Posts Tagged ‘government’
So not that it was very difficult to call, but I totally called the Anthony Weider meant to send a DM thing the day after the scandal broke. This is exactly what I said:
I will bet you $100.00 that he meant to send that as a DM. And if it turns out he was using Tweetdeck, I will up my bet to a zillion dollars.
Why? Because Tweetdeck is built to make you fuck up when trying to send tweets. I don’t even have anyone to have textual relations with and I still fuck it all up constantly. Here is Tweetdeck
- I am outlined in Red. I am being a weird stalker to a dude via Direct Message.
So you can see that Julie from Momspective wants to see my junk. Did I make a tweet asking of people wanted to see my junk so my screenshot would look cooler? Yes I did. It’s for my art. Jerks Anyway – now on to the problem that Wiener had. Confusing Mentions with Direct Messages.
Step One – find someone you want to tweet to. I’m choosing Sarah Silverman for my experiment. She tweets jokes and that’s about it. Sometimes she does crazy videos and pictures but most of the time it’s those one line jokes that everyone tweets in the hope that people will retweet it.
Oh, and just in case you think all I do is tweet to famous people – I have a very thin definition of “Celebs”. I have the red-headed racist from The Amazing Race on there, as well as Amanda Carpenter, Right Wing Shill. I also have Keith Olbermann so my Tweetdeck does not tip over.
Let’s zoom in on Sarah’s thing (heh) after the jump and see how Mr. Weiner made his mistake. Once you see it you will be all like – damn! He could sue Tweetdeck for sure!
So usually when you think that the US has earthquakes you think about all those hippies in San Francisco slipping into the sea with their tie-dyed shirts and pot brownies. And when you think of large entities shooting beams up into the sky, you usually think of a super villain trying to control the weather or burn a hole in Fort Knox. WELL THINK AGAIN!!!!!
The New Madrid (it’s not pronounced like the city in Spain; It’s MAD-RID) Fault is a big ass thing sitting near the middle of the country more or less. And what’s more important is that it’s closer to the side of the country that people care about (fuck you, rectangle states). Here are some facts. At least I think they’re facts. I got them from a .org.
THE NEW MADRID FAULT SYSTEM EXTENDS 120 MILES SOUTHWARD from the area of Charleston, Missouri, and Cairo, Illinois, through New Madrid and Caruthersville, following Interstate 55 to Blytheville and on down to Marked Tree, Arkansas. It crosses five state lines and cuts across the Mississippi River in three places and the Ohio River in two places.
THE HIGHEST EARTHQUAKE RISK in the UNITED STATES outside the West Coast is along the New Madrid Fault. Damaging tremors are not as frequent as in California, but when they occur, the destruction covers over more than 20 times the area because of underlying geology.
A DAMAGING EARTHQUAKE in this AREA, 6.0 or greater, occur about every 80 years (the last one in 1895). The results would cause serious damage to schools and masonry buildings from Memphis to St Louis.
Now, since I’m not a nerd, I have no idea how far away Memphis is from St. Louis (and I can’t find it on the stupid map up there) but I do know that whenever someone starts talking about underlying geogrpaphy I get scared. The last time someone did that I was building a kick ass fort in back of my grandmother’s house and my drunk uncle was all like: “the underlying geography of blarb glarble flarb.” and sure enough the fort collapsed and my uncle fell asleep in a lawn chair. So I know what I’m talking about. So if you want to find video and facts and all sorts of fucked up crap about how we’re all going to die, check it out after the jump.
Meat Glue. Just saying it is pretty gross. but after you watch the video below, you will know what gross really is. Meat Glue is actually called transglutaminase enzyme. It’s used in the processing of food. What kind of process? Well, it works like this: say you have yourself a bunch of chunks of meat. Stuff cut off the ends of other meat. What would you as a butcher do? You could grind it all up and make hamburger, but where’s the profit in that? This is good steak.
Were you going to guess: use meat glue to stick all the meat together and let it sit overnight until it looks like an actual steak? Cause if you were going to say that, you would win!
So I didn’t write the story in time for it to matter. See, the govt. decided to crack down on the million sites on the Internet that show pirated stuff. And my fave tvshack.net was one of them. But by the time I was finished looking for the banner pic (thanks Vange) tvshack.net was already back up as tvshack.cc. LOL Internet.
Here’s the story. The quote is even funnier now.
“That’s why we took the actions that we did,” Bharara said in a statement. “If your business model is movie piracy, your story will not have a happy ending.”
Except if you forget that the Internet is Whack A Mole. Go catch a real crook!
This is not a story about Sarah Palin. However, her ears are goddamn huge and I'm not gonna rest until I get some traction on this big ear movement.
I got this email the other day and while I know it is like, partisan stuff (on the Republican Whip’s Channel) but I can’t decide whether or not it’s an outrage or a big fat taste of parliamentary awesomeness. The dude acting as speaker is John Murtha from PA who got the Federal Government to buy his district a whole airport! So the dude is a dickhole unless you live in his district. If you live in his district and get free airports then he’s awesome.
But the people he fucked over on this vote don’t think he’s awesome at all. Oh no. He’s a grade A dickhole. UNLESS. Well, you watch the video and figure out if there could be an unless. If the dude can cheat THAT badly. I mean, just flat out cheat, then why do we have to listen to people arguing over what passes in the House? I’m thinking there is more to this than meets the eye. Like that the vote was a foregone conclusion or some shit and each person had to play their part. I don’t know. It just seems odd. I mean, it really looks like flat out cheating. But could it be that the people stirring up noise with the video are banking on us dumb citizens being dumb and not investigating? Well, in response to that I will say: watch the video after the jump and holy crap look at all those potatoes on TV! I have to go!
I don’t prove these things, I just point them out. I am sure that one of you has a calculator or Snopes or some shit like that and can see if this is legit. I remember that everyone said that the Cash for Clunkers was an example of a good program and blah blah. So I guess it was inevitable that someone would make something that either:
A: Makes it seem like it was really bad (cause the government cannot do anything right).
B: Exposes the fact that it was really bad (cause the government cannot do anything right).
Either way – it seems sort of slippery. Whenever I see numbers in an email I get suspicious. Even if it is just a 7 or a 6 in there all innocent. I don’t trust them one bit. And even worse, the big reason why I think this whole thing below may be crap is because they use the word ‘average’. It seems like it is a big jump to arbitrarily define the ‘average’. Fucking sneaky numbers and numbers disguising themselves as words. So read this thing about the crappy car program and let me know if it is legit. I am not really sure what I will do with that information, but I assume it will have something to do with rage.
Clunkers…
I guess I must be on the wrong page…
- A vehicle at 15 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons a year of gasoline.
- A vehicle at 25 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a year.
- So, the average clunker transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year..
- They claim 700,000 vehicles – so that’s 224 million gallons a year.
- That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.
- 5 million barrels of oil is about ¼ of one day’s US consumption.
- And, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $350 million dollars at $75/bbl.
- So, we all contributed to spending $3 billion to save $350 million.
How good a deal was that??