Bears
Monday, September 29, 2008 - 8:27:09 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
One thing I've learned in my few years on this planet, from both hearing them and telling them, anecdotes should always be suspect. In the debate McCain made some off handed crack about wasting government money on bear DNA testing, a sum of $3 million dollars. Of course it was in the midst of a debate, and an off the cuff unexplained comment. It immediately caught my attention as being suspect, because these matters are rarely as simple as they first seem. Yep, it turns out the study is actually not pork at all, and in fact is money is brought forward through the Endangered Species Act and is being used to help stop the grizzly bears from going extinct.
Bottom line is, it was a bullshit example where a bullshit example is not needed. There's no reason that with out fantastic wealth we cannot try to preserve our natural resources and our wild animals. Even with our budget crisis, there are large sums of wasted wealth that can be called upon first, mostly in monies lost through tax loopholes that wealthy corporations take advantage of.
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The Surge
Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 12:30:26 pm PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
McCain brought up the surge quite a bit last night during the debates. There was an interesting study that showed up on Metafilter the other day that shows the surge may not have been responsible for the drop in violence. Instead, it posits that most of the violence was over because of ethnic cleansing of the neighborhoods. They show this by using night time satellite photos to examine how much light is being generated in neighborhoods of certain ethnic groups and basically showed that the ethnic cleansing of Sunni neighborhoods had forced the people out before the surge.
Apparently this is something a few individuals have been talking about for a while.
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Taking A Cue From The Daily Show
Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:57:38 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
It seems like everyone is taking a cue from the Daily Show these days, not only in the principles that Stewart is constantly goading the media with, but also in style. Take a look at this view of news footage of McCain interspersed with footage from the debate. It's quite powerful to see a person's deeds brought back to them at the moment that someone finally puts up in their face that they messed up.
I think the debate went pretty well for Obama, some slips but he held to his principles, and McCain struck me as being unable to distance himself from the Bush Administration and his own propaganda. I think the most surreal point is when McCain stated that he wanted to freeze all spending except for Defense and Veterans affairs. Seriously? That is crazy talk. We pay the government for more than that, and it's about time we got our money's worth. I'm more interested in appropriate taxation, that is higher taxes on individuals and organizations that have been ducking taxes for years (the rich, and corporations) and a reigning in of government waste while maintaining important services. When Republicans talk about cutting spending, they mean destroying programs that actually help people and putting money in the pockets of war profiteers, and other leeches on the public purse. The services we depend on like schools and health care get crapped on. Notice that we have billions of dollars to bail out the rich, but nothing for health care.
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Coffee: The video
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 1:16:59 pm PDT
Posted by :: eek!
A quick little video from the Basic Brewing guys on roasting coffee. Man, it looks really simple and it hardly takes any time at all.
Cheers!
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Now I'm A Loser Too
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:06:25 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Yes, I've joined the ranks of the desperately hip, the constant chatterers, the narcissistic navel gazing hipster crowd that plague the Internets with their self-aggrandizing mind vomit. I am using Twitter. Because reading this wasteland of a blog trying to pick out the sumptuous details of my whoring and boozing will never really completely satisfy your inner voyeur. You should be following my every move, reading every perverted thought, every jolting moment of transcendent enlightenment, every jet black pearl of tainted wisdom, every brag and boast.
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Looks Like Gay Marriage Is Here To Stay
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:01:48 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Finally the people of California are showing some support for people in our community who've been denied their rights for far too long.
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Less Taxes And More War!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 7:30:56 pm PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Yes, I'm about to laugh at this douche bag's suffering. I'm going to make fun of it, because you see how lightly he approaches mass murder, war, wholesale slaughter, and plundering of resources. You see, after this interview somelady hero drugged him and rolled him for $50,000 in bling and clothes. At this moment, I'm thinking maybe there's a god, and he loves me. Okay, not really.
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Ms. Wilson, If You're Nasty
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 6:56:04 pm PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Boing Boing may be only slightly worth following these days, but through it I've just discovered Cintra Wilson and I believe her to be fascinating. As evidence I provide the titles of her three books.
I confess, it was pretty riveting when John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin for the first time. Like many people, I thought, "Damn, a hyperconservative, fuckable, Type A, antiabortion, Christian Stepford wife in a 'sexy librarian' costume -- as a vice president? That's a brilliant stroke of horrifyingly cynical pandering to the Christian right. Karl Rove must be behind it."
Palin may have been a boost of political Viagra for the limp, bloodless GOP (and according to an ABC/Washington Post poll she has created a boost in McCain's standing among white women to a 53 over Obama's 41). But ideologically, she is their hardcore pornographic centerfold spread, revealing the ugliest underside of Republican ambitions -- their insanely zealous and cynical drive to win power by any means necessary, even at the cost of actual leadership.
Sarah Palin is a bit comical, like one of those cutthroat Texas cheerleader stage moms. What her Down syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter unequivocally prove, however, is that her most beloved child is the antiabortion platform that ensures her own political ambitions with the conservative right. The throat she's so hot to cut is that of all American women.Go read her.
Shit, here I thought I was actually going to accomplish something this evening, and now I'll be forced to read all the archives.
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Monday, September 29, 2008 - 8:27:09 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
One thing I've learned in my few years on this planet, from both hearing them and telling them, anecdotes should always be suspect. In the debate McCain made some off handed crack about wasting government money on bear DNA testing, a sum of $3 million dollars. Of course it was in the midst of a debate, and an off the cuff unexplained comment. It immediately caught my attention as being suspect, because these matters are rarely as simple as they first seem. Yep, it turns out the study is actually not pork at all, and in fact is money is brought forward through the Endangered Species Act and is being used to help stop the grizzly bears from going extinct.
Bottom line is, it was a bullshit example where a bullshit example is not needed. There's no reason that with out fantastic wealth we cannot try to preserve our natural resources and our wild animals. Even with our budget crisis, there are large sums of wasted wealth that can be called upon first, mostly in monies lost through tax loopholes that wealthy corporations take advantage of.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
The Surge
Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 12:30:26 pm PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
McCain brought up the surge quite a bit last night during the debates. There was an interesting study that showed up on Metafilter the other day that shows the surge may not have been responsible for the drop in violence. Instead, it posits that most of the violence was over because of ethnic cleansing of the neighborhoods. They show this by using night time satellite photos to examine how much light is being generated in neighborhoods of certain ethnic groups and basically showed that the ethnic cleansing of Sunni neighborhoods had forced the people out before the surge.
Apparently this is something a few individuals have been talking about for a while.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
Taking A Cue From The Daily Show
Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:57:38 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
It seems like everyone is taking a cue from the Daily Show these days, not only in the principles that Stewart is constantly goading the media with, but also in style. Take a look at this view of news footage of McCain interspersed with footage from the debate. It's quite powerful to see a person's deeds brought back to them at the moment that someone finally puts up in their face that they messed up.
I think the debate went pretty well for Obama, some slips but he held to his principles, and McCain struck me as being unable to distance himself from the Bush Administration and his own propaganda. I think the most surreal point is when McCain stated that he wanted to freeze all spending except for Defense and Veterans affairs. Seriously? That is crazy talk. We pay the government for more than that, and it's about time we got our money's worth. I'm more interested in appropriate taxation, that is higher taxes on individuals and organizations that have been ducking taxes for years (the rich, and corporations) and a reigning in of government waste while maintaining important services. When Republicans talk about cutting spending, they mean destroying programs that actually help people and putting money in the pockets of war profiteers, and other leeches on the public purse. The services we depend on like schools and health care get crapped on. Notice that we have billions of dollars to bail out the rich, but nothing for health care.
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Coffee: The video
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 1:16:59 pm PDT
Posted by :: eek!
A quick little video from the Basic Brewing guys on roasting coffee. Man, it looks really simple and it hardly takes any time at all.
Cheers!
Comments - [1] Permanent link
Now I'm A Loser Too
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:06:25 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Yes, I've joined the ranks of the desperately hip, the constant chatterers, the narcissistic navel gazing hipster crowd that plague the Internets with their self-aggrandizing mind vomit. I am using Twitter. Because reading this wasteland of a blog trying to pick out the sumptuous details of my whoring and boozing will never really completely satisfy your inner voyeur. You should be following my every move, reading every perverted thought, every jolting moment of transcendent enlightenment, every jet black pearl of tainted wisdom, every brag and boast.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
Looks Like Gay Marriage Is Here To Stay
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:01:48 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Finally the people of California are showing some support for people in our community who've been denied their rights for far too long.
Comments - [1] Permanent link
Less Taxes And More War!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 7:30:56 pm PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Yes, I'm about to laugh at this douche bag's suffering. I'm going to make fun of it, because you see how lightly he approaches mass murder, war, wholesale slaughter, and plundering of resources. You see, after this interview some
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Ms. Wilson, If You're Nasty
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 6:56:04 pm PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Boing Boing may be only slightly worth following these days, but through it I've just discovered Cintra Wilson and I believe her to be fascinating. As evidence I provide the titles of her three books.
- Colors Insulting to Nature
- A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease
- Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny
I confess, it was pretty riveting when John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin for the first time. Like many people, I thought, "Damn, a hyperconservative, fuckable, Type A, antiabortion, Christian Stepford wife in a 'sexy librarian' costume -- as a vice president? That's a brilliant stroke of horrifyingly cynical pandering to the Christian right. Karl Rove must be behind it."
Palin may have been a boost of political Viagra for the limp, bloodless GOP (and according to an ABC/Washington Post poll she has created a boost in McCain's standing among white women to a 53 over Obama's 41). But ideologically, she is their hardcore pornographic centerfold spread, revealing the ugliest underside of Republican ambitions -- their insanely zealous and cynical drive to win power by any means necessary, even at the cost of actual leadership.
Sarah Palin is a bit comical, like one of those cutthroat Texas cheerleader stage moms. What her Down syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter unequivocally prove, however, is that her most beloved child is the antiabortion platform that ensures her own political ambitions with the conservative right. The throat she's so hot to cut is that of all American women.Go read her.
Shit, here I thought I was actually going to accomplish something this evening, and now I'll be forced to read all the archives.
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