Its been a hard slog here at the Batcave since ACR went on a hiatus. It took some time to get this back online because I have been so swamped with many things. To make a long story short- for now………(only for now. I will have an interesting story later)…..I
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A Creative Revolution: The Wild.
A very yellow house, sitting high on the hill. In the middle of the wild. I tend to the wild enough most years so that it does not reach out and grab my ankles, or tear down my very yellow house high on the hill. You can never tame it
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Peter Thiel. Modern Vampire.
Gawker.com is going out of business this week. They were killed by a Billionaire with a personal grudge.
Peter Thiel. I can only say that in my opinion- and this part is important- My opinion……Peter Thiel is a krazy fuck with entirely too much money and very little morality. None in fact. 🙂
This is one of his investments. Perhaps turning the blood of the young into a commodity may in fact be a thing of the future. Nothing can go wrong there, hey? Will 1%ers be ordering Extra virgin-vegan-Episcopalian blood for lunch in the future? It’s a FRESH menu item daily! Don’t look at what is hanging in the coolers in the back. Seriously.
Elizabeth Bathory, one of the world’s first known serial killers was a rich woman in a “noble” family. Some legends say she tried to find the fountain of youth by bathing in the blood of young women, Peter Thiel just wants to inject it into his veins.
Creepy shit hey? But there is a lot more stuff about this asshat that is not as speculative.
Peter Thiel is perverting the courts of law in many other ways.
Investing in frivolous lawsuits that jam up the courts is probably one of the worst forms of grifting.
He is also a Trump supporter. You knew that though, right?
Thiel has also postured as a libertarian, and even as his ideology shifts toward something more nihilistic — The Economist now calls him a “corporate Nietzschean” — he continues to rail against government programs like Medicare and Social Security. Meanwhile, he is chairman and co-founder of Palantir Technologies, a mass-surveillance-software company that makes a good deal of its money selling to the government; Palantir’s clients reportedly include the Department of Defense (including the NSA and various military branches), the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the CIA. Thiel is, inexplicably, pro-monopoly
And of course, Peter Thiel, fake libertarian is anti free speech, anti freedom of the press. Again, my opinion- Supported by the death of Gawker and many other projects this asshat works on.
He has been purported to be gay, but is against gay rights. Self loathing much? Read the reason that he hates Gawker here. Was it an “outing”? or more of a fact that people didn’t find the need to talk about? (Here in Canada there was an MP in the con party that was more of an open secret too) The last line in that story about Thiel?
That’s why I think it’s important to say this: Peter Thiel, the smartest VC in the world, is gay. More power to him.
That article is still up yanno? He never went after that one in the courts. Thiel just decided to be sneaky underhanded and evil instead. Disclosure: I don’t always like what Gawker has posted. I do disagree on occasion. I am however a huge Gizmodo fan. I have a much bigger issue with media that acts like this….The supposed grown ups in the room who have helped facilitate the deaths of so many…….
Somehow, it had become the case that the world was discussing whether a perennially profitable and growing publication could “hope to survive at all.” In one span of a little more than a year, not very long ago, the New York Times mistakenly accepted (and cheered for) a failed Venezuelan coup, printed falsehoods that helped carry the case for invading Iraq, and saw its top editors resign after a humiliating plagiarism scandal. No one suggested the paper had signed its own death warrant.
But it comes down to this: Ruthless, thin skinned people with money running and ruining the world.
Gawker? They have run some things that I would find distasteful. But if one dumbass fake libertarian can ruin a huge media outlet using the courts and other nefarious ways….Oh. Right. Donald Trump.
Why not a president?
In November, we may see just how far a thin skinned, tiny shrimp fingered, badly coiffured, reactionary, nationalist pissant- may go.
Modern Vampires, they can suck the life out of pretty much everything.
A Creative Revolution: Peter Thiel. Modern Vampire.
Gawker.com is going out of business this week. They were killed by a Billionaire with a personal grudge. Peter Thiel. I can only say that in my opinion- and this part is important- My opinion……Peter Thiel is a krazy fuck with entirely too much money and very little morality. None in fact.
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: That game of chicken that selected a Presidential candidate.
So as was apparent from a few weeks ago, Clinton is the candidate running under the dem ticket. Despite a party dead set on who was going to be the candidate, despite some really hardcore propaganda by the corporate media, Bernie got about 43% of the total support. Not bad
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: That game of chicken that selected a Presidential candidate.
So as was apparent from a few weeks ago, Clinton is the candidate running under the dem ticket.
Despite a party dead set on who was going to be the candidate, despite some really hardcore propaganda by the corporate media, Bernie got about 43% of the total support.
Not bad for a man with far less name recognition, and all those powerful forces against him. Imagine if this had been fair and impartial?
So now Clinton, who is a war-hawk and also supports the banks and corporate interests is going to bring the US back from the abyss. Hallelujah! Everyone is now supposed to veer out of the way and forget how shitty this all went down. The Democrat bigwigs are just going to keep down the road they are on, unblinking and unthinking. You know what to do? Right?
In the meanwhile the Bernie or Busters are all over the map. They recognise that if Trump wins, it’s a bad deal.
Many Bernie people who only came out because it was Bernie and his message, are saying Fuck you. Can’t blame them. They were not Obama Democrats, or Clintonistas. They were independents or just plain not registered anywhere.
Some Bernie people were brand new voters, drawn to an actual campaign that spoke to them, and their issues. They have no interest in supporting the status quo. They may disappear, and it will be up to the next generation then.
Long term Republicans are hating both candidates, they will not be voting for either of them. Jill Stein is gaining interest, it will be kinda like the legend of Nader. A third party that will give it to Trump.
I am a believer in voting, strongly. This is making me be a lot more nuanced in my thinking, I feel their pain. I also know the stakes if Trump gets his new reality show off the ground.
The Dems are playing chicken with this, and since they have been doing it for so long….I think no one is going to blink however, and there will be a cataclysmic crash come November 2016. Oh yes. We will hear that grinding of metal all over the world.
We will feel it.
A Creative Revolution: When everybody is acting like an asshole. Canadian Parliament daycare.
This weeks hijinx in the House of commons just shows why it is hard to get anyone to take our political process seriously.
Here is what I think….I may swear. I know this offends some more than the real stuff I will say.
First off. The ruling Liberals are attempting to fast track, ram, force and limit debate on important legislation. I am not saying that the end of life legislation is bad either. Its the best we have seen, especially compared to the Harpercon ideology. But yanno…..These are Harpercon tactics. You can always be better than the Harpercons. Its not difficult, they set a pretty low bar.
We all need to be better than the Conservatives.
The NDP. FUCK OFF with the kiddie games. Blocking an Mp and having a giggle fit? OMG. Grow the fuck up. This included you Mulcair and Ms Brosseau.
Trudeau. He MARCHED down there in his too small suit, (I know its the style, but it looks like his clothes were shrunk in a random drive by laundry accident) and was a gonna fix it. Grow up already. *stop *Any * full stop physical contact is inappropriate, and you are not a bouncer in a bar.
The elbow. Nikki Ashton….I’m so sorry. (not really) I do not see this as aimed at Ms Brosseau because she is a woman.
“I want to say that for all of us who witnessed this, this was deeply traumatic,” she said to her House of Commons colleagues. “What I will say, if we apply a gendered lens, it is very important that young women in this space feel safe to come here and work here.”
“He made us feel unsafe and we’re deeply troubled by the conduct of the prime minister of this country.”
I see the elbow connecting with her because Trudeau was careless and rude and wrong… and she happened to be standing in that spot. While playing the blocking game which was predicated by the Liberals trying to make a massive power grab. 🙂 Turning it into more than it was simply makes it harder for the rest of the worlds’ working women to be taken fucking seriously when it does happen for reals thousands of times a day.
We do actually have a National Daycare program. Its called the Fucking Canadian House of commons daycare. We pay a lot of money to send these fucking children to play together and learn. Perhaps we need to call in some child experts on sportsmanship and just being nice.
I am not surprised on the reaction of the Harpertwits. They really need to sit down and STFU because they totally embraced, and instigated this kind of crap for 10 long years. They had playbooks that look like the GOP manuscripts on how to cause gridlock.
Twitter (and other social media) asswipes attacking Ms Brosseau? OH do go straight to hell. Yours, is an attack on a woman, just because she is a woman. And yanno what? You should all have your internet privileges removed.
The partisan peanut gallery: Fuck off. Your party is just as wrong as the other one. Look beyond your own chosen affiliations.
I can send my kids to their rooms when they act like this, and they would actually learn something. With the bunch in this mess? I doubt they even know right from wrong anymore. And they are in charge of making the laws and keeping our country safe.
Really inspires confidence, now don’t it?
Edit: Elizabeth May sounded sane and grown up in all of this. Let’s put her in charge of the kiddie tables.
A Creative Revolution: When everybody is acting like an asshole. Canadian Parliament daycare.
This weeks hijinx in the House of commons just shows why it is hard to get anyone to take our political process seriously. Here is what I think….I may swear. I know this offends some more than the real stuff I will say. First off. The ruling Liberals are attempting to
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Racists and bigots and goons…OH MY!
I have said many times….Those who forget history….. are truly fucked.
Kinda like the ones who are right now clamouring that we not allow refugees to come to our countries. This sentiment is nothing new, we turned away Jews who were escaping Hit…
A Creative Revolution: Dear CPC and Rona: I think we told you to fuck off…So now STFU too. :) Rant MODE. ON.
Such OUTRAGE!
Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose took sharp aim at the Liberal plan for the 42nd Parliament today, insisting it lacks a transparent costing and implementation strategy, and warning it will download a huge fiscal burden to the prov…
A Creative Revolution: The wonders of the wayback machine.
Nope. NOT a Delorean. But still a hell of a lot of fun for geeks. Writing a new post, and going through old articles about the Harper Conservatives can often lead to frustrating 404 pages. Just last week, I was perusing an old post on ACR here, and using the
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Dear Canadian Corporate media: I am sick of your self serving bullshit.
In the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, there is a special mention about the press…. “freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.” I am guessing that the authors didn’t mean, freedom to protect our own ASS(ets)It was probably put
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Are YOU experienced? Apparently a Penis is required.
We have been hearing OH SO MUCH whining and moaning from the old white establishment about the new Trudeau cabinet. What is the real issue for most of it? Let us just go ahead and be comepletely honest for once? JUST ONCE! 50% of the new cabinet will not have
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Smoke! smoke! smoke! that andouillette!
andouillette f (plural andouillettes) A piece of andouille; a small spiced pork sausage. Will preserved meats become the next tobacco? Now that the science is in, how many are going to stop eating meat? In particular preserved and smoked meats….Many people are talking about that report that was recently
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Ok. The Love-in is over. Now for some real TRASH TALK.
Let’s clean up! (A link heavy post!) No one has been listening to the majority of us these last 10 years. Really. Harper only listened to those who had a bank account big enough, or enough hatred to fill a swimmin’ pool. Now that there appears to be grown ups
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Consensus. Being reasonable, and Harpers "tea party"
There are lots of pundits telling us that the difference between Harper and Trudeau will be listening skills, delegation, and respect. I like all of that as well. (These last ten years the chain of command has been the PMO making decisions, and then some memos telling every ministry how
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Thanks for standing by…. Canada will now resume our regular programming.
Well, that was a long fucking blip into right wing conservative knuckle dragging mouth breathing bible thumping asshattery. With the FULL support of the traditional media and corporate Canada. Let us not let those fuckers off the hook. What have we lost? Lakes and streams, scientific research libraries,
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Smoke ’em if you got ’em….
I am going to work today, but will be watching the news on my breaks. When I get home, I want to see this long nightmare over. You know? Where less than 40% of those that actually voted pretend they have a mandate to destroy our country? Good luck to
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Cutting off the nose to spite the face
I was trying to distill exactly how the whole Niqab frenzy works out for those who fall for it…….What do ya think? Feel free as always. Are we really this callous, racist and unthinking as the pollsters would have us believe?
Continue readingA Creative Revolution: Because this election season is so surreal…..
We can almost envision it as a slasher film. Campy, bad production values. Cheap jump scares…..With bad actors in the lead roles. To me it would look pretty much like this……. I do not want a sequel. Lets kick some ass. Thanks to some buddies for the best lines. 🙂
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