Stop Me Before I Rant Again

Libor ... rhymes with "Lie more"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:28:00 +0000

Eric Prince - Catholic Crusader

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:04:00 +0000

Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

His right hand to God, his left hand in the tax payer's pocket. Let's hope that they are able to make these charges stick and this menace to our nation's sovereignty is taken out for good. The fact that the Obama administration's State Dept. still uses Blackwater (renamed Xe, for obvious PR reasons) points up the lack any real change in this new administration. reminds me of a rant Bill Hicks gave once on democrats vs. republicans (two sock puppets controlled by one individual) "I like the sock puppet on the left.... no I like the sock puppet on the right" ... sheesh.

Any way this article is an eye opening read....

AWESOME Illustration of How Gov't Spends Your Money (Pic)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:54:00 +0000

This is quite some wall chart

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Bush's Buddy get a break ... what American Heroes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:22:00 +0000

Two months left to go ... this may just be the beginning
On the latest pardon list were:

_Leslie Owen Collier of Charleston, Mo. She was convicted for unauthorized use of a pesticide and violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

_Milton Kirk Cordes of Rapid City, S.D. Cordes was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act, which prohibits importation into the country of wildlife taken in violation of conservation laws.

_Richard Micheal Culpepper of Mahomet, Ill., who was convicted of making false statements to the federal government.

_Brenda Jean Dolenz-Helmer of Fort Worth, Texas, for reporting or helping cover up a crime.

_Andrew Foster Harley of Falls Church, Va. Harley was convicted of wrongful use and distribution of marijuana and cocaine.

_Obie Gene Helton of Rossville, Ga., whose offense was unauthorized acquisition of food stamps.

_Carey C. Hice Sr. of Travelers Rest, S.C., who was convicted of income tax evasion.

_Geneva Yvonne Hogg of Jacksonville, Fla., convicted of bank embezzlement.

_William Hoyle McCright Jr. of Midland, Texas, who was sentenced for making false entries, books, reports or statements to a bank.

_Paul Julian McCurdy of Sulphur, Okla., who was sentenced for misapplication of bank funds.

_Robert Earl Mohon Jr. of Grant, Ala., who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute marijuana.

_Ronald Alan Mohrhoff of Los Angeles, who was convicted for unlawful use of a telephone in a narcotics felony.

_Daniel Figh Pue III of Conroe, Texas, convicted of illegal treatment, storage and disposal of a hazardous waste without a permit.

_Orion Lynn Vick of White Hall, Ark., who was convicted of aiding and abetting the theft of government property.

Bush also commuted the prison sentences of John Edward Forte of North Brunswick, N.J., and James Russell Harris of Detroit, Mich. Both were convicted of cocaine offenses.

Under the Constitution, the president's power to issue pardons is absolute and cannot be overruled.

Some sad truth

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:23:00 +0000

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center: "Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next 10 years." The analysis goes on to say: "Neither candidate's plan would significantly increase economic growth unless offset by spending cuts or tax increases that the campaigns have not specified."

I am hoping for the best

McCain unfit to serve due to VP choice (if nothing else)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:34:00 +0000

It really completely shows the level of incompetence of McCain that he had not vetted his VP choice better

Joe "the plumber" six-pack fake christian

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:53:00 +0000

"Joe the Plumber" (sic) may run a plumbing business but he is not a licensed plumber. His full name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher. And he owes a bit in back taxes." NY Times Oct. 16, 2008

Joe’s not really qualified to be a plumber?

No problem for the McCain decision process.

Mrs. Palin isn’t really qualified to be VP of the US, either.

The premise of his question to Mr. Obama about taxes may also be flawed, according to actual non-partisan tax analysts.

Okay, This guy really pisses me off. He is pretending to be undecided and then you listen to this interview and discover that he is a conservative yahoo wth the same fake christian values as Sarah Pallin and all the other nonspiritual Crusaders. He is using that same conservative criterion of calling anyone that criticizes they way America is under the most inept leadership in our time (W ... etc.) with being unpatriotic. I am so sick of that line of thinking.

We are criticizing America in this way because we are unsatisfied with the stupidity of the War and the mishandling of the economy. No one likes taxes, but everyone needs to pay them to support our infrastructure. I personally am not in favor of privatizing the fire dept., for example. This guy hates Social Security and yet is willing to throw 700 thousand million dollars at this foreign land rather than support his own children's future. This sort of fake christian we don't need in our country. Go back to Poland or where ever your unfortunate ill bred relatives came from. We want our America back from the likes of you. Fake moderate.

Very funny video

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:52:00 +0000

Time for Some Campaignin' | Funny Jokes at JibJab

At the Polls ..

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:46:00 +0000

Target Women: Sarah Palin

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:48:00 +0000

Palin and the Alaska Independence Party

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:36:00 +0000

True American?

from:
The Guardian

Over at samefacts.com, Mark Kleiman appears to have nailed down the AIP membership story. Current party chair Lynette Clark says:

Yes, Governor Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party. She joined the Party and attended the AIP Statewide Convention held in Wasilla in 1994, along with her husband, Todd. In 1996 she changed her registration to Republican and Todd re-registered as undeclared, a registration he holds today.

Now we have a situation where one of three people is lying. Clark is lying or Palin is lying to the McCain team or the McCain team knows the truth and is lying. Of the three, Clark would seem to have the least motivation to speak with forked tongue.

For backup read this in The Dailykos
Also, tracking some of this stuff in DIGG

HER words from her speech: "While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay"

is a whole lot different than the FACTS:

"After going unsold for months, the jet was put into the hands of Turbo North Aviation, an Anchorage aircraft broker, which put an asking price of $2.45 million on the nearly $2.7 million jet. It quickly sold to Alaska businessman Larry Reynolds for $2.1 million ($31,000 of which went to Turbo Aviation). Today the Westwind II jet spends its days ushering wealthy hunters around Alaska and Russia."

It goes to credibility, of which she is devoid.

Here she is back pedaling but still appeasing this whack job constituency

End Times "the video"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:06:00 +0000

This is hillarious. I should do a disappearing trick on a video so I can bilk naive rubes out of money. Like listening to right wing talk radio as a way of finding out what these fascists really think is going on.

I am glad to see that Michael Savages' suit of the Islamic Defense League is being thrown. What if he had made the same claims about these kooky theories of "End times",
He said,

the Quran a "hateful little book ... a document of slavery" and said, "I don't want to hear one more word about Islam. Take your religion and shove it."

Wow, with one out of every 100 Americans in jail and 1 out of every 9 Black American males between 20- 34 are in jail ... and these clowns are doing this. Stirring up more hatred and intolerence ... Our God does not believe in this

New Paradigm for Structure of the Solar System

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:13:00 +0000

It will be curious to see the impacts that these new discoveries about the solar system will have on astrology. ``No more misfits. Plutos abound.'' The solar system now was thought to be composed of three zones not two. Most members of the solar system weren't born where they are now, and making planets is a common process in the universe.

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Thought you might enjoy the future

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Earthship Biotecture

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:35:00 +0000

I have become very interested in these new types of self sustaining structures. Made of rammed earth in tires, they are self sustaining stuctures. Check out this video to get the idea, and click on this banner to go to the site

I am reminded of an article that I read in the Sierra Club Compass online magazine. "Brokeback Bush

It's a little-known fact that Bush's Crawford getaway boasts some environmentally sensible technology, including geothermal heat pumps, rainwater collection and wastewater recycling. The ranch house also incorporates daylighting and passive solar heating and cooling. It's true. Just don't expect to hear it from the White House.

Sounds like George and Laura will retire to an earthship ... who would have guessed?

Decode ... then act

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:58:00 +0000

I can think of no more patriotic act right now than to work towards ridding ourselves of this republi"con". We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis where the balance of power between the branches of government has been severely changed and skewed to the executive branch. This includes the tipping of the judicial branch as well. Additionally, the legislative branch has been unable to act effectively since the the domination of the "super" majority has made it impossible for the representative majority to act.

This is all been orchestrated by our current leader and I do not mean the cocaine addled frat boy who can not complete sentences. I mean the real leader, who took over NORAD during 9/11 in an unprecedented maneuver of the administrative branch usurping the control of our nations air defense. This criminal needs to be excluded from power. Please contact the Judiciary Committee of Congress today and urge them to support Dennis Kucinich. He introduced H Res 333 as a privileged resolution (now called H Res 799) a motion to impeach.
Take Action: Contact the House Judiciary Committee.

It is becoming too late to act, it probably is already ..

How is this possible?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:30:00 +0000

This is a particularly strange photo. Maybe this poor victim, oops I mean brave soldier, will vote for Bush even one more time, or may they can make him a "wolf-helmet" to cover his disfigured head. He was trapped in a terrible fire from a road side bomb ... Genna Bush was not, because she was down in Paraguay helping Grandpa Bush and the Carlyle Group buy the largest aquifer on the South American continent.
This family of criminals have been at it for decades and despite the allusions to their Texas background Bush's grandpa was the Nazi sympathizing Senator from Conn. not Texas. The Bush son and grandson went to Yale, not U of T. Is it possible that you ignored all this?

Prescott Bush is a story on to himself ... Recently in the Guardian:

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

Why this never came to light during Bush the elders sprint to Armageddon is beyond me. This goes very deep. Maybe the ghost of Vince Foster can help us.

The fatigue is getting deeper and deeper.

General Petraeus or General Betray Us?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:36:00 +0000

This was the actual quote from the "Move On" ad in the NY Times. It is a question. Is General Petraeus "Cooking the Books for the WhiteHouse" ? was the sub-title. As it ends up, he did, and therefore if you you are a citizen that wants the people you have entrusted with power to speak with honesty and clarity, the David Patraeus' testimony was a disappointment when compared to the independently reported facts on the ground in Iraq. In this sense he did betray the trust of a majority of the American people and in no way does "MoveOn" deserve censure.

It is clear that this is the an ongoing tactic of these warlords, these chicken hawk liars. Attack anyone who speaks truth to power as in some way unpatriotic. Again, MoveOn, was making a request, "Don't sugar quote the truth with fake projections ... do not betray us with false analysis, yet again"

Elected leaders that lie to congress and the American people, over and over, those are the ones that deserve censure and scorn.

I am reminded of the the whole "Swift" boat controversy surrounding John Kerry during his abortive run for the president. John Kerrry wasn't perfect but one thing that is clear is that when he was commander of his swift boat in Vietanm he preformed valiantly and risked his life on several occasions to save those under his command. Some how these lying bastards, wh never served a day in the service of their country turned this into a liability.

Dan Rather's censure comes to mind. He simply pointed out that our fake president who continues to play war with an ever increasing deficit went AWOL while he served in his slaker rich boy unit of the Alabama National Guard. Some sloppy reportage was uncovered, but no refutation of these facts. Yet, Dan Rather was censured and fired and baby Bush goes calavanting along destroying our country and being hailed as a patriot. This is truly disgusting.

This video is the topper. Video of Dick Cheney saying that invading Iraq would be a mistake back in 1994. what changed? The truth probably is that in 1994, Cheney couldn't have guaranteed Halliburton the major contracts he has been able to score them since he got the VP position in the White House. We are in serious trouble, but lets attack the people that are pointing it out ... that's the ticket

BioInitiative Report

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:20:00 +0000

I think everyone should take a moment to look at this.

An international working group of scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals (The BioInitiative Working Group) has released its report on electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health. They document serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating how much EMF is allowable from power lines, cell phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life.

http://bioinitiative.org/

Reflections on 9/11/2001

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:33:00 +0000

I agree that the people responsible for 9/11 should be hung by thumbs until dead, no doubt.

My problem with this feeling is that there is a lack of clarity about who is actually responsible and our collective outrage was manipulated to meet other ends, that I agree less with.

To quote an unbiased wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda :
" Due to its structure of semi-autonomous cells, al-Qaeda's size and degree of responsibility for particular attacks are difficult to establish. However, this may also be because its size and degree are exaggerated. Although the governments opposed to al-Qaeda claim that it has worldwide reach, other analysts have suggested that those governments, as well as Osama bin Laden himself, exaggerate al-Qaeda's significance in Islamist terrorism.The neologism "al-Qaedaism" is applied to the wider context of those who independently conduct similar acts through political sympathy to al-Qaeda ideology or methods or the copycat effect."

No link has been established between any of the high jackers and the Bathists in Iraq under "So Damn Insane" Saddam Hussien. They are both Sunni and that is about it. Most sources researching Al-Qaeda believe that Bin Laden was just a financier with no real strategic connection to these heinous acts. Also, the BBC traced the names released by the FBI regarding the high jackers and found:
BBC world edition Sunday, 23 September, 2001, 12:30 GMT 13:30 UK
--- Hijack 'suspects' alive and well ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm

The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt.

My point is that there was never enough real intelligence on many levels regarding who was really responsible and it is clear now that motives of profit and manipulation of world markets and global strategic domination by the neo-cons took precedent over justice that was correct and proportional to the crimes.

This isn't a James Bond movie where from a secret evil lair a mastermind plans to take over the world as it has been portrayed.

My personal feeling is that Bush dropped the ball on the intelligence leading up to the attack, he had just taken a 2 month "summer vacation" and only returned a week and a half before the attack. There are many facts surrounding the actions of the Bush administration in that period, but one thing clear is clear, like the Kennedy assassination, no one will ever really know who was and was not involved.

What urks me more than anything is to have my patriotism questioned when asking for clarification of these obvious misrepresentations.

Daily Show: Rove subpoenaed after Leahy's balls grow three sizes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:58:00 +0000

Really funny clip about Rove's subpoena. I particularly liked Asif's contempt graph. The Daily show really got it right this time. I recommend you check it out.

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Turdblossom getting flushed?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:24:00 +0000

Here is a picture of the two criminals burping each other.
This is very suspect move. Why would Karl Rove suddenly need to spend more time with his family? It is almost certain that the RNC has picked the horse they want to fix this upcoming horse race with and they need Rove's patented criminal corporate sponsored lying and mass manipulation skills to come to bear on the unwitting "patriotic" dupes out there. If that last sentence enraged you, then obviously you are such a fool.

The war of words is beyond redemption. As he slithers away, it is clear that he is the one, along Overlord Dick Chenney needs to be tried for treason, nothing less. Impeachment is to good for these traitors, don't kid yourself.

So what is the real story? I think we are in store for some sort of maneuver that will require the lifting of the constitution, marshall law, and then president for life George " I am not popular only because you don't understand" Bush. It could happen.

Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran?

Read that if you think I am being hyperbolic ... Why would Karl Rove get out just when the fun was going to start? Only George Bush's polyps know for sure.

General Strike on 9-11

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:16:00 +0000

Dear friends,

Just heard about this.

Please send it out to 20 people you know ...

I hope we can all do something together to try and get our country back

I am so tired of feeling helpless in the face of all this.

This seems very appropriate action to me.

from

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/26/18437428.php

A general strike has been proposed for 9/11/07. No work, school or shopping. Even a low number of participants can make a difference. The event will show up on the radar of the Powers That Be.

Endless War.

Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Iraqis.

Torture.

Surveillance.

Civil Rights and Habeas Corpus: Gone.

Executive Privilege: No Accountability.

9/11 Questions?

Corporate Media.

Corporate Government.

Tyranny. Fascism. Lies.

The Time Has Come.

To Say NO.

While We Still Have a Chance.

GENERAL STRIKE

Tuesday 9/11/07

No Work. No School. No Shopping.

Hit the Streets !!!

Bush fatigue

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:37:00 +0000

from Belacqua Jones Dictionary:

Slave: A man behind the wheel of his BMW with an iPod in his ear who thinks he is a rebel

En pleine catastrophe nationale (l’ouragan Katrina), nous voyons décrit, W. s’improvise chanteur de country.

Grab your "freedom fries" (l'pomme frittes du liberte') and sing along.

This is just one of many times this Conn. cowboy has horrified any sensible person, but the the real inspiration for my writing today is this "Bush fatigue" phenomenon.

The gruelling reality of 6 years in which I am outraged, not just annoyed, by action after action of this administration. For example:

President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

Boston Globe April 30, 2007

Clinton had started this trend with 105 signing statements, 3 times more than any other president, but in keeping with the seemingly unstoppable destruction of our system of government, the sock puppet on the right has out done the sock puppet on the left.

To clearly understand the scope of this across the aisle collusion and national integral atrophy just look at the "United North" agreements that are being set up with no congressional or judicial oversight in the video below. This is as you can expect a grab from the power elite to widen profit margins by dropping tariffs, not a bad idea in itself, but without legislative oversight and with the history of the last two decades (GATT, NAFTA, etc.) this will not be designed for universal advantage, but rather the advantage for the same elites that are complicit in the staging of the "war on terror".

I am so "fatigued" and yet I continue with this quixotic ranting. If nothing else it is like my own little "Anne Frank" diary.

In the Baghdad citadel, the “Green Zone”, from which America ruled Iraq, Mr Shadid encounters a breed of chirpy young Republicans, unflaggingly loyal to their government and wholly inadequate to their tasks: “Iraqis rock!” two of them tell him.

Economist

Yes we are going to pull right out of Iraq next year and leave this 10 billion dollar citadel for our new free Iraqi friends, who love the USA for all they have done .... right, and I am not fatigued.

J.G. Ballard dystopic visionary

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:10:00 +0000

'The danger is that consumerism will need something close to fascism in order to keep growing. The consumer society is a kind of soft police state.' -Dr. Maxted in J.G. Ballard's "Kingdom Come"

I will admit that one of my favorite novelists is the hard to place speculative fiction author, J.G. Ballard. It is an admission because his vision of the future is so dysfunctional and penetrated with a sadness that I have never experienced, but at the same time I can see that his vision of the future of humanity is sadly ringing true. Take the most extreme plot line and you will see what I mean (from Hello America):

In Las Vegas, roaming bands of Mexican teenagers welcome them to the citadel of late 20th century glitter. Their charismatic leader — a William Burroughs look-alike addressed reverently as President Charles Manson — invites Wayne into his cybernetic stronghold.

How far is this fictional mass murdering president from our own current president? Amy Goodman recently asked Ralph Nader if George Bush was irrelavent now. His answer, without hesistation, was, "Of course, he is a National Security Threat" How Ballardian is that. It is amazing that there is such a term as "Ballardian",

" Resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J.G. Ballard’s novels & stories, esp. dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes & the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments". Collins English Dictionary.

And yet with all of his dire "Empire of the Sun" malaise always boarding on malaria, there is an undertone of the desire for a real utopia, a knowledge that we all share of a world without the tawdry realism of our individual perversions and unhealthy desires. A world without cults or pathos. Unfortunately, this is the unreal world of dreams that never end.
Ballard is reaching for this dream in his most pastoral, his most haunting book"Unlimited Dream Company"
The main character Blake, already has a Messianic belief in himself:

Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography … for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without a message who would one day assemble a unique identity out of this defective jigsaw.

The ghost of my mother visited me in the dream world last night. She was turning her head away and moving into the new light, the light inside our dreams.