The American Memory Ho’

Memory Ho’, cause they are screwing with our minds.

But the real memory hole is deep and wide and encompasses huge amounts of data irreconcilable by any thinking person. The movie 1984 addressed this and showed how documents were purposefully destroyed by sending them down the pneumatic tubes in the Ministry of Truth and then the writers re-wrote history to keep the public from knowing the truth.

A memory hole is seen by some as one of the common tactical and strategic operations of governments, particularly as a method of silencing those whose historical views are out of step with governmental or more popular views. As two seminal quotations note: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — Inner Party member O’Brien in 1984; “Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” — I. F. Stone

One would think that people could remember what actually happened in the early hours of certain tragic and monumental “attacks” on our country. And maybe it is this ability to remember that causes me to question so many issues that just disappear without much further evaluation. Maybe it is the seeming “unbelievableness” that certain governmental agencies might be instrumental in some of America’s worst moments that keep people from remembering what was first reported over and over again.

I have focused on 9/11 many times and pointed out various discrepancies that cause me to question the “official story”. But this is not a new phenomena.

Case in point is the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building. I remember vividly that day and the many reports during the first few hours that told one story which has miraculously disappeared since.

For instance, if I asked you how many bombs were involved on that fateful day, what would you answer? What type of bomb(s) was it?

If you read the Wikipedia link above, you will find the “official story” and a single paragraph that attempts to “explain away” another bomb.

At 10:28 am CST rescuers found what they believed to be a second bomb. Some rescue workers refused to leave until police ordered the mandatory evacuation of a four-block area around the site. The device was determined to be a three-foot (.9-m) long TOW missile used in the training of federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs, although actually inert, it had been marked “live” in order to mislead arms traffickers in a planned law enforcement sting. On examination the missile was determined to in fact be inert, and relief efforts resumed 45 minutes later.

The following film based upon the TV coverage minutes after the bombing show a completely different story… a different number of bombs and bomb types… and the immediate control of the narrative that was implemented as soon as those in control could grab the media and make a new story.

Be careful, you might be described as a “conspiracy nut” simply by viewing the early news reports in an attempt to understand the truth about that day.

Cover-up In Oklahoma Part 1 of 4

Cover-up In Oklahoma Part 2 of 4

Cover-up In Oklahoma Part 3 of 4

Cover-up In Oklahoma Part 4 of 4

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They Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are

Or maybe in similar places that Monica put hers:

The point is that the theater we call government shows priority for protecting certain crimes over pursuing crimes. I have complained about the 911 Commission’s lack of real investigation and the small amount of money used for those “investigations” cover-ups here before.

But this isn’t an isolated notion. It happens in every facet of what they do. Washington’s Blog brought up a post from May of last year where they listed the amounts of money spent on various “investigations” coverupscitizen appeasement strategies and it is worth noting here:

The government spent $175 million investigating the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

It spent $152 million on the the Columbia disaster investigation.

It spent $30 million investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

The government only authorized $15 million for the 9/11 Commission.

And how much has the government authorized for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission? You know, the commission charged with getting to the bottom of what caused the financial crisis?

Just $8 million.

These figures don’t account for inflation. For example, the Challenger investigation cost over $300 million in today’s dollars.

You can tell alot about the questions which the government is truly interested in finding answers to by the amount of money it authorizes for the various investigations.

As I often say, “Follow the money”, or in this case, the lack thereof.

h/t BrassCheckTV

Rummy: My Favorite Lizard

Does he eat dead Mexican Babies?

I dunno, but I do believe he is an evil, murderous thug. Perfect for his book tour and sad that there will be enough people who actually desire reading his BS.

The following is all I need to know about him:

Never heard of Building 7? How convenient. That is one of the places in which its destruction covered up many of his associated crimes. Of course he “never heard of it”.

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Merry Christmas

Christmas morning 2010. I love to hunt! I pursue deer and turkey. Hunting season begins here in October with an archery season. So I am usually in the woods on the first of October with my bow. 15 to 20 feet above the ground in a tree. (Not bad for someone who is afraid of heights). I hunted mainly out of one stand this year. I call it my “honey hole” so to speak. Most hunters have their favorite spot. The lock on stand, which I have on a red oak is in my favorite spot. It is close to where four different properties come to a corner with four different types of forest growth. I am located about 75 yards from this corner.

Rub Near My Stand

On opening morning I am in the stand a lil’ before daylight.  Leaves are still on the trees and it is still green.  It was cool that morning around 50 degrees with a slight north wind.  I am facing north and looking at the intersection of these four tracts of land.  There is a trail intersection that I have seen a lot of tracks and there are a few trees rubbed.  After about an hour I turned to look back behind me and three does busted me.  I guess they saw me move and the ran off.  I waited another hour or so and called it a day.  I like the early morning hunt as opposed to the evening. There is something about watching the world wake up in the woods.  The birds are the first, then the squirrels start to move around.  Sometimes I get to see a coyote or hear a pack of them in the distance.  Three days later it was colder and the wind was right for me to ambush a deer coming through this funnel like area where the properties meet.  I looked down under this big white oak (deer favorite fall food) and those three doe from opening morning were feeding on these acorns.  I watched as they used their hooves to rake the leaves back and could hear them chomping on the white oak acorns.  They looked to be close to the same age and were around 80 to 90 pounds I would guess.  Before I raised my bow I heard a twig snap to my right and looked and saw two more sneaking in.  I slowly raised my bow and had one at 20 yards directly in front of me.  She was  broad sided to me and I put my 20 yard pin on her front shoulder.  I hit my release and I heard the arrow hit its mark.  She jumped and mule kicked backwards and ran straight under my tree.  She stopped behind me and just stood there.  The three eating the acorns were still there and were getting nervous.  Time seems to slow down when this happens.  I reached in my quiver and the injured doe ran.  She fell about forty yards from me and didn’t move.  It was nine o’clock and I had my first deer of the season on the third day of the season.  A hunter could not take a doe in Mississippi a few years ago, now it is encouraged to take a few to help the herd and get the buck to doe ratio closer to where it needs to be.  You can take five deer in MS with three bucks included in your yearly quota.

My Bow, Truck, & Stand

I took two more does from the “honey hole” before gun season started.  You can hunt with a gun on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.  During bow season I saw a lot of deer from this spot and let a few small bucks walk on through without taking a shot.  I try not to take a small buck under 8 points.  I have and I may in the future, but I try to take larger buck if I can.  Now I am afraid of heights and it is funny that I will climb a tree and get higher than corn to hunt deer.  Deer have the best senses it the woods and are  a nervous sort.  This helps them  to survive the hunt.  Their sense of smell is amazing.  Better than a tracking hound dog.  I use the wind to give me a better chance of seeing deer in this area.  A north or northwest wind is really the only way you can hunt this corner stand.  However, if it is too windy, I can’t hunt up in a tree.  I feel like I’m falling and I can’t be comfortable in the stand.  I generally use a harness when I’m up in a stand and highly recommend everyone use all the safety devices one can employ.

As December approaches,  the rut starts.  The bucks start to chase doe and become overcome with the desire to mate.  They kinda let their defenses down and move more during the day time.  Deer are mostly nocturnal, especially bucks.  I hadn’t seen a shooter buck all year,  and was thinking I would get shut-out as I did last year.  I am hunting on sixty acres that has been in my family since the 1940′s.  Finding land one can hunt on is becoming scarce around these parts.  Without the money for a big lease for some hunting property, I am stuck with the family land.

Christmas morning has come and I am going hunting with a co-worker of my wife’s.  He is 20 years old and I have taken him a couple of times this year already.  He did see a six point earlier in the year and I was proud of him for letting it walk to get bigger.  It was cold this morning and I have a half a mile walk to the “honey hole” stand.  I got up in the lock-on and got situated.  I am now hunting with my 700 Remington .270 caliber.  I can drive a tack at 250 yards with this rifle but I only have a hundred yards or so that I can see from this stand.  I guess thirty minutes went by and I started to see better as first light was breaking.  There is a time when the shadows give way even before the sun comes up.  Its getting active.  Birds start chirping and the now fallen leaves are rustling with squirrels.  Over on the property next to me I see a doe trotting my way.  She is moving pretty quick and is 50 yards from me before I knew it.  I shouldered my rifle to look at her through the scope.  I could see her very well and she looked to be about 100 pounds.  Then over the hill behind her I see a set of horns,  then the body of a nice deer.  He is not a monster, but a shooter.  Especially since I hadn’t taken a buck in two years.  The doe turns and runs back towards him, then one eighties back to me and runs right under my stand in full trot.  As if to draw him right to me ….she did as he trotted with his nose to the ground within 30 yards of me.  Then he turned broad sided as if to say “here you go” !  I took the shot and he hit the ground like a sack of sand and didn’t move!  Hey it was Christmas morning and by 7 am I had a buck on the ground.  It was a nice present.  He was an eight pointer.  Not the biggest I had ever taken but he would do.  My freezer is full now and I have enjoyed some nice back strap dinners and hind quarter roasts.  Turkey season starts in just a few weeks!

Merry Christmas

 

 

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Raw Dawg Calls Out US Hypocrisy

Raw Dawg Buffalo (Professor Torrance Stephens) is a friend I made on-line due to the very similar views we hold about this country and how it is experiencing its demise. He and I are an unlikely friendship on its face, but he has shown that no matter what physical differences or sociological differences, we are very similar in a lot of ways.

It was this that attracted me to him (and the fact that he is an excellent writer and well worth subscribing to). I have been saying for quite some time that we need to shirk the black vs white false divide and to come together to take back this country from the Corptocracy. The original article is found at his website, but I wanted to Post it in its entirety here:

The Two face Hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy

I have been writing and expounding on US foreign policy since the early 1980s. My first or one of my earliest essays was called “Israel’s fascist Penumbra” which was published in the Black Students Association Journal at Memphis State University in 1985. 

It addressed the “do anything” for Israel mentality and our traditionally mistaken monolithic conviction of Arabs and Africans worldwide, that we often dissemble under the shadow of peace and agoraphobia. What is common regarding now and then and even times prior is the “do as I say and not as I do” legacy of colonialist and imperial belief orientations that place all European in origin at the summit of rational behavior and what is deemed to be acceptable.

On the one hand we vilify the Arab and African States for their desire for governments to run as theocracies, yet we do the same here. Promulgating policies based on religious beliefs and biblical guidance. Our own founding as a nation saw the assertion that Africans were less valuable and more akin to live stock than human beings. An edict that presented itself in policies from slavery to Jim Crow and segregation. In Oklahoma, a law was recently passed that bars courts from considering Shariah law when deciding cases was put on hold. And we are well aware of the tense debate facilitated via the discussion of abortion.

We condemn terrorist for their no holds barred attacks on America, yet we support going to Somalia and just killing everyone in sight as if their lives are less important than ours to avenge the deaths of four Christian Missionaries who were not asked to come to their country in the first place. We support invading and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq and manufacture policy and war to remove leaders we label tyrants and dictators and autocrats yet give similar men billions in aid annually and historically and invite them to the Whitehouse for dinner pretending as if their blood is not on our hands from the tanks and fighter we give them.

We supported Chiang Kai-Shek’s ROC government from the 1930s to 1949 in a civil war that saw the murder of tens of thousands. In Chilie we funded General Augusto Pinochet who murdered and tortured thousands from 1973 to 1990. Then there was Suharto in Indonesia and Papa and baby Doc in Haiti.

But it is to only be expected for unfortunately we too are a nation of terrorist and celebrate such resonantly. In Mississippi, there is an attempt to venerate Nathan Bedford Forrest, a man whose image on horseback I road past almost daily in my home town of Memphis, Tennessee. Yes, 150 years after the start of the Civil War people want to celebrate a murderer who founded a terrorist organization called the Ku Klux Klan. An organization from its inception main goal was to conduct inordinate acts of violence solely on African Americans in the South eventually including the bombing deaths of four girls attending Sunday school in a Church in 1963.

This man was also known for what he did on April 12, 1864 at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, when General Nathan Bedford Forrest captured the fort with his 1,500. In the process, according to eyewitness accounts like General Kilpatrick (USA), Forrest “nailed Negroes to the fences, set fire to the fences, and burned the Negroes to death.” More than 300 African American Union troops were massacred then.

But let me not digress, the point is that US foreign policy is the result of constructs that are two-faced. For if other did to us what we did to them we would be extremely upset and throwing hissy fits. We are so shallow, self-centered and heedless. Yes we are hypocrites and this hypocrisy may be what destroys us, just as it leads to behaviors that spoliated ancient Rome.

Posted by Torrance Stephens – All-Mi-T

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Surgery Was A Success

Update:

I went in at 9:30 AM on Tuesday. The staff took me back to surgery prep before 10:00AM. The surgery took less than 1 hour (was scheduled for 2 hours). The Doctor was pleased and believes that it went without a hitch.

I have a follow-up scheduled for a week from tomorrow (March 4) and they will decide then if I need a cast (there is a heavily wrapped splint now) or go back to the boot.

I must say that the pain is far worse now than before the surgery, but they have given me meds to help (and they do help, as long as I remember to take them on time). The biggest issue is my reliance on my family for virtually everything, but I know that I must limit myself to avoid re-injury. This is unlike me.

I want to thank all of you who have expressed sympathy (and some via empathy, for you have been thru something similar) and all your warm thoughts and/or prayers.

On another note, I have been reading and studying the potential of micro-nuke demolition on 9/11 that have been floating around the web lately. If you have any info to provide, I would appreciate it.

Unlike another site I regularly read, I will not ban anyone for offering their opinion. I am ready to examine every possible scenario for demolition and have NO firmly held beliefs one way or another. All that I am firm about is that the Towers (all three) were demolished and that it was not gravity and heat that brought them down.

But even if you believe such, I wouldn’t ban you. The only reason I banned the three people who I did get rid of was due to attacks on me personally.

I still stand by my original nut-cutting statement:

“If you don’t believe that those towers came down by demolition, then you are either wholly uninformed, stupid or complicit”.

That being said, if it appears that you come here due to your complicity, you will likely be banned. But to the contrary, I would never ban someone for being uniformed or stupid.

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Buelah’s Bum Leg

Quick update:

I visited with the surgeon yesterday and they scheduled surgery for this morning. It is out-patient and I hope to be home mid-afternoon.

The Achilles tendon is, in fact, severed and the two ends are about 1.5″ apart. This is not a complicated surgery (just stitching the two ends together). But it requires a cast (they may allow me to use the boot, I hope) for 6-8 weeks and then rehab/Physical Therapy for another 6 weeks or so.

This burns me as far as gardening and fishing, etc. Must not put any weight on it after its stitched because the stitches can break.

I appreciate all kind thoughts for healing!

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… dead birds… then

… a severe outbreak coastally of respirtory and sinus flu/virus is not connected??? BULL!!!!!

A universal synthetic vaccine to beat flu? – IBNLive.com

21 Feb 2011 at 1:07am
A universal synthetic vaccine to beat flu? – IBNLive.com

21 Feb 2011 at 1:07am
Andhra poultry farmers on bird flu alert – Times of India

20 Feb 2011 at 5:41pm
Andhra poultry farmers on bird flu alert – Times of India

20 Feb 2011 at 5:41pm
India kills 4000 poultry in bird flu outbreak – eTaiwan News

20 Feb 2011 at 4:54am
India kills 4000 poultry in bird flu outbreak – eTaiwan News

20 Feb 2011 at 4:54am
Bird Flu fears after 16 swan deaths in six weeks at Stratford-upon-Avon – Sun…

20 Feb 2011 at 3:27am
Bird Flu fears after 16 swan deaths in six weeks at Stratford-upon-Avon – Sun…

20 Feb 2011 at 3:27am
Birdflu outbreak in Agartala due to virulent H5 strain – Hindustan Times

20 Feb 2011 at 2:29am
Birdflu outbreak in Agartala due to virulent H5 strain – Hindustan Times

20 Feb 2011 at 2:29am
Meghalaya sounds bird flu alert – Times of India

19 Feb 2011 at 12:20pm
Meghalaya sounds bird flu alert – Times of India

19 Feb 2011 at 12:20pm
Tripura sounds alert on bird flu – The Hindu

19 Feb 2011 at 10:17am
Tripura sounds alert on bird flu – The Hindu

19 Feb 2011 at 10:17am
Bird Flu Outbreak in Tripura – MedIndia

19 Feb 2011 at 7:50am
Bird Flu Outbreak in Tripura – MedIndia

19 Feb 2011 at 7:50am
Bird flu breaks out in Tripura, culling begins – Times of India

19 Feb 2011 at 3:08am
Bird flu breaks out in Tripura, culling begins – Times of India

19 Feb 2011 at 3:08am
Bird flu wreaks havoc in Agartala – TheMedGuru

19 Feb 2011 at 2:09am
Bird flu wreaks havoc in Agartala – TheMedGuru

19 Feb 2011 at 2:09am
Bird flu suspected as teenage girl dies in central Vietnam – Thanh Nien Daily

18 Feb 2011 at 10:49pm
Bird flu suspected as teenage girl dies in central Vietnam – Thanh Nien Daily

18 Feb 2011 at 10:49pm
Bird flu resurfaces in Tripura – Business Standard

18 Feb 2011 at 12:57pm
Bird flu resurfaces in Tripura – Business Standard

18 Feb 2011 at 12:57pm
Meghalaya sounds alert on bird flu – Sify

18 Feb 2011 at 10:20am
Meghalaya sounds alert on bird flu – Sify

18 Feb 2011 at 10:20am
YOLO BYPASS Checks of migratory birds show no avian flu in US – Malaysia Sun

18 Feb 2011 at 8:47am
YOLO BYPASS Checks of migratory birds show no avian flu in US – Malaysia Sun

18 Feb 2011 at 8:47am
CSIRO joins global fight against bird flu threats – Vetsweb (press release)

16 Feb 2011 at 6:52am
CSIRO joins global fight against bird flu threats – Vetsweb (press release)

16 Feb 2011 at 6:52am
Bird flu case confirmed in Mie; 67000 birds to be culled – Japan Today

15 Feb 2011 at 3:52pm
Bird flu case confirmed in Mie; 67000 birds to be culled – Japan Today

15 Feb 2011 at 3:52pm

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LANGUAGE AND THE RON PAUL LITMUS TEST

I have a basic problem which has nothing whatsoever to do with Ron Paul. It is a problem of language. I am quite simply not used to speaking or writing contemporary American English. I only speak it on the radio show and with you. I only write it on FB or blogs. My American friends other than you, Torrance, Jay and Oren, with whom I text or speak with on a daily basis are all professional gamblers and that is an English which is very different from normal American English. The vocabulary is peculiar to the discipline and even the sentence structure and verb tenses are different. Someday, when there’s time, I´ll do shirt-pocket linguist thing and set forth with examples of what I mean.

I have come to discover that contemporary American English when you don’t speak it often is an extraordinarily complex language. It is always layered and twisted with this connotation and that tangential reference and invariably produces mis-communication among practiced native speakers! When politics is the subject, it´s a fucking mess. This is not your problem or anyone else’s. It’s my problem. Andino/Criollo Spanish is a very direct language with words having the normal series of meanings one would find in the rankings of usage in any good dictionary.

Public figures do have certain connotations to each speaker of this dialect, but the layering and knotting and twisting is nowhere near what it is in American English. There is also less reflexivity and fewer knee-jerk responses to a name, such as to take the two which seem to drive Americans crazy instantly: Ron Paul and Hugo Chávez.

My view of Ron Paul is actually quite similar to yours and I know you are an exception to what I´ve written in that you always mean what you say and say what you mean. Your opinions are always well-considered. I find Ron Paul to be a very intelligent, serious, honest, and gentlemanly guy, whose views on imperial corporatism inclusive of such violations of common decency as Zionism I share. Like you, I don’t agree with his free-market utopianism. He has never properly explained the end-game of it. I know he doesn´t approve of the wealth concentration in the USA, but his utopianism would merely freeze it place.

I might differ from you on the issue of his view of regulations of corporations but only in one sense. He would apply the concept of civil and criminal fraud more broadly than it is done in the USA now. That would include such things as bankster and Federal Reserve leverage-fraud and polluters, for example, would be guilty of defrauding their community in his concept of it.

I agree it doesn´t go far enough and I certainly disagree with him on such things as the National Health as you know. I am a National Health absolutist. Furthermore, I don’t believe any human being should have to go without food, water, clothing, shelter, education, and a chance at meaningful employment and certainly a stake in society. I don´t believe a human being should have to be a slave to either THE BOSS or THE PARTY or THE COLLECTIVE in order to qualify for these basic necessities OR ELSE!

In that sense, there really is no ideology which has a planned end-game that isn´t a pure fantasy, just like Ron Paul’s free-market utopianism.

Where you and I have a disagreement here is only on the definition of the term “neo-liberal”. My sense is that Ron Paul is most definitely NOT a neo-liberal because he’s not a statist, he’s a libertarian. Neo-liberalism involves the state, quasi-governmental structures, and NGOs forcing a NON-VOLUNTARY UNFREE-MARKET CAPITALISM UPON PEOPLE IN ORDER TO SERVE THE GREED OF ELITES.

That might or might not be an outcome of the practical implementation of Paul’s free-market utopianism. It certainly leaves no person protected in the ways I’d prefer as a baseline, but at the same time would not involve these governmental structures, etc., with an a priori task of robbing the people to feed the greed of the elites. Quite the contrary, those types of stooges to the elites would be BANNED in a republic of Ron Paul’s conception. Call him a mis-guided utopian for sure, but he is not a neo-liberal because, quite plainly, he is absolutely oppposed to imperial corporatism.

I also agree with you that no American politician who is part of the 1-party system can fully be trusted not to shift from whatever core values the politician had to a position of active or passive participant in the advancement of American imperial corporatism. Dennis Kucinich is the example par excellence of that. Given that Paul’s excellent work in getting an agreement on very good core principles among all the 2008 off-party candidates, and his dumping of Kucinich in favor of Ralph Nader in the right-left alliance he always seeks, I would be more comfortable with him if he were to become an OFFICIAL member of the Libertarian Party and leave the Republicrats.

I have no familiarity with this Lincoln character at all who showed up on the thread with a point that wasn´t terrible exactly but was not germane to that discussion and to me was yet another example of an American knee-jerk liberal rule which states that ONE MUST IMMEDIATELY REGISTER ONE’S DISAPPROVAL OF RON PAUL IN TOTO.

My life has absolutely nothing to do with the socio-political norms of the American debate. My only interest is that American military and contractors get the fuck out of every other nation and allow other people liberty and self-determination. It gains me no points to have an a priori view of any public figure, anywhere in the world. I have those I like less and those I like more, but they have to prove themselves to me for me to have an opinion. Rafael Correa, for example, has proven himself very very good for any number of actions, starting with re-nationalizing the water supply which had been forcibly sold to Vivendi during the dictatorial Noboa regime under IMF diktak, booting out the US military, refusing to honor the fraudulent IMF “debt,” and most recently thwarting an American coup attempt non-violently. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, and American stooge, has proven himself a monster — a master of genocide who will probably pass Stalin and Hitler combined in genocide before he meets his maker.

But I don´t say Correa´s “good” and Kagame’s “bad” as part of some point-scoring system of what ideology one has. I based those opinions on the two mens´deeds.

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Richard Noggin Saturday: Send In The Clown Lamar Alexander

Poor Lamar “Shitty Governor” Alexander gets another Richard Noggin Saturday post (he was recognized here a couple of years ago). His failures to his own constituents are well-known and his “Do Nothing” attitude is now a prominent feature of his entire Corporate fed career. When you watch the following video, where he is nominated by Chicken Hawk and Big Insurance funded, “Howdy Doody” to be the president, you might find some humor.

Me? I find truth masquerading in a clown’s performance.

Pay particular attention to the intro.

The campaign slogan is near perfect:

“No We Can’t! Do Nothing!”

Now, I understand that this is supposed to be funny and a gathering where they drink (The Alfalfa Club gets its name from the plant’s “supposed willingness to do anything for a drink“) and supposedly have a good time. But as Wikipedia tells us, in many instances, the Presidential nomination can have a tendency to actually occur in reality:

One of the evening’s activities includes the playful nomination of a presidential candidate by the Club’s leadership. The candidate is then required to make a speech. Several such candidates went on to hold the actual presidency after being nominated, including Richard Nixon in 1965 (elected in 1968), Ronald Reagan in 1974 (elected in 1980), and George W. Bush in 1998 (elected in 2000).^[1] In 1969, they nominated Harold Stassen.^[5] In 2004, the Club nominated the former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack Valenti. Its 2000 nomination was Australian-born James Wolfensohn, constitutionally ineligible for election to the U.S. presidency.^[1] In 2001, the presidential nomination went to John McCain.

To me, it is scary as hell that anyone even might entertain Alexander as POTUS, but something as idiotic as that would not surprise me. No more than having another idiot, Corporate-funded Southerner like Haley Barbour run as POTUS.

If you were able to view the entire thing (which is a tremendous burden, I know), you will find towards the 14:30 mark where Shitty Gov starts quoting his “friend” Alex Haley and uses his line, “Find the good, then praise it“. I have searched and searched for something to praise about Lame”R” and I can’t find a single issue worthy of praise. I would be very interested to have feedback suggesting what he has ever done that is worthy of praise.

So pass me one of those 5 Scotch and waters you sang about and let’s sing “Amazing Grace”.

You Dickhead.

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BuelahMan is Justin Bieber’s Newest Fan

My daughter is 6. She is “in love” with this kid and “wants to marry him”. She has MADE me sit thru each and every video of him (and Usher). For the life of me, I don’t get it, except to say that the kid is an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist and singer. He dances, too. Personally, if he did rock and roll I might be even more adoring of him.

But before I go on, I want to tell you about my day.

I have been to a foot “specialist” to confirm what I already knew: I have torn my Achilles tendon. This is no minor deal, either. This tendon is one of the worst to tear and repair and is apt to have many more problems with as I go forth. This specialist is a great guy. He was a student of my Mother-in-law and actually rode with her to school for quite some time. He also graduated high school with my wife. He understands my financial situation and is breaking a few of his business rules, but even with that, this is going to cost me alot of money that I don’t have.

Case in point, “The Boot”:

This sweet little contraption normally costs $500. Our friend (The Dr) let me have it for $300. They wanted me to use crutches with this boot and would sell me a pair for $80 (luckily I have access to a bent up pair that my wife’s Grandfather used 20 years ago… which will suffice). I can bend them back straight if it becomes too much of a problem, but they’re good for now.

They did Xrays of my foot and ankle ($150) and his charge for the visit was $100. My insurance comes with a $3500 deductible starting at the beginning of this year, so guess what… it’s all on me at my $290/week unemployment set to end the end of this month. He allowed me to pay $200, but the rest is due within 30 days. He has an order for me to go to the local hospital for an MRI on the lower leg, foot and ankle to confirm what we both know is the problem. I’m guessing somewhere around $1000 (maybe more).

Then, if true (I go back Tuesday for confirmation), he will send me to another Doctor for surgery in a town not too far from here (for he doesn’t work on anything above the ankle). It appears that most Achilles tendon tears are actually up around the calf, where the tendon is at its weakest point and not where it attaches to the heel. All of this means that I can figure to spend at least another $5,000 for the surgery and new Doctor. This is all money I don’t have and no way to get.

So, why do I now find myself a Bieber fan? Because he said this in a Rolling Stones article:

The Canadian-born (Justin) Bieber never plans on becoming an American citizen. “You guys are evil,” he jokes. “Canada’s the best country in the world.” He adds, “We go to the doctor and we don’t need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you’re broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard’s baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby’s premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.”

I don’t really know if he was joking or not, but the system is evil as hell, in my opinion. If you have read here any length of time, you know how I feel about Big Meds. I was a huge advocate for Single Payer and wrote about it constantly when the debate (yeah, as IF they ever debated Single payer) was brewing.

I have tracked those corrupt Congresspeople that gain from fighting against Single Payer. And I have paid tribute to the very few who worked to get it debated (and then the ones who capitulated like the lap-dogs they are). I have called the lying liars out on several occasions, noting that Mr Soetero was once a very vocal advocate (but that only happened with certain audiences):

Poor lying bastard.

I also did a series called Where In The World Is Universal Healthcare, where one could do their own investigation into how other countries have implemented similar Single Payer systems and achieved far better results in health that we could ever achieve with a profit driven system. I highly advise you read thru those posts to see how you, as an American, are getting screwed.

Suffice it to say that I recognized that the American Sheople were being taken for a ride and most gobbled up the lies like a 750 pounder gobbles up donuts. We could have better, but the people here need to wake up and get rid of the two party criminal Corptocracy which feeds in large amounts from the health insurance industry.

Rock on, Biebes!

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MY RESPONSE TO AN AMERICAN LEFTIST’S AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

http://www.zcommunications.org/when-facts-don-t-matter-by-paul-street

There´s a lake a couple of hours from where I live called Lago Arenosa and it´s a great place to take children for small-mouth bass fishing because it´s not fishing — it´s just catching fish. This essay reminded me very much of that lake…. It´s just making the usual attacks on one part of the one-party imperial corporatist system in the USA rather than the other. That´s natural, Paul. You are a scholar. Your would doesn´t have anything to do with anybody who might for whatever reason enjoy Fox News. It´s MSNBC or NPR or PBS or whatever, maybe Democracy Now for your community. 

What passes for a political debate in America is just this: some regional, cultural, stylistic, and rhetorical name-calling. Meanwhile, where are the protests? Well, the Tea people do a little of that, co-opted and mis-guided as they are. But when half of the delegates to the “Black Is Back” conferences are White, something’s very wrong.

If the American Empire were not in the process of illegally re-colonizing Panamá, I´d be happy to stay here, but we´ve got drones and manned-aircraft flights on a daily basis and 5 bases are supposed to be operational in defiance of Carter-Torrijos/Clinton/Perez-Balladares by August. So, Caracas, Quito, Guayaquil or maybe somewhere in the North of Spain where the EU and USA are hated will be my next stop. But the funny thing is that Hugo Chávez and Rafael Correa, the architects of Bolivarianism, believe many of the less absurd points on your list of “retarded Republican” viewpoints. Certainly about the Federal Reserve.

I wonder why it is that quasi-socialists like the Bolivarians, and anarco-sindicalistas like the Catalonians seem to be more opposed to the empire, the wars, the proxy civil wars, the banking-cartel and the theft of the majority of peoples´wealth by the elites than “American Marxists.” It has gotten to the point where Nicolas Sarkozy and Sebastián Piñera have said far more radical anti-American comments on just these subjects than any American “leftist” whether politician, academic or workaday man or woman. Why doesn´t the Ameican “left” seem to care about war, oppression, coercion, emperial genocide, leverage fraud, and all the other fabulous ways of the USA? Because just like the Glenn Beck fans, the American leftists are AMERICAN and are used to and like this state of affairs.

I know OFFICIAL MARXISTS don´t much care for Hugo or Rafa because they don´t meet the purity tests, but they´ve taught all of us at least one thing, aside from everything else they´ve done to change the world: they´ve taught us that we don´t have to lay down for Kissinger, Obama or Michael Moore or whoever the fuck it is that Ameriican liberals and OFFICIAL MARXISTS adore. Chomsky´s got it right. I don’t think he´d be wasting his time carrying on about Glenn Beck.

He did spend many hours, however, explaining Bolivarianism in detail at the Sloan school in 2009, though.

Gringos, q se jodan.

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Will Americans Even Notice?

I know we have noticed in this household. Every penny counts with us and there are absolutely no “extras” that we can afford. As a matter of fact, my only real salvation comes from the fact that I grow a substantial amount of the food we eat and had planned to go bigger this year. This is now complicated because It appears I tore my Achilles tendon on Saturday, which will keep me off my feet for a while (going to the doctor today with money I don’t have to confirm this today).

My wife returned from the grocery store 2 days ago witha gallon of milk that cost over $3.50. Just three weeks ago it was less than $3.00.

Everything else is extremely high, but going up more. And we are not alone. Egypt, where we have been spreading Democracy for the past 30+ years to no effect have huge percentages of their income going to all food stuffs. And guess what, these are the primary reasons those people are revolting… not because they desire Democracy (especially the type that comes at the hot end of a rifle), but because they cannot afford to live and feed their families any longer.

Forbes Magazine tells us that corn is up 94% since June, soybeans are up 51% since June, and wheat is up 80% since June. This means that virtually everything you eat is rising with it (including the soon to be defunct “Dollar Menu” from that poison center, McDonald’s.

Prices on cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes and asparagus (and many other vegetables) are set to double or triple starting right now (just go to the grocery store and see for yourself).

It looks like many of these items will be completely wiped out. In other words, you won’t be able to buy them at any price!

It is happening in India, as well:

Its happening in China, where they saw a 4.9% inflation in a one month period (if you do the math for the milk example I gave, you will see that it is an even larger percentage increase than 5%).

Riot Map of the World courtesy of Crisisboom Blog

People are rioting all over the world (with a notable exception). And Americans are told that they simply need “democracy”. But I bet if you could ask those in Mozambique, Yemen, Algeria and virtually everywhere else in the world, our form of democracy is the very last thing they want. Like me, they want food for their family, no idiotic fantasy called American democracy (which, of course, WE don’t even have). Democracy doesn’t bode well in a Fascist State (just sayin’).

And I haven’t even begun discussing all the natural disasters that will complicate (even more) the food shortages and HUNGER the world is now experiencing.

Big Freezes in the SW USA and Mexico… floods in Australia…Excessive heat in S America… floods in Argentina… on and on and on. It all adds up to pricing that will make Egypt look like a dream world, once it fully hits.

And it won’t JUST be food, either. Since we demolished our textile industries here in America, our Chinese “partners” will show us that we will be getting 35% LESS clothing for our quickly becoming worthless US Dollar.

Now, we have a corrupt government that WILL (not “might”) implement austerity measures here. But it won’t come at the cost of Empire. Oh, no, no. It will come at the cost of old people who count on Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. It will come at the price of the poorest staving children in America dying. It will come in the guise of pulling up boot straps that are worn to a frazzle and are like an old piece of leather strapping… it falls apart with just a hint of a small tug.

But the question after all of this (and my YEARS of warning anyone who will listen): Will Americans’ Even Notice?

Probably not until it is too late (which it already is).

Good Luck! You’re Screwed!

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Job Hunting

Many may know that I am unemployed and have been looking for a job.

So, I figured I would try something out of my field of expertise, but feel I might be able to do:

I posted this to Facebook and a friend and I had this discussion:

B’Man: I need a job

Friend: well that doesn’t pay well but I guess you could sell the clothes. You do get to live in a nice place!!!! with lots of art and stuff!!!!

B’Man: The hat alone would buy a lot of groceries! Also, its about the same amount of sex, except now it is with a woman, not boys.

Friend: LMAO!!!!!! Well SOME say that is way overrated anyway!!!!!

B’Man: The bubble car is pretty cool… Does this mean I have to be Nazi?

Friend: YES!! The popemobile is cool!!! No i think you can be whatever you want to be. they don’t care.

B’Man: LOL. I have now offended the Catholics. Who’s next?

Friend: I heard something about smoke being involved so I guess you are allowed do get high. I know I would have to be to wear that outfit.

B’Man: I would photoshop a Mohammad pic, but they’d kill me for that.

Friend: No I think this is as far as I would go…You would hate to be the first of the class of 79 to be beheaded!!!!

B’Man: Yeah, but there are plenty of classmates that might enjoy that…

Friend: well it would make an interesting story at the next reunion and you know we would all be there to support you and have a large party afterward!!!!

B’Man: But who would video everything?

Friend: Someone will remain sober enough to record…I bet it won’t be a shock to any of our former teachers. They will be on CNN saying we knew this would happen one day!!!!

B’Man: Most of them thought I lost my head decades ago.

Friend: LMAO!!!!

I wish every interaction, discussion, and post here and on FB was fun and about having a good time (I need to be my old self, for those who truly know me, know me to be fun-loving and kinda funny). But nowadays, I mostly use both places as a means to bitch about what appears to be issues that most people are clueless that exist. But, damn it, we need to change this place so people, again, can have fun and know that the ones “in charge” are doing everything they can to make our country and the world better.

I miss the old me, but I can’t turn a blind eye to what is happening.

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