American's Love to Be Lied to, Really They Do.

collected, edited, and written by John DAgostino, Eccentric Outsider Artist, a.k.a. John Dog

Today we explore the wonders of what can be found on that big cyber highway called the internet.  When I was a computer teacher, we taught students the importance of identifying bias in the news media and other sources.  We also taught them to attempt to verify content by searching a variety of information providers and how to locate original sources of data. 

You know I have cow stomachs for brains and can digest a field of grass and then some.  But I am realizing that there is too much crap out there to read.  One has to make decisions based on quality and not just gobble up the whole smorgasbord. This is a blog full of bull, except for one story.  Which is it? Send me an e-mail with your choice and you could win a night on the town in beautiful Side on the Med in southern Turkey.

Portion of Memo from Barnes and Noble Marketing Manager

……You've hit the nail on the head about our nation's hallucinated wealth, & "Something for Nothing" being the blissed-out prayer of the American worker/shopper. It's no accident that the poker/gambling section is right next to the business section in our bookstores. The customer who buys "How to Think Like a Billionaire" is just as likely to be the same one who buys "Winning at High Stakes Poker".

Yahoo News Item

Your friends will envy you - penis enlargement

Exerts from Donald Rumsfield's
soon to be published Sci Fi Thriller

Having freed himself from the Dead Zone, Garlic Jr. attacks Kame's lookout with the help of four new henchmen, trapping Kame and his assistant, Mr. Popo, in a bottle. He uses this opportunity to release the Aquamist, a gas that basically turns anyone it reaches into a demon. The Aquamist reaches the island, transforming them all into demons (With the exception of Krillin and Marron, who were underwater when the mist passed over them). Gohan and his dragon manage to escape the effects as well.
 

E-Mail Spam

A Well-being manifesto for a flourishing society
Among the key proposals:
Reclaim time: we systematically over-estimate the amount of happiness  extra income will bring us and work too many hours to get it.  Government should reduce the working week to a maximum of 30 hours. Please sign the petition below.

Recent CNN Report

On Monday's telecast of his Christian Broadcasting Network show "The 700 Club," Robertson had said: "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if Chavez thinks we're trying to take him out him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."

When questioned on his unchristian-like declaration Robertson replied,  "I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our special forces should 'take him out,'" Robertson said on his show. "'Take him out' could be a number of things including dinner and a movie, a walk along a moonlit beach, a night of beers and bowling, the possibilities are endless."

Reuters, Op Ed Page Editorial

DEAR FRIEND IN CHRIST,

PLEASE DO NOT BE EMBARRASSED, DO ACCEPT MY SINCERE APOLOGIES, IF MY UNSOLICITED OPINION DOES NOT MEET YOUR PERSONAL ETHICS. I AM CHUKHA KARON THE ONLY SURVIVAL IN JERRY KARON'S FAMILY.  MY BOTH PARENTS WERE MURDERED IN A COOL BLOOD IN THIS CIVIL UNREST IN COTE D'IVOIRE. MY MOTHER DIED AT THE SPOT WHILE MY FATHER DIED AFTER FEW DAYS IN THE HOSPITAL, AS A RESULT OF THE INJURIES HE SUSTAINED FROM THE ATTACK.  ALTHOUGH, HIS DEATH WAS POLITICALLY MASTER-MINDED BY HIS POLITICAL RIVALS BEFORE HIS DEATH, HE CALLED ME AT HIS BEDSIDE AND TOLD ME OF THE MONEY HE DEPOSITED IN A BANK HERE.

Blog Rant

Ministry of Fun, a company that recruits and trains Santas, has reported a 20% decline in bookings this year, most of the major Oxford Street retailers in London have chosen not to feature a Santa Corner.  Samuel Smythe, a retired mercenary form Namibia, claims he'll have to go back to killing if he can't get one of the few positions available.  He explained that the dole just isn't sufficient to support his heroin addiction.  Tony Blair would have us believe that the state of the UK economee is hunky-dory, but ……….

Forbes Magazine On-Line

"Trump Buys First House with Pennies Saved"

He collected pennies at a rate of 112 per day. "He'd give me dirty looks if I tried to make exact change at the grocery store," said Ivanna, his wife of 17 years.  Donald inspected every penny. He separated them by year and mint location. He wrapped pennies of the same year and mint into 28,851 rolls.  He stored the fifty-cent rolls in 559 boxes in his basement. He documented the contents and date of each roll in a loose-leaf binder that is now 3-inches thick. "He is a bit meticulous," Ivanna said.  Her husband protests good-naturedly that he was not obsessed: Trump said, "Sometimes I'd go two or three weeks without touching a penny." He pauses: "Then, I'd roll for two or three hours. It was very relaxing."

Scam E-Mail

Betty Boop, who was Bimbo the dog's girlfriend in several early cartoons, introduced the world to Popeye the Sailor in 1933 "and became everyone's girlfriend.  She touches so many boundaries," Caruso told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "From 8 to 80, she's hitting every market when you discovered her. I think people like to hold onto their childhood." Stock in Boop Incorporated is predicted to post a 10% gain in the coming months.  This is you golden opportunity to invest.

"Mum Abandons Daughter and Moves to Turkey" The Guardian
A bewildered teenager is staying with friends after getting home from school to find £25 rolled up in a note saying that her mother and older sister had gone to start a new life in Side, Turkey.

Clothes pegs are still on the washing line of Elaine Walker's rented terrace house in Redmire in Wensleydale. But the locks have been changed and Mrs. Walker, 45, an Avon cosmetics rep who supplemented her earnings with bar work and cleaning holiday cottages, has handed in her notice and told the housing association which owns her house that there will be no more rent.

Neighbors described the dramatic flit as "unexpected and appalling", saying that the daughter left behind, 15-year-old Laura Walker, was putting on a brave face but was extremely upset and hurt. Mrs. Walker left abruptly two weeks ago with her other daughter, Stacey, who is 17, but other family members have only just discovered the situation after gossip led to local publicity.

Mrs. Walker, who is separated from Laura's father and has three adult children living away from home, went on a family trip last month to Side in Turkey, where she had a romance with a local man she called "Ali",  a 25 year old barman at Stones Disco.  Neighbors said that there had been much joking on her return about her daydreams of starting a new life in the Mediterranean sun, especially as Stacey had apparently found a boyfriend in Side too.

http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/contest.html

 Quote of the day.

"Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol."

NF Simpson

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