Politics - Quote of the week

RE: Town Hall morons... "If you're going to be wrong, be wrong at the top of your voice."

In memorum

"What do you care? You see us as you want to see us... in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at seven o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed."

R.I.P. Mr. Hughes

Review - Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

ToplessRobot does it more justice than I could in a hundred years of trying to explain it...

Why can only a Prime kill the Fallen? Why can Jetfire teleport? Why can the Fallen wave a staff and make shit fly around? Why do actual cars and Autobots get sucked into Devastator's maw, but John Turturro and that other kid can run around?

Because... because FUCK YOU, that's why.

Hit the link to read it all...

Current Events - A Tale of Two Cities

Pictures of L.A. post Laker's Championship and Tehran post stolen election from The Society for the Advancement of Dave.

Current Events - Going Green

In support of the people of Iran.

Personal - A thought

While "thinking" isn't outlawed here, it is most certainly discouraged.

Politics - Transparency so transparent you can't see it

"When there's a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government's doing," Mr. Obama said in a major campaign speech laying out his goals for transparency.

Mr. Obama last week signed four bills, each just a day or two after Congress passed and sent it over to him.

Source: The Washington Times

Personal - So how was your morning?

Bed @ 12:30 am.

Neighbors dog starts barking @ 3:45 am.

Me yelling at dog to shut up @ 4:00 am.

Me yelling at dog to shut the h3ll up @ 4:10 am.

Me threatening to kill neighbors dog @4:15 am.

Me threatening to kill every dog everywhere on the planet so help me gods @ 4:20 am.

Neighbors dog stops barking @ 4:30 am.

Thunder/lightning @ 4:31 am.

Sonova…

Just a test of my Blog posting from my phone.

Politics - Perhaps my "hope" was misplaced.

The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration's wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim federal agents illegally intercepted their phone calls and gained access to their records.

Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lawyer for the customers, said Monday the filing was disappointing in light of the Obama presidential campaign's "unceasing criticism of Bush-era secrecy and promise for more transparency."

==SNIP==

The Justice Department said Friday that government agents monitored only communications in which "a participant was reasonably believed to be associated with al Qaeda or an affiliated terrorist organization." But proving that the surveillance program did not sweep in ordinary phone customers would require "disclosure of highly classified NSA intelligence sources and methods," the department said.

Individual customers cannot show their messages were intercepted, and thus have no right to sue, because all such information is secret, government lawyers said. They also said disclosure of whether AT&T took part in the program would tell the nation's enemies "which channels of communication may or may not be secure."

I think I'll go throw up now.

Robots - In the news

Excellent photo collection of real life robots.

Via The Boston Globe.

Droids - Will Droids build our moonbase?

"The work we're doing now -- the robotics we're doing -- is what we're going to need to do to build any workstation or habitat structure on the moon or Mars," said Beutel. "Yes, this is just the beginning."

Robots - Rock, Paper, Scissors... Droid?

From The Wall Street Journal Pictures of the Day:



Louis Buckley, content developer at London’s Science Museum, played rock, paper, scissors with Berti the robot at the Science Museum in London.(PA Photos/Landov)

Congratulations, Mr. President.

We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.

Mr. President, you have my axe!

And Congratulations, America. You elected an adult.

Personal - Time keeps on tickin'...

Last night my daughter was playing a Wii game (My Sims) where you have to build these houses for these people in your town. One guy wanted an arcade before he'd move in. So off we went to build the house for him.

When we were done she asked me, “Daddy… What’s an arcade?”

I spent the next 30 minutes explaining to her that, no, we didn't have the Wii or XBox or computer games when I was her age, we went to the arcade and played video games.

The part about dropping quarters into the machine REALLY boggled her little mind.

Obama - I'm just talkin bout Barrack!

President Bad-ass reporting for duty.

Obama - In pictures

Taken by Callie Shell, this is the best archive of Obama pictures I've seen on the web.

Politics - Change

It's a new day.

Fear, division and politics as usual are no longer the rules.

Yes we can!

Politics - One week

In one week, we can choose an economy that rewards work and creates new jobs and fuels prosperity from the bottom-up.

In one week, we can choose to invest in health care for our families, and education for our kids, and renewable energy for our future.

In one week, we can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the power of the status quo.

In one week, we can come together as one nation, and one people, and once more choose our better history.

That’s what’s at stake. That’s what we’re fighting for. And if in this last week, you will knock on some doors for me, and make some calls for me, and talk to your neighbors, and convince your friends; if you will stand with me, and fight with me, and give me your vote, then I promise you this – we will not just win Ohio, we will not just win this election, but together, we will change this country and we will change the world.

- Senator Barack Obama, Canton OH, Oct 27, 2008

Humor - From a Fark photoshop contest

Click for bigger version.
Credit to DarkJohnson on Fark.com.

Brilliant.