Fear the Future (rapidly approaching edition)

Evil mad scientists have hastened our doom, once again.



Looks like it wants to stick one somewhere painful, and it doesn't matter which, right?

George Lucas can eat a dick.

Especially if that dick is covered in poison.

What's the Hurry? (Detroit, a case study in Collapse)

What's the hurry, indeed...

"What is the hurry?" Councilwoman Brenda Jones asked Mayor Dave Bing's administration.
The hurry, some council members noted, is a Thursday deadline for Gov. Rick Snyder to approve a consent agreement, appoint an emergency manager or declare there is no fiscal crisis in the debt-riddled city.

Why should you bother to meet a deadline that might, but probably won't can't, save your city from collapse?  After all, isn't financial responsibility racist?

The board would be tasked with consolidating departments, and more, to help the city survive financially. City Council members and residents have loudly protested the consent agreement, with some saying it’s racist and others saying it strips residents of their right to have decisions made by their own democratically elected leaders.

Remember, it's not the absolute numbers that matter in a decline, but the rate of change. Detroit over the last Thirty years has shown how quickly a strong, useful, and prosperous city can be ruined.  It was bad in the eighties and worse in the nineties, but the last five years have been similar to the startling effects of compound interest.

"This is white-on-black crime," community activist Minister Malik Shabazz said during public comment. "This is white supremacy. Before you can take over our city, we will burn it."

Yeah, I know you will.  Dumbass.

It's like this, but with Imagine Malik Shabazz as Homer.  And also Detroit as Homer.  Okay, it's really nothing like this, but it's been a long time since I've updated this thing and I don't have any appropriate pictures.  Sue me.

*Now that we've moved back to twelve hour days, I may be able to actually keep up with this blog. Eight hours is not enough to actually do my real (paid) job AND keep up with the collapse. 

Fear the Future

Another exciting edition of "How the World Will End!"

Add camera, battery, and you're done!  Or, done for...

You know what? I fucking give up on you, asshole.

I hate you Dan Akroyd. This is beyond the god damned pale.

The question of whether or not there will be another Ghostbusters film has long been the subject of a public tug of war between beloved actor Bill Murray, who has always seemed more than skeptical about reviving the franchise, and vodka baron Dan Aykroyd, who would like to fill his many crystal skulls with riches paid in our nostalgia. But throughout their back and forth, there has at least always been the basic understanding that--even if Peter Venkman comes back only briefly, and as a CGI ghost--at least everyone would be returning to their respective roles before handing the whole operation over to the lanky guy from Criminal Minds.
No longer! Turns out, if you won't sign on to a mediocre script, Dan Aykroyd will just replace you with some other guy, even if you are GD Bill Murray.

I will no longer support a world where this is okay.  I hope everyone involved in this travesty is set on fire, and the ashes are shat upon by lepers. If you buy a ticket to see this movie I will personally punch you in the dick.  Unless you are a girl, then I will punch you in the cooter.

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

Seriously, not even wilco is this retarded.

In 2009, grandmother Sally Harpold was handcuffed and jailed in Indiana after she bought a box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband and a box of Mucinex D cold medicine for her adult daughter in less than a week.

So, what exactly?  She bought stuff legally in another state, used it legally in another state, and was jailed in YOUR fucking state?

I need a new god damned job.  I hate having to be represented by you god damned assholes.

OPSEC = Keep your head down

This is why you don't volunteer to be on television.

Just days after appearing on the National Geographic TV Show Doomsday Prepper, a prepper from Tennessee has been declared Mentally Defective and his guns have been seized by the government.

Why is anyone surprised?  If you show up on people's radar, especially people who don't like individual freedom (99.999% of cops) they will react.  If these people have significantly more power than you, don't have to follow the same rules as you, and are more conformist than you (again, 99.999% of cops) they will make you sorry.

Don't be a Butthead, remember OPSEC.

Keep your head down, get yourself ready, and to hell with the neighbors.  It's too late for most people anyway, and they won't appreciate being reminded they're about to lose their cable, let alone civilization.  All they'll do is lock you up.

Fear the Future

I thought since I'm probably going incommunicado for a week in the wilderness of North Little Rock, I'd slap up some old school robo-pocalypse fear mongering.

"Behold my works, ye mighty, and despair...

It's an autonomous aircraft/drone that has a full weapons bay (4,500 lbs).   Say that word again:  autonomous.   That's the breakthrough feature.  This also means:
It can make its own "kill decision."  Again and again and again.  That decision is going to get better and better and cheaper and cheaper (Moore's law has made insect level intelligence available for pennies, rat intelligence is next).
It isn't vulnerabe to a pilot in Nevada directing it to land in Iran. Oops.
It will eventually (sooner than you think) be the "Queen," making decisions for thousands of smaller swarmed (semi-autonomous) drones it lays on a battle zone (aka "city").  
In sum:  It allows an unprecedented automation of conventional violence.   

Well.  That wasn't as fun or funny as I planned it to be.

Here's a dog on acid to make up for the doom and gloom.

East Coast vs. West Coast

Not to be outdone by their Angeleno competitors, Boston is now hosting "military exercises."

Joint federal military training exercises will take place within and around the Boston area between July 26th and August 5th. Military personnel will conduct training exercises to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification requirements. Helicopters will be used in some exercises.

The Boston Police Department is working with military personnel to coordinate training sites that will minimize negative impacts on our Boston citizens and their daily routines. Safety precautions have been taken to prevent risk to the general public and the military personnel involved. With that, training site locations are not open to the public and will be guarded by uniformed personnel to provide additional safety.

How long, now?  A year? A month? Should be interesting, anyway...

Uh huh. Right.

How much of this do we choose to believe?

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

I'll buy that.

The LAPD will be providing support for the exercises, which will also be held in other portions of the greater Los Angeles area, police said.

This seems legit, too.

Training sites ``have been carefully selected to ensure the event does not negatively impact the citizens of Los Angeles and their daily routine,'' a department official said.

Nuh-uh.  How in the hell do they expect this not to "impact the citizens?" 

The training, which a department official said would involve helicopters, has been coordinated with local authorities and owners of the training sites, police said.

I also believe this to be true (-ish).

Police said safety precautions have been taken to prevent risk to the general public and military personnel involved.

Sure, why not? But the fact that you're hosting military training among a civilian population means that the civilians are inherently less safe than if you stayed at home.

The exercises are closed to the public, police said.

I'll buy that,too.

The exercises are designed to ensure the military's ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification requirements, police said.

 

Nope.  Overseas deployment, my ass.  They're testing whether or not citizens will kick when presented with being "liberated" by the military.

Companies asking for "Internet Presence"

On the one hand it seems kind of silly.  Sort of dumbing down the hiring process for those retarded stepchildren we call gen-y.


On the other hand, they say they're getting better quality candidates, so it must have some merit.

This is gen-x.  Gen-Y is suddenly seeming a lot more qualified...

On the gripping hand, if it works to get qualified candidates, it will soon be illegal and racist.

Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst.

Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies—asked applicants to send links representing their "Web presence," such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog. Applicants also had to submit short videos demonstrating their interest in the position.

Everyone is Objectified

Just like the title says, everyone is objectified.  Feminists are wrong because they think it's terrible to be objectified, specifically to be a sexual object. Girlwriteswhat, asks if they would prefer to be disposable objects rather than precious ones.

I have to say, it's a little disorienting to find strong agreement from a short-haired men's clothing wearing female.  Like a breath of fresh air inside a very strange closet...

So, is he saying he's a rapist?

Some councilman just admitted to being a rapist, I think.

“I would say to continue to advocate for the instrumentalities of violence is contrary to a large group of people in this community,” Brown said during Monday's meeting. “The fact that you see me standing up here, I represent that segment of this community, the community that often times you will find yourself dealing with in a negative manner.”

In late October, in the wake of an attempted rape at a popular park in Spartanburg County, Wright implored female residents to obtain concealed weapons permits, saying that residents need to fight back. The comments made national news and precipitated a spike in interest in concealed weapons classes.

Unless there has been a spate of white folks shooting black folks, this man needs to reconsider how he says things.  Essentially, he just said "I am a rapist, please don't shoot me."

My advice to politicians is simply this: "shut the fuck up, you lousy piece of shit."  This is also my advice to teenagers, straight people, gays, baby-boomers, gen-x douchebags, gen-y lard-asses,  the elderly,the religious, military members, civilians and cripples.  I can't wait until I'm asked to speak at a high school graduation. It's going to be the most popular lynching in history.   Ever since that naked jew on a stick about 2000 years ago, anyway.

Nazi's on the moon!

It's going to open in Berlin.  Bad taste, or awesome?  I can't decide.

I have to see this movie, though. I don't know if it's going to be awesome, or the worst thing ever.  Either way, I need to see it.

Interplanetary zeppelins, meteorblitzkreig, cute little kids throwing HJ salutes instead of raising their hands to speak in class... I'm betting on awesomely bad.

Pre-Crime

Okay, all the feel good bullshit from the last day or so is over.  New Jersey is going to start spotlighting people they think are about to commit a crime.

Two thoughts: how long before this gets abused?  I'm betting on the first night shift it's in use, at about 2200 hours.


Also, why do police chiefs get to wear so many damn stars?  Does this guy really think that being the chief of police for East Orange, New Jersey equates with being a Vice Admiral?

All is not lost...

...at least not yet.

Remember when the nerdosphere was all a fluster over Lily Collins being cast as as Mia, the drug addict analogue to Ash in the Sam Raimi-produced, Diablo Cody-spruced-up The Evil Dead remake? Well, cool it since word is she’s out now.  Variety’s Jeff Sneider Tweeted this today:

What?  Three fairly happy posts in a row?  They're going to take away my misanthrope card.

I Think I'm in Love

I've found someone who is quite adept at being almost as unpleasant as I am paid to be, and it happens to be my favorite british actress! 

I simply cannot get enough of hearing the line "in these moments, you can normally find an italian who isn't too picky."

Me and Maggie Smith are the new Shake 'n' Bake. 

All is well, and all will be well...

Really, how bad can life be when some 90 pound nerd guesses "donkey punch" on jeopardy?

I have not the words for how awesome that is.

Someone call the Nobel Committee

I have found a(nother?) universal constant: The whining of the feminist.

The Daily Mail, in an editorial of April 17, 1912, claimed that it was The Law of the Sea that: ‘Those who are saved are not the strong and able-bodied but the weak and the dependent — not the grasping millionaire from the private suite on the promenade deck, clutching a roll of bank-notes . . . but the defenceless wives and sisters and children.’
Yet surprisingly, perhaps, such an attitude provoked sharp responses from early feminists, who believed that ‘women and children first’ infantilised women, and it gave rise to the slogan ‘Votes not Boats’ for the female sex.
The Mail published several feminist ripostes to its celebration of chivalrous behaviour on the Titanic.
Flora Annie Steel — a forgotten name now, but a famous author in 1912 — wrote a poem in the paper saying that the men who perished in the Titanic disaster achieved a mercifully quick death and instant glory whereas their wives were left to grieve and fend for themselves. ‘Women and children last! That is the law of the land.’

Item: Feminists complain they're infantilised when men die in order to let them live.

Item: Feminists complain when they're left to die in order to let men live.

Item: Feminists complain when men want to have sexy times with them.

Item: Feminists complain when men choose to play video games and avoid being ruined by marriage to a whore.

Query: How much more will we put up with?

UPDATE: This is not to say this is all womyn's fault, sometimes (i.e. more often than not) guys fall into the trap of thinking women are too stupid to get in out of the rain.

We now live in a society where a girl can walk outside, in the pouring rain, without a coat or umbrella and is no one offers their own coat or umbrella. Oh but surely that wouldn’t happen! Yes it would.

Chivalry is nice and all, but this guy seems to believe all that bullshit Male Privledge he's been spoon-fed.  Here's a tip: chivalry only works from a position of strength, otherwise it's slavery.  If I'm required by society to care for someone stronger than me, what else would you call it?

The Purity Bear

The current state of christer-anity is awesome.  What is the church's answer to sluts?  Marry them.

That's the message, right?  If you find a girl who's willing to put out on the FIRST DATE, run, don't walk, to the Altar.  What's the worst that could happen, right?

I seem to remember a time, not too terribly long ago, when churches participated in a little game called slut-shaming.  Who would have thought that guys like mark driscoll and the slut walkers would converge like this?

Ninja Turtles, or Demon Spawn? You decide.

Actually, let these guys with awesome beards decide for you.

Nice sweater, dude.

I am wildly jealous

Something awesome to pass the time.

New Date for the Apocalypse

You heard it here first, the world will end 27May2012.

As a matter of other dates that God revealed to me, through Jesus Christ, it was given earlier that Trumpets of 2008 was the beginning of the 1335 day count in the Book of Daniel that leads up to the return of Jesus Christ on May 27, 2012. The day of Christ’s return is on Pentecost which pictures the 144,000 who will return with him to reign on earth, and the beginning of this announcement to the Church was on Trumpets (2008) which announces the coming of the Messiah as King of kings. How awesome is that to understand?

Pretty fucking awesome, amiright?



Anyone else feel weird that heaven is apparently going to be full of chicks with big tits and poorly dressed males?  I'm pretty sure that wearing miniskirts and platform sandals is an immediate disqualifier...



Best thing ever (of the week)

Fundies Say the Darndest Things is a collection of the weird ass shit that fundamentalist christers say on the intertubes.

Hitler wanted Germany (and possibly the rest of Europe) to be Islamic. The Leftists in Europe are fulfilling his dream. With America continually becoming more and more and more Euro-peon-ized that may happen here.

I hope this quote is typical.  I  really, really do.

Anonymous and the NDAA

Who wants to bet the brave men and women associated with Anonymous will be among the first, if not THE first, to find out how the NDAA gets applied?  When I say that I hope Anonymous is successful beyond its wildest aspirations am I going to be targeted as well?  Oh, well.  I believe they're doing the right thing, and wish them all the luck in the world. 

Also, they're entertaining as hell, and have a sense of style that can't really be beat.

Gleefully sending the kids to war

How sick is it to see the joy in his eyes when he says "we're going to war" with another muslim country?

A heartwarming tale

Some self righteous hippie was beaten to death by seals.  To celebrate this victory over voluntary retardation, lets all sit quietly and think about other hippies who should be killed with the instrument of their imbecility.

I say we start with the anti-smoking lobby and the MADD bitches.  I've got a pitchfork, if you'll bring the torches.

Voodoo Witch Doctor Bullshit

This is priceless.  This was part of an actual legislative bill in New Mexico:

When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant’s competency hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a cone-shaped hat that is not less than two feet tall. The surface of the hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightning bolts. Additionally, a psychologist or psychiatrist shall be required to don a white beard that is not less than 18 inches in length, and shall punctuate crucial elements of his testimony by stabbing the air with a wand. Whenever a psychologist or psychiatrist provides expert testimony regarding a defendant’s competency, the bailiff shall contemporaneously dim the courtroom lights and administer two strikes to a Chinese gong…

It was obviously meant for satire, but it is a damn shame it was removed from the final bill.

See? Psychology is easy.  Ask if they're crazy and listen to their answer.  Duh.

Praetorian Class

I'm not entirely comfortable with this article.  I'm pretty sure that was the intent.

As they serve in their martial role, members of the Praetorian Class learn to despise members of the Political Class and to view the plight of the Economic Class with detachment or even contempt. Law enforcement and military personnel will converse behind closed doors about the most horrific injustices and brutalities with cavalier amusement. While perhaps natural, their training for violence and teamwork is a fundamental cause for why members of the Praetorian Class abandon their roots and in time come to view their peers "back on the farm" with contempt. Likewise, the steady displays of the craven and treacherous character of the Political Class causes the Praetorian Class to privately disavow emotional allegiance to their masters, usually early in their service.

The author has clearly served either as a cop or in the military, or both.

I've always been uncomfortable with being a cop, now I'm beginning to think it might be immoral.

Smokey The Bear Got Out of Hand

So, the idea behind this series of "educational" posters is that if we tell people something is wrong, they won't do it?

So why don't we have posters explaining property rights to burglars?  I mean, the cigarette warnings work so well, and obviously this poster will stop rapists from raping, right?  Wouldn't breaking and entering statistics benefit from the same sort of campaign?  Or, just possibly, is this yet another way all men are made out to be culpable for every single sexual assault ever?

"Male privledge," indeed.

Imagine a poster in your local subway, or bus terminal that said "Women can stop Herpes. Keep your knees together." Similarly it would presume that each woman, even those without herpes, even virgins, are responsible for the actions of other women.

Where was the poster for this guy? What would it have said?

What happens when rape is redefined to include cases where there is no sexual contact?  Have I just raped? Am I being raped now?  Where the hell is my/our poster?  Surely it would have stopped me/you/us from raping and being raped.

This is bullshit, and I'd wager the folks who came up with it know that.

Liberate tutatme... ex inferis

Could they have picked a better name?

"Even five years ago, such a proposal would not have seemed credible," added Sheperd Doeleman, assistant director of the Haystack Observatory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who is the principal investigator of the Event Horizon Telescope, as the project is dubbed. "Now we have the technological means to take a stab at it."

Surely there's a better name for this than the same name as the creepy Sam Neill movie, right?

The face of science...

Public Relations Pro Tip of the day:

If you'd like to be taken seriously, you know, like a grown up, then don't do shit like this:

Mass. Witches Assembling to End Tim Tebow's Season, Keep Tom Brady's Alive

Witches Lorelei and Lori Bruno were scheduled to hold a seance at noon today – Friday the 13th – at Haven Crow Corner in Salem, Mass. to fix a win for the Pats. 

“I’m going to raise the energy of the universe and send out all the good mojo,” Lorelei told the Boston Herald. “Lori will call in the Angels.”

Remember this lesson, and you'll rarely embarass yourself.

Reading on the deck of the Titanic

So, while the folks in washington are rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic, we'll need something to read. 

In steps TVtropes.com.  I cannot possibly overstate how awesome this site is. It's depressingly easy to waste an entire night on a wiki-walk, going from ham to narm, to the last refuge of tosh.o which makes me notice the swastika pasties, and winding up with Ice Cream Koans.

I totally wasn't kidding about the swastika pasties.

People are stupid and should die

The New York Phil*-harmonic stopped a concert mid-song for the first time ever.  Why? Because some people are assholes.

Imagine him dressed as a bum in 1991, and you'll recognize him.

*As we all know the Philharmonic was named after one of its greatest patrons, the late and lamented Phil Sanders, who died to save a friend from being crushed by a piano.

HEY! (Part 4)

We're nearly ready for that shootin' war in Iran I've been talking about.  The USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) is in theater and the Russians are reporting that the Israelis have been killing Iranian glow-worms.  All this while the Iranians on one side and the US and Israel on the other side have been holding "parallel" war games and t.he US continues to make it rain DoD style in the region while nattering on about regional stability and practicing plausible deniability.

What I don't understand is why we care?  Why is an attack on Israel and attack on us?  Did they, like the French, help us win independence?   Are they exporters of something we need?

Worse, remember the shit that got passed last time we started a war 6000 miles away? What about the crazy stuff that happened last month? Think that's going to get better or worse as we are gearing up to face a nuclear threat, rather than some backwards hillbillies (who still managed to fight us to a draw)?

I wish we'd stop letting this guy dictate foreign policy...

Wait...

You plot revenge for thirty years, and this is the best you've got?  Wow.  You fail at being a crazy axe-wielding maniac, and I know for certain thats a career field with pretty low standards.  You don't even need community college to start out.

David Millington, 37, then launched an attack on a security guard at a Morrisons in Wolverhampton over a grudge he had held since he was seven years old.
He went to the supermarket wearing a tool belt that contained kitchen knives and a makeshift shield, the city's crown court heard.
Millington chased Andrew Osbourne, who he knew from his childhood, through the store before being tackled to the ground by manager Michael Walsh.

 

Useful Skill?

Maybe when I was in high school, but it's still kind of neat.

California and Florida: Sponsoring Terror

So if materially supporting terrorists, terrorism, and terror in general is enough to lose you your rights and get you "disappeared," who then would go to GITMO for investing nearly $90 billion dollars in part of the Axis of Eeevil?

The move, which mirrors actions by Florida and California, comes after state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced $86 billion of the nearly $150 billion state pension fund has been divested from companies involved in Iran and Sudan. 

Yes, I know what "divested" means.  It means that until they were in danger of having the country holding most of their money blown up, Florida and California were investing in terror.  At least by the definition given by the NDAA.

How much does a nuclear program cost?  More than $90 billion? Apparently the startup of each plant is about $30 billion, give or take.

If we consider that this $90 billion was used to prop up some Iranian government loans, those loans would have been worth about $900 billion*.  More than enough to get a really good head start on nuclear war.

Still think we can win, guys?  Still think it will be easy?

*Inkwell  money lending means that banks can loan at least 10 times what they actually have on hand.  Using derivatives and other complex and vaguely Gordon-Gecko-esque terms it can get to be as much as 100:1, but I doubt anyone is crazy enough to loan 9 trillion dollars to Iran.

Hey! (part 3)

Remember how I said we were staging for the next totally awesome war, this time against Iran?

I win at prognostication, again!

Without much media attention, thousands of American troops are being deployed to Israel, and Iranian officials believe that this is the latest and most blatant warning that the US will soon be attacking Tehran.
Tensions between nations have been high in recent months and have only worsened in the weeks since early December when Iran hijacked and recovered an American drone aircraft. Many have speculated that a back-and-forth between the two countries will soon escalate Iran and the US into an all-out war, and that event might occur sooner than thought.

Voter fraud? No big deal, probably.

Look for more (and more egregious) examples of this as we approach November. No, I don't want Santorum to win, but at least it would be comforting to know where Nehemiah Scudder actually was.

If you vote on any level except the local, you are wasting your time, energy, and brain power.  If your vote really mattered, Santorum would have thrown a fit. If your vote realy mattered, these people wouldn't be in power anyway.

If you vote, you're saying "I believe in this system, I believe it is honest enough to participate in, and I believe I can actually accomplish something by participating." 

If you vote, you're not just cooperating with the inevitable, you're holding the victim down for the guards.

If you vote, you are responsible for their decisions.

This should replace those "I VOTED!" stickers.

This is how it ends, then. Funny, I thought it would be louder.

Whelp, that whole liberty thing was an interesting diversion from history.  I guess it's back to our regularly scheduled tyranny already in progress...

Presidential Candidate Vermin Supreme

I'm voting for him. If we're going to have the re-education centers anyway, I'd prefer they were Dental Re-education centers.  Besides, any man who can make that many puns in one sentence without breaking a smile deserves to have access to the big red button in the oval office.

When a crazy man in a wizard hat is your best choice for president, maybe it's time to call the whole thing off... just sayin'.

NO FUCKING WAY!

This cannot possibly be true: 

The results show that about 18 percent of women share similar personalities with men, and 18 percent of men share similar personalities with women. But the majority of women have personality traits that are quite distinct from those of men, and vice versa, the researchers say.

Men tend to be more dominant (forceful and aggressive) and emotionally stable, while women tend to be more sensitive, warm (attentive to others) and apprehensive, the study found.

I don't know what clown college these so-called "scientists" got their degrees from but they should be refunded their tuition.


These asshats go on to reveal some really starling, and quite frankly dangerous ideas about humanity.

The new findings may explain why some careers are dominated by men (such as engineering) and others by women (such as psychological sciences), Irwing said.

"People self-select in terms of their personality… and what they think is going to be suitable in terms of the fit," for their career, Irwing said.

This is madness! Thankfully cooler, eggier, heads were consulted before this travesty of inanity could be foisted off on the unsuspecting public as "science."

But the findings counter the prevailing view among psychologists that, on the whole, men and women are more similar than they are different, in a number of ways, including personality traits.

Janet Shibley Hyde, a professor of psychology and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin who published a paper in 2005 that was influential in contributing to this hypothesis, said the new study does not overturn this view.

For starters, the men and women in the study assessed their own personality traits. People may be inclined to rate themselves in a way that conforms with gender stereotypes, Hyde said. "It's not very manly to say that you're sensitive," she said.

Whew! I was worried that I'd have to change my view of women and men being exactly the same as each other.  Simple hormones couldn't possibly have any effect on personality, or career path, or sexual proclivities, or gender stereotypes, or protein synthesis, or calcium resorption, or dietary preference, or brain structure, or libido, or intelligence, or agression, or mood regulation, or digestion, or muscle distribution, or invention, or creativity, or baby-making, or baby cuddling, or the immune system, or helping fight disease, or fat distribution, or what one looks for in a life-partner (mate is gender specific, you fascist!).

This is the only thing on Earth affected by hormones: television.

Evil Mad Scientists Create Army of Supersoldier Ants!

And I am only slightly exaggerating.

Nightmarish 'supersoldier' ants with huge heads and jaws have been created by activating ancient genes.
Scientists believe the monster ants may be a genetic throwback to an ancestor that lived millions of years ago.

Scientists say they can create the supersoldiers at will by dabbing normal ant larvae with a special hormone - the larvae then develop into supersoldiers rather than normal soldier or worker ants.

It's only a matter of time...

Senator Lindsey Graham is a Traitor.

He has betrayed any oath of office he took:

Senator Lindsey Graham said the extraordinary measures were necessary because terrorism suspects were wholly different to regular criminals.

"We're facing an enemy, not a common criminal organisation, who will do anything and everything possible to destroy our way of life," he said. "When you join al-Qaida you haven't joined the mafia, you haven't joined a gang. You've joined people who are bent on our destruction and who are a military threat."

Graham added that it was right that Americans should be subject to the detention law as well as foreigners. "It is not unfair to make an American citizen account for the fact that they decided to help Al Qaeda to kill us all and hold them as long as it takes to find intelligence about what may be coming next," he said. "And when they say, 'I want my lawyer,' you tell them, 'Shut up. You don't get a lawyer.'"

No jokes here. Just disgust.

The lousy 99.999%

Making the rest of us look bad again. (skip to about the 00:55 sec mark and watch the cops hand on the right side of the car.)

Also, I don't know how to embed videos so here is a heartwarming picture of Farmer Hogget and his loyal pig instead.

Tasty, loyal, and he saved the farm in the second movie.  What can this pig NOT do?

Evil Dead Update (yes, "already")

It looks like Phil Collins daughter will not only be the quipping heroine of the film, she'll also be doing heroine in this film.  Is there any way, short of including singing CGI rodents, to make this movie any more of a mess?

 The new take on the film is said to have a drug subplot--because the truest "Book of the Dead" will always be the one you snort cocaine off, kids--and Mia will apparently be at the center of that, as her reason for journeying to the remote cabin setting is to detox away from all the temptations of the drug-filled cities we live in.

Oh, I guess there is a way to make it worse.  Take the fun out of the damn thing.  Good to know I'll be saving 8 bucks somewhere down the road...

So, this 90 pound, barely pubescent girl is going to fight demons?  Not likely.

All hail to the king, baby... wait, what? FUCK!

Whelp, I knew it was bound to be shitty, but the Evil Dead remake has just shattered the previous record for terrible remake ideas.  (Sorry, Blues Brothers T.V. Show, this beats you hands down.  That doesn't mean you should ever exist, just that you're not the most offensive thing I've ever read any more.)

Well, instead of dealing with this problem head-on and trying to find the perfect person to play the new Ash, it looks like the creative minds behind this new Evil Dead are throwing us a curveball. In this movie, the main character is no longer Ash. Ash is now Mia, and the role is going might be played by…Lily Collins.

I know what you’re asking yourself right now, you’re asking yourself, “Who the heck is Lily Collins?” I know, I had the same reaction. Well, she’s a young actress who was not only in the movie Priest (did anyone go see that one?), but she was also the daughter in The Blind Side. Oh, and she is also Phil Collins’ daughter.

Yeah.  That just happened.  Good-bye terrible-pun-making, wise-cracking, slightly-assholeish action hero, hello women's lib sop thrown to the masses to make EVIL FUCKING DEAD more palatable to the tween set.

Look at it.  Look at what you have done, feminists.  You ruin every god-damned thing you touch.

Let's guess how long until this vapid personality bucket says something about how it's "rilly kewl" and references Twilight.  A week?  As much as three days?

I totally understand why they chose a woman for the lead.  They want to sell it as some hot skank in the woods getting her clothes ripped off for the "dudes, and bros, and dude-bros" while avoiding the whole question of whether you can kill a woman in a movie these days.  Answer: you can't.

Not unless she's talented, a christian, or a right-winger.  Those are the accepted women in hollywood to beat up.  All the others, every single one, is chock full of grrrl power and can legitimately stand toe-to-toe in a fist fight with any man on the planet and is sexy at any size and probably smarter than everyone.

But don't you dare pick on them, because that's mean and nasty and not fair and patriarchal which we're told by ugly women with short hair is a bad word.




Looks like someone already got smashed.  In the face.  With a patriarchal ugly tree.  She's not pretty.







































Pick a lane, Gloria!  What do you want? Equality or nice treatment?  If you settle for equality, you have to settle for being treated like a man, which typically is pretty shitty.




The best of both worlds?


You slut walkers want to dress like the blue light special, feel free.  Please, we men love seeing your pallid, lumpy flesh paraded about in hot pants and training bras.  When we stare you get to call us perverts, and when we look away you calls us assholes for trying to shame you into acting like women, or horror of horrors, "Ladies."  After all, well behaved women rarely make history, right?  Guess what ladies?  Women don't tend to make history, they tend, like 99.999% of the world, to benefit from it.

Give me all the power, none of the responsibility.  Sounds fair, right?

Who wants to bet that this Evil Dead is going to try to hammer this Lily Collins into an Ash-shaped hole (yes, an Ash-hole...), using attitude instead of humor and grrrl power instead of "Hail to the King" style bravado?  She will undoubtedly have an evil female tree demon to fight before the final boss battle (which has to be a male, obviously).  In the battle with the female tree demon, she will use the word "bitch" no fewer than three times, because... well, I'm not sure really. 

Feminists are unclear about whether they're proud to be called words like "bitch," and "slut" and "smelly rotten cunt loser" or whether their use is akin to a hate crime.  Reginald Denny never got called a slut, so it must be a pretty bad word, right?




"Whore!"


Women should project an innocence. Women, whatever their actual personalities, should still wish to project a public innocence.  Innoncence is what makes men want to protect women, rather than just want them.  Wanting them is part of it, sure, but being worthy of protection is the huge majority of why men will give up their lives for women.

A lady can be beautiful, or even simply pretty, but the best a slattern can hope for is "hot."  The difference should be readily apparent.  One is valued for what she is, and will continue to be forever, while the other is valued for what she looks like right this minute.  When the whore hits the wall on looks, life is over for her.  Her and whatever poor soul she trapped into throwing away his life and fortune for her.

Doesn't he get your juices going, ladies?  Woo-hoo! Hot stuff coming through!

Jesus, cut it out already...

HR 3166 - the Enemy Expatriation Act:

10/12/2011--Introduced.

Enemy Expatriation Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include engaging in or purposefully and materially supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which U.S. nationals would lose their nationality. Defines "hostilities" as any conflict subject to the laws of war.

(Emphasis mine)

It's in committee now.  The NDAA was in committee until just a few hours before it was voted into a horrible existence.  Don't expect much discussion on this, either.

With the NDAA defining America as a theater of war, everything is now "subject to the laws of war."

Game over.

Fear the Future (ROBOTS!)

Quisling scientists have developed a robot than can be fired from a gun, navigate through the atmosphere, land within 5 yards of its target and carry imaging systems. Also it's disposable, meaning cheap enough to produce by the billions, and consists of a "mothership" and tinier, less visible variants.

Come the revolution, these guys will be the first up against the wall.

Several variants have been produced.  The Cicada Mark I can be launched by firing it from a gun into the air.  The Cicada Mark III is designed with special wings for improved range and stability, and is the model used by Tempest "mothership".  Cicada stands for Close-In Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft.

 A Cicada launched from an altitude of 18,000 feet was able to travel 11 miles, landing within 15 feet of its desired target, a remarkable feat.  The drone has been hardened to endure winds up to 40 knots.

The tiny drone will eventually be equipped with tiny imaging sensors and networking sensors as they near combat readiness. 

This isn't the first attack on privacy, nor will it be the last, but it is certainly the most indicative of why engineers need to be careful about what money they accept.