The Pitchforks and Torches log

[BO]

Seems the peeps might have had enough. The evidence is in the number of increasing violent attacks against the system that the prez likes to call violent outbursts--as if to say they might be random and perpetrated by nut cases.

But, what if they aren't.

Seems recent events might actually be understandable given the desperation and limited alternatives some of these 'violent' individuals were faced with...

Like the guy from Florida who shot his previous employer....

"ORLANDO, Fla. - Jason Rodriguez's marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. It was a "stress overload" for the man accused of a deadly shooting rampage at his former office, his lawyer said Saturday.
The 40-year-old man whose life seemed to just keep getting worse was charged Saturday with first-degree murder, accused of killing one and wounding five Friday at his former office. He said nothing in his brief court appearance Saturday, but his attorney portrayed him as a mentally ill man who fell victim to countless problems."

Then, there is the couple who have been charged with 'torturing' a couple of loan modification scammers...

"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Los Angeles housing advocates launched a campaign warning of mortgage rescue scams, a couple hit by foreclosure are charged with torturing two loan-modification agents they suspected of fraud, authorities said on Monday."

And we all know what happened when the army asked a muslim to go to his 'homeland' and kill his own people. Too bad they couldn't hear his objections.

Anyway...

Here's a good article on the reason we'll be seeing a lot more those violent outbursts in the future.

As Foreclosure Nightmares Increase, Will More Homeowners Pay Off Th...

"The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism's central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they're going postal over it."

Or maybe they're beginning to see the entire government as the criminal enterprise it has become, and realize that that's why there's no justice for them. Maybe they now realize that the only way they'll ever experience justice is to take it by force. As Bush once said..."freedom isn't pretty." Maybe the 'war for freedom', has finally come home.

[waldo mobile]

Walked out door looked back went back in

[BO]

Can't blame you. It's a blizzard out there. Brrrrr. 

Interesting that you easterners are getting snowed in while we westerners are enjoying spring already. Cherry trees out here have already dropped their blossoms. Bizzaro-land.

Love your house, Waldo. It's got a romantic, medieval vibe. Like maybe the Bronte sisters could have lived there.

[waldopaper]

nah- it aint even cold.  soon as the sun comes out it will all turn to slop.  then it will drop back toward 0... and the potholes will belch forth.  

[waldopaper]

never i would be thinking about another camera.  phone cam (i thought) would be good enuff.  whoops.  except you can't really operate it in broad daylight.  really shoots good in a room though.  good for selfies.  kinda like pistols.  

Here's a fun game for when you're wuthering heights.  try connecting the dots through the following topics:  Socialism, Peak Oil, Permaculture, equality, authoritarianism, technical singularity,civil war and mythos.  

Really, it's hard to NOT connect the dots.  And ya gotta love wikipedia.  But nobody sees why "scholarly peer-reviewed journals" might be obsolete.

[pan]

Our article has gone through several edits for the "scholarly peer-reviewed journal".  From several different editors.  Latest one complained that we didn't include something that the previous editor insisted we take out.  It is pretty clear why the articles in a journal all start to sound the same and cite the same authors.

The dress meme.......when they first started talking about the blue dress I thought they were onto the Lewinsky/Clinton thing - which, by comparison, now seems to be almost relevant to the public rather than being a private scandal.  As someone who works with costumes, theatrical lighting and photo/video documentation the whole thing just seemed to be ignorance writ large.  Even people I know who should know how stupid this was were actively "debating" this empty dress.  At least with the Harlem Shake they were producing a video of stupid behavior rather than just opining on social media.

[pan]

Obsolete words deleted from the Oxford Junior Dictionary:

“The deletions,” according to Robert Macfarlane in another article on Friday, “included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow. The words taking their places in the new edition included attachment, block-graph, blog, broadband, bullet-point, celebrity, chatroom, committee, cut-and-paste, MP3 player and voice-mail.”

[waldopaper]

well i just wasted way too much time trying to figure out the "webcam"

and it didn't work.

[waldopaper]

try this.  

meh.  nothing.  :12 video was almost 12gb.  No options found so far gigab bloat.  

Memeration.  Maybe that's its name.  Same 4-dimensional paisley spiraling shapes as galaxies and shit.  check out Consumed...   Diminished by Degrees.  

[waldopaper]

Brain Dump!  

[Mouse]

really posted this for Hannah's birthday and couldn't tell you because the cat had got my tongue.

http://youtu.be/0UkWoWdLp5s

the cat must be from Yorkshire.

and of course beads have been made
the weather is moderate
and skies have been clear of persistant condensation trails for several days, it's so exciting, blue.

[pan]

The gambit used by management to distract the workers with sports is based in real practice - that is how pro football was started (hence the Green Bay Packers), employ under employed workers to play sports and avoid strikes.

[Mouse]

of late the loud earthworks downhill have included astroturfing the school playing fields, installing massive spotlights, high, startling lights as high as us here,
and there
the weird building casting a shadow where there was air
is the new arts block for the science academy.