Cynode :: What’s Going On Here?!

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies

Gallup, CBS, and USAToday caught over sampling the number of Republican respondents, at the expense of Democrats and Independents, in their polls (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/…144/290/592615?)

McCain lies

Video of McCain Lies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0xzsogzAk)

Comprehensive list of McCain Flip-flops (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2…5880/710/545421)

Keating Five Scandal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five)

McCain lied about his marriage (http://articles.latimes.com/2008/ju…on/na-divorce11)

McCain lies about vietnam (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalp…nnsylvania.html)

McCain lies about factcheck.org (http://www.newsweek.com/id/158265/output/print)

McCain lied about his intervening with the FCC (http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic….ing_problem.php)

HERE’s a top 20 list of McCain and Palin’s lies by a reputable, non-partisan source (http://www.alternet.org/story/98502/mccain_and_palin%27s_top_20_lies%2C_myths_and_flip-flops_/)

Alternative energy? he has never voted for any bill(http://media.www.dailytargum.c…y-3414219.shtml) that would advance alternative energy(http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/…ergy-hypocrisy/)

more lies about his energy policy (http://grandrapidsprogressive.blogs…rgy-policy.html)

Tax Plan? his tax plan has proven to be much worse than Obama’s for middle and lower income earners, and much better for the very rich (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy…8060900950.html)

Maverick that stands up to lobbyists and big oil? his campaign team is filled with lobbyists FROM big oil and telecom (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy…2101131_pf.html)

McCain lies about his federal earmarks. (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/31/134349/867)

McCain lies about Obama on troops (http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/073008a.html)

McCain lies to a pastor(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-…n_b_119517.html), and rigs an interview that took place in a church(http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/0…ry4358523.shtml), by listening to all the questions given to obama, and going second

Do you think Palin tells the truth about anything?

-Palin Lied about having “struck” a deal for major pipeline. The “pipeline exists only on paper” and “federal approvals are years away.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/u…amp;oref=slogin)

-Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere, and it secured a 223 million dollar earmark, which will not be returned (http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCa…125537020080901)

-Palin lied about visiting Ireland (http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/…ireland-as.html)

-Palin lied about protecting Alaskan tax payers . . . There are no Alaskan state tax payers, DUR. (http://thecitizens.blogspot.com/200…ns-big-lie.html)

-Palin’s accusation about Obama never authoring a single major law or reform is a lie (http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.c…n-on-obama.html)

-Palin lied about being tough on earmarks, she is one the biggest federal earmarks abusers (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908…4TQHBox_COs0NUE)

Palin’s “Troopergate” scandal - blatant abuse of power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska…ioner_dismissal)

Heres a compilation of Palin Lies by CBS. that was censored, then un-censored once the google cache version spread.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008…in4414049.shtml

and that’s not the only example of media censorship on Palin stories.

The Candidate B.S.

According to Sarah Palin:

John McCain

• McCain graduated 5th from last (849th out of 899) From The Naval Academy, and no one seems to know what his degree is in.
• He was in the Navy for 22 years and quit when he didn’t get promoted to Admiral in 1981
• After leaving the Navy he was VP of Public Relations for his father in laws company.
• He was elected US Senator in 1983.
• He was a member of the 1991–1993 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs
• Since January 1993, McCain has been Chairman of the International Republican Institute

Misc. B.S.

• He divorced his first wife after admitting he cheated on her and asked for divorce to marry his current wife.
• He was a Member of The Keating Five (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989) he was cleared but was mildly rebuked for exercising "poor judgment"
• He and his wife brought an abandoned three-month old girl needing medical treatment to the U.S. from a Bangladeshi orphanage run by Mother Teresa and adopted her.
• In 1997 Time magazine named McCain as one of the "25 Most Influential People in America"

Sarah Palin

• Palin graduated from University of Idaho in 1987 with a Bachelors in Journalism
• She was a sports reporter for 4 years.
• From 1992 to 2001 she was in offices in a town of 7,000 people, both as City Council member and Mayor.
• From 2002 to 2004 she was Ethics Officer and Chairman of The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
• From 2003 to 2005 she served in a 527 group, Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc. that was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in Alaska
• From Dec. 2006 until now she has been Governor of Alaska.

Misc. B.S.

• Palin admits to smoking marijuana as a youth, during the time Alaska had decriminalized possession, though she says she did not enjoy it.
• Palin hired the Anchorage-based lobbying firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh to lobby for earmarks (some of which were criticized by John McCain)
• Palin is under investigation by the Alaska Legislature
• Palin’s oldest son is to be deployed to Iraq in Sept. 2008
• In 1984 she finished 2nd in the Miss Alaska contest

Barack Obama

• Obama Graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelors in Political Science, specializing in International Relations
• He Graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude, specializing in Constitutional Law.
• He worked for Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group for 4 years (combined)
• From June 1985 to May 1988 he was director of the Developing Communities Project
• He was a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute From 1985 until 1988
• He was a Lawyer for Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.
• He directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992
• He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (1992–1996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (1996–2004)
• He was a Civil Rights Lawyer from 1993 to 2004
• He was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992
• He served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago from 1993–2002
• He served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation from 1994–2002
• He served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999.
• He served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• He served on the board of directors of the Center for Neighborhood Technology
• He served on the board of directors of the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.
• He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 and served until 2004
• In January 2003, He became chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee.
• He was sworn in as a U.S. Senator on January 4, 2005.
• He was on the Senate Committee for Foreign Relations
• He was on the Senate Committee for Environment and Public Works
• He was on the Senate Committee for Veterans’ Affairs
• He was also Chairman of the Senate’s subcommittee on European Affairs

Misc. B.S.

• Obama admitted that during high school he used marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol
• During his first year at Harvard Law School he was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review
• In his second year at Harvard Law School he was elected president of the Law Review
• He set the record for fund raising by a presidential campaign in the first six months of the calendar year before the election
• In January 2008, his campaign set another fund raising record for the most ever raised in one month by a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries.
• He again broke fund raising records in the first two months of 2008
• On June 19, Obama became the first major-party presidential candidate to turn down public financing in the general election since the system was created in 1976.

Joe Biden

• Joe Biden graduated from University of Delaware in 1965 with a double major Bachelors in History and Political Science.
• He Graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968 with a Juris Doctor
• In 1969 He practiced Law in Delaware
• In 1970 he was elected elected to the New Castle County, County Council where he served until 1972
• In 1973 he was elected US Senator
• Since 1991, Biden has also served as a professor at the Widener University School of Law. He teaches a seminar on constitutional law.
• He is a long-time member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which he chaired from 1987 until 1995 and on which he served as ranking minority member from 1981 until 1987 and again from 1995 until 1997.
• He is also a long-time member and current chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Misc. B.S.

• Biden was the 5th youngest elected Senator ever (elected when he was 30, the minimum age)
• He is considered one of the least wealthy members of the Senate
• In 1974 he was named one of the 200 Faces for the Future by Time magazine
• He helped create the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, also known as the Biden Crime Law, and the landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994
• His Oldest son is being deployed to Iraq in Oct. 2008

21 ECONOMIC MODELS EXPLAINED WITH COWS

21 ECONOMIC MODELS EXPLAINED WITH COWS

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away…

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the shit out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy…

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive…

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Hunger Strike

This sure brings back some memories, too bad Andrew Wood had to die, I’d trade him for this in a heartbeat, but this is some seriously good stuff that probably would have never been made if not for him dying.

All I Intended to Be - Emmylou Harris

Every week I check out a new album, and post here about it, this week’s Album is:

All I Intended to Be Emmylou HarrisRelease Date: June 09, 2008 Total Songs: 13 Genre: Country Price: $10.99 Copyright Nonesuch Records for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.

So check it, and comment back if you like (or dislike ) it.

WTF Canada?

VANCOUVER, Canada — The Canadian government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws that could make information stored on iPods, laptops and other devices illegal, according to a leaked government document reported in Vancouver newspaper The Province.

The agreement also would force Internet service providers to hand over customer information without a court order.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which would not need approval from the Canadian Parliament, would see Canada join the U.S. and the European Union in a coalition against copyright infringement.

I would bitch about my freedoms being taken, but this is Canada, not America. I remember a few years ago, when Bush was voted in for his 2nd term, so many people threatened (and a lot even did) to move to Canada. I wonder how many of them will move back now.

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Hero Class - Death Knight!

So with WoW’s next expansion Wrath of the Lich King, they will be releasing the first Hero Class for WoW, The Death knight. I for one can’t wait.

The new class will use a unique rune system instead of mana, energy, or rage.

They will start out at level 55 and be creatable by anyone with a current level 55 or higher character.

They will be creatable on any server, regardless of whether you have a 55 there, as long as you have a 55 on any server.

So far it looks like their talent trees will focus on tanking, dps, or pvp, they won’t be able to use shields, they will be able to dual wield, and one of their tanking talents gives them a massive 45% boost in Armor.

Death Knights can be any race, wear plate, and can use 1h swords and axes, and 2h swords and axes. They wear plate, dual wield, and will have summonable pets (although they won’t be pet classes like Hunter/Warlock)

Read more about them at WoW Slave

CRANK DAT CHOPPA

Ok, so yeah, this kid is walking down the street jamming to Soulja Boy or something, only to have a MOTHAF’ING Helicopter land on his head and drag him down the street.

So, the news media does the right thing, and places blame squarely where it should be placed.

…

ON THE IPOD.

Yeah, because if he wasn’t CRANKIN DAT SOULJA he might have been able to dodge the Helicopter right? For some reason I doubt the iPod has much or anything to do with this kids death, but the media just loves to sensationalize everything.

Original Article

Beastie Boys … Dan Rather

Ask yourself, how could the Beastie Boys be Six Degrees from Dan Rather? Well, since both are in popular media, I assume there is many ways, however, I discovered one last night on accident.

Start with a little Beastie Boys, a dash of Schoolly D, some Cristopher Walken, a dab of Sing Sing, spiced up by some R.E.M., top it off with a killer and you have your path to Dan Rather.

I was listening to the Beastie Boys - Time To Get Ill, when, in the middle of the song I hear “looking at my Gucci it’s about that time” and having had this album for 22 years now (I bought it new in 1986) and having heard the same line in Big Tymers - Still Fly, I thought to myself, “who is that saying that”. So, I started my wikipedia and google mission.

First I found that the line was done by Schoolly D in the song Gucci Time, so I started reading about the rapper and his music, come to find out he has done the soundstracks for a few movies including Abel Ferrara’s King of New York. Well, in King of New York at the beginning, Frank White (Christopher Walken) is released from Sing Sing prison. Amongst the Notable inhabitants of Sing Sing is a guy named William Tager. William Tager claims to be the person, who in 1986, attacked and beat up Dan Rather while scream “Kenneth, what is the frequency?”, the inspiration for the R.E.M. song What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?

And there you have it, the relationship between the Beastie Boys and Dan Rather, although that line technically ended with R.E.M. writing the song about Dan Rather, let’s not get too technical.

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Ultimate!