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Solidarity

May 1, 2012 8:31 AM | 0 TrackBacks

Sunday, 7 Reckning 2012

Amazingly (cough), the web site organizing the May Day protest seems to be rather difficult to access with my web browser - whichever of NetScrap, IECarumba, FireFox, Opera, or Chrome I try to use.

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Quick Question To Any Insanely Rich People Pissed Off At The Susan G. Komen Foundation

February 2, 2012 6:49 PM | 0 TrackBacks

Humpday, 8 Shivring 2012

Now that the reich wing Republicants running all that pink ribbon crap you've been seeing all season long have finally exposed themselves to be the religiously insane female controlling farging iceholes that they are, are there three of you willing to donate a quarter of a million dollars each to cover up the shortfall over at Planned Parenthood?

Also, too: can anyone tell me why there's such a huge fuss about $680K of discretionary funding coming from an organization that reported earnings of approximately 400 million dollars in 2010? So much so that you can't even donate the equivalent of some of your executive bonuses for the year to Planned Parenthood due to your religious insanity?

Inquiring minds want to know...

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Update: Big time props to NY Mayor Bloomberg for matching $250K for Planned Parenthood. Are there two more insanely rich people ready to step up to the plate?

Update too: PP has gotten more, with less sanctimonious lip-pursing, than they would have from the Komen Foundation. And even more people see Nancy Brinker and the rest of the conservative corporate welfare queens at Komen for what they are.

Now, if there were only at least one relatively well off liberal who could put half of Brinker's annual salary towards helping out some of the less fortunate liberals out there...

Special Announcement

January 15, 2012 11:57 AM | 0 TrackBacks

Fryday, 20 Premise 2012

The Funny Farm, along with The Church of the Afternoon Nap, would like to ask you, dear reader, to heed the words of our good friend and internets guru, Marc Perkel. He has been the driving force behind The Church of Reality for a while now, and he would like to talk to us all about the (warning: horking big PDF file) Stop Online Piracy Act and some reality-based solutions to the problem that avoid all that messy treasonous internets-killing Republicant kimchee in the previous link.

I'll let Marc take it from here:

Dear Church of Reality Members,

I have been actively opposing legislation in the US congress called SOPA. This bill is aimed at stopping piracy, but not only won't it work, it will break the Internet. It is important that this bill be stopped.

To that end I had a meeting 2 days ago with former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who wasn't that thrilled with SOPA and she thought it wouldn't pass. However she said that she considered piracy to be a big problem and that something needed to be done about it.

In response I mentioned that I had produced a lot of intellectual property (software) and I understood the problem. I told her that if she helped kill SOPA that I would write a technical specification and a plan for an alternative that would actually work without breaking the Internet.

So - keeping my end of the bargain - I have written an alternative specification that changes the paradigm of how movies and music are sold. I'm going to email this to her staff and hopefully be able to meet with Senator Boxer as well sometime soon. Here is a link to my idea. I need two things. I need some feedback as to how it might be improved, and I need this link posted to blogs everywhere that deals with this issue. So if you all can help spread the word that would be great.

The Internet is the most significant step in human evolution in thousands of years. Maybe the biggest evolutionary jump ever. It directly affects what we are going to evolve into. That's what makes this so important. So - thanks in advance for helping save the future of humanity.

Marc Perkel
First One
Church of Reality
"Saving the future from short sighted stupid people"

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New Toy

January 7, 2012 10:43 AM | 0 TrackBacks

Friday, 12 Premise 2012

About that blogging thing - it seems to me that the whole writering thing is not going to be feasable within a survival-mode lifestyle. At least that is the way I feel about it these days. Especially with the tremendous amount of feedback (cough) that has gotten through the cone of spammy silence I've put up around the funny Farm.

But, hey - I'm not here to ask you (again) to help me get through the Bush Depression. I might not be here soon at all if we get a Chinese-style internets policy like the one percent are trying to put in place.

I'm here to tout Get Your censor On, the latest effort by David Rees (I hope - I didn't see, during my brief mad scan before posting this, any accreditation for David* - that this is something he's put together). He has a ton of good stuff up already, and you can monitor his newest material through a new entry in the links zone over to the left. For as long as they let any and/or all of us stay on the internets.

A couple of haikus in honor of Get Your censor On:

Careful what you say -
No more free speech internets
Unless you gots coin

Super toll thruway
Gets you better internet
Got to pay to play

Go haiku yourself!

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* - then again, I don't do Facebook and the Twitter so I didn't check out the facebook info associated with the Get Your censor On page...

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