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Mrs. Marcia Beaman, 65, of Taylorville, IL passed from this life surrounded by her loving family at 5:40 p.m. Saturday, December 8, 2018 at Taylorville Memorial Hospital.
She was born September 1, 1953 in Taylorville, IL the daughter of John B. and Helen I. (Pop) Perozzo.
Marcia married Randy Beaman February 19, 1972 in Kincaid, IL and they enjoyed 46 wonderful years together.
Mrs. Beaman was a 1971 graduate of Kincaid High School; she worked for over 20 years at Illini Bank and 5 years at Midland Community Bank, Kincaid. Marcia was a member of the Loyal Order of The Moose Lodge 1516 Chapter 1263, Taylorville, IL. She loved traveling, boating at Lake Taylorville, and she especially loved spending time with her family.
Survivors include: her loving husband Randy Beaman of Taylorville, Ill., two daughters: Heidi (husband Todd) Durbin and Trina (husband Jeff) Fry all of Taylorville, Ill., grandchildren: Shane Lucas and companion Olivia Darnell, Nolan Lucas and companion Morgan Endris, Lexus Fry, Hunter Fry, Peyton Stark, Lilee Durbin, adopted grandson Brandon Rickman, siblings Robert (Nancy) Perozzo of Kincaid, Sheila Foster of Decatur, Mary Ann Scott of Saudi Arabia, John Wayne (Louise) Perozzo of Kincaid, aunt Margaret (Albert) Puccetti of Tovey, her mother-in-law Donna Beaman of Taylorville along with several nieces, nephews and a great many friends.
Mrs. Beaman was preceded in death by her parents, father-in-law Glenn "Bud" Beaman, and a brother-in-law Scott Beaman.
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If you've been following along with my recent posts, you know how much I love this little Thai island!!! It's one of the more untouched islands in Thailand and is known for its incredibly diverse diving sites, beautiful nature, and insane sunsets.
I only visited for roughly 48 hours, and even though I wanted to stay longer (you will too), thanks to its small size it was still enough time to tackle all the major activities, restaurants, and nightlife on my itinerary.
If you only have time for a short visit like I did or simply need some Koh Tao tips and suggestions, then follow this basic, but thorough guide. I probably researched Koh Tao and it's attractions for more hours than I even stayed on the island itself (lol), so I guarantee you this guide is one of the best you'll find!!
How To Get There
The only way to get to Koh Tao is by ferry, as there's no airport on the island. You can take a ferry from Thailand's mainland (Surat Thani), Koh Samui, or Koh Phangan. It's about 2 hours away from Koh Samui (Bangrak pier) and 1 hour and 30 minutes away from Koh Phangan.
Where to Stay
This is the only section where my knowledge is limited (and probably biased), since I could only stay in one place during my visit. If you're looking to splurge by Thai standards and are traveling with at least one other person, I strongly recommend staying at Naroua Villas! At only $100 dollars a night (split with 1 other person), a HUGE fully-equiped kitchen, and a private infinity pool overlooking the island, you definitely get everything you payed for and more. Read about all the other amenities and benefits of Naroua on this post.
Where to Eat
When I think back to all my meals in Koh Tao, the same memories come to mind of amazing food, all which were beachside with incredible views. Here's a list of the best spots:
- Fizz Beach Lounge: Delicious food, amazing cocktails (buckets!) & affordable prices. This place is as much of a lounge as it is a restaurant, so if that's not your scene, head elsewhere. Regardless though, it's one of the best places to have a sunset meal!
- In Touch: This place has all the same qualities as Fizz, minus the lounge-y aspect. Prices are even cheaper and the views are superb (see photo above!)
- Sai Thong Restaurant (at Sai Thong Resort & Spa): Sai Thong is a little hidden gem!! I went here only because I was spending the day at Sai Nuan Beach (best beach on the island-see below!) and it was the closest restaurant in sight. The food was incredible, the prices were SO cheap, and the restaurant is located right on the beach. The ocean is literally just a few steps away!
- Ban's Diving Resort: Perfect place for a beachside lunch! Their menu is huge with pretty much any type of cuisine you desire.
- Fitness Cafe: I really wanted to try this place, but never had the time. Supposedly it's healthy AND delicious (hard to find here in Thailand) and super affordable. Someone try this place for me if you visit Koh Tao!!
- Street Food: If you have the drunk munchies, you can get pancakes/crepes, both sweet and savory, lined up all over the beach. I got a banana Nutella pancake and it was unreal!!
Where to Drink
Just like Koh Tao's restaurants, the majority of their nightlife is beachside (and amazing!!!). I hopped around from bar to bar quite a bit, so here's my ranking of each place:
- Lotus Beach Bar: I ranked this bar at #1 because of its entertainment. Their fire dancers are SO talented and interact a lot with the audience- it was so much fun to watch and be apart of!! They also have comfy little cushions right on the beach to sit on and watch the show with countless waiters bringing around cheap buckets ?
- Maya Beach Club: Best place in Koh Tao for day drinking! Here they have a live DJ performing every weekend, plush daybeds right on the sand, and phenomenal mojitos ?
- Fishbowl Beach Bar: This place seems to be the most popular because it becomes PACKED with tourists starting around 10PM. The drinks/shots menu is huge and diverse (I had a "sake bomb shot" lol) and there's plenty of huge tables where you can sit and relax with your friends while overlooking the beach.
What to Do
What I loved most about Koh Tao: it's naturally a place that keeps you active and surrounded by nature 24/7! I surprisingly got to check off every activity I wanted to accomplish on my list in 48 hours ? Here were my "must-do's":
- Visit Koh Nang Yuan (above photo) via longtail boat. 3 small islands connected by 1 tiny sandbar!! ?
This place is flooded by tourists on the daily and I'm sure you can see why. While there, make sure to hike to the viewpoint and snorkel in the bay! See my complete guide to Koh Nang Yuan here.
- Go hiking in Koh Tao's lush jungle peaks! There's tons of hikes and viewpoints to climb to, but I recommend the hike to Two View Rock/The West Coast Viewpoint with the help of a local taxi driver to show you the way! Once at the top, you crawl through a tiny "bridge" formed by 2 huge boulders laying up against one another, and emerge to a breathtakingly vast view of the island. Just 5 minutes further up the mountain and you find another view of the OTHER side of the island. Amazing!
- Snorkel, sunbathe and swing on Sai Nuan Beach, Koh Tao's hidden gem of a beach! This is one of the few beaches on the island that's rarely crowded, yet incredibly stunning. Plus, there's also 2 wooden swings and hammocks to play on!!
- Party on Sairee Beach, where all the night bars/lounges I discussed above are located!
- Swim with whale sharks! Someone please do this and get back to me on your experience- Koh Tao is one of the only places in the world where this is possible! I would of LOVED to swim with these gentle giants, but still have another month until I can get my ear wet (due to my eardrum surgery).
- If you have the time, become a certified scuba diver! Koh Tao is one of the cheapest places in the world to get certified!
I hope my 48-hour Koh Tao guide helps you with your future visit to this little paradise! Please let me know if there's any restaurants, bars, activities, or tips I should add to my list ?


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Mountaintop observatory sees gamma rays from exotic Milky Way object
(3 October 2018 - University of Maryland) The night sky seems serene, but telescopes tell us that the universe is filled with collisions and explosions.
Distant, violent events signal their presence by spewing light and particles in all directions. When these messengers reach Earth, scientists can use them to map out the action-packed sky, helping to better understand the volatile processes happening deep within space.
For the first time, an international collaboration of scientists, including physicists from the University of Utah, has detected highly energetic light coming from the outermost regions of an unusual star system within our own galaxy. The source is a microquasar—a black hole that gobbles up matter from a nearby companion star and blasts out powerful jets of material. The team's observations, described in the Oct. 4 issue of the journal Nature, strongly suggest that electron acceleration and collisions at the ends of the microquasar's jets produced the powerful gamma rays. Scientists think that studying messengers from this microquasar may offer a glimpse into more extreme events happening at the centers of distant galaxies.
The team gathered data from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC), which is a detector designed to look at gamma ray emissions coming from astronomical objects such as pulsar wind nebula, supernova remnants and blazars. Now, the team has studied one of the most well-known microquasars, named SS 433, which is about 15,000 light years away.
"There are a lot of microquasars in our Milky Way galaxy, but this is the first and only one that we have detected emitting very-high-energy gamma rays," said Anushka Udara Abeysekara, research assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Utah. "To understand the system in detail, we used multiple wavelengths of light, such as X-rays and radio-waves, to piece together the bigger picture."
The team gathered data from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC), a detector designed to look at gamma ray emissions coming from astronomical objects. (courtesy: Jordan Goodman)
Quasars are massive black holes that suck in material from the centers of galaxies. SS 433 is a micro-version of quasar, located inside our own galaxy. The system consists of an object, either a black hole or neutron star, sucking in matter from a single unstable star. The system sprays accelerated particles along the opposite sides of the system, creating two jets. The jets smash into the interstellar medium around the two objects and produce the high-energy gamma rays.
A separate collaboration focused on gamma rays, called VERITAS, of which Abeysekara and Dave Kieda, dean of the U's graduate school, are affiliated, made more than 70 hours of observations of SS 433 but did not detect a strong enough signal to make a definitive claim. HAWC's measurements cleared the threshold for a scientist to claim that they had truly observed gamma rays. In July, Kieda, Abeysekara and the VERITAS array published a paper confirming high-energy gamma ray emissions from a supermassive black hole located in a distant galaxy.
"SS 433 is right in our neighborhood, and so, using HAWC's unique wide field of view, we were able to resolve both microquasar particle acceleration sites." said Jordan Goodman, a distinguished professor at the University of Marylandand United States lead investigator and spokesperson for the HAWC collaboration.
Wherever they originate, gamma rays travel in a straight line to their destination. The ones that arrive at Earth collide with molecules in our atmosphere, creating new particles. Each particle then creates more stuff, resulting in a particle shower as the signal cascades toward the ground.
HAWC, located roughly 13,500 feet above sea level near the Sierra Negra volcano in Mexico, is perfectly situated to catch the fast-moving rain of particles. The detector is composed of 300 tanks of water, each of which is about 24 feet in diameter, and collects data 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When the particles strike the water, they produce a shock wave of blue light, called Cherenkov radiation. Special cameras in the tanks detect this light, allowing scientists to compile the origin story of the gamma rays. Kieda, Abeysekara, co-author Robert Wayne Springer and two graduate students Ahron Barber and co-author Michael Newbold in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the U, have been with the HAWC collaboration from its beginnings. Abeysekara designed and developed the GPS timing and central control system of the instrument that ensure all parts of the instrument work nearly simultaneously.
"We can count how fast particles in a shower hit the sensors and based on that timing, we can get the angle, the size and the energy of the gamma rays. Then, we can trace it back to its origin in the universe," said Abeysekara. "All of the data takes up several hard disks each day. The fastest way to transfer data is literally by the truckload. One of our collaborators at the National Autonomous University of Mexico packs his truck with crates full of hard disks down the mountain to Mexico City."
The HAWC collaboration examined data taken over 1,017 days and saw evidence that gamma rays were coming from the ends of the microquasar's jets, rather than the central part of the star system. Based on their analysis, the researchers concluded that electrons in the jets attain energies that are about 1,000 times higher than can be achieved using Earth-bound particle accelerators, such as the city-sized Large Hadron Collider. The jet electrons collide with the low-energy microwave background radiation that permeates space, resulting in gamma ray emission.
"The two jets of SS 433 are the most powerful jets ever observed in our galaxy. That makes them a brighter gamma-ray source compared with other microquasars," said Abeysekara. "We need to keep observing the sky and increasing our sensitivity to find more microquasars similar to SS 433, if they exist, to improve our understanding of the jets."
"Very high energy particle acceleration powered by the jets of the microquasar SS 433," A.U. Abeysekara et al., Nature(2018)


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Getting Back on Track: An Exploration of Loan Modification: A TransUnion Study Focused on Seriously Delinquent Mortgage Borrowers Who Had Obtained a Mortgage Modification and Then Subsequently Opened New Consumer Loans. the Results Can Help Lenders Understand Whether It's Possible for Such Borrowers to Get a Fresh Start
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IT USED to be that when consumers became seriously delinquent on their home mortgages--that is, three or more payments past due--one of two outcomes was possible. The first was that they could "cure," meaning that they would bring their past-due accounts current and resume payments. While generally a happy outcome for both borrower and lender, this result is, unfortunately, uncommon. The second outcome was that the borrower would progress to foreclosure, which is generally an unhappy outcome for both borrower and lender and, unfortunately, the more common result.
Following the recent recession, with the U.S. experiencing record-high mortgage delinquency rates and a commensurate rise in foreclosures, a third outcome--loan modification--has emerged. The U.S. government established a number of loan modification programs under the Making Home Affordable Act of 2009, including:
* The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP, 2009 and 2011), which aimed at helping non-delinquent mortgage borrowers refinance into lower-rate loans.
* The Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP, 2009), which aimed at helping delinquent mortgage borrowers reduce their monthly payments through a combination of modifications to loan rate, term, and principal amount.
The general goal of these government-sponsored programs, as well as modification programs initiated directly by lenders, is to keep homeowners in their homes by making their mortgages more affordable. For modification programs aimed at delinquent mortgage borrowers, a broader goal of a loan modification may be to give borrowers a fresh start. It may provide them an opportunity to get their finances and credit back on track, including the ability to access new consumer loans following the mortgage modification.
Several years have passed since the inception of these modification programs. In a 2012 study, TransUnion explored the extent to which these programs have achieved the broader goal of getting delinquent borrowers back on track.
Study Design
TransUnion's study focused specifically on seriously delinquent mortgage borrowers who had obtained a mortgage modification and then subsequently opened new consumer loans. The study was designed to answer several key questions:
* Do these modification programs succeed in giving seriously delinquent borrowers a fresh start?
* How do consumers perform on new loans opened following a mortgage modification?
* Under what circumstances do consumers perform better on modified mortgages and on other consumer loans originated after the initial mortgage default?
TransUnion's study reviewed more than 5 million mortgage loans that were originated prior to 2008 and that had gone 120 days or more past due between January 2008 and June 2010--in other words, seriously delinquent mortgage borrowers who were unlikely to cure their delinquent status without a modification or other assistance. Of those mortgage loans, approximately 559,000 records of mortgage modifications between January 2008 and July 2011 were identified. We were able to identify the presence of a mortgage modification based on loan data transmitted by mortgage lenders. The initial level of analysis was to determine how borrowers performed on the modified mortgage over 6-, 12-, and 18-month periods.
The second level of analysis was to examine the performance of new consumer loans opened by borrowers who had obtained a loan modification and to compare the new loan performance to that of seriously delinquent mortgage borrowers who had not obtained a modification. We identified approximately 627,000 new loans, primarily auto loans and credit cards, opened by borrowers with a mortgage modification after the initial mortgage default between January 2008 and July 2011. We analyzed the 6-, 12- and 18-month performance of these new loans and compared the results against the performance of the approximately 3. …


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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Do You Judge A Book By Its Cover?
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Hmm, somewhat scary...ReplyDelete
And now I am somewhat jealous that a guy looks better in a dress than me, lol!ReplyDelete
Oh, wow. Interesting. I was going to go with all the ones on the left. Definitely a great way to think about the cover. You can never really tell can ya.ReplyDelete
Damn that's scary. Remind me not to go to Thailand anytime soon.ReplyDelete
WOW! It was hard for me to pick, they all looked female.ReplyDelete
I should have known - I was thinking in a couple of cases that both could be trannies. These ladyboys are amazing! Little misses top left and third down on the right still look like physiologically convincing women to me.ReplyDelete
I think they all look beautiful. Despite Thailand's reputation, I think that their open acceptance of people and sexuality is admirable. I hope that the West can someday become as open-minded.ReplyDelete
They are beautiful women...ahh...men. I never would have guessed. Ms. LadyBoy is an interesting title.ReplyDelete
OMG thanks for telling us cause there were only 3 that I was sure 100% they were girls - LOLReplyDelete
I was having a terrible time! Too many had boy lines under all the pretty! Three of them fooled me even after I had the answer....hehehe
Would that be like missing something because you choose to believe a lie?
I agree with you 100%, Michael. We have a long way to go, but I hope we get there soon. On a rocket ship.ReplyDelete
How bizarre! But I get your point. I get a sense of the genre from a book's cover, but I always read the first few lines, never the jacket copy. That's what my mother taught me and she was right.ReplyDelete
I thought all the ones on the left, at first.ReplyDelete
I try not to judge a book by its cover--if something doesn't appeal to me at first sight and I've got time to stop and read the flap/back cover I'll do it.
Wow! That had me fooled. I was so certain my guesses were 100%...but then again....the were! Because they were guys. hahaReplyDelete
Interesting. What beautiful looking women they make. :-)
hahaha - nice one Michael. Yes I was totally fooled. I could just about convince myself that about half of them were men, but the rest I still cannot convince myself, even knowing! I am convinced that sex and gender are two entirely separate things. I strongly suspect that a person's maleness or femaleness is governed by more genes than just those on the X or Y chromosome. As for books - I judge by the cover. Sorry.ReplyDelete
I so knew it was going to be something like that! Except I was thinking they were all girls.... XD Shows what I know.ReplyDelete
Wow! And they are gorgeous! I'm with Kerri - there's nothing like seeing a boy look more beautiful and feminine in a dress than me to make me jealous!ReplyDelete
I think we all judge books by the covers, don't we? It's the visual we notice first. And, despite knowing what I know, I think they are beautiful ladies, because that's how they have chosen to present. If we were all a little less hung up on what consenting adults chose to do, the world would be a nicer place.
Wow these guys (girls?) are really convincing. Some of them had me fooled!ReplyDelete
Your pulling my leg!! I can not believe that these are all men!! I was really studying to see if I could figure it out... Wow...ReplyDelete
You fooled me with this. I'm jealous now they all look better than I do in a dress.ReplyDelete
I could have swore a few were girls. I am not a good judge. You can probably put anything past me. Not good. Don't tell anyone. Shhh!ReplyDelete


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As a single speed. That's the way to finish up your year and begin the new. Mazal tov.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Colorado Hopheads
Tomorrow is a brave new world for hopheads in Colorado. With any luck, Colorado will be the start of complete legalization for the entire USA, and a first step in dismantling the prison industrial complex and asinine war on drugs.
Texas A&M Makes All Of America Duke Fans
For three hours. Now THAT'S a fucking christmas miracle. (Fucking Chik-fil-a sucks donkey balls regardless.)
Home Depot Is A Cesspool
Go to fucking Lowe's; as far as you know, they are not as reprehensible as Home Depot. Home Depot fucking sucks.
The Disastrous 401K Retirement Experiment
A great majority of Americans are fucked fucked fucked. The demise of the defined-benefit pension and the failure to increase and expand Social Security during a conversion to defined-contribution 401k-type retirement plans is the next big catastrophe to plague the United States--and it is coming faster than many think. We are gonna have to do a shitload of on-the-fly creations and expansion of public pensions, but most certainly will only do that AFTER the problem gets as bad as it can be; it would be a great idea to dismantle the 401k laws and do whatever necessary to put all that money into passively-managed public retirement plans which KEEPS THE MONEY AWAY FROM THE BANKSTERS. Again, this will not happen until the suffering peaks because that's the American way.
Another fun fact: since almost nobody in the 99% will be able to afford to retire, they keep working till they die and keep younger workers from getting those jobs, thus keeping the unemployment rate higher than it should be. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Another fun fact: since almost nobody in the 99% will be able to afford to retire, they keep working till they die and keep younger workers from getting those jobs, thus keeping the unemployment rate higher than it should be. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Just Shoot Me
I'm trying to arrange a gift for a kid (not mine, but mine had the idea) of a pink mini Strat, and of course, the local Fender shop can't get 'em for a while because of some bullshit with something. Dammit. I try to do right by the local guys, but they are fucking killing me.
Monday, December 30, 2013
Palestine In 2014
Will 2014 be the year Palestine finally replaces Israel in the middle east? Nope, probably not, but the brave freedom fighters in Palestine, especially the secular ones, should be given every possible support in replacing the fundamentalist apartheid state of Israel with a democratic Palestine in a single-state solution where every man and woman is guaranteed civil and voting rights regardless of their personal belief system.
Republicans ARE Getting Stupider
Apparently, Republicans go to Jupiter to get more stupider. Evolution is one of those things that scares the shit of fundie teabagger assholes, but those of us who have more than a couple of brain cells to rub together don't worry too much about it; the question is settled for anybody who gets it, atmo. Science is only hard if you are fucking idiot, as the rank and file Republicans prove every gods-damned day.
2013 Was Pretty Fucking Good For Canada
Even getting rid of Ted Cruz might not be able to top it. Crack-fueled raging kaiju Rob Ford will probably not have as good of a 2014, unless of course he decides to move to the U.S. and become mayor of Jacksonville or governor of Arkansas.
Josh Barro: The Latest Star In That Odd Subset Of Political Celebrity Andrew Sullivan Took To The Bigtime
The young, gay, conservative columnist. Sullivan made it a career when he came to the U.S.; Barro comes from a family of conservative privilege. He's not so bad on the tee vee, though.
The Best Day In The History Of Canada
2014 is looking pretty fucking good for Canada; they will rid themselves of responsibility for the puss-filled boil that is Ted Cruz. Canada's gain is America's loss however. I recommend giving Texas back to the Mexicans, gratis.
A Freekin' Miracle?
Could the pathetic Democrats really want to run hard and win for once? Minimum wage is a good fucking start? The 2014 campaign has been on for more than a year, but the sad-sack Democrats haven't noticed. If they take the popular positions and run hard, that would be a true fucking christmas miracle.
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Iggles Or Cowboys
Dallas is just the sort of team that can make anyone a temporary Iggles booster.
Virag's Movie Reviews: We're The Millers (2013)
Jesus, comedy is hard. It must be because this wasn't funny. Wouldn't Jennifer Aniston be the world's oldest stripper? She looked as fake as the fake rubber snake-bit frank and beans. Please don't have strippers in your movie without nudity. That's just dumb. With this flick, the director Rawson Marshall Thurber has proven he is fully qualified to be the terrible and unfunny Judd Apatow's piss boy. At best, We're the Millers was like From Dusk till Dawn without Clooney and Tarantino, Up in Smoke without the dopey comedy, and What Alice Found without the good parts.
Fun Recycled Andy Rourke Interview
The Daily Beast is generally awful, but this piece of filler is pretty fun. Rourke sounds like he has his shit together at last, and Morrissey was clearly an insufferable ass since day one. Stiffing the other guys on the money is especially ugly. The only way to run a band is equal shares for everyone: share royalties and performance and tour earnings and expenses equally. The post-Smiths years have proven that Morrissey and Marr were never as good without Rourke and Joyce; it was kinda a major fuck-up to kill that cash cow so quickly. This is an interesting comparison with the way John Lydon treats the people he works with; Lydon cultivated this character of a snotty, insufferable asshole but was honest and fair, while Morrissey really was a snotty, insufferable asshole.
Shining A Little Light On Reverse Mortgages And Other Scams
Relieving confused old people of the possession of their money is a revered America tradition, as the ubiquitous reverse mortgage commercials on Fox can attest. It's good to see more people starting to talk about this bullshit; reverse mortgages are only the latest scheme cooked up to steal from the old, the desperate, and the infirm. The entire disintegration of Medicare is part of it, too, with the toxic privatization and needlessly complex and expensive supplementary benefit plans--all of which should be included in a true comprehensive program which has no for-profit insurance components whatsoever. Come to think of it, this would make an excellent campaign theme for any Dems who wanted to help people AND win elections!
Benghazi Will Always Be A Litmus Test For Insane Assholes
And it's not just Fox "News". In the wake of the big Times story, the bugfuck crazy teabagging fuckwads have lost their shit, as seen at the evil and the stupid backwaters of interwebs insanity. Read some of the comments if you have the gumption, and consider that these are the people out their taking up space and wasting oxygen and carrying guns around your children and house pets. Happy New Year, boys and girls.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Working' Progress: Long Distance Voyagers
Not sleeping too much was not too much of a problem for the most part, but it sure as shit meant that Dillon was clear headed--or at least what passed for lucid for him at any given time--and awake too often to talk to manic-depressive diva's like Jay Kramer when he should have been sleeping. Or something. Evie was good for that. Having her in his bed helped him sleep nicely; fucking her was even more effective. He was constantly, mostly constantly, sometimes, wondering how much he should be doing with her, but everything so far had been pretty successful, considering, and Evie was certainly not shy with sharing details and taking about her sexuality. He understood, sorta, how she was feeling, and how she was a little bit, maybe way more than a little bit, confused, confounded, whatever, and also feeling a little bit betrayed. And alone, probably, far from home. Dillon knew that Evie was a bit let down by her friend Lily--or was feeling that way, anyway--because Lily had apparently been acting out with men, boys, and having lots and lots of normal, straight, sex. This was the Lily who had brought Evie out here more than anyone else, the Lily who had been a fuck bunny in high school and then a purported queer warrior fucking other chicks, blah, blah, blah, who was now getting the dick regularly. After Evie's last two years, it was probably really weird; Dillon would cop to that. Evie wasn't a fuck bunny in high school; Tom was still not sure how much she'd ever been with a guy, and she was fucking 24 now. She was celibate gay in high school, more or less. She was involved with another student back at home in California, but Dillon wasn't sure how much sex they really had. Then there was the big two years off, working with the band her sister's girlfriend was in, with a serious relationship. Still, it was odd for Dillon because Evie was still talking about how many people she had kissed in her life. That was fucked up for a 24 year old woman in college. And was that serious relationship with a woman who had a boyfriend who was not out on the road with them? Some shit like that. As usual, he should have been paying more attention. But whatever. She was just a shy person, with shit like that, he guessed, because she was fucking hot and got wet as fuck from his slightest touch. He'd found her soaking, dripping, no matter how quickly he got between her legs. She loved to kiss, and even if she seemed unfamiliar with dicks, she was more than accommodating, more than...he didn't know what. She seemed pretty fucking horny. She just hadn't fooled around much, he guessed.
And sometimes, in flashes of lucid decency, Dillon was disgusted with himself. It didn't matter if he looked 20 and felt 200; he was 37 fucking years old. He needed to get the fuck out of this town. He needed to decide whether to hide in plain sight or run to some shitty backwater hideout and play out the string. Yes, he had been lucky to make it through the last four years and had done well wasting this much time. Sure he had been lusting after that curvy blonde for a couple of years, but Dillon was much more comfortable with Eva when she appeared to be treating him as an object. He wasn't sure he was able to commit even the effort needed to get to know her, and he was pretty sure he didn't want to. Not Providence. Not Santa Fe. Boulder. Boulder was the key. It was not good to stay here, get a job with the state or one of the clowns practicing small law in town. Really, Dillon suspected he should in fact take Joe Fallon up on his offer and plan to waste some time in New York or Washington. No fucking way he was going to take a position in California--working in the same office where Justine had been a partner?--fucking Los Angeles again?--but if he played that out, he could easily spend a half dozen years arousing no suspicion of anything and then just bolt to Boulder or Perth or wherever.
And sometimes, in flashes of lucid decency, Dillon was disgusted with himself. It didn't matter if he looked 20 and felt 200; he was 37 fucking years old. He needed to get the fuck out of this town. He needed to decide whether to hide in plain sight or run to some shitty backwater hideout and play out the string. Yes, he had been lucky to make it through the last four years and had done well wasting this much time. Sure he had been lusting after that curvy blonde for a couple of years, but Dillon was much more comfortable with Eva when she appeared to be treating him as an object. He wasn't sure he was able to commit even the effort needed to get to know her, and he was pretty sure he didn't want to. Not Providence. Not Santa Fe. Boulder. Boulder was the key. It was not good to stay here, get a job with the state or one of the clowns practicing small law in town. Really, Dillon suspected he should in fact take Joe Fallon up on his offer and plan to waste some time in New York or Washington. No fucking way he was going to take a position in California--working in the same office where Justine had been a partner?--fucking Los Angeles again?--but if he played that out, he could easily spend a half dozen years arousing no suspicion of anything and then just bolt to Boulder or Perth or wherever.
Federal Economic Malpractice
Now that the extended UI benefits are ended, at least a few elected politicians realize just how fucked they are, let alone the people without jobs. The rich fuckers in the House and Senate don't give a flying fuck about the middle class and lower class working and unemployed folks, but their own gigs could be in trouble if the economy tanks. For the national elected idiots, it doesn't really matter that they are clueless, evil shitheads; even if they don't care about the individuals who will suffer, they should be able to understand the macro issues and see that the abrupt cut-off will harm the larger economy--THAT IS THEIR GODS-DAMNED JOB. Continuing the payment of UI benefits is the right thing to do for the country and the economy as a whole; the fact that it also helps middle and lower class folks who are unemployed is just like a delicious icing on the fucking giant shit cake. The political and economic calculations should encourage the majority of the House and Senate to do the right thing; let the teabaggers like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul go fuck themselves.
Then, the short-term stimulus should continue with an expansion of food stamps and social security right away in order to get this economy going. In the intermediate term, a big boost in the minimum wage will act as a stimulus to create jobs.
Don't hold your breath.
Then, the short-term stimulus should continue with an expansion of food stamps and social security right away in order to get this economy going. In the intermediate term, a big boost in the minimum wage will act as a stimulus to create jobs.
Don't hold your breath.
Nightmares Come True
It's happening! David Simon doing a Pogues musical can only mean that a Pogues biopic is so much more likely, and if Paul Giamatti is cast as Shane, then the gods-damned universe will implode, and my scariest nightmare will be made manifest...
Hilarious Praise For NCIS Which I Think Is A Put-On
I think Walt Brasch is fucking around with his praise for NCIS, but bringing up Jim Garner clouds it a bit. I mean, NCIS? Really? No fucking way. Wasn't NCIS a spin-off of JAG, the show where the guy was a Navy lawyer and SEAL and F-18 pilot and Naval Intelligence officer and shit who saved the world every week in 44 minutes? I never actually saw it, but I heard from a reliable source that old ladies loved JAG the same way they used to love Magnum P.I. Is NCIS really the top show on the tee vee in America? I've never seen that show either, but I get the feeling we're fucking fucked if that is what is popular. NCIS? Jeez.
We Demand An End To Liquor Ads On Television And Claire Forlani
All of the inane tequila and vodka ads didn't do it, but Claire Forlani did. We must re-ban liquor ads on the tee vee in order to save ourselves from those dispiritingly awful Dewar's adverts. Since Forlani doesn't do movies anymore, even Kevin Smith movies, if we outlaw liquor ads, we will be safe from that atrocious, mouth-full-of-marbles accent and Giamatti-esque scenery-chewing.
Greenwald Shoulda Mentioned That MSNBC Isn't Even Trying To Be A 24 Hour News Network
It's fine to rag on MSNBC for Obama fluffing, but the big deal is that the fucking channel is half prison fetish videos; unless and until the network commits to being an actual news channel with 24 hour news and opinion programming with decent tee vee people like, say, Keith Olbermann and Alec Baldwin--even if they puss out and continue the pathetic Obama fluffing as the main theme--they can't even pretend to being anything other than an NBC company garbage dump.
Fun First Person New Jersey Story
Apparently somebody from Jersey trusts Josh Marshall enough to send along a fun anecdote about life in the Garden State.
Moby Dick Chris Christie might get fucked over this asinine bridge thing, but that would only be the latest in a long history of slimy shit Christie's been gobbling since forever. Nothing that fat piece of shit does or did should ever surprise anyone.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Ben Carson Is Still The Best Argument Against Affirmative Action Ever
Ward Connerly is one of the biggest Uncle Tom cocksuckers in human history, but he is right about one thing: without affirmative action, some white guy would have become a doctor in place of Ben Carson, and America would have been spared Carson's rancid idiocy.
Robert Cray, Yes. Eric Clapton, No.
Cray is the blues rock guitar dude and singer Clapton always wished he was.
John Miller: Your Establishment Media Police State At Work
Your asshole of the day winner John Miller is going back on the job. His other job for the cops, not his job on the tee vee. This is the idiot who stage-managed the NSA infomercial disguised as what passes for tee vee journalism at 60 Minutes. This job can be considered the latest in a long line of payoffs to Miller for faithful service to the police state. Look for him on Fox "News" sometime in 2019.
Reno's Own Rambler And Reno's Own Roland Della Santa
The one and only Reno Rambler signal boosts a fun interview with framebuilder Roland Della Santa. Della Santa the dude is quite entertaining; Della Santa frames are freeking wicked awesome.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Fun Q & A With The Mekons
From the film premier. I don't think that Susie says a single word in this, but Steve Goulding seemed to be enjoying his opportunity to have a bit of fun with gabby ole Jon Langford.
A Revenge Of The Mekons Review
From Hollywood, so you know
it sucks is good it's something. I can't wait for the DVD of this fucking thing to arrive.
And a good one. The reviewers who have no fucking clue who the Mekons are can't really do a decent review of the flick. This is much better.
And a good one. The reviewers who have no fucking clue who the Mekons are can't really do a decent review of the flick. This is much better.
Doctor Who Special Rates A Huge Meh, But Paul McGann Was On The Tee Vee
The Dr. Who special was pretty awful. I had no use for Matt Smith, but Jenna Coleman has really been getting better, and neither of them had much to do in the show. I was pretty stoked to see the Paul McGann webisode at the beginning of the 50th repeat, though; that was cool. Probably not the opening you expected. Long before last night, we had seen way too many Dr. Who stories where the Doctor faces all the enemies at once but nothing too interesting happens. It's past time to see the Doctor in stories that aren't about titanic existential battles, and instead are compelling and entertaining stories on a more believable scale. Maybe the new guy is up to it in ways Matt Smith never could have been, and we will get some Dr. Who that is not so annoying and dumb.
Apparently Good Things Happened This Year
Slagging On El Popo
Yes, he's still the fucking Pope, still the head of the fucking holy, catholic and apostolic church, and that makes him pretty gods-damned awful, but El Popo Francisco has done more to fuck with the worst of the worst of the reactionary fucktards around these parts than the previous two miserable pope bastards ever did. That's somethin'. Baby steps. Today Fox "News" hates you, and maybe tomorrow you can really do some good.
Utah Might Be The Real Frakkin' Miracle
Utah is usually the shittiest of shitty places, full of cocksuckers like Mitt Romney, but this gay marriage thing out there just keeps on gettin' better! This should be the end of the mindless marriage bigotry in the U.S.; now let's see some Dems out there in the rest of the fucking country hop on this bandwagon and win some gods-damned elections with this issue!
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Santa's Kind Of A Bastard
Well, Santa brought more pink shit. Now we have the entire one man band minus the gods-damned drums.
Christian Yoga? And You Thought Nothing Could Make Christmas Any Sillier
Christian yoga? Jesus fucking christ. Born-again christians and yoga: that's just lovely. Stupid is as stupid does, and we would be forever making a list of the shit fundies fuck up.
Your No Shit This Christmas
An Eliot Spitzer's marriage no shit. He's got the young chippy, and now the old biddy is history for realz, so happy fucking christmas, fuckwads.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
Mikhail Kalashnikov
94 years old. He certainly made a name for himself in the freedom fighting game.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Virag's Movie Reviews: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
I know they spent a shitload more money on this thing, but I'm not sure it shows. Once again, the interesting stories are not told, and we are stuck following the least likable and least interesting of the parts. It is still hard to suspend disbelief and have the people in the movie living in such a purportedly brutal and violent milieu without blood, swearing, passion, or sex. Katniss and Peeta and Gale are in their late teens, facing death, and yet they comport themselves like bizarrely immature oversized fourth graders. An even passingly realistic Hunger Games flick would look like something of a mashup of Quentin Tarantino and Sam Peckinpah making a movie in 1971. Definitely not for the kiddoes, and definitely not a cash cow. The funnest thing in this film was Donald Sutherland looking like a hungry version of John Entwistle.
Pretty Nice Hall & Oates Fisking
Seems pretty mild, really. Make no mistake, Hall & Oates are sublimely awful, and despite the fish-in-a-barrel aspect, it is always useful and right to shit on the likes of Hall & Oates, Billy Joel, Huey Lewis & The News...
Khodorkovsky's Release
This is pretty fucking shocking; I would love to know the real story on this. I figured Khodorkovsky would never see the light of day again. I wonder what promises he had to make? There's always a price.
Dallas Versus Washington
This was a why can't they both lose situation if there ever was one, but they did not in fact both lose, so fuck you very much jesus.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
Utah Gay Marriage
Hah fucking hah. Seeing as how the Mormon assholes have been funding anti-gay politics around the country, it is super tasty to see their dismal homeland infected with freedom and tolerance. Eat shit, homophobic fuckers. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby fucking with Scalia only makes it funnier.
De Rosa Max
1987 supposedly. Would like this a whole bunch if it used the lugs and an external crown. Nice blue and C-Record.
Good For Bob Newhart
He won't get himself slathered in all the rancid Santorum flying around at that vile closet-case vaudeville show. It's nice to see that he was with it enough to understand what a bunch of bastards those motherfuckers are once someone pointed it out to him.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Apparently, Valentine's Day Ain't Over
I truly believe that this is what J. Mascis's dreams sound like.
The person shooting this video should be shot, or at least beaten until they learn how to use the gods-damned zoom. The sound from these shitty little cameras is surprisingly good though, especially considering this particular show was outside.
Update 2019: original video is gone. Have this from 1992.
The person shooting this video should be shot, or at least beaten until they learn how to use the gods-damned zoom. The sound from these shitty little cameras is surprisingly good though, especially considering this particular show was outside.
Update 2019: original video is gone. Have this from 1992.
Has Kentucky Gov. Beshear Destroyed Mitch McConnell?
So, Governor
Julian Bashir Martin Bashir Steve Beshear of Kentucky has the ACA working pretty well in his state thanks to Raylan Givens a solid state exchange and the Medicaid expansion, and that has made things extra tough for Mitch McConnell who is trying to hold onto his seat. He's gonna get buttfucked by the teabagger running to his right in the primary, but the Democrat Alison Grimes--who is nothing special coming from a shitty rock-ribbed conservative Democratic establishment family, but it will be fun to watch Bitch McConnell lose--will be able to hammer him from the other side with the Obamacare successes in the state, so even if McConnell survives his primary, the Democrats should have an excellent chance of dispatching the current Minority Leader thanks to Gov. Beshear.
GWAR The Shimmy-Disc Years
Hilarious to see and hear GWAR in their Dead Kennedys phase.
Can We Elect GWAR The Junior Senator From Kentucky In Place Of Rand Paul?
GWAR, the entire band, would make a more sensible, and entertaining, Libertarian from Kentucky than Rand Paul.
And let's remember that GWAR's first record was on Shimmy-Disc!
And let's remember that GWAR's first record was on Shimmy-Disc!
John Pilger On Australian Apartheid
I can say unequivocally that this shit is the sort of stuff we never hear
much enough anything about in the United States; we don't talk about native people in North America, and we sure as shit don't talk about the native people anywhere else. When Mandela died, the media was happy to make it sound like apartheid was ancient history, fixed, done, over, okay, bye-bye. John Pilger has been talking and writing about the treatment of the first people for decades; the problem is not ancient history, and it is not going away. We have been able to hide from these crimes for generations, but until we talk and debate and understand the history, our societies will continue to be fucked.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
4AD Was Busy
They made sure that a boatload of their old videos were up officially, so that's nice. This Pixies thing is fun.
Oops, John Podesta Tells A Truth And Has To Apologize
Craven fucking weasel should not have apologized. He was 100% on target. This is fucking Obama, though, as well. Obama should have had one of his surrogates with plausible deniability take up this theme and shout it all over the gods-damned tee vee to put the fucking Republicans on their heels, but no, nobody has the balls.
Wait, What? A Duck Dynasty Guy Is An Ignorant Bigoted Asshole?
No way! I had no idea that fucking Christian asswhipe morons could be haters, too! I'm shocked. Tee vee sucks, and assholes like this fuck dynasty dipshit make it suck harder.
Virginia Concession: Hah Hah!
Mark Obenshain gives up. Excellent. What I didn't realize is that he is the brother of that vile bitch Kate Obenshain, who is often seen regurgitating teabagging horseshit on Fox "News".
Virag's Movie Reviews: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Before the two-hour mark, I had just given up. This flick looked kinda cheap and flat, and there was so much tedious filler material that I just didn't care with about an hour to go. This Hobbit movie was too tiresome and tiring to be enjoyable; it woulda been way better to leave it as that stupid cartoon.
I Like Roger Waters
His politics and support for Palestine are pretty fucking solid. I knew that he was living in the United States these days, and he has been pretty up front in his views, which is good. I like Roger Waters way more than I like most of his music. Gilad Atzmon checks in to respond to the shit Waters has taken over his views. Waters sounds like a pretty decent dude; if more of our rich and powerful artist types were as well-informed as Waters, maybe our would be a smidge better.
Old Klein Website
Hasn't been updated in 4evah, but there are some neat pics showing why Klein bikes are not around anymore. These things were not my bag, but for a year or two, and for absolute cross-country racing only, they were a lightweight, if obscenely expensive, option.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Elizabeth Warren Is Doin' Fine
Senate business which is designed to actually help a giant majority of the American population? No shit. Good for her. If only more of our government worked like she does, our economy and society would be a hell of a lot better off.
Don't Just Go Away Mad, Fiber
Divine Cycling Group has the freekin' midas touch. Or maybe it's the Meineki touch.
Monday, December 16, 2013
How Long Until El Popo Francisco Comes To America To Personally Slap Antonin Scalia Upside The Head?
You know it's coming. If Pope Francis keeps up his startlingly (for a gods-damned fucking pope, anyway) progressive agenda, it can't be long until he begins a world tour where he personally visits each of the biggest reactionary Catholic assholes on the planet and smacks each one of 'em on the head. For Jesus. And fun. Fuck yeah!
Football Just Goes Better With Rape
This should be the last straw for the fucking Heisman. How could these assholes even consider this fucking scumbag when, unlike the other candidates and winners, they KNEW what this guy was capable of before he got the fucking award. Bastards.
Good News From Virginia Is Always A Surprise
But welcome nonetheless. Flipping Virginia from the bugfuck crazy religious fundie asswhipes to rock-ribbed establishment Democrats is not the greatest miracle evah, but better than losing.
Interpreters And The CIA
The fake interpreter story is indeed too bizarre to be anything but a random derp from an astoundingly random universe, but the unbelievably high profile makes you feel like you are not getting the humor in some outlandish performance art or the best episode over of Bullshit, or Not?. Lots of folks should feel relieved that the gibberish sign language was as bad as it got, because if it had turned ugly, the CIA and the rest of the U.S. security state would have done a bloody job of covering their asses.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
One Year After Newtown, America Should Just Throw Itself Off A Bridge
Nowhere else on Earth where we have good Christian civilized white people would we also have no new radical laws to prevent another Newtown shooting after a year has gone by. Any other place living in the light of Jesus' love would have protected its children from gun death. Any other decent country would have pulled its head out of its ass, given up on the self-deluding, idiot religious bullshit and faced gods-damned reality. America is clearly incapable of rational action. We can't manage an economy. We can't figure out how to deliver health care. And we can't keep our citizens safe from gun violence. It really is time for national suicide, but we're too dumb as a group to be properly ashamed.
And Billy Jack
Tom Laughlin was 82! Jeez. It's a bad weekend to be an old actor, I guess. The Billy Jack movies were pretty fun, though.
Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year is having so much fun without even breaking a sweat. Great movie, well worth watching even if you have no idea who Peter O'Toole was when he was alive.
Rob Ford's Kaiju Rampage On The World's Dumbest Bike Forum
It looks like Rob Ford popped up on the Serotta Forum to cut loose with a cracked-fueled mini kaiju rampage, and of course the biggest dipshit teabagging motherfucker pops in to show that America is chock full of assholes as well.
Yeah! Cowboys Lose!
America's Team, fuck yeah! Anytime the Cowboys lose, it is a good fucking day for America. And Romo sucks huge moose cock.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Virag's Movie Reviews: White House Down (2013)
What the hell was wrong with James Woods in this movie? He looked like some punter wearing a cheap James Woods rubber mask. Jeez. White House terrorist movies are awful, and this movie has at least three times as much awful than necessary. The entire daughter and ex-wife thing was pointless and added to the awful. The vice president stuff was worthless and added even more to the awful. Sticking to the core story and Jamie Foxx riffing on Obama would not have made a good, believable, or entertaining movie, but at least it would have shown that they were trying.
Megyn Kelly's Weird Defence Was Sad And Scary
It took Megyn Kelly's staff 48 hours to come up with something to say about her twisted racist tirade over Jesus and Santa, and they best they could do was "I was kidding". Looking through her hollow eyes into her empty head as she desperately tried to aspire to creepy, unlikely humor as a justification for racist ignorance was equal parts pathetic and frightening. She still has no idea what she did wrong, but 48 hours is not long enough to turn a nasty racist bimbo into a useful human being.
Electric Saab Chinese Staff Cars?
Will there really be a Chinese electric staff car with the name "Saab" on it? That seems like a TMI right after they announce they built one regular car in Sweden. I don't get it, but I think the truth is gonna be out pretty quickly now, and the Saab fanboys are gonna have to deal with the fact that Saab is only gonna be the name on some Chinese state industrial vehicles.
I Thought Even The Dimmest Bulbs Grokked Big Ed Schultz
Wait, what? Ed Schultz was a former Republican sports radio guy who wound up as a leftish talk radio guy and somehow got onto the tee vee. Who didn't know this? Olbermann said as much on the gods damned tee vee when Schultz first started on MSNBC! It was a never a fucking secret, so what is so shocking? Yes, Schultz is a fucking tool, but so is every other fucking douchenozzle on the cable tee vee. Jesus, we are fucking dummies.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Isn't Bob Newhart Probably Pretty Much Senile?
He's gotta be like a hundred, right? I mean, it would be nice if Newhart really slammed these Legatus assholes at their own event or went super public in refusing to appear with frothy bigots like Rick Santorum, but I don't have much faith that Newhart is up to that sort of genius at this point.
Of Course He Was Spying
Nobody was surprised when someone finally admitted that Robert Levinson was spying in Iran. That doesn't even rate on the no shit scale. The Iranians knew he was spying. The American government knew he was spying. Just because they said he wasn't doesn't mean that pretty much everyone didn't know it too. Assholes.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Portrait Of A Lady...Check That...Whore...Portrait Of A Whore
A syphilitic tee vee whore who thinks Santa and Jesus are really real white guys. Jesus fucking christ, the Post must be the unluckiest motherfuckers on the planet to have their risible Megyn Kelly portrait come out right after Kelly wildly smears herself with racist diarrhea on live cable tee vee. This bugfuck nutty Megyn Kelly shit makes Andrea Peyser and the New York Post seem reasonable and sane by comparison.
Andrea Peyser And The New York Post Are All You're Gonna Get For Christmas
And frankly, what more could you want? Andrea Peyser is probably more high-calorie, gag-inducing entertainment than you deserve, but everybody needs a treat now and then, so mazel tov, motherfrakkers.
Paul Craig Roberts And 23.2% Unemployment
Everybody's favorite conservative Paul Craig Roberts unpacks the reality of the current U.S. employment situation over on Counterpunch. The truth is pretty bad, far worse than most would ever suspect; 23.2% functional unemployment is a disaster for the entire United States. Put this together with the latest titanic failure with regards to unemployment benefits, and the sheer number of people without sufficient--or ANY income--after the first of the year will not be enough to sustain let alone grow our economy into robust health. By any reasonable analysis, even a 7% unemployment rate year after year is an existential threat to our economy and our society; the underemployment and historically low labor force participation are the most important issues in the United States today.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Megyn Kelly: Every Bit As Big A Fatuous Whore As Bill O'Reilly
Megyn Kelly is guzzling the Ailes and Murdoch spunk as enthusiastically as she can trying to transform herself into the female Bill O'Reilly. She's seen how O'Reilly has done it on Fox "News", and she knows she every bit as vacuous as the preening, self-deluded and self-abusing Billo. (If she somehow truly believes that she is some kind of straight news anchor or reporter or whatever, she just not inane and deluded, she's clearly psychotic.) Now all Kelly has to do is prove to those old men in charge once and for all that she is as big a whore as O'Reilly, and she'll be good to go.
Jesus and Santa update: Megyn Kelly is a racist dipshit! First off, Jesus is a fairy tale, but if the Jesus of the fairy tails was a real guy, he sure as fuck was not white for christ's sake! Jesus would have looked like the average Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese native of today. Second, how the fuck does Megyn Kelly know Santa was white? What a fucking moran.
Jesus and Santa update: Megyn Kelly is a racist dipshit! First off, Jesus is a fairy tale, but if the Jesus of the fairy tails was a real guy, he sure as fuck was not white for christ's sake! Jesus would have looked like the average Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese native of today. Second, how the fuck does Megyn Kelly know Santa was white? What a fucking moran.
Not Extending Unemployment Benefits: Government Malpractice Or Just Plain Evil
The majority of the Congress should have, you know, their heads on pikes over this utterly insane failure to extend unemployment benefits. Set aside the human suffering and fuckheaded cruelty of denying basic assistance to unemployed workers in a time of admitted 7% unemployment--which with record low labor participation, underemployment, forced part-time schedules, and criminally low wages is probably more effectively an actual 15-20% unemployment rate--the macroeconomic consequences of refusing to extend benefits are horrible. This is the shit that will hurt the fucking Koch Brothers and the retards in the Walton family, along with local communities and everyone who earns or spends money. Hell, if the assholes in congress didn't pass a budget at all and ONLY extended unemployment benefits AND increased food stamps, that would have been an almost best-case scenario. Not extending unemployment benefits in this economy solely because too many Republicans can only achieve an erection when they imagine black and brown people suffering and their children going hungry is stupid economic policy, and if the Dems and Republicans can't understand this basic concept, then they have no business being in any positions of power, so line up Erik Loomis's spare pikes, and when you are done get some new congress critters and a new president who have more than two brain cells to rub together.
Peggy Bundy Kicks Ass
I kinda thought that Peggy Bundy would just shoot that horrible Tara and be done with it, so the fork to the back of the head repeatedly was quite the lovely surprise. The strongest parts of this past season were the guest stars--along with keeping Kim Coates around--while the overarching story is becoming less and less important and more and more goofy because the action and mayhem clearly are where the entertainment is. Everybody is awful and everybody dies on this show, and that's perfect.
Pandora's Promise? He Shoulda Gone To Jared
Mountains of money bring out the idiots, and today Counterpunch highlights some of the idiots pushing for nuclear power and their stupid movie. Pandora's Promise hasn't made much on an impact, mostly because beyond the money desperately trying to maintain the futures of nuclear power companies, nobody takes nuclear power seriously after Fukushima. That's not to say that they won't stop trying as long as the dipshits in the movie are willing to be paid off to stay stupid.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Saab Builds A Car
One. A car. A low-production Sweden-only internet car, built from old Saab leftovers. Something is really weird about this; it feels off. The purpose of this company, such as it is, is to build electric cars for government fleet sales in China, but those cars will be built in China, so what is the deal with this "Saab" enterprise in Sweden? Strange. It has been clear that NEVS had no plans to build Saab cars in any recognizable sense and sell them in the strongest Saab markets like the UK and U.S. and Canada. It smells like a scam or some sort of government misdirection, but I can't see what the payoff would be.
Rather's Right...And Rather's Wrong
Dan Rather is and always has been a weird little dude, but he is completely correct that his George W. Bush story was 100% true and the rock-ribbed conservative establishment media helped Bush's people ruin the story. That's a fact, jackoff. Rather's a fucking dipshit when it comes to Lara Logan, however. Logan is part of the exact same hard-right conservative media that decided Rather was too close to the truth to keep his reputation. Asshole.
Obama And Castro: Together History's Greatest Monster
Obama and Castro did a thing and John McCain shit his diaper. A handshake makes the teabaggers cry, even as the death of Mandela made them laugh. Poor fuckers.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Brick Houses: There's Always A Brick
Happy Frakking Holidays, Motherfrakkers. The Rude Pundit gets all kissy with holidaze spirts today over poverty and cruelty and capitalism and all the other traditional christmas cheer, ending with this story of a homeless girl in the richest city in the history of the universe. That's a for realz christmas miracle right there; poverty is a feature of economy--and our economy is an artificial construct that exists only because the beneficiaries fight and kill every second of every day to maintain it. We could have any sort of economy a person could imagine, but this particular economy will not go away until those bricks get used for something other than building buildings. Homelessness, unemployment, suffering are evil, and in our unimaginably wealthy nation, completely unnecessary. Until each and every one of us understands, we are doomed to this atrocity.
Ron Jacobs On The Legacy Of Mandela
If Jacobs is right, and the legacy of Nelson Mandela is not the neoliberal post-apartheid South Africa, but is instead the continuation of Mandela and the ANC's struggle to bring true economic and political and social freedom to Africa and the world, well then I would be over the moon. Jacob's thesis that the true followers of Mandela have never lost the true focus of the struggle and also never believed that the struggle was concluded with the end of the apartheid laws and the election of Mandela to South Africa's presidency is an attractive one. We can hope. The bad guys are very powerful, however, and they are doing everything they can to weaken the legacy of Mandela in which Jacobs has faith. He's right in saying that we have no one to blame but ourselves now.
Emanuel Versus Emanuel
At this point, we would be way better off with Webster. I guess it is funny in a sick, sad world way that the Emanuel family is going above in beyond to blow by the Clintons as the most dangerous and destructive political family in Democratic party history. So, the political one is nasty fuckhead, and the doctor one is a worthless asswhipe. Does that mean that the Ari Gold scumbag brother is the most useful of the Emanuel brothers? Jesus fucking christ. Imagine. "One of my sons is a doctor, but he's an irredeemable dipshit. Another of my sons is a powerful national political leader, but he's vile and downright evil. My son who is a talent guy out in California, though, that kid is kinda ok; I like him." Can Ari Emanuel cast off his family curse and fly all the way to grace and find the perfect vehicle for Emmanuel Lewis? Tune into another frightening episode of Bullshit, or Not?
Ted Cruz Is The Creepiest Teabagging Creepster Whoever Creeped And Teabagged
Oh, yuck. What the fuck is wrong with these people? I mean, Teabaggin' Ted "Polly Prissy Pants" Cruz is many things, but putting him on the cover a book for children should probably get you sent to one of those holes so deep that the snakes and rats can't even escape. Sure, we can all have a bit o' fun with the sorry fucker, but just remember that more than a few of your addle-headed brothers and sisters out there can't grasp what a sorry sons of bitches Cruz and his ilk are.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Mandela And Reality
Mandela was never the man his awestruck fans were describing since his death. As a young man he was first and foremost a fighter for freedom; the fact that he was hated by all the right people and scared the shit out of the reactionary West was one of the finest things about him. He was a symbol for freedom and the official ending of apartheid in South Africa, but his tenure as president was not the proper course for South Africa. Mandela's election cemented the interest and desires of the West into post-apartheid politics of the nation. What we've been hearing about Mandela is not the whole story--and certainly not the most important one. But it is the happy bullshit one, so it is probably the story most are going to be stuck with.
Nothing Like The Calls At Home For The Patriots
The tee vee people must be wicked pissed that the Browns got butt-fucked by the refs in that game. That has to be a no-call in that game. I mean, it's Cleveland for christ's sake! Haven't they suffered enough?
Duke Football: Reason One Billion And Seven Why Duke Sucks
When the Duke football program had a chance to win one against rapey football, they folded. Florida State is a well-known shithole, but Duke thinks it is Dartmouth or Stanford, and it is most certainly not. Duke has much more in common with Miami than Harvard.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
2015 Mustang: Shockingly Not Totally Hating It
I guess my expectations were sufficiently low for once, because when I saw this thing, I was not completely horrified. The current Camaro has aged horribly--what looked maybe not so bad at first is fucking terrible in person now, with those weird little slit windows and bloated, bulky sheet metal; hell, it makes that mid-2000's Pontiac GTO car look fucking wonderful in comparison. This new Mustang, though, while not great, may turn out to be not so bad, especially in a 300+ hp turbo 4; that's wicked fucking Euro shit right there. I guess we'll see what they're like for realz when they go on sale. Six-speed proper manual transmissions still available, apparently, so that's something.
Rob Ford: Dragon Chaser
That fucker sure is busy. Apparently being Toronto's mayor requires zero hours of work per week cuz Rob's got a crapload of hobbies. It's not right that Canada gets to keep all this fun for itself. I want Santa to make Rob Ford America's Mayor.
Hilariously Inane Mandela Asshattery
If you want shallow and ill-informed commentary, the well-paid entry-level village idiot Josh Marshall is there for you. Always. Like a bad rash. Or an incurable cancer.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Nice Jerry Dammers Commentary
Apparently this Dylan Jones guy knew Dammers, and he does a nice fucking job with this. "Nelson Mandela" is catchy as hell and was probably the first time millions of people first heard the man's name. I was never the biggest 2 Tone fan in the world or anything, but I agree that Dammers wrote a whole lot of truly great songs and certainly deserves a higher profile than he has.
Bye Bye Robby
Cano shows the world that he's more like A-Rod than Jeter. Start the countdown; within the next 27 months, Robinson Cano will be demanding a trade.
MSNBC Still Sucks And Always Will
Martin Bashir is an uber-douche, but he did and said nothing wrong with regard to Sarah Palin and should not have been canned. MSNBC is a bumbling shit show. Bashir sucked, but if they didn't fire him last year, there was no reason to fire him over Palin. Alec Baldwin is a hothead and a dick, but if you want to hire him, then stand behind him when he acts like the hothead and dick you hired. Ed Schultz should never have apologized to that right-wing whore Laura Ingraham. Olbermann was the rock around which the network should have been constructed and keeping him should have been the absolute top priority. MSNBC isn't the liberal Fox "News". MSNBC is not liberal, and it is not news. It is a hapless and hopeless shit show.
Reagan Was An Even Bigger Asshole Than You Remember
This disgusting nugget of American history has been getting a shitton of play since the announcement of Nelson Mandela's death. Reagan--more like his handlers since Reagan was pretty much a brain-dead carcass during his entire presidency--and the rest of those unapologetic racist assholes hated the thought of South Africa falling into the hands of the blacks. Here you can see Reagan whipping out all of his D-list acting chops to prevent the United States from getting on the right side of history where South Africa was concerned. Dick Cheney, he hated Mandela in 1986, and he's still around. And many of the slightly younger Republican leaders today hated Mandela back then and still hated him on the day he died. All you have to do is watch the Republicans play up the politics of race hatred in 2013 as much as they did in 1986 or 1850.
Polly Prissy Pants Versus Teabaggers Versus Mandela
This fuckin' rocks. Dumb-as-a-post Senator Teabagger Ted Cruz posts an anodyne message after Nelson Mandela's death, and the racist teabagging cocksuckers who make up his voting base go apoplectic. Unreconstructed racist insanity is a feature and not a bug of Republican politics.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
The over-enthusiastic hagiography has already started, and I would imagine that the fusillade of opprobrium, some of it certainly warranted, will begin after dawn. Regardless, Mandela the idea had an enormous impact on recent human history. What was best about Mandela the idea--maybe second best after the hope he gave to so many people--was the fear he provoked in the west, in the racist reactionaries in the United States and Europe. That was a beautiful thing. Mandela the revolutionary was most successful as a prisoner. Mandela the president was. South Africa persisted under Mandela--he didn't burn it down or paint the streets with blood--and while apartheid as law was ended, economic and social apartheid continued essentially unabated for many. Still, he was a tough bastard. He rightly took up arms. He survived his prison sentence. He maintained the idea of Nelson Mandela to the best of his abilities even though he knew the realities of post official apartheid South Africa. Whatever passes for peace in death, Mandela has that now.
Fast Food Strikes: Happy Freekin' Holidays
The fast food strike movement is doing a great job changing the conversation. Now even politicians are talking about minimum wage, so even if the fast food workers aren't going to be paid a proper wage next week, they are building the base for a real living wage in the future. Nice work, and it is good to see the labor movement finding the plot.
Happy Holiday Season Bill O'Reilly Fisking
Crooks and Liars does a nice job with a succinct and joyful fisking. This is well-trod, but as O'Reilly hasn't gone away and gets fucking loonier with every turn of the day, it is always good to savage his rancid bullshit.
More Establishment BS On Obamacare
The self-appointed insider "expert" huffs and fluffs for his dinner. Yes, a single-payer plan would have been politically impossible in 2008--would it have been worth it to give up on the clusterfuck we have in 2013 and push the single-payer concept into prominence during a vigorous political battle?--and Obama's primary goals were one, a political victory over Republicans and, two, to benefit the for-profit insurance industry. I'll say it again and again and again: there is no and never has been any support for a single-payer in the Democratic establishment. If the Democrats want to win on health care then make single-payer a plank in the platform. A generation was wasted after Clinton's failure, and it will be at least another generation until we get a chance to properly reform health care on a national level after Obama's failure. All these dickwads pretending that the ACA was a necessary compromise are letting you down by failing to acknowledge that the the ACA was exactly the sort of insurance industry welfare program which was the goal of Democratic health care reform from the beginning.
Just A Douche
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Virag's Movie Reviews: The Wolverine (2013)
Ugh, the Wolverine character in movies is such a mess at this point. Jackman is at least a foot too tall and 20 years too old to be Logan, especially since they feel the need to keep repeating how the Wolverine doesn't age. Logan might not age, but Hugh Jackman sure as shit does. Overall, this flick feels confused and disconnected. The two lead actresses are lovely to look at, but that doesn't make up for the totality of the cliched and low-energy production.
Willful Misunderstanding Of Obamacare Politics
I think Scott Lemieux is being willfully too cute by half arguing the minutiae of Obama's and the Democratic party's politics surrounding the ACA and pretending that the entire objection is that Obama "didn't try hard enough" to get a better plan. I call bullshit. Lemieux is an entry-level establishment Obama fluffer, so it is not too shocking to see him resorting to disingenuously dismissive posturing while ignoring the underlying truth: since before the titanic failure of Clinton's health care reform initiative, the Democratic party establishment has had no interest in true health care reform, so Obama's shitty health insurance industry welfare plan was not the best political compromise a dedicated POTUS could achieve; instead, it was the desired result all along. Obama, no more than Clinton, was never committed to any reform that did not benefit the insurance industry. Surely Lemieux knows this. He's chosen to do his work on behalf of the same interests as Obama and Clinton. Being a team player is no virtue if your team fights for the wrong side.
It Might Be Time To Turn Over Control Of The Yankees To Cartoon Characters
Like maybe that Fairly Oddparents kid. Or Cartman. The decisions would be pretty much the same, and cartoon characters are not known for brilliant long-term strategic planning. The Yankees have resources, but without a solid plan and a clear direction, well, you get what you get. Ellsbury? Really? Good job, Cartman.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Virag's Movie Reviews: Man Of Steel (2013)
Undoubtedly the high point of Man of Steel was the appearance of Helo and Gaeta. Surely there was room in this flick for Tigh, Tyrol, Doc Cottle, Cally, and the rest; replacing the cast of this movie with people from BG would have been a step up from the hilarious lack of chemistry between the Limey and Lois Lane. There should be a law against having both Russel Crowe and Kevin Costner in the same film. Superman is a stupid idea, too stupid to make a good movie when you have no idea who Superman is and the hows and whys of his abilities, and an especially stupid idea when you follow the sad tradition of having Superman be a boring, personality-less douche. At this point I'm not sure who should feel worse, the sorry bastard who was in Superman Returns or anyone associated with Smallville.
Why Is It Called Kraft Dinner In Canada?
I don't get it. Mac and cheese is bad enough, but saying "Kraft Dinner" is just wrong. For the love of christ, can't Rob Ford do something about this?
Serbian Activist And American Oligarchy? No Duh.
This is an interesting article, and not because it is somehow shocking that Goldman Sachs and Stratfor cultivate activists around the world. The greatest American power is money. Wealth is easier move, easier to deploy, and far more attractive to an activist type than military force in most cases. Srdja Popovic is not unique in that the was easily flattered and cheaply purchased.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Tar Sands And The Great Lakes--That Will Definitely End Well
The Great Lakes have endured so much abuse over the last two centuries; adding massive, poorly-regulated tar sands shipping might be the final insult. However, if there is a dime to made by the Koch Brothers or similar Koch-suckers, there is no doubt that all of the Great Lakes will be lousy with tar sand ASAPy-like.
I Want Rob Ford To Be America's Mayor
All Rudy Giuliani ever did was be a disgusting greaseball with a bad toupe and a lisp, a serial adulterer and cousin-fucker--besides being a criminally incompetent mayor, of course, who put the NYC emergency management HQ in the fucking WTC--but Rob Ford is way more entertaining than Rudy could ever be; Crackhead Rob has a crack-fueled panache that Guiliani could never match in a thousand years. Rob Ford deserves the honor of "America's Mayor" above the unctuous Rudy. Let's make Crackhead Rob Ford "America's Mayor".
Hale And Hearty Middle Finger To Liberty University
Doesn't mean too too much, but it is nice to see the court tweak the ninth-tier wingnut fuckers at Liberty U. I hope Falwell is laughing it up in hell.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Medicaid Expansion: For Once, Something Goes Right Around Here
Of course, a universal Medicaid expansion into Medicare, TRICARE, the VA and everything else remotely associated with health care delivery in the United States so that every American was covered would have been even better. That doesn't discount the huge positive impact that the Medicaid expansion will have on the lives of millions of our brothers and sisters. Hell, if Kentucky can get it right, imagine how much help a similar program would have been in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas, and Alaska. The fine fine citizens of Kentucky should thank jesus for their governor's above-room-temperature IQ and his desire to get some health care access for his constituents. And the fact that the Koch-sucking teabaggers hate it makes it so much more fun!
Metro-North Derailment
The Bronx. Jesus. Here's an idea: since trains and shit like that require constant maintenance and stuff, why don't we have a massive, nation-wide program to maintain and upgrade the transportation infrastructure in order to prevent things like this. And create jobs. And increase utility. And all that good stuff.
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Mountfitchet Castle and Norman Village
Castle / Fort
Tel: 01279 813237
Welcome to the national award-winning Mountfitchet Castle and Norman Village – a unique all-weather, all-in-one heritage entertainment complex where prehistory, history and nostalgia combine to make one great full exciting day out for the whole family.
Mountfitchet Castle is a unique history time capsule. With its commanding position overlooking the Stort Valley it is situated on its original site, which is steeped in history. Formerly an Iron Age hill fort, this historic site was also a Roman signals fort and later a Saxon and Viking settlement before being attacked in 1066 by the invading army of William the Conqueror who built his wooden Motte and Bailey castle here. This world-famous, historically accurate reconstructed castle and village enables the visitor to travel back in time to 1066 Norman England. Explore the Castle and roam through the Norman Village hidden behind the castle walls. Wander in and out of the many houses and dwellings, climb King Johns watch tower, have a go at the grinding wheel, sit in the stocks, try on a chain mail coif, marvel at the life sized medieval siege weapons and try to lift a heavy Knights sword - view the scenes, smell the log fires burning and experience the ambience of an ancient bygone lifestyle – a living history, hands-on and interactive experience. The children can enter the free treasure hunt to receive a reward. Mingle with and hand feed the many rescued animals including deer, goats and sheep that roam freely throughout the castle grounds and listen out for the echoes of long-forgotten voices...
The House on the Hill Toy Museum is one of our country's most popular visitor attractions for both young and old. It contains the largest toy collection in the world with toys from the Victorian era right up to the 1990s. Over 70,000 individual items from trains, lead and tin toys, Meccano, Action Man and Sindy to Raleigh Choppers, teddy bears, annuals, games, dolls and dolls houses. If you liked Thunderbirds, Star Wars, Six Million Dollar Man, Barbie and Sindy then you'll love our Toy Museum. It's a gigantic Aladdin's cave of nostalgia and we challenge you not to say "I used to have one of those!". The House on the Hill is also home to our Showbiz Collection where you will see items such as the famous Only Fools and Horses three-wheeled van and a large Dads Army display. Also some amazing film and TV artefacts including props, costumes and life size figures from Star Wars and Dr Who, come and see the Tardis and Daleks as used in the famous films and programmes. Don't miss the Rock 'n' Roll exhibition celebrating the golden era of the 60s and 70s See our original Wurlitzer Juke Box, rare concert posters and a vast amount of guitars signed by the stars of the time. Marvel at the life-size figures of the Beatles, Elvis and even an animated Marilyn Monroe. The Toy Museum is full of surprises around every corner. You can enjoy playing on the 'end of the pier' amusement slot machines with real old pennies and see the 'What the Butler Saw' machines that shocked Edwardian England. View a fascinating display on the 1914- 1918 and 1939-1945 World Wars including the Blitz years, Home Front and Battle of Britain memorabilia and relics - try on helmets and gas masks. Stand next to life sized figures of Pirates, Cowboys, Clowns, Terminator and even a giant Polar Bear for super photo opportunities. Did you know we have the only surviving replica of the Royal Crown Jewels in England? And when was the last time you saw a Sinclair C5? A great handson and interactive experience. Browse in the collectors' shop and antiques centre where you can buy or sell items from yesteryear ranging from historical items and toys to rock 'n' roll memorabilia and militaria items. Why not view our online collectors toyshop at. www.goldsmithsantiquetoyscollectables.co.uk. As you make your way up the hill to the Toy Museum, encounter the life size dinosaurs guarding the entrance and beware the pterodactyl ready to swoop down and attack... We also have Velociraptors and a T-Rex! You can try your hand at Fossil hunting in our Palaeontology house, can you find the Velociraptors claw? Spookily located within the Toy Museum is The Haunted Manor, if you're feeling brave enough to walk through the chilling chambers to the bewitched Victorian bedroom then a small extra entrance fee applies. But beware... this is not for the faint hearted!
The House on the Hill Toy Museum is always interested in purchasing items for the museum including WW1 & WW2 Militaria, old games, dolls and teddies, trains and die cast items and anything unusual. Please contact the museum for more information.
Mountfitchet Castle hold several special events throughout the year, please visit our website for details www.mountfitchetcastle.com
We are a 20 minute train ride from Cambridge to Stansted Mountfitchet station on the mainline Cambridge to London line. The Stansted Mountfitchet station is located at the foot of the Castle.
By road via M11 it is a 25 minute car journey from Cambridge.
Opening Times
|Opening Times (10 Mar 2020 - 11 Nov 2020)
|Ticket Type
|Ticket Tariff
|£11.00 per ticket
|Child 3 - 13 years
|£9.00 per ticket
|Child under 3
|£10.50 per ticket
Entrance to both Mountfitchet Castle and The House on the Hill Toy Museum are included in the one admission price.
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