keep coming.
Arizona’s state government just passed their SB 1070 immigration law because they decided they have an immigration problem. Arizona’s SB 1070 won’t fix a single illegal immigration problem in the United States.
None. Zero. Zilch.
What will fix immigration problems in the United States, specifically the sort they’re after in Arizona? I believe they want to stop “illegals” from coming to their state. If that’s the case, then fine. A state is free to pass any law that their people want, as long as it doesn’t conflict in any way with the United States Constitution or Federal law. Maybe SB 1070 meets those thresholds – or maybe it doesn’t. Time and the courts will decide that. What will fix the problem the Arizona government perceives, permanently?
Criminalize – and by criminalize, I don’t just mean ‘fine’ – I mean, criminalize, as in with a felony-level penalty, the hiring of a single “illegal”, “undocumented worker”, or anyone who can’t demonstrate conclusively that they are indeed legally authorized to work in the state of Arizona. How criminal should it be? If I’m a business owner, be it a farmer, a manufacturer, or a homeowner that needs yard work done, and I hire an “illegal”… I go to jail.
Arrest me. Fine me. Prosecute me.
If guilty, I now have a felony conviction. Yes, a FELONY. The criminal convictions you have to report for the rest of your natural life; the criminal convictions that may cost you the right to vote; the criminal convictions that can cost you your own job or career. Prosecute me ruthlessly if I’ve hired an “illegal”. No sane person in those conditions would even think about hiring someone they shouldn’t. There will be, literally, no market for these workers in Arizona then, and they will go elsewhere. Problem solved for Arizona.
But that would require making Americans responsible for what they’ve done themselves: brought these illegal immigrants to Arizona. If American employers weren’t hiring the immigrants and creating their shadow economy, why would they even come here? Yes, the immigrants are at fault. They snuck into the United States: they didn’t come in legally. The American EMPLOYERS are 100% equally at fault, however. SB 1070 does nothing to fix this. Unless Arizona makes employers face criminal penalties – and enforces the same – to stop the immigrants from coming, why would they stop? It’s a nonsensical idea.
But this idea will never happen, because it wouldn’t just tip over the socioeconomic and political apple cart in Arizona: it would set the cart on fire and make it explode.
