Good Riddance Day

Good Riddance Day: Unfortunately, not a term of our creation plus we are a day behind on this one.  December 28 was the officially designated day to rid ourselves of a bad memory, experience and or so on from the year.  2010 was an especially unfortunate year for us as our Senior Editor's father became very sick for the last three months of the year and then passed away on December 19.  His brother and his wife lost her mother on Columbus Day due to end-stage cancer.  Also, supposed to be named after the Green Day song "Good Riddance" (The Time of Your Life).  GOOD RIDDANCE 2010!

FOM: Times Square Alliance for Official Good Riddance Day and Link to YouTube Video Performance of Good Riddance by Green Day


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MLKvBeck828

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Updated: Friday, August 20, 2010*

MLKvBeck828:  When we left Twitter (yes, yes, we did! - we deactivated our account which makes it even more difficult to rejoin!), the one "trending topic" that we contributed to might have been the DC Rally planned by Glenn Beck (and his one follower?) for August 28, 2010 (Which is a Saturday, by the way...).  The hashtag for the topic/event became the now-infamous #MLKvBeck828 topic. 

It was unfortunate that this date was chosen by Mr. Beck and his one lone supporter (?) for the date of his rally as it coincides with the date of the late, great Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  (Yes, even though this is a link to the Wikipedia page we urge you to visit it for its great External Links to the YouTube National Archives records of the march itself.)  Many tweeters - including ourselves, who view Mr. King as a prophet - saw this coincidence as an affront to the great man himself (Mr. King ~ not Mr. Beck) - perhaps even a racist affront. 

Apropos to the times, we tweeted some suggestions for preparing for The Rally, as well as making preparations for the G20 Protests which were happening in Toronto at the time.  Because some of our tweeps (Twitter friends) might still be planning to protest or counter-protest the 8/28 "event", we think some of the same preparations and precautions may be in order.  We will present some of those below.  Why?  Well, for one thing, the event does coincide with the day of the March on Washington of '63 - we expect many Americans to be insulted and will show up to express their outrage perhaps.  And by the way, there are still 40 unsold tickets to the Beck event!  HAH!

You may need some of the following items if you are a protestor or counter-protestor:

1) Handcuff Key  Please note: We do not approve, authorize nor endorse the use of these devices if you are under formal arrest by the police.  Once arrested YOU ARE OUT OF THE GAME.  However, the possession of the key does not imply resistance of arrest.  You should make it clear that it is for your own personal protection.  USE THE KEY ONLY IF YOU OR OTHERS ARE IN CLEAR OR IMMINENT PHYSICAL DANGER.  Fair use of the key is constituted if you are taken against your will by unauthorized persons or personnel. 

2) Nylon Tie Cutter   Once again Please note: We do not approve, authorize nor endorse the use of these devices if you are under formal arrest by the police. Once arrested YOU ARE OUT OF THE GAME. However, the possession of the cutter does not imply resistance of arrest. You should make it clear that it is for your own personal protection. USE THE CUTTER ONLY IF YOU OR OTHERS ARE IN CLEAR OR IMMINENT PHYSICAL DANGER. Fair use of the cutter is constituted if you are taken against your will by unauthorized persons or personnel.

Remember: Resisting arrest is a crime.

3) Spyderco Knife  Once again Please note: We do not approve, authorize nor endorse the use of these devices if you are under formal arrest by the police. Once arrested YOU ARE OUT OF THE GAME. However, the possession of the knife does not imply resistance of arrest. You should make it clear that it is for your own personal protection. USE THE KNIFE ONLY IF YOU OR OTHERS ARE IN CLEAR OR IMMINENT PHYSICAL DANGER. Fair use of the KNIFE is constituted if you are taken against your will by unauthorized persons or personnel.

IF ARRESTED YOU MUST BE FAIR TO THE POLICE AND AUTHORITIES BY ALERTING THEM TO THE PRESENCE OF A KNIFE OR OTHER POTENTIAL/ WEAPONS ON YOUR PERSON.  IT IS YOUR DUTY TO DO SO.  If you do not commit to this clause, you may be sanctioned by your internet community.

One other potential use for the Spyderco knife is that they have been reported for the use of cutting through seat belts.  This tool is also a potential life saver for persons trapped in a vehicle in a dangerous and life threatening situation. 

4) Copy of the United States Constitution.  Oh, we don't know, we just think it might be handy to have ~ or provide you with something to read if you should be in jail...

5) Gas Mask This should be obvious.  You will need it if the authorities decide they need to toss those canisters!  It will be worth having one just to see Mssrs. Beck and Palin having to don theirs - if they have one....It should be comical if Sarah and Glenn have to fight over who gets to wear the gas mask!  That should really give Becky something to cry about!  Also, an old remedy for tear gas is to urinate (we know, gross) on a handkerchief or other piece of cloth or linen.  This should then be placed against the mouth and nasal openings to prevent the effects of the tear gas.

Speaking of which, the Sarah Palin DIY mask might make a great fashion statement at the Rally!  Go team!

6) The Family Jewels You should consider having a cup just in case something should strike you in the groin - by accident or not.  You too ladies!

7) Body Armor Might come in really handy should things get really ugly...Serio, babe.

8) Head and Facial Protection If you decide to wear a Redskins helmet, just tell everybody without one that you're a really big fan!  But, seriously, you shold consider wearing a helmet.

9) Tear Gas or Mace: Might be illegal to have this on your person.  Not Recommended!  But, if you are in a jam, and without police protection, these could be lifesavers!

10) Life Jacket  Might come in handy if somebody decides to try and drown you in the reflecting pool...

11) Baton For police personnel only, but like (9), might come in handy in a pinch...  NOT TO BE USED AS AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON.  INFORM THE POLICE IF YOU HAVE ONE ON YOUR PERSON AND YOU ARE ARRESTED!

12) Portable Police Radio Might come in handy if you have to alert them to a dangerous situation!  Might also come in handy if you need to stay in contact with your group!  Of course, you should not forget your cell phone this day!

13) Identification: You might not want to forget it this day!  Think about Arizona...

14) NO FIREARMS!  None at all!  Do not carry at the Rally!  Forbidden!

15) Safety glasses or goggles Might be a good idea, too.

16) If we left anything out, you might want to consider the writings of Saul Alinsky or George Hayduke...or Hunter S. Thompson...

That all said, we hope you found the links informative or at least entertaining.

While we are still on the subject of Glenn Beck, you should catch the BookTV program about Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance by Alexander Zaitchik.  We found Mr. Zaitchik to be humorously petulant - even prickly - while discussing his book.  But, who can blame him?  He said that he had spent about a year wallowing in the "works" of Mr. Beck.  We got the sense from him that he considers Mr. Beck to be a truly alarming and dangerous individual.  Which causes us to warn you even further to carry some protective gear (mentioned above) should you be daring enough (or foolhardy enough?) to visit the Rally on 8/28/2010.   The Q&A session with Mr. Zaitchik was very good - those are usually a crashing bore if you catch the wrong BookTV program - if you know what we mean...  If we recall correctly, one of Mr. Zaitchik's main arguments is that Mr. Beck does not need Fox News for the increase and spread of his empire.  Despite all the vaunted advertising losses and evacuations from his program, he still has a $30 Million/year or so empire.  Apparently, Mr. Zaitchik does not see this stopping anytime soon.  You can find out more about Mr. Zaitchik at his website.  You might be able to find more at AlterNet.org.  (You might also want to see Mr. Zaitchik's commentary against Twitter).  Despite Mr. Zaitchik's attitude about Twitter and his apparent discomfort on BookTV, we think he is an important and rational voice and you might do well to heed him and his thoughts.

Oh! And there's more Beck news, see the Mother Jones Front Cover story in the July+August 2010 issue "The Golden Fleece - They Trusted Glenn Beck to Protect Their Nest Eggs.  He's Laughing All The Way ToThe Bank" (page 24).

If we left anything out, please comment!  Or please use the quick links below for a quick comment!  Thank you.

FOM: *ABC News's Take on "The Rally"

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George Won't

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George Won't: Is an obvious word play/antonym on the name of the writer that Keith Olbermann strongly criticized on Countdown on MSNBC last night, Monday, June 28, 2010.  We would like to tell Mr. Won't that the GOP Republican plan to block unemployment and other benefits and extensions of the same has been enormously effective.  I can tell you from personal experience that I currently live in bone-grinding poverty - right here in the good ol' USA Mr. Won't - as a result of corrupt and morally bankrupt GOP/Republican policies, programs, pugnaciouness and general obstinacy coupled with insanity.

Yes, thanks to you and your ilk Mr. Won't, I haven't been receiving unemployment benefits nor Medicaid for the past 22 months.  Congratulations! You and your ilk have driven me and ten million others like me into abject poverty!  It is wonderful living on food stamps and being denied health care and other benefits and monies.  If I desperately need something, I have to contact the local church for charity.  The first time I did this (last year) I was given all of one hundred dollars in gift cards.  The second time I requested charity (this winter) I was given all of forty five dollars in gift cards.  Do you know what it's like living on $ 200/month on food stamps and $ 145 in gift cards for almost two years Mr. Won't?  I'll bet you don't have a clue.  But, it is obvious that that part goes without saying.

Oh, what's that Mr. Won't, I should find a job?  Well, happily, I have.  I now work as a freelance copywriter - which puts me in the same profession as you, Mr. Won't.  That means I can compete with the world market for writing jobs that pay about 50 cents/hour - once you calculate the research, the rewrites and the chasing around payments for money.  Why that is only six or seven dollars shy of minimum wage!  Why can't I make minimum wage?  Because I can't even find a job here in the USA at that high a level of income.  So I have to take my 50 cents an hour - if I can even find that.  What makes it worse, Mr. Won't, is that your ideologies have forced your fellow writers into making that kind of wage.

Here's something else.  The writing work that I do is called "SEO" - the so-called Search Engine Optimization.  This means that the texts I write and get published are put on the internet and compete with all the other legitimate and otherwise sources of information on the internet.  I have been successful at this, one of my articles came up as a "4th Page Ranking" when you search for the keyword.  So, thanks to you and the GOP/Republican policies, I have to write SEO articles that might have an even higher page ranking than the topics you could be googling.  And I am not alone, thanks to people like you in your profession of writing, millions of them are posting this "information" on the internet.  Which slows down the search engines and the original stuff you were trying to look up.

The upshot of all this, Mr. Won't, is that your forced labor at costs of 50 cents/hour is creating writers and more SEO writings that jam up the internet when you search for something.  If your policies and opinions keep prevailing, soon you'll have to take all day to find that one article you were really searching for on the internet.  That's what you wanted, isn't it Mr. Won't?

* Reference: MSNBC's Countdown/KeithOlbermann's Comment Monday, June 28, 2010

FOM: FED Officials See High Unemployment for Years to Come (Reuters) and How Welfare Cuts Can Cost Lives (Reuters)


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GreenPad or gPad

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GreenPad or gPad: Suggested facetious nickname for Liquavista's green-alternative (potentially) reader/video technology to the yPad...

FOM: Color eReaders With Video and Electrowetting

Please Note: We receive no compensation for this definition/posting.



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Gendercide

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Gendercide: Not a new term nor a humorous one.  A disturbing and horrifying term used to describe the murder and deaths of millions of children - all because they are the wrong gender...

FOM: Gendercide Watch  and You MUST read the horrifying and disturbing accounts of the same in the March 4 issue of The Economist and The Worldwide War on Baby Girls - The Economist



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The Gay Batcave / The Gaycave

The Gay Batcave / The Gaycave: We're still on track with the Gay Batman and the Gay Parallel Universe.  Would Gay Batman call the Batcave the Gaycave? 

Example - Gay Batman: To the Gaycave, Gay Rob...er...Robin!!  Robin:  Hey!!!

FOM: The Gay Batman and the Gay Parallel Universe http://bit.ly/amxM9a , The Gayphone, Homosexuality in the Batman Franchise (Wikipedia link) and
LGBT Themes in American Mainstream Comics (Wikipedia link).

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The Gayphone

The Gayphone: What we think the Gay Batman calls his Batphone in the Gay Parallel Universe.

Rinnggggy!: Yes Gay Commissioner Gordon!  Gay Batman here!

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FOM: The Gay Batman and the Gay Parallel Universe http://bit.ly/amxM9a 



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Cyberpressure and Cyberforce

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Cyberpressure and Cyberforce: The should-be-obvious conflations of the current Administration's growing pressure on other countries regarding cyberattacks on Google and other Internet services. True, while in concept the Internet should not be attacked nor hacked, nor should any cyberasset be attacked, its not going to stop...is it? Does anybody else feel vaguely uncomfortable that the USA might be turning into a cyber police force...not just a cyber force-for-good?


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FOM: Obama keeps up pressure on China









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Colonel Hank

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Colonel Hank: The unfortunate conflation of Hank Paulson and Colonel Klink (Hogan's Heroes). Colonel Hank to Geithner: Tim! Timmmm!!!

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FOM: House subpoenas Geithner's AIG e-mails, phone logs and The Human Side of Hank Paulson as Presented on CBS Sunday Morning

Revised/Updated: Monday, February 1, 2010

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The Queen of Heartburn

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The Queen of Heartburn: "Off With Their Heads!" Queen Hilary might have shrieked, as the Queen of Heartburn, post-election 2008. Just like the Queen of Hearts. Allegedly lobbing an ashtray at Big Bill's head (Monica Lewinsky scandal...).


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FOM: Clinton Campaign Post-Mortem (Hardball on MSNBC) and Game Change









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Hijra

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Hijra: In South Asia (Pakistan), now (legally) known as the third gender. Spotted one of these on a train with Anthony Bourdain on No Reservations (Episode 2-09, 2-10?...). Well, no, they weren't together...sigh, sorry Mr. Bourdain. Is there a 4th gender? Hugo: Yeah, you. AZD: Stop it...


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FOM: Hijra

Hijra (visWiki)




Pakistani eunuchs to have distinct gender













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The Golden Ratio

The Golden Ratio: Positing the 'animal creation' of this magical ratio, Adrian Bejan has developed an interesting body of work on how it arises from horizontal flow, self-preservation and behavior. We submit that this means that the GR is more like a process - or even a system. We further speculate on this by questioning Platonism itself. Indeed, form follows function and the metaphysical becomes mere function. Functions, math, symbols and so on... do not exist until they are 'formed'? And, further...oh no, we've gone cross-eyed...

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FOM: Mystery of Golden Ratio Explained, Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World, Golden Ratio and http://www.constructal.org/

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The Dead Girl

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The Dead Girl: Ironic role for the recently-deceased actress Brittany Murphy?

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FOM: Brittany Murphy played "The Dead Girl" in 2006 Film "The Dead Girl" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Girl #OMGFacts









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Liquidus Aurum

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Liquidus Aurum: Translation (Latin) provided by the InterTran website translation engine (if you haven't visited this website yet, WOW!). With reference to the possible death caused by imbibing this once popular elixir of life by Diane de Poitiers.

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FOM: Study: Too much drinkable gold for king's mistress, Gold and InterTran.

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Where Does My Money Go? (Website)

Where Does My Money Go? (Website - Prototype): A transparency website like this should be available to all citizens in all democracies and republics. This particular website is currently being prototyped in the UK. Should be available in the US, its territories, Canada, France, Germany - you get the idea.

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FOM: Web to watch government spending and Where Does My Money Go Website (prototype)







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Gretchiate

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Gretchiate: Regarding that great bit of 'gotcha' journalism from the great Jon Stewart and TDS last night, Tuesday, 12/8/09 on Gretchen Carlson of Fox News. To diminish oneself - intellectually, philosophically... - you get the idea - on a national 'news program' to appeal to one's journalistic overseers.


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FOM: Carlson Dumbs Down, Gretchen Carlson (Fox Bio) and Riddell's Law





Note: Please, if there is a God, Keith Olbermann and the Countdown Crew will pick up on this one...









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Ghostline

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Ghostline: The very unfortunate portmanteau of ghost and coastline. Seems that many nations, islands, coasts and others will be losing their current coastlines - mainly due to global warming. May appear in maps of the future as "ghostlines".


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FOM: Thailand's coast disappears as sea level rises, Sea Level Is Rising Along US Atlantic Coast , Swiss Scientists Measure Glacial Melting With Light ,Why there's no sign of a climate conspiracy in hacked emails (NEW SCIENTIST), Greenhouse gases are health hazard, must be regulated, EPA says, Decade of 2000s was warmest ever, scientists say, Newsweek: 'Climategate' e-mails shake scientists, Act now on climate, summit urged, Picturing climate change: Brazil’s imperiled Amazon , Greenhouse gas effect in a bottle, South Africa to cut carbon by 34%, Earth More Sensitive to Carbon Dioxide, Tempers Flare In Climate Change Flap and Bay of Bangladesh


Updated/Revised: Friday, December 11, 2009





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Tiger Harem?

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Tiger Harem?: A-Hem! We couldn't resist this one, normally its our inclination to resist celebrity news, but when it involves 'the-greatest-athlete-in-the-world-playing-today' well... Seems our man in question has unearthed a whole slew of easily-swayed misanthropes. Oh no, we're going to hell... This one keeps snowballing, errr...golfballing... (Ugh! We just looked up the definitions of the 1st term in Wikipedia. Ack...). No, no, we didn't mean it that way! See the photo, see the photo!

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FOM: Letterman Jokes Tiger Is Asking for Advice , Scoop: Legion of Woods’ alleged ladies growing , Tiger Woods Scandal Pictures: Exclusive , Jamiee Grubbs Photos You Haven't Seen, Meds Involved in Tiger Woods Accident?, Tiger Gets Bogeyed, SNL Tiger Woods Incident and ‘SNL’ can’t resist Tiger Woods jokes

Updated/Revised: Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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First Church of Tiger Woods

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First Church of Tiger Woods: Has disbanded... What else to do when your God allegedly commits adultery?

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FOM: The First Church of Tiger Woods decides to disband and First Church of Tiger Woods

Sorry, about the image, but it should be an obvious verbal pun...

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Vein of Galen (Malformation)

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Vein of Galen: A horrifyingly lethal syndrome in babies that we had not heard of until this doctor's wonderful work of life-saving treatment with an adhesive compound.

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FOM: Glue injections help sick babies

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