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Secret Club
Posted Feb 24, 2004
Welcome to Secret Club.
There are eight basic rules.
However, the third and eighth rules do not apply on saturdays, or the first monday of each month, whichever comes first. If this monday/saturday occurs within a leap year's second month, the first rule (but not the second) may be circumvented, given permission from the False Head of your Chapter.
The first rule of Secret Club is: you do not talk about Secret Club.
The second rule of Secret Club is: you DO NOT TALK about Secret Club.
The third rule of Secret Club is: no girls.
The fourth rule: be creative. Keep secrets you didn't even know existed.
Fifth rule: each shall maketh a group, and shall stick to the group; yea, and they shall (verily) suppose that they are superior to all other groups.
The sixth rule of Secret Club: Paranoia is an art form. The most complex and omnipresent delusion each week shall be merited with a pair of binoculars.
The seventh rule of Secret Club is: Keep it concealed.
The eighth rule of Secret Club: If this is your first day, you HAVE to lie.
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Government Censorship
Posted Feb 17, 2004
Take a look at this to rile up your anti-authority feelings.
The US Government is planning to withdraw funding from a large number of shows for closed-caption transcripts for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Full list below:
http://www.nad.org/openhouse/action/alerts/captioningcensorship/list.html
The decision of which shows to block was apparently made by a small panel of citizens who had never met before, were unelected and had no authority to make these changes, and did not even know that what they were saying was being recorded and soon to be used for national law. The American public have not been given a chance to have their say in what shows should not be available, or indeed whether there should be such a law at all.
Above that, some have accused the government of censoring non-puritanical shows, in line with current religious status of the US executive. There are others who argue that this is unfair because it runs completely against Bush's platform of family values, by disallowing parents the ability to choose which shows to watch.
The effect of all this is basically that twenty eight million (that's 28,000,000 or *JUST UNDER HALF THE POPULATION OF THE UK*) people in the USA are unable to watch any programme that has not been pre-approved by the government - now *that's* censorship.
Here is the view of the National Association for the Deaf:
http://www.nad.org/openhouse/action/alerts/captioningcensorship/pr.html
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Good Cop / Bad Cop
Posted Nov 17, 2003
The Two-Stage Anal/Oral Dialectic
I was listening to the radio (Jazz FM), and it came to the commercial breaks.
A soft spoken woman came on, preaching the joys of the New Ford X280t##~1, with revolutionary new power assisted steering, airbags, tires, etc... with a special new offer of a year's free fuel from BMW.
A pause of a second.
Then a deep man's voice came on reciting the terms and conditions.
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Holistic Remedy
Posted Nov 2, 2003
"This is the world that man made.
These are the ills that plagued
The world that man made.
This is the doctor prescribing the pills
That treated the ills that plagued
The world that man made.
These are the plants and labs and mills
That manufactured all the pills the doctor
Gave to treat the ills that plagued
The world that man made.
This is the banker with tellers and tills
That backed the plants and labs and mills
That manufactured all the pills the doctor
Gave to treat the ills that plagued
The world that man made.
This is the general with trumpets and trills
Who made the war that saved the bank that
Backed the plants that manufactured all the pills
The doctor gave to treat the ills that plagued
The world that man made.
Here is the mother all forlorn
Whose one and only child was born
To die in the war the general made to save
The bank that backed the plants that made
The pills the doctor gave to treat the ills
That plagued the world that man made.
This is the angel that blew his horn
To comfort the mother all forlorn
And fired the general and closed the banks
And shut the mills and scattered the pills,
Retired the doctor and cured the ills
And ended the world that man made."
-Arlen Riley Wilson
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A Translative Experiment
Posted Sep 15, 2003
Because vainly hoped for you are us, they are possibly that raw
material, the interior of the handle of Yamaichi of the mountain, of the extensions the connections of the B to the interior of remaining and low the flower and they we continue being everything.
The density uses my heart, when the God to describe an angel exactly,
the end to polish a love of the system of the illumination and the
warning in my shoulders.
A crystal, that one polishes for a heart, the head mine getleman, is
absent cold and distant absentee.
They had assumed the direction of my heart, therefore of the calm of
the heat nevertheless and my alcohol, of that apanharam is of one they
and had interested its light. That one is missing only of the thing
was the closing tree; and it there was dew exactly of fantasy of the
mine, also.
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