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Following up an earlier post, the Defense Department has cancelled plans to set up the Policy Analysis Market. In a SkyNews article, US defence chiefs said they had hoped the market would have been a valuable tool in second guessing when terror strikes would occur.

But critics dismissed the move as "unbelievably stupid", "ridiculous" and "grotesque".

The good news is that things that are unbelievably stupid, ridiculous and grotesque are our stock in trade. Stay tuned as the Ministry will attempt to create its very own Terror Stock Market. Hopefully, we will have a broader coverage than the aborted PAM. Stay tuned for further updates.

If you have ideas for items that might be possible futures contracts (ie, with clearly defined, yes/no outcomes) send email to perfidy at perfidy dot biz. Likewise with suggestions on how this might be accomplished, and links to relevant articles, material and so on.

Several Haitian refugee children are now fingerless after a marathon session of hand carving new html as they moved the July archives from our old website to here, letter by letter. While the former website did not have the advanced capabilities as our enslickened perfidy webpage (for which several Uzbeki emigre webmasters were summarily executed), we have done our very best to integrate the old with the new. Old posts have been randomly assigned categories, so that your searches will be overwhelmed with meaningless and irrelevant commentary.

Since the Haitian "employees" have proved (tragically! sob...) so unsatisfactory, they will be liquidated and replaced as we prepare to move the June archives.

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In a hours long graphic nightmare, the powers that be were whipping the third world children that toil in the perfidious dungeons for a dollar a month in wages, encouraging them to provide new category images for the glory of the ministry.

The previous images for Entertainment and Perfidy were replaced with newer, stronger, better images in a brutal Darwinian contest. Fighting their way to the top of the pile of nascent categories are: Perfidy Attacks, Perfidy Responds, Filthy Lucre and Holy Shit!

Some old posts may be recategorized, so pay attention.

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Because .org has that authenticity that .biz completely lacks. We want respect, damnit.

When, at the end of the week, the perfidy.org domain name comes out of the .org registry's bizarre purgatory - none of you better take it. We lost perfidy.com to a wacko in Md who is now using it for "monetization". If you steal what is rightfully ours, we will hunt you down and glare at you. Then, we will accept our loss like the powerless, whiny bitches we are.

I see that Johno has gotten off to a quick start. Meanwhile, I have been laboring laboriously behind the scenes, whipping the hamsters that power this site, and replacing fuses in the server so that you may behold its glory. 

Well, most of that is done now - the only thing we need now is a photoshopped version of a government seal or logo - something like the obverse of the great seal (the pyramid thingie) or from Adm. Buster Poindexter's naughty, naughty (and defunded, yes!) Total Information Awareness Initiative. It needs to have our name, and some sort of latinish slogan. <beg> So if anyone wants to save Johno and I a lot of work, because we can't really use photoshop, feel free to jump in.</beg> (that is so 2002. -ed) 

Now, I can rip off this mask, and become... 

Oh well, it's still me. 
 

Johnny Two-Cents is now experiencing what marketroids call rebranding.

From this point on, you can read the same penetrating analysis, effervescent wit, and banal restating of the obvious at a new home, The Ministry of Minor Perfidy. We thank blogger for providing a (free) home for our observations and bloviating, with (free) customer service and excellent (free) archiving.

Come see our new digs, graciously hosted by Bloghouse.

The Ministry of Minor Perfidy welcomes you to, well, the Ministry of Minor Perfidy.

Some of you will know us from our former blog, Johnny Two-Cents, now defunct. The manifold faults of blogger impelled us to move to the more salubrious climes of Bloghouse, whose proprietor Kathy is extraordinarily helpful, kind and wise. (Kind word for blogger: It's Free!)

Others of you will be seeing us for the first time, and again we welcome you. Our unique style of fast paced witty commentary, laced with rare and precious insights, uncommon wisdom, total idiocy and wrongheadedness will no doubt keep you coming back for more. For more information about your hosts, kindly click on the member profile links in the menu bar to your left.

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Errata:

We will be slowly moving our blog archives from Johnny Two-Cents over to this site. That way, we can self reference with much greater ease and reliability.

We will be slowly making improvements to the look and feel (tm) of the site, and periodic announcements will be under the "Ministry" byline.

Feel free to comment, but the usual common sense rules apply - don't be foul, abusive or exceedingly rude; lest ye be banned and your comments condemned to the outer darkness.

You can email general comments to the Ministry general account, perfidy@perfidy.org. For more intimate communication, send mail to either john@perfidy.org or steve@perfidy.org. 

Enjoy your visit!

Who gave a hand with the HTML for the new category images.

Welcome to the Ministry of Minor Perfidy, your home for quality evil.

It is Buckethead's 34th birthday today. He is now solidly in his mid thirties.

Buckethead is now a daddy, in the filial rather than the pimp sense. Sir John Christian The As Yet Unborn But Imminently Expected is no longer Sir John Christian The As Yet Unborn But Imminently Expected, but rather is now Sir John Christian The Child Who Has No Idea What He Is In For Now That He's Here.

Congratulations to Buckethead, Mrs. Buckethead, and John Christian Buckethead. He's a lucky boy.

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

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This was originally posted by Buckethead back in March, and I thought I'd toss it on the front page again. We need your entries like zombies need fresh brains. To live. Original post follows.... nnnnnnnnnow: 

Design your own constitutional amendment, and win the undying admiration of the ruling troika of this webpage. The entry picked as winner will recieve good karma in vast quantities, and a Chinese fortune cookie (only half eaten, fortune still included.) The rules: 

1. It can't be an amendment that is already in the Constitution.
2. Your amendment cannot change the laws of physics.
3. Try to solve a real problem with your amendment, and not guarantee plentiful dogfood for every canine in America, or annex Norway or something.
4. Write your amendment like you thought it might actually go in the Constitution with all the other clearly and beautifully written amendments. 

After entries are received, we will post interesting ones, and declare a winner. Tell your friends! Send your submissions to johnnytwocents at yahoo dot com or bookethead at yahoo dot com. Either one. Excelsior!
 

Our beer-soaked, all night "strategic planning" sessions will only be attended by two thirds of the ruling troika.

From Senator Rick Santorum:

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything," the Pennsylvania lawmaker said in a recent interview, fuming over a landmark gay rights case before the high court that pits a Texas sodomy law against equality and privacy rights.
"All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family," Santorum said. "And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution."

More information/insight/reaction/yammering at Instapundit, Light of Reason, and the Times-Leader, which is an actual news source.

With some luck, johnnytwocents.com will soon have comments enabled. Oh, goody! The incoherent mewling of the unwashed and unlearned hoi polloi will finally be recorded. History will take note.

In case it wasn't obvious, the foregoing was a joke. Except the parts about comments coming soon, and the hoi polloi being stuff. I go among the hoi polloi from time to time. They eat at McDonalds, stare with their mouths open at shiny things, and they sometimes smell.

[update] Hey! It seems to have worked! Pretend we care: leave a comment! No trolls.

[update the second] It's a free service. You get what you pay for, mmkay?

Libervasion.

It's not an invasion, it's a libervasion!

Tomorrow will mark the one-month anniversary of Johnny-Two Cents, The Weblog, as an idea. The real anniversary will fall on Saturday, but I'm busy tomorrow and Saturday (I do have a life outside the inter-web, you know!), so today is the day.

Forty-one thousand words in thirty days. Not too shabby. Of course, that's only 82% of One Standard Den Beste.

New template. More space for writing. We're long-winded here, like 1885 hortatory.

Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for our man from Chicago, Windy City Mike. He has very graciously agreed to join our little band, with ze bang, and ze boom, and ze boom boom boom boom bang. I'll let him do his own introduction, only saying this on his behalf: He is definitely someone I want fighting by my side when the zombies come for our brains.