flakes of nuisance » Gallery of the bleedin’ obvious http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 19 May 2012 17:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media – YouTubehttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/16/an-intense-moment-of-truth-with-mainstream-media-youtube/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/16/an-intense-moment-of-truth-with-mainstream-media-youtube/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:41:20 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6649

An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media – YouTube.

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/15/change-is-already-here/feed/ 0 #WikiLeaks #cablegate – Mirrors of the website & #Visa, #Mastercard transferring funds to racistshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/07/wikileaks-cablegate-mirrors-of-the-website-visa-mastercard-transferring-funds-to-racists/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/07/wikileaks-cablegate-mirrors-of-the-website-visa-mastercard-transferring-funds-to-racists/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:03:20 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6352 As writers say, the difference between fiction and fact is that fiction has to be believable. So all those Bourne films are so believable and everything on ‘The News’ is so ridiculous. Osama Bin Laden: still at-large, Ratko Mladic: still at large, Sylvio Berlusconi: in charge of a bankrupt country – and its media, Tony Blair & George Bush doing lecture tours, the €uro bankrupt while the workers of Germany subsidise a continent, and so on.

The world changed years ago. Just ask the Book, Music and Film Industries, newspaper publishers, television companies, High-Street shopkeepers and expense-fiddling MPs, who can [

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Speech by Robert Kennedy, 18 March 1968, University of Kansas.

”We will never find a purpose for our nation nor for our personal satisfaction in the mere search for economic well-being, in endlessly amassing terrestrial goods. We cannot measure the national spirit on the basis of the Dow-Jones, nor can we measure the achievements of our country on the basis of the gross domestic product (GDP)

Our gross national product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/25/happiness/feed/ 0 If the ‘Mosque’ Isn’t Built, This Is No Longer America | MichaelMoore.comhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/09/14/if-the-mosque-isnt-built-this-is-no-longer-america-michaelmoore-com/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/09/14/if-the-mosque-isnt-built-this-is-no-longer-america-michaelmoore-com/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:33:27 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=5902

I am opposed to the building of the “mosque” two blocks from Ground Zero.

I want it built on Ground Zero.

Why? Because I believe in an America that protects those who are the victims of hate and prejudice. I believe in an America that says you have the right to worship whatever God you have, wherever you want to worship. And I believe in an America that says to the world that we are a loving and generous people and if a bunch of murderers steal your religion from you and use it as their excuse to [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/09/14/if-the-mosque-isnt-built-this-is-no-longer-america-michaelmoore-com/feed/ 0 Mid-life crisis? Enter the ‘MAMIL’http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/08/17/mid-life-crisis-enter-the-mamil/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/08/17/mid-life-crisis-enter-the-mamil/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:27:46 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/08/17/mid-life-crisis-enter-the-mamil/ “The past three years have seen the rise of the uber-techno, super-flashy, full-carbon fibre, bobby-dazzler road bike. The market for these bikes has expanded faster than a 45-year-old’s waistline, partly thanks to the success of the British cycling stars at the Beijing Olympics. Marketing departments have produced smart advertising messages that encourage a bit of freedom, elite performance and memories of teenage derring-do.

And the result can be seen on Saturday and Sunday mornings as middle-aged blokes polish the rear derailleur, lower the mirrored shades and pedal into the hills. Every couple of weeks, you’ll see a girth of Mamils [

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Infographic: 120 fake sci-fi events on a real-world timeline | Blastr.

]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/07/21/120-fake-sci-fi-events-on-a-real-world-timeline/feed/ 0 List of British words not widely used in the United Stateshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/07/15/list-of-british-words-not-widely-used-in-the-united-states/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/07/15/list-of-british-words-not-widely-used-in-the-united-states/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:09:59 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=5298 This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States.

BLIMEY!

via List of British words not widely used in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Your digital life can be split into two parts: content and data. You know plenty about the content: that oh-so-hilarious tweet you punched out after closing time, or those delicious pictures of the new baby posted on Flickr especially for your aunt in Australia. You create this stuff, and much of the privacy argument has been over whether strangers or ex-girlfriends or even your parents should be allowed to see it without your express permission. Yet all that is a handful of dust compared to the cascades of data about yourself that you shed daily.

What sort of information? [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/05/25/facebook-google-and-twitter-custodians-of-our-most-intimate-secrets/feed/ 0 Mountain Bikes – Who Needs ‘em?http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/05/02/mountain-bikes-who-needs-em/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/05/02/mountain-bikes-who-needs-em/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 12:15:27 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=4542 I am so glad people still say this.

That’s the take that Chris Kostman has on riding off-road. Mountain bike? No way. He just uses his road bike, and he’ll leave any mountain biker in the dust, he claims.

These two quotes will tell you where he’s coming from:

1. “[T]he mountain bike is the most over-rated, most improperly used, most over-built, and most greedily promoted piece of hardware to hit the sport and fitness industry in modern history.”

2. Can’t ride off-road without wide, knobby tires, and at least some suspension? Chris’ retort: “‘Technique beats technology any [

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