OK. We jump from over There on to the next stage of psuedo-wonder.

David Oates makes the rounds on the Art Bells, Jeff Renses, and Clyde Lewises of the world. You take recordings of people, play them in reverse, look for particular bundled moments, and slow them down to reveal… Such Items as these… if one were so inclined to believe.

Here’s what somebody has for the technical malfunction – speech.

Here We Gooooo…. as trousled apart by someone in the Clyde Lewis forum with an Internet handle that’s too embarrassing to bother mention. I believe his real name is “George”, though.

Hey Zues, indeed!

Okay. Now I return to other pointless discussions, if I may.

Oregonian Letters to the Editor. This is a stupid letter:

Which is the real John Kerry?

Bernard F. Verbout
North Portland

#1: “Vietnam Hero” and “Vietnam Protester” are not mutually exclusive.

#2: His connection to Jane Fonda?: Sitting in the same crowd. More or less it. More importantly, he distanced himself from them. After all, HE HAD A CAREER IN POLITICS THAT HE WANTED TO PURSUE.

#3: Let’s play a little game, courtesy of the folks at Snopes.
Thie photograph is real:

This photograph, floating around cyberspace for the miscreants to foam at, is fake:

And this photograph may possibly be the only photograph which includes both Jane Fonda and John Kerry in the same shot:

John Kerry is sitting there, 3 or so rows behind Jane Fonda. Drift your eyes to the bearded dude, and compare him to the style of John Kerry. Recall the movie Forrest Gump. There was a reason Gump was cut to the top of the line to speak.

#4: Fascinating thing, though. A google search pairing the words Fonda and Kerry will bring up any number of items of fascination:

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=777

The great lesson of Vietnam being that we could’ve “won” had we just clamped down hard enough on those unruly kids. Of course.

Burrow over to Rush Limbaugh’s site. I didn’t stay long enough to complete my mission of figuring out whether or not Limbaugh has the fake photograph on his site. But, I did notice the line “Do we really want to go back to the 60s?”

Which has me scratching my head, wondering what the hell he is talking about, and pondering, even if the culture is shifting toward whatever items of the 60s [one-dimesnional thinking that] that he’s railing against (that is late 60s/ early 70s), whether or not it would matter one iota whether the modern day equivalent of a Lyndon B Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, or Dick Nixon is sitting in the White House.

Mark Shields, courtesy of Billmon:

I’ll focus on the last sentence of the larger-themed “Party Unified” quote:

I have never seen the Democratic Party as united as it is, they’re discovering virtues in John Kerry that his mother never knew existed.”

Yes indeed. A career politician who’s been running for president since 1972, duplicitous and rather– how do we say — career equivicator (in large measure)… Meet John Kerry.

Well, Howard Dean apparently doesn’t agree… at least not yet. That should change fairly shortly, however. At least publicly.

But Dean needs to give it up. Resign himself to figuring out what the heck a “Dean Democrat” is and lend his support to them in particular in the 2004 races… and the party in general (though they don’t really like him). Resign himself to whatever the hell Joe Trippi is trying to do. Resign himself to a Senate run whenever Jim Jeffords or Patrick Leahy decides to retire. Or so goes my amateur analysis.

Kerry. Kerry. Kerry.

We’re also entering that phase of a political campaign where there is no news until October. With the, um, exception of the picking of the vice-president. But then again, politics is essentially devoid of meaning anyway.

Loads of fun all around.

The Bush Speech on Weapons Proliferation?

Upon hearing it, or hearing of it, Clyde Lewis evidentally immediately did show prep for his weekend show. Thus we get from his website:

FREAKY FREQUENCIES
“Suicide and Random Murder” Triggers?

While several networks use tones to trigger automation equipment and/or alert networks to commercial breaks these tones were not used for this purpose. The speech was broadcast in its entirety and there were no commercial breaks. This segment of the broadcast was given to me by a news engineer at my office. I do not have the full broadcast.

audio clip

I suppose if one wants to hear 3 hours on pontification about that clip, they know where to find him.

Listened in to a conversation on the bus, between the bus-driver and a bus-driver. It seems to reflect a bit of what is going on politically in the country.

“Now they’re going after Bush’s military service. Sheesh.”
“Right.”
(I tuned out for various reasons, but it appears that she was going over the various ideas of what the released records mean.)
“I dunno. Every election cycle I’ve seen we don’t really get the issues, we end up focusing on personalities. Every time.”
“Sure. …
I saw Bush on Meet the Press. It looks to me that he doesn’t really care about any issue but the war. The only time he has any passion is when he’s talking about war. Nothing comes out when he talks about everything else. He seems unable to really focus on anything else.”
“It’s a problem.”

……………………….

Perhaps we can christian this problem “the Bush Effect.”

His assertion “I’m a war-time president” seems to have gone over like a lead balloon.

A Special House of Representatives Kentucky election is coming up… Originally, the Republicans framed it as a showing of Bush’s strength — they’ve backed off of that since the Democrat looks like he’s going to win.

And meanwhile, things are getting restless, or so say the Bush partisans:
The suspicion is that his 2004 campaign organization, a fund-raising juggernaut, is otherwise inadequate.

David Icke, professional conspiracy-theoriest nutball, apparently does fewer appearances on the Art Bells and Jeff Renses of the world than he used to, was on Clyde Lewis a few weeks ago. The listener got to hear about the other dimensional beings of the Fascist moment who move around willy-nilly through time, re-arrange evidence so that History can march onward toward the One World Government. The listener got to hear about how the Ruling Class are all “Reptilian Monsters”, an assertion that’s actually fairly difficult to dispute.

Venture into his website. Screw his latest book… Sorry to say, Mr. Icke, but Love is not the Answer. Anyway…

Scurry through the Onion-like story WMD Found!… scurry through and make a mental note of this story, which I must excerpt:

IN 1991 DAVID ICKE WAS RIDICULED THROUGHOUT THE UK FOR WEARING TURQUOISE AND STRESSING ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE NATIONAL MEDIA. THEY SAID HE WAS A LUNATIC.

NOW A SCIENTIST HAS REVEALED THAT TURQUOISE IS THE BASE COLOUR OF THE UNIVERSE.

They laughed at me and called me mad! Who’s Mad now, eh?!!? The one problem is he appears to have been presumptuous with his praise: the scientist forgot to carry a one or something and now we know that the universe is actually a beige color.

Now just skip over to the biography on the first George Bush.. There you go. Every conspiracy-trope of the Bush family consolidated into however many pages. I may or may not excerpt as I pursue at random… if I do it’ll be in this post.

Okay. Found the transcript from last December’s Hardball. Zell Miller Part Two.

MATTHEWS: But who did you vote for in ’92 and ’96?

MILLER: I didn’t say he welshed. I’m not going to use that kind of language. But I would say he disappointed me, because he ran as a centrist Democrat and he governed-I mean, and he governed, of course, as a more liberal, old Democrat.

Not that I want to defend Bill Clinton (I don’t know the definition of a “good president”), but… I’m dumbfounded. Balanced budget? (Oh, and… didn’t he sign the Republican’s own damned Welfare Bill?)

And Trent Lott is giddily agreeing here:

MATTHEWS: Merry Christmas, gentlemen. I’m sorry.

LOTT: I just want to say, Zell Miller has been consistent. When he was governor of Georgia, he had balanced budgets. He focused on education and jobs creation. He hasn’t changed. The party has continued to move to the left. They left him.

There’s that phrase again. “Balanced budget.” And… “Jobs”. Did I miss something here?

But the reality of our narrow political discourse is… schizoid and obnoxiously fake.

At a certain point, you just have to turn this stuff off and prime your eyes to something better connected to reality. This’ll do, I suppose.