Alien Implant

Sarkozy just makes the shot complete. LMAO

Once it sinks in, pass it on. Nothing would please me more than watching Fox & Friends go down in flames and the careers of its three minions flushed down the toilet bowl they've been swimming around in for far too long.

Check it:



Do the three hosts of Fox & Friends remind you of anyone? Oh yeah, here it is! The order is a little messed up but the biggest dumb shit is still on the right. OK, OK, I'm being a little mean to General ZOD & Company, but Fox can rot in sewage. I should also point out that Ursa is soooo much hotter than Gretchen; no competition. :)

A debate over the fundamental character of our democracy is heating up: whether or not we can imprison people for an indefinite amount of time without charging them with a crime and without holding trial.

We need everyone who believes in the Constitution and the American system of justice to let the President know that preserving our values and the rule of law is a top priority -- before indefinite detention becomes a reality and citizens are put at risk for imprisonment without a trial. The founding fathers are turning over in their graves. This opens a very dangerous precedent for present and future generations.

Send President Obama a message. Let him know that -- whether through legislation or executive order -- you are firmly opposed to indefinite detention and incarceration without due process.

http://tinyurl.com/mdtrmg

Workers have daily smile scans

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/5757194/Workers-have-daily-smile-scans.html

I adore poetic justice!

http://skeepers.blogspot.com/2008/06/hr-geiger-museum-bar.html

(note: the spelling should be Giger, not Geiger on the linked page)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
By VANDANA SHIVA

DELHI — An epidemic of farmers' suicides has spread across four Indian states — Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab — over the last decade. According to official data, more than 160,000 farmers have committed suicide in India since 1997.

These suicides are most frequent where farmers grow cotton, and appear directly linked to the presence of seed monopolies. The supply of cotton seeds in India has increasingly slipped out of the hands of farmers and into the hands of global seed producers like Monsanto. These giant corporations have begun to control local seed companies through buyouts, joint ventures, and licensing arrangements, leading to seed monopolies.

When this happens, seeds are transformed from being a common good into the "intellectual property" of companies such as Monsanto, for which corporations can claim limitless profits through royalty payments. For farmers, this means deeper debts.

Seeds are also transformed from being a renewable regenerative resource into a nonrenewable resource and commodity. Seed scarcity is directly caused by seed monopolies, which have as an ultimate weapon the "terminator" seed, one that is engineered for sterility. This means that farmers can't renew their own supply but must return to the supplier for new seeds every planting season. For farmers, this means higher costs; for seed corporations, higher profits.

The creation of seed monopolies is grounded on the deregulation of seed corporations, which included giving them oversight over biosafety. Seed companies were allowed to sell seeds that their companies had certified as safe. In the case of genetically engineered seeds, these companies are again seeking self-regulation for biosafety.

As far as seeds are concerned, state regulation no longer exists. Regulation is now aimed at farmers who are being pushed into dependency on patented, corporate seeds. Such compulsory licensing of patents on seeds is a major cause of the global destruction of biodiversity. The creation of seed monopolies, crushing debts as well as a new species of moneylender in the form of agents of seed and chemical companies, is responsible for the high human toll.

The farm suicides first started in the district of Warangal in Andhra Pradesh. Peasants in Warangal used to grow millet, pulses and oilseeds. Overnight, Warangal was converted into a cotton-growing district based on nonrenewable hybrids that required irrigation and are prone to pest attacks. Small peasants without capital were trapped in a vicious cycle of debt. Some saw only one way out.

This was during a period when Monsanto and its Indian partner, Mahyco, were also carrying out illegal field experiments with genetically engineered Bacillus thurigiensis (Bt) cotton. All imports and field trials of genetically engineered organisms in India are governed by a provision of the Environment Protection Act called the "Rules for the Manufacture Use, Import, Export and Storage of Hazardous Microorganisms, Genetically Engineered Organisms, or Cells."

We at the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology used the law to stop Monsanto's commercialization of Bt cotton in 1999, which is why approval was not granted for genetically modified (GM) crops commercial sales until 2002.

Rising production costs and falling prices for products is a recipe for indebtedness. Debt, the main cause of farmers' suicides, in the cotton belt on which the seed industries' claim is rapidly becoming a stranglehold, is high.

Originally, the technology for engineering Bt genes into cotton was aimed primarily at pest control. However, new Bt-resistant pests have emerged, leading to a higher use of pesticides. In the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra, which has the highest number of suicides, the area growing Bt cotton has increased from 0.2 million hectares in 2004 to 2.88 million hectares in 2007. The cost of pesticides for farmers has increased 13-fold in the same period.

A pest-control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that also sell agrochemicals. But for farmers, it translates into debt and suicide.

Technology is a tool. When the tool fails, it needs to be replaced. Bt cotton technology has failed to control pests or secure farmers' livelihoods.

It is time to replace GM technology with ecological farming. It is time to stop the deaths.
Vandana Shiva is an Indian feminist and environmental activist. She is the founder/director of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. © 2009 Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org)

A teenage girl was electrocuted after dropping her laptop into the bath as she twittered in the tub.

Police said they believed Maria Barbu, 17, had tried to plug in her laptop with wet hands after the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak at her home in Brasov, central Romania.

She was found dead by her parents with the laptop lying next to her.

http://www.austriantimes.at/index.php?id=14023

And I thought my school kind of sucked...

Student Denied Diploma After Blowing Kiss
http://www.kirotv.com/education/19766393/detail.html

Phase 1: The email from my good buddy where I am one of 5 or 6 recipients

1. You cannot touch all your top teeth with your tongue.
2. All idiots, after reading the first truth, will try it.
3. And discover that the first truth is a lie and feel superior because they can do it.
4. You're smiling now because you're an idiot.
5. You soon will forward this to another idiot.
6. There's still a stupid smile on your face.


Phase 2: My reply-all response

I can do that. You are lame, bro. ;P (re: 1. You cannot touch all your top teeth with your tongue.)


Phase 3: The reply-all recognition of my folly

Fuck (re: 3. And discover that the first truth is a lie and feel superior because they can do it.)


Phase 4: The realization that I am a smug idiot (my final reply-all message)

I am so fucked (and still smiling... like an idiot). My wife is laughing her ass off at me as I type this.

Damn


Phase 5: Reply received with respect to Phase 3 from my buddy

LOL


Phase 6: My direct response

This is the gift that keeps on giving. I love you, bro! :*


Conclusion: I am more arrogant than this experiment predicted. Wow!

to see this amazing video. Wow!

A serious case of balls over brains. Don't worry, this doesn't end badly (which defies all possible odds).

All figures below are for U.S. residents.
Cause of Death Lifetime Odds

The more specific figures are based on 2001, the most recent year for which complete data are available. Other odds, indicated with an asterisk (*) are based on long-term data.

Heart Disease 1-in-5
Cancer 1-in-7
Stroke 1-in-23
Accidental Injury 1-in-36
Motor Vehicle Accident* 1-in-100
Intentional Self-harm (suicide) 1-in-121
Falling Down 1-in-246
Assault by Firearm 1-in-325
Fire or Smoke 1-in-1,116
Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.) 1-in-3,357
Electrocution* 1-in-5,000
Drowning 1-in-8,942
Air Travel Accident* 1-in-20,000
Flood* (included also in Natural Forces above) 1-in-30,000
Legal Execution 1-in-58,618
Tornado* (included also in Natural Forces above) 1-in-60,000
Lightning Strike (included also in Natural Forces above) 1-in-83,930
Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting* 1-in-100,000
Earthquake (included also in Natural Forces above) 1-in-131,890
Dog Attack 1-in-147,717
Asteroid Impact* 1-in-200,000 (Perhaps 1-in-500,000)
Tsunami* 1-in-500,000
Fireworks Discharge 1-in-615,488

SOURCES: National Center for Health Statistics, CDC; American Cancer Society; National Safety Council; International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; World Health Organization; USGS; Clark Chapman, SwRI; David Morrison, NASA; Michael Paine, Planetary Society Australian Volunteers

Great story. I recommend listening to the audio instead of reading the page. I think the story's charm will be lost otherwise.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104754773&ft=1&f=2

When Lieutenant Jennifer Dyer refused to return to post with an officer she had reported for raping her, the army threatened to prosecute her for desertion.

When Specialist Suzanne Swift reported her sergeant for repeatedly raping her over months and then refused to redeploy under him, the army tried her by court martial for desertion and put her in prison for a month.

When Cassandra Hernandez of the Air Force reported being gang-raped by three comrades at her training acadamy, her command charged her with indecent behavior for consorting with her rapists.

When Sergeant Marti Ribeiro reported being raped by a fellow serviceman while she was on guard duty in Afghanistan, the Air Force threatened to court martial her for leaving her weapon behind during the attack. "That would have ruined my career," she said. "So I shut up."

All the men who were accused in these cases went unpunished. Several of them even won promotions.

THE FULL ARTICLE

Waterboarding declared torture after all by a boisterous ultra-conservative shock jock. Kind of humorous, but also a dead serious subject.

The U.S. wastes more on health care bureaucracy than it would cost to provide health care to all of the uninsured. Administrative expenses will consume at least $399.4 billion out of total health expenditures of $1,660.5 billion in 2003. Streamlining administrative overhead to Canadian levels would save approximately $286.0 billion in 2003, $6,940 for each of the 41.2 million Americans who were uninsured as of 2001. This is substantially more than would be needed to provide full insurance coverage.

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FIGHT the fucking morons at the patent office who are allowing corporations to own pieces of your genome.

Hurry, get 'em while they're hot! They'll be gone before you know it!

What idiot thought this was OK with anyone else in the world?

Rough day at work, so my office mate sent me this video to cheer me up. It worked very effectively. :)

DESCRIPTION OF ABUSE BY POLICE OF PASTOR STEVEN ANDERSON:

FOOTAGE OF THE ENTIRE ORDEAL:

ABUSERS LIED ON TELEVISION, THEN BLAMED THE OTHER DEPARTMENT:

"WHEREAS: The unique feature of this nation at its founding was its establishment of a secular Constitution that separated government from religion - something never done before; and WHEREAS: Our secular Constitution has enabled people of all worldviews to coexist in harmony, undivided by sectarian strife; and WHEREAS: President James Madison made clear the importance of maintaining this harmony when he said, "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the endless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries"; and WHEREAS: The diversity of our people requires mutual respect and equal protection for all our citizens, including minority groups, if we are to remain "One nation, indivisible"; and WHEREAS: It is the unfettered diversity of ideas and worldviews that have made our nation the strongest and most productive in the world; and WHEREAS: Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JESSE VENTURA, Governor of Minnesota, do hereby proclaim that Thursday, July 4, 2002 shall be observed as: INDIVISIBLE DAY In the State Of Minnesota."