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9 out of 10 software packages support Israel

In its PR campaign to explain its attack on Gaza, Israel's supporters have invented a new tactic in their well-developed “Hasbara” spin activities. Dozens of sock puppet Twitter accounts have been created solely to spam the same repeated talking points into the #gaza tag. Here we see one factoid containing an obvious misspelling get mindlessly copied throughout their network of troll bots.


Hasbara

January 08, 2009 in Current Affairs, Funny | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: hasbara, Israel, PR, propaganda, spam, spin, trolling, Twitter

Pants status: millions of hits

Male feminists reflect at Adonis Mirror:

Women are seen as deficient when it comes to science and technology without proof to the contrary. Lacking access to that jargon and its transformative power, a feminist woman would appear as someone arguing out of emotion, rather than the concrete “facts” thought to be held by those wielding “SEO” as if it were a weapon—a penis.

It must be an interesting experience for a man to feel this powerful, and to have his power endlessly extolled by flocks of women.

July 10, 2008 in Funny | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Workers unite against the Corporate Left?

There is something wrong with our language when Big Business is considered Leftist:

It is the Corporatists, the corporate left, who encourage and direct these policies and the politicians who listen to corporate money instead of the people who elected them.

March 28, 2008 in Funny, Sociopolitical | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: Big Business, irony, language, leftism, semantic drift

Christian Science Monitor: sloppy or snarky

from this piece:

The US military also issued a statement on Sunday calling the operation in Diwaniyah, dubbed Black Eagle, a "great success" so far. It said it detained 39 militiamen and killed an unspecified number. It also has uncovered "many large caches of weapons," including factories that make explosively formed penetrators (EFPs), devices that Washington accuses Tehran of supplying to Sadr's militia.

April 10, 2007 in Current Affairs, Funny | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Conflict hypothesis of the Business Suit

Marc Cuban flames the business suit and among the hundreds of failed attempts at humor in response, I found this one amusing:

Suits make young men look like dorks. And this is important, because a young man starting out needs the approval of the older, established men. And that young man is more attractive to the young women, with non-Republican hair, tans, lowfat bods. Soo, a suit and a haircut is really a symbolic castration ritual to bring the young apes down the ladder below the older bulls. Harsh, but true. No matter how much you tell yourself you look better in a suit rather than a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, it just ain't so. Suits represent wealth, power, and integration into the business world, which is attractive to the opposite sex for reasons of status rather than sexuality, tho the two are inevitably confused.

March 19, 2007 in Funny, Sociopolitical | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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An annoying telemarketer?

I'm getting calls from 702 952 4261.  The first one was a request to participate in an investment survey. I declined.  Now I've gotten three calls today. I picked up on the last one and heard a recorded voice say "goodbye".

This guy has been getting them as well.

February 14, 2007 in Funny | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

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Michelle found a Suspicious Device!


Here's how she got it.

February 05, 2007 in Funny | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Most ironic comment of the decade

George Bush Jr: "[Saddam Hussein] was a significant source of instability."

January 13, 2007 in Current Affairs, Funny | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Poem To Kim Jong Il

Poem To The NDC Chairman: Kim Jong Il published in Pyongyang by the Rodong Sinmun Daily


It is none other than the National Defense Commission chairman,

General Kim Jong Il [Kim Cho'ng-il] [preceding name in bold as published], the unrivaled heaven-sent General of Mt. Paektu, who

Learned how to govern the world

From a table placed in the Supreme Command for mapping out a plan of operations during the war days,

While hearing the sound of guns coming from a battlefield on Mt. Paektu during the anti-Japanese [struggle] days,

With steely will and gun barrel,

Standing tall at the head of the chuch'e armed forces,

Assuming responsibility for the destiny of the fatherland and the nation,

And led the revolution as a whole,

Along the single-track road from century to century.

 

It is none other than our NDC chairman,

The powerful and fearless General Kim Jong Il who,

Since no political formula of conventional framework

Or ultramodern scientific and technological means

Could calm the fiery wind of threats and natural disasters,

And the mountains of the most arduous trials,

And because only with the invincible gun barrel could they be broken through,

Lifted up the almighty military-first banner,

Turning the treacherous road of "arduous march"

Into a march toward a paradise, a broad level way out.

 

A brilliant, invincible military-first command,

A big heart to the tens of millions of soldiers and people when they are united,

A supreme commander well acquainted with the military affairs,

And an invincible NDC chairman to the country.

As no one can casually associate with him

And as he is held at the very top of our Republic,

The mad wind of imperialism stopped struggling and keeps its head down

And my fatherland displays fireworks to celebrate successive triumphs.

 

It is none other than the NDC chairman,

Our peerlessly superb General Kim Jong Il, who,

Oh, with do-or-die resolve when fighting is inevitable,

With the pluck that he would win victory in all fights without fail,

Standing firmly on a hard bulwark in the anti-US showdown,

With lightning and thunder reverberating throughout the skies,

Overwhelmed the dissonance from the bastards' heated anti-Republic commotion,

With the scream of those being destroyed.

 

Sacred it is.

My country's sky is blue over the gun barrel

And stacks of all kinds of grain stalks harvested in a bumper crop grow high.

It is none other than our NDC chairman,

The military-first veteran of all battles General Kim Jong Il, who,

 

Giving priority to the gun barrel and national defense,

Hardened the defense position of the fatherland into a fortress

And pushed towers of great construction up through the sky,

Beating the drum for advance with the sound of national defense hammer,

Raising the height of the fatherland with the launching pad of an artificial earth satellite,

Demonstrating the lofty dignity of the nation of the sun and

The majestic appearance of the powerful state of chuch'e to the whole world.

 

O, the peerless general who is the general of all generals,

The matchlessly great man who is the greatest of all great men.

It is none other than our NDC chairman, the greatest man in the world,

The brilliant, ever-victorious commander General Kim Jong Il,

The military-first sun admired by the whole world,

The person whom we will forever uphold at the very top of the Republic

And for whom tens of millions of soldiers and people will become guns and bombs to defend him at the risk of their lives, who,

With his hand,

 

Has achieved immortal accomplishments

That cannot be built even in a long historical period, even in hundreds of years

On the rock-firm foundation laid for a powerful state of chuch'e.

October 11, 2006 in Funny, Sociopolitical | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: dprk, hagiography, kil jong il, north korea, poetry

Funny RocketBoom comment by "Nab"

I have to imagine that in RocketBoom studios Drew is really the wise old man. The conversation goes something like this:

SL: Oh most venerable master, how can a vlogger know that he's achieved greatness?

DB: There are many signs of vlogging fullfillment, Bamboo Shoot. Some believe they have achieved the moutain top when they get a small role in a TV show, or a SAG card, or when their vlog attains sponsorship. Others look for a day with 100 comments, or 10000 downloads, or an article in the Wired magazine. But none of these really matter.

SL: But what does matter, oh master? When will I know that my vlogging is meaningful?

DB: Look not to reach a mass audience Bamboo Shoot, but rather to connect with a single viewer. This is the way of 2.0. A lone comment saying "You rock man!" or "I want to have your babies" means more than a million shouts of "First!". When this happens, you will know oneness with the internet.

September 23, 2006 in Funny, The Scene | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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