Archive for the 'TEOTWAWKI' Category

an inconceivable idiot

I was watching inconvenient truth the other day and theres the bit where it shows the sea level rising really high and flooding most of the world. Well i live near the sea, and don’t want to drown, so i got to thinking. Maybe if we lower the sea level a bit, when the water level rises then it won’t rise high enough to flood.

Anyway, heres the plan. Everyone who can should take a bucket of sea water and pour it down the sink. If lots of people put the effort in, we could lower the sea level substantially and create a better world for our children to live

life imitates art

Rural Kanpur is fighting its most frightening scourge — a mystery disease that has left a long line of bodies in its trail and doesn’t seem anywhere finished.

What started from one village two weeks ago has now spread to 350 and has so far claimed 160 lives. Thousands more are bed-ridden. On an average, 15 to 20 people have been dying every day; Saturday saw the highest toll in a day: 24.

The district’s health department is somewhat confused about the nature of the disease that has struck. At the beginning, the diagnosis was viral fever. Then doctors concluded that it was falciparum malaria. But after two weeks, they have ruled out both but still don’t have an exact answer.

Anyone else read World War Z?

wow, just wow

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

from the no sh*t Sherlock files.

Increasing exposure to carbon dioxide appears to boost crop yields, Hans-Joachim Weigel of the Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute for rural areas, forestry and fisheries in the central city of Brunswick told AFP.

“Output increased by about 10 percent for barley, beets and wheat” when the plants were subjected to higher levels of carbon dioxide, Weigel said.

science is teh fun

like the blonde who accidentally locked herself inside her car

Rumors have been circulating for the past week among top Norwegian government officials that the keys to the “doomsday” seed vault, which were last seen at the inauguration in February, are missing and may be sealed inside the massive sarcophagus which was supposed to protect millions of plants from the threats of global climate change.

hungy

How Long Could You Survive Trapped In Your Own Home?
OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

living in a police state

The NYPD’s new firepower consists of cops with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Starting Thursday, five or six teams a day will patrol the major transit hubs in the city in the new program, all thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant.

“Times Square, Grand Central, Penn Station … the locations you would expect, but not only those locations. The assignments will vary and will be following no discernible pattern,” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Many straphangers were thrilled to see the city going all the way to protect its citizens.

“It’s a very good idea,” Patricia Knight Williams said. “It’s like a deterrent. It’s going to make me feel safer, much safer, yes it will. It’s a good idea.”

but Patricia seems to like it…

this is scary

the source doesn’t exactly look unimpeachable but if this is even partially true it’s pretty damn scary.


Some months ago, my contacts in the defense industry had alerted me to a startling development that has escalated to the point of near-panick in nearly all corners of Government security and IT infrastructure. The very-real concern, being investigated by the FBI, is that either the Chinese government or Chinese hackers (or both) have had the benefit of undetectable back-doors into highly secure government and military computer networks for months, perhaps years. The cause: a high-number of counterfeit Cisco routers and switches installed in nearly all government networks that experienced upgrades and/or new units within the past 18 months.

so, how much does a dead voter cost?


Barack Obama has been warned that his refusal to pay the traditional “street money” to local operatives to help get the vote out in Philadelphia today could cost him the crucial percentage points needed to knock Hillary Clinton out of the race for the White House.

why can’t they just bribe people with cigarettes and beer like the rest of the country?

quote of the day


This is a list of zombie films featuring zombies. This list does not include mummies or vampires.

unintended consequences #78432


Two years ago the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation expected biofuels to help eradicate hunger and poverty for up to two billion people. Yesterday the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon raised real doubt over that policy amid signs that the world was facing its worst food crisis in a generation.

Since the FAO’s report in April 2006 tens of thousands of farmers have switched from food to fuel production to reduce US dependence on foreign oil. Spurred by generous subsidies and an EU commitment to increase the use of biofuels to counter climate change, at least 8m hectares (20m acres) of maize, wheat, soya and other crops which once provided animal feed and food have been taken out of production in the US.

Seems to me that every time the .gov gets involved in something it turns to sh*t.

Thanks to bio-fuel subsidies the price of my bagel keeps going up how much does that suck?

stick a fork in it.


Nearly one in 10 Ohioans now receives food stamps

stick a fork in it

Apparently, now, calling someone a racist is a racist act. This is going to end well.

Instead, it left a sour note as vandals spray-painted racial slurs outside the campaign headquarters.

“I don’t even know why anyone would do this except ignorance you know, total ignorance, ” said installation technician Lonzell Johnson.

It was a sight that “Towles Phone Center” technicians never wanted to see. The phrase “a racist” was spray painted on the hood and the sides
of two of their company vans.


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Also, it’s just sad when your PC graffiti jagoff’s have such atrocious spelling.

eerily prescient

and part 2

a lovely boat ride in the sea…

The below leaves me with 2 questions,
1. Can you use your CIWS on surface craft?
2. Would the remains of said surface craft change the flavour of the babagounush?

aw geez, not this sh*t again

We’re from the government, and we’re here to help…Elian

quote of the day


“If you are not passing more than 65 percent of your students in a class, then you are not designing your expectations to meet their abilities, and you are setting your students up for failure, which, in turn, limits your success as a professional.”

’cause everyone knows the real world is always about the lowest common denominator

whoopsie


NEW YORK (AP) - A teenage suspect who secretly recorded his interrogation on an MP3 player has landed a veteran detective in the middle of perjury charges, authorities said Thursday.

Unaware of the recording, Detective Christopher Perino testified in April that the suspect “wasn’t questioned” about a shooting in the Bronx, a criminal complaint said. But then the defense confronted the detective with a transcript it said proved he had spent more than an hour unsuccessfully trying to persuade Erik Crespo to confess—at times with vulgar tactics.

Once the transcript was revealed in court, prosecutors asked for a recess, defense attorney Mark DeMarco said. The detective was pulled from the witness stand and advised to get a lawyer.

one has to wonder how often the detective had gotten away with similar tactics in the past.

eco-tardism: the new religion

I say we encourage Toni Vermelli to take the next logical step, preferably in front of a bus?


Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy.

But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.

Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

life does imitate art

I hate to put a less than serious face on the trouble that the protesters in Georgia (the country not the state) are facing, but compare the masks in this video clip
Georgia Riots

to the below.
Halflife 2