[ Saturday, January 11, 2003 ]
Another wave of anti-SUV activism has been rekindled by the recent war-mongering from the White House. A christian and environmentalist coalition has launched a campaign and website asking What Would Jesus Drive? Their aim is to encourage Christians and others to drive more energy-efficient vehicles.
For those wanting to communicate directly with SUV owners, there are a few other resources that have been around for awhile.
Print out your own SUV tickets, citing Ford Expedition and Cadillac Escalade owners for infractions such as "ego overrode environmental consciousness," or "thought I might actually be one of the 5% of people who need a 4WD vehicle."
You can also print your own bumper stickers with the message "I'm changing the climate; Ask me How!" at this site.
In the past several days, Arriana Huffington and others through "The Detroit Project" have bought TV time to air
anti-SUV ads. Several TV stations have predictably refused to air the ads.
[1/11/2003]
[ Thursday, January 09, 2003 ]
RECENT CORRESPONDENCE. watch out the monster you have created... i just checked with a trance list connection who has he said the results of his phat quickcheck indicate that's all for now...who needs premium content? when you've got friends on the inside... ...floss' global & total information awareness
[Dear Mikita],
mega-tech & phatpipe access to the mean tules of the
trade...he ran a premium check on your site to see
who's accessing _______ ______ and such...
that the F.B.I. & HOMESECFORCES are accessing your
site an avg of 42% of the time that discreet visitors
are hitting it...he also indicated that you are
accessing your own site 38% of the time and that some
convicted freeman from a state sponsored jailcell
internet access node in lubbock, texas is accessing
your site 16% of the time so that leaves only 4% for
the rest of us...he also said that he's found your
code on FBI mirror sites on other parts of the
internet...apparently they like your stuff...
RESPONSE. Thanks for the tip, but everyone knows that the FBI still has IBM 486 machines running Windows 3.1 and 2400 baud dial-up modems. It would, therefore, take one hundred FBI agents sitting at one hundred computers one hundred years, collectively, to either (1) load a sock puppet photo from my web site, or (2) send a memo to the CIA. With the billions of dollars of tax money now pouring into homeland security measures, however, the FBI will reportedly be upgrading to Windows 95, copies of which they can score on eBay for 15 bucks.
And anyway, I have retained security services provider, Proletarian Outcomes, in the event of a surveillence and/or civil rights emergency.
Moreover, this was probably a wise move, in that the United States Court of Appeal for the 4th Circuit, in
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, ruled yesterday that the government can indefinitely imprison an American citizen (in extraordinary circumstances) without formal charges, access to a court, assistance of legal counsel, or other constiutional protections.
If there was still any question as to whether America is a gradually evolving Police State, the 4th Circuit put that to rest yesterday. [1/9/2003]
[ Wednesday, January 08, 2003 ]
I checked out the web site of this Dutch guy travelling around the world for free on the kindness of strangers (and the kindness of at least three dozen corporate sponsorships, by the looks of his site - www.let-me-stay-for-a-day.com). There's a "forum" page attached to it, and the misanthrope in me got the idea of starting a new topic:
"How to travel around the world free by getting big corporate sponsors to bankroll the most vapid and superficial travelogue in the history of the world."
Oops. Sorry Dutch guy. Anyway, this caused me to consider a future in cyber begging, or as a corporate travel slut and/or web cam girl, or some such nonsense. Ergo, I tried to register:
www.let-me-stay-for-a-week-and-eat-all-your-ice-cream-and-hit-on-your-sister-and-bookmark-porn-sites-on-your-web-browser-and-then-write-some-completely-banal-and-trivial-fluff-about-my-interaction-with-you-and-a-sterile-and-quaint-Hallmark-card-suitable-cultural-anecdote-for-my-shitty-cliff-bar-sponsored-travelogue-web-site.com.
Alright, so I'm just bitter that Nestle didn't like the name "Bad F*cker Highway." Oh, well. Nonetheless, please don't give money to the sock puppet, as it will certainly be squandered on cheap thrills.
[1/8/2003]
[ Tuesday, January 07, 2003 ]
Meme Machine, version1.2.
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[1/7/2003]
[ Monday, January 06, 2003 ]
In February, 2002, Bush appointed Admiral John Poindexter to head the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness project. Poindexter is a former felon (his 5 federal felony convictions in 1990 for lying to Congress and engaging in a criminal consiracy in connection with the Iran-Contra scandel were overturned by an appellate court). This Bush appointment is almost as bad as letting war criminal Henry Kissinger run the government's 9/11 inquiry. Many people have understandably questioned the wisdom of letting a person of Admiral Poindexter's moral character run a domestic spying program.
And in the fall of 2002, SF Weekly journalist Matt Smith brought TIA home to the Poindexter household, when he published the admiral's home phone number in his column. Since then, more than 124 other web sites have picked up the cause, and at www.warblogging.com you can now see the admiral's home address in Maryland, phone number, satellite and street level photographs of his house, and tons of other personal information about the Poindexters. His SSN is allegedly floating around the internet, as well.
Poetic justice. Poetic terrorism.
[1/6/2003]
PAY ATTENTION BLACK ROCK CITY
