the great social experiment

i understand there is an important election currently taking place in the united states. there is a ton of rhetoric coming from both major parties about which party has a better plan for the country and the both sides are playing fast and loose with the truth so i'm going to tell you what is really going on.

at this moment there are about 7 BILLION PEOPLE currently sucking the life out of the planet. the question facing our political leaders is how to feed, clothe, nourish and entertain the masses. there is a huge surplus of people on the planet at the present time so it's not as if every human is special and will have unlimited resources spent on maintaining their existence. in fact, most are nothing more than cannon fodder capable of repeating the opinions of their political heroes or worse, some dickhead celebrity.

the ruling elite, those who control the purse strings, have been conducting a very interesting and controversial experiment. what is the optimal amount of money to spend on maintaining the cannon fodder and at what point do they say to hell with it and let the masses fend for themselves. the elite have been kicking that can down the road for the past 20 years or so. all the while, the masses have been breeding like rats and demanding that they be fed, clothed, housed and entertained. the managers, scientists and engineers controlling the experiment have concocted all sorts of electronic surveillance techniques to monitor their subjects. governments all over the planet tinker with social programs to find the most economic and productive ways to use their limited resources. the experiment is ongoing. countless different approaches to the problem are taking place all over the globe. the experiments are not self contained. a failed experiment in one location can wreak havoc on other seemingly independent experiments. the wall street collapse pretty much destroyed several other experiments and eurozone is currently jeopardizing half the planet.

the best part, most of the fucking idiots think there is some omnipotent deity looking after them if they keep in line and pay tribute on sundays.

we are bugs in a jar and pretty soon the elite will tire of caring for their bugs and shake the shit out of the jar. my only hope is that there is another ruling elite somewhere else in the universe, monitoring our masters and that they might shake the shit out of the jar containing our ruling elite.

i love you sons of bitches, cannon fodder or not.

feckin nine irons!

last week i began watching deadwood for the 6th time. this time around i was happy to be using the new official deadwood discs i purchased from ebay last year. when i ordered the discs the location was stated as being the united states but when they arrived, they were from china.

i watched the first 2 episodes on disc one and all was well with the world. when the episode 2 was over i grabbed disc number 2 and put it into the dvd player but nothing happened so i decided to eject the disc and take a look at it. the disc would not eject so i decided to turn the player off and on to see what would happen. the feckin player would not turn off! i tried using the remote and pushing the button on the player but it would not turn off or open the tray. the machine had seized up!

this really bugged me because i was well medicated from some excellent fish and wasn't up to the challenge of figuring out what was going on. i decided to pull the plug and really teach the fecker who was the boss but there were a million wires behind the entertainment center. if i pulled the wrong wire i might lose a bunch of settings or have to reset a clock so woe was fecking me!

after a few minutes i figured it out and pulled the plug. the machine went dead so i was happy. i turned it back on and was able to eject the disc. i decided to give it another try and lucky me, it worked.

the lovely mrs myshkin was not impressed when she heard me yelling, "those motherfucking nine irons! those motherfucking nine irons"

does anyone know what i meant by saying "those motherfucking nine irons?"

i love you sons of bitches

they're here!

i enjoyed reading these books so much the first time and the second time that i decided to purchase hardback copies. when sonny made his first trip north i bought paperback copies for him but this is such an excellent scifi, fantasy, alternate history that i decided to go first class.

the first book in the series,in the balance, cost about $20 from abebooks but the price declined with subsequent editions. the last book, striking the balance, only cost $1. shipping charges, however, were pretty steep on the striking the balance.

fuck me, after an incredibly beautiful and dry august-september the weather has taken a nasty turn. me and the roo got drenched going for her morning walk. an old man would have to be pretty fucking tough to go camping in this weather. or not be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

i love you sons of bitches

economic warfare!

poor old iran. or should i say stupid old iran.

the economic sanctions on iran seem to be working very well. iran is quite nicely on its WAY TO HYPERINFLATION! as the article states, the iranian rial has plunged 65% in a week. that's a pretty fair sized drop. if you happened to be an iranian citizen with no international investments, your net worth declined by 65% almost overnight. and it ain't over. inflation is soaring at a rate of 69% per month. in other words, the fucking place is falling apart.

oh how warfare has evolved. unmanned remote controlled drones dropping death and mayhem from above, cyber warfare disrupting nuclear facilities and now economic warfare crippling their economy and probably bankrupting a lot of innocent bystanders. this article GIVES A MORE CYNICAL ACCOUNT of the economic sanctions. things like this point out the value of gold. currency is nothing but a promise and faith that the promise will be kept. as we see, keeping the promise can be out a sovereign nations control when more powerful nations decide to teach them a lesson.

the thing i find most curious and possibly most disturbing about iran's difficulties is that it's not front page news. if iran threatens israel it's front page news and the world hears about it but when economic sanctions are really working well it seems to be buried. it's almost like israel and the military industrial complex want to keep the option of a military strike as the top option for dealing with iran.

on a more pleasant note i was lucky enough to catch the clerks 2 donkey scene last night and laughed myself silly.

i love you sons of bitches.

things are heating up.

it seems our lovely planet is getting a wee bit warmer these days. in fact, you might say it's getting real fecking hot!

the ice caps are ARE FALLING APART FASTER THAN A DODGE MINIVAN! it wasn't that long ago that i thought i would croak before things got real interesting. but with the melting of the ice caps proceeding at a break neck pace, i might live long enough to see the oceans reclaim a huge chunks of land. i was already confident i'd live to see extreme droughts and famine but the speed of the ice caps melting has caught me by surprise, from 2100 to 2050 to 2020.

i worked in the artic in 1975 and my most vivid memory was seeing the frozen arctic for the first time. it wasn't pristine, it was dirty in southern areas. i didn't make it to the inner part of the ice caps where the ice was supposedly clean. it was a dirty world 37 years ago and it's a dirtier world today. of course the oil companies deny this and play upon people's fear of higher energy prices if pollution is taxed. the simpletons buying into this don't seem to realize that their grocery bills are going to go through the roof as the food supply shrinks. i'd rather live in a world with higher energy prices than exorbitant food prices.

so there it is, while most people are focused on unemployment and deficits the earth's air conditioner is on it's last legs. since obama supports initiatives to curb carbon emissions and romney won't address the problem, only saying that jobs are his priority, i smile everytime mitt sticks his foot in his mouth. i do wonder if mitt is a believer in global warming but is being forced to agree with the tea baggers and conspiracy nuts that global warming is a hoax.

i love you sons of bitches