Discrepencies

Here's the Reportage line. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009327379_webraid11m.html

A few discrepancies with reportage on this story, as I heard the whole deal go down just outside my window.

First, when the police arrived they announced the raid over bullhorn. Specifically they announced the warrant was for 1019 East Pike st, an address that doesn't actually exist. They still served it on and arrested people within one particular apartment of 10** East Pike st, but what's a little paperwork?

The important thing is that people getting together in their private residences to play cards were arrested and their permanent records besmirched. Of course no police arrived the night prior, when 4 very clear gunshots were heard in the same parking lot (at about the same time of night, oddly). Sea PD, Keep up the good use of taxpayer money, we feel safer.

Excerpts From an Exit Interview

What improvements can ________ make as an employer?

In 3 pages of questions this is the first real one that isn't asking me to evaluate my interactions with a ________ employee or software tool but the company as a whole, which I think is an excellent example of the experience I have come away from ________ with: A consistently dehumanizing one. Correspondence that I received directly from the company was consistently either cold and stilted or over-warmed and saccharine. Policies cited by ________ employees I interacted with seemed universally overbearing and short-sighted, even though those employees were always courteous and easy to talk to. Company emails addressing the employee base as a whole seemed pandering and patronizing in tone. In short: ________ and I partnered as agent and agency to make us each some money, and I would have preferred that the company's communications to me and published materials presented to me had reflected that level of professional disconnect. Instead the focus-group feel-good emails and don't-think-follow-orders policies have left me feeling as if the company merely sees me as another piece of equipment that has been used up and is now being discarded.

Would you consider returning to ________ for another contract position in the future?

I have for all intents and purposes already committed to this. And in all honesty my personal interactions with ________ staff have been absolutely the most professional and pleasant of any agency I've contracted with. However do not misunderstand: I will return to ________ because that is how one gets the kind of work I do. If such work wasn't exclusively available though agencies such as ________ I would certainly NEVER use one. The experience of working with agencies has always been a frustration and headache. Just because ________ has been the least unpleasant agency I've worked with doesn't mean that I've felt my interactions with the agency totaled to anything more than an inconvenience at best.

So listen up, Boy...Or pornography starring your mother will be the 2nd worst thing that's happened to you today.

Captain, it appears to be an uncharted nebula...

A Gaythering Storm from Jane Lynch

Numpad-Burster

not quite the ORB remix...

" Meg, I don't have that problem and I don't know any woman who has."

A Canner Exceedingly Canny, One Moring Remarked to His Granny...

"Well a canner can can anything that he can but a canner can't can a can can he?"

Recently I saw a bottle of Seltzer water that had an expiration date of March 3009. That begs too many questions:

1) Do they expect the plastic bottle to last an entire millenium?

2) What exactly would happen to seltzer water when it expires? Would it become flammable?

3) How did they test to determine that it would last for a full 1000 years? Did the Catholic church seal some Canada dry away in the Vatican archives at the beginning of the dark ages?

4) If this stuff lasts 1000 years how long do twinkies last? Has the first twinkie even expired yet?

Slogging for Sanity

More to come when I'm not 'effing working...

I Believe Bill Hicks Predicted the Events to Follow This...

Holy 'effing shit, batman. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/health.hiv.stemcell/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular

You may now begin fucking in the streets. Too bad I live in a primarily gay district of town....

Master Wayne, Would You Like a Manwich?

So yeah....Roomie got MKvsDC, and I gotta say: much much much MUCH more playable than the universally sucky MK titles that followed MK2.

And that's as ringing an endorsement as you'll get regarding any series of games that have a 4 armed character who only has 2 pectoral muscles. I mean GEEZ! What kind of F-minus did your art director have to get on his Drawing from Human Anatomy course in college to think he could get away with that? Y'all had time for hidden shadow characters and special friendship endings but no-one thought that maybe your half-dragon fantasy-man might need to lift his arms?

I mean come ON. Could you please come to work one of the days this LIFE and finish up drawing the 2nd set of pecs? Did the digitization budget remove the $ required for the texture artist to add a 3rd & 4th man-nipple? Honestly. Professionalism, look it up.

Anyway, new MK game, not as sucky as you've come to expect from those acne-covered adolescents.

Clerk, Read the Minutes Back to Me...

Let the court now hear the evidence against the accused:

Should the evidence presented before these proceedings today be found to be true, the court shall have no choice but to sentance all who have polluted Terra of premeditated Murder in the 1st degree, and all mouthpieces who have denied this evidence found to be complicit in the charges of Treason and Crimes against Humanity.

There can be only one sentance.

Bailiff: release the rabid wolverines.

I Cheated....

At a Dinner in his Honor He was Poisoned, Shot, Stabbed, Beaten and Drowned. And Yet We Have Seen Him Here Alive Today...

Grigori Grimoire from FancyPants on Vimeo.

Hans?

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

To whom DOES it matter?

That's but one of the two real questions here. Let's assume for the sake of charity to the video's producer that everything cited is truthful (attack ads never are, but hey). The implication of course is that because article II is not explicitly being met that Mr. Obama's claim is forfiet, regardless of election results. Article 2 goes a bit like this:

"No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States."

Woooee, good times. Honestly, pretty clear as well. If the office of the President is to be decided & run as per the constitution then by technicality Obama's right out. Of course there are a few other things in section 1 of article 2 as well. Like the very last paragraph:

"Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

That statement implies a lot, but more than anything else it cites the defense of the Constitution itself as the President's paramount priority. Combine this with section 4 of article 2 :

"The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. "

Now, again we're going to be way-more-than-Jesus forgiving and look past the well-documented international crimes which as a violator of the Geneva convention leave no doubt that Article 6 of the constition was violated (which would definitly qualify as a High Crime, and ALL the evidence points to bribery as the motive)

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. "

Sure, there's absolutly no question the section of the constitution that was designed to legitimize our nationhood in the eyes of forign powers was blatantly and repeatedly violated without modestly. No, let's ignore the SUPER-EASY ones and just focus on the bill of rights.

How about Ammendment # 4? The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Violated it!

How about Ammendment # 5? No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Violated it!

Article 6? Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; ">to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. Violated it!

Boy, it's a good thing the lame duck had his fingers crossed when he took that oath of office, or he'd be in trouble. Luckily though for him and us: despite 2 horribly mismanaged natural disasters, countless protests, mountains of evidence of scandal, disragard for his own campaign promises and endless graft this fine journalist has readied a warning to America about the REAL violations of our national ideals. the overwheling election a man (despite a MASSIVE and pervasive voterigging effort against him) who's birthday is techncilly celebrated on the Grenwich mean instead of Mountain time.

I propose that whomever made this little film be treated to the fine accomodations at Gitmo. After all, he clearly understands which parts of the constition need to be taken seriously, and which parts don't actually matter.