Bush Tax Cuts: Democrats vs. Republicans

Reference: The Washington Post
Don't be fooled - this isn't the same "Fair Tax" you heard about in '97.

Rick Scott "EPA!" (Comic)

Doodling: Time well spent. Here is the inspiration. If you're not sure where the parody is from, you haven't seen this Simpson's movie scene.

Rick Scott "EPA!"

Rally to Restore Rent (video)

An investigation of Jon Stewarts Rally to Restore Sanity to see what the hubbub was really all about.

5 Reasons Why Nerds Are Liberal

1. No Syntax Cuts

Get the floating point?

Nerds have to be acute with definitions, just ask a programmer (although they might prefer that you email them). For a program to execute properly, variables in the code are first defined and thereafter can't function unless they're redefined from the very beginning. Words exercised in real life RL by The Right, like reverse racism and socialism, don't meet the standards of semantics or grammatical application (variable definitions) because the programmer in this case is reality, and unless you're name is Sam Beckett, reality just is.

So it's not likely that a nerd would misuse these terms or the similar fanatical amplitude to call out everyone who disagrees with them, a Nazi. Do note though, that while addressing Nerds wouldn't likely toss "Nazi" around like a rampant case of Aryan Tourette's, that doesn't mean nerds don't recognize that Nazis do in fact, exist: Grammar Nazis.

DING! This guy just leveled in reason.

2. WWND?

What would nerds do? In a table top game, like Dungeons and Dragons, determining that would depend on your character's alignment. What the attendees had in common at this years 2010 Comic Con was that just about everybody gained experience points XP for role playing their characters chaotic good.

Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church of the God Hates Fags movement, made an appearance to protest comic con for "worshiping false idols (pics)." Comic Con participants responded with a defense roll to crit; the counter-protest spilled with super heros, anime fan girls, Trekkies, kittens and Jedi. Alongside the comic book fans protesting Phelps and the Church, The Comics Alliance (pics and a video)  reports an interview from Jesus himself who said, in his  buddy-loving glory, "Fred's got issues."

Among the Comic Con picket signs were remarks like, God Loves Gay Robin, God Hates Jedi, All glory to the Hypno Toad, God needs a Starship, The Cylons destroyed 12 colonies for your sins and Odin is God: read The Mighty Thor #5. Even more pics (because you really can't see too many of these).

Epsilon!

3. Keeping The Tubes Noob-Free

Noobs inexperienced gamers generally don't like to be given information, they like orders. They complain, aren't willing to research what could aid them pass the stage or quest they're stuck with, and they don't respect that the information is probably on the web already. The forum they were linked to isn't ample enough for them to figure things out; even if it were, they probably didn't even bother to look at it.

Distributing information freely and creating internet accessibility to everyone is an attribute of the nerd character class. If it's just too awkward to thank that one guy in your office for the for the 72 gigs of porn Pron you have been pirating, then thank him for this - nerds are pro open source.

Flipping The Bird

Open source is like an android phone or Linux computer operating system. Android is the first mobile open source platform, accepting most applications  into the online market (unless your app one-click roots). There isn't a certification process like the iphone, which has it's own apple-created coding language (a language in itself based on Unix - what the Linux kernel is built on). With the iphone you're basically stuck with their applications along with digital restriction managers (DRM's) . That means that if you would like to use free software, created by developers who want you to share copy and modify their work, those programs would be restricted from uploading.

Pirating, linking, blogs and forums along with freeware, universal wi-fi and internet access give insight for android or Linux programmers-to-be while also flipping the digital bird to the proprietary pro-corporate world.
 

Disgustingly cute. Disgustingly true.

4.You Can Has Freedom   

Every website is equally searched and uploaded because of its content and not because someone paid to have it load faster, right?

Now that's changing and although smaller businesses and individuals can't afford to pay for the same amount of bandwidth as corporations are able to, the G.O-Tea Party have publicly come out against net neutrality."

What do nerds have to say about it? Well lets ask this guy: He likes net neutrality so much, he needs a cold shower after just thinking about it (sounds pretty nerdular to me. Just look at his guitar - "this machine pwns noobs." And he has shelf pron).

Without net neutrality it's as though you can buy your own dice pool for any roll because your character happened to find a massive bag of gold under a bugbear pit in the woods. A bag with a scent that alludes to droppings.

5. Just Gaygle It

Nerds don't really mind who's crossed over the rainbow (some might even be gay themselves - who woulda thunk?). And now we can say the pot of gold isn't a lie, either.

This cake, however, is a lie.

Google offered reimbursements to  same-sex couples after Google agreed that it wasn’t fair they were paying an estimated $1,069 more annually in federal taxes than traditional couples. They also put same-sex couples on par with traditional man-woman spouses when it comes to how much time they are allowed to take off from work for family or medical reasons.

What did fox think about it? Nerd advice #1: Google it. Let's see how the titles of this particular story compare to different news sources in this Google search:

"Google raises eyebrows with new gay-only employee benefit" - top 5 links

Publicizing that Google "raises eyebrows" infers a negative connotation that Google is being taboo and saying the benefit is "Gay only" completely ignores the big picture - that Gay couples pay more than traditional couples. Google specifically called it a reimbursement for that explicit reason. That's right, Fox, this post just went Gordon Freeman on your ass.

Deficit Pop Quiz: A message from DFA

Pop quiz: Which of the following will make up a majority of the deficit in the next decade?

A) Social Security
B) Medicare
C) The National Park Service
D) PBS
E) George Bush's tax cuts

Give up? The answer is E -- George Bush's tax cuts.

But this week the co-chairs of the so-called "Deficit Commission" came out with their recommendations on how to fix the deficit. Do you know what their answer was? They said they wanted to cut A, B, C and D.

That's right -- the co-chairs of the Deficit Commission said that they wanted to cut Social Security, Medicare, the National Park Service, PBS and a whole lot more. But they're OK with leaving George Bush's tax cuts in place even though those tax cuts are projected to make up over half of the deficit over the next 10 years.

These guys are dead wrong and it's time Congress knew just how wrong they are. We need to get Americans across the country involved in our campaign to defeat the Deficit Commission's attack on Social Security. Help us by spreading the word to your friends on Facebook and Twitter today.

Not only are they dead wrong on how to fix the deficit, but they're probably the only two people in the country who think it's a good idea to cut Social Security.

On Election Day, Democracy for America polled voters nationwide on some key issues, and when asked about Social Security only four percent said they supported making cuts to Social Security.

The vast majority of Americans -- 85 percent -- said they don't want any cuts to Social Security. But they don't get a vote in the Deficit Commission, so let's make sure Congress hears what they have to say -- get your friends, family members and coworkers to sign our pledge today.

Rick Scott Watch

- Rick Scott campaign worker: I was paid in Gift Cards


- EPA Water Deadline Looming: Rick Scott Asks for Delay


- Will Rick Scott clean house, or get his clock cleaned?


- Scott's 777 plan will lose anywhere from 5,473 to 8,432 state workers jobs


- Rick Scott and Rick Perry Follow Same Game Plan and Ignore Newspaper Boards

- Scott's 777 Plan: #7 Eliminate business income tax


- Scott's Agenda

How One RACIST Woman Goes Postal

Higham, Massachusetts:

*Update: Republicans aren't always likely to be racist but racists are likely to be Republican. Also looking into voter donations, should know by tomorrow. For the sake of evidence I did change the title.

A woman believed to be Erica Winchester demands a collection letter be returned after she realizes that she didn't look at the information on it before signing.



It doesn't take long before she get's heated up when the postal worker can't return the letter, saying

Now you want the signature you fucking nigger thief. You want me to lock you up for life you asshole? Give me my shit back. … And I’m not prejudice, but right now I’m getting really pissed off. Because you’re acting like a nigger, now give me the cards back.

Supposedly she attended the University of Michigan for speech...



After the postal employee explains that he isn't permitted to return the letter, she proceeds to SLAP him. When the worker asks her why she responds with,

"You killed Martin Luther King. You niggers turn on each other. You're stupid. You turn on me, I'm your leader, you're dumb. You can all go under."

Winchester's Aunt, "Grandma Grizzly", defends her niece's racist comments on her blog, saying

"THIS kind of treatment from GOVERNMENT (socialist) minions is exactly why conservatives are driven to blow off steam by forwarding .jpgs of watermelons growing on the White House lawn...The questions NOBODY has asked is: Is this supposed postal worker actually a muslin terrorist from Africa? The accent sounds suspect."

Look, it wouldn't be a quote if I took out the grammatical errors. In fact they're so prevalent that I wouldn't be surprised if Grandma Grizzly was a fake. The banner on the homepage says "Bible-believing. Patriotic. Awared"; I highly doubt awared is even an actual word. She spells Puerto Ricans incorrectly on a poll on her front page and her profile says her name is Mrs. Marvin (Betsy) McCoochey...

It was suspected that said postal worker was fired for this specific incident but a media representative from the Postal service named Christine Dugas said,

The video posted on YouTube was quite disturbing. We immediately pursued this incident  through the local police, which, in turn, pressed charges....That said, let me assure you that the employee’s job status has nothing whatsoever to do with the video.

Hugsomatic is a possible username of the worker who comments on the video: 

"You need to know this postal customer used to babysit the officer’s kid who came at the scene. I’ve just learned both the police department and the court have dropped the case, she is free, and no charges against her. I was never sent a noticed by the court to appear for hearing nor trial. And a a year since that happened, USPS postal inspection service has not investigated this matter”

Sign up for roots camp!

Roots camp is going to be a goulash of new media, organizing and data brain storming in Tampa this Saturday, November 13, 2010 from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Roots Camp is getting together midterm campaign workers to talk about action-driven logistics for upcoming races and what we can learn from the past November election.

Sign up HERE, it's only 10 bucks and certainly worth it.

What The Tea Party Should Know

If you're wondering what I have been doing ... Here it is: A week of editing and a lot of venting.

Also stay tuned for footage from Jon Stewart's rally to restore sanity
*(pictures are already available ----->)