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You’ll never go broke pandering to the worst in America. Or, it never ceases to surprise how far one can get with so little up top. Half a million views, “recommended” by YouTube after play of the anthem I specifically wrote for them, “Suck on My Machine Gun.”
Reminding everyone that the “it” gift this past Xmas was an AR-15 and boxes of ammo.
The big news in the mainstream was Alex Jones on CNN during the Orange Bowl, the only mitigating factor being that the TV audience was primarily on football.
Jones, like Ted Nugent, is an IQ test that works on many levels. If you deal with him, you flunk. If you go on his show, the same.
CNN’s Piers Morgan hosted noted radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to discuss his petition to deport Morgan because of his views on gun control. Jones is a 9/11 truther who has a history of inflammatory and baseless remarks … Jones’ lengthy history of pushing absurd conspiracy theories should disqualify him from being mainstreamed on media outlets such as CNN.
“They are mass-producing ricin powder for trans-shipment into the United States,” says McAfee. “This is not a joke.”
“They are manufacturing it by the ton,” McAfee insists. A kilogram of it, dispensed over New York, will kill everyone, he tells Jones. “[They’re making] enough to kill every man, woman and child on the planet.”
“If there is a rye-a-sin attack, the government will take my guns and squeeze my wife’s breast,” Jones tell McAfee. “If this happens, you sir will be a key person.”
John McAfee, however, did not count on the greater news impact of Jones going off on CNN in primetime. The big time lunatic trumped the millionaire ex-antivirus king and pathological liar.
At McAfee Associates, this morning, more hair is being pulled out, more molars ground.
“China Toilet Blooz,” performed live in Pasadena in the arts/theater district just south of Colorado, fall of 2010.
Originally recorded as a video/audio capture on an audience member’s digital camera, I tossed the video. The recording was low fidelity, the camera’s video capability squelching everything above 5k in the audio spectrum to keep file size manageable. So I put it back into a digital replica of the room for a pseudo-stereo image and did a few other studio tricks to bring back some dynamic range and restore a better feel for what it sounded like. (I almost can do magic for the stuff others have ruined for you, too.)
Play loud. Yep, really loud folk rock gets heavy. Hey, dig the Mojo Hand made-in-China harmonica! Straight off Humble Pie’s Rockin’ the Fillmore. Well, no, but it’s where I nicked the licks.
To Nosten [a malaria doctor in Thailand], it was further evidence of an alarming rise in resistance to artemisinin, currently the front-line drug in the treatment of malaria. He fears it could be the start of a global “nightmare” in which millions of people could lose their lives.
“We have to beat this resistance, win this race and eliminate the parasite before it’s too late. That’s our challenge now,” he said.
He said that artemisinin should take about 24 hours to deal with the parasite, but it was now taking three or four days in some cases. “We are going to see patients that don’t respond to the treatment anymore,??? he warned …
He first sounded the alarm in research published earlier this year, following the emergence of similar drug resistance along the Thai-Cambodia border.
“Keasling realized that the tools of synthetic biology, if properly deployed, could dispense with nature entirely, providing an abundant new source of artemisinin,” reads some standard high button blow job from 2009, published at the New Yorker. “If each cell became its own factory, churning out the chemical required to make the drug, there would be no need for an elaborate and costly manufacturing process, either.”
About 3.3 billion people – half of the world’s population – are at risk of malaria. In 2010, there were about 216 million malaria cases (with an uncertainty range of 149 million to 274 million) and an estimated 655 000 malaria deaths (with an uncertainty range of 537 000 to 907 000). Increased prevention and control measures have led to a reduction in malaria mortality rates by more than 25% globally since 2000 and by 33% in the WHO African Region.
Like most old synthetic biology pieces, the New Yorker “annals of science” essay is full of promises about shit that never quite happened. Although the people quoted, Jay Keasling et al, became very wealthy and semi-famous.
Online job search is a waste of time. Once you have given up as I have, how is one expected to go out and try to put on a positive face when all one faces is no positive direction? Everything in the United States is a scam.
For many, it’s a very accurate observation. Much of daily life is filled with scams from corporate America and to survive everyone must go about the task of trying to always avoid the tricks and traps. And the past four years have made it abundantly clear that no will exists anywhere in the country — except maybe in the writings of Paul Krugman — to lessen unemployment, decrease inequality, and raise the pay and declining living standards of average Americans. In fact, these are things that are vigorously opposed in the current system.
Of course, the headhunter couldn’t admit this was so. But he couldn’t actually lie in front of everyone, either, so he had to talk in a circle:
No, everything is not a scam. There are a lot of companies that are hiring, but there are more that are nervous about investing in more personnel in a volatile economy. It’s understandable: So much is in flux today that companies hesitate to spend money, and they over-compensate by insisting on “perfect hires” …
First, we already know that applying for jobs online is largely a waste of time … Your challenge is to help employers meet you outside of that numskull system. Help them see what you can do for them.
Second, we know that employers tend to hire through personal contacts. So you must face that reality and learn how to apply for jobs through people a company knows and trusts. This is awkward for most, but it’s a skill that’s as important as any work skill. Rather than search the job postings, devote yourself to meeting people who do business …
Third, there is no way to pursue hundreds or even dozens of jobs through personal contacts …
No, everything was not a scam. But online job application is. No, not everything is a scam. You need to make personal contacts. But nobody can make enough personal contacts.
And after one has been unemployed for a while — as is the case with most people in this country — you have no personal contacts. Just a few people who don’t want to hear from you.
It’s all here. One of the questioners is named “John Galt.”
If you work for Starbucks in Pasadena, you’re not earning a living in southern California. Consider the plight of the wait staff, compiled to hand out bullshit “Come Together” cups, in hopes that the fiscal cliff will be avoided or that white guys with AR-15s will stop mass shootings for a week. Or something:
In the spirit of the Holiday season and the Starbucks tradition of bringing people together, we have a unique opportunity to unite and take action on an incredibly important topic. As many of you know, our elected officials in Washington D.C. have been unable to come together and compromise to solve the tremendously important, time-sensitive issue to fix the national debt. You can learn more about this impending crisis at www.fixthedebt.org.
Rather than be bystanders, we have an opportunity—and I believe a responsibility—to use our company’s scale for good by sending a respectful and optimistic message to our elected officials to come together and reach common ground on this important issue. This week through December 28, partners in our Washington D.C. area stores are writing “Come Together??? on customers’ cups.
I don’t drink coffee, I’ve always hated Starbucks, and there are way too many of them Pasadena. People who patronize the place are middle class shit, the firm’s the KFC of the brown stuff.
And the wealthy-beyond-reason CEO wants his minimum wage workers to help us all think about “fixing the debt,” something his serfs have absolutely no stake in. Because going over the cliff or not, nothing will change. They still won’t be able to make ends meet in LA County.
Right on schedule, Wyane LaPierre of the National Rifle Association showed up on national television to prove he’s every bit the boogeyman one expected.
The only recommendations were to — first — stop making demons of assault gun fetishists and the NRA, and then to use the NRA to train paramilitary defense forces for all schools. Using a task force led by ex-right wing GOP Senator Asa Hutchinson who was last seen trying to get Bill Clinton impeached for having his dick sucked by someone not his wife.
Although LaPierre tried to sound sorrowful, the “put police officers” in every school theme coupled with his introductory tone of “we’re being victimized” made it into a defensive rant.
Some excerpts from transcription:
“There exists in this country a callous and corrupt industry that sells violence against its own people … video games.”
“How come my research staff can find Kindergarten Killer [an online game] but all of your [media research staff] can’t?
“Add another hurricane, a terrorist attack, add another natural disaster
[and the nation will descend into a violent nightmare, or something to
that effect]…
“One thousand music videos portray life as a joke … and they all have the nerve to call it entertainment.
“In a race to the bottom video conglomerates compete … to violate every standard of civilized society.”
[At this point a little old lady, carrying a banner, got in front of LaPierre and started shouting, “The NRA has blood on it hands — ban
assault weapons now!” She was taken off but not before getting it in
a few times.]
“It is now time for us to assume responsibility for our schools … the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”[LaPierre then got querulous about what he knows the reaction to putting more guns in schools will be.]
“I can imagine the shocking headlines you’ll be printing tomorrow…”
Blaming video games and entertainment has been in rehearsal all week. The only problem with the argument is that the country exports the same video games and entertainments to the rest of the developed world where they are met with great consumer relish. But those civilized countries are not ridden with massacres perpetrated by semi-automatic weapons.
And why is that? Perhaps because everyone can’t go to Dick’s or Walmart for the world’s best selection of consumer-tailored assault guns.
As for relying on the National Rifle Association to train the country in the defense of its schools, I rely on Who Is the NRA again to edify:
In the increasingly distant past, the National Rifle Association (NRA) largely advocated for policies related to hunting and marksmanship, but today its leaders are defined by unsavory conduct and the advancement of extreme, anti-government ideology. While the NRA innocuously describes itself as the “nation’s oldest civil rights organization,??? this portrayal serves only as a smokescreen to mask the fact that the organization is a rogues gallery of the most odious voices in the contemporary Conservative Movement.
One only has to look to the NRA’s leadership to discover that the organization is operated by a group of individuals who promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-immigrant animus, religious bigotry, anti-environmentalism, and insurrectionism … Moreover, while superficially bipartisan, the NRA is closely aligned with the most extreme elements in the Republican Party and has brought a number of the GOP’s most influential operatives into positions of power within the organization. The GOP and NRA are now locked in a symbiotic relationship.
While not a small force, the NRA is in the minority now. Get the pitchforks.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has introduced one of Congress’ first pieces of legislation related to the tragedy in Newtown, Conn.: a bill to study the impact of violent video games on children.
“This week, we are all focused on protecting our children. At times like this, we need to take a comprehensive look at all the ways we can keep our kids safe. I have long expressed concern about the impact of the violent content our kids see and interact with every day,” said Rockefeller, who is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.
Rockefeller’s bill would direct the National Academy of Sciences to lead the investigation on video games’ impact and submit a report on its findings within 18 months.
Reid should have Rockefeller ex-communicated for insulting the intelligence, wasting tax payer money and pissing off scientists. Who won’t want to do this because the already know this is a non-starter requested only for the sake of diversionary theater.
Leading NRA board member and public disgrace Ted Nugent in a snap from his Discovery channel show, just canceled, because even they are afraid of him now.
Leading NRA board member and public disgrace Ted Nugent in a snap from his Discovery channel show, just canceled, because even they are afraid of him now.