Send a banker to jail... NOW!
Martha Stewart - A scam that netted her $30,000.00 resulted in 5 month prison term.
- Allan Schwartz, James Cayne / CEOs Bear Stearns
- Stanley O' Neal / Merrill lynch
- Joseph Cassano - AIG Took 90.3 billion from Fed
- Charles Prince/ Citigroup
- Richard Fuld/Lehman
- Alan Stanford, Ponzi schemer
- Bernard Madoff, Ponzi schemer
Hundreds of billions in losses, Untold billions in bailouts to follow. Billions in compensation for destroying their companies and the economy.
All still free, and free of indictments.
Huge Campaign Finance Savings Coming Soon To An Election Near You
Politicians soon will be able to divert campaign war chests to a different focus: Finding the best people available to rig the local Diebold voting machines.
Apparently all it takes is a screwdriver. Awesome.
PTFIJA*
Put the fucker in jail already.
Bush is silent after Scooter Libby discloses that he was the leaker of the identity of a CIA agent.
If this fucker isn't impeached within the month, the country is no longer worth saving.
uh, can you repeat that for me please?
With indictments on the horizon, and many rethuglicans pooh-poohing perjury as a "technicality" it is a good idea to go back and see what those assholes said about perjury when it was in relation to a democrat.
check it out.
via that sneaky bastard scott b.
O'Connor: Rehnquist was 'a betting man'
Rehnquist's humor, sense of duty hailed, as well as his wagering ability, apparently.
In her eulogy, O'Connor also referred to Rehnquist's last days.
"The chief was a betting man," O'Connor said. "He enjoyed making wagers about most things. The outcomes of football or baseball games, elections, even the amount of snow that would fall on the courtyard at the court. If you valued your money, you would be careful about betting with the chief. He usually won.
I'll...er...bet.
(hat-tip: Q)
Karl Rove: Traitor
It is being reported that Karl Rove was the source that revealed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame. This story is just beginning to break, we'll see how much momentum it actually has. Given the shit this administration has gotten away with, however, I wouldn't be surprised if Rove managed to spin this into some sort of Congressional medal for himself.
The Huffington Post has more on Rovegate. (Do I get points for being the first to call it that?)
I say we send him to Gitmo.
Smoking Gun Cover-Up Uncovered!
The Smoking Gun has attempted to finger the wrong man! I've got a screenshot of the original here.
Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
Hunter S. Thompson chimes in with his take on the current presidential election, and asks the question burning in everyone's mind... "Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?"
He does endorse John Kerry, and goes on to call Cheney the "cruel and sinister uberboss of Halliburton", and that "Halliburton Inc. controls all three branches of our federal government today"
Read it all here.
9/11-American Air Flight 77 hit the Pentigon... or did it?
This is a pretty compelling video about American Fight 77. Simply stated... if it was a plane hit the building, where's the wreckage?
This film makes a good case that there was some kind of cover up. You decide...
http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php#Preloader
or
http://www.nixtro.com/pentagon121.swf
You know, at first I kind of laughed this off, but I also noticed that bulge in Bush's jacket and kinda wondered what that was.
Bush Approval Rating / Terror Alert Chart
Found here.
Moving a lot of new currency?
Be sure to wrap it in tinfoil. The newly designed bills contain RFID chips. Just don't microwave it. Technology, Ho!
via boing boing
An aide to the vice president said yesterday: "This is money that Mr Cheney was owed by the corporation as part of his salary for the time he was employed by Halliburton and which was a fixed amount paid to him over time."
The aide said the payment was even insured so that it would not be affected even if Halliburton went bankrupt, to ensure there was no conflict of interest.
"Also, the vice president has nothing whatsoever to do with the Pentagon bidding process," the aide added.
And he honestly expects people to believe this?
via scripting news
Bala bala bala!
Dust off those gas masks and fly your freak flag high. Join the Avrilution and take back your pop culture.
via boing boing
I think Ariel's aunt is onto something...
Conspiracy!
In doing a little category housecleaning, somehow the Nelson Muntz category was changed to No Category. Quel Scandal! Things are all better now. Also, you may or may not notice that there are no longer any parent categories. Parent categories are so last season.
UPDATE: Weblog categories have been re-organized, and the most popular categories are now displayed.
More changes. (We fear it.) The nav. has been changed slightly. A few things go away, and a new addition, funds. Funds is our shameless ploy to help defray the cost of the House 8 server, which was purchased with an Apple loan. So, if you've got any Amazon shoppin' to do, be a dear and do it through us. We're really nice folks, we swear.
I first reported on this issue a few weeks back.
After decades of cargo safety, a third cargo plane has crashed in as many weeks; this time in Puerto Rico.
Owners of the cargo could not be reached for comment but surely they are upset about untold number of undelivered deliverables.
This could be the excuse you use this week.
Always wondered why I never read about freight plane crashes... Overnight there are hundreds of planes moving parcels all over the country. Don't they ever crash? Are the standards higher for moving freight than for people?
Finally a shipment plane has crashed in Florida.
"We were counting on Canadians feeling superior to the Simpsons as being doltish Americans but now the secret is out." ~ Matt Groening
via have browser, will travel
I would think people would be more offended that fruity-flavored slushy-water costs $3.75... (Or whatever it costs. Anything more than a buck is too much.)
The image shown above is indeed a promotional poster for the Starbucks Coffee Company's new TazoCitrus drinks. The posters were displayed on the walls of about 3,000 Starbucks outlets throughout the USA and Canada beginning in April 2002, until complaints from offended customers who felt the poster was too reminiscent of the terror attacks on New York's twin towers prompted Starbucks to pull the material from their stores on June 7.
Even better is the Starbucks "apology" letter, which, while completely unnecessary, suddenly morphs into a press release about their overpriced fruity summer drinks. Hah!
via Neoflux
Did Becks steal Vyvyan's 'do?
You be the judge...
The Memphis Medical Examiner was bound in barbed wire at his office Saturday, with a bomb tied to his chest, and found by a security guard 2 hours later.
Last March, bombs were found at the morgue.
After a driver's license examiner was found dead in her burning car following a minor traffic accident last year, she was tied to 'middle-eastern men' in the scandal.
The medical examiner with the bomb on his chest did the autopsies on the driver's license examiner and also on Harvard biology researcher who inexplicably jumped off a Memphis bridge on his way home from a conference on bioterrorism. The biologist's death is notable because he was the first of three 'unexplained' deaths in the last year of such experts.
If the caterwauling screams of her 'music' don't drive you to madness, it seems that Celine's new CD has copy-protection that muddles the firmware in an iMac.
Apple offers this fix, but the German Geek Patrol says that Sharpie Markers and Post-It Notes will do the trick, a link worth visiting if only for the Google translation.
In any case, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 says that tampering with copy-protection is a crime.
I now present the first criminal act ever (as far as I know) on House8:
This Òindustrial strengthÓ version of the Sonic Nausea is now available for non-government sales for the first time. It provides serious, substantial capability to disrupt and disperse gatherings. Speeches, demonstrations, crowd dynamics - this device has been used to ÒinfluenceÓ more of these in recent years than you might suspect.
"Actress" Winona Ryder was caught shoplifting $4,700 worth of merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store while in possession of pain medication she didn't have a prescription for.
When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them. (Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)
What's With Bin Laden's two-front war? After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bin Laden dropped the Russians as "Public Enemy No. 1" and focused on the United States. Explainer doesn't want to make too much of this World War I theory, but it's possible that Bin Laden thinks he defeated the Soviet Union. If the end of World War I is the central historical moment to Bin Laden...
-snip-
On September 11, 1922, the British mandate came into force over Palestine. ("Mandate" in this sense means a commission given to a nation to govern a territory.) The British mandate lasted until 1948, when the state of Israel was established.
via My brother....
I'm sure you've all seen that now-famous photograph of the mystery man photographed atop the World Trade Center while an airliner approaches in the background. It all seemed just a little too strange to believe. What seems really strange to me, however, is how we could have missed his presence at so many other major disasters throughout history. Take a look at a photographic history of this Zelig-like mystery man.
(Apparently that Quiet Riot/Slaughter/Warrant concert got pretty nasty)
via cameron f
Web Ouija
There is much fear and uncertainty in the land, but I for one am heartened by those in tinfoil hats who see a conspiracy in every coinky-dink.
Typical is the following email I got from a friend...
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Type in Q33 NY into Word, go up and change the text type to Wingdings, then make the font bigger. Pretty freaky. Now go to this web site to see what
Q33 is.
http://www.islamicity.org/dialogue/Q33.HTM
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Another thing: The media have been circumspect in not showing the gruesome human carnage of the attacks. I hope they're as circumspect when our resolve is tested in days to come, when the 'human carnage' is of our making and innocents suffer in other places. I hope we're up to this.
Super-nut-job Anne Heche, finding that she wasn't mentioned in the news for thirty days or so, met with the press Tuesday to alert the world that her father sexually abused her. Watch for news tomorrow that Sinead O'Connor stubbed her toe the other day. She can't be far behind in their neck and neck competition to monopolize the entertainment arm of the news by baring every insignificant nuance of their souls via public relations.
Up till now I've solved my problems privately but from here out I'm doing it with PR.
This is the second article I've read warning of the dangers of raw TCP/IP sockets in the upcoming release of Windows XP. (Yes, I know, not very sexy...)
Even more disturbing than the thought of a near constant barrage of Windows Outlook viruses (or more importantly, the result of idiots that open them) is Cringely's conspiracy theories behind why Micro$oft would allow such access. Guh.
via Mr. Barrett
