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STOP SOPA

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 120 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Blogmocracy, Communism, Free Speech, government, Humor, Media, OOT, Open thread, Politics, Progressives at January 18th, 2012 - 11:00 pm


Just think.

If the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) were to pass, this post could cause The Blogmocracy to be taken down with a single complaint.

The complaint could be made by one of the pet owners, the person who created any one of the images, the company that printed the calendars where the images were featured, any website that sold those calendars, and any individual claiming ownership of the pictures, whether the claims were legit or not.

Every website that posted any image could be accused and shut down, whether guilty of copyright infringement or not. Google itself could be in violation, because they linked to the images where we lifted them, which is aiding and abetting.

The U.S. Government has been trying to figure out ways to control the internest for a long time, especially for taxation purposes, but this latest power grab (by a bipartisan commission!) is beyond insidious.

Freedom of Speech is one of the unalienable rights of citizens of this great country. Let’s make sure it’s never taken away, because we’ll never get it back in time for The Overnight Open Thread.

Eco-Bitches Pwnd On Video Outtakes

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 9 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Energy, Environmentalism, Politics, Science, Special Report at December 13th, 2011 - 10:17 pm

From Wizbang via Soylent Green:

“Dr. Ann Maest is a managing scientist at Straus Consulting, and she’s the go to expert on all things groundwater. In the press release announcing her reappointment to the National Academy of Sciences, they mention that she is focused on the environmental effects of mining and petroleum extraction and production, and, more recently, on the effects of climate change on water quality.

Maest is in high demand as an expert for those looking to stop oil and mineral exploration. She’s also heavily used by the federal government, even though new details about her past work are coming to light as a result of a lawsuit.”

Anyone surprised? Not this reporter. Check out one of the smoking guns:

 

Yellow Journalism That’s Guaranteed To Piss You Off

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Hate Speech, Headlines, Islamists, Media, Politics, Progressives at September 6th, 2011 - 10:46 pm

“Welcome to Texas!” says Al-Jazeera reporter Gabriel Elizono. The Brazilian garnered a roadtrip, decided to find out what rural Texas was all about. Click the links to read the *ahem* reporter’s story, but make sure you read the school superintendent’s  response. [Source: Kate Shellnutt/Houston Chronicle]

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Al Jazeera reporter not welcomed at Texas football game

An Al Jazeera reporter from Brazil ended up in the Texas panhandle to report on post-9/11 America. He wrote about how an “obviously furious” high school principal denied him the opportunity to film at a football game.

Gabriel Elizono’s blog entry is titled “Welcome to Texas! Unless you’re Al Jazeera.”

After chronicling about the saga (which the school official corrected and clarified), he ends with this:

I got back in the car, and ponder how interesting it would have been to cut through the red tape of [the principal] and talk to the people at the game. How had 9/11 affected them? Do they feel safer now than they did on September 10, 2001? How would this All American town commemorate the 10 year anniversary?

I unwittingly get my answer to the last question, and I don’t need Mr Lee’s permission on this one.  On a main intersection in Booker a little sign reads: “Gun Show. Sept. 10 – 11. Legion Hall.”

Well, I guess that’s my spin on this whole story.

The implication in Elizono’s story and its coverage on Gawker is that a decade after 9/11, Texans are suspicious of the name Al Jazeera and a bunch of gun-toting xenophobes. Or that they love football so much that they’d only talk to a reporter at a football game and not, say, the parking lot, a local restaurant or anywhere else in town.

I can’t speak to Booker, Texas, but on behalf of Houston—the most diverse city in the American South—I give this notion a great big eye roll.

[More here.]

Earth Day 2011

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 121 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Environmentalism, Humor, Open thread, Satire at April 22nd, 2011 - 11:00 pm


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A closed hand, symbolizing the womb, the mother, Gaia, the Earth.

The thumb, representing life, emerging to take its first breath.

Blue is the clear sky and the deep oceans. White is pristine purity.

The flag in the background, I’m not quite sure. Probably neonazis.

On this glorious Earth Day, let’s give thanks to the Industrial Revolution. It allowed us to utilize the bountiful resources of the planet to combat the destruction of the environment by emissions of green house gases.

Contrary to popular opinion, methane, not CO2, is the culprit. Let’s bury our rotting compost heaps, bulldoze the rain forests, pave over everything that decomposes and eliminate the effects of SGW (Saprogenic Global Warming) while simultaneously reducing the undisputed major contributor to global warming: botanically produced water vapor.

On another note, this is a Good Friday for The Overnight Open Thread.