This is just to inform you that Tubularsock “. . . first hand coverage, second hand news” has just completed and posted THE BUNKER TOUR which you can view by going to the top of the page and click on THE BUNKER TOUR. It is that simple and you’ll get a private tour of TUBULARSOCK’S Underground Bunker Overlooking Washington, D.C. from Oakland, CA.
Life can not get better than this …………………
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SELFIE MADNESS!
Oh sure, Tubularsock is really a dare-devil. And because of this heavy duty risk taking Tubularsock has placed himself in DANGER!
This year, so far, death by selfie is greater than death by sharks! (12 to 8)
Now Tubularsock stopped eating shark years ago once it was found that the amount of mercury present in shark was so high that it would better serve you as a thermometer than being served to you on a plate.
You see we high risk thrill seekers attempt to take high risk selfies ……..
Like, backing up and falling off a building to grab that great shot, being hit by a train, or getting a selfie with a wild animal …. say like a bear, tiger, but not a shark (so far).
Al Jazeera and Reuters has both reported that the Russian Interior Ministry has put out a leaflet that states: «Прохладный selfie может стоить вам жизни.»
(“A cool selfie could cost you your life.”)
An assistant to the Russian Interior Ministry stated, “Before taking a selfie, everyone should think about the fact that racing after a high number of ‘likes’ could lead you on a journey to death and this last extreme photo could turn out to be posthumous.”
CARLY’S DEAD STEP-DAUGHTER
If you watched the 2nd Republican Debate (debate being a misnomer) you found all the same boring, empty minded drivel as per usual. No surprises there.
But what really stood out to Tubularsock wasn’t Donnie Trump and the Art Of The Bull Shit or the Sad-Sack monotony of Jeb Bush’s my brother “kept us safe” in contrast to the twin towers and building #7 coming down in a controlled demolition as George the Stupid spent his time reading about a goat.
No, what took the cake for Tubularsock was Carly Fiornia’s MY DEAD STEP-DAUGHTER!
Now Tubularsock would be compassionate but Carly is totally and completely FULL OF SHIT and she had the nerve to display her total lack of concern and caring for Lori, her dead step-daughter, by lying to the American public about Lori’s death.
Lori died in 2009 and yes it is sad and yes compassion is due but to use her death as an example as a call for opposition to marijuana is plain disingenuous on Carly’s part.
Here is the truth:
The death of Lori HAD NOTHING to do with marijuana! PERIOD!
Lori died from an addiction to “. . . abusing prescription drugs, alcoholism and bulimia.”
Now if Carly had come out and said that the pharmaceutical companies and the alcohol producers were to blame for her daughter Lori’s death at least she would have identified the correct substance abuse Lori suffered from.
But no Carly LIED! She said earlier this year that she was against recreational and medical marijuana legalization because it “. . . lands very personally . . .” to her step-daughter’s death.
But forty-four people die from prescription drug abuse A DAY in the United States but marijuana has NEVER resulted in an overdose fatality!
THAT IS NEVER! But you didn’t see Carly call for more oversight on handing out prescription drugs now did you.
Carly also said that we are “. . . misleading young people when we tell them that marijuana is just like having a beer. It’s not.” And THAT is true. It is worse. Almost 90,000 people a year die abusing alcohol! But you didn’t see Carly calling out for more restrictions on alcohol now did you.
No Carly Fiornia, used her supposed loving daughter’s death to gain false political points for an issue that has nothing to do with her step-daughter’s death.
TALK ABOUT WALKING ON LORI’S GRAVE! Which may be some insight why Lori was so lost.
And then all that “gateway drug” bull shit and all that “. . . the marijuana they smoke today isn’t like the marijuana Jeb smoked forty years ago . . .”!
No, the marijuana one smokes today in places where it is legal has been tested and separated into different types of “highs”. So as in the past one could never be sure what they were buying off the streets under legal pot smoking that risk has been removed.
So in truth, smoking legal pot is safer than 40 years ago!
BUT PRESCRIPTION DRUGS WITH DOCTORS AS PUSHERS ARE FAR MORE RISKIER TODAY THAN 40 YEARS AGO. And that is due to the fact that the FDA is in bed with big-pharma and profit wins over safety.
And as for that factious “gateway” drug argument, did you know that EVERY person who drinks water dies sometime during their lifetime?
UKRAINE PAIN!
Tubularsock is kind of like an elephant in the respect that he doesn’t forget. As the maimed-stream-news cycle continues …….. now it’s the refugee crisis which they are all animated about but never can figure out WHY this is happening. You know the destabilization of the Middle East by the U.S. and NATO.
It is like the refugee crisis happened in some kind of a vacuum. Only because one would have to put 2 and 2 together which has always been the maimed-stream-new’s problem. You know, that would take journalism to pull off.
Anyway, Tubularsock has been reading what is happening in the Ukraine and it is truly fascinating.
You see, change is in the air and the discussion is like this (the nutshell version):
If you recall when we left off the U.S. overthrew the Ukraine and put prime minister Arseni “Jaz” Yatsenyuk into power designated by Victoria Nuland as the man the Americans supported. And Nuland stated in a documented tape, “Fuck the EU” to the resistance to this choice by the EU.
But now the U.S. neocons (which Nuland and her husband are part) want to dump Premier Yatsenyuk (because of corruption) and replace him with the former Georgian Prime Minister Mikhail Saakashvili for new Premier of the Ukraine.
The fun part is that Saakashvili is wanted by an international arrest warrant for abuse of office during his term in Georgia. Saakashvili misappropriated Georgian taxpayers’ money. (New York Times)
Mikhail Saakashvili had emigrated to the US in 2013 and worked closely with the US Neocons. He is one of the key interlocutors of Republican John McCain, who is fighting for a hard line of the United States against Russia. (German Economic News)
Viktoria Siumar (Popular Front Party Deputy, Yatsenyuk’s party) who had previously worked for the US broadcaster Voice of America was named alongside the
US born Minister of Finance Natalia Jaresko and Saakashvili as Yatsenyuk’s possible successors.
Interesting side note: “Natalia Jaresko had previously worked in the US State Department and as an investment banker. In divorce proceedings her husband raised serious allegations against Jaresko, accusing them of corruption and misappropriation of taxpayers ‘money. Jaresko is the EU and the IMF main contact person in the distribution of European and American taxpayers’ money in Ukraine. Official annual reports on the whereabouts of these instructed by the EU and the federal government billions are not known.” (German Economic News)
So bottom line …… does anyone really think that CORRUPTION is any kind of reason for dumping Yatsenyuk? Corruption looks more like a qualification rather than a deterrent.
So what gives?
Well here is what Tubularsock sees that is happening and it is up to you to keep your eye on the ball with Tubularsock because Tubularsock only has four eyes plus his “third” eye and it’s the “third” eye which has focused on THIS BASIC FACT:
Yatsenyuk is against privatization of state property!
Or at least that is what he has said but Saakashvili (the new neocons darling) has also accused him of delaying reforms and being in the hands of the oligarchs especially Igor Kolomoysksi giving him favors in the privatization of the Ukrainian aviation industry.
Of course Yatsenjuk says that’s bull shit! (Це ЛАЙНО БИКА! in Ukrainian.)
According to Yatsenyuk it will be impossible to fight corruption without changing the country’s system of government in the Ukraine.
“The system of government in Ukraine has in fact remained the same as it was under the Soviet Union”, according to Yatsenyuk.
Currently, at least according to polls, 72% of Ukrainians think the government is going “in the wrong direction”. Two-thirds of Ukrainians have an “unfavorable” view of President Petro Poroshenko while 85% disapproved of Yatsenyuk.(Christian Science Monitor)
But really, what do the Ukrainian People know?
If you want the next down-field-play in the Ukrainian Drama ask the neocons they seem to run the inside track.
President Petro Poroshenko (L) and Mikhail Saakashvili
Oh, did Tubularsock forget to mention that Saakashvili is a devotee of Reagan and Thatcher?
And that during the Bush Administration Georgia under Saakashvili’s leadership “. . . did all it could to become a staunch U.S. ally: It is the largest non-NATO member of the international security force in Afghanistan and, according to a report by the Open Society Foundation, participated in the CIA’s “extraordinary renditions” program detaining alleged enemy combatants in the war on terror.”(BuzzFeedNews 10/28/13)
Hey, could it get better than that for a neocon?
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