Author Archives: χάος

About χάος

From the river of time between heaven and earth, I give you those few drops that taste the finest.


Tom Rooney (R-FL) calls due process amendment terrorist “coddling”…
Privileged family ties…

( -)-(- )

5TH COLUMN: Man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform kills American, wounds two…
PATTERN: US military not reporting all uniformed Afghan attacks…

( -)-(- )


SNL cuts cold open sketch of “Killing Osama bin Laden Day”…
SCRIPT…

( -)-(- )

SINGLE TEEN MOM: Bristol Palin criticizes Obama on gay marriage…
“in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview”

( -)-(- )

Ron Paul = reddit r/gaming upvotes

A comment thread about a Call of Duty comic immediately derails into political hilarity:

It’s becoming rare to see Obama getting into positive pop culture like this. And Romney? Yawn.

( -)-(- )


VIDEO: Daily Show blasts George Zimmerman media spectacle…
When “stand your ground” fails…
“John McNeil killed a white man who assaulted him on his property. But, unlike George Zimmerman, he’s serving life”

( -)-(- )

GSA bureaucrats get smacked down after embarrassing videos made public…
FITTING: Made up ‘Jackass Award’ to justify dinners…
“the agency spent almost $823,000 on an October 2010 Las Vegas conference for about 300 people”

( -)-(- )


North Korea experiences projectile dysfunction…

( -)-(- )

NBC apologizes, fires unnamed producer that deleted portions of Zimmerman 911 call…
Fingers continue to point at Sharpton for acting out of line…
“Even commentators have to abide by certain rules,” [Howard Kurtz, CNN] wrote last month. “And in this case, by playing both sides of the camera, Rev. Al has obliterated them.”

( -)-(- )


Anonymous (allegedly undisciplined) unleashes string of high profile government server hacks, promises further friday fails #FFF…

While many attacks are likely to be simple defacements like the FTC website, Antisec claims to also be going through mail spools, SQL databases and password files on dozens of corporate and government servers which are unaware of their presence.

The anon speaking to Wired described the string of hacking as having “no foreseeable end in sight,” going on to say “the more we own, the more we steal credentials to even more targets.”

LULZ: FTC.gov hack email on pastebin…

( -)-(- )

VIDEO: Jon Stewart goes after Congress’ legalized insider trading scheme…
ECON PROF 2011: Congress IS subject to insider trading laws…
CLOSING ‘SOME’ LOOTHOLES: Senate approves 2012 ban on insider trading…

Federal securities law does not explicitly exempt members of Congress. But, Ms. Collins said, “there is a dispute among experts” about whether lawmakers are covered by existing laws on insider trading.

HoTFLASH: Right this way to tremendous riches with strokes of a pen…

( -)-(- )


AWKWAAAAAARD! Michelle Obama greets White House visitors, including guy in Ron Paul shirt…
“She pretended not to notice”

( -)-(- )


Foo Fighters, Will Ferrell line up to support… Obama?
$38,000 a ticket event…
Overall median U.S. income: $32,140…

( -)-(- )


Rick Perry back to being big pharma sellout, requires college students to get meningitis vaccinations…
“even though all students still have the freedom to decline the vaccination as a matter of conscience or for religious reasons, many of them are not being told this by their schools, and are just going along with it”

( -)-(- )

Pressure grows for recount in Maine GOP caucus…
USA TODAY: “Are the Maine GOP caucus results in doubt?”
Ron Paul contingent secretly taking over…

( -)-(- )


VIOLATED: NYPD stop-and-frisks up 600% under Bloomberg reign, 88% never charged with a crime…
NYCLU: “It is not a crime to walk down the street in New York City, yet every day innocent black and brown New Yorkers are turned into suspects for doing just that. It is a stunning abuse of power that undermines trust between police and the community.”

( -)-(- )

WEIRD: Don’t forget: Osama loved Whitney Houston, too…
“He asked if I knew her personally when I lived in America. I told him I didn’t. He said that he had a paramount desire for Whitney Houston, and although he claimed music was evil he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting with the superstar.”

( -)-(- )

New England Journal of Medicine: Memory improved by direct electrical stimulation…

( -)-(- )

Wikipedia keeps their word, will (eventually) move domains away from GoDaddy after SOPA screwup…

( -)-(- )


Maine GOP caucus official result: Romney 39%, Paul 36%, Santorum 18%, Gingrich 6%…
CONFLICTING REPORTS: Paul 42%, Romney 33%… WATCH THE VOTE: Paul 43%, Romney 33%…
Ron Paul supporters cry foul during contentious announcement… “Liar!” shouted one supporter when state chairman Charlie Webster announced the results. “How many dead voted?” cried another.
Will Maine give Ron Paul his first win?
Short lull after Maine, then Super Tuesday strategies play out…
Doug Wead lays out Ron Paul plan to winning delegate game…
CPAC HEAD HINTS AT SURPRISE NOTROMNEY AT CONVENTION…
‘We’ll know more in the next few weeks,’ said Mr Cardenas. ‘The pressure’s already been on Mitt Romney to close the sale… and he hasn’t.’

( -)-(- )


CLEVER: Wired reviews Phantom Menace 3-D, by re-posting original 1999 article in 3-D…

( -)-(- )

To Catch A Hypocrite: VEVO gets caught pirating Super Bowl…

( -)-(- )

What dollar store locations reveal about America…

It’s not poverty that’s driving the boom, but anxiety. Though 42 percent of the stores’ customer base earns less than $30,000 per year, Dollar General notes that 22 percent earn $70,000 or more. Much has been written about how post-crash consumers are dialing back their spending, paying down their debts and increasing their savings – a “new normal” in which conspicuous frugality replaces conspicuous consumption.

( -)-(- )