Cheney's Weapons of Mass Destruction

THESE are documents obtained from Dick Chaney by Judicial Watch, an organization that prosecutes government corruption. The documents are dated March 01, 2001. The Iraq war began on March 20, 2001 therefore it is clear from these documents that Cheney and his people had a planning interest in Iraq's oil prior to the first strike of the war.

The documents are here:

Iraq Oil Map
http://www.judicialwatch.org/IraqOilFrgnSuitors.pdf
http://www.judicialwatch.org/IraqOilGasProj.pdf

IF you would like to know more about the ideology that was founded by Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Bush Sr. that sought to establish a military presence you can read about the Project for the New American Century. This ideology was created long before 9/11 and the Iraq war.

Their website is down, but if you go to the wayback machine you can view their old site and all the ultra-right wing goodies that they drafted before George W took office.

Facebook Whips it out

If you're a two breasted chick or a gentleman with a dick, Facebook wants to know. Yes, the world wouldn't seem right without another nauseating story about Facebook and how social networking is changing the world. However, in this instance it appears the mecca of electronic peeping and leering is taking a page from the 50's in an attempt to make their site more friendly to multiple languages.

According to this facebook blog post, users will be required to self identify themselves as male or female so that other languages will be better able to translate self referencing pieces in the news feed and mini feed. This makes sense at first glance, but we dig a bit deeper here at sl.com.

I wanted to put this to the test, so I sought out my friend - yahoo's babel fish text translator. I thought I'd start with a post that is pretty common to Facebook "Kneel tagged themself in the album, I love leftish.com" Facebook has traditionally used the term - themself- while grammatically wrong, the phrase was understood by all users. Nevertheless, that phrase converted into German= Knien etikettierte sich im Album, ich lieben leftish.com. However, when converting it back to English this happened = Kneel labeled myself in the album, I love leftish.com.

Very interesting indeed. So it appears the words are a bit confusing to a translator, however the meaning of the phrase is still evident. This begs the question, is this change really necessary? Being of sound business mind, one can't help but venture a guess into the potential benefit of this new found information. A high number of users do not currently indicate their sex = male, female or other. This change means all users will have to self-identify and will then become subject to advertising based on sex.

This is noteworthy as Canada's most trafficked website remains well below profit hopes and clings dreadfully to a business model that is unrealistic in it's current state. Facebook may be changing the world and how it communicates, it just seems that Facebook's finances weren't invited to this sexy party.

-Kneel
photo credit : Scott Beale / Laughing Squid (CC)

Target Practice Iran

McCain the Defaulting President

"When you're poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you're rich, it's hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying."

It has just been released that the McCain family have not paid taxes on one of their homes for the last four years. If McCain didn't pay his taxes on property for the last four years, what makes anyone think he can be trusted with the American economy for the next four? Maybe the two aren't related, but I'm one to think that cheating the tax system should be an indicator of what kinds of liberties he might take with the country. Also, this wasp Cindy is getting filthier and filthier every day.

The full article is here.

Leftish Film of the Week: The World According to Monsanto

THIS is a new documentary by Marie-Monique Robin, a french film maker.



The World According to Monsanto

Monsanto is an agricultural and biotechnology corporation based in America. They have been identified as posessing 56 environmentally contaminated sites in the US, invented the terminator seed and been involved in toxic milk scandals and various other corporate corruption scandals over the years.

To read more about Monsanto's corporate practices, SOURCE WATCH has a great wiki about them. There is also a post I wrote about their plans to patent the pig here.

RIP George Carlin

A Hard Pill to Swallow

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IF you go into Chantilly's DMC pharmacy you should be able to pick up some asprin, a pack of maxi pads, foot deodorizer, vapor rub for your chest- all the good stuff. However, there is one thing that you won't be allowed to buy: Birth Control. Yes, the DMC pharmacy will not be stocking those whorish little pills that prevent a woman's oocyte's from being penetrated by their man's spermatozoon.

Fortunatly, for those not yet propelled sperm, the DNC pharmacy is a "Pro-Life" drugstore, one of many that are on the rise. Robert Semier the store's owner has decided that he will not carry birth control pills because he is morally opposed to them.

How about morning after pills? No. Condoms? No. Personal lubricants? Of course. It would be just plain ridiculous to take Vaseline off the market.

Now, some are citing the Pro-Life pharmacies as anti women's health. See this quote:

"Rape victims could end up in a pharmacy not understanding this pharmacy will not meet their needs...We've seen an alarming development of pharmacists over the last several years refusing to fill prescriptions, and sometimes even taking the prescription from the woman and refusing to give it back to her so she can fill it in another pharmacy."- Marcia Greenburger

The owners of these "new-age anti-pre-marital-family-control" pharmacies say that contraceptives cause infidelity and sexual deviance. However, most of these pharmacies do sell Viagra, the "Jesus-Med" of Pro-Life Pharmacies.

Nancy Berlinger of the Hastings Center for Bioethics says this of the hulaballoo:

"If you are a health-care professional, you are bound by professional obligations...You can't say you won't do part of that profession."

The Pro-Life Pharmacists retort with their very own "hall-pass" from the Pope, el Papa himself!

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I quote:


"Service to the integrity and well-being of the individual is the ideal that must constantly guide the Catholic pharmacist. As he exercises his profession, he should be inspired by the example of "Jesus of Nazareth, who went about doing good and healing" (Acts 10:38) all those who approached him. Thus the pharmacist should be concerned with "relieving suffering, improving treatment and curing men's ailments", conscious that where there is life, there is the Spirit of God who is our Creator and Consolar."- From the Pope's note to Pharmacists


WAIT a minute. Pharmacists should be concerned with "relieving suffering"? Doesn't this papal reflection extend itself to a woman that was raped and needs help? Doesn't curing men's ailments mean protecting those who are violated by criminal perverts?

When Semier was asked what he tells people who come seeking birth control, he merely pointed to the Kmart across the street.

Leftish Babe: Lara Logan

Will you marry me succinct accented CBS news correspondent?

Leftish Article of the Day: The Right-wing Offshore Drilling Scam

THIS is a great article by the Environmentalist over at the Daily Kos which dissects the recent push by the right wing to lift the "ban" on offshore drilling. The article states that there isn't even a ban, there is a moratorium, and that the goal isn't to drill for oil, but to not drill it.

"Companies don’t want to drill these areas. They want to hold them as assests to limit the amount of oil and gas on the market so that prices rise still further - and they make more money. They want to hold on to these areas so that they can drill them ten or fifteen years from now and make an even bigger fortune."

The Full Article

Related:

How this could screw McCain over in Florida, California, Virginia and North Carolina.

How candidate's have to promise Florida they won't drill to vote for them

8 Million on fire with foxy new browser

OK, so the title is lame. It's subject on the other hand that's impressive and exciting. I went down the well beaten path earlier this week and downloaded the new Firefox 3 browser, taking me from a world pre-firefore 3 to a post firefox 3 land of opportunity and greatness.

Well, maybe not greatness, but the new open source tool is easy to use, has some great features and looks pleasing to the users eye. What really makes the entire thing so interesting is not the product itself, it's the shear number of adopters that is staggering.

Firefox currently occupies about 14 percent of the total web browser use in North America. The massive majority is held by Internet Explore, a Microsoft default with vista like headaches and a few other options like Safari etc. A great deal has been written about the ability for firefox to create, spend and succeed as a result of mom and dad over at google. This is fair, but what's striking is still the sheer volume.

As google moves more and more towards a browser based imitative, the idea of performing tasks using installed software like MS Word, excel etc. becomes an after-thought. I first wrote about googledom a month or so ago, but this latest move, however shadowed by it's partnership is note worthy.

Not only is Microsoft losing a battle in browser use, it's continuing to lose the greater challenge of remaining relevant in the market. The release of an andriod phone from google might just spell the demise of a once massive, controlling corporation and signal the rise of the google era. When one realizes the sheer number of things Google has it's hands in, a feeling of distrust and worry comes about. Are we all running to open source as a stance against conventionalism and conformity only to bow to the mother of all conformity? When this is all said and done, lets just hope there's something left-ish.
-kneel

Fuck you Al Gore

An excerpt of a larger release from the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research. If you didn't know it before, now you do, Al Gore is an enviromental terrorist. Thanks to our digger friends for finding this gem.

"A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month." Link to Full Article

It's good know know the TCPR is out there protecting the liberty, freedom and independence of a nation while taking advantage of that nations inability to think with reason.

-Kneel

Leftish Article of the Day: Straightening out McCain's "straight talk"

Straightneing out McCain's "straight talk"
By John Dickerson

"He (McCain) survives on the strength of his rhetoric; the press that follows him each day doesn't challenge him but serves merely to record his historic rise; the standards of coverage for the two candidates are different."

All 194 youtube videos of McCain's flip-flops

The Leftish Book Club

THIS is not me advertising, I don't do that sort of thing, but I was reading about this cool new site in the New York Times the other day. If you are looking to beef up your collection of Leftish books, the Progressive Book Club is selling some great titles for 1 dollar if you agree to buy 4 more books at full price over the next two years. Now, this is the same scheme used in those old CD junk mail packages you used to get with sticky stamps of the CDs or Movies, but these are books; educational, leftish books.

The book club's site is also sponsored by Media Matters, an online research NPO that specializes in "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."

Did Bush do something good?

APPARENTLY, George has gone and tightened a tax loop that defense contractors were using to avoid paying their taxes. Companies have been receiving defense contracts worth billions and setting up shell companies in the Cayman Islands to dodge the tax fairy. Miraculously, like the legacy-searching soon to be ex-President that he is, George has signed off on a bill that ends the free ride being had by military contractors. This all seems like a dream world. What is America coming to when their own President can't fight for the corporate agenda? The sad truth is, that the bill was forged with full bipartisan support (the votes were 460-0 in congress). For Bush to veto would have been pissing on the blankets.

Full article is here.

Why would you sell this?

This pin was being sold at a Republican rally on the weekend. One end of the country strides so far ahead, while another part enjoys sitting in their own shit.