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I win!

This wasn’t signed by Banksy, could just be an imposter, but nontheless the political message is there. I feel as though us being likened to kids while the grown ups take all our eggs hits pretty close to home. Maybe if we all gang up, we can take ‘em down?

Heavy stuff shot right in the middle of all that madness.

Via http://revok1.com/

In bad press for drugmaker AstraZeneca , the company’s US medical director confesses to trading Vicodin for sex and “pumping” another for classified information. AstraZeneca is in seriously hot water for suppressing a study that showed the firm’s blockbuster psychiatric drug Seroquel caused diabetes and weight gain. Seroquel made the company $4.4 billion dollars so it might be understandable why they’d bury the research. Understandable but seriously wrong. Now, the drugmaker, according to the NYT faces “about 9,000 personal-injury lawsuits from more than 15,000 former users of Seroquel” and a federal investigation into the marketing of the drug

Former AstraZeneca U.S. medical director for Seroquel Wayne MacFadden confessed his multiple sexual affairs, and his offer of drugs to one of the women he was sleeping with, to lawyers in December 2007…The confessions include descriptions of sex in hotel rooms paid for by AZ, illicit distribution of Vicodin, and a kinky relationship in which one of his colleagues asked to be “punished” for looking at a study that had negative results for Seroquel.

MacFadden told that woman: “You will be punished (in the usual fashion!) when I see you … but perhaps more harshly this time!!!”

Kinky! But there’s more.
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San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano bravely introduced reasoned, serious legislation about confronting, revising, and ultimately turning California’s oppressive marijuana laws to our benefit. In these trying economic times, it just makes sense. Its budget meltdown has California taking a look at legalizing marijuana as a means to revive its depleted treasury. But common sense, not economic need, should persuade Americans it’s past time for a sober look at our mad “reefer madness” laws.

The Golden State legislator pushing the idea, Tom Ammiano of — plug in the appropriate joke — San Francisco, says licensing and taxing legal marijuana production and sales would earn California $1.3 billion a year. His bill would legalize marijuana possession and use for adults 21 or older, license commercial farming of it and tax it at $50 an ounce.

A big problem: California can’t do this on its own. The federal prohibition law would have to be changed for Sacramento to impose and collect the licensing fees and taxes. Given all the controversial financial and social engineering bills on its plate, Congress likely isn’t eager to take on this contentious issue. A recent CBS News/New York Times poll found only 41 percent of Americans favor legalization. That’s an improvement over the 34 percent in a 2002 CNN/Time poll, but still 52 percent are against it.

It would be best if Washington could leave this matter in the hands of states. Thirteen states have to some extent decriminalized marijuana. Massachusetts is the latest. Its voters last month eliminated criminal penalties for possession of small amounts.

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A dozen gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan national cricket team and its police escort en route to the stadium in the city of Lahore on Tuesday morning, killing six police officers and wounding six cricketers, the Lahore police chief and a Sri Lankan official said. CCTV footage shown on television soon after the attack showed several young gunmen with backpacks firing at the vehicles. The Lahore police chief, Haji Habibur Rehman, said the gunmen opened fire as the motorcade approached Liberty Circle, a major intersection in Lahore not far from Qadaffi Stadium, the best-known cricket facility in Pakistan. The police chief said 12 gunmen attacked the cricketers, and were positioned in vehicles, including rickshaws. According to another police official, Shoaib Janbaz, the gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade but it missed the motorcade and did not explode. The captain of the Sri Lankan team, Mahela Jayawardena, was among the wounded cricketers, Mr. Janbaz said. Police escorts who were traveling in a van fired back but failed to hit the attackers, witnesses said. The assailants fled in the rickshaws and another vehicle stolen near the scene, Mr. Janbaz said. The gunmen left behind rucksacks filled with pistols, hand grenades and an AK-47 assault rifle, he said. S The assailants escaped, and the police were hunting for them, Mr. Rehman said. By attacking the Sri Lankan cricket team, the gunmen were hitting at Pakistan’s most popular sport. The safety of visiting foreign teams has been a major problem for the Pakistani government. The Australian cricket team has refused to play in Pakistan, saying that the safety of its players was at risk and that Pakistan was unable to provide adequate protection. The test match in Lahore was the second in a two-match series.

A Pakistani cricketer, Omar Gul, who was traveling with his team in a bus some distance behind the Sir Lankan motorcade said that because of the congestion in the Lahore traffic, the Pakistani cricketers did not hear the shooting. The Pakistanis were told to go back to their hotel, where the team heard about the assault, Mr. Gul said. There was no indication Tuesday that the attack was related to the Sri Lankan government’s current offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels. Jane Perlez reported from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Waqar Gillani reported from Lahore.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/40352472.html

“The Obama administration’s first budget seeks to fulfill his campaign promise to put 50,000 more police officers on the streets.

Through a grant program called COPS, the government pays most of the salaries of new hires in their first years on the job.”

Personally, I wouldn’t mind 50,000 less cops but hey, that’s me. I guess I haven’t been robbed in while. Maybe if I did, I’d be more pro-police, but uh.. I’ve been pulled over a few too many times and uh.. this is going to suck.

Maybe I should just become a police officer myself and uphold the law!

Go On John!!

Dear Editor:

I’m trying to understand what possible motivation you may have had for publishing that vile cartoon depicting the shooting of the chimpanzee that went crazy. I guess you thought it would be funny to suggest that whomever was responsible for writing the Economic Recovery legislation must have the intelligence and judgment of a deranged, violent chimpanzee, and should be shot to protect the larger community. Really? Did it occur to you that this suggestion would imply a connection between President Barack Obama and the deranged chimpanzee? Did it occur to you that our President has been receiving death threats since early in his candidacy? Did it occur to you that blacks have historically been compared to various apes as a way of racist insult and mockery? Did you intend to invoke these painful themes when you printed the cartoon?

If that’s not what you intended, then it was stupid and willfully ignorant of you not to connect these easily connectable dots. If it is what you intended, then you obviously wanted to be grossly provocative, racist and offensive to the sensibilities of most reasonable Americans. Either way, you should not have printed this cartoon, and the fact that you did is truly reprehensible. I can’t imagine what possible justification you have for this. I’ve read your lame statement in response to the outrage you provoked. Shame on you for dodging the real issue and then using the letter as an opportunity to attack Rev. Sharpton. This is not about Rev. Sharpton. It’s about the cartoon being blatantly racist and offensive.

I believe in freedom of speech, and you have every right to print what you want. But freedom of speech still comes with responsibilities and consequences. You are responsible for printing this cartoon, and I hope you experience some real consequences for it. I’m personally boycotting your paper and won’t do any interviews with any of your reporters, and I encourage all of my colleagues in the entertainment business to do so as well. I implore your advertisers to seriously reconsider their business relationships with you as well.

You should print an apology in your paper acknowledging that this cartoon was ignorant, offensive and racist and should not have been printed.

I’m well aware of our country’s history of racism and violence, but I truly believe we are better than this filth. As we attempt to rise above our difficult past and look toward a better future, we don’t need the New York Post to resurrect the images of Jim Crow to deride the new administration and put black folks in our place. Please feel free to criticize and honestly evaluate our new President, but do so without the incendiary images and rhetoric.

Sincerely,
John Legend

Smooth transition

Carnival is condom season in Brazil, where the government said Friday it will hand out 65 million free prophylactics to partiers this month. It’s an increase of 20 million from what the government hands out each month the rest of the year in Brazil, which has aggressive anti-HIV and -AIDS efforts praised by the United Nations. “In addition to the 45 million condoms we already distribute on a monthly basis, we’re increasing that amount this month so there can be enough condoms distributed at all the parties and events that take place during Carnival,” said Mariangela Simao, director of the national HIV-AIDS program in the capital, Brasilia. All told, the country plans to spend roughly $36 million to purchase 1.2 billion condoms this year _ making it the world’s No. 1 government buyer, Simao said. About 560 million free condoms will be available nationwide, or around three for each of Brazil’s 191 million people.

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BY MONT

When Barack Obama moved into the White House on January 20th, he gained access to five chefs, a private bowling alley — and a killer collection of classic LPs. Stored in the basement of the executive mansion is the official White House Record Library: several hundred LPs that include landmark albums in rock (Led Zeppelin IV, the Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed), punk (the Ramones’ Rocket to Russia, the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols), cult classics (Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, the Flying Burrito Brothers’ The Gilded Palace of Sin) and disco. Not to mention records by Santana, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Isaac Hayes, Elton John, the Cars and Barry Manilow.

During the waning days of the Nixon administration, the RIAA, the record companies’ trade group, decided the library should include sound recordings as well as books. In 1973, the organization donated close to 2,000 LPs. The bad news: The selection was dominated by the likes of Pat Boone, the Carpenters and John Denver. In 1979, legendary producer John Hammond convened a new commission to update the list for the hipper Carter administration. “They felt they needed to redress some of the oversights that might have taken place the first time around,” says Boston music critic and author Bob Blumenthal, who was put in charge of adding 200 rock records to the library.

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This is very lame, the AP are greedy bastards.

via streetknowledge

NEW YORK (AP) – On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year’s presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.

Designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artist, the image has led to sales of hundreds of thousands of posters and stickers, has become so much in demand that copies signed by Fairey have been purchased for thousands of dollars on eBay.

The image, Fairey has acknowledged, is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Manny Garcia on assignment for the AP at the National Press Club in Washington.

The AP says it owns the copyright, and wants credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees.

“The Associated Press has determined that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission,” the AP’s director of media relations, Paul Colford, said in a statement.

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How About These Apples?!?!

“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design Conference, a confrence known for technology barrons, politicians, and Hollywood actors.

“I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”

Gates waited a minute before letting everyone know that the mosquitoes were harmless.

Definitely a great display of what kind of fear the average African goes through on a day to day basis. Keep it gully Billy-G.

I know Obama is thinking: WTF. ObamaCigars? Cool. ObamaCognac? What the hell, I’ll have a sip. A Head O State Commemorative special edition sex toy, is that really necessary? Maybe not his favorite, but I know there are plenty of women out there like Sure! Why the hell not? Gotta get my swerve on anyway. The best part from the web site was the tag lines. Check this out.

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MANAGUA (Reuters) – While U.S. President Barack Obama tries to kick an old smoking habit, a Nicaraguan company has produced the latest in a flood of merchandise trying to cash in on his popularity — “Obama” cigars.

Granada Cigars, a small outfit based in Nicaragua’s tobacco-growing north, is using local and Cuban leaves to hand-roll cigars wrapped with a gold band that says “Obama 44,” to commemorate the 44th U.S. president.

The cigars come in various sizes and strengths and the company says some 13,000 have been ordered so far across the United States (what recession?). That adds to thousands of Obama products — like comics, cognac, candy, hot sauce and even a sex toy — that hit the market during the media frenzy of the Democrat’s campaign and inauguration.

“Distribution is booming, the cigar is selling because of ‘Obamamania’ and we want to take advantage of that,” company director Miguel Ramirez told Reuters.

Among the Obama-themed items expected to generate millions in sales are a soap bar called “The Audacity of Soap,” after the president’s “Audacity of Hope” book, and Ben & Jerry’s “Yes Pecan!” ice cream, a riff on his “Yes we can!” campaign slogan, which boasts “amber waves of buttery ice cream with roasted nonpartisan pecans.”

Read- Obama Dildo

According to a recent Rasmussen poll, a plurality of Republican voters think the party has grown too moderate over the past eight years, and a majority think the party should become more like controversial Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

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By MONT- via iheartchaos.com

Time is sort of a whore. Things change, things come and go just when you’re getting used to them. People find better ways of doing things and other people screw things up royally and things that you learn to love soon just make you look old. So to make you feel old and to remind you of your mortality, we’ve put together a list of 10 things you may be familiar with now, but when your great grandchildren are growing up, they’ll be all like “lol what, people used to sit in front of computers when they worked?”

Video rental stores / record stores

Years ago, when the internet was new and shiny, many people predicted the quick death of the brick and mortar store, which obviously hasn’t happened yet, but the internet has done a real number on video and record stores. Where the video rental store used to be a community staple and the record store used to be the place for cool kids to hang out and get the latest music, both of these have fallen victim to cheaper, free and/or pirated downloads.

Why drive out to Blockbuster when you can either have Blockbuster deliver the movie to your house or when you can just pick what you want to watch from your local cable company’s movies on demand service? Why go out and to a record store when you can just download the entire album from Amazon or iTunes? In recent years, record stores and video rental outlets have been shuttering their doors right and left. In the future, the only ones that will thrive will be small niche markets, like independently owned stores that offer hard to find or highly unique collector’s items and cult classics.

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I’ve heard some things in my day but this takes the cake. Police revealed today that some panhandlers make as much as $400 CDN/day in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. That means an average of $2800 a week or $11,200 a month or…$134,400 per year! According to today’s market, $134,400 Canadian dollars means $110,000 Dollars. Someone please tell me why the f I work at a computer store when I could be in Canada living the good life!!???

This reminds me of one time when I was in San Fransisco and I was standing a couple of feet away from a bum. I had just came out of Amoeba records where I picked up a few things and I still had some change in my hand. Now I’m kind of a figity dude, so I was shaking my fist full of change to the beat in my head. I was stopped at a street light for about a minute and the bum asked me if I had any change… Absentmindedly I told him Nope! and kept walking. I think I made the right choice.

-dL

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/01/26/edm-panhandling-police.html

This doesn't look like anybody I know...

First of all, these things barely even look like cookies, let alone African-Americans. However, you can’t help but laugh at these deviant delicacies. Today is the last day that “Drunken Negro Cookies” will be served at the trendy Lafayette French Pastry Bakery in Greenwich Village (featured on an episode of Sex and the City). With good reason in my opinion, for the title alone. What’s next? Sambo Samoas? Jigaboo Snickerdoodles? Mandingo Milanos? It’s very unfortunate that I myself am an Oreo. This is going to bring in a lot of business for this racist store, even though the story itself if wafer thin. Oh well, I guess there’s no use in crying over spilled milk.

I’m going to start whipping up some Cracker Crackers.