Former President Bush is pictured here refusing to salute the American Flag.  Go ahead and send this out to all the fools that are circulating the Obama picture and questioning his patriotism.

I also have to question G.W. Bush and his terrorist connections. Below you can find him among Al Qaeda operatives in traditional wizard muslim garb.

Head for the hills if you see this lady coming at you, she is definitely strapped with a 5 kiloton bomb.

I wish there were more of these at IBM…

We have often wondered how much money eBay makes off interest on funds in their control. It seems obvious that gaining a bit of a extra revenue is the reason that it takes 3 days to withdraw funds to a bank account, this really adds up considering they have 57 million active account holders.   Now that PayPal is holding funds for some account holders for 21 days, there is a huge outrage over this issue.

CNN has just put out this article suggesting that PayPal makes under $10 million a quarter on interest, far less than the $1.8 billion that they make annually from fees.

We’ll see if the resize works…

This is some real Good Will Hunting shit… MIT has been offering many of their courses, in their entirety, online. For FREE!

No More excuses, go learn something. You don’t pay for an education, you pay for a piece of paper that hangs on your wall.

Check out Pandora.com. You can build a custom radio station around song and artists you like and dislike. Perfection.

This is what we like to see.  Keep it coming…

Don’t give marijuana to cops.
a.) They seem to get really upset about it and the deadly consequences.
b.) Think of the criminals that will get to walk instead of being beat and tazed.
c.) Its a complete waste of marijuana.

To all of you working at Al’s, BK, or McD’s… give me a call when you are cooking these up. Bonus points if I can get it off the dollar menu.

This guy is clearly freaked out by his fellow police officer’s 911 call after a marijuana overdose…

Not really a big surprise, I would not exactly call Bush grounded in “reality”.  Here is a link to the AP story.  I am particularly amused by the following statement from the article:

He said Republicans still offer the bedrock positions that voters embrace: strong defense, low taxes and personal freedoms.
“When I say I’m confident, I am so because I understand the mentality
of the American people,” Bush said. “And I understand the mentality of
our candidates. And there’s no question in my mind, with your help,
2008 is going to be a great year.”

What a Lunatic! He spent the last couple weeks demanding that the NSA be allowed to monitor all our domestic communications and that Telecom’s be given immunity for their illegal wiretapping, and then he stands on his soapbox and claims that he and his party offer “personal freedoms”.  I would like to see a single way that he has protected my personal freedom during his time his office, and I am sure former Alabama Governor Siegelman would be interested in hearing the same.

Karl Rove and God knows who else in our wonderful Govt/Media seem to have blacked out a portion of the Siegelman interview on 60 minutes. If you are not up to speed on this story, CBS explains it here…

Now for the good stuff…
Why was this interview blacked out? Check out the dirt here.

I am about to drop a line to Bernie and Patrick and let them know I think they should add this to their list of scandals to look into.

I am definitely going to fan these flames a bit. This is America, not China, and censorship like this is bullshit. Karl Rove and his cronies need to be locked up, send ‘em to Gitmo for a vacation.

I have been reading a lot of stuff recently about how crazy Philadelphia has become in recent years. Murders are through the roof, kids that feel like they can’t leave the house without packing heat. It is some sad shit when people don’t feel safe in their own neighborhood and kids have to grow up fearing for their life.. Now we get a story about a 16 year old kid that got smoked because he accidentally hit a neighbor with a snowball.

How to say this…

I am a very white boy that grew up in the woods of ME. I have never really had any close black or urban or gangster friends and cannot pretend to know what it is like growing up in a poor neighborhood where there are drugs on the corner and guns in waistbands.

I also happen to listen to a lot of rap music and have no problem with other entertainment that glamorizes this lifestyle. I loved American Gangster and am about to watch an episode of The Wire. But I can understand the difference between reality and entertainment, though I dare say there is a fine line between the two. This is not an issue of black and white, this kind of stuff happens in every state. This is really an issue of poverty and society and it saddens me when I hear of things like this happening anywhere.

It amazes me that there are people in this country that feel like they need carry weapons at all times, but apparently it may be justified if you can get shot for throwing a snowball. How do we stop this cycle, how do we convince people that a life is far too valuable to be ended/ruined over a snowball. This shooter not only felt that his life was worth risking but that this kid’s life was worth taking.

At this point I am just rambling, stuck in the logical loop of violence. This victim’s friends are going to end up picking up guns to defend themselves and the cycle will continue. I suppose the only thing we can really do is raise the standard of living, of healthcare, of education, and help people to understand that life is too precious to be fucking with over an errant snowball.

Our old pal Nakki has been hard at work promoting her new book, American Photobooth. Sevendays wrote up a great article, click the link for their slideshow.