Socialism is Destroying America

alternateorg on March 21, 2010

By Jaxon Repp, reposted with permission:

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshall’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it’s valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.

A decade of blogging

alternateorg on February 17, 2010

On March 18, 2010, this blog will be 10 years old. I haven’t been the best blogger, and I haven’t written this site alone, but over the years, it’s always been a place I wouldn’t feel right about not having on the web. This graphic is a testament to all the work I’ve put in with various people to keep things going. Here’s to 10 more years.

Some images weren’t available in the Wayback Machine, so that’s why there are a few broken images in there. View full size on Flickr.

Hurricane "Corina" and other stupid quotes

alternateorg on September 12, 2005

Just more proof of my stark belief that this administration is, in fact, the actual coming of the anti-christ:

I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.” –President Bush, on “Good Morning America,” Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina
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What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them.” –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005
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We’ve got a lot of rebuilding to do … The good news is — and it’s hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — he’s lost his entire house — there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch.” (Laughter) —President Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

Read more here, if you think your stomach can take it. Via TheMorningNews

Minor Infringement

alternateorg on June 27, 2005

Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye Outraged By Nike’s Major Threat Skate Tour
“What the hell were they thinking?” MacKaye, on tour with his current band the Evens, wrote in an e-mail to MTV News. “To set the record straight — Nike never contacted Dischord, nor Minor Threat, to obtain permission to use this imagery, nor was any permission granted. Simply put, Nike stole it and we’re not happy about it. We are not yet sure what actions, if any, we can take to stop this campaign.”

One of the most blatent examples of corporations co-opting cool in order to sell their shitty products. Read No Logo if you’re intersted in finding out more about this phenomenon. Via SvN.

Sigh

alternateorg on November 5, 2004

A depressingly intelligent and measured argument for why Kerry actually won, but how Bush got the crown.

I know I’ve been a little heavy on the song lyrics lately, but No Control just really stands out as pertinent here:

culture was the seed of proliferation
but it has gotten melded into an inharmonic whole
consciousness has plagued us and we can not shake it
though we think we’re in control
questions that besiege us in life
are testament of our helplessness
“there’s no vestige of a beginning,
no prospect of an end”
when we all disintegrate it will all happen again

time is so rock solid in the minds of the hoards but they can’t
explain why it should slip away
history and future are the comforts of
our curiosity but here we are
rooted in the present day

if you came to conquer you’ll be king for a day
but you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away
and believe these words you hear
when you think your path is clear

we have no control
we do not understand
you have no control
you are not in command

I want to be Hunter S. Thompson

alternateorg on November 3, 2004

Hunter S. Thompson on Dubya.

I want that for breakfast every day at 67, dammit.

Oh, and a good quote:
I remember Bush as a kind of a butt-boy for the smart people. This was in the late 1970s, when he was in his drunken-fool period. He couldn’t handle liquor. He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humour. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn’t pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub,” Thompson adds, “then I noticed him. I’d been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.”
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What immediate message would the Doctor deliver, if he could address the US electorate?

“I would tell them that, if George W Bush wins again, the United States faces utter disaster. That the question facing voters is no longer whether or not George W Bush is a pathetic fascist stooge. The question is whether – Bush having already demonstrated himself to be a fascist stooge – the American people like it that way, and see that as their future.

“If this president is re-elected,” he adds, “we are facing the total death of the American Dream as I know it, and I have spent a lot of time knowing it. I would tell them that if this gang of criminals get in once more, we will be in the position of a family who have sent the Hell’s Angels written invitations to their Thanksgiving party.

“Such a decision represents a serious error of judgment.” Thompson laughs, good-naturedly. “Because certain people never leave. Consequently I would urge them…” He pauses, his voice soft, measured and utterly serious, “to vote out this baffled little creep, on November 2.”