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Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

There is something odd about this comment of Harry Browne‘s regarding the “Lesser of Two Evils”.

Focus on the Bush quote:

THE POST: In Iraq, there’s been a steady stream of surprises. We weren’t welcomed as liberators, as Vice President Cheney had talked about. We haven’t found the weapons of mass destruction as predicted. The postwar process hasn’t gone as well as some had hoped. Why hasn’t anyone been held accountable, either through firings or demotions, for what some people see as mistakes or misjudgments?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, we had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 election. And the American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me, for which I’m grateful.

… Which is the irony in that this editorial, and citing this quote, actually makes a case for Kerry as “Lesser of Two Evils” (though not so much from any particular ideological perspective)… ie: Kerry wouldn’t be citing the election as the end of “Accountability.”

Not that it matters too much.

r & r p 2

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

What I really wanted to find were the Republican Bush supporters who were supposed to be there. I know they in various crowds and shin-digs earlier in the day, but I guess I missed them. The closest I could find were two guys waving “Yah Bush” signs made out of discarded Budweiser Beer cardboard, but upon talking with them, they were clearly apolitical.

I heard a sign said “Wars are only good when Democrats fight them.” I should allow for the free expression of mixed messages, and not every every should fit squarely into their own camp or even in their own selves, but… that contradicts the old comment that “These guys wouldn’t support a war if the North Korean Army marched down and invaded Los Angeles!” (Also, I can fairly easily stack the deck in an unfair poll to show an even more disproportinate number of protesters who did not vote Democrat — based on signage and other factors of style and demenor*.)

Ah well. Our fearless Student Republicans, rebels that they consider themselves to be, are now freed to their earth-bound duty: enlightening their fellow students by publishing a student magazine with articles cribbed from the leading Right-wing magazines of the day.

(* Embarrassing was the sight of a sign that read “Wake Up America! 620 AM KPOJ”… who I will guess is “Democrat”.)

In Translation

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Bush’s Second Inagural Address:

All Americans have witnessed this idealism, and some for the first time. I ask our youngest citizens to believe the evidence of your eyes. You have seen duty and allegiance in the determined faces of our soldiers. You have seen that life is fragile, and evil is real, and courage triumphs. Make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants, larger than yourself – and in your days you will add not just to the wealth of our country, but to its character.

Hey, Kids! Sign up for Military Service Now Before I come and draft You!

on meme

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

I saw this headline on the front page yesterday’s late edition of the Oregonian, sitting there in the box.

With my usual craned neck, my reaction was a “Um… Yeah… and?” Through the past — nearly two years now — I’ve pondered that meme, and what can be done to destroy it. Unfortunately, there is no destroying a meme. Memes are insiduous, and become facts to the minds of those who have said meme lodged in their brain. (It’s difficult to shake the cobwebs and dislodge a number from my own brain.)

I can’t remember who it was, but a few weeks ago a Big Named National Right-wing commentator asks the question — to me I guess, “And will you be able to admit your mistake when it turns out that the Weapons of Mass Destruction were moved to Syria?” The answer, my friend, is a simple: “Uh… WTF?”

What the world needs now is another newsmax.com and “DEBKA Files” Report about Iraq’s neighbors harboring Saddam’s stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction…

A new one– or rehashed from through some “back-up” “information”– that’s haunting us, this one seemingly backed up by some government spokesperson into the mainstream media — a report and study shows that the Insurgency is, indeed, still Saddam Loyalists… a concept that doesn’t… make… any… logical… sense.

Kid Rock

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

I remember smirking at the fact that Zell Miller was going to be speaking at the RNC Convention — the same convention where Kid Rock would be performing.

Said Zell Miller regarding Kid Rock‘s performance at the Superbowl back in January, on the Senate floor.:

“The thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing that ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through a hole he had cut in the flag of the United States of America, screaming about having ‘a bottle of scotch and watching lots of crotch.’ Think about that. This is the same flag that we pledge allegiance to. This is the flag that is draped over coffins of dead young uniformed warriors killed while protecting Kid Crock’s bony butt. He should be tarred and feathered, and ridden out of this country on a rail. Talk about a good reality show, there’s one for you.”

But Kid Rock did sign some celebrity-petition of “pro-war” celebrities, and his “hyper redneckity” marks him as Republican. But, I guess he’s not completely partisan, as suggested by the lyrics from “Pimp of the Nation”.

Pimp of the Nation, I could be it
As a matter of a fact, I for see it
But only pimpin hoes with the big tush
While you be left pimpin Barbra Bush

AND

I have hoes like horses in a stable
Rich, famous, willing, and able
First off Ja Ja Kubore and tiffer gore
Is my highest paid whore

“Whore” rhymes with “Gore”. “Tush” rhymes with “Bush”.

Kid Rock will be performing at George W Bush’s Inagural Gala (where, incidentally, he won’t be allowed to look in Bush’s direction — and I did not make that up.) I have two thoughts: (1) He’s probably not going to be singing “Pimp of the Nation”, but if he did it could be a sweet harbinder of a bi-partisan olive branch. (2) Maybe Bill Clinton had it right with Fleetwood Mac (“music your older sister listened to”), after all.

Sitting in a Tree

Friday, January 14th, 2005

For two men at opposite ends of the political spectrum*, the relationship between the 43rd and 42nd presidents has grown surprisingly warm and personal over the last six months. Clinton endorsed Bush’s approach to the tsunami catastrophe, defending him against criticism about his initial response as well as raising cash alongside the president’s father. Friends and aides say the two men enjoy each other’s company and, as fellow pros, respect each other’s political talents.

The rapid thaw started with the unveiling of Clinton’s official portrait in the White House in June, when Bush told his speechwriters he wanted to deliver something “very praiseworthy, warm, funny and short.” During Clinton’s recent health crisis, Bush called twice to share what one of the former president’s aides called “good, funny conversations.” And in November, at the opening of Clinton’s presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., both the president and his father delivered praise that Clinton reveled in. Clinton even pulled aside Karl Rove, the architect of Bush’s election success, to congratulate him.

* Supposedly and in theory, at least…

Dear Mr. President:

On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, we write to urge you to protect the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus by vetoing the anti-terrorism legislation currently being considered by Congress.

Congress has not given you the bill you wanted; now they have given you something else you don’t want — provisions that do nothing to stop the threat of terrorism and everything to destroy a bedrock feature of the American justice system — the writ of habeas corpus. Alexander Hamilton described habeas corpus as the greatest liberty of all, which the Constitution, through the Suspension Clause, “provided for in the most ample manner.”

The legislation before you would strip the federal courts of their authority and responsibility to enforce the Bill of Rights — not just in death penalty cases, but in all criminal cases. Responsibility for defining the very meaning of the Constitution would be given over to the states via a provision that would require Federal judges to defer to state court decisions on Constitutional claims — even if those state decisions are wrong.

This is an agenda that has everything to do with weakening civil rights and nothing do with combatting terrorism. Congress, eager to strip the federal judiciary of its historic role in the protection of Constitutional rights, is using the momentum of your anti-terrorism initiative as the vehicle for achieving this fundamental change in our legal system.

As the one-year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing approaches, we know that there is enormous pressure to see a bill passed. But this bill is no memorial to the victims of the bombing — rather, it compromises fairness for all Americans, without providing any protection against what happened in Oklahoma City. Surely you must know this, Mr. President. The anti-terrorism bill is being used to extort your support for an agenda we know you oppose.

The Great Writ of habeas corpus has survived persistent attacks from the three last Republican Administrations; we ask that you not allow the fundamental right of habeas to be crippled during your Administration.

As the late Justice Thurgood Marshall observed, “when we allow fundamental freedoms to be sacrificed in the name of real or perceived emergency, we invariably regret it.”

The anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing will live in memory as a day of loss and mourning. We urge you, Mr. President, not to make April 19 the anniversary of another great tragedy — the loss of basic constitutional rights for all Americans.

Justice Marshall also wrote: “History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.” The need to uphold constitutional rights even — indeed, especially — in times of crisis has been repeatedly reaffirmed by Justices across the ideological spectrum. Most recently, for example, last June, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor echoed Justice Marshall’s sentiments: “It cannot be too often stated that the greatest threats our constitutional freedoms come in times of crisis.”

The Great Writ must endure, if we are to endure as a free nation. Please do not allow a law that cripples habeas to be your legacy, Mr. President.

Sincerely,

Ira Glasser
Executive Director

Nadine Strossen
President ACLU

I recall reading Fredrick Douglas commenting on how sick he got from watching a get-together of Northern and Southern Generals, laughing and having a good time, without any concern over any supposed issues surrounding the war they fought in.

BIG MOTH IS WATCHING

Friday, January 14th, 2005

BIG MOTH IS WATCHING

CHAPTER TITLE
1. SEXUAL TRAPS
2. MORE SEXUAL TRAPS
3. NON-SEXUAL TRAPS
4. PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAPS
5. PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTACK
6. PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTACKS USING NOISE
7. PRIVATE DETECTIVE SIGNS AND OPERATING METHODS
8. MORE PRIVATE DETECTIVE SIGNS
9. THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION ATTACK
10. CRAZIES
11. MORE PRIVATE DETECTIVE METHODS OF HARRASMENT
12. AWARENESS TESTS
13. THE FBI FILE
14. WHAT IS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE
15. PRIVATE DETECTIVE LICENSING
16. PUPPETS AND VENTRILOQUISTS
17. THE BRAINWASHING OF A PRIVATE DETECTIVE
18. COMPUTERS AND PRIVATE DETECTIVES 19. HOW DID I EVER GET INTO THIS MESS?
20. THE COMICAL PRIVATE DETECTIVE
21. GAMES WITH PRIVATE DETECTIVES
22. THOUGHTS ABOUT PRIVATE DETECTIVES
23. THE BELL SYSTEM
24. PSYCHOLOGISTS AND THEIR REPORTS
25. THE FEDERAL POLICE AND PRIVATE DETECTIVES
26. PRIVATE DETECTIVES, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE
27. POLYGRAPH TESTING
28. THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE WRITER
29. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND CONGRESS
30. PRIVATE DETECTIVES, HOW MUCH DO THEY KNOW?
31. PRIVATE DETECTIVE CHILD SNATCHING
32. A SUMMARY

Pearls Before Swine

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

The Oregonian must be printing some kind of “introductory package” of the Pearls Before Swine strip, because yesterday’s strip isn’t sitting there in the archives.

Pig writing a letter telling Fidel Castro that his outfit was ridiculous; Rat says “You dumb Pig! Castro doesn’t care why you think!”, and shot to Castro with letter in hand, tear dropping out of his eye.

Very similar to the one a month or so back with Yasser Arafat. This prompted me to wonder if the cartoonist, Stephan Pastis, was trying to kill Castro like he did Arafat…

… but I guess that was an old strip anyways.

Remember the Disk?

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

I found another one, which prompted me to finally actually take a look on what is on the disk.

It looks like this:

I HAVE COPYRIGHTED THIS TRUE STORY. THE COPYRIGHT IS

TXU 535-012, AUGUST 27, 1992 TO RONALD P. SMITH.

I’M GIVING PERMISSION FOR ANY PERSON, WRITER, PUBLISHER, ANYONE WHO WANTS TO TO USE ANY OF THIS COPYRIGHTED STORY, TO USE IT. THEY CAN, IF THEY WISH PUBLISH THE ENTIRE BOOK. IF YOU CAN MAKE SOME MONEY BY PUTTING IT ON THE INTERNET, THAT’S ALL FOR THE GOOD.
RONALD P. SMITH

AN EXPOSE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BELL TELE-PHONE COMPANY’S–WHICH BECAME PART OF USWest, THEN PART OF QUEST–AND THE PRIVATE DETECTIVES THEY SICKED ON ME. CHECK YOUR SECURITY FILES TO FIND OUT ABOUT IT.

PROLOGUE

I’ve been handing out copies of this stories on Floppy Disks since Oct. 2, 2000. I EVEN GAVE FIVE COPIES OF THIS STORY ON FLOPPY DISKS TO THE OFFICE PERSONNEL IN SENATOR RON WYDEN AND SENATOR GORDON SMITH’S OFFICES. Whether either of the Senators got the copies I’m not positive, but nothing has happened. Such is life in our free United States.

I, also, gave copies to the four Portland city commissioners. Again I don’t know if they got the disks.

On June 19, 2001, I personally delivered, to the FBI office in Portland five (5) computer disks with my story and a letter of explanation that con-tained a request to investigate the private detective attack on me as a hate crime. The letter is typed below.

Supervising Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigations,
Portland, Ore.
1500 S. W. First
Suite 400 24

Sir,

Enclosed you’ll find five (5) computer disks. They are all alike and contain the true story of my 33 year fight–up to now–with a Private Detective, hired by the Pacific Northwest Bell (PNB) telephone company (now Quest) to spy on and harass me over that period of time.
The harassment-consisting of sexual entrapments, that didn’t work, non-sexual entrapment, which didn’t work, and psychological attacks and
traps, that didn’t work either–during the last eight (8) years I worked for PNB. I retired, but they didn’t! And that battle has been and is still going on since 1976, another 25 years.
I imagine, because of your years of investigative and intelligence service with the FBI and contact with the Private Detective Agencies them-selves, you are aware of the Private Detective methods in their illegal sexual, non-sexual, and psychological traps. But, if not, I lay many of the methods out in my book. Incidentally, the Private Detectives use a lot of illegal agents, such as Postal workers, minors, criminals, etc.
Incidentally, the chapters on psychological traps and methods the PDs use to trap their victims might prove interesting to you in case you don’t already know how they pull it off. The attack to make the PD victim into a complainer, which they hope will paint the victim to look like a mentally unbalanced, psychotic attacker, is a morally, vicious assault on any innocent person. Also, I’m positive you and the FBI Bureau as a whole will be very interested in the Chapter entitled, The FBI File. I know I’m already in your files, but the FBI denied that when I asked for those files. That’s a NO-NO! I still have that correspondence.
I’m not positive, but pretty sure the telephone company stopped paying the private detective agency once I retired, but they continued their attack on me. So, because the Private Detectives continued this illegal attack on me, you could classify their intrusion into my privacy and their character assassination attacks on me, in which they told people I was a homosexual and a child molester, as a HATE CRIME. That’s where you come in, since the HATE CRIME STATUTE is a Federal Crime, I’m asking you to investi-gate my complaint against, not only the Private Detectives, but the telephone company, as well. They should’ve made certain the Private Detectives quit their harassment once the company quit paying the PD agency.
For your information, I’ve already given copies of my story to Senator Wyden and Senator Smith, Portland’s four city commissioners, to two TV stations, two newspapers, some of my neighbors and, also, I’ve spread a couple hundred other copies around the city. I’m positive it will end up on the Internet someday.
As soon as I figure out how to mail my computer disks without the Private Detectives finding out and interfering with my packages I’ll spread my story even farther. I know, as a U. S. agency, you are supposed to get a warrent to open peoples’ mail. You should do what the Private Detectives do, hire the Postal employees to work for you. You know, of course, Private Detectives in Oregon aren’t licensed, so the PD agencies can hire who they want. That means anyone, and they do.
I’m going to make several copies of this letter and spread them around to protect myself.

The important name listed below is number 32–
Jackie Scruggs. A lovely Black woman, she signed
for the package at the FBI office.

The list is on page 288 of chapter 33.

This book is about Private Detectives so lets take a look at what,
the so-called Private Detective, Private Investigator, Security Managers,
and other civilian-like, illegal psuedo-police really are and are not!

In the first place, let’s make it clear these self-appointed PD per-
sons or whatever he/she/or children–the so-called different investigative
groups mentioned above do use children in their spy work–ARE NOT,
ARE NOT part of any legal governmental police force. No City, County,
State, or Federal police force give the Private Detective legal authority. So! Right off the bat, what such a high percentage of our citizens think of and consider legal are nothing more than self-appointed vigilante people. As American citizens they have the right to make citizens’ arrests, but so do you for that matter. If you can make it stick, that is. But they and you are not
a legal policeman.

There you go. It goes on for 300-some pages. I suppose I can publish it onto my website, but than I’d become some kind of resource on this issue, as I have on Mr. LaRouche — which I’ll have to get to in a minute.

Rock and Roll Part Two

Monday, January 10th, 2005

Was’nt that the most moving, topical, comforting thing you have heard recently? Is’nt that Son-of-a-Bitch really something to show to an already stunned and grieving world? He is saying the tsunami dead are dead because they do not believe as he does! Is’nt that Son-of-a-Bitch really something? What’s worse, we have at least 30/40 million more just like him. If I were younger, so help me, I would emigrate.
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There is an ebb and flow to these things, and America has always had a flow of this odd Puritanical Christianity running against a flow of Social Gospel Christianity. The national zeitgist changes in a hurry, for good or bad, and all I can really do is stick through it.
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Somehow I can’t grasp the applicability of that DeLay passage to the tsunami so it would have flown right past me, probably being interpreted as “don’t just say you’ll help; really DO IT.” Dense, thinking his selection was an afterlife judgement reference and that the stuff about the wheat grow with the tares and God making his sun to shine on everyone untl then still applied.

I wonder how it might have turned out if someone had been fast-thinking enough to get up right behind him and read the “Judge not that ye be not judged” or the mote and the log in eye passage.

Ya know, if God hates what I think that same book hints about, and he’s got some thunderbolts left, er….yeekers I hope something isn’t being brewed just for Americans – I mean he knows we’re not all guilty by assocation. Right? Right? I mean, he would use something more discriminating than tsunamis or zealous hijackers?
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are the evil doers sitting in washington?

Just a thought
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This reminds me of The Simpson’s episode where Homer creates a religion based on not going to church and the preacher guy is preaching to him quoting scripture, and Homer retorts by randomly choosing a verse and wait, I’m getting this backwards. It is the preacher guy who talkes about the foolish man who built his house on sand.

But is it really good to build a house on rock?
Wouldn’t that cause problems with earthquakes?
Dirt is probably better.
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I am so happy to see that our government has at last replaced our once secular government with a formal state religious order. That other great nations such as Iran and Saudi Arabia could live under the commandments of their great god, and that we Americans were still stuck with the heathen, atheistic humanism of the infidel enlightenment, stuck in my pious craw like bitter blood of the lamb of heaven. Amen.
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I wonder if this is a way of saying that ONLY christians will enter heaven? After all isnt a bunch of aid money for earthly things like food and medicine a waste, when they probably will go to he!! anyway? These are the same ones who blame any “worldly ” tragedy on the moral decay of our society.
MAKES ME NAUSEOUS

Quote:Not every one who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven; but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

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taken from message board a and message board b, relating to DeLay at Congressional Prayer Meeting.