Month: August 2009

“NON-LETHAL” WEAPONS AND ITCHY TRIGGER FINGERS

August 24, 2009:

Pictured above, indicating the type of penises they wished they had, are brothers Tom and Rick Smith, founders of Taser International.

At their 2009 conference, they dressed up in gay outfits to hawk their increasingly popular products. Witness the limp-dicked flag-worship fully on display.

At the end of their Keynote Address, they launched into an uplifting sermon about how their company should be “celebrated” for “swimming against the tide of history” by providing weapons intended to “preserve life”.

Meanwhile, between 2001 and August 2008, these “life preserving” weapons were used to kill 334 people, most of whom were unarmed.

Moreover, this myth of taser non-lethality gives cocksucker cops everywhere the excuse (and the legal cover) to torture grandmothers, pregnant women and kids. From Scott Thill:

Did you hear the one about the pregnant woman who was tasered because she wouldn’t sign her speeding ticket, or the pregnant woman who was tasered at a baptism party thrown by her father, a bible-study teacher who was charged with public intoxication in his own backyard and whose wife and son were also tasered? How about the officer who tasered a pregnant woman while inside the police department?

Or the cop who tasered a girl, no lie, in the brain, because he couldn’t chase her down on foot? Or the one that shoved a taser up a man’s ass in Idaho? Or those who tasered and pepper-sprayed an umbrella-wielding man in a Dollar Store bathroom, and after finding out that he was both mentally disabled and deaf still decided to charge him with resisting arrest, failure to obey a police officer and (of course) disorderly conduct, charges which the on-duty magistrate refused to accept? And don’t forget the belligerent baseball fan, the 72-year old grandmother, the bride and groom tasered at their wedding, the bicyclists who were tased after cops tried to run them off the road. And what about that guy who burst into flames? What about the six-year-old who was tasered after threatening to cut his own leg with a glass? (That’ll teach him!)

You can read other stories about tasers here, or watch more cops out of control here.

(By the way, the link between the Taser and Schutzstaffel logos – so subtly expressed in my collage above – was suggested by this post from the Infinite Unknown.)

UPDATE 08/26/09: On second thought, to call these guys ‘gay’ is to flatter them. But I still suspect that they are limp dicked.


PUTTING IT ON C-SPAN

August 18, 2009:

An illustrative video on Obama’s broken promises to put healthcare negotiations on C-SPAN. In practice, he did the opposite – opting instead for secret White House meetings with representatives from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries:


LOW ON AMMO

August 14, 2009:


DEALING WITH BIG PHARMA

August 11, 2009:

(PhRMA = Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America)

The NYT reported that the White House struck a deal with PhRMA where the government would give up its power to negotiate for lower drug prices in exchange for PhRMA’s support for a “healthcare reform” bill.

Then PhRMA authorized its lobbyists to launch a $150 million ad campain in support of “healtcare reform” while Obama’s campaign promises to break PhRMA’s control of drug prices have been erased from the health care page at mybarackobama.com.

William Greider called the deal an outrageous concession and Robert Reich argued that such deals threaten democracy.

Now, in the face of such criticism, anonymous White House officials are denying that a such a deal was made, and as everybody knows there is nothing more trustworthy than an anonymous White House official, so there is probably nothing to see here. Move along.

UPDATE 08/13/09: No, wait, it turns out that they are liars after all. I’m so surprised.


“HEALTHCARE” INSDUSTRY WHORES

August 5, 2009:

Kieth Olbermann’s corporate masters at General Electric may yank on his own leash from time to time, but for the sake of ratings they still allow him to rail against these “healthcare” industry whores in Congress, who are working to block even a watered down public healthcare option:

And on a related note, here is a chart explaining why “we can’t afford universal healthcare”.