How Right Wing Media Machine Turned Our Parents Into Fanatics

[“Centrists and liberals and progressives have to wake up and smell the fucking coffee,” she told me. “We’ve all sort of been polite. Liberals, progressives, we want to be fair—but it’s not about being fair, it’s about being objective. So I really hope to make people aware of this. Oh my God, it’s the media, stupid.”

Her hope is that the film, which screened as a work in progress, gets in front of audiences in time to make a difference in the 2016 presidential election {Jan}. Senko, incidentally, calls herself a Progressive and is throwing her weight behind Bernie Sanders. “I’m tired of seeing Democrats allowing themselves to be slapped in the face, allowing and adopting the language that people like Frank Luntz came up with for the Republicans,” she said.  “Just being aware is a huge step. It’s going to change conversations.”

To that end, Senko’s film takes a fiercely unapologetic stance; at one point, she invokes a quote by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels in an archival montage of conservative news anchors linking WMDs to Iraq. “Goebbels actually did look at American advertising to get ideas for propaganda, so there’s a tie-in there,” she said. “I guess it’ll rock some boats, but I feel like it’s accurate and I stand by it.”] emphasis added  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/31/how-fox-news-made-my-dad-crazy.html

Then the So-Called Liberal Media scoffed at Hillary C. for pointing out the obvious, at least obvious to literate people.

Now, they stand poised to destroy Mrs. Clinton as part of Republican Congressional witch hunt, blasting out dribs and drabs of innocuous emails as "evidence" of sordid conspiracies when the truth remains these RepubliKKKan clowns specialize in character assassinations.

Rowdy Roddy PIper Gone to the Great Squared Circle in the Sky

[Although he was Canadian, due to his Scottish heritage he was billed as coming from Glasgow in Scotland and was known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music. He earned the nickname "Rowdy" by displaying his trademark "Scottish" rage, spontaneity and quick wit. Despite being a crowd favorite for his rock star-like persona, he often played a villain. Aside from his ring name, he was also known by the nickname "Hot Rod".

Piper headlined several major pay-per-view events; he participated in the main events of WrestleMania I and WrestleMania X – as a special guest referee in the latter. Never a world champion, he nevertheless accumulated 34 championships in various promotions during his career. Piper was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 and named No. 1 of the Top 50 villains in wrestling history by WWE.[5]]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_Piper


http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/news/rowdy-roddy-piper-dead-at-61-20150731

Piper promos:

On Vacation in Cape Canaveral, FL

Water has always played a large part in my life; rain, the ocean, and rivers flowing have always calmed me, providing handy metaphors for phases of my life.  So if you find yourself sick on the Space Coat of Florida, you might want to try Cape Canaveral hospital.  Surrounded on all sides by water, almost every room has a great view.

     

With only a mild kidney infection however, it means they won't let me stay long.  Soon, you'll find me at a nursing home; Island Health and Rehabilitation, a fine place in many ways but facing the same limitations as other for profit institutions, chief among them hiring decent workers while paying low wages.  Shareholders must profit off the misery of patients by warehousing them and collecting Medicare and Medicaid payments as well as confiscating our disability checks.

As with perhaps many places of employment, Island Health has humans working with only some caring about their patients and working hard while others just walk around ignoring patient call lights and caring little 'bout the people they get paid to care for.

One spiteful little troll nursing assistant in particular told me the reason for my paralysis came because God hates me.

I feel like that sometimes, most times, but her verbalizing that comes as highly unprofessional and just plain wrong.

Nevertheless while  wishing to live in Canaveral hospital ER in the land of tall, gorgeous blond nurses, must return to real life at Island Health and No Rehabilitation, charting my own course towards increased independence.

Fuck everyone who stands in my way, as their shins will get hit by my wheelchair footrests as i try to run them over.

Excelsior!

First Grateful Dead Album

UNDER CONSTRUCTION-Check back later this week


First, the album starts off with my favorite Dead song ever, perhaps because it reminds me of 2 girls in particular: the firt loved in college before I could even talk to ladies and the econd my favorite, literate baartender who ignored my great charm, intellect, and sense of humour and who thoroughly spurned my advances:

See that girl, barefootin' along,
Whistlin' and singin', she's a carryin' on.
There's laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet....

C'est la vie.

Next, although skeptical of painting metaphors with a broad brush, perhaps the album embodied the era and start of so-called hippy culture: carefree, dancing along, and with this band one sort of must mention  LSD as an influence.

Although in the current era "drugs" have become considered "evil" and "bad."



"it's a valiant attempt to corral the group's hydra-headed psychedelic jug-band music " http://www.allmusic.com/album/grateful-dead-mw0001998802


http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/goldroad.html

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS602US602&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=grateful%20dead%20first%20album%20review


http://www.salon.com/2015/07/18/trump_polls_partner

Backide of Pluto, otherwise known as Trump's Uranus

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/24/nasa-reveals-pluto-s-dark-side.html

Jon Stewart: Please Don't Leave!

Jon rips Don new one.  Trying to blog about The Donald but alternate between paroxysms of laughter and weeping over future of America f the US: the first 'cause Trumpster just so damn funny and the latter after realizing tea party losers and other fool well actually for the man, the mockery of a candidate.

"Making America great again," what does that mean?  When did we get un-great, when public support $ became available for people to buy private insurance, lowering rates of uninsured humans to historic levels?
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Chef Boyardee vs. the Volcano

Heard of "cooking with gas" but  this is ridiculous.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/ravioli-lava-video_n_7701950.html

Jewelbots: Accessorizing to Learn Coding

I want 1 too!  Wait, Why, I lack BFF's.

D. Trump Hears from a Veteran

https://www.patreon.com/keefknight

"If a comic is printed in a paper no one reads, is it still funny?"

Dennis Rodman: "Trump for President"

Oh man, this justs easier every day, like finding a racist at a Klan rally easy.  Former NBA player (valet and rebounder for Michael Jordan) and self-appointed unofficial ambassador to brutal dictatorship of North Korea, has come out in favor of Donald Trump for President. http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/24/dennis-rodman-trump-for-president.html

That settles it for me!

Welcome to the future, coming now to a planet near you.

Already in the US where we have for years paid too much for too little when compared to high speed internet in Europe, Austin TX has 'net architecture capable of transmitting a gigabyte of data every second; "The network, called GigaPower and offered through AT&T, relies 100 percent on fiber-optic lines laid directly to homes and souped-up routers that allow speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. That's 30 times the average in the United States today and fast enough to download 25 songs in a single second..." (Emphasis added because that's freaking fanTAStic.)

Also NASA with the Kepler Space telescope has found a bigger and older cousin planet to our Terran planet:

Kepler-452b is the first confirmation of a near-Earth-size planet that can sustain liquid water and orbits a star much like the Sun. It was found through data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope, launched into space more than six years ago.

“As far as we can tell,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, “it’s a pretty good, close cousin to our planet and sun.”  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/23/nasa-s-kepler-finds-earth-s-cousin.html

What the heck, might as well put on my big boy boxer shorts, eat more fruits and vegetables, and try to stick around for a long while just to see what happens next.

The REAL reason Sandra Bland changed lanes in the first place

Prarie View, TX, Warning Sign

Sign posted after inexcusable death of Sandra Bland:

https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/623493054880612352/photo/1

found at:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/21/1404253/-Someone-put-up-a-new-warning-sign-for-motorists-in-the-town-where-Sandra-Bland-was-arrested

Bruce Springsteen and Joe Grushecky Pumping Iron July 19th 2015

July 19, 2015 Bruce Springsteen and Joe Grushecky doing Darkness on the ...

Hypocrisy Writ Large: Police eating edible marijuana products after busting medical marijuana shop

Assholes.

Meanwhile people like myself with chronic pain in Florida can't get any medical maryjane, and society takes it as a big fucking joke.

Thanks a lot, Governor Dick Scott, capital, supreme douche of Florida.

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Say it Ain't So, Joe; Biden considering presidential run

Vice President Joe Biden is still very much considering a bid for the White House, people close to Biden say, and will make a final decision at the end of the summer, targeted for September.

The Iowa caucuses are scheduled for early February, meaning Biden would have roughly four months to barnstorm the first-in-the-nation state before the contest turned to New Hampshire.

Front-runner Hillary Clinton has faced a surprisingly tough challenge from democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, who is within striking distance in Iowa despite not being registered as a Democrat and trailing far behind in establishment support. Sanders' surge suggests Clinton could be once again beatable in a Democratic primary.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-biden-presidential-campaign_55a9583fe4b0d2ded39ef720

(Of course if you read the chart with this load o' crap article, you'll see Bernie "Kill the Capitalists" Sanders currently polling 31 points behind Mrs. Clinton.  Hell'uv'a surge, huh?)

Caitlyn Could Kick Ass Still

As a good little liberal. it seems you must count me among those who stand for the rights of every individual to define themselves, as long as such individuals do not trespass against the persons of rights of others.  So if Bruce Jenner wants to call himself Caitlyn and grow his hair long, more power to him.

Hell with ny long hair, i might start styling myself as Empress of the Universe--except for the fact of holding on to my male gender, even if resigning myself to an ascetic, asexual, amoral existence.

Others,,, however, do not try to practive tolerance and acceptance of the the humanity of others.  Thus when a transgendered person gets angered by a haters' comment, part of me wanted to see the hater become the hunted and get his right wing transphobic ass kicked.

Not exactly charitable on my part but if haters gonna hate they can also reap what they sow. http://www.salon.com/2015/07/17/ben_shapiro_tries_and_spectacularly_fails_to_humiliate_trans_woman_zoey_tur_what_are_your_genetics_sir


http://www.hlntv.com/video/2015/07/16/caitlyn-jenner-espy-courage-award?hpt=hln10_4

Bill O' Reilly's Big Secret: Killing puppies

An observer working within the mini Reich of Fox News had a chance to observe O' Reilly's rejuvenation regimin; he kills puppies:

Bill heads down to a private room in the basement to get his hair and makeup done. A device that Ailes had installed in every green room in the building methodically sucks the life force out of five adorable baby puppies and deposits it into Bill’s face, keeping him fresh and youthful-looking for one more day. http://www.salon.com/2013/05/29/i_was_a_liberal_mole_at_fox_news_from_bill_oreilly_to_roger_ailes_heres_all_the_inside_dope/

Putting Things in Proportion

Quote of the Day

The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomatox- Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers
:  McClellan, George: "Were mortal man, or woman, ever contented?"

Nerd Alert: X-Men vs Apocalypse

Colbert on Comedians in Cars

From Crackle: Stephen Colbert: Cut Up And Bloody But Looking Good

Italian Nonas Despise Olive Garden

With the American Manifest Discipline of appropriating, distorting, dishonouring, marketing, and perverting facets of all cultures worldwide, predictably real Italian cooks, grandmas, despise Olive Garden and the mockery it makes of true Italian cuisine.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/06/italian-grandmas-olive-garden_n_7737356.html

(for when HuffpuffersPost disables above)

Hello Internet. Did you miss me?

Apparently no one missed me; no one cared enough to email.  Abandoned by my family, left behind by friends, ignored and abused by nursing home staff where I currently reside leaves me singing Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me.

Nevertheless, do I care?

Hell no, I don't give a shit; with my narcisism and borderline psychopathic tendencies I function on my own,: no love, no mercy, no peace, and thus really no limits on what I can do save the limits of the law, which did give me my first trespass warning on 3 July.  Good times.

Bunches of stuff happened in my time of sorrow and no intertubes connection because maintenance sucks eggs here.  Ba stards.  But all fixed now, reading news, and slowly back to my normal sunny self.

We have Donnie "Blowhard" Billionaire" Trump sticking both entire legs in his hypocritical mouth and Republicans fled in droves, the Grateful Dead played their last shows (everyone was completely sober,  even "Bear" Owlsey Stanley), the United States Womens Soccer team won the World Cup--USA, USA, USA--and last but certainly not the least the US Supreme Court stepped up and did the right thing by upholding the Affordable Care Act and establishing the right of humans of the same sex to marry and have equal rights with their straight sisters and brothers.

Yay the Supreme Court does the progressive thing!

Owsley's ashes on Dead's soundboard at last show