The Creepiness Continues...

Little kids taught to praise Dear Leader Obama at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ; June 19, 2009.

Mmm, mmm, mmm. Barack Hussein Obama. Very catchy stuff, komrads.

More National Socialist absurdity...USA style

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125374722116935697.html

I see the day when cigars will be a thing of the past, or so absurdly expensive that only the rich will be able to smoke them. Even those that don't smoke flavored cigars or anything else for that matter should nonetheless be horrified at the socialist thinking that would ban a legal product on the grounds that an existing law covering it (age restriction) is being broken. The banning of products also equals:

loss of profit

which equals:

loss of jobs


All in the name of rescuing us from ourselves, and exactly what we need in this shitty economy. It's like banning cars because some people drive drunk. They came for the Jews and I said nothing because I was not a Jew.....

It is only a matter of time before the FDA says that there is no difference between cigars and cigarettes, and those companies which make both regular cigars and flavors will have to make up the profit loss by raising prices once again. This is a slippery slope that will end with the total prohibition of tobacco products, mark my words. Beyond clove cigarettes, menthols, and some of the Nat Sherman ones that are way too expensive to appeal to the underage, I can't even name one flavored cigarette. Not one, and I've been smoking for 30 years. The pretext of this ban is entirely false.

The dear nanny state is taking care of us helpless little children once again; the lie is simply the spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. A stepping stone to greater and greater restrictions. Shame the FDA sucks so miserably at what is supposed to be their primary function - making sure our food is safe.

Ironically when I see stuff like this I want to smoke more to hasten my demise as much as possible. I see the future, and it ain't pretty. I think about the absurdly over-regulated, baby-ass country my children will inherit, and I feel ashamed. I was always under the impression that the government answered to US, not the other way around.

Sugar - The Bitter Truth

Here's an eye-opener. It's a pretty long video - an hour and a half - and the good doctor does get into some fairly heavy biochemistry (for a layman) in a couple parts, but trust me it's well worth the watch. Watch it in segments if neccesary, or make yourself comfortable with a nice ethanol beverage:



Scary stuff...I challenge you to go through your cupboards or read the ingredients on products the next time you go shopping. You will be amazed at what high-fructose corn syrup has been added to, and the sheer number of items that have it, even items that aren't supposed to taste sweet. Were I prone to conspiracy theories, I'd swear we are all being intentionally poisoned.

This isn't some crank either, Dr. Lustig is the UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology.

Oh Brother, you suck

It's been quite awhile since I came across product quality and service equal to the level of absolute shittiness provided by Brother International®. You know, the people that make printers, faxes, etc.?

http://www.brother-usa.com/

Last Christmas my son gave me this all-in-one printer - printer, fax, scanner made by these people, to replace the HP printer I have been using for 10 years. I dutifully registered it online. Recently I ran out of ink for the first time, or more accurately my kids ran out of ink as I have gotten to print a grand total of three pages. Ink for this thing is roughly the cost of platinum, but I got all new cartridges. Everything works, except black. Cleaning repeatedly, reinstalling, returning the ink cartridge and getting another one, praying to Allah, nothing would cause this thing to print black in any program or even a DOS shell.

So I call their optimistically-named 'tech support' and lo and behold it's my old friend 'perhaps you press button incorrectly' Apu in Calcutta who must be on hiatus from Dell's tech support. He asks my phone number and voila! He pulls up both my name and address in their database. His suggestion (just like on their website) is to do the cleaning process four times and if that doesn't work, well, you're fucked. I sure am glad we have these technical experts on call; their rapid resolutions to our problems springing forth fountainlike from our very telephone receivers. I explain that I've already done it about 6 times and he informs me that the serial number is no longer under warrantee.

How can this be, when it has a year warrantee and the thing was bought brand new about 8 months ago? Well, they have no record of me registering it. Now, how can that be when my name and number is in their database? "You must have called before", says he. Which I never have, because I've never owned a Brother® product in my life. He asks if I have a receipt. Well, of course I don't, it was a Christmas present and who holds on to the receipt of every product they buy for months and months? Who expects that a reasonably expensive product from a major manufacturer is going to be such a collossal piece of shit? I e-mail them thinking perhaps he got the serial number wrong and get a terse reply basically stating once again that I am fucked and that I should drive hours away to pay for repairs at one of their authorized service centers.

Whatever happened to standing behind what you make and customer service? I don't ask that they adopt a policy of 'The Customer is Always Right', only that the customer be given a fair shake. The serial number would probably reveal that the thing wasn't even made over a year ago. These people may as well stamp an expiration date on their products like it's a package of bologna, have no 'tech support' (such as it is), and have no registration process whatsoever because all they have to do is claim you didn't register it. The tech support link on their website may as well just point to a page saying 'Ha ha ha, we got your money and now you're hosed. LOL'.

Even when it worked this thing was an ink pig. It even automatically cleans itself every so often, wasting expensive ink. If you already have one of these abortions you should unplug it when not in use. And if you run out of one color, it won't even print in black & white. All cartridges must be full, a design feature to eke all the money they can from their customers before the P.O.S. printer fails altogether.

Brother® is a steaming pile of dung and I will never buy another one of their crappy products. And I suggest you don't either.

Help identify "Kung Fu Guy"

The purpose of this post is to bring to light - in yet another place - a video and ongoing investigation into an event that apparently occurred in Dumfries, Virginia, in December of 1984. It is my sincere hope that the victim's identity and status may be established, and that the purpetrators of this vicious assault are punished. If this latter is not possible then at the very least the word gets out about what kind of people they are. A video, since gone viral, was posted by Bobby Joe Blythe to his YouTube channel (since deleted) on 1st April 2009 showing the brutal beating of a black male in a martial arts school he (Blythe) operated, the beating itself being carried out by one of his students - one Willie J. Dennis. This brutal assault has never been punished, and there is speculation on whether the man who was beaten up even survived.

I am hoping that someone can identify the man who was beaten in the video or will come forward if they have any knowledge about the event. Warning: this video is very graphic and may be disturbing:

Still pictures of the man known only as "Kung Fu Guy" as well as additional information on the case and news stories are available at: http://www.justice4kungfuguy.com/

If anyone has any new information on this case or a lead on the identity of the victim please contact me here via e-mail or contact crimevictiminfo@gmail.com

The victim is a black male, 6'2" or 6'3", may have a tiger tattoo on his left forearm, and would be around his late 40's or early 50's if still alive. He may be a devout Christian and have practiced White Crane kung fu in the past. He may have resided in DC or the surrounding area in the early 80's, and *may* have received psychiatric help around that time as well. It is widely reported that he was homeless and living in the woods, although I personally don't think so. Close analysis of stills in the video show that he is well groomed and his trousers are not only clean but wrinkle free and have pressed creases on the legs. It is a possibility though that he received clothing from an area charity or church.

I read that there is no statute of limitations for felonies in Virginia. I seriously hope that those involved could be extradited for felony assault or attempted murder.