Tuesday, December 1, 2009

There is something fundamentally wrong in a society where the citecenry are made to pay for the administration’s mistakes.  But then again….maybe not.

After all, didn’t ‘we’ elect the administration? Yes, ‘we’ did. In fact, here in California ‘we’ demanded it! And now ‘we’ have a fucking full-fledged NAZI for a govenor! Have you seen his S.S. belt buckle? Or the same for the ring he wears? The man is an admitted Hitler-admirer…..and he got ‘elected’ to be the govenor of the richest state in America?  How the hell does this happen?  Sure, Grey Davis was a clown, even perhaps an idiot, but replace an idiot with a NAZI? What’s that?  He’s a Republican, not a NAZI?  Oh, I’m sorry……..but aren’t they one in the same? From the way George W. Bush(R)Tex. ran things you would think so.  What kind of person attacks his own people? There is a growing mountain of evidence that points to the Bush administration’s complicity in 9/11.   What kind of man sends the children of his nation off to fight and die in a foriegn land with absolutely no regard at all for their safety? When reminded a few days before starting the Iraq war that placing American troops on the ground there would put them directly in harms way from Iraqi soldiers, the “Draft-Dodger-in Chief” replied…”Bring ‘em on!”  Tough talk from a man too much of a coward to serve his country.  But I digress. I was talking about ‘Arnold’.  After not being able to balance the California state budget, the NAZI thought it would be a great idea to generate the capitol necessary by closing our beautiful state parks system. A plan met with more than a little opposition, so the NAZI decided to find the money elswhere, somewhere hard for the majority of Californians to notice, somewhere off the beaten path of most people. The ‘Governator’ decided to look for the funds in a place few would think to look. In the shallow pockets of the poor, where else?  At a time when the health care battle is foremost in the national spotlight, it’s rarely mentioned on a local level, so why not pillage from there?  Shwartzenigger(satire) decided to deny me and all the other disabled and poor folks of Cali on Medi-Cal vision and dental care. That’s right, the fucking NAZI took away vision and dental from those in his care who can afford it the least. The poor. The indigent. The injured, sick, homeless, downtrodden members of society that few see, and even less care about,  are made to pay for the shortcommings of a few rich, entitled elected bastards who can’t do what they were elected to do and balance the damn budget!!!  They don’t have to worry about such mundane things as dentures or glasses.  Whether to buy food, or go to the dentist so you can even chew is a fucked choice to have to make, but our state officials aren’t concerned because it doesn’t effect them.  WELL IT EFFECTS ME!  I imagine the only reason they didn’t close the state parks is because some elected clown had plans to vacation in Yosemite!  I want my medical insurance restored to the way it was. I want our leaders to take responsibility for their mistakes and not make their constituants suffer for them. Some how, some where, we put these mere elected men and women up on pedistals and made them more than what they are, and it’s time to knock the assholes off!

Do you know what the difference between France and The United States is?     In France the government fears the people!!!!  Wake up, America, the time is short to save our country.

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Crushed

The 1st of December is usually a good day for me. December is my birth month so it’s my month as far as I’m concerned, and I’m crushed at the probability that it will become recognized for something much worse than my debut on the planet, if that’s possible. It looks like tonight our new(?) President is going to announce his intention to send more American children and money off to be eliminated in Afghanistan. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t want another man or woman to die in than hell-hole, nor do I want any more of my tax dollars wasted on killing people(at a projected cost of 1million per soldier) over oil, when we have 40,000 Americans per year dying because govt. can’t find the money to fund health care! There is something fundamentally flawed with that line of thinking, and unless you’re part of the military-industrial complex, you get that! STOP IT you fucking idiots in congress! Not one more precious life, or one more fucking dollar wasted in the worthless Middle East!

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Well,on Tuesday our next president will be sworn in and the era of horror that has been the George W, Bush administration will finally be over…….maybe. There are already doubts about Barak Obama and just what kind of ‘change’ he will be bringing to the White House. The Bush/Cheney crime syndicate has gone out of their way to make Obama’s presidency as convoluted and difficult as possible.From two highly questionable and illegal wars, to whether or not to prosecute members of Bush’s team for treason and many other crimes, to the most childish and ridiculous move of the post-election booking of Blair House in order to cause as much agony as they could to the already traumatic undertaking of moving into their new home, Bushco has shown America the true depths of their depravity. Just all the governmental fiascos alone are more than any man should be asked to overcome, but moving an ex ambassador from some third world dot on the map into the Obama’s transitional housing and forcing them to live out of their suitcases in a hotel was the kind of stunt a bitter bride’s maid pulls on her best friend for marrying the man she used to date! But then again, it’s exactly the kind of prank one would expect from a man who’s idea of fun in college was hazing freshman fraternity pledges, right? After eight years of watching George Jr. blatantly and unapologetically turn America into a fascist state by assuring every decision he made benefitted only his military industrial complex handelers, I was pretty sure he had shown us how mentally unbalanced he really is, but the childish and just plain mean Blair House incident truly exposes the psycopathy this man live in. Now, as if we haven’t heard enough lies and bullshit from this bunch, for the last few days, both Bush and Cheney have been trying to gloss over their respective legasies by doing radio and TV interviews and blaming each other for all the mistakes this administration has made. I thought this was quite interesting and amusing coming from Dick “Dead Eye” Cheney, a man who ‘accidentally’ shot his so called ‘best friend’ in the face while on a bird hunting outing. Normally, his explaination wouldn’t have caused me any concern. The thing is that, like Cheney, I am from Wyoming and can tell you that every male child in Wyoming is issued his first firearm at birth, and is out hunting almost as soon as he can hold the gun, and by the time they’re Cheney’s age don’t ‘accidentally’ shoot anything! ‘Nuff said! Anyway, these two basket cases have managed to undo almost all the good work that all the prior administrations in history worked hard to complete. And now they look to walk away without so much as a stearn talking to. Or at least that’s how it looks on this last Sunday of their term.
Barak Obama will be walking into a true nightmare when he takes over on Tuesday afternoon, there’s no sugar coating that. And while most of us will be hoping he is up to the task of straightening out the financial debacle Bush’s Rethuglican administration is leaving behind, there is an issue hanging over Obama’s head that has the potential to effectively destroy his presidency before it has a chance to really get started. I’m, of course, talking about the sticky situation of whether he is going to pursue legal action against Bush, Cheney, and all their co-conspiritors for their complicity in the crimes committed by this failed administration. I won’t bore you with my opinios regarding this matter, but I will try to explain why it could become a quagmire of humongous proportions.
If Obama decides to go ahead and OK investigations and prosecution of the Bush regime, he stands to make a lot of enemies in Washington DC. CIA bigwig Hayden has already threatened Obama with a massive mutiny from his agency, and you have to believe that that sentiment extends to all intelligence agencies. Bush’s unwarranted and unconstitutional wiretapping and spying on American citizens, and the absolutely heinous use of torture on detainees of the illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have become favorite tools of our intell gathering agencies, and they say they won’t be able to convince their detainees to spill their guts if they can’t use these inhumane methods of coersion. Hayden told the President Elect that none of his agents will be willing to go out on a limb for him or take what he deemed ‘dangerous chances’ if they have to be looking over their shoulders all the time. Well, nobody’s asking them to look over their shoulders, all we’re asking them to do is not use techniques that are against international law and the Geneva Conventions when doing their jobs. Then, on the other hand, if Barak Obama folds to the Neo-Con threats, and does not hold these traitors accountable for their crimes, he will be in immediate violation of his Oath of Office and his promose in that oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foriegn and domestic, and subject to his own introduction to disciplinary action, which includes, but is not limited to, impeachment, removal from office, and prosecution for treason.
This whole situation is more complicated and confusing than it appears, and seriously has the potential to ruin his meteoric rise to power. If he chooses not to pursue what really is his only legitimate option, prosecution, not only will he show America his true colors and confirm all the rumors that he’s just another NWO puppet, he stands to hold the un-envyable position of having the shortest presidency of any man that has taken the Presidential Oath. You will recal that Al Gore holds the distinction of having the shortest term of any man elected to the office, having won the 2000 contest only to have his victory overturned by the Supreme Court and awarded to our current ruler, George W. Bush in what was an obvious travasty and theft.
In what will turn out to be an unprecidented occurance, Obama will face possibly the most decisive moment of what popular opinion makes to be a very successfull and reuniting presidency in the first few hours he is in the Oval Office. In recent interviews, Obama has been holding his cards close to his chest when asked what he intends to do about this mess, saying that while the situation requires his attention it’s his intention to look forward, not backward. The general feeling from those in the position to comment on this matter is that Obama will attempt to avoid bringing Bushco to justice, but if he is as brilliant and creative as his supporters would like to think he is, there is the hope that he has already made up his mind, and the criminals in Bush’s cabal of traitors will be staring at U.S.Marshalls with arrest warrants within seconds of Obama’s completion of his Oath of Office. I believe with the last statement I have made my feelings abundantly clear, but we will find out what our new presidents feelings are in about fourty-eight hours. After that moment we will know what the next four years, or more, have in store for our hopefull nation, and the world. Let’s all cross our collective fingers and ask the Gods to help Barak Hussein Obama come to the correct decision.  
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

Hey, you guys, YOU CAN BREATHE NOW!
I know, feels great, doesn’t it……to take a deep breath in serenity instead of shear dread? I’m sure to have more to say about this later,,,,,,,,,,,,,but right now, I just need to BREATHE! I thought I should remind some of you to do the same.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

ANOTHER FIRST FOR AMERICA !

 America has always taken great pride in being first to acclomplish technological milestones, take for example Henry Ford’s mass production of automobiles, the Wright Brother’s first aircraft flight, and just a half century later, man’s first footsteps on the moon just to name a few. But earlier this week, the United States, due to the dilligent and tireless work of the exceptional scientists and engineers at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, was able to lay claim to two absolutely incredible scientific firsts, the likes of which will change the way scientists and civil engineers the world over think about, and apply, physics to designing and building steel and concrete high-rise structures from now on. Or maybe not!
  Over the last three years the fine group of people over at N.I.S.T. have been pouring over every available scrap of evidence from the mysterious, and up til now unexplained symetrical collapse into it’s own footprint, of World Trade Center building #7, and at long last have finally dertermined why, after sustaining only minor structural damage and having small pockets of oxygen-starved fires on only a few floors, building #7 fell to earth at near free-fall speed almost 8 hours after the Twin Towers were demolished.  
  Lead investigator Shyam Sunder announced on Thursday, August 21, 2008, that World Trade Center Building #7 was, in fact, the first steel and concrete constructed structure in the entire history of mankind’s use of those two materials to ever be brought down by hydrocarbon fueled fires. I imagine the sound was deafening as scientific calculators and mechanical pencils in engineering offices and colleges all over the world hit the floor!  The other deafening roar you heard was the sound of millions of high-rise office workers running for the exits of their buildings which had just been declared unsafe because N.I.S.T. had seen fit to re-write the laws of physics instead of tell the truth! Imagine if you will, just how terrifying it will be for all those people who work in office buildings taller than 15 stories to get into the elevators each morning and ride up to their perspective floors, knowing now that if by some God forbidden chance a fire of just 800 or 900 degrees starts in their building that they stand a huge chance of dying in what is now an imminent building collapse.  Well, I guess they all get to feel what it’s like to be a firefighter now that every single high-rise will fall if it catches fire. Especially if their building has been the victim of a previous slow spreading, oxygen starved, low temperature fire!  Or should they just chock it up to one more thing to be afraid of in this post 9/11 world we live in? N.I.S.T. spokesman Sunder told the room of reporters that they reached their conclusions after three years of exhaustive and intensive examination of the available evidence, and that before he announced what they did find, he wanted to announce what they did not find. What they did not find was any evidence whatsoever of any explosives evident in any of the WTC steel they tested, nor were they able to locate any witnesses to hearing or experiencing any explosions prior to, or during the demise of building #7.  Apparently Dr. Steven Jones discovery of aluminum sulfate microvessicles in the pulverised concrete dust,  www.ae911truth.org , which are only the direct result of the use of Thermite/Thermate, a high-temp/high-speed explosive used in the controlled demolition industry, were of little or no intrest to these ‘dilligent’ investigators, nor was the testimony of New York City Office of Emergency Operations director Barry Jennings, and NYC employee Michael Hess, who together experienced and survived several explosions in building #7 while being trapped there for hours, untill being rescued by firefighters just minutes before it collapsed, who told them that it wouldn’t survive another “explosion”!  See Mr. Jennings being interviewed at  http://www.911docs.net/wtc7_barry_jennings_account.php  
   As far as ‘firsts’ are concerned, America has had the distinction of fostering many wonderful and important ‘firsts’, but this is one that, I’m sure, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is going to regret attaching their name to.  Not only does this white-wash of the obvious controlled demolition of WTC #7 fly in the face of the laws and basic principals of the world of physics as we understood them until Sept. 11, 2001, it is an absolute insult to the thousands of dedicated, patriotic, and scrupulous engineers and scientists who are actually attempting to bring to light the truth as to what really happened to the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the entire contry’s collective psyche on 9/11/01.  We have reached a point in this nation where it has become standard operating proceedure for this administration, and all of the departments of our corrupt and out of control government to just blatantly lie whenever asked to explain anything having to do with 9/11, or the illegal ‘war on terror’ and Iraq, and soon to be Iran.  The corporately owned and governmently controlled media in America is instructed to look the other way when something like this big announcement of another cover-up happens, and the sleeping masses don’t want to miss “American Idol”, or hear about anything other than celebrity gossip on the news, so even if someone wanted to, it would be almost impossible to alert the American sheeple that the wool has, yet again, been pulled over their eyes.
  Yes, Mr. and Mrs. America, the United States has once again managed to be the first to accomplish yet another fantastic, unbelievable, incredible first!  One that I’m sure the rest of the world will never accomplish, ’cause it doesn’t freaking want to, and that is to be the first industrialized, modern, civilized nation to voluntarily go down the rabbit hole, and take up residence in the fifth dimention, where up is white, and black is lunch, and what you see is necessarily not what you get because Uncle Sam says all bets are now off, and reality is what ‘they’ want it to be whenever ‘they’ want it to be that way!  Now, everyone take their blue pills and relax, everything is just fine.  Don’t pay any attention to those men behind the curtian, they’re just from N.I.S.T., and they’re only trying to make the impossible possible. Hold on to your butts!!!  

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Of Idols & Heros and Generations Lost

  For the last few years, as I watch the fabric of our once proud and strong nation crumble and shread, I have tried my best to put my finger on just what exactly has gone wrong. Where did we stray from the values and principals that used to encourage people from all over the world to pack up their belongings, leave family and friends behind, and take the huge risk of coming to America in pursuit of that inticing “American Dream”?  I have uncovered far more than one thing that has caused America’s downward spiral into this uninspiring and lackluster social malady she suffers from, from the reprehensable duming-down of our previously magnificent school systems, to our deplorable switch from worshipping The Almighty to worshipping the almighty dollar, but one thing that seems to have happened that has a lot to do with our dismal delemma is modern society’s loss of real heros, and replacing them with shiny, empty idols.
  I am hard pressed to come up with a contemporary, modern-day hero. I mean, I’m sitting here, vurtually undistracted, and for the life of me I can’t think of a soul that I would classify as a real American hero! Not one single name comes to mind, except the thousands of New York’s first responders who rushed into danger on Sept. 11,2001, and the hundreds who never came back.  Now, I know a lot of you are saying what about the “Tiger Woods” and “Dale Earnhardt Jr.”s of the today? I’m not saying there aren’t a few extrordinary, over-achievers out there who deserve our respect and perhaps a bit of ‘Hero Worship’, but like many of you, I was raised during the fast paced, heady 1950’s through 70’s, when being called a hero meant something all together different. And the heros of the day could inspire an entire nations youth to want to achieve their most hoped for and desirable goals, the kinds of goals that can continue to keep America at the forefront of the endeavors that keep a nation strong and prosperous and the leader when it comes to events which shape the future of the entire planet. 
  On May 25th, 1961, a popular, young president and many people’s hero, John F. Kennedy challenged a fledgling organization called The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, to achieve the unimaginable goal of landing an American man on the surface of the Moon and bringing that man back to Earth alive and well. Oh yeah, and he wanted the men and women of NASA, many of whom were still having trouble finding their offices, to perform this feat before the end of the 60’s, just nine years! A call went out through the U.S. military and the test pilots out at Murroc Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert for the first bunch of brave men who would soon be called “America’s Mercury 7 Astronauts”.  Once this group of aviators had been selected and their names were plastered on the front pages of every newspaper and on every nightly newscast in the world, these 7 unknown men became America’s biggest heros over night. The press followed every move these guys made, and each and every success and failure made by NASA, and before long they had become the heros of the free world. Although our arch enemy, the Soviet Union was attempting to acclomplish the same goal, and had it’s own heros, much of their efforts were kept under wraps. The Russians did manage to put the first man in orbit around the Earth, but just a month or so later, John Glen blasted off from Cape Canavrel atop a ballistic missile called a Mercury rocket, and took his fifteen minute ride around the planet, and the team at NASA never looked back, making those 7 original spacemen immediate heros. America’s space program leaped from the Mercury program, which proved that a man could survive in the vacumm of space, to the Gemini program and a whole new bunch of heros. These men set to work to prove out the systems and hardware that America would need to take us on a 500,000 mile trip to the Moon and back, and without a single failure, acclomplished every single objective the scientists and engineers placed in front of them. And with the news media along for each mission, the names of the astronauts of Gemini, like the men of Mercury before them, became household names. After the remarkable, almost sureal success of Gemimi came The Eighteen Apollo missions, and another fresh group of men who would become heros. With the prior successes of Mercury and Gemini, the team at NASA had become used to achieving perfection without comprimise, and the thought of failure was almost forgotten when disaster struck America’s mighty space program and brought everyone back to the reality that what they were asking our heros to do was inherently dangerous.  On the evening of Jan. 27th, 1967, at 6:31pm, during a test of the spacecraft communications systems, as three of America’s heros sat in the 100% oxygen environment of their sealed Apollo 1 capsule atop the Saturn V rocket on pad 34-A at Cape Kennedy, a spark ignited the pure oxygen and in just fifteen short minutes as the pad crew struggled to free them, original Mercury astronaut,USN Capt. Walter’Wally’ Schirra,USAF Col. Donn F. Eisel, and USMC Res. Col. Walter’Walt’ Cunningham burned to death inside their command module.  The United States morned the loss of these three heros as NASA fought to keep Congress from pulling the funding for President Kennedy’s dream, and with new focus and determination the heros of NASA continued their quest for the MOON.  With an estimated 3 billion people the world over watching on TV, on July 20th,1969, at 1:54pmEST, Commander of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and LEM Pilot Edwin’Buzz’ Aldrin, another one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, aboard a fragile and gangly craft named ‘Eagle’ touched down on the barren, dusty surface of the Moon, and with Armstrong’s announcement, “The Eagle has landed.” humans were on another heavenly body. Two hours later, Neil Armstrong exited the LEM, climed down the ladder attached to one of Eagle’s landing gear, and took the now famous step off the LEM and onto the lunar surface, and with the whole world watching on TV said “That’s one small step for man, and one giant step for mankind.” Buzz Aldrin followed a few minutes after and became the second human to walk on another world and for a few hours they called the Moon their home, and became the entire world’s heros. This was real, bone fide hero stuff here, no doubt about it. But just a few months later, on April 11th, 1970, with Apollo 13 almost 200,000 miles from earth, at 2:13pmEST, an event of an unforseen nature would thrust some otherwise unknown heros into the limelight.  With Command module Odyssey and Lunar Module Aquarius docked together and traveling about 17,000 MPH towards the Moon, The astronauts had just finished a TV broadcast from inside their spacecraft when Mission Control asked them to stir their oxygen tanks. Command module Pilot, John ‘Rusty’ Swigert, a last minute replacement for Ken Mattingly who had come into contact with but never got the measles, threw two switches on his control panel and a faulty electrical relay, sparked inside one of the oxygen tanks and blew the side out of the service module and ended these three heros chances of walking on the Moon, and almost their lives. For the next four days, Gene Krantz and his team of unsung heros, the engineers and technicians behind the scenes, were made responsible for getting America’s astronauts home using a dying spacecraft and the uncommon valor usually reserved for more daring men. With the assistance of Ken Mattingly in the simulator at Cape Kennedy, the reluctant heros who were the ground control tecnicians at Johnson Space Center in Houston worked without rest until they had used their genius and skill to overcome calamity and potential disaster and they returnrd Jim Lovell, Rusty Swigert, and Fred Haise safely back to the Earth at 1:07pmEST as Odyssey splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, just a few hundred yards from the Carrier sent to pick them up in what was to be the most precise landing in the history of the Moon program.  The Apollo program continued until 1972 and ended with the successfull return of Apollo 17 from a trip from the Earth to the Moon, and America moved on to the next, and still ongoing space project, The Shuttle. But the end of the Race to the Moon, and the culmination of the Apollo program ended with it an era of brave men, and women, who unflinchingly climed aboard untested hardware and relied on unproven software in an effort to accomplish the unbelievable goal of landing men on the Moon. 
   This complicated and dangerous endeavor served to unite a nation, and inspire the world. But it also performed an unexpected and needed function. It inspired a generation of youngsters to  excell in school, to go on to college and excell there and become the scientists and engineeres of the future. The men and women who put their heads together and design, build, and operate incredible peices of equipment like the Space Shuttle, the Hubble Space Telescope, the soon to be powered up Hadron Particle Collider, and a myriad of other scientific and medical inventions and devices. When one of my all-time heros, NASA Flight Director Gene Krantz, was asked whether America should continue it’s expolration of space he said of course, it is imperative. It’s programs like that that get little kids excited about science, about math, about the disciplines that keep the world progressing. Without real, hard science and exploration, and the heros that naturally come along with them, who will inspire the next generation’s children?  Do you want to live in a world where the people doing the highly technical and complicated things we will need to do were inspired by playing a video game? People who didn’t really have any real heros, only idols who strive for mediocracy, to be thugs and gangsters? Even the sports idols of today are mostly thugs and gangsters who can’t pass a urine test, let alone a math test. Our current space program has become mundane and uneventful. The only time NASA even makes the news is when something fails, like Hubble did at first, or when disaster strikes, as with Columbia and Discovery.  Man’s greatest, most exciting and challenging endeavors lie in the exploration and conquering of inner and outter space, and the people we are going to need to invent, engineer, build, and operate the equipment that will successfully complete these challenges most certainly are not playing “Grand Theft Auto”! Ever since ‘Reality Television’ has become the entertainment of the masses, and people of mediocre standing have become ’stars’, and every singer and garage band with a catchy song and no substance is being played on the radio, Americans now strive to be average, run-of-the-mill, mundane, because it doesn’t take anything special to get on TV or the radio anymore. And, for Pete’s sake, who wants to be a nerd and perhaps acclomplish something that could cure cancer or save the planet from famine?They watch Jerry Springer and Morey Povitch exploit teenage pregnancy, inter-family relations and drug addiction, and make them behaviors that will get you on TV, make you famous, and all of a sudden it’s cool to be from the ghetto, or be married to your sister. The schools have removed all of the subjects that teach children how to think critically, how to work as a team, how to function in a modern society, and now teach our kids nothing but how to be greedy and self centered. Art, music, literature, all the things that make a person able to grow and learn for the rest of their life have been scrapped and all most people need to be able to do in America today is say “Do you want fries with that?”  
  This isn’t the big, ugly reason America is in the position it’s in, but it’s  surely part of the problem. Is it too late to save the day? I don’t know, but I know who to ask, and it’s not Tupac or Kobe or Tila Tequila. If you want to know how to change our current situation, ask someone who knows what it means to sacrifice and give 100% in order to succeed. Ask Johnny Mantz. Johnny Mantz was a racecar driver from California who was one of Indy’s original ‘100 MPH Club’ members. Johnny showed up at Darlington, South Carolina in 1950 for the inaugural running of The Southern 500 at NASCAR’s only paved track. Johnny and a couple of friends, one of them was Bill France Sr. didn’t have a car for the race, so they went into town and bought a brand new black ’50 Plymouth, painted the #98, some sponsers names and the driver’s name in white and qualified dead last out of 75 cars for the race. On raceday, Johnny drove his black #98 street stock Plymouth, with a friend’s daughter’s baby doll  in the passenger seat for company, around the apron of the track, letting the other 74 guys battle and crash out  until he finally took the lead, and held on to it to finish 9 laps ahead of second place driver, Fireball Roberts, and win the first 500 mile race on asphault in NASCAR’s short but storied history.* That’s what I call hero material, that’s guts and determination, skill and know-how. So if you want to know what it takes to inspire young people to greatness, ask Johnny Mantz, ask a hero.
 * story told to me by Peggy Mantz, Johnny’s widow. 

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

  That is the title of a new book by accomplished true crime author and attorney Vincent Bugliosi that lays out the case for the much needed and hopefully inevitable trial of George W. Bush for the murder of every single human who has died as a result of his illegal and unnecessary ‘war on terror’. It absolutely astounds me that there is even a discussion about whether or not congress should impeach Bush and Cheney after the entire world knows that these men, and their associates, told over 930 lies to the people of America and congress in order to garner support for invading Iraq. They told us that Saddam had stockpiles of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ hidden all over the Middle East and none have ever been found. They said Huessein was in possession of anthrax, smallpox and sarron gas in amounts large enough to cause us harm, and there was none. Bush told us right to our faces that Saddam had sought to aquire aluminium tubes and yellow-cake urainium for manufacturing nuclear missiles, and this too was a lie. They swore that Al CIAda was being supplied and supported by Iraq and that Osama Bin Ladin could be hiding there, and he wasn’t. And these are just the few lies that the corporate media has decided we deserve to know about. There is absolutely no question that this administration has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. This is documented and admitted fact, and Bush’s former aide, Scott McClellen is verifying it in sworn testimony befor Congress.  Our precious Constitution says that when a civil servant of the people commits these indiscretions, he or she is to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. It’s not an option, it’s a damn law!
  In 2006, we elected a Democratic majority to congress, and these people promised to put a stop to the out of control administration and return America to the kind of country we all believed it should be. But they have failed us miserably, and by refusing to do what we want and impeach and remove Bush and Cheney they are failing us again. I have written all of my representitives in the House and the Senate and informed them that unless there is a huge change of course and they start acting like they care about We The People, I will be leading the movement to elect totally new people to their jobs because it’s obvious that they can’t or won’t do what they’re supposed to do.  This legislative group has consistantly caved into the Neo-Cons wishes when voting on bills that restrict or revoke our liberties and freedoms, giving this president unpresidented and unwarranted power, the likes of which no other president in the history of this nation has enjoyed. Bush has trampled all over the Constitution and Bill of Rights, has illegally spied on and wire-tapped the citizens of this country, and demanded prosecutorial immunity for those tele-com companies who participated in the warrantless intrusions into our privacy. And yesterday congress aquiessed…….again, the cowards. Get rid of ‘em all, I say!
  To the people out there who say”Why waste time prosecuting Bush when his time in office is almost over anyway?”, consider this. Thousands of your friends, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles, mothers and fathers have given their precious lives fighting George Bush’s private war for profit, and just like any other murder, the victims deserve justice. Make no mistake about it, this ‘war’ is not about fighting terror or liberating Iraq, it’s about making money for Bush, Cheney, and their cronies who are the Military-Industrial Complex. The circumstances behind the reasons we invaded Iraq absolutely make each soldier’s death a murder. This is not an opinion, it’s constitutional law, and there isn’t any room for debate. If someone murdered one or more of your loved ones for no good reason wouldn’t your need to see justice served in order for you to begin to heal? Of course you would, and the families and loved ones of every single human who has died by George Bush’s hand also deserves that same consideration. There is also the psychological and emotional damage these crimes have done to every decent person in America, of which I’m one, and I need to see these criminals prosecuted and convicted and sentenced so I can put this behind me and start the healing process. I demand they be impeached. Then, finally, there is the seriously flawed message that not seeking justice sends to young Americans, and the rest of the world. Doing nothing and letting these crooks walk sends the message that America no longer believes in the morals and values that made her a great and fair nation in the eyes of the world. It says that our leaders can lie, cheat and steal from their own people, and decieve and mislead the rest of the world, including our allies, and we as a people don’t care. Well….I don’t know about you, but that is not what I was raised to believe and I do care!, and as a true patriot, that is not the way I want my America to be seen by humanity.
  The right-wing controlled, corporate media won’t do this, and for some reason left wing, progressive media has a problem with it as well, so I’m going to do it. I am going to passionately urge and challenge everybody who reads this to contact their elected representitives and demand, not ask, that they get behind Reps. Wexler and Kucinich and push John Conyers and the Judiciary Committee to begin hearings on the thirty six articles of impeachment that those two courageous and patriotic men have put before congress. This issue is so criticle to this nation’s future that it’s difficult to put it into words, but suffice it to say that it’s sink or swim time for America, and Impeachment in Congress, and conviction in the Senate are the water-wings America needs to keep from drowning in her own tears. PEACE

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Friday, May 23, 2008

SUPPORT THE TROOPS?

This is going to be the most difficult, harsh, sad, but true piece I have ever written. Difficult because it’s going to be a task to get most people to look past their hard-wired, almost reverent regard for our men and women in uniform. Harsh because the truth of this issue is not pretty, and talking about this will piss a lot of you off. Oh well. Sad because it’s a realization we should have come to long ago and because of our present state of spinelessness haven’t, and because it seems that we haven’t learned a fucking thing from the past. And true because……well, it just is. And it will probably  take you a few days to realize that it is. It did me, and now I don’t quite know what to do with how I feel. It’s kinda like I imagine someone feels when they’ve been told they have a terminal disease, and they get to that place of acceptance.
   Just like you, I have been deluged with well meaning e-mails all saying “Support Our Troops” or “God Bless Our Troops”, or whatever. And there are the ones with attachments or hyper-links to wonderfully made little films or picture presentations urging you and me to honor our fighting men and women by showing blue sky, Old Glory waving, soldier with Iraqi child, emotionally provoking images, with some Lee Greenwood “I’m Proud To Be An American” song playing in the background, all intended to play these soldiers up to be heros, and make us here at home forget about what is really going on. Well, I’m sorry, but I’m not buying it any longer. I haven’t forgotten about the torture and murder of millions of innocent Iraqi and Afghan people  in an illegal occupation, not a war, nor have I forgotten about the 937 lies and misrepresentations used by President[sic] Bush and Vice President[sic] Cheney and this administration, including the false flag events of 9/11,  in order to get congress and you and me to approve the damn thing. We all know that this endless, immoral, and criminal occupation of another soveriegn nation has absolutely nothing to do with September 11, 2001, we know that it’s not about Saddam Hussein and his Weapons of Mass Destruction, and we damn sure know it’s not about protecting us against some plague of Islamic terrorists bent on destroying western democracy! If anyone still believes this war is about freedom or liberating a people from under the thumb of a tyrannical dictator I’d love to know where you have had your head for the last four or five years?!?! It can’t smell very good if it has been where I think it’s been! C’mon people, use your brains for something besides remembering who’s winning “American Idol” and just think about where your prez and vice prez made their money. That’s right! OIL! This illegal occupation and overthrow of Iraq, and the Middle East, is all about oil. I know it, you know it, the entire world knows it, and yet our ‘heroic’ troops, who also know it, are still obeying their CO’s orders and killing people for private, personal gain of the Bush crime family and the Cheney industrial complex. This, my friends, is a war crime, and that’s why I can no longer ’support our troops’! These men and women take an oath to defend and protect our constitution, included in that oath is a promise to question an order that he or she deems inappropriate or immoral, and to honorably refuse to carry out such an order. I haven’t heard of any of these killing machines doing that, have you? No, I didn’t think so. By following orders and participating in an illegal, immoral military operation such as the one in the middle east make ‘our troops’ just as guilty and liabel as the criminal administration that started this fiasco. Has everyone forgotten the lessons learned in Viet Nam???!!!  Do you want to know what the soldiers who do feel they are committing a crime are doing instead of refusing to follow orders? THEY ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE! Over 120 veterans of this ‘war’ are killing themselves every week! The ones who aren’t taking their own lives out of guilt and shame are turning up in the disgusting videos we see posted on YouTube everyday showing ‘troops’ throwing little dogs off cliffs, or something else just as pretty! Does this sound like the behavior of men and women who are at peace with what they’re doing? HELL NO, IT DOESN”T!! Support the troops? No, fuck the troops! I cannot give my support or blessing to anyone who willingly goes along with something he or she knows is wrong just because they are either too scared, lazy, or enjoying themselves. Remember this, these are the people who can’t find meaningful work after the military and become psycho cops.
   By saying you support our troops you are really saying you support this ‘war’. By supporting this war you are saying that you agree with thr policies of this criminal, fascist administration, and it’s New World Order agenda. By supporting the NWO agend you are saying that you are in favor of the destruction of our soverignty and our democratic republic. This bullshit in Iraq is about nothing more than U.S. empire-building, fascism, and control of all of the worlds oil by a few sick and twisted reactionary statists who want nothing more than to see this great country and her once free people enslaved to serve their Neo-Con, NWO, One World Govt. visions.  And by continuing to fight in a war that they know is about evil, by continuing to do harm when they know it’s wrong, I won’t be ’supporting our ‘troops’ anymore. They’re not the sparkling, red white and blue patriotic heros you’ve been fooled into believing they are. They’re criminals, just like their bosses, and their bosses, all the way up to the dickhead in the Whitehouse. Perhaps it is time to switch the TV off. Forget about “Idol”, don’t listen to O’Reilly on “The Factor”, maybe, just maybe, it’s time to wake up!

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Monday, April 7, 2008

Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

  It’s been quite a while since I have been sufficiently motivated to write anything, but today I read a couple of articles by other authors that I just have to pass along. Actually, one isn’t in written form, it’s a nine minute video, but in that nine minutes a lot of things I have been trying to get across are said by a consumate pro, in a manner that is informative and factual, and contradicts many points of mis-information and out right lies without being odious or obnoxious. It explains just how deep seeded George W. Bush’s ideologies and beliefs really are, and how it’s practically impossible for him, and his father before him, to conduct himself in any other political fashion. If you’re as curious about the how and why of Dubya’s insane actions as president of the worlds most powerful nation as I am, I’m positive you will learn a lot about the Bushs and the Walkers, and understand where little Georgie gets his ideas.  http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/263.html

  The second offering comes from the pen of a decorated and obviously fed-up ex-Marine Corp officer who feels the same way many of us do about the events of 9/11/2001, and isn’t afraid to let his anger and frustration over the poor handeling of the so called investigations, and subsequent less that truthful results, be heard ‘loud and clear,sir!’ as they say in his neck of these woods. From the first moment I became aware that my suspitions about the ‘official’ explaination were in fact valid, I have tried my level best to present my case, to those who would doubt hard science and common sense, in a way that would cause them to stop, take a step or two out of their safe little world, and do some research on their own. I believe Mr. Lankford’s heartfelt and intriguing statement has done just that. It is quite clear from the very beginning that this man is level headed, patriotic, and contientious, and he does a masterful job of expressing his point of view in a way that a lot of us have had difficulty achieving, including me. For those of you who have had trouble delivering the facts to skeptical audiences perhaps this will give you some needed pointers. And for those of you who have a hard time opening up to alternative explaination, and you know who you are, maybe Mr. Lankford’s arguments will stick in your craw just deep enough to get you to swallow your fear, embarrassment, or whatever else has been keeping you from listening to the other side of this important story. 
 http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/Statement%20Lankford.html

  If I have disappointed any of my loyal(?) readers by not writing for so long, let me apologize. There have been a number of personal reasons for my absense, but mostly every time I found myself wanting to write about something, someone else had beaten me to it. And like the two selections I have left here for your parousal, as much as I wanted to, I just don’t think I could have said it better myself.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

“Astrotheologicmythicology”

   That’s a mouthful, ain’t it? I made it up to encapsulate all the different disciplines required to formulate what we now refer to as Judeo-Christian religion, which as ancient, ancient history tells us is a wonderful, but quite fictional story. Whoa now! Don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger! If you don’t want to know the truth as recorded by the ancient peoples who started the whole thing, then stop reading now. If you’re couragous and curious and a seeker of knowledge, then keep reading. Those of you who choose to remain ignorant because of your strong religious or spiritual beliefs and traditions, I, for one, won’t hold it against you. When I discovered this explaination of religious reality, I was, like you, disturbed and uncomfortable with what I was learning. But being a person of humility, honesty, and principals derived from the facts, I was compelled to follow my curiousity. I hope you can remove yourself from the skepticsm and arrogance that often stifles progress, and open-mindedly allow a little hard truth into your realm of knowledge.
   When asked to name the most deified figure in all of history, the vast majority of people, from all walks of life and spiritual backgrounds will say Jesus, and they have very strong reasons for their answer. The truth is, from the begining of recorded history, back to cave drawings, and after those, the first writings of the Assyrians and ancient Egyptians, the most deified figures have been the sun, the moon, and the stars. The first humans must have gazed up at the heavens and watched in absolute amazement as the celestial bodies moved across the black, night sky. And before that, wondered in awe, just what caused the almighty blazing sun to magically rise in the morning sky, supplying warmth and light, giving life, and then slowly, softly, set in the orange glow of evening becoming night. Primative mankind paid close attention to the movements of the heavenly bodies in the sky, and memorized the events that corralated with those movements, the coming of the warm rains and abundant life of spring, the ripening of fruit, and the maturing of game that came in the fall, and the cold, icy darkness of the harsh winters, and the hot, humid lazy days of the summer. They noticed the influence of the moon on the oceans and waters, and other events that came when certain stars were in just the right locations in the night sky. Early man’s entire lives were structured around these movements and events, and the sun, the moon, and the stars were worshiped as gods. The first gods, before recorded language, before spoken legends, when we were barely able to communicate with each other, these were our deities. As man’s skills at language developed, so also did man’s systems of hierarchy. Knowledge became the ultimate power and control, and those with greater knowledge soon became the leaders and teachers, and ultimately the controlers of their lesser knowledgable bretheren. The concept continues with the current edition of humans, as evidenced by the atrocities we witness on a daily basis. But I digress. As time passed, and languages flourished in every corner of mankind’s world, legends and grand stories began to be fabricated about the ‘Gods’ of the sky, and for generation after generation these legends and stories, along with the rights and rituals of the accompanying worship of said ‘Gods’ were passed down throughout time. With time, like with anything else, the leaders and teachers had honed these tales into wonderful, colorful stories of wisdom, rules, and faith, thus the origins of organized  religion were developed and perfected, right up through the Assyrians to the ancient Egyptians. And all of these new religions have their roots firmly planted in the science of astronomy, and the art of astrology. Ancient Egypt has a glorious story concerning one of their most worshiped Gods, Horus, who’s story so closely parallels the story of Jesus that had they been written today, there would have been one hell of a plagerism lawsuit! And the Egyptians would have won. Both were born on December 25th, to virgin mothers named Mary(or equivilant), in mangers or caves, with step-fathers with names equivilant to Joseph. Both mothers had been visited by angels telling them of the pending birth of the son of God, and both births were visited by three wisemen or Kings, who followed a bright star to the savior. Both Gods lives are chronicled up to age 12, with gaps until age 32. Both men were craftsmen or tradesmen, baptized at age 32 by prophets, had 12 deciples, and were betrayed by the most trusted of them. They were tried and ultimately crucified with two other criminals, placed in borrowed tombs at age 33, and ressurected three days later, both assentions witnessed by women deciples named Mary(or equivilant). The simularities are absolutely stunning, and much more intricate than I am detailing here. And the story of Horus is 3000 years older than that of Jesus! I want you to research this for your selves, so I don’t want to ruin the ending for you. Ha ha! All of the events mentioned above, and in the hyrogliphics of the ancient Egyptians also correspond with astronomical constallations or stars, and astrological events. Just an example is the twelve deciples represent the twelve astrological houses, the three wisemen are actually the three stars that make up Orion’s belt and the Bright Star they followed to Bethlehem is Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. There’s so much more that it boggles the mind, but it’s really interesting, and un-answers a lot of questions. The main point is that Judeo-Chritianity is nothing more than a made up fairytale, concocted to make sense of the movements of the celestial bodies and the events connected with those movements. The sad reality of all this is that The ‘Christians’ borrowed an existing story, changed some of the details, and have been using this lie to control and rob a huge portion of mankind for a very, very long time. Organized religion is nothing more than another form of government, designed to keep the little man under the thumb of the rich and powerful, and to take his soul, his self esteme, and his money. Why is it that most of us feel that we need some ‘Higher, Devine Power’ to guide us and to have faith in? Isn’t it enough that we, as humans, are intelligent, curious, industrious, and full of talent and a drive to explore and succeed. We have crawled out of the primordial ooze and developed into the superior predator and creature on this planet, and for some stupid reason, that’s not enough for us to have faith in us. I understand that when one looks at the condition of humanity, and the world we live in, there is a whole lot of room for improvement. But I believe we are in this predicament because we have never had the right amount of faith in ourselves as humans, as supreme beings, as the highest intelligence on Earth. Once humanity realizes that the universe, and everything in it, was created by some astronomical catastrophe, the size of which science is just now beginning to understand, and that we are where we are because we put us here, and not some spirit in the sky’s divine intervention, the sooner we can get to the bottom of what is driving us to hate each other, fix it, and get on with living together as brothers and sisters, who all crawled out of the same primordial bowl of soup. There is no God, sorry about that, and there is no divine “Meaning of Life”. The “Meaning of Life” is nothing more than the consequences of complex carbon chemistry. And there certainly is no real meaning of religion, other than to brainwash the weak and ignorant into following leaders who care for nothing except the aquisition of wealth and power. We are at a point on this planet where we are close to fucking things up on so many levels from global warming to global thermonuclear war, and instead of putting your faith in the scholars and scientists who have concrete proof of what’s wrong and how to fix it, people pray to an idea, an enigma, a made up lie. I choose to put my faith in myself to get me through life, and the facts to get me through whatever comes with that life. Astrotheologicmythicology, otherwise known as religion. The truth is that you’re better off having your horoscope done than praying to ……..what?

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