Sickly Pig

So I was thinking about the whole Swine Mexico Flu outbreak and it had my conspiracy gears turning, in low gear, but turning nonetheless. I'm happy to say that the Mexico Flu isn't anything like Queen Bavmorda's curse. So, we're all good there.



It seems that in the wake of epidemics like SARS, Mad-Cow disease, bird-flu and now Mexico-Flu one thing (besides death) that emerges is world-wide concern, over-thinking and in some cases panic. I was at Hobby Airport picking up a friend and saw two people with medical masks on. In my opinion, that's absolute insanity.

When you stop to think how excitable the global community is when an "epidemic" is announced, how easy would it be to engineer one? Let's just say the government has a flu strain that kills one in ten people that contract it and leave the other people sickly for a couple weeks. What stops them from using an epidemic like that from striking panic and fear into the feeble minds of the American and Global community only then to declare marshal law upon it's citizens to "protect" and isolate them. It's literally that easy.

One way to spread it to assure that people catch it is through those damn mosquito sprayers. For those of you who don't live in an area where this happens I'll explain what this is. Overnight, usually around midnight, trucks that are marked and sometimes unmarked drive around the neighborhoods with tanks affixed to their beds. From those tanks a small pole is extended upwards and sprays whatever the hell they're spraying up into the air behind the vehicle. I have a HUGE problem with this happening for the simple reason that literally anything could be in there. Anything. As a private citizen I think it is ridiculous for the local, state or federal government to be able to spray some mysterious chemical, even if it is indeed for mosquitoes, around me when I haven't agreed to it. That may sound ridiculous, but then again you probably trust everything the government tells you.


(Vid of a mosquito truck. The one in this vid looks just like the ones we have in Houston)

Anyways, it's not too hard to believe something like this could happen when you start to read the news detailing the actions some people and governments are taking. Here are som interesting articles and snippets:

Obama speaks! Utmost precations? What's that mean??

Egypt orders the slaughter of all pigs in the country...an estimated 300,000 animals?? That's just plain old crazy. I like that some pig farmers are telling the government to fuck off.

Who discredits the 150 death claim. I like this story because WHO is actually being honest with reporting the numbers.

I feel like Jerry Fletcher.

Marblecake, also the game.

I started trolling /b/ around 4 years ago, maybe even 5. It's a blurred line that doesn't really matter. I'm not a newfag and that's all that matters.

It seems that anon, sometimes referred to as Legion has made a mockery out of Time.com and their online poll of most influential people. The founder of 4chan, moot (aka Christopher Poole, CP) has recently been voted Time.com's most influential person. To be honest, all hacking aside, this is probably true when you take into account what has stemmed from 4chan's /b/ board. Almost anything you see on the internet that's funny started on /b/, including those stupid pictures of the lolcats. So his position as number one on the list is most likely deserved unless you count anonymous as a person, then I say they are the most influential. But it seems that some foul play was at work this year at Time.com's online poll. If you look closely at the first letter of the names for the first 21 people on the top 100, something interesting happens. "Marblecake, also the game" appears. Legion has struck again.

Read about it over at MusicMachinery where Paul Lamere has a great writeup of how it happened.

Inside the Precision Hack

Houston Highway Robbery

What came first, the motorcyclist or the motorcycle license? More on that later.

A day after my father castigated me about not having done the title change or insurance on my FJ1200, I got pulled over for "being a dick" as the bastard police officer said (I can't stand cops...I was warming up the highly inefficient rear tire by going left to right in my lane). My Dad either jinxed me, or is clairvoyant. I think he definitely jinxed me. Anyways, I was told by the cop that he was letting me go easy and giving me a ticket for no license and no insurance, when he COULD have tacked on reckless driving. He also told me I could go to the local HPD substation to resolve the ticket after I did my insurance and got my license. I kept my mouth shut and drove home (I wanted to laugh at him, but I refrained). After getting insurance, transferring the title I got my license (more on that later) and went to resolve the ticket this morning. When I went to the substation the kind ladies assisted me (after they got off their cell phones on personal calls). I was told that my insurance ticket was dropped but that my license would only be lessened to 25 bucks. That pissed me off but whatever, at least it wasn't a total of 425 dollars like it could have been with both charges. But what really grabbed my ass was the court fee. 67 fucking dollars!! WTF is up with that? That shits highway robbery! Not only do they get paid on tax day and through fines and whatnot, but then they have to charge an outrageous "court" cost to boot, with no actual court appearance. I asked the lady if the 67 dollars was for an actual court appearance and she told me it didn't matter whether or not I went to court, the fee was always assessed. I wanted to punch her computer in the face but I didn't. I just sat there silently with a smile on my face for about 10 seconds and then said OK. After that I was called up to the desk again to sign an electronic pad. As I approached and picked up the pen to sign I realized that I had no idea what I was signing. I asked the lady what the hell I was signing and asked her for a copy of it and she said she didn't have anything for me. So I asked her to turn her monitor around so I could read it. Turns out it was a waiver of rights because I was refusing a trial...something you should be told to read before signing. I was really pissed at this point. How many people have signed that pad without even asking the lady behind the desk what the fuck they were signing. That shit should be illegal and they should be required to tell the person signing what exactly they are relinquishing. DOn't get me wrong, I am a big proponent of personal responsibility, but they didn't even give me a print out. So fuck them, that shit's gay.

Now for the motorcycle license. This one is fucking ridiculous. So, we all know how terrible the DMV is...that's a tired old subject that seems to be universal no matter what state you're in so I'm not going to talk about the wait or shit like that (frankly, it didn't even take that long). My problem is with the logistics behind the actual driving test and how you have to do it when on a motorcycle. It seems the age old question of the chicken and the egg hasn't been answered, or even contemplated by the folks at Texas DOT. Get this, to do your motorcycle driving test, you must have a licensed motorcyclist drive your motorcycle to the DMV while you drive a follow vehicle for the examiner to sit in whilst they grade you on your driving skills. This is a big fucking problem. Consider this: what if you don't have any friends who drive motorcycles, what if you don't have any friends (like you just moved to Houston), what if (like most people) all of your friends work during the week? Any and all of those things can prohibit you from ever getting your motorcycle license. How does this make any sense? Well, the more I thought of it the more I realized that it is just a money making scam. It seems the only possible way to get your license other than the DMV is to take a Motorcycle Safety Foundation three day course (which is fucking nuts) for something like $100 to $300. These are usually offered by bigger dealers and some community colleges and the motorcycles are typically provided. Discounts are given if you purchase a new bike from the dealer and sometimes even a helmet of some previously decided worth is also thrown into the deal. This is all bullshit though. We provide the DMV with both equipment and salaries through our tax dollars and WE still have to provide a following vehicle? How is that even remotely fair? The whole system is a sham. I was lucky enough to have a friend come with me on a friday he luckily had off...but that's not the end of the story. When the tough guy Trooper came out to my buddies truck which had his wife and kids in it he refused to use the truck because the children would be a liability. WHAT? This was fucking news to me. Apparently, my buddy Jon is unable to safely drive his vehicle with his kids in the car AND an examiner. He was PISSSSSED and started yelling to me and at the trooper about how it was bullshit. The trooper then got tough with me and said I wasn't allowed to take the test and that I had to come back. I told him to shove it and that my friends actions don't reflect on me. By a stroke of pure luck, the guy in front of me in line was also taking his motorcycle test and his driver offered to be my follow driver for the test (motorcycle riders DO stick together). So all in all it worked out, but was a much bigger pain in the ass than it ever has to be.

I know this isn't news or political, but it's definitely something that is fucked up with the government here in Texas. Seriously.

Rick Santelli is the Tea Master

I posted this video on my Gaycebook a month or two ago and completely forgot about it. Rick Santelli, a floor reporter for CNBC, made a great rant in February that essentially started the new Tea Party protests. He said, "We’re thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I’m gonna start organizing."

I know this is old news for a lot of you out there, but it's good to remember where ideas like this come from. He's a good guy to keep an eye on...maybe he'll run for office some day.

The full transcript can be found here and the video of it is below.




Rick was also asked yesterday what he thought of all the Tea Parties that were springing up around the country. He had this to say:




Alright, I hope this is my last Tea Party post for a while.

Clear Lake Tea Party Tax Day Protest Thing

So...I didn't get to hear Ron Paul speak. That's what I get for waiting around for friends to show up. But no big deal cause they're good friends and they help me out when I need it. I'm not sure I can say the same for RP, but still...

Anyways, I showed up around 18:50 or so pretty much amazed. There had to be around 2000 people there, maybe even more. That's a testament to the protest organizers and the people of Clear Lake and the surrounding area. I was genuinely surprised.




What I wasn't surprised by was the complete lack of media at the event. But that's to be expected considering the big protest was up at Jones Plaza in downtown Houston.

I however take all of this local protesting with a grain of salt...if that is even the right saying to use. The only thing, in my opinion, that these "protests" did was make everyone feel like they protested something. And they did, to some extent. But I am a little more extreme than that. I personally believe that a protest should disrupt the very things you are protesting. Hence, protest the capitol building in your state or city. Having the main protest at Jones Plaza was ridiculous. I will assume that someone actually tried to have it at the capitol and was turned away. But you know what, fuck them and do it any way. I don't have any excuse for why I didn't do it, so I'm being somewhat of a hypocrite. But then again, my heart isn't fully into the protest via Tea. I'd rather not pay my damn taxes. Yet the whole jail thing is a little ominous. I'll stick to my guns and if anything goes down, I'll be ready. Unless they have a tank, cause that would suck. Big Time. I mean, I'd put up a fight, but it's a tank, ya know?

Enough with the tanks. I did manage to throw my own tea bags into the lake in the spirit of the evening. I think that was illegal though. Regardless, it was some Celestial Seasonings Mandarin Orchard and the shit's good. I should used some Lipton's or something. Whatever. At least a little part of Clear Lake around the tea bags now tastes good.

A New Hope

I'm not talking about Pres. B. Hussein Obama, I'm talking about myself...or you. Let me explain that a little better because that sounds conceited.

What I mean by "A New Hope" is that the new American Citizen, the one who's pissed off at his government for constantly betraying him, is the only person we can rely on now that it seems we're headed for severely choppy waters on the USS B. Hussein Obama.

I've been away for quite some time, almost 1.5 years. I suppose that in my complacency was lost my fervor for all things news related. But a new spark has arisen in me and a fire is burning right through my skin. That was sort of poetic, in a gay kind of way. Oh well. Nonetheless, I plan to write weekly if not daily about the issues I think are important. I hope I can be more diligent as I see this particular moment in history to be a defining time for not only Americans, but the world at whole. With the nameless driving towards a global government, it is important that we all take time out of our day to realize how evil that very notion is.

I'm planning on going to the Tea Party Protest tonight at Clear Lake Park. I'll be writing about how lame or great it was tomorrow.

EDIT: I just found out the man himself, Congressman Ron Paul, will be speaking at the Clear Lake Tea Party...which, is pretty damn exciting because RP is a BA. There's also a Facebook group set up for the Clear Lake Tea Party with news on future tea parties and a blog. Check it out, son.


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