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Monday, October 15, 2007 08:28 PM

What abour computers and televisions?

What about computers and televisions? Are they not chock full of toxic materials? Let's toss them out too.

What about all those drugs that people take and are flushed down the toilet into our rivers? Frogs, fish and foul are now on SSRIs. Where is the outrage?

The iPhone is a hole that you put in your pocket that transfers monies from your pocket to AT&T while providing you with the same addictive dose of pulsed microwave cookery. How many people at Greenpseace use brain cookers?

OMYGOSH! How many of you use brain cookers?

The sky is falling, the oceans are rising, the IQs are plummeting, frogs fish and people are experiencing gender crisis from all the other pollution, but you know what?

The iPhone is COOL and it has a COOL advertsing campaign, so let's just jump on that and see if we can get some of that COOL.

All products seem to be designed with the purpose of being tossed away after a very short lifespan solely for the purpose of getting us to keep buying more crap that we do not need and will not last in order to keep the money flowing to people who already have more than enough. How many cell phones have you gone through in the past three years?

Remember when the only people who had beepers were doctors and drug dealers? Yeah, you could get rousted and busted if you didn't look like a doctor and you had one of those things.

Before that there was only the wired phone and now we have been conned nto thinking we cannot live without a cell phone.

Stupidity is a bigger threat to the environment than pollution at this stage of the game.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 02:17 AM
Original article: The man who sold the war

Million-Year Picnic

"America, where have you gone?"

Cloud Cuckoo Land on a road paved with happy pills.

a.k.a. Land of Cockaigne and more recently The Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Some people need a drug that tells them everything is fine and ok and they are just swell, no matter what they are doing or what is happening. At least cocaine had the right name - the root means fool.

"Fool me once, shame on shame on you, Fool me, you can't get fooled again."

This is not lost on our allies, our enemies, and those who just wish to avoid our interest.

Now how about those embarrassing losses of CIA planes loaded with cocaine in Mexico?

Now how about putting the Department of Homeland Security on the campus of St. Elizabeth's, the nation's premeire mental hospital?

Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 02:56 AM
Original article: How Hillary could tank

Hillary is supposed to win.

Hillary Clinton will not impeach Bush, Cheney and crew, just like Bill Clinton didn't impeach the Elder Bush.

Something about a business operation that used to involve Homestead Airforce Base and got transfered to an airport in Mena Arkansas after some pesky liberals caused some troubles.

Now what airports did that CIA DC 9 caught with 5.5 tons of blow frequent - I'm certain the FAA has those records. How about the Gulfstream II that recently crashed in the Yucatan with 3.7 tons of blow? Well, I guess those records are not available.

When Hillary is president, those records will still not be available.

Even if she doesn't win, those records will still not be available.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 07:59 AM
Original article: How Hillary could tank

djansing

Bush won because Kerry and him are pirate blood brothers and spent the night together in a coffin in a ritual which is best left unspoken.

AAAARGH!

Skull and Bones me hearties!

That election was as real and genuine as Kerry's hairdo. The one before that wasn't real either, as Mr. Gore neither wanted the office, nor deserved it. He still doesn't.

Want to lose an election? Run a candidate who is a patrician and who acts like one.

People actually like pirates.

YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM!

We would rather have pirates running things rather than patricians. The patricians know this and give us want they have taught us to want.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 08:08 AM
Original article: Quote of the Day

$9.11

That was mean and cruel and if they didn't know it they would have cashed the check.

Brilliant.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 08:15 AM

Next?

I am pretty sure that the Kurds will appreciate this gesture.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 01:48 PM

Come on, that is what politicians do.

Come on, that is what politicians do. you ask them one question and they answer another question that you didn't ask. Ergo, all politicians are gay.

He probably was advised, and rightly so, that if you admit knowledge, you are percieved as guilty, and if you deny knowledge, you are percieved as guilty.

A bit more sophisticated than "Senator, have you stopped beating your wife yet?"

The correct response would have been, "No Matt, I did not know about that. Would you tell me how you know that to be true? Was this information published somewhere or did you do an investigation on your own to find out? What are your sources for this claim and where is your evidence to back up this claim?"

In all my years of using public toilets, I have never seen or heard any sexual activity whatsoever in any of them, ever.

I think people are fantasizing about this more than it is happening.

Why is Matt so interested in the subject anyway? Why is the whole damn country fascinated with gay toilet sex fantasies?

Or is it just the news media?

And politicians?

We need a witchhunt to find out!

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 01:57 PM

smartalec

"Fuck that, and fuck anyone who thinks it's anything but appropriate -- and necessary -- to tell the truth about the lying, hypocritical scum who have been stealing our country from us; stealing our wealth; destroying our security; turning us against one another; killing our citizens, our family and friends, and ourselves; and trying to drag us all back to the middle ages. Enough was more than enough years ago."

So I guess you are not voting for Republicans OR Democrats.

Good luck with those third parties - the Libertarians are against the War on Drugs, but quite frankly, medievalism, scapegoating and organized crime are hard beasts to beat.

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