#philsbandnames "Judo Sabotage and Weaponry" #philssongnames #bandnames

Apparently: ripped from the headlines. Also: "Judo Guns and Sabotage"

#philsbandnames #SOA Black and White vs. Yellow and Brown #sonsofanarchy

Inspired by last night's Sons of Anarchy.

Three Rivers Online Posts From Feb. 7 to May 28th 2013.

May 28

ITEM: IN case You're ever in the vicinity of poison gas...you need to know the scents. I certainly wouldn't want to get that "increased dopey feeling".  Get all four here.

ITEM: Atheists are all abuzz by that fantastic response to Wolf Blitzer's somewhat stereotypical question about the Good Lord. More here on that. Even funnier cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

May 18 not March 18th

ITEM: One of the things I learned from the very informative alternative history offered by Oliver Stone some months back is the complete superiority of Henry Wallace. He would have continued the legacy of FDR. You almost wish that FDR had died a bit earlier so that this man could have taken power. Truman, according to Oliver Stone -- whose view of history I respect (Seems to come out of the depressing Zinn/Chomsky school which seems to be 99.9999 percent right most of the time...) -- is portrayed as some kind of dim witted rube that Big Money could manipulate at will. It was clear that Wallace was dumped by those same Big Money forces for Truman in 44. But I admire what Wallace was against. (See the pic here to see what this means.)

ITEM: I'm going back in time to produce this version of the Matrix featuring Sidney Poitier as Morpheus, Pam Greer as Trinity, Peter Sellers as Agent Smith and Bruce Lee as "Neo". (IN order to understand this reference to the Matrix you must first look at this poster.)

May 12

And: I really think Osama Bin Laden should have just become a successful American businessman. Kind of like that Saudi dude who invests in Fox...yeah, if I didn't like Americans I would invest in Fox news as well.

May 4

ITEM: I'm doomed when the Age Appropriate Music Act comes into force, probably right after CISPA passes. I don't think I'm too old or too black to enjoy the "Thee Oh Sees". These cartoons were brought to my attention by way of Boing Boing.

April 26

ITEM: I actually think people in the world have legitimate reasons  to hate the United States. Not that this would give me solace if I had gotten all blow'd up but still... Ted Rall nails it.

ITEM: I am trying to resurrect my somewhat moribund Progressive Examiner post.

MoveOn protest Thursday against horrible Obama plan to cut Social Security.

Also:

Here is the third report that states PA taking $17 billion in free money works.

And:

Die Max Baucus Die and other news around the Progressive Internets

ITEM: The war against Gidas Flowers continues. Next up: the best criminal complaint I can possibly write about false statements.

late nite April 2oth

ITEM: More good images from the Facebook. This one is about medical bankruptcies with health insurance. This other one talks about prosecution for bombers vs industrial terrorists.

late nite April 9

(Also published at my Examiner Post.)

Around the Internets or PHRC investigator Catherine Leete is the Whore of Babylon at least according to the evidentiary model used by Catherine Leete (Some guy said it so it must be true.)

Here are some interesting stories I found or wrote about during the day.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, still trying to kill me by not accepting 17 billion in free medicaid money (See Stephen Colbert on why.) From the PG:

It does not help his position that other Republican governors -- every bit as conservative and opposed to Obamacare -- have looked at the expansion and signed on to it. Why do the likes of Michigan's Rick Snyder, Ohio's John Kasich, Arizona's Jan Brewer and New Jersey's Chris Christie see a good deal when Mr. Corbett can't? Gov. Corbett needs to invest in people and accept that Obamacare is here to stay. If he dithers on the way to doing nothing, he risks spending four years of idleness, beginning in 2015, to consider where he went wrong. The voters are more likely to bite him than the gift horse.

And Tom Corbett: has a second way to kill me (as a working poor person) by closing half of all state funded healthcare clinics. Tom Corbett: he has alleged Christian values.

There are currently 60 health care centers across Pennsylvania where people who have illnesses or injuries but don’t have the money for treatment can go for care. The Corbett administration is now planning to close nearly half of them before summer’s end, but the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania is suing to halt the closures on the grounds that the PA Constitution requires such a policy to be passed by the PA Legislature. All this is happening as Pennsylvania ranks among the lowest states in the nation in state government spending on public health and the West Nile virus is on the rise in the commonwealth. Because who needs community nurses when there’s just a little West Nile going around, right, Corbett?

Answer: They're intelligent?
Russell Simmons wants the war on drugs to end. Good luck with that. We're not even sure he's going to let states legalize marijuana. But hey sometimes he pays attention to rich people.
Long nine minute youtube video about new documentary that tells you about how the corporate media is ruining everything. Probably 99.9 percent true.
Learn about how much fun it is to take your civil rights case to the Pennsylvania Human Rights Coalition. See the summary of flaws inherent in alleged PHRC investigator Catherine Leete's findings.
late nite March 31st.

March 18

Around the Internets

ITEM: Art from Juxtapoz. Below. I like how they find what I'm guessing are European surrealists although could be American. You never know. Like their page on Facebook and their website to figure out who the artists are. Reminds me of Heavy Metal and Steranko at the same time.

ITEM: I'm still trying to do some "writing" apparently at my Pittsburgh Progressive Examiner post. This used to generate some income for me. It's been a struggle resurrecting it. And I hate those automatic ads that play when you link on a page. I think that drives traffic away.

Three headlines:

What the ISP Six Strikes regime means and a roundup of Internet responses.

And:

Sign the Demand Progress petition against the new six strikes law.

And:

Thank Bradley Manning for being a true Patriot.

ITEM: Something political. Oh, and reminds me: The Christopher Shropshire War Atrocity Page is still going strong.

ITEM: Very good anti war posters that I found on Facebook of all places. Quick succinct arguments against both enlistment and the perpetual American Forever War against small non nuclear countries that have things that we want.

March 8, 2013

ITEM: I've created Fundly campaigns for both Three Rivers Online and Viable Third Party Campaigns. As for the latter, we can do better than the duopoly.  We can even do it with small donors.

Feb. 17, 2013

ITEM: Best Facebook pics and toons.

#sonsofanarchy I think Jax should just let her take the kids.

They will be safer. She should move to a safer show, like Mad Men or Walking Dead or Justified...Definitely Agents of Shield. Its all safer...

#sonsofanarchy Not taking the deal? But taking the kids? Where does she go?

Doesn't she have a trial that she's going to lose?

#sonsofanarchy Well its good to see SOMEONE helping black entrepreneurs...

#sonsofanarchy Tara driving alone on a road? Suspect death or kidnapping...

She has to be stopped I think. Unless next season is Teller behind bars...

#walkingdead Well its a little safe for little girls with guns.

I stand partially corrected.

#walkingdead Okay. This is just not a world for a little girl.

Of course I blame the mother. Of course this is a world where a ghoul would jump out of the soil...have to watch for that.

#pagovrace Okay why is the white guy a better rapper than the black guy?

Seriously. 

#pagovrace Wow. Didn't know about Hanger's son...

#pagovrace Good point for Hanger. Best moment of the night for him.

Mass incarceration resonates in the black community. I was giving this thing to McCord but in the black community that's a strong argument. Standing applause. Strongest moment period. Yes I'm a Hanger supporter. But still a great moment. Well I guess you know what to put on posters in the black community...

Uh oh. Spontaneous fracking protest....

And its needed. All the dems are bad at this. No one wants to stop fracking. What good is taxation if you lose the water supply? Not to mention that it will be very tough to get those taxes through either the house or the senate...

McGinty is on. Like her except for her pal Robert Rubin.

Like her tactic for all dems. Don't be afraid to say that when you cut school services like nurses and refuse free medicaid expansion money that people die as a result...

Good point by Hanger. Charters shouldn't take money from the public system.

You can watch this online at www.mediamobilizing.org/govforum

Watching PA Gov Dem Debate. Hanger speaking now. Not as polished as McCord or

even as spunky as Schwartz.

Watching Dem Governor Debate. They're all better than Corbett...#pagovrace

#Elementary That's funny. Female actress played Moriarty like character in Criminal Intent.

Gerry Conway once described the Vincent D Onofrio character in Law and Order Criminal Intent as a modern day Sherlock Holmes. The female character in tonight's "Elementary" is Olivia D Abo played what was that series closest approximation of Moriarty...show isn't over yet. I wonder if she's a villain here as well? That would be a weird bit of cross network symmetry.

Deadly Spiders Burst from Banana #Philsbandnames #bandnames

Ripped from the horrible headlines. I have some bananas here...

Offering yet another short story for free on Kindle: "The Science Fiction Story as Life Metaphor"

I think you should get it because the cover looks cool. It really turned out nice. 

Read my free short Amazon ebooks, please.

Or the longer title: Read my short free Amazon ebooks called "A Left Argument for Space" and "The Drear and Very Depressing Jackson Todd Continuum", please. But that was a little long. I've started to republish some of my older fiction and nonfiction pieces on Amazon. I hear that's the way to riches and fame so why not give it a try. A long time ago I made an argument in two places, one left and one right, for a Left Argument for Space. Here's the cover featuring a creative commons picture from Peasap, who is a decent professional or gifted amateur photographer. I can't tell.  


Read that link here.

 Here's the first couple of graphs:

"And yet some of us here can accept transforming the entire physical reality of this planet, without doing a single thing to change our selves, or the way we live. To be twenty first century scientists on Mars, in fact, but at the same time living within 19th century social systems, based on seventeenth-century ideologies. It’s absurd. It’s crazy. It’s —it’s.." he seized his head in his hands, tugged at his hair, roared "It’s unscientific! And so I say that among all the many things we transform on Mars, ourselves and our social reality should be among them. We must terraform not only Mars, but ourselves."  --Excerpted from Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars  

There’s a stunning scene in “Oceanic”—one of just many mind-blowing stories by the sensational  Greg Egan—where it’s clear that the man’s sexual organ (euphemistically referred to as the “bridge” in this world) can sort of be traded between partners. This trick is done with the understanding of what a future combination of biotech and nanotech could actually accomplish and gives a new meaning to that King Missile song “Detachable Penis”. Female biotechs create the futuristic and sexually blurred world ofCoventry and they do a number of other interesting things such as setting themselves up as gods and using nanotech to create “miracles”--it would not be unlike a holographic interactive Jesus appearing whenever you spoke His name. I came to the conclusion that whileCoventry made for a sober examination of future tech and the nature of religious belief, it was not a place I’d ever want to visit. Ever. 

 But as a liberal tolerant person, I think the biotech feminist creators ofCoventryhad the right to create the world of their dreams. I actually think that’s the main reason for space exploration: You explore space not just because it’s there (which is a decent reason mind you), you explore space because you want to create better, smarter societies. I am, therefore, always surprised to find that there are leftists who oppose space exploration. I’ve debated them off and on and read their arguments a number of times.

The other free ebook is called "The Drear and Very Depressing Jackson Todd" or as its billed: "Read the sad tale when a black conservative republican gets exactly the future he worked for." And here's the cover:

 

Read that link here.

 It's a science fiction story. Not my best work but readable and oddly accurate. It was written in the early double OOs.  They'll be free for another three hours and only cost 99 cents afterwards. So enjoy. Hey its free so...

#philsbandnames Bishops of Bling #catholicchurch

Ripped from the headlines. 

#walkingdead We're going to lose some beloved characters that were just introduced I think.

How many will die because nerd boy died in the wrong place?

#thegoodwife Because someone has to be mature and ignore the #walkingdead premiere.

I mean, I can watch it later at ten thirty or so...

Look ladies there's no crying in martial arts. #theultimatefighter #ufc

Not that I would say that to their faces or anything...great fight tonight.

Disastrous North Pole Balloon Mission of 1897 #philsbandnames #bandnames

There just can't be a better band name than that. Ripped from the obscure Internet headlines. Or stolen.

#thegoodwife Looks like the whole season will be NSA stuff. Cutting edge...

And more controversial and interesting than law and order combining the Paula Deen and Trayvon Martin cases. Will the Edelstein character meet a bad end like Swartz? Will Chumhum reappear or how about those three bitcoin superhackers who I think should get their own show? Same bat time next week I guess.

By the way, the reason this is bad is unlawful search and seizure, not to mention secret courts that have no accountability whatsoever. 

#aaronswartz #thegoodwife Are they going into the Aaron Swartz case as well?

This new character looks just like him, down to the fake youtubed appearance...

#thegoodwife Wow. An NSA story this soon? Well done. #edwardsnowden

Even references real things happening coming from the Snowden case and Lavabit.

Freedom Fiends #philsbandnames

Or your right to live under a bridge. Thank you Alan Grayson.