A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake has just struck Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city with a population of 342,000. There are ongoing shock waves rocking the city.
First of all, I would like to wish all of you readers out there a pleasant FYF! To those of you on the east coast, have fun with Earl!
Recently I've been watching a certain Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona pop up on the news, and even moreso in the last day or so. Who the hell is Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Why is the US Department of Justice suing him? This is clearly what I get for not watching television or listening to the radio.
Who knows, but after researching it, I can't help but be reminded of Joe the Plumber. News articles and blog posts seem to be making him out to be your average Joe the Plumber type, except in this incarnation he is a sheriff. But he's not. Joe the Sheriff is being sued, because of an investigation into racial discrimination on his and his department's part. The USDOJ wants his documents, that they think will prove that he used racial profiling in what are believed to be in descriptions of some sort of illegal immigrant sweep through his corner of Arizona.
Well, so I looked around the internet a bit, I wanted to find out something about him that comes from BEFORE all this recent stuff about him. Basically, I suspected him of being some sort of nazi fascist.
Yup, he's a nazi fascist. What I found out was extraordinarily easy to find and well known to seasoned Joe the Sheriff haters. And also completely missing from any news story I read on this matter. QUITE SIMPLY, here is some evidence submitted to you that Joe the Sheriff is, in fact, a Nazi.
In a protest against his extreme anti-immigration policies, he shows up to support the counter protestors, who know him. They are all neo-nazis. Skip to 4:48:
And here is a photo of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and a neo-nazi:
The Maricopa County Sheriff's office webpage is a Joe the Sheriff narcissism trip. But it's worth taking a look at, it's pretty amusing/horrifying. Make absolutely sure to check out the 8 Signs of Terrorism section. It's a winner in weird post 9/11 governmental dystopia.
I'm looking forward to watching how this turns out.
You know, I like this practice of mounting cameras on tasers. That's a pretty good idea, especially considering rampant, abusive tasering going on by cops all over the country.
Here is an example. This Marin County, California man tripped down some stairs on the way into his house. His wife called paramedics, who were nearby and came over to help. While in pain he exclaimed something to the effect that he would shoot himself because of the paid, a hyberbolic statement let out after some slight but painful injury.
As the paramedics were leaving, some cops busted their way into the house, to fulfill whatever coply duty they had in hyperbolic circumstances. A joke about killing oneself, these days, apparently requires a mandatory trip to the hospital, enforceable by electroshock weapons.
Of course, the 64 year old wasn't about to go to the hospital, he told the officers to leave, got up to go to bed, and was tasered THREE times. THREE. Watch the video below:
It's like cops aren't even being trained in how to properly use a taser. With 334 deaths related to taser use (improper and proper) between 2001 and 2008 in the United States alone, I think a much closer look at police taser practices is in order. It can not just be a tool to use any time anyone is disobeying a police officer, it should be last resort, the same way a gun should be last resort. Gun use is to taser use is the same as murder is to torture. Neither are or should be particularly acceptable.
the vermillion block 380 - the newest exploded oil rig
Alright, just as the last catastrophic oil spill is wrapping up, BAM. As if oil rig disasters are something fate thinks we want or need.
This time around, it's two hundred miles west of the site of now blown up Deepwater Horizon oil rig. This newly exploded oil rig (the Vermillion Block 380), is in much shallower water (340 feet vs 5000), which will make for easier clean up methods. Also, all of the rig workers survived this time around. According to U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Elizabeth Bordelon, the oil sheen coming from the rig is only 1 miles x 100 feet. She doesn't know where it's coming from though, since the newly exploded oil rig wasn't even producing oil yet.
Anyway, the culprit this time around isn't BP, but Mariner Energy.
So the next NASA space mission, STS-133, seems pretty routine on the surface. These astronauts are going up, into space, to "deliver and install the Permanent Multipurpose Module, the Express Logistics Carrier 4 and provide critical spare components to the International Space Station."
astronauts alvin drew and nicole stott, eric boe, steve lindsey, michael barratt and tim kopra are going into space on november 1st
But, this routine mission (as routine as leaving the planet Earth can possibly be) has a few special parts to it.
For this mission, NASA has allowed the internet to vote for a song to be played as the "morning" wake up alarm music. I don't think this is really fair to the astronauts, it feels to me like astronauts are the most competent sorts of people available, the type of people who should be permitted to choose their OWN wake up alarm music.
However, the internet's choice vote of music pleases me greatly. The number one vote, at over 390,000 votes is the theme to Star Trek TOS. Awesome. I think I will set that as my alarm music as well. The second is Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride", which isn't bad, but I mean, come on, it's a little played out, at this point. It's creeping up on Star Trek at over 358,000 votes. I would recommend going to Nasa's voting page and help decide the fate of the astronaut's "morning" alarm.
THE OTHER THING GOING ON THIS TRIP IS R2.
the robonaut 2 can lift weights and perform other tasks
The Robonaut 2. The R2. This robot is fairly dextrous, has a torso and the ability to perform complex tasks, lift twenty pound barbells. It's got a head and hands and arms, but no legs. It can be affixed to a large arm or pedestal, though. This will help the astronauts by performing simple yet dangerous or time consuming tasks, so that the humans on board can focus on more complex endeavors.
Eventually, it will also go on spacewalks, or perhaps a future generation of droids will explore other planets and moons for us, as this NASA video titled "Project M" suggests:
I don't know what else to say right now. Of course his webpage with his ranting diatribe has exceeded it's capabilities and is offline, but here is the diatribe he wrote for the momentous occasion of taking a building hostage. Or maybe he's just holding one person hostage. I don't know what's going on right now, I'll update this page to be more specific later on.
UPDATE 20100901 16:19 CST:
Well maybe it's not the whole building he's taken hostage, just a few people. Also he seems to be Canadian. He is also a large fan of Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael".
UPDATE 20100901 16:28 CST:
THE GUNMAN HAS BEEN SHOT, THE HOSTAGES ARE FREE.
UPDATE 20100901 17:23 CST:
JAMES J LEE IS DEAD
Well, that was interesting.
Now that he is dead, I suppose it is time to figure out what the hell just happened. The following text originally appeared on savetheplanetprotest.com, and was written by James Lee. Lee's manifesto does not really seem to me to be the ramblings of a man who would later hold hostages at gun point and be fatally shot. He just sounds like your average internet insane person, like Alex Chiu or Gene Ray. Batshit crazy, yes, but probably not going to hold people hostage.
It is a pretty enjoyable read. My favorite paragraph has got to be:
"Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels."
And, just because I am posting this does not mean I believe it, or wish for you to take the Discovery Channel building hostage. Actually, for whatever power I have in your affairs, I hereby expressly forbid you from taking the Discovery Channel or anyone else hostage, because you will really terrify people and probably get shot, and that's not cool.
Here it is, the manifesto of James J Lee:
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn't, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)
6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don't build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!
7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people's brains until they get it!!
8. Saving the Planet means saving what's left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You're the media, you can reach enough people. It's your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!
9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.
10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!
11. You're also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.
Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.
For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human's lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!
It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It's like a couple are having 30 babies even though it's just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!
Also, war must be halted. Not because it's morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
The humans? The planet does not need humans.
You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!
I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.
god help me i am experiencing such terrible nicotine withdrawal. it is ridiculous. goddamnit.
anyway check out these interviews of people that went to glenn becks restoring honor rally. of course, this video has an obvious democrat slant to it, and for all i know there were plenty of smart people milling about this rally that this guy ignored.
maybe not though. beck is a moron, so is sarah palin. it's hard to imagine intelligent people following these two moronic antichrists. goddamn i want a cigarette.
Don't worry. Well, you should worry, you just don't have to worry about an immediate threat of law enforcement agents secretly slapping GPS tracking units onto whichever vehicles they want to. Unless you live in one of these states, then you're kind of screwed.
a map of the us court of appeals 9th circuit
Right, if you live in one of these states, at least for the time being, cops and feds can stick a GPS tracking device on your car, without a warrant, completely secretly. And any evidence derived from such a measure will be admissible in a court of law. The only way to make such provocative behavior on law enforcement's part right now is to keep your vehicle in a garage. Even your driveway is fair game.
If you are a paranoid person, it might be time to crack open your piggy bank and buy yourself a GPS signal detector.
Here's what happened. A man named Juan, suspected of being part of a marijuana growing ring, had cops put a GPS tracking device on his car while it was sitting in his driveway. Of course, during his trial this evidence came to light. So he of course appealed, since his 4th amendment rights had clearly been violated, and wanted all evidence which was obtained as a results of the illegal tracking device be suppressed.
The US Court of Appeals disagreed with this plan. The Appeal rejected, and warrantless GPS tracking of any vehicle in the whole of the 9th district is effectively legal.
"The needs of law enforcement, to which my colleagues seem inclined to refuse nothing, are quickly making personal privacy a distant memory. 1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it’s here at last." ... I don’t think that most people in the United States would agree with the panel that someone who leaves his car parked in his driveway outside the door of his home invites people to crawl under it and attach a device that will track the vehicle’s every movement and transmit that information to total strangers. There is something creepy and un-American about such clandestine and underhanded behavior. To those of us who have lived under a totalitarian regime, there is an eerie feeling of déjà vu. This case, if any, deserves the comprehensive, mature and diverse consideration that an en banc panel can provide. We are taking a giant leap into the unknown, and the consequences for ourselves and our children may be dire and irreversible. Some day, soon, we may wake up and find we’re living in Oceania."
Well. At first it pleases me to read something clearheaded about this from one of the Judges. However, he was in the minority, apparently. And also, I would have assumed that putting a tracking device on a car ANYWHERE without a warrant would violate my 4th amendment rights, not just if it were on my own property.
Oh well. This is likely to go to the supreme court. Before then though, it is entirely possible that law enforcement agencies in other circuits may attempt doing this. They got away with it in the 9th circuit, after all, why not give it a shot?
This video is pretty amazing to watch. It is like watching the evolution of one aspect of human understanding take place in a visual vortex that gets stronger and stronger and faster and faster as time moves along. An ever increasing pattern of knoweldge. Or something.
The data used to create this video is publicly available here.
