Every once in awhile someone writes a news article that boils my blood so much, that I can not ignore it and have to share its evil idiocy with everyone I meet. I post this story because I think people should understand what TRIPE can make it into the media.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Beware the Affluenza Virus. An epidemic of mindless consumerism is sweeping the world with the compulsive pursuit of money and possessions making people richer but sadder.

Compare and contrast Sam, the miserable millionaire and sex-addicted atheist who treats women as commodities for fleeting satisfaction, with Chet the Nigerian taxi driver who is contented, optimistic, sexually faithful and religious.James freely admits that interviewing the affluent in Sydney was a depressing job, calling it “the Dolly Parton of cities in Australia, the most vacuous.”

Singapore, where he found shopping to be the national obsession, suffered from “sad, unplayful deadness.” Denmark was commendable, worthy but not exactly “a barrel of laughs.”

But not all was doom and gloom for the peripatetic psychologist.

He admired the Chinese for their “best is good enough” stoicism and said “I most liked the Muscovites as they still have an interest in the life of the mind.”

James the optimistic believes the backlash has begun.

“We are at a turning point. My argument dovetails with the ecological argument — we cannot carry on consuming in this manner and feel confident our great grandchildren have any future. This inevitably leads us to question consumerism.”

“People are sick to the back teeth of this stuff. They don’t want any more selfish capitalism.”

What really sets me off about stories like this is that these idiots actually exist in this world. Fuck. Doesn’t it just boggle your mind?

I left the link out of this story on purpose, because I don’t want the search engine spiders giving this a higher rank on my behalf.

Spread the word about this.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A former militia man convicted of tax evasion prepared for a government siege Friday at his fortress-like home, but U.S. marshals gave no indication they were planning to confront him.Ed Brown said he was ready for a swarm of federal agents to descend on his property to execute an arrest warrant issued after he failed to appear for the end of his trial. He and his wife contend that they did not have to pay income taxes, and his supporters say a conflict could be violent.

…read the rest here.

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“I won’t. Under no circumstances. I do not tolerate cowardliness, oppression, bulliness, and I certainly don’t tolerate a federal agency that has absolutely zero jurisdiction in my state, never mind in my county, in my town.”
-Ed Brown

Let’s play a game. The re-translate game. You simply type a paragraph about anything, run it through an online translation program (in any language that you desire) and then translate it back to English.

Speel een spel. vertaal spel opnieuw. U typt eenvoudig een paragraaf over om het even wat, doorneemt het een online vertaalprogramma (in om het even welke taal dat u wens) en dan vertaalt het terug naar het Engels.

Play a game translate game again. You type simply a paragraph concerning no matter what, go through it an online vertaalprogramma (in any language that you wish) and then translates it to English.

Here are some translation sites:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
http://www.google.com/translate_t

Re-Translate Game Copyright MAF, Inc. 2007

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Bizarre.

Guess who I met?

I’m in the Vegas airport…. more later.