There are things that the government, the one we have that is of for an by the people, SHOULD do. the National Weather Service is one of those things. It generates some of the best weather data there is, the data that private companies use to repackage and sell to radio and TV broadcaster, as well as internet prognosticators.

Rick Santorum (R-PA) introduced a bill to the Senate to limit the amount of info that the NWS can disseminate so that a handful of private companies can charge for the information. Nothing the GOP does is to help you. they help only the very, very rich. if you don’t believe me, you’re not paying attention. look at the facts, and the actual dollars, and you’ll see.

This NWS gambit is built to make already-very-rich people richer, through new government/private shoehorn activities like packaging info generated on the public dime while withholding it from the very public that paid for the shit. Same thing with a buttload of stuff…we pay for research, private concerns get it. we pay for infrastructure, we don’t get to use it. Every damn thing in this country belongs to it’s citizens. Sadly, nowadays, more than half of everything…everything…every bit of wealth in ths nation, more than half belongs to the top 15% of the wealth scale. more than half! lord, i could go on about tax shelters and living trust gambits all day, and how the mega-wealthy get even more and more, and pass all of the burden of maintaining the nation they extract such fortune from squarely onto your shoulders (unless you are worth more than 89 billion dollars), but i won’t.

just this once, write your senator. write your congresscritter. email em! say “dude! Satorum is trying to privatize NWS information! If you vote for that, i will never, ever vote for you or your party again”. fucking jerks. they’re trying to make it into a giant nation of that have-alls and the have-nones. the middle class are useful idiots. they’re being lured along with promises, but they live on credit. they’ll be in the muck with the rest of us. i’m dead serious, if you make less than around 3 million a year and have a net worth of less than 80 million, you don’t even count as anything other than a potential profit center to the lawmakers in our country, GOP or Democrat. The GOP is the most heinous, but the Dems, with a couple of exceptions, are equally scummy (Daschle, Biden, et al).

It’s disgusting. and it’s not made to help anyone but the super-super-rich. look it up, i dare you.

I’ve been following the WSOP Main Event (the 10,000 buy-in No-limit hold’em championship, or “The Big One”) HERE. Let me tell you, ya gotta be an addict if every word typed in a blog makes you quiver with anticipation. The amazing thing is the chip leader right now, heading into day four or so with several hundred players left, is GREG FUCKING RAYMER, last year’s champ! They had over 2,500 entrants last year and over 5,500 this year, and dude’s still in it.
Phil Ivey is also in the game, as well as that insufferable jackass Mike Matusow, who I hope gets crushed by some donk pulling a dumbass bad beat on him.
It’s almost depressing to talk about my own poker after cogitating on a tournament with a $7.55 million dollar first prize, but I got second in a $25+5.50 for $250 bones, and won a quarter playing 1/2O8 & 1/2HE .50/1.

So that’s fun.

I am pretty saddened by the tragedies in London, and the pain of those afflicted, those injured and those who lost loved ones.
So nothing political on this. Just thinking of Londoners and the old foggy city I’ve dreamt of. I can’t imagine a city that survived the Blitz is going to be intimidated by some punks with suitcase bombs. I hope they find who was responsible.
Some day they’ll be peace in this world.

Here is a fun rundown of a book on how Bush speaks. Sounds right-on to me. Too bad it’s four years old. Sigh.

Bush is a negative guy. He’s a mean guy. The only time he sounds natural is when he’s celebrating victory over an enemy. And he’s totally willing to do that early (“Mission Accomplished”, anyone?). He’s angry.

Bush shouldn’t be president. He shouldn’t be allowed to sully us any longer. He’s shallow and ridiculous, a sham of a man, a mighty industrialist aping a lowly “good ol’ boy”(cool link). It’s the lowest form of theater. And you’re all buying it. Even when you say he’s a moron you’re buying it. He’s plenty smart. He just hates everyone who does not look exactly like him, as I and numerous people have been saying for years.

Damn I need something funny to end this with. Poor bastards who read my page. Sorry.

I made a huge, involved post about political stuff early and closed the window, forgetting that I hadn’t posted it. Oh well. Also, it seems like all of my friends are losers who don’t want to update the site, either. Fuckers.

Terms for female masturbation. I think “stinky pinky” is still one of the best.

Both genders.

There’s a hundred other sites too. The one I like that I didn’t see was “tossing the ham javelin”.

More! Vomit terms.

Yes, I’m twelve, whatever, I WILL KILL YOU, shutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup

gasp

okay, back to the linking.

Urban Dictionary

Japanese snacks

DUDE, I’m trying out for Jeopardy on July 28. All fingers must be crossed that I get happy categories if I make it. I’m seriously either really good, or really shitty.

Blech, stupid ass link posts. Go to Daily Kos if you want to see what I’m all worked up about.

“Members” is a funny word

okay, I have Desi and Chris signed up to be able to publish to the front page of our “web magazine” (thanks, FEC!), so look for stuff from them. I don’t know if it will rule or suck, but they rule, so I’m leaning rule-wards. Of course, some of them suck too. heh heh heh.

anyhoo, that’s all I have to say for now.

Here’s someone putting it in clear an simple terms exactly what kind of a bribe-taking fuck Señor Cunningham is.

Enjoy!

I’m trying real hard to figure out how to get blogger to publish as my index page, and it’s giving me permission errors, the bastard. I don’t mind the “XXX.blogspot.com” URL, but I’d prefer to be able to publish right to my homepage and link to the forums. That way we can get back to the article/community feel we had before. I’d also like to be able to let others publish on the homepage, which anyone who’s been here a while knows is one of my goals.
Sadly, since I do every damn thing in fits and starts, like a cat stuck to a chainsaw, it takes forever to do this shit. Just never forget, I need candy.

Who knows. I’m trying to get my mind around so many things. This blogger thing seems interesting.
The forums are here. I’m still thinking on what else to do….