Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Rest in PEACE Freddie Mercury!!!

Unreal that today marks 18 YEARS Freddie Mercury has been gone from this mortal coil!

But he's not really gone, is he?!

The "We Will Rock You" musical (and I HATE musicals!)(never seen it, really don't have any interest, unless May and/or Taylor will be there!) packs the house.

Queen songs are still EVERYWHERE.

Queen has OUTSOLD the FUCKING Beatles in the UK! (I shit you not, look it up!)

Roger Taylor is STILL kicking ASS with a new song, "The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken)" (Just in case ya missed the previous post!!!!), and you can DL it NOW at QueenOnline.com

Brian May is a PhD in Astronomy! He should also have a PhD in HOW TO REINVENT THE ELECTRIC GUITAR!!!!!!!!!! Also, he has a BOOK on Astronomy "BANG"! Eat your heart out Jimmy Page! (NO offense to Jimmy!)

And the list goes on and on and on.

So really, FUCK DEATH! Let's instead evolve, get OVER that fucking SOLID BULLSHIT already!!!!!!!!!!

Instead, how about we celebrate Freddie Mercury's LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So...to SORTA quote another great passed rock N roller Jim Morrison:
Is everybody in?! IS EVERYBODY IN?!?!?!? Well, let the mutli-media celebration...being!!! Enjoy:

Nine Inch Nails - "Get Down, Make Love" (THE fucking absolute BEST Queen cover EVER!)

Laibach - "Geburt Einer Nation" (aka "ONE VISION") (The SECOND best Queen cover, IN GERMAN!!!)

Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé - "Barcelona"


Queen - Thank God It's Christmas (the BEST xmas song ever!)

At least I left y'all on a HAPPY note!!!!!!!!!!!

One more time, Rest In PEACE Fred! You STILL fucking rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

NEW Roger Taylor single!!!

In only a few hours (or maybe NOW since it's done via QueenOnline.com and I PRESUME, though probably be wrong as fuck, that they are based out of England, and it IS Monday there now) you will be able to get a NEW song by...ROGER TAYLOR, legendary drummer/multi-instrumentalist/sometimes vocalist of QUEEN! And get ready, cuz it's a BRILLIANT protest song! Holy shit, a protest song?! I know I know, something we haven't really seen in AGES. And been sorely lacking because of.
Enjoy a sample here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHmahkMPAOY
So com'on y'all! Get the HELL off your ass and get a copy PLEASE of "The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken)" thank you in advance!

The Unblinking Eye cover art






















Oh and Roger's new full length album of the same name comes out next year, so PLEASE get a copy of that as well! And y'all BETTER spread this FAR & WIDE!!!!!!!! It is TIME for Queen to get their REAL due in America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BONUS! Since most of us in America haven't heard SHIT for Roger's solo work, here:

Man On Fire

I Wanna Testify

Nazis 1994 ( BRILLIANT anti-Nazi song!)

Strange Frontier (brilliant song about nuclear war!)

Keep On Knockin'

Tenement Funster (live, orig. from Queen's "Sheer Heart Attack")

Foriegn Sand (w/ Yoshiki)

Man On Fire (Extended and KICK ASS version!)

Saturday, November 21, 2009

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams

By David DeGraw, Amped Status
Posted on November 21, 2009, Printed on November 21, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/144109/

Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from the Amped Status report, "The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society."

The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate. You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board. Let’s look at the top 15 statistics that prove we are under attack.

1) The inequality of wealth in the United States is soaring to an unprecedented level. The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis. Since the crisis, which has hit the middle class and poor much harder than the top 1 percent, the gap between the top 1 percent and the remaining 99 percent of the U.S. population has grown to a record high.

2) As the stock market went over the 10,000 mark and just surged to a 13-month high, the three big banks that took taxpayer money and benefited the most from the government bailout have just set a new global economic record by issuing $30 billion in annual bonuses this year, “up 60 percent from last year.” Bloomberg reported: “Goldman Sachs, the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, had a record profit in the first nine months of this year and set aside $16.7 billion for compensation expenses.” Goldman Sachs is on pace for the best year in the firm’s history, and it is also benefiting by only paying 1 percent in taxes.

3) The profits of the economic elite are “now underwritten by taxpayers with $23.7 trillion worth of national wealth."

As the looting is occurring at the top, the U.S. middle class is just beginning to collapse.

4) Workers between the ages of 55 to 60, who have worked for 20 to 29 years, have lost an average of 25 percent off their 401k. During the same time period, the wealth of the 400 richest Americans went up by $30 billion, bringing their total combined wealth to $1.57 trillion.

5) Home foreclosure filings "hit a record high in the third quarter (of 2009)… They were the worst three months of all time… 937,840 homes received a foreclosure letter" in this three-month period; “3.4 million homes are expected to enter foreclosure by year’s end, with some experts estimating that next year will be even worse.”

President Obama has enacted a $75 billion taxpayer funded program that has been a spectacular failure in stemming the foreclosure crisis and has proven to be another massive waste of billions of taxpayer dollars.

6) 25 million people are unemployed or underemployed.

This means we have 25 million people who urgently need to increase their income, and they’re quickly running out of options. The unemployment rate is expected to rise further and remain high for several years. “The president’s chief economic adviser warned that the nation’s unemployment rate could stay ‘unacceptably high’ for years to come."

The New York Times reports: "Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse. Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking….” As this ratio continues to grow, it will lead to a further reduction in wages -- average worker wages have seen a sharp decline over the past year.

Economist Nouriel Roubini, a man who accurately predicted our current crisis, just reported on unemployment stating: “Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening…. So we can expect that job losses will continue until the end of 2010 at the earliest. In other words, if you are unemployed and looking for work and just waiting for the economy to turn the corner, you had better hunker down. All the economic numbers suggest this will take a while. The jobs just are not coming back.”

7) As the few elite banks thrive, there have been 123 U.S. bank failures thus far this year. Recently, three banks that the government declared “healthy” and gave taxpayer money, have folded. The Wall Street Journal reports: “U.S. regulators have seized or threatened at least 27 banks that got capital infusions from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, including some lenders government officials knew were troubled when they awarded the money. The troubles put taxpayers at risk of losing as much as $5.1 billion invested in the banks since TARP was launched in October 2008.”

8) As bankruptcies surge across the board, 10 U.S. states are on the verge of bankruptcy, with several ready to declare a financial state of emergency. California, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin are all “barreling toward economic disaster, raising the likelihood of higher taxes, more government layoffs and deep cuts in services."

9) This is occurring at a time when the “federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that just ended was $1.4 trillion, nearly a trillion dollars greater than the year before." In total, "U.S. public debt topped $12 trillion for the first time in history… The public debt topped $10 trillion in September 2008. The debt is quickly approaching the statutory limit of $12.104 trillion, meaning Congress would have to raise the ceiling to prevent a shutdown of government operations."

Economist Dean Baker explains the risk of running such a large deficit: "The debt limit must be increased at regular intervals in order to allow the government to function normally because the government is currently operating at a deficit. If the debt limit is not passed, then at some point the government will not be able to pay workers and contractors. It won’t be able to send out Social Security checks or make payments for Medicaid and unemployment insurance to state governments. And, it will not be able to make interest payments on government bonds, effectively defaulting on the national debt."

Needless to say, all of this will make life drastically more difficult for American citizens. As the middle class continues on the path of economic decline, the number of citizens living in poverty has already hit an all-time high.

10) Although the government’s official figure tries to low-ball the number, 47.4 million U.S. citizens live in poverty, and the U.S. poverty rate is the highest in the industrialized world.

Predictably, homelessness is rising at an increased rate as well. "The U.S. government does not tally the numbers but interested organizations say that more than 3 million people were homeless at some point over the past year…. The fastest growing segment of the homeless population is families with children.”

Children have been hit especially hard by the economic crisis:

11) * 50 percent of U.S. children, one out of every two children, will need to use food stamps to eat.

One out of every two children in the United States of America will need to use a food stamp… to EAT!

If you didn’t think starvation was a serious threat in the U.S., just read this new Washington Post report: “The nation’s economic crisis has catapulted the number of Americans who lack enough food to the highest level since the government has been keeping track, according to a new federal report, which shows that nearly 50 million people — including almost one child in four — struggled last year to get enough to eat… Several independent advocates and policy experts on hunger said that they had been bracing for the latest report to show deepening shortages, but that they were nevertheless astonished by how much the problem has worsened. 'This is unthinkable. It’s like we are living in a Third World country,' said Vicki Escarra, president of Feeding America."

The United States Department of Agriculture released these findings in a study that was completed in December 2008, which means these numbers don’t take into account the millions more unemployed throughout 2009. The numbers of people living in poverty and struggling to eat has seen a significant increase since then.

This a national tragedy. But it gets much worse.

12) In 2008, according to the Census Bureau, the number of U.S. citizens without health care grew to a record 46.3 million. “The new figures, however, understate the severity of the economic downturn because a large portion of the nation’s job losses and unemployment rate increases occurred after the Census survey data was collected in March as part of the annual Current Population Survey."

13) Lack of health insurance has caused 45,000 preventable U.S. citizen deaths in the past year. The American Journal of Medicine recently released a study that stated, “Nearly two out of three bankruptcies stem from medical bills, and even people with health insurance face financial disaster if they experience a serious illness.”

A Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study reported that 17,000 children have died due to lack of health care. You can also add in a recent report that revealed that 2,266 U.S. veterans have died in 2008 due to lack of insurance.

The 50 million now uninsured and the 45,000 preventable deaths per year statistics are expected to drastically rise over the next few years. As the Senate continues to strip meaningful amendments from a health care bill that wouldn’t even take effect until 2013, it has become clear that, despite the media hype, the health care bill is going to fall far short of meaningful reform and continue to rig the game in favor of large insurance company profits at the expense of the U.S. population. With the highest cost healthcare in the world, current trends will continue and much needed change is not on the horizon.

Never before has the United States had so many citizens with so little means, little to no income and heavy debt. Debt and costs of living have now shackled U.S. citizens just as they have shackled people throughout the world. The economic hit men have now hit the United States as well and millions of American citizens are now effectively sentenced to a slow death.

Economic Imperial blowback has hit the mainland.

And the clock is ticking louder by the day…

And here’s two more facts for you:

14) The gun and ammunition manufacturing industry in the United States has over 200 companies producing billions of dollars in annual revenues. This huge manufacturing base cannot fulfill demand quickly enough. The demand for guns and ammunition has hit a record high and the gun industry cannot produce enough bullets to keep up with orders.

Americans are arming themselves to the teeth!

15) In the past year, 100 new armed militia groups have been formed, as militia members have doubled in numbers. Federal authorities are gravely concerned about the “uptick in militia activities." One federal authority recently said, “All it’s lacking is a spark. I think it’s only a matter of time before you see threats and violence."

So let’s break down these numbers.

You have a population of 50 million people who are in desperate need of money, they most likely have no health insurance and can’t afford to get health care or help of any kind. Part of this population probably also has loved ones who can’t get life sustaining medical treatments, or loved ones who have already died due to lack of costly medical treatment. The clock is ticking loud for these people and they are running out of options fast, and time delayed is time closer to death.

While the richest 1 percent have never had it so good, a significant percentage of the U.S. population now has firsthand experience in this. Millions upon millions of Americans are poor, broke, struggling, starving, desperate… and armed.

We are sitting on a powder keg!

We are now witnessing the critical unraveling of U.S. society.

You can read the rest of the report here.
© 2009 Amped Status All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/144109/

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Headlines from Hell!

Scientists Use Bacteria to Detect Landmines

I'm not sure what to say, hrmph!

Frum: Repubs Headed for Bloodbath in Florida

WE CAN ONLY FUCKING HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

China Censors Obama Student Q&A

Cuz China's gov't blows donkey ass!

Men Only Buy Underwear for 17 Years

Well no shit! We're men! WE'RE PIGS! And?!?!?!?!?!?!

Black Group Calls Obama 'White Power in Blackface'

I wonder if this qualifies as Black On Black crime?!

US Army Suicides Approach New High

END THE GODDAMN BULLSHIT WARS AND THIS WON'T BE A PROBLEM.

Palin Angered by Newsweek Cover

Uh oh! Quick! Call the WAAAAAAHMBULANCE!!!!!!!!!!

Government PTSD Plan: 'Jesus Fixes Everything'

I thought we got rid of this bullshit with BU$Hitler?!?!?!?

Most Corrupt Country: Somalia

You know the USA would be #1 if GODS FORBID we had McHoover/Ho From Wasila in office!!!!!!!!!!!

Palin Doesn't Believe in Evolution

Simple, she's not evolved!!!!!! So she's JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!

NO SHIT!!!!!!!! MEDICARE FOR ALL NOW GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Liddy: 'I'm Convinced Obama is a Muslim'

Me: I'm convinced Liddy is a fucking MORON!


Why?! They're one in the same! So, I guess they'd have to ban themselves!!!

Supremes Refuse to Take Redskins Case

Oh good. The Supreme KKKourt strikes again. I guess it's ok to have a team called The Kansas City Crackers, or how about The Nashville Negros, oh I know The NY Kikes. How about it?! Why are Native Americans consistently disrespected?!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Fifteen very bad things Republicans would do if they got their selfish way

THIS IS BRILLIANT! Again, wish I wrote it! And people PLEASE STOP giving ME credit for other people's writings!!!!

by Dennis Rahkonen | Nov. 12, 2009 - 12:11 pm

Always the political instrument of moneyed elites, and a retrograde societal force, the GOP today is more negatively impactful than ever. Its agenda, if fully implemented, would prove catastrophic. Here's what an unfettered Republican Party would do "for" America:

1) Greatly reduce or entirely eliminate taxes on the rich, thereby forcing hard-pressed working families to painfully make up resulting revenue shortfalls.

2) Bust labor unions, cruelly preventing the collective bargaining that's the key reason why US workers ever won decent wages and benefits.

3) Stubbornly deny the existence of ominous climate change while blithely pumping more pollutants into the environment from lucrative, dirty industries and practices. Although reputable scientists say 350 carbon parts per atmospheric million is the safe limit for sustained life on Earth, Republicans dismiss the frightening fact that we're already at a carbon level of roughly 390 ppm.

4) Remove "restrictive" regulations on everything from investment banks and credit card companies to a broad array of "profit-eroding" consumer protections, leaving the American masses exposed to a host of resulting abuses and dangers.

5) Continue to criticize and insufficiently fund public education, advocating private schooling instead, thus entirely ignoring that progressive public systems are used in every country that has education outcomes superior to our own.

6) Outlaw abortion, under a fraudulently moral guise, compelling the US to bloodily join those benighted, backward nations where thousands of already-born, living, breathing, socially functioning females perish because of sexist denials of their basic reproductive rights.

7) Continue to recite a Pledge of Allegiance whose last six words are "with liberty and justice for all," while remaining numbly oblivious to the harsh hypocrisy of preventing our homosexual citizens from marrying.

8) Speak often and loftily of freedom, but engage in secret wiretapping, repression of domestic dissent, neo-McCarthyite witch hunts, Red-baiting name calling, and a panoply of Patriot Act transgressions against the Constitution of the United States...all under the misused rubric of "national security."

9) Show the rest of humankind nothing but bullying world-cop arrogance through endless US interventions and aggressions on foreign soil, resulting not just in countless lives extinguished in indefensible wars, and billions of badly-needed dollars flushed down the drain, but constant al Qaeda recruitment against hated Yankee interlopers.

10) Generally drive down the income levels of America's working-class majority, as a purported cost-saving corporate measure, without appreciating that a populace that's too poor to buy back what society produces is doomed to economic ruin. A living wage is the ultimate "stimulus," but try to find even one Republican who favors it!

11) Continue to lie about the alternative, affordable health care for all that some fifty world nations' people overwhelmingly support, thereby propagandistically leading Americans to think that having private insurance whose premiums are rising at rates three times higher than our pay -- and which routinely denies coverage when it's required most -- is somehow preferable

12) Unleash de facto ethnic cleansing against 12 million immigrant men, women, and children, making them contemporary equivalents of the Jewish scapegoats that Hitler blamed for hardships Germans experienced during a prior period of capitalist economic distress.

13) Shamefully try to lend credence to their avarice and social irresponsibility by revising the Bible to obscure passages that place human need before abject greed, attempting to turn it into a facilitating guide for modern peers of the temple moneychangers whose tables Jesus angrily knocked to the floor (and who undoubtedly wouldn't be mentioned in the amended version that one conservative group is actually, amazingly trying to put into circulation).

14) Give full vent to the intensely bigoted hatred that has crazed extremists dreaming of literally tearing Barack Obama to pieces and gassing all liberals...if only they could.

15) Place the livelihoods and lives of over 300 million Americans in the hands of incompetent ideological "purists" such as Sarah Palin.

While there are certainly Democrats who've yet to show spine in furtherance of vital change, let's be absolutely clear about the unmitigated disaster that would follow if Republicans, in their present ultra-rightist incarnation, ruled our country exactly as they wickedly wished.
Conservatives moan and conservatives bitch: "Our rich are too poor and our poor are too rich!"

My thoughts on the Stimulus

I don't see it as necessarily a failure as a lot of us on the left do. I see it just as delaying the inevitable. BU$Hitler Crime Family did SO much goddamn damage to this country's economy (along with everything else they touched) it's not looking very promising that ANYBODY will be able to fix it. No one has the BALLS to do the ONE thing that would work, and that's REPEAL THE FUCKING REAGAN TAX CUTS ON THE RICH! Better yet, bring back the Eisenhower (yes, he was a Republican! Believe it...or not!) tax rate on the rich, which goes like this: whatever you make AFTER $3.2 million is taxed at 91%! It just goes to show how TRULY corrupt DC is, most all bought & paid for by the rich and corporations. But most Americans kick back with their 6 pack, bottle of brain-numbing pills and American Fucking Idol on TV instead of paying a modicum of attention to how violently they're being FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10 States Nearing Financial Collapse

Most of this state's budget bullshit could be fixed virtually OVERNIGHT if we didn't have goddamn many ignorant hillbillies in N. & Central FloriDUH that keep voting these asshole repukes (sorry to be redundant) to the State legislature, and if Jebthro didn't slash taxes on the rich in this state, that'd pretty much do it. But no, the poor and what's left of the middle class get saddled with 99% of the taxes here. But these stupid poor inbred rednecks will just keep on voting repiggy. It's just so tragic.

10 States Nearing Financial Collapse

It seems the state of California is destined to be in the headlines at least once a week, but they may soon have some others joining them. It is not only the Golden State that has many fiscal problems running rampant but there are also nine other states that are deteriorating as well. The Pew Center on the States has compiled a report of the financial health of 50 states and it also outlines the 10 states that are closest to collapse. They use different factors such as home foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, declining state revenues, poor money management, legal and political obstacles to balanced budgets and the size of budget gaps to generate this report. You should note that there were a combination of factors leading to the rankings, not solely the size of the state’s deficit or it’s unemployment figure. So now let’s look at these states.

burning-moneyThe Top (or Bottom?) 10

1. California – We’ll start with the largest, California, with a budget shortfall of 49.3 percent. Yes, that’s correct. They are only taking in about half the money needed to fund their expenses.

2. Arizona – In second place we have Arizona with a budget deficit of 41.1 percent. In the budget in October, the lawmakers still had to figure out how to close their $1 billion budget gap.

3. Rhode Island – Rhode Island is ranked third. This state has a budget shortfall of 19.2 percent which is lower than most of the others in the top 10. It has been documented that they have had poor fiscal management and the highest unemployment in New England.

4. Michigan – Michigan comes if after and has a budget shortfall of 12.0 percent. This state has heavily relied on the auto industry and two out the three auto manufactures based in Detroit went bankrupt in 2009. It is also estimated that the state will lose about a quarter of its jobs in the next decade.

5. Nevada – Next is Nevada and their budget deficit stands at 37.8 percent. The state budget does rely on the gambling industry for about 60 percent of its revenues. It’s hard to see many people hitting the casinos anytime soon with a sluggish economic recovery on the horizon.

6. Oregon – Then comes Oregon, looking at a budget deficit of 14.5 percent. This state heavily relies on income taxes and the timber industry. A sales tax has been proposed quite a few times, but has been met by strong opposition from voters, and consequently has shut down just as many times.

7. Florida – Florida will see shortcomings of 22.8 percent in their revenues to balance the budget. The population is decreasing and that, along with the state’s contributions to the housing bubble burst, has put it at this position on the list.

8. New Jersey – New Jersey is confronted with a budget shortfall of 29.9 percent due to years of poor fiscal management and unbalanced budgets. It doesn’t help that the state has been in the spotlight numerous times for corruption at the highest levels.

9. Illinois – Illinois, home state of our President, is currently faced with a budget shortfall of 47.3 percent. The state has very high Medicaid bill and also borrowed heavily to meet its pension obligations. With the budget shortfall topping off at $13.2 billion, it is one of the worst in the country.

10. Wisconsin – Wisconsin is in the tenth place with a budget shortfall of 23.2 percent. This is due to a history of borrowing to cover the state’s expenses.

These states are all desperately trying to make as many cuts as possible to their budgets. Some states have already received stimulus money, which has saved some jobs, but there is no guarantee that there will be more to collect. All we know is that it is going to be tough, and state may have to get creative or else face even more financial disaster.

http://www.mybanktracker.com/bank-news/2009/11/12/10-states-nearing-financial-collapse/

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

You didn't get mad...

DEADicated to all you shithead Teabaggers!

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when VP Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy Policy.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA Operative was revealed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act was passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded Iraq looking for WMD'S that didn't exist.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 Billion dollars(and counting) on Iraq War.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when Bush was illegally wiretapping us at home and work.

You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed money to give to the oil companies.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible Conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let New Orleans drown.

You didn't get mad when Bush got 4,500 soldiers killed.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when---- The government decided that people in America
deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.

Illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, giving your tax dollars to super-rich, are all OK with you?
But helping other Americans is the last straw?

Seven presidents have tried to pass a Health Care Plan of some sort and
have failed. None have had the "hate filled" opposition of this president.

THE WORLD IS WATCHING AMERICA.

http://www.bartcop.com

Conservatives moan and conservatives bitch: "Our rich are too poor and our poor are too rich!"

Saturday, November 7, 2009

My call to Mike Malloy from 4-Nov-2009!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsmtVLsE1_o

And yes, I DID say JABRONE! Whatever! Carny talk 101! Can't tell I listen to Bubba The Love Sponge OH NO!!!!! I wonder if he'll listen to "YEAR ZERO" by NIN?! I hope. If ANYBODY would LOVE that album for sure, it's Mike!

Genitorturers North America tour dates!!!

Genitorturers Blackheart Revolution Tour dates Part 1
With: +Sex Slaves, **Team Cybergeist

11.8 Baltimore, MD - Sonar**
11.9 Teaneck, NJ (NYC area) - Mexicali Live**
11.10 Providence, RI - Club Hell**
11.11 Montreal, QB - Fou Founes
11.12 Rochester, NY - Penny Arcade**
11.13 Detroit, MI - Blondies**
11.14 Cleveland, OH - Peabodys**
11.15 Toronto, ON - Mod Club
11.16 Boston, MA - Middle East
11.17 New York, NY- Gramercy Theater
11.18 Springfield, VA - Jaxx
11.19 Virginia Beach, Va - Gils Bar and Grill
11.20 Raleigh, NC - Volume 11
11.21 Spartanburg, NC - Ground Zero
11.22 Charleston, SC - Music Farm
11.25 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade

Bubba The Love Sponge station list

SIRIUS & XM: Howard 101 (3-7p ET / Noon-4p PT weekdays; replayed 1-5a ET / 10p-2a PT EVERY DAY & weekends various times! PLUS exclusive UNCENSORED show Fridays 10a-2p ET / 7-10a PT!!!)

Live weekdays 6-10a ET on:

ONLINE:
www.streamaudio.com/Player?station=WHPT_FM

Ft. Myers / Naples, FL: 96.1 FM WRXK

Dayton / Springfield / Middletown, OH: 95.3 FM WZLR

Jacksonville / Gainesville / St. Augustine, FL / Brunswick, GA: 104.5 FM WFYV

Miami / Ft. Lauderdale / West Palm Beach, FL: 93.1 FM WHDR

Orlando / Daytona / Melbourne, FL: 96.5 FM WHTQ

Richmond / Petersburg, VA: 101.1 FM WDYL

Tampa / St. Pete / Lakeland / Sarasota / New Port Richey, FL: 102.5 FM WHPT

Please note these stations have DAMN GOOD range, so if you're anywhere near any of them while BTLS is on, TRY IT! If ya get no dice, then fire up the Internet deal!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Gen from Genitorturers on Bubba's show MP3s!

Yesterday's appearance: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A54I2DZ6

Segment 1 from today: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1DUWHPIL

Seg 2 from today: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PVD3IWUC

And pick up a copy of

the new Genitorturers album Blackheart Revolution!

Info on Orlando shooter

From @tuddle of Monsters Of The Mornings on 104.1 WTKS Orlando:
best pic I could get of shooting suspect
Jason Rodriguez
may be driving
2002 Nissan SUV
FL plate D11 9UX

http://yfrog.com/2qs12vj

UPDATE: This psycho scumbag was caught! PWEH!

Headlines from Hell!

Stocks Close Above 10,000

SO?! Fuck Wall St.! How about some help to MAIN STREET?!!?

Morocco Launches $9 Billion Solar Energy Project

And FloriDUH can't do something like this?! Jesus Cristo, we're not call THE SUNSHINE STATE for nothing!

Inmates Save Guard in Florida Jail

I bet they're looking for some clemency!

Fiorina Launches Senate Bid vs. Boxer

Good luck! Barbara Boxer ain't gonna go quitely!

Dems Debate Course Following Elections

Here's a tip for Democrats to take to heart: START ACTING LIKE DEMOCRATS AND NOT REPUKE LITE! Democrats who run & govern as DEMOCRATS *WIN*. Dems who run as Repukes almost ALWAYS LOOSE. PLEASE get the fuck with it!

75% of Young Americans Unfit for Military Duty

Can you say OBESITY EPIDEMIC!? Well, at least that's 75% of today's kids who hopefully won't go to DIE for Corporate Wars.

AARP Endorses Health Reform Bill

As does the VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS!

Fox Contributor: I'm Tired of Hating President Obama

Then quit and go to work at MSNBC where you'll actually be WELCOMED!

Congress Expands Homebuyer Tax Credit

Good idea! Think this would happen is we had McHoover & The Ho From Wasila?!

Fiddler Crabs Trade Protection for Sex

I'm not sure I want to know...

Ted Haggard Starts New Church

What's it called?! Closet Cases On Meth For Christ?!

Cons Plan More GOP Takedowns in 2010

And the purge of the last 4 or 5 GOP Moderates continues!

Atheists Turn Santa Against God

YES!!!!!!! THE WAR ON XMAS IS ON!!!

Flu Sickens 478,000 in Ukraine

One more place I WON'T be going on vacation...


Attention gay people of Maine: NOW YA KNOW WHERE TO MOVE TO!

Female Officer Ended Fort Hood Rampage

Imagine that! Well, this one is for y'all sexists out there!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Genitorturers on Bubba The Love Sponge Show TODAY!!!

MAJOR props to Baron Von Bunghole for the times on this, good work G!

http://www.BTLS.com
http://www.Genitorturers.com
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

NEW Mike Malloy station!

Boston, MA: 1510 AM WWZN! They carry Malloy from 10p-Midnight; in other words, the last two hours, hopefully they'll get the 1st hour from 9-10p live too! But it's a damn good start!

This of course calls for...The Mike Malloy Show STATION LIST!!! (I'm bored, can't ya tell?! But it's for a GREAT cause, cuz Malloy KICKS SERIOUS ASS!!! All are AM except Madison...and Sirius & XM...just in case ya can't somehow figure THAT out! :P)

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Monday, November 2, 2009

DAYUMN!

Like A Virgin
Friday, September 11, 2009
Labels: 9/11 Posted by driftglass




“...they turned to prayer, beseeching
that the sin which had been committed
might be wholly blotted out.”
-- 2 Maccabees. 12:42

Once upon a time, there was a President named Bill Clinton, who was, by most historical standards, a typical Centrist Republican, although by a fluke of geography and circumstances he ran for public office with a "(D)" after his name.

Under his Administration, many Conservative ideas which had long gathered dust on the shelf -- ideas such as welfare reform, a balanced budget, debt reduction, a strict “Pay as You Go” fiscal regime, a boom in technology jobs, budget surpluses, NAFTA, GATT, official bans on gay marriage, etc. -- were finally realized.

And for all of his good work on behalf of their ideology, Conservatives spent eight, long years treating Bill Clinton -- a Southern, White, Christian man -- as if he were a case of flesh eating nuclear syphilis.

Because he did not run for office with an "(R)" after his name.

And because he did not run for office with an "(R)" after his name, according to the leading voices in the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement, Bill Clinton was, in no particular order, Hitler, a Socialist, a rapist, a warmonger, a serial murderer, and a drug dealer, whose Presidency was somehow vaguely illegitimate.

And counterpointing the 24/7 slime campaign, there were those endless, endless hearings. Whitewater. Travel office. Christmas Card lists. Lincoln bedroom. Etc ad nauseum.

Or don’t you remember?

He was “Not my President!” (Ollie North: War criminal, terrorist arms dealer, GOP Senate Candidate [1994] and FoxNews Contributor.)

He was warned “not to set foot in my state.” (Jesse Helms: Professional Bigot, Confederate Senator, 1820-2003)

His picture was used for target practice by G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate felon, would-be assassin, radio personality and Republican hero.

From "The American Prospect":

...it's worth remembering just how virulent the opposition to Clinton's presidency was. Republicans began plotting to impeach Clinton long before anyone had ever heard the name "Lewinsky," and many on the right simply refused to accept that he legitimately occupied the office he held. Then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey, when talking to Democrats, used to refer to Clinton as "your president."
It was a warped, hysterical campaign funded by wealthy Right Wing thugs like Richard Mellon Scaife and propagated by wealthy Right Wing thugs like Rupert Murdoch who made sure the lies were jack-hammered into the headlines day after day, year after year.

And judging by its objectives, it was also a very successful campaign: it legitimized and metastasized Hate Radio; killed the credibility of the "objective" media once and for all; made the overt mass-slander of political opposition by the Right acceptable; moved radicals, militia nuts, bigots, Creationists and Limbaugh zombies to the center of the Republican Party; accelerated the exodus of reasonable moderates the hell out of the Republican Party; destroyed the possibility of public discourse; and kicked the door open to the use of Congressional hearings as instruments of political vendetta.

But as successful as it was, it was also an incredibly high-risk strategy, because of a thing called the "public record".

The public record meant that each and every time a Republican stood up to, say, slam the Democrat Commander-in-Chief during a time of war (from The Poor Man Institute:)

“You can support the troops but not the president”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)

“President…is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation’s armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy.”
-Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)

“American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)

“If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.”
-Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W. Bush

“I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning…I didn’t think we had done enough in the diplomatic area.”
-Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

“Well, I just think it’s a bad idea. What’s going to happen is they’re going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years”
-Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

“I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our overextended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)

“Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?”
-Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”
-Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)

“This is President Clinton’s war, and when he falls flat on his face, that’s his problem.”
-Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)

“Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly.”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
they left a documentary trail wide and bright enough to be visible from space.

Or from the next election cycle.

The public record meant that every frivolous Republican witch hunt and every syllable of hate and demagoguery gleefully poured out through public megaphones and megachurch pulpits to malign and demonize the Left could potentially represent a thick bar on the cage of any future Republican president's imperial ambitions.

Because, after all, should the tables ever turn -- should there ever be a Republican President whose election really was suspect, or who really did lie to the American public and flagrantly abuse his office, and did it in ways that cost the nation trillions of dollars and thousands of lives -- after spending eight years establishing a public record in such clear and unambiguous language what the Hell could the Right possibly say?

After conspiring to bring about two of the most destructive events in modern American history -- the impeachment of a US President over trivia, and the probable theft of the subsequent Presidential election -- to what God could Republicans possibly pray that their eight years of insanity, venom and violence "might be wholly blotted out?”

On 09/11/01, their dark miracle came winging its way out of a clear, blue sky.

Eight years ago, this is what we all saw.



All of us, all together across all political, cultural and religious spectra watched the worst thing many of us had ever seen.

Together.

But in what now seems like less time than it took to wipe away our tears, the same depraved thugs who sponsored eight years of "Clinton Murdered Vince Foster!" hysteria began hijacking of our pain and patriotism to serve their partisan interests right before our eyes.

The minute the Bush Administration began trying to stretch the war they got into an excuse for the war they wanted, 9/11 stopped being merely a national tragedy and started being the Bush Administration's bottomless political ATM machine.

The minute the Party of Personal Responsibility began using the mantra "9/11 changed everything" as the political equivalent of the Blood of Christ -- as a means to absolve themselves of their personal responsibility for eight years of malice and derangement -- for them September 11, 2001 stopped being a moment of shared, national anguish and started being a suit of cultural body-armor which magically deflected any criticism of their lies and their and hypocrisy.

An impervious sniper's nest from which they could cynically escalate their war on the Left.


Or don't you remember the day the Right robbed the graves of all those who perished on 9/11 to turn this



into their all-purpose

"Get Out of the 90s Free" card?

And the thing is, it worked.

By selling 9/11 for a mess of wingnut pottage, the Right bought itself an anti-Liberal free-fire zone and two Presidential terms-worth of blank checks. Two terms of an alternately supportive and supine media. Two terms of catastrophe, corruption and treason protected from scrutiny by an ablative shield made out of solid "Why do you hate America?", and a promise that they could go on bareback fucking diseased monsters in the alley all night long, every night, forever and wake up each morning miraculously clean, virginal and still beloved in the eyes of God.

But they forgot that tempus just keeps fugiting along. And as time passed, the Right got so accustomed to butt-scooting their depravity all over the public square and never being called on it they simply stopped noticing that they were amassing a whole new post-9/11 public record so despicable and overflowing with Conservative atrocities that it positively dwarfed their antics during the Clinton Years.

And that brutal, meth-addict level of dependence on never being brought to book for anything they say or do left the Right completely unprepared for the one thing their leaders promised would never happen again.

Losing.

And losing has driven them a special kind of crazy; that screaming-incoherently-and-lashing-out-in-every-direction kind of cold-turkey junkie withdrawal crazy.

In the few, short months since they lost, they have emptied out their entire store of raving invective and delusion.

Losing has left them insisting that that the legally elected President of the United States somehow isn't really the President. That he is a secret enemy. A Communist. A Hitler. A Muslim sleeper cell. A Chicago gangster.

Has left them swearing that "their country" has been stolen and that somewhere hidden in secret code in a 1,000 health care bill is a plan to murder senior citizens.

To understand how deep and relentless their addiction goes, you need only consider the recent example of Mrs. Katy Abram, who leaped into microcelebrity and the wingnut pantheon a month ago with her Clown Hall rant of “I don’t want my county to become Russia!” speech.

Mrs. Katy Abram wants the world to believe that, like a wingnut Sleeping Beauty, she somehow slept through 9/11.

Slept through two wars and the two trillion dollar bill they racked up.

Slept through tax cuts for the wealthy that added another few trillion to our debt.

Slept through Katrina.

Slept through Terri Schiavo.

Slept through the screams of the Constitution as Bush Administration fed it an inch at a time through the wood chipper (the same Constitution she is now so deeply concerned about that she has somehow become, virtually overnight, an “original intent” quote-spewing expert) only to be awakened in a sudden, patriotic fury by the sound of a Black Democrat taking the oath of office.

I’m sure in Mrs. Abram’s mind – and in the tiny little minds of tens of millions of Americans just like her – she sees absolutely no contradiction between explaining that she never paid any attention to a single fucking thing prior to January of 2009....and saying that she started paying attention in 1991 "when we first went to the Gulf War" and that she has debated politics with friends at the opposite end of the political spectrum “a million times over”.

It is, in fact, a sign of the depth and effectiveness of their brainwashing that people like Mrs. Abram see no conflict between saying in one breath “I have never been interested in politics” and "I always seem to have faith in the government“ in the next.

Because during the Bush years, people like Mrs. Abram never saw their love of their Dear Leader and their fealty to his Administration as something "political". They saw it normal. As the Universe being at its proper, wingnut default setting: White, male, fundamentalist Christian, Conservative, flight-suit clad and killing scary brown people. And as long as that remained true, all was right with the world and people like Mrs. Abram were absolved by their "Don't Worry, Go Shopping" leaders of any responsibility for paying attention to anything their government was actually doing.

And once the Dear Leader's reign ended, as far as people like Mrs. Abram were concerned, the natural order of mindless obedience in exchange for a smug and blissful ignorance collapsed. "Their country" was suddenly broke and fucked up for reasons that they dared not think about too much. "Their country" was suddenly awash in dirty fucking hippies, who for some reason were no longer satisfied with being cultural punching bags. "Their country"suddenly had politicians and activists who said mean things about the Dear Leader and the Republican Party...and got away with it!

And worst of all, "their country" suddenly had a Scary Black Man living in their Dear Leader's pretty White House, probably having dirty, Muslim sex in the Dear Leader's sacred, Christian bed and putting his filthy, Kenyan hands all over "their county's" pure, white Constitution.

So, for example, when you hear the same people who fanatically supported President George W. Bush when he famously told Iraq war critics to fuck off --
"Well, we had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 election."

-- now insisting, less that a year after the 2008 elections, that President Barack Obama needs to:

"...scrap the current grandiose plans and to start over."or when you see the mobs on the Right being whipped by talk of secession or revolution or spilling the "blood of tyrants" into a nearly-pornographic frenzy, understand that what you are witnessing are the echoes of political decisions made in the wake of September 11, 2001.

Political decisions that trained the Right to believe, on a visceral level, that a sufficiently bloody and horrifying disruption to the life of the country can -- if properly exploited -- wash away their eight otherwise-unforgivable years of sin and restore "their country" to its proper, wingnut default setting.

That if the right sacrifices are made to the right Gods in just the right way, then they can be virgins again. Conservatives moan and conservatives bitch: "Our rich are too poor and our poor are too rich!"