i don't care what 'tradition' (ie insider feather-bedding) is, THE VIOLATION OF THE ELECTION is if we DON'T get informed of these investigations... OBVIOUSLY, such investigations are fraught with peril of interfering, BUT, the FAR BIGGER CRIME, is the crime they got away with not letting us know about, then the 'crime' of putting a cloud over someone that may or may not be justified... no, this 'tradition' is just more of the same bullshit of shielding and obscuring the eee-vil men (and woman) do, NOT to preserve some Sweet Polly Purebred's well deserved reputation for saintliness... this is ALL ABOUT protecting the guilty insiders, NOT preserving some sanctity of investigations, etc...
share your concerns: we ALREADY have ALL KINDS of fiduciary relationships which are ABSOLUTELY BROKEN, and NOTHING is done about it... the banksters, the kongreeskritters, the feebs, alphabet spooks, etc, ALL under fiduciary relationships with us (and the constitution), and yet ALL failing miserably... what are the consequences, where are the 'fiduciary police' to enforce the strictures, why -when those major fiduciary institutions have failed us- will some new, magical ones work flawlessly ? ? ? secondly, what does ANY of this so-called privacy mean if a gummint goon simply flashes an NSL or even just a badge with motherfuckin' eagles on it, bitchez ? ? ?
i would like to second that: whether masnick is 100% correct in his reading of the emails and implications, the MAFIAA have PROVEN THEY ARE NOT TRUSTWORTHY, nor have the interests of their marks, er, customers at heart... I DO NOT CARE if the MAFIAA types are actually factually correct every once in a while (the phrase, 'even a blind pig...' comes to mind), THEY ARE WORKING AGAINST THE INTERESTS of the 99%, 99% of the time... that a shill gets all holier-than-thou because someone MAY have misinterpreted a sequence of emails, etc, is noise in the machine: the salient point is, the machine keeps running us down...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This isn't all even remarkable
1. the only place a president has much standing on laws regarding sexual assault, is their bully pulpit: ie talking about it... 2. *sigh* (Required Disclaimer: t-rump is worse than hitler, etc) IF you *supposedly* 'care' about t-rump's serial groping (and -frankly- i don't think most really do; they 'care' about having ANYTHING to slime t-rump with), then you should have excommunicated preznit bubba many decades ago... 3. ASSUMING you grant pres cliton had some good qualities and/or oversaw good legislation being passed (he did not, he was an original neo-lib-con-artist); THEN you must aver that APPARENTLY -at least in his case- serial affairs and possible rapes were no hindrance to him doing as you like... i'm just saying, i am fed up with people's hypocrisy in blaming t-rump for some original sin on this, that and the other, when there are PLENTY of examples of hill/bill/etc being equally -if not moreso- 'guilty' of the same sins/crimes... 4. just out of curiosity: exactly how many people have been MURDERED at t-rump's behest, either personally or through gummint actions he instituted ? ? ? can we count the hundreds of thousands to millions which hill/bill are responsible for murdering ? ? ? WHO is the 'crazy person' in this race ? ? ?
excepting the 'no intention' bee ess which has FUCK ALL to do with deciding to prosecute such crimes (YOU and I try to do ANYTHING within one one thousandth of the seriousness of her National Security Crimes, and see how far 'oh, i didn't *intend* to break that law...' will get you...), hills should be sharing a cell with chelsea manning...
"...however sponsership is a major source of revenue for football clubs in England..." whoop-dee-fucking-doo, the purpose of trademark isn't to provide a bludgeon to enforce YOUR OWN idea of how some fictitious legal entity *MIGHT*, *MAYBE* AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, decide it wants to sponsor a hard cider or whatever... you are not (supposed to) camp out on a singular term, name, color, font, whatever, and have ANY and ALL MADE-UP RIGHTS to prevent anyone from daring to whisper that for for-fucking-ever in ANY other context...
seriously, over 17-22 years of a fairly popular comedy 'brand' with some lasting power featuring a semi-well-known roster of established comedians, and LESS THAN $100 in merch and LESS THAN $100 in song royalties ? ? ? spinal tap ? i think their anus got tapped... what that tells you is: such 'deals' are worthless to the point of breathtakingly insulting... i mean, the grifters all up and down the line getting their cut for nothing, can't let the ACTUAL CREATORS get a taste ? ? ? LESS THAN $100... SPLIT 4 WAYS ! ! ! smart, talented, -presumably- professionally represented sharp guys at the top of their game, and they get screwed over; what chance do ordinary schlubs have against such a rapacious system ? ? ? (not just the music biz, but all biz...)
1. in florida, and *just* got a robo-call this morning from either that group or someone similar, with an old lady in frail voice going on about how that amendment is going to impoverish seniors having to pay for other people's solar panels, blah blah blah... 2. got a similar robo-call about Drug Free Florida Cmtte spouting nonsense about how candy-looking MJ products are going to spread reefer madness among the po' defenseless chilluns... that one made me kind of mad, looked up the org, and: A. financed by sheldon POS adelson, big money fucktard from lost wages who constantly funds anti-MJ initiatives, etc...
B. headed by a certain cretin who is CEO of a big drug-testing company... *snort* fucking scumbags, they don't even TRY to hide the conflict of interest...
dog damn ! i thought this was some fine satire, until i saw the moniker... you are beyond satire, whatevs... bot, i wonder ? ? ? one of a hundred pseudonyms by some gummint kontractor spoofing the commentard ? ? ? only the shadow gummint knows... hee hee hee ho ho ho ha ha ha ak ak ak
Re: Re: Re: "Well, we had to drop that case. Time to focus on the other 27 currently in the works..."
yes, but as one of the anointed ones, they CAN 'do this' 20+ times with no consequences... nobodies like you and me ? ? ? we can't even *think* about spitting on the sidewalk without draconian consequences... the system is skewed, and we are screwed...
@Dannyb bad- 1. there is no such thing as 'hate speech', that is bullshit for left and right wing authoritarians who want control, NOT freedom... 2. there is no such thing as 'hate crimes', there is crime, and there is hate, but 'hate crime' is a bullshit madeup concept... 3. "I don't think it is workable to go after criminal thoughts." well how fucking generous of you, thought-control scumbag... why do you hate freedom, you fascist, anti-human slimeball ?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "Wikileaks is not explicitly anti-American."
thank you... my 'useless protest vote' (as opposed to my useless earnest vote) is going for the same slate as i wrote in last time: Snowden/Manning... ultimately, a system of ranked choice/instant runoff voting is the 'solution' to allowing third/fourth/etc party candidates have a theoretical chance... (of course, that presupposes a LOT of other factors being addressed: election fraud by insiders on vulnerable computer-based systems, free media for elections (thus eliminating 90% of the 'value' in massive campaign war chests), etc...
...to this statement: "Sadly, too often the targets of such parody would rather try to silence speech than address what might be legitimate concerns."
i am a little concerned about how people often times try to 'dress up' pure free speech issues with how that speech *might* be 'valuable' to society in some respect or another... while it is nice to *hope* such a thing is true, it is not and should not be a 'requirement' for allowing or defending free speech... free speech is its own end, NOT WHETHER said speech produces a positive outcome or not; that is totally besides the point... OF COURSE, it only makes sense that people who AGREE with some sort of free speech, are going to be even more outraged that such mild, sarcastic speech being -effectively- threatened if not -effectively- censored...
free speech IS the end to defend, NOT its end that's your friend... hee hee hee
easy, the key ISN'T that the gummint/sea eye ehh/enn ess ehh/etc have super-duper, super-thorough, super-efficient secrecy systems and procedures (oh, i am *certain* they have bookshelves/CD's full of them); it is they have the APPEARANCE of super-duper secrecy systems, and simply ignore so much of it so much of the time, that anyone doing it for nefarious reasons could probably escape notice because it is so pervasive, it is looking for a needle in a haystack-size pile of needles...
i am guessing that woods revels in the attention, positive or negative... never knew much about him, but he always SEEMED LIKE an arrogant, nasty slimeball... turns out that impression was correct...
"The market is still free enough..." oh, just eat shit and die already: there is virtually NO PLACE -other than few urban markets- where i have a REAL choice... i know i am like most where i can get my internet through THE PROTECTED RACKETEERS, or i can go pound sand... IF i actually try to use a competing svc, they LITERALLY connect me to my local monopolist as soon as i input my zip code... you are at least ignorant, apparently stupid, and possibly a shill...
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um, no, simply, no...
OBVIOUSLY, such investigations are fraught with peril of interfering, BUT, the FAR BIGGER CRIME, is the crime they got away with not letting us know about, then the 'crime' of putting a cloud over someone that may or may not be justified...
no, this 'tradition' is just more of the same bullshit of shielding and obscuring the eee-vil men (and woman) do, NOT to preserve some Sweet Polly Purebred's well deserved reputation for saintliness... this is ALL ABOUT protecting the guilty insiders, NOT preserving some sanctity of investigations, etc...
On the post: Would You Be Tempted By This 'Grand Bargain' On Privacy?
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the banksters, the kongreeskritters, the feebs, alphabet spooks, etc, ALL under fiduciary relationships with us (and the constitution), and yet ALL failing miserably... what are the consequences, where are the 'fiduciary police' to enforce the strictures, why -when those major fiduciary institutions have failed us- will some new, magical ones work flawlessly ? ? ?
secondly, what does ANY of this so-called privacy mean if a gummint goon simply flashes an NSL or even just a badge with motherfuckin' eagles on it, bitchez ? ? ?
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I DO NOT CARE if the MAFIAA types are actually factually correct every once in a while (the phrase, 'even a blind pig...' comes to mind), THEY ARE WORKING AGAINST THE INTERESTS of the 99%, 99% of the time...
that a shill gets all holier-than-thou because someone MAY have misinterpreted a sequence of emails, etc, is noise in the machine: the salient point is, the machine keeps running us down...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This isn't all even remarkable
2. *sigh* (Required Disclaimer: t-rump is worse than hitler, etc) IF you *supposedly* 'care' about t-rump's serial groping (and -frankly- i don't think most really do; they 'care' about having ANYTHING to slime t-rump with), then you should have excommunicated preznit bubba many decades ago...
3. ASSUMING you grant pres cliton had some good qualities and/or oversaw good legislation being passed (he did not, he was an original neo-lib-con-artist); THEN you must aver that APPARENTLY -at least in his case- serial affairs and possible rapes were no hindrance to him doing as you like...
i'm just saying, i am fed up with people's hypocrisy in blaming t-rump for some original sin on this, that and the other, when there are PLENTY of examples of hill/bill/etc being equally -if not moreso- 'guilty' of the same sins/crimes...
4. just out of curiosity: exactly how many people have been MURDERED at t-rump's behest, either personally or through gummint actions he instituted ? ? ?
can we count the hundreds of thousands to millions which hill/bill are responsible for murdering ? ? ?
WHO is the 'crazy person' in this race ? ? ?
On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton... Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation
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On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton... Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation
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Re: Football clubs sell advertising
whoop-dee-fucking-doo, the purpose of trademark isn't to provide a bludgeon to enforce YOUR OWN idea of how some fictitious legal entity *MIGHT*, *MAYBE* AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, decide it wants to sponsor a hard cider or whatever...
you are not (supposed to) camp out on a singular term, name, color, font, whatever, and have ANY and ALL MADE-UP RIGHTS to prevent anyone from daring to whisper that for for-fucking-ever in ANY other context...
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Re: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
(repeat ad infinitum or ad absurdum, your choice...)
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Re: Re: Still amazing...
On the post: Hollywood Accounting Back In Court: How Has Spinal Tap Only Earned $81 In Merchandise Sales For Its Creators?
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spinal tap ? i think their anus got tapped...
what that tells you is: such 'deals' are worthless to the point of breathtakingly insulting...
i mean, the grifters all up and down the line getting their cut for nothing, can't let the ACTUAL CREATORS get a taste ? ? ?
LESS THAN $100...
SPLIT 4 WAYS ! ! !
smart, talented, -presumably- professionally represented sharp guys at the top of their game, and they get screwed over; what chance do ordinary schlubs have against such a rapacious system ? ? ?
(not just the music biz, but all biz...)
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and the robo-callers are on the line...
2. got a similar robo-call about Drug Free Florida Cmtte spouting nonsense about how candy-looking MJ products are going to spread reefer madness among the po' defenseless chilluns...
that one made me kind of mad, looked up the org, and:
A. financed by sheldon POS adelson, big money fucktard from lost wages who constantly funds anti-MJ initiatives, etc...
B. headed by a certain cretin who is CEO of a big drug-testing company... *snort* fucking scumbags, they don't even TRY to hide the conflict of interest...
Empire must fall...
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Re: you got me !
i thought this was some fine satire, until i saw the moniker...
you are beyond satire, whatevs...
bot, i wonder ? ? ?
one of a hundred pseudonyms by some gummint kontractor spoofing the commentard ? ? ?
only the shadow gummint knows...
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
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Re: Re: Re: "Well, we had to drop that case. Time to focus on the other 27 currently in the works..."
nobodies like you and me ? ? ? we can't even *think* about spitting on the sidewalk without draconian consequences...
the system is skewed, and we are screwed...
On the post: Zuckerberg Momentarily Curbs 'Hate Speech' Moderation Stupidity At Facebook To Reinstate Posts By Donald Trump
Re: Re: Completion
1. there is no such thing as 'hate speech', that is bullshit for left and right wing authoritarians who want control, NOT freedom...
2. there is no such thing as 'hate crimes', there is crime, and there is hate, but 'hate crime' is a bullshit madeup concept...
3. "I don't think it is workable to go after criminal thoughts." well how fucking generous of you, thought-control scumbag...
why do you hate freedom, you fascist, anti-human slimeball ?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "Wikileaks is not explicitly anti-American."
my 'useless protest vote' (as opposed to my useless earnest vote) is going for the same slate as i wrote in last time: Snowden/Manning...
ultimately, a system of ranked choice/instant runoff voting is the 'solution' to allowing third/fourth/etc party candidates have a theoretical chance...
(of course, that presupposes a LOT of other factors being addressed: election fraud by insiders on vulnerable computer-based systems, free media for elections (thus eliminating 90% of the 'value' in massive campaign war chests), etc...
On the post: Harris Faulkner Suit Against Hasbro Over A Toy Hamster Ends In Settlement, Hasbro To Discontinue The Toy
slow, sad shaking of head...
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i would like to aver otherwise...
"Sadly, too often the targets of such parody would rather try to silence speech than address what might be legitimate concerns."
i am a little concerned about how people often times try to 'dress up' pure free speech issues with how that speech *might* be 'valuable' to society in some respect or another...
while it is nice to *hope* such a thing is true, it is not and should not be a 'requirement' for allowing or defending free speech...
free speech is its own end, NOT WHETHER said speech produces a positive outcome or not; that is totally besides the point...
OF COURSE, it only makes sense that people who AGREE with some sort of free speech, are going to be even more outraged that such mild, sarcastic speech being -effectively- threatened if not -effectively- censored...
free speech IS the end to defend, NOT its end that's your friend...
hee hee hee
On the post: How Could NSA Contractor Harold Martin Have Been Taking Home Classified Info For 20 Years Without NSA Noticing?
how could he have done it ? ? ?
On the post: Actor James Woods Gloats Over Death Of Random Twitter Troll He Sued To Unmask [Updated]
Re: Hope James Woods likes being made fun of
never knew much about him, but he always SEEMED LIKE an arrogant, nasty slimeball... turns out that impression was correct...
On the post: FTC Warns AT&T Court Victory On Throttling Could Screw Consumers For Decades
Re: As the resident anti-regulationist here
oh, just eat shit and die already: there is virtually NO PLACE -other than few urban markets- where i have a REAL choice... i know i am like most where i can get my internet through THE PROTECTED RACKETEERS, or i can go pound sand... IF i actually try to use a competing svc, they LITERALLY connect me to my local monopolist as soon as i input my zip code...
you are at least ignorant, apparently stupid, and possibly a shill...
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