Rediscover Communication

Absolute best summary of the MN Senate recount, and election challenge up to date through 05/31. Warning! 19min.



credit to theuptake.org

Required viewing!

Reminds me of old Counting Crows before they sobered up and had children.



"one day I'll wake up and I'll be 38
doing the things I used to hate
the trick to forget the bigger picture is when
you look at everything in close-up as often as you can"

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I always enjoy Matt Taibbi's writings and recently he face planted the new Corpro-Financial-Political overlords in the RS article The Big Takeover. I have to say that we will be dealing with this for a long time if we don't put it down quickly. The problem is approaching the threshold to be preventable by pitchfork. All of us might be well served to self-educate at this point.
Some excerpts:

...When one considers the comparatively extensive system of congressional checks and balances that goes into the spending of every dollar in the budget via the normal appropriations process, what's happening in the Fed amounts to something truly revolutionary — a kind of shadow government with a budget many times the size of the normal federal outlay, administered dictatorially by one man, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. "We spend hours and hours and hours arguing over $10 million amendments on the floor of the Senate, but there has been no discussion about who has been receiving this $3 trillion," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. "It is beyond comprehension."....

...In essence, Paulson and his cronies turned the federal government into one gigantic, half-opaque holding company, one whose balance sheet includes the world's most appallingly large and risky hedge fund, a controlling stake in a dying insurance giant, huge investments in a group of teetering megabanks, and shares here and there in various auto-finance companies, student loans, and other failing businesses. Like AIG, this new federal holding company is a firm that has no mechanism for auditing itself and is run by leaders who have very little grasp of the daily operations of its disparate subsidiary operations.

In other words, it's AIG's rip-roaringly shitty business model writ almost inconceivably massive — to echo Geithner, a huge, complex global company attached to a very complicated investment bank/hedge fund that's been allowed to build up without adult supervision. How much of what kinds of crap is actually on our balance sheet, and what did we pay for it? When exactly will the rent come due, when will the money run out? Does anyone know what the hell is going on? And on the linear spectrum of capitalism to socialism, where exactly are we now? Is there a dictionary word that even describes what we are now? It would be funny, if it weren't such a nightmare....

....There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. In the age of the CDS and CDO, most of us are financial illiterates. By making an already too-complex economy even more complex, Wall Street has used the crisis to effect a historic, revolutionary change in our political system — transforming a democracy into a two-tiered state, one with plugged-in financial bureaucrats above and clueless customers below...

If you simple can't take 20 minutes to read the full article (slowly, and re-reading the heavy parts) then consider the insight of the great George Carlin on the real owners of this country. And yes, its in easy to digest video format.



"But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking." - George Carlin

well we got some chess on the first day.
5 euros per game!

Happy Darwin Day!

Songs will be sung about this day. Credit to TrekMovie for this

The televised version is only funny because the newscaster says "Trac" like an idiot.


The question is did this guy indeed use a bat'leth or some other kind of fantasy weapon/dagger thing? Consider the following. By far the most common incarnation of this weapon throughout the series looks like this:


Notice how the blade arches inward, the sharp part being the inside of the half circle not the outside.



Our perps blade seems to be sharp on the outside, like this ebay listing claiming to be Lursa's weapon:


But the problem with all these weapons is they are much too big. Our perp's weapon can't be much longer than 25" while a standard bat'leth wouldn't fit through a 7-11 door sideways. After some searching I came across this:
The Sacred Sword of Kahless
Which seems more likely though 43" is still unlikely.

I then stumbled on this great analysis from Squid.org

They were able to narrow it down to a cheap one handed dagger knock-off calling itself "Klingon". This kid could have acquired it at a county fair for all we know.



He might not even know what a Klingon is. He is without honor.
But what is even worse is the media portraying it so simply. Compare the Squid debunking with the Dever Post coverage. Bullshit.

This guy is fucking hilarious.





I wanna buy some leather now. ha!