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HBOs Westworld Season 2… Terrible
Loved season 1. Season 2 is terrible. Plot is hopelessly convoluted. It’s awful writing is anchored in unnecessary, unending, over the top violence. The compelling metaphysical questions are completely AWOL. The episodes are relegated to repeated scenes of shooting and murdering through obstacles, backed by a cheesey, SyFy Channel-grade soundtrack. There’s no one to root for. It’s just terrible. This show has jumped the shark. Too bad.
#Westworld
The Empire Has No Clothes
Sayeth Trump regarding the JFK assassination documents that were to be released a year ago:
“I agree with the Archivist’s recommendation that the continued withholdings are necessary to protect against identifiable harm to national security, law enforcement, or foreign affairs that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.”
A Toothbrush That Spies On You? Really?
Writes Wolf Richter:
“What’s next? The day when we cannot get dental insurance without Internet-connected toothbrush.
There are many people who think nothing of it. They laugh at us. For them, we’re fossils that just cannot grasp the modern world where private life takes place on the Internet and is stored forever in the cloud. Formerly innocuous devices like toothbrushes, dolls, TVs, thermostats, fridges, mattresses, or toilet-paper dispensers, that are everywhere around the house, will see to it that more and more personal and even intimate data gets uploaded to the cloud as the Internet of Things invades not only our home but our body cavities.”
Destiny Unknown
Here We Go Again… (Facepalm)
I suspect that legions fail to grasp that this song is a satirical thrashing of U.S. neoconservative foreign policy.
America, Fuck Yeah!
Comin’ again to save the motherfuckin’ day, Yeah
America, Fuck Yeah!
Freedom is the only way, Yeah
Terrorists, you’re game is through
cause now you have ta answer to
America, Fuck yeah!
So lick my butt and suck on my balls
America, Fuck Yeah!
Whatcha’ gonna do when we come for you now
It’s the dream that we all share
It’s the hope for tomorrow
(Fuck Yeah!)
McDonald’s (Fuck Yeah!)
Wal-Mart (Fuck Yeah!)
The Gap (Fuck Yeah!)
Baseball (Fuck Yeah!)
The NFL (Fuck Yeah!)
Rock N’ Roll (Fuck Yeah!)
The Internet (Fuck Yeah!)
Slavery (Fuck Yeah!)
Fuck Yeah!Starbucks (Fuck Yeah!)
Disneyworld (Fuck Yeah!)
Porno (Fuck Yeah!)
Valium (Fuck Yeah!)
Reeboks (Fuck Yeah!)
Fake Tits (Fuck Yeah!)
Sushi (Fuck Yeah!)
Taco Bell (Fuck Yeah!)
Rodeos (Fuck Yeah!)
Liberty (Fuck Yeah!)
White Slips (Fuck Yeah!)
The Alamo (Fuck Yeah!)
Band-aids (Fuck Yeah!)
Las Vegas (Fuck Yeah!)
Christmas (Fuck Yeah!)
Immigrants (Fuck Yeah!)
Popeyes (Fuck Yeah!)
Democrats (Fuck Yeah!)
Republicans (Fuck Yeah.Fuck Yeah)
Sportsmanship (…)
Books (…)
Even Liberal Dershowitz is Appalled by FBI Trump Raid
Dershowitz: “If this were Hillary Clinton [having her lawyer’s office raided], the ACLU would be on every TV station in America jumping up and down,” he said. “The deafening silence of the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling.”
Taking essentially everything in a raid plainly and clearly violates the particularity clause of the Fourth Amendment.
The Fourth Amendment to that piece of paper we call the U.S. Constitution reads:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The Deep State will stop at nothing.
Of course today, left-partisans will rejoice at this development and ignore the future ramifications when one of their own attempts to stand athwart the neocon cabal lording over our empire.
Regarding the Impending Death of Newspapers
#newspapers #endofprint #fakenews
Good riddance!
Even if a reasonable degree of objectivity and partisan agnosticism were restored…
Even if they stopped being a propaganda outlet for the ever-expanding, pervasive, authoritarian, spying, unaccountable welfare/warfare state…
Even if they actually served their self-ascribed role as “4th Estate” and exposed the corruption infesting both parties controlling government…
Even if they eschewed their Faustian bargain with corporations, politicians, and sports teams in which they dumped skeptical journalism in exchange for access…
…newspapers would still be doomed.
Newspapers are the castle walls on the eve of gunpowder… the guilds of scribes on the eve of Guttenburg… the buggy-whip industry on the eve of Henry Ford… the tax-abatement shopping malls on the eve of Amazon… the cartels of cab drivers on the eve of Uber…
Their time came and now it has gone. Let them pass on before they lose their remaining threads of dignity. Whether their demise be by obsolescence or suicide– stop trying to raise the dead.
War! War!
Beware when the war drum is banged from the right and the left.
Tucker Carlson is one of the only sane voices left. How long before military-industrial complex-funded big media fires him?
