POLITICS -How rude of me...

I left out this fraudster:

LIAR

POLITICS - Too bad for you

Here is the man who should have been the next US President.

And this man should have been his VP.

...Too bad.

POLITICS - LIARS!

My conversation with a spimmer...

My Skype conversation with a spimmer...

[12:26:37 a.m.] Mr Davi George says: Accept my apology for contacting you this way which was due to the urgency of my request I'm rather in a very precarious situation that warrants my talking very little till I confirm our business relationship. If its money please that'd be no problem, I just need to know if you are capable of handling large funds and you can be trusted. Presently I'm in the tight clutches of my native government who has amongst other things clamped my company and my freedom all in a bid to finance its reform programmes in the past few years.

I'm a construction engineer and a gold merchant before. The internet for now is my only uncensored link to the outside world and I'd appreciate it if you take me very gravely. You'd be well remunerated for your effort and assistance.
I would need your utmost confidentiality and complete honesty in the transfer of this funds. I would need to tell you that all required arrangements have been made for the transfer of these funds through a diplomatic service to your secured receiving address.

However, shipment would commence 48hrs once I am in receipt of your details which includes your telephone and fax numbers, secured receiving address as well as your mobile if any. The diplomatic is not aware of the content as funds but the Luggage's would be marked "Diplomatic Luggage's" and it should be within the both of us until you receive the Luggage's.

They offer door to door delivery as P .o box is not acceptable. The said funds is total $US 9.5 Million all in 100 dollar bills, I would be willing to give you 25% while the rest would be invested till I can travel to meet with you. Can you handle these funds? Can you be trusted? I would be waiting for your details so that we can proceed. Kindly reply to my mail davigeorge55@gmail.com

[6:48:12 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Hi there. I don't have access to to my e-mail at the moment. Are you able to to discuss the matter via Skype?

[6:54:20 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Yes

[6:54:40 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: We can talk on skype

[6:55:16 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Are you there to talk to me now

[6:56:01 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Cool. Let me just take a second to make sure I understand everything.

[6:56:15 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Ok Mr Peter

[6:56:45 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Right. Sounds interesting. How can I help?

[6:57:08 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: I want you to receive the luggage for me

[6:57:21 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: But i would like to know if you can be trusted and if you are capable of handling large fund ?

[6:57:25 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Okay. I'm fine with that. What shall I do now?

[6:57:35 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Certainly.

[6:58:19 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Very good, i want you to email me your residence address where the luggage will be delivered to you in 48 hours

[6:58:29 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: So that we can proceed

[6:59:14 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Like I say, I don't have access to my e-mail at the moment. I'm using a friend's computer. So is the first thing you need my address for delivery of the luggage?

[6:59:45 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Yes by then i can give you the security vault details for you to contact them for the release and delivery of my luggage.

[7:00:01 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: I want you to add me to your skype so that i can see you online.

[7:00:26 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: ok. okay.

[7:01:46 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: can you send through the add request again?

[7:02:59 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: I want to confirm your add to skype so that i can see you when you are online.

[7:03:21 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Yeah. Can you do it again? I accidentally closed it before.

[7:03:43 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: What do you mean

[7:03:52 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Can you try to add me again?

[7:04:22 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Ok i will do that again

[7:04:47 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: ok. done.

[7:05:17 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Very good. you can send me your residence address through here so that i can give you the security company details and contact

[7:06:17 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Alright. So that's Peter Hamilton. 54 Caliope Road, Palmerston North, 4412, New Zealand. Do you want a phone number as well?

[7:07:00 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Yes but i cant call you because i am in house arrest of my native government in Liberia.

[7:07:18 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: I will give you the contact details and what to write to the security company.

[7:08:04 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: You should note that this is highly confidential between you and me even the security company does not know there is fund in the luggage because its marked diplomatic.

[7:08:11 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: okay. My number is +64 6 382 9916. House arrest must suck. I hope I can help.

[7:08:54 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Yes i need your partnership to receieve the luggage for me 25% of the fund will be yours while we shall talk about what you will invest for the rest on.

[7:09:26 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: ok. Glad I can help.

[7:10:08 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Thank you.

[7:11:27 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Write an email message to the Vault manager now, stating that you are the Sole beneficiary for the luggage of Mr. Davi george, deposited on May 31st 2006, that you want the luggage deliver to you in the next 48hours, any further requirements he should contact you without hesitation. Make sure you copy me every email you send to him and every email you receive from him to davigeorge55@gmail.com

Name: Mr. Azeez Odusanya
Company Name: Rocket Security Vault Limited
Company Email: rsvlimited@rocketmail.com
inforocket@rocketmail.com
Office Telephone: +234-807-900-1587
Mobile Telephone: +234-803-739-1960

[7:13:34 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Did you get it

[7:14:32 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Yeah. Like I said, I don't have access to my e-mail since I'm using a friend's computer at the moment. I'm just trying to see what I can do. Do we have to wait until I can get to my e-mail?

[7:15:45 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Yes you have to email them and contact the security manager on his phone number

[7:16:03 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: So that i can send him an email too that you are the beneficiary of my luggage and he should ship it to you.

[7:16:19 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Pls dont mention there is fund in the luggage and this is between you and me.

[7:21:24 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: I want to get some rest and talk to you soon.

[7:22:23 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: I won't be online again for a while. Perhaps we can get thrings going now? The sooner we do, the sooner I can help.

[7:22:58 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Yes you should contact the security vault company and get back to me

[7:24:14 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: What do you need to call me about? I've sent the e-mail. I wonder how long it will take until we hear something. I guess maybe something will arrive within the next 48 hours?

[7:25:15 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: you should call them to acknowledge your email. and tell Mr Azeez that you are my beneficiary that i will aswell send him an email for him to confirm

[7:25:36 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: alright. hang on a sec.

[7:25:45 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Ok.

[7:26:41 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: hmmm...I'm just getting a funny beeping noise when I dial those numbers. Can you confirm they are correct?

[7:27:25 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Ok

[7:29:12 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: I've just realised I've given you a lot of info, but I don't know much about you. To make sure the trust goes both ways, can I have your address please?

[7:30:39 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Like i said to you that i am in house arrest which i can release it to you.

[7:31:02 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: You mean can't?

[7:31:39 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Sure i can, trust is what we need and i am here to make you my helper and partner to handle the fund for me, i am 56 years of age

[7:32:32 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: 1, GOVERMENT RESIDENCE AREA, MONROVIA, LIBERIA, AFRICA.

[7:33:44 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: That's an interesting address. No street or anything?

[7:34:15 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: There is no street as i cant go out even the internet is uncensored.

[7:35:58 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: alright. I can't get through to those numbers. It just makes a funny beeping noise. Let me check with my phone company to see what this means.

[7:36:28 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: How did you dial it

[7:37:39 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: To dial out of NZ, we add 00 to the font of the number. I'm just on hold with the phone company. Hang on.

[7:38:03 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: OK

[7:38:33 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Youu should make it 00 234-803-739-1960

[7:40:02 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Huh. My phone company says these numbers are blocked for some reason. They are finding out why for me.

[7:40:17 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Ok.

[7:40:31 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: I want to get some rest now because of my health

[7:40:50 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: what time is it there?

[7:41:03 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: You should keep me posted Mr Peter, Its 7:41am in Liberia.

[7:41:59 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: wow. It's 7:41pm here. That's funny. Have you ever been to New Zealand?

[7:42:22 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: No i have not been there but i have been to Australia.

[7:42:43 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: Mr Peter can we talk later, i need to get some rest now as i am sick.

[7:43:12 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Me too. I don't like Australia. Maybe I'll come to Liberia though. I've always wanted to go to Europe.

[7:43:34 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: I will talk to you when i am awake.

[7:43:38 p.m.] Mr Davi George says: (handshake)

[7:44:54 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Hey. I got an e-mail reply from that company. They said they'll send the luggage through. They're asking for payment to send the items. Any idea what I should do now?

[7:46:10 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Mr Davi?

[7:46:53 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Are you there?

[7:48:46 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: Okay. I've sent through payment for delivery of the luggage. I guess I just wait for delivery now.

[7:51:01 p.m.] Peter Hamilton says: I guess you're gone now. Let me know when you're back online, and hopefully we can carry on our conversation. I could sure use the money, and I'm glad I can help.

POLITICS - Liar liar pants on fire

To quote a fellow redditor:

Ending the Iraq War: Failure
Stopping Wire Tapping: Failure
Impeaching a Criminial President: Failure
Pelosi: Full of Shit

Just another lie

Just like dear old Winnie. If NZ First get over 5% in the party vote at the elections, I'll seriously have to wonder about some people's scruples.

GEEK - What do you do...

...when keeping up with your RSS feeds takes 25 hours a day? :-(

LIFE - The timeline

Heads up. Here's how it's going to go down.

1) Right now, as you're aware, the US financial system is experiencing the precursors to the big meltdown. I'm not a doomsayer with my placard announcing 'The end is neigh!'. I'm not exacerbating the problem by pointing this out.

2) The complete meltdown is being held off by two things:

A) The 'market' is waiting to see what happens when these financial institutions go under or are bailed out.

...and:

B) The US Presidential election

3) So as the market continues to crumble, and some institutions are bailed out, and some are allowed to fail the outcome is, in some instances the investors lose and in some instances the US tax payer is left with the debt. You'll note this is a lose/lose scenario. There is no win. There is no magic economic recovery at the end of the rainbow. There is no credit card with a zero balance you can look at to pay for tomorrow's groceries.

4) Who ever the poor sod is who inherits the White House, it's too late. The Titanic has struck the iceberg. The only difference is Obama wants the deck chairs aft and McSame wants them forward. So while people are holding their breath, the outcome won't make much difference.

...So the result is, after a period of evaluation (No more than three months), after the US Presidential election and after Christmas (Because there are some that will say that you buying plastic crap from China with your credit card can breath life in to the dead corpse that is the US economy) it's time to pay the piper.

You need four things to survive:

Air
Water
Food
Shelter

...You'll probably find the bottom three cost you money (And some would love to find a way to make you pay for the first one). And if you're in debt or have no job then these will be hard to come by. I hope who ever you are and where ever you are, you're ready for the ride. It wasn't fun in '29, and it's not going to be fun this time. This is your final warning. Now STFU and get back to work wage slave.

GEEK - I want...

...The HTC Touch Pro and the HTC Touch HD to have babies so I can have an HD with a sliding keyboard....Ummm. My underpants are all sticky now...:-(

LIFE - What's the difference...

...between someone who works in marketing, a lawyer, a lobbyist and a politician? There must be a common seed to these people. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe it's genetic. Perhaps one day they'll test for this gene in utero like they do with Down Syndrome.

LIFE - My hero (Well one of them)

Benjamin "Yahtzee" Richard Croshaw of Zero Punctuation.

POLITICS - A wasted vote?

I've been discussing voting decisions with someone recently who said they were considering a vote for a third party in the US Presidential election. Obviously I've considered it previously, given my current options, but how on Earth is a vote for a third party in the US anything other than a wasted vote? As I said at the time, it may register as a protest vote, but the response from the pigs at the trough is of course "Your protest has been noted, now STFU and get back to work".

Glassbooth confirms what I already know, and that is out of the candidates available at this stage, I agree most strongly with Ralph Nader. But what the heck am I supposed to do when McSame wins by 1% over Obama, and I look at the votes which Nader got? You can argue stats all you want, but it is a fact that if those voting for Nader had to choose between Obama and McSame, that they would vote for Obama (Or any Democrat to make the generalisation), so a vote for Nader is one less vote for the Democrat. WTF are we supposed to do?

POLITICS - NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

We'd just had eight years of an asshat who can't pronounce nuclear, we do not need this vacuous waste of space carrying on the tradition. I like my television, and I don't want the increased risk of throwing something at it by listening to someone say "nucular" for another four years!!!

LIFE - Just because I can...

Told you so
Told you so
Told you so

The economy is fine! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

LIFE - Perhaps we'll know in a few months...

...Indeed.

LIFE - Can someone please explain...

When Russia invades a sovereign country, it is "...an act of aggression condemned by the international community..." (To paraphrase Dick Cheney), but when the US does it, it's spreading freedom and democracy, or ensuring national security.

The only people who are worse than the hypocrites perpetrating these acts, are the people who are allowing them to undertake these acts, in their names.

PS - If my country (i.e. the country I live in and consider myself a citizen of despite not having completed my citizen application) I would not be getting up in the morning, and going to work and going home and eating dinner and playing with my kids. I would be standing in front of the steps of my house of representitives DEMANDING an explanation, and if that explanation was as WEAK as the explanation being given by these crooks and liars, then I would have my torch and noose and I would do something about it!

POLITICS - PSSST. Hey you...

[This post is not directed towards any specific individuals]

...Are you American? If not, you may ignore the rest of this post. Stuff it. This applies to anyone voting anywhere.

Are you eligible to vote? If not, you might ignore the rest of this post, though it depends on how much you care about things, whether you can vote or note.

If you are eligible, are you planning on voting in the coming US Presidential election? If not, plainly and simply and with no excuses, YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT!

I've had soooo many people say "Well I didn't vote for Bush, so his Presidency isn't my fault". Two things here. 1) What have you done to discuss the matter of the direction US politics (and the day-to-day impacts to your life that politics creates) has taken over the past two decades (And the past eight in particular), outside of casual bitching with friends or family? 2) What have you done to ensure that the direction that politics takes heads in the direction that you want? I suspect the answer to both is "None".

From close observation of politicians in the US and NZ over the past seven years, I have lost all faith in politicians as a group of individuals. I have watched some honest people try to enter in to, or to succeed in politics, only to see them leave or struggle to achieve anything. Those that do succeed are those that are selfish. This probably applies to anything in life really, but I struggle to think of anything else that has as much impact on all of our lives as the decisions of the politicians that WE ELECT to represent us. From observation, politics is about one thing and one thing only and that is to get re-elected. Oh sure, somewhere in the are the hard decisions to be made that keep an economy and a country running. But deep down, every decision that is made is run through a filter of 'what will happen to my re-election if I make this decision?'.

My bull-shit meter is broken with all the crap flowing from the mouths of those running for office in both the US and NZ. Every word that leaves a politicians mouth is:

XYZ is a problem, or everything is broken. And electing me/my party is the solution.

Fuck you!

Now. Back to my original questions. If you do nothing more than vote. If you do nothing to interact with other people, particularly those who disagree with your perspective on things, then you are as much a piece of the problem as these politicians who you didn't vote for. Politics is now about getting 51% of the vote during the election, and then doing whatever the fuck you want to during your period in office (While applying your 'What will happen to my re-election if I make this decision' filter). And life has three camps. Those on the right. Those on the left. And those in the middle that the right and left fight over to get their 51%.

I wish everyone over thought things as I have been accused of doing. I wish everyone was capable of informing and educating themselves. But they are not. Some people can't. Some people don't want to. And if you want the things that you think are important to be represented, then you are going to have to fight to spread the word. Because the people on the other side are already fighting. And if you do nothing, then they will win.

And if your answer is "I'm too busy",then I'll say it now, and I'll say it later (When you're locked up in a prison camp after attempting to express your freedom of speech as things have finally got to the point where you can't take it any more, but it will probably be too late)...FUCK YOU!

POLITICS - Jesus-freak-hockey-mom for veep

Good luck with that. EXACTLY the type of Yank who annoys the rest of the sensible world...

LIFE - Nice country you got there

Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC

...A little light on detail, but if you care, look it up. If you don't, just go back to whatever you were watching on television.

POLITICS - Douchebag vs. Turd Sandwhich

So here we are. The candidates and their veeps have been chosen. It's Obama vs. McCain. And as historic as the candidacy of Obama is, and as much of a 'change' as he might represent, I still look at those choices and feel that Americans have chosen the safe options. The same 'safe' candidates that always make it to this point, and not the real cold, hard look candidates who might really address the difficult choices that need to be made. But who am I kidding? The US President is just one person (Well....Along with their Administration). I believe it is much easier for one person to break things than it is for them to fix things. And that is if their motivation is to fix things.

I believe unequivocally that McCain represent a party that exists for one purpose only and that is to make rich, old, white men richer. The party of trickle-down economics. Oh. The benefits haven't trickled down to you? You must not be working hard enough...

So that leaves Obama. But what does Obama stand for? If you had to condense his principles down to a single factoid or collection of details, I don't know what they are.

So I have a candidate that I simply will not vote for. And this isn't based on blind, partisan party politics, but based on listening to what McCain has said, and in many cases has said again (Only in the opposite direction of something he said earlier). And a candidate that I am not sure of. Based on this, it's obvious where a 'no' vs. a 'maybe' will go. But it's not like I have an opportunity to vote for who I really want. For someone who will have looked to make some fundamental changes to the rules of the game. America is no longer the home of the free and the land of the brave. It is the home of the quest to get rich. The last grasp to secure one's own fortune while everything else falls apart. It doesn't matter who you vote for. If the imbalance of wealth does not change, and if the values between individual wealth and the commonwealth do not change, then the resulting direction of the US economy and everything that depends on it will not change.

That being said, those who are pulling the string DO NO WANT REAL CHANGE. They have the money. They have the power. And you and your namby-pamby vote will not get in their way. They already own your candidate, whichever side you choose.