Congrats to Sista P

Not a bad way for the year to end, with the election of another woman as leader of her country. So congratulations to new Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson Miller, or Sista P as she is affectionately referred to for her folksy, plain-spoken style. Simpson Miller’s People’s National Party won

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this-on-that: move out of the way, Orly Taitz ~ there’s a new crazy in town : ‘Mr. Basiago, Mr. Stillings confirm meeting Barack Obama on Mars’

Hmm, upon further reflection, (and a link I just came across) I’m gonna declare them all equally delusional.

First, some lunacy from the Mars visitors.

According to Mr. Basiago and Mr. Stillings, in Summer 1980 they attended a three-week factual seminar about Mars to prepare them for trips that were then later taken to Mars via teleportation.

In addition to Basiago and Stillings, two of the eight other teenagers in Major Dames’ class that they can identify today were Barack Obama, who was then using the name “Barry Soetoro,” and Regina Dugan, who Mr. Obama appointed the 19th director and first female director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…

Mr. Basiago states that during one of his trips to Mars via “jump room” that took place from 1981 to 1983, he was sitting on a wall beneath an arching roof that covered one of the “jump room” facilities as he watched Mr. Obama walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain. When Mr. Obama walked past him and Mr. Basiago acknowledged him, Mr. Obama stated, with some sense of fatalism: “Now we’re here!”

Mr. Stillings states that during one of his visits to Mars, he walked out of the “jump room” facility and encountered Mr. Obama standing beside the facility by himself staring vacantly into a ravine located adjacent to the facility.

For more crazy, and there is more, follow the link.

And now Orly. I can’t believe she is still at this! Even more disturbing though, is the fact that the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission would grant her an hour to spew her nonsense. But they did.

Dated Tue., Nov. 22 2011

Taitz and some foaming-at-the-piehole New Hampshire state reps filed a complaint Saturday to knock President Barack Obama off the primary ballot in the Granite State because he’s a forger and social security fraudster.

The state’s Ballot Law Commission flatly turned down the complaint with a very public 5-0 vote, causing birther bellyachers to make a showy retreat from the Concord hearing room, braying, “Treason!” “Traitors” and “You have no decency.”

After the decision, Orly’s firm grasp of reality, shone through.

“The level of corruption was unbelievable,” Taitz reportedly said later to Sharon Rondeau of something called the Post & Email. “We found out that all five members of the committee are Democrats. As I was presenting all of the evidence, people were listening and getting more and more angry.”

Of course, the chair of the commission is Brad Cook, a prominent Republican. I used to get a chuckle from people like these, but shit, when someone is this divorced from reality, it’s not a laughing matter.

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LFR’s half-assed predictions for 2012

Occupy will stay underground and grow its infrastructure and goals. More and more organizations and individuals will pledge allegiance to the movement. The media will interpret this lack of visibility to the failure of Occupy and continue to treat supporters as dirty fucking hippies. The year of Occupy will have

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Can it happen here?

A serious question, not necessarily answered in the affirmative, although I’m leaning heavily that way. Two stories caught my eye this morning. The first was a bitter reminiscence of life in a series of concentration camps (although we didn’t call them that) for Japanese-Canadians rounded up in 1942. The second

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Some call them drones…

…others call them Job Creators: America’s growing drone operations rely on hundreds of civilian contractors, including some, such as the SAIC employee, who work in the so-called kill chain before Hellfire missiles are launched, according to current and former military officers, company employees and internal government documents. Relying on private

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350 or bust: Happy Hogmanay

Tis the season for ‘best of” lists.  So, to quote Julie Andrews,  here are a few of my favourite things of this past year: Best book on the coming paradigm shift in “business as usual”: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by architect William McDonough & chemist Michael

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Muslim on airplane!

A story you won’t hear from the Usual Suspects. In the grand scheme of things, of course, this anecdote is no more important than this one in assessing the realities of geopolitics, terrorism and the price of tea in China. What is perhaps striking is—once again—the relative inattention paid to

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