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A high-speed drag race. A faulty hood latch. The driver’s view is blocked, and the gaping maw of certain death opens to quench its eternal hunger for blood and souls.
Hurtling through the space-time continuum, warping the laws of physics, a hero arrives in the nick of time.
In possession of unlimited mental powers yet untested, Captain Oblivious wrests the will of the power steering from the speeding vehicle. He laughs in the face of danger. “Ha, ha, ha,” muses Our Hero, as he maneuvers the machine away from peril and toward the relative safety of the raceway’s emergency sand trap.
Unbeknownst to Our Hero, the driver has already panicked. The driver screams as he jams on the brake pedal with both feet, and Captain Oblivious is thrown off at high velocity. Like a watermelon seed pinched between forefinger and thumb, Captain Oblivious is spit from the universe at the speed of whatever. The car slides to a safe stop in the sand.
With his mind swept clean of the memory of recent events, Captain Oblivious finds himself squatting naked in the vapor-ridden 10th dimension, fuzzily pondering The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: Captain Oblivious, drag racing, Overnight Open Thread, SciFi, superheroes
He’s about to get his garbage caught up in the fan belt.
Looks like fun.
I’m not touching that one Bunk.
OH LOL LOL LOL!!! ROFLMAO!
@ Calo:
Good thing I wasn’t writing that up while listening to the BlogMock Radio Show.
Yenta,
Check your email.
COMRADES!
Here we go …
Rodan wrote:
Send again. It didn’t go through.
That interview with Barret Brown was kind of lame. He seems like a self-absorbed twit. And he needs to drop it down a cog.
@ yenta-fada:
resent, check your junk mail. Maybe it’s there.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Sort of like Julian Assange?
Or his little pal Manning?
@ lobo91:
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
I had BB pegged. He’s a Paulian. The hardcore Libertarians really don’t believe in governmnet.
@ lobo91:
Not the same degree of buttwipe as those two. But a naive believer in “technocratic anarchy”. And a great believer in his own wonderfullness.
Barrett Brown is a shameless self promoter cut from the same cloth as P.T. Barnum, IMO. Of course that is his perogotive, but at the end of a day it’s all about Barrett. This group Anonymous is useful to him at the moment, and at the moment it ceases to be so he will move on to his next project. All of his talk about ‘human liberty’ leaves me colder than an Icelandic cod.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
An excellent summation
@ Rodan:
Sounds like he believes in some sort of anarchist meritocracy, where the jobs of “government” will magically get done by the people most able to do them. Like I said, naive.
MrPaulRevere says it much better than I.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
That plan’s working well in Somalia…
By the way Rodan, if you are reading I thought you did a pretty good job interviewing him even though I only caught the last five minutes. A guy like him you just let talk and his oddball nature becomes apparent to all.
Rodan wrote:
Yep. Sent you an answer.
When it comes to spreading liberty in the Arab Muslim world, they have a completely different culture than ours.
We came to liberty from Judeo-Christian values. Arab Muslims come from a culture of tribalism.
Yeah, they wanted out from under Mubarak in Egypt -- but they’re perfectly willing to have their hands and heads chopped off by the Muslim Brotherhood instead.
They aren’t looking for REAL freedom -- they just want to tell their current dictators to take a hike so that they can submit to Islamist dictators instead.
It’s not America’s fault that they aren’t part of the western world’s Judeo-Christian culture.
Who took the lint roller from behind the couch?
Somewhere, Samantha Power is smiling: http://www.france24.com/en/20110410-arab-league-amr-mussa-appeal-no-fly-zone-gaza-israel-air-strikes-libya-un-palestine
@ Eliana:
They just want to be free to be MORE islamic.
Actually it did seem like some of them wanted actual freedom, too bad the devout muslims are willing to kill anyone that gets in the way of sharia.
Hey Eliana, what are your thoughts on the potential fall of the Assad regime? What’s the buzz on the street over there?
As for Bush’s “Operation Iraqi Freedom” -- I know what the main point of this was and I still agree with it.
Saddam-wannabees were waiting in the wings to be the new mega-billionaires who would use Iraq’s $400+ billion per year in oil revenues in their fight against the west.
Bush wanted the country to use the money for Iraqis instead.
Osama bin Laden only needed half a million dollars to perpetrate 9/11 -- imagine what terrorists could do with $400+ billion per year.
If the oil rich countries spent their money on their own people rather than becoming mega-billionaires while their people suffer -- they wouldn’t spend so much of their time seething.
Bush was trying to turn the money into something for the people so that the local thugs wouldn’t take Saddam’s place.
thecommie wrote:
lol lol. BROTHERS and SISTERS!
@ MrPaulRevere:
I will second that. When I said the interview was lame, it was BB to whom I was referring. Rodan did a fine job, but BB is such a twit, he got tiresome to listen to. But Rodan did us a service by having him on, because it made crystal clear what BB is, so we don’t have to waste any more of our time on him.
Rodan wrote:
You run the radio show like a pro. Having a reputation as a respectful interviewer does you and the blog credit.
@ MrPaulRevere:
Assad and his crime family are such horribly bad people while being courted heavily by the likes of John Kerry -- I don’t think the “monster we know is preferable to the monster we don’t know” situation applies to Syria.
It seems people are hoping he will fall because he’s already doing some of the worst things that a Syrian leader could possibly do.
The Muslim Brotherhood wouldn’t be worse than Assad, IMO.
@ Rodan:
No, Libertarians believe in limited government. Anarchists are the farthest to the right in the political spectrum in that they advocate the complete absence of government, i.e., no law. Lawless.
@ Rodan:
You do a great job on the radio show!
BB’s accent was difficult for some of us to understand, but then you came right back clear as a bell with your Queens accent!!
Seriously!
Much of what I understood in the early part of the show was only due to your response to what he’d said.
Later, it got easier to understand him -- but then it slipped again to where it was tough to understand him.
You are always understandable.
@ Eliana:
Usually I have an opinion on every little thing, but re. Syria I think it’s one of those ‘whatever happens happens’ scenarios.
Prebanned wrote:
Why do U want to know?//
@ MrPaulRevere:
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Updings.
Prebanned wrote:
Mongoose. But he can have it, considering that he brought the couch back after finding the cables and the server in the bushes a few nights ago..
@ Bunk X:
Anarchists are neither right nor left, although they can be either.
A one-dimensional figure like a line is too limited to properly represent all forms of political alignment.
True anarchists are not really even in the same plane as that line. But some so-called “anarchists” tilt towards one end of the line or the other, or are used by movements that are part of the classic line. E.G. your “Black Bloc” anarchists that riot at the various G8 meetings, are in fact tools of International Communism, even if they don’t admit it.
Bunk X wrote:
Yea, and then he stole the refrigerator and the carpet from the blogtalk chat room…
doriangrey wrote:
You have no idea what I am about to steal.
You know that rare stinky flower that opens about once every ten years and only lives for a day?
Well, down in the Boiler Room one just opened….
I really am gone because I have to concentrate..
P.S. Bunk uses the lint roller to do his legs, he can’t grow real hair like Barrett Brown has on his chest and legs.
The stuff Bunk grows is more like dandelion fluff
lobo91 wrote:
Yup.
A comment on a website that’s quoting Obama’s people as saying that Trump has a ZERO percent chance of being hired by the American people as president in 2012:
Obama’s not going to slink away from questions being raised by Trump (questions that should have been answered four years ago).
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Unfortunately, the overprivileged and inexperienced punks like him can do a surprising amount of damage in the real world before somebody finally gets around to knocking some sense into them.
I felt a desperate urge to give that dude an industrial-grade kick in the arse.
@ Eliana:
P.S. The Drudge Report is linking this website with all the negative comments about Obama in the Drudge Report HEADLINE!
After exposing myself to this video, my ears and eyes have bled exceedingly and I have been plunged into the very depths of despair…
We are doomed.
Eliana wrote:
Cool!
@ Philip_Daniel:
95 million hits.
The interwebs is crumbling into nothingness as we speak.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
I see your argument, but I disagree. As tools they are tools of the left. The far left is communism, dictatorship, total governmental control. The opposite is no governmental control and no rule of law, i.e., anarchy. Anarchists claim to be for freedom, but by definition, they enable the exact opposite.
@ 1389AD:
It’s interesting that Obama’s people used the word “ZERO” to refer to Trump’s chances of being president since it’s their boss’s NICKNAME.
@ yenta-fada:
All this cat hair, or is it raccoon and mongoose?
Obama’s people are also doing the “yay, PLEASE nominate Trump so that we can beat the crap out of him in 2012″ that they’ve been saying about Palin since Obama won in 2008.
Trump is personable while disassembling Obama.
I don’t think Obama has any idea how much damage Trump can do to him (and will do if he runs for president).
@ Mongoose:
I wanna know whats with the hairballs in the back seat of my F-14?
Goose.
@ 1389AD:
Hell, we have one as president…
Eliana wrote:
I don’t see it?
@ Mongoose:
So that’s why you keep blowing on my ankles and chasing the little fuzzy seedlings! Don’t worry. It doesn’t bother me. Have at it.
@ Bagua:
Drudge Report Headline:
OBAMA MAN: TRUMP HAS ‘ZERO CHANCE’
Links to ‘There is zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people to do this job.’
The comments are disassembling Obama as we speak (not all of them, but many)!
@ Eliana:
That’s why Trump is a good guy. He’s got nothing to lose by tossing out obvious barbs like that. Is he a viable candidate? Nah. But he’s a valuable money raising heckler.
@ Bunk X:
He’s a viable candidate, too.
We have a president who came from nowhere and ran for president after two years of barely participating as a US Senator. We still don’t know who he is but he raised a billion dollars to run for president.
The American people have known Trump for decades.
If Obama can be elected out of nowhere, Trump can be elected.
Eliana wrote:
WOT?! This site would have crashed by now!
Prebanned wrote:
*shudder*
@ Bunk X:
Oh -- well, not THIS website (ours) -- but rather the one that’s trashing Obama pretty thoroughly.
@ Eliana:
I thought you meant it linked to blogmocracy.
@ Bagua:
Sorry -- my use of the word “THIS” failed to communicate properly.
I like this comment:
@ Bagua:
Good one!!
@ Eliana:
It is good to see though!
Right on Donald and goodnight friends and foes!
Philip_Daniel wrote:
I take it that you have not seen the oldish movie “Clueless” It’s a riot. You just have to understand the ditziness of teen-aged girls. It’s a phase. Much better than burkhadom. lol
@ yenta-fada:
It’s a fun phase, though.
@ yenta-fada:
I didn’t understand the ditziness of teen-aged girls when I was a teenager…
Another great comment from the website that Drudge is linking in their headline:
@ lobo91:
You weren’t meant to understand.
Eliana wrote:
Actually, I don’t understand the ditziness of 40 year old women, either…
@ lobo91:
It’s so they can look at a 40 year old man and think he is cute.
@ lobo91:
Well -- I guess ditziness can visit at any age.
@ Philip_Daniel:
She’s 13. She did a video. Lighten up.
Prebanned wrote:
What does it taste like?
Eliana wrote:
Just the ones I meet…
@ Bunk X:
Tastes kinda tacky, must be raccoon.
Prebanned wrote:
If you’re gonna lick me, at least hit my happy parts.
Bunk X wrote:
…With a baseball bat.
Prebanned wrote:
Beat me, Daddy, 8 to the Bar.
lobo91 wrote:
You mean being glued to the phone, deep crushes on boys, being permanently pissed off at your parents, playing music obsessively, laughing hysterically over nothing? Nope. Don’t remember a thing. lol lol
lobo91 wrote:
Have you spoken to Anna? Look, even Princess Natasha likes ‘hello kitty’ and tantalizing shoes. Vive la difference!
@ yenta-fada:
I talked to her yesterday for a few minutes.
@ yenta-fada:
Uh-oh. I step out for a minute, come back, and someone’s posted the phrase “‘hello kitty’ and tantalizing shoes.”
I’m outta here.
Bunk X wrote:
Wow, if I had only know it was that easy to make Bunk run away screaming like I little girl…
WTF? I comment on the last thread and the site closes it down?
Hmmm, file this one serious under “Things that make you go Hmmm”
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*sneaks in, takes a flying leap at the Spambat and bites it in the ass*
Hey Spambat, I gets you every time with that move!
(Now you know why the Spambat always has that surprised look on its face)
*runs away laughing*
Good grief. Aliens in flying saucers again? If we could convert gullible or stupid to energy, we’d have an infinite supply.
@ Mike C.:
The aliens have moved on to interesting, logical planets.
Star Trek, beamed into space in the 60′s, fooled them into looking for Vulcans here, but they found folly and BHO and left.
Personally, I think they left when Disco became popular. I wish I could have…
The Borg assimilated disco. We should be safe for quite some time while thay process the nonsense. In the interim, they have assimilated rap, and they will be consumed with study for another couple decades or so until such time they conclude that the human race is unworthy of assimilation.
Good Morning Blogmocracy! Today is another glorious day in the Reign of Emperor Barack Hussein I, Pasha of the United States and Defender of the
FaithUmmah! There are 575 Days Until the 2012 Presidential Election! Well, Obama came out swinging on his Budget. I don’t know all the numbers (probably as fake as the ones in the ObamaCare debate that had ObamaCare saving billions of dollars), but he is going for the thing that is most popular with Democrats: raising taxes. Don’t believe the Democrats when they say they are only raising taxes on the “wealthy”. What they mean isn’t the uber-rich like themselves. Thye mean the upper middle class; the people who could become wealthy. It won’t generate that much revenue, but it will hit small businesses that file as individuals. That is Obama’s real target, even more than the upper middle class. He wants those nasty small businesses to just go away. You can’t unionize a shop with four employees, so it is no good to the Democrats. In other joyous news, they have another ‘Roadmap’ to Peace in the Middle East. If nothing told you the Libyan Civil War was going to be a long, drawn out affair, that should.It will be interesting to see where this goes. The author of the piece echos my sentiments on the subject:
Indeed.
@ ThreeHundred:
What cruel and unusual punishment for intergalactic visitors.
I like rap.
I didn’t appreciate it fully until I’d heard a couple of Hebrew rap songs. Now I kinda like rap overall.
Hebrew rap is funny because it’s very easy to rhyme things in Hebrew since the whole language is based on verb roots that have common prefixes, in-fixes and suffixes (patterns that show the common tenses and genders of different verb roots).
Verb roots share a lot of suffixes so it means that a lot of Hebrew words rhyme with other Hebrew words.
The Hebrew rap rhythm really gets into it with all the rhyming going on. It’s very catchy.
The intergalactic visitors might like us as a species if they heard Hebrew rap first.
Rap is nothing more that recycled “Beat Poetry” from the 40s and 50s. And it sucked back then, too.
One thing is certain -- whatever it is, it isn’t music. Even a didgeredo (SP?) has two notes.
@ Mike C.:
Well, I just listened to my favorite Hebrew rap song and I can’t stop smiling.
There’s something to be said for it -- depending on how it’s done, I guess.
The leader singer is kinda talking but the other people in the group sing their responses. In any case, it’s a really cool song.
Music beauty is in the ear of the beholder, I guess.
The “G” in GCP does stand for “Grouchy”, you know…
@ Mike C.:
Oh!
Sure is early out this morning. The forecast didn’t say anything about that. Rap reminds me of those jump rope songs the girls used to “sing” while jumping rope. In my view, a key element of music is melody. Rap has no melody so it isn’t music. Ranting and chanting but not music.
@ huckfunn:
Come on! Anything that rants about bitches and hos and shooting people (especially black people, usually referred to with the quaint term N*) is high art. Next to Bach, it is…
@ Iron Fist:
They always want to play that crap at the gym. After 2 songs in a row, I’ll ask them to put something else on and they usually comply. Anything but rap will do. BTW, did you break thru that 260 lb. barrier?
@ huckfunn:
Way past 260. I weighed in at 242.4 this morning. My goal weight is 180. I probably won’t keep losing at this rate all the way there, but I should be cleared for excercize tomorrow. Getting back into the gym is my next big goal. Thanks for asking.
good lord, who the hell ordered ‘south’ weather here???
it’s 75 and humid as hell in the early AM!
@ Iron Fist:
HOOOORAY!!!!!
excellent progress.
Iron Fist wrote:
Outstanding! Keep on keepin on.
Good Mornin All…..I like bluegrass wap//
coldwarrior wrote:
We had a 10 inch rain here this morning. One drop every 10 inches. Actually it was a little better than that but not near what we need. Did you get that floor put in?
@ coldwarrior:
@ huckfunn:
Thanxs!
Iron Fist wrote:
mmmmmm..bacon!
@ mawskrat:
That’s cruel! I can eat ground beef again, but no bacon. Not for another four months, and then only sparingly. Part of the price you pay, but this will add years to my life.
@ huckfunn:
hall way is finished, i needed yesterday to rest my hamstrings…’stoop work’ sux.
today/tomorrow is the master bedroom. it will be slow going as i want to salvage as much of the 110yr old hardwood floor planks for use later.
@ Iron Fist:
just glad to hear you are doing well
mawskrat wrote:
There’s actually some knucklheads that do that. Funny as hell. Pass the biscuits please.
Here’s some “Fake but Accurate” (TM) news:
___________________________
@ mawskrat:
Thanx!
@ coldwarrior:
I love the old plank floors. We had that in the house in Cleburne that we sold in December. I’ve got wood flooring in the living room of this place but not the good old good stuff.
@ huckfunn:
i am going to get a planer and rework all the salvaged planks and re-use them in the bar where needed.(all rooms have the same flooring).
@ Iron Fist:
Hey Ironman. Check this headline from Drudge: “Rasmussen poll: Obama — Strongly Approve: 19% (new low); Strongly Disapprove: 39% — Total Approval: 44%…developing…”. The poll link isn’t up yet but it looks like some of the real hard core base is bailing.
coldwarrior wrote:
I guess that means we can’t grind out our butts on the floor anymore.
huckfunn wrote:
nope! AND yinz will have to aim better at the spittoons!
@ huckfunn:
That would be beautiful! I bet they are pissed about his “caving” to the Republicans in the budget battle. I thought he got more than he gave, myself.
Planned ParenthoodJoe’s Abortion Parlor got its funding. That is what really matters to the Left. It occured to me today that 100 years from now, the support of abortion may be regarded as analogous (and as reprehensible) as support for the institution of slavery. One could hope, at any rate.coldwarrior wrote:
@ huckfunn:
i’ll put that in headlines
@ Iron Fist:
You already know that once these people hit eternity and stand before the great white throne, I don’t want to hear what their excuse is gonna be for supporting the killing of a child.
Iron Fist wrote:
Umm… Not for nothing but if you can’t eat bacon, why would you want to live longer….
MikeA wrote:
that is a valid question
@ MikeA:
My own thinking on the issue has undergone a change as the Left have been more and more brazen about their support for, lust for actually, the act of abortion. Pro-choice, but choice to do what? As we saw with Sarah Palin, make the wrong choice and the Left will castigate you for not killing your baby. I would de-federalize the issue, though, and make it a State and local thing like other forms of homicide. In that I am less an absolutist than my opposite numbers.
coldwarrior wrote:
Good darts! It will update at 0930.
@ MikeA:
Worse, I can’t drink! It is a question I reflect upon from time to time…
huckfunn wrote:
i linked it to the rasmussen page…interesting data contained there.
Iron Fist wrote:
no booze and no bacon?
oh my
coldwarrior wrote:
my wife wants me to re-install hard wood floors.
had to rip the old ones out because of the crappy sub-floor.
3/4 x 4 planks with 2 inch gaps in between sucked. put new
3/4 sub-floor and carpet
glued and screwed now
Cold Civil War update. I don’t agree with all the things stated in this article, but I think it is interesting that the Idea that we are as divided as we have been since the last Civil War is becomming more prevalent. Their is an anti-Christian bent to the article that isn’t surprising, considering the source. I would note that Abolition was an exclusively religious movement, explicitly so. In that sense religion may have contributed to the war, but would one really wish Abolitionist sentiment hadn’t grown and triumphed? Really?
@ Iron Fist:
I am more of an absolutist. Is it a child that is being killed. Yes. Then you can decide if it can be killed. No matter what its a child. In cases of rape / incest / health (which are minor compared to most of the abortions) then thats a hard choice. As a birth control method, not so much…
And no booze or bacon… I hope you have something else to live for…
MikeA wrote:
I have my Old Lady. She is sufficient.
(You can tell her I said that
)
Morning all
@ Nevergiveup:
mornin…it’s gonna be a great day!
mawskrat wrote:
It is? OK I’ll take your word, but so far my day has not started so great
@ Nevergiveup:
It’s Monday. It’s gonna suck…
breaking news re fox
UN Sec Gen says nato mission cannot succed
Iron Fist wrote:
yeah that’s how I usually feel
@ Iron Fist:
Supposed to be close to 80 in Delaware today. Might have to call in sick for the afternoon…
rain of lead wrote:
Libya? Not exactly a hot news flash?
@ rain of lead:
Thanks Captain Obvious. Wonder if he’ll tell us the sun rises in the east…
MikeA wrote:
Yeah same here in NJ, but the clouds would have to clear first
rain of lead wrote:
clusterf&^k
looking, so far no links
@ coldwarrior:
All part of the brilliance of Obama’s Leadership! He planned for this! Or else he is incompetant. It could be that one. Winning!
@ Iron Fist:
Question: How do you say that with a straight face?
the Engine of recovery is slowing down
Drivers Start to Cut Back on Gas as Prices Rise
With the price of gas above $3.50 a gallon in all but one state, there are signs that Americans are cutting back on driving, reversing a steady increase in demand for fuel as the economy improves.
Gas sales have fallen for five straight weeks, the first time that has happened since November, according to MasterCard SpendingPulse, which tracks spending at 140,000 service stations nationwide.
Before the decline, demand was increasing for two months. Some analysts had expected the trend to continue because the economic recovery is picking up, adding 216,000 jobs in March.
“More people are going to work,” said John Gamel, director of gasoline research for MasterCard. “That means more people are driving and they should be buying more gas.”
Instead, about 70 percent of the nation’s major gas-station chains say sales have fallen, according to a March survey by the Oil Price Information Service. More than half reported a drop of 3 percent or more — the sharpest since the summer of 2008, when gas soared past $4 a gallon
@ MikeA:
More botox than Pelosie Galore has used…
Mr Obvious
coldwarrior wrote:
I guess Obama was mad that he was going to give up on terrorism?
Obama is trying to convince Daffy that he has nothing to lose?
@ rain of lead:
138 dollars for fuel last week.
Obama chuckling on TV.
@ Prebanned:
I hear ya
I drive a little ole ford ranger
$50.00 freakin bucks to fill it up
I’m just glad that I’m so close to work that I only have to gas up once every 3 weeks
rain of lead wrote:
I drive mostly just to work and back. My wife seems to like traveling all over the tristate area. I think I need to have a talk with her
The last time oil was this high, the economy crashed.
Israel claims Russian missle hit school bus
Israel claims anti-tank missile Korent involved in terror attack originates from Russian factory. Official: ‘It was smuggled into Gaza with Syria, Iran’s help’
The “world” was lucky again last week. One of these days a weapon like that will kill multiple Israelis and kids and then Israel will invade Gaza and the shit will really hit the fan.
AAWWWWWWWW SHIT!!!!!!
Washington is busy anointing winners and losers in the 11th hour spending deal struck late Friday to avert government shutdown, but meanwhile the staffs of the House and Senate appropriations committees are busy at work negotiating the fine print
The agreement was on overall funding levels and some of the more controversial policy riders,” said Jennifer Hing, spokeswoman for House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, “the rest of the policy riders and funding levels for individual programs are still under negotiation.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/10/fine-print-of-the-deal-still-under-negotiation/#ixzz1JDijPlL9
Our Ridiculer-in-Chief yesterday laughed at the price of gas we in this country is facing.
He has an energy plan but admits His plan won’t help with the price of fuel.
Yesha Strengthens Ties with European Nationalists
The Sage of Culver City has no comment…
@ Prebanned:
GAH I’d like to smack the smirk off of his face.
/not a threat, just an observation (for da lurkers)
Since this is the overnight thread I can’t be OT, can i ?
I’m so sorry to have missed the blogmocracy radio-show yesterday. Since the show isn’t yet in the archive I can only refer to what I’ve read about BB and know about Anonymous.
BB have you already renounced your US-American citizenship ? You can’t call yourself an anarchist while holding a citizenship, this would be inconsistent with the idea of anarchism and of course I don’t have to tell you that you can’t be an anarchist on one level of the society but not another one. There is no part-time anarchism.
One here on the thread called you an idealist. No, honey, you’re not an idealist you’re what is called in sociology or economy “a free rider.” To live on other peoples expense is NOT anarchism, not on an economical basis, not on the basis of ethics and not on the basis of intellectual property.
First: most of the time you live on the expense of your family and your friends. This wouldn’t be a problem (of course it is problem with the idea of anarchism) if you wouldn’t violate
Second: ethics. Remember the little stories from your mother and your teacher about justice ? (Most mothers/teachers could tell similar stories about their children/students and justice
nothing special about this). You intentionally let this stories be told to show what an idealistic person you are. I say bullsh*t. Rules are only made for others not for you. This is your credo. You do remember the story about your girlfriend who let you live in her apartment for months without pay but with only one rule: don’t have sex in my bed with other women. You violated this rule immediately and if this weren’t enough you made money out of this and humiliated this hard working woman in public by publishing the story in a magazine. Let me be clear: you’re not an anarchist on an ethical level but an unprincipled person without a clue what anarchism means. This leads me to
Third: everyone familiar with “Anonymous” knows that there is no such person as a “spokesperson” for Anonymous. That some members on the lowest level of “Anonymous” applaud you for “explaining what Anonymous” allegedly is, doesn’t make you a spokesperson for the group. Btw.: a “spokesperson” would contradict their self-conception and image. You’re again a free rider on the intellectual concept of “Anonymous”. You use the group to make you more popular and to make money out of it. This is only self-promotion and has nothing to do with anarchism.
Now let us speak about anarchism: there are three main groups of anarchism: libertarian anarchism, traditional anarchism and neo-anarchism (the generation of the 1968′s). Every kind of this groups is splintered into a lot of under-groups. But there is one common thing to every kind of anarchism: it leads to corporatism and it is hard work. Yes, my dear, you read correct: hard work. You claim to be a more “right wing anarchist” so I suppose you’re more leaning to the kind of “libertarian anarchism”. As a libertarian anarchist you’ve to be unprincipled, brutal and without any ethics (I suppose you’ve read Hobbes’s Leviathan, have you ?) and ok, this would fit for you but there is a but, a big but: you’ve to be aware that there are much more people out in the society who are indeed poor and weak but who will join another to fight you! They will fight you 24/7 and soon you’ll be looking for like minded people and out of a sudden you’re in a corporation. The second way would be to make treaties with the majority of the weak and poor and look what happens: anarchism is gone b’cause who will guarantee the compliance of the treaty ? So you need a state, my friend, which has the authority to guarantee the compliance of the treaty.
We know for sure that the second main group doesn’t work. At least one of these groups worked for a limited time under very special circumstances: the Kibbuz. Yes, there are still Kibbuzim in Israel but they are now economically based on capitalism even if the members are politically left of the Merezt-party. And, honey, I really don’t see you hard working 10 hours a day 6 days a week while after your work-shift is done you work additional hours for the community. But even those Kibbuzim are dependent on the government for building streets, providing health care, security etc.
Hm, maybe you prefer the third group, the “autonomous” anarchists ? Most of these groups are not only violent but also deeply anti-Semitic and anti-USA. If it wouldn’t be so sad it would be funny to see how the “autonomous” fight neo-Nazis in the streets but march together with them if it goes against Israel or if it goes for the support of sadistic murderers and dictators like Saddam Hussein. Not to mention that they too live on the expense of house owners whose houses they have occupied and/or of social welfare. And, my dear, to be honest: you’re to old to join these groups.
Now lets have a closer look how anarchistic the group “Anonymous” is. To cut a long story short: the group is neither in its structure nor in its goals anarchistic. A handful of anonymous people on the top of the group decide anonymous who or what is the next target. This is not anarchism but one of the worst forms of elitism. To demand from a government extorsively to release a minister b’cause they don’t like the way he handles the fight against child pornography is a criminal behavior against the people of this country (Australia). This is dictatorship in its ugliest form. I don’t claim that every cyber attack is done by “Anonymous” but “Anonymous” is the role model for cyber vandalism. To claim that “Anonymous” played a prominent role in the Arab uprising against their dictatorships is hilarious. Most of these people don’t even know that such a group exists and most of this middle aged demonstrators (and they were the main supporting group) didn’t even have access to computers. Not b’cause they couldn’t afford one but b’cause of the lack of infrastructure. To be clear: the internet (facebook, twitter, youtube) was a tool for not the source of the revolutions in the ME. And they were a small tool compared to the experiences those people made on a daily basis in their lifes.
Honey, do us all a favor: stop telling us how wonderful anarchism is, it isn’t. Stop telling us how wonderful the group “Anonymous” is, it isn’t. The world is already a mess we don’t need more of it. And please, please !, stop promoting yourself as the white knight in the shiny knight’s armor of idealism. You’re at best a freeloader of questionable ideologies and cyber vandalism and cyber extortion respectively.
m wrote:
Yeah well I’d be careful about some of the “groups” on the west bank.
@ Guggi:
wow
that was epic
and thus “Guggi’s BB Hammer” was born
@ Guggi:
Impressive.
@ rain of lead:
@ Prebanned:
Thank you (blushs)
@ Nevergiveup:
I’m just glad someone in Europe is arguing against this:
@ Guggi:
was that a planned essay or did you just sit down and let er’ rip?
@ m:
Good morning!
@ Rodan:
Buenos día! ¿Cómo te va?
m wrote:
Nationalists worldwide should united against the Progressive-Islamic Axis.
@ m:
Muy bien aqui. Hoy va hacer mu caliente aqui en La Florida.
just a thought to make you smile on a monday morning
If Wisconsin Is the Rule… Obama Will Lose 12 States He Won in 2008
In the 2008 election Obama took Wisconsin by 13.9% of the vote.
In the 2010 election Republicans took several Wisconsin state offices in a wave election.
In the April 2011 election the conservative candidate Justice David Prosser won the supreme court position by .5% of the vote despite the nuclear firestorm the left hurled at him.
If Wisconsin is a sign… Obama will lose 12 states in 2012 that he won in 2008.
Data via US Election Atlas:
@ Rodan:
Es caliente aquí tambien! YAY! ~:)
@ rain of lead:
NICE!
rain of lead wrote:
A little bit of both
When I opened the blogmocracy in the morning I went to the radio-show an read the comments. But I didn’t have the time to write something and had to leave home. Only now, after I came back home, I was able to write about it.
@ rain of lead:
We caved. I should have known when Allen West said he was voting against it.
Ok New thread up!