Glenn Beck for President!

Seriously now.  Stand back and take a look at your country.  If you’re reading this, you’re probably a liberal.  And like me, you probably find yourself painted into a corner with your own hope and optimism.  Every once in a while you seem to have a flicker of reality and see the unimaginable horrors that are truth:

Michele Bachmann really is representative of the average American.

Ken Mehlman is a gay civil rights leader.

Sarah Palin is the new face of feminism.

Glenn Beck is the fucking messiah.

America’s promise has been pawned to Hong Kong, and we can’t even afford to pay the interest.   Sorry to sound defeatist, and apologies for yet another WWII analogy, but do you think the optimism of a few hopeful Germans could have prevented the rise of Nazism?  No.  Then who are we to pretend that we can stop the teabaggers?

Instead, we need to prepare for the worst.  Find a way out and keep it in your back pocket.  We all know what’s coming.

The best revenge for teabagger America is to give them what they are asking for.  Give Glenn Beck the power he seeks.  Let them destroy the country.  Its already on life support.  Let these poor pathetic drones learn the true meaning of Tyranny as they are crushed by it’s conservative boot.

Out of the ashes a liberal America can rise again.

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New music from the mysterious “iamamiwhoami”

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Stunning videos with an everyday twist

Anyone who knows me knows that I consider the music video to be an art form that I enjoy greatly and aspire to master.  I believe that the combination of sound and visuals allows us to communicate ideas and emotions on a level beyond human language as we know it.

Last winter I am across some fascinating short music video “teasers” on YouTube posted under the mysterious name iamamiwhoami. There was no description, no website, nothing at all but two minute-long videos.  But each video was a taste of something epic, with stunning visual illusions set to bizarre and seductive electronic sounds.  Afterward I forgot the name and it was lost to me for months, then today I came upon this post that I just discovered in the midst of a random google searchaholic binge.  (That link also leads to something else fascinating in its own right.) I was thrilled to find that iamamiwhoami have since released several full-length music tracks with fantastic music videos.  You absolutely must watch this: Continue reading

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Welcome

Hi welcome to my new blog!  I’m just picking up where I left off but, I have changed to my own site at http://www.brianstroup.com/ so remember my name (Fame!) and you’ll know where to find me!

One of the nice things about having my own site is I can add as much stuff as I like.  So while facebook and twitter are fun, I would like to have a single place where I can post news and photos and opinions and share interesting stuff all in one place.  Its like my own online scrapbook!

I plan to update a lot more often and add a lot of stuff, so stop by now and then.  And say HI!

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Do Americans really think Obama is muslim?

The media is all abuzz because some crazy pollster spread around this idea that 1 in 5 Americans believe that President Obama is a muslim.  That pollster is probably buying his new beemer right now while fending off calls from rabid clients who want follow-up.  You really gotta wonder about the motive for putting that question in a poll to begin with.

Even though I think engaging this discussion is thoroughly un-American, let’s see what common sense tells us about this bizarre statistic.

Polls are two-dimensional and objective to a fault.  Body language and vocal tone are never taken into effect.  Have you ever asked a Republican whether they believe Obama is a muslim?  Or where they believe he was born? Continue reading

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Christian Supreme Court Justice? Not under any circumstances

Sen. Peter Pallenmari  has regrettably opened the door to the possibility of an openly christian Supreme Court justice, saying he’d “have to think about” it, and adding, “As long as it doesn’t interfere with their job, it’s not a particular issue.”

The problem with Pallenmari’s position is that a christian judge’s religious belief will, without any question whatsoever, “interfere with their job.” It’s not possible for it to be otherwise.

If we elevate an open christian to the Supreme Court, we will be elevating someone who freely admits that he belongs to an organization that engages routinely in behavior that is still a felony in every state in the Union.

Child sexual abuse is still a felony in the criminal code of all 50 states. Continue reading

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First blog post from Droid

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Just testing these waters. If I like it I may start blogging again. Who knows?

So far I’m really impressed with the keyboard. And linking seems to be pretty simple.

TTFN and all
Bri

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Free The iPhone! My Letter to Apple

Dear Apple,

My partner and I have been phone shopping, and we both were totally sold on iPhones. We decided to wait until our Verizon contract was up and get an AT&T family plan with two of the top iPhones. It only took a week of spending time with an AT&T customer to nix those plans.

My Father came to visit us in LA, and we all went to Las Vegas. He was having difficulty getting his AT&T phone to connect to bluetooth. AT&T technical support refused to help him AT ALL, blaming the problem on the truck, even though my Verizon device was able to connect without fail. All it took was some basic phone troubleshooting (which I provided when we arrived) to finally get it to work.

Throughout his vacation we were calling each other several times a day. His AT&T phone dropped calls about 50% of the time. 50% !!! Verizon never once dropped a call, even while driving through the mountains and desert. Continue reading

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Did Mark Sanford finance his affair with taxpayer dollars?

Chris Geidner is following the money trail between the disgraced South Carolina Governor’s trysts and the state’s budget.  I was also interested to look back and see how often Sanford has spoken of Argentina.  He has obviously had a love affair with, if not in, that country for some years.

(I have a bit part in Chris’s post. First time seeing my name in someone else’s blog. Very cool!)

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Obama wants you to think he changed his mind

What would have happened if Obama refused to release the photos from the beginning? Liberals would have foamed at the mouth in anger, and conservatives would have accused him of hiding the evidence that they were right all along.

Instead, he promised to release the photos to the drooling media and smug liberals. I’m a liberal and proud of it, but let’s face facts: The main reason we want these photos released is so we can rub it in the faces of the likes of Dick Cheney. Accountability and prosecution are secondary to us right now. We want that “Told ya so!” moment. Meanwhile, conservatives went nuts condemning Obama’s decision, accusing him of “siding with terrorists” and helping to “empower al-Qaeda propaganda operations.” In doing so, conservatives tacitly conceded that the photos showed really really terrible things being done to human beings.

By ultimately reversing his decision to release the photos, the President may have pissed off some members of the media, and a whole lot of liberals, but he definitely grabbed headlines and cleared the path for his true message to resonate:

“Any abuse of detainees is unacceptable. It is against our values. It endangers our security. It will not be tolerated.”

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