tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17732116775396492722011-07-30T12:44:03.486-06:00snarko's homestyle blog about stuff that matterssnarko!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09317635799641286718noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773211677539649272.post-74927862220285912392007-05-23T11:46:00.000-06:002007-05-23T13:10:48.319-06:00

...AND WHAT THIS BILL WON'T TEACH YOUSo follow along: I'm gonna show you, step by step, how to read between the lines of modern political bullshiting. I'm into PR and marketing; I know what I'm talking about here. Step one: don't skim. Never. Read every sentence. Read it twice. The Truth is in there, and it hurts. (The other steps aren't numbered just follow...)I admit I don't check my general

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Now, I neither believe, nor disbelieve.But I have firm reasons, which I either will or will not get into here, to think certain public officials are not human.Not at all.You've seen "They Live", right? If not, rent it. It's real good for at least reference sake, including Consolidated's "Friendly Fa$cism" repeatedly samples it:Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the end of the twentieth century and

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WHY CATS ARE BETTER THAN PEOPLEWe're skipping the fanfair and going straight to the fat woman:9. They are constant reminders everything is, in fact, stupid nonsense. As Vicious the Runt has stated, "Just roll around with the sun on your belly, why don't you? See?! It's nice!"8. They are symbiotic and loyal if you earn such loyalty; they'll kick in the dog in the nuts for you if they have to. But

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"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So one day when I was six, I did...the next day I had my first headache."- Max Cohen in PiHey, ever watched Pi?!Want a PERFECT musical example of a migrane?!I'll find you a link, but for now, and with said headache...Oh, it's no mere headache. It's a thrumping (not bumping, thrumping), kick-the-walls, I-can't-take-the-pain,

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from Greg Palast: P/S - Mr. Rove, I'm not British and you are un-American.Like it's hard to get angry with this dude for pushing his own books--I mean, this is the guy arrested on repeated "tell the truth" issues...That 1945 investigative reporter you miss? Well, he moved to England to GET PUBLISHED AT ALL, and maintains what I consider absolutely investigative reporter integrity. Mind you,

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Hold your donkeys! I've got like SIX articles in "draft" mode, but have a solution to part of that issue.Which is once a week, I'll be dishing you the "snarko real news report". Basically, it'll be a bunch of links to the good stuff, in case you missed it, with comments if I got the time, but just the links if I don't.THIS WEEK I can't even follow the Gonzales/Meiers (so happy to watch her go

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I've actually seen a cabbit. It's a freakish cross-bred cat and rabbit; mainly it looks, talks, and kills like a cat, but has long hind hare legs, no tail for balance, and has to constantly hop to get around. You kinda feel sorry for it when you look at it and want to take it in as a pet; but your heart still sinks to the pit of your stomach, because it simply shouldn't exist.I wouldn't call it

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Phonelines tapped by Bush, Inc. Opt-ins sold to opt-outs. Cameras at every intersection and in most establishments I don't patronize.Like for instance, after my husband was fired (and with no proof of anything nor warnings preceding it) he took the same job at the same money he'd spent six years working towards, for a competitor.This is just a grocery store, y'all. Keep that in mind.He had to go

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aaaaaaaaaaaaah. Just like that. Because the old-school dotcommers (the ones that actually created websites that did something you WANTED, and kept it simple--unlike the new-wave that were just business people and didn't even GET the internet) are being reborn!Once upon a time, whilst I was living in San Francisco, there existed this online-based company that actually provided a real service I

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Hold your donkeys! This is a joke, this is only a joke. If it were a real issue, you wouldn't be laughing.I unfortunately hope you'll just be laughing.I just punched "texasdemocraticparty" into my browser's locator, cuz I needed some info off their website. But it went to one of those "placeholder" sites instead, since they don't own the domain. This is what it generated; I had to laugh!:

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The following has been sent to snarko! by a reliable source:This has been verified on Snopes.com and by the FBI. Most of us take those summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam has surfaced. Fall for it and your identity could be stolen, reports CBS. In this con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who

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The man's not even literate, for Christ's sake. And that ain't the name of Lord in vain neither.PLEASE HELP.The Southern Methodist University--and quite against their will might I add--is about to get a library named for our arrogant, ignorant, POS President unless y'all help out a bit here. From their website:We the undersigned express our objection to the prospect of the George W. Bush library,

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I've been asking myself this question all week. I have two emptied cardboard toilet paper tubes to prove it.Which is worse?: an ice storm that shuts down the entire city, nay, most of the US, actually, as I understand--but dammit this is TEXAS WTF?!...nevermind.I take the side tangent. No, global warming isn't happening. The Bush Administration says it isn't. Who cares what the rest of the world

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You realize none of these count until I get to V, right?You are guilty until proven innocent. Though innocent until proven guilty.Either way, priests, priestesses, popes: let us all turn NE (from here, the epicenter of all that is Erisian), to the Mecca that is all, the Pentagon, and pray:PLFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!Because there is no Truth, and no False. Only an imaginery grid on which to place "

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THE CONTINUING SAGA:My desk is a disaster right now. I'm trying to sort out the junk from notes I need for work and the paperwork I need for the lawyer and, what's this?Over FIFTY, no joke, mailers from lawyers starting the day after my arrest.Apparently they check the jail records for this stuff daily. It's simply amazing.Running the gamut from scare tactics ("I don't want to scare you, but let

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I'm kinda in shock. Or maybe not. But those of you participating in this are all sick. And should be arrested. Where are you, Greg Abbott and Cyber Crimes Unit, Inc. hmm? Cuz last I checked, airing video of an actual murder--well in this case execution but I'm pretty damn sure it COUNTS--is strictly illegal, and for good reason.No, you get NO links to this shit. I hope the hell it's pulled off

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CONTINUING CASE SAGA:And Joe actually gave me the title; it is truly ironic, n'est-ce pas? His dying on Christmas pretty much ruins those albums for me. They're sad now.I thought the APD took a lot of stuff from my bookbag--including the chromium picolinate I keep in it (for hypoglycemia), like maybe they won't give you back your "drugs" (technically not one) or something. I found later they just

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You'd have the photo right now, except it was refused; I kept begging the mugshot person for it, but apparently even though it's YOUR PHOTO in Texas, they won't release it.But anyway, I digress.No, I'm not in jail now (I couldn't be writing this if I were), but for your pleasure, here's the last 48 hours of my life:Charge(s)? DWI (I'll get to the other in a minute). Bunk. I was a friend of

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While this isn't normally part of my holiday experience, my husband and I went to the mall with his mother. She's wanted a photo of the three of us with Santa Claus for years. Ten to be exact. I dunno how many times I had to hear that!Anyway, I loathe the mall, but since it's that important to her, we agreed.But since I get to ask for something for Christmas while sitting on Santa's lap, I said

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Sherry, Joe, Gerry, and Sharon rolled into the town with a thunder and a clap. And an echo. And a dustcloud.Turning off her motorcycle and taking off her helmet, Sharon shook her black hair and shrugged her head generally to the left, rolling her brilliant blue eyes squinting at the bright sun a bit even further left, like a white angel might be whispering in her ear and it tickled. A bit.But

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AN IRRITATED BLOGGER'S USER REVIEWI hate to blog about Blogger again, but I'm not using Blogger to blog at the moment. AGAIN.Or maybe it's Google's fault. I dunno who, but I'm kinda getting sick of this. AGAIN.“Cuz they said it would be easy!” (you'll hafta watch the original Perfect Blue in English dub to get that whine quite right.)Yeah, until you try to LOGIN. When the heck CAN one login? I

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I hope his website currently being down is a good thing? Hopefuly the links I'm providing work in a bit...I just read the email and I'm SO excited! Excerpt from the email:Today, I announced my candidacy for President of the United States in a quest to call my party to courage and integrity on this issue. This is a journey upon which I hope you will join together with me to ensure that our country

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AP NEWSWIRE: ATLANTA, GA 2045: Catastrosphic Contusory Dispondenism (CCD), Kills 20Twenty people now lay dead from the incurable, contagible disease, CCD.Investigators on the scene report there are no obvious contusions; however, CCD is heavily suspected."I felt nothing," said a victim (identity protected by really good lawyer); "But these these bruises? Oh my god. Please save me!"CCD, as the

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"TEST POST" is now a review of the whole process. If on Blogger, you want it...This is just a test post. I had no idea Blogger was gonna make me create a new account to make a new blog. I hope to heck I can transfer old stuff easily![actually next day] Also testing at sec whether I need certain tags, or if this'll wrap the graphic without me. I hope the latter true. If not and watching, send me

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"There is nothing worse than having a job, except looking for a job."We all know that's true. Unless you've never looked for a job. It sucks, okay.Another favorite quote (from the movie Slacker): "I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do so!"Let me tell you, little designers just out of college, how much you're hurting the market right now. And yourself. Take notes.In the United

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Priests, priestesses, popes: let us all turn NE (from here, the epicenter of all that is Erisian), to the Mecca that is all, the Pentagon, and pray:PLFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!Erisian it is, they blow a missle--I mean plane that turns to liquid for the first time in history on contact--into a circular cavity through our sacred space.Now shit. That's a verb.Shit on Sunday. Eat the bun on Friday. What,

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[only two of you will get this. it's for you. special shout-out to all who hail Eris. all 23 of you.]LOL!Oh, and Hunter can read this too. But I'm not laughing on that one.Okay, look at the sky. Just look at it. No, really look at it.Shut up and do it.That's it. Period,Come on, admit it; it's beautiful. Okay, unless you REALLY know it has signs of a hurricane or something about to smack down your

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I just rented this newly-released DVD (documentary) Why We Fight; my goddess, it rocks.But I dunno if I should truly recommend, as it'll make y'all want a gun.It starts with Eisenhower's departure speech warning not to let the military industry get too much power; the research on "follow the money" is stellar; it includes the assholes in their own words; the grand plan of Iraq is SICK SICK

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NOT OF MY WORLDI did something yesterday that I never, ever, do.I went shopping in "the real world".It was an emergency; my keyboard, an $8 Goodwill purchase to replace, by emergency, one I'd spilled coffee into; well, I was working on a political campaign, left to get cigarettes, and when I came back,it didn't work correctly.No m, t, w, or k; and all the "special characters" fucked. I couldn't

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State of the Onion[Editorial Note: this piece is left in "sketch" form, but published anyway.]I don't know which I hated attempting to stomach more: Bush's bullshit lying smug ass face, or that Democratic used-car salesman from Virginia.Oh, that title's not a typo. Cuz what Bush has to say STANKS. And not the kind of STANK I would want some of.Like, am I the only one on the planet that heard that

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For Lynda BarryI did not want to go to Grandma's house.Every summer me and my stupid brother got sent away to Nana and Nanu's house for a week. I dunno who's dumb idea it was. I think it was Nana's. I'd have to be away from anyone I knew or could stand. I couldn't even call them. It would be a toll call, and you weren't allowed to make toll calls. But they had a big screen TV Nanu won on The

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