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Bailout? Who needs bail?

October 3, 2008 – 2:13 pm

Posted 8-15-08. Hmmmmmmm. What does Married to the Sea know that Jim Cramer doesn’t?

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Bailout, Culture, Humour, Justice, Politics, U.S., capitalism, comics, economics, government, humor | Comments (8)

Bush’s Bailout Plan

September 25, 2008 – 7:57 pm

The Dark Bailout!

Here’s a brilliant idea: since the US government just announced they’ll use $700,000,000,000 yes, seven hundred BILLION dollars, to buy junk assets, this site, BuyMyShitPile has decided to let the people market their crap directly to the government, no middle man required! As anyone who has seen the interior [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Bailout, Culture, Humour, Justice, Politics, U.S., capitalism, economics, government, humor, mashups, news, real estate | Comments (11)

Toronto Explosions! Updated! Updated Again!

August 10, 2008 – 9:46 am

Toronto Explosion evacuees hotline: 416-736-5185. Up to 12,000 residents were evacuated, according to Canada.com. If you cannot reach your friends or relatives who live within the evacuation zone, please call that number for more information.
Reported fatalities so far are limited to one, a firefighter who died in the course of duty. One employee of the [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Canada, Culture, Toronto, news, terrorism | Comments (40)

China After the Earthquake: Fascism, Spin, Gullibility and Blame

May 22, 2008 – 11:21 am

Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
In the wake of the newest reports setting the death toll from the Chinese earthquake north of 50,000, the government response of 50,000 troops, which was initially hailed as a superb example of the actions of a government in complete control of its situation, is looking a little less [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Censorship, Culture, Operation Orwell, Politics, government, sad | Comments (18)

Video from the Chinese Earthquake

May 12, 2008 – 7:56 pm

Here is some video footage of the actual earthquake in Chendu, shot by a student at Sichuan University. Anybody understand the language? Although I imagine most of the remarks are of the “Oh shit” variety.

The CBC is reporting a minimum of 8500 fatalities from the 7.8 magnitude quake, which centered on [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in China, YouTube, news, tragedy | Comments (6)

Okay, Vancouver, WTF?

March 29, 2008 – 7:05 am

Originally written like, a week ago, and been sitting in the Draft bucket since. For whatever reason, my internet connection also went down. And according to all the news sources, the following never happened.
Sure. Sure…
It’s 2:21am on a Tuesday morning and the BC Hydro “Oh Canada” blast horns have just treated us to an [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Canada, Vancouver, Weird, anarchy, architecture | Comments (1)

Albanian Explosion: up to 160 feared dead

March 15, 2008 – 10:10 pm

In Gerdec, Albania, a series of explosions at an old munitions depot has killed at least five people (estimates range as high as 160, but the total is sure to be considerably larger than reported so far) and injured over 200. The blasts were so powerful that they were heard over 200 kilometers away, in [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Albania, War, news, tragedy | Comments (9)

Anonymous vs Scientology: The Ides of March, a Call to Action

February 18, 2008 – 10:54 am

Anonymous has released a new video listing specific charges against the Church of Scientology and calling for action on March 15th. Instructions included, handle with care.
Scientology, beware the Ides of March.

stolen from Gawker
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By raincoaster | Also posted in Anonymous, Crime, Manifestos, Politics, Religion, Scientology, YouTube, advice, anarchy, capitalism, conspiracy | Comments (12)

Waiting for the man

February 14, 2008 – 10:15 am

The cops are on their way. Thank GOD I’d already washed the green gunk off my face!
Does this mean that in 48 hours I’ll be dealing with the ambulance?
Updates TK

By raincoaster | Also posted in Crime, Humour, Police, humor | Comments (4)

alarmed!

February 10, 2008 – 11:42 am

So…I guess you’d call it a slow start to the day, being that I woke up at 8pm. It is, on the other hand, Saturday, and yesterday I thought ahead and set all the blogs to autopost for today, so nothing actually occurred that required my being up and awake until well after I actually [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Canada, Humour, Singles, Spring Fever, beauty, humor | Comments (9)