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<br>;)A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-92157787476882403952013-01-03T23:35:00.001-06:002013-01-03T23:35:33.209-06:00What I find delicious<a href="http://www.delicious.com/v2/rss/pro.lick">http://www.delicious.com/v2/rss/pro.lick</a> A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-26710492699669794042009-05-08T19:48:00.004-05:002009-05-08T21:46:18.409-05:00Wikipedia pwnd again<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Your friend </span><a href="http://digg.com/users/ProLick"><strong style="font-family: times new roman;">Pro-Lick</strong></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> wanted us to send you this from Dilbert.com.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">And not even by someone significant. Topped by Topper. Oh, the indignity. The social network posing as an encyclopedia gets Dilberted, and it didn't even require Dogbert.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><p><br /><a href="http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-08/"><img src="http://dilbert.com/dyn_file/str_strip/52205/gif/strip.print/" border="0" /></a></p>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-51371973343326082892009-04-28T10:29:00.001-05:002009-04-28T10:29:03.677-05:00Colbert Study: Liberals Don't Know he's SeriousThe actual title of the article is "Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking". But everybody knows Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report is dead serious, except the liberals, of course. They're off drinking Kool-Aid listening to socialist radio stations that support leftists like Al Franken. Nothing but more liberal media lies. Ohio State should file a lawsuit against them for distorting their research.<p>digg user ProLick would like to share this story with you: <br><a href="http://digg.com/d1plX2?OTC-em-st1">http://digg.com/d1plX2?OTC-em-st1</a> <br> ---<br>"Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking"<br>A study from Ohio State University, which proves, with math and stuff, that lots of conservatives seem to not understand the intrinsic, underlying joke of The Colbert Report:<br>+2,832 people dugg this story<p><br>To verify that this email was sent by Digg user ProLick, visit:<br><a href="http://digg.com/verifymail?key=02493f151a6e0e4e11eec88240c503d0&OTC-em-st2">http://digg.com/verifymail?key=02493f151a6e0e4e11eec88240c503d0&OTC-em-st2</a><p>To opt out of ALL future emails from Digg, visit:<br><a href="http://digg.com/optout?key=008ef402d7453d3718d3b353b239bdc2&OTC-em-st3">http://digg.com/optout?key=008ef402d7453d3718d3b353b239bdc2&OTC-em-st3</a><p>Digg will NOT store your email address, even if you opt out!<br>Digg will store only an encrypted key, which even Digg can't decipher.A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-60214205380723654842009-04-26T09:58:00.001-05:002009-04-26T09:58:03.656-05:00Why Lying about Sex with Your Intern is Worse than TortureIn the form of a comic titled: What The (insert an F) uck is Wrong With America<p>digg user ProLick would like to share this story with you: <br><a href="http://digg.com/d1pe6A?OTC-em-st1">http://digg.com/d1pe6A?OTC-em-st1</a> <br> ---<br>"What The uck is Wrong With America (comic version)"<br>Torture lies ... it's not like someone lied about having sex with an intern.<br>+3 people dugg this story<p><br>To verify that this email was sent by Digg user ProLick, visit:<br><a href="http://digg.com/verifymail?key=3aff5dfb270e6a9699072228bd1b0685&OTC-em-st2">http://digg.com/verifymail?key=3aff5dfb270e6a9699072228bd1b0685&OTC-em-st2</a><p>To opt out of ALL future emails from Digg, visit:<br><a href="http://digg.com/optout?key=008ef402d7453d3718d3b353b239bdc2&OTC-em-st3">http://digg.com/optout?key=008ef402d7453d3718d3b353b239bdc2&OTC-em-st3</a><p>Digg will NOT store your email address, even if you opt out!<br>Digg will store only an encrypted key, which even Digg can't decipher.A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-6115334690471409222009-02-01T14:06:00.003-06:002009-02-01T15:16:24.650-06:00The Worst of 2008A lot of bad things happened in 2008. Time failed in its claim to have the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/">top 10 of everything</a> by excluding the most horrible. One could only <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/view/165211/5">hope</a> that Obama's inauguration speech was only 2 words: "My bad." Now that it's officially over and we have a month of perspective, I've tried to reduce it to the <b>top 10 most horrible things that happened in 2008</b>. I might add more, because I think all kinds of secrets about liberal atrocities will be released to the public once Bush & Cheney are freed from the restrictions of the White House.<br /><ul><li>We didn't use the surge to invade Iran.</li><li>President Bush was not elected to a 3rd term.</li><li>Vice President Cheney did not run for President.</li><li>They didn't turn <a href="http://www.wikiality.com">The Colbert Report</a> into an hourly report and fire Jon Stewart.</li><li>McCain was refused the right to find and kill Osama bin Laden.</li><li>Sarah Palin was ignored by the liberal media.</li><li>Rachel Maddow was allowed on TV.</li><li>Courts refused Vice President Cheney the right to destroy secret documents.</li><li>Franken won.</li><li>Obama won.</li></ul>There is a holy light in the sky, however. Israel is taking advantage of Bush-Cheney's plan to liberate the world to bomb Gaza and the UN into freedom. This clearly shows the great offensive capabilities of freedom to score on the terrorists. Enjoy the explosions while you can. We're going to be stuck with another tree-hugging liberal who won't let us so much as enjoy even a deep sea offshore oil eruption.A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-25216630976154523892008-10-12T14:09:00.004-05:002008-10-12T16:18:47.059-05:00The Joy of Shill'n<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >As</span> </span>fellow shill<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >s</span> like <a href="http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Media_incorrectly_reports_Palin_did_not_break_laws">Sarah Palin</a> know, one of the great pleasures in life is <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia12-2008sep12,0,3404561.story">lying</a>. People have to prove you wrong, and in the process, they keep <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia12-2008sep12,0,3404561.story">repeating the lie</a>, especially the media, aka the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100015">echo chamber</a>. I prefer to view it as a <a href="http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Cindy_McCain_Kept_Keating_Partnership_After_Scandal">free ad service for the successful with power and money</a>.<br /><br />The <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100015">main stream media</a>, as my friend <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Karl_Rove">Karl Rove</a> knows, are just a bunch of simpletons who repeat whatever you feed them - like the <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Wall_Street_Journal">Wall Street Journal</a> echoing stock quotes. As Bush echoed for Rove, "the filter". More importantly, regardless of how big and nasty the lie, even the <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/675/">fact checkers</a> go out of their way to be courteous and avoid potential legal problems. Maybe they'll eventually criticize it as a "distortion" or "exaggeration" like the losers at <a href="http://factcheck.org/">FactCheck.org</a> or <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Liberals">the liberals</a> at <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/10/palin_chryson/index.html">Salon.com</a>, but they still echo the lie itself and the mass media rarely follows up, content to move on to whatever is new and hot.<br /><br />The important thing is they repeat your brand name and your lie, and most often both in the headline and summary, and few people read beyond that. It's like advertising without the pain of paying for it or those long, tedious notifications about the accuracy of the claims. That's why you should believe "<a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/10/12/palin_booed/index.html">Palin - the Hockey Mom Candidate</a>", "<a href="http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/He_Lied_About_Bill_Ayers_2">McCain-Palin Repeat Obama Palling Around with Terrorists</a>", "America Must <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/19/mccains-economic-policy-k_n_127751.html">Pass Bailout Plan Immediately</a>", and "<a href="http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081010/COLUMNIST13/810109970/-1/NEWS08">Bush Says Everything Will be Fine</a>".<br /><br />To be continued....A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-61315228427224548072008-02-05T10:57:00.000-06:002008-02-05T11:17:38.070-06:00STOP! Do Not Vote!<span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.foxnews.com/images/282661/0_62_051107_florida_fires.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/282661/0_62_051107_florida_fires.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Relax. Leave "<a href="http://wikiality.com/Super_Tuesday">Super Tuesday</a>" and caucus voting to the ex</span><span style="font-size:130%;">perts. After all, they ga</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ve us <a href="http://wikiality.com/George_W_Bush">G</a></span><a href="http://wikiality.com/George_W_Bush"><span style="font-size:130%;">eo</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://wikiality.com/George_W_Bush">rge W. Bush</a>. </span><span style="font-size:130%;">There's still plenty of Super Bowl highlights to watch again and to talk about with real s</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" >m</span>art pe<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >o</span>ple on spo<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >r</span>ts radi<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" >o</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" >n</span>ow.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Not to mention all the quality TV available to watch now that the writers are on strike. You can even enjoy <a href="http://wikiality.com/Fox_News">FOX News</a> accurate and quality updates on celebrity news and Super Tuesday while they inform you about all the failings for the Democrats that they heard about from some people they know.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Most important, don't vote twice. Even though, technically, you can go to both the Democrat and Republican caucus polling places and legally vote for a Democratic and Republican candidate at each, only experts really understand how to do this. Non-experts frequently suffer brain sprains. Which is why TV and talk radio are the best options of safe and secure real Americans.</span></span>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-34479409113030153902007-12-30T14:39:00.000-06:002007-12-30T15:02:10.835-06:00Squat On It<a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Fox_News">Fox News</a> always provides the latest in anus comforting toilet paper to wipe with. The 2 latest phrasal prints include:<br /><ul><li>"the behind the scenes"</li><li>"common knowledge"</li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.foxnews.com/images/115923/325_21_350_hannity_sean.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 180px;" src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/115923/325_21_350_hannity_sean.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The 1st we need to thank <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Sean_Hannity">Sean Hannity</a> of Fox News for using. Sean, as I'm sure you're aware, is an up and comer with expertise in hair management. The 2nd I noticed just the other day when an expert in <a href="http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/1943825">echoing official Republican opinion</a> used it on Answerbag.<br /><br />The behind the scenes is is that Fox News has hired the Answerbag correspondent from <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Voice_Of_America">Voice Of America</a> after <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Voice_Of_America">VOA</a> decided it had enough answers in the bag on the Internet to control common knowledge. Fox News: you can squat on it. As dependable as your toilet, ready to flush on demand. <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Larry Craig optional.</span></span>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-77210154156927421532007-06-24T15:46:00.000-05:002007-06-24T16:13:57.222-05:00Play Footsy with me<img src="http://www.thoseshirts.com/images/square-large-fredimao.jpg" align="right" width="200" /><br />I decided to wash my feet today. It's always a sad day when I have scrub away the wonderful aroma they have accrued. But since I was already washing the other <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >AS</span>toundingly <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=splendiferous&action=history"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >S</span>plendiferous </a>smelling place on my body, I decided to give each footsy a fair and balanced scrubbing too.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070623/NEWSREC010201/706230304/1014">Teacher/Coach (40) Marries 16-year-old High School Student</a><br /><img src="http://www.suprmchaos.com/fred-thompson_063002.jpg" align="right" />A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-62124491162075936572007-05-28T18:31:00.000-05:002007-05-28T18:49:59.169-05:00Trust Wikipedians to Remember the Heroes<span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >Today, I read about the importance of <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morale">morale</a> versus experience or expertise on the <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> internal mailing list.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">It was a memorial that nobody wants a historian that's spent 20 years studying history and archeaology digs, or a doctor that's spent 6 years studying chemistry and biology and 4 in practice. We'd much prefer a kid tell us what 4 out of 5 unnamed dentists recommend on a commercial site for a large corporation selling pharmaceuticals and spending money on motivational speakers to keep employee morale high.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">As </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Stephen_Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a><span style="font-family: courier new;"> said in an interview with Wikipedia founder </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Jimmy_Wales">Jimmy Wales</a><span style="font-family: courier new;">:</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">"What I love about it is that it brings democracy to information. For too long, the elites that study things got to say what is or isn't real." - The </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/The_Colbert_Report">Colbert Report</a><span style="font-family: courier new;">, 2007.05.24</span><br /><a style="font-family: courier new;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.defenselink.mil/DODCMSShare/NewsPhoto/2001-10/011023-D-9880W-005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.defenselink.mil/DODCMSShare/NewsPhoto/2001-10/011023-D-9880W-005.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">That's why it's far better to keep guys like </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Wolfie">Wolfie</a> happy and doing a heckuva job than like <a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_on_re_as/japan_minister_death">cut-and-run Japanese</a><span style="font-family: courier new;"> government officials hanging themselves over a little $236,000 bookkeeping "fraud". Just ask </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Paul_Wolfowitz">Paul Wolfowitz</a><span style="font-family: courier new;">. He'll tell you the $400,000 he received to step down as the </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/World_Bank">World Bank</a><span style="font-family: courier new;"> president kept his morale and </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/terrorist">terrorist</a><span style="font-family: courier new;"> fighting productivity high.</span>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-4880104510840521132007-05-21T12:16:00.000-05:002007-05-21T12:36:11.286-05:00Halliburton featured in Doonesbury<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Halliburton"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.halliburton.com/careers/images/energy1.jpg" alt="Unleash the Energy" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:courier new;">Finally, this Garry Trudeau gu<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >y</span> of Do<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >o</span>nesb<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >u</span>ry is coming around. </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Halliburton">Halliburton</a><span style="font-family:courier new;"> just doesn't receive enough recognition for it's support of the troops. The <a href="http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2007/05/13/">Sunday Doonesbury</a> from <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >M</span>ay 13 feat<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >u</span></span>re<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >s </span>Hallibur<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >t</span>on's excellent food <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >serv</span>ic<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >e</span>, keeping the troops sharp. <span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wikiality.net/index.php?title=GOP"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.gopusa.com/images/gopusa_header.jpg" alt="GOP" border="0" /></a>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-57202998693424389912007-05-21T12:01:00.000-05:002007-05-21T12:14:34.769-05:00Movie of the year Update<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/7607252.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.house.gov/mariodiaz-balart/gallery/dignitaries/2005-07-14_Gonzales.jpg" alt="Alberto Gonzales" border="0" /></a><br />I changed my mind, and my nose. <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396171/">Perfume - Story of a Murderer</a></span> was easily the best film of at least the last 2 years, not just 2006. How the Academy can ignore a film that features the fine art of <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/7607252.html">sniffing</a></span> is beyond me.A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1172461177664841222007-02-25T21:28:00.000-06:002007-03-15T05:48:44.663-05:00Movie Pig<span style="font-family:times new roman;">On this Osc</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" >a</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">r night when Little Mi</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" >ss</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Sunshine should be the obvious pick since Blood Diamonds, Idiocracy, and Clerks 2 didn't get nominated, I will be ranking a couple sites that claim to know your tastes as as well or better than you.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Despite the the pretty piggy interface, MoviePig.com is not quite as smart as a pig. You'll probably need to rank over 100 films before it has a clue. Despite it's claims to be able to accurately judge your taste, it is consistently way off even after entering more than 50 films, even after I entered 90 picks.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I decided to give it a try after reading a couple glowing reviews in shill-trusted resources, like news columnists of large, corporate-owned newspapers and TV that show teens the best sites on the Internets. Teens always get shown the best stuff.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I logged on as PigTester http://www.moviepig.com/pwp/PIGTESTER.html (you can see what I ranked) and started ranking.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">After a while, I started testing it, dropping films I'd actually already seen to see if its software actually predicts how I'd rank it. It was consistently wrong, even after ranking films it requested I rank so it could make a better prediction (it does this after every rank request even after 90 picks, so I think it's actually part of some target marketing scam).</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">One of the biggest and most obvious failures came after I ranked about 50. I ranked the Illusionist, then a couple more. Then dropped in Prestige. Except for the film studio shills who would argue over which is the best simply to get you to see both, they are in fact very similar films, and both worth watching (and I say this despite not receiving an upfront shill fee). Yet the little piggy failed to go to town, even asking me for to rank some more before predicting, and then still failing.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Equally horrendous is it's incompleteness, lacking greats like The Truman Show, Blade Runner, Alien, A Clockwork Orange, Misery, Deliverance, Midnight Express, or Fight Club. They appear to be limited to the last five years. Unacceptable when the Internet, cable, and film rentals give anyone a far more expansive personal history to better judge their own tastes.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I'm predicting the moviepig is in fact just a nice front site to get people to watch recent films they wouldn't bother watching otherwise and to advertise more stuff to them.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">It's hard to criticize a site like that. Even after 90 picks, the 91st was pretty much recommending raw hindquarters (mmmm, yummy) to a vegetarian.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I tried out criticker afterwards. While it lacks the pretty piggy interface, it guesses better, provides nearly as many films as IMDB, and the ability to easily see what actual critics tend to have a similar taste as you. You also get to read summaries of their reviews. The major drawback is the speed. The site even freezes at times. But you don't have to enter 100 films before it starts making useful predictions. You do need to enter in hated and OK films along with your favorites in order for it to work. Unfortunately, if you've seen a lot like me, its predictions get worse as your number and complexity increases.</span><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Which brings us to this years Oscars. Its users actually like departed the best of the list. Apparently having Scorsese and Nicholson on the same film get you lots of brownie points, because it really doesn't deserve an Oscar nomination. Of those picked, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Queen all are solid films that deserve their nomination. Little Miss Sunshine is easily the best, but I'd be surprised if it gets the pick.</span>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1170349138490944042007-02-01T10:58:00.000-06:002007-02-01T11:21:39.753-06:00Why We Need Corporations<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www2.exxonmobil.com/Images/PA/AP/syntheticoil.jpg"><img src="http://www2.exxonmobil.com/Images/PA/AP/syntheticoil.jpg" align="right" width="240" /></a>This is why we need corporations. While </span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >f</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">ree people are o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;" >u</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">t wasting money, hard working </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;" >c</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">orporations like Exxon are ma</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;" >k</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">ing </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;" >m</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">on</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;" >e</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">y.</span><br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy">2006 personal savings drop to 74-yr. low</a></li><li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_exxon_mobil">Exxon Mobil posts record annual profit</a></li></ul><br /><a href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Images/Corporate/em_avilub_2L_c.gif"><img src="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Images/Corporate/em_avilub_2L_c.gif" align="middle" width="360" /></a>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1168888332383420062007-01-15T13:12:00.000-06:002007-01-15T13:12:12.456-06:00Death to the Polar BearsIf a polar ice shelf breaks off then melts and nobody notices, will it still cause global warming?<br /><a href="http://www.globalsurfnews.com/news.asp?Id_news=25703">Ancient Ice Shelf Breaks Free from Canadian Arctic</a>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1168490568163815962007-01-10T22:38:00.000-06:002007-01-10T23:10:02.210-06:00More Troops, More Deaths, More MoneyI could say I told you so (see below) but instead I'll use <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Stephen" colbert="">Stephen Colbert</a>'s elegant phrase:<br />I called it!<br /><ul><li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq">Bush adding 21,500 tr<span style="font-size:130%;">OOPS</span> to Iraq force</a></li><li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_troops">Troop boost w<span style="font-size:130%;">ILL</span> mean longer tours</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theolympian.com/101/story/58219.html">December dead<span style="font-size:130%;">L</span>iest m<span style="font-size:130%;">O</span>n<span style="font-size:130%;">T</span>h of year for U.S. troops</a></li><li><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2137694.ece">Iraq admits 23,000 civilians <span style="font-size:130%;">DIED</span> in 2006</a></li></ul>On top of that, the troop addition article says it is "to quell its near-anarchy." If that's the case, we liberated Iraq as promised and have already won the war. What are people complaining about? Saddam Hussein is dead and we're nice enough to <span style="font-size:130%;">stick</span> around and help <span style="font-size:130%;">them</span> police the country, rebuild, and bury the dead.A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1163438063617280662006-11-13T11:04:00.000-06:002006-11-13T11:14:23.656-06:00Still on Course<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Plenty of digging work to do still:</span><br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq">75 more bodies found in Iraq</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img src="http://www.joe2006.com/Uploads/team_CT.jpg" align="right" width="240" />No need to worry about the election results. Still business as usual. I wouldn't consider selling Halliburton stock until January when the Democrats actually control congress. Even then, Bush is still President, Cheney is still Vice President, and they can still veto. The Democrats don't have enough control to override a veto. </span><br /></span>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1160403738872545922006-10-09T09:19:00.000-05:002006-10-09T09:37:20.080-05:00Senator George Allen is a Shill too<span style="font-family:times new roman;">Let's take a moment to welcome </span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Senator_George_Allen">Senator Allen</a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> of Virginia to the shill world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">He still has to work on some of his shill skills. The best shills get paid up front or under the table instead of in options. Granted, in options, the better job you do shilling, the more money you make. It's also still difficult legally to call it a bribe. It takes advantage of general ignorance of stock options. It worked for Cheney.</span><br /><img style="font-family: times new roman;" src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/224354/1_21_allen_george.jpg" align="right" width="240" /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">You can read about it in:</span><br /><ul style="font-family: times new roman;"><li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800338.html">Washington Post</a></li><li><a href="http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/feeds/ap/2006/10/09/ap3075301.html">Forbes</a> </li><li><a href="http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=112345&ran=238729">Virginian-Pilot</a> </li><li><a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=george+allen+options&btnG=Search+News">Search results via Google news</a> </li></ul><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Fox_News">Fox News,</a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> the </span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Washington_Times">Washington Times,</a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> and other </span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Republican">Republican</a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> PR tools are doing their best to keep it quiet and the news focused on other distractions, like <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Mark_Foley">Foley</a>. Good job!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">He's been promoting corporations he worked for to the military and for other government contracts for the last five years. Like the great </span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.wikiality.com/Dick_Cheney">Dick Cheney</a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">, he accepted options as payment. He'll also probably end up having to "donate" the money to his favorite "charities". Charities pay too. Great way to lock in a job if your political career stalls.</span>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1158619891765728202006-09-18T17:20:00.000-05:002006-09-18T17:51:31.820-05:00Iraq Contracts - Get'm while they're HOT<img align="right" src="http://www.halliburton.com/esg/images/sd1394.gif" /><ul> <li><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1578721.ece">Iraq police find 65 tortured bodies - 9/13/06></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.kuwaittimes.net/Navariednews.asp?dismode=article&artid=1852095287">50 more tortured bodies found in Baghdad streets - 9/15/06></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6082840,00.html">Iraq to Dig Trenches Around Baghdad - 9/15/06></a></li> </ul><br />I think the message is obvious to most, but just in case. That's <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">easy money</span> for our Halliburton divisions. Don't let the Iraqis get the easy contracts. Just because we're not digging oil wells doesn't mean we can't put our digging equipment to use. They'll have to cement those off soon, too, and we have <a href="http://www.halliburton.com/default/main/halliburton/eng/news/source_files/news.jsp?newsurl=/default/main/halliburton/eng/news/source_files/press_release/2006/esgnws_090506.html">cementing services</a> (<span class="copymain">ElastiCemâ„¢) </span>to offer.<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6082840,00.html"><br /></a>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1158601138658267272006-09-18T12:34:00.000-05:002006-09-18T12:55:23.656-05:00Primary Election Voting Guide<img src="http://www.humanevents.com/images/blogs/rightangle/lg_ballot_box.gif" align="top" /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Normally, you can just ignore these elections. I received a letter from one unfortunate mom, however, who lives in Massachusetts. She has to chose between a woman and a macaca for her governor. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">According to studies performed by researchers at The Colbert Report, when you live in an east coast, ivy-league state like Massachusetts, you can't behave like a real American. You have to vote in Democratic party primaries.</span><br /><br /><img align="right" src="http://www.humanevents.com/adimages/stop_dating_liberals_120x24.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The easiest way is usually to vote for whoever has the simplest name to pronounce. The harder it is to pronounce, the more likely that it's actually a covert terrorist. If you have extra time, you can also follow the money. The best method is to select the candidate who has received the most money from oil, gun, alcohol, and tobacco companies. The corporations know best.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">If all that still results in a tie, go with whoever talks about babies and family the most. The Godless ones try to avoid the subject by talking about health and education.</span></span>A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19022054.post-1158006805310882392006-09-11T13:57:00.000-05:002006-09-14T04:30:14.753-05:00America Remembers 5.0Or <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Never Forget 5.0</span>.<br /><br />Or as a film, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">America Remembers 5</span> - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Zombies Return</span></span>.<br /><br />Either way, <a href="http://www.markfiore.com/animation/phony.html">you'll enjoy this more</a> than listening to President Bush and Republican politicians trying to cash in on terrorism and sadness again. Much, much, much more than listening to yet another coworker's story about what he/she/it was doing on 9/11.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2003/052703a.jpg"><img src="http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2003/052703a.jpg" align="right" width="300" /></a>Funny, shocking, and you won't cry unless you think about taxes or gas.<br /><br />If you find it too small, this is the <a href="http://www.markfiore.com/animation/phony.swf">large screen version</a>. Just use the above link if you want to check out more of his flash animations (complete with sound effects, so office workers adjust your volume).<br /><br />It includes all our fearless leaders: Vice President Cheney, Iraq War Secretary Rumsfeld, and even the very hot Condi Rice. But for some reason Halliburton is left out. I guarantee you that Halliburton would have a high-rise oil well built on the World Trade Center ground by the end of the month. Just sign the contract.<br /><img src="http://www.halliburton.com/esg/images/hal7882.jpg" align="left" />A Shill for my Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07213414348329669811noreply@blogger.com0