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art guerrilla

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:36 AM

yes, freed is right...

excepting a VERY small minority of nerds who would notice, google's incremental 'improvements' mean nothing to me...

(or any other search engine's incremental improvements)

one of the main reasons i went google (now i scroogle), was the minimalist/clean 'interface'; one of the main reasons i now scroogle, were the many instances of google, well, doing evil...

one of the main reasons i hate nearly ALL 'search' engines, is how i can search for something related to the (fictional example) "American Association of Associations Against Associating with Asocial Associates", and the first 10-20 hits will have NOTHING to do with the particular subject which i know to exist...

very uncool...

in general, i am not impressed by search engines; NO MATTER how detailed i get in my search terms (which seems to hurt more than help), it is apparently impossible to narrow down the range of hits to include the results which i KNOW to exist, but i have to wade 2-3-4 pages deep to find them (IF i see them listed at all !)...

very annoying...

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

eof

Monday, August 20, 2007 07:31 AM

stop making sense ! ! !

of course, senor greenwald is exposing the fundamental hypocrisy and immorality that is the heart and soul (so to speak) of power elite machinations to, um, keep the rabble in line...

1. even old twinkies like drum who trade on a certain curmudgeony anti-administration attitude, can not make the final step of realizing and OWNING that we ARE the penultimate kapitalist imperialist piggies who ARE forcing the world to be our trough to be slopped in for perpetuity...

oink oink oink

2. if The They (tm), their technocrats, and functionaries were to admit what mssrs greenwald, other 'lefty' bloggers (who are not necessarily so 'lefty'), and longtime media/gummint critics like morford, nichols, chomsky, et al, have been pointing out for decades, then such admissions would be the loose thread that when unraveled, would expose the non-existence of ALL the emperor's clothes...

nekkid nekkid nekkid

3. the deep political actions taken by our 'betters' (be they foreign policy hacks, bidness hacks, military hacks, or political hacks) would be exposed for the self-serving privateering and powermongering that they are, and the naked mole rats would stand exposed and shivering...

squeak squeak squeak

(obviously, *that* is 'unacceptable' in a world ruled by the monied klasses, NOT the 90%+ of us no-account citizens... no, far better that the 90%+ of us be exposed, shivering, and helpless, than the few percent who 'own' the world...)

4. *will* the monied klasses willingly devolve their power ? you better think on that real fast, kampers, the last mechanisms for a 'legal' korporate=fascist state are being enacted with the full complicity of the dem'rats; you think those spineless, clueless, and hapless toadies to power will save you ? ? ?

hee hee hee

ho ho ho

ha ha ha

ak ak ak

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

eof

Monday, August 20, 2007 03:46 PM
Original article: Pit bulls are innocent

all dogs go to heaven...

...but not all dog owners do !

1. like human beans, dogs are FAR MORE susceptible to the influences of their social environment and upbringing than the sum total of their dna...

2. mutant rodent-canine hybrids (such as your chihuahuas, etc) can be (and often are) violent, nasty dogs whose 'cute' aggression is often tolerated, and they may bite MANY MORE people than pit bulls/etc, BUT who reports a chihuahua bite ?

3. can we PLEASE stop this fools errand of child-proofing the world ? it won't work, it drains the life out of everything, and it teaches kids to be coddled wimps...

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

eof

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 08:40 AM

saint lucid was right...

...the plain truth is: yes, the dem'rats are so fucking lame...

1. bleating hearts who wring their hands over DESERVED criticism of dem'rats essentially abandoning CORE small-dee democratic values -NEVERMIND real progressive values- ARE NOT doing 'their party' any favors by this 'speak no evil' approach... that is EXACTLY the craven, partisan-uber-alles politics nearly EVERYONE (excepting twue bewievers) excoriates...

2. dem'rats roll over during coup 2000; gave away the constitutional store in the aftermath of nine one one; give king george virtually unlimited war powers (unconstitutionally abdicated, as far as that goes); roll over and cheerlead for an immoral and illegal war killing hundreds of thousands; roll over during coup 2004; condone -if not complicit- in dismantling the bill of rights; sputter ineffectively at the most egregious judicial nominees; take impeachment 'off the table' (NOT THEIR FUCKING PREROGATIVE); misplay, misstep, and mistake their way through EVERY OUTRAGEOUS powerplay by rethugs, and i'm supposed to, what?, 'respect' them ? ? ?

...vote for them ? ? ?

...admire them ? ? ?

get the fuck out of town, they ain't done SHIT against the tidal wave of neo (nazi) con (artistes) running amuck...

3. mainstream dem'rats are JUST AS beholden to a corrupt, inhumane, fundamentally flawed system of kapitalist imperialism which has NO INTEREST in progressive values, but ONLY in perpetuating itself and the rewards the top of the food chain garners for themselves...

4. 'blaming' the liberalish/democratic blogs for the faults of the dem'rat party is silly; WHO 'blames' the vicious reichwing bloggers for whatever failures or fortunes of the rethugs ? no one; but dem'rats are too stupid, wimpy, and easily cowed to challenge foolish memes like these... grow a pair...

5. oh, before i forget: salon ain't no progressive hangout; they believe in CENSORSHIP, and *that* ain't progressive, period...

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

eof

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