Mourning Constitutional

  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. 

  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

   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?

   The United States has a madman at the helm, there is no doubt about that, and his second in command is just as mad, if not more. At this point in time, there isn't much we can do about it except go through the process of impeachment and removal from office of both Bush and Cheney, but who is next in line, and how do we know that person is any more capable of responsibly running this country? We have a process for chosing our leaders, we're experiencing that process right now, it's this incredibly drawn out election circus. This two year journey we take every four years gives Americans the opportunity to scrutinize the individuals who make the decision to vie for the offices of President and Vice President, and determine where they stand on the issues facing our country, from our borders to religion, and everything in between no matter how trivial or irrelevant. Even with the amount of scrutiny these people are subject to during this lengthy process, a total lunatic managed to 'win' the last two elections, and has put the United States in the most preilous and insecure condition it has been in, perhaps in it's entire history.How did this happen, and what can we do to prevent it from happening again? It is my opinion that it's time we start evaluating our elected servants mental health before being accepted for the election process, instead of being subjected to the dangers of a psychopath like Bush or Cheney AFTER they have been elected. Believe it or not, there is a simple way to accomplish this, and I'll explain that after I show why it's necessary. I'm going to examine George Bush's Antisocial Personality Disorder presentations using his actions and re-actions to stimuli during his presidency. But first we should look at a couple of things in his past that should have been 'red flags' to his illness.
   As a child, it has been reported that George enjoyed inflicting injury to animals as evidenced by his allegedly placing firecrackers in the anus of frogs, and then setting them off. A lot of people will say that "everyone does something like that!" Perhaps, but usually only once, and after they see how ugly and disturbing it is, they don't continue the behavior. Later in Georges life, during his college days, he admits that his favorite way of passing time, and gaining his peers approval, was hazing freshmen. For those who may not know what 'hazing' is, it basically torture on a lesser, perhaps 'innocent' level. In Bush's case, however, it is mearly just a continuation of the developing Antisocial Personality Disorder. Again, there is the arguement that lots of people do this, but most adults grow out of it as they pursue other interests. This part of Geroge's psyche just went into recession until the opportunity arose to employ it again. This would come during his time as Govenor of Texas.
   Before I continue, I wanted to list the criteria for this disorder according to the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV TR, but copyright problems preclude that. So I'll tell you where you can find this information, just Googlesearch 'DSM-IV TR' , then after accessing that, search '301.7 Antisocial Personality Disorder', the information I'm referencing can be found there. If you're in posession of a copy, the info is on pg.291.
   As Govenor of Texas, Mr. Bush was, by his own description, proud of his prosecution of the death penalty, and from 1995 to 2000, executed a record 152 prisoners. That's approximately 38 per year, or one person every 9.8 days. I may be off base here, but I believe most people would consider this a shameful record, but not George. He's proud of his ability to wield such power without hesitation, or regret. Criteria # 7 "lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.  Keep the word 'stolen' in mind. After Mr. Bush grew tired of putting criminals to death in Texas, he set his sights on becoming President, and just to hedge his bets, evidence has shown that his brother Jeb, Govenor of Florida at the time, and state election officials conspired to 'fix' the election in that state, effectively 'stealing' the outcome of that states balloting, giving the overall national victory to big brother, George. Geroge Bush took the oath of office the following January with absolutely no indication that perhaps there might have been some inproprieties, stating that Al Gore was an innocent victim of unfortunate circumstances. Lack of remorse, indifference, lucky, I don't know, what do you think. Since he has been in office, America suffered the worst terrorist attack in history, and since then the Bush administration has not given a straight answer to The People of the United States about anything. His administration blamed the attack on Osama Bin Ladin, and promised that he would be caught and "made to pay for what he's done", but only recently, when asked why O.B.L. is still at large, Bush told reporters, "I'm just not concerned with him." Could it be because O.B.L.'s involvement was a lie, and was never a target to begin with? Why didn't Bush and Cheney want their testimony in front of the 9/11 Commission made public, and why was it necessary for the two of them to be together? Was it because liars need to be together in order to keep their stories straight? After 9/11 the Bush White House set out to dismantle our constitution so they could start an illegal war with an enemy that didn't exist. They used questionable and absolutely false intelligence to gain American's support and losen congress's hold on the purse strings, and have been lying about it ever since. They tried to do the same thing to Iran, even though Cheney had already admitted to the previous deception of the people and congress. This is blatent failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repetedly performing acts that are grounds for treason! Mr. Bush has repetedly referred to himself as a "war president". He says he wakes up and goes to work with "war on my mind!" Is this a normal person's way of thinking? This kind of thought is from someone with an aggressive disregard for the safety of others. At a press conference before he attacked Iraq, Mr. Bush was cautioned that putting troops on the ground in Iraq would bring them under possible attack from Saddam's military, and wasn't he concerned about them getting injured or killed, and his response was, quote,"Bring 'em on!", meaning let them attack the troops. Again, reckless disregard for the safety of others.
  The people of America have said that we are sick and tired of paying for this illegal war, and still Bush, without hesitation, and with complete contempt goes to congress time and time again to ask for more funding. We have told him, time and time again, that we will give him more money only if he gives us a date for pulling our troops out and bringing them home. He counters this by refusing to sign legislation that is put before him, and even vetoing a bill for healthcare for our underprivileged children! This is sick, childish, antisocial behavior. I could go on for hours, but it's starting to depress me. I'm sure that if you've accessed the DSM-IV, and have read the criteria for disorder 301.7, there is probably little doubt that the Executive Branch of our government is packed with psychos. Now, how do keep this from happening again?
  The Federal Govt. has many jobs that require applicants to undergo a fairly extensive background check and a psyche-social evaluation. The law demands that Joe Citizen undergo the same kind of scrutiny in order to purchase and own a gun. Bush and Cheney hold the two most important jobs in the free world, and are in control of the most sophisticated and deadly arsenal on the planet, yet they were not required to prove that they are mentally stable enough to even buy a gun! There is a way to insure that psychopaths and lunatics don't manage to hold such important positions, and that is to psychologically evaluate these people BEFORE they are approved to run for federal office. It takes a couple of hours to give prospective candidates an examination called the 'MMPI', 575 yes or no questions, that when properly answered, and those answers compared to existing parameters will point out to the facilitator any abhorant or psychotic charachter defects.A person can't work as an air traffic controller without such an examination, why should someone be allowed to hold high government without one? What most normal people don't understand is that another very strong and deceptive quality antisocials posess is manipulation. They are expert liars, as evidenced by Messers Bush and Cheney, and will stop at nothing, once given any kind of power,in their quest to advance their agenda.
   Do a little research yourself and see if you don't agree with me. I suggest America come up with some kind of failsafe procedure to flush out people who aren't psychologically equipped for the menally demanding job of president, before we have this problem again. Here are just a few more 'famous' individuals who are 'antisocial'. Osama Bin Laden, Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahlmer, Charles Manson, Westley Allen Dodd, The Menendez Bros., Timothy McVeigh,
John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz, Aileen Wornous, Richard Allen Davis, Dorthea Montolvo Puentes. If you don't think that George W. Bush, and Richard B. Cheney belong on that list, think about the thousands of human beings that have died because of their lies and deception. Bush and Cheney belong at the top of that list, and unless we do something to prevent another psychotic from taking the oath of office, there is a very real possibility of this happening again.
more on Bush's sanity: http://thiscanadian.typepad.com/thiscanadian/2007/07/never-corner-a-.html 

   It happens each time we have an election, either local, state, or national, and it always makes me shake my head in disbelief. This time, it's the presidential election, of course, and because of the current state of affairs at home, and America's perilous position in the world, the stakes are high. There is a literal boatload of 'candidates', and all of our political parties have their perspectives vying for the chance to represent their party in the upcoming primary election and be called up to 'the big show', and a shot at 'the title'. And that's exactly what it is.....a title, and everybody from the political 'experts', to the talking heads on TV, to the man or woman in the street seems to forget that, and that's what gets my head to shakin'. 
   The primaries are months away, yet from all the hype and hoopla you'd think we were voting tomorrow, and that it was for all the marbles. There are like, what, a hundred candidates in the hunt but we are only hearing about a few, plus Ron Paul, and it seems like the choices, at least for the Dems and Reps, have already been made because everyone's screaming about what's going to happen if this guy wins, or that gal wins, and God forbid Ron Paul should win 'cause the place will go to Hell in a handbasket! We keep hearing the same promises that if this guy's elected he'll cut big spending, and that guy will increase taxes, or she's going to have us all getting our healthcare from Walmart, and he's going to stop raising taxes, and if Ron Paul wins, well, you know......hell in a handbasket. It cracks me up that it seems like folks forget that our president isn't a king or a dictator, even though Bush has done his best to prove me wrong, and just because they are for this or against that, that this is what is going to happen if they're 'lucky' enough to win this thing! I have talked to college students who think the president can do whatever they choose, like a monarch or dictator, but the rest of us know that's not how things are supposed to work. Some of those same students believe the moon landings were all faked in Hollywood, too. Perhaps the current administration's lack of respect for constitutional law and the rights of the people of America has been going on for so long that the majority of people have forgotten that it's Congress and the Senate, guided by us, The People, who decide what happens in America, not the president. These campaign 'promises' that are being made should only be used to determine where the candidates stand on the issues, in fact, they shouldn't even be called promises, they're called 'planks'. They make up a canidates 'platform'. Personally, I stop listening to a candidate the instant the word 'promise' comes out of they're mouth because right then and there I know they're lying. Why? Because unless the candidate is a total dunce, they know they can't 'promise' anything. Never the less, each election cycle the candidates promise, the spin doctors go to work, and the pundits wrap what the spin doctors tell them in hype, and before you know it, that guy will have the world pointing nukes at us, and she's going to run up the deficit, and he's going to tax us to death, and Ron Paul will, well, you know.....hell in a handbasket. It's the same each election year, but for some reason it feels a lot different this time. Maybe it's because we're really tired of the same old crap, maybe it's because we're sick and tired of killing innocent people in the name of America, maybe it's because we really need positive change, I just don't know. I haven't been able to put my finger on it yet, so I'm going  to keep watching and listening to the media circus as the paid schills from each of the big two battle it out for ratings and keep spreading their message of doom and gloom if the other guy wins because God knows that if that guy wins....., or if that gal wins...., and if this guy wins...., and if Ron Paul wins, well you know....hell in a handbasket!

   Boy, do I feel like an idiot.......jeese! I've been writing this thing for two months now, all the time wondering why nobody is reading it, and wondering how to generate some readers. Oh, I've had some readers, but they've all been people I have basically 'forced' to read it, you know, friends, family, colleagues. Being that I am by myself here, going to school and setting my life up, and that I am basically a computer 'rookie', I am left to figure a lot of this stuff out for myself. This is sometimes a long, frustrating process that causes me to make mistakes. I have wondered what 'tags' are since I began doing this, and it's just now that I think I know what they're for. 'TAGS' are how readers are directed to blogs and other thing on the web, right? Well, I'm about to find out. I'm gonna add some 'keywords' in the 'tags' box and see what happens. If I'm correct, and I choose the right 'keywords', new readers should find this rag when searching for stuff that corrisponds with the words. If I'm wrong, I'm gonna go eat some worms! If I'm finally catching on, and this is getting out there beyond this site, please enter a comment so I know I'm on the right track, and so I can send a thank you for rescuing me! Jeese, this is like the blind leading the blind!