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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 22:56:21
When all the laughter dies in sorrow
When all the laughter dies in sorrowAnd the tears have risen to a flood
When all the wars have found a cause
In human wisdom and in blood
Do you think they'll cry in sadness
Do you think the eye will blink
Do you think they'll curse the madness
Do you even think they'll think
When all the great galactic systems
Sigh to a frozen halt in space
Do you think there will be some remnant
Of beauty of the human race
Do you think there will be a vestige
Or a sniffle or a cosmic tear
Do you think a greater thinking thing
Will give a damn that man was here
(Kendrew Lascelles)
President George Walker Bush signed The Military Commissions Act of 2006, or what I call the Torture Act of 2006 this day. He signed it in the name of the 3000 innocent people that died on 9-11. However you and I both know it will be used on people who had nothing to do with 9-11. They are just THEM. We are US and everyone else is THEM. As of today we can TORTURE THEM, but unfortunately legal scholars believe this law could lead to TORTURE for US on down the line.
The power grab going on since Bush said I Do on Inauguration Day is almost complete. This new law says President George Walker Bush can decide what is torture, who can be tortured and who can be held for the rest of time without being charged with a crime. With the birth of the Torture Act of 2006 we're witness to the death of Habeas Corpus. That little legal thing that's been around since 1789. Two other Republicans before Bush played God with Habeas Corpus, Lincoln and Grant. Good Republicans, one homosexual or at the least bisexual and the other a drunk. Lincoln and Grant didn't Bush Habeas Corpus out of existence, they just ignored it.
You see from now on out anyone a President doesn't like can be deemed an Enemy Combatant and be whisked away to be tortured forever and ever amen. This day a great shame has befallen every American, in fact every human on earth. America can now be the greatest evil in the history of man. Our President, who can invade any country at will, our President who now decides what the Geneva Convention says or doesn't say, our President, who has gathered more power than any previous president can enter your home, take your children away and torture them to death.
Will Bush do that tomorrow? Probably not with anyone we know, but who knows what the future holds? Who knows the desperate acts Bush-Cheney might commit next year with a Democratic House and perhaps even Senate nipping at their heels? Hitler didn't appear evil in the beginning. He was an up and coming young man as he secretly gathered power, changed rules and strong armed his detractors into submission. If Bush follows suit we can expect the White House or the Capitol to burn in the night soon. Of course it will be blamed on terrorists and by 2008, the most power mad President in our history could very well declare an emergency so great that future elections are suspended. Anyone taking issue with such an idea could find themselves in a foreign country naked, wired up with vicious dogs taking chunks out of their ass.
This is a day of shame. Mark my words, the playing field just tipped a little more in Bush's direction. The Military Commissions Act of 2006, The Torture Act of 2006 will bite us in the ass on down the road as sure as you're reading these words. Our own Senator Mark Pryor voted for this partial birth abortion of our freedoms. Our mild mannered, aw shucks son of Saint David will go to his grave with blood on his hands. Every horror story that surfaces from here on out will be partially Mark Pryor's fault. If the people of Arkansas re-elect him in 2008 we will truly deserve what is going to come our way. We should be searching the state for a new Democratic star that will not be a Bush rubber stamp, that will not be a traitor to his party, someone who will not vote for torture. At this point it's very clear that Mark Pryor actually believes the neo-con line and rather than being blackmailed, is voting his conscience. He is one of them. The nice guy in the nice suit from the good family is one of them.
We are in grave danger. The danger is not coming from Iraq or Iran or North Korea. The danger is coming from Washington DC. The danger is coming from those that seek to divide us and conquer us from within. Our house is equally divided today and we know how the rest of that line goes. The Republicans must be stopped on November 7th.
Friday, October 13, 2006 - 12:14:38
Out Damned Spot!
For a bunch of commie, pinko, flag-burning leftists, you're awfully nice people and I'm proud to be on your side.The Wellbutrin is for the depression and to quit smoking, though it just makes cigs taste terrible and I adapt. The Zoloft is to stop the sudden feelings of impending doom. It's crazy, I keep waking up thinking our country has been taken over by aliens bent on world domination!
It all started when I had this dream about putting my ballot in the box and seeing it float up in the air like tissue caught in an updraft. I dreamed the guy with the most votes didn't win. And the guy that cheated kept winning and winning as people died in droves and rich people used 1000 dollar bills to light their cigars. 
I keep having this reoccurring dream of thousands of people lost in dark murky waters screaming out for help that never comes. I didn't count em, but the other night I dreamed my tax dollars had killed 655, 000 people in some far off country. I dreamed I had a son and some bastard kept sending him nasty IM's about his young boy penis. All the while I have this horrible feeling that I've lost my rights as an American citizen. I think someone is opening my mail, listening in on my phone calls and even checking my email for me!
I suddenly fear being kidnapped and locked away in a far off prison for the rest of my life. If I don't take my pills I feel very cold and wet and like there are electrical wires attached to my testicles. And the dogs...oh god...the snarling vicious dogs...they rip at my flesh while I'm forced to lay in a pile naked men simulating homosexual acts. 
Man...I must be sick! And why do I think Mark Pryor will not help me? He's from a good family I'm told. He looks sweet, but I saw a black aura around him the other day when I saw him standing behind some Republicans on TV.Well, enough about me. I surely do hope this new medicine starts working soon. These terrible nightmares are making my long luxurious hair fall out and my teeth seem unhappy in their jar at night. I expect to feel better by the 8th of November and maybe I'll throw a big party to celebrate my return from the dark world. We'll just have to wait and see. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and my dosage up!
Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 14:21:16
The 00's are the new 1950s!
While trying to do my taxes way late and feeling the effects of my 4th day on Zoloft, which I highly recommend to our recovering friend, Belinda, I continue to try to understand the world around me though the fog is fairly thick in my brain at the moment. For those of you not acquainted with it, in my opinion Vanity Fair is the best magazine in the US that doesn't have a centerfold. Sure there is some Paris Hilton fluff, but in between is some of the smartest reporting of current events you'll find in print.
Fortunately, a lot of it is online for free. So as a long time print subscriber I will try to pass on really important articles as I run across them. In November's edition of VF mixed in between 1st pictures of baby Suri is a great article (that I also found somewhat difficult to read) that among other things, explains one idea I haven't had before. Michael Wolff points out in so many words another reason we've slid backwards from the glory days of the Clinton administration. He says that Bush & Co., are genuine people of the 1950s, and it fits better than OJ's glove.
I've been harping about the old Nixon men running this country, but duh.....what other mindset would they have than the buttoned down big businessman of the 50s? They have a US vs. THEM mentality that worked more or less in the Cold War days but is totally opposite of the Bill Clinton, "Can't we all get along" 8 years of peace and progress and prosperity. Bill smoked a little, inhaling or not but the Bush crowd grew up running the projectors in health class or excelling in accounting. Nerds who are getting their revenge on us and the rest of the world these days. They want Jesus to wash over us, teenagers to not have sex, they see enemies everywhere they look and this bunch has decided to shoot first, kidnap first, torture first and ask questions later.......or not ask questions at all.
Rather than take up precious pixels here, I will provide a link to Pox Americana by Michael Wolff and you all be the judge.
Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 11:31:12
A Good Deal In 2007?
Don't laugh.....oh ok, go ahead and laugh for 10 solid minutes like I did, but then think about this. This poor kitty could be a food source by 2009. One of my prize possessions is an 1863 Vicksburg newspaper printed on the back of wall paper. The Yankees had surrounded Vicksburg for months, starving them out and the end was just a couple of days off when the editor started assembling his last newspaper on the only paper in town, wall paper. . This last edition of the Vicksburg Citizen speaks of locals and Southern soldiers dining on mule meat and fricasseed kitten and the editor sees whatever General Grant brings to Vicksburg as some kind of relief.
Are we that far off from returning to those days? The Dow is high for the first time since Clinton left office. Is this a sign of warmongering delight? Or is it a sign that the inside traders on Wall Street see the end of the Bush administration in sight? Or is it like the calm before the storm? Bush-Cheney has brought us to a point where we can't hold honest elections. We attack the wrong country and start wars. We can't rescue people from flood waters. We can't trust the media, part if not all of which has been bought off by the White House. We can't provide our troops with proper armor or equipment. We can't identify the people we're fighting in Iraq. We can't see photos of flag draped coffins coming home. We can't pretend we don't torture. We can't trust what the President, VP, Condi or Rummy tells us. And we can't leave our 16 year old boys alone in a room with anyone from Congress.
A recent poll shows that 75% of the people in England think the US is the biggest evil in the world today. And that is our best friends talking bad about us. Imagine if a poll was conducted in the rest of the world. The words of my Mama come back to me now. She used to say something about nothing good ever coming out of ill-gotten gain. I think I can use that to sum up what we've gotten from the Bush era. An administration that was never legally elected brings rack and ruin to this country and the world. Well....what should we expect from a mistake? History is not full of happy endings that start out with the main characters stealing, robbing and raping at the beginning.
Hitler tricked old Paul von Hindenburg and the German people in 1932 and we know how well that worked out for Europe. Will we live to see George W. Bush and Laura holding hands and taking poison in a bunker in the future? Will we see enemy war planes filling the skies over America seeing how well we like being bombed back to the stone age? Will our house pets become our evening meal? I'm sure up to 1863, no one in Vicksburg had ever worried about eating their own cat, would have laughed at anyone suggesting such a thing could happen.
By July of 1863, not a soul in Vicksburg, Mississippi was laughing. One must wonder how much laughing Americans will be doing by 2009. The South had only the North to fear in the 1860s. Today we not only have to fear a war with the rest of the world, we have to worry about Civil War II within the United States. Be nice to your cat, if things don't change he or she might be feeding your family on a dark day in our future. America needs regime change now!
Are we that far off from returning to those days? The Dow is high for the first time since Clinton left office. Is this a sign of warmongering delight? Or is it a sign that the inside traders on Wall Street see the end of the Bush administration in sight? Or is it like the calm before the storm? Bush-Cheney has brought us to a point where we can't hold honest elections. We attack the wrong country and start wars. We can't rescue people from flood waters. We can't trust the media, part if not all of which has been bought off by the White House. We can't provide our troops with proper armor or equipment. We can't identify the people we're fighting in Iraq. We can't see photos of flag draped coffins coming home. We can't pretend we don't torture. We can't trust what the President, VP, Condi or Rummy tells us. And we can't leave our 16 year old boys alone in a room with anyone from Congress.
A recent poll shows that 75% of the people in England think the US is the biggest evil in the world today. And that is our best friends talking bad about us. Imagine if a poll was conducted in the rest of the world. The words of my Mama come back to me now. She used to say something about nothing good ever coming out of ill-gotten gain. I think I can use that to sum up what we've gotten from the Bush era. An administration that was never legally elected brings rack and ruin to this country and the world. Well....what should we expect from a mistake? History is not full of happy endings that start out with the main characters stealing, robbing and raping at the beginning.
Hitler tricked old Paul von Hindenburg and the German people in 1932 and we know how well that worked out for Europe. Will we live to see George W. Bush and Laura holding hands and taking poison in a bunker in the future? Will we see enemy war planes filling the skies over America seeing how well we like being bombed back to the stone age? Will our house pets become our evening meal? I'm sure up to 1863, no one in Vicksburg had ever worried about eating their own cat, would have laughed at anyone suggesting such a thing could happen.
By July of 1863, not a soul in Vicksburg, Mississippi was laughing. One must wonder how much laughing Americans will be doing by 2009. The South had only the North to fear in the 1860s. Today we not only have to fear a war with the rest of the world, we have to worry about Civil War II within the United States. Be nice to your cat, if things don't change he or she might be feeding your family on a dark day in our future. America needs regime change now!
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