Incompetence Inc.

There’s a problem in today’s society that is going to greatly affect our future. The younger generation is growing up with a rebellious nature, unruly, undisciplined behaviour, and a deep urge to perform acts of civil disobedience.

Meet little Johnny:

He’s a hardened criminal who deserves to spend the rest of his life rotting in jail.

Canada has done its best to prevent Johnny from stealing (ones and zeros, that is), with our favourite superhero: Captain Copyright. But their site is now down… deservedly so.

However, fortunately the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education has the answer: http://lawforkids.org/

Taking a look at some of the “toons” on this wonderfully perspective website, we can see some classic works of art:

This guy thinks he’s not a car, but the cop knows better!

It’s comics like these, that make you want to have a helmet, eye protection and a permission slip…

Check them out and you’ll find cartoons about DUI, weapons, tagging, smoking, marijuana, shoplifitng, joyriding and fighting.

Now while these cartoons will totally get through to, like, children, I’ve taken the time, to get someone, to create my own, that might seem more appropriate…

From Pox over at Vektorr Studios

Yeah, that revoked license will teach him not to shoot cops!

Quite frankly – No…

If anyone is crazy enough to think that these mostly nonsensical cartoons will stop teenagers from committing crimes, then they are either seriously out of touch with normative progressive values of the younger generation, or work for government organisations. More probably both.

If you have a look at your typical teenager, they’ll look at these cartoons… and get the sudden urge to commit crime. You cannot attempt to educate children with lame cartoons.

The point, I feel, that needs to be made is that there is no need for this in our society. The government does not need to protect the children from the real world with this fearmongering (not to mention that some of these laws are absurd, mainly those involving revoked licenses). Most kids do some stupid things when they grow up, they do not all turn out to be criminals. They may end up as dole bludgers with a shoddy life… and move to Canada, but there’s nothing illegal about that (yet).

It’s this ultra-conservatism in this world that does not allow children to fully develop. We make these things seem taboo, instead of educating children about them, exposing them to it slowly.

We have to stop this idiocy and give parents some responsibility for their own children. It’s not up to busy government officials, to form committees and departments, to delegate tasks to people, to find other people, that will find people, who are willing to go and hire writers and artists, who will procrastinate over crappy little cartoons, which will make it into the unbeknownst corners of the internet, after responsibility was delegated to someone, to look for… you get the point.

This leads on to the paranoia that I have seen from authority (parents, schools, police alike), which creates this protectionist nature.

There are schools where I live, for example, that have banned loitering. Loitering not inside the school, but in the CBD, as many students travel home via the city. That’s right, standing around in a single spot in a public location is now illegal.
What’s more is that schools have alerted the presence of police officials to loiterers, tying up public resources, shifting attention towards people standing still with no purpose, and away from real criminals – yes, they do exist, and no, they are not teenagers who have nothing better to do than stand around…

To conclude, the solution is quite simple really. How about spending more money on the education system, improving that rather than creating cartoons that will have no positive influence on anybody, ever.

I’ll finish with a quote from Bill Maher:

There are 12 year old boys in this country who can’t even spell the name of the teacher they’re having sex with.

P.S FUCK YOUTUBE

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Another Special Comment from Olbermann as has become regular for my blog…

This one about the fear-mongering (read terrorising) of the Republicans about the terrorist threat.

Transcript below the fold

Continue reading Olbermann – The Real Terrorists…

For my latest installment of “This Is What Americans…” we generalise America’s eating habits.

America, this is an apple:

You eat them.

I suggest you memorise what these look like, and go buy one. They’re available at your local FRUIT and VEGETABLE store.

America, this is not an apple:

Also available in blueberry flavour!

You do not eat “this”.

That’s right: sausages… wrapped in chocolate chip pancakes… on a stick

Saturated lipids covered in fatty cholesterol, topped with cancer inducing radiation… that’s just swell.

Funny when you look at all these people complaining about obesity epidemics, blaming them on the most ridiculous things, yet allowing shit like this to plague our arteries and pancakes and sausage sticks to stab us right in our chests.

Unfortunately this has been on the market for a while: just without chocolate chips… Along with a full range of other healthy Jimmy Dean products.

By the way, just to let you know, the Jimmy Dean website passes this abominable chocolatechippancakewrappedsausageonastick as a “hearty breakfast”

Jimmy Dean Pancakes & Sausage
Jimmy Dean full-flavored sausage inside a sweet pancake covering – it’s fun on a stick. Just pop these sweet treats in the microwave for less than 2 minutes and you’ll have a hearty breakfast or snack that’s not only filling but easy to eat and enjoy.

Now all of you will come out and scream at me that not all Americans are fat, and that I’m a stereotyping attention whore, who has bigoted anti-American views. But no one will care what you think because you’re American.

The fact of the matter is, as the title suggests, that Americans all – yes, every single one of them – eat this. That’s undeniable fact, infallible logic, because obviously Americans are fat and stupid.

Case in point: most of them will take this seriously.

But please, please stop to wonder why it is that this product is available in stores in AMERICA and not anywhere else in the world?

No, the answer is not “American innovation”

I mean, I’m sure that Africa would love to pump some fat into their bloodstream, but why only America?

Why must you have a customer range big enough for products like these to allow them to be sold in your stores, to your children, while you complain about them being fat. But your own fat ass is too lazy to get up and do anything about it…

Here’s a quick tip: Don’t Fucking Eat And You Won’t Get Fat™

EDIT: Found this great video (tip to Raincoaster)

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More from Keith

including a Special Comment, which will not dissapoint…

It’s so good it almost makes you forget about the beginning of the end…

Transcript:

Continue reading Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions Act: Special Comment – Olbermann…

In a fleeting tribute to the American free press, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice angrily came out with arms flailing at Chris Wallace in an interview on Fox News Sunday.

Rice labelled the journalist a “godless sodomite” and “tratorous terrorist enabler”, as the journalist asked her the tough questions about U.S.S. Cole and the Bush administration’s failure to find Bin Laden in it’s first 8 months in office.

Rice stormed off halfway through the interview, after verbally assaulting Wallace, and refused to continue.

“She completely lost it! I asked her genuine questions and she replied with undeserved acrimony”, said Wallace in his commentary about the interview, which will be screened in its entirety on Fox tonight.

Rightyo then…

Stay tuned for updates

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Taken from Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) – Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a key role in ending the Cold War, said the United States had squandered an opportunity to improve global politics after the Cold War, a paper said on Friday.

In comments that were among the harshest he has made about the United States, Gorbachev compared U.S. foreign policy to one of the deadliest diseases on the planet — AIDS.

“Today our American friends are suffering from an illness worse than AIDS. And I would say this is the victor’s complex,” Gorbachev was quoted as saying in an interview with the Netzzeitung.

Unable to extricate itself from its Cold War mentality, the United States was playing a dwindling role in world politics, while Russia, China, Brazil, Europe, India and Japan were becoming stronger, Gorbachev said.

North Korea, which said on Monday it had successfully completed a nuclear test, was an example. Only China and Russia were in a position to handle Pyongyang, he said.

Washington will in future have to act less on its own and get used to a position of diminished importance, he said.

“The Americans will have to understand that in future they will have to cooperate and make decisions jointly, instead of just always wanting to give orders,” Gorbachev said.

He said the United States and other Western countries had missed an opportunity to make the world a better place after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 ushered in the end of communism.

“At that point, the West focused more on its geopolitical interests,” Gorbachev said, adding that Western countries had been more interested in cashing in on the “unbridled burst of globalization” that followed the end of the Cold War than in improving the international political climate.

This former player in the game of global politics, now activist, has said what we are all thinking deep down. The current direction of the world goes against very basic humanist policies, and we can all foresee a downwards spiral in global affairs.

Gorbachev is frighteningly right. The end of the cold war was really the beginning of the modern political, technological era, and benefit has not come from political actions of the White House since the demise of communism.

There is a need for change, no matter how well off anyone thinks they are…

Watch your freedoms dematerialise before your very own eyes, ebb into nothingness…

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After my rather lengthy hiatus from writing editorials, instead posting links to videos or other sites/blogs and briefly commenting on them (which has gotten me no shortage of hits), I am back with a self-righteous "article" about firearms (Americans too).

First, you will notice the amazingly attention-grabbing title of this piece. Yes, you stupid Americans, it is grievously over-generalised. I KNOW this, and you do not have to point this out to me.

Well, where to begin?

First I’d like everyone to take a look here and here and here and here and here.

I could go on, but I’ve made my point… Only two things are common in all the articles linked to above:

1. They occurred in America, perpetrated by Americans
2. They involved guns

We eliminate the second statement almost instantly, as it would be completely incongruous to think that guns may be the issue at hand.

After all guns don’t kill people:

That’s just absurd…

So, considering that I, along with many of you, believe that guns don’t kill people, we’re left with one option: Americans kill people.
Well, it’s gotta be one or the other, so all you gun-toting red-necks are gonna have to pick.

Considering that this infallible logic is somewhat hypothetically askew (and I’m not suggesting that it is), and Americans don’t kill people, that leaves us with some compromising to do.

I’ll put forward the next most logical conclusion:

Guns don’t kill people, high-velocity projectiles do.

Hence as a good American, you must boycott the ammunition industry and support a ban on all sales of live rounds of ammo around the world. This is the obvious solution, because finding and destroying the world’s supply of ammunition is so much easier than ridding it of its guns.

So keep as many fucking guns as you need:
They Can Take Your Ammo, But They’ll Never Take Your Guns^TM

…Or protect your children by giving them more guns:

[/being a gungho nut-job]

Now in all seriousness, if you have ever said that guns don’t kill people, then you are a fucking moron.

By saying: “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, you are strongly implying that either it is perfectly fine for people to be doing so, or if it not fine, then we should get rid of people.

Yes, it is a person behind the gun, the person’s brain that made the decision, the person’s finger that pulled the trigger, the person’s arm that absorbed the recoil, and the person’s head that needs to be examined.
Yes, it is people that kill people…

Using guns.

No a gun is not a “tool”. The sole purpose of a firearm is to hurt or quite possibly kill another living being. It was created for just that purpose, and today it still has no other use.

Knives cut things, crowbars help you break into cars, frying pans are used for frying things, shovels for shovelling, etc., etc…
I am not suggesting we control the use of every dangerous object, just those that have no other purpose but ot kill.

Guns do not protect, they just kill.

Sure it would be easy for you to say that crime rates went down in neighbourhoods where gun ownership is mandatory… just like you could say that crime rates went down in Germany under Hitler: a completely self-censored society, living without freedom due to fear of retribution (in this case the risk of getting shot).

They act as a false deterrent, allowing people to think that they are invincible when they have their gun, when all it takes is a bigger gun, or a better shot, to have them dead. They convey the illusion that one is more powerful with a gun and thus make it easier for someone to commit a crime, encouraging people to do so.
The government can portray this false “safety through guns” attitude and then have the people on their puppet strings. Able to take away all their other civil rights and freedoms with no political or judicial consequences, while the citizens hug their beloved… firearms.

The fact of the matter is you feel safer in a society with no guns, this coming from first hand experience.

Ok, so perhaps you cannot guarantee that no one can obtain a gun, but it would be a hell of a lot harder in a place where guns are unlawful and not sold on every street corner…

Just because you cannot control something, does not mean it must be legalised.

And not of least importance, guns cause much more damage, direct or collateral, to others.

In a spur of the moment decision, during a dispute, disagreement or a fight, pulling a trigger would leave someone for dead, or at best critically injured, before the offender has realised what he has done. Had he not been carrying a gun, he cold have knocked him out cold with his fist, or whacked him over the head with a shovel causing a mild concussion, before regaining his cool, and dashing off before the cops can get there…

Yes, I have a level of respect for the American Constitution, but your right to obtain bear arms must be revoked. It is cruel, inhumane and degrading to a civilised society.

Guns kill people.

I feel that this is somehow not finished, but I cannot think of what more to say, so I hope we can address more of this issue in the comments, and if not I will write a second part for this article, when more comes to mind.

To go with my new theme change: another segment of media clips, showing the high and lowlights of the media over the last couple of days.

Faux continued its GOP cocksucking(?), labelling a disgraced Republican as a Democrat. (this one was too good not to post):

It really is an easy way to solve problems for the Republican party, with their propaganda machine in full swing: label everyone who doesn’t like you as a Democrat…

Our good friend Keith Olbermann had this to say:

Fact of the matter is, whether Fox fucked up, or are deliberately misinforming the people (which last time I checked was a crime), they did not admit their mistake, did not even acknowledge it, choosing to instead show a repeat of the telecast with the Information Bar removed.
This is definitely not the first time old Faux have been caught lying: they have several times now even changed the transcripts of their speeches to cover up any form of mistruth spouted by their reporters or any form of dissent spoken by their interviewees, but this is definitely one of the most disturbing pieces of media bias I have seen in a long time.

Another gallant performance came from Keith last night, where in his Special Comment, he exposed the bigoted lies that Bush has made about the Democrats.

This video and the transcript can be found over at Crooks and Liars. I will link to the actual video when I can find it on youtube.

EDIT:

Another eloquent editorial from Olbermann, showing what this administration would do to avoid taking responsibility for any of their faults, and there have been plenty.

It is the terror and the guilt within your own heart, Mr. Bush, that you re-direct at others who simply wish for you to temper your certainty with counsel.

It is the failure and the incompetence within your own memory, Mr. Bush, that leads you to demonize those who might merely quote to you the pleadings of Oliver Cromwell: “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”

It is not the Democrats whose inaction in the face of the enemy you fear, sir.

It is your own — before 9/11 – (and you alone know this), perhaps afterwards.

Mr. President, these new lies go to the heart of what it is that you truly wish to preserve.

It is not our freedom, nor our country — your actions against the Constitution give irrefutable proof of that.

You want to preserve a political party’s power. And obviously you’ll sell this country out, to do it.

These are lies about the Democrats piled atop lies about Iraq which were piled atop lies about your preparations for Al-Qaeda.

To you, perhaps, they feel like the weight of a million centuries.

As crushing. As immovable.

They are not.

If you add more lies to them, you cannot free yourself, and us, from them.

But if you stop — if you stop fabricating quotes, and building straw-men, and inspiring those around you to do the same — you may yet liberate yourself and this nation.

Please, sir, do not throw this country’s principles away because your lies have made it such that you can no longer differentiate between the terrorists and the critics.

—
Good night, and good luck.

Recently I came across this post on a Spanish blog that I know little of.

UPDATE: More here

EDIT: Another article I was directed to here

This is something that my country’s media neglected to tell me about in any great form of detail. Sure, I knew these were out there but seeing them first-hand makes you really wonder WHAT THE FUCK THIS ADMINISTRATION IS STILL DOING IN OFFICE.

Yes, it contains disturbing images, but it is something that every single one of you, regardless of nationality or political affiliation should see. And don’t any of you dare look away, you allowed this shit to happen, pay the price.

I’m going to self-censor myself at that… never know what Bush could do to me… (well, actually I do: it involves detaining me with no charges and no right of appeal, for however long he wants)

This is what the government of America does. A government based on freedom, democracy, civil and human rights. The proudest nation in the whole world.

This is what that government has recently advocated and allowed through legislation.

This is what America’s civilised country supports…