NORTH KOREA, THE NYPD AND OTHER WILDLY INACCURATE CONSPIRACY THEORIES!

I work as an investigative reporter for a living. Sure sometimes it's as meaningless as a companies economic structure or a statistical analysis for gold futures, but the ultimate goal of any of my endeavors is the truth and truth alone wherever that may take me. I have studied everything from the works of Sherlock Holmes to the writings of the neo-Confucian Chu-Hsi and, of course, the greats before him. I can usually figure out who the killer is just about any movie or TV show long before the lead does and sometimes in a matter of moments after the killing takes place. In other words, I would have made a really good cop, except of course for my high IQ which somehow makes me invalid for such a position. Look it up and see that the police intentionally exclude people who preform too high on intelligence exams from becoming one of them and then you wonder we why have problems  across the country. Right now the NYPD is in need of a good kick in the ass.

Yes, it is a tragedy that two innocent cops where blown away while sitting in the car. There is no need for this level of violence but to be fair, this does not appear to be some orchestrated attack that Mayor DeBlasio caused either. Here's a bit from CBS.com:

"There's blood on many hands tonight," Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told reporters outside the hospital where officers Wenjian Liu, 32, and Raphael Ramos, 40, died.                                       

"Those that incited violence on the streets under the guise of protest that tried to tear down what New York City police officers did every day. We tried to warn it must not go on, it cannot be tolerated," Lynch said. "That blood on the hands starts at City Hall in the office of the mayor."

Notice anything wrong with that statement. Not once, NOT ONCE, does the NYPD take any blame for the deterioration of the relationship between themselves and the public even though they were caught on tape assassinating another human for no good reason and then absolved of any blame. They have continuously had one of the worst shooting stats of any police department in the country, missing targets at six feet or less 60% of the time. This means the training for the NYPD is seriously flawed but we have gotten nowhere to fix that even though it has been more than obvious for some time.

If the NYPD really wanted peace, they would fired that douchebag cop who killed Eric Gardner instead of publically supporting him. If the NYPD really wanted peace they would be doing more community outreach and less stormtrooper tactics. They certainly are not behaving correctly when they look at the mayor and blast him for daring to side with the people, who elected him and
will have to do so again. He also has a half-black son who is going to be racially profiled and possibly shot if he does something that some asinine cop misinterprets as a threat due to his complete lack of training. The mayor is right, you guys are dicks and turning your back on him and blaming him for any of this is rich coming from the asswipes that started this in the first place. Act like human beings and not power mad Gestapo agents and watch things change.

And by the way, shooting a police officer is NOT a person likely to shoot just anyone. A person targeting police is unlikely to target just anyone as the police ARE his targets. Shooting some random person however IS a psycho, like the most recent case which demonstrates unequivocally that background checks for ALL gun sales is needed as well as a much better mental health system. And the mayor has to learn that he can't have it both ways and that asking protestors to stop protesting while the funerals are going on is not going to happen and makes you look weak. Pick a side and it shouldn't be with the police here who are currently busy throwing you under the bus.

And then there is North Korea which as always has the conspiracy theorists out in droves. Some people seem to think I am one of these people but in all honesty, there are only a handful of conspiracies I buy into. The deaths of JFK, RFK and MLK are all suspicious. 9/11, OKC and TWA 800 all have holes in them. And economically, our banking system is such a house of cards that it can barely be called theory at this point. That's about it. We went to the moon, FDR had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, The Holocaust happened, as did Newtown and the Boston Bombings, and John John flew on a night no rationally human being should have.

Now we have experts out there questioning whether of not North Korea could have been behind the Sony Hack which everyone and their brother is questioning solely because our government said they did. We have good reason to question everything our government tells us as they have been steadily lying to us for decades now. It was brought into the full light of reason by none other than the worst President of all times, George W. Bush, who attacked a country for made up reasons and then tortured people just for fun. This man and the rest of his ilk are war criminals which I hope the UN files charges against. Our super weak Democratic party certainly didn't when they had the chance.

Because of W., no one believes one word coming out of the government now and with good reason that they are still lying through their teeth 90% of the time. But not always, and in this case, I think they are telling the truth.

I have spent the last few days talking with experts about the hack and they have confirmed what most of you have read on various web pages. It is true that the evidence shown so far does not paint a compelling picture as to a smoking gun saying North Korea definitively did it. I am sure that there are other, more secret evidence they are not sharing that does but would give the enemy too much information how we know said information. Not all evidence is fit for everyday consumption and the government has a need to keep some secrets.

So how can I say that North Korea did it then? Logic. In the movie JFK, Donald Sutherland as Mr. X  asks Kevin Costner as to the JFK assassination, "Who had the power to make it happen? Who had the reason to do it? And who had the power to cover it up?" The same must be asked of this.

This was not some random kid in a basement hack, but a state sponsored one targeting a movie studio who was indeed making a movie the North Koreans had threatened us over for some time. The similarities are striking to similar hacks made toward South Korean banking and nuclear power plants over the last few years. Does no one else see this as stunning coincidence that Sony gets hacked just before the film's release? I don't. And while it is true that no demands were made at first, this is standard terrorism tactics. Let them stew for a while until your true demands are made. Why would North Korea want to paint a bulls eye on them? These people are not dumb just insane.

The internet outage North Korea is experiencing is exactly what Obama should have done unlike war hawks like McCain and Graham who have had a serious case of diarrhea of the mouth over this. They do understand they have nukes right? And while they have little chance of reaching here, South Korea and Japan do have a reason to worry.

Kim Jung Un is the most likely suspect here and Sony has decided to release the film after all on Christmas in a hand full of theaters, like the Alamo Drafthouse. Let's see how much balls Un really has as we make this film the most successful of all time. Whatever you think of the movie, when it comes out, go see it and tell that retarded midget to take a hike. We as Americans hate being told what to do and box office receipts would be a nice slap to his pudgy little face. I'd worry about him reading this but I have a feeling that the internet in North Korea won't be up and running any time soon.

THE WARMONGER SING ALONG: HARK THE SONY LAWYERS SING!

Everyone let's sing:

Hark the Sony lawyers sing
The Interview has gone missing
North Korea denies the hack
Conspiracy theorists agree back
When are people going to rise
up to standards we don't despise
Why is Obama getting the blame
for Hollywood's cowardly shame
Hark the right begins to sing
Obama is a Kenyan King

Theater owners bailed like rats
Freedom of Speech has ended, drat
We've become spineless drips
Led that way by lawyer wimps
Oh they cried "let's not get sued.
Even though nothing was going happen too."
North Korea had no luck
Of bombing 18,000 theaters, Fuck!
Yet we all still cowered in fear
Screaming "Please don't hurt me here."

Hail our new censorship kings
Kim Jung Un and terrorist rings
Anytime we do something wrong
We will be threatened with a bomb
So we'll get unwatchable crap
Sanitized to prevent a flap
Until the next thing that appears
That makes our enemies shit their rears
Hark the Sony lawyers sing
"We'll just edit out the offensive things."

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK:SONY

This is my last douchebag column for 2014, so next week will be my douchebag of the year one. I thought of many to make that distinction such as Bill Cosby, the CIA, cops, and of course, either the democrats or Republicans. But this week, Sony Pictures has acted with such disregard for common sense, American values and bravery, that they are almost certain to be next weeks winner. Let's see those runner ups.

10)Greenpeace- While I respect what these guys are trying to do, this week they crossed a line when they defaced a World Heritage Site. I expect this from extremist morons but for these asswipes to paint a message that said "Time for change. The future is renewable. Greenpeace," right next to the Nazca Lines in Peru is more horrific than an oil spill any day. Admirable message, wrong method. Somebody should be in jail for this, which would allow them to see how bad a Peru jail really is. Dumbasses.

9)Annie- Proving how bad Sony is being run, this travesty of the musical is yet another black eye on a studio reeling from one bad decision after another. So according to their own emails, and backed up by facts, black people starring in movies do not play well overseas. Call it racist all you want, it's true and as a business you should be making movies people will pay to see everywhere. On top of that tidbit comes the realization that no movie made originally with white people and then made for black audiences succeed either as both the Odd Couple and the Honeymooners died a painful death. White and black audiences don't care for these, so why make this at all? Then just to make sure the film sucks, you hire a director who has no musical background (and trust me it shows) and a lead actress who can't sing without being auto tuned within an inch of her life. And guess what? The film tanked. North Korea didn't need to threaten the theaters with a bomb. There was already one playing.

8)Michelle Obama/Whoopie Goldberg- Can we please have a moratorium on rich and famous black people playing the race card? Goldberg stepped in it this week when she claimed only black people can really understand racism when Rosie O'Donnell correctly chimed in with the fact that as a lesbian, she gets a lot more racism than her. Trust me, it's a lot better to be black than gay in many states where no legal protections are in order for the LBGT crowd. And then, Mrs. Obama claimed racism when she was shopping for a photo op in Target and some short woman asked for help getting something off a tall shelf, which she instantly equated with racism. Somehow asking for help to a black person is now racist. She didn't ask the first lady for help with a price or to get something from the back room, which would suggest she thought she worked there, but help getting something off a shelf she couldn't reach. I've been asked that many times while shopping and I never thought people thought I worked there. You're black. Deal with it better than this.

7)Muslim Extremists- If North Korea didn't have a shit fit this past week, Muslim extremists would have gotten much more airplay. In Australia, some Iranian douchebag took a bunch of people hostage who just wanted a piece of chocolate and in the end died along with two hostages. Much worse, was the fucking Taliban in Pakistan who killed 140 people, mostly women and children. This has made them very unpopular all of a sudden and the government attacked them in droves. Classic overreach where if you go to far, sympathizers become your enemy.

6)Banks- As all the news this week has been either about North Korea or the lessening of economic embargoes against Cuba, the last bit of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Volker rule, has been quietly eliminated, just like the budget bill that allowed banks to put taxpayers back on the hook for their gambling losses. The Volker rule made sure banks had enough capital to pay back their bets, which they still didn't even with the watered down rule, but now can go back to their hog wild ways, pre 2008 and we all know how that turned out. Banks suck.

5)Cops- This week, two NYPD cops died in an ambush while sitting in a car. And while I do NOT condone such an action, I do understand it. Protests have done nothing to stop an out of control police force who are killing our pets, our children, our parents and ourselves with alarming regularity. The last straw was the grand jury that inexplicably failed to charge the cop with the death of Eric Gardner. To quote JFK again, "When peaceful protest becomes impossible, violent revolution becomes inevitable." This will happen more and more if cops keep acting like dangerous thugs. We need a serious conversation about how to keep everyone safe, police included, but as no one is listening, more cops will be shot and as there are 300 million guns in this country, no matter the hardware they have, they are very vulnerable to guerilla style attacks as this one was. Wise up guys because a reckoning is coming if you don't change your ways and there is nothing that can be done to stop it if you don't.

4)Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio- These two brainpowers bitched and moaned about the ending of the embargo of Cuba saying such ridiculous things as "Cuba condones torture," and "Cuba does lots of human rights violations," which conveniently forgets that the US was just found guilty of doing the exact same thing in a study released just last week. The CIA and the Republicans engaged in war crimes, the exact same things that people were put to death for during the Nuremberg Trials, but Cuba is the bad guy here. Man some people are stupid.

3)North Korea- Committing essentially an act of war against the US, these numnuts first stole reams of personal data from Sony and then threatened to bomb theaters that had the audacity to show a movie they didn't like. WHHHAAAAA! Kim Jung Un is exactly the kind of dictator we should be afraid of, because he may actually believe himself to be a god, and people like that rarely make good decisions. As their army is not exactly the most feared, even if it is large, their missile capacity is somewhere between a model rocket and a Scud. If push came to shove, we could annihilate them in minutes with little chance of retaliation. Un had another temper tantrum today, threatening the US with hellfire and brimstone if we don't apologize for accusing them of being behind the Sony hack, which they most likely were, conspiracy theories be damned. I hope the Interview does come out soon and people make a point of seeing it just to tell Un to suck it.

2)Movie Theaters- The cowards started the ball rolling when shop owners and theaters started to whine about the Interview and decided to pull the movie from wide release, panicking Sony. Nevermind the fact that North Korea has been threatening us since 1952, because we are still technically at war with them. Had we attacked them in 1994 before they got nukes we would have been much better off, but once again Jimmy Carter had to get involved and had us sign a truce they would break almost immediately. I hate Carter when it comes to foreign politics which he really, really sucks at. But theaters and shop owners are pussies who don't seem to realize that these guys talk big but never go through with anything simply because they don't have the ability to do 99% of what they threaten. Even if one theater got attacked, it would have been an act of war that would have resulted in the genocide of North Korea. Way to wear some pink panties guys. What a bunch of babies.

1)Sony- It's bad enough that their emails show a complete disregard for anything resembling knowing what they are doing, but then to go about and cry about how pulling the Interview is not their fault, insults our intelligence. In one set of emails you say, "don't hire Denzel because black people don't do well overseas", and then in another set, champion for Idris Elba to be the next James Bond. So black people do terrible BO overseas but you want to hire a great black actor to play someone in your biggest franchise? WTF? Then, you blame theaters for not playing the Interview claiming Sony wanted to go through with it but they had no choice to pull it. Unfortunately, we have access to their emails, thanks to the hackers, and they strongly suggest that you thought the film would bomb, which also suggests you have no idea how film tracking works, or that after all the free publicity and North Korean threats that this could have been one of the biggest movies of all time. Theaters suggested a limited release first and then widening it if nothing happens. Sony nixed this idea as well as VOD, DVD's and offers from people like Bit Torrent to stream it. The CEO of Sony was on CNN recently saying things like "No one wants to distribute it," and "we have no platform to play this on," which is a lie as some theaters did want to play it and you have a PlayStation network that could stream said movie. You people are cowards who made the entire country less safe now that any idiot with a grudge can threaten a theater and people will bail. Fuck you Sony and your idiotic, non-believable lies about the film. Everyone there should be fired. Congratulations Sony you are douchebag of the week, and I'll be seeing you again next week for douchebag of the year. What a bunch of pussies!

WHY SONY AND VARIOUS MOVIE CHAINS MAY HAVE JUST SUNK THE FIRST AMENDMENT BY BOWING DOWN TO NORTH KOREAN COMMANDS!

Let us all hail our new Dear Leader, Kim Jung Un, who is now the defacto ruler of the USA. Long may he live. Wait a minute, did we get taken over by North Korea and no one told me? Damn, I look terrible in drab grey colors. It certainly seems that way when six of the largest theater chains put on their finest pink dresses and behaved like the pussies this country is rapidly becoming thanks to PC garbage and a complete inability to stand up to anyone by pulling the comedy The Interview over baseless threats. What a bunch of babies Sony and the like are.

Let's be real here. First off, this threat has no teeth to it. DHS said they had no credible information about said threat. And even if the threat was real, the end result would be a nuclear bomb over Pyongyang and the annihilation of the North Korean People if even one theater got bombed. They have no chance against us in a war, and if we went all in, the fight would be over in less than five minutes.

But no, instead we have a bunch of frightened idiots peeing themselves over an imaginary threat that as a result has made is even less safe and free had they done nothing. Now everytime some extremist gets his panties in a bunch, all they have to do is threaten a theater with a bombing campaign and that film will bite the dust. How long before ISIS responds with a threat because of nudity in a picture, or even a woman without a headscarf? How long before the villain in some movie makes some nationality upset and they threaten us with war? Where does this end?

Obama should have gone and addressed the nation to say he expects nothing to happen but if it does, North Korea can expect them to wiped from the map soon after, but that would require balls and almost no one seem to have that anymore.

Sony deserves a lot of the blame for this as it has come out that they, like 99% of corporate America, have no idea how to protect their information from hackers. Sony wrote about sensitive information in emails, like passwords, social security numbers and the like, had seriously outdated software and hired people for internet security that were just terrible at their job. Apparently, this is happening everywhere, which is why our data is getting stolen at a record pace. Explain to me again why we pay top dollar to get the "best people" for CEO's when they have absolutely no idea what they are doing? Isn't it more like we get the CEO's with the best connections, not the best for the job. I could do a better job as head of Sony for half the pay. I certainly would have upgraded their internet security like I did for my laptop recently after getting hacked. God forbid Sony did that.

When did we become such a nation of babies? When did it become okay to run a multi-national company with the same zeal as a summer camp? I would like to point out that some companies like USAA recently added micro-chip technology to their credit cards, like the Europeans have, to prevent them from getting hacked when used. Why is the rest of the banking community dragging their feet you ask? Money, as it will take a lot to upgrade them and God forbid we spend any of that cash most companies are using for stock buybacks instead.

The Dow is soaring for the second straight day for no apparent reason for attitudes just like this. Janet Yellen signaled that interest rates won't go up until sometime next year and the money junkies took that as a signal to go hog-wild with free money. It still doesn't change the fact that the world economy is struggling, oil is still volatile, and Russian economics is in freefall which could cost hundreds of billions in investor funds. But as long as the FED is guaranteeing the coverage losses with taxpayer money, who cares right?

This country is headed for a fall and no one seems to care as we bury our heads in the sand and refuse to see that all is not well. I fear for next year as well as our free speech that is no longer free. Thanks Kin Jung Un. Fuck off you midget douchebag. Too bad the people in charge of our entertainment industry didn't echo that fact and in the process, lost a hundred million of dollars. Way to go, guys. Way to go.

NORTH KOREA, SONY, TORTURE POLLS AND OTHER WAYS PEOPLE BEHAVE LIKE CHILDREN!

I am a middle aged man who still reads comic books, plays video games and watches movies that my fourteen year old inner self would find, and I quote, "wicked awesome!" However, when it comes to work, politics and life in general, I behave like an adult. I approach problems with rational decision making, not superstition, and treat others around me as I would like to be treated. Apparently, I am in a vast minority, as recent actions taken by heads of state, corporate overlords and the American people in general demonstrate an unfortunate ability to behave in all aspects of life as a petulant three year old would. What happened to all the adults that seem to no longer exist? It's awfully lonely being one of the few who get it, as those that are reading this blog probably are as well.

Let us start with a person I have said could threaten world peace since his rise to power: Kim Jung Un. Since I was in college, I waited for some lunatic to get control of a nuclear arsenal and itch to use it. It's why in 1994 I vilified Clinton for NOT attacking North Korea when it looked like they were getting super close to a nuclear bomb. Letting them get WMD's was a horrific miscalculation that may end the world and the main reason I am also against Iran getting them as well. If nukes proliferate like this into failing states, it's only a matter of time before some loon uses them and that loon may be in charge of North Korea and one of the biggest armies in Earth.

Right now, Un is having a cow over the release of the Interview, a satire of two inept reporters hired by the CIA to kill the North Korean leader. As a result, it appears as if he has used a legion of hackers to steal all sorts of stuff from Sony, which I will go into later, including emails, personal info of cast and crew, the script for the latest James Bond movie and copies of films like Annie and Fury. From what I hear, Annie is a bomb all in it's own. The trailer alone is painful to sit through with all that damned auto tune. This was just the beginning apparently as instead of just leaving this as is (and making us question just who is behind this), Un has miscalculated greatly and has threatened a 9/11 style attack on any movie theater showing this film.

This has had the exact opposite effect for the most part except for the beyond cowardly theater group,  Carmike (which I have never heard of) who decided to drop showings. The rest should go through with what might be one of the biggest films of the year. Un should know that the one thing that gets Americans pissed more than anything else is to threaten them with anything. Message boards are calling on everyone to see this film, just to make the North Korean dictator angry. I am definitely going as I think this film looks funny as hell and I really want to stick it to Un just cause. I am hoping many, many others join me in telling that dick where to go and how to get there.

Should he somehow have the ability to attack movie theaters on Christmas, I hope he likes an all out war because the USA will be demanding blood, consequences be damned. If we parked a few nuclear subs off the coast, Un would have less than a minute to retaliate before becoming radioactive dust. It would certainly send a clear message to our enemies that we will wipe them from the Earth for behavior like this and could actually see a limited response if we did such a thing. Is China really going to get involved over this? Unlikely as that could end all life on the planet and not even China is willing to go that far over a spoiled child like Un. He better think very carefully on what he plans to do next or else face lethal consequences.

And then there is Sony. My God the emails are so junior high-ish I can hardly believe it. Angry studio heads bitch constantly because people like Jolie and DiCaprio actually turned down roles because of things like, gasp, the screenplay and money. The horror. They then resort to name calling and other childish, Kim Jung Un-like behavior. It's a constant thread of behavior that is exactly why I hate most of the bosses I have ever had who all seem to act like this regardless of profession. When you get ahead because you are related to the boss, this is the kind of morons you get running the show. The ultimate proof are contained in one name: George W. Bush. Does anyone honestly think this idiot would ever have been manager of Starbucks let alone President without his famous father? Of course not. And now comes word that Jeb Bush is going to run and anyone voting for that man should be shot on sight, as well as Hillary Clinton supporters. Should these be the nominees, I am going to do my best to start a nationwide campaign called, Stay Home in 2016 as voting for either of these two losers is a death sentence for the country.


Lastly we have the public which a majority feel that the CIA torture program was no big deal. WTF? Are you kidding me?! Because so many get their news from places like Fox News and CNN, truth is being washed away. 58% said torture was justified because we got valuable info from doing this and they were just terrorists anyway. The truth is we got zero good info from this, as every study said and at least 26 people were innocent when subjected to torture. Fucking Darth Cheney has been making the rounds muddying the waters as usual by saying the program worked while offering no proof of any of it. And a lot of you out there are buying it. This means this country is moments away from collapse because this level of stupidity is no conductive to a productive society.

We should be out there in mass numbers calling for the heads of everyone connected with the illegal CIA program, and they could still face charges if the UN decides they committed war crimes, which they did. I will be truly happy with the UN for once if they do just that. We should also be demanding the resignation of Obama and anyone in Congress who voted for that crap spending bill. At least there are still those protesting police violence but have made it about race instead of status which is unfortunate.

The country and the world is inhabited by infants. We need adults to take over and I will give Obama some credit for finally addressing the idea that Cuba is no longer a threat. It's one of the few adult decisions anyone had made in a long time. I can only dream that this is not some anomaly and he will go back to acting like a hyper kid with ADD.