An All New Modern Exodus

From the Associated Press:

Seven states -- Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania -- are raising their minimum wage. The federal minimum is $5.15 an hour. The new state minimum wages go as high as $7.50 an hour. "We've made Massachusetts the best state to live in for struggling working families," said Carl Nilsson, an activist for the poor, citing the higher minimum wage and an earlier state law that requires health care insurance for all.

It's hard to imagine a dumber bunch than the polititians in the seven states that passed those new higher wage laws, or the world-class idiots in Massachusetts that passed that incredibly naive "free health insurance for all" package.... if you exclude the fools in Washington, of course.

Two things will happen:

-1) What businesses that are able will leave these seven states on the next bus for states that did not raise their minimum wage, and

-2) Many illegals, typically unable to read, speak or understand English, will flock to the magnificent seven to take all the predicted higher paid jobs that even now are in the process of evaporating--will not find work--but will find their way onto state welfare programs (already run by sympathetic minorities), or increase the crime rate in the areas they infest. In PollyAnna's home state, Massachusetts, many will will stay for the free medical handouts.

Anyone with half a brain will understand that these perks have to be instituted by all the states at the same time, or there will indeed be a huge exodus of businesses and their minimum wage jobs to greener(and cheaper) pastures, eventually dragging their faithful flocks of cheap laborers along with them, a losing proposition all the way around.

The states that raised their minimum wage will lose jobs and tax revenue, and the states where the job makers end up will suffer a influx of non-english-speaking illegals, huge increases in the costs of welfare and medical services, along with a general reduction in the standard of living in those areas that suffer a brown tsunami.

This guy Carl Nilsson, "activist for the poor", is the type of idiot that can bring down a state government in bankruptsy if allowed to run rampant amongst the natives.

Massachusetts is going to be the poster child for stupid ideas with that free medical stuff. Those six other states will be close behind.

But hey! When you think about it... Maybe the leaders those seven states aren't so stupid after all. A really good way to rid themselves of these disease-ridden, law-breaking, anti-American illegals in their midst is to do exactly what they just did... eliminate the jobs by forcing the job makers out.

But I give them too much credit. Getting a handle on their illegal problem will just be one of those "unanticipated consequences".

Texas Weather And the Trembling Bushes

We had ourselves a genuine, frog-croakin', gully-washin' rainstorm yesterday, complete with sheets of rain, lightning flashes all across the sky, and thunderous rumbling almost beyond description.

Mother nature at her best, it was. Wife and I wandered in and out of the front porch (which is roofed) and watched the show, munching away on some Lay's Original Potato Chips and sipping on those little half-size cans of root beer.

A lightning bolt hit a transformer a bit down the road at around 3:15PM, and we were out electrical power until about 7PM. But no matter, we just sat and watched the show.

When the power can back on, I turned on the news only to find out that our brave and courageous President Bush had grabbed his wife and two dogs, jumped into an government provided armored vehicle which was then driven to and parked inside a bomb (or some such) shelter built especially for dear George somewhere on his property, until the rain quit.

How silly. Didn't he realize that he, his wife and his two widdle doggies could be snatched up by a tornado and end up in the Land of Oz? Just like Dorothy and Toto?

Imagine.... he could then do just like the scarecrow did, and go ask the wizard for a brain.

The Last Days Of Saddam

Saddam has just been turned over to the Iraqi government for his upcoming execution. It may happen as early as midnight tonight, or tomorrow(Saturday), or it may be delayed until after this Muslim holy period which has just begun.

The manicured mannequins and their eunuchs who bring us our national news seem to believe this execution will have no consequences, that it will only close the chapter on this particular period in history, that nothing bad will occur as a result of it.

Either they are simpletons or I am. I have this feeling that the killing of Saddam is going to have enormous consequences.

Millions of Muslims truly believe that we are the enemy, the Great Satan, the destroyer of their nations and cultures. They consider todays' Iraqi government as nothing more than a puppet regime set up and controlled by the United States--which it is--and when this little gaggle of Bushkins execute Saddam, we here in America will be blamed, and sooner or later, they will respond in kind, against us, our people, our cities.

A dismal thought is that "Remember Saddam" or some such incitement may become in the Arab world as popular as "Remember The Alamo" was in the United States.

Or maybe the Iraqis will sneak him away... execute one of this body doubles, and then tell everybody he died.

It ain't over till it's over.

Memory Lane

I just re-visited a very early post by Fred Reed entitled "A Codpiece for Clinton". I was struck by the idea that one could change "Bush" for "Clinton" and "Iraq" for Kosovo", and the piece would become accurate and up-to-date.

While bush is into fighting horridly expensive and deadly wars to prove his macho maleness, Clinton only bombed a few targets and then got the hell out, his macho-dudeliness apparantly satisfied.

Maybe it was because Clinton was also into diddling fat chicks in the Oval Office that his maleness required so much less war and death.

Perhaps the answer to the mess in Iraq is just another fat chick, but maybe a Mexican Senorita this time. Ole!

Another Bad Idea

I visit several blogs daily, generally not to get more informed, but to be entertained. One I do recommend is called "Vox Popoli", posted by a very astute and intelligent individual. Vox Day (nom de plume), has posted many excellent articles on everything from politics to feminism with his own particular touch of satire and sarcasm, both quite welcome in today's feminized PC enviornment. It's a blog where you get informed while being entertained, quite rare, since most blogs are nothing more than ego filled rants like this one.

Problem for me is that it's--in essense--a "born-again" Christian type of blog that has snookered me into commenting on religion in general, something I usually never do. When you ask those folks why they believe in an all-powerful but invisible and entirely absent entity (often angry and jealous, prone to mayhem and destruction of us and our entire enviornment), the response is always quotes and more quotes from the Bible, or the Torah, or the Koran, but never an answer, other than some vague mention of "faith" or just "because". Mentioning that the bible (and all other religious tomes) were written by men, you are informed that those writers were "inspiried" by God, as if that's supposed to end the debate. And who told them that? More men, each and every one with agendas and all with a large bag full of "issues".

Vox's most interesting intellectual gyrations are his efforts to use logic as a tool to support his religious views. Without a doubt, logic and religion are mutually exclusive, but he gets an A+ for trying. After all, any born-again Christian is nothing if not a salesman.

So, the bad idea is discussing religion at all on any blog, including this one. I can't imagine another entry here on the subject... it's back to politics and the scummy weasels we can find in all levels of our "democracy".

Or not...

I just may drop politics entirely and just make comments on the human condition. that's a field full of juicy targets, or--as Vox says--a "target rich enviornment".

Go donkeys!

It is somehow amusing to see the Democrats so rapidly revert into the same old mold so quickly after the elections.

The dust hasn't even settled and the newly empowered donkey boys and girls are going right back to the same-old same-old, and the sonzabitches aren't even in office yet!

Election promises, all forgotten.

The fence will not be funded . Wetbacks are to get a fast-track to citizenship, even if they don't want it for anything but a job.

The war will remain Bush's private property with no oversight by congress.

American jobs and opportunites will continue to be sold overseas

The Treasury will continue to print Federal Resevre notes ( but no real money) 24/7, or until the printing presses meltdown.

Pelosi refuses to seat a Republician winner, based on a 1984 Democrat-controlled House stunt on the same nature.

"Nothing is off the table" says the all new and improved house leader.

Really?

Everything we were promised is off the table... trashed, gone, history.

I did say "somehow amusing" because this sort of conduct from that Washington pack of weasels is no longer alarming.

It was "alarming" when we could still do something about it, but now it's way to late. Even the idea of dragging them out into the street and hanging them all from the nearest lamposts--although a satisfying gesture--would no longer help.

I imagine one of the last things the forward lookout on the Titanic said was "I told you so".

Didn't help nary a soul, nor the ship either.

Oh Yeah, That's Just Great

I just watched a couple of Asain chicks on CNN tell us that 1,800 people someplace in Europe won an estimated 2.2 billion dollars in a lottery, and would be getting around 400,000 bucks each.

Multiplty 1,800 times 400, 000 and see how close the answer is to 2.2 Billion. Somebody is keeping a huge chunk of that 2.2 Billion for themselves.

These Asian talking heads then went on to tell us that big shots at Goldman Sachs were getting Christmas (they didn't say Christmas, of course) bonuses of 10, 20, 50 and even 100 MILLION dollars for a years work of robbing and fleecing ordinary Americans.

Imagine how many shirts and dresses you have to sell to get enough profit for just one of those bonuses.

Imagine how stupid we are to keep buying from these thieving sons-of-bitches and lining their greedy little pockets year after year after year.

Morons Leading The Blind?

A federal raid has resulted in the arrest of over 1,200 Mexican illegals in six states working in meat packing plants. The illegals had stolen identies and social security numbers of tax-paying Americans.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday the investigation uncovered a "disturbing front" in the war against illegal immigration, in which illegal immigrants are using the identities of U.S. citizens to obtain jobs.

The head of America's Homeland Security has just now uncovered this? Good grief, how isolated are these buffoons in Washington?

To add insult to insult, Swift Meat Packing company spokes"persons" acted surprised to learn they had been employing illegals. Give me a freaking break.

If these stories are true, then both Homeland Security and the Swift Meat Packing Company are headed by witless morons in charge of a bunch of fools blind to reality... or sell-out traitors.

Oh, I forgot... Chertoff is a Bush man.

And Swift is in it strictly for the money.

"I Reject Those Ideas"

El Presidente Bush just made the statement "I reject those ideas" on TV about the ideas recently presented to him on the issue of Iraq. In other words, he will continue to "stay the course", and kill off many more of our sons and daughters in this insane Iraqi civil war brought about by his misadventures as the big bad Commander-in-Chief.

The little leader of the three monkeys republicians actually called this war in Iraq a "fight", and added that he will not be pressured into making a decision.

Perhaps he meant "good decision", since just about every decision this pious spokesman of the tree-swingers has made has been a bad one.

He went on to say that we are making progress in Iraq, that just last week, we killed over 5,000 terrorists who wanted to harm America.

For those of you who have reading comprehension challenges , that's actually over 5,000 Muslim husbands, fathers and sons killed by America last week. That's over 5,000 Muslim familes who now hate us, and will so so for generations.

Well, three cheers--for all you three monkey idolators--and your defiant little leader on his "progress".

Don't get me wrong, I don't give a damn what happens to the Muslims and Jews over in the Middle East. They have willingly created this mess throughout the passing centuries and are most welcome to it. I just don't believe America has any business poking it's nose into any of it. There is no positive outcome for us in this thing, only bad and worse.

Time to pull the plug on our little saber-rattling general and send him back to watching his Mexican hired hands punch his cows.

May we all live through it, and may America survive these dark days created by the unwise actions of a foolish man.

Futile Is As Futile Does

fut-tile\ fyut-l\ 1: serving no useful purpose 2: occupied with trifles. FUTILE may cannote completeless of failure or unwisdom of undertaking; usually implies simple failure to achieve a desired result.

Right.

That's what griping about Bush and company, or politicians and politics in general is... futile.

Today's politicians don't listen to and don't give a damn about the ordinary man or woman. They do not get into politics to serve the greater good. They are where they are for the power and the glory. They are where they are to feed egos of unimaginable size. They are where they are to get rich and stay independently wealthy from now on--forever--until the end of time, but not the second coming... they don't believe any of that. They say they do, but they lie.

They have gotten where they are by lying to, cheating on, stealing from, and doublecrossing everybody and everything. Some have even killed to get or stay where they are. A select few have left a trail of corpses behind them.

Behind our backs, on our backs, over our backs, whatever it takes to get what they want, and to get it they will smile, they will promise, they may actually act concerned, even kiss babies, but it's all lies.

Once we vote them in, they vote us all off the island. Come election time again, out come the smiles, the promises, the lies, all designed to make us believe that democracy really works.

Over and over. We all vote over and over, somehow expecting a different result, but getting the same thing, over and over.

Isn't that the explanation of insanity?

I read hundreds of entrys on blogs and websites raising hell about the doublecrossing scumbags in Washington, but none of it makes a real dent. Not a scratch. Not a ripple.

Yes, Yes, a few get all bug-eyed and angry over whatever it is that has been exposed, go on national TV and threaten all manner of nasty something-or-other on the evildoers, but it's all an act, just part of the job. As soon as the spotlight goes elsewhere, it's back to the usual skullduggery.

Pointing any of it out, raising hell about some real scummy stunt may feel good at the time, but it's just a waste of time... it's futile.

Bombs? What Bombs?

One of Israel's jabberwockies let slip that Isreal is a nuclear power. Well, surprise, surprise. That has been pretty well established since the time the Jews raided an American military convey transporting some of our weapons-grade nuclear material and made off with a few hundred pounds of the stuff. That was years and years ago, supposedly all forgotten.

However, the Israeli government has decided to continue denying any nuclear capability.

In other words, they have decided to continue with something they are very good at, puttng on their little beanies, looking us all in the eye, and lying through their teeth.

What the hell, it's worked in the past. Why not now?

Who Owns What?

Russian Premier Putin has notified the world that foreign ownership of the world's largest liquified gas project is to be no more by forcing Shell to turn over it's controlling stake in the venture, and has raised fears that foreign ownership of the nation's resources is a thing of the past.

Russia has decided to use it's national resources as a political weapon...imagine that!

Shell is--of course--Royal Dutch Shell, who, in partnership with the Japanese has been working the project. At the same time, British Petroleum (BP) is being threatened over environmental violations in a BP controlled Siberian field, in what is considered by the Brits as a Russian move to gain control of that Russian natural resource. And who owns British Petroleum? You get one guess.

The stock market crowd is reaching panic levels in their fears that these huge and long-term international resource raids may be coming to an end as nations tell them to take their bags of money and stuff them up where the sun never shines.

In other words, Russia is doing to the Dutch exactly what happened to America, when two-bit countries like Iran, Mexico and Venezula "nationalized" American industries, which are and were--you guessed it--owned by foreigners like the Dutch. The only difference is that the American federal government, full of greedy and traitorous bastards, let it happen, while Russia is backing up it's rights of ownership with their nuclear arsenal.

Stand by while the Hague (which has no army, just reams and reams of paper) screams loudly about violating international law, to which the Russsians will just laugh and walk off, telling them to take their international law and stuff it where the sun never shines.

Any nation that has the power to nationalize any industry it feels like--throwing out the money lenders in the process--is an great example for us to do the same thing. At the very least, we Americans should own and control our own national resources. Places like Holland, Sweden, Norway, Israel and others have made enough money off of us, let's turn off the money spigot.

Having the Hundreds of billions of dollars in profits from our resouces and our large corporations go to places like Holland so they can build insanely huge and expensive dikes to keep the ocean out of their farmlands (a losing proposition if their ever was one) needs to stop.

It's our turn now. As an example, just look at the condition of our interstate highway system, while foreign interests are allowed (by Washington sell-outs) to build more and more TOLL roads in America.

I would have no qualms at all over rounding up these foreign thieves, confiscating their business interests in all things American, and then hanging the whole damned lot. It would be a great thing to do for the world in general, to eliminate a few generations of these despicable money handlers.

And while we're at it, let's not forget their number one supporter... that sell-out fool in Washington.

Here Kitty, Kitty...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - A four-year-old girl was mauled at a children's birthday party by a cougar that had been brought in by a wild-animal business to entertain the children, authorities said.

The girl was attacked at the home of Goya Foods president Francisco Unanue during a party for his seven-year-old child.

Where to start on this one?

Maybe having lots of money really does make you stupid, like feeling you're above the normal scheme of things, and that bad things just won't happen to you and yours, or that wild animals are really and truly soft and cuddly as depicted by Disney and crowd.

Wouldn't allowing a leashed cougar in amongst small children be considered as child endangerment?

We don't eat any of Goya's stuff anyway, and this sure won't help us start.

And The Beat goes On

Now that the election is over and American voters have made their voices heard, what is Congress doing to acknowledge they have received the message?

The incoming new House speaker, Nancy Drew-girl wonder, has announced she will not support any bill that would punish or censure the president for his deliberate misleading of America about Iraq, but she intends to smile a lot.

The House Ethics committee has announced that no one will be punished for the Foley Page debacle, only that some members acted "inappropiately" by not telling what they knew of Foley's homosexual advances towards the youngsters in the Page program, and just might get their hands slapped (gently) if we scream loud enough.

Bush has notified us he intends to ignore the key recommendations from the Iraq study group report, that he is "distancing" himself from the real solid suggestions that disagree with his personal ideas and attitudes about Iraq, and that we'll just get more of the same clueless course charting.

The Republician controled Congress is trying to pass the largest budget-busting, pork filled abortion of a bill in history, maybe just to get even with the taxpayers for voting their despicable butts out of power.

Yep, they got a message all right. Not the one we sent, but one that tells them we just don't matter.

Go stock up before the sporting goods stores get closed forever.

Waco, Again

I just watched yet another documentary on the Branch Davidian slaughter in Waco, Texas, that occured back in the ninties.

Finalized analysis of the FLIR (Forward Looking Infared Radar) tapes conclusively demonstrated that there were at least two armed agents on the ground behind the kitchen area (where no TV cameras could see), firing automatic weapons into the Davidian compound when the fire started. They were clearly firing into the section of the building that the Davidian women and children--who had been seeking shelter in the concrete kitchen pantry--would have tried to use to escape the fire. You could actually see them backing away from the increasing heat of the growing inferno, shooting all the while.

To see such a thing on TV... government agents, shooting down American citizens attempting to escape an inferno is almost beyond imagination. To hear a high-ranking Washington FBI offical claim that those agents were only "doing their jobs" is sickening. To hear that same official claim that the government never fired a single shot during the entire Waco siege, in face of all the evidence to the contrary, is astounding. I do recall a Texas Ranger testifying that he had personally recovered around forty spent shell casings fired by the infamous Ruby Ridge sniper Ron Horichi from a specially construted "sniper station" during the final moments of the Davidian siege.

To realize that the federal governmnent confiscated all the evidence and has never allowed open examination of any of it is condemning of and by itself. To understand that the entire site at Waco was bulldozed over after only one week reeks of the rot and stench of coverup oozing from the highest halls of the federal entity.

I won't go into the details offered in the documentary, suffice to say there was more than enough to convince me that agents of the United States Federal Government executed those people in what could only be described as a revenge killing for the death of those first black-clad and ski-masked agents during the intial ATF assault on the Davidian compound, and then helped to cover over and bury any incriminating evidence with the help of the entire federal machine.

Who were those agents shooting down Davidians in the final moments? Who were the drivers of those tanks, and who were the people inside those same tanks, also firing automatic weapons, so clearly seen on the FLIR tapes? They are immoral, amoral and evil beasts that kill in the name of "duty". They are the type of people we need to hunt down, to weed out, to eliminate from amongst us all.

We know who is lying for them, who is betraying their trust to protect the guilty, we see them on TV doing exactly that. We could start there.

Keep in mind that the federal government eventually paid Randy Weaver milllions in compensation for his wife's murder at Ruby Ridge by FBI sniper Ron Horichi, one of those very types I mention above. Horichi has never been tried in court for this murder, he was spirited away by his government pals when a federal warrant was finally issued for his arrest.

The last few words from the commentator in the documentary is quite chilling:

This documentary does not change any official explanations or conclusions about Waco. What it does do however, is demonstrate the type of people who are running our government.

One New Shopping Catalog

My wife and I have been getting all manner of brochures, magazines, catalogs and flyers for just about anything one may want to buy for the upcoming gift-givaway gala.

There a catalogs for almost anything you can imagine.... cars, tools, jewelry, food, candy, toys, clothes, electronics... the list is endless.

So, why not a catalog for presidential contenders? A catalog at least as nice and colorful as the Hickory Farms catalog everybody gets. List every candidate, every potential candidate, provide photographs, descriptions, histories, how and what they do versus what they claim, and most importantly, what they will cost us in the long run.

I can just see the upcoming elections catalog. Clinton, McCain, Juliani, Obama,the whole rogues gallery of losers being paraded out for us to select from.

If I got a catalog like that in the mail, I'd put it in an outhouse for toilet paper, and would enjoy it everytime I used it.

Good Idea

Devout muslims want prayer rooms set aside for them in our airports. That's a great idea! The rooms can be rigged up with bomb sniffing equipment, chemical detectors and x-ray machines to check them out while they pray for their virgins in heaven, or whatever it is they need to pray for about ten or twelve times a day.

That way, there will be no obvious "profiling" so all the idiot moron liberals here in america won't get all offended at such a cruel and unusual procedure. It would be the "out of sight, out of mind" style profiling, a sneaky and "under-the-carpet " sort of thing, thus below the liberal radar.

We can provide these prayer rooms for all those sensitive and devout Muslims just as soon as we provide rooms at the airports for all the Christians, but not one second before.

If the muslims don't like this solution, they can follow the lemmings right over the cliff, and try using their little prayer mats as flying carpets.

The Second Coming

A fifteen year-old actress who played Mary in a new Hollywood release on the early life of Jesus has just announced--along with her present boyfirend--that she is pregnant.

CNN says that the parallels are interesting, in a Deja Vu sort of way... a teenaged unwed mother plays Mary, who was a teenaged unwed mother herself.

I now count the hours until some crackpot somewhere announces that this will be the second coming of Christ when this teeny-bopper's kid is born, and start a huge movement of the gullible to worship the kid and it's child-mom.

Of Fools And Kings

In my view, George Bush has fully demonstrated himself to be the King of Fools.

It seems this Texas braggart believes that the world can be united in peace and prosperity by eliminating all borders, creating a common currency, giving the entire world--including our enemies--carte blanche access to American markets, and killing off anybody who doesn't cotton to his idea of democracy and his form of religion, whatever that is.

The man seems blind to the reality of the way it really is. Eliminating our borders only provides easy access to drug runners, criminals and illegals of all stripes, who bring in with them disease and a heavy load of generations-old hatred for Americans and their prosperity, while paradoxically wanting to own a piece of that very success.

Creating a common currency allows people and organizations totally unanswerable to Americans control of our money supply and interest rates.

This free-trade insanity has opened wide the door to American markets without a smidgen of parity with our trading "partners", an excellent way to destroy our economy and the entire middle class, just as we are all now witnessing.

Occupying a foreign nation and killing its citizens by the tens of thousands in a insanely stupid attempt to promote democracy is exactly that... insanely stupid.

Does Bush really believe that his actions on these matters are uniting the world?

He ignores the realities that people are separated and divided by race, religion, ethics and law, to name a few.

For example, our open borders policy with Mexico is not uniting Americans and Mexicans. It is only making Mexicans feel superior because of our stupidity in allowing such a fool thing to happen, and is raising the anger level of vast number of Americans to an unpredictable and dangerous level.

Bush and his cohorts are blind to the fact that it is only White America that believes race no longer is an issue, that color-blindness is somehow a good thing. He ignores the blatent racism demonstrated by blacks everywhere in America, from "blacks only" college grants to "blacks only" job positions. He does not see the boiling pits of pure hatred for whites growing in our American ghettos. He ignores the attitudes of racial superiority constantly demonstrated by Asian and South-0f-the-border governments.

He totally ignores the reality that people are--to their very core--separated by religion and will forever remain so. There will never be a "meeting of the minds" between the competing religions in this supposed winner-take-all race we are losing. Bush and his military roosters may be winning the war for medals and whatnot, but they are completely losing the war for the minds and hearts of people everywhere worldwide.

People with different ethics and legal systems are not going to mix well either. I can't imagine a single American thinking that chopping off a hand for stealing a loaf of bread is acceptable.

So, does Bush really think his policies will unite anybody? I suppose he does, based on his actions.

God almighty, what a fool.

A Bit More Than Yesterday

Living in a small community a few miles east of Dallas means that everywhere I go there are clusters and clumps of people speaking some form of spanish. They--way too often--look angrily at me and my wife for being near them, or disdain for being two more stupid gringos having the gall to invade their space, or with one of those "looks" of racial superiority glared at us because we are not brown and Mexican, not a part of "La Raza", not a part of "The Race".

I have spent years assuming these "guests" would eventually assimilate into the American fabric, get that "Latino" chip off their shoulders, start speaking English and--as a final sign of assimilation--consider me my wife and I as just another couple shopping at Wal-Mart. No nasty looks, no slurred "Pendejo gringo" remarks as I pass with my shopping cart, no curled up lip at the sight of an average legal American citizen wanting to use the same store aisle as them and their little covey of spanish jabbering offspring.

But apparently this is not to be so. It would seem these Brown Berets, these Latinos, these La Raza supporters, these "Mexican Americans", want me and mine to be gone, to just vanish and take my language, family, ethics, laws and heritage with me, while signing the deed to my house and property over to any handy and deserving Mexican victim of white injustice or aggression.

Even notables like Lou Dobbs lets these anti-American invaders spout off ceaselessly on national TV with their drivel about being the original and true owners of the entire American southwest, that the estimated 12 to 20 million illegal aliens who have jumped our borders, stolen our identities and social security numbers are not really breaking any laws, that they really deserve all the free medical, welfare, schooling and social goodies being dished out by the legal American citizen taxpayer.

Then, to top it off, I have to endure the likes of George Bush with his attitudes and actions on this "North American Union" debacle, and how this despicable man is--and has been-- turning his back to the American nation and the American people for years in his efforts to give away all the things we and our forefathers have created in our efforts to improve our lives, and leave our children(not some foreigners) something better and greater than what was left to us.

Everyday, in the news and on TV, I see this great fool George Bush continue his efforts to disassemble the American dream, loudly supported by the horde of Mexican flag-waving invaders that have infiltrated our nation.

Each day, just a bit more than yesterday, I get a bit more unsettled and a bit more angry over this Mexican cancer that has invaded the American body. I now worry about what I might do when some gringo-hating Mexican man or woman, jabbering away in spanish, pushes me over the edge. Like everyone, I do have an edge. Force me over it, then there are no more rules. I realize this... and worry.

Maybe that's how real revolutions start, when the average man in the street(and I could hardly be more "average") gets enough, flips his wig, picks up his shotgun and--rightly or wrongly--starts doing something himself.

Of Sinking Ships And Rats

The promoters and supporters of the Iraqi debacle are abandoning the Good Ship LollyBush like the rats they are.

Adelman has broken with the Bush team. He had an angry falling-out with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. He and Cheney are no longer on speaking terms.He believes that "the president is ultimately responsible" for what Adelman now calls "the debacle that was Iraq."

Perle says he still believes the invasion was justified. but he resents being called "the architect of the Iraq war," because "my view was different from the administration's view from the very beginning" about how to conduct it. How sad, this poor little promoter is now feeling "resentful".

However, Joshua Muravchik, a neoconservative at the American Enterprise Institute, said he is distressed "to see neocons turning on Bush" but said he believes they should admit mistakes and openly discuss what went wrong.

Says Muravchik: "All of us who supported the war have to share some of the blame for that...There's a question to be sorted out: whether the war was a sound idea but very badly executed. And if that's the case, it appears to me the person most responsible for the bad execution was Rumsfeld, and it means neocons should not get too angry at Bush about that."

Thats really nice of Muravchik... he wants to share "some fo the blame" for the loss of almost 3,000 Americans, the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted, the growing deep and intense hatred of America and all things American by billions of people worldwide.

That's a world-class red herring... the "execution" bit, since the true purpose of the war was to eliminate the Iraqi threat to Israel, which was quickly accomplished. Shortly after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, Kenneth Adelman and other promoters of the Iraq war gathered at Vice President Cheney's residence to celebrate. The invasion had been the "cakewalk" Adelman predicted. Cheney and his guests raised their glasses, toasting President Bush and victory. "It was a euphoric moment," Adelman recalls.

Perle, Adelman and others advocated a robust use of U.S. power to advance the ideals of democracy and freedom, targeting Hussein's Iraq as a threat that could be turned into an opportunity... or so they are now claiming. Not so. It is a disaster that has been forced on America by these sons-of-bitches for no other reason than to prevent Isreal from having to face a serious enemy and absorb unacceptable losses in the process. Far better that America absorb them.

Those who have been using American power and wealth to promote the Israeli agenda in the Middle East took advantage of a shallow-minded, self-absorbed and delusional man to do so, and through him, used US power to eliminate a real threat to the existance of Israel.

Just how much should the United States do to protect Israel from the enemies it has made by creating a Jewish state in the middle of an Muslim hotbed? The claims being made by Perle and others of his ilk that the Iraqi war was to promote democracy is ludicrous... it was to protect Israel, no other reason.

Bush provided them with a perfect patsy, a man who wanted to bloody Saddam for his own personel reasons. Now, as this Iraqi disaster unfolds, these Jewish traitors are all pointing fingers at Bush for having misconducted the war, even though the real purpose of this war was quickly accomplished. Now it is America--not Israel and its supporters--that has to face the unsolvable mess we have been suckered into.

Yes, this Iraqi disaster is all really about Israel. America faces real and growing hatred world-wide because of the actions it has taken in the support of the Jewish state. It is Jewish money and Jewish political influence in Washington that has put us where we are today. American citizens, and particularily American Christians, are going to have to find an answer to the critical question of what to do about Israel and its role as "puppet master" of the American federal government.

Train Wrecks And Brakes

Well now.

The donkies have taken both the House and the Senate. This will finally (I hope) put the brakes to this train wreck of an administration.

Unfortunatley, the Democrat solution to anything is to make the federal government mimic the Titanic... full speed ahead into the fog.

The one saving grace for the dems is that we've already hit the iceberg--thanks to Caption Bush and his crew of neocons--so the worst they can do is steal the lifeboats.

Get ready for that cold, cold water.

A New Approach

We need to re-think our approach to politics.

Quit thinking Democrat or Republician. They are the same kind of animal, controlled by the same forces.

If you're in the jungle being eaten alive by a big cat, I don't think you'll be concerned whether it's a lion of a tiger, or in any political situation, a Republician or a Democrat.

Think "Incumbent".

If the incumbents--those people who are now holding public office--are doing what you want, vote to keep them in office.

If they are not, vote to throw them out.

Vote in anybody--republician, democrat, independent--doesn't matter. If they are proposing things you like, vote for them.

If they don't do what you want, then the next election you vote to toss them out. Repeat the process until you have a government that does what you want it to do.

Makes politics--and voting--a whole lot easier.

A Lot Of Rice

I was watching the NASA channel and they said something quite interesting about the Hubbell space telescope.

They said you can take a grain of rice between your thumb and forefigner, hold it at arms length, point it anywhere in the night sky, and Hubbell has shown us that in that small space hidden from view behind that grain of rice are thousands of galaxies. We, of course, can't see them with the naked eye, but Hubbell has found them.

And it doesn't matter where you do this. Behind that one grain of rice are thousands of galaxies, most of them far larger than our own milky way galxay, which is small and relatively insignificant by astronomical standards.

Try to imagine enough grains of rice--held at arms length--to cover the entire night sky. How many would that be? Now multiply that number the by the thousands of galaxies behind each grain.

That's the portion of the universe we can detect using our best human technology, most probably a small portion indeed.

Science wants us to believe that all that came from some incredibly small point of "something" that exploded into everything that exists today. All the mass, all the energy--the entire universe--from a spot so small we humans could never detect it.

Religion wants us to believe that some vastly superior life form spoke a few words and created it all from nothing.

Religionists ridicule scientists for their "everything from a eentsy-teensy speck" theory, and scientists chuckle at the religionists over their wand-waving super being. Religionists can no more prove the existance of God and heaven than the scientists can prove the existance of that original speck.

Near as I can see is that it takes blind faith (thoughtess acceptance) to believe in either idea, because if you actually stop to think about it, they're both full of holes.

"Thumpers" point out that a lot a scientists have admitted to the existance of God. Well, those folks are no longer scientists, they've become religionists.

"Eggheads", if they wanted to take the time, could point out that a lot of church-goers have accepted the big bang theory. Well, those folks are no longer one of the flock, they have lost their faith.

At this point in the debate, I can only conclude that humans, biologically limited as we are, may never know the facts.

As a result, I would dearly like to all the arguments, grief, misery, fights, wars and destruction being caused by the people in both camps--who really don't have a clue--to just stop the mayhem, until somebody has some real answers, like maybe in 500 million years or so.

See Spot Run, See Spot Change

The usual is once again occuring.

Incumbant politicans, mostly the Replubicans who are up for re-election, are singing a new tune more in line with the public mood, even to the point of openly defying the warmonger-in-chief and his cadre of drum thumpers.

It's almost psychedelic to watch their "spots" change as they travel up and down the campaign trail, promising nothing... but loudly declaring how awful so much of everything is today, and how they intend to, or plan to, or want to change it--if re-elected--just like they promised last time.

Don't buy it for a second. No matter how much makeup or sleight-of-hand they use, their spots will remain the same and will re-surface right after the election. Soon as they get back inside the Beltline, it will business as usual.

Like Jack Cafferty says, vote out ALL the incumbents. Period. Doesn't matter who you vote in, at this point it's the message that's important.

None Of Your Damn Business

From MATT APUZZO,Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON

A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office... The Washington Post asked for two years of White House visitor logs in June but the Secret Service refused to process the request. Government attorneys called it "a fishing expedition into the most sensitive details of the vice presidency."

Amazing. The vice-President's visitor's logs. If that isn't 100% public information, I don't know what is. What are they hiding, to claim that the visitor's log is part of the "most sensitive" aspects of the vice-presidency?

Not only do we need toss out the cretins in the White House, we need to fire all those above-the-law "protectors" in the secret service who make these bastards feel safe and secure from the American public.

It's not just Bush, Cheney, Rumsfled, and Rice...it's also those hut-hut-hut brainwashed idiots who protect and empower them.

If it weren't for that massive ring of armed federal protection around Bush and his traitorous cohorts, maybe they wouldn't be so brazen and defiant towards the American people.. and their welfare.

I fully agree with that commentator on the Lou Dobbs show. We need to toss out ALL of them and just start over. There's only about seven hundred or so up there in Washington--Selling America and it's people down the river--the smallest of minorities ever to destroy a free nation.

Phew! What's That smell?

Eyebrow raiser number one:

Marilyn Monroe was talking on the telephone to Louise DiMaggio when she was murdered and was able to utter the name of her attacker before she was killed, according to a new book by DiMaggio's niece June DiMaggio.

June DiMaggio claims that her mother was speaking long distance with Marilyn Monroe when the actress was killed and that her mother heard Monroe blurt out the name of her killer.

Eyebrow raiser number two:

CNN reports that a manuscript written by Hitler outlining his step-by-step plans to conquer the world has just been found.

Both of those stories smell to high heaven.

The story about Marilyn is pretty transparent... let's sell some books time.

But... the one about Hitler's "discovered" manuscript has me puzzled, particularly the timing. Anything to do with Hitler has always had a huge propaganda purpose behind it.

Who's up to what here?

Bang Away, Kim

North korea has notified China that they intend to conduct at least three more "nuclear" tests, supposing that the first test was actually "nuclear".

If their first test was actually a nuclear detonation(now estimated to be less than one kiloton), it was way smaller than your average Russian suitcase bomb, more like a change purse bomb.

It they wish to deplete their supposed stockpile of fissionable materials playing scientist, well good for them, that much less material for a real bomb.

It's obvious there is no radiation threat from these detonations(so far), it took our very own federal government almost a week to detect anything, and what they finally detected may be just background radiation anyway.

Radioactivity

The US federal government announced a couple of days ago that it had not detected any radioactivity in the air from a North Korean nuclear device.

Now the US federal government is saying that they did find radioactivity in the air after the North Korean explosion.

The difference is subtle, but obvious. What they are not saying now is that the radioactivity they found in the air was from a North Korean nuclear device, only that they found radioactivity in the air.

Well, you can find radioactivity in the air at any time and any place on earth, since there is a natural radioactive background everywhere, so the federal government is not actually lying. They have told the truth, but not the whole truth, hoping that we will connect the dots erronously and conclude something they did not say about something that did not happen.

Federal government mouthpieces now say they estimate the Korean explosion to be less than a one kiloton yield(using scary nuclear bomb techo-babble), but again, they do not say that it was a nuclear explosion.

You gotta watch these federal government sleezeballs like a hawk. They are past masters at deception by omission, and they can always count on the TV news bobble heads to connect the dots for you... erronously.

More Big Stones

In Lebanon, there is a place called Baalbek. At that spot are the ruins of an incredibe structure that contains some of the largest shaped stones on earth, including a group of three stones called the Trilithon of Baalbek, each weighing over eight hundred tons. Many other stones, weighing in at five hundred to seven hundred tons, were used to construct this incredible place. These huge stones are in the foundation--or platform--of the site, on which temples dedicated to various gods and goddesses were later built by whatever civilizations came along.

One other stone, the largest ever discovered, is called the "Hadjar El Gouble", or "Stone Of The south". It weighs 1,170 metric tons and lies askew in the dirt near the Baalbek quarry. It is 16 feet thick, thirteen feet high, and an unbelievable 69 feet long.

Just google "Baalbek" to sees photos of these giants, and further wonder about the accuracy and precision of the stonework, which makes the stones of Stonehenge look crude (which they are) by comparision.

To this day, no one has been able to determine how these stones were moved, much less lifted and placed into the Baalbek platform.

All the ancients had--we are told--is rope and wood for cranes, some levers and pulleys, and logs for rollers to handle their heavy stuff. With only that type of technology available, we are hard-pressed to understand how even the much smaller seventy-ton stones in the great pyramid were moved and positioned. Keep in mind that the average stone on the great pyramid weighs in around 4 tons, so a seventy ton stone is quite exceptional, even for the ancient Egyptians.

I would dearly love to have any engineer today design a crane that could lift, move and position a stone say, eleven feet high, fourteen feet thick, and forty-two feet long, using only wood and rope. No bolts, no steel cable, no thousand horsepower diesel engines, no nails or iron straps allowed. They didn't have any of that back then.

Why a stone that particular size? Because one exactly that size has been found in the platform supportng the temple mount in Jerusalem.

Imagine that. We now have at least two places where structures have been built using stones that could not have been moved by any known technology of the day.

Seems that whatever civilization built the Baalbek structure must have built the temple mount also, where Soloman's temple once stood and where the Dome of the Rock now stands. Whoever they were, they had the technology to do it.

Today, we have the technology, but just look at the massiveness and hi-tech know-how incorporated into the cranes that would be needed to move these stones... and the cost.

It appears that neither the Jews nor the Arabs have any valid claim to the temple mount platform, since neither could have possibly built it originally. Absolutely no way. It was built by a much more advanced civilization pre-dating both these groups, a civilization we have no records of.

What a shame. All this hatred, death and destruction today, over a pile of stones not even belonging to the people fighting over them.

Another Sleazebag Forced To Surface

AP Exclusive: Reid Got $1M in Land Sale
Oct 11 2:13 PM US/Eastern

By JOHN SOLOMON and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
Associated Press Writers

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.

In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he transferred his land to a company created by a friend and took a financial stake in that company, according to records and interviews.

At this rate, we going to have to let a few hundred pot smokers out of prison to make room for the politicans.

Mary Jo Kopechne

Frustrated by Democratic attacks over the Foley scandal, Republican congressman Christopher Shays, R-Conn., hit back with a reference to Sen. Edward Kennedy's 1969 incident at Chappaquiddick in which a Mary Jo Kopechne died after the Ted Kennedy's car plunged off a bridge.

Describing how pleased I am over this would be hard to do.

I have been to Martha's vineyard and have actually been to the spot where Kennedy's car "Plunged" into the drink, and--as a result--never for a second believed any of the Kennedy fairytale.

This man has not yet paid the price for Mary Jo's murder. I know a lot of you will whimper on about how he will get his "just rewards" in someplace you like to call the afterlife, but I'd prefer to see him hang in this life... just to be sure.

At least this scumbag womanizer will get a little more heat from what he no doubt hoped was a long-dead issue, just like Mary Jo.

Sadly, it is beyond hope that those dumbass Massachusetts morons who have endlessly sent him back to congress might not do so again. A-yup.

North Korea's Itty-Bitty Nuke

North Korea has popped off an estimated 5-15 kiloton nuclear device, a tiny teenie little thing. We have exploded more TNT in conventional explosions than that. Compared to one of our own 10 (or larger) megatonners, it just doesn't measure up as any sort of real and present danger.

None the less, our federal government is running around like chicken little, apparantly knocked completely of it's hinges by this event, and is frantically looking for some sort of appropriate superpower response.

Since nuclear proliferation is as inevitable as any other technological advancement around the world, what our Texas raised God of War should do is publicly congratulate North Korea on it's technological achievement, while at the same time privately caution them not to try to use one of those little-bitty pea shooters on us or any of our friends.

We have tens of thousands of megations worth of nuclear bombs. Compared to that, North Korea's device (it's not even a bomb yet) is just a little fire cracker.

The Bush reaction to this long-expected but anti-climatical event is just another indication of how wrong-headed--and stupid--this administration and its actions really are, and if Bush tries to use it as justificiton to invade Iran, we need to toss the bum out.

Actually, we need to toss the bum out anyway. He has damaged us more than any of our enemies could ever dare to hope for.

Another Pervert Surfaces

West Virgina State Senator Randy White said he is evaluating whether to continue his bid for a second term after a Charleston television station aired revealing pictures of him last week. White said that he was "shocked" and "horribly embarrassed" after WCHS-TV aired photos depicting him and at least two other men wearing only body paint.

Shocked and embarrassed? No kidding. One can only imagine what he and those other two dudes were doing prancing around naked with only a coat of paint on.

Says White, 51, a Married father of three:

"The pictures were taken approximately two years ago in private and were stolen from my personal computer. I am not sure why they were given to the media, but I must assume for obvious political reasons."

White says that he had been working with his family to overcome a "personal identification situation" and to overcome depression for which he has been treated through medication for over a year. He is yet another "religious person" who has "been for some months praying to God to help my family and me through this tragic and troubling episode in my life."

He's going through a "personal identification situation", depression and medical treatment, but--by golly-- he's a God fearing soul and is praying for forgiveness. I suppose that's supposed to make it all OK?

A man with a load of mental baggage like that should not be in politics. He should be in a hospital ward somewhere.

His family wants him to continue his political career. The perks, the power, the applause can do that to you. So what if he's not sure who or what he is, so what if he's been on medication for a year, or that he has very private pictures of naked, body-painted men--including himself--on his computer. He's really a nice guy that prays a lot.

What's with American politics nowadays? What has turned the political arena into a magnet for perverts, molesters, homosexuals and medicated sickos? How many more of these kind of people are out there making our laws anyway?

Maybe we all ought to try and find out before we go vote this November.

More Than A Bit Scary

That accused cop killer, surrounded by dozens of cops, stuck one hand out of the hole under the tree he was hiding in, and was then shot at least 85 times.

One cop said he didn't put his second hand out fast enough and that there might have been a gun in it. (Or a hairbrush, or a cell phone) Or, he may have been leaning on that hand for support, as he had just been ordered to climb up out of his hidey-hole.

Another cop actually said they quit shooting because "we ran out of bullets".

A short review:

He was suspected of shooting a cop.

He was tracked down and found hiding in a hole he had dug underneath some tree roots.

He was completley surrounded by dozens of heavily armed police.

He was (apparantly) in the process of surrendering.

He was then shot--over and over--until the police ran out of bullets.

It's not the idea that this guy was a cop-killer that is the big concern here. It's how the cops reacted: Exactly like a maddened mob out for blood, losing any and all control of themselves in the process.

And the fact that they are immune to any retribution or prosecution.

They're ALL Liars

A review of White House records has proven that George J. Tenet, director of central intelligence at the time, did in fact brief Condoleezza Rice on July 10, 2001, about the threat from Al Qaeda,

State Department spoksman, Sean McCormack, said that a review of White House records has shown that Tenet did brief Condoleezza Rice about the looming threat.

Mr. McCormack also said records show that the Sept. 11 commission was informed about the meeting, a fact that members of the commission first denied and then confirmed on Monday.

The account by Sean McCormack came hours after Rice told reporters that she did not recall the specific meeting. Rice, the national security adviser at the time, said it was “incomprehensible” she ignored dire terrorist threats two months before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Let's see here....

Rice at first said no meeting occured, then that it did occur, but that she can't remember, and is now attempting to sluff it off claiming incomprehensibility.

The 9/11 Commission said they were never informed of the meeting, but now say they were.

They all started off lying, then pointing fingers, and are now trying poo-poo the whole thing into non-existance.

History may eventually show that Rice was the most responsible Bush appointee for the 9/11 disaster. As you may recall, she was being far too distracted and self-absorbed by the adoration of the feminists and minorities over her glorious position as the first black woman to hold such high office. The road trips, the speches, the TV interviews, the autograph signing, all that sort of thing... may have been far more important to her than a few Arabs making threatening noises off in the desert somewhere.

Turning The Pages

This sex scandal blowing up in the joint faces of Congress points out the realization that the Page system should be eliminated.

Allowing naive teenagers to putter about in the halls of power that is populated by an inordinate number of molesters and pedaphiles is not a smart thing to do.

Watching and listening to the despicable cretins who are either refusing to acknowledge the problem, or attempting to brush it off as a minor annoyance, is proof positive of yet another broken system in this more and more anti-American, and anti-family federal government.

Good grief, this recently uncovered homosexual child molester was supposed to be a Congressional champion for the protection of children!

Its either time to turn the Pages loose, or time to put more than a few like this "Foley" out to pasture, along with the rest of the horse droppings.

Rice Can't Remember

Secretary of Whatever Bush wants Rice is now showing visible signs of that univeral beltline malady, memory loss.

Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Says Rice, in plainest english:

"What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible".

Yeah, right. Rice continues, in a totally successful attempt at clarification:

"I don't know that this meeting took place, but what I really don't know, what I'm quite certain of, is that it was not a meeting in which I was told there was an impending attack and I refused to respond".

Well, now, thats clear as crystal.

And she did NOT have sex with that man, either.

News flash:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, about an imminent Al Qaeda attack and failed to persuade her to take action.

Surprise, surprise.

No sir, Not Again

Fred Reed lays it on the line once again:

When men die pointlessly in a war they know cannot be won and that means nothing to them, when they realize that they are dying for the egos of draft-dodging politicians safe in Washington—they will revolt. It happened before. It will happen again. But when? Next year, I'd guess.

Gad... wish I'd written that.

Rumsfeld... Man Of War

A program on TV last night was titled "Rumsfeld, Man Of War".

What silliness.

Alexander the Great was a "Man of War".

Atilla the Hun Was a "Man of War".

George Washington was a "Man of War".

Those men strapped on their weapons and LED their men into battle, taking the same chances to live or die as the men who followed them.

Rumsfeld is a politician that has never faced an armed enemy in battle. He has never taken any of the risks of war onto himself.

Rumsfeld and his number one supporter, George Bush, have never--not once in their lives--faced the possibility of death from any of the war-making decisions they have made. These men do not lead, they are not "leaders". They only give orders.

Having a service record in the military, such as sitting behind a desk shuffling papers, or flying around a bit for the National Guard is lighyears away from having been sent to the front lines, particularily in war like Iraq, where death can come from any direction at any time.

Rumsfeld is a man spending the lives of good Americans from behind the safety of his desk in Washington.

Rumsfeld is completely unqualified for the position he holds. He has no experience in the art of war to temper his decisions. He has only his theories to fall back on to justify his actions, theories that have been proven naive and faulty.

Rumsfeld is just another smooth-talking civilian in an unearned and undeserved position of great power.

Rumsfeld may be many things, but one thing he is not... A "Man Of War".

Potassium Iodide

Astrosmith, the creator of "True Anomaly", asked recently if we should be taking potassium iodide tablets.

Says Astrosmith:

Potassium Iodide (KI) protects your thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine that will be in the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion. This would lead to you getting thyroid cancer a few years later.

I read this bit--along with the rest of his comments--to my wife, and it sparked a rather long-winded discussion (over a week now) about our own survival options in case of "a nuclear detonation or nuclear "dirty bomb" attack", particularly one against the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

We live less than twenty-five miles from downtown Dallas. Our home is on a narrow one acre lot, roughly in the middle of a long row of houses up and down the row, all facing a relatively quiet county road.(paved... with easy access from the Interstate)

According to survival stuff I've read, this is nearly as bad as it can get, since hordes of unprepared starving and desperate city dwellers would flood the area, bringing with them all manner of mayhem, stealing and looting any food and water supplies we may have stored up, doing much raping and killing in the process.

We are in an indefensible area, a basically flat, empty space with lots of low foliage for ground cover in all directions, so the advice to us is to prepare our "bug out bags" and such other stuff we would need for survival and head for the hills at the first sign of the inevitable collapse of law and order.

Problem is that we are 600 miles from those hills--where family members are already living--would have to refuel in the Amarillo area while trying to get there, and drive through numerous small towns. In other words... no freaking chance.

Amarillo would be a Mad Max style nuthouse by the time we got there, and all those little towns would have blockaded all the highways through their area to protect them from the hordes of unprepared starving and desperate city dwellers, and would certainly not let us pass through with a vehicle full of priceless survival supplies.

A house without electricity would not have refrigeration or air-conditioning. Dry, canned and bottled foodstuffs don't need refrigeration and are not a problem, but hiding in a sealed-up house (to reduce the infiltration of radioactively contaminated particles into the structure) without air-conditioning would most likely cause our deaths in short order by heat prostration.

I have started buying small quantities of survival equipment each payday in a no doubt pointless attempt to prepare. Both of us--being in our sixties--have little or no physical assets to offer a survival group, and if ever caught with our guard down, would most probably be killed for our supplies, or killed so we wouldn't waste any.

Since ammunition is universally considered as one of the most valuable commodities in a post-apoplectic world, I am also buying more 12 gauge ammo, double-ought and slug, not to shoot potential invaders with (that would be a pretty short gun battle), but to offer as trade items for other necessary survival items like food, water, gasoline... and a chance in the lottery to stay alive.

But--to be truthful--we don't think our chances of survival are good, actually very close to zero, so we hope that nothing like this happens until after we're gone.

The Potassium Iodide tablets?

We would not survive long enough for thyroid cancer to become a problem.

Potassium Cyanide would be a better choice of pill... at least in our case.

Sexually Assaulted

The police are telling us repeatedly that the lunatic who attacked that Colorado school "sexually assaulted" the hostages. Now I'm in no way trying to defend this nut case, but I have such a deep distrust of SWAT team tactics and police in general that I am always suspicious of any reason they give for the death of a suspect in a shooting incident.

Particularily in this case. This guy died in a confrontation with SWAT members from the Columbine area, who without a doubt, had a score to settle and a point to prove after their disasterous failure in Columbine, where they had wandered around outside for hours as the two shooters inside continued their killing rampage unchallanged.

The guy had let four of the hostages go. Do you believe he would have done that after he had sexually, really sexually assaulted them? Keep in mind that in today's feminized world, many women consider a man eyeballing her as "sexual assault", the "he raped me with his eyes" sort of nonsense.

The guy had fired a shot in the school, no doubt to get some out-of-touch teacher into contact with the reality of the situation, but he had not shot or harmed anyone according to the initial reports, supposedly made from statements by the four released hostages.

One or more of the four released girls may have stated she had been "touched inappropriately" during the incident, particularily afterwards, during the intense and focused questioning by those looking for justification in what could really be another police killing. Such touching is "sexual assault" to many women, most assuredly to female police interrogators and the women in our news media.

We will never know, because the guy is conveniently dead, and we'll not get any details of this supposed "sexual assault" because the police and the news media will want to protect the feelings of those highly "tramatized" girls and their families.

The man-- scumbag cretin that he was--deserved a trial by jury, something supposedly guaranteed by our Constitution. Instead, he died in a confrontation with a SWAT team whose motives are--without doubt--suspect. They claim the guy had made some sort of extremely vague four o'clock deadline, afterwhich the SWAT boys charged right in. We citizens need absolute proof that this killing did not occur just to massage the damaged egos of a police department with a serious black eye.

Let's hope the police have evidence proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that this guy had actual sexual intercourse with these girls, not some flimsy "he looked at us with lust in his eyes" sort of justifiction. Let's hope this is not another case in which citizens allow a potential police murder to go unchallanged, because it will only embolden those black clad storm troopers nationwide to kick in more doors, using the "shoot first, ask questions later" approach to law enforcement, while at the same time getting their adrenalin hits with more murder by cop.

I had a career cop brother-in-law, and believe me, cops have a "us or them" attitude about everything. The "them" in that is all us citizens, who my brother-in-law contended have all broken the law, but just haven't been caught and brought to justice yet. That's the unvarnished truth, people... he and his fellow officers actually believed they could pull you over at any time, toss you into jail and find a reason later to keep you there.

Scary.

An afterthought:

It's not all the cops fault that they have such a crummy attitude about us ordinary citizens wandering the streets. Our system of "justice" puts all manner of criminals back on the streets over nothing more than a "technicality" after what could have been months, or even years, of police work.

That's often enough to make any dedicated officer turn to the dark side*.

*Darth Vader had turned to the "dark side", but he was still an enforcement officer of the empire.

Laura And Barney

According to Bob Woodward, when Mr. Bush had key Republicans to the White House to discuss Iraq, he told them,

"I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me."

Perhaps we could all understand the importance of this statement by Bush much better if we changed two names, so it would read:

I will not withdraw, even if Eva and Rommel are the only ones supporting me."

Wow. Shows that Bush really is insane.

The "War" On Drugs

The more I think about it, the angrier I get over this House Bill proposing strip searches of children in our schools as another "tool" in the federal government's war on drugs.

Just think for a moment. If there is anything that demonstrates the total failure of this so-called war, strip searching our children has got to be it. They now want to interdict drugs at the very end of the line--after all the profits have been make, after all the bribes have been paid, after no is left to punish--but our children.

The federal government refuses to defend our borders. This should be apparent even to the most simple-minded amongst us. Our borders are wide open, and the federal government obviously intends to keep them that way because of agreements made with Mexico, agreements such as NAFTA, GAT and others intended to promote a "borderless" North American "Union".

Even though the president talks of how much is being done to intercept drugs coming into America--and how our borders are being protected--the fact remains that less than one twentieth of the drug flow is being stopped. We are told that drug mules are tipped off as to where crossing will be safe at any particular time. They are told where our border patrols are, where the routes across are being watched and what routes are safe.

This--or course--allows for the delivery of countless tons of drugs into and across America without fear. Now, in yet another attempt to make it look like they are actually doing something, the House presents this idea that strip-searching our children at school is going to be helpful.We all are aware of the immense profits in drugs. We all need to be aware that this money can buy all manner of support from all manner of people... border patrol informants, Americans who profit in the sale of drugs, even some sheriffs, police chiefs, Mayors, business men and congressmen--both state and federal-- anyone who gets a piece of the drug money pie.

Oh yes... we are "winning" the war on drugs, but consider where we are supposedly winning... in other countries, and with the small-time, two-bit street dealers. The feds take down foreign drug czars and cartels with great fanfare, but not one single American drug lord has ever been arrested or taken down, the influential and powerful men who are safe and secure because of the money that buys them protection. We are shown videos of the DEA and SWAT teams kicking in the doors of some burnt-out sixties hippie happily smoking a joint, or the door of some two-bit ghetto dealer who has a few ounces of crack in his pocket. Literally thousands of these small-time losers are now in prison, thanks to these pointless raids that do absolutely nothing to stem the flow.

Now... Congress wants to make us think they are doing even more in this "war" by proposing that our children be strip-searched at school, making our kids both the victims and the criminals.What they are saying in so many words is that the federal government has failed so totally and completely that the only thing they can think of now is to blame the kids.

That’s the bottom of the barrel people. That should be the last hurrah of the despicable bastards who prey on us and our children.

If Americans won't rise to protect their children, then they fully deserve to be dumped into some obscure corner of history's dustbin.

Cat Fight

Bill is slammed on TV for obsessing over stained blue dresses instead of concentrating on terrorism and thus preventing 9/11. Bill gets angry and lashes out on TV at everybody, including George. Condi goes on TV defending George for not preventing 9/11, attacking Bill in the process, and in comes Hillary--riding to the rescue-- but in reality mostly concerned over the possible damge to her political career.

So now we have two presidents, one past, one present, being defended by power-hungry women in what is becoming--or is--a national cat fight over who didn't do what in failing to prevent 9/11.

All this belongs on the Soap channels.

As I listen to these two women snarl at each other, I am somewhat surprised to note that they are both defending the inactions of the two men who utterly failed to do their jobs.

In the midst of all this flying fur, let's not forget that little detail.

Start The Countdown

Here we go:

WASHINGTON – Even though student molestations seem to be reaching epidemic proportions in schools across America, the House of Representatives has approved a tough new anti-drug and anti-weapon law that would require local districts to develop search policies – including strip searches – with immunity against prosecution for teachers and staff.

I can see the upcoming news story now... Some father has just gone down to the local school house and shot half the staff dead.

Why?

Because they stripped searched his ten-year-old daughter in what they claimed was a search for drugs, including an orifice search. The family doctor, after examing the tramatized child, stated that the girl's hymen was ruptured, her vagina bruised and abrased, and her colon torn internally.

The father, shot dead by over fifty SWAT team officers in the process of protecting and serving the community, had told his wife before heading for the school that even if those S.O.B.'s were immune to legal retaliation, they weren't immune to bullets.

Hasn't happened yet, but just wait...

More proof that the federal governments's incredibly expensive war on drugs has been lost, and is now nothing more than an excuse to help deprive legal citizens of their rights.

Good grief, you bunch of morons who think that keeping drugs illegal is good, where do you put yours heads at night? Strip search your children to help in the "war on drugs"?

Legalize the junk, just as we have done with alcohol. Regulate and tax the living hell out of it. Regulate and standardize the dosage, no more deaths from an unexpected overdose or contaminated drugs. Sell the stuff only in licensed and authorized "drug" stores to adults with proof of age. Keep the prices reasonable. That will eliminate the criminal element from the drug trade, the very people who are getting it into our schools and to our children. There will then be no need for some child-molesting pedophile hiding behind the title of "teacher" to strip search your ten-year-old daughter.

A reality check is in order ... people who want to use drugs, will. Most people won't, and don't. There will not be a drug usage "epidemic" in America.

As an example. at the turn of the last century, both cocaine and marijuana were legal in America. Cocaine was even in Coca-Cola. There was no drug problem. We had no drug epidemic then... users used, non-users didn't, Nobody was trying to get drugs into the schools, and not one single child had ever been strip searched for drug contraband.

As a bonus, we can eliminate the DEA.

The New Reality Approaches...Fast

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Only the title and the comments remain. The "recover post" feature recoved nothing. I have no clue whatever how this happened.

The Federal Reserve

What is the Federal Reserve? It is the United States central bank and consists of twelve banks, created by a 1913 Act of Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. They were intended to “furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes”.

Fine and dandy, one must suppose. So, how were these twelve corporations created? Who actually owns them?

Each of the twelve banks were organized into a corporation whose shares were to be sold to the commercial banks and thrifts operating within any particular bank’s district.

The law stipulated that a small portion of the Federal Reserve stock could be made available for sale to the public, in amounts not to exceed $25,000 per investor, but only in the event that the sale of stock to member banks did not raise the minimum of $4 million of initial stock for each Federal Reserve Bank when they were organized in 1913. (12 USCA 281).

Each Bank was able to raise the necessary amount through member stock sales, and no public stock has ever been sold to private investors or foreigners (Woodard, 1996)

The most influential of the Fed Banks is no doubt the one in New York, and controlling it is tantamount to controlling the entire system. So who owns it?

The reported top eight stockholders of the New York Fed are, from the largest to smallest as of 1983, are Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty Trust, Chemical Bank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Bankers Trust Company, National Bank of North America, and the Bank of New York. These banks own 63% of the New York Feds outstanding stock. (Mullins)

Many of these banks are in fact owned by about a dozen European banking organizations, mostly British, and most notably the Rothschild banking dynasty. Who owns these British banking organizations? Who or what is the Rothschild banking dynasty?

By changing the supply of money in circulation and by controlling the prime interest rate, the Fed determines the interest rates we all pay from mortgage payments to credit cards, can cause financial markets to boom or collapse, prompting our economy to expand or stumble into recession. Such awesome power would presumably be in the hands of those whose primary concerns are the health of the US economy.

Apparently, it is not. It is in the hands of foreigners who own our banks. Exactly who these people are and where their sovereignty lies is a question we all could use an answer to.

That’s going to take a bit more digging.

700 More Miles Of Fence

"It's time to secure the border with Mexico," Majority Leader Bill Frist said last night, a complete flip-flop of his postion on the issue two nights ago.

The Senate will now take up a bill this week that calls for constructing 700 more miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Well, of course. But, Mr. Frist said he still supports comprehensive immigration reform legislation, the Bush plan that wants to give ten million alliegal aliens citizenship.

"... because no consensus can now be reached on other issues, Congress should move ahead with border security. It's not enforcement only, but "enforcement first."

Elections must be getting very close. A whole lot of his elephant buddies in the House must be headed for election day disasters. Let's just see how many miles of fence get approved-- and funded-- after the elections.

Remember the radical socialist Huey Long? One-time governer of Louisiana? Back in the days of early automobiles and impassable muddy, rut-filled roads, he made an election promise to pave a major highway route if elected. They elected him. He kept his promise, but he paved every other mile. Come next election, he promised to pave the parts he "missed". True story.

They elected him again, but this time to the U.S. Senate, demonstrating the fact that Louisiana has never been known for it's overly large voter base of intellectuals.

One other thing... 700 miles of fence is only one-third of the borders length. The remaining two-thirds would still be wide open.

These Senators must think we'll all from Louisiana.

Addendum:

Another thing... the Congressional trick of approving something we all want--and then not funding it--is a normal, everyday sleezeball stunt those beltliners do. They approve a popular bill, making the voters back home happy, and then--after elections--let the whole thing die by not funding it.

Spinach As A Terrorist Weapon?

This spinach contamination problem hitting us is a uniquely unusual event, particularly in it's scope and depth. Something like this happening naturally is usually limited to a small localized area, in which containment and the source discovery is relatively easy and quick.

This event is different. It spread to twenty states in lightning fashion and the spinach ban is now national.

What better way to attack us than through our food supply? Massive worry, concern, fear and even hysteria on a national scale, just by having a terroist dump some E coli on a product in a factory, perhaps in concert with a few others attacking the same type food source.

No guards to worry about, easy getaway, massive result.

Color me paranoid, but it would not surprise me to learn this is just another front opening in the war against us.

A Question Of Science

I have been asked by Starbuck what happened to the SuperConducting SuperCollider (SSC).

It was canceled by Congress in 1994 at the 83% completion point. All it's assets were given away, or tossed. At least the additional Comanche Peak nuke unit brought online to power the SSC now benefits the Dallas/Fort Worth megaplex with its additional power, eliminating many of the electrical brownouts that so often hit the area in summer.

We actually had Hazel O'Leary--who became Secretary of Energy under President Clinton--come to the SSC and tell the staff that the government had better things to do with the money than toss it into a hole in the ground in Texas.

That was the Clinton Administration's typical attitude towards all things scientific. Say what you might about Bush Sr., but he understood the necessity of taxpayer supported research to support our nation's technological edge, once our greatest asset worldwide.

National labs--both private and public-- everywhere, suffered disasterous setbacks in financing and personnel during the Clinton years and have never recovered.

There is a long list of research projects that produced marvelous things that are now wasted and tossed away. I list a few below:

The YF-12.

Later known as the SR-70 Blackbird, the YF-12 was originally designed to be a high altitude intercepor fighter to counteract a perceived Soviet threat that never materialized and was converted into a spy plane. That's a mostly unknown fact. We have nothing to replace it.

The XB-70

Yes, we had a supersonic bomber that actually flew and performed beyond expectations. The Valkyrie, a stunningly beautiful aircraft, had two prototypes built and flying, but was cancelled by Congress because it was "upsetting the Russians". The Russians built their "foxbat" intercptor-- a pirated U.S. design-- to meet the threat of this new and deadly U.S. bomber. We have nothing to replace it.

The Original Space Shuttle

The originally designed space shuttle never had that huge fuel tank with those giant strapped on solid fuel boosters to get it into orbit. The tanks and solids were a supposedly temporary solution, until the manned first stage could be funded. This manned first stage was to be used to boost the shuttle into orbit, then return to earth much in the same way as the shuttle itself, and completely reusable. Congress refused to fund it, and we have nothing to replace it.

The Safeguard Missile Intercetor System

The Safeguard system was the forerunner of the Patriot. It was fully operational, using two interceptor missiles, the long-range Spartan and the short-range Sprint. The highly advanced radar system (for it's day) was a marvel of science. It was canceled by Congress because it upset the balance of power concept championed by the MAD (Mutuially Assured Destruction) theory, and was upsettting the Russians. The Patriot system-- a more recent effort-- is only marginally effective, has no long-range component and is--in my view--inferior.

Boeing's SST

Boeing had designed a beautiful SuperSonicTransport, a passenger aircraft that would be a technological generation ahead of the Concord. Boeing had built a full-sized prototype, but the project was abandoned because the boys with the money could see no financial return on the investment.

The Space Shuttle

We are abandoning the Space Shuttles and we have nothing to replace them with, except with the older technology of using rockets to launch manned capsules. Even Bush's amusing call to return to the moon uses no new technology--since we have none--it is intended to build a slightly larger version of the old Apollo.

Sad. We should have a manned presence on Mars by now.

So, Starbuck, the SSC suffered the same fate as all of America's research efforts... either cancelled so the money could be used in better places than holes in the ground in Texas, or abandoned becuase the Russians were unhappy.

There are other examples, many still considered classified. Amusing, since the rest of the first-world nations are passing--or have passed--us by.

What little effort being done here in the United States today is too little, too late, and the engineers doing it are only amusing themselves by re-designing the wheel, and making new trinkets using twenty-year-old technology.

Does that answer your question?

The Pope And The Muslims

What a screwball world we live in.

I see pictures all over the place of wild-eyed, screaming Muslims going ballistic over something the Pope said, or rather read and said. A historical comment-- nothing more-- but enough to light countless short fuses in all corners of the Muslim world.

Then I read that the French have actually found something in this world they claim cannot be regulated, the "skinniness of a model", along with accompanying pictures of Miss Anorexia, 2006. This is--of course--in reponse to Spains decision to ban models that are "too skinny" from their fashion show, or about a third of the models who were going to try to cast a shadow somewhere on the Spanish runway.

And here I thought governments could regulate anything.

And now, a church somewhere puts the face of Jesus--or a reasonable facsimile--on the side of a beer glass, and Christians join the Muslims with the "we are outraged" routine.

Try as I might, I find it almost impossible to get "outraged" over anything. Angry? Yes, but it goes quickly, which means when somebody flips me the bird out on the freeway I don't try to respond by using my car as a battle ram. I find that smiling back broadly will tick them off more than actually smashing into their car.

Seems that a whole lot of people worldwide need to mellow out a bit, or just go ahead and have their heart attacks and be done with it.

We'd all be better off.

The Upcoming "War"

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger warned that Europe and the United States must unite to head off a "war of civilizations" arising from a nuclear-armed Middle East.

Don't believe it for a second.

This will not be a "War of civilizations", this is a war of religions. It will be a war between the Jewish religion and the Muslim religion, with the Christians trapped in the middle.

Civilization has never been defined by any particluar religion. Civilization is properly defined as a relatively high level of curltural and technological develpoment, a stage of development where writing and the keeping of written records is attained, a time of urban comfort.

What Kissinger--in his best "Dr. Strangelove" manner--is warning us of, is a nuclear war between Arab and Jew, one that the Christains ought to be avoiding like the plague.

Outrageous And Dishonest

More ripples in the pond:

VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran's nuclear work, calling parts of it "outrageous and dishonest," according to a letter obtained by Reuters.

Imagine that. The inspectors themselves are complaining that the Bush administration "distorted" their findings in it's quest to justify a war with Iraq.

"This (committee report) is deja vu of the pre-Iraq war period where the facts are being maligned and attempts are being made to ruin the integrity of IAEA inspectors," said a Western diplomat familiar with the agency and IAEA-U.S. relations.

Those IAEA inspectors have no idea what they're taking about. The Bush administration knew far better than they about what Iraq was up too, and absolutely more than they know about the Iranian program. After all, they are only on-site inspectors, while Bush gets his marching orders "from God".

How do I know that? Because Bush says so, and just like the prophets of old, he has a pipeline directly to God. Besides, those horrid Iraqis and Iranians are nothing more than today's Caananites, and God didn't like them either.

And just like Pharoah said in the movie "Moses": "So let it be written, so let it be done".

... And let it be believed ...

The Meat Grinder

TV news reports today talk of how the war in Iraq is lost. They are telling us that the key city of Ramadi and the entire western side of Iraq has been lost to insurgents. They tell us that American military commanders are begging for thousands more men just to try to make an effective presence in Ramadi. They tell us that American soldiers are calling Ramadi the "Meat Grinder".

The "Meat Grinder". I can remember "Hamburger Hill" in Korea. Thats what American soldiers called a hill in Korea where so many died for so little.

Remember Korea? It used to be one country like Iraq. Now, over a half-century later, we have tens of thousands of American troops still there, protecting "South" Korea, while our laughable polititians are negotiating with "North" Korea, tryng to broker an unattainable peace in a war we lost sixty years ago. Amazingly, we are technically still at war with "North" Korea, so Bush could launch an offensive against "North" Korea at any time, without anybody's say so but his, Mr. Commander-in-Chief.

Then there's Viet Nam. We lost so badly there, we couldn't even swing the North and South parody.

The Meat Ginder makes me want to compare Iraq to Korea. If we have really lost the entire wesdern portion of Iraq, we may end up with "West Iraq" and an "East Iraq", with tens of thousands of American soldiers posted there for perhaps a half-century--perhaps forever--while the polititians try to negotiate another unattainable peace in yet another lost war.

In the meantime, go ask any Israeli(the people we eliminated Saddam for, the "why" we are in Iraq) if they really give a damn what happens to us now. Will they send troops? Will they give us financial aid?

Yeah... right.

More Currents

I just sat down to watch C-span and the events happening inside Washington today, and there was Senator Carl Levin tossing out the exact same accuations just recently made by Senator John Rockefeller.

Hmmm... who's next?

Don't get me wrong here, I'm not going to start defending Bush just because he's going to get drawn and quartered for his stupidity--I agree with Fred Reed's assesment of the man--"God almighty, what a fool".

I'm just getting interested in what's going down.

Deeper Currents

Moves Against President Bush, like the one in my previous post by Rockefeller, hint of a very disturbing possibility: That Bush was completely suckered into starting the Iraqi war, and now that Iraq has been eliminated as a threat, is being setup to take the fall for the horrid consequences we are seeing... at least in the eyes of the American people.

The high degree of congressional support originally given Bush for the Iraqi war is evaporating. In other words, the very same congressional members who gave him the OK to eliminate Saddam, are now pointing fingers in ever larger numbers.

An argument between Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres should be considered at this point.

On October 3, 2001, I.A.P. News reported that according to Israel Radio (in Hebrew) Kol Yisrael an acrimonious argument erupted during the Israeli cabinet weekly session last week between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres warned Sharon that refusing to heed incessant American requests for a cease-fire with the Palestinians would endanger Israeli interests and "turn the US against us. "Sharon reportedly yelled at Peres, saying "don't worry about American pressure, we control America."

I am not surprised at this. The unqualified support given Israel by the American federal government over the years clearly suggests that what Sharon supposedly said may indeed be true.

Way back in 1973, Senator Fullbright, Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews..... terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen .... I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to do anything they don't approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through influential Jewish people in the country"

Consider for a moment that this is actually true. Have the Jews have been using America and her resources for their own selfish benefit, and are now ready to serve up another American president as yet another scapegoat in their quest for Middle East dominance?

This long history of bipartisan Congressional support for Israel led former Secretary of State James Baker to call the Congress "The Little Knesset" after Israel's Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem.

The American media's strong, biased and sympathetic portrayal of Israel while simultaneously denying any opposing view of Israel or human pictures and stories of the endless suffering of Palestinians may be the major reason why so many Americans are totally ignorant of the true situation in the Middle East, where over fifty years of war have settled nothing, except to make America the perceived mortal enemy of billions, due to our federal government's unrelenting and unquestioned support of an occupying force on foreign soil.

The First BIG Salvo

Senator John Rockeleller fired off what I consider as the first big salvo against Bush and his compliant herd of lemmings in the now developing "take no prisoners" Republician/Democratic conflict we are watching over who wins in our upcoming elections.

Says Rockefeller (D-W, Va.):

"The absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion and 69 percent of the people, at that time, it worked, they said 'we want to go to war, including me. The difference is after I began to learn about some of that intelligence I went down to the Senate floor and I said 'my vote was wrong'".

Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq — even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.

"[Saddam] wasn't going to attack us. He would've been isolated there. He would have been in control of that country but we wouldn't have depleted our resources preventing us from prosecuting a war on terror which is what this is all about."

Imagine that. A Washington beltline insider actually trying to seperate Bush's "warn tear" and the war in Iraq. What can possibily happen next?