jonreese(or how i learned to stop worrying and love the blog)

crying while eating

http://cryingwhileeating.com/

hilarious

so far, my favorite entry in the contagious media showdown.

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ohh canada

Suicide hotline only open from 9 to 5

Callers in need must phone during business hours

TORONTO - A Canadian province will shut its 24-hour suicide hotline and replace it with one that operates only during business hours.

quick star wars rant

dont want to give out any spoilers. so if you want to read this post just hi-light the text below by clicking and dragging over it with your mouse.

ok. its all on darth....

i was very disapointed by the whole first glimpse of vader in the suit.

first of all. his voice was exactly as it was in the the later movies. i think it was too extreme to go from whiny little anakin to bad ass vader voice that quickly. i didnt buy it. they could have at least raised the pitch a bit. i dont think anyone would expect his voice to be exactly the same 20 years later. even if it does go through the suit. big deal.

also. the suit. i gotta say, the box on the front of his suit passes for early 80's sci-fi. but in 2005 it just looks stupid. they should have changed the suit a bit and let people just assume that he, oh i dont know, got one piece of new clothing in 20 years. it didnt have to be exactly the same.

worst of all. his yelling "noooooooooooooooooo!". yikes. pretty dumb.

the beginning of the end for nepals king?

D. Michael Van De Veer- Freelance Journalist

Kathmandu, Nepal
May19, 2005

"The Maoist insurgents have stepped up attacks across Nepal with reports of police and army being killed and wounded. The estimates of killed and wounded Maoist and Security Forces is usually supplied by tightly controlled State-run media and cannot be relied on. Despite promises of “ support in efforts to counter the Maoists” from the likes of visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca, and even with the latest weapons from the U.S., India, Belgium and the U.K., the U.S. trained Security Forces are losing ground to the well armed, well disciplined Maoists. An estimated 20,000 Maoists continue their hide-and-seek attacks and control more than 85% of the country. Outside the large cities, whose combined population is approximately 6 million, the majority population of 20,000,000 remain under the control or influence of the Maoists."

read on. get yourself acquainted with whats going on over there, before the US really reacts and starts dropping bombs on the new red nepalese terrorist threat.

thousands secretly sterilized

"From the early 1900s to the 1970s, some 65,000 men and women were sterilized in this country, many without their knowledge, as part of a government eugenics program to keep so-called undesirables from reproducing."

check out the rest of this fucked up story at abcnews.

black and white and full of crap

"We didn't want the world finding out what actually happened"

pat tillman martyrdom.. bullshit

jessica lynch the hero.. bullshit

wmd's.. bullshit

ok, i'll let ted rall explain

the war on paperclips

AL Kennedy
Wednesday May 11, 2005
The Guardian

"OK, I'm paranoid and depressed. My new government of troglodytes, murderers and spivs barely elongates the customary scream I give upon waking. What troubles me more is our rulers' inevitable recommencement of the war on terror bollocks.

To begin at what we're told is the beginning, we have 9/11 - the one in the US, not the earlier one in Chile when covert US government intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed the country to a commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right junta. Now if 9/11/2001 is so important, why is it so hard to find out what happened?"

yea. the rest is real good too. read it at the guardian here

Open Letter From Assata Shakur

By Assata Shakur
Monday - May 9, 2005

"My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984."

this letter seriously breaks down her whole story. its definitely worth reading if youre not familiar with her side of the story. check it out

smoking gun memo

"secret and strictly personal" top level government memo:

"Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

"Bush had made up his mind to take military action. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

read the rest by greg palast, kicking ass as usual.

i doubt anyones too suprised by this finding. lets just hope someone in this country sinks their teeth into it and it leads to some real action.