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Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The Tattlesnake -- Wordy-Gurdy Name Quiz
Just for fun, grab a pencil and paper and try to find the three-word name combinations of prominent people in politics, history and the arts from each clue.
Example:
Clue: Hit the road, Congressman
Name: Ray Charles Rangel
1. Clue: Piano Man Sun-Tanned
2. Clue: Shrugged the Aqua Buddha Senator
3. Clue: Blond-Haired De-Angler
4. Clue: Offbeat Comedian Astroturfer
5. Clue: Code Pink Prime Israeli
6. Clue: Disaster Progressive News Anchor
7. Clue: Chess Records' Okie Senator At Last
8. Clue: Enthusiasm Curbed Tea Party Billionaire
9. Clue: Oscar General Badger Governor
10. Clue: Traitor for Gold and Golden Bear Musclehead
Answers below in Comments section.
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Example:
Clue: Hit the road, Congressman
Name: Ray Charles Rangel
1. Clue: Piano Man Sun-Tanned
2. Clue: Shrugged the Aqua Buddha Senator
3. Clue: Blond-Haired De-Angler
4. Clue: Offbeat Comedian Astroturfer
5. Clue: Code Pink Prime Israeli
6. Clue: Disaster Progressive News Anchor
7. Clue: Chess Records' Okie Senator At Last
8. Clue: Enthusiasm Curbed Tea Party Billionaire
9. Clue: Oscar General Badger Governor
10. Clue: Traitor for Gold and Golden Bear Musclehead
Answers below in Comments section.
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
What If Fox News Targeted the Irish the Way They Target Muslims and Hispanics?
Left click on image to enlarge.HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
Corporations Are Lying to Us About the Dangers of Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
It's summed up in the emphasized third sentence – if nuclear power plant owners followed every safety precaution, they couldn't make any money. Neocon Republicans love to spread fear by doting on lurid tales of the destruction that could be wrought by a 'dirty-bomb' nuclear device in the hands of a terrorist – so far, 'peaceful' nuclear power has killed more people than Al-Qaeda, but you won't hear the GOP complain; they are, after all, a paid arm of the nuclear power industry.
"…[I]t's been normal for this company in the past [lying to the public]. It's normal for the industry to some extent.
"It's a highly ideological industry, and it also involves a lot of concentration of political power, as well as physical power. And those institutions become very powerful, very close to the regulators, and an adversarial culture develops where they're constantly pushing against the safety measures, because that`s where the money is.
"If you did every single thing that you -- that was possible to make it safe, then you couldn't make any money."
-- Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group on MSNBC's "Hardball," March 15, 2011, talking about the Japanese nuclear plants. [Emphasis
mine.]
"Nuclear plants the world over must be certified for what is called 'SQ' or 'Seismic Qualification.' That is, the owners swear that all components are designed for the maximum conceivable shaking event, be it from an earthquake or an exploding Christmas card from Al Qaeda.
"The most inexpensive way to meet your SQ is to lie. The industry does it all the time. The government team I worked with caught them once, in 1988, at the Shoreham plant in New York. Correcting the SQ problem at Shoreham would have cost a cool billion, so engineers were told to change the tests from 'failed' to 'passed.' " [snip]
"These [Japanese nuclear] plants are now releasing radioactive steam into the atmosphere. Be skeptical about the statements that the 'levels are not dangerous.' These are the same people who said these meltdowns could never happen. Over years, not days, there may be a thousand people, two thousand, ten thousand who will suffer from cancers induced by this radiation." [snip]
"It would be irresponsible for me to estimate the number of cancer deaths that will occur from these releases without further information; but it is just plain criminal for the Tokyo Electric shoguns to say that these releases are not dangerous. …The carcinogenic isotopes that are released at Fukushima are already floating to Seattle with effects we simply cannot measure."
-- Greg Palast, investigative journalist and former nuclear plant inspector, from "The No BS Info on Japan's Nuclear Operators," March 14, 2011.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
The Tattlesnake – Defending Charlie Sheen Edition
Is it crazy to stand up to corporations and media parasites that are trying to tell you how to live your life?
Charlie Sheen's gotten a bum rap from the media lately because he refused to play the corporate and tabloid-TV game: the Shamed Celebrity is supposed to enter rehab and emerge contrite and chastened and just so gleefully grateful his corporate employer stuck by him during his time of need. Instead, Sheen called CBS and his producers on their 'we care' bullshit, and told the media hypocrites that parasitically cover celebrities to stuff it where the moon don't shine. Here's a news flash you won't see on the MSM: When celebs enter rehab, it's mainly for PR, career, or project-insurance purposes and there is no shortage of drugs and alcohol at any of the well-known rehab ranches that cater to the famous. What are they going to do, kick them out and lose all of that money? No, they turn a blind eye and cooperate in the fraud that the celebrity is 'cured,' and everybody goes home happy. Charlie Sheen just refused to indulge in this fetid game and, for that, he should be applauded.
Is he crazy? Maybe, but no more than most of us, and he's not advising that we hurt or hate anyone. If you read his quotes below, he often makes considerable sense and he frequently lampoons himself, which the TMZ-style media are apparently too obtuse to recognize. He's certainly more honest and lucid than the demented wolfpack of politicians and pundits that appear on Meet the Press every Sunday and are treated as sane and reasonable.
If a Hunter S. Thompson had given Charlie's recent interviews, some of the same people pointing the 'nutjob drug addict' finger at Charlie Sheen and 'tsk, tsk' self-righteously shaking their heads over his sure demise, would be laughing with or praising him. But because he's known as a film/TV actor, and many of them don't want to offend Viacom/CBS for professional reasons, they toe the corporate line that Sheen is spinning out of control and needs help. Haven't we learned by now that large corporations do not have compassionate souls that take pity on their employees, and neither do the heads of Hollywood production companies? It's all about the money.
Aside from that, when did Charlie Sheen's personal life become the concern of anyone but himself and those around him? How would you like your personal problems exaggerated and splashed all over the TV beast and the Internet?
As you read the poem below, pretend they are the words of a beat poet rather than a movie star. It might give you a whole different perspective; "Droopy-eyed armless children" by itself is a line worthy of a Jack Kerouac novel or Allen Ginsberg epic.
"Winning"
The words of Charlie Sheen edited into poetry
I so desperately wanted to be
Mr. Somebody.
Instead, I was the little brother…
As kids we're not taught how to deal
with success; we're taught how to
deal with failure.
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try again.
If at first you succeed,
then what?
C’mon, bro, I won best picture at 20!
I wasn’t even trying.
I wasn’t even warm.
Fame is empowering.
My mistake was that I thought
I would instinctively know
how to handle it.
But there's no manual,
no training course.
The run I was on made Sinatra,
Flynn, Jagger, Richards,
all of them look like
droopy-eyed armless children!
Sure, I did a lot of things in excess.
But if you look at the core,
the foundation of what I pursued,
what red-blooded young American
male in my position wouldn't?
But you can't focus on things
that matter if all you've been
is asleep for forty years.
Funny how sleep
rhymes with sheep.
I'm tired of ignoring that I
march to a different beat.
I will not believe that
if I do something then
I have to follow a certain
path because it was
written for normal people.
People who aren’t special.
People who don’t have
tiger blood and Adonis DNA!
I’m tired of pretending I’m not
a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars!
Here's the good news:
If I realize that I'm insane,
then I'm okay with it.
I'm not dangerous insane.
I am on a drug.
It's called Charlie Sheen.
It's not available because
if you try it, you will die.
Your face will melt off and
your children will weep over
your exploded body.
What you come to discover is,
it isn't how you get there,
it's that you get there.
If that's what it took to get me
where I'm at today,
so be it.
People go,
'What's going on with this guy?
Why does he sound so weird?
What is going on in his brain?'
I don't know. Just one day I
suddenly woke up with a new brain.
I love it! It's original!
You don't have the right to judge me.
Look what I’m dealing with, man,
I’m dealing with fools and trolls!
'Can't' is the cancer of happening.
That's life. There's nobility in that.
There's focus. It's genuine.
It's crystal and it's pure and
it's available to everybody,
so just shut your traps and
put down your McDonald's,
your vaccines, your US Weekly,
your TMZ and the rest of it.
There have to be more important
things going on in the world than
my past.
Uncertainty is a sign of humility,
and humility is just the ability or
the willingness to learn.
I’m sorry, man, I got magic and
I’ve got poetry in my fingertips,
you know, most of the time,
and this includes naps.
You either love or you hate.
You live in the middle,
you get nothing.
Boom, crush!
Night, losers.
Winning, duh!
Bring me Dr. Clown shoes!
[End]
© 2011 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Charlie Sheen's gotten a bum rap from the media lately because he refused to play the corporate and tabloid-TV game: the Shamed Celebrity is supposed to enter rehab and emerge contrite and chastened and just so gleefully grateful his corporate employer stuck by him during his time of need. Instead, Sheen called CBS and his producers on their 'we care' bullshit, and told the media hypocrites that parasitically cover celebrities to stuff it where the moon don't shine. Here's a news flash you won't see on the MSM: When celebs enter rehab, it's mainly for PR, career, or project-insurance purposes and there is no shortage of drugs and alcohol at any of the well-known rehab ranches that cater to the famous. What are they going to do, kick them out and lose all of that money? No, they turn a blind eye and cooperate in the fraud that the celebrity is 'cured,' and everybody goes home happy. Charlie Sheen just refused to indulge in this fetid game and, for that, he should be applauded.
Is he crazy? Maybe, but no more than most of us, and he's not advising that we hurt or hate anyone. If you read his quotes below, he often makes considerable sense and he frequently lampoons himself, which the TMZ-style media are apparently too obtuse to recognize. He's certainly more honest and lucid than the demented wolfpack of politicians and pundits that appear on Meet the Press every Sunday and are treated as sane and reasonable.
If a Hunter S. Thompson had given Charlie's recent interviews, some of the same people pointing the 'nutjob drug addict' finger at Charlie Sheen and 'tsk, tsk' self-righteously shaking their heads over his sure demise, would be laughing with or praising him. But because he's known as a film/TV actor, and many of them don't want to offend Viacom/CBS for professional reasons, they toe the corporate line that Sheen is spinning out of control and needs help. Haven't we learned by now that large corporations do not have compassionate souls that take pity on their employees, and neither do the heads of Hollywood production companies? It's all about the money.
Aside from that, when did Charlie Sheen's personal life become the concern of anyone but himself and those around him? How would you like your personal problems exaggerated and splashed all over the TV beast and the Internet?
As you read the poem below, pretend they are the words of a beat poet rather than a movie star. It might give you a whole different perspective; "Droopy-eyed armless children" by itself is a line worthy of a Jack Kerouac novel or Allen Ginsberg epic.
"Winning"
The words of Charlie Sheen edited into poetry
I so desperately wanted to be
Mr. Somebody.
Instead, I was the little brother…
As kids we're not taught how to deal
with success; we're taught how to
deal with failure.
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try again.
If at first you succeed,
then what?
C’mon, bro, I won best picture at 20!
I wasn’t even trying.
I wasn’t even warm.
Fame is empowering.
My mistake was that I thought
I would instinctively know
how to handle it.
But there's no manual,
no training course.
The run I was on made Sinatra,
Flynn, Jagger, Richards,
all of them look like
droopy-eyed armless children!
Sure, I did a lot of things in excess.
But if you look at the core,
the foundation of what I pursued,
what red-blooded young American
male in my position wouldn't?
But you can't focus on things
that matter if all you've been
is asleep for forty years.
Funny how sleep
rhymes with sheep.
I'm tired of ignoring that I
march to a different beat.
I will not believe that
if I do something then
I have to follow a certain
path because it was
written for normal people.
People who aren’t special.
People who don’t have
tiger blood and Adonis DNA!
I’m tired of pretending I’m not
a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars!
Here's the good news:
If I realize that I'm insane,
then I'm okay with it.
I'm not dangerous insane.
I am on a drug.
It's called Charlie Sheen.
It's not available because
if you try it, you will die.
Your face will melt off and
your children will weep over
your exploded body.
What you come to discover is,
it isn't how you get there,
it's that you get there.
If that's what it took to get me
where I'm at today,
so be it.
People go,
'What's going on with this guy?
Why does he sound so weird?
What is going on in his brain?'
I don't know. Just one day I
suddenly woke up with a new brain.
I love it! It's original!
You don't have the right to judge me.
Look what I’m dealing with, man,
I’m dealing with fools and trolls!
'Can't' is the cancer of happening.
That's life. There's nobility in that.
There's focus. It's genuine.
It's crystal and it's pure and
it's available to everybody,
so just shut your traps and
put down your McDonald's,
your vaccines, your US Weekly,
your TMZ and the rest of it.
There have to be more important
things going on in the world than
my past.
Uncertainty is a sign of humility,
and humility is just the ability or
the willingness to learn.
I’m sorry, man, I got magic and
I’ve got poetry in my fingertips,
you know, most of the time,
and this includes naps.
You either love or you hate.
You live in the middle,
you get nothing.
Boom, crush!
Night, losers.
Winning, duh!
Bring me Dr. Clown shoes!
[End]
© 2011 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
The Tattlesnake – Top Ten Neocon Republican Hits Edition
These top ten lists get tedious, and this one's no different.
1. "This Land Ain't Your Land, This Land Is MY Land"
Scotty and the Koch Brothers
2. "America The Profitable"
Moe Greenback and the Wall Streeters
3. "Take Your Job And Shove It"
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
4. "Dead Man's Curve"
Chris Christie and the Budget Cutters
5. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"
The Palin Family Choir
6. "Viva Low Wages!"
Wal Mart and the New Peasants
7. "It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To"
Long John Boehner and the Wailers
8. "Liar, Liar (Pants On Fire)"
Mike Huckabee and the Birthers
9. "He Got The Gold Mine And I Got the Shaft"
Glenn Beck's Suckers
10. "(Here It Comes Your) 19th Nervous Breakdown"
Michele Bachmann and her Teabaggers
©2011 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
1. "This Land Ain't Your Land, This Land Is MY Land"
Scotty and the Koch Brothers
2. "America The Profitable"
Moe Greenback and the Wall Streeters
3. "Take Your Job And Shove It"
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
4. "Dead Man's Curve"
Chris Christie and the Budget Cutters
5. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"
The Palin Family Choir
6. "Viva Low Wages!"
Wal Mart and the New Peasants
7. "It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To"
Long John Boehner and the Wailers
8. "Liar, Liar (Pants On Fire)"
Mike Huckabee and the Birthers
9. "He Got The Gold Mine And I Got the Shaft"
Glenn Beck's Suckers
10. "(Here It Comes Your) 19th Nervous Breakdown"
Michele Bachmann and her Teabaggers
©2011 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
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