Eighty-two percent of our expenses are personnel issues ... The only thing we can control is employment numbers, which we don't want to reduce. We have to make sure we keep people in Reed City, when you lose teachers you lose students.
Wanted to comment on this loaded Yale ATROCITY posted over at mlw(yeah, I know, silly as hell) but it seems they've pre-banned me for the second time. I haven't logged on since last fall.
I know I should be gratefull for this happy aversion.
So, post the most outrageous scholarly claim/study you've ran across lately, below. Or just post bad music.
(Oh shit! Just found there actually exists an anagram acronym for this cadre of the intellectually depraved. If there's one thing americans are good at, it's useless anagramming acronyming.)
Here's some nice short rantage on Haiti from Richard Seymour. Comments are also worth a perusal. Not much else to say. Spending my time here deleting spammers again.
So traffic spikes are not necessarily due to our endangered migratory bats.
Nice counterbalance over at Rolling Stone by L. Christopher Smith, on the 'non-jihadi', actual group killing spree coordinated by soldiers from Fort Carson back in 2007. Yes, soldiers, plural. Civilian victims. Plural.
I have changed the format of the email sent to new users so that no one will be able to sign up without first emailing me, due to the large volume of spam accounts being created. Believe it or not there have been a few legit accounts created in the past few days. So, any lurkers, FYI...and carry on, everyone else.
Look at this fucking monkey, Howie Schwartz.
He is the king of all SEOs, and most likely who's attacking us here, given his 'genius' black hat methods. He pretty much spells out IN HIS OWN AD how we are being targeted. These slimy fuckers are giving me carpal tunnel syndrome and all I get in return is the knowledge that they're genetically inferior. Hmph.
So, don't click on any of these new user's links, it will only make it worse. And now the little fuckers are posting comments and diaries!
Google says we're not alone in this, other sites are having the same problem. Whether or not anything will be done about it is the question. Since Saturday there have been near 200 spam accounts added here. Before that it was one or two a month.
I've lost count the number of times these past years I've seen Zio-bloggers spin the Sabra & Shatila massacre, where thousands of unarmed Palestinian refugees(and some Lebanese) died, into anti-Palestinian propaganda Gold. The technique of burying the backstory and relying on the genuine disinterest of the US populace usually works like a charm. Great post from Richard Seymour today, near its anniversary.
Long before Sabra and Shatila, the earliest targets of the war included refugee camps such as Rashidiyeh, which was reduced to rubble. Its residents fled or were killed, and those who were caught were rounded up and taken to a nearby beach to watch the destruction. All males of teenage years and older were blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken away. And they were not heard from again. Again, the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp was largely flattened by bombing, and its mosque bulldozed afterwards. Approximately 100 mangled bodies were found under the mosques ruins. Hospitals were destroyed, orphanages flattened by cluster and phosphorus bombs, a school in Sidon was destroyed with 300 inside killed and, with ruthless efficiency, the Israeli army blew housing blocks and apartments to craters, if they suspected that there might be PLO activists inside. Hundreds of thousands of refugees - mostly women and children, since males were more robustly dealt with - were wandering aimlessly through Lebanon's carnage, starving and out of their minds with terror, before Sabra and Shatila. And all the while, incidentally, liberal and left-wing figures from the United States were taking IDF tours of southern Lebanon, cheering on the bloodshed. Jane Fonda, who had funded the Viet Cong, found herself conscripted to Israel's army of overseas cheerleaders, as did Tom Hayden, the former Sixties radical. Michael Walzer's verdict can be summarised in the simple phrase: "just war".
Only sick people like me will have noticed this...and by sick I mean that I actually watched the entire Obama wheedle tonight...and on Fox News no less.
