Warren - Lead Guitar

Desmond - Bass Guitar

Frederick - Drums and Percussion

Makhor - Saxophone

Montel - Keyboards and Rainsticks

Found art: the poetry of overheard conversation.

reposted via catsoldier.

a fucking mess

Yeah…
It’s like… fuckin humpty dumpty fell off the wall and ive just been jumpin around tryin to glue the pieces back together
and i just cant man
i just cant
i know
im gonna have to deal with this woman for the rest of my life
well. y'know
i get pissed off (laughs)
it is just such a - its just like what youre talkin about
everything is just a complete convoluted mess that you can't understand
all i know is that we went to counseling and it turned that into an M1 missile
it just kicked up so much stuff that-
y'know it just turned into a real mess
(laughs)
yeah just after counseling it just turned into a real mess
just.. wow
its just like
its almost like
dysfunctional communication patterns
that have just been amplified
that have just been locked in this cycle
and they -just-can-not
its just weird
(sighs)
yknow
in another respect ive been really unwilling to accept things
i have…
just been chompin on the bit
just unwilling to accept.
that doesnt help
the really sad thing is
its much better right now
both of us kind of.;..
better
its almost like a military concept
you know, like divide and conquer
(laughs)
when we met i was a mess
and she was a mess
and it just got messier and messier
it enabled us to make a real mess out of things
and we could afford to make a real mess out of things
and you drive that wedge in there
and it drives these two entities apart
and unfortunately things happen for the better or worse in our lives
and i just don't want to deny that
you see where im going with this
(laughs)
its just undeniable
things ARE better right now
they're just more painful
im never going to be able to father my children the same way
im just going to have to accept that
i dont know im really broken man
these past few days
Colin's birthday
i mean im really broken man
i lost my kids
its just. um
theres not a whole hell of a lot i can do about it
yeah its tough…
i go…
im buyin em gifts that i never get to see them open
denied on his birthday
im not invited ANYWHERE
its like im not even welcome in what was once my own house
theres just nothin
so
no
no you can't do that shit
because the problem is danny
that i have to get away from that..
ive got those forces working against me
and ive got my kids and my emotions
and it just amplifies the emotions
its just a fuckin mess
the whole thing is just a huge huge fucking mess
and
you know…
its just..
(sighs)
you just have to accept it.

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its fun to do bad things.

This just in off the wires of the associated press. Children exposed to lead are more likley to be bad boys later in life. This explains both bad boys one and 2, as well as camerin and james. And that kid who stole his grandmamas car and took it for a joyride, and later beat up his grandma at a mcdonalds.

article sez:

"Between 1979 and 1984, Dr. Kim Dietrich a professor of environmental health at University of Cincinnati and colleagues recruited pregnant women in poor areas of Cincinnati, known for high concentration of older lead-contaminated housing. About 250 out of the 376 newborns recruited into the study were included in the final analysis.


The researchers measured blood lead levels during pregnancy and then regularly until the children were six and a half years old, as an indication of their lead exposure. The level of lead exposure was then correlated with local criminal justice records on how many times each of the recruits had been arrested between becoming 18 years old and the end of October 2005.


The study found that 55 percent of the subjects (63 percent of males) had been arrested at least once and that the average was five arrests between the ages of 18 and 24. In fact, the higher the blood lead level at any time in childhood, the greater the likelihood of arrests was. "

this also explains this:

Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra
credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends
on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a
couple of hookers in a Texas motel.

The credit card company involved
said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all
security questions are answered.

The escort girls who were released
without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said
they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.

Police said they
were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering
supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they
could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just
made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some
relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.

When police arrived at the motel they found $3,000 in cash, numerous
electronic gadgets, an Xbox video console with numerous games, and the two local
escort girls.

so what youre telling me is that a chemical that no one should be exposed to is changing brain chemistry to make people more apt to break the law? something tells me the overcrowding in our bloated insane prison system might be caused by a little more than some paint chips. But interesting none the less.

ps.

i think whoever made this movie probably ate paint chips and SHOULD have been sent to jail. i say we let all the drug users out of prison and replace them with the fuckers who are putting crap like problem child and survivor in my brain. i should not have a place in my memorybanks for the above photo.

No one rides for free

Dr. Robert L. Hirsch directed the US fusion energy program during the 1970s evolution of the Atomic Energy Commission (including initiation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), through the Energy Research and Development Administration to the present Department of Energy. In addition to his role in development of fusion energy by magnetic confinement, Hirsch was also interested in inertially confined fusion.


His previous management positions include:

* Senior Energy Program Advisor, SAIC (World oil production)
* Senior Energy Analyst, RAND (Various energy studies)
* Vice President of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
* Vice President and Manager of Research and Technical Services for Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) (Oil and gas exploration and production).
* Founder and CEO of APTI, a roughly $50 million/year company now owned by BAE Systems. (Commercial & Defense Department technologies).
* Manager of Exxon’s synthetic fuels research laboratory.
* Manager of Petroleum Exploratory Research at Exxon. (Refining R & D).
* Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) responsible for renewables, fusion, geothermal and basic research. (Presidential Appointment).
* Director of fusion research at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and ERDA.


The Dr. had this to say, concerning the prices of oil:

“The prices that we’re paying at the pump today are, I think, going to be ‘the good old days,’ because others who watch this very closely forecast that we’re going to be hitting $12 and $15 per gallon,” Hirsch said. “And then, after that, when oil – world oil production goes into decline, we’re going to talk about rationing. In other words, not only are we going to be paying high prices and have considerable economic problems, but in addition to that, we’re not going to be able to get the fuel when we want it.”

if youre interested in reading more, check out the original article HERE

also read more about the HIRSCH REPORT

from wikipedia:

In 2005, the US Department of Energy published a report titled Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management.[105] Known as the Hirsch report, it stated, "The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of peaking."

Myanmar Update

cryptofascism

"In the absence of any experience of accountability or transparency - the basic ingredients of an open society - even the most thoughtful Russians are prone to say: "Russia needs a strong man at the centre. Putin has made Russia great again. Now the world has to listen."

The new Prime Minister has brilliantly exploited the patriotism and latent xenophobia of the Russia people to unify them in the belief that they face a major threat from NATO and the United States.

This combination of national pride and insecurity has been fuelled by the America with its proposed deployment of missiles only a few hundred kilometres from the Russian border, allegedly to counter a nuclear threat from Iran.

No serious defence analyst believes this makes any strategic sense, while even impeccably pro-Western Russians recoil from this crass assertion of super-power hegemony by President Bush.

Similarly most Russians feel threatened - and humiliated - by the prospect that Ukraine and Georgia, once the most intimate allies of the Soviet Union, may soon be enfolded in the arms of NATO.

Georgia, which is struggling to contain a separatist movement that is openly supported by the Kremlin, has the potential to become a dangerous flashpoint in which the Western allies could only too easily become ensnared.

Does this mean - as some have argued - that we are about to face a new Cold War? I don't think so for a moment.

With communism consigned to "the dustbin of history", there is no ideological conflict of any significance. And there is now only one military superpower.

In comparison with America, Russia's armed forces are a joke. Only catastrophic stupidity on either side could lead to a nuclear confrontation.

But this does not mean that we can all breathe a sigh of relief and forget about the Bear.

An autocratic and resurgent Russia that feels bruised and threatened is an unstable beast.

The Kremlin's growing rapprochement with Beijing (the adversaries of a generation ago are now not only major trading partners, but conduct joint military exercises) shifts the balance of power in the world.

And as life on earth becomes less and less secure, with evermore people competing for a dwindling supply of vital resources, Russia, as an energy giant, is once again a big player on the world stage.

Make no mistake, we are in for a very bumpy ride."

read this article on putin. do it now.

beneath a limen

From Wikipedia:
A subliminal message is a signal or message embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind, but in certain situations can affect the subconscious or deeper mind and later actions or attitudes.

Subliminal techniques have occasionally been used in advertising and propaganda; the purpose, the effectiveness, and the frequency of the application of such techniques is debated.

Liberty City

I'm sure most folks out there realize that a lot of the stuff they read/see in the mainstream media is bullshit, and that propaganda is not something that went out of style with Hitler. But here is evidence that it is still going on, in a major way, today. Some 8,000 pages released by the pentagon detailing a meticulously planned trip for "military analysts" to "inspect" the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

Basically after crazed left wing radicals such as The Red Cross started spreading totally false rumors about Gitmo, suggesting the good ol USA was using: "humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions" against prisoners. The inspectors concluded that "the construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture." The Pentagon took action, inviting ex military personnel to come visit the camp, and see for themselves, what kind of stuff was going on.

The "Military Analysts" spent a total of four hours in cuba total. They spent less than three hours touring the facility, and one hour was spent eating lunch with the troops.(gotta support them)

What did the Analysts see?
-a viewing of an interrogation,
-a tour of an "unoccupied cellblock,"
-a visit to the detention hospital.

Here is what one of the visitors had to say about their time spent in Cuba to CNN's Betty Nguyen

NGUYEN: Let's back up for just a moment, because you said you said watched an interrogation.

SHEPPERD: Yes.

NGUYEN: Kind of explain to us how that played out. And were there any instances of abuse or possible abuse?

SHEPPERD: Absolutely not. These -- when I sat and watched them, I want to be very careful in describing them. And I don't want to describe how we watched or anything of that sort. But basically, you're able to observe interrogations. They have various ways of monitoring the interrogations and what have you and letting you see what's going on. With the interrogations that we watched were interrogators, there were translators that translated for the detainee and there were also intelligence people in there.

And they're basically asking questions. They just ask the same questions over a long period of time. They get information about the person's family, where they're from, other people they knew. All the type of things that you would want in any kind of criminal investigation. And these were all very cordial, very professional. There was laughing in two of them that we...

NGUYEN: Laughing in an interrogation?

SHEPPERD: ... in the two of them that we watched. Yes, indeed. It's not -- it's not like the impression that you and I have of what goes on in an interrogation, where you bend people's arms and mistreat people. They're trying to establish a firm professional relationship where they have respect for each other and can talk to each other. And yes, there were laughing and humor going on in a couple of these things. And I'm talking about a remark made where someone will smirk or laugh or chuckle.

NGUYEN: All right. General Don Shepperd, we appreciate your time and that look inside Gitmo, with you being there on this tour. Thank you for that.

I would totally be cracking up too. I mean, naked pyramids are hilarious. Also this interrogation sounds particularly hilarious:

"he was stripped naked, isolated, given intravenous fluids and forced to urinate on himself, and exercised to exhaustion during interrogations that lasted 18 to 20 hours a day for 48 of 54 days."

Anyways, read the rest of the salon article, if this kind of stuff interests you as much as it does me. Its the sort of thing anyone with the slightest bit of common sense realized without having to be told, but its still sobering to read internal pentagon documents detailing how elaborate this particular charade went. This isnt even getting into terror alerts or WMDs or blackwater or what kind of shit is really going on in the streets of Iraq either. This is the stuff that is available for us to learn, its probably just the icing on the cake, y'know?

SOURCE

Now thats the News!

Shailendra the Mighty

A man in eastern India says he is going to take to the air by hanging from a helicopter suspended by his ponytail.

Earlier this week Shailendra Roy drew large crowds when he pulled the famous Darjeeling toy train with his ponytail.

this just in

sunday school

Todays subject: Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a famous gospel singer in the early part of the 20th century. She played a Gibson SG and she rocked pretty fucking hard for her time, and for the fact that she was in church. Cited as a favorite by Johnny Cash, and shouted out by Dylan on his theme time radio hour, this is Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

AP article.

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.

"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.

"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

Vertical Farms

If there's one thing i love more than sustainable agriculture, its ANYTHING related to the future. This is some sick blade runner shit, just waiting for a crazy future when these are all run down and abandoned. Imagine the fucking crazy critters and ghosts that would love to live there.
Anyways green buildings are fucking sick.

Original Article.

Scott Anderson

sick as fuck. check out more at http://www.scottandersonnet.com/ Also check out this interview with him at fecal face.

Black Holes and Revelations

What is this machine? Why are some folk scared that it might create a black hole that could destroy earth as we know it? This is the story of the "Large Hadron Collider". Pretty interesting stuff, if you're into outer space, science, and mind-blowing.

Currently in its final stages of construction, the LHC will become the worlds largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, or ATOM SMASHER. I prefer atom smasher.

What exactly IS an atom smasher? and how can it destroy me? good questions. Very good. yes. Complicated questions too. Very complicated. Couldnt be fully explained without going down a very long list of terms and definitions, including but not restricted to:

Accelerator physics
Anatoli Bugorski
Astrophysics
Beam dump
Beam line
Betatron
Channelling
Cryomodule
Cyclotron
Dipole magnet
Electromagnetism
Electron cooling
Ion implanter
Linear particle
accelerator
List of particles
Particle beam
Particle detector
Particle physics
Quadrupole magnet
Stochastic cooling
Superconducting
Radio Frequency
Superconducting
Super Collider
Synchrotron

Feel free to read up on that stuff, and get back to me. My brain is too small to wrap around all that. So i will explain whats up with this death ray in working mans terms that even Kevin Federline can understand.


popozao!

Oohkay, so what you got here is your high energy atom smasher. A fuckin beam right. HELLA strong beam. Like a Gi joe lazer or something. Like Honey I shrunk the kids and shit.


seconds prior to blowing up the baby

Okay so we got this space lazer looking thing and it fucking blasts the beam. The beam hits these fucking hellllla tiny things. Like tiny lego blocks that make up our cells and shit. no not prison cells, like skin cells, and cocaine cells and titty cells and shit. Who gives a fuck about that? i know, right? Anyways, these rocket scientists study what happens when the high energy passes through these fucking hella tiny particles. Then they just chill and watch with their scientist microscope glasses.

fuckin 1.21 gigawatts and shit.

I know right? microscope fuckin glasses. Basically though, the more energy they put into the beam, the more information they can collect. They then use that information the engineer more frost into our flakes and shit. Make bigger boobs and tastier bigmacs and shit.

... okay. enough of that.

You might be surprised to learn that your tv set, or your computer monitor actually contain the components of a particle accelerator. The difference between your tv atom smasher, and this fucking big ass atom smasher that some people are buzzing over, is that the large hadron collider may very well produce what are known as "Micro black holes". These are just like the black holes that swallow planets and galaxies and shit, but much smaller.


Scientists say chill out, because they can just bombard the tiny black holes with "Hawking Radiation" Which are theorized to shrink black holes. I say theorized, because according to wikipedia Hawking Radiation is "yet an experimentally-tested or naturally observed phenomenon" and and haters of the LHC say that that "micro black holes produced in a terrestrial laboratory might not decay as rapidly as calculated, or might even not be prone to decay and, if unable to rapidly evaporate, they could start interacting, grow larger and potentially be disastrous to Earth itself". Other people say, "fuck the black holes man, im scared of strangeletes." Straggeletes are "hypothetical particles" that critics said could "transform the Earth almost instantly into a dead, dense lump." Tiny bit fucking dope.

This is some superhero shit. But not really because nothings going to happen, and we will just get bigger bigmacs and frostier flakes. However it think its still fun to hold on to some of that Fred Savage wonderyersment, and day dream about particle physics tearing open another dimension or something. Or even better.. superheroes?


The goggles. They do nothing.


Check out this article in the New York Times about the LHC and who can accuratley judge the safety of such an experiment.

re: Stinsonplayalistripballzalotmuzik : pt 2. THE BOOK OF RAL

one for the books

dwight and san pablo

Stinsonplayalistripballzalotmuzik

close your eyes. let your mind wander.

hilarious

article on cracked.com about the webbys and lolcatz.