If You Are Reading This I Haven't Been Neutralized...Yet!

Here we have one of the most hotly debated and contentious issues in our country. Freedom! Pay attention folks because there are some very nefarious participants here that are willing to spend whatever amount of $$ it takes to control what you See, Read, and most importantly, your Freedom to choose!

The participants:

The Entertainment Juggernaut ( Big $$ )

On one side we have the mu$ic indu$try, the movie indu$try, and many foreign $ilent partner$ that would love to $ee any form of free $peech that doesn't $uit them $ilenced forever.
 
The Consumer ( AKA The People )

On the other side we have the ignorant, the indifferent, and a very active minority that are trying to awaken the ignorant and indifferent before their voice is silenced by greed and manipulation.

 

Fight for Senate antipiracy bill rages

 "Perhaps most important to copyright owners, the DOJ would also have the power to prevent U.S. citizens from accessing accused sites based overseas by ordering Internet service providers to black out those sites. The government could order Google or Visa to cease doing business with the alleged pirate sites."

Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in "Online Infringement" Bill

 

"This is a censorship bill that runs roughshod over freedom of speech on the Internet. Free speech is vitally important to democracy, which is why the government is restricted from suppressing speech except in very specific, narrowly-tailored situations. But this bill is the polar opposite of narrow — not only in the broad way that it tries to define a site "dedicated to infringing activities," but also in the solution that it tries to impose — a block on a whole domain, and not just the infringing part of the site."

 While I don't fool myself that my mere meanderings are a threat to sway the ignorant and indifferent to action or even constitute an atomic blip on the radar of the Entertainment Industry, I do believe people's freedoms are being threatened and bought by an industry that permeates our daily lives with greed and corruption. So, I rant about it in hopes I can open an eye or mind to the insidious machine that rolls over the ignorant and indifferent!

 Meanwhile, back at the Hound House, Someone silenced the pooch!


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Darwinese - The Language of ... WTF

The Darwin Awards  (Checkout the site for the full experience)



Meanwhile, back in the cockpit, the pooch frantically barked, Eject-Eject-EJECT!


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Micro-Mac - Exponential Potential

Cyberworm's Origins Unclear, But Potential Is Not

 So, what happens when you have a very limited number of proprietary operating systems that run and control 99.9% of the computer software and hardware on the planet? What if Bill Gates and Microsoft wanted to take over the world? What if he collaborated with Steve Jobs to combine resources and develop a super worm capable of infiltrating and exploiting covert back doors into every computer network via the system update process? Forget about the National Security level. The real cherry ripe for the plucking would be the private and financial sector. Take down the global financial networks, redistribute the wealth, or just plain erase all data on every infected network. And, when that occurs, complete and utter chaos. A financial information eradication on a global level throwing the world back to the stone age and the barter system. Governments and their enormous bureaucracies would implode, unable to fund anything much less create the redundant and complicated intricacies required to operate. 

Obligatory Evil Laugh!

evil laugh sound bite  Austin Powers in Goldmember sound bites

Meanwhile, back at Micro-Mac headquarters, the pooch has worms!


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Beetle Mania

 You gotta love the Bug!



 Meanwhile, back at the campground, the pooch watered the wheels!

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Space, The Final Frontier!

Buckle In, Crank It Up, Go Full Screen and Enjoy the Journey!



Meanwhile, In the backyard, the pooch gazed up at the stars in awe!

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Breeding Ignorance - Hate For Dummies

 Ignorance! It truly astounds and scares the Hell out of me that there are so many ignorant people in this country that buy into the Lies, Fear, and Hatred being used to influence and consume them. Shame on the unscrupulous and immoral politicians preying on the naivety of the ignorant, fueling hatred in their hearts and minds, inciting them to the brink of mob mentality to get elected or regain power! Shame on these people, these so called God fearing people who call themselves Patriots, these people that fill their hearts and minds with hatred in the name of America. Shame, Shame, Shame! Freedom of speech and expression is a right, but as with any freedom or right, it should not be abused or used to perpetuate ignorance and fuel hatred! Anybody that is willing to condone this senseless ignorance, hatred and prejudice, does not belong in a position of power or trust to represent the people of America. It's not just a few bad apples either, it's an attitude being encouraged and fed by masters of manipulation with very deep pockets! Sowing seeds of deceit and hate for personal gain. But, in the end, one must reap what they sow and when the crop is ripe they will have to face the reaper for what they have sown. For me, I pity their ignorance and pray for their souls for that is the price of their hate and greed!



 Meanwhile, back at the Capital, the pooch was saddened by what he saw!


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Being Social About Socialism - Get Real

 Socialism, what does it Really mean? If someone asked you on the street to define Socialism, what would your answer be? Would it be based on what you have seen and heard in mass media, what you have been taught through public schooling and/or higher education, or what you have researched to better understand the political sense of the word? Most people when asked what Socialism means would probably equate it to a bad thing where government runs our lives and controls all we have and do. It doesn't matter what political party an individual subscribes to, they have been programmed with buzz words and definitions via mass media. These messages are viewed and heard everyday through television, radio, or online, to incite fear, anger and confusion. A person may then ask a trusted friend who seems well informed and knowledgeable what they think of Socialism. That friend repeats what they have seen or heard, everyday, via their chosen form of  information. If that friend is truly knowledgeable, well versed, and gives an articulate answer about Socialism, the average person will be bored and sorry they asked because it requires to much thought. And, it would contradict all they have seen or heard everyday at work and at home via the media machine.

 I challenge you to Google an image search for "Socialism" and find one positive image or connotation on the first 3 pages. ***Warning*** Even with "Moderate" filters in place the Hate will assault you! Fear and Ignorance abound!


 So, what Is Socialism? It is what ever You define it to be in your reality. Whether you define it with your own research, knowledge, or what you see and hear, it truly is what You make of it. 

 Don't let society define you, you define society! Is that Socially PC? You decide.


  Meanwhile, back in his own mind, the pooch is in unfamiliar territory!


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Tripping On Tea

Inner-GOP sniping increases in wake of Tea Party successes

 They have sipped their tea and now must trip on it! Let them sip more of what the Tea Party has to offer! I'm rooting for the Tea Party to win ALL the GOP Primaries! Party On Tea Party! Give them Tea or give them LSD! Either way it amounts to the same heady brew for the greedy "NO" party trying to regain the wheel of the Caddy they totaled! They have sump pumped Sarah Palin's Tea and drunk it, juiced it up with Joe Miller, and hexed it with Christine O'Donnell. Michele Bachmann has been sipping this brew for years and probably brought the Tea Bags to the party in the first place! In any case, I'll volunteer to serve the next round for this party! This Tea is something they can no longer say "NO" to! Drink up GOP, This round is on the house!! (the next rounds will cost you though - crack dealing 101)

 Meanwhile, back at the Tea Party, the pooch is serving it up!

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Do You Really Know Which Candidate You Are Paying For?

 Democrat, Republican, Independent, it doesn't matter which party you subscribe to, You will be affected by this ruling. If getting your candidate elected at any cost is what you desire then this ruling is for you! But, as with anything bought on credit, you have to pay the piper when the marker comes due! Anyone remember the big corporations and conglomerates that we bailed out with our tax dollars? TARP ring a bell? To Big To Fail? Those are the entities that will now be able to spend Your hard earned tax dollars freely to elect a government of their chosing. And who is paying for their government? We, the taxpayers. We bailed them out, shored them up, and now they can spend that money to buy back their power with impunity. 



 Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the pooch is getting screwed again!

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Tea, Scones, And Crumpets - Scary Trio

Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and now, Christine O'Donnell. Wacky, Wackier, and now Wackiest! What is in this Tea that all these Crazy people are drinking? What does Jesse Ventura have to say about this? There has to be some kind of conspiracy going on for all these naive people to believe the enormity of the manure this trio is spreading! Oh Wait, Jesse has been sipping the tea too! In the 60's this would have been a Communist plot to take over the USA! Maybe that is what is happening? Or, Maybe, it is a new brand of social terrorism unleashed upon the gullible and naive to rend and tear this country in two! And, in this scenario, it appears to be working! Fear is Terrorism and this trio of Wacky Wonder Weasels are spreading it on thick to incite fear and distrust for their personal agendas! Fertilizing all the open mind fields with explosive BS while offering tea leaves to cover the stench of the elephant excrement being shoveled in the brew.


Sarah is building her army of grizzly moms and mayhem one widget at a time!


Sarah Speaks: 
Top Wing Nut Endorses Wonder Widget

So Many clips of Michele's insanity it's mind boggling. This one is a classic deer in the headlights and "Duh" moment! 

Michele Speaks: 
Michelle Bachmann accuses Congress of being un-American

And finally, Let's take a listen to Christine O'Donnell via Rachel Maddow:


Meanwhile, back in Delaware, the pooch packed his bags and moved to Canada!

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Those Bloody Brits

 Oh Man, If you think our politicians are hedgers check this Brit out! Hilarious!



 Meanhwile, back across the pond, the pooch had tea and crumpets! 


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"Yes We Can"

"Yes We Can"! More people need to say it and Believe it!

Boehner and Buddies! They truly are the party of "Hell No You Can't" and this Boner is a shining example of what they stand for! It's no surprise they choose the loudest voice among them to rant and represent their party of obstructionism. Let us not forget they spent Eight years with shovel and pick, furiously digging a money pit of National proportions. And then, when the people had enough of their greed and failed policies, throwing their sorry hind ends out of power, they whine, snivel and cry, yelling "Hell No You Can't" and refusing to play ball until they get their way!

 GROW UP! Stop acting like a bunch of spoiled children trying to use schoolyard mentality to get your way! Instead of continuously repeating "Hell No You Can't" maybe you need to have a get acquainted session with the chalk board and write "Yes We Can" a couple hundred times until you can learn to play fair and take turns! Say it; "Yes We Can"!



 Meanwhile, back on the playground,someone is wagging the pooch!

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IT'S GONE! Cried the Tin Man!

Scientists Find Thick Layer Of Oil On Seafloor

 Did they really think all that oil just magically disappeared? Evaporated into thin air or got gobbled up by microscopic oil munchers? Perhaps there is a micro-society living in the ocean that are just as oil dependent as we are, greedily consuming the spill to power their economy as well. That would make it alright, wouldn't it?
 
 A new slogan for BP: Feeding The Microshphere, Oil, Powering Even Our Smallest Neighbors! 

 And, how much coverage of the spill do you see or hear about on the major networks now? No more 24 hour cameras showing the gusher on the sea floor or news crews combing the beaches for tar balls to analyze and display for the masses. No more oil covered pelicans or dead marshes because once the well was capped everything is right in the world and that doesn't sell advertisements!
 
 In the end, millions capitalized and exploited spill time while the real victims are quietly ushered into oblivion by ignorance!
 
 Meanwhile, back at the pier, nobody interviewed the pooch!
 
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Women Are NOT From Venus

Spiral Galaxy Like Our Own Shines with Pink Clouds 
 
  Astrologers have discovered the Yin of our Yang! Men are Not from Mars and Women are Not from Venus, just as I always suspected! This discovery adds new meaning to the phrase used by so many couples when an issue is contentious or seemingly unresolvable.

  "We are galaxies apart on this"

  As it now turns out, truer words were never spoken!

  A man always knows how to solve an issue, resolution however, adds many unnecessary steps in the process to confuse him. It is just the way we are hardwired. And, Ladies, before you come running after me with pitchforks and torches to burn me at the stake for my "He Man Woman Haters" rhetoric today, remember; I still believe it is proper to tip my hat and open a door for a lady!

  Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the pooch is snickering at me, Again!

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911 - The Day Lady Liberty Wept

THE LADY
I wonder what she thought
As she stood there, strong and tall.
She couldn't turn away,
She was forced to watch it all.
Did she long to offer comfort
As her country bled?
With her arm forever frozen
High above her head.
She could not shield her eyes
She could not hide her face
She just stared across the water
Keeping Freedom's place.
The smell of smoke and terror
Somehow reduced her size
So small within the harbor
But still we recognized...
How dignified and beautiful
On a day so many died
I wonder what she thought,
And I know she must have cried. 

~Carl Austin, CLU, CWP

I Wonder....

Sarah Palin Checks Into Rehab; Last Six Months Suddenly Make Sense

 It Really would explain a lot!

 Does anyone really, really read this stuff? Or what I write for that matter? 

 Do I write these meandering missives for my own twisted need to express my opinion about happy or disturbing events transpiring around me? And, does anybody really give a rat's patootie about what I opine? Probably more of the former and less of the latter! And yet, I question why I ponder to write about what I wonder, and wonder about what I ponder!


 Ha-Ha...the simple truth being I have nothing worthy to write about today because bad news abounds around us and I choose to reject that reality and substitute my own! Reality after all is what we make of it and I choose to make it a Great one! 

 Meanwhile, back in the real world, the pooch snickered at me!


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Bran For The Brain

10 foods to help boost your brain power

 Aside from the Curry, I like all of these!

  Does that make me "Brainier"? How is "Brain Power" measured anyway? A "Thinkohmeter"? With a "Brain Box"? Or, does someone have to "Brain" you? And, for the record, IQ does not equal brain power or one's ability to "think"! IQ is a bad label applied to make people think they are smarter than others. Nobody in this world is smarter than another, just different!

 And, what is "Extra Virgin Olive Oil" ? Does it take two virgin olives to make it? And, is an olive still a virgin after having a pimento stuffed in it, or is that considered a period? How does one or something become Extra Virgin? Does it mean you can lose your virginity once but save the other for later? That would surely solve the white wedding dress controversy!

 Oh such wonders of the world to ponder! After a whole pot of Coffee I Do feel so much more Enlightened! And Yes, Coffee is on the list and My #1 brain stimulation Vice!

 Meanwhile, back at his food dish, the pooch pondered his cuisine!

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Give Them The Keys To The Caddy - Again?

CNN Poll: GOP can handle budget slightly better than Democrats

Who do they poll? A select pool of ignorance that forgets exactly how we got here in the first place? An angry bunch of people just sitting down to dinner when the phone rings? Timing is everything and the media knows this, ever stirring the pot with skewed data to make headlines! They are consummate in their ability to herd and move the sheeple hither and yon on the days false promise of greener pastures just over the hill. Biased mass media reigns supreme in today's society, programming and influencing the flock with mindless drivel meant to lull them into docility, allowing them to be fleeced while nodding their heads in a mindless stupor. No need to choose a pasture, they'll do it for you, saving you the trouble of making a choice. Just keep your head down and merrily graze on the words of the herders guiding the flock. Munch, munch, munch.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, someone is shearing the pooch!

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Sunday's Offering - A Song

Nickel Creek - The Hand Song

The boy only wanted to give Mother something
And all of her roses had bloomed
Looking at her as he came rushing in with them
Knowing her roses were doomed
All she could see were some thorns buried deep
And the tears that he cried as she tended his wounds

And she knew it was love
It was one she could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands

He still remembers that night as child
On his mother's knee
She held him close and she opened her bible
And quietly started to read
And seeing a picture of Jesus he cried out
"Momma, he's got some scars just like me."

And he knew it was love
It was one he could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands

Now the boy's grown and moved out on his own
When Uncle Sam comes along
A foreign affair, but our young men were there
And luck had his number drawn
It wasn't that long till our hero was gone
He gave to a friend what he learned from the cross

But they knew it was love
It was one they could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands

It was one they could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands

St, Pawlenty and His Royal Court Jester Spew Their Profundities - Duck

Pawlenty executive order aims to ‘keep Obamacare out of Minnesota’

President "Wannabe", AKA Tim Pawlenty strikes again! Just one more piece of garbage coming out of Metroapolis/St. Pawlenty! This guy is like lightening across the state, striking at will in an erratic but willful fashion, always to bolster his image with Other State's voters in a shameless bid for the 2012 Presidential office.
Here is an example of what his Highness, St. Pawlenty, and his Loony Jester, Michele Bachmann, stand for! Be Afraid, Be VERY Afraid! 



Meanwhile, Back in Northern Minnesota, The pooch expired w/o health-care!


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