I challenge you...

If you can accurately identify the exact location of this panorama....I will grant you one Zombie wish...anything you want:








And the answer is:

The New River Gorge National Park: The Main Overlook at Horseshoe Bend

Nobody got it. More to come. I'm loving the panorama tool in Photoshop CS 4

All I could think about watching Jindal

The Strategy: Look Affable

The Result: Very Laughable

HEY....btw....what happened to Jindal's signature buttcut hairdo like he has in the pic above? Did he just start doing the part to the side or have I not been paying attention? Piyush....dude...go back to machine gun chatter and your buttcutt...fuck the RNC strategists....we loved you better when you kept it real, dawg. Oh yeah, and don't forget to remind us you're a fucking Christian every 45 seconds like you did in the Gubner's race.

Lay your burdens down, Antionette

R.I.P. Widow K-Doe. I'm not sure if I'm not sadder about losing Antionette than I was when we lost Ernie. Either way, the city is a lonelier place today. Although the sun was shining on a beautiful, Mardi Gras day when she took her place with Ernie....can't think of a more eloquent exit.

Here's a short vid clip I have of the Widow K when the Archdiocese was threatening to close down St. Augustine in Treme:



Also, my condolences to the Camel Toe Lady Steppers for losing an irreplaceable leader.

If I could get inside one man's head right now...

...it would be Dennis Kucinich. Why? Bcause I believe he is the only one who actually has an inkling of what's going on behind the scenes of our self-imposed, financial meltdown. He is like a bloodhound right now...he's locked on to the scent of a massive, international conspiracy and he's not going to stop until he finds the truth or gets killed trying. Listen to this new allegation regarding the unfolding, Stanford ponzi scheme:



h/t: Cryptogon

For those of you who may not be aware of this or may not believe it....our entire economy is absolutely dependent on the illegal flow of drugs. From Afghanistan to Columbia....Opium to Coca....nearly every major financial institution on the planet is, in some way, compliant in the drug trade. While you're not going to find that information readily available through MSM resources....the information is out there:

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One amazing fact from this PBS Frontline documentary: The Treasury Dept. estimated that over 80% of the hard currency (paper money) of the country was in South Florida in the late 80's.

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and then just keep looking....the info is out there.

Just how entwined with and more importantly, dependent upon, the illegal drug trade are our international financial institutions? I'm actually afraid of the answer to that question. But if this unholy union unravels, I think things are going to get incredibly ugly.

But back to Kucinich....watch this video of him grilling Kashkari:



...notice his comments on National City Bank being the target of short sellers. What he's referring to is "Naked Short Selling" or "Phantom Stock". What's happening right now is certain banks are becoming the target of a vast, Wall Street conspiracy called Naked Shorting. At ground zero of this conspiracy is none other than CNBC....who is the de facto crystal ball for the market. If you look hard enough at the MSM's coverage of the financial meltdown you can find hints and innuendo of this phenomenon...case in point, this recent Frontline documentary, Banking on the Brink. If you understand CNBC's role in naked shorting, you can clearly read between the lines as to what happened to Bear Stearns and Lehman. Just how deep does the Naked Short rabbit hole go....well, try this one out for starters.

What's most interesting about the issue is that we have no idea who all is actually involved...Paulson, Kashkari...even Bernanke...members within the SEC....who knows? And now some unnamed government agency told the SEC to stand down on their investigation of Stanford? Unbelievable.

I have read rumors that National City Bank...which is now a PNC asset...was specifically targeted because they were a Cleveland bank and in Kucinich's district. Note how Kashkari deflects Kucinich's implication by saying, "I grew up in Northeast Ohio...". I'm sure Kucinich was thinking, "So what you little prick...your ass now belongs to Wall Street."

Kucinich knows something we don't....and I would love to find out what it is.

Are your goggles on?

It appears my Manhattan project may be unfolding from the ground up. I guess that's how its supposed to happen....a chain reaction.

Mayor Ray Nagin's 2008 e-mails deleted in violation of records law

After reading that....please acknowledge mookietoos comment immediately following the article:

Posted by mookietoo on 02/17/09 at 6:01PM
Those emails can be recovered. You cannot delete anything from a hard drive. A skilled forensic person can retrieve them. Wouldn't you just love to see some of those? Stacy, I hope you're paying attention to this one!

How right you are Mookie! If I was a betting man...I would say they have already been recovered.

And if one did desire to recover that information....the administration actually published a memo on May 13, 2008 detailing the proper procedure:

Email Guidelines and Policies for
The City of New Orleans

the germane item:

3.6 Recovering Deleted Email via Backup Media or re-managing for data recovery or Forensic reasons.
City of New Orleans maintains backup tapes from the email server and once a quarter a set of tapes is
taken out of the rotation and they are moved offsite. No effort will be made to remove email from the offsite backup tapes. If data is needed for business continuity or Forensics the City State or Local government must designate a representative to re-manage the suspect account maintaining a strict chain-of-custody on said documents until the needs of the city our met.

Louisiana: Epicenter of Stupidity

National science group boycotting Louisiana in protest of Science Education Act

I think BJSD said it best in the comment section of this article:

Once again New Orleans pays for Baton Rouge's stupidity. We need to get this city out of Louisiana if it is going to survive.

I am actually in due diligence process right now for a new documentary about the Louisiana Science Education Act. In case you don't know, Louisiana is now on the forefront of the stealth religious battle to push creationism back into the classroom. I think it is important for my fellow bloggers to understand what is going on and who the players are in this farce. I have recently been fully enlightened as to the actual nature of the LSEA, who is behind it, and the implications it has for our state....please allow me to share.

Many of you probably know about the landmark case in Dover, Pennsylvania, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, in which Judge John E. Jones, III ruled that "Intelligent Design" was not science and that the book "Of Pandas and People" published by The Discovery Institute did indeed have a religious bias and could not be permitted into classrooms under his interpretation of the Constitution. If you aren't familiar with the case, this NOVA documentary is an incredible account of it:

Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

The bright spot of the documentary for Louisiana was that one of our own professors, Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor from South East Louisiana University, went above and beyond the call of duty in the case and provided the critical proof that "Of Pandas and People" was originally written with a religious bias to promote creationism. She was truly the champion of the case.

After this defeat, the Discovery Institute has stealthily brought the battle to her own backyard....Louisiana. Our state has proven to be the perfect battleground for their fight thanks to the efforts of the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) and our own "I see dead people" Governor Jindal , as well as the swarming mass of idiots north of I-10 which comprise our state legislature.

First let's establish the true players in this game.

Senator Ben Nevers from Bogalusa claimed that one of his aides wrote the Louisiana Science Education Bill. Bullshit. The Discovery Institute wrote it, gave it to Gene Mills of the LFF who in turn gave it to Nevers. So understand that this bill is not the whim of some backwoods Senator who probably can't even spell evolution....this bill came down from the most powerful creationist lobbying entity in the nation, The Discovery Institute, through the hands of the most powerful lobbying entity in the state of Louisiana (yes they are, and we better start paying attention), The LFF.

On the opposing side, we have, of course, Professor Forrest and the Louisiana chapter of the ACLU. They are few in number and need help....if you happen to be interested.

The next thing I want you to know is exactly what the law states and why it's so fucked up. Essentially the Dover ruling drove a stake through the heart of the semantic, trojan horse: "Intelligent Design". It has been officially ruled unscientific and not allowed to be taught in the classroom. So.....stop using it. Don't even say the word anymore, because it doesn't exist....even the dickheads who created it don't use it anymore.

With the Dover case established, The Discovery Institute took a page from the Neo-Con handbook and decided to write the Louisiana Science Education bill in parlance which is exactly the opposite of what it is, i.e., The Patriot Act. So they called their affront to science a "science education act." Wait...it gets worse. Without going through the entire bill....here is the critical part of it: Teachers are now allowed to bring "supplemental material" into the classroom to promote "critical thinking". Thats the bill....no shit. So you see what they've done? Instead of promoting an actual theory as they did with Intelligent Design, they've now changed their strategy by using this semantic construct "critical thinking" to slip whatever they want into the Louisiana curriculum. How are you going to present a legal case against "critical thinking"? You're not....because critical thinking is the basis for all science.

So we essentially just passed a law which states the obvious...that education should promote critical thinking....but the term "critical thinking" in the context of this law is semantically pregnant with a litter of genetically altered chimeras....

or maybe it's just one cerberus whose first head is creationism, second head is anti-global warming, and third head is anti-stem cell research. It now guards the gates to the underworld of religious stupidity.

Which actually brings me to the second important aspect of this stupid law. The supplemental material cannot contain any reference to religion...as that was clearly ruled unconstitutional in the Dover case. So who decides if the material has any religious connotations? Get this....local Louisiana school boards...yeah....holy shit (pun intended). Teachers who wish to present supplemental material into the classroom must first present it to their local school board for approval....then if there is any protest, the material will be brought before the BESE Board for a final ruling. You see what they've done? This law effectively takes the decision out of the hands of the judicial branch and puts it into the hands of a minor...usually inept.....local, legislative body. This is exactly how the Dover case began....with a bunch of idiotic, religious asswipes on the Dover school board. Think about how many of those stupid fuckers we have on Louisiana school boards. So now the LSEA has effectively nullified the Dover decision and put the power back into the hands of hundreds of local, redneck, bible-thumping, school board members in Louisiana.

So how do you fight this? I'm not a lawyer, but I really can't see any substantial legal argument against the law as it is currently written. The only way a legal case can be brought against it is to wait until a school or teacher does the inevitable....bring creationist literature into the classroom. Only then can a parent file suit against the school board, BESE board, and finally the state itself to challenge the law's constitutionality.

BUT....BUT....(devilish grin on my face)....there is nothing to stop you from exploiting this stupid ass, ambiguous, poppycock law to really piss off the LFF and the Discovery Institute. Any supplemental text can be introduced as long as it doesn't reference religion. So I'm thinking that the Theory of the Giant Spaghetti Monster, The Order of Jedi, the Astronaut/God theory, even Anton La Vey's brand of Satanism could all be potential qualifiers for supplemental material. Not to mention the thousands of creation myths worldwide which could be presented independently of the culture or religion they originated from. I could definitely present the Yoruba Cosmology version as it is really more of a philosophy than religion. Our Legislature is responsible for passing this bill and hence created this slippery slope...I just want to shove them down it and watch their faces as they slide into the chasm of dumbassness.

I'm actually working on my own theory akin to the Giant Spaghetti Monster called the Theory of the Omnipotent Crawfish. I surmise that a giant crawfish actually triggered the big bang and started the first arrow of time as Stehpen Hawking called it in A Brief History of Time. But instead of moving headlong into time, because our true creator was a crawfish, we are moving ass-forward through time....clasping our pinchers at anything we see as it passes us at light speed. This would of course explain much of our civilization's behavior and reluctance to accept established scientific knowledge. If anyone want's to help me develop this theory...please advise.

Further reference:

American Zombie: The Moral State

American Zombie: The Miseducation of Louisiana - paid for by David Vitter

American Zombie: A request to Gene Mills and the LFF (actually a rant)

Let freedom ring...

And the Agnostic Front Rise!

After the money's gone....same as it ever was

Obama lets CIA keep controversial renditions tool






sequitur (why isn't sequitur the antonym for non sequitur?): The New David Byrne/Brian Eno album, Everything That Happens Will Happen TODAY, is definitely worth the price of admission. I can't stop listening to it.

I have stopped listening to the Obamania bullshit.