Henry James

Life is, in fact, a battle.
Evil is insolent and strong; folly defiant; beauty rare.
Goodness apt to be weak; wickedness to carry the day.
Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small.
And mankind generally unhappy.
But the world as it stands is no illusion, no evil dream of a night.
We wake up to it again for ever and ever.
We can neither forget it nor deny it
nor dispense with it.
Quoted in Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals.

Will my grandchildren fly?

Or drive?

When Saudi Arabia collapses

will we send in the army?

Bizzare is not the word

for outlawing cameras in public.

Cut. cut.

Not that she couldn't have handled this question.

Operation "Just Because"

caution: link opens with sound playing
El Chorrillo. Thousands killed.
George Bush: "...yes, it has been worth it."

Collateral damage

to a war with Iran.
When the oil from Iran shuts down, so will Europe.

Impeach Bush

Or else apologize to Nixon.
He only bugged the DNC, and erased 8 minutes of tape.

Fingerprinting mortgage loan officers?

The mortgage rescue package includes fingerprinting loan officers.
How is that related?
Ron Paul

Malalai Joya

For president.

Missile agreement with Czech Republic

Why we didn't put the missiles in Turkey?
Guess they didn't want them.

The Boston Tea Party

Why did they dress up as Native Americans?
If it were done today, would they dress up as Chicanos?

Impeach the Enabler

Impeach Pelosi, se puede.

In the name of God, stop the repression

Archbishop Oscar Romero, of El Salvador,
killed by a soldier from Fort Benning, Georgia.
----2008/07/31
Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia, a graduate of the School of the Americas, was implicated in the deaths of Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan.
--
Reagan's Jeane Kirkpatrick, said they were not "just nuns", but political activists.
--
Regan's Alexander Haig said "there may have been an exchange of gunfire" as "they tried to run a roadblock." Maybe and maybe not?

Pyramid scheme

All businesses tend to scoot money to the top. It is as natural as black holes.
What are the checks to black holes? Other black holes, possibly, and the nature of reality.
What is to stop the concentration of wealth? Other thieves, plus the laws of the land. If they can buy off the lawmakers, then it is just - other thieves.

Peak Oil / Exports

The issue for the USA is the size of the oil export market.
Today, 35 million barrels per day are available, [larger graph]
but Mexico's and Russia's exports are declining.
The UK no longer exports any of its oil from the North Sea.

The USA imports 13 mbbl/day, of the 35 available.

Bureaucrats lie about Korean war MIAs

Documents received in a March 2003 meeting in Beijing appear to undercut the Pentagon's public stance that China returned all POWs it held. The stories that circulate about American prisoners not returned after the war, and held in Chinese prison camps, is confirmed, despite the Pentagon's assurances to the contrary.
[related MSNBC story]

James John Regan

February 9, 2007

Love it or leave it

Leave it.

Military apprehends Militants

Militants cannot be offered POW status,
AKA professional courtesy,
because they are slobs.

Everything.

Everything...

Just a Reminder

His felony convictions were overturned, and he ran for the Senate.
Somebody shoot me.

Goddard

clips. Available on Netflix.
Made when the US was fighting the evil empire.

Free

US out.

Beijing 2008

What the ruling class wants

Neither a social movement, nor any record of leadership within the Black community...

is the harmless politics of the two-party system.

A Song Not Scored For Breathing snips

The event is held at night to remind us that cancer never sleeps.
and also
we alcholics/addicts tend to be perfectionists, but at least we can laugh about it and recognize the insanity of it.

Overpasses

, but in the deepest part of my soul I know Jesus beckons me to a life that is more than years lavished on my own pursuits. Caring is hard and leaves you vulnerable to great sadness. If it were easy, Jesus probably would have used a different metaphor than taking up a cross.

2002: We must get Saddaam

We must fight nations that harbor terrorists,
are a threat to their own people and their neighbors,
have or soon will have nuclear weapons,
run by dictators
Oops. That's Pakistan, the U.S,Russia,China... help me here.

Packages arriving at Bildenberg

Not sure what to make of it.

He said

Dick advised me to erase all the tapes.

Hey Bush! Read this.

16 If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse a man of a crime, 17 the two men involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time. 18 The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against his brother, 19 then do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you. 20 The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you. 21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deut. 19 16-21

Human Experimentation

from "Beyond Treason" video, @ 5:50

Prisoner of War

Still

Jesus said

*_____ your enemy
a)Kill
b)Hate
c)Ridicule
d)Love

*If anyone loves me he will ______ my teachings
a)preach
b)sing about
c)praise
d)obey

Why

is impeachment immoral, but war is ok.

Turtle Island

I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all.
Gary Snyder

Triangle than Quadrangle

Osama loves Bush
Bush loves Putin
Putin loves Pinochet
== July 9th
Pinochet loves Kissinger

Stats

Note categories: wounded, injured, ill

Monsanto in Iraq

Democracy Now.

Support our troops

      CO
      DU
      VA
     vets
     AWOL
     PTSD
     raped
     truth
    Arabic
    GI Bill
    suicide
    homeless
    jobless
    addicted
    stoploss
   Blackwater
   body armor
   impeachment
   end the war
   night vision
   Geneva Convention
   teenage deployment
   human experimentation

Buffalo, on $10 a day

Not that easy.

The War -or- Free gasoline for everyone

Which do you want?

3 trillion dollars, the cost of the war in dollars
            divided by $100 per barrel equals
30 billion barrels, the cost of the war in barrels
            divided by 15 million barrels/day,
            the daily usage of oil for transportation =
2000 days, the cost of the war in days of gas, 
            divided by 365 days per year =
5+ years, the cost of the war in years of gasoline

Which is about as long as the war has been going on.

So, we have a choice:
continue the war -or- free gasoline for everyone, from now on!

Kent State

May 4th

The Fed

has made itself the world's largest financial shit-magnet.
[kunstler]

Suicide terrorism, in Vietnam

Q: Is the cause to be found in this world or the next?
A: This world.

Iraq had no suicide terrorists prior to the invasion,
even against Sadaam.

All three

corporate candidates are of little use to us. [more] via

Chris hedges on Obama

As a senator he has promoted nuclear energy as "green." He has been lauded by the nuclear power industry, which is determined to resume building nuclear power plants across the country. He has voted to continue to fund the Iraq war. He opposed Rep. John Murtha's call for immediate withdrawal. He refused to join the 13 senators who voted against confirming Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state. He voted in July 2005 to reauthorize the Patriot Act. He did not support an amendment that was part of a bankruptcy bill that would have capped credit card interest rates at 30 percent. He opposed a bill that would have reformed the notorious Mining Law of 1872. He did not support the single-payer health care bill HR676, sponsored by Reps. Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers. He supports the death penalty. He worked tirelessly in the Senate in 2005 to pass a class-action "reform" bill that was part of a large lobbying effort by financial firms, which make up Obama's second-biggest single bloc of donors. The law, with the Orwellian title the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), would effectively shut down state courts as a venue to hear most class-action lawsuits. This has long been a cherished goal of large corporations as well as the Bush administration. It effectively denies redress in many of the courts where these cases have a chance of defying powerful corporate challenges. It moves these cases into corporate-friendly federal courts dominated by Republican judges. Even Hillary Clinton voted against this naked effort to allow corporations to carry out flagrant discrimination, consumer fraud and wage-and-hour violations.

In America, money

is how we keep score.
Everyone starts at zero.
======== May 6th:
Ok, he didn't actually say that part about "Everyone starts at zero".
But if everyone doesn't start at zero, then the game is rigged.
And so it is.

No matter what, I pledge allegiance to the flag etc

This sentiment is un-American.
We always reserve the right to alter, or abolish.

One Country

Three systems

Cut and Run

and treat and apologize.
We need a negotiated withdrawl.

April 4th

Safety Net for Bear Stearns

Paulson in league with the devil.

FLASH: Terrorists now look just like you

So don't trust yourself.

The Occupation

A lot of Iraqis are upside-down.

Zimbabwe washes away the chaff

Most of the time I looked up at the sky, but without focussing it,
for why focus it?
More sorrow.

The Right to Bear Cameras

Unbelievable otherwise.
youtube com/watch?v=Y7NUNwq2MGc
Police suppress evidence, interfere with an investigation, cover-up wrong-doing, unlawful use of authority, obstruct rights-of-way, create a police state, suppress free speech, assault and battery, intimidate, etc...

The All-Mercenary Army

No one is drafted: it is all about inducement.
Professional Army. Volunteer Army. Which is it?

The straw man

The last straw to be grasped at.

Bush's War will end soon

Because the USA is collapsing.

An eye for an eye

Max.

All Volunteer

as in: Working for nothing.