It sounds right on. You can watch the commercial at the following link. http://movies.about.com/od/syriana/a/syriana101105.htm

I love how my weird job allows me to thrash this website while y'all are snoozin. It's kinda like creepin around in somebody else's house while they're sleepin. Hoooahhhh!

I suffered many hangovers in econ class during college. The only discernable carcass still dangling in those cobwebs is a concept called, selling short. You all probably know what it is, but just in case you don't: The whole thing is based on the hopes that a company will decrease in value. You go to a broker (Ameritrade.com in my case) and say you want to sell short. They 'loan' you stock in the company of your choice (Walmart) for, I believe, a preordained time period. Your hope is that the stock will drop, and you will owe on a loan that is less than the original, thereby profitting from the depreciation of, well, Walmart. That movie came out (name escapes me), got mention everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to Newsweek, Walmart was already on an anomalous appreciation streak (if you look at the graphs on ameritrade), and every graph of every year recent and prior to this shows a peak beginning slightly before Christmas and ending sometime between January and March. I think that Walmart will drop at least five dollars per share between New Years and March. I also don't know my ass when it comes to the stock market thing. This will be my first forray, unless someone deters me by better judgement. I love the thought of profitting off the decline -if even a momentary decline- of the new world order. Problem is, if I'm wrong, I will have straight up given Walmart my money, without any chinese plastic, hot pink apparel, or censored book or album to show for it. Any of you anticaimanites have any advice? Actually, I don't think I've ever taken much advice, but anybody wanna share my brain on this one? It kinda hurts.

Tookie's life and the possible cessation thereof has prompted a side discussion on capital punishment. Torment Inside has suggested an island colony where life is made to be a 'living hell'. Any other ideas? I still favor curing the ills of society that precipitate behaviour propmting the mob mentality that results in capital punishment. I think the death row inmates make a convenient repository for the hatred of the common man, and would prefer to dissipate that hatred through social reform. However, I am not so 'whacko' as to believe a utopian fruition is forthcoming. The best compromise I can suggest is leaving the powers of clemency in the hands of the next of kin. Even if this amounts to the victim's 'emergency contact' person, it would be better to personalize the punishment. If it is up to the next of kin to pull the trigger, plunge the syringe, or flip the switch, it will also be up to him/her to possibly choose an even more potent weapon -forgiveness. What better atonement than to put a gun to the murderer's head, the finger of the next of kin on the trigger, and let the miracle of humanity play itself out to either end. Either way, "society" will have been avenged, and a lesson will have been learned. Plus, think about the sick freak whose job it is to kill death-row inmates repeatedly until retirement. A society such as ours needn't produce such abberant occupations. Anybody else?

On December 13, that slobbering Austrian arm of the neocon cabal, Arnie Schwarzenwhatever will be killing or sparing the life of Tookie Williams. Williams cofounded the Crips in 1971 and has served time since 1981. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace prize four times for his literary contributions to ending gang violence. His contributions come in the form of various books, public advocacy of gang cease-fires, and a movie. "Redemption" is a Hollywood movie starring Jamie Fox that tells Tookie's story. His contributions to society are not limitted to the above, and can be researched at the forthcoming website link. The other issue is that of the trial he was given. There is much evidence of an extremely racist and circumstantial proceeding. The prosecutor, for instance, removed the only two black jurors, has been censured by the supremem court of california for racist conduct in the courtroom, has had various convictions overturned by appeals courts on the same basis, and argued for Tookies conviction using testimony of gangsters who recieved commuted or shortened sentences in exchange. Tookie could have recieved a more lenient treatment by the court, had he written a confession of his crimes. He did not. He has maintained his innocence to this day, and even the 9th circuit appeals court has made the overt suggestion that Arnie exercise his ill-begotten powers of clemency. Please check it out and pass it on. There is a petition to sign, too. www.savetookie.org

I don't mean Jeff Gannon, silly! How come some posts have red asterisks?

Pass Initiative 666 –Save the Puppies. If I had a pet monkey and one day decided to throw him into my wood burning stove, locking the door behind him, he would die. He would die because of his inability to sustain life in an environment into which I thrust him. If my actions happened to be witnessed by a Good Samaritan, I would certainly, and rightly so, be charged with a criminal act. Brothers and sisters, although some say monkeys resemble humans, you and I know that we were created in God’s image, and bear no direct relation to these creatures. Yet, still we care. We sympathize with the plight of a creature with whom we share not a shred of common descent, and we do so simply because we are Christians. I ask you then, my Christian brethren, can we not extend that compassion to that with which we are related in the very flesh and soul? Most states have made great strides in eradicating that satanic ritual known as abortion. With Alito on the Supreme Court, our dream of national God-reverence shall likely come to pass. But hearken Christian soldiers; there is another who begs our urgent protection. Many times per second, all day everyday, ZILLIONS upon ZILLIONS of our vulnerable little relatives are spat out like my figurative monkey into the inhospitable atmosphere and certain death. Conjure an image of ZILLIONS of white puppy dog tails wagging in a happily harmonious unison, within the safety of their perfect pink kennel. Now imagine the affects of that life sustaining kennel’s sudden disappearance. All those ZILLIONS of perfect white puppy tails freeze stiff with the suddenness of a volcanic spume ejection. Their little puppy eyes roll up into their heads and their little wet noses cease to pant. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the time is now. We must pass initiative 666. We must save our little brothers, the sperm. Choose Life! Prohibit masturbation!