the IDIOT

new location

2010-02-03T18:52:00.004-05:00

blogger's killing its FTP users off. now i'm a wordpress douche, i guess. appears to be an improvement, so WTF. no blogger complaints; they were free and, after the growing pains, mostly very reliable. thanks, fuckers!

anyway, here's the new blog, same as the old blog.

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delicious PJ

2010-02-03T10:11:00.012-05:00

excuse the NPR association; this vid (iTunes link, "Video: PJ Harvey And John Parish At SXSW" 8:19 5/15/2009) is worth ignoring the creeps who produced it. PJ harvey the sorceress. don't tune out if you don't like the first couple of minutes. FF to the second tune and, while focusing through to the end, marvel at a soul chick in top command of her voice arsenal. it's funny when listening to the first song and its strained skew-pronunciation to bear in mind that polly jean is english.

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GTFO, JDS

2010-01-28T18:04:00.003-05:00

all one needs to know about prodigious departed prick jerome salinger (note that "censorship" isn't an inherently negative word).

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Rumors And Spy Shots Of A Pocket-Friendly Version Of Apple’s New iPad (Adds Camera And Phone Capabilities!)

2010-01-28T13:37:00.000-05:00

funny.

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wealth from the skies!

2010-01-28T10:55:00.008-05:00

the premise of all fedgoon "job creation" (ha!) is money from nowhere. this wealth is never presumed to have been pried from the fingers of productive victims (many of them still unborn), precluding their chosen avenues of true job creation; it merely falls from the skies via large-numbers obfuscatory magic. no victims.

tyrants lulling imbeciles (categorized by reuters in the URL as "type=marketsNews"):

Obama to announce $8 bln funding for high-speed rail
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce on Thursday $8 billion in grants to develop the first U.S. high-speed, intercity rail service the White House says will create or save thousands of jobs.

Obama is heading to Tampa, Florida, after delivering his State of the Union address Wednesday night in which he promised Americans that job creation would be his top priority this year, in the face of stubborn double-digit unemployment.

The grants will help fund the development of 13 high-speed "rail corridors" across the country, the White House said.

One of the new rail corridors will be in Florida.

The grants come from money already earmarked for the projects in Obama's $787 billion stimulus package that Congress passed last year.

"This historic $8 billion investment is expected to create or save tens of thousands of jobs over time in areas like track-laying, manufacturing and rail maintenance," the White House said in a statement

It said more than 30 rail manufacturers, including foreign companies, had agreed to establish or expand their base of operations in the United States if they won contracts to help build the new rail corridors.

In addition to the $8 billion stimulus money, $1 billion a year will be set aside for five years in the federal budget to jump-start the program.

james madison had a word for the vacuous oreo tart shtickbama and the cult of perpetual goon funsters.

little computers

2010-01-27T19:02:00.004-05:00

while window-shopping netbooks last month i commented that i'd love to see them add a phone to the package. the sales guy groaned a bit, almost like i was nuts. looking at the apple iPad though, my opinion's even stronger. of course phones will eventually be added to computers usable by more than scrunched thumbs or fingers. most of what i do on a computer and smartphone would work well on a phoned netbook or similar. i want one gizmo instead of the 5 trailing from my pockets.

at a bike race in the early 90s i asserted that, naturally, bike computers would eventually incorporate GPS with cadence, heart rate, and barometric altimeter for detailed 3D analysis later on home computer. the old fogy ref nearby gave me a similar "what the fuck are you talking about" groan, since GPS was barely alive even in airplanes then.

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ron paul the jackass

2010-01-21T14:27:00.002-05:00

via LRC, ron paul to rick sanchez:

'libertarian' just means you're a constitutionalist.

wrong again, cult leader. even your ass-licking former(?) employee lew rockwell disagrees with that dreck.

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get your PG-13 porn

2010-01-18T09:38:00.016-05:00

fellow connoisseurs of the feminine aspect should have a look at Whip It — perhaps better titled Tosser's Paradise.
throw away your loathing of Juno and bask in the eminently luscious creaminess of one ellen page and her sisters of perpetual ass parade. there's a good reason men pay to watch women execute roller derby.

though the movie's defective, director drew barrymore did it right on many parts, including the tasty camera action on the derby rink, and what may be the perfect movie role for pro buffoon jimmy fallon.

court stenographers and 'healthcare reform'

2010-01-18T09:03:00.003-05:00

while the court stenographers strut habitually the sheen of "objective reporting", look at this typical article opener (headlined "Massachusetts vote could threaten health reform"):

BOSTON (Reuters) – Voter disenchantment in liberal Massachusetts with President Barack Obama's policies has turned a Senate election into a nail-biter that could imperil U.S. healthcare reform.

though i disagree with such use, the primary active definition of reform — and its obvious intended political definition — is "improvement through amendment". here, via duplicitous language killing, the trollops at reuters are asserting that the monstrous illegality and stupidity awaiting the "crucial" vote of the pending official whore from massachusetts is an improvement.

objective, my ass.

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marauders unveiled

2010-01-18T07:35:00.005-05:00

though a welcome deviation from the cauterizing "nationalization", even "seizure" doesn't true up the action of the state to the action of unofficial criminals:

CARACAS (Dow Jones)--President Hugo Chavez ordered Sunday the seizure of a French-owned retail chain on accusations that it raised prices after Venezuela devalued the currency by half.

"Until when are we going to allow this to happen?" Chavez asked during his Sunday television program in reference to the alleged price hike by Almacenes Exito SA (EXITO.BO), headquartered in Colombia and controlled by French retailer Casino ...

the noive of those rat bastard producers! take your raping like a… like a…

note chavez's feigned-incredulity routine, a nearly obligatory element of official banditry. the most effective (with morons) defense of coercionism is an early and big incredulity performance.

'IP' lunacy

2010-01-14T12:45:00.005-05:00

when entering an argument, check your premises.

that advice may reek randroidocity; still good. the founding premise of "intellectual property" is revealed in the name, and it's false. there is no property right in how others arrange the electrons or vibrations or whatever of their property — regardless of that arrangement mimicking fully one you created. the intellect-as-property school foolishness eventually comes down to a question of violence: will you advocate that someone be punched in the nose for copying with his property how another's property is arranged. do you assert a right to do so?

in this article the copyblight premise has so waylaid the writer's direction that, while assuming an air of devil's advocate, he leaves out the most immediate and obvious kill of the article's subject (beyond the property problem):

a protested software download is not necessarily a financial loss to the software "rights" scammer.

almost embarrassed to put that in italics, since to the brained it's trivial. one would be on as solid ground to assert that if i'm staying at a friend's house with a large library, with every book read i've displaced what would've been a purchase. c'mon. this is retard material. it's false to assume that each protested software download is the circumvention of an otherwise inevitable purchase. more important, it's false to ascribe theft to the particular arrangement of a man's property.

happy pigs, in shit

2010-01-14T10:11:00.008-05:00

most of the publishing truer (e.g., "austrian school") praxeologists have missed the core disconnect between currency destruction and hyperinflation of prices. what is keeping prices comparatively stable after the recent ridiculous credit expansion?

that great buffer of human stupidity: illusion.

tell most of the GS (goonited state) slave tools that the counterfeit money of the official crime syndicate has value, and it not only appears to them to have value, it has the operating property of value (because they believe it).

because they believe it, the mechanically worthless paper and associated electronic squibs have trade value even to me, a clean disbeliever. because they believe it, hyperinflation may be forestalled years beyond the point predicted by the only topically intelligent.

this post could instead be a 5,000-word article. not going to do it. the key to understanding economic uncertainty has been explained, using standard praxeological precepts of value. forecasting human action is impossible, at least until viewed through the eyes of the stupid human gullible compliant mass, which will rebel in a K-mart checkout line over a 3-minute delay but not when a gun is aimed at their faces throughout their "lives". good luck with that.

no hope when killing language

2010-01-14T07:51:00.004-05:00

sad that so few get the importance of straight language in politics. today LRC links to an AP article quoting vermont secession advocate peter garritano:

"The only hope is to just say, 'Look, this isn't working for us. We want to start fresh again, with a real democracy,'" Garritano said. "I think that's the answer. Hopefully, it won't take another horrible economic breakdown to realize that the people running things don't look out for the little guy, or us, or the soldiers. It's all about profit and getting the last drops of oil on Earth and trampling people's rights."

so long as fools in the goonited state use "democracy" as an essential good, they're going nowhere but worse.

if you haven't considered this, read closely: democracy can be communism. it can be voluntarism. it can be buddhism. it can be whatever the mob desires, for democracy is the rule of the mob. garritano is bitching about what he asserts as his goal. his rhetoric, so far off the mark, is worse than saying nothing or flapping about with literal "blah blah blah" flourishes in reply to any question. it is perverse.

those who don't know what democracy is should, far from touting it as the god of all hope, STFU and get schooled. these language bullshitters are ripping off the sheen of voluntarism and attempting to apply it to the most insidious of social interaction systems.

TDil quoting FTW

2010-01-13T14:17:00.007-05:00

swatting RP dullards is fun. had my first LOL moment of the 2012 "campaign" by entering only this as a comment on an RP cult video at YouTube:

Thomas DiLorenzo:

"These people are delusional. They think that if only philosopher kings like themselves can control the Leviathan State, the State can be tamed."

the best part, of course, is that he intended it as a defense of the RPBomber.

ABC 'news' leads the charge toward the obvious

2010-01-11T20:14:00.007-05:00

Reid's Race Comments: Is There Truth In His Comments?

zOMG, there's a hard hitter. talk about a bold subject to raise with the normalons.

blehhhhhhh.

um, look at the populist "race barrier" breakers of goonited state political lore, and there you will find at "the top" mixed-race semi-oreos prancing about as "black". this requires thought? fuck off. oh, good on ya, ABC "news". a brave step. golf clap right here, as i type.

say anything

2010-01-11T19:57:00.008-05:00

LRC's diarrhea-mouthed asterisk child asserts,

, LRC reader Cory Nott sent me this very interesting observation:
“There are a large number of Persian Jews living in the United States and, while we don’t hear much from them, they have money, influence, and own many businesses. I wonder if Rep. Barrett would advocate the deportation of Jews, or if it’s just “bad” Iranians?”

"large number". which means... ?

from a brief check it appears that the world population of persian jews is generally estimated at under 200,000, with the goonited state portion rising perhaps as high as 100,000. if that number's anywhere near accurate, the proportion of persian jews in the GS is less than 4/100 of a percent.

", LRC reader Cory Nott sent me this very interesting observation".

well, they still outnumber cohesive liberty advocates.

TDil pisses on paulists

2010-01-11T18:29:00.003-05:00

funny how few paulists will recognize that this scene applies to them:

[...] These people are delusional. They think that if only philosopher kings like themselves can control the Leviathan State, the State can be tamed.

preach it, LRC pukist TDil!

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stasi triumph

2010-01-11T15:12:00.007-05:00

took pics of a friend's car recently to help him sell it online. to finish, i asked him to drive it onto the attractive grassy park area of the development where he owns a business. the light and background were perfect, and we got the necessary shots with a few minutes to spare. driving off the grass, we see a guy taking pictures of us, evincing a goofball psycho intensity.

wondering aloud what he was up to (some people had already stopped us to express interest in the car), my friend asked if he should check him out. suspecting what it turned out to be, i agreed.

we pulled around to the other side of the park, with dipshit boy stepping up his savior-of-the-universe button pressing. my friend asked, "can i help you with something?"

the dumbass crossed in front of the car and aimed directly at the "license" plate. by god, there would be no second 9/11 on his watch.

blah blah blah. you know the rest. this fuck had noted a circular urging residents to be "vigilant", so a car driving slowly over frozen grass for an obvious photo shoot became his big opportunity. pretending we didn't think he was a pathetic doof, we talked him down while also alerting him subtly that my friend was much better friends with his landlord than he'd ever be.

this is the new america, courtesy of the small fry with brain deficiency and ridiculous dreams of relevance, fed by the professional criminals he was ready to call.

race bullshitters

2010-01-10T00:47:00.005-05:00

i dig this:

By PHILIP ELLIOT, Associated Press Writer Philip Elliot, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 9, 2:59 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama's race during the 2008 presidential bid and are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign. [sic]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Obama is the nation's first African-American president.

"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments," Reid said in a statement released after the excerpts were first reported on the Web site of The Atlantic.

"I was a proud and enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama during the campaign and have worked as hard as I can to advance President Obama's legislative agenda."

hell, it's always easy (and smart!) to be an enthusiastic supporter of a "light skinned" pseudo street-niggah "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

"poor choice of words" my black ass.

engage full street-niggah cloaking, oprah style.

360-degree internet video

2009-12-31T03:51:00.005-05:00

i've figured for decades that standard video will eventually be 360° post-controllable. here's a damned impressive internet demo of the format.

on the audio side, here's the type of demisemi-analogous microphone donna summer used to record her vocals on Another Place and Time.

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events and philosophy

2009-12-29T23:19:00.009-05:00

interesting that the near concurrence of the letterman/woods affairs has placed the logically obvious (to voluntarists — see walter block via rothbard) at the nose of the average dullard. tmz:

The guy who allegedly masterminded an extortion plot against David Letterman is now using the Tiger Woods scandal as precedent to get the charges against him thrown out ..according to new documents obtained by TMZ.

Robert Halderman's lawyer, Gerald Shargel, filed legal papers asking that the charges against his client be dismissed. In the papers, Shargel notes that when news of Tiger's infidelity surfaced, Mistress #1, Rachel Uchitel, reportedly inked a multi-million dollar settlement in return for her silence -- with the help of Gloria Allred.

Shargel notes, "Their behavior was capitalist, not criminal."

Halderman's lawyer says his client essentially just "offered to sell his very marketable story to David Letterman." Shargel says that celebrity misdeeds have "significant fair market value" and they are "routinely suppressed through private business arrangements." [...]

whore suprema poser allred is shocked. and outraged!

Gloria Allred is pissed that the lawyer for the man accused of extorting money from David Letterman has filed legal docs saying Allred and Rachel Uchitel did essentially the same thing.

Allred told TMZ that Robert Halderman's lawyer, Gerald Shargel, does not have permission to use her name or the name of her client. Gloria adds, "I have no personal knowledge of his client's case and he has no personal knowledge and therefore, no basis for his remarks about my representation of Ms. Uchitel."

Shargel wants the case against his client booted, in part because of the new Tiger Woods defense.

Gloria added this zinger: "...Mr. Shargel should spend his time representing his client based solely on the facts of his case, rather than comparing it to other matters of which he has no personal knowledge."

In other words, Rachel's settlement was confidential.

surprising for the brainwashed to confront, as with "intellectual property", that absent peaceful contract you've no general right to control what others offer to the brains of others. the internet is helping shred these ever so weighty (!) yet colossally stupid conventions. if i have negative information about you, peacefully obtained, it's my right to offer it (and its suppression) for sale. as usual, the state is manning the tip of the crime spear. walter block notes correctly that state interference in blackmail encourages strife.

reading TMZ comments can be painful, but noteworthy in this case to see that the essential premise of the wayward argument remains, edicts of the official crime syndicate are not to be questioned; the glaring logic failure exists outside the state.

premise #1 for sanity preservation. too many deep years of programming that would otherwise require destruction.

the united soviet state

2009-12-27T23:50:00.004-05:00

read this and know that you're surrounded by dishonorable jackasses:

TSA: 2 passengers detained after flight to Phoenix

Sun Dec 27, 8:02 pm ET

PHOENIX – Two men thought to have been acting suspicious aboard a flight bound for Phoenix were detained and questioned by federal anti-terrorism authorities before they were released, the FBI said Sunday.

Transportation Security Administration officials said passengers aboard U.S. Airways Flight 192 from Orlando, Fla., on Saturday night reported that two men, described as Middle Eastern, were acting strangely and talking loudly to each other in a foreign language.

A nearby passenger also observed one of men watching what appeared to be footage of a suicide bombing, but was actually a scene from the 2007 movie "The Kingdom." The man also got up from his seat while the seat belt warning sign was still lit, FBI spokesman Manuel Johnson said.

"The totality of those three occurrences led this passenger to believe this was suspicious," he said.

The flight crew called for law enforcement and TSA officers to meet them when the plane landed at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at about 8 p.m. Authorities said the two men were met by Phoenix police and TSA officials at the flight's airport gate and later interviewed by FBI agents.

Nothing dangerous was found during a search of the plane and passengers' luggage, police said. The men were released after questioning and allowed to continue on to California, Phoenix Johnson said.

The flight's final destination was San Diego. Authorities did not release the men's names, ages or hometowns.

this combines two of the favorite candies in the badged criminal bag of tricks — a bullshit two-slant definition of "suspicious" (i.e., using the vague definition but with the air of the robed nazgul version), and the "phone tip" or "citizen complaint" foot in the door for all manner of constraint avoidance.

disgusting. badged criminals will go as far as they're let. fuck them all.

King George

2009-12-24T15:49:00.003-05:00

as an 80s 20s pisser i found The George Michael Sports Machine dorky, ridiculous, and nearly always enjoyable enough to watch, though i'm not a conventional sports guy. no one better to memorialize this apparently genuinely good dude than DC radio legend don geronimo, who via WJFK introduced people to the cool side of a vibrant, albeit semi-schlocky, power.

I received a sad call this Xmas Eve morning, from a friend informing me of the passing of Radio & TV Icon George Michael.

Lots of people know him primarily from his syndicated and ahead-of-its-time "Sports Machine" tv show or for his decades of work in the Washington DC market as sports anchor of WRC-TV, and his shows with Redskins coaches and QB's.

Lots more people know him as "King" George Michael, from WFIL/Philadelphia or WABC/New York. [...]

see also mike wise, another radio dude with taste.

Hollywood eyes record $10 billion box office for 2009

2009-12-23T15:18:00.006-05:00

magic.

contrary to the foolishness of paulists and other psychotic poltroons, any year-spanning dollar comparison not adjusted for material debasement is deficient.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film box offices were poised on Wednesday to eclipse 2007's record $9.68 billion in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales with Hollywood eyeing more than $10 billion this year as audiences flocked to theaters during the recession. [...]

oh wow!

buried after the headline and hype:

The 2009 total was aided by a 28 cent increase in ticket prices from the year before to an average $7.46.

The total number of tickets sold, or admissions, is expected to reach 1.4 billion, up from 1.34 billion in 2008. Still, that figure is not expected to break the record 1.6 billion tickets sold in 2002, said Hollywood.com Box Office.

debased dollar: pay no attention
ignorami of the box office
ron paul campaign did not break kerry record

[update 091227: Hollywood Grosses Shatter Record

paragraph shadowed by the hype lead:

[...] Aided by a steady rise in ticket prices, Hollywood has taken in $10.4 billion at the box office this year, moving well past a previous full-year record of $9.68 billion set in 2007, according to Hollywood.com’s box office reporting service. But a few years earlier in the decade it actually made more money when the totals are adjusted for inflation. [...]

truth didn't change the headline. shocker! won't hollywood love hyperinflation when it hits? think of all the "shattered" records.]

The Real Street of War

2009-12-23T14:09:00.004-05:00

war street journal assures the stupid:

The Real Rules of War
Sometimes the good guys do commit 'war crimes.'

but they're still "the good guys". why? well... well, because... they're the good guys! stop with the questions already.

[...] In a special operation earlier this year, Navy SEALs captured the mastermind of that attack, Ahmed Hashim Abed. But after he was taken into custody in September, Abed claimed he was punched by his captors. He showed a fat lip to prove it. Three of the SEALS are now awaiting a courts-martial on charges ranging from assault to dereliction of duty and making false statements. [...]

ah, the simple life. "somebody gits me a rifle. me gonna go shoots da bad man. fat lip. outrageous!"