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Microsoft Having Tech Support Problems

MS Field Engineers Show End Users How to Fire Up Windows 7

As you can see in this exclusive Gypsy Chief photo Microsoft has assigned two field engineers for every three end users.

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“Energy Citizens,” a front group backed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), has launched a new national ad campaign in advance of the 2012 elections to try and make it sound like substantial public support exists for increased oil and gas drilling known as fracking. The print and TV ads, coordinated by the Edelman PR firm, are titled “I’m an Energy Voter.” They feature supposedly average people looking into the camera and saying “I vote …for American domestic energy” and promoting the industry’s goals of opening up more land to drilling. The ads link increasing drilling to job creation, economic prosperity and national energy security. (PRWatch has previously reported how, in fact, the increased fracking for “natural” methane gas has actually led to dramatically increased exporting of America’s natural gas.) The industry’s ad also drives viewers to the website “Vote4Energy.org.” The homepage of the website give no indication that Energy Citizens is a creation of the oil industry, as CMD has previously reported. API CEO Jack Gerard insists the effort is “not an ad campaign…It’s a conversation with the American people.” But when API put out a casting call to recruit volunteers to star in the commercial, a Greenpeace activist showed up. When he started to read his lines, he veered off-script and decried the “lies and influence peddling” of the oil industry and he was quickly shown the door.

The incident gave environmental groups advance knowledge of the industry’s campaign, allowing PolluterWatch a project of the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace, to launch a spoof ad mocking the campaign at almost exactly the same time the industry’s ad campaign started. The fake ads feature actors posing as oil industry executives and saying things like, “I vote … for spilling, um, I mean drilling in the arctic,” and “I vote for prosperous American liberty jobs for freedom.” The spoof ad drives viewers to a remarkably similar-sounding and looking website, Vote-4-Energy.org that features the logo “Vote4Oil.org” and the tag line, “Polluting the Future.”

Main Source:
GreenPeace USA, January 4, 2012

Related: Hydraulic Fracking Raises Concerns From Environmentalists

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Thanks to our friends at OccupyPix we present the attached photo (was it Photoshopped?) just in time for Christmas.

Related: Bacus Ruins Christmas Shopping

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Breaking News …

Faux News actually published this story today on FoxNews.com

Nov. 15, 2011: Sanitation workers gather at Zuccotti Park, the longtime Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York, Last week to begin cleanup. Private workers for Brookfield Properties discovered an assortment of weapons hidden in flower beds throughout the former base camp of the protest movement.

Despite the scary headline and dark reference to assortment of weapons the article is about one kitchen knife and some cardboard tubes with metal pipes inside.

Officials from the NYPD would only confirm that one knife was found buried in a planter on Tuesday. But the haul was believed large enough for Brookfield Security workers to collect them in the real estate company’s headquarters across from the park.

Yep, Faux News … fair and balanced.

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Kim Cardassian subject of online petition

New online petition urges E! network to cancel show. Circulator Cindy Snider said to be getting death threats. Sign petition here

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David Corn Tweats Me

Says he is keeping the url until 2016 … in case Herminator runs again ???

You should visit that website to see amazing video of dogs actually eating with (their?) hands:

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666 is mark of the beast

Gathered from some pretty disreputable places around the Net

Dear Urban Legends:

To prove that Barney is Satan:

1. 1. Given the obvious:
CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR

2. 2. Now, as in the greek alphabet change all U’s to V’s:
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR

3. 3. Extract all Roman Numerals:
C V V L D I V

4. 4. Convert to decimals:
100 5 5 50 500 1 5

5. 5. Add them together to get:
666

~~ Moron in FL

Oh Wait, It’s Dubya

Notice any similarity?

Absolute Proof it is Obama

Proof Positive - Photo 'Enhanced'

Re: UNDENIABLE PROOF that Obama is the antichrist Quote [+] #

Let’s review…

It’s Obama, not Reagan, not Prince Charles, Not Prince William, not Bill Clinton, not the baby born on 1/1/11 at 11:11, not Giffords, not the Pope… uh…. who else is it not? I like to keep track of these things, just a little bit of OCD as far as the AC is concerned…
~~ Smart Lady on Godlike

You Want More Proof?

Re: UNDENIABLE PROOF that Obama is the antichrist Quote [+] #

OP, you’re quite WRONG! President Obama is actually very godly. Even FOX(666) News reported last month, “Jesus would be a Liberal Democrat”.

The name ‘Lucifer’ is Latin for the Planet Venus: the ‘light-bearer’, Morning Star/Evening Star. Like the word ‘English’(7,74), ‘Lucifer’ has 7 letters and a gematria(8,74) sum of 74 (L12+u21+c3+i9+f6+e5+r18. Morning7 Star4).

Evil in the form of an individual deity is properly referred to as ‘Satan’ or the ‘Devil’ (d’evil). Lucifer is incorrectly applied to ‘evil incarnate’. Of course, the Bible refers to the “1st Beast” 666 & “2nd Beast”. Ronald(6 letters) Wilson(6) Reagan(6) was the “1st Beast whose actions were the opposite of the Christ, was ruler(74) of the world, lied to all nations, and was wounded yet lived.” – The Revelation Ch 13. George Walker Bush Jr was/is the “2nd Beast who imitated the 1st Beast and made ‘fire come down from the heavens’ with the ‘destruction of Babylon’(War in Iraq)” – Rev Ch 14, 16, 17, & 18.
~~ Anon Poster on Godlike

Devil Installs Smart Meters

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Faux News Hires Joel Richardson

Thanks to Heather on Crooks and Liars for providing an accessible video of Rachel’s story. As the above entries show there is a good deal of confusion about the real Anti-Christ. Is it Barney, Dubya, Obama, Microsoft, Charley Sheen? Fortunately, Faux News has hired a consultant to sort it all out. Richardson’s creds include time at WorldNetDaily. Sorry, almost said Weekly World News which I really miss at the supermarket checkout queue. It was the only reliable newspaper.

Crooks and Liars Video of TRMS

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Kim shows off new do

Featured Style: The Kim Cardassian
Everyone in Las Vegas wants to look like Kim Cardassian. The starlet’s long, layered and voluminous look is the most-wanted hairstyle at this salon.

Adapted from a story on AOL News.
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Sarah Releases New Book

Book Summary

America. American flag, boy scout, patriotism, freedom, patriots. Betsy Ross, Old Ironsides, Tea Party. Obesity. Barbara Bush, obesity, parents, Washington elite, parents, obesity, flag. Random vacuous thoughts, United Nations, defense. Reverend Wright, Chicago, real Americans, Mount Rushmore, flag, patriots, guns. Gun control. Fence. Fourteen foot high fence, borders. Patriots, FOX News, McCain. Republicans. Earmarks, earmarks, deficit, deficit under control, Washington elites, news. Lamestream media, Hillary Clinton, flag, Geraldine Ferraro, Iran, nuclear, arms control. Treaty, Iran, flag, more random vacuous thoughts. Catchy catch phrases. Willow, Trig, moose, wolves, helicopters. Washington insiders. Money, Republicans, gun control, Tea Party Patriots, election, looking forward, Michelle Obama, first lady, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, looking ahead. 2012 election. Karl Rove, obesity

REVIEW

Ghost writer.

We have been very busy here at the Gypsy Chief Blog so we didn’t have time to actually read the book. Not to worry, Saint Sarah didn’t have time to write it either. So we are on an equal footing with her. Instead, we used a handy little C program we found in The Waite Group’s Turbo C Bible to summarize the book. It is easy if you have access to a C compiler. First, gather a list of random thoughts and catchy catch phrases. See above for examples. Feel free to substitute yours. Then assign a numeral to each one. Next you use the rand() function from the Standard C Library to write / review the book. The Mersenne twister would definitely be overkill for anything this author (ghost writer?) would come up with.

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