Saturday, December 27, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Bailing out Rich People with Socialism
What the Amerikan Gooberment is about to do is a travesty. Socialism for those who can afford it. Marx never dreamt of these things, even in his nightmares.
This is disgusting. LET THE MOTHA FUCKAS FAIL. That's what capitalism is all about, ain't it? Sink or swim?
JEEBUS FUCK!!!! These leaders are so rich and so out of touch of what it's like to be a Normal American that they have no clue. They are just wanting to bail out their buddies. If so, why don't they donate one of their extra houses and private jets and wait staff???
Godsdammit, I'm pissed off. And to sum it all up, here is a snippet from somewhere else in my tabbed browsing experience this morning:
According to an analysis by the independent Tax Policy Center, the tax plan Obama has proposed during the campaign would increase taxes in 2009 on the wealthiest 20 percent of households, while offering tax cuts for the other 80 percent.
Hells yes. This is what we need. Not more straps on my back, stupid fuckers.
This is disgusting. LET THE MOTHA FUCKAS FAIL. That's what capitalism is all about, ain't it? Sink or swim?
JEEBUS FUCK!!!! These leaders are so rich and so out of touch of what it's like to be a Normal American that they have no clue. They are just wanting to bail out their buddies. If so, why don't they donate one of their extra houses and private jets and wait staff???
Godsdammit, I'm pissed off. And to sum it all up, here is a snippet from somewhere else in my tabbed browsing experience this morning:
According to an analysis by the independent Tax Policy Center, the tax plan Obama has proposed during the campaign would increase taxes in 2009 on the wealthiest 20 percent of households, while offering tax cuts for the other 80 percent.
Hells yes. This is what we need. Not more straps on my back, stupid fuckers.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
This is why McCain canceled the debates. Watch Sarah Palin on CBS tonight. Utter disaster.
John Aravosis (DC) · 9/24/2008 07:49:00 PM ET · Link
A grander pattern is emerging as to what was motivating McCain's Hail Mary publicity stunt today. For starters, we now have the first look at Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Palin is in so far over her head, it isn't even funny. Watch especially at 4 minutes 30 seconds into the interview (video is below) when they have the following exchange after Couric asks Palin for examples of John McCain leading the charge for oversight of Wall Street:
Couric: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?
Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.
Couric: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
Palin: He's also known as the maverick though, taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about - the need to reform government.
Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?
Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.
Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.
Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.
A grander pattern is emerging as to what was motivating McCain's Hail Mary publicity stunt today. For starters, we now have the first look at Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Palin is in so far over her head, it isn't even funny. Watch especially at 4 minutes 30 seconds into the interview (video is below) when they have the following exchange after Couric asks Palin for examples of John McCain leading the charge for oversight of Wall Street:
Couric: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?
Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.
Couric: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
Palin: He's also known as the maverick though, taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about - the need to reform government.
Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?
Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.
Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.
Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Just Say No to Corporate Bailouts
The world financial markets were rocked to their foundation this week by the news of the collapse of one of the oldest Wall Street Investment firms in American history, preceded by two of the largest bailouts in American history. If that was not news enough, the market was then knocked around again in round two when American Insurance Group (AIG) was given a 24 hours notice to raise $85 billion dollars to cover debt tied to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Once again the federal treasury decided to bail out another corporation in the name of the American people and the stability of the marketplace. Then the mother of all bailouts was announced just before the close of business Thursday when Secretary of the Treasury announced a $700 billion dollar bailout of all remaining investment firms, banks and insurance groups. President Bush proudly proclaimed that the American people had been saved by the quick thinking and decisive actions of the US Treasury and anticipated quick passage of the trillion-dollar bailout by the House and Senate this week.
The reality of the situation is that the American taxpayers are being held responsible for the irresponsible investment decisions and speculative actions of private corporations and private investors. When the economy was booming and Wall Street was raking in record profits on fraudulent business dealings taxpayers saw none of the benefits, but when it is time to save those same corporations and their investors from the brink of irrelevance then the taxpayers are expected to foot the bill. The end result is that the investors reap all of the profits when times are good but when times are bad the American taxpayers pay the bills. This time the price tag is too high. In addition to the $650 billion dollars the federal treasury is paying annually for the defense budget plus the costs of the war in Iraq, the general public is now expected to foot a trillion dollar bill based on speculation.
Americans do not understand what the cost of the proposed bailout is in real terms, and many Americans do not realize the amount of debt that the federal government has already accrued, which is a burden to be passed on to our future generations. In real dollars, the proposal by the treasury department will cost the average taxpayer five thousand dollars and ten thousands dollars for a household of four. That is ten thousand dollars of debt that President Bush and his cabinet will leave as a legacy to compete with the shared cost of the war in Iraq, which will cost the average household nearly an additional ten thousand dollars in debt. That is a total of twenty thousand dollars in debt per household multiplied by millions of Americans equals nearly two trillion dollars that we are deeper in debt as a result of the war in Iraq and the recent proposed bailout which will in all likelihood sail through Congress this week.
It is time to say no to more corporate bailouts. The United States is already almost nine trillion dollars in debt as a result of decades of over spending on the US military combined with twenty-five years of Reagan era tax cuts for the wealthy and private corporations. Now is the time to invest in real priorities for the future by fully funding health care and education. By saying no to corporate bailouts for Wall Street we will ensure real economic opportunity for Main Street. As a candidate for federal office I oppose further corporate bailouts and I support strict regulation of Wall Street and a federal investigation into fraud and abuse of the trading system, which led to the current financial crisis. The results of decades deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy and privileged has led to the decimation of the middle class and brought us to the edge of ruin for future generations.
There is hope for the future, and it involves electing candidates who will look out for the interest of working people and the middle class, rather than selling out every federal office to the highest bidder. By supporting campaign finance reform, progressive taxation, universal health care, a drastically reduced military budget and by placing the highest priority on funding education we can begin to move this country in the right direction. Through strict regulation of markets and a tough but conservative approach to finance and investment we can begin to regain the trust of both investors and the general public. By withdrawing our troops from the Middle East and reducing the military budget we will gain the trust and good faith of people around the world. It is time for us to invest in the people and we must begin by saying to to any further bailouts for private corporations and Wall Street and insure that our tax dollars go to real human needs and domestic priorities that benefit everyone
Chris Lugo for US Senate
9 Music Sq So #164
Nashville, TN 37203
615-593-0304
chris4senate@gmail.com
www.voteforpeace.info
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Psychology of Palin
Obama and The Palin Effect
From: Deepak Chopra | Posted: Friday, September 5th, 2008
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper.
She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other." For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.)
I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin's message. In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision.
Look at what she stands for:
--Small town values -- a denial of America's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.
--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America's image abroad.
--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.
--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.
--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.
--"Reform" -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out
corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who
doesn't fit your ideology.
Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us" pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as it is." The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good. The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.
Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light, which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to see what we are getting, without disguise.
AWD writes:
The backlash of the backlash of the 1960's is still upon us. I believe this essay clearly brings us back around to that reality. I will expound upon this idea sometime later.
From: Deepak Chopra | Posted: Friday, September 5th, 2008
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper.
She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other." For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.)
I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin's message. In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision.
Look at what she stands for:
--Small town values -- a denial of America's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.
--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America's image abroad.
--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.
--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.
--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.
--"Reform" -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out
corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who
doesn't fit your ideology.
Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us" pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as it is." The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good. The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.
Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light, which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to see what we are getting, without disguise.
AWD writes:
The backlash of the backlash of the 1960's is still upon us. I believe this essay clearly brings us back around to that reality. I will expound upon this idea sometime later.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Delegates ‘proud’ of Bush
Posted: 11:45 PM ET
From CNN.com Senior Political Producer Scott J. Anderson
Bush addressed the GOP convention Tuesday.
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) – His popularity may be at an all-time low, but President Bush’s comments at the Republican National Convention were warmly received by many of the delegates.
“His speech basically passed the baton to John McCain,” Mark Quandahl, chairman of the Nebraska state party said.
Bush addressed the convention via satellite from the White House. Bush was originally scheduled to speak on the opening night of the convention. But he was forced to cancel as Hurricane Gustav bore down on the Gulf Coast. Quandahl said, “delegates would have preferred to have him here, but he did the right thing.”
NO! This is a complete fucking untruth! God said "GEE-ORGY, YOU FUCKING SUCK SO BAD, I'M SENDING A HURRICANE TO PROTECT INNOCENT AMERIKANTS' STUPID ASSES FROM THE HORROR OF YOURSELF IN PERSON."
Bush spent much of Monday visiting hurricane response centers in Texas.
Kathi Thompson, the wife of a retired Army officer from Hawaii, said whatever you think of President Bush’s administration, “He never wavered, and what you see is what you get.”
“[Bush] is a man of conviction,” she added.
Liz Tait from Houston, Texas, said “We’re extremely proud of him.”
“He kept us safe, and he fought for the values we believe in,” she said.
(If by 'safe', you mean that he's taking away our rights to privacy and self-governance. And, if that means endangering all of us by stirring up shit in the Midd1e East, and leaving TWO fucking wars going when he "retires" to his Port Hyannis or whatever it's called, playground to live out the rest of his days watching softcore porn cleverly disguised as, ahem, Women's Beach Volleyball....)
From CNN.com Senior Political Producer Scott J. Anderson
Bush addressed the GOP convention Tuesday.
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) – His popularity may be at an all-time low, but President Bush’s comments at the Republican National Convention were warmly received by many of the delegates.
“His speech basically passed the baton to John McCain,” Mark Quandahl, chairman of the Nebraska state party said.
Bush addressed the convention via satellite from the White House. Bush was originally scheduled to speak on the opening night of the convention. But he was forced to cancel as Hurricane Gustav bore down on the Gulf Coast. Quandahl said, “delegates would have preferred to have him here, but he did the right thing.”
NO! This is a complete fucking untruth! God said "GEE-ORGY, YOU FUCKING SUCK SO BAD, I'M SENDING A HURRICANE TO PROTECT INNOCENT AMERIKANTS' STUPID ASSES FROM THE HORROR OF YOURSELF IN PERSON."
Bush spent much of Monday visiting hurricane response centers in Texas.
Kathi Thompson, the wife of a retired Army officer from Hawaii, said whatever you think of President Bush’s administration, “He never wavered, and what you see is what you get.”
“[Bush] is a man of conviction,” she added.
Liz Tait from Houston, Texas, said “We’re extremely proud of him.”
“He kept us safe, and he fought for the values we believe in,” she said.
(If by 'safe', you mean that he's taking away our rights to privacy and self-governance. And, if that means endangering all of us by stirring up shit in the Midd1e East, and leaving TWO fucking wars going when he "retires" to his Port Hyannis or whatever it's called, playground to live out the rest of his days watching softcore porn cleverly disguised as, ahem, Women's Beach Volleyball....)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
W00t! Numero 200 Post Hits the Blogger Today!
This is a nice 200-ish pic. And here's an easy cheesecake pie recipe that you would thank me for.....
Cherry-O Cream Pie
* 1 graham cracker crust (either homemade or already prepared)
* 1 pkg (8oz) cream cheese, softened
* 1 can sweetened condensed milk
* 1/3 cup Real Lemon lemon juice
* 1 tsp. vanilla
* 1 can cherry pie filling, chilled
o Whip cream cheese until fluffy
o Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk and blend
o Blend in Real Lemon lemon juice and vanilla
o Pour into pie crust and chill until firm
o Top with chilled cherry pie filling and chill for at least 2 hours
Enjoy, darlings! I'm off to try and love and learn and live some more. Impending camping trip for myself in another state. OOOoooo.... Crossing the northern borders. Haven't done that since last year. Take it sleazy, if you can get it at all.
~AWD
Dammit.
Just when I think I might be getting somewhere, all I see are STOP signs. Sheesh. I'm so exasperated with the wimmins I've been meeting of late. Gods! How can so many lusciouslickable babes be so damn cold and un-in-touch with themselves? I just don't get it, really I don't.
It's like, they're all around me, plotting. For what? I do not know. But I know they don't mean to share emotions or experience, that's for damn sure. ::sigh::
And hells, this might not be a safe forum for me to express my feelings; I don't know who reads this stuff, anyway. Don't get me wrong, I'm dating a totally fucking hot lady right now. She is smart, and did I mention beautiful? We have a lot of things in common and I can see a future with her.
But we're not exclusive and I keep running into so many broken people. But I don't mind the broken people; it's just when they find out I can't fix 'em, even with multiple orgasms, something fundamental, down deep, switches off. It's very sad.
Just bitchin'. And doing something with this blog that I haven't done in awhile. This looks like it will be post #199. I will post something special for #200 today, maybe a cheesecake recipe. Definitely off of the political rants for awhile; politics tires me out and they're not really *doing* anything anyway besides spend money and that just pisses me off.
It's like, they're all around me, plotting. For what? I do not know. But I know they don't mean to share emotions or experience, that's for damn sure. ::sigh::
And hells, this might not be a safe forum for me to express my feelings; I don't know who reads this stuff, anyway. Don't get me wrong, I'm dating a totally fucking hot lady right now. She is smart, and did I mention beautiful? We have a lot of things in common and I can see a future with her.
But we're not exclusive and I keep running into so many broken people. But I don't mind the broken people; it's just when they find out I can't fix 'em, even with multiple orgasms, something fundamental, down deep, switches off. It's very sad.
Just bitchin'. And doing something with this blog that I haven't done in awhile. This looks like it will be post #199. I will post something special for #200 today, maybe a cheesecake recipe. Definitely off of the political rants for awhile; politics tires me out and they're not really *doing* anything anyway besides spend money and that just pisses me off.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Some T-Shirts That I Need
"Not a Straight Converter! Tho I'm not completely opposed to it...."
"Why yes, it appears that I *can* haz ur straight chick."
"Caution: Makes women question their sexual orientation."
Friday, July 18, 2008
When can I go campin' again???
Replacing a watch battery will soon educate one about the robust watch battery replacement business that apparently happens online.
Today, is a good day. Rode one of my motorcycles to work (the Bandit 1200) and am looking forward to seeing a lot of my friends this weekend. Bonfire (!- I hang out with Satan) and then a going away party. Then a hang out and catch up. Gonna be a busy one, for sure.
But I'd rather live it thissa way instead of thatta way, ya dig?
Met a bunch of wonderful wimmins this week; had some chemistry. Bada schwing! Opening myself back up is scary, but needed, 'cause the soul has been starved.
BTW, have you ever read "Women Who Run with The Wolves"? If you are a woman, het-femme, lesbian, womyn, MTF, or whatever, you need to read it. Written by Dr. Clara Pinkola Estes, PhD. I spent three days in the forest alone with this book and it rocked my world. It's a psychological fucking bible that must become part of your library.
AROOOOOOOHAH!!!
Today, is a good day. Rode one of my motorcycles to work (the Bandit 1200) and am looking forward to seeing a lot of my friends this weekend. Bonfire (!- I hang out with Satan) and then a going away party. Then a hang out and catch up. Gonna be a busy one, for sure.
But I'd rather live it thissa way instead of thatta way, ya dig?
Met a bunch of wonderful wimmins this week; had some chemistry. Bada schwing! Opening myself back up is scary, but needed, 'cause the soul has been starved.
BTW, have you ever read "Women Who Run with The Wolves"? If you are a woman, het-femme, lesbian, womyn, MTF, or whatever, you need to read it. Written by Dr. Clara Pinkola Estes, PhD. I spent three days in the forest alone with this book and it rocked my world. It's a psychological fucking bible that must become part of your library.
AROOOOOOOHAH!!!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Requiem Pro Somnium
Yea, though a midsummer's day pass'd
this sort of fairytale with you
Happy to hang on any shred
lingering in watercolours
and still have the decency
to pick up after a subtle
pass and declination toward
an awkward already.
Desire to want what cannot be
taken, day or night or inbetween
Flames still lick the salt of
spinning days and days ago.
Belong to what, we do not know.
Go where, we do not know. But I
know that Woden's Day brings
Hope para que la sabe. Le saut du loupe
was the hopeful hour in cold
French mountains. The Irish cead me failte
when I am home.
To run and run and run and run and be Away.....
I was on my way. I'd swear on anything that
the safari was right there. I saw it. Lived it.
Even breathed it. But I would never steal it, as
much as the bodies scream out false bloods.
High desert mountains call out again, four
years dead from the tricycle tower.
A somnambulist's fantasy
acted out acros't keyboards a-flying.
this sort of fairytale with you
Happy to hang on any shred
lingering in watercolours
and still have the decency
to pick up after a subtle
pass and declination toward
an awkward already.
Desire to want what cannot be
taken, day or night or inbetween
Flames still lick the salt of
spinning days and days ago.
Belong to what, we do not know.
Go where, we do not know. But I
know that Woden's Day brings
Hope para que la sabe. Le saut du loupe
was the hopeful hour in cold
French mountains. The Irish cead me failte
when I am home.
To run and run and run and run and be Away.....
I was on my way. I'd swear on anything that
the safari was right there. I saw it. Lived it.
Even breathed it. But I would never steal it, as
much as the bodies scream out false bloods.
High desert mountains call out again, four
years dead from the tricycle tower.
A somnambulist's fantasy
acted out acros't keyboards a-flying.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Fingers
Mine, they've been cut.
I know They exist, for They feel.
And They type as I ask of Them.
And They run scales as I expect.
And They hold doors for strangers.
And pump gasoline into trucks.
My head, it is throbbing with
a pulse that beats softly with
each and every breath, and sharply
with each exertion as it ebbs
and my voice, it cannot sing.
Silenced.
Then two thousand found me interesting.
And hung on every festering wound
That could be published between clicks.
As dying and flowing as teenaged innocence
When Divorce hung softly from my tree,
waving a cheery 'ello' through green'd leaf.
I know They exist, for They feel.
And They type as I ask of Them.
And They run scales as I expect.
And They hold doors for strangers.
And pump gasoline into trucks.
My head, it is throbbing with
a pulse that beats softly with
each and every breath, and sharply
with each exertion as it ebbs
and my voice, it cannot sing.
Silenced.
Then two thousand found me interesting.
And hung on every festering wound
That could be published between clicks.
As dying and flowing as teenaged innocence
When Divorce hung softly from my tree,
waving a cheery 'ello' through green'd leaf.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Pneumatic Lottery (version2)
From a glance to a notice to a gaze to a stare
Taking time to take some inventories
Of other ages
.....and times
Of suggestions
.....and being blind
Such a rain has never poured over this earth
So much that adversarial beings take shelter together
And sometimes the safest harbour
Is not the one that you expect
A whitefire-cool goddess looms in the distance
She is untouchable, remote, beautiful to all who
behold her; if we could just hold her for a minute!
These crops could grow strong and blessings
and not-floods would be the soup du jour.
Stuck here, we are. Trapped inside because
the air outside is swimming in seas, rolling
in rivers, gushing down the blessed sky-waters,
that we desperately need.
But......
Still.....
Today.....
I must breathe and hold my breath together.
Taking time to take some inventories
Of other ages
.....and times
Of suggestions
.....and being blind
Such a rain has never poured over this earth
So much that adversarial beings take shelter together
And sometimes the safest harbour
Is not the one that you expect
A whitefire-cool goddess looms in the distance
She is untouchable, remote, beautiful to all who
behold her; if we could just hold her for a minute!
These crops could grow strong and blessings
and not-floods would be the soup du jour.
Stuck here, we are. Trapped inside because
the air outside is swimming in seas, rolling
in rivers, gushing down the blessed sky-waters,
that we desperately need.
But......
Still.....
Today.....
I must breathe and hold my breath together.
Monday, July 07, 2008
ohfoshyllzl m8
omg. /heart flies with joi
she spoke to me within the last hour.
i'm flying around this house.
and i even left my broom
in an eastern-er field!
i get to see
her again and again and again and again
my music dances like the tiger
i have been born to be.
she spoke to me within the last hour.
i'm flying around this house.
and i even left my broom
in an eastern-er field!
i get to see
her again and again and again and again
my music dances like the tiger
i have been born to be.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
So happy today, despite being the AWD
Woke up early, took pictures of my Trubblekitty. I've had the grandest weekend! And next week will be even better..... Time to party like the popefucking rock stars that we are! \/\/007!
Thinking about some song lyrics that Cole Porter penned in 1919. From the song, "Alone with You":
I want to go a flitting
Here, there, everywhere.
Dancing to bright lights,
Stay out all night lights....
I feel left on the shelf
All alone with myself,
When I might be all alone with you.
Also:
I'm in love again
And the spring is comin',
I'm in love again,
Hear my heart strings strummin',
I'm in love again,
And the hymn I'm hummin'
Is the "Huddle Up, Cuddle Up Blues!"
Ah..... Imma soooo happy today! I'm filled with love, and I feel loved. I'm in love with my life again; this is something that I hope everyone can feel at some time in their lives.
To conclude our early Sunday blogging session, here are some original words of poetry. I call her, "She."
And when she smiles at me
I can barely breathe air.
She's so much wonder to take in
Her beautifuldark eyes seem to search
Me.(I wonder who she sees?)
Her hips move,
And move me.
And I yearn to explore
her circuitry.
Rivers of silk escape her lips-
"I'm glad that you got to dance in the rain....."
She says.
To quietly discorporate with a pen
onna damp Sunday morning
Is all I can do.
*happysighs*
Thinking about some song lyrics that Cole Porter penned in 1919. From the song, "Alone with You":
I want to go a flitting
Here, there, everywhere.
Dancing to bright lights,
Stay out all night lights....
I feel left on the shelf
All alone with myself,
When I might be all alone with you.
Also:
I'm in love again
And the spring is comin',
I'm in love again,
Hear my heart strings strummin',
I'm in love again,
And the hymn I'm hummin'
Is the "Huddle Up, Cuddle Up Blues!"
Ah..... Imma soooo happy today! I'm filled with love, and I feel loved. I'm in love with my life again; this is something that I hope everyone can feel at some time in their lives.
To conclude our early Sunday blogging session, here are some original words of poetry. I call her, "She."
And when she smiles at me
I can barely breathe air.
She's so much wonder to take in
Her beautifuldark eyes seem to search
Me.(I wonder who she sees?)
Her hips move,
And move me.
And I yearn to explore
her circuitry.
Rivers of silk escape her lips-
"I'm glad that you got to dance in the rain....."
She says.
To quietly discorporate with a pen
onna damp Sunday morning
Is all I can do.
*happysighs*
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Whe-ell.....
Sorta kinda innna round about way told the person that I have a huge crush on that I have a crush on her. I'm still not sure what she thinks about that~ her world is all kinds of upside down in some ways, brilliant and stable in others.
A long story short, I wrote a song for this person~ I use words that she has said, and mention certain situations that we're both going through. Played it for her last night. Well, didn't get no kiss and didn't get permission to ever play this song in public, so situation normal might be all kinds of fucked up right now. Hmmmm. This might explain why I would be up at 4.33AM on aWednesday Thursday.......
Never, ever want to hurt her or make her uncomfortable. And anyways, since I've sorta confessed my feelings, the urge is not as strong. Although..... people. You have to believe me when I say she "has it going on." Beautiful big breasts, awesome skin, clear eyes. And dark, shiny hair that I'm constantly fantasizing about running my fingers through, just before I kiss her soft mouth. Her "look" is my favourite when it comes to womyn; I could watch her walk all day long.
Whew. I need a cold shower. It's a good damn thing I've been brave enough to get some other irons in the fire! Something about eggs? Baskets? Birds eating bushes?
A long story short, I wrote a song for this person~ I use words that she has said, and mention certain situations that we're both going through. Played it for her last night. Well, didn't get no kiss and didn't get permission to ever play this song in public, so situation normal might be all kinds of fucked up right now. Hmmmm. This might explain why I would be up at 4.33AM on a
Never, ever want to hurt her or make her uncomfortable. And anyways, since I've sorta confessed my feelings, the urge is not as strong. Although..... people. You have to believe me when I say she "has it going on." Beautiful big breasts, awesome skin, clear eyes. And dark, shiny hair that I'm constantly fantasizing about running my fingers through, just before I kiss her soft mouth. Her "look" is my favourite when it comes to womyn; I could watch her walk all day long.
Whew. I need a cold shower. It's a good damn thing I've been brave enough to get some other irons in the fire! Something about eggs? Baskets? Birds eating bushes?
Monday, June 23, 2008
RIP, Geroge Carlin
More info from Yahoo is available if you click here.....
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Blogger Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Met a nice lady last night at our local Pride Festival. I just started chatting her up, thought she was attractive. Turns out she's got a great, long-term partner, and they are in town from the other side of the state for some basketball-reason. Long story short, I was able to talk to her about things that occupy me right now, and what a great person to talk to. She gave me a lot of confidence to try and pursue the seemingly un-pursue-able.
I have a rainbow on my arm, and I'm not afraid to use it anymore. I will tell this lady how I feel. Soon.
I have a rainbow on my arm, and I'm not afraid to use it anymore. I will tell this lady how I feel. Soon.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Sad, Angry, Frustrated, Hurt, Flummoxed
Yep. I knew it would happen again. I just didn't think it would be this morning. I have twisted my bad ankle just 3 months and 1 week (to the day) after I fucked it up really bad in March. I almost needed surgery because I had torn everything so badly. Today, the tears don't appear to be as bad as the previous injury, but I'm so sick of being.... infirm.... that all I can do is sit here and weep today.
Back on the crutches. Back to square zero with the physical therapy. Bicycles, motorcycles, gone. Hells, just walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night unaided. Gone. I might be alright again by September.
And what exactly happened, you might ask? I was leaving for work at 8am today, I had my bicycle and was pushing it out the door. I don't know if I missed the slight step that leads from the kitchen door to the landing outside. All I know is I pushed my bicycle out the door, sort of in front of me, and I put my Right Foot down, and the Ankle kept going.
Fuck me. I hate this shit. I don't want to have surgery to stabilise this thing!!! I have been doing everything right. Everything. I'm about to get pissed and stay that way for the next 3 or 4 days. Fuck it.
Back on the crutches. Back to square zero with the physical therapy. Bicycles, motorcycles, gone. Hells, just walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night unaided. Gone. I might be alright again by September.
And what exactly happened, you might ask? I was leaving for work at 8am today, I had my bicycle and was pushing it out the door. I don't know if I missed the slight step that leads from the kitchen door to the landing outside. All I know is I pushed my bicycle out the door, sort of in front of me, and I put my Right Foot down, and the Ankle kept going.
Fuck me. I hate this shit. I don't want to have surgery to stabilise this thing!!! I have been doing everything right. Everything. I'm about to get pissed and stay that way for the next 3 or 4 days. Fuck it.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
NYU Film Portrays Recording Industry as Browbeater
A wee snip from an email that some goddess sent me:
The Recording Industry Association of America is likened to a thug in this video produced by Gabriel de Urioste, of the Free Culture chapter at New York University. He made the silent black and white video for one of his film classes at the university to express his view that the industry group's tactic of suing people who download music off the Internet is heavy-handed. Mr. de Urioste posted the video to YouTube last week. --Andrea L. Foster
The Recording Industry Association of America is likened to a thug in this video produced by Gabriel de Urioste, of the Free Culture chapter at New York University. He made the silent black and white video for one of his film classes at the university to express his view that the industry group's tactic of suing people who download music off the Internet is heavy-handed. Mr. de Urioste posted the video to YouTube last week. --Andrea L. Foster
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Still Smitten
* Is she warm and friendly?
-yes
* Does she look into your eyes when she speaks with you?
-yes
* Does she treat you differently than the other guys?
-yes
* Does she seem to seek out your company?
-yes
* Do the two of you ever spend time alone together?
-yes
* Would you ever consider asking her out on a real date?
-oh yes. a dream come true, it would be.
So, yeah. Still pining for that SuperSweetie I'm set on. Can't help it. Stuff happens. Words happen.
-yes
* Does she look into your eyes when she speaks with you?
-yes
* Does she treat you differently than the other guys?
-yes
* Does she seem to seek out your company?
-yes
* Do the two of you ever spend time alone together?
-yes
* Would you ever consider asking her out on a real date?
-oh yes. a dream come true, it would be.
So, yeah. Still pining for that SuperSweetie I'm set on. Can't help it. Stuff happens. Words happen.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
13
The day turned up, as it always does,
And she turned up, like she always wants to,
And he left to leave, but he didn't want to,
And she was working in her yard, the way she loves to,
And she and I ate,
'Twas an accidental purposeful date,
And I do still love her.
And I do still want her, and wish that she might be into me.
Now all I can do is weep.
Because of this strange tuning,
That I have found myself in.
And she turned up, like she always wants to,
And he left to leave, but he didn't want to,
And she was working in her yard, the way she loves to,
And she and I ate,
'Twas an accidental purposeful date,
And I do still love her.
And I do still want her, and wish that she might be into me.
Now all I can do is weep.
Because of this strange tuning,
That I have found myself in.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Pain
I sang from my heart last night, and all I could do was weep. Sharing my gifts with others has always been fraught with emotion; when I was a teenager, every time I sang with the Choir, tears would stream down my eyes.
Why does something I love so much give me so much pain? Perhaps it's too angry, serious, honest. Don't know. What I do know is that I cannot stop it. Not that I would, even if I could.
Awww shyt. WTF? I'm just hurting a fucking lot today, and am losing interest in putting energy into someone I am very fond of. But, I'm looking forward, ever forward, never straight. She doesn't *see* me. I have been trying for over a week. Not gonna give up that easily, just gonna back off for awhile.
And I reckon I'll keep on crying when I sing.
Why does something I love so much give me so much pain? Perhaps it's too angry, serious, honest. Don't know. What I do know is that I cannot stop it. Not that I would, even if I could.
Awww shyt. WTF? I'm just hurting a fucking lot today, and am losing interest in putting energy into someone I am very fond of. But, I'm looking forward, ever forward, never straight. She doesn't *see* me. I have been trying for over a week. Not gonna give up that easily, just gonna back off for awhile.
And I reckon I'll keep on crying when I sing.
Monday, June 09, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Optiplex GX620
A word to the wise.... Don't you ever, ever, ever, ever spend your precious time or money on one of these systems.
Other Dells are just fine. This one has had over 50% hardware failure rate in one of my labs in the last two weeks. I'm losing my precious worklife trying to fix this horrible shyt.
Caveat Emptor, Indeed.
Other Dells are just fine. This one has had over 50% hardware failure rate in one of my labs in the last two weeks. I'm losing my precious worklife trying to fix this horrible shyt.
Caveat Emptor, Indeed.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Meh..... Pershunal Conundrums
The first time I saw her, I was in AWE. I loved the way she looked, talked, moved. I was attracted right away.
When I first met her, way back when, she was almost an unapproachable idol..... Talented, a leader, a lover of nature, hard working, kind to animals and people. Oh! And that smile melts me in a way that only lovers of dark chocolate can understand. I've often wondered what in the world can I do to get her to notice me?
Still, one day, I will have to make a move to this woman and say, "Lady, you are so beautiful and so sexy, and I am so into you”. I am afraid to damage the delicate intimacy that we seem to have established over the past couple of years. I would be simply crushed if she started avoiding me because I made her uncomfortable, and I would absolutely and sincerely turn my energies elsewhere to save having her in my life.
She could be into me? Sometimes I feel that she's attracted to me..... But I don't know for sure. Once upon a time, she lay down on a bed with me and told me something about her biology that made my ovaries cry to jump out and be with her at that very moment. And the way she lay down and stroked her hair and that sparkle in her eyes, I will never ever forget.
Sigh..... I think about her a lot, but am not obsessed with her. I do try to find any reason to communicate with her or see her; when I do hear from her, even via email, it makes me so happy that I sing a little private song.
Oh well. I'm just doing some E-venting. (Take that as you like it.) Maybe it's just a simple crush that will move on in time, or get re-directed if she does eventually turn me down. But goddess knows that I dream for something different.....
When I first met her, way back when, she was almost an unapproachable idol..... Talented, a leader, a lover of nature, hard working, kind to animals and people. Oh! And that smile melts me in a way that only lovers of dark chocolate can understand. I've often wondered what in the world can I do to get her to notice me?
Still, one day, I will have to make a move to this woman and say, "Lady, you are so beautiful and so sexy, and I am so into you”. I am afraid to damage the delicate intimacy that we seem to have established over the past couple of years. I would be simply crushed if she started avoiding me because I made her uncomfortable, and I would absolutely and sincerely turn my energies elsewhere to save having her in my life.
She could be into me? Sometimes I feel that she's attracted to me..... But I don't know for sure. Once upon a time, she lay down on a bed with me and told me something about her biology that made my ovaries cry to jump out and be with her at that very moment. And the way she lay down and stroked her hair and that sparkle in her eyes, I will never ever forget.
Sigh..... I think about her a lot, but am not obsessed with her. I do try to find any reason to communicate with her or see her; when I do hear from her, even via email, it makes me so happy that I sing a little private song.
Oh well. I'm just doing some E-venting. (Take that as you like it.) Maybe it's just a simple crush that will move on in time, or get re-directed if she does eventually turn me down. But goddess knows that I dream for something different.....
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Hot Offa Slashdot Presses!!!
Glad to notice this today:
"The RIAA is going to have to face the music in Tampa, Florida, and answer the charges of extortion, trespass, conspiracy, unlicensed investigation, and computer fraud and abuse that have been leveled against them there. And the judge delivered his ruling against them in in pretty unceremonious fashion — receiving their dismissal motion last night, and denying the motion this morning.
The RIAA's unvarying M.O., when hit with counterclaims, is to make a motion to dismiss them. It did just that in one Tampa case, UMG v. Del Cid, but the judge upheld 5 of the 6 counterclaims. The RIAA quickly settled that one. When a new case came up in the same Tampa courthouse before the very same judge, and the same 5 counterclaims were leveled against the record companies, I opined that 'it is highly unlikely that the RIAA will make a motion to dismiss counterclaims,' since I knew they'd be risking sanctions if they did.
Well I guess I underestimated the chutzpah — or the propensity for frivolous motion practice — of the RIAA lawyers, as they in essence thumbed their nose at the judge, making the dismissal motion anyway, telling District Judge Richard A. Lazzara that his earlier decision had been wrong. The judge wasted no time telling the record companies that he did not agree (PDF)."
"The RIAA is going to have to face the music in Tampa, Florida, and answer the charges of extortion, trespass, conspiracy, unlicensed investigation, and computer fraud and abuse that have been leveled against them there. And the judge delivered his ruling against them in in pretty unceremonious fashion — receiving their dismissal motion last night, and denying the motion this morning.
The RIAA's unvarying M.O., when hit with counterclaims, is to make a motion to dismiss them. It did just that in one Tampa case, UMG v. Del Cid, but the judge upheld 5 of the 6 counterclaims. The RIAA quickly settled that one. When a new case came up in the same Tampa courthouse before the very same judge, and the same 5 counterclaims were leveled against the record companies, I opined that 'it is highly unlikely that the RIAA will make a motion to dismiss counterclaims,' since I knew they'd be risking sanctions if they did.
Well I guess I underestimated the chutzpah — or the propensity for frivolous motion practice — of the RIAA lawyers, as they in essence thumbed their nose at the judge, making the dismissal motion anyway, telling District Judge Richard A. Lazzara that his earlier decision had been wrong. The judge wasted no time telling the record companies that he did not agree (PDF)."
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
credit cards
*SCREAM*
ShittyBank's Web Site
Just got off of the phone with a credit card company's representatives. My partner is 2 states away trying to use it at this very moment. However, I and my dumbass self, made the payment 4 days late. I paid them (online) yesterday, but that payment has not posted to my account yet.
Because, according to the company, I have not paid them, my ability to use the card has been frozen, and was frozen the very atomic clock server second that the account became past due. Please understand, I owe less than 800.00 on the account, and have never *not* paid them. In fact, I haven't even charged anything to the account in 5 or 6 *years*.
Also, to remind me of just how horrible my credit crime, I was charged a 39.00 late fee (I suppose the same server tick time, and to the account of course, so that the interest will keep compounding itself.)
I know this shit happens to a lot of people all of the time. It's not a major life event. But! When I called the number for customer service, I was (unknown to me at the time) auto-switched to the Collections Department. Even though I paid them yesterday. And today is 24 hours later.
So, what I'm fuming about is not that I'm getting financially punished, and not that I haven't even received the extra card I ordered last month for emergencies (which they will not address, nor attempt to rectify, until the payment I made yesterday gets to them all safe and sound). Someone could have stolen this card and they refuse to help until they officially receive the payment?
WTF?
So. Anyway.....What really gets me, what makes me so pope-fucking angry that I almost cannot see, and has set me the rocketfuckinship off, is that this company has employed the technological ability to neuter access, and has not employed the technological ability to restore the same access. It's like some made a new building; and the Powerful Ones have built themselves a smooth concrete entrance with no stairs and automatic doors, while they've left a wooden ladder kissing a hole in the wall for the rest of us to use.
I believe, and I swear I swear I swear (and I thought it was not possible) now more than ever, that corporations are truly sociopaths. There is nothing good they are doing for society at all, besides further duping us with the hallucination that somehow, money and markets are vital to life as we know it.
Oh yeah. Now that I think about it, funny how the credit card company will let themselves charge something to my account when it is so, oh what was it? Supposedly frozen.
*SCREAM* OH MY FUCKINASSGOD THIS MODERN LIFE IS KILLING US AND FOR WHAT GOOD REASON???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????*SCREAM*
War. Unloved and scarred beyond fucking belief and not taken care of Veterans. Mortgages. The World's markets crashed when the subprime shit hit over here. The World's. Not even the Bank of England was safe. No really clean water anymore. Just looking at my city's sky shows me that's not clean air I'm breathing. And that's Stateside. I can't even imagine what folks on the Dark Continent are up against, although I try, when compassion lifts her worn out shoulders.
Air and Water are fucking essential to LIFE. Is credit? FUCK NO. It is an invention of man. And has probably caused more problems than it would ever be able to solve. And this one little thing has stressed me out so much; I can only think of what it must be like for those whom credit has seduced so completely that their very LIVES have been ruined. Ah...... the Rules of Man and His God.
It is extremely difficult to find something positive to hope for in these days and times.....
ShittyBank's Web Site
Just got off of the phone with a credit card company's representatives. My partner is 2 states away trying to use it at this very moment. However, I and my dumbass self, made the payment 4 days late. I paid them (online) yesterday, but that payment has not posted to my account yet.
Because, according to the company, I have not paid them, my ability to use the card has been frozen, and was frozen the very atomic clock server second that the account became past due. Please understand, I owe less than 800.00 on the account, and have never *not* paid them. In fact, I haven't even charged anything to the account in 5 or 6 *years*.
Also, to remind me of just how horrible my credit crime, I was charged a 39.00 late fee (I suppose the same server tick time, and to the account of course, so that the interest will keep compounding itself.)
I know this shit happens to a lot of people all of the time. It's not a major life event. But! When I called the number for customer service, I was (unknown to me at the time) auto-switched to the Collections Department. Even though I paid them yesterday. And today is 24 hours later.
So, what I'm fuming about is not that I'm getting financially punished, and not that I haven't even received the extra card I ordered last month for emergencies (which they will not address, nor attempt to rectify, until the payment I made yesterday gets to them all safe and sound). Someone could have stolen this card and they refuse to help until they officially receive the payment?
WTF?
So. Anyway.....What really gets me, what makes me so pope-fucking angry that I almost cannot see, and has set me the rocketfuckinship off, is that this company has employed the technological ability to neuter access, and has not employed the technological ability to restore the same access. It's like some made a new building; and the Powerful Ones have built themselves a smooth concrete entrance with no stairs and automatic doors, while they've left a wooden ladder kissing a hole in the wall for the rest of us to use.
I believe, and I swear I swear I swear (and I thought it was not possible) now more than ever, that corporations are truly sociopaths. There is nothing good they are doing for society at all, besides further duping us with the hallucination that somehow, money and markets are vital to life as we know it.
Oh yeah. Now that I think about it, funny how the credit card company will let themselves charge something to my account when it is so, oh what was it? Supposedly frozen.
*SCREAM* OH MY FUCKINASSGOD THIS MODERN LIFE IS KILLING US AND FOR WHAT GOOD REASON???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????*SCREAM*
War. Unloved and scarred beyond fucking belief and not taken care of Veterans. Mortgages. The World's markets crashed when the subprime shit hit over here. The World's. Not even the Bank of England was safe. No really clean water anymore. Just looking at my city's sky shows me that's not clean air I'm breathing. And that's Stateside. I can't even imagine what folks on the Dark Continent are up against, although I try, when compassion lifts her worn out shoulders.
Air and Water are fucking essential to LIFE. Is credit? FUCK NO. It is an invention of man. And has probably caused more problems than it would ever be able to solve. And this one little thing has stressed me out so much; I can only think of what it must be like for those whom credit has seduced so completely that their very LIVES have been ruined. Ah...... the Rules of Man and His God.
It is extremely difficult to find something positive to hope for in these days and times.....
LinkBackToHere
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Here is a snippet from:
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_the_new_motivation_for_US_war__04142008.html
/*snip
This guy is watching over all of us. And he sees 'justice' this way??? Awwww, for the love of something completely unfuckable, can't he do better???
Hey! You over there! I'm bringing 'justice' to you.
Would you like to upsize your impending funeral or incarceration? Excellent choice, sir.
I do quite like how carnations form a nice casket cascade over folded hands. And just think; you won this bag because you chose to disagree with how 'justice' is applied without equity in this fair nation of ours. Lucky you.
And just for fun, the online search results for definitions of justice on the Web:
the quality of being just or fair the administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is justice denied" judge: a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice Department of Justice: the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. For many, justice is overwhelmingly important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought." For many, it has not been achieved: "We do not live in a just world."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_the_new_motivation_for_US_war__04142008.html
/*snip
Bush told ABC News that he had no intention of attacking Iran, but vowed to protect US interests and refused to rule out the use of force altogether.
"The message to the Iranians is: we will bring you to justice if you continue to try to infiltrate, send your agents or send surrogates to bring harm to our troops and/or the Iraqi citizens," Bush said.
Asked to elaborate on this "justice," Bush replied: "It means capture or kill, is what that means."
Bush repeated that "all options need to be on the table, but my first effort is to solve this issue diplomatically," and added that he was amused by unfounded rumors of an impending attack.
"I'm chuckling, because, you know, from my perch, my perspective, these rumors happen all the time ... I wouldn't say they're amusing. It's part of the job, I guess."
/*endsnipThis guy is watching over all of us. And he sees 'justice' this way??? Awwww, for the love of something completely unfuckable, can't he do better???
Hey! You over there! I'm bringing 'justice' to you.
Would you like to upsize your impending funeral or incarceration? Excellent choice, sir.
I do quite like how carnations form a nice casket cascade over folded hands. And just think; you won this bag because you chose to disagree with how 'justice' is applied without equity in this fair nation of ours. Lucky you.
And just for fun, the online search results for definitions of justice on the Web:
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice
Monday, April 14, 2008
US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically
DigitAl56K writes
"The Washington Post reports that 'The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon' and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that 'Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement.' Initially, it appears that the administration plans to leverage conventional satellites for domestic surveillance purposes. Congress last October delayed launch of the DHS office that would coordinate law-enforcement requests for satellite and other technical data, and demanded answers to legal questions about the program. The administration supplied answers that some Congress members characterized as inadequate and appears determined to go ahead anyway."
From The Washington Post:
Saturday, April 12, 2008; Page A03
The AWD writes:
<<SCREAMS>>
Run for your life. Grab your tinfoil hat. Anything you say or do will be misquoted and then used against you. Orwell was more than right- who are the pigs, now?
If you voted for Bu$h, you should be ashamed of yourself. And you deserve to have your dildos and porn and opinions and beer taken away because you're obviously a deviant and a threat to this Great Fucking Society.
<<SCREAMS>>
"The Washington Post reports that 'The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon' and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that 'Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement.' Initially, it appears that the administration plans to leverage conventional satellites for domestic surveillance purposes. Congress last October delayed launch of the DHS office that would coordinate law-enforcement requests for satellite and other technical data, and demanded answers to legal questions about the program. The administration supplied answers that some Congress members characterized as inadequate and appears determined to go ahead anyway."
From The Washington Post:
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.: Congressional Critics Want More Assurances of Legality
Washington Post Staff WriterSaturday, April 12, 2008; Page A03
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department's new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages, starting as soon as possible with traditional scientific and homeland security activities -- such as tracking hurricane damage, monitoring climate change and creating terrain maps.
Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement once privacy and civil rights concerns are resolved, he said. The department has previously said the program will not intercept communications.
"There is no basis to suggest that this process is in any way insufficient to protect the privacy and civil liberties of Americans," Chertoff wrote to Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Jane Harman (D-Calif.), chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee and its intelligence subcommittee, respectively, in letters released yesterday.
"I think we've fully addressed anybody's concerns," Chertoff added in remarks last week to bloggers. "I think the way is now clear to stand it up and go warm on it."
His statements marked a fresh determination to operate the department's new National Applications Office as part of its counterterrorism efforts. The administration in May 2007 gave DHS authority to coordinate requests for satellite imagery, radar, electronic-signal information, chemical detection and other monitoring capabilities that have been used for decades within U.S. borders for mapping and disaster response.
But Congress delayed launch of the new office last October. Critics cited its potential to expand the role of military assets in domestic law enforcement, to turn new or as-yet-undeveloped technologies against Americans without adequate public debate, and to divert the existing civilian and scientific focus of some satellite work to security uses.
Democrats say Chertoff has not spelled out what federal laws govern the NAO, whose funding and size are classified. Congress barred Homeland Security from funding the office until its investigators could review the office's operating procedures and safeguards. The department submitted answers on Thursday, but some lawmakers promptly said the response was inadequate.
"I have had a firsthand experience with the trust-me theory of law from this administration," said Harman, citing the 2005 disclosure of the National Security Agency's domestic spying program, which included warrantless eavesdropping on calls and e-mails between people in the United States and overseas. "I won't make the same mistake. . . . I want to see the legal underpinnings for the whole program."
Thompson called DHS's release Thursday of the office's procedures and a civil liberties impact assessment "a good start." But, he said, "We still don't know whether the NAO will pass constitutional muster since no legal framework has been provided."
DHS officials said the demands are unwarranted. "The legal framework that governs the National Applications Office . . . is reflected in the Constitution, the U.S. Code and all other U.S. laws," said DHS spokeswoman Laura Keehner. She said its operations will be subject to "robust," structured legal scrutiny by multiple agencies.
<<SCREAMS>>
Run for your life. Grab your tinfoil hat. Anything you say or do will be misquoted and then used against you. Orwell was more than right- who are the pigs, now?
If you voted for Bu$h, you should be ashamed of yourself. And you deserve to have your dildos and porn and opinions and beer taken away because you're obviously a deviant and a threat to this Great Fucking Society.
<<SCREAMS>>
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Disavowed Justice Department Legal Memo: Constitutional Protections Did Not Apply
Memo linked to warrantless surveillance
PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN
Apr 03, 2008 03:37 EST
For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil didn't apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism.
That view was expressed in a Justice Department legal memo dated Oct. 23, 2001. The administration on Wednesday stressed that it now disavows that view.
The October 2001 memo was written at the request of the White House by John Yoo, then the deputy assistant attorney general, and addressed to Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel at the time. The administration had asked the department for an opinion on the legality of potential responses to terrorist activity.
The 37-page memo has not been released. Its existence was disclosed Tuesday in a footnote of a separate secret memo, dated March 14, 2003, released by the Pentagon in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Our office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations," the footnote states, referring to a document titled "Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States."
Exactly what domestic military action was covered by the October memo is unclear. But federal documents indicate that the memo relates to the National Security Agency's Terrorist Surveillance Program, or TSP.
That program intercepted phone calls and e-mails on U.S. soil, bypassing the normal legal requirement that such eavesdropping be authorized by a secret federal court. The program began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and continued until Jan. 17, 2007, when the White House resumed seeking surveillance warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Wednesday that the Fourth Amendment finding in the October memo was not the legal underpinning for the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
"TSP relied on a separate set of legal memoranda," Fratto told The Associated Press. The Justice Department outlined that legal framework in a January 2006 white paper issued by the Justice Department a month after the TSP was revealed by The New York Times.
The October memo was written just days before Bush administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, briefed four House and Senate leaders on the NSA's secret wiretapping program for the first time.
The government itself related the October memo to the TSP program when it included it on a list of documents that were responsive to the ACLU's request for records from the program. It refused to hand them over.
Late Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said department officials believe the October 2001 memo was not about the eavesdropping program, but he did not explain why it was included on requests for documents linked to the TSP.
Earlier, Roehrkasse said the statement in the footnote does not reflect the current view of the department's Office of Legal Counsel.
"We disagree with the proposition that the Fourth Amendment has no application to domestic military operations," he said. "Whether a particular search or seizure is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment requires consideration of the particular context and circumstances of the search."
Roehrkasse would not say exactly when that legal opinion was overturned internally. But he pointed to the January 2006 white paper.
"The white paper does not suggest in any way that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to domestic military activities, and that is not the position of the Office of Legal Counsel," he said.
Suzanne Spaulding, a national security law expert and former assistant general counsel at the CIA, said she found the Fourth Amendment reference in the footnote troubling, but added: "To know (the Justice Department) no longer thinks this is a legitimate statement is reassuring."
"The recent disclosures underscore the Bush administration's extraordinarily sweeping conception of executive power," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU's National Security Project. "The administration's lawyers believe the president should be permitted to violate statutory law, to violate international treaties and even to violate the Fourth Amendment inside the U.S. They believe that the president should be above the law."
"Each time one of these memos comes out you have to come up with a more extreme way to characterize it," Jaffer said.
The ACLU is challenging in court the government's withholding of the October 2001 memo.
Source: AP News
The AWD writes: In the immortal words of some fucked up South Park character that I can't quite remember, "I AM ABOVE THE LAW!!!" What the fuck kinda Crazyville are we living in???Sunday, March 23, 2008
Segment from a Privacy Notice
So. Had to go see an orthopedic doctor last week.
I was sitting there, filling out paperwork, actually reading the fine print. One section of paperwork required my printed name, my initials in two places, a date, and my signature; this was to confirm that I had read and understood the office's privacy notice. I had been directed by staff to fill out this section. However, one problem- there was not a version of the privacy notice anywhere to be seen.
Well, I got my companion, The Stig's Big Brother, to run up to the counter and ask for the privacy notice. About 20 minutes later, the office manager printed and brought a copy out to me. The thing is five pages long! Apparently, no one ever reads the damn thing, even though they sign legal paperwork confirming that they have seen it.
Along with a section in the privacy notice that reads "...at the time of first service rendered after April 14, 2003, it is required that you receive a paper copy" of this notice.
That's enough to scare the crap out of me, but then I come across these jewels buried in the, ahem, privacy notice:
National Security and Intelligence Activities
We may release health information about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security activities authorized by law.
Protective Services for the President and Others
We may disclose health information about you to authorized federal officials so they may provide protection to the President, other authorized persons or foreign heads of state or conduct special investigations.
WHAT FUCKING "PRIVACY" ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT??? When you read the entire document, it is essentially ensuring that you have no privacy, and that anyone, even your Pre$ident, can find out when you had that nasty-ass mole removed from your face, the date of your last menstrual cycle, and probably, even the DNA chains that make up your being.
Oh yeah, the section about how you cannot get any copies of Your health records before January 3, 2003, even though they are Your records, is scary reading indeed.
But, they wouldn't want us living in fear, now, would they?
I was sitting there, filling out paperwork, actually reading the fine print. One section of paperwork required my printed name, my initials in two places, a date, and my signature; this was to confirm that I had read and understood the office's privacy notice. I had been directed by staff to fill out this section. However, one problem- there was not a version of the privacy notice anywhere to be seen.
Well, I got my companion, The Stig's Big Brother, to run up to the counter and ask for the privacy notice. About 20 minutes later, the office manager printed and brought a copy out to me. The thing is five pages long! Apparently, no one ever reads the damn thing, even though they sign legal paperwork confirming that they have seen it.
Along with a section in the privacy notice that reads "...at the time of first service rendered after April 14, 2003, it is required that you receive a paper copy" of this notice.
That's enough to scare the crap out of me, but then I come across these jewels buried in the, ahem, privacy notice:
National Security and Intelligence Activities
We may release health information about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security activities authorized by law.
Protective Services for the President and Others
We may disclose health information about you to authorized federal officials so they may provide protection to the President, other authorized persons or foreign heads of state or conduct special investigations.
WHAT FUCKING "PRIVACY" ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT??? When you read the entire document, it is essentially ensuring that you have no privacy, and that anyone, even your Pre$ident, can find out when you had that nasty-ass mole removed from your face, the date of your last menstrual cycle, and probably, even the DNA chains that make up your being.
Oh yeah, the section about how you cannot get any copies of Your health records before January 3, 2003, even though they are Your records, is scary reading indeed.
But, they wouldn't want us living in fear, now, would they?
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
San Francisco Law School Comes to Aid of Students Accused of Copyright Infringement
February 28, 2008
Another law school clinic is assisting college students who have been accused of swapping music files online in violation of copyright law. Students taking part in an intellectual-property project of the University of San Francisco School of Law are counseling some students at the university and at San Francisco State University on how to respond to letters they have received from the Recording Industry Association of America, accusing them of copyright infringement.
The law students, under the tutelage of Robert E. Talbot, a law professor, are explaining to the accused college students their rights, and whether they can bring an effective defense against the recording-industry group, according to an article published last week by the law school. The law students also are helping Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer and blogger, defend people sued by the industry group throughout the country.
“The RIAA is using heavy-handed tactics that some of the law students feel border on extortion,” Mr. Talbot says in the article.
Law students with the University of Maine’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic have gone a step further, actually representing students who are singled out by the Recording Industry Association of America.—-Andrea L. Foster
Posted on Thursday February 28, 2008Tuesday, February 19, 2008
$495 billion dollars spent on the Iraq War.
- $275 million per day
- $4,100 per household
- Almost 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed and more than 60,000 wounded
- 700,000 Iraqis killed and 4 million refugees
Source: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
And it's not only the money thing. It's how we are endangering the future of the world, sacrificing our safety, and ignoring not only our pre-war-existing domestic issues, but the issues and realities that this war is creating for far too many people.
Warning:
Graphic images depicting the harsh reality of the Human Costs of this war can be seen below. Click the images to view them in their original size.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms
Straight from Slashdot's presess:
Ktistec Machine writes to let us know that the telecom companies are one step closer to getting off the hook for their illegal collusion with the US government. Today the US Senate passed, by a filibuster-proof majority of 67 to 31, a revised FISA bill that grants retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that helped the government illegally tap American network traffic. If passed by both houses and signed by the President, this would effectively put an end to the many lawsuits against these companies (about 40 have been filed). The House version of the bill does not presently contain an immunity provision.
Pre$ident Bu$h has said he will veto any such bill that reaches his desk without the grant of immunity.
Ktistec Machine writes to let us know that the telecom companies are one step closer to getting off the hook for their illegal collusion with the US government. Today the US Senate passed, by a filibuster-proof majority of 67 to 31, a revised FISA bill that grants retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that helped the government illegally tap American network traffic. If passed by both houses and signed by the President, this would effectively put an end to the many lawsuits against these companies (about 40 have been filed). The House version of the bill does not presently contain an immunity provision.
Pre$ident Bu$h has said he will veto any such bill that reaches his desk without the grant of immunity.
WE DO NOT HAVE LIBERTY ANYMORE.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Words on our Statue of Liberty
Worth reading and thinking about again.....
Especially in these days of greed and false gods.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
FusterCluckin'
Heya Kids!
I just want to spread some electronic knowledge by hippin' ya to the EFF. That's the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They are out there, fighting in the arenas of illegal wiretapping, digital rights management, copyright, and intellectual property (to name a few).
So much has changed since the 'Web' went mainstream. Societal changes have been wrought, and these have begat some complex-ass issues. Rights that we don't even know we have or could establish are being taken away before they're even explored. Ya gotta watch yo'self, protect yo'self. The gooberment or corrupations certainly won't do it for you.... We're just a CONSUMER to them, anyway.
Also check out Boycott the RIAA if you can. It sounds like a great idea to me!
Stay warm.
~AWD
I just want to spread some electronic knowledge by hippin' ya to the EFF. That's the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They are out there, fighting in the arenas of illegal wiretapping, digital rights management, copyright, and intellectual property (to name a few).
So much has changed since the 'Web' went mainstream. Societal changes have been wrought, and these have begat some complex-ass issues. Rights that we don't even know we have or could establish are being taken away before they're even explored. Ya gotta watch yo'self, protect yo'self. The gooberment or corrupations certainly won't do it for you.... We're just a CONSUMER to them, anyway.
Also check out Boycott the RIAA if you can. It sounds like a great idea to me!
Stay warm.
~AWD
Monday, January 28, 2008
22 Years Ago....
I remember this day so well. There had been a big snow and we were home from school. I was at my grandparent's house, spending the day with them. Papaw was in his rocking chair and Mamaw was in the kitchen, heating up some left-overs for lunch; my brother was playing with some toys in the living room. I can't remember where Mom was; probably at work or doing something to take care of the cows. Aunt Renea was in her bedroom and Uncle Bobby was probably at work.
In addition to this great snow day, we were gonna get to watch the Challenger take off. Space shuttles were still new and exciting back then; whenever one took off, it was a big event. People gathered to watch. Our TV was tuned to CBS. I think Cronkite was still broadcasting back then.
In a few minutes would be The Countdown, then, The Takeoff. We never thought The Explosion would come after that.
We knew immediately that no one survived. How could anyone live through that? I'll never forget that day, as long as I live, for more reasons than just the Challenger exploding. It was a warm day in a cold snow with my family..... and I do not have those days anymore.
In addition to this great snow day, we were gonna get to watch the Challenger take off. Space shuttles were still new and exciting back then; whenever one took off, it was a big event. People gathered to watch. Our TV was tuned to CBS. I think Cronkite was still broadcasting back then.
In a few minutes would be The Countdown, then, The Takeoff. We never thought The Explosion would come after that.
We knew immediately that no one survived. How could anyone live through that? I'll never forget that day, as long as I live, for more reasons than just the Challenger exploding. It was a warm day in a cold snow with my family..... and I do not have those days anymore.
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