One of These Tsunami Pictures is a Fake

Ask Me Anything

How come guys get so mad when we accidentally injure your cojones? Say while play wrestling, playing sports, moving the wrong way on the couch, or a zillion other situations. At least in my experience, there is usually a couple of minutes of intense, almost psycho like anger. Jeez, it was an ACCIDENT. Not our fault God placed them in such a vulnerable area.
- Veronica Dell, Houston

It's well known that whenever a newspaper "kicked" the French novelist Honoré Balzac with what he considered to be a worthless piece of literary criticism, he crumpled like a leaf and bawled like a baby. Since then, whenever a man crumples like a leaf and bawls like a baby upon being kicked in the "Balzac," it's in fact his personal tribute to the writer of La Comédie Humaine.
MD

Don't you think people in automobiles will be more visible, thus safer, if they use their headlights when it rains?
- Eliot Hall

I assume this is in reference to my mention of the new California law stating you have to put on your headlights whenever you use your windshield wipers. While I certainly agree that you should put on your headlights when it's raining, that's not what the law says. This law is an invitation for a letter-of-the-law pinhead cop to give you a ticket for not turning on your headlights when you were using your windshield wipers to clean off a splattered bug. Don't think it ain't gonna happen, especially in places like L.A., where city extortionists run around giving tickets to people who park on the wrong side of the street on street cleaning day AFTER the streets have been cleaned but before the sign says you can park.
MD

Why did Jeb Bush go on a fact finding mission to Southeast Asia?
- Rita M

It was easier than sending Southeast Asia on a fact finding mission to Jeb Bush.
MD

An old picture of young GW Bush, showed his eye brows were straight across his nose. I read once it's a sign of dementia, is it true?
- Ole vet

Yes, it's true, seeing old pictures of GW Bush is a sign of dementia.
MD

Does God really care about football?
Cheers,
Charles Watkins

Yes, he just doesn't care who wins. He gets off on watching his creations running head first at each other.
MD

Can you burp the alphabet?
Bill Moses

If I couldn't, I would explode.
MD

Do you think God condemns the bonobos to chimpanzee hell because of their licentious greeting rituals? Or are they merely acting the way God made them? And if so, why is God pleased with uninhibited hairy monkey humping but offended by uninhibited hairless monkey humping? Is it the hair, or lack thereof? Maybe what really offends God is shaving, not uninhibited humping?
- Jeff

Everything offends God when he's in a pissy mood. If he's omnipotent, he obviously isn't benevolent. If he's benevolent, he obviously isn't omnipotent. This pisses him off even more. Blame the recent tsunami on gas he got from some Indonesian food.
MD

Can an omnipotent god make a rock too large for him/her to lift?
- Chriss

Yes, but he can't eat anything bigger than his own head.
MD

Can an omnipotent god make him/herself impotent? And then what happens?
- Chriss

He reincarnates as a bonobo monkey and fucks everything that moves.
MD

What's the deal with those stupid scroll-down lists of states that one must use when filling out online forms? I live in New York, it's not too difficult for me to type "NY". I can normally do it on the first, or second try. Who's the brain surgeon that thought that it'd be better for me to open up an alphabetical list of states (many of which I've never even heard of- "Nebraska"?!? Where the Hell's that?), and try and click on "New York" before it whizzes past? 
- Len X.

Scroll lists were patented in the 50s. David Rockefeller gets a nickel every time someone uses one.
MD

When is a door not a door? And why did Freda Stare? 
- Tim Omachi

When he's buried in Paris and Her eyelids were broken.
MD

Why did John Kerry send me an email stating that he was counting on ordinary voters like me to assure that every vote is counted?  Who knew he meant it literally? What made John think we'd be able to do what he was unwilling to even try?  Do voting irregularities fix themselves, or must central services intervene?  Tired of ugly ducts?  Has anyone seen Sam Lowery??????
 yours in boca raton,
- palantir

    That wasn't John Kerry who sent you that message. John Kerry was roasted over an open spit by Satan some time in early October of last year. I should know because my correspondent Helen got his kidneys in a lovely pie. Since then, every missive from the Democratic party has in fact been written by David Rockefeller, who owns the people who own the people who own the voting machines.
   I'm supposed to know who Sam Lowery is? According to Google, Sam Lowery was a prominent businessman in Burnt Corn. Burnt corn is something I know about. Why haven't you asked me something about burnt corn?
MD

why do i keep dreaming that i can't find my car?
- palantir

I'm sorry, I'm no longer answering questions that don't start with a capital letter.
MD

How do you sleep at night? Are there sheep involved?
- ed lynn

Ever try sleeping with a sheep? They keep you up all night with their relentless demands for mint jelly. I sleep just fine as long as the sheep stay in the refrigerator.
MD

How happy is a clam?
- TTFN, Baron Dave

Not very. Clams are notoriously depressed and angry, even steamed. They often need a Valium not to go off the deep end. (Suicidal clams are moving to Ontario since they found there's Prozac in the drinking water.) They'd as soon slit your throat as provide you with tasty nourishment.
MD

Quiz of the Week

- Ironic Times -

Job Opening of the Week

Food taster for newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Gallery of the Week

I Feel So Much Safer Now

"Ten students between the ages of 11 and 12 were strip-searched as officials at their charter school tried to find a missing $10 bill. Seven girls and three boys at the Mainland Preparatory Academy were searched down to their underwear Thursday after one of the girls reported the money missing, said Principal Wilma Green. The money was not found."
- 10 young students strip-searched in Texas -

"Miami Beach city officials reportedly told a 10-year-old girl who wanted to sell cookies and drinks in her front yard to raise money for tsunami victims that she could not hold the fund-raiser because they could not grant her an occupational license."
- 10-Year-Old Girl Runs Into Problems With City -

    "The Iraqi capital Baghdad has degenerated from one of the Middle East's most attractive and affluent cities in 1990 to 'the least attractive city' in the world to live in.
    "It is currently ranked the worst out of 215 cities assessed by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, with the lowest score 'based on detailed assessments and evaluations of 39 key quality-of-life determinants', including economic, human and social services and development as well as security and safety."
- Dr. Abdul-Hadi Jiad Tamimi: Chaos vs. Hope in Iraq -
 

Science Experiment of the Week

Make yourself a match rocket.

Satan Doesn't Want You to Know

"Scramble the letters in South Florida's four hurricanes, 'Charlie, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne,' and you get the hidden message 'Jesus Is Finally Coming.'"
- Unusual stories of 2004 from South Florida -

Stupid Question of the Week

Forget HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) and take a look at SuperDARN (Super Dual Auroral Radar Network). They say it's for "Studying the Earth's Upper Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and Connection into Space." What are they REALLY using it for?

Send your answers (or more questions) to stupidquestion@disinfotainmenttoday.com.

Don't Take My Word For It

     "I am bewildered by the world reaction to the tsunami tragedy. Why are newspapers, television and politicians making such a fuss? Why has the British public forked out more than £100m to help the survivors, and why is Tony Blair now promising 'hundreds of millions of pounds'? Why has Australia pledged £435m and Germany £360m? And why has Mr. Bush pledged £187m? Of course it's wonderful to see the human race rallying to the aid of disaster victims, but it's the inconsistency that has me foxed. Nobody is making this sort of fuss about all the people killed in Iraq, and yet it's a human catastrophe of comparable dimensions.
    "According to the only scientific estimate attempted, Iraqi deaths since the war began number more than 100,000. The tsunami death toll is in the region of 150,000. Yet in the case of Iraq, the media seems reluctant to impress on the public the scale of the carnage.
    "I haven't seen many TV reporters standing in the ruins of Fallujah, breathlessly describing how, in 30 years of reporting, they've never seen a human tragedy on this scale. The Pope hasn't appealed for everyone to remember the Iraqi dead in their prayers, and MTV hasn't gone silent in their memory."
- Terry Jones: A Man-Made Tsunami - Why are there no fundraisers for the Iraqi dead? -

"What it does in the Muslim world, the rest of the world is given an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action."
- Secretary of State Colin Powell explaining why we help tsunami victims out of political expediency, not basic human decency -

"When a thief has nothing to steal, he regards his 'virtue' as real."
- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 22a -

"It hasn't leaked out yet (don't worry it will) but somewhere deep inside the bowels of the neo-conservative wing among the radical born-again Christian faction of the Bush administration there's much mounting and strong belief that last week's devastating South Asia earthquake and tsunami is God's way of allowing CNN, FOX News and MSNBC to show hours and hours of uncut and uncensored footage of benevolent uniformed U.S. personnel providing aid and succor to masses of non-white peoples searching for lost loved ones and groveling for meager scraps of food among scenes of indescribable death, mutilation, torment, anguish and suffering."
- Warning! Some images (if you saw them) would be deeply disturbing -

"If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader."
- Rumi, Mathnawi [IV, 1640] -

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
- Paul Fix -

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
- Henry Ford -

"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."
- Xarvon, Alien Investigator -

"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles."
- Eugene Debs -

"War is good."
- Pundits for a Buck -

"What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists -whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States."
- William Blum -

"Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest." 
- Mark Twain -

"Why must the relief of suffering, in this unprecedentedly prosperous world, rely on the whims of citizens and the appeals of pop stars and comedians? The obvious answer is that governments have other priorities. And the one that leaps to mind is war. If the money they have promised to the victims of the tsunami still falls far short of the amounts required, it is partly because the contingency fund upon which they draw in times of crisis has been spent on blowing people to bits in Iraq. If our leaders were as generous in helping people as they are in killing them, no one would ever go hungry."
- George Monbiot: The victims of the tsunami pay the price of war on Iraq -

"Disease does not come from the sky. It does not fall from anywhere into our laps. It is something that we create. So by the same token, we can create, knowingly, purposely, a strong immune system, and if we work on that, chances are that we might never be sick. To me, sickness is not normal. Even though we have come to accept that having a flu once or twice, or a cold once or twice a year, is a normal thing, it is not, should not be. Health should be normal."
- Hans Frischeisen: Naturopath -

"Southern Hemisphere stands up to Washington. In elections this year, there has been a near sweep (the exception being Colombia) of South American governments by left-leaning candidates who won office by campaigning against Bush and American neocon policies. The result: an emerging bloc led by Brazil and Venezuela - and India - that has stopped free-trade expansion via the WTO and FTAA."
- Geov Parrish: Media Follies! Top Underreported Stories -

"Only one small spot in the vast Indian Ocean basin seems to have received full advanced warning of the waves to come -- the ostensibly British island of Diego Garcia, which is actually a sizable U.S. military base, a stationary 'aircraft carrier' for the war in Iraq. It also houses 'Camp Justice,' one of the secret little hideaway resorts the administration has set up, or contracted out for, on prime global real estate to hold 'high value' prisoners in the war on terror. The camp, named by someone who must have had a yen for the Orwellian, is part of an offshore Bermuda Triangle of injustice set up by the Bush administration - two interlinked prison systems, in fact; one run by the Pentagon and the other by the CIA, both meant to keep prisoners and practices far from the prying eyes of the American public and its court system; both, as it now turns out, anchored in that jewel-in-the-crown, Guantanamo (or Gitmo to devotees) - a grim prison camp set up on territory in Cuba that is close at hand, U.S.-controlled, and yet - or so Bush officials hoped until the Supreme Court ruled otherwise last year - beyond the reach of our courts."
- Tom Engelhardt: Self-Portrait in a Tortured World -

"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence."
- Joan Baez -

"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."
- Tom Lehrer -

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei -

"The year before I took office as governor, California had 300 days of sunshine. Last year, under my administration, we had 312 days of sunshine. That's what true leadership is all about."
- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: State of the State Address (a joke in the midst of an amazingly excellent speech that might actually convince you he knows what he's doing, unless it's all lies in which case he can go fuck himself.) -

"If we here in this chamber do not work together to reform the government, the people will rise up and reform it themselves. And you know something. I will join them. And I will fight by their side."
- Schwarzenegger in the same speech -

"Power-lust is a weed that grows in vacant lots of empty minds.
- Ayn Rand -

"The presidential vote for George W. Bush does not compute. By examining a very wide range of sworn testimonies from voters, polling officials and others close to the administration of the Nov. 2 election; by statistical analysis of the certified vote by mathematicians, election experts and independent research teams who have conducted detailed studies of the results in Ohio, New Mexico, Florida and elsewhere; from experts who studied the voting machines, tabulators and other electronic equipment on which a fair vote count has depended; and from a team of attorneys and others who have challenged the Ohio results; the freepress.org investigative team has compiled a portrait of an election whose true outcome must be investigated further by the Congress, the media and all Americans - because it was almost certainly not an honest victory for George W. Bush."
- Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman: Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote does not compute, and why Congress must investigate rather than certify the Electoral College (Part One of Two) -

    "We are crouching in a house in the slum of Santa Marta in Rio. Just below is the beautiful city, its beaches full of beautiful people. Inside the house, a group of adolescent boys have covered their heads in balaclavas. They are stuffing little plastic bags with white powder from a metal tray, all the while lovingly describing their 'pieces', which run from a magnum to rocket launchers and home-made bombs. Their leader, barely out of his teens, makes clear: 'Without the white stuff there is no crime. This is where the real money is. We are the parallel power.' There is no question of the power these crazy young men wield over the thousands who live in Rio's slums. One man recalls how, aged 11, he was drawn into the gangs because his single mother could not afford sandals for her kids and went through rubbish bins for food. He is determined his own sons will get an education and not join the gangs.
    "As the packing goes on, the young boys begin snorting and waving guns: 'We buy them from the police.' Once again the money from cocaine has completely rotted the system. We end up filming a police raid - guns firing in every direction. Packs of cocaine are seized. Three weeks later, we hear the policeman in charge of the raid has been arrested - for selling drugs back to the gangs."
- Angus Macqueen: The white stuff -

"Politicians and Wall Streeters are peddling the Big Lie that Social Security is inevitably going bust. It is not! The Social Security System (SSS) runs at a surplus of $100-$120 billion annually and will continue to do so throughout the twenty-first century! This trust fund system is one of the few programs set up by the federal government that works. In 1999, SSS received $383 billion in checks, $436 billion in taxes, and an additional $49 billion in interest. Instead of red ink, Social Security made almost $102 billion in profit, to add to the more than $652 billion it had in surplus from previous years."
- Norman D. Livergood: The Social Security Privatization Hoax -

"There are dangerous and fanatical individuals and groups around the world who have been inspired by extreme Islamist ideas and who will use the techniques of mass terror - the attacks on America and Madrid make this only too clear. But the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this Al Qaeda organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the 'sleeper cells' in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy."
- The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear: a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently aired by the British Broadcasting Corp., quoted in Robert Sheer's Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman? -

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
- Abraham Lincoln -

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
- Robert Service -

"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
- William Penn -

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
- Pete Seeger -

"Lourdes Sayan feels the rush of freedom with every public kiss, or when she holds her girlfriend's hand in the street. She wears her hair short above the ears instead of down to her hips as she did in Peru, where peers pressured her to look like everyone else, something she knew she wasn't. In the United States, she realized what she is: lesbiana. Now Sayan, 28, might be forced to go back to Peru, a possibility she and her Tampa girlfriend fear could threaten more than her freedom to be gay. They fear she could disappear into jail, be beaten, be raped. Sayan has joined the ranks of hundreds of other immigrants who have applied for political asylum the past 10 years based on sexual orientation." 
- Saundra Amrhein: Foreign gays seek haven in U.S. but may not find it - A Peruvian lesbian is seeking asylum, but critics say Congress never meant sexual orientation to be a criterion for granting it. -

"The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by four men who challenged Florida's ban on adoption by gay couples, avoiding another contentious fight over gay rights. Florida is the only state with a blanket law prohibiting homosexuals from adopting children, but the high court was told that other states could now feel free to copy the ban."
- Gina Holland: Supreme Court sidesteps gay adoption case -

"Where is it written that 'straight' people make better parents? Where's the proof in a society gone wild? There are millions of unwanted children (birthed perhaps by religiously guilty women who didn't want to 'sin') without parents or a home. The BUSH administration isn't going to do DIDDLY SQUAT for these kids as his recent cuts to health insurance, education, college funding etc. have proven. None of the religious fanatics like Jerry Falwell and the other "brethren" that frequent prostitutes because they can't even get laid without paying are going to take care of these kids. For those of you familiar with the Franklin Cover Up, you know what politicians would use these children for, and it ain't pretty. So, now gay people want to continue to adopt these UNWANTED throw-away kids, and our courts say no? This country is going down the toilet at the speed of light."
- Meria Heller -

"New evidence suggests that the Abu Ghraib prisoners were subjected not only to torture and psychological abuse, they were underfed, malnourished and made to eat food so bad it inspired riots. A little-known private contractor, run by an American civilian, is said to be to blame."
- David Phinney:  Contract Meals Disaster for Iraqi Prisoners -

    "Michael Chertoff, appointed by President Bush to head the Homeland Security Department, may have shielded from criminal prosecution, while in charge of the U.S. Government's 9/11 investigation, a former client suspected by law enforcement of having funneled millions of dollars directly to Osama Bin Laden.
    "News accounts regarding Egyptian-born Dr. Magdy el-Amir's legal difficulties contain unanswered questions about undue political influence and its effect on national security. A foreign intelligence report made available to the Chairman of the House International Committee alleged an HMO owned by Dr. el Amir, a man at the center of terrorist intrigue in Jersey City, was funded by Ben Laden, and that in turn he was skimming money from the HMO to fund 'terrorist activities.'
    "At the same time el-Amir was pitching state business he had begun making generous contributions to the governing Republican party, donating nearly $18,000 to various GOP candidates in 1996."
- Madcow Morning News: Did Bush's New Homeland Security Nominee Protect Terror-Linked Doctor from Prosecution? -

    "In light of conservative journalist and pundit Armstrong Williams' concession that he received $240,000 from the Department of Education through a contract with Ketchum Public Relations, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Tuesday filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to 22 government agencies, including all cabinet agencies.
    "'How extensively has the administration used propaganda to shore up its controversial policies?' asked Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington a non-profit group dedicated to holding public officials to high standards of behavior. 'Did it pay any commentators to speak out in support of the Patriot Act? Is it paying anyone now to convince the public that Social Security is in crisis? By filing these FOIAs, we hope to answer these questions.'"
- Bill McConnell: Group FOIA's Feds Over Propaganda -

"Trees are bad."
- Pundits for a Buck -

    "The electoral group headed by Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi prime minister, on Monday handed out cash to journalists to ensure coverage of its press conferences in a throwback to Ba'athist-era patronage ahead of parliamentary elections on January 30.
    "After a meeting held by Mr. Allawi's campaign alliance in west Baghdad, reporters, most of whom were from the Arabic-language press, were invited upstairs where each was offered a 'gift' of a $100 bill contained in an envelope."
- Steve Negus: Allawi group slips cash to reporters -

"Bribery is yummy."
- Pundits for a Buck -

"When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United States? Why don't you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad? I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line. Over 1200 soldiers have died in Iraq so that you can have a couple billion more dollars, that should make you feel very good about yourself. The soldiers that have died for this sham that you have put over on the American people are so much more deserving than that. You are not worth the dust off of their boots. If you truly had respect for the military and the people that serve then you would not continue to kill them in your war. I joined the Army to protect my country and not to be a mercenary for a political despot."
- Sgt. Kevin M. Benderman: George Bush: Domestic Enemy of the United States -

"In the triggering of Earthquakes or Volcanoes, the trick is in determining the unique resonant frequency of the Earth's mantle AT THAT PARTICULAR SPOT (or target!) ON THE EARTH. Once the conspirators determine this, they can unleash an ELF carrier frequency through the earth, and then SUPERIMPOSE the harmonic frequency of the 'target zone' using a second set of transmitters. This might be called: 'Selective Targetin'". Of course, the conspirators will also have predetermined that the target zone will have built up enough stress within the zone to be 'ripe' for activation."
- Cal: Project Woodpecker -

    "Iraqis are reminded daily of the 70% unemployment with the gas shortage driving the costs of everything through the roof. Even petrol is 1000 Iraq Dinars (ID) per liter on the black market, which unless you are willing to endure 12-24 hours waiting in a line, is the only way to get your tank filled.
    "When I was in Iraq one month ago it was 300 ID per liter. Imagine what you would do if in your country you had 70% unemployment, were without a job, and the cost of fuel rose 333% in one month, thus driving the costs of everything from food to heating oil up?
    "Speaking of the gas crisis, this morning a pipeline between Kirkuk and the Beji refinery was exploded, and several lines southwest of Kirkuk were also destroyed."
- Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches: This is not a life -

    "Forcing naked Iraqi prisoners to pile themselves in human pyramids was not torture, because American cheerleaders do it every year, a court was told today.
   "A lawyer defending Specialist Charles Graner, who is accused of being a ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, argued that piling naked prisoners in pyramids was a valid form of prisoner control.
    "Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?' said Guy Womack, Sergeant Graner's lawyer, in opening arguments to the ten-member military jury at the reservists court martial."
- Jenny Booth: Torture? Not if cheerleaders do it -

"Didn't Steven Spielberg force movie extras to stand naked in the cold waiting for showers while shooting Schindler's List? What the Nazis did wasn't torture because American filmmakers ask extras to do it all the time."
- Mr. Logic -

"What is the Global Union?  Members of the: Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations, & Trilateral Commission. The name of the European Economic Community (EEC) was changed to the new name of EUROPEAN UNION (EU), as agreed to in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. This EU now has one central bank in Frankfurt, Germany, one monetary system (except for three holdout nations), one judicial system, one government, and are working on one military force so that they can abandon the current NATO force. Their present goal for changing the name of North, Central and South America, plus the Caribbean Islands to the new name - AMERICAN UNION - is the year 2005, which is just around the corner of time. They will then change the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) (Created by President George H.W. Bush in 1989) to its new name - ASIAN UNION, by around 2010. During this same period, the former SOVIET UNION will be resurrected, but this time not under hard line Communist control, but under the direct and absolute control of the Elite. Then by around the year 2015 (or sooner), the governing body over all these four GLOBAL REGIONS will assume full command, and will be called the - GLOBAL UNION (or perhaps another name will be used by then). By this time, national sovereignty of all nations will be lost completely, and we will all be under strict Elite control. Then, there will be only two classes of people - the Elite, and the rest of us - their slaves."
- Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr.: What is the Global Union? The old "NEW WORLD ORDER" is dead. The new "GLOBAL UNION" is very much alive and kicking -

"The Bilderbergs are swell."
- Pundits for a Buck -

"The threat from a collapsing mountain in the Atlantic Ocean could unleash deadly tidal waves on a similar scale to the Asian tsunami, a scientist warned today. Hundreds of millions of people could die in a disaster affecting Britain and the eastern United States. Professor Bill McGuire called for an early warning system to be installed to counter the potential danger. Researchers have discovered that a chunk of volcano in the Canary Islands the size of the Isle of Man is on the brink of falling into the sea. Scientists believe it could break away when the Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma next erupts."
- John-Paul Ford Rojas: Volcanic Eruption Could Unleash Giant Tsunamis on U.S. -

"In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the (Star Wars) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively destabilizing agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions."
- Michel Chossudovsky: Washington's New World Order Weapons Can Trigger Climate Change -

"Not since the time of Noah has God used water so effectively to harass sinners and wreak havoc upon those who don't flatter Him with sufficient regularity. As unsaved, impoverished Hindus toiled in beachside shacks on Christmas instead of exchanging expensive gifts from American department stores to celebrate the Baby Jesus' Birthday, the Lord was plotting their horrific, briny demise. True Christians know from the Great Flood that one of God's favorite ways to indiscriminately kill enormous swaths of children is by drowning them and watching them gasp for air and while floating like little discarded Styrofoam cups in the tide. Sometimes, He extends an enormous hand as if He is about to rescue the bobbing tot, only to retract it at the last minute to teach the drowning child a valuable lesson about the ineffable nature of God's love."
- God Fails to Break His Own Record for Killing -

    "Markland's research into so-called 'stand off' detection and warning systems - systems that can identify concealed weapons on individual attackers at distances up to 50 meters - will combine existing thermal sensors with new thermal signature-processing technology to create tools to help military and police personnel screen for would-be assailants.
   "'There are currently no adequate technology solutions available to homeland security and military personnel that can help them identify a suicide bomber or terrorist gunman before the attacker can get close enough to inflict real harm,' said Mr. Tarini. 'We believe that Markland's research may represent a leap forward in the creation of systems that can detect these attackers with a degree of success.'"
- Markland Funded to Develop Methods for 'Stand-Off' Thermal Detection of Concealed Explosives and Weapons -

"Contrary to widespread childish opinion, most of the important things that happen in the world, happen because powerful forces intend them to happen, not because of some so-called 'sociological' or other merely statistical coincidence of the types reported for the popular edification of the easily deluded. The new Bush administration wishes to settle accounts with Iraq, in memory of the passions of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former U.S. President George Bush. As long as that remains a prevalent Anglo-American intention, a new Middle East war, bigger than any yet seen, is more or less inevitable under presently reigning global influences, whether or not any significant number of Israeli or Islamic leaders wish it to occur."
- Lyndon Larouche: January 27, 2001 - 

"We've been very clear that this is not about public policy. As an organization, UCS does disagree with the Bush administration on a range of policies, but when we agree, we like to say so. While the Bush administration has had a dismal record on environmental protection, they have done a terrific job on cleaning up diesel pollutants, and that's something that we applaud. But on the question of science, we have seen this administration systematically block decision makers from having unadulterated, unvarnished access to what the research has to say, and that's just unacceptable."
- Kevin Knobloch: president of the Union of Concerned Scientists -

"What if your bank told you they have some good news for you? That they’re going to save themselves some money by not giving you a receipt on your ATM withdrawals any more. And they’re going to save even more money by reporting to you monthly only the balance in your account, not the individual transactions that show how they reached that balance? Would you trust them? Or would you run lickety-split to another bank? But that’s exactly what the companies who make voting machines are telling us."
- Carolyn Kay: Voting Machine Fraud -

"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
- Bertolt Brecht -

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
- Samuel Johnson -

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
- Aristotle -

"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population."
- Dr. John Coleman: Conspirators Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300 -

"No one tells the member countries about the 'earthquake'. However, the U.S. DOES WARN its military base in the area. And from this military base, part of the invasion of Aceh is proceeding with TWO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS and led by the U.S.'s pre-emptive invasion of Iraq leadership. In a bitter irony, part of this operation is being coordinated out of America's Naval base in Diego Garcia. The U.S. warns its naval base, though fails to warn Indian Ocean rim governments."
- NAZI BUSH REGIME's ENVIRO/HAARP-REICHSTAG FIRE: seize Aceh oil militarily as "rescue" -

"No one voted on Election Day to destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge but President Bush is now claiming a mandate to do exactly that. Congressional leaders are pushing for a quick vote that would turn America's greatest sanctuary for Arctic wildlife into a vast, polluted oil field. Even worse, they are planning to avoid public debate on this devastating measure by hiding it in a must-pass budget bill. Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/takeaction.asp?ms=RR0501 right now and send a message telling your U.S. senators and representative to reject this sneak attack on the Arctic Refuge."
- Robert Redford -

"When you are writing a novel you have absolute power but with a screenplay you are working with a collaborative medium and are maybe the eighth most powerful collaborator. I knew that coming in because you would have to be a fool not to know that."
- David Benioff -

"Right now you have a screenplay you're working on, or one you want to work on. So besides each month's exercise, you have one other thing to do: write ten pages of your script. Doesn't matter which ten pages - can be consecutive scenes or not, all action scenes or all character scenes. But it has to be at least ten pages, in screenplay format. They don't have to be perfect (yet), but no dashing out the pages at ten till midnight on the last day of the month. If you already have a partially completed script, then you can choose to either write ten pages or rewrite ten. Either way, at the end of the year, you'll have a complete first draft. Besides finishing a draft of a screenplay, you may also grow as a writer by stretching your mind with new concepts from these exercises."
- Jim Mercurio: Creating Your Personal Character Arc in 12 Months -

"O, blame me not, if I no more can write!"
- William Shakespeare: Sonnet CIII -

Everything Else

I'd like to apologize for sending people last week to a page of tsunami pictures that was a blog also containing some hideous pornography. Here is the absolute best page for real photos and videos of the tsunami.

This site is an incredibly good resource for eating right.

You knew there had to be a site devoted to proving there's life on Mars.

I've actually got good enough taste not to show you this Greeting card from hell.

Can't decide between Serius or XM satellite radio systems? Here's a good diagnosis of the difference from someone with both.

People who think that chemtrails are a paranoid tinfoil-hat urban myth might try to explain these aerosol fibers that rained down on a Texas town. Government plot or webs from balloon spiders, you tell me.