your president's precious security

Mon, December 20, 2004

Vigilance at tightest

By AP

Important components of security preparations for President Bush's Jan. 20 inauguration: - Enhanced security checkpoints at ceremony and along parade route. Each spectator to undergo a search, go through a metal detector, or both.

- More fencing and a wider buffer zone around parade route, with more streets closed.

- Use of bomb-sniffing dogs, chemical, biological and radiological sensors, and heightened aerial surveillance.

- About 40 agencies involved in security planning, led by Secret Service.

- Up to 4,000 military personnel available to assist or react to emergencies.

- Hundreds of specialized law enforcement personnel on standby, including FBI SWAT teams, evidence-recovery technicians, bomb experts and hazardous-materials workers.


Wouldn't it be nice if he worried about the troops fighting for oil as much as he worried about himself? Travesty after travesty, and still, the White House that taxpayers have paid millions of dollars to decorate will only be enjoyed by a few of the ruling elite.

People, if you don't think it's class warfare, you've got your head too far up your bible's ass.

shite

that's shite, as in shit, not any kind of fuckin' religious shit. shite is shit, just another way to say it. ever been to the republic of ireland or northern ireland? you'll find lots of top craic over there, too, along with all of the shite.

NYC fuckin' rules- it has got to be the greatest city on the planet, and trust me, i have been to a lot of them over the years.

nothing political to say about it, at least not yet. just wanted to post something to be sure that my voice doesn't get silenced by those that would.

aroooo,

-angrywoofdog

A Day of Remembrance

This day started out with a major financial institution (read: WELLS FARGO) harrassing me at my home, just after waking up. Let's just say that I've been busy with life and shit, and was a little late with a *last* and *final* fucking payment on my oh so fucking spectacular furniture.

I could tell that this day was going to the shitter already, and I knew that would be the case because it has now been 6 years since my friend Roger Allan Lowe blew his brains out all over his grandma's rocking chair.

His casket was open. The bullet went in through his right eye. The way that they had glued his face back together.... made his eyelid all wavy. Plus, he looked funny in makeup.

Roger definitely had some problems (for fuck's sake, don't we all?!) with life and the people in it. I understand him, but I still hate him for the void that he left in so many of our lives. He told me that he was going to kill himself about 2 weeks before he did it. I tried to talk to him, tried to comfort him, let him know that people cared about him. None of that shit worked, hence this post 6 years later.

He was fun to hang around with, drink with, smoke with, ride rollercoasters with, talk about politics with, shoot guns with, laugh with.

I miss him, still, so much. He was my rebel heart. So, if you read this, know that this probably isn't just Roger's Day of Remembrance. There are thousands more that took their lives on this day, too. I feel for them all, knowing their pains perfectly well.

My new dog is a suicide survivor. The lady shot herself while two dogs were in the room with her- one of the dogs is gone of old age already, and my dog isn't far behind. We're just kind of banding together to get through as best we can; I want to comfort my dog and let her know that not everything is pain, even as painfully as this particular day began.

In closing and in honor of Roger Allan Lowe, I will scream, yet again....

/*FUCK YOU GEORGE W. BU$H AND YOUR POLICIES OF DEATH*/

VOTE!

VOTE!
Do it today. Do it now. Federal laws give you 2 hours leave of work in order to cast your ballot. And while you're at it, don't vote for FuckAss Bush and his army of megalomanical assbiscuits. They have killed a lot of people and are not going to stop anytime soon.

FUCKING VOTE!

Civil Liberties

Here is what your prez thinks about your Civil Fucking Liberties....

It is a shame that you cannot express dissent or another opinion around georgie and his minions. If you do, you will be arrested. Why is this happening?

And on another note, it is his fault that millions of amerikans are going to die this winter. With the economic collapse of the influenza vaccine manufacturer and the rising costs of petrol for heating this winter, don't be surprised to see that many people will not live to see another spring.

Fuck you George W. Bush and your policies of death. And fuck you if you like him.

Sick of it all,

-Angryfuckin'woofdog

turkey sandwiches

sometimes that's all you need to do....

oh yeah, GWB, if you see your mom this weekend, be sure and tell her, 'Satan! Satan! Satan!'

thanks heaps, gibby.

ciao

life and livin'

death will come to us all, someday. i think it's a good thing because it allows the earth to freshen itself, as it were.

i recently had a near death experience. it's amazing how much one will concentrate on surviving when in a situation like that.... there was no life flashing before my eyes or anything like that. all i can say is that you've got to be ready for it to happen at any time, anywhere.

the strongest thing that i had/have going for me is that i am comfortable with the things that i have accomplished in my life and i am satisfied with the adventures that i have had and am having. if death comes in the next 5 minutes for me, i am prepared to meet it.

of course, you want to tell people that you love goodbye, but the only thing i can say to that is that you should have been doing that all along and not taking your time with special folks for granted. life is too short, anyway, so wasting or killing time just ain't an option.

live, live, live while you can.

ciao

gifts, diverted planes, whatever

it's good to be king of amerika. check out some of the gifts that you and yer cronies will get when you finally reach those eschelons.... oh and you can fuck up everyone else's day by making a plane divert to pick your sorry ass up when you are trying to get somewhere. just ask the bush twins how nice that service is.

i'm so sick and tired of politicians and their families getting treated like movie stars. the fact that bill clinton may host SNL is proof of that.

politicians should be servants, not fucking celebrities.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

Fuck Dick Ch3n3y

Apparently, 'Fuck 'em' is a fave saying of our Veep. Now, I know that y'all have come to expect that kind of shit from me, but this asshole is trotted out in front of conservative christians like some kind of posterchild of morality. And guess what??? His daughter is a fucking LESBIAN.

Y'know what that makes me want to say to this asshole..? FUCK DICK CHENEYand the conservative pricks that put him there in office.

Oh, and if you haven't had time to find out how your state senator voted on the stupidass marriage act shit, heres the link: US Senate. I am so pissed that people actually want to put discrimination and anti-civil rights legislation into our Constitution. Aren't you?

And guess what? The new Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, shot six handcuffed insurgents at point-blank range just before he assumed office three weeks ago. If you thought we could get away from fundie cronyism over there, you were dead wrong.

That's all the stuff I have time to rant about right now. Do your part and vote idiot sons of assholes out of office. I'll discuss the ExPat community later.

Ciao.

been sometime, but i'm still here

vacations rock. they help to recharge the soul and help one's mind to clear. you can think better, you feel better, and after breathing in some sunshine and good vibes, you are better prepared to deal with the state of the amerikan demockeracy, such as it is.

check out the link that i've got up there. and check out this link, too:

awolbush.com

and just in case that link up there don't work like it should, here it is again:

New Hampshire Gazette

Fetid, putrid, lying, deceitful, corrputed, amoral, misguided wankers are running amerika. Why the fuck isn't everyone pissed off??? And why the fuck isn't anyone doing *anything* to stop it??? I'm trying, but I'm only one person here, and if the $ecret $ervice decides to whack me, no one will give a fuck because I'm a poor, Appalachian person that truly believes in secular humanism.

More rant n' roll later....

DUBYA, HOUSE, SUPREME COURT, SENATE- not a good one among the bunch.

All full of liars, hypocrites, charlatans, frauds, sneaks and pilferers of the poor. Government of the people, by the people? That's bullshit. These people have money, so they believe that they mean more to the world than us peons that they steal money from. And hey, wake the fuck up! Folks that serve in politics shouldn't be making careers out of it! And if you are one of the peons? You'll never make it to politics because you don't have that $ or that cultivated pedigree that our 'government servants' have.

Dubya- he can't speak, he was a C student, he couldn't even run a business without getting bailed out by his friends, was able to shirk his military duty because he had money, he boozed and wenched his way through college, and to top it all off, he really believes that God wanted him to be president and that it had nothing to do with a rigged voting system.

And please, have we so easily forgotten about the role of the Texas Oil Industry in the S&L collapse???

Oh and... uh... for all of you Christians out there with 'Power of Pride' stickers on your SUVs, pride happens to be one of the biggest sins in the Good Book. Fuck you all for following and believing so blindly.

Amerikans are stupid, I reckon.

the dumbest shit i have seen for awhile

This is fucking ridiculous. A child getting questioned by the $ecret $ervice because he drew ugly pictures of g.bu$h at school. Whatta fucking joke. I'm surprised that the fedpigs haven't put my ass in jail yet, or killed me. If I can find that picture, it will be going up here. Fucking fedpigs do not have your best interest at heart if you don't believe the way that they tell you to!

summertime's a comin'

going camping this weekend, just for a day, but hopefully that will be enuff to let me get my mind off of the things that make me an angrywoofdog. like cops that pull guns on ROTC students in full uniform while they are shaking down a school in NC for drugs. The assholes didn't find any drugs.

Or maybe I can get my mind off of D0na1d Rum$fe1d and D1ckass Ch3n3y and how they were involved in Richard Nixon's administration and the Vietnam War. Or maybe I can try and forget about how our civil rights are slowly being eroded or how a few people in power are trying to make the public obey moral ideology from one religion while they themselves are exempt. Or maybe I'll try to forget that wealthy get wealthy off of the poor and it is the middle class that gives up their money to a bloated government that wants to get richer and keep knowledge out of the hands of those that work.

Or maybe not. Maybe I'll just try to chill with my friends, drink beer, and enjoy the few rights that haven't been taken from me yet.

jabaluka

when i lived in oz, this was a uranium mine that i worked hard against, y'know, getting developed and shit. i just couldn't think of a title for tonight.... i'm in a mood where i have all kinds of things that i should be doing, but i am not doing them because i just bloody don't feel like it.

i should be researching some heavy deep shit for one of my classes. it involves stuff that i can't write about here on this blog page. pretty much the only things that i can think about these days are riding bikes and how the suicides of others has affected my life.

i know that we each are entitled to our own lives and how said lives will be dictated. but we do have responsibilities to one another and when we don't keep those responsibilities, someone gets let down, whether we realise it or not. great example! i'm letting my co-researchers down tonight because i don't feel like doing any fucking research. but this is not a life or death situation, and i know that i'll get the research done when it needs to be. i still have some time yet to get the things done that need to be.

if you want to be really really freaked out, i know a 25/26 year old woman who is going to name her unborn child after britney fucking spears. for fuck's sake, there's a lot i bloody hate about this world....

i think that i'll do my research now.

ciao,

anygrywoofdog

suicide and the soul

one of the most beautiful people i've ever met hung himself with a wire coat hanger in his closet a little over a week ago. the scars that his corpse carried to the grave were hideous, vulgar, and the reason that some darkness overcame him enough that he had to end his life.

he left his mum, his sister, his grandmothers, his girlfriend of two years that wanted to marry him, his friends, his cousins, uncles, aunts, schoolpals, everyone in a state of disbelief. but one look at the fucked up way the wire cut into his neck and you knew.

i feel pity for him- he never saw how important or good that he was, and whatever depression took him to that level, those visions were evermasked from his eyes. i also am angry at him- angry that he could be so selfish in dealing this blow to us all, that he could be so self-involved and that he would go out on such a big 'fuckyou' note.

i'm exhausted. i'm fighting with my boyfriend, ignoring my girlfriend, trying to help out my grandma, visit with the rest of my family, do homework, pay my bills, ride my motorcycle, work 40 hours a week in a job that is constantly frustrating, see my friends and let them know that i love them, finish up research projects, find time to practice my music, battle the amerikan politikal system from assfuck hell, be spiritual, go hiking, nurse my stray kitty to health, and live life. but yet, i don't feel like offing myself.

i know where my friend was- i'd been there 15 years ago. it hardly seems that long ago. some little thing inside of me said to get help. that, or it was forced on me when i acted stupid- i can't remember exactly what happend. anyway.... i'm still here, still chuggin' along.

roger suicided on me in 1998. was one of the coolest, closest people i've known.

i'm sick of my soul getting bruised from these folks that do themselves in. it's the survivors that carry the burden of the depression that the committers can't get out from underneath, ever. and those problems that the committers had? the person is dead, so they don't have to deal, but those energies and those forces that acted on them are definitively still there.

yet we carry on.

maybe if i was very old, had lived my life, terminally ill, and the only things left functioning were my heart and my brain and the emotional and physical struggle was making them slow, i would consider an assisted suicide. it is after all, my body and i reserve the right to do with it as i see best. culling yourself from the herd before 30 and 35 when you have so much going for you is irresponsible.

'couse they aren't hurting now, so maybe that's good? fuck if i know.

a recommended book for ya

the great big book of tomorrow by tom morrow is an absolute must read for all burgeoning socialists out there that feel alienated from current (ie past 40 years) of amerikan political thought. stuff to make you think, and entertaining at the same time. not to mention the little history lessons that you'll get in every page. good shit!

gasoline is getting ready to become a very expensive commodity. all you fuckers out there in SUV land- do you think that dinosaur remains are a renewable resource? we can't place all the blame on you though, because we all use plastics. you're just speeding up the process. plastic is used in every step of manufacturing and oil is used to maintain the machines. can you see potential problems for agriculture in the future? if you're not frightened, you should be!

folks like bu$h and ch3n3y have put enough back to save themselves and their families when the oil runs out. what have you done?

not since january???

jezus fuckin' H crispy southern fried christ. has it really been that long since i put some thoughts up on this blog? i guess so. i've been busy getting on with life and you folks out there that can't get out and enjoy it, i feel a little bad for you.

more on eurothoughts: as i said before, they think we are paranoid. they think we are rich and powerhungy, and that we want to push amerikan imperialism on everyone else in the world. what works for us must surely work for the rest of the world, right? (whatever.) anyway, many folks hold being an amerikan against you. they tend to get you mixed up with your government and will go out of their way to be an asshole toward you.

but they also hold a kind of regard and esteem for this kountry, this place. i mean, it's the only place on the planet that could completely close it's borders and be self-sufficient. and whether i like it or agree with it, the truth is that amerika is a pace setter for many things in the world and people seem to get jealous of that; occasionally, i'd find myself on a pedestal.

the long and short of it is this: there were a variety of reactions, some warm, some cold, and the whole of the euro experience can be just as varied and confusing as any to be had on amerikan soil.

oh. and btw. if you are into hedonism, the ursurping of authority, and bacchnailian partying, then you should go to mardi gras in new orleans at least once in your life. if you never go, you are missing out on the greatest party in the world. ibiza could be better, not been there yet, so i can't report. but if you happen to be stateside, get off your ass, get in your car or get on an airplane and head for the mississippi delta for the beginning of lent.

more shite later,

-angrywoofdog

been awhile

i took some time off over the holidays to leave amerika to get a different perspecitve. boyhowdy, did i ever some back with one... we are thought of as paranoid my most people. then there's the whole stereotype of imperialism that being born here will impart on everyone you meet overseas, whether you are that way or not.

there's a lot more that i need to write about that, but as it is nearing the time when i feed myself in the midday, i will wait and do another post later, giving up a scoop on current european thought.

ciao.