Oh and BTW, Thanks-Not for your Dys-Service

In a far off and
dystopian future,
we will be brain droned into
saying, "Thank you for your service"
every time we see a fellow citizen in uniform.

Mind you that I am in no way talking about the here and now.

After all, we live in "America", home of the "free speech"-ifiers and of the brave and of those who blink not when speaking truth back into the face of Homeland securing power.

Our Founding Fathers did not shrink from challenging the Homeland securing red coats of their day.

Was it not Patrick Henry, when spotting a British Redcoat in uniform, who said, "Oh and BTW, FU for your Dys-Service"?

So why not say it again today?
Why not challenge the brain droning palliatives of our day?
Why ask not, what has my country done for me recently?
(Other than sucking financial well being out from every orifice the TSA can find in my body?)
Am I better off today than I was before 9/11?
Or are the fear factor centers in my brain being played?
By them who know how to push those buttons?

The "Hunger Games" are Now

Top Topic of the Day= The "Hunger Games" are Now

The above linked-to HuffPo editorial scores some strong points.

Our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and political wars in the "Capitol") are distracting Survival Island games which oppress and kill the poor while keeping the 1% in their one percentage strong hold.

Our Easter Island political system is driving us toward self-annihilation.

We are divided into warring factions (Dems versus Repubs versus Aliens and Predators).

Which Sci-fi writer of the 50's and 60's foresaw this dystopian present?

We have met the Krell, and they are us.

Using Shortened URLs to Catalog Top Topic of Day

Some URL shortening sites allow you
to pick your own short code.
Today we explore the notion of
using the custom short code
to catalog your topic-of the-day.

Examples
TTOD_1= 4-30-2012 a - [mashable_com]
TTOD_2= title / hint=[blog_pay4tweet_com]
TTOD_3= title / hint=[...]
TTOD_4= title / hint=[...]
TTOD_5= title / hint=[...]
TTOD_6= title / hint=[...]
TTOD_7= title / hint=[...]
TTOD_8= title / hint=[...]

The "short" URL is actually a long one because it has a date or other cataloging code embedded in it

The date can be embedded as a 6 digit dashed-code. eg. 120430

Then, each cataloged topic can be discussed in turn:
TTOD_1= Which are the best URL shortening sites and why?

Snipurl provides a sortable/searchable database of all your snips
So if I point back to this posting with this, then I can link together all the snips used for the post based on embedded date ...

Drummed up Models of Man and Mother

In which ways

do we focus

our internal 

modeling efforts?

Is it towards understanding our fellow man?
Or towards understanding Mother Nature?

Some folk are "people oriented".
They spend their time analyzing other people and how those other people will or might change "the world" for the analyzer.

Others are Object-oriented.
They focus on objective science, on "things" rather than on people, on trying to figure out what is going on around them and how that might influence their future based on "systems thinking" rather than on "social thinking".
... still under construction

Drummed Out, but Rocking Back Up (Part 1)

Is every Blog Manager entitled to kick you out at heart's whim, no matter what?
I can't say one way or the other.
(There are good arguments pro and con.)

But what to do when you've been banished & not for good reason?
Well, it's a free country and you can kick back with your own drummed up beat, that's what.
Has anyone else been drummed out?
 Here's the latest search results.

The planned purpose of this blog is to comment on all manner of current events.
But most particularly about the insanity of Main Stream Media (MSM) propaganda.

Google Blogger has a new Blog Editor and now is as good a time as any to try it out.

Thoughts of the day:
Tornadoes Slam Midwest, How's Inhofe holding out?

Learning how to do mouse-over in Blogger (thank you BT)