1848: First Hungarian Revolution begins with government capitulating to "Twelve Demands" in a bloodless uprising
1917: Nicholas II abdicates the throne of Russia. His abdication marked the end of imperial Russia and the beginning of the Soviet Union. He and his wife and children, and their family physician, were assassinated sixteen months later.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
“Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance”
-- King George V
From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:
a) America's Cable & Sat TV companies
They are getting worse. Pastor Ag borrowed a handy little device that registers the loudness of sound, measured in decibels. The findings are stunning. Regardless of whether you are watching news, sport, a movie or some political sTalk sHow, there is surprising uniformity between channels, although several channels are always at a slightly different volume setting. But what
PISSES ME OFF TO NO ENDis how the advertising volume is, on average, 30% higher than the show being advertised. Actually, the range went from 26% for sports shows, to 31% for movies.
If anyone would like to join me in starting a grass roots campaign demanding that the FCC pass a rule precluding any ad from increasing the volume, please contact me.
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b) AIG
The greed of Wall Street truly knows no bounds. (AIG's headquarters also infest Wall Street)
AFTER the first round of federal support (Translation - your money), worth many tens of billions of dollars, AIG paid itself $121 MILLIONS in bonuses for a job well done. (think of a blackened, smoking steak, with the tenderness of granite, and you get the idea about how well done).
Now that we have wasted more than $180 BILLION of our money in AIG, guess what those scum decided to do. Another round of bonuses, totaling $165 MILLION, much of it going to the very same unit that created our economic disaster.
The idea that we are rewarding the thieves who almost brought down our economy is bloody insane. Then again, the whole idea that a company that lost hundreds of billions by gambling, should even consider paying one bonus, is bloody insane. Instead, these cretinous bastards should be lawyering up before they spend some serious time in jail, so long as AIG's top management, including their current CEO Liddy, joins them in the 8x10 cell.
Folks, time to write your congresscritters and senatwhores. Demand that for every million dollars in bonuses that AIG pays itself, we remove $10,000,000,000 in federal support from the company. Maybe they will get the message eventually. Better yet, let's declare a premium holiday. If AIG pays itself bonuses with our money, we quit paying insurance premiums to AIG.
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c) The spinelessness of New Scientist
NS is normally a hot, must read science journal for the masses. It touches on black holes, food safety, particle accelerators, new alloys, stem cells, even battery technology for electric cars. Not this time. They had a brilliant expose on how to spot a Cretinous Creationist by the code words that so many Republican neocon, ultra-religious have mastered.
When you come across the terms "Darwinism" or "Darwinists", take heed. True scientists rarely use these terms, and instead opt for "evolution" and "biologists", respectively. When evolution is described as a "blind, random, undirected process", be warned. While genetic mutations may be random, natural selection is not. When cells are described as "astonishingly complex molecular machines", it is generally by breathless supporters of ID who take the metaphor literally and assume that such a "machine" requires an "engineer". If an author wishes for "academic freedom", it is usually ID code for "the acceptance of creationism". . . .
Religiously motivated authors also have a bad habit of linking the cultural implications of a theory to the truth-value of that theory. The ID crowd, for instance, loves to draw a line from Darwin to the Holocaust, as they did in the "documentary" film Expelled: No intelligence allowed. Even if such an absurd link were justified, it would have zero relevance to the question of whether or not the theory of evolution is correct. Similarly, when Le Fanu writes that Darwin's On the Origin of Species "articulated the desire of many scientists for an exclusively materialist explanation of natural history that would liberate it from the sticky fingers of the theological inference that the beauty and wonder of the natural world was direct evidence for 'A Designer'", his statement has no bearing on the scientific merits of evolution.
Unfortunately, New Scientist caved into the demands of Creationists and pulled this article from its website. Luckily, Pastor Ag found where it is still lurking, so you, gentle reader, may share and enjoy:
https://www.sott.net/articles/show/177635-How-to-spot-a-hidden-religious-agendaAnd SHAME ON NEW SCIENTIST!
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d) Catholic Sex Abuse Claims Rise.
By 16% in 2008, compared to 2007.
1 in five victims of the church's sexual abuse is under 10 yrs old.
The Church continues to "minister" to its priests, rather than report suspected activity to the authorities.
In 2007, the Church paid $660,000,000 to hundreds of Los Angeles sex victims.
In 2008, the Church paid$463,000,000 to settle other cases.
In 2009, the Church is expected to pay at least $500,000,000
Hey, these are beginning to resemble Bernie Madoff numbers, not to mention AIG bonus payouts. ($280,000,000 in the last three months) It does explain one thing. The Vatican will never change its position on clerical marriage or sex, not when all those lovely, innocent children are targets of their affection.
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e) Tucker Carlson
A perfect example of why some people should be sent out to pasture. And left there.According to this little ph***er, Jon Stewart is a partisan hack and should avoid doing stories like his devastating interview of CNBC's pet madman, Jim Cramer.
On today's CNN's Reliable Sources, Tucker tried to dismiss the beating that Cramer and CNBC took at Stewart's hands. A political demagog? Right, Friar Tuck. Just because he bested - and busted you and your Crossfire show, does not make him a partisan hack. Satire, humor, and comedy are all well and good. The problem is that the MSM is doing its job so badly, that it takes a comedian to show you how to do it right. And that explains why you have this deep burning sensation each time you unzip (your mouth or your pants).
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