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We’re infants.  We are tiny, helpless, screaming, crying infants.

Thank goodness there are massive corporations and a government purchased by them to jingle the car keys with their left hand, and take EVERYTHING WE OWN with their right.

No one is even trying to hide it anymore.  BP owns the American government.  We’ve come to the point where they’ve actually PURCHASED U.S. JUDGES.

I don’t know how much clearer I can make it.  The federal and state representatives that YOU ELECTED are lying, cheating, taking payoffs and looking the other way.

Holy fuck, this scares the hell right out of me.

“Conservapedia” is a Wikipedia-clone, apparently trying to feign accuracy and trustworthiness while selling a right-wing, conservative, christian message directly over top of SCIENCE.

Even if you’re a conservative, this should scare the shit out of you.

And if that doesn’t do it for you, check this out:

Young earth creationists believe, from the biblical account, that dinosaurs were created on day 6 of the creation week approximately 6,000 years ago, along with other land animals, and therefore co-existed with humans. As such, they reject the Theory of Evolution and the beliefs of evolutionary scientists about the age of the earth.

- link to the madness

ROFL

Thank god we have the internet.  I was just sitting here wondering if my family-less, sports car driving, single lifestyle was a huge mistake.  And, thanks to some great internet propaganda, I now know that it is!

Not long ago, a YouTube video portraying a married couple (and their young children) rapping while dancing around their minivan entered the internet meme realm.  This (not surprisingly) was a commercial for Toyota’s latest minivan, the family-moving-grocery-getter, or whatever it’s called.

Following on the heels of the Swagger Wagon’s success, a video called “Dad Life” was released and quickly found internet success.  The source of this video, however was a bit more cryptic.  The minivan used in the video is never mentioned by brand or model, the dad’s aren’t donning similar khaki pants or shoes, in fact no brands are really mentioned at all.  There is no logo, website ad, watermark, or other indication of the creators anywhere in the video, so finding the source required a little digging.

As it turns out the Dad Life video was paid for/recorded by/produced by/somehow involved with a religious organization in Tulsa OK called Church on the Move.

But I digress.

Let’s get to the meat of this post:  These two videos symbolize (to me anyway) a continuing effort in some kind of “moral propaganda” assumingly centered around the belief that the morality of the world is in a steady decline, and making responsibility and “moral behavior” more appealing to the uneducated masses will sway this decline back toward the “positive”, bring people back to the church, and set some kind of example for youngsters.

For the most part, I have no problem with what they’re trying to do here.  Bringing the moral standard of behavior up a notch or two probably isn’t a bad idea.  I’m not a huge proponent of church, but for those of you who are, great!  Get back in there and pray for the rest of us.

So, crank up that morality!  But, don’t fool yourselves.  Remember that propaganda is disinformation.  If minivans and family vacations and diaper changes were as cool as these videos would have you believe, we wouldn’t have James Bond, or Playboy magazine, or “The most interesting man in the world” commercials.

I’m not a TV nut, in fact there are only a few shows I actually like enough to DVR.

However, I am very excited for tonight’s unveiling of new Futurama episodes!

Fox announced that Comedy Central had picked up the show for 26 all-new episodes. The new batch begins tonight, with two episodes airing starting at 10 p.m.

BEST Cracked.com article… EVER.

The 10 Most Important Things They Didnt Teach You In School

Something I’m sure we’ve all noticed in organized religion, is the idea of abstinence, abstinence before marriage, intercourse for procreation only, or just plain guilt associated with sexuality.

Why do we do this?  The answer, actually,  is quite simple.  It’s baked right into our DNA and psychology.

The “Good”:
Buddhists, Catholics, and other religious sects practice self-denial (even self-injury) in the effort to “connect” themselves to their God.  Human nature and basic psychology dictate that we are unable (or unwilling) to subject ourselves to stories of suffering, strife, or peril of our deities unless we too, can share the burden of self sacrifice.

The Bad:
People are human, that is to say, that we are imperfect by design.

Where there is no way, we will find one.  We don’t even need to get into the Catholic priests (again) to discover that Christianity’s view of sex is slanted.  But even seemingly “strict” religions, like Islam for example, where followers (who are almost always “fundamentalists”) are willing to “die a thousand deaths” to be holy has excellent examples of good-old human behavior.

“To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.”
- Andy and Larry Wachowski

The irony here is that our very nature of existence causes both the inability to be abstinent, and the self-edification to crave it.

At work today, I’ve been listening to the BP hearings (you can see the whole thing live on ABC’s feed).  Based on the evidence, there is absolutely no question that BP, and it’s management structure are 100% responsible for the spill, the failures in stopping the leak, and the poor clean up efforts.  This is fact.  BP’s safety history is the WORST in the industry by leaps and bounds.  Their application of safety measures are a far second to their profit margin.  Almost EVERYTHING done, pertaining to this particular drilling, was done incorrectly, and half-assed.

$733 million in fines were paid, quietly, last year by BP for safety violations ALONE.

BP had 760 safety violations last year (Exxon had 1, Mobile had 8).

The hearings are really just a public bashing of the BP CEO for the general public’s enjoyment.
OK, we’re past that.  Now let’s move forward.

Will BP be banned from drilling in US waters?
Will BP be forced to change ANYTHING about how they do business AFTER they get slapped with the “eleventy zillion” dollar fine which they may or may not pay?
Will we get ANYTHING out of this except some exciting news to watch?

Spoiler alert…  No.

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A recent letter from one of my many followers.

Dear Greatest Blogger in the universe:

I keep hearing about “net neutrality” and I was wondering what you thought of it?

(no, this isn’t an actual letter I’ve received LOL)

“Net neutrality” is the belief that no internet service provider should have the right (or exercise the right) to ‘throttle’ or control your internet access.  Basically, if the providers are given the freedom to limit your access, they can create a perceived scarcity of access, and profit from it.

You are probably now screaming “son of a bitch!“, so in true blog form, let me anger you further:

74 House Democrats and 37 Senate Republicans just signed their names to industry letters telling the FCC to halt efforts to protect Internet users and prevent phone and cable companies from blocking Internet traffic.

Yeah, check that shit out.

If you live in Florida, you should ask Rep. Corrine Brown where she got $20,500. you should ask Rep. Alcee Hastings about the $28,000 and you should ask Rep. Suzanne Kosmas about her $25,000 influx of cash.

Ready for the big spoiler?!  Your elected officials are fucking you over.  I know, it blew my mind too…

If you’ve been keeping up with the blog, as I’m sure you have, you know that we just got back from the mountains in NC, TN, GA, etc.

Although it probably goes without saying, we saw some pretty scary “good ole’ Americans” up in those hills.  But the real shocker is how many of these folks I see on a daily basis right here at home.

As an example, let’s take a moment and examine a couple I saw at Wendy’s just yesterday.  She’s wearing new-ish clothes, but very old tattered shoes.  He’s wearing old and tattered clothes (shirt was stained, shorts were basically garbage) but BRAND NEW shiny white Nike’s with thick, bleach-white laces.  They were pushing a second-hand stroller that looked like the wheels were going to fall off of at any moment.

Normally, I wouldn’t have even noticed them but daddy came into the Wendy’s to get himself some chicken nuggets while mom was walking up the road behind him.  He was quick to order and immediately went back outside to avoid (inside) what became a very public scene in the parking lot.

The gist of what I could hear was that they couldn’t afford the nuggets, and he went in and bought them anyway, and she was very upset.  Additionally, he either lost his job, never had one, or refuses to get one (according to the loving mommy).

Of course, this is mostly interpretive as I don’t fluently speak “Rapper-G Money-Poser” which clearly was this couple’s native language.

During the fight, I couldn’t help but notice that both mom and dad were smoking.  Normally not a big surprise, but I managed to catch the pack at the top of the stroller:  “Newport” menthol cigarettes.  For those of you who are familiar with the brand, they’re currently about $6 a pack.

Let’s do some quick math.  The average smoker goes through one pack a day.  Let’s give these winners the benefit of the doubt and cut that in half.  Let’s assume they smoke a pack a day TOGETHER (very unlikely).  6 bucks a day, times 30 days in a month…  Roughly $180 a month.

The fight continued for about 10 minutes, and finally, they continued on their way, on foot.

That’s right, on foot.  $180/month smoking habit, baby, snazzy new Nike’s, and NO CAR.  I wonder if they could afford that new doll their daughter wants.