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Internet Talk: Oregon Domest Terrorist Leaders Captured
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 As the "Oregon Militia" leaders became more relaxed and emboldened to wander freely in the area near the wildlife refuse in Oregon they "occupied", the Feds swept in and arrested most of the leaders.
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- Man, I really thought they were gonna overthrow the government, one wildlife refuge at a time.
- Its nice to know if I decide to set fire to federal land to cover up my illegal deer hunting, I can always find a group of right wing idiots to defend my "constitutional right" to not be arrested.
- The first rule of occupation is you have to keep occupying for it to work.
- But what if you run out of Medicine? And French Vanilla creamer? And Throw Rugs any all size for doorways?
- "...just going for a McDonalds run....anybody want anything?"
- Their biggest concern was running out of "snacks".
- But they were ready to go for years...! Until their creamer ran out.
- Man I bet the one guy who decided to make a stand and was expecting his big talking compatriots to do like wise, was pissed wherever he showed up in the afterlife.
- Since he thinks he died for his cause, hes probably waiting in Heaven for his 72 cousins.
- Looks like he wont be "ranching" foster children for fun and profit anymore.
- Rule #15 of hostile takeovers: Dont just go for a drive.
- Rule #43 of hostile takeovers: free dildos
- You guys better not come in here while I step out to the pub for a bit! I mean it!
- Turns out it isnt like that boyscout jamboree they went to when they were eight. It sucks, a lot, it takes a lot of planning, time and is a serious commitment, who woulda thunk it?!
- Alright guys. Someone elses shift. I gotta get back to the ranch to catch the season premier of Duck Dynasty.
- I just came up with a great plot twist. Tarp Man isnt dead. He was the mole. He wore a fake blood-filled squib and was shot with a blank cartridge. His orphan kids were taken as an incentive to gain his cooperation and he will reunite with them under the witness protection program, with a new identity. A banjo slowly plays an old folk tune as Tarp Man stands silhouetted against the setting sun in a lonely Nebraskan field. A child steps up to take his hand and they stand together, watching the sun descend. Fade to black, roll credits. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
- charged with first degree darn tootin
- conspiracy to incite a hootenanny.
- Well my names Ammon Bundy
And I took all this here land
In protest of some stupid laws
That I dont quite understand
I guess its all now over
Im going to prison to pay my dues
But at least I now have a use
For an oil drum of lube
- They love living on federal land, so I dont see why they wont enjoy federal prison
- To answer his question, yes, you are being detained.
- FBI did a great job. By staying away, the "malitiamen" got comfortable. Theyd been going to meetings and recruiting those to their misinformed cause.
The FBI must have just waited until they got far enough out of town to keep civilians safe.
So far, Im impressed with how this whole thing was handled. Nice job, federal government.
- The best part is now all these assholes are felons, no more guns for them.
- RIP tarp man, the guy who used foster children as income.
I guess he got his wish, to die.
- "the Lord was not pleased with what was happening to the Hammonds"
How amazing that god deeply cares about land rights in the American west and that it just happens to line up with what you want.
- My late grandfather (whom I adore) was a rancher, landowner, Mormon, tax paying American. My great grandfather was a homesteader, They believed in respecting your Nieghbor and more than anything the golden rule. They payed the BLM when asked for land use and the BLM payed them when they needed to use his land. These people are a disgrace to the American west and should be forgotten in history.
- Shits about to go liveleak
- Fly your tarps at half mast today
- "Base to Meal Team Six!"
- Between reopening the X-Files and now taking down these lawless thugs, I am so pro-FBI rn.
- Walmartyrs
- Yall Quada
- TaliBanjo
- The real crime here is that it didnt end with these guys A-teaming together some kind of dildo cannon and blasting their way out in a hail of lube and rubber dicks.
- There are few things professional soldiers despise more than some fake wannabe warrior. Professional military personnel look upon militias and paramilitaries the same way cops regard amateur security guards. And for good reason.
Irregular militias, paramilitaries, are worse than useless when it comes to defense of a nation. Literally worse than useless. They are untrained, undisciplined, undependable, and too often belligerently unaware of their own pitiful state. They take up resources and risk the security of real soldiers. Irregular militias are often indistinguishable from an armed mob. Like those currently occupying Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, militias are almost always composed of misfits and rejects, wannabe soldiers and pretend Marines puffed up with stolen valor, disaffected braggarts, belligerent drunkards, criminals, the dangerously mentally ill, conspiracy theorists, and angry losers of every stripe.
These raggedy-assed pretend patriots are not out there defending your freedom. They’re in it for themselves. They’re in it for themselves and only for themselves and make no mistake about it. These are the "Sovereign Citizens" – an oxymoron if ever there was one. These are the people who have declared themselves a nation unto themselves and have rejected the obligations of civilization. They are citizens of nothing, an army of one, defenders of mob rule and rights by force. They believe freedom comes at the muzzle of a gun and only at the muzzle of a gun, and they believe in their freedom not yours.
- Youve clearly never seen the 1980s documentary Red Dawn which showed how irregular militias stopped the Mexicans and Soviet Union overthrowing the U.S
- I wonder if the Mormon church will excommunicate him now?
- Slow down... Its not like hes gay.
- Are you sure? He seemed to have a lot of dildos in his possession.
- Fucking finally.
Now, can we move past this crazy circus and get back to discussing the serious possibility of a Trump presidency?
- Okay, Ill ask the question everyone is wondering: who gets the $1,000 barrel of lube? Does it become federal property or are they going to auction it off, and if so, what will the bidding start at?
- They didnt want freedom. They wanted free
- All in his plan, now he can occupy another federal facility
- Update : They have been given until 4 AM to get out
- Worst. Checkout Time. EVER.
- Let the conspiracy paranoia begin : Militia member shot in cold blood ... while waving a white flag and singing God Bless America plus his gun was just a fake water pistol.
- A funny thing would be for the FBI to make sure they have one of the dildos when they check into prison. It will go into their personal effects box and in a few years when they get out they open the box to find a nice shapely reminder of why they were in prison.
- Jesuss called, yeah he said youre a felon.
- If only more people had donated snacks.
- Think 4chan will be sending dildos to the funeral?
- Any confirmation yet on who shot first in the Gun fight at the Flaming Dildo Corral?
- The modern day equivalent in sneaking out of the besieged castle to steal a sack from the attackers camp. More dangerous when people dont have to touch you to kill you.
Except this castle is a gift shop.
- The Feds shouldve raided Clivens Ranch at the same time.
- Boys, stop playing fort in the back yard, wash up and come in for supper.
- what is it that the conservatives are always saying whenever the police beat or kill some person from a group they dont like? "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"?
fits like a glove in this case..
- In the Yeehawdi version of paradise, the martyrs each get 72 foster children and 50 acres of govt land!
- They want to protest the federal govt, take over a govt building, then go to use federally supported roads to buy stuff for a poorly planned out armed protest, and theyre angry that the FBI was waiting? If anything, about time this bit them in the ass.
- This becomes really comical when you think about the original reason why this occupation started in the first place.
Bureau of Land Management offers ranchers incredibly cheap rates to use federal land for grazing their cattle. In exchange for the significant discount, BLM kindly requires the ranchers to abide by some flora-preservation rules. These restrictions are fluid and temporary. They come and go with the fluctuating population of various species. And of course any rancher who doesnt want to deal with the inconvenience always has the option to seek out unrestricted use of private land, usually at much higher rates.
Bundy and his band of idiots decided one day that these restrictions on federal land were a violation of their rights and liberties. They spun the whole thing into an issue of freedom, presumably got caught up in some bullshit mythos of private citizens saving the society from state-sanctioned oppression, and ended up starting an armed occupation.
Thats the cause theyre willing to die for: fucking flora preservation restrictions.
- All the dildos in the world cant help them now.
But they probably couldve prepared them for what comes next.
- I hope theres a group of people waiting at the station playing the song Karma Police and singing along to the chorus.
This is what you get.
- Branch Dildovians
- This is the Cowliphate
- VanillaISIS
- Buttplug Harem
- These guys remind me of the Will Ferrell scene were he yells "lets go Streaking!!!!" and hes the only one that does it. These guys thought they had the pulse of the nation, but thats what happens when you insulate yourself from the world.
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Government Attacks Scientist After He Discovers Pesticide Issues
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 Until fairly recently, Jonathan Lundgren enjoyed a stellar career as a government scientist. An entomologist who studies how agrichemicals affect the ecology of farm fields, he has published nearly 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals since starting at the US Department of Agricultures Agricultural Research Service laboratory in Brookings, South Dakota, in 2005. By 2012, he had won the ARSs "Outstanding Early Career Research Scientist" award, and directorship of his own lab.
But recently, things have changed. His work has "triggered an official campaign of harassment, hindrance, and retaliation" from his superiors.. |
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Lundgren alleged in an official complaint filed with USDA scientific integrity authorities last year. Lundgren made the battle with his USDA superiors public in October, two months after the agency imposed a 14-day without-pay suspension on him. The charges—laid out in a August 3 letter to Lundgren by John McMurtry, associate director of the ARSs Plains Area—centered on infractions regarding a trip to the East Coast to present research, and a failure to get proper clearance from his superiors before submitting a paper to a peer-reviewed journal.
Lundgren, who is currently not authorized to speak to the media, has released a detailed rebuttal of those charges in a document put together by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is representing him in the dispute.
But theres no doubting his knack for conducting research that raises troubling questions about some of the agrichemical industrys most lucrative existing products and promising future ones. "Hes gone from golden boy to public enemy No. 1," says Jeff Ruch, executive director of PEER.
Before digging into the details of Lundgrens alleged infractions and punishment, its worth having a look at Lundgrens recent research, which, Ruch says, led him "off the reservation" and into a world of "disciplinary disco."
In his August 3 letter announcing Lundgrens two-week suspension, the ARSs McMurtry declared two topics of Lundgrens research to be "sensitive"—meaning, he writes, subjects that agency scientists cant publish or speak to media about without "prior approval at the Area and National Program levels."
Its abundantly clear that many of Lundgrens findings dont jibe with industry interests.
Now, its unclear exactly what makes a topic "sensitive." Weeks ago, a spokesman for the Agricultural Research Services press office told me that he would look up the agencys formal criteria for sensitivity and divulge it to me. Since then, he has repeatedly declined to answer the question. But its abundantly clear that many of Lundgrens findings dont jibe with industry interests.
Take neonicotinoids, the globes most widely used class of insecticides with annual sales of about $2.6 billion. In a peer-reviewed 2015 paper co-authored with a South Dakota State University professor—the one the ARS accuses him of submitting for publication without proper internal approval—Lundgren found that one common neonic, clothianidin, marketed by Bayer, harms monarch butterflies at levels commonly found in Midwestern milkweed plants, the endangered insects habitat and food source. In a 2011 study, Lundgren and his team found that another one, Syngentas thiamethoxam, didnt do much at all to protect soybeans from its target, crop-eating aphids, but did significantly reduce populations of insects that eat aphids.
Then theres Lundgrens work on RNA interference, an emerging insecticidal technology that promises to kill targeted insects and weeds by silencing genes crucial to their survival, leaving everything else unaffected. GM seed/agrichemical giant Monsanto has placed great hope in RNAi, as this novel genetic technology is known. In a 2013 paper, Lundgren and USDA colleague Jian Duan noted that the great bulk of the research done on RNAi involves using the technology for human medicine, not to kill specific insects. They also challenged the claim that the technology can target particular pests and leave everything else in the ecosystem alone, and concluded that its "largely unknown" how long the RNAi pesticide material would persist in the environment. In 2014, Lundgren served on a panel of independent scientists convened by the Environmental Protection Agency to assess the technologys risks. The scientists report echoed the assessment of Lundgrens paper.
As Monsantos new technology makes its way through the regulatory system, the questions raised by Lundgren are slowing it down. In late October, the USDA quietly greenlighted Monsantos RNAi-engineered corn strain designed to kill an insect called the corn rootworm—the first RNAi pesticide product the agency has approved. Because of the odd system the United States uses to regulate new GM crops (explained here and here), the USDA review process doesnt directly assess the possible impacts that novel pesticides might have on ecosystems, the topic of Lundgrens research.
That task falls to the Environmental Protection Agency—and the EPA appears to be taking the questions raised by Lundgren quite seriously. Days after the USDA gave Monsantos new corn the thumbs-up, the EPA granted it only "limited registration," which does not allow commercial sale and distribution of the novel corn or its seed. The EPA would not comment on why it declined to fully register the product.
Meanwhile, the USDA declined my request to interview Lundgren on RNAi pesticides in the context of the recent regulatory decisions regarding Monsantos corn. "Im sorry, but Dr. Lundgren is not available for media opportunities at this time," an ARS spokeswoman told me, after stringing me along for three days.
All of which brings us back to the substance of Lundgrens dispute with his USDA superiors over violations of travel and publication protocol. According to PEERs Ruch, both incidents involve the USDA enforcing rules in an extraordinarily exacting standard.
The travel controversy involved a two-stop East Coast trip that Lundgren took in March, to appear on a panel at a National Academy of Sciences conference in Washington, DC, on the role of genetic engineering in pest management, and to address the Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance in Philadelphia.
Lundgrens trip to present his research to prestigious groups cost him roughly thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket travel expenses and lost wages.
According to Ruch, ARS scientists routinely assume they have de facto permission to present at such prestigious fora. The typical procedure is to file paperwork requesting travel, assume it will be granted, and embark on the trip. In his whistleblowers narrative, Lundgren acknowledges that he filed his paperwork at the last minute, but adds that such situations are not uncommon—he notes three other colleagues who traveled under similar conditions within six weeks of this trip.
But when Lundgren landed in Washington, he learned that permission for the trip had been denied—and that because of the denial he was officially absent without leave (AWOL) from his post in Brookings. Meanwhile, the National Academy of Sciences and Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance had paid for and booked his travel—a routine situation, says PEERs Ruch. But since permission for the trip had been denied, Lundberg was in violation of ARS rules for accepting travel expenses without prior approval and obliged to pay them back to the conference organizers out of his own pocket. In all, Ruch says, Lundgrens trip to present his research to the NAS and Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance cost him roughly $3,000 in out-of-pocket travel expenses and lost wages.
Lundgrens bosses never provided any reason for not okaying the trip, Ruch says. The ARS declined to comment on Lundgrens claim that his last-minute paperwork filing was not unusual among the services scientists, or that denying permission for a trip to present research was unusual.
Lundgrens other major infraction, publishing a paper in a peer-reviewed journal without approval from his superiors, follows a similar arc. According to Lundgren, on January 5 of this year, he emailed the paper—on the effect of neonic pesticides on monarch butterflies—to his superior and interpreted her response (which is included in Lundgrens whistleblowers narrative) as permission to submit it for publication, based on routines he had followed in his decade at ARS and his prior experience submitting papers to nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers. His superior later said she had never given permission to publish the paper, giving no other reason than it was a "sensitive" topic. The paper, meanwhile, passed peer review and was published in April 2015 issue of the Science of Nature.
Another time, the ARS forced Lundgren to remove his name from a study on which he collaborated, according to South Dakota State University economist Scott Fausti. Under his sole byline, Fausti published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science Policy in October, teasing out the ecological and economic consequences of the great boom in US corn production that occurred after the government ramped up ethanol mandates in the mid-2000s. Fausti appended this extraordinary footnote to it:
I would like to acknowledge Dr. Jonathan G. Lundgrens contribution to this manuscript. Dr. Lundgren is an entomologist employed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS). However, the ARS has required Dr. Lundgren to remove his name as joint first author from this article. I believe this action raises a serious question concerning policy neutrality toward scientific inquiry.
So whos right, the USDA or Lundgren? Theres always a "he said, she said" aspect to employment disputes. But until the agency articulates what precisely makes a topic "sensitive"—and why a blockbuster pesticide (neonics) and a potential blockbuster pesticide (RNAi) have been so deemed—this looks an awful lot like the case of a public scientist being arbitrarily silenced on matters of intense public interest. |
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New Analysis Of Drugmaker Data Reveals Paxil Is Dangerous
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 Fourteen years ago, a leading drug maker published a study showing that the antidepressant Paxil was safe and effective for teenagers. On Wednesday, a major medical journal posted a new analysis of the same data concluding that the opposite is true.
That study — featured prominently by the journal BMJ — is a clear break from scientific custom and reflects a new era in scientific publishing, some experts said, opening the way for journals to post multiple interpretations of the same experiment. It comes at a time of self-examination across science — retractions are at an all-time high; recent cases of fraud have shaken fields as diverse as anesthesia and political science; and earlier this month researchers reported that less than half of a sample of psychology papers held up. |
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“This paper is alarming, but its existence is a good thing,” said Brian Nosek, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, who was not involved in either the original study or the reanalysis. “It signals that the community is waking up, checking its work and doing what science is supposed to do — self-correct.”
The authors of the reanalysis said that many clinical studies had some of the same issues as the original Paxil study, and that data should be made freely available across clinical medicine, so that multiple parties could analyze them.
The dispute itself is a long-running one: Questions surrounding the 2001 study played a central role in the so-called antidepressant wars of the early 2000s, which led to strong warnings on the labels of Paxil and similar drugs citing the potential suicide risk for children, adolescents and young adults. The drugs are considered beneficial and less risky for many adults over 25 with depression.
Over the years, thousands of people taking or withdrawing from Paxil or other psychiatric drugs have committed violent acts, including suicide, experts said, though no firm statistics are available. Because many factors could have contributed to that behavior, it is still far from clear who is at risk — and for whom the drugs are protective.
The maker of Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline, said it stood by the original conclusions, given what was known at the time. The company also noted that it had provided all the data for the new analysis, “an unprecedented level of data sharing that speaks to our absolute commitment to transparency.”
The team that reanalyzed the data included several longtime critics of the original study, including a psychiatrist who has been a paid expert witness in lawsuits against Glaxo. But with the company’s permission they spent about a year poring over Glaxo’s files on the study, combing through summaries, internal trial reports and a sample of what is known as patient-level data, the detailed descriptions of what happened for each person in the original trial. |
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Hacker Statements Regarding Ashley Madison "Affair"
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 It's widely known now, that a group of hackers calling themselves, "The Impact Team" has apparently infiltrated the computer networks of the parent company of adultery-promoting web site, AshleyMadison.com. They originally demanded the company shut down their sites or risk having their customers' personal information made public. The hackers have apparently followed-through on their promise, and all around the world, regional groups and media have grabbed the data and made various discoveries based on its contents.
What may not be so clear is exactly why this group did this? It appears to be about more than just AshleyMadison.com. Here are some of the statements made by the hackers from the data they released. And just exactly what data do the hackers have? They give a few examples that we've sanitized so you can see without compromising anybody's privacy. |
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Impact Team README.txt:
Avid Life Media runs Ashley Madison, the internet's #1 cheating site, for people who are married or in a relationship to have an affair. ALM also runs Established Men, a prostitution/human trafficking website for rich men to pay for sex, as well as cougar life, a dating website for cougars, man crunch, a site for gay dating, swappernet for swingers, and the big and the beautiful, for overweight dating.
Trevor, ALM's CTO once said "Protection of personal information" was his biggest "critical success factors" and "I would hate to see our systems hacked and/or the leak of personal information"
Well Trevor, welcome to your worst fucking nightmare.
We are the Impact Team. We have hacked them completely, taking over their entire office and production domains and thousands of systems, and over the past few years have taken all customer information databases, complete source code repositories, financial records, documentation, and emails, as we prove here. And it was easy. For a company whose main promise is secrecy, it's like you didn't even try, like you thought you had never pissed anyone off.
Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers' secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails. The other websites may stay online.
So far, ALM has not complied.
First, we expose that ALM management is bullshit and has made millions of dollars from complete 100% fraud. Example:
-Ashley Madison advertises "Full Delete" to "remove all traces of your usage for only $19.00"
-It specifically promises "Removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site"
-Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It's also a complete lie.
-Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed.
-Other very embarrassing personal information also remains, including sexual fantasies and more
-We have all such records and are releasing them as Ashley Madison remains online.
Avid Life Media will be liable for fraud and extreme personal and professional harm from millions of their users unless Ashley Madison and Established Men are permanently placed offline immediately.
Our one apology is to Mark Steele (Director of Security). You did everything you could, but nothing you could have done could have stopped this.
This is your last warning,
Impact Team
We are not opportunistic skids with DDoS or SQLi scanners or defacements. We are dedicated, focused, skilled, and we're never going away. If you profit off the pain of others, whatever it takes, we will completely own you.
For our first release, and to prove we have done all we claim, we are listing *one* Ashley Madison credit card transaction for each day for the past 7 years, complete with customer name and address (oneperday.txt) and associated profile information (oneperday_am_am_member.txt and oneperday_aminno_member.txt, selected rows from our complete dump of the AM databases). We are also releasing a hash dump and zone file for both domains, select documents from your file servers, executives' google drives, and emails, and the Ashley Madison source code repository. Also, since Ashley Madison stopped using plaintext passwords, we're also releasing the swappernet user table, which still has plaintext passwords:
[PERSONAL INFORMATION REMOVED]
1 example from this dump: "XXXXXX XXXXXX", with profile ID 23xxxxx50, who spitefully paid for Ashley Madison the day after valentine's day in 2014, lives at XXXXXXXX st. Brockton, MA in the US, with email XXXXXX@AOL.COM. He is not only married/attached, but is open to a list of fantasies from Ashley Madison's list: |29|44|39|37|7|, a.k.a. "Cuddling & Hugging", "Likes to Go Slow", "Kissing", and "Conventional Sex". He's looking for 'A woman who seeks the same things I seek: passion and affection. If you have such desires then we will get alone just fine','|54|11|9|' which means "Good Communicator", "Discretion/Secrecy", and "Average Sex Drive". He also says "I have only two personal interests on this site. Making sure that You are comfortable with me should I be so fortunate to hold your attention and making sure I take the role of discretion to an artform. I mean isn't this why we are here, to be as discreet as possible?" From the login table, we know his user ID is 'XXXXX' and password hash is '$2a$12$ndXXXXXXXXXXGQylEMHRw2COLZO'.
As another, profile ID 4XXXX0 is listed as a "paid delete", which means a few of his profile text boxes are gone, but from purchase records we know it is "XXXXXXXXX" from "XXXXXXX" "Mississauga","ON" "XXXX" whose fantasies are |7|40|17|34|33|37|38|48|36|42|43|50|44|32|39|29|49|18|, which includes "Likes to Give Oral Sex", "Likes to Receive Oral Sex", "Light Kinky Fun", "Role Playing", "Erotic Tickling", "Erotic Movies", "Good With Your Hands", "Sensual Massage", and "Dressing Up/Lingerie" among others. You must be glad you paid for your profile to be deleted, huh?
Too bad for those men, they're cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion. Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn't deliver. We've got the complete set of profiles in our DB dumps, and we'll release them soon if Ashley Madison stays online.
And with over 37 million members, mostly from the US and Canada, a significant percentage of the population is about to have a very bad day, including many rich and powerful people.
Well, Noel? Trevor? Rizwan? What's it going to be?
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Thank You Jon Stewart!
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 We here at BSAlert want to wish one of the very highest-quality human beings on the planet great fortune on their continued journey. We are very saddened to see Jon depart from the Daily Show and hope he will still be a regular fixture in media and continue to bless us with his unique take on society.
Here is Jon Stewart's farewell message, one which we especially appreciate, on the importance of identifying and dealing with.... Bullshit! |
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Welcome back!
Anyway, about the debate.
I don't have anything for you.
We've seen the correspondents.
We've met everyone who works here.
And now I feel like I should probably say something.
So maybe one last time, maybe a little-- if you want to-- maybe a little camera three.
Bulls--t is everywhere.
Are the kids still here?
We'll deal with that later?
Bulls--t is everywhere.
There is very little you will encounter in life that has not been, in some ways, infused withbullshit-- not all of it bad.
General day-to-day free ranch is often necessary, or at least innocuous.
Oh, what a beautiful baby.
I'm sure he'll grow into thathead.
That kind of bulls--t in manyways provides important socialcontracts fertilizers and keepspeople from make each other cryall day.
But then there's the more pernicious bulls--t, your premeditated institutional bulls--t designed to obscure and distract.
Designed by whom?
The bullshit talkers.
Comes in three basic flavors, one, making bad things sound like good things.
Organic all-natural cupcakes.
Because factory made sugar oatmeal balls doesn't sell.
Patriot act, because are you scared enough to let me look at all your phone records act, doesn't sell.
Whenever something is titled freedom, fairness, family, health, and America, take a good long sniff.
Chances are it's been manufactured in a facilitate that may contain traces of bulls--t.
Number two, the second way, hiding the bad things under mountains of bullshit.
Complexity-- you know, I would love to download Drizzy's latest Meek mill diss.
Everyone promised me that that made cents.
But I'm not really interested right now in reading Tolstoy's Itunes agreement, so i'll just click "agree" even if it grants Apple prima noctae with my spouse.
Here's another one-- simply put, simply put, banks shouldn't be able to bet your pension money on red.
Bullsh--ly put, it's-- hey, this.
Dodd-frank.
Hey, a hand sm of billionaires can't buy our lexingtons, right?
Of course, not, they can only pour unlimited anonymous cash into 501-c6 and 527 unless they're gonna be doing 50% issue
Education at--" "I think they're asleep now.
We can sneak out."
And finally-- finally, it's the
Bullshit of infinite possibility.
These bullshitters cover their unwillingness to act under the guise of unending inquiry.
We can't do anything because we don't yet know everything.
We cannot take action on climate change until everyone in the world agrees gay marriage veex won't cause our children to marry goats who are going to come for our guns.
Now, the good news is this-- bullsh--ters have gotten pretty lazy, and their work is easily detected.
And looking for it is a pleasant way to pass the time like an "I spy" of bulls--t.
I say to you tonight friends the best defense against bulls--t is vigilance.
So if you smell something, say something. |
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