[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Orwell is alive and well in Canada

 

OK, I just sent a rant about right wing radio - how about a rant about public radio - which wingers love to portray as "pinko commie" lefty nonsense - yes, various wingnuts from Michael Savage to my friend use these outdated insults. Don't they know those insults are, like, so five minutes ago?  You have to keep current with the slander if you want people to take you seriously. You get nowhere calling somebody a Christian, or a Jew, or a Hun, or a Visigoth, or a pinko commie. "Terrorist" or "Child Molester" still work.  If there are any wingnuts lurking on this list, a little helpful advice.

But anyway, public radio, here in Canada as in the US, only looks left because there's no real left to expose it for what it is - center right. It used to be center left, but I've heard the CBC chasing NPR to the right.  There's still some good programming (and I recommend it from time to time, but it's like the prize in crackerjacks, you have to look for it.

OK, so there was this local program, and the guest was advocating all children should participate in compulsory public service.  The Orwellian aspect was they were calling it "Mandatory Volunteering."

Now you can debate whether its a good idea to force kids to do this (my wife reports it was a big part of the program in her highly idealistic progressive high school, and it didn't seem to leave any lasting impact on the students who participated) but to introduce the oxymoronic phrase "mandatory volunteering" into the debate frankly stupefied me. Can people really not understand that it's not voluntary if it's mandatory?

There was almost total consensus from caller after caller - what a great idea this was. Then one caller suggested that it should be called "slavery."  After all, if working for a living is wage slavery, this is the same thing without the wage, so until somebody can convince him he's wrong, that's what he's going to call it.

The program host openly laughed at him, in a manner that made it clear that we're dealing with the mentally ill fringe element here, and they went right back into the discussion as if he'd never called. Because it was impossible for them to respond to what he said, so just ignore it.


 

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Rant about wingnuts.

 

It's good to listen to what the right wingers are saying, it softens my dismay at liberals a bit. 

I've been listening to right wing talk radio a bit lately, as a friend of mine has a show, and he's been playing some of my stunt music remixes.  I'd be happy to be be played on left wing radio or college radio, but I take exposure where I can get it.

But I really can't listen for very long at a stretch, it's just one long unbroken screed of lies, deception, and ignorance.  You can't turn it on and listen for 5 minutes without being overwhelmed by the hate and stupidity.  Just one example:  Rusty Humphries, some nationally syndicated (don't ask me why, its not because he's excellent) commentator, was saying you can't go anywhere in the world without documents on you, like Arizona is just catching up with the rest of the fascist world out there with their new South African style law.

I sent an email to my friend: 

"Rusty Humphies was just plain wrong. It's never occurred to me to bring my passport with me when I go out anywhere in Brazil, or Botswana (or Canada!), or anywhere in Europe.  Sure, you show your passport at the border (except in the EU, where once you're in, you're in, you can cross borders freely). I just leave my passport back in my hotel room and move about freely, I've never looked over my shoulder or worried about it all, and I've never been hassled anywhere. I thought I was a pretty paranoid guy, but I guess I'm pretty calm compared to conservative talk radio hosts, and the US government.

In part, Americans aren't aware of their eroding freedoms because they don't get out enough.

There's billions of people in the world, and all the smart ones and all the good ideas are not contained in one part of North America."

He brought up my email on the air today to mock me.  Facts mean nothing to these people.  They took it to heart when the demented Reagan said "Facts are Stupid Things."  Just ignore the facts and press on with the ignorance, by all means.

And whatever you do, don't notice that there is freedom and prosperity, and health, and love and all the good things we cherish in many, many places in the world... even as it's being leached out of the system in the US by both branches of the business party.

My wife grew up in South Africa. Carrying documentation on you at all times was a fact of life there. Of course, only some people had to show the documentation. Isn't this what they want in Arizona?  Who needs that?  Of course, Reagan loved the apartheid regime in South Africa, maybe the wingers really do think this is a good thing.

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Stephen Hawking says "Galactus is coming!"

 

Stephen Hawking warns against contacting aliens over invasion fears

By Martin Fricker 26/04/2010
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2010/04/26/unwelcome-to-earth-115875-22212694/

Scientist Stephen Hawking fears aliens in giant spaceships may one day terrorise earth.

The physicist said extraterrestrials almost certainly exist on other planets.

Professor Hawking, 68, an expert on the universe who wrote A Brief History of Time, warns that jealous aliens could one day want to steal Earth's resources.

And, in a scenario similar to Hollywood blockbuster movie Independence Day, he fears contact with them might be catastrophic.

He said: "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

"I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.

"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans." He makes the warnings in a new TV series highlighting his thoughts on big mysteries of the universe.

Prof Hawking says aliens probably will not just exist on planets or be roaming through space but will also live in the centre of stars.

He said with 100 billion galaxies, each with hundreds of millions of stars, Earth is highly unlikely to be the only planet with life: "The numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," he said. "The real challenge is to work out what aliens might be like."

Prof Hawking believes most of them will be the equivalent of microbes or simple animals.

In his Discovery Channel documentary, two-legged herbivores are dramatically picked off by flying, yellow lizard-like predators.

And fluorescent aquatic animals form vast shoals in the oceans of a moon orbiting Jupiter.

Prof Hawking, who is almost completely paralysed by a form of muscular dystrophy and who communicates through a voice synthesiser, concludes that contact with aliens is "a little too risky".

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: I'm getting a message that says 'Sorry, your account has been disabled.'

 

Things are getting tough for Mr. Roboto. I had a skype conversation with him the other day, and I believe I saw a tear rolling down his metal cheek. Perhaps it was oil... but still, it made me sad.  How bad could robot overlords be in comparison with the carbon-based leadership we have now?

From: Mishima Roboto <mishimaroboto@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Subject: I'm getting a message that says 'Sorry, your account has been disabled.'
To: mattlove1@gmail.com

Mr Love,

I'm afraid that Google is no longer being cooperative in my attempts to conquer the world. They stopped doing business with me at about the same time they stopped doing business with China. 

Things are getting rough out here in the desert, and this is a terrible blow to my plans for world conquest. Please send lawyers, guns and money.

SMUL8U L8R!
Mr Roboto.


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Date: Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:19 PM
Subject: I'm getting a message that says 'Sorry, your account has been disabled.'
To: help@google.com

I am sure this is a mistake. If I violated any terms of service, it was an unintentional mistake. I'm a mostly harmless, world conquering robot, and my intentions are benign, my rule will be cruel, but fair. If I did something wrong, I won't do it again, if you only tell me what I did.  Email is my window into the broader world, it is essential to my world conquest.

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Canadian, Please

 

I got into a bit of a kerfuffle on Facebook... it all started with a harmless and fairly entertaining vid supposedly about being Canadian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf13B8epw

Foolishly enough, I pointed out a couple of instances where the myth of Canada is at odds with the reality. Soon I'm embroiled in conflict with any number of jingoistic Canadian nuts who thinks it makes them Canadian to act like the ugliest of the ugly Americans around.  Here's a fairly tame example:

ROTTIMAN31 (3 hours ago)

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if you think Canada is so bad then get the fuck out old man, we don't want or need you. And when you go back make sure to tell your delusional fellow citizens that we hate of all of you fuckn hillbillies

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We are going to leave here in the fall, it pretty much sucks here, it's all been a huge disappointment, but I'm not going to give these guys the satisfaction of thinking they've run us out.  At any rate, I don't hold Canada responsible for these guys, it turns out most of them are ignorant and pooly socialized teenagers; they exist everywhere.  I do hold Steven Harper, the oil sands, the seal hunts, the residential schools, the treatment of the Natives, the hatred and bigotry the English speakers have towards Francophones, the phony promises of their broken health care system, etc. against them.

We didn't do our homework; the Canada of our imagination (and that of most Americans, I would guess) disappeared with Trudeau.  We didn't escape Bush by coming here - he ran this place too, through his lap dog proxy, Harper, and now Harper has just hopped on Obama's lap. We might as well come back home.

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [progressive] Offshore Drilling

 

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Andre Kenji de Sousa <andrekenjilistas4@gmail.com> wrote:

 

1-) In fact, Obama said that he would allow offshore drilling in a debate with McCain.

 

I missed that partucular example of Obama saying he was going to do exactly what he went on to do. There are many others, of course. The faithful point to examples where he said he would do something else. Obama, supposedly a different kind of politician, is very much in the tradition, saying whatever people want to hear at the moment, and letting people think they are what the people want them to be.  I just got this email an hour ago, they seemed to think they had a promise from Obama:

Reminder: Stop Offshore Drilling NOW

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show details 10:19 AM (1 hour ago)

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Dear Matt, Last week, President Obama announced his proposal to expand offshore drilling. Despite his previous statement that he would "keep in place the [offshore drilling] moratorium in Florida and around the country," he is now willing to sacrifice the oceans in the name of sub-par climate change legislation. Remind Obama that a healthy planet includes healthy oceans, free from the threat of oil spills. Voice your support for the oceans »
Offshore drilling has no place in our vision of a clean energy future. Expanded offshore drilling threatens marine habitats and contributes to carbon dioxide emissions. However, clean energy alternatives, like offshore wind, provide three times as many jobs as traditional fossil fuel production, with the added benefit of a smaller impact on our environment. Tell Obama that he should focus on clean energy alternatives instead of gambling with the oceans' future » For the oceans, Jackie Savitz Senior Campaign Director, Pollution Campaigns Oceana PS. We've fixed the technical issues from last week's email, so we hope that you will take action and then help spread the word! Forward the link, post it on Twitter and share it on Facebook.
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2-) That´s not the end of the world:  http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cabo+frio%20praia
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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Offshore Drilling

 

I just put this in my status line on Facebook (responding to a post on my own Wall):  "Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx became fans of 1,000,000 Strong Against Offshore Drilling...." some of the same people who urged me to vote for their guy because he was going to save us from all this. I checked out the group. To their credit, some of them have figured out the bait and switch. But ...they'll fall for it again in 2012, and 2016 and 2020.."

Many people were sooooo offended at a personal attack on Obama - a picture of him with an oil moostache that somebody had posted. It had been removed by the time I got there, I was curious to see it, so I looked in Google pictures. I didn't find it, but did find earlier photoshopped pictures of Sarah Palen and Dick Cheney with oil moostaches, harmless fun when it's them, of course. 

You can find thousands of images of Bush as Alfred E Newman, a chimp (made one myself), with the obligatory Hitler mustache... lefties got cold comfort from these scathing (though sometimes juvenile) images.  But lay off Obama, doggone it, because I'm a fan of his on every issue except this one!

Really?  What is it about torture, wiretapping, bloated military spending, pandering to the rich, etc. that you suddenly now like?

I started wondering what do liberals really like about Obama?  I tried to think it through. Well, they like his rhetoric.  They like that he's black, but not too black.  This view has been expressed publicly for them at least twice:

Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny - CNN.com

31 Jan 2007 ... "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. ...
www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/ - Cached - Similar

» Harry Reid: Obama 'Light-Skinned' 'with No Negro Dialect' - Big ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect" in ...
biggovernment.com/.../harry-reid-obama-light-skinned-with-no-negro-dialect/ - Cached

It's true, these guys got some heat for saying it... you're supposed to think it, but not say it out loud.  Still, Biden is now the VP, and Harry Reid still has his job, so it's not like what Trent Lott or Earl Butts said.  It does represent the mainstream of white liberal political thought.

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: help me please

 

I was looking at my email in an account I rarely use, and I was shocked and saddened to learn about the troubles our friend and leader Leslie Morris was experiencing back on February 9th (see attached email below). I trust that his business in London was successful, and he has returned safely to your great country.  Perhaps one of you even helped pay his hotel bill, I have heard you are a kind and generous people.

It's an amazing coincidence that a Facebook friend of mine (and fellow B-52s fan), Michelle Kupiec of Middleburg Heights, OH initiated this chat with me on February 13, just 4 days after Leslie got traumatically robbed by some street orchids:

9:40amMichelle
hey

9:40amMatt
hello, hows it going?

9:41amMichelle
not too goood at the moment

9:41amMatt
what's going on?

9:43amMichelle
i came down here to London,England for a short vacation to visit a resort and got mugged at gun point last night at the park of the hotel where we lodged

9:43amMatt
oh my god, that's terrible
were you injured?
it must have been terrifying

9:44amMichelle
All cash,credit cards and cell were stolen off me.I've been to the US embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all


9:49 AM 9:45amMatt
they haven't been helping you?

9:45amMichelle

our flight leaves
today and I'm having problemssettling the hotel bills.The hotel manager won't let us leave
until i settle the hotel bills(1,250 pounds) now am freaked out

9:46amMatt
wow, that's terrible!

  9:47amMichelle
i dont know if u can help me out for the hotel bills


I had to tell her "no" - my money is all tied up, I've invested heavily in Mr. Roboto's movie. However, I have an idea that may generate a little income, I'll split it evenly between Michelle, Leslie, and me (because I had this idea). This is how I explained it to Michelle just a few minutes ago:

Hi Michelle

It's an amazing coincidence, but my friend Leslie Morris, the famous Australian film director, went to London and got mugged, too! This reminded me of your unfortunate experience in London, so much (see attached).

Do you know if they still run "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" in the newspapers? I want to send this one to them, they'll flip!  They'll probably want to send me money.  Maybe if its used on their TV program, they'll send me even more. I'll share it with you of course, you probably need it, you had a very expensive trip!

Your friend,
Matt


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Leslie Morris <dr.spider.man@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:19 AM
Subject: help me please
To: zpinternational@bellsouth.net


How are you doing? Please I really don't feel like disturbing you with
my problem but I don't have any other choice rather then seeking for
help from you, please try and understand my situation right now as it
needs an urgent attention. Actually, I traveled to London, but
Unfortunately for me, I got robbed by some street orchids while trying
to get a cab back to my Hotel. Right now, I am stranded and so cash
trapped.
I can't even think straight now. So please can you kindly lend me
1200$ to settle my hotel bills and other things. Even if you don't
have up to the amount, you can assist me with any amount you can
raise. I promise to pay you back the money as soon as I return back
home. I am so confused right now. I would have called you to explain
the situation to you but my mobile phone does not work here and the
hotel phone line has been disconnected because of the bills I am owing
the hotel management, I only have access only to email. You can have
the money sent to me through western union money transfer as It is
more safer and faster. Here is the details where you would send the
money to
Name : Leslie Morris
Location : London EC1N 8QX, England, United Kingdom
So please kindly locate a western union office and send the money if
possible today so that I can get out of here as soon as possible.
Immediately you send the money, get back to me with the payment
details after you sent the money. I am almost impatiently waiting for
your reply. Hope to hear from you very soon.
Awaiting your reply,
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