Get Out Before You Die!

Good list of the old & in the way of whom Slate readers have had just about enough.

Also straight outta Slate:

Click here to read a slide-show essay about the history of racist spokescharacters.

Here's one from our collection.

Ten Worst Places To Live

The Rat Islands just might be one.

Non-Stop Neo-Feudalism

Those who administer empire—elected officials, corporate managers, generals and the celebrity courtiers who disseminate the propaganda—become very wealthy. They make immense fortunes whether they deliver the nightly news, sit on the boards of corporations, or rise, lavished with corporate endorsements, within the vast industry of spectacle and entertainment. They all pay homage, even in moments defined as criticism, to the essential goodness of corporate power. They shut out all real debate. They ignore flagrant injustices and abuse. They peddle the illusions that keep us passive and amused. But as our society is reconfigured into an oligarchic system, with a permanent and vast underclass, along with a shrinking and unstable middle class, these illusions lose their power. The language of pleasant deception must be replaced with the overt language of force. It is hard to continue to live in a state of self-delusion once unemployment benefits run out, once the only job available comes without benefits or a living wage, once the future no longer conforms to the happy talk that saturates our airwaves. At this point rage becomes the engine of response, and whoever can channel that rage inherits power. The manipulation of that rage has become the newest task of the corporate propagandists, and the failure of the liberal class to defend core liberal values has left its members with nothing to contribute to the debate.

More of the same.

Net Neutrality Neutered

Damnit. We'd been vaguely planning on producing/extruding some sarcasm to the effect of "What now, PuffHo buys TIME?" reacting to the final subsumption of Newsweek by The Daily Beast. But we didn't. In light of this breaking news pile, had we typed & manifested it last wk. or whenever, we'd now be hailed as an effin' genius, if not an oracle.

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times Mon, February 07, 2011 -- 12:05 AM ET
AOL to Buy The Huffington Post in $315 Million Deal

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants. The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and were expected to announce the deal Monday morning. The deal will allow AOL to greatly expand its news gathering and original content creation, areas that its chief executive, Tim Armstrong, views as vital to reversing a decade-long decline.

Imagining the synergy: A minimum of three times the suck is expected from only two combined sources.

This of course means that parasites like Huffington (Newt's BFF, see?)

Two on the left: no idea. Then: Arianna, Newt, Callista, Barbara Walters.
GUNS NOT CAMERAS!!

& Andrew Breitbart will receive added millions, while the people who did the actual work, created the brand, yada fucking yada, have doubtless already been fired or laid off & will receive sweet fuck all for their efforts.

Wage-Slave Loser Up-Date

More data, stats & so forth about how you, running dog lackey of capitalism, are no longer of any use to your Galtian overlords, as mentioned recently.

These alarming job trends were not caused by the financial collapse that began in 2007. Rather, the prolonged recession revealed deep structural changes in the U.S. economy that reflect a gross imbalance between a corporate elite and ordinary working people.

So if you want to know why the Democratic Party did so badly in the 2010 midterms, it's because the administration lacked a plausible story about how to alter these basic dynamics. And it lacked that story because it was unwilling to challenge the corporate business model that disdains American workers. In light of that reality, the latest gestures by the president to show the business elite just what a good fellow he is are not just disappointing, but they are foolish politics.

Will it take food shortages for the American public to pull its head from its ass?

Not Enough Guns At Frat House

Two men have been arrested and charged in a shooting at an Ohio fraternity house that killed one student and injured 11 people at a party near Youngstown State University campus, police said Sunday.

Each man is charged with aggravated murder, shooting into a house and 11 counts of felonious assault, Youngstown police Chief Jimmy Hughes said.

From Just Another Blog™ staff & wire service reports. Eat it, AP!

Michael Douglas Blows Too

So. FOX Sports has already given us cut-aways to G.W. & Laura Bush, by themselves, hiding under the stands or somewhere, & to yet another posed shot of our baby-killers at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan. Not to mention the reading of the Declaration of Independence, & the singing of "G-d Bless America" & the War Anthem.

Bombs & Rockets for Jesus!

Kick off was five min. late.

Entirely ignored Obama-O'Reilly, you betcha.

Pork B-B-Q Now!

American citizens are assaulted under color of authority every single fucking day, but because it's seldom documented well, the illusion/pretense that police officers (American & otherwise) are not brutal thugs & enforcers of the fascist status quo is perpetuated. See also: Egypt, right now.

Theres's a reason they're called pigs, you know.We lived in Houston in 1970 & '71. It was a shit-hole then, & doesn't appear to have improved at all in the ensuing forty yrs. Note the mayor back-tracking on her previous anti-free speech statements.

Let the punishment fit the crime, we say. Kick a cop today!!

An Important Birthday Today

Bob Marley would have been 66.

Twofer: Reagan, Super Bowl

XIX, 1985. From.

Memories

Credit.

One Hundred Years Of Sick Shit Involving Ronald Reagan

Just a shame Reagan didn't die fighting bravely in WWII. During his extensive motion picture service in Alameda. And well before he personally started America's decline to its current sorry fucking state. As noted. Noted here too. More ancient video.

Hey, you think "Mommie" still gives those Hollywood blowjobs for which she was so famous?

Not An Invitation, An Insult

Why sad sacks insist on living on the wrong side of the Rockies, w/ blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanes, Heartlanders & all of Flyover Country is beyond us. Plus which, they get the Super Bowl two or three hrs. later than we West Coast elites.

Super Bowl 2011 will take place on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time and 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

FOX SUPER BOWL PREGAME

• 2 p.m. (ET): Super Bowl XLV Pregame Show
• 2:30 p.m.: Super Bowl Red Carpet begins
• 3:30 p.m.: TMZ dirt from Super Bowl week
• 4:30 p.m.: President Obama with Bill O'Reilly
• 5:30 p.m.: Terry Bradshaw with Big Ben
• 5:53 p.m.: Declaration of Independance
• 6:15 p.m.: Michael Douglas narrates open
• 6:24 p.m.: Christina Aguilera national anthem
• 6:29 p.m.: SUPER BOWL KICK OFF!

Be sure to miss the Declaration of Independence. (WTF?)

Dr. Jazs Presents

Allegedly the Tonight Show ensemble.Via Brother Brick. Too bad we don't have the slightest memory of the original, or we could pass some judgement.

Car Culture Club

Phrase Of The Indeterminate Period

Dildo boat. Usage:

Also note uncivil Twit logo.

Saturday At The Symphony

Actual length (3:16). Disappointing to us, but just as well.And beats that other dinosaur, Robert Planet, currently moaning on third dino Letterman's show on the other channel.

Late add to the rotation, w/ vocals:

America's Shitholes

Snooty elitists at Forbes have once again deigned to look down their noses at America & mock us in our times of trouble.

We were attracted to this because California has eight lovely locales on the list of twenty (Good show, eh?) & four of the first five, including the capital, Sac'to. Our schaden was also well freuded by the fact that the southernmost of these cities is Bakersfield, & other than Vallejo they're inland shitholes, that is, the red parts of the state, where the suburbanites fled to live among the farmers.

Inevitable karmic justice.

Job Report

Grabbing today's Biggest Asshole Award for ourself:

Stupid wage-slaves, your bosses were going to work you 'til you were in your graves, but now they've found out how to make proles entirely redundant, so rather than dying from a heart attack at your desk, you'll be able to starve or freeze to death.

Meanwhile, here in the bunker, one of the winners got up about 1300 & has been watching tee vee, listening to music & dicking about on the Interfestation, while still in the underwear in which he slept for eight or nine hrs., & a T-shirt. (Not paradise though: A bit nippy, so we're sporting our bathrobe too.) Chances of wearing more or doing anything before noon (At the very fucking earliest.) tomorrow: Zero, zip, nada, zilch, nil.

Ha ha. We don't blame you for hating us.

Today's Ignorant Prick

We'll outsource today's Biggest Asshole Award to Conor F. at The Daily Dish, where he provides a new one for a Big Peace hack.

I understand how a writer for a Web site filled daily with intellectually dishonest nonsense, written to advance a twisted, incoherent ideological agenda, would lose site of the fact that other people who call themselves journalists are engaged in work that rightly makes them proud. But the fact of the matter is that foreign reporting is poorly compensated, dangerous work that is of vital importance to our world, and seldom undertaken by anyone whose primary concern is ratings. How someone fails to grasp this while writing at what is ostensibly a foreign affairs Web site boggles the mind. If you're in journalism for the money, it's much easier to launch some hack Web sites where ideologues flatter the prejudices of fellow travelers by slapping up links to stories reported by real journalists, and then publishing people who insult those same professionals, implying their work has no more value than recreational mountain climbing. So Schweitzer disparages these journalists in Egypt while his boss, who owes his fortune to curating their work, roller skates around a parking lot confronting liberals.

Ranking Factoids

A list

This entry gives an estimate from the US Bureau of the Census based on statistics from population censuses, vital statistics registration systems, or sample surveys pertaining to the recent past and on assumptions about future trends. The total population presents one overall measure of the potential impact of the country on the world and within its region.

that has provided literally minutes of amusement & not-uninteresting information to the Just Another Blog &c.,™ staff. Via, as ignorant as we were concerning Ethiopia, mon.

Also did not know the CIA's count was up to 238 countries, autonomous political units, or whatever the hell they are. The U.N. only has 192 member tribes.

And, confounded that the Census Bureau claimed 308,000,000 sheep, while the CIA (using "an estimate from the US Bureau of the Census") figured 310,000,000 as of July 2010.

Either way, we're No. 3!!

Bog Rolling

Hey, Skip, stop burning electrons like that!

Fucking shit, how can we link to a web log smaller than this? Does such a thing even exist? (What does "smaller" even mean? Most of the crap we read works out to be the size of our monitor, depending on the amount of advertising [WHORES!!] in the side-bars. If it's by readership, no way in hell will we research who might be receiving fewer visits than we are; talk about depressing!)

Also why not to: Try to do someone a favor & all of a sudden it's "Oh, 'smaller than you,' are we? Yada yada." All of our readers from known cybersnarkspace are well aware of whatever crap we'd recommend anyway. Few of the (often international) pervs looking for the celebrity nudie shots we ran in the '00s will give a shit.

Wow, we've almost talked ourself out of this.

1. Reads 'Em So You Needn't: green eagle.
2. TL;DR, Posts Daily & Also Reads 'Em: Just Above Sunset
3. Inspirational: Murder/Suicide
4. This Version Is All Videos, All The Time: RedTory v. 3.0.2
5. Current News & Events w/ Commentary: WELCOME TO THE NOW

Five already! Strictly random, by the way; we chose the first five (i.e., most recently posted) "deserving" sites on the local & not rolls.

Equally deserving, but not as obsessive:

1. BTC News. Personal acquaintance from meatspace.
2. bjkeefe. Only web logger who's emailed concerning his listing on the roll. We suspected he was going to ask to be taken the fuck off when we read the header; turned out he was just polite.
3. BUTTERMILK SKY. "angry loner (non-violent)"

Fuck it, it's all two mos. or more since the last posting for the rest of 'em.

Plus Ça ...

Not to worry:

U.S. Shadow War Will Go On,
Whoever Runs Yemen

Status Up-Date

Currently not giving a shit about anything or anybody. Which is hardly breaking news.

Raw Video: No Fascist Editing

Dragging bodies at (0:53):

Newly Thin People To Riot More

UN food price index up 3.4% from December, the highest level since the organisation started measuring food prices in 1990

World food prices surged to a fresh record high in January for the seventh consecutive month.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome said its food price index averaged 230.7 points last month and was up 3.4% from December, marking the highest level since the organisation started measuring food prices in 1990. It topped the high of 224.1 hit in June 2008.

All food commodity prices showed strong gains last month, except meat, which remained unchanged.

"The new figures clearly show that the upward pressure on world food prices is not abating," said FAO economist and grains expert Abdolreza Abbassian. "These high prices are likely to persist in the months to come. High food prices are of major concern especially for low-income food deficit countries that may face problems in financing food imports and for poor households which spend a large share of their income on food."

He added: "The only encouraging factor so far stems from a number of countries, where – due to good harvests – domestic prices of some of the food staples remain low compared to world prices."

Cereal prices were up 3% from December and the highest since July 2008, but still 11% below their peak in April 2008. The recent rises in wheat prices are one factor that triggered the growing unrest in Egypt, and the recent protests in Tunisia. Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer.

Oil and oil seeds costs rose 5.6%, close to the June 2008 record level, while dairy prices gained 6.2% from December and sugar prices were 5.4% higher.

By contrast, meat prices were steady as falling meat prices in Europe, caused by a drop in consumer confidence following recent feed contamination scandals, were offset by a slight increase in export prices from Brazil and the US.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/03/food-prices-new-record-high

Power Of The New Media

We told them (two items) below that they'd better get cracking!

And now bodies are being dragged from the square. The devil-box is mightier than the sword. Or the AK-47.

Role Models

So, how long before Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller goes News of the World & starts w/ bare-nipple shots of attractive nobodies? Judging from this exhibition, two wks.? A mo.?

Is this the sort of thing Tucker likes his daughters to see? Probably. They'll need ideas on how to support themselves after Bow-Tie Daddy blows through the load of venture capital he stole for TheDC. And this seems just the sort of thing that reactionary women would get into, doesn't it?

What Have They Done To The Earth?

Cyclone Hits Queensland With 181 mph winds 
Residents described "tree tops being shredded by winds that roared like jet engines." 
Read original story in BBC | Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011

Midwest Buried By Record-Breaking Blizzard
As Chicago starts to dig out from under almost two feet of snow, the storm moves toward the northeast, coating New England in ice.
Read original story in CNN | Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011

And when will the Egyptians start some actual fighting, rather than aimlessly milling about in the streets? We'll give the chicken-shits until their Friday after prayer aimless milling, at which time, if there isn't enough bloodshed, destruction & anarchy happening, we'll be giving our travel agent a call & heading out for some revolutionary action ourself. "Don't make us come over there, you will be sorry."

What we mean is, "Somebody, somewhere, do something to relieve the non-stop fascism of dullness & idiocy under which we suffer!"

And no, you fucking sheep, seeing a groundhog or two rudely awakened (Stop torturing the animals!!) does not relieve the stress of boredom.

HAWT!!

Be still, our beating, throbbing, pulsating heart.

Daily Biggest Asshole(s)

Enjoy at (5:41) where these two brainiacs try to decide which is worse, the jihadists, the communist/socialist movement, or BOTH COMBINED!!We can only hope that the entire Mediterranean Basin is soon enveloped in flames & Red Muslims, but nothing that much fun ever happens.

We Sympathize, But We Just Can't Empathize

BLIZZARDWATCH 2011!

Current L.A. temp.: 63°F (17.2222°C, for those who've forgotten the old ways) under clear & sunny skies.

Geography Lesson: Glenn Beck Explains It All For You

Tea Bagging logic applied to international affairs.Seen here.Holy shit! Not a Commie Caliphate! No!

Mubarak Will Not Step Down: Assassination Now On The Table

Well, what other interpretation is there following Mubarak's pre-recorded statement? Get to work, Egyptian brothers & sisters in revolution!

Soul Train To Hell