November 29, 2007 archive

Political Officers

Do they know when I get up?  This morning my wife while watching WBZ TV morning “news” told me to wait for the story about the government wanting the reading habits of Amazon.com customers.

http://www.pr-inside.com/us-wi…

They usually repeat the very same stories again by the time I actually leave for work.  It is after all mainstream media and in the interest of keeping my soul pure and uncontaminated I have refined a sophisticated in one ear and out the other technique.

Hon, methinks the censors woke up, a story about government intrusion into private lives, the political officers stifled it.

The local network has also chosen to ignore something like this also and favor the manufactured diversionary local issue of the state legislature taking up the question of outlawing corporal punishment for your kids.

I would put further media consolidation as a more pressing issue than spanking kids.

http://www.usalone.com/stop_me…

And finally the last find of the day is yet another sieg heil related to “terra” bill.

A republic, if you can keep it.  Another day and another Apocalyptic horse practice ride.

How to build a storage bench

Suggested tools: biscuit joiner, router, drill, table saw, saber saw, wood glue, framer’s square, large wood clamps, trim router, chisel.

1. Go to Lumber Yard

2. Buy Wood – pick up some 5/4″ x 12″ stock, about 36 board feet for the base and 12 board feet for the top.  And another 12 board feet for the bottom. Pick them up in 12 or 6 foot lengths.  Clear White Pine works very well and is available most anywhere.  If you don’t have a board planer at home make sure to get finished wood otherwise you can get rough cut and plane them down yourself.

3. Buy 4 wheels for the base, I prefer the spherical rubber wheels. Buy some piano hinge for the top and some handles for the side.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Well thank god Dubai has stepped in an bought a sizable chunk of Citigroup, otherwise we would have a new Enron on our hands. In the fine tradition of making sure to steal a million purses because then its just a statistic, Citigroup used some rather shady account maneuvers. In fact, what they have done is outright illegal.

The whole shame would have been exposed, once Citigroup was exposed on the finical sheets. Of course, Dubai helped out, buying 5% of the Citigroup for the discount price of a mere $7.5 billion. This was more of a shout out to their boy in Saudi Arabia, a certain sheik who already owns a lot of the supposedly American corporation.

So, what the fuck happened?

Pony Open Thread: UPDATED Docudharma Christmas Song!!!!

Hey, we’re back with a first draft of Docudharma’s 12 Days of Christmas. Most of the lyrics have come from Rusty1776 and On The Bus. Take a look and if you have any ideas for making it better, please join in!!! But first…Frank Kelly’s 12 Days of Christmas is just hysterical. I’m laughing as i try to embed this… really and truly… this is great.

and this, holly hocks and ivy, is bizarre…

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