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It's the War, Stupid!

By anna shane

Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 05:01:11 PM EDT ::
(17 comments)

Whether or not you're scared about the direction the world is taking, whether or not you're paying close attention to the abject failure of trying to occupy Iraq, the effects of heating up Earth, the criminal and/or corrupt and/or incompetent acts of our current administration, the economy of debt to China, or the nukes that are in the hands of Indians, Pakistanis, North Koreans and goodness knows who else, you must admit that these times we're in are interesting.  If the talk goes to what's wrong with whom and who'll be best at fixing it though, it can get tedious, as Ms. Bored complains.  I think the democratic leadership is missing the point too, but unfortunately it doesn't matter, it's too late for getting the point to help.  These events are all now beyond political control.  The tipping point is past.

So, our politicans are now experiencing being run over by history, like the rest of the us have been run over by politicians and their money-men. The Democrats will be swept into power even though it's too late to fix anything, because of the war.  It has been getting steadily worse in Iraq, and it'll keep getting worse and worse, until our election and long after. All the warnings in the world wern't enough to stop Cheney's brain damanged wishful economic war plans, or Bush's Valley GIrl ideas about pay back time, and now we're all helpless, and just along for the ride.    


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Poisons

By TJ

Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 03:57:21 PM EDT ::
(1 comment)

In addition to the poisons article on the front
page take a look at this.

This is real, I watched it several times.
They do it on the industrial side of town
near the military airfield. Never in the high
dollar neighborhood where the bankers live,
where there is plenty of airport traffic going
overhead - never see it there. If it was contrails it would be seen everywhere there is
airport traffic.

Two years ago I read a report of a senator
adding a ban on "chemtrail" spraying to a bill
about space militarization. His line was removed from the final bill.

Watch 4 videos.

http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=148882


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Hide the thimble

By xog

Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 03:00:11 PM EDT ::
(8 comments)

In these times, when we are facing, at best, the restructuring of our constitution, and, at worst, the same, it is good, I think, to look back a bit, to know where we came from, so we more clearly know where we are, and are able to make some clear, forward moving decisions.

When I was a kid, when the members of the extended family on my mother's side would gather at the grandparent's farm for what has since developed into merry, commercial christian celebrations--Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas--, when grandmother was in the kitchen with all the aunts making home made pasta, plucking chickens, boiling eggs, roasting ham, etc, and grandfather was sitting in "his" chair, his favorite mint candies in a bowl on the table next to it, him leafing through and complaining about how the Sears catalog had strayed from morals by having pictures of women only wearing the latest in girdles, bras and nylon hose, bemoaning the direction the world was going,  and the uncles were somewhere doing something, we cousins would be doing things like playing hide the thimble.  Anyone remember that game?  While everyone else is in another room (not peeking, mind you), one person hides a thimble somewhere in a room, and then calls everyone back in to search for it, giving clues the whole time, like under, above, beside, between, on top, warm and cold.  And when someone got close enough for the "warm" clue, everyone else happily let that person search and find the thimble, which, when found, was followed by happy giggles and the finder being the next hider.  Rousing day at the grandparents, playing a game left over from when colonists came to this country and ruthlessly carved themselves a life out of Native culture, no neighbors for miles or further, nothing to do but work, ekeing out an existance, calling that manifest destiny.  Thimbles went the way of wage slavery, sweat shops and mass production.  

Those days of happy innocence(?) are long gone.  They went the way of TV, game show scandals, constant rewriting of ancient and modern history, the effects of high tech inventions on our lives, redefinition of laws and constitution, and whatever else.  But, those happily innocent days got us here.  Our unconscious drives to retain that happy innocence has fed into the recent administrations feeling free to be blatantly overt with their supposedly covert efforts to lie and seemingly get caught at it, only to deny the obvious.  Yep, that's it.  Stay innocent.  At least until proven guilty.  Although, that, too, is fading away, and into something like "I'm guilty, but so what?  What are you going to do about it, and what can you do about it?!" or it's balancing opposite "You're guilty, and had no rights anyway."

No juggling of sexist Freudian logic or definitions of classist capitalistic laws can make any sense of it.  Nor are they meant to.  

So, what are we going to do?  Be like the zombie-like faceless children on a conveyor belt, falling into a vat, in Pink Floyd's movie "The Wall"?  Or like the kids burning up the classroom with a huge bond fire, sort of Lord-of-Flies-like?  Of course, many will say we are a nation of laws and do things the proper way--that is, legally, and patiently, by voting.  Others will crassly and classlessly say to us "You guys are just sore losers, have cooties and are not as well off and as 'in' as I am".  And all that gets said between those two.  What we are going to do seems to me to be the important thing.  Not what we think about it, or how well we can enunciate what we think about it.  

What are we going to do?            

 


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House Backs 700 Mile Fence Along Border With Mexico

By ezdidit

Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 02:53:11 PM EDT ::
(1 comment)

What a pity.  What a waste.  Show me a fifty foot fence, and I'll show you a fifty-one foot ladder.  This is a cheap shot.  The Republicans think we are stupid.  

The real legal fence is already up, but enforcing immigration laws as they stand now would require arresting many executives at large companies.  

There it is...the plain truth that many companies run roughshod over our immigration laws in order to hire cheap labor at less than full time rates.  These workers have no benefits. Except they keep wages for our citizens artificially low, and the immigration flood has put our unions on the block, made it impossible to have a satisfactory public school and health care system.

It's bloody murder when it causes the problems that it causes in our society.  I am once more ashamed that I am not at Camp Democracy.  

(See "V for Vendetta," everybody.  Pass me a mask.)


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Ohio Prisons

By gjstoker

Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 07:39:31 AM EDT ::
(12 comments)

I probably would never have known what I know now, about my state of Ohio, located in "The Land Of the Free" America. It is a terrible thing that has happened to my son. Fourteen years ago a man much older, much bigger than my college junior son came into his home under false pretences, and tried to rape and kill him. During the battle for life, my son killed this man. To our horror we found out Ohio does not have a true self defense law. If there is a body, then the Prosecutors view point is someone is going to jail. My son is what they call in Ohio under the old law. I am amazed that the papers and people are not screaming about the fact Ohio has two types of sentences. New law as of 1996-sentenced-do the time-no parole board-get out-no matter what your actions are in the prison system. Old law- you go before the Parole board and are then resentenced by them to much loger sentences for the same crimes than the new law. You see Ohio is a prison for profit state we are at 300% capacity. We have 45 prisons. It is job security to send prisoners back and not give them parole,no matter the actions in the system, and let the repeat offenders out on parole (they will be back under your control again and inforce the fear in the public as to how much they need a parole board). When you talk about the slaves you are now talking about the prisoners in America. For $17 a month you can take apart computers (cancer causing materials are prevelent) to sell for the system and get paid $17 a month. Do the math $17 a month by 4 forty hour weeks a month/SLAVERY. It amazes me that we are always pointing a finger at other countries, yet we are practicing the same theng here. We have more citizens in prison than any other similar world country. Does this mean that Americans are more evil, more violent, than any other economic simialr country in the world. I think not. Why isn't the ACLU screaming about all the law suits in Ohio against the DRC and Parole Board-they are being found quilty of non onconformance to the laws and the inhumane treatment, exploitation of human beings all for a prisons for profit. We as Americans need to clean up our country before we point our money, and finger at others. WE have a very long way to go. In Ohio we even have the notarity of a Governer twice convicted of crimes in office and he is still there. What nationally is being done about our illegal operations in the prison systems (I m sure there are similar set ups in other states I just happen to know about Ohio). We are a faimly under attack by our own government/our own state/a state that is using our tax dollars to fight in the courts a illegal operation by it's own system -loosing in the court system-Ankrom vs DRC,Lane vs DRC,Sirak vs DRC...) however still flaunts its tyrantry at the parole board level. The parole booard believes it is above the law as they have shown time and time again. By the way our son went before the board after 10 years and had done many awarded things to use his time wisely helping others-learn to read,do math,participating in many helpful things to the community he is in- with the scoring being all 0's except for the orginal crime and he was what they call flopped for 10 more years (that means they sentenced him to 10 more years before they will even see him again). I see my country that we all love going into disgrace before God and I am saddened.


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"Bush is a heretic in the Christian Church." I just heard it on my radio station.

By keyricster

Thu Sep 14th, 2006 at 11:25:30 PM EDT ::
(5 comments)

And now its on the enternet.


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My first entry091406

By MotherBear

Thu Sep 14th, 2006 at 07:11:56 PM EDT ::
(7 comments)

I'm new at this.  I doubt that anyone will read my stuff, but if someone does, thank you.

High tragedy this past week.  Steve Irwin dies in freak accident.  Anne Richards dies, and Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Anna Nicole Smith (Vicki Lynn Hogan Smith...whatever) dies.  Poor woman.  My heart goes out to her.  I know the pain.  I lost my first born son back in 1990, and a part of me died that day too.  Anna Nicole will never get over this.  What's doubly sad is that she has a baby girl who is just a few days old.  What should have been a joyous experience is now going to be tinged with terrible sorrow.  Whatever one thinks of Anna Nicole and her life style, etc., one should feel sympathy for her.  Nobody deserves to lose a child.  That is the cruelest fate.

As for Steve Irwin, he loved all creatures, no matter how ugly or deadly.  He was, as he said, a wildlife warrior.  The animals of the world have lost their dearest friend.  So have all of us.  He was a giant.  I feel the deepest sympathy for Terry, Bindi Sue, Bob, and Steve's parents. I hope and pray that they can carry on Steve's work.
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Torture is Torture, Right?

By planetpatriot

Thu Sep 14th, 2006 at 02:36:31 PM EDT ::
(21 comments, 274 words in story)

Not in Bush world. . .

As most of us know, recently the Supreme Court ruled that al Qaeda detainees are protected by the Geneva Conventions, which ban "humiliating and degrading treatment" in well delineated fashion.


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Sad

By Sunshine

Thu Sep 14th, 2006 at 01:38:29 PM EDT ::
(9 comments)

I have read several blogging sites today. This is the only one I have seen that makes fun of, laughs, or makes a joke of what happened with the shooting on Sep 13, 2006 in Montreal. All others regardless of politics grieves and are saddened by what happened. Not a one, but this one makes light of what happened. If anyone did they must have been removed before one could read them.


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WOMEN: open thread

By Tiny Wits

Thu Sep 14th, 2006 at 03:20:45 AM EDT ::
(55 comments, 526 words in story)

Here's something that's been burning my lips for awhile but I've been too fearful of some reprisal to write it down.  And, I don't wanna be BOOORRING!!

On 9/12/01, I heard the name Osama Bin Laden for the first time.  I happened to be at my mother's and we had the newspaper of the day between us.  We read the initial reports of this Muslim monster who had set the fires of hell upon those innocent Tower workers and turned the page.

GASP!!____ then I said, "he looks like Jesus!"  My mother "yesss."

I am not of any religion but am of the Christian culture and my mother is a practicing Lutheran. So that name Jesus was the best way to communicate with her that, not only did he not look like a genocidal maniac, he radiated light.
      Handsome beyond words, then over these five years, more and more is revealed; tall within his men, his huge hands moving expressively, open, fingers extended. When he walks, he floats on invisible waters.  His writings are learned and logical, building his conclusion, alluding to ancient history, poetic not repetic.
    Riding Arabian horses, his face bright with a child's excitement; even his facial expressions evolve as he  turns   his   head   and   looks   upward...after his eyebrow rise so slightly.  His eyes too, like a fine horses, conveying all while saying naught.
    Then finally after many rough translations drown him out, I hear his voice, he's speaking, and this giant, fierce warrior, leader of fighters, conveys to his listeners much more than words.  The grace and subtlety and quiet rushing sounds of a language that can sound so rough drips from his tongue and lips near motionless, bring
a sense of being contained, embraced, swaddled in care and history and "is-ness."


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