Basement Jaxx - Classic Essential Mix (1999)
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Saturday, 15 August 2009
PS
How many trees have been cut down for all these celebratory books about the 40th anniversary of Woodstock?
Bloody hippies!
Bloody hippies!
Stating the obvious (again)
Three general guidelines for the healthcare debate:
First, whenever someone is spouting off about "communist fascism", you may ignore everything that person says from that point forward. Fascism and communism are two entirely different things, and a primary tenet of fascism is its opposition to communism. So if you think Obama is leading us to either fascist communism or communist fascism, you aren't only a paranoid, LaRouchian nut, you also don't even know what it is you're afraid of, and are just putting scary words together in the hope of stirring an emotional response among stupid people.
Second, you cannot be "against socialized medicine" and at the same time think Medicare is good. Medicare is, in no uncertain term, socialized medicine, and government run, and all of that very scary stuff. If the concept of "socialized medicine" outrages you, you are against Medicare. If you are for Medicare, then by definition there is some level of "socialized medicine" you are willing to accept, and at that point you are exactly where the entire rest of the country is, and we're merely arguing about the details.
All of the people who say that they are afraid of socialized medicine but that they support Medicare are liars. All of them. They either secretly don't support Medicare but are unwilling to say such an unpopular thing out loud, for obvious reasons, or they aren't in fact afraid of "socialized medicine" but still want to use the talking point.
This includes Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and every Senate Republican, as well as the usual assembly of pundits and shouters and supposedly panic-stricken mobs crying in fear at town halls over the imminent Russianization of America if we undertake any meager healthcare reform whatsoever.
The third guideline: the first two guidelines are freaking obvious.
@ 'Daily Kos'
First, whenever someone is spouting off about "communist fascism", you may ignore everything that person says from that point forward. Fascism and communism are two entirely different things, and a primary tenet of fascism is its opposition to communism. So if you think Obama is leading us to either fascist communism or communist fascism, you aren't only a paranoid, LaRouchian nut, you also don't even know what it is you're afraid of, and are just putting scary words together in the hope of stirring an emotional response among stupid people.
Second, you cannot be "against socialized medicine" and at the same time think Medicare is good. Medicare is, in no uncertain term, socialized medicine, and government run, and all of that very scary stuff. If the concept of "socialized medicine" outrages you, you are against Medicare. If you are for Medicare, then by definition there is some level of "socialized medicine" you are willing to accept, and at that point you are exactly where the entire rest of the country is, and we're merely arguing about the details.
All of the people who say that they are afraid of socialized medicine but that they support Medicare are liars. All of them. They either secretly don't support Medicare but are unwilling to say such an unpopular thing out loud, for obvious reasons, or they aren't in fact afraid of "socialized medicine" but still want to use the talking point.
This includes Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and every Senate Republican, as well as the usual assembly of pundits and shouters and supposedly panic-stricken mobs crying in fear at town halls over the imminent Russianization of America if we undertake any meager healthcare reform whatsoever.
The third guideline: the first two guidelines are freaking obvious.
@ 'Daily Kos'
Today's 'Odd Spot' from 'The Age' newspaper
Police in Newcastle, England are seeking a cruel thief with a sense of humour.
A man returned home to find he had lost his entire CD collection in a break in but the crook had left behind "there Is Nothing Left To Lose' by the Foo Fighters.
ROFL!
A man returned home to find he had lost his entire CD collection in a break in but the crook had left behind "there Is Nothing Left To Lose' by the Foo Fighters.
ROFL!
Friday, 14 August 2009
Hackers use Twitter to control botnet
Hackers are now using Twitter to send coded update messages to computers they’ve previously infected with rogue code, according to a report from net-monitoring firm Arbor Networks.@ 'Wired'
The banned 'Family Guy' episode
“I’m here to save the unborn – after they come out of the vagina, they can go fuck themselves.”Deadly contractor incident sours Afghans (yes Blackwater again)
Four men with the U.S. firm once known as Blackwater are said to be under investigation in the deaths of two Afghans. A U.S. report found serious fault with private security firms in Afghanistan.@ 'LA Times'
Let's play (war)games
Just what America needs...more powerful guns!
What a tosser!
Still I like Sage Francis's song at the beginning!
Unfortunately...
'Summer of Hate'
@ 'Daily Beast'
What a tosser!
Still I like Sage Francis's song at the beginning!
Unfortunately...
'Summer of Hate'
@ 'Daily Beast'
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Oh yes...
PJ Harvey also steals her closing rant in "Rid of Me" from Captain Beefheart's "Dirty Blue Gene". Yes, she does!Ever noticed how PJ Harvey's "I Think I'm A Mother" steals the words from Captain Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie"? Yes, it does!
From Lydia Dutch (Ninja Author) on Twitter.
Where I used to go on my holidays as a kid
The water was FREEZING!Slimy moss on all the rocks!
Midgies!
More midgies!
Fugn hated it!
(And we won't mention the Mirror Class dingy!)
Barack Obama's words downplay wars
He may be presiding over two wars and facing a terror threat at home and abroad, but you'd hardly know it from listening to President Barack Obama speak.
Obama has uttered more than a half-million words in public since taking office Jan. 20 - and a POLITICO analysis of nearly every word in this vast
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