Soylent

...not really, though, at least with this kind of Soylent.

"Enter Soylent, the gulp that sustains. Its primary components are a powder made from maltodextrin, rice protein, oat flour, and more vitamins and minerals than mid-century food scientists ever managed to pack into a loaf of Wonder Bread, plus a liquid blend of canola oil and fish oil. Mix the powder with the oil, add water, and that's it. Soylent is almost as easy to prepare as a glass of Coca-Cola, and yet it is designed to function as a "staple meal" that offers "maximum nutrition with minimal effort.""
H/T--Reason.com 

Hey, I'm intrigued and they take Bitcoin. Why not try it out? I always wondered what people taste like.

Classic childhood books from yesteryear

H/T this isn't happiness

Mickey Mouse Gas Masks

Is this touchingly scary...or scarily touching?

"On January 7th, 1942, one month after Pearl Harbor, T.W. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer, Dietrich Rempel, with Walt Disney’s approval introduced a protective mask for children. This design of the Mickey Mouse Gas Mask for children was presented to Major General William N. Porter, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. After approval of the CWS, Sun Rubber Products Company produced sample masks for review. Other comic book character designs were to follow, depending on the success of the Mickey Mouse mask.

The mask was designed so children would carry it and wear it as part of a game. This would reduce the fear associated with wearing a gas mask and hopefully, improve their wear time and, hence, survivability."--Source

 H/T--thisisnthappiness.com

On second thought, I'm going with creepy. Here's hoping that this century bears little resemblance to the last.

Jello Biafra was a genius

I pointed it out once before in Rediscovery that Jello's lyrics were certainly applicable today in the case of domestic politics in the state of California.

His insight into foreign policy was just as sharp and in fact, nearly prescient. Check out this video, from the 80's as well, mind you. This isn't an official video and the references are updated to the early part of the last decade but, they are relevant again in the early part of this one.

McMoon's--"Dumpster diving for science"

"From an abandoned McDonald's in the backyard of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, a dozen or so volunteer scientists and engineers have taken control of a decommissioned, still running, 70s-era space satellite, currently some 20,000 kilometers away, by using discarded vintage space computers and a few sweet eBay finds.

The so-named "McMoon's" Control Center is some sort of bizarre testament to human ingenuity and what a bunch of very smart people with virtually no budget or proper authorization can pull off."

Read the rest at Motherboard.

Really funny stuff

Aesop's list of things not to do.

Or "is your refrigerator running?" for pissed off grownups.

When was the last time you had some fun?

H/t- WRSA

New record

Propaganda Incorporated...

Apparently if you have some propaganda you want to push upon your citizens all you have to do is ring up CNN.

This story is absolutely disgusting and while it features the Obama administration as the ones doing this, I have little doubt the Bush administration had a decent amount of influence on coverage selection. While the media may play favorites with the left, they will certainly play ball with the right. Corruption is corruption and it is pervasive on each side of the political spectrum.

The worst thing about it in my opinion...tough to pick. I am divided between the facts that the media is even more so a fascistic branch of the statist/corportatist apparatus than even I suspected and that the government is using our own money to funnel bullshit down our ears.

Check out this article and the included videos to see what I mean.

Recycling is good

Really?

"Passenger pigeons traveled in massive assemblies, billions strong, that rained excrement to force people indoors. As a boy Muir saw a mob of birds sweep "thousands of acres perfectly clean of acorns in a few minutes." Pigeons destroyed farm fields so often that bishop of Quebec formally excommunicated the species in 1703."

From 1491 by Charles C. Mann.

I read this last night. When I finished wiping tears of laughter from my eyes, I read on to find that the bishop successfully solved this pestilence with his chanting and waving of hands.

Not.

Seriously though, that didn't really do anything.

I wonder if the good bishop was aware of his own stupidity.

Totally asinine

" All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

Benito Mussolini

As if claiming a monopoly on violence wasn't enough, it seems that the state has claimed a monopoly on human decency as well.

Read more at the link, but take you blood pressure meds first.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-30/couple-fined-746-crime-feeding-homeless-people-florida-park

F'ing F'ed up

From the Overheard section of the latest Woodpile Report:

"Fukushima - I watch NHK TVJapan with my wife. Over the past weeks they've had many specials about Japanese living great lives outside of Japan. In poorer parts of Asia and interestingly South America. Have never seen so many of these programs as NHK is very nationalistic. Seems they are prepping their citizenry for the eventual need to abandon Japan.
Infinite QE, comment 4726925 at zerohedge.com"

Rediscovery

I was looking through some old CD books last night and came across some forgotten goodness, old 80's punk in the form of Black Flag and Dead Kennedy's. So, I have been digging on that as of late.

Riot....man.....That song makes me want to rip some stuff up. Put in the ear buds, take the next plane to Ukraine, taxi on to the Maidan, wade right in, and start cracking some statist skulls.

For liberty!  For anarchy!

Funny thing, or maybe not so funny, is how applicable the social critiques of Biafra and Rollins still are.

In this video, from the early 80's, the Kennedy's are ripping on Governor Jerry Brown.
Yes. That one.
And no, these cat's aren't prophetic. We just keep electing the same a**clowns.
 Little wonder that little has changed.

So while I rediscover some early 80's punk, California can rediscover a**clown Jerry Brown.

Nevada updates, via WRSA

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/witness-to-history/

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/lessons-learned-from-bundyranch/

WRSA's coverage and congregating of info on the Bundy Ranch Standoff has been most excellent.

Keep up the great work, Pete. And thank you for it, sir.

Nevada

So for today, a two-for. Seems fair, as I have been slacking on the posting lately.

Firstly, a little Railroad Earth. This song has been stuck in my head lately and might make some good background music for the further reading. If not, it is at least about a place in Nevada. So dig on some Elko.

Second, it seems that there is a flat out show down shaping up at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada. Perfect time for a militia muster. More info on that in the following links as they explain far better than I can. Something to pay attention to for sure.

WRSA link fest

Where Dexter vacationed?

Now, I don't know if that is blood on the hotel room wall and I don't know if a murder victim was the last occupant of this room.

But...I have ten dollars on the table here. Any takers?

Total freaking buzzkill

Sipping on beer and digging on some good southern rock like this:



And then work calls you up and asks if you can be at the office at 0700. And the office is three and half hours away. And you have to drive another five hours or so to get to the boat. Killed my good time real quick.

Gotta make that dollar, though.