Never Forget - The Color Within The Lines

Never Forget - The Color Within The Lines

Oh, did you think 9/11 was all done with and forgotten? Why what ever made you think that you'll ever forget it. And what better way to never forget than by making sure you color every piece of it... How about a 9/11 coloring book?



I'm wondering what the metal looking thing on the cover is. It looks like some sort of depressed globe that sprouted mechanized legs, but perhaps I'm over thinking it and it's just a 9/11 memorial. And is the freedom tower plaza suppose to have the two building-size potholes for remembrance? Or is that suppose to represent the fact that they aren't built yet?

I'm also really confused on why they decided to put all those reviews on the product page. I love this one in particular.

Publisher appears on Dr. Drew's CNN program and verifies the coloring novel does not promote anti-Muslim stereotypes and does not mention the Muslim Faith, even one time.

I guess technically "freedom hating terrorist Islamic Muslim extremists" is mentioning it twice, not one time. Man, I wonder what the author had to say about this project.



First off.. FUCK YOU! You fucking fuck! Teach children about the "FACTS" of 9/11? Sweet jesus. Does this mother fucker actually believe any of that shit or is he just trying to downplay the fact that he's cashing in on the deaths of 300,000

So let's take a look at this piece of shit garbage.



For a coloring book it sure does have a lot of wall of text going on in there. This shit is the worse. Freedom isn't free, of course. You have to go out of your way to steal it from others. As well as destroy their stone age society in order to make sure all your buddies have their government rebuilding contracts renewed to keep the money rolling in.



Then we get into this picture:

Dubbed code name Neptune Spear, the operation lasted 38 minutes, included were 23 Navy SEALs and a dog named "Cairo", no one wanted detainees.

That's a single sentence. I just wonder how much money there is in proofreading this sort of repugnant garbage. I already know the answer though. In a world where it gets published, absolutely none.



Look at him. Pushing his wife away from the bullet. What a hero! What is very confusing is that Bin Laden doesn't look grotesque or anything in this picture. He's actually better looking than he was in real life. That's pretty interesting. Maybe the dude had a crush on him.

The odd thing about this image is that one is suppose to look at it and think "Wow, Osama is using some woman as a human shield, what a jerk!" While nobody bats an eye at a special forces soldier of fortune firing a light machine gun in close quarters at two unarmed people. One of which could easily be taken in to be judged on his order to murder 300,000 people.

Oh yeah, and the special forces dude is apparently wearing a cowboy hat for some reason. What the fuck kind of gun is that anyways? It seems to have one of those huge ammo hoppers still attached. Which I guess seems pretty stupid for close-quarters combat in an unknown interior where civilians may be present. Just saying.

But what do I know? These are the same people who managed to crash a multibillion pound stealth chopper on a mission in a friendly country with no resistance, and still managed to leave massive chunks of it behind for the Chinese to look at. So maybe they're not the sharpest tools in the box. Because, really. Look at that Frankenstein-like gun pieced together from the body of an M14 or 21, the barrel end kind of reminds me of a M16 and the magazine of a M249 wit little assorted bits of stupidity added in.



That's not even getting to the worse aspect of the Osama murder picture. Again, the wall of text:

Children, the truth is, these terrorist acts were done by freedom-hating radical Islamic Muslim extremists. These crazy people hate the American way of life because we are FREE and our society is FREE. We must be prepared to know and understand the truth. America is FREE. Ask your mother and father, your teacher, your preacher what this really means. What does it mean to be FREE? Why are we a FREE people?

We are free to think, free to be honest, free to write, free to execute babies. We are America.

In short - Fuck this book. Fuck everything about it.

Bank Of America - Truly American

Bank Of America - Truly American

Why yes. Bank of America is really the most perfect representation of America. In that they're eliminating about 30,000 jobs. Oh well.

NEW YORK (AP) - Bank of America is slashing 30,000 jobs as part of an effort to reverse a crisis of confidence among investors. It's the largest single job reduction by a U.S. company this year.

What CEO Brian Moynihan is trying to do is nothing less than save the nation's largest bank. Investors have cut the bank's market value by half this year. The bank is facing huge liabilities over soured mortgage investments and concerns over whether it has enough capital to withstand more financial shocks.

The cuts, which affect Bank of America's consumer businesses, represent 10 percent of the Charlotte, North Carolina, bank's work force. The bank said it hopes the cuts and other measures will result in $5 billion in annual savings by 2014. The bank has already cut 6,000 jobs this year. The bank also said it would look for cost savings at its other businesses in a six-month review that will begin next month.

"It's as if someone has hit the panic button," said Bert Ely, president of banking consultant Ely & Co.

Moynihan has been taking other steps to shore up the bank's standing. Last week he shook up the bank's top management ranks and has been selling parts of the company to raise cash. Last month Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. invested $5 billion in the company.

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Bank of America is seen as one of the most bloated banks in the industry. The payroll cuts will bring its work force in line with some of its key rivals. JPMorgan Chase & Co. had 250,000 workers at the end of the second quarter.

"Financial companies have already been cutting for a few months now. He's a little late to the game already," said Walter Todd, a portfolio manager at Greenwood Capital, which owns Bank of America preferred shares.

The cuts are the largest by a U.S. employer this year, according to the outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. Merck & Co. said this year it would cut 13,000 jobs. Bank of America's cuts are the largest since the Postal Service announced 30,000 job cuts last year. General Motors Co. cut 47,000 jobs in 2009.

I wont bother highlighting anything because really, what more is there to say or focus on other than bank of America eliminating 30,000 jobs and that's in the first sentence.

Did you see that? DID YOU SEE THAT?! It's only fitting that Star Wars on DVD came out cause this is just like those ewoks taking down that evil empire. Though much like that, this is an unbearably minor victory against capitalism.

No wait. That's not true. This is in fact a pretty clear victory for capitalism when a corporation cuts a bunch of employees off in order to maintain profits. Oh well, sucks for those 30,000 people who are now entering the ever growing world of unemployment. You can just consider this another blood sacrifice to the daemons of capital. They must be appeased after all.
We'll all have to make some sacrifices to keep the machine running

It's also worth noting that the headquarters of Bank of America, which if you forgot will eliminate 30,000 jobs, is the host for the 2012 "the other capitalist party" national convention.

Maybe that $450 billion would be better spent saving jobs at BOA, Obama. Perhaps you should get on that as you can get an easy 60,000 jobs out of this. What's even sadder is that liberal hero Warren Buffet told BOA to fire tens of thousands of people after he jumped in with them and put his seal of approval name on this piece of shit business.

If I were you, I would keep my eyes out for later in the year when the inevitable story of their board and upper upper management ends up giving themselves a massive amount of millions in bonuses. But hey, they deserve it because they are in fact single handedly holding up the economy right now. It's as if you combined Superman and Batman and they decided to rob you blind.

They are closing and consolidating branch locations, so like when you have a subway with another subway about 0.2 miles away they are going to just shut and merge into one. Sadly a lot of the people losing their jobs make only $30k a year with full benefits (which they have to spend years working up to), or tellers who are part time for the most part making $12 an hour with no benefits.

Even as worse as their jobs were, they were the middle class. and of course are being thrown under the bus. So as a socialist, I have to admit that I really don't care about the suffering of people. I mainly care whether or not the right people are suffering. Those poor tellers getting shit-canned because of this are probably not the people I want suffering.

Protecting Children From Internet Porn Act of 2011

Protecting Children From Internet Porn Act of 2011

Just thought I would toss this out there for you but under language approved 19 to 10 by a House committee, the firm that sells you Internet access would be required to track all of your internet activity and save it for 18 months, along with your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and IP address you have been assigned...

Ha ha. Yeah.. this is The Protecting Children from Internet Porn Act of 2011 They might as well call it the "This law does a good thing and if you don't support it, you must be a terrorist act of 2011" Because really.. god fucking damn.

Someone should introduce a bill to nationalize all the industries and call it the "Celebrating American Moms act". Because who would dare not vote for that?

The sad part of all this is that it will easily get 300 votes. But it just goes to show you that we're doomed. It doesn't even make sense. Why would there be a bank account number and credit card numbers to an internet account?

Why yes, let's put all of the bank account and credit card numbers in one government database. Those things never get hacked... Nope sir, never.

Maybe I'm just being over cautious. Surely they wouldn't be required to give that information to the government... but let's be real, of course they would. You think your identity is safe in the hands of the internet service provider when they get a letter from someone threatening to sue? HA!

In short, Death to America. Oh, my bad. I mean.. 9/11 Nevar forget! Fightin' 4 are freedoms!

Burning Down the Banks

Burning Down the Banks

Today I salute a true American hero. A man who took the freedom of speech and stepped into the world of artistic awesomeness. I speak of course of a man who in some shape or form, took down the banks by just a little bit in his own very special way. For you see, Artist Alex Schaefer paints bank branches burning.

I started another burning bank painting today, this time the Chase branch in Van Nuys. I got lots of thumbs up and likes from passersby but after an hour and a half the cops showed up. They said someone called thought I might be a terrorist. It was a peaceful encounter and I think the cops felt a little silly writing me up; its a long way from painting a visual metaphor of the banks to actual terrorism. They ran my ID through their computer, we chatted a bit and they let me go. I can't wait to start another one now! Aahahah! Who would have thought plein air painting could become an episode of COPS? The piece needs a little more work but I'm going to let it get good and dry and do more in the meantime.

The person who reported him to the police should be tarred and feathered. I have to wonder what kind of terrorist would paint their plan before doing it? That sounds more like a super villain move more than anything else.

And it's rather odd that there's a terrorism alert because the guy picture below was using some paints and yet when the banks were blowing up the dreams of homeowners and burning the countries economic foundation to the ground there's not a cop in sight. Because that's what he was doing. He was out in the front of the bank painting an interpretation of our nation's financial situation going up in flames and he's suspected of terrorism.



This just goes to show that we're a nation of hysterics, paranoids and a complete lack of anything remotely close to resembling freedom.

I seriously dislike banks to the point where I'm cheering for the simple painting of a branch being burned to the fucking ground. But even a moron could make the distinction between an actual arsonist or terrorist and someone who is painting with some artistic expression. To have the LAPD waste its time and function as goomba muscle for the rich just show the true state of our nation.



Apparently a story in the Sunday’s L.A. Times said that the LAPD detectives later showed up at his door in Eagle Rock and asked him a series of questions to see how much of a risk he was. Hard hitting detective skill questions like "Do you hate banks? Do you plan to do that to the bank?"

Why yes officer. I plan to burn the bank down just like I drew it on here. Would you like to purchase a picture of the future? But hey, all of this sudden harassment had some pay out in the long run. It all generated buzz for the pieces and put this otherwise unknown artist into the media attention. So now his painting titled "Chase Burning." was put up for auction on ebay with a starting bid of $920.

Maybe if he's lucky then the bank manager of the Chase branch in Los Feliz, which was pictured in the painting, will have a sense of humor and buy the piece of art to hang up on the wall of the bank. You know, the specific location that the cops and other prosecutors should be focusing their attention on to catch blue collar criminals conducting their daily fleecing of America.

Did You Pay Your Poor Tax Today? Plastic Bag Ban

Will That Be Paper or Poor Tax?

Ha, just kidding about that multiple choice question cause the paper one is the poor tax. As of July 1st, unincorporated parts of Los Angeles became plastic free. Meaning that stores were not allowed to use plastic bags anymore.

Then on August 1st Long Beach became plastic free. It seemed like there was some sort of movement against the classic T-shirt style plastic bag and it suddenly became the black sheep of all the carry out options.

I'm going to look well past the big brother issue because while I do not like "big government" telling me what I can and can't do or use in my form of capitalism, it doesn't change the fact that this is part of a bigger nanny state situation and presents a lot more issues.

First off on an environmental stand point it's the equivalent of acting like you care but in the process just doing nothing at all about it. The main problem with just having paper as an option for those who don't bring their bags is that paper isn't really any friendlier to the environment.

Issue 1: Energy and natural resources
According to a 2007 study by Boustead Consulting & Associates, It takes almost four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a polyethylene bag.

Not only do both paper and compostable resin bags use far more fossil fuel in production and manufacturing, but they also use twenty times as much fresh water vs plastic bags.

Additionally, most paper comes from tree pulp, so the impact of paper bag production on forests is enormous. A 2008 article from the National Cooperative Grocers Association states that each year the United States consumes 10 billion paper grocery bags, requiring 14 million trees. Paper bag production delivers a global warming double-whammy; forests (major absorbers of greenhouse gases) have to be cut down, and then the subsequent manufacturing of bags produces greenhouse gases. However, plastic bags are not the more sustainable solution as they use more fossil fuels and raw materials energy, and consume larger amounts of crude oil and natural gas than paper bags.

Issue 2: Pollution
The majority of kraft paper is made by heating wood chips under pressure at high temperatures in a chemical solution. As evidenced by the unmistakable stench commonly associated with paper mills, the use of these toxic chemicals contributes to both air pollution, such as acid rain, and water pollution. The same goes for compostable plastic bags.

Issue 3: Recycling
Studies indicate it takes 91% less energy to recycle a pound of plastic than it takes to recycle a pound of paper. But recycling rates of either type of disposable bag are extremely low. In fact, 85-90% of paper bags are not recycled according to the Wall Street Journal, and 94.8% of plastic bags are not recycled according to a study conducted by Boustead Associates. The bottom line is recycling disposable bags still takes energy and resources - resources that could be conserved if more people simply switched to reusables.

Issue 4: Degradability
Many people choose paper over plastic because they believe it will biodegrade faster than plastic will break down in a landfill. However, there are a number of factors that determine how quickly, if at all, paper degrades – this includes temperature, pH, the type of bacteria present and the form of paper (shredded paper degrades faster.) That being said, it makes more sense to opt for a reusable bag that will last for thousands of uses over a disposable that will end up in the landfill.

So the real answer to all of this is to probably go with reusable fabric bags. But even those have their faults. reusable fabric bags are a breeding ground for bacteria and germs if they're not washed or sanitized regularly. So you probably shouldn't feel comfortable getting your produce and other food bagged in the same area after the customer before you had done what they were going to do there and contaminated it with their potentially dirty bag.

Let alone what germs could be found in your bag if you don't Lysol the shit out of it regularly.

And for what its worth, the carbon imprint of paper bags on the environment is almost 10 fold compared to those pesky t-shirt bags everyone is all up in arms about. It's just a matter that people tend to fall into trends rather than simply being responsible. Logging, transportation and recycling of paper is very harmful. The weight difference alone accounts for a large disparity in fossil fuel usage during transportation. And if you don't believe me, perhaps you should look it up.

In a lot of instances, those horrible little plastic bags get used repeatedly before they are either being discarded, stored with items inside to prevent moisture damage or get used in small kitchen and bathroom garbage bins as trash bags. Try putting something semi-moist in a paper bag and see what happens. Shit, just carrying milk in a paper bag is often a receipt for dropped milk.

They tried doing this sort of program in Ireland and and the interesting results in that after they banned them, the sale of non-recyclable small-med plastic kitchen bags increased almost 75%. It just goes to show you that you can take out an option, but people will still find a means to replace it with a similar option even if it's not any better for the environment. So you're better off doing a controlled risk and just using the least offensive option.

Even here in the states there's people who realize this is the dumbest shit possible.

"Mark Gold, president of the Santa Monica environmental group Heal the Bay, said previous county efforts to promote recycling of plastic bags at grocery stores was a failure."

How is that for responsibility and choice? The sad truth in all this is that previous efforts have been made and no one cares unless it is enforced by law. I'm pretty sure that if you got rid of CRV, people would just throw the cans away and never recycle them. As it is, it's hard to even get people to recycle for the 5 cent deposit that is charged for every can of soda you buy.

But when you think about it, if you put a CRV on plastic bags, you would see a lot more of them recycled. Not to mention that you'll see a lot less of them on the floor and on the streets as it encourages the homeless and those who value their dollar pick them up if they can be redeemed for the cash redeemable value of a plastic bag.

The bottom line is that ALL plastic t-shirt bags available in California are made to be be recycled (it states so right on them) and every major grocery store has a kiosk to do so in. So don't blame the bag and the fact that it's inexpensive, but rather blame those who misuse or refuse to recycle them.

What this ends up turning out to be is just another poor tax. In my area, East Los Angeles, since it is an unincorporated part of Los Angeles, now has a plastic bag ban. You can see how it effects those who go to the local markets who can barely afford their groceries, let alone the 10 cent charge on a paper bag.

They can't afford reusable bag. At least I don't think they can use their food stamps on it... And it's very much true that those plastic t-shirt style bags may not be very easy to recycle, people have been doing so for as long as they have been around. By using them to line the trash cans of their homes or reusing them over and over again, that's the best you're going to get.

Paper bags have a far worse reusable ratio. And while it's easy to buy a reusable canvas bag, it's not the option for many people who are already on a tight budget.

Willy Wonka's Unfair Wages

Willy Wonka's Unfair Wages

The next time you want to fill that sweet tooth craving and you reach over to that Hershey's chocolate on the check out candy shelf, here's a little video highlighting what you should remember about that company...



Not really sure what to say that the video didn't already cover. I mean, yeah, it's a bit silly to think that workers of the world unite. But it's a valid point and should make you second guess the next time you're at the grocery store check out stand and have that craving for a milk chocolate bar.

Though I probably should remind you that even if they were to treat their guest workers with dignity and pay them an honest wage while also providing safe conditions, they would still be getting their cocoa from plantations that utilize child/slave labor.

I mean, not to discredit these foreign workers plight, but when I hear "protesting against Hershey's treatment of workers" I would first think that they're talking about their slaves.

So even if you didn't watch the video just remember this - Fuck Hershey's.

An Island In The Sun

An Island In The Sun

Whenever I'm asked if I take Paypal as a form of payment on the internet I always tell them that I rather hate the program to the core and would rather not give Paypal a scent of my money if at all possible. They're often confused by this but when you see where all those nickles and dimes are going, can you really blame me?

Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.

Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

"There are quite a lot of people who think it's not possible," Thiel said at a Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009, according to Details. (His first donation was in 2008, for $500,000.) "That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about those people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late."
The Seasteading Institute's Patri Friedman says the group plans to launch an office park off the San Francisco coast next year, with the first full-time settlements following seven years later.

Thiel made news earlier this year for putting a portion of his $1.5 billion fortune into an initiative to encourage entrepreneurs to skip college.

Another Silicon Valley titan, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced in June that he would be funding the "Clock of the Long Now." The clock is designed to keep ticking for 10,000 years, and will be built in a mountain in west The Great Shit Wastes.

I guess not having to deal with being a citizen of some real country would probably be pretty useful if you're a billionaire with assets all over the world and what not. Which I guess is what that Paypal dude is considering I still never figured out how to get my money out of paypal without giving them full access to my whole life's story via social security numbers and anal probing.

I'm just not sure I get it anyway. If you want to do whatever you want and not pay taxes, why not just move to the Cayman islands? Because just some random guy building a dinghy in his backyard is more self-sufficient then these people actually are.

But the idea of an island for these super rich libertarians to get away leads to one more question you have to ask yourself. That is if these islands will benefit anyone at all other than human and drug traffickers and "White country club" members. The answer, of course, is no.

According to their manifesto they plan to raise cash by conducting unauthorized medical research. I'm unclear on understanding how they'd acquire food for their island. Open sea fishing is fairly hard. If they go to port to buy stuff, what the fuck would they buy supplies with?

I imagine that the scam artists floating this idea will be the sole beneficiaries of all this. The beauty of this sort of scam is that it lures in people with the promises that are inherently unfulfillable and then when it inevitably fails, they can just shrug and blame the oppression of government parasites or whatever else while keeping the money because refunds are for communism. Which shouldn't surprise anyone who has ever dealt with Paypal's dispute center.

Maybe I shouldn't hate on this. I'm very much in favor of a space for libertarians cemented into the ocean. I just want it to be at the bottom of it. Then again, this is going to be an oil rig-like platform... with quote "looser building codes" yeah... good luck with that.

I got to be honest with you, I didn't actually think that an oil rig could support that many people on it. And to have libertarians on there with a lot of loose regulations just make me see this as a potential death trap. When you think about it, an isolated settlement in the middle of the ocean is def. somewhere you'd want like, a the strictest building codes in the world. You know, so the shit doesn't just fall in the ocean.

I can just imagine them screaming about how regulation will just hold them back. And soon after the secret libertarian ocean base just collapses on itself.



Though that's not in the cards. You know that the funniest ending to all this is what will actually happen: Gullible libertarians get taken in for millions of dollars by scam artists.

I just have to hope that Somalian pirates seize their shit and hold this moron at gunpoint while filming a video of him whining about the whole situation. Till then I just have to hope for my other scenario in that a bunch of communist assault this thing and hurl the libertarians into the sea and liberate the service personnel that are bound to be on this shit hole, and create a floating communist society.