Well, what exactly have you stumbled into?
This site contains pseudo-journalism, opinion, mis-reporting, nonsense, and good-natured parody of politics, science and society.
SheepOverboard 
is not exactly news and .. not exactly not.
Why?
The world needs help.
Though humankind survived millennia of evil and greed - and wars fought because of them - something is very different today that threatens us all.
Our world, the Earth, is full!
Greed and overpopulation makes survival increasingly problematic.
With everything pushed to the limit the fragile system that keeps us alive becomes each day more stressed, each disaster more catastrophic.
This is not doom-saying, simply today’s reality. That life has never been better for some puts everyone in great peril.
And no single person - unless messiah - can fix the world or change humankind.
But change it must for humans are not, despite centuries of hollow boasting, sapient. Overwhelmingly, self-interest compels even the smartest of us to self-gratification in blatant disregard for the immediate future.
SheepOverboard can only gesture, like a loony prophet through a restaurant window to the blithe, gorging patrons that the sky is falling.
By mischievous re-writing of the news, or nobly-intended yet feeble rants, we perchance might change the way you think about life, or maybe the way you think - or even whether you think.
In the forlorn hope that enough people realize their true place in the cosmos, stop living the lie that is our mindless, acquisitive, pursuit of selfish dreams, and start living in the here and now, we write …
Before we are destroyed by our own stupidity and avarice.
SheepOverboard is …
SheepOverboard maintains an opinionated vacuum - a feeble, futile but valued strategy our faint-hearted publisher insists will avoid alienating our tiny following …
SheepOverboard.com is fictional and satirical - except those articles you recognize as truth.
Names used in news stories are fictional, any resemblance to real people coincidental - except public figures known to be real people, even if their persona is known to be false.
Nothing printed on this website should be taken seriously (an endearment we share with that partisan rag, the New York Times) - any more than the publisher, should you meet him on the street.
Note, "SheepOverboard.com is referred to as "SO" below.
Religion: SO fears Christian fundamentalists as much as Muslim fundamentalists (Your God wants you to kill - and boast about it on the Internet??)
God: SO suspects the gods of all religions are the same - and she is the one-and-only God of the Universe, and probably the Cyberverse.
Racial: SO is fine with people of all races - so long as only one group at a time lives in our street.
Geopolitical: SO concurs with those governments and peoples who dislike American foreign policy - which is best represented by the mobile crane scene from the Terminator 3 movie.
Terrorism: US pre-emption and unilateralism make us far more nervous than terrorists. We consider it sufficient proof that the "terrorist threat" is being overdone by .. well, for example, in year 2005 two perfect opportunities for attack presented themselves but were totally neglected by "enemies of freedom" - the Pope’s wedding and the funeral of Britain’s Prince Charles’ to Camilla.
Mission Statement: Sadly, as reflected by SheepOverboard’s content, this has become confused. We are unable to distinguish sheep from humans, though suspect the former are heavily follicled, and the latter are the woolly thinkers.
Americans: SO hates U.S. Foreign policy but loves the United States. The world would be so much poorer without Americans! (Actually, it would be wealthier ’cause you guys have so much - yet you generate wealth, so I’m not sure).
Sexuality: Gays, gays, gays, ass if there ain’t enough things desperately wrong with the world screaming out for attention and the media is obsessed with gays (not that there’s anything wrong with gays!). SO wishes the world’s media would develop gay and lesbian amnesia and get on with the news, as no doubt do g&ls.
Agenda: SO has no agenda other than to amuse ourselves with our imagined cleverness while amusing you with our naivety. [Thinks .. hmm, on the web competition for dumbest is pretty fierce]
Editorial Policies
Play it by Ear
Avoid Fatwas
Avoid Lawyers, not Legalities
Credit when Stealing
American English will win out - deal with it
Bitter Experience
(Notices taped to Office Walls)
No matter how brilliant you thought that referred article was, AT LEAST one website out there will declare the Author either biased, sham, liar, libelous, Enemy of God, infidel, Zionist, sophist, apologist, devil-worshipper, gay, American puppet or jes plain …
A word in your shell like …
This Web site contains many links to other sites. Please be aware, when you leave SheepOverboard.com, to read the privacy statements upon arrival at each new Web site, which may collect personally identifiable information.
We do not use personal identification tools in any other portion of this website, but those we link to might.
We record your IP address in our log files, as does every website. Be aware of this, and be equally aware it is a trivial task to ’spoof’ an IP address, or email address, should you be accused of actions in the future from information garnered from website logs or email records of others.
Be warned, seriously warned, most governments today hide your assume freedoms and rights behind the skirt-tails of terrorism and illegally (else-wise, they claim) monitor your transmissions to and from the Internet, recording them for 3 months, perhaps a year.
Yes, it’s now that ridiculous.
Also:
- You are urged to install, and keep updated, spyware (Spy Sweeper, for example) first, then virusware (Sophos, for example), then Operating system updates from the vendor (Microsoft, Red Hat, etc.).
- You must use a software firewall and maintain it - a relatively simple matter with known brands like ZoneAlarm, Tiny Personal, etc.
- You should ensure your broadband modem employs ‘NAT" (Network Address Translation) or upgrade to one that does.
- You must maintain the highest encryption on wireless Ethernet in your home and office, ensuring passwords are not install factory defaults. The password should be changed several times a year, as wireless encryption is not secure and otherwise your home or business network WILL eventually be compromised.
- You really shouldn’t use a computer carelessly and not expect the dark side of the Internet to increasingly take notice of you.
- If computers are to be and integral part of your life you must treat them as ‘high-maintenance’ items demanding of your time to ensure their security - as you would a vehicle, or dwelling.
- And if you depend upon computers for your livelihood, perhaps you ought gain some competency, as you do to drive a motor vehicle or operate machinery, etc.
Oh, and did I mention? Be afraid.
