And wouldn't this be a rare and fabulous idea, neighbors? Amazing meetings to challenge the imagination and a twelve-step spiral
staircase to heaven?
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
THIS IS SVITLANA – SHE MAY BE THE NEXT SENATE SEX SCANDAL
They say
power has its perks. Just don’t get caught. Unfortunately Sen. Bob Menendez seems to have forgotten this last part. Or that at
least is what the Daily Caller claims….
“As The
Daily Caller tells it. A senator’s life is really rough, allegedly. Meet
Svitlana Buchyk, a Russian beauty who is suddenly at the center of a
prostitution scandal that threatens to send Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez the
way of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. “Sveta,” as she’s called, is “a
young Russian who lives in Miami, Florida and travels frequently to New York,”
according to a dossier compiled by Peter Williams, a mysterious
whistle-blower who started circulating information in 2012 about the prostitutes
Democratic donor Dr. Salomon Melgen allegedly provided to Menendez. “This girl
is one of the most regular participants in the activities the Doctor arranges
for the Senator,” Williams wrote. “She has traveled with them in the jet,
sailed with them in the yacht, and has repeatedly visited the Doctor’s house.”
The Miami Herald managed to contact Buchyk on Jan. 31. She confirmed that she has worked
for Melgen, but wouldn’t say what kind of duties she performed for him.
Menendez is set to take over the chairmanship of the Senate foreign relations
committee any day now. That’s not a joke. It’s really called the U.S. Senate
Committee on “Foreign Relations.”
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
So the Maya
got it wrong, the meteorite did hit us in the Urals and cause a shitload
of grief but the big boy – the 150 ft
city-killer – missed us by a whisker. All of which leaves with not much to
laugh at this weekend except the absurd and totally hypocritical Euro horsemeat
horror. Get real people. Eating Black Beauty is no more or no less ethical than
eating Daisy or Babe. I schooled myself long ago that, while I remained a
carnivore, I would never think too much about the brown mystery meat in a Big
Mac.
Click here
for The Rolling Stones
The secret
word is Abattoir
ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
And maybe –
here in the UK and if we’re really good – David Cameron will give us some
drones to go with all the CCTV cameras.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
SOYLENT GREEN ISN’T PEOPLE – YET
This
comment on an item on Common Dreams started me wondering if corporate
capitalism actually wants to reshape the entire world in its own image. Because
that image is ugly in the extreme..
“It is in the SELF Interest of Mosanto for the natural
honeybee population to go extinct as Mosanto develops its own genetically
modified bee. The less natural honeybees, the greater the profits for Mosanto.
So it is with the fish farming industry and companies like Aquabounty. It is in
their self interests for the natural population of salmon to vanish. This will
maximize their profits. These "self interests" collide with anothers
"self interest". So the consumer that wants to eat organic and avoid
these GMO products will have a direct impact on the "self interest"
of the Company wishing to force their own product on them. It is in the
"self interest" of the Politicians to side with the Corporations.
They will receive outight bribes from the Corporations, be assured cushy jobs
with the Corporation once their JOB is done, and see all manner of monies come
their way when they are campaigning for office from those Corporations.
"Self Interest" is the holy grail of the Randians and the Libertarians
and those that speak to the magic of "The market". To them it a
wonderful thing. Interest in only the self is leading to destruction of our
Natural World across the entire globe.” Click here for the whole story.
Click here
for Charlie Mingus
The secret
word is Grub
Sunday, February 10, 2013
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
So how full
is a Full English? (And wasn't there an episode of The Simpsons based on this
all-you-can-eat concept?)
“The Kidz Breakfast, available at the Jesters Diner in
Norfolk, UK, isn't on the children's menu. The meal got its name because it
weighs as much as a baby. If you can eat this massive version of the
traditional full English breakfast in one hour, it's free:
Consisting of a dozen sausages, 12 bacon rashers and enough
eggs to be produced from a coop of chickens in a week, Jesters Diner's fry-up
in Great Yarmouth contains more than 6,000 calories and weighs in at 9lb
(4.08kg). But despite hundreds being sold after it was first put on the menu 18
months ago, only one person has managed to eat "the baby".
"Only one man has finished it - Robert Pinto,"
said 43-year-old cafe owner Martin Smith, who said he had seen his business
boom since his mammoth breakfast hit the headlines a year ago. "We knew he
was coming because he called up and we booked him in. We just thought he was
another have-a-go hero. No-one else had even got halfway through."
Mr. Pinto, a competitive eater, finished his in 26 minutes.”
Click here
for Keith
The secret
word is Lard
I THOUGH WE’D SETTLED THIS
But now the
proof is finally in…
"There has been a great deal of speculation over the years
and substantial evidence that an asteroid is likely what extinguished all
dinosaur life. Science could never prove what asteroid may have triggered the
extinction. One of the most likely candidates, the 9-mile-wide asteroid that
impacted Chicxulub, Mexico, was believed to have occurred 300,000 years
prior to the extinction. Now, however, European and American scientists have
re-tested debris from Chicxulub using state-of-the-art equipment and narrowed
the asteroid impact down to a period of 11,000 years, between 66.03 and 66.04
million years ago — almost simultaneous with the Cretaceous-Paleogene
extinction. The collision, which left behind a 180-kilometer (110-mile) crater,
released 420 zettajoules of energy — 100 teratonnes of TNT. The impact created
a huge dust cloud that blocked out the Sun, starting the extinction ball
rolling by killing off much of the world’s plants, and thus the herbivores soon
after. Due to high levels of oxygen in the Cretaceous atmosphere, the impact
may also have caused intense, global firestorms that killed off many other
species. Because the asteroid landed in the ocean, megatsunamis would’ve swept
the world’s coasts, too."
Thursday, February 07, 2013
THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUSLY INSANE
My mind has
ceased to boggle. I can only console myself that the interior life of Cathrynn Brown must be truly hideous and painfully
and profoundly miserable.
“After much uproar, New Mexico attorney, wingnut lady
legislator, Right to Life board
member and alleged GOP Rep. Cathrynn Brown is walking back as fast as she can
from her proposed bill to charge rape
and incest survivors with "tampering with evidence" - a felony
carrying a possible three-year prison sentence - if they choose to abort a rapist's fetus. No no no, Brown says: It was "an error - I
missed that one" - to suggest the bill would criminalize
and prosecute the victims, who she wants to "protect," really, along
with making their choices for them. Actually Brown, whose Facebook page sports an iconic photo of a gun resting on a
Bible in front of the Constitution, just wants to nail those
who might want to help the victim make her own decision about her intolerable
cirumstance - ie: doctors or nurses "facilitating" an
abortion for her. Let them go to jail for "intent
to destroy evidence of the crime." Wanna see a crime? This woman in a
position of power. Alas, she isn't alone. More awful bills in many states here.
From House Bill 206: "Tampering with evidence shall include
procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to
obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual
penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime."
The secret
word is Loathsome
RIP – Reg
Presley
Click here
for what purports to be the entire Trogg’s Tape
YOU DO THE MATH
Do we embrace
the vicious stupidity or just keep score?
“The US has spent over $10,000 per person in Afghanistan
killing them, when they have a per capita annual income of around $500. The US
could have bribed the entire country to go along with its agenda, but instead
it made everyone in the country hate it (except of course the few who profited
immensely from US contracts).250,000 BULLETS are
used by the USA per every "insurgent" killed in Afghanistan." Click here
for more
Sunday, February 03, 2013
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
Do you ever
wake up in the morning (or afternoon) with a feeling that the world needs to
know much more about Nicola Tesla and how he might have ushered in an electric
utopia had it not been for been for Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse and
the capitalist profit motive. I don’t do it often but today was an exception.
Maybe it was because January 7th was the 70th anniversary
of Tesla’s death, maybe because Tesla came up on my Facebook page a couple of
days ago, or perhaps because the movie The Prestige in which David Bowie plays
Tesla ran on TV the other night. Whatever the reason, let’s get to it. (My own
personal theory is that Tesla was just a stranded alien trying to phone home.)
There’s a pretty detailed entry on Wikipedia. Here’s a short except.
“At his lab, Tesla proved that the earth was a conductor. He
produced artificial lightning (with discharges consisting of millions of volts
and up to 135 feet long). Thunder from the released energy was heard 15
miles away in Cripple Creek, Colorado. People walking along the street
observed sparks jumping between their feet and the ground. Electricity sprang
from taps when turned on. Light bulbs within 100 feet of the lab glowed even
when turned off. Horses in a livery stable bolted from their stalls after
receiving shocks through their metal shoes. Butterflies were electrified,
swirling in circles with blue halos of St. Elmo's fire around their wings.
While experimenting, Tesla accidentally short-circuited the
generator, causing a power outage In August 1917, Tesla
explained what had happened in The Electrical Experimenter: "As an example
of what has been done with several hundred kilowatts of high frequency energy
liberated, it was found that the dynamos in a power house six miles away were
repeatedly burned out, due to the powerful high frequency currents set up in
them, and which caused heavy sparks to jump thru the windings and destroy the
insulation!"
At his lab, Tesla observed unusual signals from his receiver
(which he interpreted as 1—2—3—4), which he later believed were extraterrestrial radio
wave communications coming from Mars. The signals were substantially different
from the signals those that he had noted from noise of storms and the earth,
Specifically, he later recalled that the signals appeared in groups of one,
two, three, and four clicks together, Tesla was highly criticized upon
revealing his finding.”
Or you
could click here for a 42-minute film. Or click here for a somewhat dopey but
well meaning and on-the-money website.
The secret
word is Zap
Ed Koch --RIP
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
SARAH PALIN HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
Seems like
we won’t have Sarah Palin to kick around any more. Ask not for whom the blue bus
is calling. Palin has reached her sell-by date and will be carried away by the
inevitable time stream of huckster history that takes them all, the good, the
bad, and the bozos. I’ll guess I'll miss her. You, me, and Tina Fey had so much fun
at the expense of the witless Witch Queen of Wasilla.but now it’s all over. As
the New York Daily News tells it…
“Fox News chief Roger Ailes,
who once thought Palin a hot commodity, began privately calling her
"stupid," according to a 2011 article in New York Magazine. During
the Republican National Convention in August, Palin publicly complained that
Fox News had canceled her on-air interviews. And rising Republican leaders,
like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, are steering the GOP away from Palin's Tea
Party philosophies in the wake of Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat. Palin was paid a salary of $1 million per year while
at Fox, and a University of Minnesota study found that during her tenure at the
network she earned a hefty $15.85 per word spoken on air.”
Click here for The Bay City Rollers
The secret
word is Passage
THIS IS WHERE I KEEP MY OVERDRAFT
Some may disagree but if your bank is going to be crooked (and that seems inevitable) I think it’d rather have it laundering dope money than throwing folks out of their homes.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
One of the
things I really miss now I’m back in England is a proper hotdog. Okay, I know
probably half of you are disgusted by now and are just straining at the leash
to tell me all about the bugs and the rats hairs and the diseases and all the
other hotdog horror stories, But hey, a coke and a hotdog, what more can the
hungover ask. And the tradition is a noble one and even comes with it's own landmarks
Nathan’s on Coney Island, Pinks in Hollywood, but I’m no frankensnob, I’m just
as happy with a Sabrett from a pushcart in Manhattan or the ones in the 7/11
revolving on those hot rollers. I take
my dog with mustard and ketchup. I like relish but it tends to get on your
shirt. And that's my sunday dog tale and I’m sticking to it.
Click heref or Billie Holiday
The secret
word is Bun
Yossarian -- RIP
Yossarian -- RIP
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