By far my favorite Tenacious D clip/episode of all time.  For those of you who don’t know who or what Tenacious D is… what is wrong with you?  Jesus, do I have to tell you everything?  Anyway, Kyle Gass and Jack Black are Tenacious D, best friends and self proclaimed “Greatest Band on Earth”.  In this episode Kyle attempts to steal Jack’s crush, hilarious karate ensues… check it out.

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As I discussed a couple of days ago in my post “Iran as a threat… et tu Blair”the current administration and the military industrial complex (MIC) is ramping up its pre-war rhetoric which has an end-game of aggressive action against Iran.  Cheney has been the latest to deliver the solemn news and a firm warning to Iran as reported by CNN.com:

“Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions,” Cheney said in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Studies.

He said Iran’s efforts to pursue technology that would allow them to build a nuclear weapon are obvious and that “the regime continues to practice delay and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time.”

If Iran continues on its current course, Cheney said the U.S. and other nations are “prepared to impose serious consequences.” The vice president made no specific reference to military action.

“We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” he said.

Cheney’s words seemed to only escalate the U.S. rhetoric against Iran over the past several days, including President Bush’s warning that a nuclear Iran could lead to World War III.

Please take a moment to let those strong words from Cheney and Bush sink in.  Is this the legacy that Bush is looking for in his lame duck years to capstone his Presidency?  World War III?  I can’t imagine why else they (the Bush administration) are pushing this agenda.  The Bush administration must really have no respect for the collective intelligence of the American people if they feel they can continue to deceive and manipulate information toward a goal of further war.  They must be completely convinced the American people are idiots and won’t recognize the pattern.  This is pathetic and it makes me sick to my stomach.

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An amazing thing happened on the way to work today in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, and if you believe in these types of things, it could be called a miracle.  First the sky became dark and gloomy much like when it is dusk, but it wasn’t dusk it was morning.  This frightened me as I thought somehow I or we had angered the gods, and he was blotting out the sun as a form of retribution for making Dancing with the Stars popular or electing (and re-electing) Bush.  As I prayed to Crom for mercy and forgiveness, the unthinkable happened.  Water began to fall from the sky. 

I know this sounds crazy please put down the phone, do not call the authorities just hear me out.  Moisture actually collected in the sky and formulated some sort of water droplet that fell directly down upon the earth.  Was this a gift from heaven?  Crom would certainly not offer any alms to the wretched humans on earth, it must be another more benevolent god.  I quickly checked to see if the “sky water” was acidic, it didn’t appear to melt the car or the structures around me, that was good.  I found it difficult to see out of the windshield of my car as the “sky water” was distorting my view, I stopped the car and gazed upward wondering if this was truly a gift or if this was a sign of the end-times.

I over-heard another person gazing up at the “sky water” refer to it as “rain”.  This sounds like a made up ridiculous word, but I suppose it will have to do until the universities and government officials can classify the phenomenon and assign a proper name to it.  I’m leaning toward “Skwater”, although it sounds a bit like what you do to relieve yourself outdoors.  I will keep you posted regarding this Skwater event.

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I recently came across a grassroots fundraising event aimed at raising $10 Million bucks in one day for Ron Paul’s campaign (November 5th).  The event is described here as:

Please join us this November 5th for the largest one day political donation event in history. Our goal is to bring together 100,000 people to donate $100 each, creating a one day donation total of $10,000,000.

You can subscribe to the cause via feedburner on the site, that is how they are tracking participants.  They have some significant work ahead of them if they are going to achieve their goal of 100K participants, as of this posting the number of participants was in the range of 5,600.  In any case, these are the type of events that will have to come off to make Paul’s overall goal of $12 Million dollars this quarter.  As I have stated previously, Ron Paul’s campaign overall goal is aggressive, but the campaign may have a fighting chance if more of these grassroots events are successful.  I was personally planning on donating in November, so I have joined the event.

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These clips and variations of them have been floating around the cyber-world for some time, but the inner little kid in me still cracks up at them every time.  First of all, the televangelist in these clips is an over-the-top imbecile, and it is hilarious to watch him without the added “effects”.  Check it out.

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A Connecticut substitute teacher was fired for airing The Simpson’s Movie to his classes.  The catch is, his classes were 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders.  I’m all for free speech, but this was a dumb-ass move.  I’m opposed to the movie ratings system philosophically, but practically as a parent, I can see me using it as a quick gauge for whether the material is appropriate for my kids.  The Simpson’s Movie is rated PG-13 and I can’t see one thing educational, apart from an animation or film course (which wouldn’t be in the curriculum of elementary schools), that would necessitate airing this to 3rd graders.  A local news station in Boston had the story:

School officials said they had warned 30-year-old Aquil Abdul-Salaam that the PG-13 rated film isn’t appropriate for children.

Officials said Abdul-Salaam admitted showing the movie to students at Beecher School between mid-September and Oct. 4. Beecher School is for children in grades kindergarten through seventh grade.

Sadcox has been commenting on the sad state of our public education for some time, and unfortunately this is just another sad example of how low our education standards are in this country.  Thank you Mr. Connecticut fucktard for perpetuating our poor education standards.

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We’ve seen this before with Iraq, it is a pattern (an algorithm if you will), it starts with “intelligence” about how somebody somewhere else is to blame for something (or our problems) and it ends with the US attacking that somebody.  In the Iraq example, it started with the “intelligence” regarding WMD’s, it turned into Iraq is a terrorist sympathizer, and finally into Iraq is a terrorist state and is somehow responsible for 9/11.  If that past (and very much present) mistake wasn’t enough, now we’re worrying about Iran?  You’ve got to be shitting me.  The military industrial complex and its “think tanks” are ramping up for another aggressive mistakewar.  And as a part of this pre-war propaganda and media hype, Blair has decided to reaffirm he is a solid “Bush-man” and make his opinion on the subject known.  Below are a few blurbs from a BBC news story:

But on a more serious note he spoke of what he called an extremist Islamic ideology.

“This ideology now has a state - Iran - that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.”

“There is a tendency even now, even in some of our own circles, to believe that they are as they are because we have provoked them and if we left them alone they would leave us alone.

“I fear this is mistaken. They have no intention of leaving us alone.”

They have no intention of leaving us alone?  Hold the phone pal, what exactly have they done to the US, or the UK for that matter?  Since 1979, they’ve pretty much kept out of Western  affairs.  AND, if they are involved in Iraq now, it is exactly because we have provoked them.  I’m not defending Iran, I think we should just get the hell out of the region and let them sort it out for themselves.  Look at Vietnam, we are trading with them again, hell they are the new India in terms of high-tech off-shoring.  Blair, please do us a favor and shut the fuck up, when do you start working for Halliburton anyway?

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It’s Friday….  Photo caption contest, winner will receive a big stinking fat pile of nuthin.  My entry is in the comments, please add yours.

Have fun!

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It gets worse and worse, the TSA confirmed today that MOST fake bombs made it through screeners at LAX and Chicago’s O’Hare airports over the past couple of years.  According to a CNN.com article:

Screeners failed to find most of the fake bombs smuggled by plainclothes investigators through checkpoints at two major airports from late 2005 until last fall, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday.

Investigators successfully smuggled 75 percent of the fake bombs through checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport in California, and 60 percent through Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in Illinois, according to a report obtained by USA Today. In tests at California’s San Francisco International Airport, where a private company conducts inspections, 20 percent of the contraband made it through security.

I work in an industry where anything below a 99% success rate is a major problem, and I just can’t wrap my head around how ineffective the TSA really is.  To put this in perspective, LAX screener were effective 25% of the time while screeners at O’Hare were effective 40% of the time.  It is interesting that a private company had a much greater success rate at 20% failure/80% success.  It is clear that the federal government is over-matched, and privatisation is something that should be seriously looked at.  I’m not sure if everybody remembers but prior to 9/11 the screeners were private and the TSA was brought in with the wonderful Patriot Act and the Dept of Total Incompetence Homeland Security because they could “do a better job”.  Great job dipshits.

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The following clip is from a March 2007 SNL episode where Peyton guest-hosted.  Something tells me this had something to do with winning the Super Bowl, but ya never know.  This is a hilarious mock-public service announcement (PSA), classic stuff, check it out.

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