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A Ninja speaks out on Net Neutrality

Crazy Dog

This still cracks me up. Damn foot just keeps coming back.

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Dresden Dolls - Good Day

I love (this kind of) crazy people.

Real Estate Ad

ELKHART, Ind. - Its official state motto is "the crossroads of America." Yet Indiana is about to turn over its entire toll road for the next 75 years to two foreign companies, making it more expensive to drive.

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Royals Celebrate Internet Victory

The House's vote to fully privatize the internet brought a cause for celebration in the Monarchy today. "What did you think I meant when I said I wanted an Ownership Society?" the President asked reporters gathered on the tarmac at Houston International Airport. "You're just jealous because I didn't specificate who I wanted doin' the ownin', and it wasn't you!" Arch-Duke Jeb, (R-Fl), taunted demonstrators, saying, "Yeah, well who owns the mother #$%&'n internet now, *ssh*le? The Ownership Society's gonna be ownin' your piddly little Social Security check next, commie!"

House Rejects Net Neutrality Act

Lamar "Pig" Smith (R-Tx)
Mary "Pig" Bono (R-Ca)
Marsha "Pig" Blackburn (R-Tn)
The Dishonorable George "Pig" Radanovich (R-Ca)
Michael "Pig" Ferguson (R-NJ)

Piggies of the Week
Just a few of the foul and odious, corrupt, fascist commie G.O.Pigs who voted NO on Net Neutrality. Apparently the concept of a level playing field is abhorrent to the Republican Party, and advantage to the highest bidder is the working plank of the party platform.

What loathsome ethics, so disparate to those which formed the Constitution and its foundation of equality and freedom, this culture of corporatist greed is.

A good article on the subject is here.

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Trompe L'oeil

The art of realistic painting used frequently in murals to create the illusion of boobs exposed through the wall surface. (French: "fool the eye")

Very funny on t-shirts:

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Left Behind: Eternal Forces

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The Dominionist Church has developed a new roll-playing video game for kids, set in New York City. The player can either "be" a christian, and battle UN Peace-keeping forces (evil), or the player can command a host of demons and UN Peace-keeping forces, to battle christians.

The setting is post-rapture Earth. The evangelicals have raptured up and the rest of the species remains. (As the "left Behind" series posits to be the case today). Satan has been elected UN Secretary General. The aim of the game (should the player opt to fight on the side of the christians), is to convert the remaining humans who've not joined the church, ("neutrals"), to the church, to serve in your squadron. Before the UN recruitment officers deceive them into serving mammon. While battling the UN Peace-keepers, military-style. In a city like NYC, there's bound to be some collateral damage:

"If you happen to blow away a neutral party - and collateral damage is inevitable in the End of Days - then you will lose "Spirit Points". But you can power back up with merely a brief timeout for prayer, or by converting one of New York's terror-stricken citizens."

Note that in the screenshot above it seems the child was either the heathen of the family, or somebody's taking a time out right now. Was it the lit bundle of TNT the avatar is holding, that got the unfortunate little heathen? If you (the player) make a mistake and kill a "neutral," it's okay! Collateral damage IS inevitable in urban warfare, and the Lord is a forgiving God; you can just take a quick time-out, pray a quick "oops, sorry Lord," and all's forgiven. Back to the front, soldier!

I've not found details on how one "converts" a neutral, and wonder if the player types in "have you heard the word of... today?" "Would you care to make a small donation..." is probably key to failure.

The "collateral damage" doesn't go away, and the bodies pile up. A million New Yorkers dead in the streets might offend some, that roving death squads roam the streets of a major American city, leaving piles of collateral damage in their insane war against perceived demons, may offend others. That kids will acquire the ability to demonize whoever authority calls a demon, and kill them, may offend still others. That all this killing is ascribed to God's wishes should offend many. But it's okay, there's a lot of praying going on! And the remaining neutrals will have to take sides, now.

Good, psycho, roving death-squad, nine-commandments, christian mayhem fun, to indoctrinate the youth into what must be done, in the name of the Lord: have an enemy defined for them, and kill it, amen.

3-Armed Baby, Surgery

(AP) Doctors in Shanghai, China are assessing the boy's physical condition before deciding whether to remove the extra limb or not. If I were to learn that I had been born with 3 arms and the third was removed, I would be pissed. I doubt anyone, ever, hasn't wished for an extra hand, many times. Even if it were sub "left-hand" in dextrosity, and could only grasp and hold things, what a useful thing it would still be. And, who knows how dextrous it may develop?

What's the down-side to a third arm? Shirts? With a third arm, sewing on extra sleeves would be a breeze. Chicks? If we instinctively breed to gain advantage the kid will be a magnet. Being regarded as freak? A freak who can kick ass! A 3-armed guy is the wrong guy to taunt!

The Chinese should not be allowed to gain such an advantage of becoming the only race of 3-armed people on the planet. It appears they have the lead, for now. The race race is on!