Friday, August 27, 2004

Thursday, August 26, 2004

Half Of Deaths Come After Charley, Not During

Only 25 deaths is a lie. Just another media lie.

Father Sets Self, Van On Fire After Learning Of Marine's Death

The horror!

Trying to peek out of the rabbit hole....

Everyday just gets a little weirder, just a little stranger that fiction. As my country descends deeper into tyranny and madness I feel like I am falling, falling, down the rabbit hole. Trying to scream out, a wee small voice in the wilderness, "H-e-l-l-oooo? Is anyone listening? Wake up? Before it's too late?" But, then I realize, it's already too late.....

Defending Our Skies Against the Elderly

My own elderly parent has also been subjected to this while one of our good family friends, a six foot two very dark skinned man of middle eastern descent gets a pass every time he flies. What is wrong with these people?

Teens get training for conscientious objector status

The Sunshine Patriots

March march march march march.....thank you sir, may I have another?

Damned dirty tree!

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies think they have found a solution for getting rid of drug dealers and prostitutes who congregate under a giant oak tree: chop it down.

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Hot Saucing?

Just when I think I've heard it all! Now I recognize this Lisa Whelchel person. She has become something of an "icon" in the homeschooling "community." She was BLAIR on the FACTS OF LIFE! Honestly...who the hell should be taking parenting tips from her? But, the hot sauce on the tongue thing? Is it any different from the bar of soap in the mouth thing? If anyone should get the hot sauce on the tongue treatment it's the lying weasle politicos and media mongers who supply the constant drone of propogenda that warps the minds and mouths of our children!

How to Plant a Spy in a Governor's Bed

"...the National Enquirer would focus on a homosexual affair. That is their beat. But ABC, FOX, the New York Times and Washington Post, tabloid journalism isn't their forte, at least it didn't used to be. Which is why the media's focusing on the homosexual affair instead of the fact that Golen Cipel is a known Israeli operative who infiltrated a Governor's office and almost Homeland Security causes such alarm. That's the story; that's what the media should be investigating. What systems were compromised? What information did Cipel pass on? Why did he target McGreevey? What did Israel hope to learn? What power did they hope to exercise by corrupting the governor of New Jersey? "

This author stills thinks the media is interested in actual reporting of the news, or something like that. This is a screwy story from the git go. Another diversion? Or something deeper?

"The Ghost of Orwell is Upon us"

"The fabrication that is the ‘war on terror’ thus continues to propel itself, becoming a mechanism created by man that is slowly spiraling out of our ability to rein it in and control it. It continues to expand, corrupt and divide, free to enrapture humanity with its dark haze of violence and hatred whose ramifications we do not yet fully comprehend. The perfect enemy has been created, the perfect sheep we have become, and in the dark constructs of human power, greed and control a military/ police state begins to grow. "

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Hurricane Charley

Just got back from visiting with my cousin who lost her home in hurricane Charley. She lived at Windmill Village in Punta Gorda. The devastation is immense. So many lives have been touched by this hurricane. So many people who have had their homes either totally destroyed or damaged. The pictures on the news really do not do it justice. If you read this and would like to help send an email to me and I will reply with a list of the needs and how you can help.

Think Outside the Booth

Voting for the lesser of two evils or a long shot candidate is an exercise in self-delusion.

Friday, August 13, 2004

Birth Certificates and the Law

birth certificates are one of the primary ways in which the State counts and controls its citizens

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

AUTISM-MERCURY LINK APPEARS TO BE ESTABLISHED

attempted cover up by the U.S. Government is suspected.

Police State USA

Last week's announcement that the terrorist threat warning level has been raised in parts of New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. has led to dramatic and unprecedented restrictions on the movements of citizens. Americans wishing to visit the U.S. Capitol must, for example, pass through several checkpoints and submit to police inspection of their cars and persons.

Many Americans support the new security measures because they claim to feel safer when the government issues terror alerts and fills the streets with militarized police forces. As one tourist interviewed this week said, “It makes me feel comfortable to know that everything is being checked.” It is ironic that tourists coming to Washington to celebrate the freedoms embodied in the Declaration of Independence are so eager to give up those freedoms with no questions asked.

Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens' lives. This doesn't stop governments, including our own, from seeking more control over and intrusion into our lives. As one Member of Congress stated to the press last week, “people who don't want to be searched don't need to come on Capitol grounds.” What an insult! The Capitol belongs to the American people who pay for it, not to Congress or the police.

It is worth noting that the government rushes first to protect itself, devoting enormous resources to make places like the Capitol grounds safe, while just beyond lies one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation. What makes Congress more worthy of protection from terrorists than ordinary citizens?
To understand the nature of our domestic response to the September 11th, 2001 attacks, we must understand the nature of government. Government naturally expands, and any crises – whether real or manufactured – serve to justify more and more government power over our lives. Bureaucrats have used the tragedy of 9/11 as an excuse to seize police powers sought for decades, such as warrantless searches, Internet monitoring, and access to bank records. It should be no surprise that the recently released report of the 9/11 Commission has but one central recommendation: bigger government and more spending at home and abroad.

Every new security measure represents another failure of the once-courageous American spirit. The more we change our lives, the more we obsess about terrorism, the more the terrorists have won. As commentator Lew Rockwell of the Ludwig von Mises Institute explains, terrorists in effect have been elevated by our response to 9/11: “They are running the country. They determine our civic life. They shape our private life. They decide how public resources are spent. They may dictate who gets to be the next president. It should be obvious that the government doesn't object. Not at all. The government benefits, by getting ever more reason for ever more money and power.”

Every generation must resist the temptation to believe that it lives in the most dangerous time in American history. The threat of Islamic terrorism is real, but it is not the greatest danger ever faced by our nation. This is not to dismiss the threat of terrorism, but rather to put it in perspective. Those who seek to whip the nation into a frenzy of fear do a disservice to a country that expelled the British, fought two world wars, and stared down the Soviet empire.

Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas

Porter Goss?

Food for Thought In the search for intelligence life, Porter Goss is strictly from hunger

Here's the news that made many people in the Eastern Time Zone heave up their breakfasts at 8:31 this morning: President Bush introduced Porter Goss as the new CIA director.
Bush called Goss a "reformer." The two of them ought to be toast.

How fitting that this is the same House Intelligence chairman Porter Goss who was having breakfast in D.C. on 9-11 with Pakistan's security chief, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Ahmad—who was later revealed to be hijacker Mohammed Atta's bagman.

The Washington Post's Rich Leiby mentioned the breakfast as a cheery aside in a May 18, 2002, puff profile of Goss. Florida senator Bob Graham was also munching with Mahmoud, as the Post and others, including the Asia Times have reported. But why didn't the Post mention the chowdown in its first lengthy stories this morning?

Digest this: The two Floridians wound up running the joint congressional inquiry into 9-11 in their roles as chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence committees. Not a word of the breakfast appears in Goss-Graham 858-page report. No one's saying that Goss and Graham are necessarily hiding any big thing. But the breakfast, in retrospect, is at least somewhat embarrassing. And is it really such a worthless fact that it merited no mention at all?

And chew on another factoid: This is the same Porter Goss who stood up on the floor of the U.S. House on October 9, 2002, during the crucial debate about whether to authorize Bush to go to war against Iraq, and said, according to the Congressional Record, that the 9-11 attack "was delivered by depraved men."

Two quick questions: Was the Pakistani general too depraved to have another cinnamon roll that morning? Or was he just full?

Goss also said on October 9, 2002:
Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and their radical ilk are at the epicenter of terrorist activity in the Middle East. Nobody doubts that. It is not debatable. President Bush, Prime Minister Blair and others have made convincing cases about the threats the despotic Iraqi regime poses to world peace and stability today—today as well as tomorrow.

And he added:
Iraq has expanded its weapons of mass destruction capabilities against its pledge not to. It still has deadly chemical weapons hidden throughout the country, and it has tried to develop nuclear devices as well. It is certain that Iraq has ties to many Islamic terror groups in the region, including Al Qaeda. Evidence supports Iraq's involvement in the first and probably the second World Trade Center bombing.

So, let's see: Goss, a former CIA agent, ignored studying something that did happen—his breakfast with the bagman of a 9-11 hijacker—while strongly pushing for a war based on a "threat" to our security that didn't exist.

Sure, let's make him CIA director. What the hell. He's been an effective stonewaller and excuse-maker ever since 9-11.

"No smoking gun," he said in 2002, when the Goss-Graham report was released.
It's "not about blame," he said in 2003. Here's his full quote from that rare public hearing of his House panel on 9-11 investigations, as reported by PBS at the time: "None of remarks we're talking about, nor any of history, and this certainly carries over to the 9-11 review, it's not about blame. This is about better protecting the United States of America in the world as it is today."

Keep this in mind: Since 9-11, various probes have found that the hijackers and other Al Qaeda operatives were constantly coming and going through Pakistan before the fateful day.
In the Goss-Graham report, you'll find Pakistan all over the 858 pages, but not a crumb from the 9-11 breakfast. What was talked about? Why was Pakistan's version of a CIA-FBI director in D.C. at that time? Who knew what? And when?

At the time of the attacks, the U.S. had a complex and rocky relationship with Pakistan. During the Reagan era, the U.S. helped finance and arm Arab militants so they could drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. It's common knowledge that neighboring Pakistan was the base for those militants. And the agency Ahmad ran, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was often on friendly terms with the Taliban and other Arab militants but on shaky terms with the U.S.
Judge for yourself who's smoking what by going to the Center for Cooperative Research's unparalleled website of heavily annotated 9-11 timelines and essays. Search "Goss" and see what comes up.

The best analysis of this naggingly curious breakfast is perhaps this piece by Michel Chossudovsky, director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, a Canadian outfit that boldly goes where most other probers don't.
It's more interesting than the congressional report produced by Goss and Graham. Or is it? Would you like an after-meal HUMINT?

What Government Is

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Prozac 'found in drinking water'

Recipe for an apathetic populace: psychotropic drug dependancy + media mantras + government indoctrination center dumb-down and you're good to go!


Using the threat of terrorism to scare voters: all of September will be "National Preparedness Month"

I thought it was Patriot's Month?

This Old Iraqi House

What a great idea for a reality show! ---NOT!

Federal ProsecutorsUse Patriot Act in Marijuana Case

The Meaning of Nagasaki

And if individuals can be wiped out – if their dreams, families, homes and life savings can be completely disintegrated in an act later rationalized as “necessary” by the power elite – what limitations are there on how government behaves toward people? None, really.

Growing a Police State

ONE TERROR ALERT AT A TIME


Targeting Civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

People still defend Harry Truman’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on pragmatic grounds. Truman’s defenders say that the bombings saved far more lives than they extinguished. They concede that the bombing was an act of targeting civilians, but insist that it was for the worthy goal of ending the war.

Before even examining the plausibility of this argument, we have to acknowledge the argument’s essence. In effect, to rationalize the targeting of noncombatants as the best method of bringing about a greater good is to make excuses for state terrorism. Terrorism, if it means anything, is a method by which civilians are the targets of violence for the purpose of achieving political goals. Having Imperial Japan surrender, even if a worthy goal, was nevertheless a political one, and the targeting of innocents to achieve that goal was an act of terrorism.

Eating habits rule out marriage

A Pakistani man says he's had marriage proposals turned down because of his eating habits.
Allah Wasayo says he eats carpets, lights, teacups, glass and grass.
He claims relatives turned down the proposals because they feared he would eat his wife.

But, he didn't really mean it.

President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we," Bush said.

Fabricating Terror

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Couple Rushing To Hospital To Have Baby Get Traffic Ticket

Mom Gives Birth; Dad Gets Cited -- Revenuers to the bitter end!

Tossing Iraqis from Bridges

With the Democrats having nominated an admitted war criminal for president, and with our president and commander-in-chief having perpetrated, encouraged and overseen war crimes of historic scale, perhaps it's no surprise that down on the ground, the little crimes of American servicemen and women are getting airbrushed away.

Doctors and Torture

There is increasing evidence that U.S. doctors, nurses, and medics have been complicit in torture and other illegal procedures in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Such medical complicity suggests still another disturbing dimension of this broadening scandal.