Posted by admin on 17 May 2007 | Tagged as: Video Games
With the Xbox 360 Elite making all the news lately, Geeks.com has decided to offer $100 off of their Platinum Xbox 360s. You get the 20GB hard drive, wireless controller, headset, component, ethernet and power cables. Enter the coupon GEEKBOX2 in the red secret savings code box at checkout for the savings. The deal is valid through May 31 or while supplies last.
Who loves ya? That’s right…John loves ya.
Posted by admin on 14 May 2007 | Tagged as: Guy Stuff
Can you overdose on weed? Is that actually possible? Well, sort of. Apparently this cop and his wife thought they had, well…died after eating what must’ve been one hell of a strong batch of brownies and called 911 for help.
The first time I ever smoked weed, my girlfriend (at the time) and my friend Paul decided that they’d introduce me to smoking in the grand tradition of losing your virginity by being the available hole at a gang bang. I bought a very nice surgical glass bong almost 2 feet tall. There was a long shaft with plenty of room for ice to cool the smoke down, lots of water in the bottom for filtering and a big bowl for the best weed I could find in Atlanta. Well, it’s Atlanta..it was really, really good organic, hydroponic ninja weed with blue and orange hairs and what can be described as a soul crushing high when you smoke too much of it.
I followed their instructions to the letter:
1. Pack the bowl with ground, high quality weed.
2. Light the lighter and put it just above the bowl while drawing on the shaft of the bong to pull the flame into the bowl and light the full bowl.
3. Once you’ve gathered a good amount of smoke in the bong shaft, slip the bowl up an inch or two and clear the chamber.
4. Hold the smoke as long as you can, then exhale it.
5. Repeat and…repeat.
6. Once the bowl is ashed, re-pack the bowl and…repeat.
I got one hit into the second bowl before the world become a very un-friendly, un-happy place. While sitting motionless on my comfortable, black leather couch…I felt like I was floating in a world of roller coasters and porcupines. Nothing made sense, up was down and I ended up dry heaving in my bathroom sink while suddenly needing to get very naked and run haphazardly through my 2 floor condo searching for my penis and screaming “SEVENTEEN” for hours on end. It was about 8 hours before things started to return to normal regardless of the milk, sugar, showers, sleep, sex, massages and everything else my now sorry companions tried to do to bring me back. That’s as close as “over dosing” on weed as I’ve ever experienced and about as close as I’ve ever even heard of.
I don’t buy that you can overdose on weed, I think you’d pass out first. But you can smoke yourself into oblivion if you’re uninformed or just plain stupid. A word to the wise, know your limits, know what you’re smoking (quality means everything) and always know that you can smoke more if you haven’t gotten to your desired level of highness. BUT you can’t un-smoke that Bob Marley hit you wanted to take to be cool in front of your weed buddies. Regardless, the video’s hysterical, Enjoy.
Posted by admin on 16 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Tech, Gadgets
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Posted by admin on 12 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Porn
I seem to be doing a lot on porn these days and for that, I’m both sorry to the non-interested folks and proud for those that are interested. It’s time for Americans to wake up to the reality that your government is successfully cramming Christianity down your throat and up…well, a very un-comfortable place. (No, not the back of a volkswagon). This is being accomplished by an administration that solely exists because of hard line backing from Christian organizations and churches in the US claiming that Bush was “God’s candidate”.
Bush’s deal with these religious zealots from day one and was only re-enforced and strengthened when he was re-elected by them was to put as many hard line fundamentalists as possible into various powerful positions throughout the government. Remember that people tend to hire people that they know and identify with. It’s a rare day when a Republican hires a Democrat, a hard line Christian hires someone who’s anything but or when someone who defines themselves by their religious affiliation does anything personal or business oriented that doesn’t fit neatly into that small and inflexible box. Like Kevin Smith so beautifully pointed out in “Dogma”, “I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can’t generate. Life becomes stagnant.”
These people have inflexible beliefs and are un-interested in exploring anyone else’s concepts, ideas or compromises. “God’s Plan”, which is so conveniently laid out for them by their church leaders is all they’re concerned about and what they live to impress upon others…that means you. The saddest thing to me is that these people believe they’re the least bit different from the reglious fundamentlists, the zealots, the hardliners in the Muslim world that they’ve positioned themselves to fight against and spend their time propagandizing against. Christians may not yet be strapping dynamite to their chests, but as abortion clinic bombings and shootings show, they’re of the same mind. Think about what it means that within 24 hours of the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq, the only religious organization allowed to be in those areas and for a full year afterwards, the only religious organization allowed to be distributing food, medical supplies and over 19,000,000 bibles was the same “family and values” Christian organization that put Bush in office. The other 71 organizations that tried to help in those countries were told that it was too dangerous and that the US military didn’t have the resources to protect them.
Now enjoy a few quick points from AVN on what these people are doing in their new positions, instead of focusing on anything that actually matters.
DOJ Caught In The Middle On Porn – And Choosing Wrongly
By: Mark Kernes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Religious news/propaganda site OneNewsNow – the former AgapePress News Summary – reports that, “A group of prominent anti-pornography leaders met recently with officials in the U.S. Justice Department to urge a change in the government’s policy toward investigation and prosecution of Internet obscenity, which currently is to pursue only the most extreme cases.” And that one sentence provides a strong clue as to what’s putting the Justice Department (DOJ) between, if you’ll pardon the expression, a rock and a hard place.
See, according to Patrick Trueman, the former head of the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), former Attorney General Janet Reno put in place a policy that the DOJ would prosecute “only the worst material,” but in Trueman’s opinion, that policy is “both dated and ineffective for the brand of pornography that threatens families and their children.”
And what “brand” is that?
“Parents that find their kids have been on the Internet looking at pornography don’t see them looking at animal films and that really extreme stuff, which is all the Justice Department will prosecute,” Trueman said. “They’re looking at garden-variety hardcore pornography that is illegal.”
Of course, it’s refreshing to have a rabid anti-porn activist like Trueman admit that the majority of minors who manage to see people having sex aren’t interested in looking at bestiality or erotic asphyxiation or even triple penetrations – kids have taste; who’d'a thunk? – but rather “garden variety” porn which, contrary to Trueman’s assertion, is perfectly legal. (In fact, all porn involving only consenting adults is legal until a jury says it isn’t – a reality Trueman should certainly be aware of, considering his years as a porn prosecutor.)
And therein lies the conflict.
As any U.S. attorney (USA) worth his/her salary knows, even in the most backwoodsy parts of America, it’s virtually impossible to get a conviction on a storyline adult feature, even one that features fairly edgy sexual encounters. That virtual impossibility approaches 100% if the video is being defended by one of the several excellent First Amendment attorneys who work with the adult industry. Hence, whether that storyline feature is purchased in a video store, mail-ordered in as part of a sting operation or watched in clips on a website, the outcome will be the same: Another loss at trial for the government, another black mark on the prosecuting attorney’s record, and more angry articles on religio-conservative websites about how Attorney General Alberto Gonzales isn’t doing enough to combat the “scourge of pornography.”
Gonzales, of course, is having enough problems of his own these days. A recent Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff stated that a recent prep session of the A.G. by his closest advisors for a prospective appearance on a Sunday talk-show – we’re guessing Fox News Sunday, which would have treated Gonzales with the softest of kid gloves – went so poorly that the aides gave up on the idea of his doing any live appearances before the one that counts: His testimony under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 17… and even the prep for that one isn’t going very well:
“During the March 23 session in the A.G.’s conference room,” reported Isikoff, “Gonzales was grilled by a team of top aides and advisers — including former Republican National Committee chair Ed Gillespie and former White House lawyer Tim Flanigan — about what he knew about the plan to fire seven U.S. attorneys last fall. But Gonzales kept contradicting himself and ‘getting his timeline confused,’ said one participant who asked not to be identified talking about a private meeting. His advisers finally got ‘exasperated’ with him, the source added. ‘He’s not ready,’ Tasia Scolinos, Gonzales’s public-affairs chief, told the A.G.’s top aides after the session was over, said the source.”
One of the explanations Gonzales will have trouble with is his decision (or at least agreement) to fire two top USAs – Paul Charlton of Arizona and Daniel Bogden of Nevada – over not having prosecuted enough porn. While various substitute reasons have been given during the past few weeks for Charlton’s and Bogden’s firings, two U.S. senators have recently indicated, on the very Sunday talk shows on which Gonzales’ handlers won’t let him appear, that, yes, failing to indict enough porn was the reason.
“Now let me just tell you something: There is not one shred of evidence here that any of these [replacements] were made, to use Sen. Specter’s words, to interfere with an ongoing investigation or case; not one shred of evidence,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-LatterDaySaints) on last Sunday’s episode of Meet the Press. “This is a tempest in a teapot, and the president – everybody admits that the president – these people served at the pleasure of the president. What happened here is, the president’s goals and purposes were to go after immigration smuggling cases, gun cases, so to get tough on the misuse of guns, on pornography cases, and some of these people were not doing that. Now, where they got in problems is they said there were performance problems. What they meant, it seemed to me, by the so-called word ‘performance,’ was that these people were not following up on these cases.”
Similarly, when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) charged, on March 25’s Fox News Sunday, that six of the eight fired USAs were removed because they were “involved in public corruption cases, most of those cases against Republicans; they were removed while the investigation or the prosecution was ongoing,” Sen. Trent Lott (R-BigMansionOnThePlantation) interrupted her to say, “I don’t see where there’s a large number of them involved in corruption cases. I think they were involved – where they were taking action on death penalty cases, immigration cases or obscenity cases.”
It’s unclear from what source Lott got his information, but Hatch is in the best position to know: He’s a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and has consistently defended Gonzales during the committee’s questioning of four fired USAs and Gonzales’ former chief of staff Kyle Sampson.
But as we’ve pointed out here before, the adult industry should probably be more concerned about the USA “loyal Bushies” that the DOJ didn’t fire … like top federal prosecutor Mary Beth Buchanan, who’s recently come under fire from Thomas J. Farrell, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania during the last five years of the Clinton administration, and is currently on the board of the Pittsburgh ACLU.
According to Farrell, Ms. B made her nut with the Bush administration by – in addition to the Extreme Associates and Karen Fletcher indictments – bringing “anti-terrorism” prosecutions against dozens of immigrant Iraqi truck drivers who, it turned out, had paid off a DMV official in order to get commercial driver’s licenses. Were they planning to load those trucks full of explodable fertilizer and ram them into the Mellon Bank building in downtown Pittsburgh? Nope; they were just looking for a regular paycheck; no “terrorist connections” were introduced at trial, and they all got probation.
Buchanan has also, said Farrell, been an ardent supporter of the administration’s attempts to deep-six citizens’ civil rights, claiming that the PATRIOT Act was needed in order to get emergency wiretaps to prevent imminent terrorist attacks (not true), and that the feds needed the Act in order to share grand jury information about imminent threats with state police (also not true). Plus, she’s investigated seven times more Pennsylvania Democratic politicians than Republicans, which puts her right in line with the staunchest Bush supporters among the remaining USAs.
Quoth Farrell: “Democrats do occupy most public offices in Allegheny County, but are the Republican officials in the 24 other counties of the Western Pennsylvania District all squeaky clean?”
A poster on TPMMuckraker.com has noted other examples of apparent Republican favoritism and Democrat legal bashing by U.S. attorneys over the past six years of Bush’s presidency, including the investigation of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) just before the 2006 mid-term election; the removal of the USA of Guam in 2002 after he started an investigation of Pacific Rim sweatshop supporter (and GOP pal) Jack Abramoff; and the failure of the Denver USA to prosecute GOP bouncers masquerading as Secret Service agents who threw three legitimate ticket-holders out of a Bush rally because of the anti-war bumper sticker on their car.
And then there’s the case of Wisconsin USA Steve Biskupic, who just got his ass handed to him by a Seventh Circuit Appeals Court panel when they not only overturned one of Biskupic’s convictions but, describing his evidence at trial as being “beyond thin,” ordered the immediate release of the defendant.
What makes that case noteworthy here, however, is that the defendant was former state purchasing supervisor Georgia L. Thompson, who’d been accused, just before the 2006 election, of directing a state travel contract to a firm linked to (Democratic) Gov. Jim Doyle’s re-election campaign. Awfully convenient for then-Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green, who at that time was polling not too far behind Doyle. There’s no smoking gun saying that the Thompson prosecution was directed from “on high,” but considering the Seventh Circuit’s finding of an utter lack of evidence for the indictment, one has to wonder … and according to now-fired USA Bud Cummins of Arkansas, such wondering is a Bad Thing.
Quoth Cummins: “[T]he public must perceive that every substantive decision within the department is made in a neutral and non-partisan fashion. Once the public detects partisanship in one important decision, they will follow the natural inclination to question every decision made, whether there is a connection or not.”
And finally, there’s Charlie Savage’s article in Sunday’s Boston Globe, apparently inspired by loyal Bushie Monica Goodling, who didn’t even wait to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee before claiming her Fifth Amendment right not to testify. Monica’s a grad of Pat Robert’s Regent University School of Law, which can now boast 150 alumni in federal government jobs since Bush took office; several besides Goodling in the Department of Justice.
“Not long ago, it was rare for Regent graduates to join the federal government,” wrote Savage. “But in 2001, the Bush administration picked the dean of Regent’s government school, Kay Coles James, to be the director of the Office of Personnel Management – essentially the head of human resources for the executive branch. The doors of opportunity for government jobs were thrown open to Regent alumni.”
According to Savage, “‘We’ve had great placement,’ said Jay Sekulow, who heads a non profit law firm based at Regent that files lawsuits aimed at lowering barriers between church and state. ‘We’ve had a lot of people in key positions.’”
That “non-profit law firm” would be the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which Robert created and named in the hopes that some would confuse it with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
According to US News & World Report, Regent is ranked as a “tier four” school, received the lowest possible score according to the magazine’s criteria, and was tied for 136th place of all the law schools considered.
But as we all know, for the Bush administration, “Quality is Job One.”
Oh, no; wait – that’s Ford Motor Company, which lost $12.7 billion last year – and paid its four-months-on-the-job chief executive $28 million in salary and bonuses.
Nevermind.
Posted by admin on 11 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Tech, Gadgets
I’d be really upset if this company tanks, considering that I have two Vonage lines here in Central America with US numbers. I can’t tell you how awesome it is to toss them in my bag and plug them in around the world in hotels, offices or anywhere else with a broadband connection and have the same Vegas number ring there like it would in the US. It’s equally great to pick up the Vonage phone and call from the Philippines, Australia or Italy like I’m calling from Vegas for unlimited long distance to the US, Canada and pennies for LD anywhere else in the world. The voice quality is almost perfect and it’s only $30 /month per line.
Check this out -
In a series of events sure to stir things up at a company that many analysts have already written of as dead, Vonage CEO Michael Snyder has resigned on the same day that the pioneering VoIP provider announced a series of cost-cutting maneuvers, including operations consolidation, a reduction in marketing, and layoffs. Formerly president of ADT, Snyder led the company since February of last year, when he replaced founder and current Chairman of the Board Jeffrey Citron in that role — the same man who will once again hold the CEO title while replacements are scouted. The shakeup seems to have buoyed investors confidence somewhat following the courtroom setbacks in that Verizon patent suit, with Vonage shares up as much as 13 cents in premarket trading; however, it’s a rather hollow victory when you consider that the ~$3.00 stock went for as much as $17.88 this time last year. So while it’s good to see Vonage making some proactive moves in the face of what can only be considered a deathwatch, there’s only so much the company can do to affect its own fate, and at this point we could only be a ruling or two away from the end.
Posted by John A. Facade on 22 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Porn, Guy Stuff
Somebody should give these guys a medal. I’ve always thought that MySpace and the rest of the “social networking” sites were just excuses to waste time and make life altogether too easy for stalkers. But these guys got it right. Not only are they having a blast fucking every girl they can find on the site, now they’re also amateur pornographers. Not too shabby, eh?
With a little study and practice, I think that just about any guy could do this. Look at ‘em, they’re nothing special. But look at the treasure trove of young hotties they’re pulling? I’m really wondering about this marriage thing all of a sudden. Maybe I should just move back into a bachelor pad and spend my days and nights tracking down cooze on MySpace and convincing them to get naked for my new Sony HDR-FX1 video camera?
“Excuse me ma’am, I need to inspect this.”
“Yes, they’re quite nice. But are you lactating?”
They call themselves MySpace Hunters and they’re here to rescue your penis from being flaccid and unused. ~Cue the superhero music.~ Make sure to click “About� and read the story of these guys and how they got started. It’s hysterical how stuff like this gets going.
Excuse me for now, I’m off to troll MySpace for girls nearby, then the camera store for some good lights, followed by a quick stop at the adult store for a BIG box of rubbers and some lube. God Bless The Internet.
Posted by John A. Facade on 21 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Tech, Gadgets, Video Games
Popular Science does what they do best in their latest “How it Works” by tearing apart the Nintendo Wii and its controller to show you the guts and explain how they work.
The piece includes some nifty animated images, a gallery of a Wii torn-down, and a quick explainer on the physics of the Wii remote’s accelerometer technology.
Posted by John A. Facade on 21 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Gadgets, Guy Stuff
Inventor Sonnet Ehlers claims his invention, “Rapex” is the solution to rape. How does it work? Essentially, it’s a female condom with a locking bear trap type device inside. It’s actually a pubic hair away from being released now.
Hear that? That’s the sound of terrifying justice. Feel that? Well, no means no, you monosyllabic bastard.
P.S. If only this woman had one of these, she wouldn’t have endured this horrible experience. Ya, I know the whole thing seems crazy, but so does what she went through at the hands of that animal. I hope they find him and turn 19 hours into 19 years of non-stop torture and rape for him to enjoy the receiving end of.
Posted by John A. Facade on 20 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Gadgets, Guy Stuff
My razor always seems to run out of juice just when I need to run somewhere. With Sanyo’s “world’s fastest recharging shaver,” which gives you a week of shaving in only nine minutes (or one minute if you’re just going for that single shave), you’ll also be able to avoid being accused of hogging the bathroom socket when your wife needs to do whatever she does in the bathroom every morning. Now it is possible to charge fully in just nine minutes!
Posted by John A. Facade on 19 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Porn, Guy Stuff
The Donald is on the warpath and he has his sights set on, among other things, porn! In his most recent blog, the New York megalomaniac with bad hair (I’ve actually had the pleasure of seeing it first hand at a press conference and it looks way worse in person than on TV) points his finger at employees who use company time to surf the web, check out porn, watch videos and instant message. Are you one of these?
Trump makes a good case, mind you. He points to a survey that says half the people would rather give up their morning coffee than give up surfing at work. It’s a valid point he’s making, right? You’re getting paid to be at work. Any time spent doing anything else is, essentially, stealing from the company. It doesn’t matter that you’re now doing the same tasks you did before in half the time because of computer technology. Work faster. Work harder. Give your soul. Do this and, like Trump says, you may just get to keep your job.
