tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972665535918119442024-08-30T12:10:49.133-07:00Dispatches From An Unknown Bunker In The Golden State.Orwell59http://www.blogger.com/profile/03843213217299582271noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997266553591811944.post-12612439790123285822011-11-03T20:00:00.000-07:002011-11-03T20:00:48.496-07:00

Saw the Mercedes v. Dipshit Protester video. The guy and the woman (OWS protesters and soon to be hood ornaments) walk in front of the car and stop, face the driver and begin "communicating" to him both verbally and with wild gesticulations. (It looks like the guy [Hood Ornament #1], not the woman [Hood Ornament #2], was the instigator). Then the guy begins to slam his fists down on the hood of

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Just read an interesting, if not terribly well-written essay on The White Rose (German Nazi resistance) and comparisons between Hitler and FDR and, by extension, our current regime. (http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0703a.asp) What struck me was that no matter how much the human race evolves, the methods of the oppressor remain the same. Largely because they are still successful. Amplified and

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Former SNL scatterbrain Victoria Jackson's anti-gay comments regarding a male-to-male kiss on the TV show Glee prompted the usual intolerant attacks from the tolerance crowd. Great news for me because it gives me an excuse to explore a rather obvious (to me anyway) deficiency in American Society circa 2011: Most people in our society don't have a clue what tolerance means. There's is this

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Republican angst over The Tea Party and the possibility that it will Nader/Perot the 2012 election is metastasizing at a brisk clip. I understand the sentiment and agree with the logic of their position but they need to recognize (and accept) the fact that it's their own fault. The popularity of Ron Paul (and existence of The Tea Party) is the (rather obvious) result of the people in this

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I don't tend to give the American People much credit for intellectual curiosity, intellectual honesty or raw intelligence for that matter. So why am I surprised at peoples' boundless ability to heap praise on The President for mere articulated thoughts? Maybe I'm not as cynical (or smart) as I'd like to believe. Regardless, as long as there are people who confuse words with deeds the

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Silicone filled Israeli fashion model Orit Fox was bitten on one of her mammoth synthetic breasts by a snake during a photo shoot for Spanish TV. The cartoonishly buxom Fox is fine but the snake died of silicone poisoning. “We’re very concerned about the safety of members of the vampirism/mammary fetish community”, said Shiela Hool of the American Medical Advisory Bund. “We’ve begun an

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Wisconsin is just the beginning, with any luck. We'll probably see the inverse in Sacramento. Private sector protests as (Jerry) Brown and his Merry Pranksters concoct new and wondrous ways to funnel money to public worker unions, who will in turn, funnel some of it back to Jerry and Friends. And I love these people who feel cheated by Governor Walker's "legislative gimmick" but cheered their

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I don't think there's a dime's worth of difference between Qadaffi and Mubarak. It's strictly situational. Qadaffi has control of the people with the guns, Mubarak didn't. Call me a cynic, but I'm a firm believer in the Bismarckian philosophy of Realpolitik. Dictators do not fear peaceful protesters, regardless of their number. They do not care what "The World" thinks about them or whether or not

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What was your initial reaction the first time you saw that Nissan Leaf/Polar Bear Hug commercial. Unless you are among the few remaining discerning consumers of popular culture, you were emotionally moved and felt a vague compulsion to buy a government-subsidized car that you could plug into a wall socket. I thought it was a brilliant manipulation of a poplar myth, used to sell a product whose

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I was walking into my house and had just stepped into the foyer and began to close the door when an intruder burst through and knocked me into the wall. He smelled like three days worth of dried sweat and the caked residue of a mustard-ketchup-onion-potato concoction. Like he’d bathed in a giant vat of In-N-Out Burger Animal Fries earlier in the week. I went for a roundhouse kick to his head.

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It's universally accepted that there is good man-crying and bad man-crying. John Wayne was a good crier. Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas were masters of the underappreciated art of the macho sob. Economy in all aspects of the act is the key. The eyes mist over, there's an almost imperceptible and momentary quaver in the voice and a slight hitch in the syncopation of the delivery. But the

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I'm certain that you've heard the phrase "the exception proves the rule" dozens or even scores of times during your lifetime. And each time you heard it, assuming that you received an American public education somewhere besides California or Arkansas, you were troubled by a little voice whispering, "that doesn't make any sense". Don't worry. That little voice is what's left of your I.Q. and

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Alright, the title is overly sensational and probably elicits disturbing mental images but it does help me drive home my point. Lack of diversity of thought creates the same deformities in cultures that lack of chromosomal diversity creates in the flesh. It took a system clogged with inbred Ivy Leaguers to conjure up the mess we find ourselves in now. (Not to deny a big assist to an apathetic

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I've always been skeptical when it comes to the myriad designer diseases that seem to appear magically from the marketing departments of Big Pharma directly to my TV screen. But since hearing that incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner is working in the shadows to keep Ron Paul from becoming Chairman of the Monetary Policy Subcommittee, I'm reconsidering the case of ADD as an actual medical

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The 60 Minutes interview of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (12/5/10) was dispiriting for many reasons. I came away convinced that our Banker -in-Chief was channeling Titanic Captain E.J Smith as he steadfastly and unwittingly steamed toward his doom. Of course the Captain Smiths of the world never go down alone. But my biggest disappointment was not with Bernanke. He is another in a

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