Slow down, you move too fast… and get it wrong!

Posted on April 16, 2013 by borysSNORC

What a morning! Woke up ready to study Latin (well as ready as anyone can be for such an endeavour) only to find out about the tragic bombing at the Boston Marathon… and then I watched the complete media clusterfuck as it unfolded surrounding the event. It seems technology is working against us now. There were reports that all the cellphone towers were shut down as a preventative measure to stop any further incendiary devices being set off remotely using mobile phones… this was incorrect. The cellular networks were over capacity and failed, so people lost signal and connection and were encouraged to use text or email to send info to friends and family.

Then there was The New York Times coming out with a (obviously unverified) report that a 20 year old Saudi national was being detained as a suspect in the bombings. This was rapidly refuted by the Boston Police Department as being untrue and that they had as yet not identified any suspects… The New York Times slinks off with their tail between their legs but it’s too late, the ever simmering ‘Merican Racial Hot Pot hath been stirred. FFS, if you can’t trust the NYTimes, who can you rely on?

With the ‘information’ (and I use the term loosely) coming out at a rapid rate of knots as each news service is determined to beat their competitors to the punch line, sees a situation come to pass where NOTHING in a crisis is reliable. People need to wait for the dust to settle before the lay of the land can be assessed, and this is just not happening.

President Obama gave a speech which was immediately hosted on the White House Youtube Channel (yeah, there’s a sentence I never thought I’d be writing ten years ago while spending hours watching West Wing re-runs), giving what some have described as a dispassionate and robotic speech to the people about yet another tragedy affecting the American people and their sense of security. To be honest, I think President Obama just looked like a guy who is sick and tired of giving these speeches after every mass shooting and every domestic or foreign terrorist attack. These speeches must take a toll and would definitely be one of the worst parts of his job.

President Obama’s Address Boston Marathon Bombings

But he makes his speech, and they make it immediately available to the public to comment on, though the ‘why’ of that completely escapes me as there tends to end up with about a 8:1… political and inane vitriole : sympathies and condolences, ratio. Some of the real corkers I’ve copied in here and I’m sure it only got worse as they fed off each other like ravenous hyenas picking over a carcass that turn on each other once they’ve ripped the speech apart…

Andres Pereyda:
Inside job. the Onion has better actors than you rich “leaders”

JoseCleveland:
I had to go look into animation cats and to see if I could find the thin Pink Panther like cat …I saw in the clouds. I couldn’t. I did find Yogi Bear when I looked up Warner Bros, Hanna Barbera, MGM, Schultz, etc…. then the storm in N/South Dakota area is
called Yogi.
Ok.

Kevin Garcia 5:
You forget that this is MERICA! We do what we want to get where we want and fuck you!
MERICA!

cplasko:
North korea with out a dought

PresidentTerrorist:
USA without a doubt

Listenbuddy1:
I’m sad for him that it had to happen on the most sacred day of the year for him and his kind, April 15th.

RidlerThe:
They are going to say its Iran and evade… Just like Iraq with 9/11. This is to make the US citizens hate a country so they get a green flag to do whatever the fuck they want.

loooooooo65432:
If Romney was president this would not have happened!

WoWSmirv:
“On days like these there are no republicans, or Democrats, we are Americans united and concerend for our fellow citizens” Really? how about having that philosophy, idk, ALWAYS? why should it take the death of many to come up with that statement? Also, he says they have no idea who did it or why? how about telling us the truth, You did it as a way to continue your fucked up agenda on taking away all our rights and privacy? You know it was you. I am sure Satan will welcome you to hell w/open arms.

Theodore Kaczynski:
Obama, you can have our guns but please leave us our bombs♥♥♥♥♥♥

Twostones00:
Obama’s speech sounds just like the speech Bush gave after the 911 incident. Next FEAR, HATE, LIES, RACISM, PROPAGANDA, WMD’S, COLOR CODED FEAR CHART AND WAR OF AGGRESSION. Thousands of innocent people will die in an OPEC country just because they have brown skin and oil.

SODMGYGRN:
THIS WAS A FBI DRILL PLANNED OUT BY THE U.S.A GOVERNMENT!!!!

zatorith:
Best laugh I had since 2001. More bombs please, I love watching murikans die. You fucking faggots blow up children in the middle east every fucking day, and now some low tier firecracker goes off in some shithole and I am supposed to care? I hope there will be more bombs, fuck America and this fucking world we live in.

cmadd bro:
the goverment prolly paid some 1 to do it so they could blame north Korea

nmnn95:
IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT TO BLAME NORTH KOREA AND GO TO WAR JUST WATCH ITS GONA HAPPEN

Arc Zie:
USA invasion of Iran, here we come.

p money:
if u take away americans right to bear bombs, obama will impose sharia law and communism, theres always that guy on these vids

blake2341000:
Im telling you it was north Korea it all makes sense now the threats in weeks it all adds up to this planes are next bridges towers we need to take action these people have been preparing for this #getkoreanow

Tman2010001:
It will probably be blamed on a group of Patriots who believe in the constitution. Like in the shows they’ve been using to prepare everyone for this. They plan to blame it on the people who support the 2nd amendment and constitution to make all of those people seem bad… Just a theory

cody Strauss:
This bombing is really suspicious it will probably be blamed on other country and make war

UAL8658:
Whoever did it, the United States will find you and wil end your reign of terror on the American people and the free world.

HcccAcsClub:
I am a PROUD GAY American.. And I agree with this Speech.

ahmad baswedan:
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOOOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

SuBZeR0TeMP:
Why are Americans so fat?

jonethot33:
This event took place in America. We are living in America. We are Americans. I’m sure foreign countries don’t care at the moment. Shut up.

FREEDOMSPRICE1:
Oh good grief, you could give a shit about the people in Boston it’s just another operation smoke and mirror bull shit !!!

bass109:
activate anti terrorists and anti retaliation riots forces across cities in america. Stabilize the nation under peace of the lord and president. God love you all.

Nicholas Miller:
on tax day not many injuries compared to 911 this was a domestic group boston tea party or people who dont wanna pay taxes deff some one from the united states

Gjergj Kastrioti:
But the people dealing in the name of YOUR BOOK of hatred call you are brother in faith. So GET RID of islam or GTFO

TheisticWisdom:
Poor families affected. But you should GET ANGRY, because… BARACK IS AN ACTOR, look at him! ! ! FAKE SHIT. What a SHOW. This is a SCRIPT. Another FALSE FLAG to have laws changed and agendas pushed. ‘MERICAH! !!

Ulvenkai:
I love how, no matter the degree of the tragedy, even while the tears are still fresh in our eyes, you can always rely on YouTube comments to remain a steady constant of people calling each other queers, dumbasses, brain-dead and the usual rhetoric.
My heart goes out to you, America. Your loss is felt all over the world.

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Hmmm.. And that was just some of the inane responses from idiots commenting on the President’s address to the nation via the White House Youtube Channel. It gets so much worse:

“In response, and utterly without any evidence, frequent Fox News contributor Erik Rush tweeted out a message blaming the bombing on Muslim terrorists, saying “Everybody do the National Security Ankle Grab! Let’s bring more Saudis in without screening them! C’mon! #bostonmarathon.”

That prompted another Twitter user to chastize Rush for making such unsupported accusations, which prompted Rush to respond with a call for all Muslims to be killed:

So in the wake of this tragic event a few things become exceedingly apparently…

Social media and the mainstream media are in a race to get information to the public asap, and as a result of this race, the mainstream media have defenestrated source integrity in favour of rapid dissemination times – ’tis better to issue an apology than wait for confirmation perhaps?
American’s call themselvs ‘Merrica, ‘Murrica, and ‘Merika just like we do WHEN WE ARE TAKING THE PISS OUT OF THEM! I did not know that. I would have thought many would consider this a slight to their oft God Blessed, United States of America.
There appear to be more conspiracy theorists per square inch in the US than anywhere else on the planet, the tenor of distrust and suspicion for their own government is unbelievable! Attributing the government with the ability to bomb it’s own people to justify invading *insert unpopular foreign nation of choice* is just madness. Who thinks like that?
The US really needs to do something about its public education system… it was everything I could do not to go and correct the rampant spelling and grammatical mistakes in those comments and most of them, even the sensible ones not included here, made me twitch!And finally…
Regardless of whether it turns out to be a psychologically disturbed individual or a well organised and politically motivated terrorist group that is responsible for this reprehensible attack… one thing is clear: In ‘Merrica, there is plenty of hate to go around.

Hurricanes, Homosexuality and Hocus Pocus.

Posted on October 30, 2012 by borysSNORC

The British Museum has an exquisite woodcut in their current ‘Shakespeare Exhibition’ which depicts four witches concocting a spell to create a huge storm at sea –

James I believed the witches were trying to conjure up the storm to kill him by sinking his ships! Such evil forces in the world back then. And obviously there’s evil forces at work today too…

For Hurricane Sandy is no normal hurricane or cyclone or post-tropical cyclone or just plain old storm. Labelled the ‘Mother of All Storms’, ‘A Monster Storm’ and the ominous sounding, ‘Frankenstorm’ – it can’t be the result of something mundane, rational and scientific like global warming or climate change. Can it? No, far more likely that there’s medieval witchcraft at play here.

Or, we could take the word of John McTeman, a well known wack job fundamentalist Christian preacher, who claims the storm is more proof that “God is systematically destroying America” as punishment for the “homosexual agenda”!!!

It’s up to you people… Is this ‘once in a generation’ monstrous storm the result of – Climate Change? Medieval Witchcraft? Or… the Democratic Homosexual Agenda?

Courier Mail – Deleted Article

Posted on October 29, 2012 by borysSNORC

The Courier-Mail Brisbane 17°C – 24°C. Cloudy, mostly fine, light shower.

Premier Campbell Newman says cabinet minister asked Bates to take leave ahead of parliamentary sittings

by:Robyn Ironside
From:The Courier-Mail
October 29, 2012 12:39PM

Arts Minister Ros Bates Source: The Courier-Mail

PREMIER Campbell Newman has now claimed another cabinet minister suggested to Arts and Science Minister Ros Bates that she take leave ahead of this week’s parliamentary sittings.

The Courier-Mail revealed on Saturday Ms Bates had suddenly taken two weeks off on the same day as Transport and Main Roads’ boss Michael Caltabiano stood aside over allegations he misinformed parliament about his work history.

Ms Bates and Mr Caltabiano worked together at lobbying firm Entree Vous which was part owned by the Minister and her son Ben Gommers – who is now employed as a senior departmental liaison officer at TMR.

Taxpayers pick up bill in Caltabiano affair

‘Annual leave’ for Bates now sick leave

Caltabiano listed on firm’s website

Although her office said Ms Bates was on annual leave, on Saturday Treasurer Tim Nicholls declared the Minister was taking time off on the advice of her surgeon.

Ms Bates underwent shoulder surgery on September 13 and has been wearing an antibiotic drip since.

Today Mr Newman faced questions about Minister Bates – who was videoed driving and shopping on the Gold Coast on the weekend.

He said he and the Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Attorney-General, were all concerned for Ms Bates’ health and one of them asked her to take leave – but it wasn’t him.

“I did not, I just said the Deputy Premier, the Treasurer and the Attorney-General and myself were concerned about her health so we asked her to take some leave but I did not,” said Mr Newman.

Transport and Main Roads Director-General Micahel Caltabiano appears at the Estimates Committee Hearing. Picture: Philip Norrish

“I know (Deputy Premier) Jeff Seeney has for some time wanted her to take some leave.”

Mr Gommers’ appointment to TMR after the March 24 election, is the subject of a Crime and Misconduct Commission investigation.

“It is not appropriate that I investigate ourselves,” Mr Newman said.

“The people of Queensland would qutie rightfully say that me investigating the conduct of Mr Caltabiano or Minister Bates was not correct. That’s why I’ve referred it to the Ethics Committee.”

He said he had not spoken to Mr Caltabiano since he stood aside while the Ethics Committee investigates statements he made to the budget estimates hearing.

Mr Newman said if he was found to have committed an offence, he would be expected to repay legal costs currently being funded by taxpayers.

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Then it looks like someone at the Courier Mail must have gotten a rap across the knuckles and the link to the original story went to this:

We had a good look, but couldn’t find the page you requested.

This is either because:

There’s an error in the address or link you have entered in your browser;
There’s a technical issue and the page has not been published as it should;
The article was removed to due to legal reasons;
It is an older article that has been removed from the site.

If you think this may be a technical error, please contact us and let us know the location of this page.

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Hmmm… Curious. So I went looking for Robyn Ironside’s article about the situation with Minister Bates and found a toned down and softened version posted about two hours later:

The Courier-Mail Brisbane 17°C – 24°C. Cloudy, mostly fine, light shower.

Premier Campbell Newman says cabinet minister asked Bates to take leave ahead of parliamentary sittings

by:Robyn Ironside
From:The Courier-Mail
October 29, 2012 2:55PM

Arts Minister Ros Bates Source: The Courier-Mail

ARTS Minister Ros Bates has issued a statement to explain her absence from parliament this week, saying she is recovering from shoulder surgery and caring for her son Ben Gommers who has been diagnosed with depression.

The statement ends days of conflicting stories from the government about her leave – which began abruptly last Thursday coinciding with the decision by Transport and Main Roads’ Director-General Michael Caltabiano to stand aside over allegations he misinformed parliament about his work history.

Taxpayers pick up bill in Caltabiano affair

‘Annual leave’ for Bates now sick leave

Caltabiano listed on firm’s website

Her office told The Courier-Mail on Friday she was on annual leave, then on Saturday Treasurer Tim Nicholls said Ms Bates had been advised by her surgeon to take two weeks off.

Today Premier Campbell Newman said Ms Bates had been asked by senior Cabinet Ministers to take leave, out of concern for her health and how she was coping with the “extra stress” of recent weeks.

Ms Bates said she had accepted medical advice that she required “further rest” adding that her “attempts to return to work (since surgery on September 13) had been premature”.

“During this period, I’ll be spending time with my son Ben who has been under enormous stress and continued scrutiny from often incorrect and sensational reporting of his chosen career,” said Ms Bates.

“On Monday, October 22 Ben was admitted to hospital to be treated for depression.

Transport and Main Roads Director-General Micahel Caltabiano appears at the Estimates Committee Hearing. Picture: Philip Norrish

“He remains under the care of a specialist.”

She went on to say she would always be “a mother first and an MP and Minister second”.

“His recovery, and my own, will be my current priority,” read the statement.

“I would ask for privacy during this period.”

The admission follows Premier Campbell Newman’s revelation this morning that senior Cabinet Ministers had asked Ms Bates to take leave, out of concern for her health.

He said himself, the Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Attorney-General were very concerned and wanted her to take time off.

“I know (Deputy Premier) Jeff Seeney has for some time wanted her to take some leave,” Mr Newman said.

The Premier said it was not appropriate that he ask Ms Bates about her previous working relationship with Mr Caltabiano – who has denied having any professional experience of Mr Gommers, or even working for Entree Vous, but who was listed on the lobbyists register in 2008 as being employed by Entree Vous – jointly owned by Ms Bates and her son Mr Gommers.

“It is not appropriate that I investigate ourselves,” Mr Newman said.

He said he had not spoken to Mr Caltabiano since he stood aside while the Ethics Committee investigates statements he made to the budget estimates hearing.

Mr Newman said if he was found to have committed an offence, he would be expected to repay legal costs currently being funded by taxpayers.

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So… now I’m kinda curious why was the article removed, and who had Robyn Ironside’s article ‘softened around the edges’ today to make the LNP look more sympathetic and less like criminals hiding from a firing squad???

Just one more reason to hate cats….

Posted on August 12, 2009 by borysSNORC

Florida man blames cat for illegal downloads

Oscar the cat at a nursing home in Providence, Rhode Island. Oscar curls up to patients hours before they die.

Don’t let your eyes deceive you. This sweet-looking fellow could be capable of downloading pornography. Stew Milne/AP

Dogs have been blamed for eating homework – now a Florida man says his cat downloaded child pornography.

Police are charging Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach, Florida with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after finding more than 1,000 images on his personal computer.

Griffin told police he had been downloading music, and that his cat jumped on the keyboard when he left the room. He said "strange things" appeared on the computer when he returned.

He is being held in Martin county jail on $250,000 bond. No word on any charges against the cat.

Every little piggy’s got a heart.

Posted on April 30, 2009 by borysSNORC

Now I understand that bacon is a staple on the food chain for many peoples who seem to live on the internets for reasons I don’t begin to fathom but for me personally it’s … okay ocacionally I guess. Rarely do I go out of my way for pig products at all, though we do seem to have ham for sandwiches and the like in the house most of the time – but I feel that hardly constitutes a particular porcine affinity or a specific swine style relationship.

In the middle east of course they have a long time honoured and tradition heavy relationship with pigs so I was interested to note that Egypt is set to slaughter every damn pig they can get their hands on by the sounds of it… somewhere estimated between 250,000 and 400,000 piggies. Given that there’s no current scientific argument pointing towards this being necessary to halt the ‘impending swine flu pandemic’ – that’s an awful lot of pork on your fork for a region that don’t really dig on no swine as a rule.

Wonder what they’re going to do with all that dead pig!?!?!?!
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