"She loved the woods and had a deep affinity for their beauty and serenity," --about Canadian Folk singer who got eaten
by coyotes in the woods.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/29/canada.singer.killed/index.html
30 October 2009
Arkansas lawyer in over her head
"Americans want this country to face anarchy," says Munawar Hassan, the head of Pakistan's largest religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami.
He has just finished giving another press conference in his "Go America Go" tour.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Pakistan
Hillary Clinton combined parades with round-table debates
"They will then say that the atomic weapons of Pakistan are unsafe and that the United Nations should come in," he continues.
"They want to deprive Pakistan of its nuclear programme."
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-10-28.asp
Drug-War Assassinations
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The U.S. government has now extended its assassination program to the drug war. According to the New York Times, the Pentagon now has an assassination list for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan.
No arrests. No hearings. No attorneys. No judges. No trials. Just kill them.
Great! So now the occupation of Afghanistan has expanded not only to CIA drone assassinations but also now to Pentagon’s drug-war assassinations.
U.S. officials are justifying the drug-war assassinations as part of their counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan. They say that they’re only going to be assassinating those drug dealers whose drug trafficking is benefiting the terrorists.
I wonder how they make that determination, especially without judicial hearings and trials.
Keep in mind that U.S. officials justify their occupation of Afghanistan as part of their overall “war on terrorism.” Keep in mind also that according to them, in the war on terrorism the entire world is a battlefield, including the United States.
As part of their war on terrorism, U.S. officials claim the power to treat Americans as “enemy combatants,” which entails the power to ignore the rights and guarantees in the Bill of Rights for people suspected of committing the federal criminal offense of terrorism. That includes the power to arrest suspected terrorists, incarcerate them for life, torture them, and deny them due process of law.
It also includes the power to assassinate suspected terrorists, a power that U.S. officials have exercised on “the battlefield” in such places as Yemen, where they assassinated an American citizen who happened to be traveling with a suspected terrorist, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. So far, they have not exercised the assassination power on that part of the battlefield that encompasses the United States, but they certainly now wield the post-9/11 power to do so.
And now they have extended their assassination power to the drug war. And without even bothering to ask Congress to enact a law giving them such power. Hey, this is the era of the war on terrorism. They don’t need no stinking assassination law. All they need is a presidential order to the CIA and the military to begin assassinating people.
Will they apply their assassination power to suspected drug dealers elsewhere in the world? After all, doesn’t the sale of heroin everywhere likely put money into the pockets of drug producers in Afghanistan, given that that’s where 90 percent of the world’s heroin originates?
We know that they are employing the power to assassinate suspected terrorists in different parts of the world. Time will tell whether they do the same with suspected drug dealers, including, of course, that part of the battlefield that encompasses the United States.
Meanwhile, families are mourning the deaths of three American DEA agents and 11 U.S. soldiers who died this past week in two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan.
Fourteen more senseless deaths. Where does this lunacy end?
End the assassinations. End the occupations. End the war on terrorism. End the war on drugs. There is no other solution for restoring freedom, morality, peace, prosperity, and security to our nation.
Drug-War Assassinations
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The U.S. government has now extended its assassination program to the drug war. According to the New York Times, the Pentagon now has an assassination list for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan.
No arrests. No hearings. No attorneys. No judges. No trials. Just kill them.
Great! So now the occupation of Afghanistan has expanded not only to CIA drone assassinations but also now to Pentagon’s drug-war assassinations.
U.S. officials are justifying the drug-war assassinations as part of their counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan. They say that they’re only going to be assassinating those drug dealers whose drug trafficking is benefiting the terrorists.
I wonder how they make that determination, especially without judicial hearings and trials.
Keep in mind that U.S. officials justify their occupation of Afghanistan as part of their overall “war on terrorism.” Keep in mind also that according to them, in the war on terrorism the entire world is a battlefield, including the United States.
As part of their war on terrorism, U.S. officials claim the power to treat Americans as “enemy combatants,” which entails the power to ignore the rights and guarantees in the Bill of Rights for people suspected of committing the federal criminal offense of terrorism. That includes the power to arrest suspected terrorists, incarcerate them for life, torture them, and deny them due process of law.
It also includes the power to assassinate suspected terrorists, a power that U.S. officials have exercised on “the battlefield” in such places as Yemen, where they assassinated an American citizen who happened to be traveling with a suspected terrorist, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. So far, they have not exercised the assassination power on that part of the battlefield that encompasses the United States, but they certainly now wield the post-9/11 power to do so.
And now they have extended their assassination power to the drug war. And without even bothering to ask Congress to enact a law giving them such power. Hey, this is the era of the war on terrorism. They don’t need no stinking assassination law. All they need is a presidential order to the CIA and the military to begin assassinating people.
Will they apply their assassination power to suspected drug dealers elsewhere in the world? After all, doesn’t the sale of heroin everywhere likely put money into the pockets of drug producers in Afghanistan, given that that’s where 90 percent of the world’s heroin originates?
We know that they are employing the power to assassinate suspected terrorists in different parts of the world. Time will tell whether they do the same with suspected drug dealers, including, of course, that part of the battlefield that encompasses the United States.
Meanwhile, families are mourning the deaths of three American DEA agents and 11 U.S. soldiers who died this past week in two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan.
Fourteen more senseless deaths. Where does this lunacy end?
End the assassinations. End the occupations. End the war on terrorism. End the war on drugs. There is no other solution for restoring freedom, morality, peace, prosperity, and security to our nation.
28 October 2009
Gotta love the southern republican family values:
Assistant Attorney General Roland Corning.
Corning, who is a former state legislator, left his job with the attorney general's office after he was pulled over Monday on suspicion of illegal activity. When he was pulled over, Corning identified himself as an employee with the attorney general's office and was not charged with a crime.
The city's Mike King said after reviewing the incident with Police Chief Tandy Carter, "there is no indication of any wrongdoing of the officer."
Officer Mike Wines, whose wife works in the attorney general's office, stopped Corning Monday after witnessing his car pull into a secluded spot in Elmwood Cemetery in downtown Columbia.
Corning was in the car with an 18-year-old employee of Platinum Plus Gentlemen's Club, Wines reported. After receiving conflicting stories from Corning and the woman, Wines searched Corning’s car and found some sex toys and sex enhancement drug.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/77908.html?storylink=omni_popular
Assistant Attorney General Roland Corning.
Corning, who is a former state legislator, left his job with the attorney general's office after he was pulled over Monday on suspicion of illegal activity. When he was pulled over, Corning identified himself as an employee with the attorney general's office and was not charged with a crime.
The city's Mike King said after reviewing the incident with Police Chief Tandy Carter, "there is no indication of any wrongdoing of the officer."
Officer Mike Wines, whose wife works in the attorney general's office, stopped Corning Monday after witnessing his car pull into a secluded spot in Elmwood Cemetery in downtown Columbia.
Corning was in the car with an 18-year-old employee of Platinum Plus Gentlemen's Club, Wines reported. After receiving conflicting stories from Corning and the woman, Wines searched Corning’s car and found some sex toys and sex enhancement drug.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/77908.html?storylink=omni_popular
27 October 2009
WASHINGTON -- U.S. prosecutors accused two men in Chicago of plotting with a Pakistani terror group to carry out an attack on a Danish newspaper that in 2005 printed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
How is this a crime? It was legal to go join the spanish
civil war and bring your US-made rifle; how is it not
permissable to do whatever you want overseas, out of
US jurisdiction?
Oh yeah, everything is the US's.
How is this a crime? It was legal to go join the spanish
civil war and bring your US-made rifle; how is it not
permissable to do whatever you want overseas, out of
US jurisdiction?
Oh yeah, everything is the US's.
"I'm not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love," Hoh said. Although he said his time in Zabul was the "second-best job I've ever had," his dominant experience is from the Marines, where many of his closest friends still serve.
"There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed," he said of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. "I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009102603447
Of course he's right about the AF war being FAIL, but he enjoyed the Iraq invasion which was more wrong. Then
he quits when he sees he's on the losing side. Loser.
"There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed," he said of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. "I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009102603447
Of course he's right about the AF war being FAIL, but he enjoyed the Iraq invasion which was more wrong. Then
he quits when he sees he's on the losing side. Loser.
25 October 2009
Those buddies in .AF aren't happy about some troops shootin up the Koran.
But hey, they had just driven over one of them homebrew mines and were
kinda pissed and jittery.
The brits can drink; the french are given a ration of wine. The US troops
can't do anything, although xanax runs pretty freely.
The report said blandly:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization force said in a statement that it "condemns any behavior that disrespects Islam or the people of Afghanistan."
Actually it should have been:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said in a forced statement that it "condemns any behavior that disrespects Islam or the people of Afghanistan. Although
we don't consider invasion, bombing wedding parties, or dropping a palet of
propoganda on some girl's head to be disrespectful. Also, do you know how
far the North Atlantic is from Afghanistan?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghanistan-koran26-2009oct26,0,2243260.story?track=rss"
But hey, they had just driven over one of them homebrew mines and were
kinda pissed and jittery.
The brits can drink; the french are given a ration of wine. The US troops
can't do anything, although xanax runs pretty freely.
The report said blandly:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization force said in a statement that it "condemns any behavior that disrespects Islam or the people of Afghanistan."
Actually it should have been:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said in a forced statement that it "condemns any behavior that disrespects Islam or the people of Afghanistan. Although
we don't consider invasion, bombing wedding parties, or dropping a palet of
propoganda on some girl's head to be disrespectful. Also, do you know how
far the North Atlantic is from Afghanistan?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghanistan-koran26-2009oct26,0,2243260.story?track=rss"
23 October 2009
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/10/18/rohde/index.html
In 1996, Israeli jets bombed a UN building where civilians had taken refuge at Cana/ Qana in south Lebanon, killing 102 persons; in the place where Jesus is said to have made water into wine, Israeli bombs wrought a different sort of transformation. In the distant, picturesque port of Hamburg, a young graduate student studying traditional architecture of Aleppo saw footage like this on the news [graphic]. He was consumed with anguish and the desire for revenge. As soon as operation Grapes of Wrath had begun the week before, he had written out a martyrdom will, indicating his willingness to die avenging the victims, killed in that operation--with airplanes and bombs that were a free gift from the United States. His name was Muhammad Atta. Five years later he piloted American Airlines 11 into the World Trade Center. (Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower, p. 307: "On April 11, 1996, when Atta was twenty-seven years old, he signed a standardized will he got from the al-Quds mosque. It was the day Israel attacked Lebanon in Operation grapes of Wrath. According to one of his friends, Atta was enraged, and by filling out his last testament during the attack he was offering his life in response").
In 1996, Israeli jets bombed a UN building where civilians had taken refuge at Cana/ Qana in south Lebanon, killing 102 persons; in the place where Jesus is said to have made water into wine, Israeli bombs wrought a different sort of transformation. In the distant, picturesque port of Hamburg, a young graduate student studying traditional architecture of Aleppo saw footage like this on the news [graphic]. He was consumed with anguish and the desire for revenge. As soon as operation Grapes of Wrath had begun the week before, he had written out a martyrdom will, indicating his willingness to die avenging the victims, killed in that operation--with airplanes and bombs that were a free gift from the United States. His name was Muhammad Atta. Five years later he piloted American Airlines 11 into the World Trade Center. (Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower, p. 307: "On April 11, 1996, when Atta was twenty-seven years old, he signed a standardized will he got from the al-Quds mosque. It was the day Israel attacked Lebanon in Operation grapes of Wrath. According to one of his friends, Atta was enraged, and by filling out his last testament during the attack he was offering his life in response").
22 October 2009
I have no interest in rappers, but when someone is
searched for cannabis (should be legal)
and then charged with owning a gun on bus (should
be legal) I think he's being harassed.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5janVDSu-liwNBx3bzYZeJWlYwJ1gD9BG7B381
Also, his DNA on the gun means nothing; your DNA is on
everything around you. If you've walked on a bus its everywhere on the bus.
searched for cannabis (should be legal)
and then charged with owning a gun on bus (should
be legal) I think he's being harassed.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5janVDSu-liwNBx3bzYZeJWlYwJ1gD9BG7B381
Also, his DNA on the gun means nothing; your DNA is on
everything around you. If you've walked on a bus its everywhere on the bus.
“You cheapened their sacrifice and made a mockery of it,” Keane said in an email referring to victims of 9/11. “Think carefully about what all fringe groups who break the law, including the one that caused the tragic and infamous 9/11 event, say to justify their actions, they have a higher calling, their friends and comrades have died trying to protect their ideals and values. And before you call me un-American for linking you with the terrorists, of course I don’t think that. But think about what you did and what you are now saying to justify it.”
Laguna Woods City Manager Leslie Keane on some motorcyclists
who ride on 11-9.
Laguna Woods City Manager Leslie Keane on some motorcyclists
who ride on 11-9.
21 October 2009
How many things wrong with Kit Bond. He's a republicosaurus
from the inbred retarded south. A pompous suppressed homosexual,
as is typical of that ilk. Going on and on to an empty room.
Goddamn cspan makes me a misanthrope.
He is sticking his nose far up the McChrystal's rectum, orgasming slightly every
time he says "terrorist".
from the inbred retarded south. A pompous suppressed homosexual,
as is typical of that ilk. Going on and on to an empty room.
Goddamn cspan makes me a misanthrope.
He is sticking his nose far up the McChrystal's rectum, orgasming slightly every
time he says "terrorist".
Troop use After Ala. Shootings Illegal
October 20, 2009
Associated Press
SAMSON, Ala. -- An Army investigation found that Soldiers should not have been sent to man traffic stops in a small Alabama town after 11 people were killed in March during a shooting spree.
An Army report released to The Associated Press on Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request said the decision to dispatch military police to Samson from nearby Fort Rucker broke the law. But an Army spokesman said no charges have been filed following the Aug. 10 report.
"As a result of the findings of the report, the Army took administrative action against at least one person," Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said.
http://www.military.com/news/article/troop-use-after-ala-shootings-illegal.html?col=1186032310810
October 20, 2009
Associated Press
SAMSON, Ala. -- An Army investigation found that Soldiers should not have been sent to man traffic stops in a small Alabama town after 11 people were killed in March during a shooting spree.
An Army report released to The Associated Press on Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request said the decision to dispatch military police to Samson from nearby Fort Rucker broke the law. But an Army spokesman said no charges have been filed following the Aug. 10 report.
"As a result of the findings of the report, the Army took administrative action against at least one person," Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said.
http://www.military.com/news/article/troop-use-after-ala-shootings-illegal.html?col=1186032310810
20 October 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/20/AR2009102001600.html?hpid=topnews
Roberts thinks the fourth amendment should be repealed
because anonymous tipsters might find drunk drivers who
don't exhibit bad driving. Anonymous tipstering is
a great excuse, eh?
Those that would sacrifice liberty for security..
well you know how it goes.
Roberts thinks the fourth amendment should be repealed
because anonymous tipsters might find drunk drivers who
don't exhibit bad driving. Anonymous tipstering is
a great excuse, eh?
Those that would sacrifice liberty for security..
well you know how it goes.
18 October 2009
LOS ANGELES — In a rare public rebuke of state government and policies delivered by a sitting judge, the chief justice of the California Supreme Court scathingly criticized the state’s reliance on the referendum process, arguing that it has “rendered our state government dysfunctional.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/us/11calif.html
Democracy is mob rule.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/us/11calif.html
Democracy is mob rule.
In an interview, Bonnie Dumanis, the district attorney for San Diego County, said that state laws governing medical marijuana were unclear and that the city had not yet instituted new regulations.
Ms. Dumanis said that she approved of medical marijuana clubs where patients grow and use their own marijuana, but that none of the 60 or so dispensaries in the county operated that way.
“These guys are drug dealers,” she said of the 14 that were raided. “I said publicly, if anyone thinks we’re casting too big a net and we get a legitimate patient or a lawful collective, then show us your taxes, your business license, your incorporation papers, your filings with the Department of Corporations.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/us/18enforce.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hpw
Notice how she says "dealers" instead of pharmacists, farmers, vendors, apothecaries, chemists, etc. She is a gullible fool who can't think for
herself.
Ms. Dumanis said that she approved of medical marijuana clubs where patients grow and use their own marijuana, but that none of the 60 or so dispensaries in the county operated that way.
“These guys are drug dealers,” she said of the 14 that were raided. “I said publicly, if anyone thinks we’re casting too big a net and we get a legitimate patient or a lawful collective, then show us your taxes, your business license, your incorporation papers, your filings with the Department of Corporations.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/us/18enforce.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hpw
Notice how she says "dealers" instead of pharmacists, farmers, vendors, apothecaries, chemists, etc. She is a gullible fool who can't think for
herself.
16 October 2009
Baez said the case might have been settled for community service had Torres stopped her car after she struck and ran over Pound, who was walking slowly along on a sidewalk with the aid of her cane on her way to her church.
Instead of stopping to render aid, Torres drove away from the scene and parked her car. Baez argued that it would have been impossible for Torres not to know she had struck and run over the elderly woman, who screamed after she was knocked to the ground. Pound's DNA was found on the undercarriage of Torres' parked car.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/torres-pound-placentia-2610339-baez-long
75 year old driver vs 89 year old ped.
Instead of stopping to render aid, Torres drove away from the scene and parked her car. Baez argued that it would have been impossible for Torres not to know she had struck and run over the elderly woman, who screamed after she was knocked to the ground. Pound's DNA was found on the undercarriage of Torres' parked car.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/torres-pound-placentia-2610339-baez-long
75 year old driver vs 89 year old ped.
There is another plausible reason to have a weapon such as the MOP that has nothing to do with targeting Iran’s underground nuclear facilities. It might also be a way to conventionally neutralize Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in a worst case scenario where the Zardari government falls and is taken over by radical Islamists who support al-Qaeda and would have no qualms about handing over nuclear weapons to terrorists. Please don’t confuse this with calling for military action against Pakistan. But if the above worst case scenario became a reality, we might have to seriously consider such action. And it would be imprudent not to. However – unlike the Bush administration did in Iraq – we should not plan as though the worst case scenario is also the most likely and then act prematurely to prevent it from happening.
http://original.antiwar.com/pena/2009/10/15/the-mother-of-all-bunker-busters/
http://original.antiwar.com/pena/2009/10/15/the-mother-of-all-bunker-busters/
A justice of the peace in Louisiana is facing disciplinary action after he refused to marry a mixed-race couple on the grounds that it would not be fair to any children they might have.
Keith Bardwell, a JP for 34 years in Tangipahoa parish in south-western Louisiana, last week turned away Beth Humphrey, 30, who is white and Terence McKay, 32, who is black. It was the fourth interracial couple for whom he had declined to issue a marriage licence.
Bardwell, who is white, insisted he was not a racist and that his decision had been governed by his concern that mixed-race children were shunned by both white and black communities. He told the Hammond Star: "I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves. In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer."
He protested to Associated Press that "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way. I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Bardwell's actions are particularly sensitive in Louisiana, one of 17 mainly southern states that only repealed laws banning mixed-race marriages and relationships when they were forced to do so by the US supreme court in the case of Loving v Virginia in June 1967. Until then "miscegenation" as it was legally called was outlawed in many states, and was one of the most invasive elements of southern segregation.
In 1883 the supreme court ruled that states were within their rights to ban mixed marriages, finding that this did not breach the constitutional requirement to treat everybody impartially as whites and blacks were punished in equal measure for breaking the miscegenation laws. That ruling stood until the 1967 Loving case.
I especially like the "piles of negro friends" comment
Keith Bardwell, a JP for 34 years in Tangipahoa parish in south-western Louisiana, last week turned away Beth Humphrey, 30, who is white and Terence McKay, 32, who is black. It was the fourth interracial couple for whom he had declined to issue a marriage licence.
Bardwell, who is white, insisted he was not a racist and that his decision had been governed by his concern that mixed-race children were shunned by both white and black communities. He told the Hammond Star: "I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves. In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer."
He protested to Associated Press that "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way. I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Bardwell's actions are particularly sensitive in Louisiana, one of 17 mainly southern states that only repealed laws banning mixed-race marriages and relationships when they were forced to do so by the US supreme court in the case of Loving v Virginia in June 1967. Until then "miscegenation" as it was legally called was outlawed in many states, and was one of the most invasive elements of southern segregation.
In 1883 the supreme court ruled that states were within their rights to ban mixed marriages, finding that this did not breach the constitutional requirement to treat everybody impartially as whites and blacks were punished in equal measure for breaking the miscegenation laws. That ruling stood until the 1967 Loving case.
I especially like the "piles of negro friends" comment
15 October 2009
14 October 2009
Princeton, 3. 1. 1954
Dear Mr Gutkind,
Inspired by Brouwer’s repeated suggestion, I read a great deal in your book, and thank you very much for lending it to me ... With regard to the factual attitude to life and to the human community we have a great deal in common. Your personal ideal with its striving for freedom from ego-oriented desires, for making life beautiful and noble, with an emphasis on the purely human element ... unites us as having an “American Attitude.”
Still, without Brouwer’s suggestion I would never have gotten myself to engage intensively with your book because it is written in a language inaccessible to me. The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. ... For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong ... have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything “chosen” about them.
In general I find it painful that you claim a privileged position and try to defend it by two walls of pride, an external one as a man and an internal one as a Jew. As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew of monotheism. But a limited causality is no longer a causality at all, as our wonderful Spinoza recognized with all incision...
Now that I have quite openly stated our differences in intellectual convictions it is still clear to me that we are quite close to each other in essential things, i.e. in our evaluation of human behavior ... I think that we would understand each other quite well if we talked about concrete things.
With friendly thanks and best wishes,
Yours,
A. Einstein
Dear Mr Gutkind,
Inspired by Brouwer’s repeated suggestion, I read a great deal in your book, and thank you very much for lending it to me ... With regard to the factual attitude to life and to the human community we have a great deal in common. Your personal ideal with its striving for freedom from ego-oriented desires, for making life beautiful and noble, with an emphasis on the purely human element ... unites us as having an “American Attitude.”
Still, without Brouwer’s suggestion I would never have gotten myself to engage intensively with your book because it is written in a language inaccessible to me. The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. ... For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong ... have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything “chosen” about them.
In general I find it painful that you claim a privileged position and try to defend it by two walls of pride, an external one as a man and an internal one as a Jew. As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew of monotheism. But a limited causality is no longer a causality at all, as our wonderful Spinoza recognized with all incision...
Now that I have quite openly stated our differences in intellectual convictions it is still clear to me that we are quite close to each other in essential things, i.e. in our evaluation of human behavior ... I think that we would understand each other quite well if we talked about concrete things.
With friendly thanks and best wishes,
Yours,
A. Einstein
Went to somewhere far away to do as I'm told,
got blown up,
and all I've got to show for it is this stupid bench.
Cannon fodder for empire sucks.
Now Tom Clarke is plooking my widow. And my sons have
forgotton me.
At least I got this bench.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/rob-sally-memorial-2606416-soltes-family
got blown up,
and all I've got to show for it is this stupid bench.
Cannon fodder for empire sucks.
Now Tom Clarke is plooking my widow. And my sons have
forgotton me.
At least I got this bench.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/rob-sally-memorial-2606416-soltes-family
13 October 2009
Milam County Judge Frank Summers
"One thing many individuals dread seeing arrive with their regular mail delivery is a jury summons," Summers said. "Jury service is one of those civic duties that we all have a responsibility to perform, but for some reason many citizens feel is not necessarily all that important."
Note the use of the word "we" and the imposition of "responsibility" on innocent citizens.
Jury Commissioner Pamela Wood tells The Boston Globe she realizes that jury duty can be an inconvenience, but it is also necessary.
And whence her moral authority to proscribe necessity?
"One thing many individuals dread seeing arrive with their regular mail delivery is a jury summons," Summers said. "Jury service is one of those civic duties that we all have a responsibility to perform, but for some reason many citizens feel is not necessarily all that important."
Note the use of the word "we" and the imposition of "responsibility" on innocent citizens.
Jury Commissioner Pamela Wood tells The Boston Globe she realizes that jury duty can be an inconvenience, but it is also necessary.
And whence her moral authority to proscribe necessity?
12 October 2009
Wanna puke? Check out http://thecell.org
Made by some rich Coloradan. Who thinks he can proscribe
morality.
Isn’t it true that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter?
No. Some terror cells and terrorists exist because they believe a people, ideology, or religion is being threatened by outside forces and must be protected or liberated. That, however, is not an excuse nor does it justify targeting innocent civilians and taking their lives. Freedom is not achieved through, intimidation, murder, and chaos.
How about Total War? How about asymmetric war? How about
a volunteer mercenary army? How about the only thing americans notice is dead americans?
How about Empire as a losing strategy?
What would you do, if the situation were reversed?
Made by some rich Coloradan. Who thinks he can proscribe
morality.
Isn’t it true that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter?
No. Some terror cells and terrorists exist because they believe a people, ideology, or religion is being threatened by outside forces and must be protected or liberated. That, however, is not an excuse nor does it justify targeting innocent civilians and taking their lives. Freedom is not achieved through, intimidation, murder, and chaos.
How about Total War? How about asymmetric war? How about
a volunteer mercenary army? How about the only thing americans notice is dead americans?
How about Empire as a losing strategy?
What would you do, if the situation were reversed?
Garden Grove police Chief Joseph Polisar is a moron.
Proof: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marijuana-california-cannabis-2601017-state-medical
"Even if it's made legal, there will still be a stigma attached to it. People are still going to seek out drug dealers in street corners instead of going to a pharmacy and purchasing marijuana with their credit cards."
Besides, marijuana is a "gateway drug," Polisar says.
"Activists are merely using the budgetary crisis as an excuse to legally use narcotics," he said.
Its not even a narcotic, stupid. Its a cannabinoid,
not opiate.
Proof: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marijuana-california-cannabis-2601017-state-medical
"Even if it's made legal, there will still be a stigma attached to it. People are still going to seek out drug dealers in street corners instead of going to a pharmacy and purchasing marijuana with their credit cards."
Besides, marijuana is a "gateway drug," Polisar says.
"Activists are merely using the budgetary crisis as an excuse to legally use narcotics," he said.
Its not even a narcotic, stupid. Its a cannabinoid,
not opiate.
11 October 2009
"You don't hear people using the world 'discovery' anymore like they used to. 'Columbus discovers America.' Because how could he discover America if there were already people living here?"
Well, discovered by Europeans, obviously, dumbass.
There would not be as many Indians as now, thanks to Euro agriculture.
The Indians would be warring, enslaving, and eating each other. They
would be without Euro medicine, science, technology.
Guns germs and steel.
Well, discovered by Europeans, obviously, dumbass.
There would not be as many Indians as now, thanks to Euro agriculture.
The Indians would be warring, enslaving, and eating each other. They
would be without Euro medicine, science, technology.
Guns germs and steel.
09 October 2009
http://www.1001crash.com/index-page-video-lg-2.html
To simulate a high altitude bomb explosion, explosives have been loaded in this Boeing B747 (200 grams of Semtex). The aircraft was pressurized to simulate an explosion at 30 000 ft.
"The past regime exported 1,000 tons to Libya," Havel said at a press conference during his first official visit here. "If you consider that 200 grams is enough to blow up an aircraft, this means world terrorism has enough Semtex to last 150 years."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/panam103/stories/libya0390.htm
Investigators at Lockerbie announced that 312 grams (approximately 11 ounces) tucked into a Toshiba cassette recorder felled flight 103 like a winged mallard. That much Play-Doh rolled into a sphere would be roughly the size of a baseball.
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=221
Aerosol explosion simulator
http://www.tc.faa.gov/its/worldpac/techrpt/artn97-103.pdf
To simulate a high altitude bomb explosion, explosives have been loaded in this Boeing B747 (200 grams of Semtex). The aircraft was pressurized to simulate an explosion at 30 000 ft.
"The past regime exported 1,000 tons to Libya," Havel said at a press conference during his first official visit here. "If you consider that 200 grams is enough to blow up an aircraft, this means world terrorism has enough Semtex to last 150 years."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/panam103/stories/libya0390.htm
Investigators at Lockerbie announced that 312 grams (approximately 11 ounces) tucked into a Toshiba cassette recorder felled flight 103 like a winged mallard. That much Play-Doh rolled into a sphere would be roughly the size of a baseball.
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=221
Aerosol explosion simulator
http://www.tc.faa.gov/its/worldpac/techrpt/artn97-103.pdf
08 October 2009
At MIT I saw a 10cm x 4 x 2 block of hash. It had "Kabul" in gold foil
on its larger face. It was a rare treat, harsh on the throat though.
Years later I had hash again and while smoking it came up with patents involving cryptograph hashing and pattern matching.
Back then the muj were "our" friends, getting Stingers from "US" to shoot
down the soviets (now defunct). Now, we are the soviets.
The "US" will soon dissolve like the soviets;
afghanistan seems to be some weird death-ritual fetish of empires.
on its larger face. It was a rare treat, harsh on the throat though.
Years later I had hash again and while smoking it came up with patents involving cryptograph hashing and pattern matching.
Back then the muj were "our" friends, getting Stingers from "US" to shoot
down the soviets (now defunct). Now, we are the soviets.
The "US" will soon dissolve like the soviets;
afghanistan seems to be some weird death-ritual fetish of empires.
The bloatocracy needs to implode.
The dinofascist republicans are spasming, convulsing on the aether, they
can't stomache hate crimes against mil (the funeral-busting christian
priest? I've actually seen them at the local churchzone, Bonita Canyon and
Newport Crest, with their signs and tie-dyed skirts) But what they really can't stomache is fed hate-crime rules, they're all afraid their voodoo shamans will get
busted for harshing fags. And perhaps they might.
The opposite of progress is congress.
Frag 'em all, start over with a constitution that limits their ability over money
and requires more for war.
2 kilotons might work, 10 would be better.
We attack the moon tomorrow morning. The south pole. It has done nothing but
excite the tides and occasional earthquakes to us. It has given us menstrual
cycles and months. It has amazed with its eclipses.
And when they find the monolith, NASA tv will cut out.. :-)
The dinofascist republicans are spasming, convulsing on the aether, they
can't stomache hate crimes against mil (the funeral-busting christian
priest? I've actually seen them at the local churchzone, Bonita Canyon and
Newport Crest, with their signs and tie-dyed skirts) But what they really can't stomache is fed hate-crime rules, they're all afraid their voodoo shamans will get
busted for harshing fags. And perhaps they might.
The opposite of progress is congress.
Frag 'em all, start over with a constitution that limits their ability over money
and requires more for war.
2 kilotons might work, 10 would be better.
We attack the moon tomorrow morning. The south pole. It has done nothing but
excite the tides and occasional earthquakes to us. It has given us menstrual
cycles and months. It has amazed with its eclipses.
And when they find the monolith, NASA tv will cut out.. :-)
Some predictions:
US will leave afghanistan after about 2-4000 have died there. It will occasionally
launch airstrikes.
US will leave Iraq, it will devolve into the Islamic republic of.
US dollar will decline further; oil traded in anything but.
Israel might bomb Iran, or we might; unsure. Major fustercluck if so.
US will continue "Patriot fnord Act" (tm) and continue path towards fascism,
in the name of pursuing the "lone wolf" ie anyone.
NPR will continue to be a smarmy propoganda outlet.
California will legalize cannabis to pull itself out of bankrupcy,
and eliminate National Forest clandestine farming. Not sure if the
US will revert to Bush-era fascism. Barak and his feds
need to smoke a big one.
Gun sales will continue to do well, as BO could still be assasinated. (That's
why folks are buying, HTTY)
Biden would of course be worse. I bet he'd pick the Israeli-agent Lieberman as VP.
"Support our troops" should be "support your troops" as the elite don't send their sons (or daughters, hah) to be cannon fodder.
US will leave afghanistan after about 2-4000 have died there. It will occasionally
launch airstrikes.
US will leave Iraq, it will devolve into the Islamic republic of.
US dollar will decline further; oil traded in anything but.
Israel might bomb Iran, or we might; unsure. Major fustercluck if so.
US will continue "Patriot fnord Act" (tm) and continue path towards fascism,
in the name of pursuing the "lone wolf" ie anyone.
NPR will continue to be a smarmy propoganda outlet.
California will legalize cannabis to pull itself out of bankrupcy,
and eliminate National Forest clandestine farming. Not sure if the
US will revert to Bush-era fascism. Barak and his feds
need to smoke a big one.
Gun sales will continue to do well, as BO could still be assasinated. (That's
why folks are buying, HTTY)
Biden would of course be worse. I bet he'd pick the Israeli-agent Lieberman as VP.
"Support our troops" should be "support your troops" as the elite don't send their sons (or daughters, hah) to be cannon fodder.
Watching CSPAN, the congressional news channel. Holy crap those cretinous
dinosaurs need nuking.
Some fool blew his fingers off. At a daycare center. Why make that much
if you're just learning?
The father of some accused "terrorist" (tm) is charged with lying to feds.
Should have shut his mouth. Talking to feds is always a path to charges.
dinosaurs need nuking.
Some fool blew his fingers off. At a daycare center. Why make that much
if you're just learning?
The father of some accused "terrorist" (tm) is charged with lying to feds.
Should have shut his mouth. Talking to feds is always a path to charges.
Fluffies get excited about using fonts not on your machine
so they can be more artistic:
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The_Future_of_Web_Fonts_Looking_Brighter
But you can tell your browser to use specific fixed or
proportional fonts, overriding this crap. I suggest you
do so --you can set font sizes too, making it easier to
read at the resolution of your screen.
so they can be more artistic:
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The_Future_of_Web_Fonts_Looking_Brighter
But you can tell your browser to use specific fixed or
proportional fonts, overriding this crap. I suggest you
do so --you can set font sizes too, making it easier to
read at the resolution of your screen.
06 October 2009
This was withdrawn so check it out
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/09/full_text_of_newsmax_column_suggesting_military_co.php
Full Text Of Newsmax Column Suggesting Military Coup Against Obama
Here is the full text of John L. Perry's column on Newsmax which suggests that a military coup to "resolve the Obama problem" is becoming more possible and is not "unrealistic." Perry also writes that a coup, while not "ideal," may be preferable to "Obama's radical ideal" -- and would "restore and defend the Constitution." Newsmax has since removed the column from its website.
Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention
By: John L. Perry
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.
America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:
# Officers swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to "obey the orders of the president of the United States."
# Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.
# They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office.
# They can see that the economy -- ravaged by deficits, taxes, unemployment, and impending inflation -- is financially reliant on foreign lender governments.
# They can see this president waging undeclared war on the intelligence community, without whose rigorous and independent functions the armed services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile world overseas and at home.
# They can see the dismantling of defenses against missiles targeted at this nation by avowed enemies, even as America's troop strength is allowed to sag.
# They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two, and possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.
# They can see the nation's safety and their own military establishments and honor placed in jeopardy as never before.
So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you do?
Wait until this president bungles into losing the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the hands of militant Islam?
Wait until Israel is forced to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear-bomb plants, and the Middle East explodes, destabilizing or subjugating the Free World?
What happens if the generals Obama sent to win the Afghan war are told by this president (who now says, "I'm not interested in victory") that they will be denied troops they must have to win? Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with their oath of duty? Do they resign en masse?
Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional elections will reverse the situation? Do they dare gamble the national survival on such political whims?
Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of America's military leadership is lost in a fool's fog.
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of limited, shared responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don't shrug and say, "We can always worry about that later."
In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/09/full_text_of_newsmax_column_suggesting_military_co.php
Full Text Of Newsmax Column Suggesting Military Coup Against Obama
Here is the full text of John L. Perry's column on Newsmax which suggests that a military coup to "resolve the Obama problem" is becoming more possible and is not "unrealistic." Perry also writes that a coup, while not "ideal," may be preferable to "Obama's radical ideal" -- and would "restore and defend the Constitution." Newsmax has since removed the column from its website.
Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention
By: John L. Perry
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.
America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:
# Officers swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to "obey the orders of the president of the United States."
# Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.
# They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office.
# They can see that the economy -- ravaged by deficits, taxes, unemployment, and impending inflation -- is financially reliant on foreign lender governments.
# They can see this president waging undeclared war on the intelligence community, without whose rigorous and independent functions the armed services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile world overseas and at home.
# They can see the dismantling of defenses against missiles targeted at this nation by avowed enemies, even as America's troop strength is allowed to sag.
# They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two, and possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.
# They can see the nation's safety and their own military establishments and honor placed in jeopardy as never before.
So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you do?
Wait until this president bungles into losing the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the hands of militant Islam?
Wait until Israel is forced to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear-bomb plants, and the Middle East explodes, destabilizing or subjugating the Free World?
What happens if the generals Obama sent to win the Afghan war are told by this president (who now says, "I'm not interested in victory") that they will be denied troops they must have to win? Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with their oath of duty? Do they resign en masse?
Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional elections will reverse the situation? Do they dare gamble the national survival on such political whims?
Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of America's military leadership is lost in a fool's fog.
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of limited, shared responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don't shrug and say, "We can always worry about that later."
In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.
05 October 2009
02 October 2009
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