404 Congressional Action

Talk about error. On October 23, 2007 404 of our congress critters voted to give the Shrub et. al. authority to police our thoughts (especially on the net) and arbitrarily decide if we are inclined to be violent.

Not happy enough finding terrorist in every country with exportable assets, they are getting ready to start filling detention centers here at home. So, be careful what you print or say, the thought police are on their way. Ain't it funny how even C-Span didn't mention passage of this bill?

The way I see it we have 404 traitors to the constitution in the House. I wonder how many we have in the Senate. We know the Resident is.

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The News We Lose While Americans Snooze

Your military industrial complex is hard at work, while your main stream media is acting like jerks to ignore it. They are setting the stage for the next 9/11, while some celebrity gets all the headlines. A brief blip. A quick explanation. A mistake is claimed (an unacknowledged first!) A revision of the facts. First there were six and now there are five. And...someone in the USAF has stolen a nuclear weapon.

Six nuclear weapons are locked and loaded on a jet in Minot, ND. 13.5 hours later (after a 3.5 hour trip,) five nuclear weapons are discovered locked and loaded on a jet in Barksdale, LA.

To write this off as a mistake is to overlook the frothing at the mouth for a war with Iran by the Resident and his puppet master. The domino's are in place for martial law on the homefront. I used to be paranoid. Lately, I'm just sad.

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Sometimes the best writing is in the Comments section.

Since this poster' "BORROWED" from someone else (he didn't credit the author, just admitted it wasn't he,) I feel free to post iot myself.

Bushcronium is discovered...

Posted by: kelly.nickell on Jul 11, 2007 5:16 AM
Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]

• NEW ELEMENT "Du" DISCOVERED
A major research institution (probably funded by a government subsidy) has just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named "Bushcronium". Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311.

These particles are held together by dark forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. The symbol for Bushcronium is "Du", as the symbol "W" was already taken by Tungsten.

Bushcronium' s mass actually increases over time, as morons randomly interact with various elements in the atmosphere and become assistant deputy neutrons in a Bushcronium molecule, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to believe that Bushcronium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass".

When catalyzed with money, Bushcronium activates Foxnewsium, an element that radiates orders of magnitude more energy, albeit as incoherent noise, since it has 1/2 as many peons but twice as many morons.

The "nucular" reaction alluded to below where Du combines with Foxnewsium (Fx) when bombarded by a moron beam yields: Du + m (morons) + Fx = DumFx which is sometimes phonetically pronounced to describe the nature of the isodope produced.

Although Faux Noise is the only “news” element mentioned in the formula, any other “news” element, i.e., CNN, ABC, CBS, WoPo, WSJ, etc., could be used just as well and get the same isodope.

Not my writing, but someone out there has hit it squarely, helping us understand a little better why we are being spun to death - including folks that should have known better when they were spun by the redhouse on WMD.

I found it in the comments section of an AlterNet post.

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Politics as it should be talked about.

One step forward, two steps back. When Bob Shieffer derided the scramble to interview Paris Hilton, I applauded the man. There is so little to applaud on Sunday AM talk shows. The next Sunday he’s back in the style of all the bubble heads. Everyone’s talking about the London car incidents as cars filled with explosives. Gasoline is NOT an explosive! To create an explosive using gasoline as a part, the air/fuel ratio is critical and must be controlled. In essence, those three cars weren’t even good Molotov cocktails. Of course that label, "Three badly made Molotov Cocktails," is not as titillating or fear inducing as propaganda necessitates, which explains the terminology. Excited fear is the need Du’ Jour in order to mold public backing for bombing Iran. Funny that the same tired, talking point spouting, chicken-hawks that fed us the lies that led to the debacle that exists in Iraq, now have carte blanque credibility on their prognosis of the threat Iran poses.

I’m watching Ralf Nader, thank you Amy Goodman and Democracy Now, and I’m reminded, once again, why I voted for him every time he’s been on the ballot. Twice when he wasn’t. Did he cost Al Gore the election? No, Gore won. It was only the media and the Supreme court that thought $hrub should win and worked to give the office to him. Even the Repugs know he stole it. “Washington, DC, is Corporate occupied territory,” is a quote that is missing from all current Presidential candidates. You can’t fix anything till you know the root cause of the problem. Which leads to the next paragraph.

Two items for your consideration. Over half the budget is for the military. What, no waste or unneeded programs? How about the F-22 which has rizen in cost from $40 million to $400 million each. The US government pays more than half of all medical payments. By paying all, it would immediately reduce costs by at least 30%. A practical, radical solution towards resolving the world’s health care and the US's fiscal crisis': Stop using war to resolve political and economic problems. Not only does it not work, it is in fact, counter productive.

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The Drums Are Growing Louder.

The talking heads are at it again. Blatantly repeating the Neo-con lies in order to start a new war. With nary a shred of evidence, no, even when the evidence proves the lie, all facts are ignored and all blame for the failure of the Iraqi adventure (what a sweet word for the bloody, grimy, horrible injustice that is the occupation of Iraq ) is being put on Iran. All options being on the table, according to the Resident, they are trying to get us ready, even rabidly pro a nuclear world war 3.

On a separate yet related note. I hear the demand that Iraq pass "The Oil Law," (this from nearly everyone that gets a chance to speak in public, Democrat/Republican/pro war/anti war/whatever) but when any further mention of said law is made, only half is actually addressed. Revenue sharing, a good thing, is demanded as a non-negotiable benchmark, but this only applies to existing oil wells. All new wells will be prey to so called PSAs which give 70% of the profits to the drillers for periods of up to 30 years (or all the oil is gone.) The Iraqi congress is warned that if they don't pass this, then rebuilding funds (and their personal security) will be at risk. However, if they do pass this law, then their own people will kill them. No wonder they want a two month vacation. That will give them 60 days to cash out their assets and get a head start into hiding!

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Tiptoeing around the edges of Resistance.

Deciding to relax of an evening, I tuned to the History Channel. A favorite subject, Star Wars, is being covered. Seeing in it an allegory for our times, I hear all these references to Greek and Roman mythology and even comparisons to Roman, Napoleonic, and even Nazi attempts at Empire. They even threw in Saddam Hussein as if he had actually attempted an Empire of his own. Only in the last fifteen minutes and then only lightly and fleetingly, did they dare make mention that "Star Wars" might have a possible aspiration to apply to modern times. To our own government's attempt at Empire.

The "Iliad" was not written to critique ancient history. Homer was critiquing his contemporaries. "1984" did not reference a future, it was published in 1948 and the title played on same concept that "war is peace" served in the body of the story. Only fools and illiterates were not aware that Huxley was critiquing his contemporaries. The first critiques of Nero burning Rome were written while Rome was burning. Nor did play writers wait till Germany surrendered before critiquing that attempt at Empire. Likewise, Lucas saw the truth of Nixon and his ilk, who continue now in the guise of neo-liberal neo-cons, and with his art brought forth an epic that loudly condemned the direction he saw our country was heading towards.

Sadly, the audience did as Americans have become prone to doing. Cheer the movie action, then rush out and buy a bunch of things. As a rule we have not been taught self examination. We've been taught to buy things. The History Channel had a chance to help us examine the current failing of our government in its quest for Empire and punted. Personally, I believe they did it on purpose. The History Channel serves to buttress the current attempt at Empire and thus fails to serve the public interest. Of course, being a business venture, they are in it for the money and there is more money to be made backing our current corrupted government than in questioning the status quo.

Fortunately, it did end on an encouraging note. Even an Empire of seemingly universal strength can be overcome by the actions of a few, dedicated people convincing the people in general that true power, as has actually always been, is in the hands of the people themselves. The power of the story itself overcame the efforts to minimize its current relevance.

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When conflicts arise, fire the truth teller.

General John Batiste speaks out against the war in a commercial from votevets.org and is fired by CBS. CBS is owned by General Electric. So, I reckon it is a conflict of interests due to their being such a large supplier of military equipment. Can't have the help belittling such a profitable situation. Title link is Olbermann's interview with Gen. Batiste. $hrub listens to his Generals only when they tell him what he wants to hear.

One of the bench marks in the Dem's war funding bill mentioned by the corporate media is sharing the oil profits nation wide with all Iraqis. Not mentioned is the bench mark giving 75 to 80% of the profits to the Oil Giants. The demos aren't really talking about ending the occupation, just the American death squads masquerading as security enforcers. Not a word about death squads comprised of private contractors such as Blackwater.

Even Putin thinks the Resident's actions resemble those of the Third Reich.

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A Wakeup Call

Manuel Valenzuela posts a powerful essay that is in essence a call to action. The above link is to his blog. I read his post off of ICH, a great source for news and opinions, but Manuel proves to be good for some independent truth.

Like I, he has noticed how the corporate media leaves more questions than answers. No longer a source of information, they've become the propaganda branch of government. Television and the public school system are major tools towards creating compliant consumers.

Congress consists of a two headed Hydra with both heads up the corporate ass. Both parties are in collusion as far as war is concerned and too much money is being made for it ever to end, if they have their way.

The official 9-11 conspiracy theory doesn't hold up to the rational questioning it deserves and neither the corporate media or the corporate congress will do the right thing unless we force them to do so.

A decent corroboration comes from Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) via Media Matters. Both articles end on a positive note. The Internet provides an alternate route for truth to spread and we can use it to try to awaken the public. If the public continues to sleep, there will soon be no America to wake up to.

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Defining Progress in Iraq

Political progress in Iraq looks like this:

Read the "liberal" New York Times and you get an other apologetic explanation of progress in Iraq in behalf of the criminals in Washington in a prominent story there today.


If, instead, you wish to inform yourself as to the truth, then Cris Floyd once again provides the most apt description of the ongoing bloodbath that is Iraq. More eloquently than any other author I'm aware of,, he lays out the nuts and bolts of the on going crime the Resident and his cabal are engaged in. And still, as yet only three members of congress have signed up to Impeach. Our Grand Children will not be impressed.


A brilliant satire by C. Floyd of a piece by: Jonathan Wisefellow and Thomas E. Bricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 8, 2007; Page A01

Herein he compares the debacle in Iraq to enabling Ted Bundy in a killing spree. I wish he lacked material for his florid prose.

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Beneath the Radar of the MSM

Paul Hawken ends with a simple statement:

Healing the wounds of the Earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party. It is not a liberal or conservative activity. It is a sacred act.

He began with a dawning realization:

I have given nearly one thousand talks about the environment in the past fifteen years, and after every speech a smaller crowd gathered to talk, ask questions, and exchange business cards. The people offering their cards were working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more.

The bulk of his text contained his growing realization that people in general are pissed and not willing to take it anymore. It is under the radar because it is sometimes comprised of just one person drawing her own line in the sand. Under the radar because the MSM is too busy chasing the latest gossip to notice a million separate actions whose only commonality is dissatisfaction with the status quo. After all, the business of the MSM is maintaining the status quo. Come on now, you didn't think they were here to inform us, did you?

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We need to vote the old-fashion way, on paper.

If you're looking for info on electronic voting here are two Important links.

The first one shows how the Ohio vote in 04 was stolen and by whom. Thank you, Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis on Common Dreams. The same computers the W.H. was using to hide emails is the same one used to falsify the Ohio vote count during the ninety minutes the official count was frozen election night.

The second one shows what is wrong with the only bill that seems to be trying to create a paper record of electronic elections. Thank you, Nancy Tobi, on OpedNews.com. There is no fix to black box voting. A computer generated paper trail is nothing but a placebo.

The leading link is one of the two main sites leading the fight. The other is BradBlog.com.

Be a citizen. Get involved. The MSM will not cover this issue.

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To Know Now, Learn History

Been suffering with a slow connection, my high speed's on the blink, so I've been sitting on the sidelines, but...


Harold Pinter, a Nobel laureate, first gives you 13 or 14 paragraphs written by him in '58 outlining his take on truth in fiction and it's OK to skip it. What follows is first a synopsis of American history as it should be taught in High School:

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.

That is how US foreign policy used to wage war. The Resident has taken it to an other level:

The United States no longer bothers about low intensity conflict. It no longer sees any point in being reticent or even devious. It puts its cards on the table without fear or favour. It quite simply doesn't give a damn about the United Nations, international law or critical dissent, which it regards as impotent and irrelevant. It also has its own bleating little lamb tagging behind it on a lead, the pathetic and supine Great Britain.

The way I reckon, the reason why is well explained by PR Watch in this article. The military Industrial Complex and it's entertainment value on the MSM.

Cancer in the News

The news abounds that death from cancer's going down
So, we really aught to celebrate.
Still I'm waiting for some mention even an insinuation
that the total number's starting to accelerate.

Dime a dozen the survivors now are all becoming lifers
Hoping not to relapse.
Noting not the total numbers, how this nation slumbers
Common information full of gaps.

Other illness' are also on the rise increasing I surmise
And all coming from a similar place.
To the air we breathe, the food we eat, the very ground beneath our feet
Chemicals are added at a quickening pace.

Alzheimer's, autism are but two mental disorders whose numbers grew
And all the solutions are the same.
For every disease of the soul or the body is a chemical cure no matter how shoddy
And we're all victims playing this game.

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