I Think My Friend Needs Help

I was just over to my buddy PhysioProf's place and I am...
at a loss for words.

I think an intervention may be necessary.

LMAO!

Dude, that is half a bubble out of plumb.I don't even want to know what the search terms were that led you to that.

Ya gotta admit there is some creativity there but man, that is like, performance art gone horribly wrong. Oh yeah, the guy with his ass hanging out really did it for me, pull yer fucking britches up, idiot.

Ya gotta love PhysioProf though, he brings a new perspective to Blogging and I am partially responsible for egging the feller on to start his own Blog and I'm proud to say I am glad I did.

Mad props to ya dude.

Peace, Bro.

More Fun With Numbers , BushCo Style

I swear, if it wasn't so sad it would be funny.
BushCo is famous for pulling numbers out of their ass but this is just surreal;

U.S. Reports Drop in Homeless Population

By RACHEL L. SWARNS @ the NYT
Published: July 30, 2008

WASHINGTON — The number of chronically homeless people living in the nation’s streets and shelters has dropped by about 30 percent — to 123,833 from 175,914 — between 2005 and 2007, Bush administration officials said on Tuesday.

Housing officials say the statistics, which the Department of Housing and Urban Development collects each year from more than 3,800 cities and counties, may reflect better data collection and reporting and some variation in the number of communities reporting on an annual basis. But the officials attribute much of the decline to the “housing first” strategy that has been promoted by the Bush administration and Congress and increasingly adopted across the country.
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Oh Yeah, Housing First, what a side splitter.

How many millions of houses have already been foreclosed on?
How many people are sleeping in their fucking cars?
HOW MANY?

“We can all be encouraged that we’re making progress in reducing chronic street homelessness,” Housing Secretary Steven C. Preston said in a statement. “But we must also recognize that we have a long way to go to find a more lasting solution for those struggling with homelessness every day.”

These fucking people lie as easily as they breathe.
I think they are desperate as a cornered rat to find any tiny bit of good news they can, even if they have to pull numbers out of thin air.
I can't wait to see how rosy the economy is when they get done cherry picking the indicators.

Assholes.

Captain Obvious Salutes You, Comrade

Who'da thunk it, Junior wants to play with his new toy.


US spy satellite plan 'a cover'

Russia has accused the US of using a plan to shoot down a broken spy satellite as a cover for testing an anti-satellite weapon.

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Officials say the satellite contains hazardous fuel which could kill humans.

But Russia's defence ministry said the US planned to test its "anti-missile defence (sic) system's capability to destroy other countries' satellites".

The US says the satellite lost power and communications shortly after it was launched in December 2006 and is now uncontrollable.


It says the satellite is carrying more than 1,000lb (454kg) of hydrazine fuel in a tank which would survive re-entry, and the substance could be released as a toxic gas if the satellite crash landed.

Article courtesy of BBC


It looks pretty self explanatory to me,they were going to let it burn up in the atmosphere and then all at once a lightbulb came on and someone in the missile defense bidness thought,'SAYyyy, wait a minute...".

This after the U.S. got bent out of shape with envy after the Chinese knocked one outta the sky last year, they have been itchin' to show their stuff ever since.

Captain Obvious loves the Bush administration.

We Are The Frogs In The Pot

It's a very good argument for immediate change.Global Climate Change is happening as you read,the weather on the West Coast alone so far is argument enough for me!
I'd like to give credit for sharing this to Just An Earth Bound Misfit.
Someday I'd like to meet that lady, she sounds just as ornery as I am,(Hint, go read her house rules) except smarter, with better taste, and better looking, did I mention smart?Go check out some of her archives.

Anyway, the video is about nine minutes long. Watch it and play it forward if you have a Blog.



In all seriousness, this is a problem that too may people are dragging their feet on.
On a less serious note, why does this guy remind me of Alton Brown?

And We Are Better Looking Too

Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain

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Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show.

By Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 10, 2007

Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.

In a simple experiment reported todayin the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.

Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions.

The results show "there are two cognitive styles -- a liberal style and a conservative style," said UCLA neurologist Dr. Marco Iacoboni, who was not connected to the latest research.

Participants were college students whose politics ranged from "very liberal" to "very conservative." They were instructed to tap a keyboard when an M appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from tapping when they saw a W.

M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter.

Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.

Researchers got the same results when they repeated the experiment in reverse, asking another set of participants to tap when a W appeared.

Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher at UC Berkeley's Institute of Personality and Social Research who was not connected to the study, said the results "provided an elegant demonstration that individual differences on a conservative-liberal dimension are strongly related to brain activity."

Analyzing the data, Sulloway said liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 times as likely to score in the top half of the distribution for accuracy.

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The rest of the article here.

Nice to have it documented, I always knew there was something different about wingers.
Looking at the data suggests Darwin's Theory ought to take care of the rest of it eventually.

BWAAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA.
Suck it, wingers.

H/T to Gordon at the Alternate Brain for the link.