Meet an investment bankerJuly 28th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchI posted this about a year ago. How right they were! They give a funny and incredibly accurate description of how financial markets work, or don’t. These guys are psychic, or worse, they and everyone else in the financial world knew perfectly well what was coming and didn’t give a shit! Life is a game right to the end, only some win and others don’t. Tags: financial market, wall street Connected but not alwaysMay 24th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchWe may be all connected but that doesn’t mean we always connect. Gekijo-ban hagane no renkinjutsushi: Shanbara wo yuku mono move Desire Under the Elms dvdrip
Tags: thinking SF Sewage Plant to be named after George W. BushMay 6th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchSF citizens are eager to name a sewage plant after G.W. Bush. Looking to honor the forty-third President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, the recently formed Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is looking to change the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility. It seems the group would like to rename the SF Zoo adjacent facility to the ‘George W Bush Sewage Plant’ Anaconda III movie download Santa Claws video Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical full movie
From their official proposal: Just as France presented the Statue of Liberty as its gift to the nation, the citizens of San Francisco may now bestow their own special gift to the country by renaming our award winning waste water treatment plant in honor of outgoing President George W Bush. We think this is a fitting memorial for a truly outstanding Commander-in-Chief. On matters ranging from diplomacy to fiscal and environmental stewardship, no other President has had such a dramatic impact on the country and the Constitution in such a short time. Most presidents wait years or decades to receive their memorial airport or highway. We think President Bush deserves immediate recognition for his eight years of public service. Critics of this measure point out that the initiative unfairly maligns the talented and hard working staff at the award-winning plant or that it memorializes an administration best forgotten. To this we simply say that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. President Bush has left us with a gigantic mess, and that this facility symbolizes the city’s deft ability to clean up its share of the financial and diplomatic mess left in this administration’s wake. It will also become the world’s first presidential sewage plant, a potential tourist attraction, and therefore an opportunity for the dedicated plant workers to educate visitors about this essential and heretofore unknown public works. This measure will have a minimal fiscal impact and may increase tourist traffic to the plant, Zoo, and nearby attractions in southwest San Francisco, creating yet another quirky must-see destination along with our cable cars, Haight St, and Beach Blanket Babylon. Fellow San Franciscans, we urge you to vote Oui! on November 4th. Epiphany - Secret of LivingJanuary 26th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchTo see life as a series of situations that require different perspectives. To treat life as a game where you are expected to play varied roles. To find humor in the absurdity of life. To realize life IS absurd, as well as unpredictable, uncontrollable, and often unfathomable. Play with these elements as they play with you. Above all, never take yourself or life too seriously. This is the secret of living.
Tags: secret to life I have a subscriber!January 21st, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchI like blogging because surfing porn gets boring. But both are very personal. 99% of men surf porn alone. I don’t have proof of that. I digress. My point is that I blog for my own enjoyment and don’t really care if others read it. However! I am happy to say that today I got my first subscriber! Yes somebody is actually reading my blog (besides my mother of course). His name is AlexM and according to his site The Adventures of Robin Hood full movie Point of Origin movie download The Quickie video he is Russian and homeless. I guess thats my blogs demographic. Not exactly a blogging cash cow but its a start. PerezHilton.com wasn’t huge overnight. It took him months and months to become a millionaire. I think I’ll hold off on putting adds on my site until I understand the buying habits of Russian homeless people. You want to target your audience correctly. Anyway, thanks AlexM! I write to you! (and my mother of course) Tags: Blog The Power of ConformityJanuary 21st, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchFrom BrassCheck.tv, my main source of news and reality.
Candid Camera was a popular television program in the US in the 1960s. The program used the classic methodology of naturalistic experiments in social psychology as the source of its humorous scenarios. The resulting programs were not only entertaining, but also potentially instructive. For example, how independent is the average person when confronted with the all-powerful “consensus of the group?” Not very. Creating a consensus quickly is the goal of every “shock and awe” propagandist. That’s why it’s often true that “a lie makes it half way around the world before the truth gets its pants on.” Professional liars have their stories worked out well in advance and then pump them out hard and fast long before thoughtful, honest analysts have the chance to ask even the first question. Once the consensus is pointing in one direction, it becomes very difficult to take, hold and promote a contrary point of view, even if that point of view is accurate and the consensus is completely false. That’s why I believe it’s prudent to assume that ANYTHING you “know” that is consensus-based and was produced and is continuously supported by the so called “mainstream” news media (news, PR and/or propaganda) is probably the product of a calculated attempt to mislead. As a simple rule of thub, the proper response to ANYTHING that makes its way to the network news and the front pages of major newspapers is to ask yourself two questions: “Who’s propaganda is this?” and “What facts are they withholding and skewing in a calculated attempt to mislead me?” The most important skill in the propagandist’s bag of tricks Have fun with this short experiment in the art of misdirection. Don’t be too smug if you see it since you’ve been amply warned. Ask yourself if you would have seen it if you hadn’t been warned…
Tags: misdirection, peer pressure, propaganda "Smug, Greedy, Well Fed White People Have Invented a Language to Conceal Their Sins"January 5th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchThe truth is not always pretty but it’s definitely the most accurate. George Carlin points this out in a funny way, bless his old soul.
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Tags: george carlin, Humor Great Comic Critique of McCain and mediaJanuary 5th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchI like John Stewart because he has been able to become very successful, navigating all the politics required to get there, while still keeping a level of honesty, intelligence and humor that most people at his level either tossed with their childhood dreams of never had it in the first place. Here he shows McCain as an idiot, honestly and with humor. It doesn’t take much intelligence to do that, though. Here he makes the most important point of our whole existence: that the world is driven by an industrial military complex that constantly needs an enemy in order to continue making money. In the video it is easy to just see two silly guys joking around, but I feel he has touched on the most devastating truth of our humanity. I guess laughing is not a bad reaction. Tears we have plenty.
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