My Thoughts

The Ensuing Theft of our Water.

2007-04-28T08:10:00.000-05:00

"The Secret": A Critique.

2007-04-23T06:42:00.000-05:00

"THE SECRET": CREATING A CULTURE OF CHEERFULNESS AS ROME BURNS,

By Carolyn Baker
March 28, 2007
CarolynBaker.org

A friend recently asked me what I knew about The Secret, and I had to confess, absolutely nothing. A couple of days later, another friend asked the same question, so I decided I'd better investigate this supposedly revolutionary new book and DVD that have taken the country by storm. As I did so, I discovered that nothing about The Secret is revolutionary or new but rather a glitzy, twenty-first century redux of what has come to be called in metaphysical circles "New Thought". While aspects of New Thought have their roots in ancient teachings, it is for the most part, uniquely American—its roots in this country stemming from the transcendentalist movement of the late-nineteenth century. Among those giving birth to New Thought in America were Mary Baker Eddy, founding mother of Christian Science, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Ernest Holmes, and Charles Fillmore. What was "new" about New Thought at the time of its inception was its departure from Calvinistic, shame-based Christianity which taught the inherent sinfulness of man, proclaiming instead man's innate goodness and perfectibility through the use of the Divine Mind which the transcendentalists believed resided at his core.

The New Thought movement emphasizes the supremacy of the mind over the body and material existence. While most adherents of New Thought do not deny the reality of corporeal existence as did Mary Baker Eddy who insisted that "there is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter," they overwhelmingly revere the spiritual over the material and believe that physical, corporeal reality is a manifestation of mind. In other words, that our thoughts and attitudes create our external reality. Ancient and indigenous teachings also incorporate the latter but acknowledge that alongside the light, the good, the true, and the beautiful, exists the dark side of existence which is as authentically real as the light and not merely created by the mind. Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, and most native religious teachings worldwide not only acknowledge the dark side, but insist that it is an inherent part of human existence that must be faced and worked with in order to fully experience the blessings of the light.

In a nation so thoroughly marinated historically in exceptionalism and superiority from the moment Europeans set foot on North American soil, for example, the Puritan attributions to the New World such as "a new Jerusalem", "a city set on a hill" and "a light unto the world," we would expect to ultimately witness the proliferation of belief systems that exempt Americans from the same kind of suffering endured by fellow humans in other parts of the world.

It's All About Me In Sibling Society (1996) Robert Bly astutely, in my opinion, describes American culture as one of children who have never matured into adulthood and where "adults cling to self-absorbed adolescent values, television talk shows have more clout than elders, children are spiritually abandoned to fend for themselves, and in the place of community we have built shopping malls." I can think of no more apt description of The Secret than this, for it is first and foremost all about me and what I want. Only children and adolescents believe that they can, as The Secret insists, have anything they want.
Rhonda Byrne of Prime Time Productions, one of the principal filmmakers and author of the book The Secret, says she was inspired by reading "The Science Of Getting Rich", a 1910 book by Wallace D. Wattles, a New Thought transcendentalist, which proclaims that one's wealth or lack thereof is a product of one's thought and attitudes. Positive thinking attracts good things; negative thinking attracts lack. When I hear these concepts, I can only return to: How uniquely American! Can you imagine telling twelve year-old girls in Chinese sweatshops—the ones who work sixteen hours a day for pennies, live in squalor, may get raped at any moment, and sometimes are found dead at the ripe old age of twenty at their sewing machines from working themselves to death—can you imagine telling them that their situation is the product of their thoughts?

Examples of such ghastly human suffering are countless in a world where millions of human beings live on less than two dollars a day. Although the documentary is highly endorsed and supported by Oprah, for whom I personally hold great respect, let's not forget who Oprah is: none other than one of the wealthiest people on the planet. Clearly, she was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and she arrived where she is today through hard work, but no one disputes that she had an abundance of good fortune that poor black women rarely experience.

But how would Rhonda know about the teeming masses of earthlings living on two dollars a day? It appears that she isn't looking. Perhaps she's too busy attracting the next mansion, world cruise, fifty karat diamond, or documentary project. For Rhonda, like so many Americans and citizens of the developed world, and yes, like a typical two year-old, seems to have no sense of limits. It's no "secret" (pun intended) that millions if not billions of human beings on earth hate America—for innumerable reasons, but for one in particular: We seem to have no sense of enough-ness. Enough is never enough, and since Christopher Columbus stepped off the ship onto Caribbean shores, European settlers and their descendents have almost never had a sense of limitation—from sea to shining sea and the philosophy of Manifest Destiny that justified genociding millions of Native Americans which this nation's politicians and financiers took to the rest of the world. Nor do they reveal any signs of tempering their voracious appetite for the world's resources beyond our shores. In fact, it has never been as out-of-control as in the present moment.

Acknowledging The Pain- Individuals in America's sibling society are not bad human beings, nor are they inherently greedy, but they have been enculturated to grow up to be good consumers, which has now become synonymous with good citizenship. Sadly, The Secret only offers more of the same: buy this DVD, this book, so you can become wealthy enough to buy whatever you want in the future. Ignore what consumption is doing to yourself and the planet, just consume more!

During the Great Depression there were Ponzi schemes and dance marathons. In every era of economic hardship, some quick fix or magic bullet appears and proliferates. The Secret is classic pie in the sky—so very 1980s a la Louise Hay and Terry Cole Whittaker, wrapped in twenty-first century panache and special effects, guaranteed to lighten the heart of any middle or working class individual steamrollered by subprime meltdown, maxed out credit cards, overwhelming medical bills and child care expenses, ever-increasing gas prices, perhaps still paying off student loans, unable to save a dime, and finding any talk of pensions or retirement savings nothing less than laughable.

In my recent article "In Debt We Trust", I referred to Danny Schecter's DVD of the same title which opens with a congregation in an African American church who have created a program to rid themselves of all debt. They "created their own reality" not only by thinking positively, but by looking squarely in the face, the evil of debt in their world and constructing a program of "Coming Clean" in order to liberate themselves from it.
Unfortunately, this is precisely what "The Secret" is unwilling to do, choosing instead to ignore human suffering and injustice locally and globally, with total disinterest in the economic warfare being perpetrated on individuals and communities worldwide.
Don't Bother Me With Causes, I Want The Solution

Another characteristic of a sibling society is its unwillingness to explore causation. After all, a sick child doesn't want to hear how they caught a cold because they didn't put on their jacket; they just want mommy or daddy or the doctor to take the cold away. The Secret is perfect for siblings because they need not trouble themselves with anyone else's suffering or how their own suffering was caused by forces outside their own minds. They don't want to hear about how the United States government has been waging economic warfare on them for decades, how the military industrial complex is bankrupting their nation and will abjectly impoverish their children and grandchildren, how rather than spending more and acquiring more debt, they need to trim down, conserve, and oh that horrible adult word that siblings hate so much: sacrifice. They want a solution, and they want it now. Never mind the trillion-dollar deficit and the trillions missing from the coffers of the United States government that was stolen from them.

Understandably, no one prefers to explore the causes of middle and working class debt and economic drain. It's an enormous can of ugly, smelly, and sometimes lethal worms that once examined, confirm that no matter how bad we think things are now, they are really much worse than we had imagined. The awareness that one is living in a decaying, rotting, collapsing empire, and that all the strategies for making it better that one has been taught such as voting, working harder, and marching in the streets aren't working because they have essentially become meaningless, is enough to compel almost anyone to run right out and buy The Secret and meticulously follow its instructions.
This week Truth To Power published historian Chalmers Johnson's article "Is The Empire About To Collapse?" in which he speaks of his latest book Nemesis, the name of the Greek goddess of hubris and retribution. Johnson believes as I do that 231 years of American hubris is coming to a tragic end. The tragedy, in my opinion, is not that the empire is collapsing, but that so many innocent, well-intentioned, hard working people will pay such a ghastly price for it, and not because they weren't thinking pleasant thoughts. I'm reminded of the scene from Titanic in which a group of women, including Molly Brown, sat in a lifeboat and watched the ship split apart and crumble into the sea. One woman remarked that absolution was needed for what had happened, to which Molly replied, "There is no absolution for this."

Another movie scene comes to mind, an all-time favorite of mine from the seventies, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" The scene is a dance marathon during the Great Depression where dozens of working class men and women have come to dance for several days in order to earn a pittance for their grueling efforts. As the couples dance without sleep, or rather, just keep moving endlessly around the clock on the dance floor, wealthy spectators sit comfortably in the grandstands taking bets on who will endure, occasionally tossing coins in the direction of the dancers. A bitter, cynical young woman (Gloria) played by Jane Fonda, partners with a guileless young man (Robert) played by Michael Sarrazin whereupon dialog between them ensues, becoming increasingly philosophical and continuing throughout the marathon. Gloria, has lost all hope, perhaps because she has refused to deny the darkness of a society engulfed in economic catastrophe. She also sees through and resents the master of ceremonies of the marathon who manipulates the dancers to increase their physical and emotional exhaustion in order to entertain the wealthy spectators. What is worse, at the end of the marathon, numerous expenses are deducted from the final prize, leaving the winners with nothing—a set-up from start to finish.
Gloria's anger has clearly energized her and allowed her to survive a difficult life. Unfortunately, she allows it to destroy her, and after she and Robert depart, she attempts to shoot herself but cannot do it. She then asks him to shoot her, and he does.

Although Gloria was filled with toxic bitterness, she saw through a system that was stacked against the working class by a ruling elite, aloof from but entertained by, the struggles of the lower classes. In that sense she never lost her humanity or her dignity. Tragically, she was a loner who had no support or validation for the truth she saw and therefore became overwhelmed by the darkness she refused to deny. In my opinion, "They Shoot Horses Don't They?" depicts not only the economic suffering of the Great Depression but also that of the economic tsunami that appears to be engulfing the United States.
Those who have refused to face the truth of that deluge because they prefer to remain distracted by "American Idol" ("Ameri-CON Idol" J.G.) and the death of Anna Nicole Smith, are likely to face the same consequences as the gullible dance marathon participants who had no clue regarding the causes of the Great Depression and the set-up in which they were ensnared.
Others, wallowing in narcissism and pretty thoughts, may opt to join the ruling elite in the grandstands, ignoring the human anguish of the ones beneath them dancing on the treadmill of the American debt industry.
The third option is that the Gloria's among us refuse to be destroyed by our own and others' suffering and resist. The first step of resistance is thoroughly understanding what we are resisting, then gathering the necessary support to resist, and finally, building economic, emotional, and spiritual lifeboats to navigate the approaching storm.

Let me clarify: I have no problem with people becoming and remaining prosperous. I do not champion the "poor and proud" mentality. What I find offensive and inexcusable is the unwillingness of purveyors and devotees of The Secret to look at the other half of reality—the dark side—theirs and that of their government, move beyond their terminal narcissism, and resist the economic holocaust being perpetrated on them and the rest of the world by a fascist empire. Not to do so is to remain a sibling for one's entire life, and if America's middle and working classes need to do any one thing in this moment, it is to grow up and face adult reality.

I know of no more shining example of this than Catherine Austin Fitts who is dedicating her time and energy to teaching people how to become prosperous, not by distracting themselves from injustice and economic warfare, but by teaching them to become intimately acquainted with it in order to wisely create options of prosperity for themselves and their loved ones. Similarly, Michael Hudson, historian, professor, former Wall St. financial analyst, and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire offers critical insights into the empire's downward spiral toward economic meltdown and may be heard on KPFA's "Guns And Butter" program speaking on the topic of "America: Host Or Parasite?".

As for documentaries that address reality, a wiser and more mature approach, from my perspective, is that of Tim Bennett's and Sally Erickson's DVD "What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire" about which I wrote an extensive article earlier this month. Rather than offer a sibling soporific, this documentary addresses head-on the nightmare that humans have created on so many levels, especially on the level of making the planet uninhabitable, but rather than inviting the viewer to escape into isolated, self-absorbed consumerism on steroids, it presents the opportunity to join with others of like mind and heart to reverse the lethal trajectory on which the human race is spinning out of control.

Just as the last thing we need at this moment in history in the face of fossil fuel depletion is a "solution" that involves consuming more oil, the last thing the human race needs in the face of the perfect economic storm is an indulgent "I can have anything I want" perspective that ignores the empire's evils and perpetuates the very mega-consumerism that is annihilating the planet.

JUST READ IT!! AND WEEP...

2007-04-12T10:12:00.000-05:00

Codex is coming...

And we all MUST be aware and fight it!

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185

NSF SPIN: I am re-thinking, once again, the hype and spin put on the coming Codex Laws that are being pushed into existence. Mr. John Hamell, someone whom I have briefly had an on-line discourse with, who also "introduced me" to Brice Taylor AKA Susan Ford~a fellow MC survivor who's horrors and torture went far past my own experiences~is someone who's opinion I respect. He has been studying and fighting the enactment of Codex Harmonization Laws that would restrict Dietary supplements and Naturopathic and Holistic, et. al, modalities, for quite some time.
He states in the periodic e-mails that he sends out- most especially in his most recent-that this panic-button-trigger type message sent out From the NSF (see link at top of post-Natural Solutions Foundation) was simply hype to cover up the REAL issue. I will include a link to his message if I can. Or, simply provide his Org's e-mail address and you may be added to the list. He knows his stuff, and has claimed in the past that NSF is merely another Disinfo Campaign to obscure the Truth. Or, at the very least, are being used in this way.

Now...how surprising would THAT be?

Contact John at jham@iahf.com to be added to his listing, or for more information.

How easily we may all succumb to panic at this juncture.

Jewels

Even MORE on chemtrails

2007-04-12T09:58:00.000-05:00

I have written often on the subject of Chemtrails.

Here is a vast amount of Truth~~linking HAARP and DARPA to the formation of these foul and evil "clouds" in our skies, which are slowly and miserably killing us all, for their evil agenda.

I am really beginning to believe in this Alien Agenda.

Hell, with all I have seen and experienced, my entire life, why wouldn't I?

Jewels

The other link had been disabled, so here is a different site. (Link, above)

I have been correspondig with the Creator of this site, and I concur on one issue in particular:

'The other side is so very organised. Why can we not do the same?' Not a verbatim quote, but it sums it up pretty well

I know why: Most people are still in such DENIAL! Which ain't a river in Egypt, people.

Yes, I am often harsh on my blog. But I am so tired of screaming into the wind!

If we don't begin to organise and fight the inertia that is steadily building on the "other side"...our 'enemies', then we don't have much of a chance.

I have never in my life felt such abject fear and hopelessness at times.

Other times, I choose to believe that good wins out in the end.

Naive? Maybe. But without some hope, we are already as good as gone.

Jewels

I'm sick of blogspot

2007-04-06T06:47:00.000-05:00

These pictures should make you stop and think...if you aren't too brain dead already:

Speaking of DEAD! The blogger is NOT working once again...so I am moving to a new blog:

JewelsJems@wordpress.com

Government Torture of US Citizens!

2007-03-29T08:40:00.000-05:00

While I am going to be switching blog-hosts soon, I wanted to get this out!

As my friend-who has had to flee this country to stay alive-said in the message she included in this e-mail..."We're Screwed."

WAKE THE FUCK UP, PEOPLE! I AM TIRED OF SAYING IT!

THIS IS JUST LIKE NAZI GERMANY--ONLY MUCH, MUCH WORSE.

THEY CAN KILL YOU IN YOUR BED, AND YOU WON'T EVEN KNOW IT.

JEWELS

Look at these War pictures...if you dare.

2007-03-28T07:47:00.002-05:00

These photos were taken of Lebanese-mostly civilian-casualties from Israeli bombings. They are sickening.

It is so very easy to distance one's self from the horror, when it is but air-space/time on some news-station.

Seeing the face of the Monster is quite a different experience, altogether.

Definitely NOT for the feint of heart!

Jewels

1st Amendment Rights

2007-03-21T09:59:00.000-05:00

I wrote an article a ways back about the WTC collapses and the very likely use of SCALAR technology to bring them down in the fashion in which they fell, and I have been trying to make additions and revisions to the post. The stupid blogspot won't let me, so I am outta here for the day. I am sick and tired of being censured. Sick and TIRED!
It never ends...

Jewels

America the Beautiful...

2007-03-21T07:07:00.000-05:00

This is a very well-written article. The last segment made me so homesick for my youth.
It wasn't perfect, no, but it was good.

Jewels

More of BushCo's Stealth Attacks.

2007-03-13T09:15:00.000-05:00

Making Martial Law Easier

The New York Times Editorial
Monday 19 February 2007

A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the Bush administration's behest that makes it easier for a president to override local control of law enforcement and declare martial law.

The provision, signed into law in October, weakens two obscure but important bulwarks of liberty. One is the doctrine that bars military forces, including a federalized National Guard, from engaging in law enforcement. Called posse comitatus, it was enshrined in law after the Civil War to preserve the line between civil government and the military. The other is the Insurrection Act of 1807, which provides the major exemptions to posse comitatus. It essentially limits a president's use of the military in law enforcement to putting down lawlessness, insurrection and rebellion, where a state is violating federal law or depriving people of constitutional rights.

The newly enacted provisions upset this careful balance. They shift the focus from making sure that federal laws are enforced to restoring public order. Beyond cases of actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any "other condition."

Changes of this magnitude should be made only after a thorough public airing. But these new presidential powers were slipped into the law without hearings or public debate. The president made no mention of the changes when he signed the measure, and neither the White House nor Congress consulted in advance with the nation's governors.

There is a bipartisan bill, introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and Christopher Bond, Republican of Missouri, and backed unanimously by the nation's governors, that would repeal the stealthy revisions. Congress should pass it. If changes of this kind are proposed in the future, they must get a full and open debate.

**This is the reason why I am so opposed to this regime. They do whatever they want; whenever they want. And we have NO say in the process!

If we are to truly have a Republic-as it was originally established-then this kind of thing has to stop! And stop now!

Jewels

I KNEW IT!!!!!!

2007-03-10T10:27:00.000-05:00

HR comment: This is Doug Thompson the way he should write and did, before some people apparently put a gun to his head, and made him 'an offer he could not refuse'.

The caveat concerns 'Capitol Hill Blues' new owners and under Thompson's name published items among other things about 9/11. - Url.: http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=334

Immediately hundreds of readers of Thompson's 9/11 item published in 'The Rant' reacted with unbelief that he could have written this. My advice was and is in those cases to discreetly investigate and not immediately to blame the writers/victims but see if help is needed.

What under Thompson's name appeared was indeed like a low brow stencil from the Pentagon's and PNAC's 'Lie Factory' where the 9/11 myth is kept alive and most war propaganda for the Group is made.*

The article below, see link above by the way, also fits the picture of Bush getting an 'accident' - and all the blame - soon.

*Thompson earlier wrote about how he and other journalists were hunted and intimidated in what he called "Bush's all out war on the press" - Url.: (SEE ABOVE LINK)

(C&P from CLG. They allow the free distribution of their material, for informational purposes.)

Jewels

**See also my post on this subject at: http://jwlsweblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Doug+Thompson

The "American Mayor" in a NEW light!

2007-03-10T10:17:00.000-05:00

This is an article from the IAFF in New York City, banning former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani from speaking at their Campaign Meeting due to his egregious actions toward Firefighters and their "brothers" on and after 9/11.

More proof that these people care nothing for America!

One thing I will say-it gladdens my heart to see my fellow Americans waking up, finally!!!

Jewels

2007-02-27T14:23:00.000-05:00

This guy, please do not be taken in by him...

Important information please pass to your concerned friends.

Don't let them be taken advantage of . This man has been spotted in Wal-Mart parking lots in many areas.

If you see this guy, do not be taken in by his SCAM ! THIS IS A HOAX !!! MY FRIEND TRIED IT ! - SHE SAYS IT DOES NOT WORK AND HER INSURANCE WOULD NOT COVER IT!

So now you know!!

Hehehehehehehehe
J.

The Thought Police

2007-02-27T12:52:00.000-05:00

I don't know why I bother.

I was on the AOL message boards this morning trying to educate the sheep as to just why Richard Cheney is such a despicable 'human being' and why it should not be a crime to wish him dead. (In reference to the fact that he "escaped" the embassy bombing recently.)

No one was advocating personally going out and murdering the VP, they just wanted to see him go! In whatever fashion! Once upon a time, that would have been considered Free Speech. Not anymore.

The Forefathers told us to question our government. And to OVERTHROW any government that is not for WE, THE PEOPLE!
They also placed a clause in the Constitution for us to defend against ALL enemies-both foreign and domestic!

They are not gods. They are men, who have chosen to betray our Country and sell it to the highest bidder-in this case, Halliburton, KBR. They have sold their souls-and our lives-for Oil. Blood for Oil. And the sheep bleat on...

Yes, it makes me sad to admit, some morons came on the board threatening to have all of us dissenters accosted by the Secret Service, the FBI, hell, prolly by Dumbya himself! (In their dreams. He is a C-O-W-A-R-D! And a puppet.)

My posts were repeatedly removed. NOT due to vulgar language (I rarely use it on the boards) not due to harassing any poster, but due to speaking the TRUTH! As usual.
The boards are supposed to be a public forum. A place for our THOUGHTS and opinions. I mean, hell, they tell us to "post thoughts" on every story they print! As long as those thoughts line up with the new Gestapo.

If I ever needed any real proof that our freedoms are a moot point-are essentially null and void-the AOL message boards consistently remind me. Without fail. We are just not given a voice, even if they don't actually come and rendition us!

And still the fools believe.

Jewels

This is Hearbreaking!

2007-02-07T07:48:00.000-05:00

Hello My Love,

Valentine's Day is rapidly approaching, and with its impending arrival I am filled with mixed emotions. We have discussed how like Christmas, New Years, and our birthdays, Valentine's Day is yet another holiday we will not celebrate. Yet another holiday we will pretend isn't happening, promising one another we will make up for it next year when you will hopefully be home.

Walking through the grocery store, I see the stacks of chocolates and people waiting in the checkout lines, arms full with red rose bouquets to be given to loved ones. I am instantly filled with sadness, not for a lack of chocolates and roses, yet rather the lack of your presence. It has been eight months since I last saw your beautiful smile and kissed you goodbye. A day that is meant to celebrate people's love and companionship is for me a day of intense loneliness. The only highlight will be crossing it off my calendar just before bed. How many more months to go?

I wish people could understand what I am going through. At times, I am filled with intense anger at the realization that so many people really don't get it. "Didn't you know what you were getting yourself into when you married a soldier?" they ask me. "No, I really didn't," is all I can say in response. I took no class on sleepless nights, nightmares, and anxiety attacks. No one explained to me the incredibly debilitating fear I would experience with the knowledge that my dearest love is in harm's way and no one sat me down to explain how intensely my heart would break at the mere thought of another Valentine's Day alone.
In addition to my sadness and anger, I find myself incredibly frustrated and perplexed as I ask myself for what is all this suffering? The Iraqis are worse off every day, and we are less safe here at home. America's global reputation and credibility lay in ruin, while countless Iraqis and Americans are dead.

The fact that with the arrival and passing of Valentine's Day I am brought that much closer to the time at which we will be reunited is what gets me through. Though the day remains uncertain, I eagerly look forward to the time at which I will once again be in your arms planting soft kisses all over your face. How badly I want you home now. How desperately I want this nightmare to be over. Stay safe, my love.

With all my heart,

Oriana Futrell

Molly Ivins~~In Memory Of.

2007-02-02T07:30:00.000-05:00

It appears to be true: that only the good die young.

She was only 63.

ItMolly Ivins was a firebrand!
She was radical, opinionated and brilliant!
And hilariously funny!!

Yet, I think of an evil 'man" such as Richard Cheney-who had his first heart attack at age 37, and has had 4 subsequent heart attacks, since. He had a device planted outside of his heart that is keeping this version of the Frankenstein Monster alive!
Either that, or he is a cyborg. An android. He certainly is not human.

And yet, he lives on, doing more damage to this Country and to the World than any one man ever has! The shrub-Molly's moniker for bush-is only a sock puppet. Or a marionette, which suits him even better-as he dances when Cheney et. al, pull the strings!

It is a tragedy that someone as honest and forthright and intelligent as Molly had to pass so young. She did much good in her life. While so many, who live on, do so much bad.

I don't quite understand it; but there it is

Jewels

The REAL Truth?

2007-01-30T09:37:00.000-05:00

I am reading some different material about the Truth of 9/11. It repudiates the "no-plane" theories, and I am wondering if they are, also, repudiating the fact of Controlled Demolition?

They claim that the COINTELPRO tactics of the 60's and 70's are responsible for the "ludicrous theories" of CD; and "no-plane" theories at the Pentagon. That these theories are "disinformation campaigns."

So...Which are the true COINTELPRO maneuvers? The all-plane, no controlled demolition and the government cover-up conspiracy theories? Or the various Truth Movements?

It is a daunting task indeed, to sift the wheat from the chaff in this very contoversial subject!!

I still believe that there was controlled demolition at the towers-how else to explain the 6 second demise of WTC Tower #7? Hours after the planes hit the Towers? Or the 9.2 second fall of the Towers? These are proven facts. And they are also the rate of gravity. There is no other explanation.

Did a plane really hit the Pentagon? I am inclined to believe that ALL the targets were hit by planes. But were they manned by maniacal suicide bombers, piloting the planes to their glorious death, or were they drones?

The fact is: WE WILL NEVER KNOW!!!!! Why? Because the wreckage was immediately seized and shipped overseas. And the footage taken of the Pentagon was never aired...It was also immediately confiscated. There has been no TRUE and honest investigation into the horrors of 9/11. None. Therefore, it is difficult to know what to believe. One uses critical thinking skills. One utilizes the scientific processes-the laws of physics and inertia. And it just does not add up!

So, we are left with Hypotheses. With Postulates. With GUESSWORK! And no one can make truth out of guess work. NO ONE.

Jewels

Well, this'll get me sent to the Gulag, for sure!

2007-01-29T13:17:00.000-05:00

Read this Russian Newpspaper account of how our Furer/Decider-in-Chief has declared that anyone critical of his latest insane war efforts, will be subjected to a MILITARY TRIBUNAL!

Look for me to be gone soon, folks.

The World has gone insane...

Jewels

The New(est) Epidemic!

2007-01-28T16:57:00.000-05:00

This article, about the latest outbreak of XDR (Extra Drug Resistant) TB in the very "heart of the HIV Epidemic in Africa" is not your average 'Outbreak.'

Just as the Elite/Illuminati/Zionists/Whatever plan to depopulate the Earth, and HIV was one of the forerunners in 'eradicating the Africans', this is the next phase.

Think I am too paranoid?

THINK AGAIN.

Jewels

THE DECIDER HAS DECIDED ONCE MORE

2007-01-26T12:29:00.000-05:00

Refer to Link above on "The Decider."

Jewels

YA THINK???

2007-01-23T09:29:00.001-05:00

This article makes the bold assertion that the prisons in Gitmo and Abu Graib are "illegal."

Well of all the stinkin' nerve!

(Assholes...the entire United States Government are assholes! Think those SS dudes are gonna come and get me now?!?!)

BRING IT ON!!!!

Jewels

They're At It Again

2007-01-19T08:55:00.000-05:00

Once again, the Government is pushing for Legislation that would limit our free access to the Internet. This article refers to the fact that bloggers are once again being targeted as "Terrorists!" as we are "subversive" and "antisocial." Stirring up un-rest and hatred by our disaffected ranting and misinformation.

The TRUTH is, the Internet has become a powerful tool for truth in advertising, information and government. This is what they truly fear. That we will no longer be a population of dumbed-down and un-educated sheeple, but will learn of the Machiavellian machinations of this evil Regime and take ACTION!

In other words, another Revolutionary War if it becomes necessary!

Throughout history, repressive rulers have tried to keep the masses in the dark. This, in order to maintain their control of them via propaganda and lack of reliable, truthful information made available to the general population.
They are attempting this very thing, once more.

It never worked then/It won't work now.

I guarantee it!

Jewels

"Homicidal" Soldier~An Oxymoron.

2007-01-10T06:49:00.000-05:00

I haven't read this article about the "Homicidal" soldier, but I don't need to, in order to know it's content.

They take the "dregs" of society; put guns/weapons in their hands, and train them and then tell them to go kill. OK? What's the problem then? Isn't killing in battle homicide? I should think so.

They teach them that the enemy is less then human, so why is it so shocking when they treat them worse then animals? MANY of these young men and women are probably sociopathic in the first place. And if they are not, they TRAIN them to be. Then, when they follow their natural or learned impulses, they are to blame?

I realize that we all are accountable for our actions in the long run, but these people are "brainwashed" into being like automatons and then blamed for following their training. And orders. I believe those who command them are often just as sick. Or sicker. But will THEY take the blame for what they have created? Not on your life!...pardon the (bad) pun.
Nope, it is the product which is to be blamed for the final result. That is as stupid and pointless as killing your computer for what you, yourself, programmed it to do! Or punishing the weapons for doing what they were created to do...kill. A soldier IS a weapon. A very lethal one! They are trained NOT to think, but merely to ACT!

Oh, I could go on and on about this. I hate war. I mean hate. I find it barbaric, lethal (Ya think?) and absolutely the lowest point of "human" behavior! Yet, it is glorified in hymn, story and all of History. Maybe if it was HERstory, it wouldn't be so bloody? And yes, I know women are just as capable of barbarism as men. But mostly, when under the influence of men. The Amazons died out, remember? It is not a woman's true nature to want to destroy. That belongs to men. Women pro-create. And usually choose life...unless faced with a choice much less palatable. Such as being a single mother....which I have experienced. And it is Hell.

So, again, what is the real point here? That those in positions of Power, once again, choose to abrogate the responsibility for that power to those they deem "lower" then themselves. They are untouchable. Or so they think...

Jewels

People Before Lawyers Site

2007-01-08T07:39:00.000-05:00

The Noose Tightens...

2007-01-07T10:05:00.000-05:00

Once again, certain elements in the government are appealing to Congress in order to obtain records of our Internet usage. The reasons vary, but the end effect is the same...loss of Freedom of Speech and Privacy.

Gee...nothing new there.

Jewels

Finally! SOMEONE SAYS IT...And more.

2007-01-05T10:56:00.000-05:00

“I didn’t say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.”

2006-12-28T09:37:00.000-05:00

The REAL Matrix...

Ahhh...it gratifies me so when I discover intelligence in the Media.

2006-12-28T07:21:00.000-05:00

This article about Ford/Cheney et al is so very truthful.

The caption reads: "Ford walks...and Cheney chews the gum."

In reading the book 'Vice' by Lou Dubose, it is made clear all over again how powerful Cheney has been in Washington for over 25 years! No big surprise that he has finally gained the upper hand in the Bush/Cheney Regime.

He had schemed and plotted the take-over for decades!

And Ford is not the naive, lilly-white flower that he is being painted as. I find it all, as usual, extremely nauseating.

And FALSE.

Jewels

Not a novel article, no, but I still don't get it.

2006-12-12T17:28:00.000-05:00

THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE...FROM AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE.
WHY WON'T WE WAKE UP?

This is NOT Funny!!!

2006-12-06T10:57:00.000-05:00

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE....

2006-12-04T08:20:00.000-05:00

Laura Bush bought her husband a parrot for his birthday,

and told Dick Cheney, " The bird is so smart !

George has already taught him to mispronounce over 200 words ! "

" That's impressive, all right," Cheney said.

" But you realize that he just " says " the words, right ?

He doesn't understand what they mean."

" That's okay," she replied. " Neither does the parrot."

Now you don't talk so loud...

2006-12-01T08:53:00.000-05:00

Animal Terrorism Act Signed Into Law

2006-11-29T09:10:00.000-05:00

This article borrowed from Lori Prices'(CLG) site is in regards to the penalties that the shrub wants to impose on those who protest against animal abuses...including in research!

Coming from a "man" who liked to blow up frogs with M-80's, I guess this should come as no surprise. He also appears to like to blow up people...and entire Countries!!

What a freak of nature he truly is...

Jewels

Go Patrick!

2006-11-24T10:14:00.000-05:00

Patrick Leahy is continuing to press the Bush Administration to reveal "classified" documents pertaining to illegal detainment and TORTURE of suspects held in Gitmo, Abu Ghraib et al.

(See above Link.)

Finally!!

Jewels

MORE BUSH-ISM'S?

2006-11-24T09:33:00.000-05:00

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the public believes is false." William Casey, CIA Director (first staff meeting, 1981)

Republicans To Bush:
"Your Presidency Is Effectively Over"

Bush Regarded As Party's Greatest Liability
A growing number of Republican leaders, party strategists and political professional now privately tell President George W. Bush that his presidency "is effectively over" unless he fires embattled White House advisor Karl Rove, apologizes to the American people for misleading the country into war and revamps his administration from top to bottom.
The only show of unity we have now in the Republican Party is the belief that the President has failed the party, the American people and the presidency," says a longtime, and angry, GOP strategist.
With the public face of support for Bush eroding daily from even diehard Republicans, the President faces mounting anger from within his party over the path that may well lead to loss of control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections and the White House in 2008."This presidency is in trouble," says a senior White House aide. "Even worse, I don't know if there is a way out of the trouble."
Congressional leaders journeyed to the White House before Bush left on his South American tour this week to tell the President that his legislative agenda on the Hill is dead, his latest Supreme Court nominee faces a tough confirmation fight in the Senate and he is facing open revolt within party ranks.."The Speaker is having an increasingly difficult time holding his troops in line," says a source within the office of House Speaker Dennis J. Hastert. "Anger at the President grows exponentially with each passing day."
At a recent White House strategy session, internal party pollsters told the President that his approval rating with Americans continues to slide and may be irreversible, citing his failed Iraq war, the failed Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers and his failure to deal decisively on a number of fronts, including Hurricane Katrina, the economy and the Valerie Plame scandal.
In meetings, leaders and strategists have suggested a number of things that Bush must do to try and save his presidency and GOP prospects in upcoming elections, including:
1. Apologize to the American people, Congress and our allies for misleading them on the reasons for invading Iraq;
2. Revamp the White House staff from top to bottom;
3. Fire Rove."We keep coming back to Rove," says a GOP pollster. "He has escaped indictment, so far, but the feeling within the party is that another shoe is ready to drop and the longer he waits to jettison Rove the greater the damage.
As long as Karl Rove remains at the President's side, the Bush presidency is effectively over and he is just riding out the days until the nation elects a Democrat to replace him. Even with Rove gone the damage may be irreparable.
"Bush, however, has dug his heels in on Rove. When a GOP strategist suggested last weekend that the President fire Rove, Bush exploded."You go to hell," he screamed at the strategist. "You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered motherfuckers with you!" The President then stormed out of the room and refused to meet further with any other party leaders or strategists.
Bush's escalating temper tantrums and his intransigence on political issues increase Republican worries about the long term effects on both his presidency and the party's prospects in upcoming elections.
"Right now, George W. Bush is the Republican Party's chief liability," says a GOP strategist who has advised Presidential campaigns for 30 years. "The entire political future of the party and perhaps the nation now rests on the shoulders of a President that no one - Democrat or Republican - believes in or trusts."

Great HuffPost article~~Hehehehehe...

2006-11-22T06:20:00.000-05:00

Yes, this describes exactly what I have been feeling lately!!

Great Post, Bob!

Jewels

CONyer's blog

2006-11-19T07:15:00.000-05:00

Just as I expected...as soon as the stinking Democrats-DemocRATS-came into power, they recanted everything they said! The Pelosi woman is nothing more than another Bush mouthpiece, and the WORST administration in the history of this country is going to get off scott-free.

CONyer's basement hearings and all other such rhetoric/actions are naught but a bunch of lies to gain a Seat in Congress.

Read the anger and cries of "FOUL" here by the American People.
This heartens me if nothing else does!! I don't think it will take much more lies and bullshit and EVIL in our Government to trigger a new Revolution! I will be right in the middle of the fray if such occurs-violent or non-violent.

There is nothing less then our entire future-and the coming generation's future-at stake.

Jewels

NANCY PELOSI: CONSPIRATOR IN PEARLS

2006-11-16T08:24:00.000-05:00

NO WONDER CONYERS CAVED!!

JEWELS

THIS IS FUNNY, ALSO!

2006-11-13T07:22:00.000-05:00

Well, it took me awhile, but I finally realized what "I'm the decider," reminds me of. It sounds like something a character in a Dr. Seuss book might say. So with apologies to the late Mr. Geisel, here is some idle speculation as to what else such a character might say:

I'm the decider.
I pick and I choose.
I pick among whats.
And choose among whos.

And as I decide
Each particular day,
The things I decide on
All turn out that way.

I decided on Freedom
For all of Iraq.
And now that we have it,
I'm not looking back.

I decided on tax cuts
That just help the wealthy.
And Medicare changes
That aren't really healthy.

And parklands and wetlands
Who needs all that stuff?
I decided that none
Would be more than enough!

I decided that schools
All in all are the best.
The less that they teach
And the more that they test.

I decided those wages
You need to get by,
Are much better spent
On some CEO guy.

I decided your Wade
Which was versing your Roe,
Is terribly awful
And just has to go.

I decided that levees
Are not really needed.
Now when hurricanes come
They can come unimpeded.

That old Constitution?
Well, I have decided
As "just Goddamn paper"*
It should be derided.

I've decided gay marriage
Is icky and weird.
Above all other things,
It's the one to be feared.

And Cheney and Rummy
And Condi all know
That I'm the Decider
They tell me it's so.

I'm the Decider
So watch what you say,
Or I may decide
To have you whisked away.

Or I'll tap your phones.
Your e-mail I'll read.
`cause I'm the Decider
Like Jesus decreed.

This is Funny!!

2006-11-13T07:05:00.000-05:00

This is an archived letter I was sent by a friend...it is an "open" letter to the Democrats regarding their shameless tactics in the 2000 (s)election!! LMOA!!

Jewels

AND NOW...REALITY.

2006-11-10T10:30:00.000-05:00

08 November 2006

http://www.chris-floyd.com/

Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me

by Chris Floyd

Ordinarily, the elevation of a gaggle of corporate bagmen, spine-free
time-servers and craven accomplices of tyranny and aggression to the
control of Congress would not be a cause for rejoicing. With a few
notable exceptions, the Democratic Party has displayed nothing but
cowardice and cluelessness over the past five years, betraying the
interests of the American people at every single gut-check point in the
long march to the self-proclaimed "Unitary Executive" dictatorship of
George W. Bush. Whenever it really counted – Supreme Court nominations,
tax cuts for the rich, the class-warfare nuclear bomb of the Bankruptcy
Bill, the appointment of sleazy, third-rate officials such as
torture-enabler and Constitution-gutter Alberto Gonzales to high
office, and of course, the eager goose-stepping into the war crime of
Iraq (which was, let us remember, approved by a Democratic-controlled
Senate) – the Democrats folded, would not even go down fighting.

Is there any greater example of this than the vote, just a few weeks
ago, on the "Military Commissions Act," the republic-killing measure
that gave the president virtually unlimited, unchecked, unappealable
powers over the life and liberty of every citizen? The Democratic
"leadership" – now suddenly basking in media lionization – would not
even mount a filibuster to defend the Constitution (not to mention the
Magna Carta). Many Democrats actually voted in favor of ending the
American Republic. (Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee was one of these – and
now he has reaped his reward: defeat. That's how it goes, Harold; you
can make a deal with the devil, but he'll always cheat you in the end.
You sold out the nation for nothing – and now Bob Corker, yet another
feckless, faceless, money-grubbing tycoon will pollute the Senate
chamber.) The MCA debacle was the last full measure of fear and
servility from a group whose collective record is one long tissue of shame.

And yet, and yet…this is indeed a time – a brief, brief time – for
celebration. For the fact remains that the Republican Congress is – as
Matt Taibbi has detailed so forcefully – the worst in American history:
corrupt, incompetent, dysfunctional, lazy, and ignorant almost beyond
measuring. As often mentioned here, they are the very picture of the
Roman Senate described by Tiberius, after they'd voted him yet another
grovelling set of honors and powers: "Men fit to be slaves." The damage
they have done to the nation, and the world, as the bootlicking
handmaidens of George W. Bush and his militarist mafia is incalculable,
and will go on producing foul repercussions for years, perhaps generations.

And so it is meet indeed that we praise the parting of these wretched
fools from their dominance of the legislature. And even though
Democratic control of one or both houses of Congress will certainly not
usher in a new Golden Age of enlightened and noble governance, it would
be churlish and wilfully perverse not to acknowledge that genuine
benefits will accrue from the change. Giving subpoena power to Rep.
Henry Waxman – one of the few Democrats who have served in opposition
with honor, vigor and fire – is a mighty boon in itself, no matter how
tepidly the Democratic leadership conducts itself in the months to
come. Even though the Bush Faction has already promised a Nixon-style
stonewall on every single investigation – and although Bush has already
openly declared, in his "signing statements," that he doesn't feel
bound to provide Congress with even routine information required by law
– the probes launched by the new majority (or at least their bulldogs
like Waxman) will doubtless produce many nuggets of truth from the
Regime's mountainous slapheap of lies and secrecy.

And that's really all that we can expect at this point – or perhaps at
any point. The Democratic leadership is a deeply embedded part of the
Establishment; multimillionaires like our soon-to-be Speaker, Nancy
Pelosi (who is probably richer than Bush) aren't going to seriously
challenge the near-total domination of American politics and society by
Big Business and wealthy elites. They may re-arrange the display a
little, but they are not going to upset the golden applecart. So while
we may see a slight goosing of the minimum wage, we will almost
certainly not see a major rollback of the relentless rightwing assault
on the rights, protections and well-being of working people and the
poor. We can hope for some modifications of the bizarre and punitive
prescription drug "reforms" imposed by the Bush Party; but we won't see
anything resembling a national health insurance system, despite the
majority of Americans in favor of one. We won't see a reinstatement of
the safety net that was gutted, pre-Bush, by Democrat Bill Clinton. We
won't see major reductions – or indeed, any reductions – in military
spending from a party that has faithfully approved every cent of every
"special spending bill" that Bush has submitted to finance his
off-the-books wars. We won't see a lessening of international tensions
from a crew that has spent most of the past year bashing the Bush
Administration for not being bellicose enough in threatening Iran, and
for not larding Israel with even more deadly weaponry to carry out its
aggression in Lebanon and its increasingly frenzied decimation in Gaza.
We will not see an immediate withdrawal from Iraq; at best, we will see
a few tentative timetables based on unreal and unrealizable
"benchmarks" produced by some grandly gassy "bipartisan agreement"
based on the face-saving formulas of the "Baker Commission."

There is going to be no impeachment of Bush, even if the Democrats get
hold of the Senate. There is going to be no criminal prosecution for
the principal architects of the war crime in Iraq (and probably none of
small fry either). There will be little or no rollback of the draconian
strictures of the Patriot Act, which was overwhelmingly approved by the
Democrats, or the many other measures – "national security letters,"
warrantless surveillance, etc. – introduced hugger-mugger by the
"Unitary Executive." Indeed, we will be very lucky if the new
Democratic leadership even revisits the Military Commissions Act.

So perhaps the best we can hope for is that Waxman and his fellow
gadflies can use their new powers, for as long as they have them, to
dig up as many fragments as possible of the dark truths behind the Bush
Regime's crimes and incompetencies – so that these facts will at least
be out there, they will be available for anyone who cares to know, just
as the investigations of Iran-Contra, BCCI, and Iraqgate, for example,
laid out the sinister character of the Bush Faction long before they
returned to power in the Court-fixed election of 2000. Of course, the
mainstream media ignored these past revelations during Bush's
campaigns, but at least they were available to individual citizens. And
with the internet, any new nuggets can be even more widely and easily
distributed. (Assuming the corporately inclined Democrats don't
ultimately cave in to the relentless assault on internet freedom by Big
Business, that is.)

Naturally, the mainstream media will continue their years-long
kid-glove treatment of the Bush Regime. Oh, they may be a bit more bold
now; they may, occasionally, muster up the courage to call a lie a lie
(or some more polite euphemism.) But for the most part, it will still
be softly, softly with the Bushists, a reluctance to reveal their
Beltway pals and inside sources as the fools and criminals they are.
There will still the same cringing attempt to assure the greedy
plutocrats, the hard-right haters of democracy, the putrid gasbags of
hate radio and the sex-crazed cranks who call themselves Christians
that the "liberal media" will continue to contort reality in order to
produce a bogus "objectivity" that gives the lunatic fringe equal
weight with reason, facts and common sense. (You can check out the
obsequious wheedlings of ABC political news director Mark Helperin if
you want to see the latter dynamic in action.)

Meanwhile, of course, you can be sure that every minute crumb of
possible malfeasance, every atom of innuendo that can be inflated into
an appearance of scandal, will be seized upon by a press now suddenly
eager to flash its watchdog fangs at the newly powerful Democrats. And
certainly, there will be plenty of corruption oozing from the nodes of
patronage now available to the Democrats, and it should be
remorselessly exposed. But, just as it's been since Ronald Reagan's
presidential campaign, the vastly different levels of scrutiny that the
media give to Republican and Democratic scandals (real or imagined)
will be very marked.

Finally, we all must remember this: even if the Democrats were paragons
of courage and wisdom, they will control only the legislative branch
(or perhaps only part of it). The executive branch will remain firmly
in the hands of the Bush Faction, a gang that has already shown its
contempt for legislative oversight – even from its own sycophants – and
has publicly declared that the president is essentially beyond the
reach of law. In the openly stated view of the Bushists, Congress is a
"quaint" appendage – like Tiberius' Roman Senate – fit only to ratify
the arbitrary will of the Unitary Executive.

Also remember that the worst depredations of the first Bush
Administration, the Reagan Administration and the Nixon Administration
were all carried out with strong Democratic majorities in Congress
(except for a brief period of Republican Senate control in the Reagan
years). Even in "normal" times (if we have ever known such a thing),
even with the opposition party in control of Congress, there is
virtually no end to the mischief that the executive branch can get up
to. Nixon and Reagan waged whole covert wars, killing hundreds of
thousands of people, without the approval or input of Congress.

If anyone thinks the horrors of the Bush Imperium are somehow at an end
– or will even be seriously impaired – by the results of yesterday's
election, they have a harsh and bitter awakening to come.

But still – the political situation we have today is better than what
we had the day before. In a period of such deep crisis in the life of
the Republic, and (to draw on Noam Chomsky) in a system of power so
massive and far-reaching, even a small change can mean very real
benefits to a good many people. (And to many good people.) And in any
case, we should raise a glass to the American people for standing up –
amidst the hailstorm of lies and bullshit thrown at them – and giving
George W. Bush a resounding slap in the face. Long may he stew in this
great and well-deserved humiliation.

End

I, too, am still skeptical. I just don't TRUST the Creeps

2006-11-09T06:38:00.000-05:00

http://mediamatters.org/

IN REPORTING RUMSFELD REVERSAL, WILL MEDIA NOTE THAT BUSH HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN APPARENT LIE ABOUT CABINET SWITCH BEFORE?

SUMMARY:

During a November 8 press conference, President Bush announced that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was resigning. Bush's remarks came less than a week after he pledged that he would keep Rumsfeld on as defense secretary until the end of his presidency. When asked about the dramatic reversal by a reporter at the press conference, Bush claimed that he had said Rumsfeld was staying on because he "didn't want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign," and later asserted that at the time of the November 2 press conference in which he expressed his support for Rumsfeld, he hadn't yet decided to replace Rumsfeld because he had not yet met with his eventual replacement, former CIA director Robert Gates.

In May, Bush similarly claimed that then-Treasury Secretary John Snow was "doing a fine job" and had given no "indication" that he would resign that position, even though it had already been determined that Snow was, in fact, leaving the administration and Hank Paulson had already been offered the job and accepted it, as the weblog Think Progress noted at the time.

Will the media note that this is not the first time Bush was caught in an apparent lie about whether a member of his Cabinet would continue to serve in his administration?

‹ A.S.

Posted to the web on Wednesday November 8, 2006 at 2:11 PM EST

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Election News via AOL.

2006-11-08T10:44:00.000-05:00

Thought for the Day!!

So far, the Dems have come out ahead in the mid-term elections!
There is a Dem Majority in the House for the first time in ten years! And the Senate appears to be heading toward a Democratic Majority, also.
Now, if only they keep their heads on and their farts out, the shit may not hit the fan after all!!!

Jewels

From the Message Boards...thank you Jcongalady!!

2006-11-08T09:07:00.000-05:00

Whether you realize it or not, posters have made a huge difference in the outcome of the most vital and important election in our nation's history.
Yes it's true!

For those of you who have spent countless hours researching and studying what is really going on behind the scenes in our nation and world, and have dared to report the truths, that the mainstream media did not, to the enlighten this nation, and the world to the facts, and expose the truth, you have indeed made a huge impact in this pivital election, and thus, taken your place in American history as true American patriots!

Though you have been at times sorely insulted, in your intellect and integrity, and though our names may never appear in our history books, you have indeed risked all, and your own personal freedoms, to stand up for this nation, and for what is right. And in fact, fought hard and fought well, in the service to our nation.

You have stood up to the corruption of the most powerful people in the world, you have defended those that defend our nation, and today you have won!

So please realize, the impact you have made, as this election could not have been won without you, and this election has indeed changed the future course of both America's and the world's history!

Please take the time today to celebrate this victory, YOUR VICTORY, the victory of those who have fought in the e-trenches beside you, in America's victory, and recognize YOUR PART in American history!

A big high five, kudo's and blessings to you! You know who you are!

Judges Questioning Legality of Detainee Law (Finally...)

2006-11-05T07:44:00.000-05:00

The thing that amazes me in all of this bogus "War On (of) Terror" is that the people are allowing themselves to be manipulated by fear to give up their "essential Liberties" as Ben Franklin put it in his famous quote.

Our Forefathers weren't perfect, being Masons and Illuminatus, many of them, but they had a vision for this Country which didn't include torturing and illegally holding "prisoners!"

I, for one, think we should continue to listen to their knowledge and vision.

Jewels

What, again, needs to be said?

2006-11-03T11:46:00.000-05:00

Olbermann: Bush owes troops apology, not Kerry - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com

NUKE IN IRAQ (?)

2006-11-02T10:29:00.000-05:00

My Op-Ed piece on Media Boycott.

2006-11-02T10:11:00.000-05:00

A Piece I wrote for a website.

Jewels

Female soldier Kills Herself Rather Than Torture "Prisoners."

2006-11-02T10:08:00.000-05:00

Can't say as I blame her.
What an atrocity.

Jewels

WOW...someone else gets it!!!

2006-11-02T07:46:00.000-05:00

The passage of the Torture/Detainee bill (hereafter “the Law”) inspires this long rant.
I realize most of you know a good amount of information about the Law already, but I’m obsessively-compelled to spread a fraction of my knowledge and dot-connecting inferences, NOT about human-rights abuses, NOT about Gitmo or renditions to the no-longer-secret CIA prisons overseas, NOT about Geneva conventions’ violations and torture of foreign innocents held for years without charges. This e-mail rant delves deeper into the Law’s implications, what it truly says and doesn’t say regarding people saying “Shame” while thinking it’s not all that relevant to their personal lives, their own futures.

I take consolation in learning that since “Black Friday,” two days ago, a zillion e-mails, blog posts, chats online and telephonic, etc., have been flying all over. I will make one apology only (for those friends who’ve received similar communiqués, a single apology’s an improvement!) I sincerely believe that Friday was one of America’s darkest days and am sorry for the length of what follows, the intrusion, and unedited prose. I couldn’t let this linger, unfinished or unsent. Please read it: feel free to do so gradually, feel free to forward it promiscuously. The first step and most important action we need to take is educating ourselves and others. My compulsion didn’t arise in a vacuum - there’s been plenty for freedom-loving Americans to rant about for five years. Two-hundred-year-old liberties have been chipped away at, there are several dozen “urgent” political problems - actually, crises - but this Law, in one broad stroke demolished a substantial chunk of what the United States has stood for. Permanently, until or unless the Law can be revoked. And again: I’m not concentrating on what this Law means as it relates to the poor souls, some dead, who’ve been tortured and now, retroactively, are deemed to have been tortured legally.

Throughout this Administration/President (“Party” hereafter), the genius of “getting their way” on the tiniest matters and on “everything” overall has involved -- my specialty -- words. It is the semantics, the re-defining, framing and re-framing, linguistics and usage, expression of ideas and concepts, that Karl Rove, et al., successfully manipulate and employ to manipulate us. I won’t ramble too many examples: y’all know plenty. During these half-dozen years, one often-employed technique has turned definitions topsy-turvy, e.g., patriots have effectively become unpatriotic; many “antis” have become “pros,” etc. Another category of new coinages or usage that are spelled out in Party talking points are such minutiae that the deniability is built-in - an accident or elision, perhaps. One seemingly trivial example Newt Gingrich started this summer and that was followed by Party faithful, was the simple change in speaking about the “Democrat Party” and a “Democrat senator.” The misuse of the noun as adjective, the one-syllable change created two different impressions to its audience: these insidious re-definers wanted to make the “Democratic party” sound less “democratic” and a policymaker, allegedly beamed, "and it ends with rat!” Trust me: this is part of my main point, not a tangent.
Words can confuse and complicate consciously; worse, their effects can subtly run deep, work on America’s collective subconscious. By “definition,” the latter means that the Party, despite its anti-intellectual bent, has gotten away with the "nuances" of concealed motives and actions from even the smartest citizens. Our nation is hardly composed of citizens as mentally challenged as our leader appears to be. However, the subconscious works in mysterious ways. And you know from group-psych how collective expands exponentially, it isn’t merely a total of individuals -- a group of 5 hysterical people produces more than 5x the hysteria of one hysteric. Our country’s figurehead doesn’t have the capacity to consistently retain semantic nuances (haven’t scientists miniaturized that mechanical box he wore under his suit during last campaign? Oops: I forgot, “science.”) The people around him, including those involved in the Project for the New American Century, don’t miss a word-trick. I won’t belabor the “framing” and “re-framing” of ideas and the Big Picture - you’re aware of the techniques and can find plenty online to specifically detail them.

Perhaps my greatest concern about the Law, you’ll see soon below, involves its wording, the Party’s words about the Law, and varying interpretations thereof. The entire process that led up to and resulted in this Law is frightening as hell. “Fear” is the over-riding theme of this two-term Administration. Fear is a technique, linguistic and otherwise. Fear is a motivation, a punishment, and collective psychological control. AND - apart from the Party’s incessant attempts to instill of fear, nationally and globally, the Law is shot-through with genuine reasons for Americans to be fearful. The response, “nothing to fear but fear itself,” in this decade, offers no reassurance. “Fear itself” is the Party’s unwritten motto. We who aren’t lemmings handily saw through early fear-mongering in the Electorate: blatant and awkward examples came with the 2002 and 2004 “heightened terrorism alerts” that coincided just before elections Democrats should have won -- or, without Party-owned, -bought, and -manufactured voting machines, and with well-placed State secretaries of state/brothers, the Democratic Party did win. Those of us who dismissed the literal scare tactics have been able to identify and react appropriately to those false fears. And yet, another brilliant piece of psychology was the manipulation of “terrorism alerts” and simultaneous statements “Don’t be afraid, that’s what the terrorists want!” WHO wants it? The Party, big time.

We could go month-by-month (even a day at a time) since September 11th and create a multi-columned “fear chart” that shows the Party’s attempts to instill fear. The intentional fear-mongering has hardly been limited to terrorism or the “war on” terrorism (William Safire in today’s NYTimes examines the various re-wordings of the illegal invasion/occupation and re-wording of the wars' targets as Islamo-fascists).

IT IS ONLY IN THE CONTEXT OF PERPETUAL FEAR and with a knowledge of wording that the Law’s implications, ramifications, consequences, can be understood. Remember how this “issue” -- one of hundreds on which we must be educated -- began with Gonzales terming the Geneva conventions “quaint?”Under our latest, higher-level Fear-Itself conditions, we can look back on the “Orange Alerts” as quaint. As the Party agenda pushes further and further into __ *I won’t say the word till later* and into deeper fears, political decisions and ideas we complained about, say, 4 or 3 or 2 years ago appear comparatively mild. Instead of discussing the torture of Gitmo, et al., and detainees, I want to begin with the effect of the words on the collective subconscious. The most common of rhetorical devices is repetition -- think Gospel services. Six years ago, if you watched television all day long, how many times would you estimate you heard the word “torture?” If it hadn’t been for the “careless” release of Abu Ghraib photographs, even two years ago, you would’ve heard it a little, either in some Afghan/Iraq/terrorist context OR in news descriptions from places few Americans could find on a map, e.g., remote republics of the former Soviet Union. Before touching on the Law’s politics, what do you know rhetorical repetition does, and does to people? How many times would you estimate the word “torture” has popped into your head 10 years ago? Or, except for joking about a job or relationship, have you used the word? Some researcher should Google “torture,” eliminate historical references, and plot the surge in the past decade, then month-by-month in 2006. How many of y'all could explain "waterboarding" in 2002? Other terms have entered our vocabularies. My initial, significant point herein is “merely” the effect that single word has already had on the American people. And that's The Law's subject matter. First, “torture” is a scary concept and a visceral response to the image adds to our personal and collective fears. Second, the concept of AMERICA as a so-called “torture state” is devastating to patriotism, our own national pride. Torture radically alters the definition of America and of how we, our “forefathers” and the Founding Fathers/ ”Framers” of the Constitution, view America. Obviously, it alters how the rest of the world views America. Since the U.N.’s establishment, the designation “torture state” has existed and those bad-guy countries so labeled have had civil and human rights monitored… Traditionally, ordinary U.S. citizens have derided, disdained, whatever, those bad guys, lumping together its people with its populace. And the Federal government frequently imposed sanctions on “torture states.” How can a resident of a torture state muster patriotism? Paradoxically, the solitary answer I can think of must be triggered by a redoubled patriotism. The rest of the world, including allies and ex-allies, has reason now to dub the USA definitive bad guys, and not for the old, long-running reasons like imperialism. Third and most frightening in my opinion, surpassing concern about the Party's implied fear, is the Party's implied power -- the increased power, “evil” power and seemingly absolute power of the unitary executive, the one-man rule under which our nation officially falls (thanks to the Law). The self-described “Decider” has the exclusive authority to decide who gets detained and/or tortured -- legally. Media are focusing on this controversial Law’s aspects of human rights and terrorism: yes, they’re there and I’m not dismissing the horror of torture in any sense. Yet if the Law’s details are examined and if the innumerable words and actions for five years culminates in the Law, then the most terrifying is the specter of one-man rule (or, to quote the bill, it’s one man “AND” whomever he bestows that same power upon). If you’ve not followed the news from outside the huge media majority that’s controlled by five corporations or been unable to take in recent books and documentaries, it may be difficult to piece together each increment of our democracy’s power the Party has usurped. Our nation has reached a new plateau, where the Party’s defining and re-defining skills enable this Law to re-define our form of government from democracy to one-man rule, and re-define both torture and enemy combatant. I will elaborate below on the unitary executive - suffice to end this “torture” paragraph with the ugly image of a life-and-death power resting exclusively in THOSE particular hands.

“Fear Itself” Part II… Rhetorical repetition eventually grows stale, therefore the years of “terror, terror, terror” propaganda has worn off somewhat (although not for the Party's base, otherwise the pre-campaign-season wouldn’t have revisited “9/11, 9/11, 9/11.”) The shift to “torture, torture, torture” -- setting aside that the Law legalizes some despicable behavior and departs from international agreement -- is another shrewd manipulation of the Electorate. Most Americans, including plenty who were in NYC, cannot truly envision or grasp “international terrorism.” And more than were killed on 9/11/01, many more, have first-hand experience with torture, such as from spousal/child abuse, police brutality, rape and other heinous crimes, etc.

A “breather” paragraph before this rant's intensity crescendos. How much better if this Law were horrible and simple, instead of the simplicity being deceptive and the horror complex and multi-dimensional! Secondary motives for the Law, some obvious, are myriad. The superficial and to-become-oft-repeated excuse will be clarifying the definition of “torture,“ and specifically to demonstrate to Americans and the world that there are forms of torture our government won’t tolerate, I.e., how good we are! We won’t leave scars, and some banana republic torture worse! The Geneva conventions, after all, are old-fashioned and not written for today’s terrorists: see! We made concessions and abolished certain methods you accused us of performing (rightly)…. ..The Party needed this Law to shield itself from its own conservative Supreme Court…... It similarly needed the Law retroactively to shelter itself, as well as the military, intelligence agents, and private contractors who carried out inhumane orders against future indictments on international war crimes and Federal felonies…... It needed the deliberately vague phrases -- NB what I mentioned about brilliance with specific wordings, the least specific wordings are another smart technique..…. The newly-minted ambiguous language used to “sell” the bill to Congress and the public helps evoke a picture, for internal and external consumption, that Americans are still the good guys..…. The urgency to pass the bill by last Friday allows the President on behalf of his up-for-election Party faithful to campaign on fear “terrorism, torture, terrorism, torture,” then mendaciously re-frame the “torture law” as some monumental step forward: conversely the Law instills fear and pledges to combat it..…. Those Republican candidates for the House and Senate, in turn, can parrot the Party talking points about why the Law benefits us all “in dangerous times.”…... Those campaign scare tactics that worked in the 2002 and 2004 elections get kicked up a notch with the Law, the superficial appearance of its benefits and the appearance of bipartisan support. I pity the Democrats in vulnerable races who ceded to the majority - the nicest way I can phrase it - because the instilled false fear would be assuaged by this misunderstood, false solution. They knew their opponents would otherwise wind up their “soft on terror, cut-and-run, soft on terror, cut-and-run” mantras (and over the weekend I heard that RNC commercials are saying "soft on crime, soft on pedophilia").

The 0.001% of good the Law that I can discern is forbidding of a very few types of torture. The media will describe how “some of the most heinous interrogation methods, like rape…” are no longer legal under the new legislation. (Has anyone publicly retorted, because the Law covers retroactive actions, that this proves heretofore the family-values Party HAS been raping detainees?) I suspect the "newly illegal" parts will be all mainstream news sources will cover, as has been traditional for five years, the corporate media have obediently relayed Party talking points. (FYI, most of the corporate media's corporations include defense-contracting business, i.e., war-profiteering trumps the news and entertainment divisions and reality shows combined). One very distorted “plus” in the Law is sure to be emphasized before the election: its supposed clarification of “enemy combatant.” This doesn’t do a hell of a lot of good for the Gitmo (et al.) detainees, the majority of whom were SOLD (humans sold) by Afghani warlords and other bad guys c.2002 just to get the U.S. $bounty. Money makes the oligarchy go round and the Administration trusted greedy “evil-doers” with huge financial rewards to sell some bodies to fill up Guantanamo. (No, I won’t say all detainees were innocents, but mighty few men held for years have been charged with crimes.)

Beyond those poor fellows, the disastrous problem with re-defining “enemy combatant” is that the Law gives that “one man” the power to legally decide who fits the revised definition. Exponentially more frightening than the subliminal fears of torture, terrorism, and of his omnipotence, is that the broad, vague definition DOES apply to everyone. An enemy combatant is no longer some foreigner who lays down arms on the battlefield (Geneva definition), it can be a U.S. citizen and resident, a naturalized citizen or illegal alien, even a foreign tourist or businessperson or any foreigner off the battlefield… anyone under the Law can LEGALLY be detained indefinitely with no explanation besides the designation “enemy combatant.” (Every time I've typed “detained” insert “indefinitely”). One middle-of-road commentator, relying on a newspaper in front of him, was asked if the Law covered foreigners only. The uninformed reply was, “Well, I don’t see anything in the article that says Americans are eligible for…” Eligible? A sin of omission, intended to at minimum pile more fear onto every American. (Aside: you think illegal immigrants were frightened before??) I’m not saying that the Party is determined to lock up upstanding, political dissidents (me?). The Law’s language has cleverly built-in deniability: wherever the language is broad, the President and others can answer, “Yes, it says so; but that’d never happen in this great nation!” I have spent a lot of time in these two days inhaling information on the Law. A few hours after the one commentator, a Constitutional scholar who’d digested the final draft was asked about good ol’ citizens and the Law, “Without a doubt, it’s legal,” the scholar explained. “The change in definition is purposefully so broad” that anyone who opposes our President or government, and/or anyone who supports hostilities against our government, is eligible to be deemed “enemy combatant.” One one-word change in the last phrase made a huge difference: it once said “anyone who engages in hostilities” … “supports hostilities” can mean whatever the All-Powerful One Man wants it to mean? If it's any consolation, tacitly, the military big brass and not just the outspoken retired generals, say that a majority of troops and officers are disturbed by the Law: not because it replaces Geneva (although the older officers are hurt by that, too), but it replaces the near-holy Field Manual - reportedly the guide book is revered, not to be messed with. The Law messes with it.

Not-quite-an-aside on 3 justifications and 2 reasons for the U.S. invasion/occupation of Iraq… Two of the three public justifications, "EVERYBODY all knew were lies before the invasion and everyone else knows now: the WMD and 9/11-ties. The third had roots in something that, through Alice-in-Wonderland logic, Americans have been proud of for 200+ years - how our nation was born: the flipside of war as we fought to liberate ourselves from the one-man rule by England's George III. If it weren’t for the gravity of the Law, it would be comical or a bizarre sort of psychological projecting, to analyze the “liberating the Iraqi people” excuse… i.e., based on what I've written so far: that the Party intended its occupation as a method of ridding a country of one-man rule, a ruler who tortured and “disappeared” its residents (“extreme rendition”), people in whom fear was perpetually instilled and who needed expansion of civil and human rights, etc. Pot calling the kettle black? Two of the true reasons for the occupation are what keeps our weakened, sad troops there. It’s tough to figure out which is the higher priority - (1) Oil control, (2) establishment of permanent bases. And this, after Bush 100% caved in to Osama bin Laden’s demand that the U.S. base and hundreds of troops be removed from (holy) Saudi soil (yes, and the accommodation was for bin Laden only, not his dad's buddies in the Saudi family - oh boy, another entire topic I'll avoid; the concession had to do with the U.S. military stationed in same country as Mecca and Medina). How to pin that on Clinton!
Plans for the 15 or so bases under construction in Iraq currently are in the plans of the 1998 Project for the New American Century with clearly imperialistic aims. Jeez - as I typed that, even “imperialistic” in the context of this Party sounds quaint!

No room here to enumerate how much of the Constitution and other 18th century documents has been decimated in five years, many rights have seen gradual shifts, some rights blatantly trashed. I won't belabor Church & State, Search & Seizure, Cruel & Unusual Punishment., et al. Freedom of the Press?? On the annual list of developed nations with Greatest Freedom of the Press, the USA has dropped to a stunning 26th place in the world. It was four full years ago that I initially read “America’s heading toward a ‘constitutional crisis’” and about two or three ago that “constitutional crisis” was a phrase that cropped up more and more. I believe the Law heralds a Constitutional crisis' official arrival.One time the term was frequently discussed involved the FISA courts and warrantless wire-tapping, especially the domestic -- about the President‘s very public lie and public slips, about the USA Today excellent investigation into the phone companies‘ re-rigging of large and complicated systems to accomplish it, and if you research the timeline from when the article appeared, you‘ll find mysterious maneuvering in the private sector and several departments of the government. When the subject was pushed further, lies were flowing freely. (Something freely!) The huge on-record fact that a lot of Americans seem to have skipped over, is that the Congress has altered the FISA legislation 5 times already since Bush took office - to make it more lenient and secretive! Meaning, to help him "break" the law as it was. It’s hardly been etched in stone -- he determined the wiretapping “necessary“ due to terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. And I’ll be reasonable: okay, let Congress tailored it to suit his needs, again and again They complained about not having time to get a warrant, so the time was adjusted. They complained about the uncertainty of a warrant being approved, so they were told that 99.99% in tens of thousands of cases have been approved. The excuse, “If Al Queda’s calling, we wanna know why” but if it’s not Al Queda, then I want to know why he’s tapping phones. Still, the law will never be acceptable with any paper trail. Some evidence has come out on electronic eavesdropping of journalists, of lawyers for media outlets and on other cases (where attorney-client privilege is shattered), of their own Party operatives, and -- like Nixon -- political enemies. Why else would the Party want no paper trail, many have asked. Well, I agree that that’s the main answer, but there is another, more insidious reason -- in a whisper: "you're being watched, we hear you, torture, terror," successful and more tangible, more relevant to OUR quotidian lives, returning to INSTILLING FEAR - hell, real paranoia. The old joke about paranoiacs and “sometimes people really are spying on you…” is a propos. I'm tired of the incessant Orwellian allusions, already! Every line of 1984 someone's quoted during the Party's rule because the "fiction" is apt. Also apt is the Party slogan, “Be afraid, be very afraid.” On the news, in the paper, at the coffee shop, there’s talk about various ways citizens have lost their right to privacy. That WAS one of their first targets in gingerly disassembling our democracy, not just through wiretapping and - AHEM! - reading civilians' domestic electronic communications. And losing liberties and losing privacy, has the same results on individuals and the collective consciousness and subconscious..."we could be tortured, that man tortures human beings, they're reading this e-mail," etc. We feel very vulnerable because we are being made to feel very vulnerable. We are not safe because we are programmed to feel unsafe. I cannot ramble on about every aspect of Democracy Lost, but trampled-upon rights and this Law -- regardless of whether or not ANY torture or eavesdropping ever occurs -- gives the Party omnipotence. The president's "joke" several years ago that he was in favor of "dictatorship, just so long as I get to be the dictator!" is so a propos in retrospect I sense it was more an accidental truth spilling out than anything else. One-man rule is controlling. I wonder how frightened and under-his-control the Non-Neocon Republicans are.... The Party nicknamed last month Security September -- it's the Step Two of their atavistic strategy: scare the hell out of everyone, control their actions and CONTROL EMOTIONS - then twist the falsehoods to provide the sense of security. It’s equal to poisoning someone and offering a placebo antidote. Since 2001, we’ve discussed the real and potential eradication of 200-year-old liberties; another analyst said this Law, with habeas corpus, et al., set us back pre-Magna Carta.

I won’t delve into the Law’s provisions on inhumane “commissions”/ tribunals and the legalese I don’t entirely understand. Yet regarding making the Constitutional-right-for-some-of-us of habeas corpus, another odd twist in the Law "any habeas counsel" -- meaning the private attorneys, public defenders, and EVEN MILITARY LAWYERS -- are possible “enemy combatants” themselves in attempts to get judicial review, habeas corpus rights, et al., for their enemy-combatant clients! I’m not paranoid enough to say that examples of “possible combatants” will become definite. Still , regarding “those who oppose the U.S…those who support hostilities,” think about the State of the Union Address which Cindy Sheehan attended as an invited guest -- before the Law. As soon as her T-shirt was noticed, Capitol Police ejected her. AND, minutes later, the wife of a Republican congressman was likewise escorted out - a panic over her “Support the Troops” shirt. (Go figure?) I’d like to think Cindy wouldn’t be declared an enemy combatant, but she could qualify. BUT, I’d like to think she could’ve politely remained in the seat provided for her. Her T-shirt that had nothing more than a 4-digit number printed on it (the to-date number of American dead troops). Asked of that Constitutional Scholar Friday: protest marchers? He said that the “organizers of an anti-war march” could fall under the Law, although not individual marchers (“who’d sue, if they can”). About 35 million people I’ve neglected: the various-status immigrants in the USA. The scholar said the Law jeopardizes them if participating in any way in public, e.g., a rally pro or con some immigration legislation might be a place where someone’s easily disappeared. IMMIGRANTS’ fates are up for grabs…. OVERSEAS CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS, even to U.S. NGOs working in Islamic societies. Unlike problems associated with fake Muslim charities that funneled money into anti-US-policy battles, the Law’s vagueness can regard legit contributors to legit charities “enemy combatants” -- this scholar’s example: “If you give $5 to an NGO building a school in Afghanistan, and it turns out the principal’s father-in-law is ex-Taliban, your $5 is ‘supporting hostilities.’” What about tourists wearing an anti-Bush T-shirt in New York? The expert hesitated but said, “they’d better not do it at the Statue of Liberty - really! Federal government.” Don’t infer that I believe that tourist or the $5-donor will be hauled off to secret prisons; these are examples, though, of what Americans are NO LONGER protected against. The criterion "anyone who opposes the U.S." is so broad I could tally up a couple billion folks. I suppose we could be grateful that the Figurehead isn't really in charge - or exclusively so... Halliburton, et al., would have a lot of facility-building to do!

Another “breather” -- break from the Law rant -- before more intensity in my final section. A few random facts you may or may not know … #1 Re Condi Rice/Afghanistan region’s future. The media have carelessly misreported that Dr Rice is a “Russian scholar” or “expert on Russian affairs.” It’s not propaganda, just sloppy reporters who've substituted “Russia” for “USSR.” Before working at Chevron Oil, Rice was indeed a scholar of / expert on …a few specific Soviet republics, namely the less stable (oil-rich) former SSRs bordering Afghanistan. While the Cuckoo-in-Chief plays tic-tac-toe, with Iran the connector between Iraq and Afghanistan, his brighter subordinate has a more elaborate connect-the-pipeline-dots game… #2 If you heard the EPA was being dismantled, did you know it was meant literally? Moving companies have gone in without notice to employees and are currently taking - literally banging down the hallways - the library holdings and lab equipment, removing libraries and laboratories period. It’s no surprise that the anti-science (and pro-business-polluters) would make cutbacks to the agency and its low- and mid-level staff, but some of the top scientists in the world had been drawn to working at the EPA. If top scientists aren’t given labs, libraries and funds, uh, some are leaving regretfully and regrettably, without the Feds looking bad for pushing them out. …#3 Is anyone surprised that Henry Kissinger is involved in helping out on “Middle East policy“ right now?…. #4 Conspiracy theorists - I’m not dignifying this as possible - say Oct 21st is the D-Day for Iran (under cover of new moon darkness)…. #5 Here’s something that’s been said a million times but one detail bears repeating: long before this Administration the USA was respected and/or envied by most of the world. And the Administration squandered the bonus global good will and sympathy after 9/11. Pop quiz for your neocon friends: what did Iran do on 9/12? What did that axis-of-evil nation say in response? Think, think: Iran had pro-American rallies. The USA had Iran’s good will and sympathy as much as the next guy’s. Parallel to us losing our rights and our pride in America, the Administration has lost not only allies, but made many more enemies. We used to regard ourselves as the good guys - hell, most of the world thought we were too….

That seques into wrapping up the unitary executive worry, and what this means and could mean. I conjured a piece of irony: from Day 1, this President claimed that he didn’t look at polls, he wouldn’t make decisions based on poll numbers … a unitary executive wouldn’t need to! I made it this far, with so many words both in this e-mail and in many discussions, etc., without using the F-word. I’ll reiterate that our leader cannot be name-called A.H.: A.H. was unique. This particular F-word is similarly a semantic bombshell, and has been misused and overused by the gamut of politicians. (And progressives are guilty for it arising with every Republican since Eisenhower… Good ol’ DDE who warned us of precisely what's happening vis-a-vis the military-industrial complex, something our other World Wars lacked.) So I'll say it, the United States truly is approaching objectively definitive fascism. As I started this rambling rant about the Torture & Detainee Law, I’m sorry about the torturing and detaining; I'm worried about the mistreatment of human beings. But we must all be on guard, as well as mortified, about the increased power and fearful power that the Law places in the hands of a unitary executive. "Unitary executive" has been the neocon goal all along, and the Party's come closer and closer. Remember when we last heard that term overused? During the Harriet Myers’ nomination for Supreme Court and Sam Alito confirmation hearings? Both of them favored such an utter imbalance in power. Over the last few years, we've heard members of the executive branch say the judicial needed to be subordinated ("activist judges, activist judges!"), we've heard members of executive and nominees for the judicial say the legislative's power be curtailed. And vice versa. The whole bunch of 'em have concentrated in unitary executive and this Law's a further confirmation. I’m not going to get stuck with words like oligarchy, plutocracy, et al. Here is my partial list of what conditions lead to fascism and/or is fascism:A unitary executive: one-man rule without checks-and-balances of a co-equal branch of government; stripping of citizens’ rights, stripping of Constitution; legalized torture, detention and disappearing of its own citizens as well as foreigners; invading sovereign countries; blatant propaganda (paying newscasters to report Party viewpoints, planting a gay-prostitute White House correspondent - who the Secret Service shows entered the WH 100+x; paying public relations firms for government-produced video reports for local broadcasters to pick up as “news,” paying Americans to write pro-war articles to publish in Iraqi papers, etc., etc.); the “subconscious fear techniques” (I hadn’t yet used the B-word: mass brainwashing); the rise of corporatocracy (expansion far beyond a pro-business agenda; no one in history’s handed out tax cuts in wartime); no-bid contracts for corporate war-profiteering; disobeying treaties to which we were signatories; spying on citizens; the worst-possible-capitalist-cronyism; election tampering and denial of some voters' rights; control of mainstream media (initiated with Republican Chairman running Fox News); etc. It could go on, this list of pre- and proto-fascist conditions which engender actual Fear, not the other fears intentionally instilled to make us more compliant and make the president more powerful.If you know your WWII history, the Law is the equivalent of A.H’s “Enabling Act.” Both enable(d) the leaders to legally break laws as unitary executives.“The other shoe to drop” -- one thing missing from the list in comparison with Nazi Germany is the economic collapse ~ think pictures of wheelbarrows full of cash. With Bush’s wastefulness and very-anti-conservative spending spree, giving money to cronies, the corporatocracy, oil buddies, defense contractors, the USA has its highest ever national debt and highest ever deficit. More than the total of all previous presidents combined - it’s not even close. So the country’s approaching one side of the economic catastrophe. The other goal is to erase the Middle Class completely -- not forgetting the Party’s original goal of likewise erasing all of the New Deal which could’ve helped the Middle Class survive. A lot of pundits have thrown around the term Banana Republic for the past couple of years. Well, this year there’s at least one statistic to back it up. The USA now comes in 3rd on the list of income disparity (measurement of middle class between upper & lower) -- we’re 3rd right behind Russia and Mexico! I can imagine Europe beating us, but South America does too.

I’m going to quit while I’m ahead (joke!), but I was genuinely compelled to rant about the Law. The daily newspapers aren’t making the Law’s implications clear. My “PS” below is a meditation on What We Can Do (or what can we do?). More and more Americans must wake up soon and discover what’s been done to their country, realize that our military forces are weary and depleted on top of everything else, then realize that an unintelligent, seemingly medicated, utter madman has his finger on “the button.” Oh well, I take passive-aggressive consolation in the thought that he thinks he’s going to Heaven after this behavior.

Peace & love (of the 2006 variety),Vanessa

PS - WHAT WE CAN DO… sounds silly to say “vote on 11/7”? As if you won’t?? Well, my dear very progressive friends, this is not the year to take a stand and vote third-party or not at all; and those friends who are more right-leaning, hold your nose and click straight down the Democratic line: you, too, need checks and balances, even if you disagree with me on other points. People of every stripe: don’t be apathetic believing your vote “won’t count anyway.” If you aren’t registered, you’ve got time - most (all?) states registering to vote can be done online. Re stolen elections - I didn't make a big deal above with elections & “fascism” despite the Party’s tampering ever since Al Gore was elected president. The promising Ohio lawsuits won’t be publicized until after Nov 7. One voting-security expert said that “they” could steal as many as 2 million votes BUT (a big but!) that expert said “ONLY" 2 million, an infinite number cannot be stolen. A very large turn-out voting on Democratic line will cancel the abuse.BETTER MOVE: If you’re unsure if you’ll be home or don’t want to wait in line, vote absentee NOW. If you have time on your hands or an easy precinct, simply go in person and vote now… you can do that, and they must supply you with a paper ballot to do so. IF you’ve got a penny to spare, donate now for the last-minute TV ads… the Republican Party of course has tons & tons more money, they’ve got tons more to lose, tons more at stake. (If you don’t know whom to donate to, ask me. It’s the closest races with greatest money disparity.) MAKE SURE EVERYONE YOU KNOW VOTES. No, not “duh.” Non-active citizens are a zillion times more likely to show up for presidential elections, not off-year ones. There is a "convenience" factor, and apathy. Make sure they’re registered (to hell with manners, JUST BRING IT UP IN CONVERSATION: this is the most important election of our lives). Make sure they’ve got a ride to the polls, help neighbors, et al., if you can. Several nonprofit organizations are recruiting as many poll watchers as they can (ask me) -- America’s become one of those “torture states” and America’s become one of those banana republics that requires international monitors come in to oversee the counting of our votesBEYOND “JUST“ VOTING ON 11/7. This Thursday’s a nationwide protest ("worldcantwait. org) taking the form of the kind of general strikes that occur in Europe … I’m afraid it’ll fail this time because not enough people understand YET… Those of you know me really well, know that I don't throw around words like fascism lightly, i.e., I wish people could realize that we're NOT CRYING WOLF. Without checks and balances we're screwed.
Re general strikes, Ukrainians, et al., have been willing to sacrifice a day of work for the sake of their country’s liberty. The Oct 5 protest in more than 100 US cities will no doubt get minimal mainstream media coverage. That's been the problem with a lot of marches & rallies since the Party took control... the main purpose behind those events IS to "demonstrate" on television ideally how many people believe in / feel about some issue. It seems that the best TV news coverage of what’s going on in USA is coming from outside the USA now. Join organizations, if only the online variety. Rent/watch recent documentaries (I can suggest 10). EDUCATE YOURSELF - read the recent books (most libraries have many to choose from). YOU MAY PASS AROUND THIS EMAIL TO ANY/EVERYONE YOU WISH -- THE MOST IMPORTANT / FIRST STEP IS TO LEARN WHAT’S GOING ON. It can’t hurt to sign petitions, especially those where you can add your own comments. (One handy short-cut is “PetitionSite” where you can sign a batch on different issues at the same website.) Okay. I promised I’d stop somewhere. There are a million more things going on in this nation -- and world, if you think about global warming and this president -- that I could say, but I’ve more or less stayed on topic: the Law sucks.

Lovely...just lovely. And yet the "troops" still support them...??

2006-11-01T17:08:00.000-05:00

Quote below made by Ann Coulter, Republican:

"Soldiers are just cowards... The lowest IQ men in our society, those incapable of normal careers enlist.Their choice in life: prison or the military. Some will have to die in the support of our cause."
Ann Coulter,11/06/03

RUSH LIMPBALLS ON HIS RADIO SHOW APRIL OF 2004:

"THE TROOPS ARE EXPENDABLE. THEY ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH

TO LIVE, HERE, IN THE REAL WORLD.

SO WE HAVE THEM OVER IN IRAQ

TO DO WHAT WE TELL THEM TO DO. IF SOME OF THEM GET KILLED?

IT IS NO BIG DEAL. I MEAN, WHAT ARE ANY OF THEM GOING TO

CONTRIBUTE OR AMOUT TO ANYTHING

WHEN THEY COME BACK HOME?

ALL THEY ARE GOOD FOR IS HAVING MORE CHILDREN, TO FIGHT IN FUTURE WARS?

WORKING IN GARAGES? DOING LOW MINIMUM WAGES WORK AT SOME CAR OR PROCESSING PLANT, OUT IN AMARILLO?. THEY ARE

BETTER OFF BEING IN THE MILITARY AND BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO.

IF A FEW OF THEM DIE, WE ARE ALL BETTER OFF, ANYWAYS".

SO THIS IS WHAT WE CAN NOW EXPECT? GO MIKE!

2006-11-01T15:05:00.000-05:00

Letter from Mike Stark

Richmond Times-Dispatch
Oct 31, 2006

The following is a letter to NBC29 from Mike Stark, the man who was tackled for a comment he made at Senator Allen's campaign stop in Charlottesville on Tuesday.

My name is Mike Stark. I am a law student at the University of Virginia, a marine, and a citizen journalist. Earlier today at a public event, I was attempting to ask Senator Allen a question about his sealed divorce record and his arrest in the 1970s, both of which are in the public domain. His people assaulted me, put me in a headlock, and wrestled me to the ground. Video footage is available here, from an NBC affiliate.

I demand that Senator Allen fire the staffers who beat up a constituent attempting to use his constitutional right to petition his government. I also want to know why Senator Allen would want his staffers to assault someone asking questions about matters of public record in the heat of a political campaign. Why are his divorce records sealed? Why was he arrested in the 1970s? And why did his campaign batter me when I asked him about these questions.

George Allen defends his support of the Iraq war by saying that our troops are defending the ideals America stands for. Indeed, he says our troops are defending our very freedom.(?) What kind of country is it when a Senator's constituent is assaulted for asking difficult and uncomfortable questions? What freedoms do we have left? Maybe we need to bring the troops home so that they can fight for freedom at George Allen's campaign events. Demanding accountability should not be an offense worthy of assault.

I will be pressing charges against George Allen and his surrogates later today. George Allen, at any time, could have stopped the fray. All he had to do was say, "This is not how my campaign is run. Take your hands off that man." He could have ignored my questions. Instead he and his thugs chose violence. I spent four years in the Marine Corps. I'll be damned if I'll let my country be taken from me by thugs that are afraid of taking responsibility for themselves.
It just isn't the America I know and love. Somebody needs to take a stand against those that would bully and intimidate their fellow citizens. That stand begins right here, right now.

W. Michael Stark

More on our Illustrious Prez

2006-11-01T08:08:00.000-05:00

It truly is appalling...

Jewels

D'YA GET IT YET??

2006-10-28T06:56:00.000-05:00

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

Written by Frank Morales
Thursday, 26 October 2006

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America.
Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton.
That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.An article on "recent contract awards" in a recent issue of the slick, insider "Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International" reported that "global engineering and technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellog, Brown & Root] announced in January 2006 that its Government and Infrastructure division was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the event of an emergency." "With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year term," the report notes, "the contract is to be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," "for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) - in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." The report points out that "KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton." (3)

So, in addition to authorizing another $532.8 billion for the Pentagon, including a $70-billion "supplemental provision" which covers the cost of the ongoing, mad military maneuvers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places, the new law, signed by the president in a private White House ceremony, further collapses the historic divide between the police and the military: a tell-tale sign of a rapidly consolidating police state in America, all accomplished amidst ongoing U.S. imperial pretensions of global domination, sold to an "emergency managed" and seemingly willfully gullible public as a "global war on terrorism."Make no mistake about it: the de-facto repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) is an ominous assault on American democratic tradition and jurisprudence. The 1878 Act, which reads, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both," is the only U.S. criminal statute that outlaws military operations directed against the American people under the cover of 'law enforcement.' As such, it has been the best protection we've had against the power-hungry intentions of an unscrupulous and reckless executive, an executive intent on using force to enforce its will.Unfortunately, this past week, the president dealt posse comitatus, along with American democracy, a near fatal blow. Consequently, it will take an aroused citizenry to undo the damage wrought by this horrendous act, part and parcel, as we have seen, of a long train of abuses and outrages perpetrated by this authoritarian administration.Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress.
On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's governors."Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military for law enforcement activities goes against some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an emergency having to constantly look over their shoulders while someone who has never visited their communities gives the orders."
A few weeks later, on the 29th of September, Leahy entered into the Congressional Record that he had "grave reservations about certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid, longstanding posse comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law." This had been "slipped in," Leahy said, "as a rider with little study," while "other congressional committees with jurisdiction over these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold hearings on, these proposals."In a telling bit of understatement, the Senator from Vermont noted that "the implications of changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good reason," he said, "for the constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations. Using the military for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy. We fail our Constitution, neglecting the rights of the States, when we make it easier for the President to declare martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty."
Senator Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word a couple of weeks ago that this outcome was likely, I have wondered how Congress could have gotten to this point. It seems the changes to the Insurrection Act have survived the Conference because the Pentagon and the White House want it."The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection Act, accomplished in the dead of night, which gives Bush the legal authority to declare martial law, is now an accomplished fact.The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more direct role in martial law operations. Title XIV of the new law, entitled, "Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative Provisions," authorizes "the Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department of Defense (DOD) processes for identifying and deploying relevant DOD technology to federal, State, and local first responders."In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control" technology and other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the Pentagon to local militarized police units.
The new law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology transfer" agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of agreement achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president's polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.

Source: (1) http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html and http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/092906b.html

See also, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, "The Use of Federal Troops for Disaster Assistance: Legal Issues," by Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney, August 14, 2006
(2) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill+h109-5122(3)

Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, "Recent Contract Awards", Summer 2006, Vol.12, No.2, pg.8; See also, Peter Dale Scott, "Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps," New American Media, January 31, 2006.(4) "Technology Transfer from defense: Concealed Weapons Detection", National Institute of Justice Journal, No 229, August, 1995, pp.42-43.

Photo source: http://sandiego.indymedia.org/images/2005/08/110478.jpg

MORE on chemtrails

2006-10-27T19:58:00.000-05:00

THIS IS IT, FOLKS. :(

2006-10-27T08:48:00.001-05:00

ALARM !

ATTACK ON IRAN IS NEAR!

FOURTH STRIKE GROUP JOINS 3 OTHER ARMADAS OFF IRAN.

GET YOUR WAR ON!

"We have been through spring practice, now the game is on." - Capt. David Angood, Composite Warfare Commander (CWC) for USS Boxer (LHD 4) Expeditionary Strike Group.

This is it folks.
As I have warned, history changes on October 31st.
It is now apparent that Bush does intend to have our ships sunk in the Gulf near Iran in a last-ditch effort to save himself and the GOP with a short bounce in the polls caused by a New Pearl Harbor.

The USS Boxer Strike Group has now joined the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group and the Eisenhower and Enterprise Carrier Groups off the coast of Iran.
This will create a new neo-con reality as the last week before the election will only be news of World War III.

WARFARE COMMANDERS: ENSURING STRIKE GROUP SUCCESSES

G 5 is comprised of Boxer, Bunker Hill, USS Dubuque (LPD 8), USS Comstock (LSD 45), USS Benfold (DDG 65), and USS Howard (DDG 83). ESG 5 also includes PHIBRON 5, the 15th MEU, Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WHEC 726) and Canadian Frigate HMCS Ottawa (FFH 341).

The strike group's warfare command is comprised of PHIBRON 5 as Mine Warfare Commander, Maritime Interdiction Commander, Maritime Strike Operations Commander and Amphibious Warfare Commander. The warfare command also includes Howard as Air Defense Commander, Boxer as Information Warfare Commander, Bunker Hill as Sea Combat Commander and the Commanding Officer of the 15th MEU.
The strike group is currently conducting operations in support of the global war on terrorism while transiting to the Persian Gulf. - Url.: http://www.emilitary.org/article.php?aid=8125

THEY HAVE BEEN MASSING AIR POWER AND BUILT NEW AIR BASES ALL AROUND IRAQ:
Despite the misgivings of the military professionals, Joseph Cirincione wrote in the March issue of Foreign Policy that conversations with senior officials in the Pentagon and the White House had convinced him that the decision for war had already been made.
The Washington Post has reported that at least since March, large teams have been working on invasion plans in the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, while the Iran "desk" at the State Department has been augmented to task force size. It reports to Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of the vice president, who is assistant secretary of state for the NearEast.
In the Pentagon, a similar organization has been established under Neoconservative Abram Shulsky.
In addition a new outpost has been set up in Dubai to coordinate plans. On October 2, a powerful naval battle group around the giant aircraft carrier Eisenhower sailed for the Persian Gulf and is due to arrive a week before the November Congressional elections to join a similar battle group led by the aircraft carrier Enterprise. Meanwhile aircraft of the U.S. Air Force are being readied in bases surrounding Iran and in distant locations. These forces could deliver destructive power that would dwarf the aerial assaults on Iraq.

DON'T FORGET HOW MUCH GATHERING AN ARMADA LIKE THIS COSTS. THEY ARE NOT FOOLING AROUND WITH EXERCISES ANYMORE. THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE A DRILL.

The DailyKOS author points out that stocking up on potassium iodide* is a good idea for the inevitable nuclear retaliation to the planned Bushco nuking of the Natanz research facility.
The author also notes that World War III would knock any vote-stealing and the election itself off the airwaves...Please RECOMMEND!!
THis may be your last chance to try and stop this by getting the word out BEFORE it happens.

Once the shooting starts, it will be too late.-0-

Kenneth Lay-a MIRACLE!!

2006-10-25T15:47:00.000-05:00

First he "dies" suddenly. Then he is cleared of all charges. Next~~~what? he comes back from the DEAD?

MAN THEY THINK WE'RE STUPID!!

(a lot of people are...)

Jewels

An Illuminatus Comes Clean

2006-10-25T15:22:00.000-05:00

A high-ranking member of the Italian Illuminati Speaks out...

What More Needs to be Said?

2006-10-23T17:05:00.000-05:00

FBI director wants ISPs to track users CNET News.com

More on Concentration Camps in Amerika...

2006-10-21T09:26:00.000-05:00

See also links at bottom for even MORE info.

This is for real, folks.

Jewels

And Yet ANOTHER Breach of our Constitutional (sic) Rights!

2006-10-19T08:28:00.000-05:00

The "Torture Bill."

My God in Heaven, I never thought I would be writing about something as horrific as this. Read and WEEP!

For the death of America~and the creation of the New Amerika!

THE NAZI'S ARE COMING!!!!! (They're already here...)

2006-10-19T07:06:00.000-05:00

Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists
Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives against anyone critical of the "war on terror"

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com October 17 2006

Recent scientific polls that show around 84% don't believe the government's explanation behind 9/11 and others confirming the fact that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low have led the Bush administration to sharpen their knives against the new breed of perceived "enemy propagandists," bloggers, journalists and online activists who dissent against the "war on terror."
As Raw Story reports, CENTCOM announced earlier this year that a team of employees would be "[engaging] bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information."

So when you're wasting your time arguing the finer points of the collapse of Building 7 or the quagmire in Iraq with someone who seems unable to grasp basic principles, your foe could well be sat behind a plush U.S. government desk in a uniform.
CENTCOM is infiltrating blogs and message boards to ensure people, "have the opportunity to read positive stories,"presumably about how Iraq is a wonderful liberated democracy and the war on terror really is about protecting Americans.

The CENTCOM website features a useful section, "What Extremists Are Saying," which provides a full catalogue and showcases the diatribes of US government agents Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, Ayman al-Zawahiri and their sympathizers - rhetoric that CENTCOM hopes surfers will seek out in order for them to grasp a true understanding for the necessity of bombing the shit out of another broken backed defenseless country in the name of "freedom."

The jaw-dropping hypocrisy of a regime and its military attack arm that has engaged in the most gargantuan of deceit and propaganda purges against the American people then pointing the finger at inquisitive bloggers for "aiding the enemy," is alarming to behold.

President George W. Bush looks up as he signs the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The bill effectively nullifies nine of the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution and ends the "great experiment" known as The United States of America.
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The White House has made it perfectly clear that it will target American citizens for propagating information harmful to the interests of the U.S. government and classify them as enemy combatants. This is codified in sub-section 27 of section 950v. of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Bush's own strategy document for "winning the war on terror" identifies "conspiracy theorists," meaning anyone who exposes government corruption and lies about major domestic and world events, as "terrorists recruiters," and vows to eliminate their influence in society.

In a speech given Monday, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff (I think he meant to say MOTHERLAND SECURITY~~J.) identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills."

Chertoff has pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.
How long before influential online writers, bloggers and journalists like Greg Palast, who was charged with aiding the terrorists when filming "critical U.S. infrastructure," are arbitrarily gunned down on the street like in Russia or the newly "free" Iraq?

The Bush administration's media mouthpieces have also been mobilized to stereotype any kind of critical thinking as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy," a recent case in point being Fox News' Bill O'Reilly calling for the FBI to investigate the 9/11 Scholars organization for possible ties to terrorist organizations.

Will we witness a "night of the long knives" to silence any and all dissent as the official dictatorship is announced or does the chilling effect of simply threatening to treat bloggers and journalists as terrorists go far enough to intimidate enough people to keep their mouths shut?

A combination of this chilling effect and moves to license websites, impose "hate speech" restrictions and kill off the old internet in favor of a government regulated, China-style "Internet 2" are the tools in the arsenal of the neo-fascists who wish to continue their domestic and imperial bloodletting under the mandated consensus of total obedience.
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*We all knew it was just a matter of time... "Rendition me now, maggots," Quoting Lori Price from her webpage Citizens for a Legitimate Government...

Jewels

GREAT LINK!

2006-10-18T11:24:00.000-05:00

On a lighter note...just got this in my e-mail box.

Kewl!!!

Jewels

OMG!! LIKE, FER SURE!! THIS GIRL IS A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY!!

2006-10-14T22:26:00.000-05:00

UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE. IT HAS STARTED. THE GUY IS THE PRESIDENT, NOT SOME FRIGGIN ROYALTY!!! I MEAN HOLY SHIT, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION MOVIE THE OTHER NIGHT ON AOL...DOES THIS MAKE US ALL TERRORISTS, NOW?? THIS IS GOING TOO FAR!!! THE PRESIDENT IS AN ASS. I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM. I WOULDN'T VOTE FOR HIM. I WANT HIM OUT OF OFFICE, AS HE IS A DISGRACE TO AMERICA AND THE ENTIRE WORLD!!! NOW COME AND GET ME, MAGGOTS!!!!

MY NAME IS JULIE
JEWELS TO MY FRIENDS

Listen to these...the truth needs to be told.

2006-10-08T15:19:00.000-05:00

www.senderberl.com/rense_jones_100206.mp3

www.senderberl.com/rense_jones_100206_2.mp3

THE LONE GUNMAN

2006-10-08T06:27:00.000-05:00

Read THIS article about an X-Files spinoff called the "Lone Gunman" which depicts a "Pilot" series where a PLANE IS FLOWN INTO THE NORTH TOWER OF THE WTC VIA REMOTE CONTROL!!

SIX MONTHS BEFORE 9/11!!!!

How in the HELL was this missed????

Life imitates "art?"

Jewels

1975 WTC FIRE

2006-10-08T05:31:00.000-05:00

I RECEIVED THIS FROM ANOTHER 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT CONTACT AND FRIEND. THIS LINK CAME ORIGINALLY FROM A STORY SENT TO ME ON THE STOCKS, INSURANCE AND THOSE WHO STOOD TO BENEFIT FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TWIN TOWERS.

KEEP BELIEVING THE LIES, SHEEP.

IT BAFFLES ME HOW ANYONE CAN CONTINUE BELIEVENG IN THE FACE OF SO MUCH EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY.

I MAY INCLUDE A LINK TO THE POPULAR MECHANICS ARTICLE THAT THE REICHWING PUT OUT IN REBUTTAL OF THE TRUTH.

ONE ARTICLE.

ONE.

Here is the original article sent to me:

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1261.shtml

Jewels

Proud Enemy of the New World Order!

PARANOID YET?

2006-10-06T07:41:00.000-05:00

If you think this is a joke, think again. Anyone who has the courage to speak or write the truth is vulnerable, especially now that bush can spy on his enemies, not enemies of the country -- but his political enemies who dare to tell the truth (which he has apparently been doing all along anyway) and he can now lock them up and the president has the right to call anyone an enemy and lock them up -- even torture them. This intimidates all reporters, all writers, all protestors, anyone who dissents.

Everything opposite of America...

****

William Rivers Pitt In Case I Disappear
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906J.shtml

William Rivers Pitt writes:
In Case I Disappear
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t Perspective
Friday 29 September 2006
I have been told a thousand times at least, in the years I have spent reporting on the astonishing and repugnant abuses, lies and failures of the Bush administration, to watch my back. "Be careful," people always tell me. "These people are capable of anything. Stay off small planes, make sure you aren't being followed." A running joke between my mother and me is that she has a "safe room" set up for me in her cabin in the woods, in the event I have to flee because of something I wrote or said.
I always laughed and shook my head whenever I heard this stuff. Extreme paranoia wrapped in the tinfoil of conspiracy, I thought. This is still America, and these Bush fools will soon pass into history, I thought. I am a citizen, and the First Amendment hasn't yet been red-lined, I thought.
Matters are different now.
It seems, perhaps, that the people who warned me were not so paranoid. It seems, perhaps, that I was not paranoid enough. Legislation passed by the Republican House and Senate, legislation now marching up to the Republican White House for signature, has shattered a number of bedrock legal protections for suspects, prisoners, and pretty much anyone else George W. Bush deems to be an enemy.
So much of this legislation is wretched on the surface. Habeas corpus has been suspended for detainees suspected of terrorism or of aiding terrorism, so the Magna Carta-era rule that a person can face his accusers is now gone. Once a suspect has been thrown into prison, he does not have the right to a trial by his peers. Suspects cannot even stand in representation of themselves, another ancient protection, but must accept a military lawyer as their defender.
Illegally-obtained evidence can be used against suspects, whether that illegal evidence was gathered abroad or right here at home. To my way of thinking, this pretty much eradicates our security in persons, houses, papers, and effects, as stated in the Fourth Amendment, against illegal searches and seizures.
Speaking of collecting evidence, the torture of suspects and detainees has been broadly protected by this new legislation. While it tries to delineate what is and is not acceptable treatment of detainees, in the end, it gives George W. Bush the final word on what constitutes torture. US officials who use cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment to extract information from detainees are now shielded from prosecution.
It was two Supreme Court decisions, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that compelled the creation of this legislation. The Hamdi decision held that a prisoner has the right of habeas corpus, and can challenge his detention before an impartial judge. The Hamdan decision held that the military commissions set up to try detainees violated both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions.
In short, the Supreme Court wiped out virtually every legal argument the Bush administration put forth to defend its extraordinary and dangerous behavior. The passage of this legislation came after a scramble by Republicans to paper over the torture and murder of a number of detainees. As columnist Molly Ivins wrote on Wednesday, "Of the over 700 prisoners sent to Gitmo, only 10 have ever been formally charged with anything. Among other things, this bill is a CYA for torture of the innocent that has already taken place."
It seems almost certain that, at some point, the Supreme Court will hear a case to challenge the legality of this legislation, but even this is questionable. If a detainee is not allowed access to a fair trial or to the evidence against him, how can he bring a legal challenge to a court? The legislation, in anticipation of court challenges like Hamdi and Hamdan, even includes severe restrictions on judicial review over the legislation itself.
The Republicans in Congress have managed, at the behest of Mr. Bush, to draft a bill that all but erases the judicial branch of the government. Time will tell whether this aspect, along with all the others, will withstand legal challenges. If such a challenge comes, it will take time, and meanwhile there is this bill. All of the above is deplorable on its face, indefensible in a nation that prides itself on Constitutional rights, protections and the rule of law.
Underneath all this, however, is where the paranoia sets in.
Underneath all this is the definition of "enemy combatant" that has been established by this legislation. An "enemy combatant" is now no longer just someone captured "during an armed conflict" against our forces. Thanks to this legislation, George W. Bush is now able to designate as an "enemy combatant" anyone who has "purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States."
Consider that language a moment. "Purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States" is in the eye of the beholder, and this administration has proven itself to be astonishingly impatient with criticism of any kind. The broad powers given to Bush by this legislation allow him to capture, indefinitely detain, and refuse a hearing to any American citizen who speaks out against Iraq or any other part of the so-called "War on Terror."
If you write a letter to the editor attacking Bush, you could be deemed as purposefully and materially supporting hostilities against the United States. If you organize or join a public demonstration against Iraq, or against the administration, the same designation could befall you. One dark-comedy aspect of the legislation is that senators or House members who publicly disagree with Bush, criticize him, or organize investigations into his dealings could be placed under the same designation. In effect, Congress just gave Bush the power to lock them up.
By writing this essay, I could be deemed an "enemy combatant." It's that simple, and very soon, it will be the law. I always laughed when people told me to be careful. I'm not laughing anymore.
In case I disappear, remember this. America is an idea, a dream, and that is all. We have borders and armies and citizens and commerce and industry, but all this merely makes us like every other nation on this Earth. What separates us is the idea, the simple idea, that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are our organizing principles. We can think as we please, speak as we please, write as we please, worship as we please, go where we please. We are protected from the kinds of tyranny that inspired our creation as a nation in the first place.
That was the idea. That was the dream. It may all be over now, but once upon a time, it existed. No good idea ever truly dies. The dream was here, and so was I, and so were you.

William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence. His newest book, House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation, will be available this winter from PoliPointPress.

This is Disgusting...

2006-10-05T09:34:00.000-05:00

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Deviant Conservative Males: an Analysis
By Ben Tripp
Created Sep 30 2006 - 4:50pm

Joke:
Q: What's the hardest part of being a child molester?
A: Getting the blood out of your clown suit.
Mr. St. Clair of CounterPunch recently supplied me with a list of sex crimes committed by prominent conservative Republicans. The list originated on Wikipedia, and he found it here [1], probably while surfing the Internet for Lolita pictures.
It is replete with cross-references and is genuine. Mr. St. Clair, being high on dope, thought I would find the list interesting. He probably did not think I would read the entire thing aloud to my co-workers at the Philistine Worker's Daily, to heartbreaking cries of horror and implorations that I stop before their minds were so tainted they were rendered unfit for wedlock. I now bring you a mere sample of the list of crimes, all of them heinous, so that you might begin to see a pattern among them. I know I did. (A similar and more comprehensive list, including crimes can be found here [2]. It will make your hair curl, uncurl, crawl under the sofa, and die.)

Here is the sample of the list supplied to me by St. Clair. You can't make this shit up.

-- Republican Commissioner ( of Richland County, Ohio ) David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

-- Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

-- Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

-- Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth anti-abortion activist who gained fame during the Schiavo media-circus, was convicted of two charges of raping a child in 2002 .

-- Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

-- Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

-- Republican pastor Mike Hintz,a First Assembly of God youth pastor whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

-- Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

-- Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was charged with molesting his 9-year old step-daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.

-- Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

-- Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter, the Susan Smith who drowned her adorable two sons "in cold blood" in a South Carolina lake in 1995.

-- Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.

-- Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

-- Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

-- Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

-- Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

-- Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

-- Republican Tennessee State Representative, Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

-- Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran.

-- Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

-- Republican candidate Richard Gardner,a Nevada State Representative, admitted to molesting his two daughters.

-- Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner had been convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl. when the Republican Party, knowing of these crimes, put him on the ballot.

-- Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

-- Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

-- Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession. With his political career over, he went to work in the hard-core pornography industry for Platinum X Pictures, owned by his daughter, porn starlet Jewel De'Nyle (Stephany Schwarz).

-- Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall, director of Faith & Family Alliance, (a Christian Coalition spin off), former student of Pat Robertson's Regent University, member of Ralph Reed's inner circle who funneled money to from lobbyist Jack Abramoff to Reed, was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

-- Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

-- Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

-- Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

-- Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

-- Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women. He was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl, and his sentences added up to 126 years in prison.

-- Age 62 Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Denton County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.

-- Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey plead guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

-- Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

My subject is the so-called conservative male, by which I mean the social conservative, not the fiscal conservative; fiscal conservatives are mean-spirited sons of bitches, but are not necessarily psychotic. Both groups should stop breathing, but while one of them would be performing a courtesy in so doing, the other would be securing the future of the species. The depravity of the conservative male is in exact counter-proportion to the degree of righteousness towards which that conservative pretends. Or to put it another way, show me a pillar and I will show you a pervert. These are not healthy people. They repress the thoughts and feelings that the rest of us let drift unheeded into the ether, raising little more reaction from the well mind than 'where the hell did that come from?' I spent years driving my kid to school on a route (the shortest route, you swine) that took us past a Catholic high school. Every morning, swarms of teen girls in plaid kilties, knee socks, and white oxford shirts --a costume second only to the French Maid in terms of prurient association-- could be seen on the school lawn, methodically rolling up the waistbands of their skirts to reveal as much thigh as possible before Morning Mass.

Did I harbor unclean thoughts as I drove past? Hell yes. Did I suppress these thoughts, ashamed lest God or offspring should glimpse them like a subscription-only cable channel through the slightly protuberant windows of my eyes? No, I did not. Why? Because they were just thoughts. I knew I would never dally with these young plaid-girt she-scholars, having no real desire to do so, nor access to a supply of GHB. The same cannot be said for conservative males. They are ravening sex fiends on a hair-trigger, doomed to act out their polluted fantasies because thought and deed are the same to them. (There's something else wrong with conservative females, a subject I will not treat here. Mainly because they don't seem to get caught as often as the males. I deal in facts, not speculation.)

Crushing to extinction our inner reptile response to stimuli of any kind, whether it is fear, hunger, or erotic desire (I can't actually think of any other stimuli), is impossible. We are nothing more than ambulatory sacks of glandular secretion. Nature has decreed that life must replicate itself; it has no other innate purpose. One of the strategies for self-replication involves a thing we scientists like to call 'urges'. That's when a male gets a boner, for example. Organisms that attempt to suppress these urges quickly go mad and behave like Auntie Mildred's Pomeranian, humping the vicar's shoe until beaten senseless with a rolled newspaper. In contrast to this aberrant-suppressive approach to urges, the 'normal' response (that is, the response that is most efficient and least interruptive to an organism's survival-oriented behaviors, such as holding down a day job or eating termites) is to allow such urges to pass. They are, after all, just urges. They do not exist.

I often have an urge to blacken my face with burnt cork and sing Mammy at the intersection of Wilmington and El Segundo in Compton, just to see what will happen. But I do not act on the urge. I allow the urge to come and go, just as I allow the palm trees to sway, the infinity pool to sparkle, and the polo ground to exhale dewy mist in the morning when I step out onto the balcony of the chateau. Things go on within us and without us, unbidden and unremarked-upon. To imagine one can control either one is madness. Could I cut the trees down, to make them still? Drain the pool? Pave the lawns? Yes, I could, overlooking certain zoning restrictions. But why would I? Somewhere there will be a swaying palm tree. It is inevitable that a person seeking such absolute control over the involuntary universe, whether it is inside his head or outside his French doors, will go insane. An urge is just like the swaying of a tree. It is only what it is, and harmless. An urge that is acted upon is no longer an urge. It is an action. Not harmless.
The real trouble comes when a human attempts to utterly quash a pervasive urge, such as the urge to mate, past the built-in tolerances of the organism to deny such behaviors. Your basic conservative male (Ann Coulter, for example) is a boiling cesspool of repressed urges. They see liberal types and imagine we are all fucking and sucking in some vast, sweaty daisy chain, just around the corner so they can't see it happening. They think we're all smoking pot and jamming cocaine-floured dildos up each other's asses and listening to Negro Music. The conservative imagines all this, and immediately has to stuff these imaginings down in a dark inner place, because even imagining them is verboten. They are repressed, they are half-insane with paranoid delusions about what normal, open-minded people are getting up to-and most of all, they're jealous as hell they weren't invited to participate, if only so they could self-righteously say 'no'. Liberals, meanwhile, are not necessarily getting laid any more than conservatives (probably we are, though), but we experience without judgment the passing fancies that occur to us, rather than dwelling upon them, half-nauseated, half-aroused, until they become detailed fantasy scenarios that beg to be put into action, presumably on someone too young to be familiar with the concept of sexual predators.

I have often posited in the past that most serious conservative males are latent homosexuals. They are tormented, according to this thesis, by knob-gobbling hobgoblins that were awakened during some fetishistic hazing ceremony back at the fraternity and have since been locked up in an inner love dungeon where they metamorphosed into demons of dingle-dandling depravity that would make even the most debased patrons of such establishments as The Manhole and the White Swallow (tragically defunct gay bars in Chicago) blench with horror. But this theory does a disservice to homosexuals. I reject the premise. Conservative males are not latent homosexuals, they are common perverts. It's the tendency towards penny loafers and Georgian Revival that got me confused.

Homosexuality is, contrary to right-wing hate-think, not particularly unusual or unnatural in the natural world. Many species, particularly when there is some kind of population pressure (overgrazing, for example, or living in a Hassidic neighborhood) exhibit a rise in homosexual behavior that remains consistent in individuals throughout their lives. There is a famous example involving herds of bison, the details of which I have forgotten but I think there was a whole band of young bulls that ended up making their own slipcovers. Homosexuals that are open about their sexual identity are healthy and normal. They're just healthy and normal in a revolting way if you're not homosexual. The same thing could be said about corporate lawyers or the Swiss. Homosexuals that cannot accept what they are, do generally become right-wing cranks, and sometimes get caught testing the waters in the ole swimming hole, as it were. It can be said that all latent homosexuals are conservative, but all conservatives are not latent homosexuals. The ones in the latter category are dangerous freaks.
See, a conservative is somebody threatened by the quality of being different. As in: different race, gender, income bracket, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual inclination, language, philosophy, educational background, lifestyle, wardrobe, age group, taste in music, drugs, or literature, different ideas, spending patterns, abilities, politics, friends, entertainments, and hairstyle. Threatened by all of those things, usually. Conservatives are xenophobic to a degree that normal people cannot imagine. To be homosexual is to be not just different, but way different; this is intolerable, and leads many otherwise useful human beings into conservativism, hence the latency. But the latter category of conservative, the sexual deviant (it seems to me based upon my extremely well-reasoned examination of the above list), is the one that causes all the trouble, and should not be conflated with the homosexual. Queers (males, anyway) are born that way, like southpaws and redheads. On the other hand, sexual deviancy (as psychologists never tire of reminding us) is not inherited, but learned.

It's always someone older. An adult gets at a child, teaches him or her the Way of the Willy, and slinks off into the night. Or the child is told again and again by an authoritarian parent full of bile and Bible that sex is dirty, that Jesus died a virgin, that sexual thoughts or feelings are the Devil turning the crank on your personal erector set. If Uncle Gerald made you play hide-the-salami every night for ten years, or if you feel erotic urges of any kind, you are not, these tragic youngsters learn, like normal people. You are --wait for it-- different. Not only different, but exposed to ridicule, calumny, obloquy, and probably (assuming these conservatives actually believe the Biblical vitriol they're forever spewing, which I am inclined to doubt) eligible for the Eternal Burning Torments Of Hell. Voila! A conservative perv is born: one that will eventually succumb to nasty deviant behaviors, unable to keep the lid on those early traumatic experiences, like Laocoön wrestling with his snakes and little boys.

If God is watching, why do these crackpots keep on buggering youngsters cross-eyed? Surely their bitter old God frowns on that as much as homosexuality, if not more so, and in many New England states it's also illegal. If God can tell they're thinking something off-color while driving past the Catholic school (the one that was on the shortest route to my kid's school, for example), surely He can tell they're plundering some press-ganged juvenile bottom in the cloakroom of the local ministry? I cannot say what logic supports this behavior. It is hypocrisy of the basest kind, certainly. It may be that the alpha-conservatives convince themselves it's the children's fault, for dressing up in those sexy terrycloth pyjamas with feet. Or maybe they are so drunk with power they imagine what they do isn't wrong, channeling God's authority first-hand, teaching the little naughties a valuable lesson.

But I think it comes down to conflating urges and actions, in the end (or 'actions in the end', if you prefer). These conservatives have spent their lives denying themselves and others various things: they deny themselves the mustachioed sailor of their dreams, and they deny black people basic civil rights. They deny themselves a furtive glance at an early-period Britney Spears video, and they deny women the right to reproductive freedom. The conservative doesn't understand that an urge is only an urge, nothing more, and doesn't understand that people who are different are not a threat to them personally, nor to their house-of-cards moral apparatus. They live in terror of being perceived to be different, of succumbing to their urges, and that terror, amalgamated with those simmering, repressed urges, manifests itself at last in vile, deviant behavior that strikes out at the world, wounding its most defenseless citizens and creating in the process a new generation of secret guilt and shame and fear of being different. I guess. Who knows. Maybe conservatives are just born fucked up in the head.
But a list like the one excerpted above is certainly thought-provoking. It reveals in miniature a pattern of behavior that can be found in people of all stripes and inclinations. There are plenty of liberal sex criminals, too, and deviants in every walk of life. The thing that is so repulsive about social conservatives (other than everything) is that they make it the central point of their lives to decry this stuff, calling down blood and thunder against such abomination, and then they do it. They abhor abortion because it is murder, and then they kill abortion providers on their doorsteps. They rant and rave about the dangers of gay marriage, and then they get caught gnawing on some 9th-grader's weenie. The conservative male is a creature that wants to destroy everything that is different, everything that threatens to tickle an urge into a full-blown offense. He wants to create a world where there is no temptation, no opportunity that could incite his inner monster to erupt and embarrass him at some schoolgirl's expense. It is of course insanity. I would almost pity the conservative male, except he's destroying mankind and the world --the real world-- in order to keep his imaginary world in order. He wants nothing more than absolute oppression of us sinners, libertines, and free thinkers, imagining in his feverish, gristly mind that if he oppresses us, he can somehow repress himself._______

Ben Tripp, author of Square in the Nuts, is a hack in many mediums.
He may be reached at: credel@earthlink.net

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHAVEZ

2006-10-04T06:30:00.000-05:00

The Amerikan "government" (plutocracy) want all to believe that Chavez is the enemy.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

I saw a brief blurb on the AOL "Welcome Screen" which referred to a few sheeple who refused the offer of free fuel oil by Chavez as "Patriots."

There is nothing worse than the new "Amerikan Patriot!"

Jewels

MORE SCANDAL-FOLEY

2006-10-03T05:01:00.000-05:00

ONE CAN ONLY HOPE AND PRAY THAT THERE WILL SOON BE AN END TO ALL OF THE SICKENING THINGS THIS EVIL REGIME HAS DONE.
DEAR GOD, I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW HIDEOUS THEY TRULY ARE!

Jewels

MORE ABOUT TORTURE

2006-10-03T04:54:00.000-05:00

DON'T DONATE TO CHARITY!!!!

2006-10-02T10:23:00.000-05:00

EVEN MORE GESTAPO/KGB TACTICS.

BUT THE SHEEPLE STILL DEFEND THIS EVIL REGIME.

I DON'T GET IT?

HOW CAN THEY BE SO BLIND?

Jewels

IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT LEAVING!

2006-10-01T13:01:00.000-05:00

THIS IS A LINK TO AN OP-ED PIECE COMPARING THE REICHSTAG OF NAZI GERMANY TO THE CURRENT REGIME IN AMERIKA! THINK VERY HARD ON THESE WORDS...

Jewels

TORTURE IN THE NEW AMERIKA

2006-09-29T08:23:00.000-05:00

AND LET US ADD A LITTLE TORTURE TO THE NEW AMERIKA, AS THE REICHWING -IN GOOSTEP- MARCHES EVER ONWARD!!!

Jewels

A future torture victim?

'Cuz as the shrub says,
"You're either on OUR side, or you're a TERRORIST!

Count me in, Bushy...with the "terrorists" that is!

"I SPY"...THE NEW AMERIKA

2006-09-29T06:58:00.000-05:00

OUR "PRESIDENT" GOT HIS WISH...

HE IS NOW "FREE" TO SPY~ON ANYONE HE CHOOSES.

I WISH I HAD BEEN BORN ABOUT 100 YEARS SOONER. IN ORDER TO NOT HAVE TO SEE THESE THINGS COME TO PASS.

Jewels

My God!!!

2006-09-27T11:14:00.000-05:00

Is there nothing these freaks will NOT stoop to?

Read these sickening accounts of the grotesqueries that occurred (and still occur) at the

"Detainment Camps"

They're sick and evil!

Period.

And Even MORE Links!

2006-09-26T09:33:00.000-05:00

Also read this...

WAKE THE HELL UP, FOOLS!!!

THE TIME FOR "NICETIES" IS OVER!!

How much more do you need to know before you "get it?"

Jewels

THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION

2006-09-26T08:49:00.000-05:00

THERE WILL SOON BE NO MORE AMERICA.

SHE IS DYING.

READ IT HERE:

Jewels

*Above is the planned North American SuperCorridor Coalition from Mexico to Canada: Via what is now Central North America. But not for much longer...

And, by the way~~this is from a CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE!!

Interview with Hugo Chavez

2006-09-25T07:08:00.000-05:00

No wonder the shrub hates him so!!!

LOL

Could we maybe have a coup d' etat right here, in America?

I think if enough of us get really, really fed up, it could happen!

And being a Pacifist by nature, I would prefer it be done without force, but I fear this is the only language this illegitimate "president" and his cronies understand!

Jewels

Clinton/Wallace Interview on Faux News!!

2006-09-25T06:24:00.000-05:00

What can I say...Clinton made his share of mistakes. He did some really crappy things, and I have read of worse things he may,or may not, have done.

BUT HE SURE KICKED SOME ASS HERE!!!

I wanted to get the transcript out before the Faux News and MSM and the Rovian-spin Machine got hold of it!!

Three cheers for the internet!! And three cheers for Bill! Sounds like life's terrors and trials may have made a true man out of him!!

And he can SPEAK! COHERENTLY!!

How did we get to this place? With incompetent thugs and idiots who cannot parse a simple participle running this once great country? With Neo-cons who believe that blowing the hell out of the World is the answer to all our ills!

I have doubted if Bin Laden was truly responsible for anything, after watching these bungling morons make trash out of the office of President and VP and so on. Liars extraordinnaire!! (sp?) Clinton lied about his illicit sex-life. Bush and Co. have lied...about EVERYTHING!! No wonder I don't believe the "Official Version of 9/11!" They lie too damn much!! Please pardon my "French."

In this interview with Neo-con shill Mike Wallace, Clinton kicks ass! And takes names! And shows intelligence, bullocks and moxy!! Three things which are sadly lacking in the current "Administration." That Ship of Fools.

Read it and weep, Neo-cons.

There will be a civil war if something is not done soon!!

Jewels

The Daily Kos

2006-09-23T05:09:00.000-05:00

Yup, shoulda known it was all BS!

Jewels

My Baby Bob, when he was a kitten.

2006-09-21T11:32:00.000-05:00

This is a pic of my beautiful BB. He was so proud and so ALIVE!! I will always miss him...always.

For other pet-pics~~and more~~see my Kitties in Space blog., here:

http://kittiesinspace.blogspot.com/

MY NEW BABY!!

2006-09-21T11:25:00.000-05:00

Thank you, God, for this gift. I have missed my Baby Bob so terribly. I loved him so much, but now I have a new, lost orphan to care for!!
I just adore kittens!! (Said kitten is attacking every keystroke...LOL)

Jim is actually caring for our new baby in this photo...I got him HOOKED!!

(Naahhh...he was "hooked" already!)

Jewels

The Velvet Revolution Site

2006-09-19T07:32:00.000-05:00

Very interesting site with much information.
I have been attempting to educate some people on a forum where people can comment on Letters and Opinions sent to the local paper. I recently sent a Letter to the Editor of my paper and have received so many hate-filled, rude and derogatory comments, that I removed the link. It is pathetic how blinded and stupid people really are! In the face of the ugly truths of what is really happening in this country, the most they can come back with is "loony-leftist Conspiracy Theorist!" And then they proceed to try and educate me as to the truth, whereby they just spout the party line.

America is over. Due to stupidity, ignorance-blatant, in your face ignorance. And passivity.

She was wonderful for a time...till the REAL truth came out.

I tried one more time to try to get these people to think outside the box; to embrace a new paradigm, but they are still ignorant, ugly and hate filled rednecks! I stooped to their level of name-calling and insults, and they just wouldn't quit.

There comes a time to pick up your marbles, pack 'em up, and leave the playground, as a friend of mine once said

Leave the bullies to their hate and ignorance. They are unreachable.

I have said it before; I will say it again:

May God help us all!

AMEN!

Jewels

Ahhhh, more Tinfoils!!

2006-09-14T09:13:00.000-05:00

GEE, WE SURE DO THINK AN AWFUL LOT ALIKE...

Jewels

And this is just one of hundreds of similar sites.

News article vericating my assertion that those who were first responders to 9/11 are now seriously ill!

2006-09-14T09:02:00.000-05:00

This is inexcusable. The air was NOT "safe to breathe!" And the EPA lied about it.

But then, this government lies as a matter of course!

Jewels

THE BESTIAL PRESIDENT (sic)

2006-09-13T22:13:00.000-05:00

METHINKS OL' BABS MAY'VE BEEN INTO BESTIALITY...WITH A JACKASS!!

WHAT A SCHMUCK...

Yeah, I know, I am calling names.

But these guys asks for it!!

Jewels

YEAH YEAH YEAH

I KNOW IT'S A HORSE!

AA Threatens to Sue ABC

2006-09-13T11:16:00.000-05:00

A link to a letter I received regarding American Airline's response to the deceitful "Path to 9/11" program aired recently on ABC. They are considering a lawsuit for misrepresentation of the events on that day and slanderous accusations made against their Airline.

Yet so many continue to defend this lying trash!

Jewels

WHY ARE THEY SO FRIGHTENED?

2006-09-11T09:08:00.000-05:00

Having just read a blogpost (and e-mailing the Administrator) which claims that those of us who support the 9/11 Truth Movement, and so forth, are members of the "Tinfoil Hat" group, I must ask this question? Why ARE they so afraid? Why does every debate they offer include disparaging remarks toward those who are not afraid to question the status quo? I, personally, only use tin-foil to store and protect my food. I have never worn it on my head...what a ridiculous notion! (Although I truly enjoyed that scene in Scary Movie 3 where "George" peels open the Tinfoil hat on Charlie Sheen's head and discovers-and begins eating-a huge Hershey's Kiss! Yummy!!)

They were debunking the Loose Change videos, among other things. On very trite and immaterial issues. Dylan Avery is a very intelligent young man and uses science to back his claims, not ludicrous, unbelievable theories. Have none of them ever studied physics? You cannot have a 110-story building-purportedly destroyed by jet fuel; then "pancaking", floor on top of floor, to the ground, as the "Official" version claims-fall at free fall speed. Uh uh. No way. Not possible.

Why you may ask?

OK, let's study a bit of physics here:

First, you have Galileo's Laws and Newton's Laws of Gravity. I do not have the exact equation that Dylan cites in his video, but I could access it to prove these points. You see, these laws are immutable. They cannot be changed in this physical realm unless one introduces a new element-e.g. removing the support. But I am getting ahead of myself. OK-the laws of gravity dictate how fast an object will fall to the ground. The laws of inertia dictate the amount of resistance-friction-there is, which slows an object-any object-down. Period. No discussion on that one, unless one were to apply a little WD-40, and reduce friction on an object, but now I digress. Therefore, you have a body in motion-the upper floors falling, versus a body at rest-the lower, stationary floors. Let me refresh the reader as to the laws of inertia: A body at rest will tend to remain at rest. And a body in motion will tend to stay in motion. So this is the scenario: The top floors were brought down by jet fuel melting the 47 steel columns that were placed in the center of the building to provide enough support to withstand a 150 year storm, a direct hit by a 757, etc...OK, you get the idea. (As well as causing the "melting"/buckling of the 236 outer steel columns which cokprised the OUTER structure of the buildings. One Physicist put it in context very well-it would be like poking a pencil through a screen door. It makes a hole, but the whole door does not collapse! J.) And steel/iron melts at temperatures greater than 2800 degrees F. Unless, once again, you alter the structure! Plus steel only begins to structerally weaken at temps of around 600-1200 degrees F. The heat at which the WTC fires burned briefly, at their very peak!) [This also makes for a total of 283 STEEL BEAMS per building!]

If the buildings had pancaked, there would have been a gradual slowing of the fall of said buildings as the laws of inertia met-and opposed. (As well as the inner steel core remaining intact, as the floors were NOT attached to these 47 inner steel beams. J.) Therefore, the Towers would not have fallen at free-fall speed, they would have fallen slower and slower as they went, leaving great big stacks of debris and floors and office equipment and building materials with portions of the building intact and huge chunks of, whatever! The only huge, partially intact chunks were the very bottom outer structure. As there was probably little inertia left by the time the falling building got to the base. (But remember, there WAS no inertia, it was removed)
So, in order to have these buildings fall at the 9.2 second rate at which they fell-which Dylan proves in his video-as per Galileo's equation of free fall speed, the bottom support HAD to be removed! Again, the only way they could have-and did-fall at this speed is if the bottom half was transformed as to eradicate all opposing force-inertia. This could only be done by controlled demolition, blasting out the lower supports. (And more?) And Controlled Demolition Inc is the very company which removed all traces of the debris before they could be accurately studied. And many of the chunks of steel were no more then 2 feet long! Just perfect for fitting on the trucks that hauled the debris quickly away: to be rapidly sold to Chian and India. Right.

And everything else? Mostly pulverised! If the Towers had merely collapsed by jet fuel, they would have toppled over, destroying much of the surrounding buildings, not just those in the WTC conclave, and there would have been BODIES! Not just very small parts and pulverized concrete. Along with mercury, asbestos, lead, benzine and so forth. Do any of you dreamers know that 14 of the dogs used in the search and rescue operation have since died? Or that approximately 50% (or more) of the workers at Ground Zero are now disabled? AND, that our wonderful govt refuses to give them any assistance? And that many have actually died?

I am hereby also postulating-by the evidence-that SCALAR technology was used. Just like it is being used in Iraq, if one were to really study-from an educated standpoint-the reports of Iraqi physicians who find bodies that are mostly vaporized-in Iraq!! And please don't refute me on Russian Nickola Tesla's discovery of the longitudinal SCALAR waves which travel in the vacuum of space. This is also well-documented Science!**(A promising hypothesis derives from the super fine particles found by Dr. Cahill, so small that they would normally occur only if metals were heated to the boiling point, e.g., approximately 2,750° C for steel, that is, steel vaporized and re-condensed as particles. Since such temperatures were not reached, the process would be something that could extract or neutralize the bond energy of metal atoms. Call it an "alien ray gun." It may be a scalar interferometer: tune two electromagnetic scalar waves so their interference zone extracts energy at a wavelength corresponding to the bonding forces in the metal and it begins to fall apart. This hypothesis necessarily involves secret technology, so it is not a proven but possible explanation for the data. We encourage Professor Jones to investigate.
**Quoted from LookingGlassNews...[Sometimes it really sucks to be right most of the time. J.]

Nope, those buildings fell at free fall speed-9.2 seconds-into their own footprints-in demolition lexicon-and they did so because something destroyed the undergirding of those buildings!! That "something" had to be bombs. You fail to mention all the footage that is shown in Dylan's most excellent vide, Loose Change II, showing the numerous Reporters, Firemen and other City Workers speaking on TV repeatedly about those explosions; or the tapes that were made by on-lookers and people in nearby buildings-tapes both video and audio. Or the video's showing the "squibs," which are always apparant in controlled demolition. There is so much more- all based on fact, not fantasy

The Richter Scale rating from a nearby earthquake monitoring station, where they stated that the 1993 bombing of the WTC did not even register because it was "not connected to the ground," yet they register the blasting of TNT from a nearby mine daily--due to explosions! And, they registered both Towers on their equipment before they fell. 2.3 for North Tower, 2.5 for the south Tower. There is also a video form a photog acroos the Hudson who also used a scale to measuer the numerous pre-and after-explosions. And on and on and on; the evidence is there!
Audio tapes-finally released by the government-of firefighters stating they had the blazes under control while in the North Tower! If one wants to truly understand the horror that was-and is-9/11, they need to do some research on their own, insteading of buying the bogus, MSM version of those events! The Science just doesn't add up!! And I have studied a great deal of science. I have also seen numerous instances where someone who originally came forward with the TRUTH, later recanted the view they stated previously. This includes iconoclast-Doug Thompson. As I state in another post. One poster, when commenting on this, stated he probably made the statement that his previous views of the 9/11 disaster were bogus with a gun pointed at his head! I concur. (See update on this. J.)

So... D'ya really think this kid you claim to be so dense and so unskilled and so lacking in knowledge could have faked all this??? Could have created it out of whole cloth, so to speak?
I think not.

Nor could anyone have faked the footage of the Towers and Building 7 falling at free-fall speed. Building 7 fell to the ground in 6 seconds. Straight down-you guessed it-into it's own footprints. With the very top portion of the building falling first! ADN THEN DISINTEGRATING!
Watch a video of this. Any video. In slow motion. It, again is right there! So, if this building was destroyed by fires in the lower sections, they would have collapsed first, before then pulling the rest of the structure down onto itself: also in a messy heap. Not a neat, tidy little pile, as was shown on all News Video.

Yet, no high-rise buildings before that day-or since, ever-have collapsed due to fire. Many of which burned for hours on end. But the Twin Towers burned for approximately one hour each, on the middle floors, and then collapsed.

Get real!

I would also like to add that I feel this is a horrible affront to those who lost loved ones in order for the members of the PNAC to begin to enact their NWO scenario via a "New Pearl Harbor-type event." Just read their website, if you do not believe me.
http://www.newamericancentury.org

or this site, which analyzes the original...
http://www.pnac.info/

It is all right there for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

I am adding this most excellent link (below) to a site which states the exact same things I am saying here. I just recieved the link from a friend. Only THIS viewpoint specifies some other explosive devise as the cause of the Towers being literally vaporised! That they exploded, NOT imploded. Very interesting points here. And the picture they provide of a nuclear blast is a perfect replica of the image of the Towers as they fell...so SCALAR or Nuclear, it was STILL AN INSIDE JOB! (I am coming to believe it was all three! Jwls. 5-6-07)

http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=7095

Jewels

PS: This is a work in progress, and my knowledge of the events of that horrible day is growing constantly. And, hopefully, will continue to grow. As Hitler stated, not verbatim: 'It is good for the leaders when free men do not think.' (Close enough for my purposes here. Especially when said Leaders are EVIL! J.)

Dogshitbush...Great blog!!

2006-08-31T09:29:00.000-05:00

I discovered this blog while reading the Huffington Post, listed under the comments. It is a bit "gross" at times, but I can't think of a better description for the shrub...unless it is Batguanobush.

Ye Gads, the man stinks!!!

SABOTAGE

2006-08-29T01:28:00.000-05:00

I was in the process of writing an OpEd piece for an Organization to which I was invited to participate, when my computer was once again sabotaged.
I have used MSWord so very many times, and how convenient that, just as I was done spell-checking, editing and getting ready to hit save, I receive a message as to how the "program has encountered a problem and must close." And whoops! ! That was that! No more document. No more fruits of my labor. I am disgusted, to say the least! I, like many vocal and prolific activists, have had tremendous problems with my computer. I guess I really shouldn't be surprised.
The bright spot, is my local paper is printing another of my LTE in the next week or so. This will be my 3rd one, and I am proud to be allowed to contribute my thoughts and ideas to the local community!

Ahhh well, tomorrow is another day...

Jewels

The MinuteMen

2006-08-24T20:54:00.000-05:00

I take it back...the hell with you Mexicans!! I read this stuff, and then I don't feel sorry for you anymore! If it is a war you want; then a war you will get! Like the one you LOST, many years ago!! My god, I am only human, and when I read this kind of hate and animus, then animals you are...except I have more respect for animals!
Go HOME!! And STAY THERE!! I cannot BELIEVE I ever felt remorse for the things I have said and felt. I don't give a damn WHO is instigating this. It must be stopped!!! God help those in Border States!!!
Yah, just read this trash, and see if YOU don't become angry!!

Jewels

Yes...I am angry. But once again, WHO is truly responsible for this invasion? Yup...that's right. The gub'ment! The good ol' USof'A Government! Makes me sick. If they can keep us angry, and create divisions, then it is much easier for them to control us! I continue to try NOT to play into their hands, but this whole "Illegals" thing is just too much! Just one more method of their destroying the America we thought we knew!!! It is like they are purposely baiting us-giving them "Amnesty" and our bought and paid for Social Security-which is already in crisis. Sending them to college, when my own daughter had to drop out because she could not work 40+ hours a week, be a single mother herself, and go to school, even part time! Yet they will PAY those who illegally invade our country to DO SO!!

It just makes me furious...at the damn Government, more then anything. If they wanted to stop this, they could.

It is purposeful; and intentional. Make no mistake about THAT!

Jewels

MORE FREEDOM LOST...

2006-08-21T12:08:00.000-05:00

WILL IT EVER END?

And all these people who support this nonsense simply REFUSE to be enlightened as to the REAL reason why:

TO RESTRICT OUR FREEDOMS!!!

OH DEAR GOD, WILL THEY EVER WAKE UP???

More an Concentraion Camps in America...

2006-08-18T07:05:00.000-05:00

BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID.

THIS IS BULLSHIT!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!

2006-08-17T09:39:00.000-05:00

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

READ THIS AND REALIZE THAT MORE AND MORE OF OUR FREEDOMS ARE BEING TAKEN FORCIBLY AWAY WITH EACH NEW "TERROR ATTACK!"

WAKE UP PEOPLE, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!

Jewels

THE TERROR-MAKERS

2006-08-16T15:58:00.000-05:00

TERROR TERROR EVERYWHERE!!!!!

Yeah. Right.

MY APOLOGY

2006-08-12T16:19:00.000-05:00

I cannot sign off today without posting one more thing...an apology. Toward the Hispanic people who have come to live in America. My posts on the "Illegals" had merit, yes, but I should have recognised the workings of the Hegelian Dialectic when I saw it! Even those of us who are awake can still be fooled! The good ol' "divide and conquer" works every time, no?

I hope all who read my posts understand that I, like many Americans, felt we were under attack! I, as one who is "enlightened", should have known better! It was just another ploy by the evil and corrupt government. Again. And I fell for it.

So, where are all these "illegals" now???

Jewels

THE LONE NUTTER

2006-08-12T15:19:00.000-05:00

www.lonenutternews.blogspot.com

GREAT BLOG!!!

I CAME TO "KNOW" JAYE THROUGH A RATHER HOSTILE LETTER I WROTE HIM REGARDING HIS CRITIQUE OF "TRANCE-FORMATION..." BY C. O'BRIEN AND M. PHILLIPS, BUT WE ENDED UP HAVING A BRIEF E-MAIL DIALOGUE INSTEAD. HE INCLUDED THIS LINK FOR MY PERUSAL. WHILE WE MAY CONTINUE TO DIFFER ON SOME THINGS, I FELT MUCH OF HIS BLOG WAS QUITE SYNCHRONIZED WITH MINE!!

I ALSO HAVE TO AGREE WITH HIM REGARDING THE VERY, VERY LITTLE AVAILABILITY OF REALLY GOOD MUSIC STATIONS. YES,, JAYE, I GREW UP ON KISS, LED ZEPPELIN, ETC, AD NAUSEUM, BUT I HAVE, OVER THE YEARS BEEN ABLE TO FIND AN OCCASIONAL REALLY GOOD BAND THAT I CAN LISTEN TO-FOR A WHILE. EARLY...I MEAN EARLY U2 COMES TO MIND! THE FIRE AND PASSION IN THE VOICE OF BONO AND THE AWESOME GUITAR RIFFS OF DAVE WERE JUST MIND-BLOWING. AND I CANNOT SAY THIS WITHOUT DEFENDING ANOTHER OF MY ALL-TIME FAV BANDS-PINK FLOYD. THEY NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME.

I HAVE SINCE BEGUN TO APPRECIATE MORE JAZZ/JAZZROCK FUSION. AS FOR "TOP 40"? BBBLLLLLEEEECHHH!!!!

NO MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID!

IS THERE TRULY A SON OF GOD NAMED JESUS? I BELIEVE SO. AFTER FORAYS INTO AGNOSTISM, NEW AGE (HELP!!!) AND EASTERN RELIGIONS/PHILOSOPHIES, MY FAITH HAS RETURNED TO THE SIMPLE MESSAGE JESUS PREACHED:

LOVE, KINDNESS TOWARD OTHERS, AND FORGIVENESS. OR THE GOOD OLD GOLDEN RULE.

IS THERE TRULY A GREAT CONSPIRACY BY THE ILLUMINATI/ZIONISTS/ELITE?

I DON'T TRULY KNOW. IT APPEARS TO BE TRUE, AFTER ALL MY STUDIES, SO I HAVE COME TO ACCEPT THAT IT MAY BE SO. THAT IS ALL I CAN DO.

READ HIS STUFF...IT IS ENTERTAINING, IN ITSELF!! AS ARE ALL BRILLIANT MINDS!

My Thoughts

The Ensuing Theft of our Water.

"The Secret": A Critique.

JUST READ IT!! AND WEEP...

Even MORE on chemtrails

I'm sick of blogspot

Government Torture of US Citizens!

Look at these War pictures...if you dare.

1st Amendment Rights

America the Beautiful...

More of BushCo's Stealth Attacks.

I KNEW IT!!!!!!

The "American Mayor" in a NEW light!

The Thought Police

This is Hearbreaking!

Molly Ivins~~In Memory Of.

The REAL Truth?

Well, this'll get me sent to the Gulag, for sure!

The New(est) Epidemic!

THE DECIDER HAS DECIDED ONCE MORE

YA THINK???

They're At It Again

"Homicidal" Soldier~An Oxymoron.

People Before Lawyers Site

The Noose Tightens...

Finally! SOMEONE SAYS IT...And more.

“I didn’t say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.”

Ahhh...it gratifies me so when I discover intelligence in the Media.

Not a novel article, no, but I still don't get it.

This is NOT Funny!!!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE....

Now you don't talk so loud...

Animal Terrorism Act Signed Into Law

Go Patrick!

MORE BUSH-ISM'S?

Great HuffPost article~~Hehehehehe...

CONyer's blog

NANCY PELOSI: CONSPIRATOR IN PEARLS

THIS IS FUNNY, ALSO!

This is Funny!!

AND NOW...REALITY.

I, too, am still skeptical. I just don't TRUST the Creeps

Election News via AOL.

From the Message Boards...thank you Jcongalady!!

Judges Questioning Legality of Detainee Law (Finally...)

What, again, needs to be said?

NUKE IN IRAQ (?)

My Op-Ed piece on Media Boycott.

Female soldier Kills Herself Rather Than Torture "Prisoners."

WOW...someone else gets it!!!

Lovely...just lovely. And yet the "troops" still support them...??

SO THIS IS WHAT WE CAN NOW EXPECT? GO MIKE!

More on our Illustrious Prez

D'YA GET IT YET??

MORE on chemtrails

THIS IS IT, FOLKS. :(

Kenneth Lay-a MIRACLE!!

An Illuminatus Comes Clean

What More Needs to be Said?

More on Concentration Camps in Amerika...

And Yet ANOTHER Breach of our Constitutional (sic) Rights!

THE NAZI'S ARE COMING!!!!! (They're already here...)

GREAT LINK!

OMG!! LIKE, FER SURE!! THIS GIRL IS A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY!!

Listen to these...the truth needs to be told.

THE LONE GUNMAN

1975 WTC FIRE

PARANOID YET?

This is Disgusting...

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHAVEZ

MORE SCANDAL-FOLEY

MORE ABOUT TORTURE

DON'T DONATE TO CHARITY!!!!

IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT LEAVING!

TORTURE IN THE NEW AMERIKA

"I SPY"...THE NEW AMERIKA

My God!!!

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