why not exchange Christmas colostomy bags?

I think that Mish is a bit anti-everything,
at the best of times. But give him the
Christmas routine and he spouts off
about how anti- he is to everything Yulish.

This has also been a common theme in the UK.
Why exchange gifts with adults at your
office when nobody gives a shit about
anybody anyway? On that, they're right.

But, true friendship doesn't need an office
gift pool. It just worked out that way, because
they're Anglos.
It seems that the Anglos are so keen not to
have any obligations towards
friends, or family, because it just complicates
their "happy" lives.

Oh, and they're cheap.

Leave them alone in the corner, please.
and Happy New Cheap Year

Here are Mish's very logical arguments, but they only
make practical sense if you're a cheap misanthrope.

Checkitout:  Mish

Do Gift Cards Make Any Sense? Is it Time to Ban Christmas Presents Altogether?

Here is the "Black Friday" question of the day from Martin Lewis at the Telegraph: Is it time to ban Christmas presents?

    Is it time to ban Christmas presents? Across the country people are growling at the enforced obligation to waste money on that they can't afford, for people who won't use it. Festive gift-giving has lost its point, risks doing more harm than good, misteaches our children about values and kills the joy of anticipation of what should be a joyous time.

    Before you think this is just curmudgeonly bah humbug, this rant isn't about presents under the spruce from parents or grandparents to children or spouses. It's about the ever growing creep of gifts to extended family, colleagues, children's teachers and more.

    The next year, I polled 10,000 people on whether we should ban presents. Seven per cent said ditch all of them, 30 per cent said to all but children, and a further 46 per cent said limit it to the immediate family. Fewer than one in five supported giving beyond that.

    Social convention says give a gift to someone, or their children, and you usually create an obligation on the recipient to buy back, whether they can afford it or not. If that obligation is something they will struggle to fulfill, you actually let them down.

    Gift giving misprioritizes people's finances.

    Christmas presents are a "zero sum" game, as people usually swap gifts of similar value. Look at it as a simple equation:

     David gives Nick a £40 blue tie for Christmas; Nick gives David a pair of £40 designer orange socks.

    The net result ... Nick has spent £40 and got a blue tie; David has spent £40 and got orange socks.

    Effectively, you pay to receive someone else's choice of object. Fine if people have wealth, but consider Janet and John. Financially, everything's bonzer for her, so she decides, generously, to buy gifts for all and sundry. In her cousin John's case, it's a pair of £25 funky cufflinks. Yet he's skint, in debt, and has three kids but pride obliges him to buy her something of equal value.

    Without the gift giving obligation, would John have really chosen to prioritise spending £25 to receive cufflinks? Instead, perhaps he'd have replaced his children's shoes or repaid some debt. Worse still, maybe he borrowed more to buy Janet her gift.

    In other words, giftswapping skewed John's priorities. He would've been better off if Janet hadn't bought him a present.

Gift Cards

Gift cards are popular, but what the hell is the point?

I give you a $50 gift card to Kohls and you give me a gift card to Home Depot? Is there any point to this madness?

Getting a gift card to a place I shop certainly is better than getting something I have to exchange (or throw away), but how is a gift card better than just getting $50 in cash. Yet, if I give you $50, and you give me $50 what is the point?

The obvious answer (yet one that few see), is there is absolutely no point at all.

Christmas Is For Kids

Young kids cannot shop for themselves, nor do they have any money, so I suppose a case can be made for getting children presents, provided one does not break the bank to do so.

Matter of Practicality

Other than shopping for kids, the whole Christmas charade makes no practical sense whatsoever.

Yet every year, the vast majority acts like a herd of lemmings, rushing around wondering whether or not Aunt Martha or Sister Suzie will like will like the gifts we bought them.

I actually like shopping. However, I hate crowds and I hate shopping under pressure.

Instead, I buy gifts for people that I am sure they will like, whenever I see them. Frequently my Christmas shopping is nearly finished by June.

This way, shopping is a joy, not a chore. And gifts from the heart are always more appreciated.

For everyone else it's high time to be practical.

Call the Whole Thing Off

If all you are going to do is exchange gift cards, or worse yet buy any damn thing just to get Aunt Martha, Sister Suzie, or cousin Louie something they may not need and/or could not afford to buy on their own, then why bother?

There is no need to ban Christmas, but there is certainly a need for common sense, and common sense suggests the best thing to do is have a "family gathering" suggesting to call the whole Christmas exchange charade off.

Mayan 2012 message.Aboriginals, rise up

This is working well. The #idlenomore
is going wild on Twitter. It's about time
that white folk joined them in taking
back their rights.

marching in Ottawa, old home of the Odawa tribe

on the Hill, that used to be theirs: OOPS

checkitout:  The Globe and Mail

Naomi Klein

As Chief Spence starves, Canadians awaken from idleness and remember their roots

Published Monday, Dec. 24 2012, 11:24 AM EST

Last updated Monday, Dec. 24 2012, 11:27 AM EST

I woke up just past midnight with a bolt. My six-month-old son was crying. He has a cold – the second of his short life–and his blocked nose frightens him. I was about to get up when he started snoring again. I, on the other hand, was wide awake.

A single thought entered my head: Chief Theresa Spence is hungry. Actually it wasn’t a thought. It was a feeling. The feeling of hunger. Lying in my dark room, I pictured the chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation lying on a pile of blankets in her teepee across from Parliament Hill, entering day 14 of her hunger strike.

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I had of course been following Chief Spence’s protest and her demand to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss the plight of her people and his demolition of treaty rights through omnibus legislation. I had worried about her. Supported her. Helped circulate the petitions. But now, before the distancing filters of light and reason had a chance to intervene, I felt her. The determination behind her hunger. The radicality of choosing this time of year, a time of so much stuffing – mouths, birds, stockings – to say: I am hungry. My people are hungry. So many people are hungry and homeless. Your new laws will only lead to more of this misery. Can we talk about it like human beings?

Guns, tyranny, Alex & Piers

One of the more interesting cross-over events
recently
(between the MSM & the real-news Internet)
was the interview of Alex Jones by Piers
(cofff- Moron) Morgan.

Alex Jones has led the cry for Piers to be
deported because Piers is a scumbag
pawn of the rich and guilty of phone
tapping, by his own admission. The
fact that he doesn't go to prison is
proof enough for me that he's got
some power-brokers hiding up his quiff.

The point of the conflagration was always guns.
Piers took THIS opportunity, with the
massacre of school kids to play the
grand philosopher and say that guns should
be banned. Unfortunately for Piers, Alex Jones
knows that Piers is a hypocrite (quelle surprise)
in that during wars, Piers helps his political
masters by banging the war drums.
So, Alex says "governments with guns killing
innocent people vs private guns for protection from
tyranny. Piers is a threat" A bit far, but not wholly
unreasonable.

Digression: Piers also helped turn the tables
on  Greg Palast (a GREAT investigative journalist)
because Greg caught Labour, in 1997,
well...being Blairite, accepting handouts
from big US companies, for favours. He did
this with a false story that he concocted, and
he was caught red-handed, again.
I'll get the story later.

So, Piers knew that he could get Alex to
blow up on his show, and Alex took his
one chance at the big time and became
incandescent. The key issue was gun
control.

Piers knows that US gun-lovers look scary
to the rest of the world, so he hoped
to gain some popularity by showing
the world what a gun-lover looks like
and acts like.

However, they both walked away looking
better, to their own audiences. I have to say
I agree with the Jones supporters that
Alex had but one chance on the corrupt
CNN channel, with the corrupt Piers
to make a stand. So, good. I can't
condone guns, but I don't live in the US,
and I know that once you say
"the criminals got lots of them,
so should I", it's hard to argue for the
Jesus method, of taking your lead
and turning the other cheek.

I personally find Alex bombastic. He keeps
important stories going when others get
bored, but his style is so over the top that
it makes his good ideas seem wasted, because
they burn out in a rage, and nothing
changes when you rage. I wonder if he's
been put where he is, but he needs to know
his methods (not his message) are in
need of change. He also says
conspiracy A,B,C without proof, like
everybody knows. I hate that. Show me
proof. I don't think that conspiracies are
an issue, because either way, we're being
screwed systematically. You wanna
sit in a chair and say "it's a conspiracy"
so that it absolves you from having to act?
Well, that would make you an idiot.
I got no time for conspiracy idiots.

I can see how government gun-control
can be seen as tyranny, when the
government is as corrupt and all-seeing
as the present one is.
However, the tyranny goes much
further than that. But, most Americans
only see gun control as a tyranny.
Their whole legal system has been
turned upside down, and they don't
seem to care.

Bankers can deal with mafia and drug dealers.
but, if somebody refuses to answer the
police, they can't "take the 5th" and
shut up, because they'll get tasered.

Banks are stealing homes from people
who don't owe them money!
the 2008 crash was the result of lax laws,
but included lots of crime, and the rap
sheet gets longer by the day.
Corzine is still walking free. Theft of
a billion, taken from the victim class, it must
be said.

I wish I had time to comment on the text below
and the letters I added, but life is a bit
wild , these days.
Suffice it to say, each bit has something
to add to the complex story.

checkitout:LIBerty BLITZ

Google Trends: “Democide” Goes Parabolic

Posted on January 8, 2013

No matter what you think of Alex Jones and his performance with Piers Morgan on CNN last night, the most important point is that he was invited on the show to begin with.  This is just further proof that the dinosaur mainstream media channels are dying and are being forced to invite alternative media personalities on their shows to increase ratings.  The alternative media is becoming the media.

Meanwhile, Alex told viewers while on air to google “democide” and you can see the results below. According to Wikipedia: “Democide is a term revived and redefined by the political scientist R. J. Rummel as the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder. In the 20th century, democide passed war as the leading cause of non-natural death (according to Rummel).”

In Liberty,

Mike

LETTERS

    Hap (@hap317) on January 8, 2013 at 3:03 pm said:

    I must confess I am rather disappointed with Alex. He was given a wonderful opportunity to blow the doors of people’s minds with facts and logic and possibly awaken a few people. Instead, he ranted and raved and shouted and screamed and essentially made himself look exactly like the Establishment wants him to: a psych-ward patient filled with ‘crazy ideas’ desperately in need of more medication. He gave Morgan all the power, who remained docile and calm, while hollering and jumping off topic frequently. This was a major opportunity for him and many in the alternative media out there gaining access to the mainstream. He may have actually done more harm than good. As a trader, I do not rely upon hope or prayers for what I see in front of me, but I really had a lot of hope for his chance to awaken many out there to the realities of what is going on in America. All he did was confirm to the TV-drones that tune into that twit Morgan, is that these things ‘cannot be possibly happening.’ His behavior caused the show to change its format and he ruined the chance to have a debate between himself and Dershowitz and Morgan. So, that opened the door for them to verbally assault his lunacy in a calm and collected manner. Just what the Sheeple want to hear. “Everything is fine. Do not pay attention to the wild man waving his arms and shouting and bellowing insane ideas. Your government is here to help you. Do not be afraid.”

    We need more level-headed members of this movement, like Mike to lead the charge to holding civil, rational, well-intended debates with Pro-Establishment cronies like Morgan. Not shouting matches filled with inconsistent dialogue and rabid behavior.

          Lore on January 8, 2013 at 9:29 pm said:

        Hap, you nailed it. Alex came across as a nutcase on the verge of staging his own shooting incident.

        Mojo on January 9, 2013 at 8:40 am said:

        After the way Piers treated Larry Pratt, I don’t blame Alex for not giving them an inch. He knew he had a short amount of time to say as many thing as he could. As off the wall as he was, tons of people out there who had never heard of him, went straight to their computer and Googled the things he said.

        Do you guys really think that Piers Morgan and Alan Dershowitz would have allowed there to be any kind of real debate if Alex had kept his cool

        They would have continued spouting off their fake facts about guns and violence in our country, and asking worthless questions to make it look like they actually care about the children, and violence in our country.

        It may have been their intention to make him look like a kook, but when has Alex ever been calm? I used to think he was a kook, but I don’t anymore. I think he is mad as hell about what is happening about in our country, and he has the guts to say it, with no apologies.

        If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention. Get mad, grow a pair, and get something done. At least Alex is doing something.

               Kevin on January 9, 2013 at 3:48 pm said:

        Was Alex Jones put on that program to make 2nd Amendment backers look crazy? Who knows?

              Liberty on January 9, 2013 at 6:24 pm said:

        I disagree. Honest debate is not possible within CNN timeframe. The 3rd part would be equally split between three of them just for talking points. LOGIC cannot persuade neither socialist-progressives nor religious collectivists. They think with heart. Alex Jones did the correct thing – he did not let Morgan to go over the script. That is in itself a revolution considering Alex’s calm ending with British accent.

        gallopinglibertarian on January 8, 2013 at 3:35 pm said:

    What Alex Jones did was make the term Democide go viral. Google it like he said. Track it but most of all spread the word about with the weblinks below. It is our best argument against gun control by far.

    http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/

    http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP1.HTM

    This is the largest database of Democide death/murder by government on the net after disarmament.262,000,000 million slaughtered by their own governments.6 times more murdered by their own governments than those killed in ALL THE WARS IN THE LAST CENTURY COMBINED. Think about for a minute. Are you going to turn in any weapon if they are banned? Anyone that says “Oh but that could never happen here, this is the USA” is historically unaware.

    Democide is the best argument against any kind of restrictions or gun bans of any kind in my opinion.

      Davidus Romanus on January 8, 2013 at 5:17 pm said:

    Agree that Alex missed an opportunity here. The facts are on our side. Alex made himself look like a crazy man. Ron Paul would never act like that no matter how bad a hit piece was. I’ll never forget his being asked how he could be a defender of the Constitution and also want to amend the constitution. His reply? Amending the Constitution IS Constitutional. No hysterics or arm waiving from Dr Paul. Just polite reasoning and a refusal to be drawn in to baloney arguments.

       River on January 8, 2013 at 9:06 pm said:

    A lot of people think Alex is a plant by TPTB and after seeing that I’m inclined to agree.

        Lucas on January 9, 2013 at 3:59 am said:

        The main reason I stopped listening to him, yes the “facts” he gives are logical and make sense but the format he provides them in and all the over the top shouting and mouth foaming are just too much to bare

    Menotyou on January 9, 2013 at 3:13 am said:

    Alex Jones is the Pied Piper of Extremism. He is a COINTELPRO agent designed to lead the ignorant, frustrated and disenfranchised up the proverbial garden path. Best case scenario; He may not be consciously aware he is playing into the very hands he supposedly despises. He is one of the planted/selected opposition detailed in the 12th Protocol of Zion regarding control of the press. They need Alex to vector his audience towards violent ends. They need an inarticulate, angry, dogmatic, irrational and emotionally charged individual as their fighting platform.

    Violence is precisely what the Government needs to further their agenda. They will respond with ever more violence and enact even more liberty stripping laws. All supported vehemently by the petrified zombie masses.

           Liberty on January 9, 2013 at 6:27 pm said:

        You need lithium, but lithium is controlled by elder of Zion. What an axiety you must have!

    Daniel McAmoil on January 9, 2013 at 4:05 am said:

    Word is,, Alex had a cup of coffee right before the show that was druged. Anyone knows Alex is a little wired anyway,, and how else better to push him and his view over the edge than a few tabs of speed in his coffee 20 minutes before the show..

           Stu on January 9, 2013 at 6:30 pm said:

        I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at your gullibility. I am losing my faith in humanity by the minute.

       Riley on January 9, 2013 at 5:14 am said:

    * feminized americans, just weak kneed dumbed down politically correct nitwits. Passion comes from suffering, from being lied to, abused and seeing the evil surrounding. Should Alex be a “politician” like R Paul or a citizen who is fed up with all the wars, false flags and life in nut house usa. Go Alex!

    john on January 9, 2013 at 8:48 am said:

    Alex is not COINTELPRO or a “plant.” For folks who have just woken up in the last several years and decided that “because of his style” he is a plan of the NWO or PTB, you need to do more research. Go back to the 1990′s when Alex first started on cable access TV in Austin TX. He said the same things back then as he says now! He openly urges people AGAINST violence and nothing I’ve heard him say has been substantially wrong and I’ve listened to him for years (after spotting that Glenn Beck was a fraud and not telling the “whole truth”).

    Is he bombastic? Yes. Does he exaggerate? Yes. Is he loud? Yes.

How watching basketball rots your judgement

How could basketball be better than hockey.

When you use the sex metaphor, there is no comparison.
We all know that when your team wins or scores,
it's good for fecundity.
There's also the issue that a goal is a stress release,
much like spunking. So, when basketball has over
150 such events, then you cannot receive sexual
pleasure or even a good stiffy. The metaphor doesn't
work.
Hockey often has 5 or 6 climaxes a night. That's just
about right.

check it and laugh:  Reformed banker

The Difference Between Skill and Luck (or why basketball > hockey)

    Joshua M Brown
    November 18th, 2012

This book The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck is probably my next read as soon I finish this teen vampire thing I've been poring over with a highlighter for the last six months.  I find this stuff utterly fascinating and Michael Mauboussin uses lots of examples from investing and finance to make his points.

There's a really good talk with Mauboussin posted at Wired this weekend in which the writer and scholar explains why some sports have a higher degree of luck relative to skill affecting final outcomes.

Basketball comes closest to chess in terms of being the game with the most skill involved. In comparison, hockey looks more like the lottery (and don't even ask about trading). His spectrum of pro sports and other activities below:

The bottom line is that the law of smaller numbers allows for more variance in individual player and game outcomes in a sport like baseball or hockey - in baseball the most skilled hitter only gets up to bat a few times per game and in hockey the star players aren't on the ice much more than a period or two out of three. Less plate appearances or ice time can mean that it is more likely that a fluke of some sort, good or bad luck, can make an impact.  This is in contrast to basketball where there are only five players at any time and the stars typically play most of the game - more playing time means a bigger sample, by extension this means less variance.

 

I'll pause for a moment to allow all the Canadian, Russian, Eastern European and Minnesotan readers of mine to scream out an open window in outrage....feel better? Good. No one is saying skill isn't important in hockey, merely that half the goals are scored via accidental ricochet. Just kidding.

Anyway, it's more complicated (and interesting) than that, obviously, so I'll send you over for the whole thing. The applications here for investing and fund selection and stock portfolios and trading etc are mind-boggling...

Van Gogh & Gaugin in the Last Utopians

It was early to mid 19th century time when those two great artists met
and were motivated by other artists to imagine a just world.

Anybody like that today would be bloodtested for crack.

That's not to say that they were not averse

to using the food budget on some hookers.  

let's see how they perceived their world,

through an absynthe glass

                                       

checkit:  The Guardian

Van Gogh and Gauguin letter tells of artistic hopes that turned sour

'Electrifying' missive written by artists on pages of French exercise books goes on sale in Paris next month

  Kim Willsher in Paris

   , Friday 23 November 2012 18.12 GMT

The handwritten letter, penned jointly by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin on cheap paper torn out of a school exercise book, speaks of friendship and hope. Written at a critical point in the careers of both men, it refers to dreams of founding a utopian community of brother artists, of a new artistic renaissance, and of paintings now recognised as masterpieces.

The reality was to be less idyllic. Shortly after the missive was sent, the pair quarrelled violently and in one of history's most notorious acts of self-mutilation, Van Gogh sliced off his right ear. It was an act that marked the Dutchman's final decline into madness and suicide.

Now, the four-page letter signed by both artists has emerged from a private collection before its auction in Paris next month, where it is expected to fetch up to €500,000 (£405,000).

Thomas Venning, an expert with the auction house Christie's, said the document offered an insight into the "most famous artistic menage in history".

"I spend my life dealing with letters and this is one of the greatest, most electrifying I have ever seen," he said. "It takes you into their house, into their lives at this particular moment.

"You can imagine Van Gogh sitting down to write the letter on cheap paper because they didn't have much money, then saying to Gauguin: 'You finish it off'."

The letter is written on the square-ruled paper of French exercise books and addressed to Emile Bernard, a young avant garde artist who inspired both men. It was composed in November 1888 at Arles in Provence, where Van Gogh had rented two floors of a private house, 2 Place Lamartine, the subject of the painting La Maison Jaune.

The previous week, after months of procrastination, Gauguin had arrived to live and paint with Van Gogh for one or two years. At the time, the French art world was moving from impressionism to modernism and surrealism, but Van Gogh and Gauguin had yet to be widely recognised.

Van Gogh, mentally fragile and prone to violent mood swings, was fired up with childlike excitement. In the letter, he gives his first impressions of the French painter.

"Gauguin interests me much as a man – very much – I have long thought that in our dirty profession as painters we have the greatest need of people with the hands and stomachs of a labourer – and more natural tastes – more amorous and benevolent temperaments – than the decadent and exhausted Parisian boulevardier.

"Now here without the slightest doubt we are in the presence of a virgin creature with the instincts of a wild animal. In Gauguin, blood and sex prevail over ambition."

He adds: "We have made several excursions to the brothels and it's likely that we will end up working there often. Gauguin has at the moment a painting under way of same night café that I also painted, but with figures seen in the brothels. It promises to become a beautiful thing.

"I've made two studies of falling leaves in an avenue of poplars and a third study of this whole avenue, entirely yellow." [Les Alyscamps.]"

Van Gogh writes that he and Gauguin are discussing "the terrific subject of an association of certain painters" and of his "presentiment of a new world … and a great artistic renaissance" that will find its home in the tropics.

 

On the final page, Gauguin adds: "Don't listen to Vincent, as you know he's prone to admiration and ditto indulgence. His idea about the future of a new generation in the tropics seems absolutely right to me as a painter, and I still intend to return there when I have the means to do so. Who knows, with a bit of luck …?"

Eight weeks later, on 23 December, the partnership came to a violent end when the pair quarrelled violently over, it is believed, Van Gogh spending the meagre household budget on prostitutes, and his refusal to stop drinking absinthe.

Van Gogh threatened his "friend" with a razor before slicing off his own ear. Shortly afterwards he entered the first of a series of asylums and died in 1890 aged 37 after shooting himself.

                             

Gazan kids rock their world

We've got new multimedia messages from Palestinian youth,
coming soon.

They slap everyone around, including their own leaders.

They just want a chance at life, like any kids would,
in an Occupied city.

checkit:  The Observer

Gazan youth issue manifesto to vent their anger with all sides in the conflict

An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas's violent crackdowns on 'western decadence', the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks and the political games played by Fatah and the UN
    Ana Carbajosa
  Sunday 2 January 2011
The meeting takes place in a bare room in a block of flats in the centre of Gaza City. No photographs, no real names – those are the conditions.
This is the first time that a group of young Palestinian cyber-activists has agreed to meet a journalist since launching what it calls Gaza Youth's Manifesto for Change. It is an incendiary document – written with courage and furious energy – that has captivated thousands of people who have come across it online, and the young university students are visibly excited, but also scared. "Not only are our lives in danger; we are also putting our families at risk," says one of them, who calls himself Abu George.

... The Manifesto

"Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!

"We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that consumes us because of this fucking situation we live in...

"We are sick of being caught in this political struggle; sick of coal-dark nights with airplanes circling above our homes; sick of innocent farmers getting shot in the buffer zone because they are taking care of their lands; sick of bearded guys walking around with their guns abusing their power, beating up or incarcerating young people demonstrating for what they believe in; sick of the wall of shame that separates us from the rest of our country and keeps us imprisoned in a stamp-sized piece of land; sick of being portrayed as terrorists, home-made fanatics with explosives in our pockets and evil in our eyes; sick of the indifference we meet from the international community, the so-called experts in expressing concerns and drafting resolutions but cowards in enforcing anything they agree on; we are sick and tired of living a shitty life, being kept in jail by Israel, beaten up by Hamas and completely ignored by the rest of the world.

"There is a revolution growing inside of us, an immense dissatisfaction and frustration that will destroy us unless we find a way of canalising this energy into something that can challenge the status quo and give us some kind of hope.

"We barely survived the Operation Cast Lead, where Israel very effectively bombed the shit out of us, destroying thousands of homes and even more lives and dreams. During the war we got the unmistakable feeling that Israel wanted to erase us from the face of the Earth. During the last years, Hamas has been doing all they can to control our thoughts, behaviour and aspirations. Here in Gaza we are scared of being incarcerated, interrogated, hit, tortured, bombed, killed. We cannot move as we want, say what we want, do what we want.

"ENOUGH! Enough pain, enough tears, enough suffering, enough control, limitations, unjust justifications, terror, torture, excuses, bombings, sleepless nights, dead civilians, black memories, bleak future, heart-aching present, disturbed politics, fanatic politicians, religious bullshit, enough incarceration! WE SAY STOP! This is not the future we want! We want to be free. We want to be able to live a normal life. We want peace. Is that too much to ask?"

Bullyngdon Club Strikes Again

When Dave had a gathering in Boris's territory, everyone went "bonkers."

They tore the place up and caused 4 million pounds worth of damage,
and shrugged it off in 15 minutes.

Because now they run the show.

Of course, I'm talking about the Leveson Report.

While the Bullyngdon club, of rich bored kids, existed
and used to trash restaurants, what I'm
saying is that now they're in politics in the UK, and
trashing the country.
Each of them has their turf.
Dave has the UK, with his second in command, George.
London, the Greater part without the City part, is Boris'
turf. But he let's Dave run the Westminster part without
getting in his face.

Anyway, the royal and privileged are more ensconced
in  power now than they have been since the early days
of Victoria.

The Leveson enquiry was charged with getting a grip
on the out of control media in this country lest they
take over the government (too late).
So, in order to show that the country is not run by
Rupert Murdoch, his sock puppet Dave trashed the
Leveson report 15 minutes after it became public.

The annoying thing is that Leveson dealt with illegality.
Phone tapping. e-mail tapping. These are traceable
and punishable crimes. It's just that nobody is looking
to charge the media bosses.
Piers Morgan gets a pass because he knows where some
bodies are buried.
In fact, an Inquiry was called because the government
did not want their friends and bosses to go to jail.
ah, British justice. spelled JUST- US

And the whole sick show continues on as before.

Monogamy is not a type of wood

-but it can be used to beat you senseless
-but it can be formed into a yoke

I don't even know who the guys on this video are,
but they had the best discussion I've heard
normal-seeming guys, like me, have about
issues such as monogamy, attraction,
unconscious attraction, and nudity.
[on the wood theme, nudity helps you to achieve wood.]

These buys don't have all the research angles
or the appropriate PhD, but who cares.
Food for thought.



the blurb under the video:
Published on 25 Nov 2012

"Most Americans were shocked that retired four-star general and CIA Director David Petraeus resigned after admitting to an extramarital affair. Few should be surprised.

Modern life distances humans from many natural experiences, but not without some negative consequences. Heating and air conditioning let some of us live in 24/7 comfort, but mostly by digging up fossilized carbon deposited over millions of years and releasing it into the atmosphere—something that's bringing our entire species ever closer to disaster.

Sadly, we've also unnaturally altered our sex lives.

In their 2010 book Sex at Dawn, psychologist Christopher Ryan and his psychiatrist wife, Cacilda Jethá, reject the notion that we moderns know how to do sex. From studying behavior in primitive cultures and among our primate cousins, they conclude that the modern social requirement for lifelong fidelity has seriously messed us up."*

Are men and women wired to for monogamy or multiple partners? What attracts people to each other, and what is the evolutionary root? In the wake of the David Petraeus affair scandal, Steve Oh (COO, The Young Turks) and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) break down the nature of cheating and sex.

*Read more from Jim Catano/ Salt Lake City Weekly:
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-217-16751-jim-nbspyou-left-out-a-menti...

newest military hardware: ready-made tourniquets

At Christmas time, this is just the gift for the soldier of
fortune, or poor dupe in the US or UK army,
especially those stationed in Afghanistan.

Ever wondered what was going through the mind
of a soldier right after stepping on a land mine?
(other than shrapnel, that is)

Where's the f$^&kin' goddamn tourniquet?

aaahshAHAHhshhAHshhhssaaaa

Now, his prayers have been answered by this product 

from Stump Brothers, Inc., 

the ready-made tourniquet

You wear it on any limb and if needed, it is readily adjustable

to cut off the flow of blood at any point on that limb.

your ankle's blown to smithereens?

squeeze the velcro tight

does Starbucks have an image problem?

it certainly doesn't have a financial one,
despite posting no profits in the UK.
What some people forget is that ,
like the Banks, Starbucks is a globalised company
with its tentacles , I mean, interests in many of the
key tax havens, like Switzerland, which must have
the best hothouses, seeing as it's supplying the UK
branch with plenty expensive coffee beans.

So, the UK Uncutters don't seem to understand

that "Starbucks tells UK it's broke, after 20 years here"

and tells its investors

"we're making a killing. buy our stock"

because their stock takes into consideration all of their
tentacles, I mean, interests.