Revised 2008 edition of my Fortune 500 Board of Directors overlap project

As promised, here is an updated version of the Fortune 500 list I made earlier this year, with the new results from the recent Fortune 500 list entered into the mix. I’m not sure why this is, but I only show 35 drop offs and have 39 new entries. Perhaps the old page left off a few names… the numbers show last year’s ranking (if the company was in the top 500) first and then this year’s rank (if the company is still on the list). At the bottom of the page I’ll include my working draft copy of which companies made it in or dropped off. As I say, it probably isn’t exact, though. I’m hoping that muckety will add in and add to a few of the maps for these corporations, since there are a few holes in the coverage here and there.

97 100 3M

102 96 Abbott Laboratories

478 476 Advance Auto Parts Carlos A. Saladrigas

407 406 Advanced Micro Devices

— 183 AES

85 85 Aetna

424 423 Affiliated Computer Svcs.

164 165 AFLAC

421 359 AGCO

387 443 Agilent Technologies

275 258 Air Products & Chem.

378 351 AK Steel Holding

71 80 Alcoa

468 376 Aleris International

455 441 Allegheny Technologies

379 400 Allied Waste Industries

61 64 Allstate

256 300 Alltel

23 61 AltriaGroup

237 171 Amazon.com

339 329 Ameren

192 196 American Electric Power

79 75 American Express

338 352 American Family Ins. Grp. (theyrule- apparently unconnected)

10 13 American Intl. Group

223 241 (now Trane) American Standard

297 296 Ameriprise Financial

29 28 AmerisourceBergen

171 173 Amgen

101 109 AMR

233 159 Anadarko Petroleum

146 149 Anheuser-Busch

454 418 Anixter International

247 263 Aon

293 262 Apache

121 103 Apple

274 270 Applied Materials

214 216 Aramark

59 52 ArcherDaniels Midland

179 158 ArrowElectronics

253 301 ArvinMeritor

391 421 Asbury Automotive Group

248 322 Ashland

300 309 Assurant

372 416 Atmos Energy

27 10 AT&T

376 363 Autoliv

272 281 Automatic Data Proc.

122 138 AutoNation

444 465 Auto-Owners Insurance (theyrule- apparently unconnected)

384 394 AutoZone

440 — Avaya

412 382 Avery Dennison

405 411 AvisBudget Group

172 163 Avnet

283 265 AvonProducts

278 252 BakerHughes

348 336 Ball

9 9 Bank ofAmerica Corp. Max D. Hopper (EVP & CIO)

209 172 Bank of NewYork Co.

430 446 Barnes & Noble

245 236 Baxter International

265 250 BB&TCorp.

138 156 Bear Stearns

420 — Beazer Homes USA

392 380 Becton Dickinson

397 368 Bed Bath& Beyond

12 11 Berkshire Hathaway

72 66 Best Buy

469 493 Big Lots

495 482 BJ Services

287 291 BJ’sWholesale Club

356 372 Black & Decker

— 475 BlackRock

410 434 Blockbuster

456 — BlueLinx Holdings

28 27 Boeing

399 445 Boise CascadeHoldings

481 451 BorgWarner

308 310 Boston Scientific

157 160 Burlington No. Santa Fe

129 125 Bristol-Myers Squibb

382 424 Brunswick

380 374 Cablevision Systems
344 318 Calpine
— 490 Cameron International
311 320 Campbell Soup
154 130 Capital One Financial

19 19 Cardinal Health

58 — Caremark Rx
365 333 CarMax
55 50 Caterpillar
— 404 CB Richard Ellis Group
165 181 CBS
342 — CDW
346 367 Celanese
270 271 CenterPoint Energy
153 177 Centex
389 402 Charles Schwab
409 409 Charter Communications
325 324 Chesapeake Energy
4 3 Chevron

488 491 Chiquita Brands Intl.

349 341 C.H. Robinson Worldwide
166 145 CHS

176 180 Chubb

139 141 Cigna
484 Cincinnati Financial W. Rodney McMullen

215 215 Circuit City Stores

77 71 Cisco Systems
335 306 CIT Group
8 8 Citigroup

330 339 Clear Channel Communications
475 474 Clorox
341 366 CMS Energy
94 83 Coca-Cola
118 118 Coca-Cola Enterprises

200 186 Colgate-Palmolive

84 79 Comcast
487 — Comerica Anthony F Earley Jr

494 330 Community Health Sys.

316 303 Commercial Metals

163 170 Computer Sciences

173 210 ConAgraFoods

5 5 ConocoPhillips

493 — Conseco

204 195 Consolidated Edison

* 480 459 Constellation Brands

119 117 Constellation Energy

186 178 Continental Airlines

439 417 Corning

32 29 Costco Wholesale John W.Meisenbach

91 104 Countrywide Financial
313 266 Coventry Health Care
328 325 Crown Holdings
261 261 CSX
221 206 Cummins

51 24 CVS Caremark CVS/Caremark Marian L. Heard

255 283 Dana
260 239 Danaher
404 415 Darden Restaurants
458 454 DaVita
246 224 Dean Foods John R. Muse

98 102 Deere
34 34 Dell
83 92 Delphi
136 129 Delta Air Lines
239 221 Devon Energy
307 338 Dillard’s

160 143 DIRECTV Group
252 240 DISH Network (was Echostar Communications)
367 354 Dole Food
273 274 Dollar General
140 161 Dominion Resources
327 331 Dover
40 42 Dow Chemical
155 235 D.R. Horton
279 273 DTE Energy
143 204 Duke Energy
74 81 DuPont

321 337 Eastman Chemical

182 238 Eastman Kodak

198 207 Eaton
383 326 eBay
252 240 (now DISH Network) Echostar Communications
457 438 Ecolab
192 205 EdisonInternational
111 115 Electronic Data Systems
149 133 Eli Lilly
449 486 El Paso
— 381 Embarq
224 201 EMC
448 407 Emcor Group

115 111 Emerson Electric
351 343 Enbridge Energy Partners
434 463 Energy East
— 317 Energy Future Holdings
306 361 Energy Transfer Equity
225 231 Entergy
177 90 Enterprise Gp. Holdings
463 488 Erie Insurance Group (theyrule, no apparent connections)
352 349 Estée Lauder
150 131 Exelon
477 458 Expeditors Intl. of Washington John W. Meisenbach

132 135 Express Scripts

2 2 Exxon Mobil

359 358 Family Dollar Stores
— 53 Fannie Mae
361 355 Federal-Mogul
76 91 Federated Dept. Stores (now Macy’s)
68 68 FedEx
264 435 Fidelity National Financial
— 481 Fidelity National Information Services
299 307 Fifth Third
289 312 First American Corp.
331 315 First Data
212 209 FirstEnergy
486 468 Fiserv

174 148 Fluor
— 498 FMC Technologies
401 442 Foot Locker
7 7 Ford Motor
294 311 Fortune Brands
148 168 FPL Group
445 389 Franklin Resources
50 54 Freddie Mac
398 140 Freeport-McMoRan Cpr. & Gld

462 462 Frontier Oil

426 348 GameStop
302 332 Gannett
144 162 Gap
92 87 General Dynamics
6 6 General Electric
213 214 General Mills
3 4 General Motors
244 243 Genuine Parts
227 233 Genworth Financial
491 364 Global Partners
— 78 GMAC
24 20 Goldman Sachs Group
390 375 Goodrich

114 119 Goodyear Tire & Rubber
241 150 Google
450 455 Graybar Electric
— 357 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
377 — Group 1 Automotive
257 259 Guardian Life of America

100 167 Halliburton
459 — H&R Block
369 397 Harley-Davidson
254 244 Harrah’s Entertainment
82 95 Hartford Financial Services
87 89 HCA
189 179 HealthNet
438 410 Henry Schein
453 471 Hershey
301 304 Hertz Global Holdings
75 77 Hess
14 14 Hewlett-Packard
433 420 Hexion Specialty Chemicals
296 — Hilton Hotels
269 293 H.J. Heinz
— 484 Holly
17 22 Home Depot
69 73 Honeywell Intl.
403 390 Hormel Foods
452 440 Host Hotels & Resorts
373 483 Hovnanian Enterprises
110 98 Humana
184 249 Huntsman

345 370 IAC/InterActiveCorp

175 155 Illinois Tool Works
70 69 Ingram Micro
— 477 Insight Enterprises
334 254 Integrys Energy Group
62 60 Intel
15 15 Intl. Business Machines
93 114 International Paper
368 373 Interpublic Group
295 285 ITT

— 219 Jabil Circuit
322 308 Jacobs Engineering Grp.
— 492 Jarden
116 126 J.C. Penney
36 35 Johnson & Johnson
67 72 Johnson Controls
470 — Jones Apparel Group
11 12 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

228 340 KB Home
— 284 KBR
232 227 Kellogg
408 428 Kelly Services
319 321 KeyCorp
326 — KeySpan
— 136 Kimberly-Clark
201 230 Kinder Morgan (now Knight)
497 — Kindred Healthcare (theyrule, no apparent connections)
152 152 Kohl’s
— 63 Kraft Foods
26 26 Kroger W. RodneyMcMullen

197 182 L-3 Communications
329 294 Land O’Lakes
130 157 Lear
419 456 Leggett & Platt
47 37 Lehman Brothers Holdings
142 256 Lennar
465 — Level 3 Communications
442 470 Lexmark International
340 292 Liberty Global
281 275 Liberty Media

95 94 Liberty Mutual Ins. Group
240 257 Limited Brands
277 246 Lincoln National
451 479 Liz Claiborne
57 57 Lockheed Martin
135 139 Loews
443 453 Longs Drug Stores
45 48 Lowe’s
282 — Lucent Technologies
106 — Lyondell Chemical

76 91 Macy’s (was Federated Department Stores)
496 — M&T BankCorp.
131 120 Manpower
30 36 Marathon Oil
203 197 Marriott International
441 425 Marshall & Ilsley Corp.
207 220 Marsh & McLennan
190 223 Masco Anthony F Earley Jr.
90 99 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
406 413 Mattel
108 106 McDonald’s
366 362 McGraw-Hill
18 18 McKesson
461 — MDC Holdings
350 356 MeadWestvaco
54 51 Medco Health Solutions
222 217 Medtronic
358 — Mellon Financial Corp.
99 101 Merck
22 30 Merrill Lynch
37 43 MetLife
315 323 MGM Mirage
429 427 Micron Technology
49 44 Microsoft
474 — Mirant
304 328 Mohawk Industries
386 392 Molson Coors Brewing
323 305 Monsanto
20 21 Morgan Stanley
427 422 Mosaic
52 65 Motorola
169 134 Murphy Oil
489 — Mutual ofOmaha Ins.

476 — Nash-Finch
188 226 National City Corp.
333 268 National Oilwell Varco
104 108 Nationwide
374 391 NCR
343 378 Newell Rubbermaid
447 430 Newmont Mining
88 84 News Corp.
78 82 New York Life Insurance
158 153 Nike
320 319 NiSource
286 299 Nordstrom
267 276 Norfolk Southern
337 419 Northeast Utilities
490 447 Northern Trust Corp.

73 76 Northrop Grumman
195 213 Northwest Airlines Mickey P Foret
112 110 Northwestern Mutual
394 403 NRG Energy
161 151 Nucor
371 464 NVR

124 123 Occidental Petroleum
156 164 Office Depot
280 288 OfficeMax
353 386 Omnicare
220 211 Omnicom Group
208 192 ONEOK
167 137 Oracle
— 383 Oshkosh
418 360 Owens & Minor
355 431 Owens Corning
318 314 Owens-Illinois

141 169 Paccar
437 452 Pacific Life
436 405 Pantry
266 247 Parker Hannifin
431 432 Peabody Energy
— 194 Penske Automotive Group
290 279 Pepco Holdings
191 190 Pepsi Bottling

63 59 PepsiCo
393 384 Performance Food Group
— 499 Perini
446 385 Peter Kiewit Sons’
— 489 PetSmart
39 47 Pfizer
196 200 PG&E Corp.

206 — Phelps Dodge
432 327 Pilgrim’s Pride
395 399 Pitney Bowes
103 121 Plains All Amer. Pipeline
231 264 PNC Financial Services Group
226 217 PPG Industries
336 346 PPL
291 278 Praxair
— 444 Precision Castparts
250 242 Principal Financial
25 23 Procter & Gamble
238 248 Progress Energy Carlos A Saladrigas

159 175 Progressive
— 387 ProLogis
66 74 Prudential Financial
199 198 Public Service Enterprise Group
107 107 Publix Super Markets
170 282 Pulte Homes

317 297 Qualcomm
— 365 Quest Diagnostics
178 187 Qwest Communications

466 — RadioShack
96 112 Raytheon
354 414 Realogy
312 245 Regions Financial
402 345 Reliance Steel & Alum.
229 237 Reliant Energy
288 290 Reynolds American
134 142 Rite Aid
— 497 Robert Half International
416 450 Rockwell Automation
292 295 Rohm & Haas
415 412 Ross Stores
271 229 R.R. Donnelley & Sons
362 371 Ryder System
385 — Ryerson
467 — Ryland Group

363 388 Safeco
56 55 Safeway
298 — SAIC
268 — S&C Holdco 3 (acquired by JBS) John R. Muse
230 255 Sanmina-SCI
125 203 Sara Lee
— 500 Scana
242 212 Schering-Plough
499 494 Sealed Air

38 45 Sears Holdings
210 232 Sempra Energy
464 426 Shaw Group
309 316 Sherwin-Williams
284 286 SLM
217 222 Smithfield Foods
324 302 Smith International
303 334 Smurfit-Stone Container
243 — Solectron
285 298 Sonic Automotive
168 166 Southern
276 267 Southwest Airlines
479 469 SovereignBancorp MarianL. Heard
— 487 Spectra Energy
53 58 Sprint Nextel
471 466 SPX
126 128 Staples
310 277 Starbucks
381 396 Starwood Hotels & Rsrts.
31 32 State Farm Insurance Cos
263 225 State St. Corp.
422 401 Stryker
500 472 SunGardData Systems
187 184 SunMicrosystems
60 56 Sunoco
183 193 SunTrustBanks
117 62 Supervalu
— 461 Symantec
360 350 Synnex ( Gregory L. Quesnel)
65 70 Sysco
— 344 Targa Resources
33 31 Target

109 105 Tech Data
— 478 Telephone & Data Systems
414 — Temple-Inland
258 280 Tenet Healthcare
473 393 Tenneco
259 — TEPPCO Partners ( Richard S. Snell)
314 287 Terex
128 116 Tesoro
162 185 Texas Instruments
194 202 Textron
— 269 Thermo Fisher Scientific
370 398 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
80 86 TIAA-CREF ( theyrule )
48 49 Time Warner
428 457 Timken
133 132 TJX
375 495 Toll Brothers
202 189 Toys “R” Us
— 395 TravelCenters of America
89 93 Travelers Cos.

417 — Triad Hospitals
413 467 Tribune
18 174 TRW Automotive Holdings

86 88 Tyson Foods

120 124 UAL
435 437 UGI
151 154 Union Pacific
400 429 Unisys
205 —United Auto Group
21 25 UnitedHealth Group
43 46 United Parcel Service
147 146 United States Steel
485 496 UnitedStationers MaxD. Hopper
42 39 United Technologies
— 485 Universal Health Services
236 251 Unum Group
— 449 URS
180 176 USAA
216 228 US Airways Group
123 122 U.S. Bancorp
396 460 USG

16 16 Valero Energy
13 17 Verizon Communications
332 335 VF
218 191 Viacom
347 313 Virgin Media
219 234 Visteon

46 38 Wachovia Corp.
44 40 Walgreen
1 1 Wal-Mart Stores
64 67 Walt Disney
81 97 Washington Mutual
181 199 WasteManagement
35 33 Wellpoint
41 41 Wells Fargo
425 408 Wesco International
460 480 Western & Southern Financial
498 439 Western Digital
— 342 Western Refining
492 473 Western Union
105 147 Weyerhauser
127 127 Whirlpool
411 369 Whole Foods Market

211 208 Williams
472 448 Wm. Wrigley Jr.
305 347 Winn-Dixie Stores
— 188 World Fuel Service
423 433 W.R. Berkley
388 377 W.W. Grainger
113 113 Wyeth

251 260 Xcel Energy
145 144 Xerox
* 482 436 XTOEnergy

357 353 Yahoo
249 272 YRC Worldwide
262 253 Yum Brands

* (not directly connected through BOD overlap on muckety)

440 — Avaya
420 — Beazer Homes USA
456 — BlueLinx Holdings

58 — Caremark Rx
342 — CDW
484 — Cincinnati Financial
487 — Comerica
493 — Conseco
459 — H&R Block
296 — Hilton Hotels
470 — Jones Apparel
326 — Keyspan
497 — Kindred Health
465 — Level 3 Communications
282 — Lucent Technologies
106 — Lyondell Chemical
496 — M T Bank
461 — MDC Partners
358 — Mellon Financial
474 — Mirant
489 — Mutual of Omaha
476 — Nash Finch
206 — Phelps Dodge
466 — Radio Shack
385 — Ryerson
467 — Ryland
298 — Science Applications International Corporation
268 — S&C Holdco (acquired by JBS)
243 — Solectron
414 — Temple Inland
259 — TEPPCO
417 — Triad Hospitals
205 — United Auto Group
180 — USAA

— 183 AES
— 475 BlackRock
— 490 Cameron International Peter J. Fluor
— 404 CB Richard Ellis Group
— 381 Embarq
— 53 Fannie Mae
— 481 Fidelity National Information Services
— 498 FMC Technologies
— 78 GMAC
— 357 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
— 484 Holly
— 477 Insight Enterprises
— 219 Jabil Circuit
— 492 Jarden
— 284 KBR
— 136 Kimberly-Clark

— 63 Kraft Foods
— 383 Oshkosh
— 194 Penske Automotive Group
— 499 Perini
— 489 PetSmart
— 444 Precision Castparts
— 387 ProLogis
— 365 Quest Diagnostics
— 497 Robert Half International
— 500 Scana
— 487 Spectra Energy
— 461 Symantec
— 344 Targa Resources
— 478 Telephone & Data Systems
— 269 Thermo Fisher Scientific
223 241 Trane (was American Standard)
— 395 TravelCenters of America
— 485 Universal Health Services
— 449 URS
— 342 Western Refining
— 188 World Fuel Service

A “debunking” of the movie Zeitgeist

H/T to Dandelion Salad for the link to a supposed debunking of the entire movie Zeitgeist. Initially, I was going to post the following as a comment on that blog post, but it started to get a bit lengthy and I figured it would be both more appropriate and easier to format as a blog post, so here it is:

Thanks for the links. I’ll have to check out the debunks even though I doubt I’ll agree with a lot of it. Always good to see others’ perspectives, though. Peter Joseph (Zeitgeist’s creator) himself has written “It is my hope that people will not take what is said
in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.”

Do I think everything in the movie is 100% accurate? No. Do I think that it is worth watching and researching? Absolutely. Do I think attempting a good faith debunk and/or critique is a worthwhile effort? Yes, while emphasizing “good faith”. Most debunks which I see seem to have an agenda which seems to translate roughly as follows- “it’s all BS, and you should take my word for it because I’ve obviously put a lot of effort into this website and nobody really follows all the endnotes on these things anyway- just link to this page in forums like a good sheep and repeat after me- “it’s all been debunked”".

(note to new readers of this blog- I’ve read and researched (both online and offline) on many of the topics covered by the movie since well before the movie was released and provide some links for some further recommended reading on some of the topics covered both below and in my most popular blog post- Peter Joseph’s movie Zeitgeist)

Having looked a little bit at the “debunk” I’ll provide a few links of interest for Parts 2 and 3. I’m not about to attempt a full on debunk, analysis or critique of the “debunk”. It’s just not worth the effort. If Dick Cheney had written it, I might think otherwise.

Since part 1 of the movie has a complete interactive transcript with sources and additional reading on the zeitgeistmovie.com site and Peter Joseph has addressed debunk attempts of it in his FAQs, I figure it stands or falls on its own merits or lack thereof at this point.

For exploring Part 2 of the “debunk” an indispensible reference will be The 9/11 Complete 9/11 Timeline- mainstream media sources used and linked to as sources.  Example: point one- Mahmood Ahmed

The author of the debunk uses sentences such as

I can find no sources of such an event — that is sources that do not occur on conspiracy web sites themselves.

This seems disingenuous. How hard did the author actually look for those original sources? Also, many of the original source articles on 9/11 are no longer easily findable online except on “conspiracy theory sites”. Does this mean that the original source article never existed? No. One just has to dig around in the internet archives or at the public library to find those sources; but if one dismisses a resource such as the Complete Timeline as “conspiracy theory” one will indeed have a hard time finding those articles.
Shafig bin Laden was meeting with George H W Bush, and the Carlyle Group the morning of 9/11
The author uses Popular Mechanics as a reference source. Part II notes #33 and #34, for example. Readers can easily find online debunks of that article.  He said, she said… so who does one believe?

in addition to the timeline, readers may be interested in learning about the all the architects, engineers, pilots, government officials, etc. who have been willing to publicly question the 9/11 report and other official explanations for the events of 9/11 and publish- to give an example- a peer reviewed article in a Civil Engineering journal (in the 2008 section-
Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction    Authors: Steven E. Jones, Frank M. Legge, Kevin R. Ryan, Anthony F. Szamboti, James R. Gourley ) 

On to part III-

“The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

- Franklin D Roosevelt, US President 1933

I found source of the quote. It is apparently a letter sent from Roosevelt to Colonel Edward M House, and apparently can be received from Sterling Library at Yale University or from Radio Liberty. After hours of searching, I could not find a single location on the Internet that references this letter that is not a conspiracy site or is from a post on a forum written by someone who is promoting a conspiracy theory. More so, searching Yale’s library database yielded nothing. I found plenty of letters, but not this one.

I found the quote elsewhere than on a “conspiracy theory site”- Webskeptic lists the quote as underdetermined. Webskeptic may or may not be more well researched or accurate than the “debunk” this post deals with, but at least it appears to be a bit more balanced in terms of a critique.

Looking a bit more for the source of the quote I found the following here:

LETTER TO COL. EDWARD MANDELL HOUSE from Franklin D. Roosevelt Nov. 21,
1933 - F.D.R.: His Personal Letters - Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1950, as cited in THE
SHADOWS OF POWER Id

whether one agrees with the POV of angelfire or Perloff, one could probably verify or refute the accuracy of the quote given that information, I think. See, the interesting thing about all of this is that not all books are currently searchable online. So if Peter Joseph has read The Shadows of Power (what do you know, he claims to have done! or at least cites it as a source) then he may well indeed be able to source all these underdetermined quotes which appear in the movie… whether debunkers will buy those sources or not is another question, of course.

Ah yes, good old books. What a concept! Further book reading (online) for part III of Zeitgeist is available with Jim Marr’s book Rule by Secrecy.

And I’ve spent enough energy writing this post for one night, I think. Where DO these “debunkers” find the time? Maybe some of them “secretly” get paid to do this type of stuff? Who knows, eh?

I had a dream- The “Lone Gunman” theory of 9/11

Okay, the basis of this theory of what really happened on 9/11 came to me in a dream (I don’t know whether the dream was inspired by something I read or watched or by something I ate last night; probably both).

Soon to be a major bestselling thriller and blockbuster movie starring the next Keanu Reeves/Matt Damon to come through the pipeline, no doubt. Preliminary working title: The Osman Identity

Background: an “above top secret” geopolitical alphabet agency that no one has ever heard of before (totally black budget, of course) exists which focuses exclusively on the area of “the Stans” - nuclear proliferation, oil, drugs, wargames, computer simulation video game scenarios, you name it, if it sounds really secretive, high tech and nefarious this organization is a major player.

Prologue: the narrator says “9/11 was all my fault”. I claim full responsibility for it. It all started out as ATS exercise scenario XYZPDQ… blah, blah, blah…

Beginning of first chapter: Guy walks into a NYPD station sometime in the near future with total amnesia. Friendly police officer attempts to help him figure out who he is. Based on a fingerprint analysis and a partial match, they get a possible ID on his father. The suspense is drawn out as the PO reads off a description list item by item and the guy starts having flashbacks about his father.

Grey hair (Mr. Anderson Osmon initially thinks white hair until synapses start to fire), beard, skull and crossbones tattoo crossing the bridge of his nose, whatever, yadda yadda…

Anyway, it turns out that NYPD has been looking for Mr. Anderson unsucessfully for the last 18 years, ever since his sister was murdered, he being of course the prime suspect since Dad had died in prison 19 years ago. Ironically, Officer Friendly had been assigned the cold case…

Mr. Osmon Anderson immediately want a lawyer upon hearing this, of course, but Officer Friendly really is helpful and friendly and decides they’ve got nothing on the kid and something bigger must be afoot for the kid to have totally disappeared from the official radar for the last 18 years. Turns out he was probably recruited by the ATS alphabet agency around 10 years ago, but they had no knowledge of his possible criminal background. ATS wipes his memory (which, unfortunately, he never entirely recovers) sometime after 9/11 plays out as a Matrix/Bourne Identity black ops video game scenario gone live (or perhaps the implication is that 9/11 only happened within a matrix style framework within which we exist and that there is something else “more real” out there).

Sorry I can’t give you any more details, I woke up before the movie really got rolling…

In other words, a totally implausible BS fictional scenario which nonetheless manages somehow to ring truer than the 9/11 Ommission report.

Britney Spears prank redirect url

Someone came to this blog searching for (you guessed it) Britney Spears prank redirect url. The video below may or may not be what they were looking for (probably not). But, there is a hidden message in the video. That’s why it’s called

Britney Spears Hidden Message Version 2

Now, we’ll just have to give Sibel Edmonds equal time and listen for a hidden message contained within Kill the Messenger, won’t we? That’s if we can ever find a working version of it online… meanwhile, here’s a link for the trailer of it

 

 

random quotes and all the news that’s fit to print

Sorry, I just couldn’t resist…

“We were about to give up and call it a night when
 somebody dropped the girl off the bridge.” John D. McDonald - “Darker Than Amber”

“Mr. Speaker, we make war with such certainty, yet
 we are befuddled how to create peace. This 
paradox requires reflection if we are to survive.
 Making and endorsing war requires a secret love 
of death, and a fearful desire to embrace
 annihilation. Creating peace requires compassion,
 putting ourselves in the other person’s place, and all of
 their suffering and all of their hopes and to act 
from our heart’s capacity to love, not fear.”
 - Dennis Kucinich

And in the news today…

The NY Post has a picture of Ashley Dupre’s camel toe while she was clubbing “commando” a year ago. Girls Gone Wild finds a winning lottery ticket under the couch cushions with a week’s worth of 2003 spring break Ashley footage- girl on girl and nude included- thus obviating the need to pay her $1 million dollars after all… and in other news, Sibel Edmonds’ allegations of nuclear treason still can’t crack the US lamestream media.

“This just in… Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” - Chevy Chase

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death life is only a dream and we’re the imagination of ourselves… Here’s Tom with the weather.” Bill Hicks