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The Demon – The Dumbass
I wish someone would teach Gene Simmons what Socialism is:
h/t UnSpy
Jesus, what a Zionist Hack.
Did you ever notice how the Jewish people find it necessary to change their names? Have you ever wondered “why” they do this? Think it may be because they basically run this country, from virtually every asect, including Hollywood? Think that the tired old story that Jews know money is the reason they own and run the Big Banks (which, in turn, mean they run the US government) is true?
Just look at all the Jewish folks that run things and then ask yourself why in the hell do they feel it important to change their name? Think it may be because “Chaim” sounds like a foreigner? Or that with a name like that, people might want to know more about someone’s history and what a great way to hide significant issues like your dad being a Irgun Terrorist machine gun toting killer?
Chaim Witz Israeli born, Muslim hating, Bush supporting “liberal” who wants to give up all his rights to protect the rest of us REAL Americans.
“His Hungarian-born father, Feri Witz, did not accompany them to the U.S. After arriving in the U.S.”
Presumably to stay and take over Haifa (Sorry, now called Tirat Carmel)? From “Kiss and Makeup” (an excerpt from ChaimGene’s book):
Israel was a new country, only a year older than I was, and its existence was still very much in question. But I was unaware of all that. It was always such a part of my daily routine that I wasn’t able to separate it from any other aspect of my experience. For example, I remember that my dad, Yechiel (or Feri)Witz – who was physically imposing, at least six foot five – would come in on the weekends with his machine gun and put it on the kitchen table. The front lines were fifty miles away, and everybody, every male and most females, was in the army. There were no exemptions. If you lived there, you were in the army.
The gun on the table was one of the few things I remember about my father, because he wasn’t around very much…
Or was he simply a “carpenter“?
When old ChaimGene was born, HaifaTirat had a population makeup quite different than today:
According to CBS, in 2001 the ethnic makeup of the city was 99.6% Jewish and other non-Arab, with no significant Arab population.
For Wayyy back in the day of ChaimGene’s birth, Zionism was rearing its murderous Irgun head:
The 1947 UN Partition Plan designated Haifa as part of the proposed Jewish state. When the Arab leadership rejected the UN’s plan, Haifa did not escape the violence that spread throughout the country. On December 30, 1947, members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground militia, threw bombs into a crowd of Arabs outside the gates of the Consolidated Refineries in Haifa, killing six and injuring 42. In response Arab employees of the company killed 39 Jewish employees in what became known as the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre.[40] The Jewish Haganah militia retaliated with a raid on the Arab village of Balad al-Shaykh, where many of the Arab refinery workers lived, in what became known as the Balad al-Shaykh massacre.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Haifa emerged as an industrial port city and growing population center. The Hejaz railway and the Technion were built at this time.[32] Haifa District was then home to approximately 20,000 inhabitants, 96 percent of them Arabs (82 percent Muslim and 14 percent Christian), and four percent Jews. Over the next few decades the number of Jews increased steadily, due to immigration, especially from Europe. By 1945 the population had shifted to 53 percent Arab (33 percent Muslim, 20 percent Christian) and 47 percent Jewish.[38] In 1947 about 70,910 Arabs (41,000 Muslims, 29,910 Christians) and 74,230 Jews were living there.
I bet there is no animosity, racism or hatred involved with the tongue wagging clown, either:
In 2004, during an interview in Melbourne, Australia, Simmons described Islam as a “vile culture” wherein women had fewer rights than dogs. He described Islam as a threat, claiming that Muslims wanted to leave the Middle East and supplant non-Muslims in other parts of the world by force. The Muslim community took offense, with Australian Muslim of the Year, Susan Carland, asserting that Simmons’ stereotyping of Muslims was inaccurate and that she never walked behind her husband as Simmons stated all Muslim women were required to do.[10] Simmons later said on his website that he was talking specifically about Muslim extremists.
No, no hatred, bigotry or ignorance at all. Just a neocon Zionist asshole who “lived thru the vietnam era”, but couldn’t find it within himself to join up and serve. But REAL Americans serve and give him the ability to change his name and take the young people’s money and then, decades after his descent into irrelevancy, he shows what he is really about. Hatred and genocidal murder against an entire religion.
I never liked the damned music, either.
Piece of shit.
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No One Is Safe… 20 Years In
On Monday, I drove to my headquarters to meet with the President, Project Manager/Quotes Guy for about 2.5 hours reviewing the many projects I have in the “funnel”. We discussed one project that will integrate various robotic cells and vision inspection systems at the price of $450K. We discussed a project that I brought to the table that is worth about $350K (we actually received this PO and the equipment is on the floor) that engineering screwed up and is now officially a loss on the books. We discussed several other projects that equal several hundreds of thousands of dollars.
We then discussed the $2.3 Million project that will keep the company afloat for quite some time ahead. We are real close to winning this (according to email exchanges I received from the Plant Manager at the company I am working with). Things were great. All parties are extremely happy that I am bringing work in (there isn’t another piece of equipment on the floor from another sales guy… everything is mine).
It was then that the President received a call from the CEO of my parent company. While he took the call, I went out to the floor to review the MANY projects “I” had “brung to the table” of this company. 15 minutes later I went back to finish the engineering review of ALL THE PROJECTS I “BRUNG” TO THE TABLE and I was informed that I no longer had a job.
Apparently, this BIG MONEY shit realizes that they were about to pay me an additional $40K bonus when we received the order for the $2M system. So, after over 2 hours of team working and making the company money, I was fired.
But, itwas not just me. They fired all three sales guys and the project manager.
So, my redneck friends, this high tech asshole just entered the halls of the unemployed.
You MUST understand this. When a guy like me, on the leading edge of technology loses his job, while being told I am a very fine salesman and I have been actually keeping the company afloat with my work, we have a major problem in this country. If I get cut, we are close to total failure. I guarantee this.
You better take whatever money you have available and stock up on some food. You have about 2 or 3 weeks.
NOW: today is my 20th wedding anniversary. Thank you, BuelahLady, for sticking with me thru thick and thin.
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Distraction Media and Tea Party Jackasses
You may or may not agree with the ultimate stance of this guy in his undying support of Ron Paul, but I find it hard to argue with any of what he presents. I feel very much the same way.
h/t DProgram
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Show Me The Money
The Spending Boom
This congress has had power for thirty one months and has raised spending by 4.4 trillion dollars. There has been some big spending bills passed in this time frame. And two wars to finance in two countries. With the recent bail outs and talk of a union pension bail out, where does it stop? People we need to do something and we need to do it quick! Voting is our only power! Please stop this corporate ran government now! Has everybody forgot about the HCB? We have had a lot of distractions with the Gulf and Mel Gibson grabbing the headlines.
This health care bill over the next decade will tax the American public for 10 years, but we will only see 6 years of benefits. That’s like buying a car and paying it off over four years and then getting your car. Who does that? They also keep adding lil’ bits and pieces to this bill in just about every other bill that goes to the hill. Recently they have taxed the tax on most of the major medical services. They thought the slice of the pie was a little bit too small and squeezed a little more out of it. Up to 8 million workers could lose their health care and be forced to buy an inferior plan.
In 1950 a dollar was still a dollar and you could buy a lot of bubble gum. Today you would have to spend $8.91 to buy the exact same amount. Since 1980 it would cost you $2.60 more to buy the same amount you could then. This is based on the consumer price index formula with six other formulas you could use.
They say all these union plans are underfunded. Actually they are missed managed and have been run as a Ponzi scheme in the last twenty years or so. A whole hella lots of people are going to retire in the next 10 years and their pensions are broke. Even back before the recent collapse of the market, only 6% of pension funds were covered 100 percent. Only 12% of workers are union members and 38% of those are in education. So congress is going to bail these plans out. They have bailed out just about every thing else that is in trouble. 165 million to bail out these union plans. If unions could have switched to some type of 401 k plan in the 80′s they would be better off now, even with the low market. Most would be up to around 65% funded. Some major companies have already robbed their funds and told the employees tough shit. Fed EX is one of these major employers.
We keep working and make the other guy rich and we keep getting shit on. Peons the whole lot of us. Talk about running something into the ground. How about a bail out for the American worker? Throw some real money our way. Stimulate the economy. Give us a new deal and a real one. People have to get up and go to work just to survive. Over 60% of us work from check to check and that is an old number. Half that number is one check from being homeless.
Abolish NAFTA and you could stimulate the economy and create jobs. We don’t make anything anymore! My county had shoe factories and shirt factories and employed lots of people. The pay wasn’t the best, but people were working.
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Tragic Typos: Obama Wins “No Balls” Prize
Obama Wins No-Balls Prize
Nobel Committee Regrets “Tragic Typo” That Mistakenly Awarded U.S. President 2009 Peace Prize
by Michael K. Smith / August 20th, 2010
Legalienation News, Oslo
In a dramatic announcement that drew gasps of pleasure and cries of “it’s about time,” President Barack Obama today won the “No-Balls” Prize for “spinelessness above and beyond the call of duty,” while retroactively losing the 2009 Nobel Peace prize, which the awards Committee confessed had been mistakenly granted due to a “tragic typographical error.” The five-member Norwegian delegation explained that it had never intended to award Obama the Nobel prize, ironically named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of gunpowder, but rather, the “No-Balls” prize, named after Nobel’s brother-in-law Alfred Noballs, inventor of the white flag.
“President Obama’s unparalleled record of evasions, cave-ins, and sell-outs is truly awesome,” said Committee-member Erik Wahl. “We have never seen a more immense consistency of cowardice.” Obama won handily over second-place finisher Morris “Yellow Belly” Butler, who stole money from orphans and spent it on liquor and prostitutes. Gracefully conceding defeat, Butler pronounced Obama “a champion invertebrate with few peers and no superiors.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa reacted with unrestrained delight: “From throwing Reverend Wright under the bus to increasing the slaughter of innocents with pilotless drone attacks, Obama has proven himself a great mass of cowardly energy time and again,” he said.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi in Afghanistan also applauded the Nobel committee’s decision, confirming that Obama was responsible for escalating war and had “the blood of countless innocents on his hands.” Few can doubt that this is the stuff of which “No Balls” winners are made.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said,”It’s difficult to think of a more deserving recipient than a man who sustains simultaneous wars against defenseless populations in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.”
Orlando Sosa, a recent addition to the Nobel Committee, said the selection was intended to honor not just Obama’s swan dive into the lap of Big Business, but also his incredibly multi-faceted cowardice, including: (1) peerless command of euphemism and double-think; (2) outstanding capacity to orate for hours without saying a thing; (3) artful evasion of every moral point; (4) proven ability to see nuance where none exists; (5) a capacity to cave-in faster than an avalanche.
Obama conceded he was “deeply humbled” by the honor, and launched a cruise missile attack on Yemen to celebrate. The No-Balls Laureate promised to “stay the course” in Afghanistan, where he has killed more U.S. troops in 19 months than George W. Bush did in 7 years, and accelerate his extraordinary achievements in torture, environmental catastrophe, bankster bailouts, HMO fascism, and imperial wars from Colombia to Palestine.
As a gesture of good will, he pledged the $2 million cash award that comes with his prize to a deserving death squad that preys on children.
Michael K. Smith is the author of The Madness of King George from Common Courage Press. He co-blogs with Frank Scott at www.legalienate.blogspot.com. Read other articles by Michael.
h/t Dissident Voice
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The Smartest Valedictorian To Ever Make a Speech
The Best High School Valedictorian Speech
August 01, 2010
Written by Erica Goldson© The Daily Mail
The 2010 Graduating Class of Coxsackie-Athens High School.Comment: The following speech was delivered by top of the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010Here I stand
There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, “If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to find Zen? The Master thought about this, then replied, “Ten years . .” ?The student then said, “But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast — How long then?” Replied the Master, “Well, twenty years.” “But, if I really, really work at it, how long then?” asked the student. “Thirty years,” replied the Master. “But, I do not understand,” said the disappointed student. “At each time that I say I will work harder, you say it will take me longer. Why do you say that?” ?Replied the Master, “When you have one eye on the goal, you only have one eye on the path.”
This is the dilemma I’ve faced within the American education system. We are so focused on a goal, whether it be passing a test, or graduating as first in the class. However, in this way, we do not really learn. We do whatever it takes to achieve our original objective.
Some of you may be thinking, “Well, if you pass a test, or become valedictorian, didn’t you learn something? Well, yes, you learned something, but not all that you could have. Perhaps, you only learned how to memorize names, places, and dates to later on forget in order to clear your mind for the next test. School is not all that it can be. Right now, it is a place for most people to determine that their goal is to get out as soon as possible.
I am now accomplishing that goal. I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker. While others would come to class without their homework done because they were reading about an interest of theirs, I never missed an assignment. While others were creating music and writing lyrics, I decided to do extra credit, even though I never needed it. So, I wonder, why did I even want this position? Sure, I earned it, but what will come of it? When I leave educational institutionalism, will I be successful or forever lost? I have no clue about what I want to do with my life; I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I’m scared.
John Taylor Gatto, a retired school teacher and activist critical of compulsory schooling, asserts, “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness – curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don’t do that.” Between these cinderblock walls, we are all expected to be the same. We are trained to ace every standardized test, and those who deviate and see light through a different lens are worthless to the scheme of public education, and therefore viewed with contempt.
H. L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not “to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. … Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim … is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States.”
Comment: The full passage reads: “The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever pretensions of politicians, pedagogues other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”
To illustrate this idea, doesn’t it perturb you to learn about the idea of “critical thinking.” Is there really such a thing as “uncritically thinking?” To think is to process information in order to form an opinion. But if we are not critical when processing this information, are we really thinking? Or are we mindlessly accepting other opinions as truth?
This was happening to me, and if it wasn’t for the rare occurrence of an avant-garde tenth grade English teacher, Donna Bryan, who allowed me to open my mind and ask questions before accepting textbook doctrine, I would have been doomed. I am now enlightened, but my mind still feels disabled. I must retrain myself and constantly remember how insane this ostensibly sane place really is.
And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporatism and materialism or insist on change. We are not enlivened by an educational system that clandestinely sets us up for jobs that could be automated, for work that need not be done, for enslavement without fervency for meaningful achievement. We have no choices in life when money is our motivational force. Our motivational force ought to be passion, but this is lost from the moment we step into a system that trains us, rather than inspires us.
We are more than robotic bookshelves, conditioned to blurt out facts we were taught in school. We are all very special, every human on this planet is so special, so aren’t we all deserving of something better, of using our minds for innovation, rather than memorization, for creativity, rather than futile activity, for rumination rather than stagnation? We are not here to get a degree, to then get a job, so we can consume industry-approved placation after placation. There is more, and more still.
The saddest part is that the majority of students don’t have the opportunity to reflect as I did. The majority of students are put through the same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it. I will never be able to turn back these 18 years. I can’t run away to another country with an education system meant to enlighten rather than condition. This part of my life is over, and I want to make sure that no other child will have his or her potential suppressed by powers meant to exploit and control. We are human beings. We are thinkers, dreamers, explorers, artists, writers, engineers. We are anything we want to be – but only if we have an educational system that supports us rather than holds us down. A tree can grow, but only if its roots are given a healthy foundation.
For those of you out there that must continue to sit in desks and yield to the authoritarian ideologies of instructors, do not be disheartened. You still have the opportunity to stand up, ask questions, be critical, and create your own perspective. Demand a setting that will provide you with intellectual capabilities that allow you to expand your mind instead of directing it. Demand that you be interested in class. Demand that the excuse, “You have to learn this for the test” is not good enough for you. Education is an excellent tool, if used properly, but focus more on learning rather than getting good grades.
For those of you that work within the system that I am condemning, I do not mean to insult; I intend to motivate. You have the power to change the incompetencies of this system. I know that you did not become a teacher or administrator to see your students bored. You cannot accept the authority of the governing bodies that tell you what to teach, how to teach it, and that you will be punished if you do not comply. Our potential is at stake.
For those of you that are now leaving this establishment, I say, do not forget what went on in these classrooms. Do not abandon those that come after you. We are the new future and we are not going to let tradition stand. We will break down the walls of corruption to let a garden of knowledge grow throughout America. Once educated properly, we will have the power to do anything, and best of all, we will only use that power for good, for we will be cultivated and wise. We will not accept anything at face value. We will ask questions, and we will demand truth.
So, here I stand. I am not standing here as valedictorian by myself. I was molded by my environment, by all of my peers who are sitting here watching me. I couldn’t have accomplished this without all of you. It was all of you who truly made me the person I am today. It was all of you who were my competition, yet my backbone. In that way, we are all valedictorians.
I am now supposed to say farewell to this institution, those who maintain it, and those who stand with me and behind me, but I hope this farewell is more of a “see you later” when we are all working together to rear a pedagogic movement. But first, let’s go get those pieces of paper that tell us that we’re smart enough to do so!
h/t America20XY and The Best Article Every Day
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Gifts from Washington DC
When you think about it– for over 100 years [I am sure more] DC has promoted some ‘wonderful’ theorys for all of us to believe and follow suit regarding. I mean, come on– remember the Orbital Labodomy! everyone needed one… even Joe Kennedys daughter needed to be turned into a vegetable. And then– there was this. It totally reminds me of Tobbacco lobbiests… also a test to see how many Americans will bend over and drop them believeing what they are saying;… and for some odd reason, we as citizens will stand up and shout ” I feel so much better now that my Government has given me a remedy for the ills of my country and healthcare!
The Lying Through Your Breath-Stroke
Did you actually believe the man would swim in the Gulf or let his daughters do so?
Look, I knew from the get-go that he would never swim in that shit. Any sane person would stay out (and believe me that it makes me sick to see many of my friends ignore more warnings and make their way down to Florida to swim in and eat that tainted mess). There isn’t a chance in hell that I would even breathe the air down there, much less stick a toe in the water (and an impossibility of me allowing my daughter to get near that poisonous soup).
I warned my sister. She ignored it and went anyway to find:
The main public beaches in Pensacola were being attacked late at night/early morning by countless white vans cleaning up. However, just a couple of miles away, in Ft Pickens, there was NOTHING being cleaned up. This is a pay area that isn’t frequented as much as the public beaches.
Not only did she find tar balls, she freaked over the “tar sheets” as she called them. Harder than jello, but a similar consistency. And sheets the size of something you would put on your bed.
She said it was a cover-up at night and a show during the day. She said it reminded her of the movie “Jaws”… people everywhere having fun in the sun, all-the-while there is danger lurking in the water. She came back a changed person. She, after all these years of me telling her it is so, now sees this government as the criminal enterprise it is.
Everything going on down there right now is a huge cover-up. There are terrifically unbelievable lies being told to the mass of Americans and for some reason, most are believing it. Most will eat that Gulf shrimp in their next Chinese meal and tell us how good it tastes. Not understanding that the government is using a “sniff test” as its means of checking that stuff out for you. As safe as you KNOW you are and understanding that you are “in good hands” of the loving, care-taking government, maybe a sniff test is all you require. I’ll leave that decision up to you, but at this house, we won’t be consuming any Gulf seafood any time soon.
It boils down to this: Why would I ignore the warnings of the people who provide this stuff and believe a man who would not even swim in the shit that he is telling the rest of us is ok?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that of all the samples of seafood that have been tested since the oil spill, none have shown evidence of contamination.While some in the coastal seafood industry agree with these assessments, a majority seem to view the news with a sense of betrayal.
“The cleanup isn’t even close to being done,” said Karen Hopkins of Dean Blanchard Seafood, which accounts for about 11 percent of the U.S. shrimp supply, on the barrier island of Grand Isle.
“The last thing I want to do is scare anyone away from the seafood down here,” said Dawn Nunez, standing at the counter of the shrimp wholesale business and deli she owns in the tiny fishing town of Hopedale. “But if I’m not eating it or feeding it to my children, I can’t advise anyone else to eat it either.”
Let me see… the very people who make their living off of providing this stuff to America won’t let his own children eat it. But you want to slurp up as much of it as you can on a liar’s word? You just eat that shit and over time, you will see the results.
The New York Times reported over the weekend that a group of fishermen and conservationists are protesting the publicity push. Tracy Kuhns, of Louisiana Bayoukeeper, a local conservation group, told The Times she “watches in disbelief as [Obama's] White House serves Gulf seafood to assure the public of its safety.”
“Come to my house,” added Kuhns. “And I won’t pretty it up before you show up. I won’t tell you, the seafood I pull out of [the water], that I feel comfortable feeding it to my grandbabies.”
According to The Times, “These fishermen see an alarming disconnect between the oil they continue to encounter on the water and the assurances they receive from state and federal officials that their nets and lines can go back in the Gulf.”
There’s also a lot of skepticism about the so-called “sniff test” that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials use to determine seafood safety.
“How can they be doing a smell test to check for toxins in such a minute amount?” asked Chris Bryant, a 15-year commercial fishing veteran from Bayou La Batre, AL in the article.
“There is obviously a reason [dispersants] are considered toxic,” adds Bryant. “Maybe in a minute amount they won’t affect us in the short term, but if you continue to ingest them in a period of time, what are going to be the long-term effects? That’s something all the commercial fishermen are concerned about.”
“Fishermen would rather work cleaning the severely damaged Gulf than selling tainted seafood,” said Kuhns in a recent release.
h/t Food Safety News
Even NOAA admits that they don’t even test for the dispersants:
Are you getting the picture here? Do you understand that they are conducting “sniff tests” to see if they smell any contaminants and that they are NOT doing any scientific testing to see if that substance that is banned in much of the rest of the world is in the food we eat?
But the TV would lead you to believe that they are vigorously and thoroughly testing the food.
George sums it up like this:
The bottom line is that some Gulf seafood is probably safe and other Gulf seafood is probably not very safe, depending on where it swam in relation to the oil plumes and a host of other factors. But since the government is being close-lipped about the details of its test results – and isn’t even testing for dispersants – it is hard to know whether a particular piece of seafood is safe or not.
If it is hard (or impossible, given the “tests” used), then why in hell would you take the chance?
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The Velvet Tail
The giant of all rattlesnakes!
I ran into a buddy of mine this morning on the lake. He put his boat in across the creek from me and we met in the middle. He was unusually pale this am (just recovered from a heart attack). I asked ,”how are you doing”? he replied, “just lucky to be here!” I had seen him since the heart attack and had already heard this from him. He was talking about the giant snake he encountered at the ramp before dawn. He got out of his truck to un- hook the boat and there in his way was a six foot long velvet tail. Coiled and ready! He had run over it with the boat trailer, but he was still alive and he was mad! He thought he had run over a log , blown down from last nites storm. He killed it with a boat paddle. He was still out of breath thirty minutes later. This snake weighed 33 lbs. (not the one in the pic). It had 11 rattlers and a pretty red velvet patch six or so inches long above the tail. This was not my first sighting of a velvet tail.
A few years back (25 or so), my buddy, Joey called and said let’s go hunting. Now I was thinking he wanted to ride the road and poach a deer from the truck. He said no we were gonna snake hunt. It was an hour before dark and he said that is when they crawl out on the side of the road and can be ran over. I was thinking if we ran over it ….it would destroy it. He showed me the skin of one he had killed two days earlier. This was huge and definitely not a snake from around here. I was wrong! Our first gravel road didn’t produce any snakes and we turned down another less used paved road and in no time we saw a “log” half way across the road. Joey put both right tires smack dab on its head. I looked back to see this huge snake wrestle itself in the middle of the road. Armed with a garden hoe ( with a long handle) Joey finished it off. Just over five feet long. Ten rattlers and a nice velvet patch above the tail. This was amazing !!!! This was the biggest snake I had ever been “involved” with. We finished out the trip and didn’t bag any more. I watched as Joey skinned this thing and he needed help holding it on the pic nick table. He salted it and stretched it out to dry. I never knew we had these “big” snakes in our woods. They are rare but they are there! We killed some more that year and that was it for me. I didn’t like the whole process. It was dangerous. Snakes have reflexes and can strike after they are dead. These big velvet tails have some enormous fangs. Not pin holes that I usually think would be the result from a bite. My uncle worked on the rail road and said they dug up some nice ones weighing well over 50lbs and over 7′ long.
Recent Velvet Tail Killed In Arkansas Near Strawberry River
Crotalus horridus is the timber rattler. There are many sub species in this family of pit vipers. Some call it the “cane break” and most don’t get as big as these rare ones. If you find an area that has one, well there is usually another. The neurotoxic component of the Type A venom is referred to as canebrake toxin, and is a phospholipase A2. It is analogous to the neurotoxins found in the venoms of several other rattlesnake species and, when present, contributes significantly to the overall toxicity. Other components found in the venom include a small basic peptide that works as a myotoxin, a fibrinogen-clotting enzyme that can produce defibrination syndrome, and a bradykinin-releasing enzyme.
After 22 months and over ten surgeries.
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Perseids Meteor Shower
Tonight after dark begins an amazing show of meteors. We go through the trail of a comet that past many years ago. The shower’s parent comet, 109P/Swift-Tuttle passed through our inner solar system back in the early 1990′s and will not be back again until 2126. It left a real good dust trail then with the particulate matter being about the size of a corn flake and with the same texture. So none of this will make it to the surface. It started on the 11th of this month and will last until the 13th. So you have a chance to see it early Saturday morning. The northern hemisphere gets the best show this time and streaks start to show up as soon as it gets dark and peaks an hour or two before dawn. These meteors will be “shooting” from the Perseids radiant, so look in the direction of that constellation.
The Perseid Radiant
Look towards the North East
However you can see meteors in every direction
I’m not real big into astronomy and I was reminded of this today from B”man or I wouldn’t have even remembered. However I do recall watching this in 2004 with the same type of moon we have now. Which is just a sliver and rises in the NW before sunset and sets quickly around midnight. So if you are out in the boon docks like me you should really see a show. It is a quarter after midnight and I have already seen a dozen, mostly around ten. SkyandTelescope is one of the best sites I have found for a redneck with two years of college to figure what is going on in the sky. I just recently started following the moon phases to see if I could catch more bass during certain times of the months. Which I am finding out wind direction and gradient pressure has more to do with bass hitting than anything.
With the recent “close” call we had with an asteroid and the lack of news of such a thing, I plan to at least try to get my star news from an independent source. S & T works pretty well and I will keep the rest of my redneck buddies up to date from what I can find from them. Gotta go outside and look. It will be three years before we have a moon in the first quarter during August when we pass through this trail every year.
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Crazy Town
Traveling today, but wanted to share this little video from CharlieVlog (h/t DProgram):
Really. If you are still questioning whether or not we are in for big trouble, WTF is wrong with you?
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Times Are “Unusually Uncertain”
Give that man a Kewpie Doll for his acute observations.
I have been making some similar observations, but I don’t really understand monetary policy (not in the light that these lying criminals do, anyway). One way to know that the federal reserve is a damned liar is to simply go to their website and notice that it is a .gov (as opposed to a .com). The impression to most would be that they are actually a government entity (and almost every word uttered by these criminals is made to lead you to believe this). But, of course, the Fed is not a part of the US government. It is a private entity. They, however, inform us that:
… the Federal Reserve can be more accurately described as “independent within the government.”
Now forget the fact that the Founding Fathers were adamantly against such an entity (they were against almost everything that our current government does, as a matter of fact, especially relating to wars and alliances with criminal thugs like Israel and Saudi Arabia and Egypt and… Name the kowtowing, evil and complicit country you so desire). Realize that since its inception their supposed goal was to:
provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
Do I have to point out what a booming success this has been?
But they go on to say things have changed since its inception (just no clues to exactly what these were):
Over the years, its role has evolved and expanded.
I have to agree, don’t you? It has evolved and expanded to a point that it has basically killed America. So, thank you, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and all you other Jews that somehow, miraculously, have now been ordained to run this country in the ground.
(Oh, so you took a little offense to the Jews comment? Then, simply start Googling the names of the people in charge, people who are advising Obama, as well, and tell me how many Jew names are found.)
Zionism is evidently running this country at every level. If you cannot see this, then you are sadly fucked up.
We won’t come out of this like Japan is trying to. It is impossible and the reason why is that they had manufacturing of TV’s and Cars. Tell me about our manufacturing base and how it will save us from the doom of hyperinflation.
I want to say just one more thing about the title of this post: if Ben Bernanke is saying shit like this, I guarantee you that things are far worse than we can imagine.
Can you not FEEL the Perfect Storm in the air? Don’t you sense something horrible about to occur? Am I just some conspiracy nutcase who can’t stop his rambling imagination? Am I making this shit up, or what?
I am asking you folks that read here to let me know how you feel about where this is headed. Many read and don’t comment (and maybe simply come here to get a little laugh at my crazy expense). I don’t mind, but if this is the case (no_slapzz), chime in and explain why I am off base in my fears and suspicions. Explain to me and others how this scenario isn’t what I claim. I am ALL EARS.
Until then, read the entire interview with John Williams that Jay Midnyte at Thoughtswirl shared with our friend Kelso’s Nuts (I happened to see it and it really struck a chord with me). I have taken a couple of the main points and assembled them below, but the entire interview is a good read. Basically, we are in an extended Recession (whether or not the government wants to admit it or not) with no end in sight. People (consumers) aren’t spending money. They can’t… they don’t have any. what little they do happen to get extra, they try to save or spend it on necessities or preparations. The “stimulus” packages are only a slight band-aid barely stuck to a gaping jugular vein.
TER: Can the governments pull any more stimulus levers yet this year?
JW: Oh, I think they’ll try, but nothing much they can do will have anything other than short-term impact. If they write everyone a check, people go out and buy things. That would give the economy a quick boost but do nothing to change the underlying fundamentals or to correct the structural problems in this recession. Those are tied to the lack of robust growth in consumer income.
TER: So consumer income is a key factor.
JW: Absolutely. If you put in housing that’s related to the consumer, that’s three-quarters of the GDP. The average household is not staying ahead of inflation, and unless income grows faster than inflation, the economy won’t grow faster than inflation—and that means that GDP is not growing. Income sustains consumption. When income grows, consumption grows. The only way to have sustainable long-term economic growth is to have healthy growth in income. You can buy some short-term economic growth, though, without growth in income, through debt expansion, which is what Greenspan tried.
Most of the growth we’d seen in the last decade prior to this downturn was due to debt expansion. The debt structures have pretty much been put through the wringer and consumers are not expanding credit, generally because it’s not available to them. Absent debt expansion and/or significant growth in income, no way can the consumer expand personal consumption. You have to address employment, quality of jobs.
Maybe I’m just another dumbass redneck, but it seems quite evident to me that without returning the jobs, nothing will improve. How can it? How can Americans keep their quality of life (as degraded as it has become over the past couple of decades) without having good jobs? John will tell you that off-shoring the jobs is the biggest culprit and that the Greenspan reign brought that idiotic strategy into fruition. It has devastated our economy and way of life.
TER: You’re suggesting that problems with the quality of jobs, if not the quantity, goes back to Greenspan—before the recession kicked in.
JW: Yes. A lot of high-paying jobs have been lost to offshore competition, to U.S. companies moving facilities offshore and to outsourcing offshore. That’s been the primary driver of declining household income.
But who profits? Who gets the better end of the shit tainted stick?
Let me answer this way: It Ain’t You, Redneck. You get the shit end. I promise.
So what is next, you ask? And maybe “when” will it happen?
TER: Clearly you see us spiraling out of control.
JW: We’ve been talking about an economic recession, but we are headed for something far worse. I define a depression as a 10% peak-to-trough contraction in the economy. In terms of the broad economy, we’re not down 10% in GDP yet. So while we’re not formally in depression, we’re certainly seeing it in a number of indicators and I think we’ll be in a depression, with GDP down 10%, in the near future.
A contraction greater than 25% peak-to-trough puts you in a great depression. That is what I envision, but we’ll be taken there by hyperinflation and a resultant cessation of normal commerce.
You can rest assured that this “government entity” will try to add more stimulus money into the system. They will do anything they can to avoid the systemic breakdown of our monetary system (at least they will give the illusion that they are trying to avoid it). We will see even more money being printed and we will see the same effects from it… maybe a few roads and cute little sweet deals for the Congress to make nice with their brainwashed constituents. Shoot, we might even get ANOTHER Census (Whoopee!).
But there will NOT be a real change in policy. They will continue to off shore the jobs.
Why?
Because this is not about America and keeping this country safe and strong. This is about bringing us DOWN to the level of the rest of the world. Wages, ideologies, banking, military, etc. Everything is being forced into their new world order.
One can believe that The Fed is doing everything they can to fix this shit that they created. But, me and a few others are finally understanding that this gracious, wonderful Big Brother is really an evil, murderous and thieving bastard intent on controlling the entire planet (and every living soul there).
This is what we have to look forward to. So, as I have been pounding this dead horse over and over to get ready, maybe John’s words will hold some credence with you:
TER: How do we get through this, John?
JW: If there’s no solution for the system—and I don’t see one; I think it just has to run its course—there still is good news. We as individuals have ways of protecting ourselves, our families, our friends, our businesses—whatever is important to us. To do that we have to preserve the value of our wealth and assets in order to ride out the storm. As terrible as it will be, it will end. A time will come when things become self-righting and the people who have been able to survive will be able to do some extraordinary things.
TER: And what do you advocate in terms of individuals preserving wealth and assets?
JW: Hold some gold, silver, precious metals. I’m talking physical possession. Preferably coins because coins, sovereign coins, are recognized as such. They don’t have liquidity issues. Having some assets outside the U.S., and certainly some assets outside the U.S. dollar, is a good thing. I like the Australian dollar, the Canadian dollar, the Swiss franc in particular. They won’t suffer the same hyperinflation in Australia, Canada and Switzerland as we do in the U.S., so those currencies will tend to act as ways of preserving wealth. Over time real estate is a traditional store of wealth, but it’s not portable and sometimes it’s not liquid.
If I’m right about what’s going to unfold, a significant shift in government is possible; suppose the government moved so far to the left where maybe private ownership of property was not allowed. Having a lot of assets in real estate under those circumstances might not be so good. I think generally real estate is a good bet but you also have to consider the risks. Use common sense. Think through different things that could happen.
Most importantly, build up a store of supplies, more than you would normally consume over a couple of months, particularly food and water, canned goods. Having those goods can save your life in a number of ways. You’d have food to eat, and if you have extra you can use it to barter. I met a guy who’d been through hyperinflation and found for purposes of the barter system those airline-size bottles of high-quality scotch proved quite valuable. Buy things that you would otherwise consume and rotate your inventory. Don’t go out buying all sorts of things you’ll never use. Keep what makes sense to you and your circumstances. Make sure you have things that are stable. Not too perishable.
I had a professor at Dartmouth who’d lived for a while in a hyperinflationary environment that devolved into a barter system. He told a story about how his father had traded his shirt for a can of sardines. He decided to eat the sardines, which was a mistake because they had gone bad. But nonetheless that can of sardines had taken on monetary value. So when you look to trade things you want to be careful what you’re doing.
Ben, these times really aren’t all that uncertain after all. I am quite “certain” that you and the rest of the criminal cabal is going to screw me and the rest of America.
Of this I am “Unusually Certain”.
That is why I am doing these steps that John lists (and was before I ever even heard of him). I advise you to do the same. We are short timers in America.
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Viva de Gangsta– ASSHOLES!
This post is from todays AOL News Page.
Ballad and narcocorrido singer Sergio Vega was shot and killed while driving on a highway near Los Mochis on June 26 — just hours after he contacted the press to refute rumors of death. The gunmen who murdered the singer have not been apprehended.
As Mexico grapples with a lengthy and increasingly bloody drug war, tunes glorifying drug runners, gang enforcers and narcotics cartels have emerged as the songs of an era.
“Narcocorridos” are in many ways a continuation of Mexico’s long “corrido” tradition of lyrical storytelling. But instead of singing the praises of folk heroes like Pancho Villa or a woman who saved her village from a flood, these ballads are musical tributes to the generals and foot soldiers in a drug war that, according to the U.S. State Department, has claimed some 23,000 lives since December 2006.
“The ballad is completely alive in the present day, and it’s about things going on in the present day,” said Elijah Wald, author of “Narcocorrido: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas.”
Corridos first emerged in the 1800s as a kind of historical ballad that honored famous people and notable exploits. Though there were some Prohibition-era crooners who sang about booze smugglers sneaking liquor across the border, modern narcocorridos only emerged in the 1970s as drug trafficking became increasingly lucrative in Mexico.
That’s when groups like Los Tigres del Norte began documenting the drug trade with tunes like “Contrabando y Traicion” (“Contraband and Betrayal”), a song detailing a Bonnie and Clyde-style couple who smuggle drugs across the border, only for the girlfriend to gun down her man and escape with the money.
A decade later, Mexican immigrant and Los Angeles resident “Chalino” Sanchez brought a gruff voice and a tough persona to the world of narcocorridos. While earlier singers of narcocorridos became popular as documentarians of the drug trade, Sanchez became a star by acting as if he was a part of it himself.
Eduardo Parra, WireImage
The Mexican group Los Tigres del Norte has been singing about the drug trade with narcocorridos for more than 30 years. The band, pictured here playing in Spain in 2009, started with a Bonnie and Clyde-style tune called “Contrabando y Traicion.” Newer tunes include political commentary about Mexico’s drug war.
“Chalino Sanchez was a little more like Tupac [Shakur] in a sense,” said Mark Edberg, author of “El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.-Mexico Border.”
“He was a little bit more in that world, unlike some of the other singers. In fact, he pulled out a gun and fired at the crowd at one of his shows,” Edberg said.
Sanchez was shot and killed in 1992 after a concert in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a major drug-running region. But his violent death only added to the mystique of narcocorrido songs and their singers.
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The Mexican group Los Tigres del Norte has been singing about the drug trade with narcocorridos for more than 30 years. The band, pictured here playing in Spain in 2009, started with a Bonnie and Clyde-style tune called “Contrabando y Traicion.” Newer tunes include political commentary about Mexico’s drug war.
“After some of the original narcocorrido heroes like Chalino Sanchez, the record companies realized that there is street cred and street value in these things, and they started marketing them and playing them up, looking for the most exaggerated and extreme form of the character,” said Edberg, an associate professor at George Washington University. “The marketing becomes the reality — like gangsta rap.”
Since then, narcocorridos have continued to gain fans both north and south of the border.
The tunes themselves aren’t bound to a distinct sound — they can be performed over a number of different musical arrangements, from brass-heavy “banda” stylings to “norteno” backings featuring an accordion, a 12-string guitar called a “bajo sexto” and other instruments.
That said, many narcocorridos have powerful lead vocals, a steady, polka-influenced beat and intricately crafted lyrics filled with evocative language and thinly veiled puns.
For instance, if you ever hear the words “cuerno de chivo” — literally a “goat horn” — the singer is really talking about an AK-47 assault rifle.
“Corridos are an old, traditional form,” said Edberg. “There are little subtexts and humor that you find in these things. At a concert where narcocorridos are played, there may be exaggerated gunfire sounds — but people are dancing happily and treating it almost like pro wrestling, almost like a cartoon
It’s the lyrics that make a tune a narcocorrido, and like the historical corridos of yesteryear, today’s songs often describe specific events such as shootouts and drug runs.
Narcocorridos can also be boastful “corridos de amistad” — songs of friendship — that are reminiscent of many boastful gangsta rap songs.
“Corridos de amistad don’t tell a story, they just say, So-and-so is the greatest ever, he has the biggest guns, the fastest cars, the prettiest girlfriends,” said Wald.
“The big advantage of the corrido de amistad is that [the subjects] don’t have to have done anything impressive,” he said. “It means they can hire someone to write one. A lot of corrido writing is done for hire — particularly the corridos de amistad.”
In a music market largely demonetized by piracy, connections to drug traffickers can prove lucrative for musicians and songwriters. For the narcotics cartels, the songs serve as a kind of an ad, according to Edberg.
“The traffickers commission them,” he said. “They are like advertisements in a cultural form that are known.”
As narcocorrido musicians have emerged as historians of the drug trade — and sometimes even hire court singers for drug cartels — some musicians have met the same violent fates as the characters in their songs.
Gregory Bull, AP
Ballad and narcocorrido singer Sergio Vega was shot and killed while driving on a highway near Los Mochis on June 26 — just hours after he contacted the press to refute rumors of death. The gunmen who murdered the singer have not been apprehended.
Singer Valentin Elizalde was murdered in 2006, and many fans of narcocorridos believe his death was linked to his song “A Mis Enemigos” — “To My Enemies” — which mocked the Gulf Cartel drug gang.
The following year, Sergio Gomez, the lead singer of the group K-Paz de la Sierra, was kidnapped, tortured and strangled to death after a concert. Gomez wasn’t known for his narcocorridos but rather his love songs. However, some speculate that the 34-year-old was murdered by drug gangs in the Michoacan state because of ties to rival narcotics traffickers.
In June, narcocorrido singer Sergio Vega, 40, was killed hours after he gave an interview to a news website, denying rumors of his murder.
“It has happened to me for years now — someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I have been killed, or suffered an accident,” Vega told La Oreja shortly before gunmen ambushed his vehicle with automatic weapons. “And then I have to call my dear mother, who has heart trouble, to reassure her.”
Wald doesn’t think narcocorrido singers are necessarily being targeted because of the content of their music — unlike many American gangsta rappers from the 1990s.
“These are people who play at parties for the drug lords, they do songs for the drug world,” he said. “They are in that world, and that is a very dangerous world to be in. Whether the murders have any connection to the music, nobody you ever talk to will know the answer to those questions.
“Once you are in a world where they are killing a dozen people a day, it doesn’t take a lot to get killed,” he said.
As the Mexican government has attempted to crack down on drug cartels, there has been a push to limit the radio play of narcocorridos, and even imprison musicians who sing them. But according to Wald, the tunes were never big radio hits — instead they were performed live and distributed on bootleg tapes, CDs and now YouTube.
“Now they are talking about a national ban in Mexico,” he said. “Nobody in the business is bothered by the concept of a ban. The government is just posturing.”
Despite governmental opposition, the music remains popular in Mexican regions where the narcotics trade thrives, like the states of Sinaloa, Sonora and Michoacan. The tunes are also popular in Mexican neighborhoods around the U.S.
Why? Well, for the same reasons that gangsta rap, crime movies and violent video games have found audiences, said Edberg.
“You do get a lot of people saying, ‘This is horrible, this is terrible,’” he said. “But you also have people saying, ‘This just reflects reality — we’re just telling stories about what we see every day.’”
