Obama is finally going to admit to his incompetence saying "fuck it, I'd rather play golf anyway", leaving the White House in his mom jeans, a pack of smokes and shouldering his bag of sticks and balls.
In a last ditch effort to save the U.S. dollar from total irrelevancy, the Fed is going to print rolls of Benjamins for sanitary use.
The rumored Apple TV will in fact become a wonderful doorstop.
The end of the world will not happen but you will wish it had following the economic collapse and social turmoil that will ensue.
You'll be happy buying a gold coin or two at $1400, sad when your purchase falls to $1200 while grudgingly buying another couple, then ecstatic when the price of gold reaches past $1800 by the end of the year.
You'll need big balls if you've bought silver. It will greet $17 in short order. Dumbasses the world over will be flinging themselves into the path of moving buses and whirling prop plane blades grieving their egregious losses. Survivors will be curling their mustaches with cognac fingertips as the price recovers into the mid 30's.
God is going to make it official and give Adele wings to go with her heavenly voice.
Jennifer Aniston still won't make a movie worth a crap.
People will finally discover what a kick-ass TV show Supernatural is while at the same time figuring out how over-rated The Walking Dead has become.
2012 will be the first year that every Hollywood movie released into general consumption will be a sequel, remake or creation of some comic book.
Microsoft's Windows phone will surprise folks and become a viable alternative to the proprietary arrogance of Apple's iPhone and something different from the ubiquitous Android.
Gun sales will increase every month in 2012. Interestingly, Apple's iGun flops due to proprietary ammo and yearly magazine upgrades.
The Internet, and more specifically the World Wide Web, will become endangered by the American political class seeking to gain additional control over the herd. Internet taxes will be widely discussed as well as steps to censure content. The result is likely to unite leftists, independents and conservatives like nothing else could have. Lost Ball retreats to Usenet while a splork is rumored to be growing grapes on a Chilean plantation.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
A Word or Two Before 2011 Disappears Into the Shitpile of History
A few words as the new year approaches:
The herd loves the Kindle and Nook book readers. As an old fashioned fucker I have no use for the devices. I like books. I like used books. Not only do I walk amongst the dinosaurs but I am also very much a cheap bastard. Nonetheless, if you (as a burgeoning web sewer magician) are not contemplating how to create clever assemblies of words to be sold for these devices then you are losing a residual income opportunity. As I allow domain after domain to expire or be sold each month I will be spending my time as an esteemed author of the highest order.
My wife took a chance and upgraded her POS HTC Android and got herself a Windows phone. My first reaction was along the lines of what the fuck? Microsoft has a phone? Why did you not at least participate in the proprietary arrogance of an iPhone or get yourself a beefier 'droid. She being a consumer of prominent acumen did her research and determined the HTC Titan to be of value. After assisting the marital unit with downloading pertinent apps, syncing her contacts and shit, I determined that the phone is one badass motherfucker. In fact that is what I refer to it in conversation with the unit. Hey Mrs. Splork, how is the "badass motherfucker"? Microsoft may take its sweet time in creating worthwhile products but let me tell you, this phone is outstanding. Google and Apple may be well ahead but don't discount Microsoft next year.
Obama is set to ask Congress to increase the debt limit again. This time the asshole wants $1.2 trillion. It will put our overall debt up to $16 trillion or so. Congress is ever so happy to give it to him. It is rather interesting that Obama called Bush "unpatriotic" for increasing the debt limit 4 trillion in 8 years. It only took Obama 3 years to be that "unpatriotic". Funny how in 2006 every single Democrat voted against raising the debt limit but today they are more than happy to give their Dear Leader all the money he needs to expand the government. Assholes one and all. Fuck it, just raise the debt ceiling to $100 trillion and be done with it. $16T. $100T. Neither will be repaid.
We obtained a Blu-Ray player as a family gift of sorts. It wasn't a priority as I am rather sick of material clutter (except food storage, water, guns and bullets) but the price was ridiculous and it gave us a chance to watch Amazon Prime movies through the device. I must say I was amazed at the quality of the picture of the movies. How it can be better than a regular DVD player is astonishing as I thought those were pretty damn good. But Blu-ray movies look great. The first movie we rented was Thor. Excellent movie. Couple of days later we rented Horrible Bosses. Jennifer Aniston's boobs notwithstanding, that was a shitty movie. Thought that crap was supposed to be good!? Anyway, I think maybe I might have a movie review column on this esteemed blog just for shits and giggles. It's already pretty worthless. Adding a few well placed words on movies or whatnot won't really matter.
My youngest and I received a mini helicopter from Santa. After an hour or so of crashing the thing into every head, wall, table and chair in the splork abode, we finally got it under control. The morning after Christmas the oldest was awakened by a helicopter hovering a few inches above her head. She was not amused, but I damn sure was.
Happy New Year's to both my readers!
The herd loves the Kindle and Nook book readers. As an old fashioned fucker I have no use for the devices. I like books. I like used books. Not only do I walk amongst the dinosaurs but I am also very much a cheap bastard. Nonetheless, if you (as a burgeoning web sewer magician) are not contemplating how to create clever assemblies of words to be sold for these devices then you are losing a residual income opportunity. As I allow domain after domain to expire or be sold each month I will be spending my time as an esteemed author of the highest order.
My wife took a chance and upgraded her POS HTC Android and got herself a Windows phone. My first reaction was along the lines of what the fuck? Microsoft has a phone? Why did you not at least participate in the proprietary arrogance of an iPhone or get yourself a beefier 'droid. She being a consumer of prominent acumen did her research and determined the HTC Titan to be of value. After assisting the marital unit with downloading pertinent apps, syncing her contacts and shit, I determined that the phone is one badass motherfucker. In fact that is what I refer to it in conversation with the unit. Hey Mrs. Splork, how is the "badass motherfucker"? Microsoft may take its sweet time in creating worthwhile products but let me tell you, this phone is outstanding. Google and Apple may be well ahead but don't discount Microsoft next year.
Obama is set to ask Congress to increase the debt limit again. This time the asshole wants $1.2 trillion. It will put our overall debt up to $16 trillion or so. Congress is ever so happy to give it to him. It is rather interesting that Obama called Bush "unpatriotic" for increasing the debt limit 4 trillion in 8 years. It only took Obama 3 years to be that "unpatriotic". Funny how in 2006 every single Democrat voted against raising the debt limit but today they are more than happy to give their Dear Leader all the money he needs to expand the government. Assholes one and all. Fuck it, just raise the debt ceiling to $100 trillion and be done with it. $16T. $100T. Neither will be repaid.
We obtained a Blu-Ray player as a family gift of sorts. It wasn't a priority as I am rather sick of material clutter (except food storage, water, guns and bullets) but the price was ridiculous and it gave us a chance to watch Amazon Prime movies through the device. I must say I was amazed at the quality of the picture of the movies. How it can be better than a regular DVD player is astonishing as I thought those were pretty damn good. But Blu-ray movies look great. The first movie we rented was Thor. Excellent movie. Couple of days later we rented Horrible Bosses. Jennifer Aniston's boobs notwithstanding, that was a shitty movie. Thought that crap was supposed to be good!? Anyway, I think maybe I might have a movie review column on this esteemed blog just for shits and giggles. It's already pretty worthless. Adding a few well placed words on movies or whatnot won't really matter.
My youngest and I received a mini helicopter from Santa. After an hour or so of crashing the thing into every head, wall, table and chair in the splork abode, we finally got it under control. The morning after Christmas the oldest was awakened by a helicopter hovering a few inches above her head. She was not amused, but I damn sure was.
Happy New Year's to both my readers!
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Obama Pisses on Energy Security For United States
If in the near future you folks living in the United States of Socialist Amerika find yourself in a bind over oil prices, or supplies being less than what you hope them to be, find oil-based products exceedingly high or gasoline ripping more pennies from your pocket, by all means make sure you place the blame squarely at the fucking idiot the vast majority of you assholes voted into the land's highest office.
You see, our neighbors to the north practically begged this country to add another pipeline so they could easily disperse their huge resources into our economy. Canada wanted the U.S. to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Obama decided that would not do as too much is owed the fucking wealth destroying, socialist, leftist environmentalist fucktards. You see the elections are upon us. No political decisions will happen in this country for the next year, unless the ability to pander to the constituency herd is accomplished. Fucking pathetic.
So Obama basically told Canada that we wouldn't be building the pipeline and certainly not until he is re-elected.
This is problematic for at least one giant reason, energy security. See, Canada wants to move the product. They wanted to provide us with the oil. But now they are planning on shipping it to Asia. All the while the good people in Amerika are getting supplied by the oh so friendly Middle Eastern sheiks.
This week Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said,
The implications are Canada is tired of being jerked around by American politicians. They will run that pipeline West and ship that shit to Asia.
This country is led by complete morons and we will all suffer for it. Obama alone could have made a single call and said "build this fucker." Thousands of hands would have begun work and millions of barrels of oil would be flowing into the U.S. resulting in decreased need for Middle East oil.
Un-fucking-believable.
I hope Harper is bluffing. But why would he be? That oil will be enriching another region while we blow on our windmills and burn solar panels for warmth.
You see, our neighbors to the north practically begged this country to add another pipeline so they could easily disperse their huge resources into our economy. Canada wanted the U.S. to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Obama decided that would not do as too much is owed the fucking wealth destroying, socialist, leftist environmentalist fucktards. You see the elections are upon us. No political decisions will happen in this country for the next year, unless the ability to pander to the constituency herd is accomplished. Fucking pathetic.
So Obama basically told Canada that we wouldn't be building the pipeline and certainly not until he is re-elected.
This is problematic for at least one giant reason, energy security. See, Canada wants to move the product. They wanted to provide us with the oil. But now they are planning on shipping it to Asia. All the while the good people in Amerika are getting supplied by the oh so friendly Middle Eastern sheiks.
This week Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said,
"I am very serious about selling our oil off this continent, selling our energy products off to Asia. I think we have to do that."
"When I was down in the United States recently, it was interesting. I ran into several senior Americans who all said, ‘Don't worry, we'll get Keystone [pipeline] done. You can sell all of your oil to us.' I said, ‘Yeah we'd love to,' but I think the problem is now that we're on a different track."
The implications are Canada is tired of being jerked around by American politicians. They will run that pipeline West and ship that shit to Asia.
This country is led by complete morons and we will all suffer for it. Obama alone could have made a single call and said "build this fucker." Thousands of hands would have begun work and millions of barrels of oil would be flowing into the U.S. resulting in decreased need for Middle East oil.
Un-fucking-believable.
I hope Harper is bluffing. But why would he be? That oil will be enriching another region while we blow on our windmills and burn solar panels for warmth.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Obama is a Liar - Deceives About Capitalism to Appease His Dwindling Base
One day I'll get around to writing a real post. Things are quite busy right now so I haven't really had time to sit down and formulate some thoughts on anything worthwhile. I do feel compelled to re-share this video by...Glenn Beck. OK, settle down. Quiet down. I realize that many people feel the man is a an idiot or baboon or lesser human substance but these are the same people that has never bothered listening to him.
He had an interesting segment on his web TV show yesterday on Obama. Seems our favorite liberal socialist hit the campaign trail demonizing Capitalism. Apparently the fascist is not a fan. Said capitalism never worked.
Glenn Beck sets about detailing Obama's lies about capitalism. It's a great segment.
He had an interesting segment on his web TV show yesterday on Obama. Seems our favorite liberal socialist hit the campaign trail demonizing Capitalism. Apparently the fascist is not a fan. Said capitalism never worked.
Glenn Beck sets about detailing Obama's lies about capitalism. It's a great segment.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Privacy From Our Overlords
Privacy is for shit anymore. Just found out that my Android phone probably has been spying on me and sending the results back to some nefarious outfit called CarrierIQ. From Yahoo via the Atlantic Wire:
Now, most companies want desperately to spy on you but they give you a choice to opt out. Remember those Firefox boxes that would pop up when the damn thing crashed and asked if they could collect the info about the event? You could opt in or opt out.
These CarrierIQ assholes don't give you the option. They run some little program in the background, so secretive the program, it took an Android developer to discover it. And when this dude, Trevor Eckhart, tried to go public, CarrierIQ "aggressively" tried to keep him from doing so, to the point the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took up his case.
Now what the fuck is this company collecting that is so important that the purchaser of these phones are not to know that the keystrokes are being logged?
I use TextSecure on my Android. You know, because governments have decided that it is fine for law enforcement to look at your phone records pretty much whenever they want without warrant. Well unless you have the passcode you won't be reading texts on my phone. But of course even encrypted, if the fucking program is logging keystrokes, the conversations are collected in a database somewhere.
You know, as long as the federal government is wiping its collective ass with your privacy rights, then why would we expect them to protect our privacy from private companies?
My online experience has drastically changed. I use Cocoon to hide my IP address as I surf. I use additional add-ons like Better Privacy, No Script and Ghostery to protect my surfing habits. For web searches I use Startpage. From their homepage:
I keep my email secure with Hushmail as well. It works best when you email others with a Hushmail account which I insist on with family and close friends.
BTW, No Script will fuck up your browser experience if you don't know what you're doing. It's excellent at killing scripts but since most webpages are full of them the page will look like a third grader built it or shit won't work. You'll spend some browsing time enabling those scripts back in your pages. It's cool, for instance I haven't seen a Google ad on webpages I visit since I installed it.
Anyway, I happily participate in any means possible to fuck up the machine and protect my privacy. Of course now I have to deal with this CarrierIQ shit. I suppose some propeller head will provide a means to block this egregious invasion of privacy.
Look, I realize that this sounds like I am turning into a tin-foil hat, bearded, conspiracy man having a psychotic breakdown slapping strangers in the face with pizza slices. Of course we know this to be untrue as it's obvious I enjoy a distinguished mustache with a slight curl at the tips and prefer Molotov meatballs to the nuts.
I recommend you protect what's left of your privacy. Be as anonymous as possible. Try to achieve invisibility in regards to the machine, both corporations and government. They do not have your best interest at heart. They only want to profit from you and control your life. Fuck that, people. Fuck that indeed.
An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Now, most companies want desperately to spy on you but they give you a choice to opt out. Remember those Firefox boxes that would pop up when the damn thing crashed and asked if they could collect the info about the event? You could opt in or opt out.
These CarrierIQ assholes don't give you the option. They run some little program in the background, so secretive the program, it took an Android developer to discover it. And when this dude, Trevor Eckhart, tried to go public, CarrierIQ "aggressively" tried to keep him from doing so, to the point the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took up his case.
Now what the fuck is this company collecting that is so important that the purchaser of these phones are not to know that the keystrokes are being logged?
I use TextSecure on my Android. You know, because governments have decided that it is fine for law enforcement to look at your phone records pretty much whenever they want without warrant. Well unless you have the passcode you won't be reading texts on my phone. But of course even encrypted, if the fucking program is logging keystrokes, the conversations are collected in a database somewhere.
You know, as long as the federal government is wiping its collective ass with your privacy rights, then why would we expect them to protect our privacy from private companies?
My online experience has drastically changed. I use Cocoon to hide my IP address as I surf. I use additional add-ons like Better Privacy, No Script and Ghostery to protect my surfing habits. For web searches I use Startpage. From their homepage:
When you search with Startpage, we remove all identifying information from your query and submit it anonymously to Google ourselves.
I keep my email secure with Hushmail as well. It works best when you email others with a Hushmail account which I insist on with family and close friends.
BTW, No Script will fuck up your browser experience if you don't know what you're doing. It's excellent at killing scripts but since most webpages are full of them the page will look like a third grader built it or shit won't work. You'll spend some browsing time enabling those scripts back in your pages. It's cool, for instance I haven't seen a Google ad on webpages I visit since I installed it.
Anyway, I happily participate in any means possible to fuck up the machine and protect my privacy. Of course now I have to deal with this CarrierIQ shit. I suppose some propeller head will provide a means to block this egregious invasion of privacy.
Look, I realize that this sounds like I am turning into a tin-foil hat, bearded, conspiracy man having a psychotic breakdown slapping strangers in the face with pizza slices. Of course we know this to be untrue as it's obvious I enjoy a distinguished mustache with a slight curl at the tips and prefer Molotov meatballs to the nuts.
I recommend you protect what's left of your privacy. Be as anonymous as possible. Try to achieve invisibility in regards to the machine, both corporations and government. They do not have your best interest at heart. They only want to profit from you and control your life. Fuck that, people. Fuck that indeed.
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