Hard Times

 

  I've made the same point - over and over - but can't get anyone to agree with it.

Amazon is accused of using drivers' urine as an energy drink

Priest smashes Halloween pumpkins over fears of 'satanic symbols'

 

Dose The Nation With Acid In The 60s (Blame Blacks When It Doesn't Work Out)

5 Yoga Asanas To Beat Constipation (which you didn't have before you started doing yoga)

Conservatives congratulate VP Harris for new role as gun czar after 'bang up job with the border'

Requiem for San Francisco

Jordan Peterson Issues Ominous Warning to Gavin Newsom

Repairing the damage Columbia’s Teachers College did to American kids will take years

Education Secretary Cardona rips 'misbehaving' parents 'acting like they know what's right for kids'

Hillary Clinton on Trump: 'I don't believe him on anything' (is this part of her "Russia hoax" too?)

Comedian Kathy Griffin says Kanye West is “100% abusing” his wife Bianca Censori (Griffin then went back to distributing pictures of Trump's decapitated head to his child - as a joke,...)

Eat eggs or drink milk? Then you're no feminist 

   

 Kevin Bacon reveals he DESTROYED abandoned home on his farm when he bought it because previous owner feared it was haunted 

  

Woman is arrested for attack on couple doing 'inappropriate stretches' by a swimming pool

NFL's first trans cheerleader Justine Lindsay likens her role to being a doctor

Aaron Rodgers insists that he's 'not drinking any piss' as he recovers from an Achilles tear... adding that his reported use of the sounds of dolphins mating to recover 'was a joke' 

   

 Dad once boasted his temper goes ‘from zero to prison’

'Full Hulk Guy' is BANNED from Michigan golf course,...Also barred from nearby resort

If It Weren't For Therapy and My Husband, I Would Still Be In Jim Bob's Cult 

   

 'Only God Can Thank You': Female Health Workers Fight to Be Paid

There’s a lesson to take from China’s abandoned electric cars

Resting On Razorblades (And Partial Information)

'It’s not that bad': Pete Davidson gives reluctant praise for SF 

   

 Inside the Upper West Side cult that told members to sleep with anyone who asked

"You see that! That's a dude that's been to heaven, bitch. And you want to test God? You fucking come get it, Shitstack! Been to heaven... leave me alone!"

Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure’

Camel urine as a treatment for cancer patients? 

   

 How Well People ‘Think’ They Slept Might Matter More Than How They Actually Slept

This Is News You Can Use (Because You Are So Stupid)

"There are no documented health benefits to drinking urine (human, cow, or otherwise). While urine is 95 percent water, it is, first and foremost, a metabolic waste product. Everything else in it is excreted by the body for a reason. Our bodies are smart; they do not excrete substances needed for survival on a whim."

Science: All Using Supplements Mean Is Urine Trouble

"I remember during medical school that more than one of my faculty used to have a regularly repeated crack that the only thing that taking vitamin supplements could do for you was to produce expensive pee." 

 - Orac, December 19, 2013

"The picture that emerges from all this seems fairly clear. Despite thousands of claims to the contrary, dietary supplements are useless in preventing cardiovascular diseases or cancer. All they do produce, I am afraid, is rather expensive urine." 

 - Edzard Ernst, 18 December 2013

 

There's A Reason (Brains Will Beat Brawn Every Time)

"Now, in his explosive autobiography, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, published today, he has revealed that he spent the weeks leading up to that sentencing, traveling round the country ‘romancing’ his various girlfriends. 

And where legal measures had let him down he had turned to ‘divine intervention,’ to bring him a light sentence. He visited a, ‘hoodoo woman’ who said she would cast a spell to keep him out of jail if he put five hundred dollar bills in a jar, urinated in it and kept it under his bed for three days. 

He sought out a voodoo priest who turned out to be a fraud, ‘I knew that guy had nothing,’ he recalls.

And he followed the instructions of a Santeria priest – going to the courthouse one night with a pigeon and an egg which he dropped on the ground as the bird was release and he yelled. ‘We’re free!’

He almost believed it would work. Because he felt invincible. ‘In my mind,’ he says, ‘I had no peers. I was the youngest heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.’

He was sentenced to six years and served three."

Drink Your Own Urine To Be Happy, Healthy, And Thin

I love how she sells it. She's so confident. So Professional-Model sounding.

Fucking fruitcake,...

Every Time I Wave My Flag (Nobody Waves Back At Me)

As I've discovered, like so much outside of ghettos and the good life, society's proven it fully understood what yogic cult training's pitfalls were - before embracing them:

Bikram Choudury, the famously abrasive founder of Bikram hot yoga, has been accused of rape and of encouraging his followers to recruit women he could victimize, according to lawsuits filed by two different women. 

Two separate Jane Does filed suit against Choudury, 67, and Bikram Yoga alleging sexual battery, false imprisonment, discrimination, harassment and seven others counts, according to Courthouse News. Both women, whose identities were not released, filed very similar suits on the same day in the same California courtroom. 

Another former student, 29-year-old Sarah Baughn, filed suit against Choudury in March claiming he sexually assaulted her constantly during her time training to become a yoga instructor in 2005 and has since prevented her from teaching “because of her past and continuing refusal to have sex with the guru.” 

In her complaint filed Monday the second Jane Doe claimed she had been raped in November 2010 after her boyfriend paid for her to be trained as a teacher a Bikram’s San Diego studio. The court documents claimed the attack seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary, reading “other persons in defendant Bikram Choudhury’s inner circle, were aware of defendant Bikram Choudhury’s pattern and practice of causing, inducing or persuading young women to enroll in teacher training classes to become yoga instructors only so he can sexually assault and/or rape them.” 

It also accuses Bikram’s underlings of knowing an attack was inevitable, but says they still “did nothing to prevent this from happening to plaintiff or to protect her.” 

Jane Doe said she “lived in constant fear” of the “cult-like atmosphere” fostered in the organization. Potential instructors are required to pay $13,000 for a nine-week training program, where they’re deprived of communication with the outside world, forced to listen to Bikram’s vulgar rants on sexuality and endure “demoralizing” activity, including urinating on themselves. 

“Plaintiff Jane Doe No. 2’s life unraveled after she returned home,” the suit claims. “Her long term relationship fell apart, she went into a severe depression, attempted suicide, started drinking, doing drugs, engaged in uncharacteristically impulsive behavior, quit her job and cut off communication from almost everyone in her life.”

 

I think the current standard is, if you don't have photos, it didn't happen. [Rimshot] No, wait, wait - if you ask me, with The Vagina Monologues playing everywhere, getting that stretching-is-mystical thing out of everyone's mind will take a little time. [Kidding, kidding - this is all tragic.] But seriously, I think I watch a lot of Nazi movies because I'm still coping with SS Guards-doing-yoga-for-Hitler-hating Americans, in America, allowing frauds to openly manipulate swallowing others whole (and even groups of others) while everybody just stands around:

“With the power and hubris Bikram wielded (and the stories that have been floating around for years) it was almost expected, like we were all just waiting for it to happen.”

 

 "We were all just waiting for it to happen.” Spoken like a real monster. Great incentives, too. Straight from the gutter - with a hearty "Namaste" and (a "spiritual") Good For You! - here's some cud for you to chew on, pimp:

   

See, it's only after someone's identified themselves as a cultist - that is, someone capable of being convinced touching their toes should be considered a smug-inducing accomplishment - that I can understand how anyone in this country "thinks" like that.

   

 And, for some odd reason, it's never a pleasant experience.

Now that I think about it, it rarely follows one either,...

 

The Truth Is Out There - Shouldn't You Be, Too?

Let us translate this one for you - we've got a whole lot of crazy people walking around, who just won't shut up:

The UK has recently released some of its files on unidentified flying objects – UFOs. It does not appear that there is anything shocking in the reports. In the end it seems like the release will result in just another round of news headlines with “UFO” in the title, but nothing else.

The documents do provide further evidence for what I call the psychocultural hypothesis. UFO sightings and encounters are certainly an interesting group of phenomena – but are they evidence of anything alien. Many people I talk to (including a documentary producer just recently) are left with the sense that there must be something going on. No explanation seems satisfactory to explain all the accounts, and there is a residue of unexplained reports.

This is the “where there is smoke there is fire” argument. But I think it misses an important question – there may be fire (a phenomenon) but what kind of fire? I think the fire is a multifaceted psychocultural phenomenon.

Be sure and call Shirley MacLaine for her take on all this:

After being visited by aliens, competing with J.Z. Knight for followers, profoundly influencing Oprah Winfrey, and drinking her own pee, it ought to be good!

"That Ol' Black Magic's Got Me In It's Spell,..."

And if you thought Haiti had a problem with education, wait until you get a load of this shit:

Walid Muhammad Hajj: The most common method to wear down the brothers was witchcraft. 


Interviewer: How did they do this? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: There were, of course, Jews among the [staff of] the Guantanamo Base, and they would set traps for the guys. 


Interviewer: Give me an example of witchcraft. 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Witchcraft was used on most of the guys. 


Interviewer: They would cast a spell on them? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes, but by the grace of Allah, through frequent reading of the Koran and invocation of the names of Allah, they managed to withstand this. 


Interviewer: How did you know that somebody was under a spell? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Someone like that would change. 


Interviewer: In what way? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: For example, somebody would take his clothes off, all of a sudden, or would sit on his bed for three days straight without sleeping. 


[...] 


They would use all kinds of witchcraft against the guys. 


Interviewer: Tell me more. 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: I will tell you how the witchcraft affected the guys. A person would suddenly see his brothers and sisters naked before him. 


Interviewer: And they weren't really there? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Absolutely not. It was as if he was in a different world. 


Interviewer: You mean, his brothers and sisters from back home. 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: That's right. I remembered an incident with a guy who sat next to me in the morning. When they brought the milk, he began to urinate into the milk. 


Interviewer: In front of you? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes. I said to him: "Why are you urinating in the milk?" That's when we knew that he was under a spell. After he had recovered a little, after we read Koranic verses to him, he said to me: "The birds on the barbed wire would talk to me, and tell me to urinate in the milk. When the guards pass by my cell, the sound made by their pants talks to me." 


Interviewer: They tell him to urinate in the milk? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes. 


[...]

Interviewer: Did they ever use witchcraft on you? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: There was one attempt. 


Interviewer: How did they do it? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Once, when I was sleeping – on the floor, not on a bed – I suddenly felt that a cat was trying to penetrate me. It tried to penetrate me again and again. I recited the kursi verse again and again until the cat left. 


Interviewer: But there wasn't really any cat there? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Absolutely not.

We know what you're thinking:

Where would we be without journalists, right?

This guy's as credulous as a "progressive" shopper in the Wellness Section of Whole Foods. Where'd he get his credentials, from The Wizard of Oz? Sheesh.

He'd better hurry, or both he and Walid Muhammad Hajj are going to miss the balloon going back to reality,...

We Will Never Be Known (As "Mellow Yellow")

Those who read this blog often probably know what they're getting, and what we're getting at, but the rest might not have a clue - especially when it comes to the photography.

For instance, most people know what veganism is, and probably have nothing against it. But then, if they read this blog regularly, they also know we steer clear. A newcomer might ask "why?"

We will attempt to explain:

Here's an article we found called "The Rise of the Power Vegans", which features many of the names TMR readers have come to associate with NewAge nonsense (Buddha boy Russell Simmons, Ken Wilber cult devotee Bill Clinton, and UFO nut Dennis Kucinich) mixed in with some new names to the meatless high-and-mighty.

Close behind those usual suspects are the others, the NewAge women, mostly represented by the crazier crew of The Secret (Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres) before the author finally drops the quote that hits TMR's sweet spot:

Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial artist and vegan Luke Cummo says that he drinks his own urine.

Bingo, baby! Do you get it now? How do you go from casually discussing keeping meat out of your mouth to putting your own pee in it? Consider for a second, that that astounding remark goes completely unremarked upon in the article, and you might start to reach the frequency we're on.

Also consider it was Congressman Kucinich who claimed to have seen a UFO on Shirley MacLaine's balcony - and Shirley MacLaine, bless her heart, is also known to drink her own urine - so, if you're normal, you can begin to see something ain't right within this very-closed (and close-knit) circle of foolish famous folks.

Or did you always think America's leaders were a bunch of weirdos who have given up food for drinking their own pee (or hanging out with people who do)?

Well, if not, now you know. Because that's what we do.

And the photography?

What's wrong with our taste in photography?