As if I wasn't having a long enough day already, I just realized I miscalculated just how much the paint would contract on the canvas I'm working on. The frame I built has totally buckled and I'm going to have to remount it. Anyway, I'm going to take the crap factory out for a walk, hopefully someone tries to pick a fight with me. I'd love an excuse to get my hands bloody.
Hell, my hands are always bloody.
That's not a painting. It's an undercoat at best. I paint all paintings three times, once for every element of the trinity. The holy ghost lays the foundation and the underlying power. The father provides the wisdom, guidance, and education, but the son turns it all into art and lights it on fire.
My job is mostly to sniff the fumes.
So with scientists working feverishly on an ebola vaccine, the US pouring billions into “BioShield“, and al Qaeda having obtained ebola and other bioweapons in the 1990s, you have to wonder… is the Sudanese outbreak a terrorist group testing their deployment systems?
So I was reading that news story about how, while they are due a very large pile of money for it, Hitler's heirs have zero interest in collecting royalties for Mein Kampf. Anyway, I typed that into Google to see if there was more on the story, and this was the result:
So basically, the only company on the planet (or at least in my Google search — if you are located in the US, you won't get any ads for it since Google has regionalized its advertising system) seeking out advertising promoting Mein Kampf is Steven Harper Amazon.ca. I don't know about you, but to me that seems in kind of bad taste, especially given Canada's persistent problem with various ever growing neo-Nazi movements. I should mention that if you type in other famous books very few of them are bought as keywords by Amazon.ca — neither “The Great Gatsby” or “A Tale of Two Cities” for example, which are part of the Canadian school curriculum, aren't even linked.
That said, I do think it's a book people should read, but read it for free online… if you want to do that, download it from these ignorant assholes and be sure to press reload a thousand times while you're doing it. I support their right to be morons, but if I can make it cost them, good.
AH CRAP, I JUST REALIZED THAT BY DOING A PILE OF STUPID NAZI SEARCHES ON AMAZON AND GOOGLE, I'VE JUST ALTERED MY ALREADY NUTTY PROFILES WITH THEM…
Update: I'm getting feedback from people not really understanding why this is even an issue. To overly simplify things, Canada has a neo-nazi movement analogous to America's neo-con movement. Neo-nazi politicians now control one of Canada's largest (and wealthiest) political parties, and they alone have been successful in unifying the right in Canada. The fact that a mainstream Canadian company is capitalizing on this (and perhaps even encrouaging it) is what I find disturbing.
Thanks to Rebekah for this one. I don't normally attach comment forums to my entries, but this one I think deserves it. Researchers in New Zealand believe they have found the “body piercing gene” (that's my interpretation of it — they're seeing it as the “self mutilation gene”). Anyway, check it out, and I'm very interested in hearing people's feedback on this.
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