Does Obama read Michael Dare on bartcop.com?

What Michael Dare said yesterday:

The military budget doesn't need to be cut, it just needs to be spend differently. For the cost of let's say one aircraft carrier, we could have a massive airdrop, not of bombs, but of free iPhones and mini laptops and wifi for every citizen of Iran, and what the hell, North Korea.

Invite them to experience the freedom of the internet. Win their souls and minds. Make the foreign governments look pretty bad when they complain about a massive giveaway that every citizen will applaud.
Michael Dare

the next day at motherjones.com

Excerpt:
One reporter asked if the White House was considering beaming broadband capability into Iran via satellite so the opposition forces would be able to communicate with themselves and the outside world. Gibbs said he didn't know such a thing was possible. (Is it?) But he said he would check on the technological feasibility and get back with an answer.

That caused some head-scratching in the press room. If the United States could do that and was planning on doing so, wouldn't this be one of those intelligence matters that Gibbs won't discuss? But maybe some telecom entrepreneur or Silicon Valley whiz-kids can make this happen. The Google guys? The Twitter people? XM Radio? This is the sort of covert action that could be worth outsourcing—with the project manager taking full credit. Think of the endorsement possibilities: the Iranian Revolution...Brought to You by DIRECTV.

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Michael Jackson's Lament redux

From Disinfotainment Today Issue #156, June 13, 2005

 

Michael Jackson's Lament

They can play in his park unafraid
Michael is not trying to get laid
And if they should chance to spend the night
He'll respect their innocent delight

He can write a tune that's nice and lilty
You can never prove that he is guilty
He can make a plausible rebuttal
All he ever wants to do is cuddle

He has made a promise you can trust
The jury gave a verdict that was just
He will have to wait till they are men
He won't sleep with little boys again
 

Michael swoons
with a bunch of hairy ass baboons
Michael shouts
Underneath his worries and his doubts
Michael laughs
with an ocelot and two giraffes
Michael hurls
at the thought of touching little girls

When he goes to court he always wins
He won't go to jail for his sins
In his brain there is a major glitch
He won't be another convict's bitch

When it comes to ten o'clock or more
Michael's gonna moon walk out the door
One hand clapping will be Michael's Zen
He won't sleep with little boys again

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What I did this past weekend

I marched in Seattle's Fremont Solstice Parade with the Hempfest dragon.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
That's the Super Sonic Soul Pimps on the float.

That's me in the back.

Astonishing Must See Video: Civilization

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

Above: "Civilization," a video installation by artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators in the Standard Hotel in NYC.

It's comprised of over 400 video clips and it takes elevator passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up or from heaven to hell as they go down. Pictures of the installation and Q&A with Brambilla and Crush are posted here.

(Thanks, Richard Metzger!)

 

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/19/video-civilization.html

 

Slumdog Price is Right

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You're in a clothing store when this happens

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My contributions to Open Government Dialogue

Michael Dare

Edit Michael Dare Member since : May-30-2009 (Verified) 10 Ideas, 10 Comments, 27 Votes

Ideas Posted

Looks Promising! 32  I'm Not So Sure...	Free "Happy Birthday"  Michael Dare 2 days ago We, the public, wish to extend our Domain, called the Public Domain. Every extension of copyright is at the expense of the Public Domain. Corporations will extend copyright forever if we, the Public, let them trample on our Domain. When "Happy Birthday" is sung in a film, should Mildred and Patty Hill get credit? Absolutely, they wrote it in 1893. Should AOL Time Warner reel in $2 million a year licensing the song more than a century after it was written? (http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp) I don't think so. Let people post birthday parties to YouTube without the threat of a lawsuit from a mighty media corporation. AOL Time Warner, as a public service, we ask you to voluntarily release the song "Happy Birthday" into the Public Domain. Comments (0)Making Data More Accessible, copyright, song licensing, corporate control
Looks Promising! -57  I'm Not So Sure...	Demand Abraham Lincoln's birth certificate  Michael Dare 8 days ago Nobody has ever seen it so he wasn't really president, the south has retroactively won the Civil War and Barack Obama is rightly a slave who should be working in a cotton farm in Virginia. Comments (5)Records Management
Looks Promising! -121  I'm Not So Sure...	Change the birth certificate requirement  Michael Dare 8 days ago Change the law so that there is no birth certificate requirement for public office. We live in a global community and the requirement is archaic and useless. Let Obama be president wherever he was born. Comments (1)Legal & Policy Challenges
Looks Promising! -148  I'm Not So Sure...	Nobody Cares  Michael Dare 8 days ago Please stop posting "new" ideas concerning Obama's birth certificate. The idea has already been posted. Once is enough for such a trivial matter. Please stop wasting everybody's time with your partisan lunacy. Comments (24)Making Data More Accessible
Looks Promising! -39  I'm Not So Sure...	Treat Palestinians like American Indians  Michael Dare 10 days ago Let the Palestinians make a deal with the Mafia to build casinos in the Gaza Strip. Make it like Atlantic City. Generate income. Let the world see a few millionaire Palestinians. Give them hope, not to mention free booze and prostitutes. Comments (0)New Strategies and Techniques
Looks Promising! 27  I'm Not So Sure...	Make the House of Representatives represent EVERYBODY  Michael Dare 10 days ago Leave the Senate the way it is, but make the House of Representatives truly representative by getting rid of democracy in elections. We're not really a democracy anyway, remember? "I pledge allegiance to the REPUBLIC of the United States of America." I assume you know the difference, right? Allow me to quote... "Suppose the majority wants to take away your home, business, or your children. Obviously, there's a problem! The flaw in democracy is that if you allow majority rule, then everybody's rights are up-for-grabs. All you have to do is get more than 1/2 of the people to want something, on any given day, and you no longer have any rights. It's sometimes called 'the tyranny of a majority.' "The fundamental difference between a democracy and a republic is that if someone or a group of people came up to you and said that they were going to take away your home or business or children, you'd probably stand up and say, 'No, you can't do that! I have my rights protected by the Constitution of the United States of America.' And if you said that, you'd be describing a republic." - Civics in Seconds - There! See? The constitution supersedes democracy in order to protect us from mob mentality. Which means elections don't have to be Democratic/winner take all. They can work a whole other way. Right now, if the candidate you vote for doesn't win the election, you end up without representation. How about a system with no winners or losers. Whoever you vote for becomes your representative. Period. Everybody gets representation. Representatives who represent the most people wield the most power. Comments (6)New Strategies and Techniques
82	Outlaw ALL political contributions  Michael Dare 10 days ago Every campaign finance reform bill that has ever existed has done nothing more than limit the amount of the bribes that public officials are legally allowed to accept. It's got to stop. Make it illegal for anyone to contribute anything to a political candidate, period. Also make it illegal for political candidates to use their own money for their campaign. All political campaigns will be paid for entirely by the government, with each candidate receiving the exact same amount. Freed from the burden of fundraising, politicians can actually focus on doing their jobs. Comments (7)New Strategies and Techniques
Looks Promising! -32  I'm Not So Sure...	Change the National Anthem  Michael Dare 10 days ago The Star Spangled Banner is the worst song I've ever heard. Our national anthem should be Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land. Comments (7)Uncategorized
Looks Promising! 25  I'm Not So Sure...	Sell insurance by the gallon instead of by the year.  Michael Dare 10 days ago Add an insurance tax to the price of gasoline and drivers will never have to deal with the DMV or car insurance companies again. Split the cost of the tax between the consumers and the providers. Everybody who drives will be automatically insured and registered. Those who drive the most will pay the most, and if you want to save money on your insurance, all you have to do is drive less. There would be NO MORE uninsured drivers. Period. Everyone who buys gas is automatically insured. No more monthly payments of hundreds of dollars. All it takes to be completely insured for the road is the price of a gallon of gas. No more arresting people for driving without insurance. The very fact you're driving means you bought gas which means you're insured. Police can focus on other things. Create a single monopoly out of the DMV and all the major insurance companies in which every single transaction is taken care of at the pump. Make the tax 100% earmarked to the bureaucracy that deals with payment of claims, which are all no-fault. Comments (3)New Strategies and Techniques
Looks Promising! 36  I'm Not So Sure...	Let Congress vote from locations other than Congress  Michael Dare 10 days ago It's completely absurd that congressmen and senators have to physically be in the building to vote on measures. We've got the internet and laptops. Why on earth did Ted Kennedy have to get out of his hospital bed and go to Congress in a wheelchair to vote on a measure when he could just as easily done it from home. If they don't have to actually be there, there can be NO MORE EXCUSES FOR NOT VOTING. Make it MANDATORY to vote on EVERY MEASURE, and make it so they can't vote until they've actually heard both sides of the issue. Comments (8)New Strategies and Techniques

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/pmd/9033-4049

Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else

Jesse Ventura Presents... American Politics

 

God Damned Humorless Teenagers Make Me Furious!

 

by Donald Mills

The problem with young people today is that they spontaneously burst into flames.

When I was a lad, we weren't allowed to combust spontaneously. We needed a permission slip from our parents before we could set ourselves ablaze. If I had ever turned into a fireball without my old dad's consent he would have snuffed me out with a fireman's axe and scattered my ashes to the wind.

And then he would have travelled back in time, assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and invented the Frisbee.

But these young people today. They burst into flame all over the place without any concern for public decency or safety. It's a big joke to them. They're only happy when melting flesh is sliding off their bones and their intestines are being cooked into farmers' sausage.

It's disrespectful and unnatural, damn it. They walk down the street with their higher than normal body temperatures, asbestos underpants and glowing red eyes and think that they are better than older people.

They knock us over, take our wallets, give us wedgies and then burst into flames before you can smack them with your cane.

If this keeps up it won't be long before flaming teenagers are ruling this planet and have enslaved us all. Our fiery overlords will demolish our churches, eat seal pups and ban renewable energy. Old folks will be forced to work in anthracite mines and take part in dramatic re-enactments of the Hannah Montana television program.

And when that day comes, we'll all be well and truly sorry.

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