Faux Populi

Interesting article about the status-symbol $700 Volcano vaporizer, which apparently was designed by an MIT student. One of the clubs I used to go to had this awesome prize-wheel thing if you came in on a certain day, and if you managed to get ridiculously lucky and land on the volcano twice you’d get one of those things. I was asking them about it and they said only one guy ever won it and he got all sheepish and uncomfortable when they asked him how he liked it whenever he came in later on. Dude probably sold it, which is kinda hard to knock him for… but damn those things are sweet.

I have no particular point, I just found it interesting.

PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Daily tracking data reveal that Asian-Americans tend to be more Democratic and much less conservative than the general population in their political views.

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Asians are distinct from the other racial and ethnic groups in their ideological orientation. Asians are the most likely to identify themselves as politically liberal and, in fact, are the only group that has a higher proportion of liberals than conservatives. Also, Asians are proportionately more likely than the other groups to be moderates.

via Asian-Americans Lean Left Politically.

from Great Orange Satan

Should probably be careful what I wish for given the batshit state of the nation but this just sounds too appealing.

Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she “would be willing” to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.

The former Alaska governor, in an interview Saturday on the sidelines of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, said President Obama’s “lack of experience” has held him back his first year in office and that she would put her credentials up against his any day.

via FOXNews.com – Palin ‘Would Be Willing’ to Take On Obama in 2012.

Uh, ma’am, you quit after half a term as the Governor of a State with fewer people than Fort Worth and your other notable contributions to society are as a small town mayor and sportscaster.

I like the subtle little nod to assassination fetishists what with the mention of an (at least allegedy, I can’t even remember what’s BS and what isn’t with her anymore) avid hunter having Obama “in her sights.” But then I guess doing snotty elitist shit like noticing implications of the words they print makes me part of the PC squad or whatever.

Is it just me or does  this this kind of petty shit-talking by companies who’ve routinely underperformed Google just make them look nervous? Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention but going negative seems to be increasingly popular as an advertising tactic and it isn’t any less obnoxious than it is in political ads. (I guess it isn’t accurate to describe this as a case of advertising but I’m thinking of stuff like AT+T/Verizon’s little fight over ‘maps’, etc.) Come to think of it maybe it’s not so much new as modified, cuz it seems like they’re more willing to go after each other by name. I remember back in the day commercials used to contrast stuff like ‘Hefty hefty hefty!’ against the ‘Wimpy’ generic competitor.

Not that there’s much difference that I can find between the Beck/Jones crowds, but I still have that Endgame song bouncing around my head and I just realized the name sounded familiar. How could I forget?

For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world’s population, while enabling the “elites” to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity’s extermination: Operation ENDGAME.

Jones chronicles the history of the global elite’s bloody rise to power and reveals how they have funded dictators and financed the bloodiest wars—creating order out of chaos to pave the way for the first true world empire.

via Alex Jones’ Endgame.

I heard an interview with Jones once where he was asked who’s going to run the world if the rich people kill off 80% of the Earth’s population. His answer: fucking robots, duh. So uhh, do we build a bunch of robots that will service the other robots before the rich people kill us off? How do the rich know their robots won’t turn on them? Do we know the shit’s about to hit the fan when we hear about a massive government subsidy to create new jobs in the robotics industry or what, how exactly does this all play out? And is it not slightly odd that that a worldwide conspiracy that is willing and capable of eradicating the masses with bioengineered viruses never gets around to bumping this guy off? I mean, I’m not suggesting anything obviously, but that’s one little gap in his logic that I never could process. I guess I could actually watch the movie and see if he goes into detail, but my brain. My poor brain.

I am interested in this Doctorate Program he’s offering though. You think Prisonplanet.net is an accredited institution?

Apparently they’ve never heard about brevity being the soul of wit. It finally gets around to justifying the sheep at about the 2:30 point.

What the fuck? If nothing else the Fiorina campaign is certainly leading the league in unintentional hilarity.

via Ackerman — and also, oddly enough, the Smart Football Twitter.

heh

There’s allegedly going to be some more governor drama.

… when something like half the country thinks torturing people is just fine.

A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.

Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.

As his daughter ’squirmed’ to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.

Tabor, 27, who had won custody of his daughter only four weeks earlier, admitted choosing the punishment because the girl was terrified of water.

via Soldier father accused of ‘waterboarding’ daughter, 4, because she can’t recite alphabet | Mail Online.

He intentionally picked a method of punishment designed to play on her phobias. He did everything he could to make the experience as traumatic as possible. His own little daughter. What the fuck man?

Upon further reflection this post really isn’t nearly as funny as it seemed when I was jacked up on sleeping pills. So let’s make the bad writing go away… k done. I still find it offensive however. Bunch of shysters.