The FCC. GAH!

Feelin' like a disgruntled mailman here boss FCC hands Hollywood the keys to your PC, home theater and future

“ The FCC has given Hollywood permission to activate the "Selective Output Control" technologies in your set-top box. These are hidden flags that allow the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)  to deactivate parts of your home theater depending on what you're watching. And it sucks. As Dan Gillmor notes, "Fans of old TV science fiction will remember the Outer Limits. Given Hollywood's victory today at the FCC -- they'll be able to reach over the lines and disable functions on your TV -- the intro to the show takes on modern relevance." The FCC says that they're doing this because they believe that if they do so, the MPAA will start releasing first-run movies (the ones that are still in theaters) for TV. They say that Hollywood won't make these movies available unless they get Selectable Output Control because SOC will stop piracy. This is ridiculous.  ”  Continue reading Boing-Boing's  takedown of the MPAA's lickspittle FCC. Here's the MPAA's "no, really, it's just a shower, and the soap is free" statement. “ “This action is an important victory for consumers who will now have far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in their homes,” Bob Pisano, president and interim chief executive officer of the MPAA, said today in a statement. ” As an aside, having nothing to do with anything in particular, what the heck happened to the neutron bomb?  Remember?  The N-bomb that could clear the streets of vermin without damaging real property? It just popped into my head. Rick B

Sign of the Month

Sign of the Month

Marc Miller/td>

How about "swim team?"

News anchor comes up with new name for milk

Data Rape

Can you disappear in surveillance Britain?

David Bond wanted to see if it’s possible to vanish so one day he packed his bag, got into his car and kissed his wife goodbye

This has upset me more than anything I remember reading recently.  Excerpt: “ Bond might never have thought of running away if he’d not received a letter, some months earlier, informing him that his daughter was among 25 million Britons whose records had been lost by the Child Benefit Office, along with bank details and other private information. He “became obsessed”, Katie remembers, about the amount of information on him and his family that was already out there. As he looked into it, he found that the UK, once a bastion of freedom and civil liberties, is now one of the most advanced surveillance societies in the world, ranked third after Russia and China. The average UK adult is now registered on more than 700 databases and is caught many times each day by nearly five million CCTV cameras. Increasingly monitored, citizens are being turned into suspects. Within 100 yards of Bond’s home, he discovered, there were no fewer than 200 cameras. Before going on the run, he made 80 formal requests to government and commercial organisations for the information they held on him. He piled the replies on his floor, appalled by the level of detail. The owners of the databases knew who his friends were, which websites he’d been looking at, and where he had driven his car. One commercial organisation was even able to inform him that, on a particular day in November 2006, he had “sounded angry”. It was more than he knew himself.  [Full] ” He called it data-rape. stephen h

Boxer_monster

L.A. Times Declines to Endorse Sen. Boxer in California Primary

I wanted to save this story's picture of Boxer, evidently taken between daily Botox injections, and after the pins keeping her jowls from flopping were removed.  Look what FOX NEWS named the picture.

It's a crime

No one in Arizona is laughing

Ruh-Roh The markets have figured it out

Thank You Obmamanator

In late April Anthem Insurance had a 39% rate increase turned down by the California commissariat, and  Obama called for an investigation of the company's officers.  At the time I thought three things, in this order: You'da thunk California would have learned a lesson about ignoring market forces, from the the Gray Davis era energy crisis.  Remember? The  state suffered from multiple large-scale black-outs, one of the state's largest energy companies collapsed?  Governor Davis was recalled, and replaced by the Trickenator. This is exactly what Obamunists want.  Insurance companies go bust, gummint has a monopoly. Thug I was reminded of this after reading this Doug Ross beauty. “ Internal AT&T presentation: we'll save $4.1 billion a year if we drop all employee health care benefits ” Obama is, as we speak, crowing about how we have already begun to reap  the Obamacare reward.  Here's Mr. Ross again. “ Like the Soviet central planners of a bygone era, today's Democrats are marching us into an abyss of unintended consequences for our entire health care system. They're pushing us, shoving us, against our will, over a cliff of fiscal irresponsibility. They're killing a legacy of prosperity that we could otherwise bequeath to subsequent generations. ” Here's the deal.  If the opposition party does not gain control of congress in Novemeber, and repeal Obamacare (and just about everything else Obamunists have grabbed), then  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Cheap as Hay!

CW Roberts employees demonstrate brilliant defense against the oil spill in the Gulf.

Take Algore's Nobel and give it to these guys.

This seems a whole bunch better than anything else I've heard; even Janeane Garofalo pubic hair .   Video via Ricky "in like" Beckham; story via Moonbattery, and Garafolo's pubic hair borrowed from SondraK.

Hooked Bad

“Government is more addicted to tobacco than any smoker.”

Blog Dog

The Landlord

FOX ad friends

Oh, my! Look what cable news channel Obama's own Justice Dept. chooses to watch when Big News breaks

“ Your midweek sweet smile: Here is President Obama's Attorney Gen. Eric Holder offering more details about the capture and interrogation of Faisal Shahzad, the accused Times Square bomber, from the secure confines of the briefing room of Holder's own Justice Department in Washington. The briefing room's main TV's are tuned to the top-rated cable news channel. Trouble is, that's the dreaded Fox News Channel that Obama aides including David Axelrod so weirdly picked a fight with last fall, castigating it as an alleged broadcast arm of the party of Abraham Lincoln, who never even owned a TV. The public criticism of Fox no doubt went down well with the Democratic party's left for a few days. But it also backfired, boosting Fox's ratings, causing more people to watch as in: "Don't look over there, folks! That woman has no clothes on." [LA TIMES] ” *nose bubbles* C/R

Goldman Sachs Pirates

No Real Surprise

In light of Goldman Sachs's suspected role in everything bad that's happened to our economy, and Obama's soon to be announced SCOTUS nomination of a paid consultant to Goldman Sachs, one with no prior bench experience,  you'll  find this interesting if not surprising.  Somali Pirates Say They Are Subsidiary of Goldman Sachs

“ NORFOLK, VIRGINIA – (The Borowitz Report) Eleven indicted Somali pirates dropped a bombshell in a U.S. court today, revealing that their entire piracy operation is a subsidiary of banking giant Goldman Sachs. There was an audible gasp in the courtroom when the leader of the pirates announced, “We are doing God’s work.  We work for Lloyd Blankfein.” The pirate, who said he earned a bonus of $48 million in dubloons last year, elaborated on the nature of the Somalis’ work for Goldman, explaining that the pirates forcibly attacked ships that Goldman had already shorted. “We were functioning as investment bankers, only every day was casual Friday,” the pirate said. The pirate acknowledged that they merged their operations with Goldman in late 2008 to take advantage of the more relaxed regulations governing bankers as opposed to pirates, “plus to get our share of the bailout money.” [Full Story] ” Tommy Mann

rat DNA

Smoke “ A [Illinois] state House committee on Thursday passed a cigarette-tax increase that would generate $320 million by raising the state tax from 98 cents a pack to $1.98 a pack over two years. The House also is considering authorizing a sale of expected tobacco-settlement funds, which could bring in $1.2 billion, said State Sen. Donne Trotter, a Democrat. [Full] ”

KNOCK KNOCK WHO'S THERE? people quit smoking lowered sales when smokers drive to Wisconsin, or Indiana to buy weeds sure-to- follow black markets MINUS cost of stopping, prosecuting, and warehousing the new criminal class they just created NOT $320 Million BONUS LAFF:  selling  state's tobacco-settlement funds.

Deconfliction

snort

Cuz Rick

Voted Obama? Embarrased Yet?

Obama Sign in Marshall, Tx.

R.W. Forsythe

California Greening

Plunge in state revenue dashes hopes of an easy budget fix

“ California raised taxes by tens of billions of dollars, created a job killer like AB 32, allowed unions to control government, and the L.A. Times is now surprised that tax revenues are way down.  How do you spell Stupid Putz? D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T. ” Cuzzin Ricky

Arizona Welcomes Obama

Jefe

Curly Hair

Merrily Loses

“ Sigh -          I lost the bar quiz last night by 1 point. The last question was, "Where do most women have curly hair?" Apparently the correct answer is "Africa" ”

What Planet?

The Very Strange Lindsey Graham

Graham Sees No Hope for Climate Bill This Year May 7, 2010, 10:47 A.M. ROLL CALL Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday that work on a climate change bill should halt until Congress deals with the “uncertainty of the immigration debate and the consequences of the [Gulf of Mexico] oil spill.”

Sweet Unicorns

We're all insights, not incites

Ernest $#!&# Hemingway

“ While editing The Sun Also Rises, Maxwell Perkins had to decide how to handle the many obscenities in Hemingway’s text. He planned a lunch with the author and kept a list of words to discuss with him. While Perkins was at lunch, Charles Scribner came looking for him and, finding his office empty, consulted his calendar. It read “shit piss fuck bitch.” When Perkins returned, Scribner said, “You must be exhausted.” ” Ka-Ching!

San Francisco Scene

Doctors Visit

NSFW Tim W

Stop Beck

What do you call political movements that silence opposition?

“ Nestle Confirms: No Ads On Glenn Beck’s Show Last week, advertisements for Nestle Purina Cat Chow began running on Glenn Beck’s show.  We were surprised that Nestle would be willing to associate any of its brands with Glenn Beck’s irresponsible vitriol. As usual, StopBeck participants reached out to Nestle for clarification and urged them to cease advertising on Glenn Beck’s show. The efforts paid off! Nestle confirmed that they do not advertise on Glenn Beck’s show; they advised that the ads were run in error and that the mistake has been corrected. Going forward don’t expect to see Nestle ads on Glenn Beck’s show. Nestle becomes another addition to the growing list of companies that refuse to support Glenn Beck’s vitriol with advertising dollars. Here are the statements Nestle posted on their Twitter page: ” Angelo Carusone is a New Yorker and currently a third-year law student living in Madison, Wisconsin. IOW, he's steeped in leftist ideology. He started his "Stop Beck" campaign last July because of "his concern that the Fox News talk show host and former morning zoo disc jockey "validates the opinions of those who might incite violence."  We assume Angelo meant violence to his leftist ideology, since there seems to be no other example to cite. In the past we've reported on similar decisions by Sargento Cheese, and UPS.  In the latter case, UPS backed off after getting earfuls from people who work for a living and, ergo, natural UPS customers.  I've included here a list of Nestle products.  Peruse it, associate those you're in the habit of buying with Obamunism, and consider alternative products next time you shop. I stopped buying Sargento cheese products, and can report that I've not suffered a bit.  Contact Nestle Here As always, keep the "fuck-yous" to a minimum, and convey your hostility to their support of this un-American effort like the ladies and gentlemen we are.

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Hard Choices

This financial crisis is forcing State agencies to make some tough decisions

Racist Messican Fascistos

“ Authorities, whether federal, state or municipal … are required to demand that foreigners prove their legal presence in the country, before attending to any issues - [source Article 67 of Mexico’s own Population Law] ” Stick

Like Americans v. NARAL

Dog Fight,or in this case, Bird

I just now got some coffee, and looked out the window to catch some hummingbird activity.  Instead, I was treated to an amazing dog fight between a lady Cardinal, and a Blue Jay.  The Cardinal was on the Jay's six, and it looked for all the world like one of those delightful Hitler channel aerial combat recreations. Blue Jays of course are predators who like eating others fetuses, aka eggs.  I'm guessing that's what this was about.  The larger Jay was maneuvering for its life against that angry mama.

Sink hole de what?

Praising Arizona

In "Praising Arizona," Heather Mac Donald writes, "The state’s new immigration law is perfectly reasonable, but you wouldn’t know it from the New York Times."  Here's what democrats are using, in their attempt to get out the November vote (US citizen, or not) and stave off annihilation, actually says. “ The law, SB 1070, empowers local police officers to check the immigration status of individuals whom they have encountered during a “lawful contact,” if an officer reasonably suspects the person stopped of being in the country illegally, and if an inquiry into the person’s status is “practicable.” The officer may not base his suspicion of illegality “solely [on] race, color or national origin.” (Arizona lawmakers recently amended the law to change the term “lawful contact” to “lawful stop, detention or arrest” and deleted the word “solely” from the phrase regarding race, color, and national origin. The governor is expected to sign the amendments.) The law also requires aliens to carry their immigration documents, mirroring an identical federal requirement. Failure to comply with the federal law on carrying immigration papers becomes a state misdemeanor under the Arizona law. ” Unfortunately for the forces of evil, stories like Students threatened with suspension for wearing U.S. colors on Cinco de Mayo resonate. Cinco de Mayo, my ass. In the USA we say  May 5th.  We do not  celebrate Mexican army victories, rare though they may be.

I meant "inch" in the political sense. Sheesh

Grabbing Every Inch

It's a War Out There

Three term Utah Sen. Bob Bennet is seen unlikely to make it out of of the Utah Republican nomination process!  Despite a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 88 percent,  and an endorsement from the NRA, Bennet is being called a "moderate"  for his vote in favor of the bank bailout, and  his proposed health care plan, presented as an alternative to Obamacare, has come under fire for its requirement that all Americans buy health insurance.   The Republican Party establishment has responded with the likes of Newt Gingrich trying to save Bennet; the more reliable Club for Growth is bankrolling anti-Bennet television ads. And that, boys and girls, is the way it should be.  You don't deal with the devil by trying to moderate his terms; you oppose every word, jot, and tittle out of principle.  There is no right way to do the wrong thing.  USA UAS USA.  [Story] Aside:  The WaTimes is being sold by the Moon family, which has already cut financial support to the bone.  My fervent hope is that Rupert will buy it, but that seems unlikely. Losing the WaTimes would be a serious loss, and bolster the Democrat Media Complex.

Protesto

Phoenix 5-1-2010

Merrily

Bored

Just Unbelievable

“ Strangely, it would appear that Jarrett believes that (this) reflects positively on Obama. ”

Fatwā Comedy Central

Comedy Central developing Jesus Christ cartoon

When asked whether publication of his home address would factor in, Alterman responded "Whoa,  mother-fucker!"

“ Comedy Central developing Jesus Christ cartoon Comedy Central might censor every image of the Prophet Muhammad on "South Park," yet the network is developing a whole animated series around Jesus Christ. As part of the network's upfront presentation to advertisers (full slate here), the network is set to announce "JC," a half-hour show about Christ wanting to escape the shadow of his "powerful but apathetic father" and live a regular life in New York City. In the show, God is preoccupied with playing video games while Christ, "the ultimate fish out of water," tries to adjust to life in the big city. "In general, comedy in purist form always makes some people uncomfortable," said Comedy Central's head of original programming Kent Alterman When asked if the show might draw some fire, especially coming on the heels of the network's decision to censor the Muslim faith's religious figure on "South Park," Alterman said its too early in the show's development to be concerned about such matters.  ” I know how these phuckers think. "South Park gets away with a Jesus Christ parody, so people must love that kind of shit."  Wrong asshat.  South Park gets away with it because they parody everybody.  The creators do not like organized religion, period.  They get away with it, because after all the disrespect, there is often a worthwhile message. They get away with it, because the Jesus character is not central to the cartoon.  That Comedy Central would dare contemplate such a thing, in the face of their refusal to even allow the name Muhummad to be uttered, shows their hypocrisy. Trey Parker has the answer. " They just don't want to be killed." Good thing they're dealing with conservatives and Christian Americans in this matter.

Crist Akbar

Crist Akbar!

Muslims do actually have principles.  Does Crist?

Early on, before the name Rubio ever crossed my computer screen, I was touting Florida's Gov. Crist's bid for the senate.  Why?  He was a Republican governor of a mostly righteous Republican state, and the Senate seat belonged to the enemy.  In a heartbeat, comments flooded in from Florida, citing among other things Crist's scamulus money grab.  The message was, "Crist is a RINO."  The world knows now that they understated.  Crist is Jim Jeffords and Arlo Sphincter with a southern accent.  A piece of political corn encrusted poop. I think more proof is on the way.  It's my belief that last year's Gov. Crist would have signed the state's new abortion law in a heartbeat.  But we're talking about a guy who went running to Rahm Emanuel after Floridians made it clear they hated his guts.  But still, he does have principles, doesn't he?  What did I just say? Jeffords, Sphincter and Rahm.  Of course he doesn't.  He'll veto.

The Verminator Speaks

President Fires Again at Arizona Immigration Law, Sets Sights on Federal Legislation

“ If anyone was unclear about President Obama's distaste for the new Arizona immigration law, he cleared it up at his Cinco de Mayo celebration in the White House Rose Garden Wednesday night. "We can’t start singling out people because of who they look like, or how they talk, or how they dress," the president said. "We can’t turn law-abiding American citizens, and law-abiding immigrants, into subjects of suspicion and abuse." ” We know what you think Barry

Epic Commercial

EPIC

In response to Moron.Com

SNEAK INTO ALL SPORTS VENUES ILLEGALLY

“ Those borders around the sporting events that keep you from realizing the dream of going to a baseball game? Pffffft. SNEAK IN! And if any usher asks to see your ticket to the game, cry out, in a foreign language, that your CIVIL RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED!!! But it doesn’t end there ... ”

MM

Magazine rack

she’s a little bit cuntry

la-la-la-la-la

What to do on an airplane when seated next to a real jerk:

“  1. Take out your laptop. 2. Slowly open your laptop. 3. Turn it on. 4. Make certain your neighbor is watching. 5. Open your internet browser. 6 Close your eyes for a few moments, open them and then look up to the sky, or the heavens if you will. 7. Breathe deeply and open this site: http://www.myit-media.de/the_end.html 8. Look at the expression on your neighbor's face. ” Cuzzin Ricky PS. I'll add #9. Prepare to land at the nearest airport, where people will be waiting for you PPS. There was a time, fairly recently, when I would have done it anyway.

a dark bargain

"We have made a dark bargain with ourselves to let one of our cities die."

“ THE TECATE TRUCK was just like all the other Tecate Beer trucks that went back and forth daily at the border crossing, except that it was not owned by Tecate. The driver of that truck spoke fluent Spanish and the truck was always loaded with Tecate. In time the US border guards got used to it. The difference was that this truck had, at its center, a narrow, hollow space shielded with thin sheets of lead so that no ambient radiation would escape. It had cost The Base over $150,000 to convert the truck at a garage in Ensenada a year before. That was little enough when it came to securing the device which had cost the same group more than $10 million in Russia in 1997. In any event, the truck did its job and passed without incident over the border and into the United States at Tecate, California on August 6th. Dates were important to The Base, and this date was especially significant. After all, what could be more significant than the day on which Hiroshima was destroyed? After clearing the border the Tecate Truck followed Highway 94 north to it's merge with Highway 8 at La Mesa, California, and then drove west towards Highway 5. It pulled off the road at a rest stop where it picked up a technician in a Tecate uniform who was carrying a case with the necessary electronics and a couple of weapons. After that, the two men followed the road thought the heart of San Diego. It got off the freeway in downtown and quickly made its way to the intersection of North Harbor Drive and West Broadway. It's total travel time from the border to downtown San Diego was just over an hour. It was running close to schedule. It was about 11:30 in the morning. The truck pulled over and parked along North Harbor drive and the technician took out some binoculars and scanned the harbor beyond the Navy Region Southwest Complex whose entrance was less than 100 yards away. Intelligence was correct. The USS Ronald Reagan was in its home port and riding comfortably at anchor. The technician opened his case and took a wire that ran from the back of the truck along the floorboards. He plugged it into a jack in the simple switching device in the case. He looked at the driver and smiled. The driver smiled back. They both began to recite a prayer in Arabic while looking over the San Diego harbor. At some point in the prayer, without really thinking about it, the technician threw the switch. In the next instant, at the intersection of North Harbor Drive and West Broadway in San Diego, California on a warm August morning, a miniature version of the Sun appeared on the surface of the Earth. [More] ” Gerard first published this in October 2004.  The last line in the essay, "To be continued....", sounded ominous, but now I think Part II is where we finish the tenth, and last crusade.

I.M.Bunny

On her way ...

Her mom and dad will be back tomorrow night.  I think they'll be pleased to see the strides I made, teaching our granddaughter to be a proper young woman. Seven days ago, she couldn't even spell broom.

The sun has already set GB

Sheesh. He was obviously trying to escape.

How we got here

Colonic High!

The Nation Gets an Enema

David Obey quits  Newsweek on the block

Stuff to mince over

FUNNY

LOOK FIRST LOOK SECOND Alear

This is how you win!

Gov. Chris Christie ousting state Supreme Court justice

“ “Before and since becoming governor, I was unambiguous in my intention to bring balance and change to the Supreme Court. My selection today is not a commentary on Justice Wallace. It is a fulfillment of my promise to turn the court away from its history of using legal precedent to set social and tax policies in our state – a role which belongs squarely with the legislative and executive branches of state government,” Christie said in a news release. [My smelling salts Martha] ” Wallace, 68, is the only black justice on the court, and is the first member not to be reappointed after an initial seven-year term. Clap-calp-clap!

What makes more sense- Kim, or Earth First nuts?

Throw this into the hopper: US Orders Blackout Over North Korean Torpedoing Of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig

“ Suspicions that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was a deliberate act gained strength with news that North Korea may have played a role in it. Reports that North Korea torpedoed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig by many outlets include reports of a government-ordered a news blackout concerning details. If the oil disaster was caused by an intentional act, the dispatch of SWAT teams  to the Gulf by the Obama regime makes sense. ” If you have a well earned abiding distrust of the Obama government, this could be viewed as a convenient red herring.  Aside from a corpse, who better to accuse than a corpse nation?  Especially after accusations of deliberate sabotage by the homeboy left have surfaced. ThoR

Russian Hackers

U.S. Treasury Web sites hacked

“ Hackers targeted known bugs, including flaws in Adobe's Reader, to redirect visitors to a Web site in the Ukraine associated with similar attacks in the past. ” Like the cartoon said - who needs nukes?

puparazzi

puparazzi

Social Security Whispers

Jack Spratt Could Cut No Fat So Geezers will go lean?

“ John Spratt, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, was recently appointed by President Obama to the Debt Commission. I’ve been going through documents looking at his history regarding Social Security reform, and his involvement in “secret meetings” in 1997 authorized by Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles.  Bowles was at the time negotiating a deal between Clinton and Newt Gingrich that included  partial privatization of Social Security. Last week at the Pete Peterson confab,  Bill Clinton spoke openly about the secret agreement  he reached in 1997 with Newt Gingrich to take money out of Social Security and place it in private accounts — something Wall Street has been demanding in order to keep the bubble from bursting.  The deal was the subject of the 2008 Steven Gillon book The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry That Defined a Generation. According to Gillon, Clinton agreed to take the political heat for privatization, and the plan only fell through when the Monica Lewinsky affair exploded and Clinton was afraid to take the hit in the polls. ” This deal got very close to happening during uber private meetings.    Because all were assured that what was said in the room stayed in the room, they could put anything on the table, and know that any agreement would have Clinton's support.  Spratt subsequently fought against George Bush’s privatization efforts, and now ... “ Spratt has indicated that he’s open to cutting Social Security benefits as a way to balance the budget. [Full article] ” Label this .... Stuff I didn't know.     Cheryl Jones