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[Junkenstein]

Israel's settler policies have been a long established tool to seize the west bank. Nothing breeds quicker than religious fanatics with a pioneer mentality. The earlier eugenics stuff really wasn't that surprising in this light.

Breeding to success. Oh humanity.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Israel's settler policies have been a long established tool to seize the west bank. Nothing breeds quicker than religious fanatics with a pioneer mentality. The earlier eugenics stuff really wasn't that surprising in this light.

Breeding to success. Oh humanity biology.

FTFY

[Junkenstein]

Appreciated, species bias showing through again.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/18/2318254/tpb-files-police-complaint-against-cpiac-for-copying-website

Last week, a Finnish anti-piracy agency copied the CSS and HTML of The Pirate Bay. Today, TPB announced that they have filed a police report and are preparing to sue for copyright infringement:
"The Pirate Bay, the world's largest site for cultural diversity and file sharing, has today (Monday 2013-02-18) reported a suspected crime to the Finnish police. The suspected criminals are the Finnish anti-piracy organization CIAPC (locally known as TTVK). The reason is that CIAPC have copied files from which The Pirate Bay is built, to produce a fraudulent parody site. While The Pirate Bay may have a positive view on copying, it will not stand by and watch copyright enforcing organizations disrespect copyright."
The Pirate Bay is also arguing that parody laws do not apply thanks to recent legal precedent.

Rather amusing. I eagerly await the defence.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Appreciated, species bias showing through again.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/18/2318254/tpb-files-police-complaint-against-cpiac-for-copying-website

Last week, a Finnish anti-piracy agency copied the CSS and HTML of The Pirate Bay. Today, TPB announced that they have filed a police report and are preparing to sue for copyright infringement:
"The Pirate Bay, the world's largest site for cultural diversity and file sharing, has today (Monday 2013-02-18) reported a suspected crime to the Finnish police. The suspected criminals are the Finnish anti-piracy organization CIAPC (locally known as TTVK). The reason is that CIAPC have copied files from which The Pirate Bay is built, to produce a fraudulent parody site. While The Pirate Bay may have a positive view on copying, it will not stand by and watch copyright enforcing organizations disrespect copyright."
The Pirate Bay is also arguing that parody laws do not apply thanks to recent legal precedent.

Rather amusing. I eagerly await the defence.

Classic! CIAPC site sounds more like a Phishing scam than a parody. Aside from being funny as fuck, this case could have a serious side to it.

[Juana]

Oh christ.

[Junkenstein]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/02/koch-brothers-want-know-why-their-money-was-wasted/62331/

The massive amount of outside political spending unleashed by Citizens United did not, as feared, make it easier for rich people to buy an election. Instead, it showed that rich people are pretty dumb about politics. Take the billionaire businessmen Charles and David Koch who are spending their 2013 figuring out why they the money they spent in 2012 was such a waste. They have already fired most of their 100 staffers at Americans for Prosperity, and they're now conducting an audit.

Audit - One of the most spiteful words known to man.

[Junkenstein]

The "Shit everyone knows happens" files #22499/JB/11456-E

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/22/heres-how-you-buy-your-way-onto-the-new-york-times-bestsellers-list/

ResultSource, a San Diego-based marketing consultancy, specializes in getting books onto bestseller lists, according to The Wall Street Journal. For clients willing to pay enough, it will even guarantee a No. 1 spot. It does this by taking bulk sales and breaking them up into more organic-looking individual purchases, defeating safeguards that are supposed to make it impossible to "buy" bestseller status.

Property Taxes blamed for everything being fucked in Detroit
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130221/METRO01/302210375

Delinquency is so pervasive that 77 blocks had only one owner who paid taxes last year, The News found. Many of those who don't pay question why they should in a city that struggles to light its streets or keep police on them.

"Why pay taxes?" asked Fred Phillips, who owes more than $2,600 on his home on an east-side block where five owners paid 2011 taxes. "Why should I send them taxes when they aren't supplying services? It is sickening. ... Every time I see the tax bill come, I think about the times we called and nobody came."

Everyone fucking everyone
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/business/major-banks-aid-in-payday-loans-banned-by-states.html?pagewanted=all&_r=3&

Major banks have quickly become behind-the-scenes allies of Internet-based payday lenders that offer short-term loans with interest rates sometimes exceeding 500 percent.

.... The banking industry says it is simply serving customers who have authorized the lenders to withdraw money from their accounts. "The industry is not in a position to monitor customer accounts to see where their payments are going," said Virginia O'Neill, senior counsel with the American Bankers Association.

More joy later.

[Junkenstein]

The "The Fuck?" Files #44209/KK/4F:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/noted-black-leader-ted-nugent-launches-his-black-p,92904/

In recent years, the human bottle-opener flip-flop that is Ted Nugent has done his very best to foster pride in the black community by embodying all the most hateful qualities of the white community. But now he's taking a far more actionable, totally marketable route to bringing black people together so they can listen to some Ted Nugent music and Ted Nugent's ideas and then feel better about themselves: He's launching a tour he's dubbed "Ted Nugent Black Power 2013," because no one who works for him is allowed to disagree with Ted Nugent anymore, apparently.
Typing in his regular column on World Net Daily, Nugent takes the opportunity afforded by Black History Month to "honor blacks" by talking about Ted Nugent, whose "gravity-defying career pivots on my intense adulation for my black musical heroes"—and thus gives him an equally intense personal dismay over how the Democratic Party, The New Deal, Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society experiment," and especially Barack Obama are collectively the "engineer of the destruction of black America." This, rather than helping to strengthen black America in the way that Ted Nugent does, whenever he plays the powerfully black music of Ted Nugent.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The "The Fuck?" Files #44209/KK/4F:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/noted-black-leader-ted-nugent-launches-his-black-p,92904/

In recent years, the human bottle-opener flip-flop that is Ted Nugent has done his very best to foster pride in the black community by embodying all the most hateful qualities of the white community. But now he's taking a far more actionable, totally marketable route to bringing black people together so they can listen to some Ted Nugent music and Ted Nugent's ideas and then feel better about themselves: He's launching a tour he's dubbed "Ted Nugent Black Power 2013," because no one who works for him is allowed to disagree with Ted Nugent anymore, apparently.
Typing in his regular column on World Net Daily, Nugent takes the opportunity afforded by Black History Month to "honor blacks" by talking about Ted Nugent, whose "gravity-defying career pivots on my intense adulation for my black musical heroes"—and thus gives him an equally intense personal dismay over how the Democratic Party, The New Deal, Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society experiment," and especially Barack Obama are collectively the "engineer of the destruction of black America." This, rather than helping to strengthen black America in the way that Ted Nugent does, whenever he plays the powerfully black music of Ted Nugent.

[Junkenstein]

While the tone is trollish, I fear the reporting to be just a matter of inevitability.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

While the tone is trollish, I fear the reporting to be just a matter of inevitability.

No, Nugent is trolling.

[Junkenstein]

My bullshit radar is utterly fucked today.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

My bullshit radar is utterly fucked today.

It's a brilliant troll, when you come to think of it.  Wound me up like a cheap watch, and I was EXPECTING something like this.

Nugent is entering the Palin Zone, and he'll be gone by autumn.  So enjoy it while you can.

[Junkenstein]

Someone shop a picture of Nugent screaming at an onion with the quote of "LAYERS BITCHES"

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

The "The Fuck?" Files #44209/KK/4F:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/noted-black-leader-ted-nugent-launches-his-black-p,92904/

In recent years, the human bottle-opener flip-flop that is Ted Nugent has done his very best to foster pride in the black community by embodying all the most hateful qualities of the white community. But now he's taking a far more actionable, totally marketable route to bringing black people together so they can listen to some Ted Nugent music and Ted Nugent's ideas and then feel better about themselves: He's launching a tour he's dubbed "Ted Nugent Black Power 2013," because no one who works for him is allowed to disagree with Ted Nugent anymore, apparently.
Typing in his regular column on World Net Daily, Nugent takes the opportunity afforded by Black History Month to "honor blacks" by talking about Ted Nugent, whose "gravity-defying career pivots on my intense adulation for my black musical heroes"—and thus gives him an equally intense personal dismay over how the Democratic Party, The New Deal, Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society experiment," and especially Barack Obama are collectively the "engineer of the destruction of black America." This, rather than helping to strengthen black America in the way that Ted Nugent does, whenever he plays the powerfully black music of Ted Nugent.

Uhhhhh...

It appears to be REAL.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ted-nugent-dubs-next-tour-black-power-2013-20130222