Federal government seized Pokerstars.com? Asshats.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383667,00.asp

Reminder: Failure to raise the debt ceiling will NOT produce a default.

From pssvr at Reddit:

There has been a lot of repetition of the meme lately that either Congress and the President will agree to raise the debt ceiling by August 2nd, or the U.S. will default. This is flatly untrue. U.S. revenues are more than high enough to cover interest on the outstanding debt. In fact they are more than high enough to cover both interest on the outstanding and Social Security payments, contrary to what President Obama has indicated.

What will happen if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2nd is that the U.S. will cease to be able to go deeper into debt, and thus outlays will become equal to revenues in approximately real-time. That means cuts will have to made, somewhere. But there is no reason to believe those cuts would have to be in Social Security or in interest on the outstanding debt, unless the administration chooses to make it this way. The cuts could just as easily come from the military, or the DHS, or Medicare, or whatever. This is a decision politicians will have to make, but it does not force a default in any sense.

The entire debate is nothing more than an excuse for Boehner and Obama both to look like their jobs are hard and they are actually doing something.

Lipsyncing to become a felony

From demandprogress.org:

THIS WEEK Senators will be voting on a "Ten Strikes" bill to make it a felony to stream copyrighted content -- like music in the background of a Youtube video -- more than ten times.

As the writers at TechDirt point out, under this bill you could go to jail for posting video of your friends singing karaoke

America, America, God shed His grace on thee...

Ethanol in gasoline

I noticed the gas I used today had an ethanol content of 10%. A Google search later I find the following information:

Ethanol has 34 percent less energy than gasoline per gallon, which equates to about 2 to 3 miles per gallon for E10 (10 percent ethanol), according to the New York Times.

And some other juicy comments that came up from a Google search:

Gas in Mexico is $2.50 a gallon? Saudi Arabia gas is 45 cents a gallon. Our troops have to pay $3.00 a gallon for gas over there? There is a movement to destroy America and our Society. Americans are being robbed!Why are prescriptions cheaper in Canada? Why does Cuba and Canada have better health care then we do here in America? Folks we are under attack by our own Government!! What has our Government done for America in the last 7 years? How many more good jobs can we afford to lose? Come out of your bubble folks!

That's from 2008.

Enjoy the high prices for corn while they last, farmer boy. Once the ethanol scam starts to cost politicians their jobs it will disappear as quickly as it's been forced down our throats.

Once more: ETHANOL = SCAM

Wouldn't surprise me. The government gives breaks to corn producers, GMO corn being mass-produced with seed from global corporations like Monsanto, which according to this article is "The Most Evil Company on the Planet" (and don't forget to watch Food Inc. either). Corn is used to produce ethanol. Ethanol is used in gasoline, and we must buy more of the 10% ethanol gasoline to achieve the same mileage, which benefits not only big agriculture but big oil, too, and the politicians, corporate fat cats, and big investors reap the benefits.

As usual, the people suffer while the unscrupulous "elite" grow fat off our slavery.

Glaring example of the government's corruption, in this case the FDA

From Mercola.com:

Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food and Drug Administration in American history.

In the 1970’s, Dr. Burzynski made a remarkable discovery that threatened to change the face of cancer treatment forever. His non-toxic gene-targeted cancer medicine could have helped save millions of lives over the last two decades had his discovery not been criminally suppressed by the US government, as his therapy, called “antineoplastons,” have been shown to effectively help cure some of the most “incurable” forms of terminal cancer.

This documentary takes you through the treacherous 14-year journey Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to finally obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of antineoplastons.

His story is yet another testament that fact can be far stranger than fiction, as the film exposes the powerful, unscrupulous forces that work to maintain the status quo of the medical- and pharmaceutical industry at any cost—including the lives of millions of people.

You can watch the film free through tomorrow here: http://vimeo.com/24821365

edit: Updated the video link to one that isn't ass-slow.