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BRADLEY COOPER
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Don't Look Down
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I'm resigned to the fact that our modern lifestyle negatively impacts the earth's ecosystem. I don't, however, accept careless disregard for it and its inhabitants. Some acts are avoidable, and cause unnecessary harm.

Shall I put this in more relatable terms?

Fine.

You go to the doctor and he diagnoses you with a fatal disease. Do you a)prolong and enhance the quality of your life by correcting bad habits or b)smoke, snort and swallow every harmful substance you can find?

I mean - what the hell - you're going to die anyway, right? What does it matter if you live two weeks or two years? What does it matter if your final hours are spent in pain or relatively unburdened? Why should you care about the quality of your existence? After all, your body's simply paying the price for all the years you indulged your every whim. Que sera sera; what will be, will be.

Out of all of this, I'm getting the sense that you don't value the finer things in life, and you don't care that others have to suffer due to industry's "mistakes" and profiteering. This indicates to me a disturbing disconnect from your surroundings and your community.

Or, do you believe that as long as the sludge stays off your property line, you'll be ok? Are you really that delusional?

Maybe a week in Louisiana would change your tune, but right now I'm wondering what kind of safety and environmental violations you've incurred in the sand and gravel business in order to pad your bottom line. Has this entire thread been an attempt to justify your own unconscionable acts?

Are you, [redacted], the enemy?

BP Failures Mounting as Gulf Oil Spill Worsens
"In the six weeks since the British oil giant's offshore rig exploded near the Louisiana coast, igniting what has become the worst oil spill in U.S. history, its efforts, have been nothing short of a disaster...
Meanwhile, BP's tab is approaching $1 billion to stop the spill and its stock is plummeting.

Much like the oil-coated wildlife dying across the region, one oil analyst said the company's finances reek with 'the real smell of death.'"

BP's History of Oil Spills and Accidents: Same Strategy, Different Day
"An Alaskan pipeline burst, a fatal refinery explosion and now a 210,000-gallon-a-day oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. And there’s BP, right smack dab in the middle of all three. This isn’t a case of bad luck. The only surprising conclusion — based on reports of other near misses — is that BP hasn’t had more accidents."

Caught in the Oil: gallery




Political Ponerology
"Evil requires a truly modern and scientific approach to lay bare its secrets. This approach is called "ponerology", the study of evil, from the Greek "poneros" = evil...Political Ponerology is shocking in its clinically spare descriptions of the true nature of evil. It is poignant in its more literary passages revealing the immense suffering experienced by the researchers contaminated or destroyed by the disease they were studying.

Political Ponerology is a study of the founders and supporters of oppressive political regimes."

Emma

Jon Stewart Goes After Obama for Lazy Response to Oil Spill
COMMENT
"D'ahh, big deal. Let 'em. That's how you know you're hitting a nerve. Nobody ever said it was going to be easy being one of the few people living with their eyes wide open. Don't forget how much shit hit the fan when Martin Luther King gave his famous Vietnam sermon. He knew people were going to piss themselves, but he also knew that speaking the truth out loud was more important than what people would think of him.

Besides, it's not like you owe anything to all those Obamabots in your class. You're not on this Earth to be their goddamn' sweethearts. They're the ones who -- despite knowing better -- were so goddamn' desperate and scared that they knowingly helped elect and continue to support a corporate tool who's done nothing but continue what George W. Bush was doing for the eight previous years. Let it rip, man. Screw 'em if they can't deal with it. I can't begin to tell you how liberating it was, back in the '90s, when I finally realized that I didn't have to give a shit what a bunch of geezing old Liberals thought when I called bullshit on Bill Clinton and the Democrats. In fact, I think you'll find it rather fun, poking Liberals with a stick.

Sure as hell doesn't bother me any, what Liberals think of what I have to say; it's no different from when all the Bushites were calling me a "terrorist" and an "America hater" for speaking out against the destruction of the Bill Of Rights, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the torture being committed at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. It's basically the same kind of ignorant mentality that's causing Liberals and "progressives" to tag you with epithets like "teabagger" or "Bircher" when you're the only one who's wide awake enough to call bullshit on Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Clinton and the rest of the Democrats.

Actually, I've found that it's a great gauge of whether or not some "progressive" really believes in doing something to bring about real change, or just wants somebody in office with a little "D" after his name doing the warmongering, scaremongering, warrantless spying and torturing -- call out Obama and the Democrats in front of their faces, and watch how badly they bluster and fume and shit themselves. It's actually rather entertaining to me, really, watching Liberals crap their drawers when I do something as simple as blurt out the straight raw truth to them.

I've been involved in social-justice activism and independent media for thirty-odd years, and I've always tried to live by the old axiom about comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable.

I think it was Mao who said something to the effect that if you're not enraging your adversaries, you're not doing your job."


"Do Not Be a Goddamned Liar", from Sh*t My Dad Says: The Book
COMMENT
"I'm going to be on your ass every step of the way. You will have the greatest science experiment that school has ever seen, or you will fucking die trying.

Wow.

Dad's a textbook definition of a "tyrant".

Halpern's portrait says it all: slouched shoulders, resigned expression - this isn't a guy who's confident or proud in his own skin. You'll see the same demeaned expression on animals who've been beaten repeatedly. They jump at loud noises and scuttle away like roaches at the slightest provocation - nervous wrecks the whole lot of them.

If you raise your kids with fear, they live in fear as adults. Meanwhile, Dad's a coward and a bully who was never challenged to question the source of his incredible anger. No one ever stood up to him, so he continues to believe it's "his way or the highway", even when his way is wrong.

I grew up with this guy (my father), and the only way to assert myself was to get as far-the-fuck-away from him as I could. My grandfather was this guy too. Guess where his kids are now? Nowhere near him, I can tell you that.

When you see lonely elderly parents and wonder why their kids will have nothing to do with them, think of this guy.

Mystery solved."

Coraline

COMMENT
"I'm going to buy myself a bucket of coke and dunk my head in a toilet bowl-full of peroxide, cause somehow this bitch has a career and I'm stuck foraging for sofa quarters to pay the muthaf@kin rent.

Whew! That felt GOOD."
[Gawker.com - Lilo: Warrior Princess - 06.06.10]


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"Today I got my 1,000,000th Twitter follower! I am now in the realm of Gods like Ashton, Bieber, Mariah, and updates on new Dell products."

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Honeybees Dying; Scientists Wonder Why, and Worry About Food Supply
"Almonds and apples, soybeans and strawberries - as well as animals that feed on pollinated crops - may all be a bit more expensive this year because of a shortage of bees to pollinate the trees or vines."

"The 98 pesticides and metabolites detected in mixtures up to 214 ppm [parts per million] in bee pollen alone represents a remarkably high level for toxicants in the brood and adult food of this primary pollinator."

"In many ways we view honeybees as an indicator species, like the proverbial canary in the coal mine."

Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril
"Every third bite we consume in our diet is dependent on a honeybee to pollinate that food."

Give Bees a Chance
"In 2006, a Cornell University study found that in the U.S., bees annually pollinate more than $14 billion worth of seeds and crops—mostly fruit, vegetables and nuts. In the UK, they are responsible for the pollination of $420 million worth of food crops."

The Buzz Over Disappearing Bees
"Honeybees, which are different from bumblebees, are not native to the Americas - they came here with the European settlers (Dr. Buchmann says some first nations tribes referred to them as "white men's flies")."

"The world would be a desolate place without our pollinating friends, devoid of flowers, flowering plants and many of our favourite foods."

60 Minutes: Why Are Honeybees Disappearing? (Part 1) & (Part 2)
"Most of the people in this country have no idea what it takes to put the food on their table."

Bayer, Monsanto Killing Bees with Patented Chemicals, Process
"In July, 2007, the German corn crop was infested with the rootworm. The German government ordered that every possible method should be used to eradicate this pest, including the use of clothianidin. Shortly after the seeds were planted, in May of 2008, some 330-million bees abruptly died."

"We have been pointing out the risks of neonicotinoids for almost 10 years now. This proves without a doubt that the chemicals can come into contact with bees and kill them. These pesticides shouldn’t be on the market."

Koodo Finally Finds its Groove
"This post is about a campaign that I've been thinking about for the last little while, one that I started out hating but have increasingly grown to love. That campaign, of course, is from Koodo."

Lauren

QUOTE
"A bully only picks a fight he knows he can win."





COMMENT
"The next time something like this happens, the boat might be armed to the teeth with explosives.

Tit for tat for tit for...*KABOOM*

I don't think it's a stretch to say that Israel would like nothing more than to "cleanse" the region of Palestinians. Of course, their method is less efficient than the Rwandan Hutus (800,000 Tutsis slaughtered in 3 months), but with their level of perseverence and dedication, they'll get there in 10 years or less.

And with the support of Western countries all the way.

The media will spin it as "justifiable homicide", but anyone who's ever found themselves at the wrong end of the stick of oppression will know the truth. Not that the truth has done us any good so far.

I'd like any one of you IDF sympathizers to come over to MY HOUSE, sit on MY COUCH, confine me to a corner of MY ROOM, instruct me not to eat MY FOOD or use MY TOILET until you say I can because one of your goddamned ancestors occupied that very same house 2000 years before we were born.

Let's see how that plays out, shall we? How long, do you think, before we kill each other?

Or, is this all just a race to see who annihilates the other first? What kind of person wants to "win" this contest, anyway??"
[Gawker.com - Israel Releases Video of Raid on Aid Flotilla - 05.31.10]