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FREEDOM AND WEEP
Posted June 13, 2005
 

Musical News
All the News that's Fit to Sing

Michael's Song

They can play in his park unafraid
Michael is not trying to get laid
And if they should chance to spend the night
He'll respect their innocent delight

He can write a tune that's nice and lilty
You can never prove that he is guilty
He can make a plausible rebuttal
All he ever wants to do is cuddle

He has made a promise you can trust
The jury gave a verdict that was just
He will have to wait till they are men
He won't sleep with little boys again

Michael swoons
with a bunch of hairy ass baboons
Michael shouts
Underneath his worries and his doubts
Michael laughs
with an ocelot and two giraffes
Michael hurls
at the thought of touching little girls

When he goes to court he always wins
He won't go to jail for his sins
In his brain there is a major glitch
He won't be another convict's bitch

When it comes to ten o'clock or more
Michael's gonna moon walk out the door
One hand clapping will be Michael's Zen
He won't sleep with little boys again

Newsical Muse

Michael Jackson in happier days

Might I mention that every parent on earth has shared their bed with their children, so it is basically an acceptable activity, only bad when it goes too far. Unfortunately, one of the first signs that an adult has gone too far is that they have shared their bed with their children, so an acceptable activity is often used as evidence against them. 

I've faced some of the same charges as Michael Jackson, having to defend myself for the heinous crime of sleeping with children, and I was guilty. Any parent who turns down their kid who wants to crawl into bed with them when they've had a nightmare is an asshole. All I could say to the court was Yeah, and so what? You want to infer something, infer it. There was nothing they could do because in cases like these, only the participants know for sure if the activity was innocent, and innocence is so much harder to prove. Try proving to a judge or jury that you didn't scratch your head yesterday. Only when it's other people's children and you're a rock star with unacceptable plastic surgery does it begin to look peculiar.

My case was chickenshit next to Michael's. I wasn't on trial for touching children who came to my amusement park and spent the night. That would demand a different tactic, and it seemed to me there was only one perfect defense - Michael had to be seen out on the town with some righteous babes to prove his heterosexual gusto. These charges would never stick against Kid Rock because we know he's bangin' the hell out of Pamela Anderson. I mean if Michael Jackson isn't fucking these children, then who's he fucking? Nobody? Unlikely. He needed to answer the question in a blatantly macho manner. I expected to see him on the cover of People, drunk at a strip club with his paws on Paris Hilton but no, Michael obviously nixed that strategy because he couldn't, not even for one simple photo shoot, pretend he was interested in fucking adult women.

And he got off anyway. They couldn't prove their case because, damn it, Michael was smart enough not to leave any DNA in any innocent orifices. Of course they couldn't prove it. Neither side could prove anything. I don't think the jury found him innocent. I think they found him guilty but didn't give a fuck. It was jury nullification. They judged the law, not Michael. Yeah, he did it. So what? What are amusement parks for if not to give pleasure to children, and who knows what makes kids happy these days?

And imagine Michael's future, a deranged ex-rock star with his face falling off in a delapidated amusement park dreaming of the days when it was full of the laughter of little boys, a curious cross between Howard Hughes, Citizen Kane, and Phantom of the Opera. He's going to be entertaining for years to come.

"For more than six hundred years - that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 - there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that: in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of such laws." 
- Lysander Spooner: Trial By Jury, Chapter I, The Right of Juries to Judge of the Justice of Laws, 1852 -

I Feel So Much Safer Now

Photographers who took pictures of thousands of dead birds in China have been arrested.

Sophistimicated Doowacky of the Week

   There is a simple way of making lost or stolen mobiles useless to thieves and the phone companies know about it, but keep it quiet.
    To check your mobile phone's serial number, key in the following on your phone:
    star-hash-zero-six-hash ( * # 0 6 # )
    and a fifteen digit code will appear on the screen. This is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it safe. Should your mobile phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset, so even if the thief changes the sim card, your phone will be totally useless.
- snopes -

Google Searches on the Word "Downplay"
(81,300 hits for "white house downplays")

White House downplays Climate Report Edits
White House downplays Pentagon Quran Report
White House downplays job predictions
White House Downplays Missing Arms Report
White House downplays role of faulty report
White House downplays differences with Afghan president
White House downplays demonstrations on first lady's trip
White House downplays intelligence view on Iraq
White House downplays Bush-Lay relationship
White House downplays reports that country gave weapons plans to Pakistan
White House Downplays Roswell UFO Connection
White House downplays Newsweek report
White House downplays talk of Pak-US F-16 deal
US downplays hopes for postwar economic surge
US downplays report on Guantanamo prisoner abuse
U.S. Downplays Importance of Iraqi Voter Turnout
White House downplays the need to borrow money
Bush Downplays Fallout from Saddam Pix
Rumsfeld downplays success of weapons inspections
The White House downplays any concern about rebellion in this town
White House downplays effects of mercury from coal-fired power plants
White House downplays deal with commentator
White House memo downplays Role of CIA Chief
Rumsfeld Downplays Resistance in Iraq
Rumsfeld Downplays Prisoner Treatment
US downplays Allawi charge after massacre of recruits in Iraq
US Downplays NK Fuel Rod Removal
White House downplays the terrorist threat
Bush downplays the mortal price of war
US downplays rift with Iraq Shia
Rice downplays Ukraine pullout
US Downplays Chinese Threats Against Taiwan
Bush Downplays Data

- thanks to Jane Stillwater -

Bible Lesson from Hell

"Dr. Edwards explains that it would have been impossible for Noah's sons to travel to the four corners of the earth to areas that were previously inaccessible on foot. 'Noah and his sons had to collect two of every single creature on the face of the planet,' he says. 'We're talking about a big haul here. At first we just attributed it to what Creation Scientists call, the Holy Finger Snapping Theory. That's where God snaps his fingers and just makes it so.' Edwards points out that Creation Scientists are still unanimous in attributing the fact that Noah was able to load 100 million plus animals onto a 450 foot ark 'in the selfsame day' (Genesis 7:13-14) to the Finger Snapping Theory. In the case of how the animals were collected from remote regions of the world in the first place however, recent archeological finds indicate that Noah's sons were able to tame giant flying dinosaurs and in turn, load them up with food supplies and hitch rides for long trips around the world to China, South America, Australia, Greenland, and the North Pole."
- New Evidence Suggests Noah's Sons Rode Flying Dinosaurs -

Stupid Answers of the Week

Last week's question...

I understand why Carl's Jr. thinks I'll eat there due to an ad campaign of Paris Hilton washing cars and some men who would starve if not for them, but someone's got to explain to me why Del Taco thinks I'll eat there due to an ad campaign whose entire concept is "Our spokesman is an idiot."

Our pResident is a baboon like imbecilic twit, and lots of people think he's the cat's meow. So Del Taco figures showing an idiot spokesperson is the way to get the marching moron red staters to go eat there. 
- Paul 

It worked for selling the war in Iraq, but not so much on Social Security. Maybe in '08 the GOP will run Paris Hilton. At least we wouldn't have to worry about a secretive Government. She'd accidentally post everything to the internet.
- Locke 

It worked for the Republicans. 
- Baron Dave 

Because it is a well known fact that people will follow/emulate a leader with whom they identify... especially if they've been "made accustomed" to being led by/purchasing a bill of goods from the current group of scum manipulating the congenital fool we know as the "Meat Puppet-In-Chief". Dear Sweet Jesus, how I loath these "people". 
- Hactor

"I'm sorry sir but you'll have to give me your order or leave the drive-thru. There are a lot of cars in line behind you."
- anonymous

     Being in the intellectually desolate Midwest, I'm not familiar with Carl's  Jr. (isn't that the home of the 4,000 calorie Feed-the-Whole-Fam-Damily  burger with the slab of bacon and an entire side of beef?), but I can tell  you, as a student of popular culture, that the 'spokesman is an idiot' meme is pernicious and widespread. Here in the hinterlands, we've been subjected televisionally to the Frat Boy who laughingly relates what a total fumblefuck he is to the approval of his imbecile friends over a chummy round of Bud Lights; to the anxious Soccer Mom perturbed that her bug-eyed, nearly-comatose little girl isn't getting enough mood-depressants; to the half-wit cowboy, probably recently fired by the Post Office, who drives his pickup truck right into the fast food restaurant because, garsh, he just can't fucking wait for his Super Beelzebub Burger any longer. And what's with the Audi commercials that say we shouldn't follow? Is it because they might blow up at any minute, like the old Ford Pintos? There is a rich and demented tapestry being driven into the brain of the average bovine American and it involves young men who can't buy clothes that fit, and young women who desire to dress like oblivious plumbers on the old SNL, while they download .99 cent IPod tunes and take pictures with their new SBC cellphones of each other drooling. Is this why we have expensive satellites spinning around earth in synchronous orbit? So some doofus can flash a picture of his new scrotum ring to his gum-snapping mall buddies?
    Not to sound like an old curmudgeon, as accurate as that description might be, but what's the ultimate logical conclusion of this dumbing-down of the advertising message? Neanderthals discovering Skittles in the cave?  Cro-Magnons trading with Chuck Schwab using an abacus? Functionally retarded families tooling around in their new Lexus, unable to decode the  international symbol for 'windshield wiper? Our culture has been swamped by a hurricane of stupidity, because stupidity is easy. And profitable, for the time being.
    All right, they're here with my medication, so I'll sign off for now.
    Oh, no -- Prozac in the shape of Barney Rubble! Ahhhhhhh.... 
- RSJ

Idiot? I thought that was Jimmy Smits little brother. That'd make him princess Lea's step-uncle. You should know that many of your readers do not have a local Carl's Jr. or Del Taco and are not exposed to the ads. Here in Texas, fer instance, we have neither but we do have What-a-burger! 
- Eliot 

Strike my previous response. Apparently I was thinking of the El Pollo Loco guy. So I guess I've never seen the Del Taco guy. Sorry we're not all on the west coast, you elitist bastards. 
- Eliot 

It is obviously directed to those in the populace who are inspired by "our Preznit who is an idiot." 
- Pentimental 

Why not? You all "voted" for one...
- James and Katherine Allard 

Ad's frequently mirror the public they are trying to sell to and as everyone in the US is currently being served by an idiot spokesperson... umm, sorry, some taco drippings just fell on my keyboard... What was the question?
- Julie Oregon 

for the same reason larry king is popular people are attracted to obvious fakes in ways similar to the attraction between small time criminals and for petty plagiarists we coronate the flawlessly played sycophant and to shun perception we disrevere the crystal clear and potentiate the insincere.
- palantir

Answers to Old Questions That Came in Too Late

Pigs. They can happily eat a ton of bullshit, roll in oceans of mud, are not really greedy (that's a myth some jerk with a thing against pigs made up), are never bothered by dichotomy, and can be a house pet or really kick some ass. 
- Julie Oregon 

wow, Angelina Jolie is so hot she even ignites herself 
- Jennifer Ragin

If women licked our balls daily we would never have wars. Should of lef B.Clinton alone got head great prez!
- fairdealz 

There's a hot time in te old town tonight!
- Cheers, Arlene 

"So, what you're saying is that horses really don't produce milk??" 
- Chris McFarland 

I've got tears in my ears from lie'n on my back and cry'n over you .
- beaburt784

Did no one go to hell this week? 
- Matt 

    In the rapture, class distinctions, like fat/ svelte; ugly/ fair; clothed/  unclothed; late/ on-time; smart/ dumb, etc., will cease to matter, so no one will notice any of the shit you asked about, heathen, unlike the pre-rapture  times, when class distinctions are so important that all anyone can talk about is getting in with the Jesus crowd.
    A better question regards the accommodations in flight: Movies? Rest room  facilities? Drink cart? What refreshments will be provided? Will the trays  need to be returned to their upright location, or can you continue playing  travel yahtzee throughout?
- palantir 

Different facilities handle it in the manner consistent with their jurisdiction. The most common method of disposal is via incineration. Larger medical facilities often have a separate human tissue/medical waste incinerator. Other facilities contract with area incineration facilities, or in less cosmopolitan areas local funeral homes. These are the most commonly found methods utilized in the USA. 
- Fichen Dich 

Yes there is; its called religion. 
- Matt

KLAATU (PLAYED BY MICHAEL RENNIE) IN "THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" (1951)
- DIANE 

Ranch, Blue Cheese or Italian? 
- William Lee French

Stupid Question of the Week

I wish to be canonized. Won't you make up a miracle you can blame on me and tell the Catholic Church about it?

Example...

I had a really bad pain in my ass until I read an issue of Disinfotainment Today and it went away.

Send your miracles here. (Be sure to CC to the Pope)


Obscure Downloads

The Black Sabbath Cha-Cha-Cha. Paul Anka covering Smells Like Teen Spirit. I'm afraid I'm going to have to insist you check out Music for Maniacs.

Speaking of maniacs, one of the prides of my underground music collection has always been Brian Wilson's Adult Child, a solo album he recorded in 1976/77 during the deepest of his psychosis, and which his friends did him the favor of prevented him from releasing, for damn good reason. Life is for Living, H.E.L.P. is On the Way, and Everybody Wants to Live are more self-therapy than songs, making you feel total embarrassment when you stop laughing. The whole fascinating mess is available for downloading at Sonic Reclamation Industries.

All Purpose Positive Review of Anything

I loved it. It was a lifetime experience with which no others will ever compare. It was savagely ripped from the heart of society and laid bare the soul of this paltry existence. Compared to the best things you've ever seen or heard or tasted or smelt or felt, it was beyond description, a glimpse of rapture in a barren desert of simulated torture. I loved it and I don't care what anyone says. If there were anything on this planet that I could whole-heartedly recommend, this would be it. I can't believe you haven't seen/heard//tasted/felt/smelt this. A total pleasure, top to bottom, I can't remember the last time I felt so good. I've seen/heard//tasted/felt/smelt this a dozen times and I can't get enough. All I can say is it works for me. I can't wait to show it to my children. A major classic for the young at heart.

All Purpose Negative Review of Anything

What a piece of crap! Einstein called, he wants my time back. 

Chart of the Week

Michael Jackson is nothing like George W. Bush

Motto                                                        Jackson               Bush

Leave no child behind                             No                        Yes
Leave no child's behind                          Yes                        No

Insane Letter of the Week

June 14, 2005 

Dear Mr. Mxyzptlk:

 Thank you for your letter regarding the so-called "Downing Street Memo" from a high-level British meeting about the war in Iraq that was reported in the Times of London. 

I must respectfully decline to support a Congressional investigation into the President's decision to go to war with Iraq. The President made it clear in his June 6th press conference with Prime Minister Blair that it is inaccurate to suggest that the decision to go to war had already been made prior to his presenting the case against Saddam Hussein to the United Nations (UN). The President went on to say - with the Prime Minister in resolute agreement- that war was their last option in dealing with Saddam. Numerous efforts were made to make Saddam comply with UN resolutions but he disregarded these efforts. 

The "Downing Street Memo" was the minutes of a high-level meeting of British officials which included Prime Minister Blair and other members of his cabinet. The crux of the memo was the report of a man now identified as Richard Dearlove, the head of British Secret Intelligence Service sometimes known as MI6, (the original article simply named him "C") about his recent trip to Washington and his subsequent feeling that "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the war in mid-2002. Both the 9/11 Commission and the British investigation into this subject has found no evidence to substantiate Dearlove's claim. Whether his was an attempt to undermine Tony Blair during the recent British elections is unclear, but what is clear is the Bush administration was looking at all options in terms of dealing with Saddam, which is not an illegal or unexpected action. 

The claim that the President manipulated intelligence to bolster the case for war is simply not true. After September 11, 2001, the President and our allies could not take any chances with the possibility of deadly weapons finding their way into the hands of terrorists who would certainly seek to use them. Saddam Hussein had flouted 17 UN resolutions since the end of the 1991 Gulf War and the intelligence presented to the President clearly indicated Saddam possessed an active weapons program and weapons of mass destruction. Hussein had previously used chemical weapons to kill many of his own people and invaded Iraq's neighbors, both in Kuwait and Iran. Acting on the best information that was available, the President, with the approval of Congress, acted to remove the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Even former President Clinton felt - based on the intelligence available to him at the time - that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. 

The allegation that the President acted illegally in deciding for the U.S. to go to war with Iraq is simply false. The war in Iraq has been waged on a sound legal and Constitutional footing. The U.S. House and Senate approved the use of force in Iraq and UN Resolution 1382 promised "serious consequences" if Saddam Hussein failed to comply with inspections and dismantle his WMD program. 

The UN resolution begs the question: Why would the President seek to make his case before the United Nations if he had already made his decision to go to war prior to going to New York to address the General Assembly? 

The President sought Senate approval to go to war which he received by an overwhelming margin of 77-23. These senators received the same intelligence on Iraq as the President. 

Since the war has been waged on a sound legal and Constitutional grounds and with no real evidence that the administration distorted intelligence, it is difficult to conclude that the President is guilty of a crime. 

I believe the President did the right thing in removing Saddam Hussein from power. Second-guessing this decision, at this point, only serves to encourage the insurgents in this conflict and undermine the morale of our troops who are fighting to stabilize Iraq. During this difficult time when our nation is at war not only in Iraq but against terrorists around the world, we must stand united in our efforts to protect our nation and secure peace around the world. I therefore must again decline to support any investigation into the Bush administration's decision to go to war at this time. 

Once again, thank you for contacting me. 

Sincerely, 
Tom Coburn
United States Senator.

Belated Christmas Gift from Hell

Satan Doesn't Want You to Know

Antonio Meucci, not Alexander Graham Bell, is the man who invented the telephone.

Don't Take My Word For It

   "Justice John Paul Stevens said plaintiffs suffering chronic pain should turn to 'the democratic process' for comfort. He addressed this opinion to the two plaintiffs who suffer respectively from a brain tumor and a degenerative spinal disease. I'm a thinking the 85-year-old liberal Justice needs to bone up on his bedside manner a bit. 'Take two democratic processes and call me in the morning.' Wonder if this guy has consulted for any HMOs lately? Going to have to revise the new edition of the Physician's Desk Reference by inserting 'Activist Judges' next to 'Cottonmouth' under possible side effects.
    "Besides, how can they cite an interstate commerce jurisdiction over homegrown, which, according to Justice Clarence Thomas, 'has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana?' That's right, I'm quoting Clarence Thomas, which means tomorrow all the residents of hell might want to break out the sleds and earmuffs. Who knows? Maybe it was a stem of Maui Wowie and not a pubic hair on that Coke can."
- Will Durst: Reefer Absurdity -

"Those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them - bring them here and kill them in front of me."
- Jesus Christ: Luke 19:27 -

"A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." 
- Major General Smedley Butler (USMC): War is a Racket

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." 
- Thomas Jefferson - 

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
- Bill Vaughan -

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
- Patrick Henry -

"The conqueror is apt to think himself master, and the subdued do not have the power to dispute him. But that gives him no title other than what naked force gives the strong over the weak."
- John Locke: Treatise on Government -

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -

"The tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
- Aristotle -

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
- Bertrand Russell: Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? -

    "The clues are falling into place, pointing to the incontrovertible judgment that George W. Bush willfully misled the United States into invading Iraq, in part, by eliminating the possibility of the peaceful solution that he pretended to want.
    "Many of the clues have been apparent for three years - and some were reported in outlets such as our own Consortiumnews.com in real time - but only recently have new revelations clarified this obvious reality for the slow-witted mainstream U.S. news media.     "The latest piece of the puzzle was reported by Charles J. Hanley of the Associated Press in an article on June 4 describing how Bush's Undersecretary of State John Bolton orchestrated the ouster of global arms control official Jose Bustani in early 2002 because Bustani's Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons [OPCW] was making progress toward getting arms inspectors back into Iraq.
    "If Bustani had succeeded in gaining Iraq's compliance with international inspection demands, Bush would have been denied his chief rationale for war, even before U.S. military divisions were deployed to the Persian Gulf. Bustani had made himself an obstacle to war, so he had to go."
- Robert Parry: President Bush willfully misled the US into invading Iraq -

    "That the aggressor, who puts himself into the state of war with another, and unjustly invades another man's right, can, by such an unjust war, never come to have a right over the conquered, will be easily agreed by all men, who will not think that robbers and pirates have a right of empire over whomsoever they have force enough to master, or that men are bound by promises which unlawful force extorts from them.
    "Should a robber break into my house, and, with a dagger at my throat, make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title by his sword has an unjust conqueror who forces me into submission. The injury and the crime is equal, whether committed by the wearer of a crown or some petty villain.
    "The title of the offender and the number of his followers make no difference in the offence, unless it be to aggravate it. The only difference is, great robbers punish little ones to keep them in their obedience; but the great ones are rewarded with laurels and triumphs, because they are too big for the weak hands of justice in this world, and have the power in their own possession which should punish offenders."
- John Locke: The Second Treatise of Civil Government, 1690 -

"You can go ahead and use marijuana for non-medical purposes. We understand the legitimate need of college students to take a bong hit before downloading Eminem with Limewire. It's just people who are dying of cancer and AIDS who can't use it."
- Justice Sandra O'Conner -

"The Downing Street Memo is the gift that just keeps on giving. And well it should. It is the smoking gun which proves that the gravest possible crime was committed by the Bush administration, and among its victims were the American people."
- David Michael Green: Bring It Down. Now.

"Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past years."
- Adolph Hitler -

    "Whilst 'the conspiracy theory of history' is mocked by the media as the realm of scaremongers, the ignorant and the naïve, anyone who has merely studied the history of Britain's Kings and Queens, over the last 1,000 years, will readily see that conspiracies were very much part of court life, national government and Britain's international policy. Nothing has changed. Indeed, with the advent of widespread literacy, modern media and information technology, the obfuscation of, and power to corrupt facts has been raised to a new and more sophisticated plane...
   "The prime instrument in this global economic game has been one fundamental to the lives of everyone; i.e., the house you live in. Unless the householder is rich enough to afford to own two or more houses, which most are not, then the paper gain in the steadily, but rapidly rising, price of his home can only be realized if he sells his home and moves into a lesser house in the same area, or, one of similar quality and size in a less attractive or sought after location. Most people do not like moving their home for obvious reasons. Therefore, the only benefit one gains from ever rising house prices, and property prices in general, is if one can use some of the increased equity in one's home to finance other consumption needs, such as: education; cars; consumer durables; holidays; home improvements and non-essential luxuries such as speed boats and jet skis.
   "As many writers have pointed out, a home is a source of finance amidst falling real earnings, a veritable private bank ATM to be tapped into as deemed necessary. This happy little arrangement has been facilitated and expanded by an increasingly lax and accommodative banking environment, which seems almost disinterested in whether one can ever repay ones debts in the face of unemployment or illness. Again, it is necessary to ask why this is being allowed to happen? And, furthermore, why does it fly in the face of prudent money lending, as deemed sensible practice, since the creation of the banking system. Why have supposedly responsible governments allowed it to happen without imposing regulations to protect the consumer from himself and for himself?...
   "Now the great game plan starts to make some sense. Higher home loans and the greater indebtedness of society are well on their way to creating a modern version of serfdom, in which people will work for a nominal income from the cradle to the grave, merely giving birth to a new generation of serfs, as they live their constrained lives earning nominal wages, never being able to somehow get ahead as their income is whittled away by taxes, debt servicing charges and interest payments, and everyday (and ever rising) living expenses. Lives for most will comprise a few small pleasures and, mostly, endless drudgery in making the elite few richer and able to enjoy what most people can never have or even dream about having."
- Nigel Maund: The Financial Endgame Slowly Plays Out - and then the Sudden Systemic Implosion which will usher in the Brave New World -

"Now really. How many times have you read that US soldiers captured 'a senior aide to Zarqawi.' How many times? How many senior aides does Zarqawi have? And do these announcements lend credibility to US announcements?"
- The Angry Arab -

"The people at the top of America's money pyramid have so prospered in recent years that they have pulled far ahead of the rest of the population, an analysis of tax records and other government data by The New York Times shows. They have even left behind people making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Call them the hyper-rich. They are not just a few Croesus-like rarities. Draw a line under the top 0.1 percent of income earners - the top one-thousandth. Above that line are about 145,000 taxpayers, each with at least $1.6 million in income and often much more. The average income for the top 0.1 percent was $3 million in 2002, the latest year for which averages are available. That number is two and a half times the $1.2 million, adjusted for inflation, that group reported in 1980. No other income group rose nearly as fast. The share of the nation's income earned by those in this uppermost category has more than doubled since 1980, to 7.4 percent in 2002. The share of income earned by the rest of the top 10 percent rose far less, and the share earned by the bottom 90 percent fell."
- David Cay Johnston: Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind -

"Curious, how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want."
- Spock: Errand of Mercy, stardate 3198.4 - 

"Even when he is still,
The selfish man is busy.
Even when he is busy,
The selfless man is still."
- Ashtavakra Gita 18:29 -

"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Kill yourselves, seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show."
- Bill Hicks -

"One time a guy handed me a picture of himself, and he said, 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every picture of you is of when you were younger."
- Mitch Hedberg -

"The mystery is this: how did the repeal of a tax that applies only to the richest 2 per cent of American families become a cause so popular and so powerful that it steamrollered all the opposition placed in its way? The estate tax was the most progressive part of the American tax system, because it rested on the principle that the wealthy few, if they were not willing to bequeath their money to charity, should not be permitted to pass it all directly to their heirs. It had been on the statute book for nearly a hundred years, and throughout that time it had been generally assumed that there was widespread support for the idea that unearned wealth passed between the generations, creating pockets of aristocratic privilege, was not part of the American dream. Because it was a tax that so obviously took from the relatively few to relieve the burden on the very many, there seemed no possibility that a sufficiently large or durable coalition of interests could ever be formed to get rid of it. Yet during the 1990s just such a coalition came into being, and not only did it hold together, it grew to the point where the clamour for estate tax repeal seemed irresistible. What Graetz and Shapiro want to know is how the architects of repeal got so many different people on board. How they stopped them falling out among themselves, once it became clear that they could not possibly have the same interests in common. And why the hell the Democratic Party didn't do more to stop them. 
- David Runciman: Tax Breaks for Rich Murderers -

    "In all, 88 homes in the Silwan district of traditionally Arab East Jerusalem are marked for demolition to make way for what municipal authorities say will be an archeological park devoted to Jewish history and sites associated with the biblical King David...
   "If the Silwan project goes ahead, it would be the largest swath of demolition in the city's eastern sector since the 1967 Middle East War, when Israeli troops, in an electrifying moment for the still-young state, wrested the walled Old City and its environs from Jordanian control. In the subsequent months, the victorious Israelis razed hundreds of ramshackle Arab homes to create the broad flagstone plaza that now fronts the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest touchstones."
- Laura King: Jerusalem Park Plan Imperils Arab Homes. Dozens of houses called illegal would be razed to make way for a project on Jewish history -

    "Three former high-ranking government officials from Canada, Mexico, and the United States are calling for a North American economic and security community by 2010 to address shared security threats, challenges to competitiveness, and interest in broad-based development across the three countries...
   "Enhance North American competitiveness with a common external tariff. Over the last decade, nations around the world, from China to India to Latin America to the expanded membership of the European Union, have become increasingly integrated into the global market. To meet these challenges to North American competitiveness, the chairs recommend that the three governments negotiate a common external tariff on a sector-by-sector basis at the lowest rate consistent with multilateral obligations: 'Unwieldy rules of origin, increasing congestion at ports of entry, and regulatory differences among the three countries raise our costs instead of reducing them.'
   "Develop a border pass for North Americans. The chairs propose a border pass, with biometric indicators, which would allow expedited passage through customs, immigration, and airport security throughout North America. 'The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically reducing the need for physical scrutiny of traffic, travel, and trade within North America.'
   "Adopt a unified Border Action Plan. The three governments should 'strive toward a situation in which a terrorist trying to penetrate our borders will have an equally hard time doing so no matter which country he elects to enter first.' First steps should include: harmonized visa and asylum regulations; joint inspection of container traffic entering North American ports; and synchronized screening and tracking of people, goods, and vessels, including integrated 'watch' lists. Security cooperation should extend to counterterrorism and law enforcement, and could include the establishment of a tri-national threat intelligence center and joint training for law enforcement officials. On the defense front, the most important step is to expand the bi-national North American Aerospace Defense Command to make it a multi-service Canada-U.S. command with a mandate to protect the maritime as well as air approaches to North America. Canada and the United States should invite Mexico to consider closer military cooperation in the future."
- Council on Foreign Relations: Trinational Call for a North American Economic and Security Community by 2010 -

"Americans must think that our political and academic elites have gone utterly mad at a time when three-and-a-half years, approaching four years after September 11, we still don't have border security. And this group of elites is talking about not defending our borders, finally, but rather creating new ones. It's astonishing."
- Lou Dobbs -

    "It's a foregone conclusion that the Senate will confirm Zalmay Khalilzad to be the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, replacing John Negroponte. Still, it's worth stepping back to consider what Khalilzad's appointment says about the Bush administration's continuing refusal to comprehend the magnitude of the disaster in Iraq - and about the Democrats' inexplicable inability to step forward and challenge the president as Iraq continues to deteriorate. His confirmation hearing Tuesday slipped by almost unnoticed, thanks in part to a docile stable of Democrats who decided to give him a free pass, rather than seize the opportunity to lambaste the president's Iraq policy.
    "First, on the man himself: it's hard to imagine anyone worse than Khalilzad for the Baghdad job. Like one of Alexander the Great's proconsuls, Khalilzad neatly steps into one U.S.-occupied neocolony, Iraq, from another, Afghanistan. Khalilzad, born in Afghanistan, has been deeply involved in U.S.-Afghan policy for more than two decades. He is arguably as much to blame as anyone for the catastrophic mistakes that led first to that country's civil war, then to the rise of the Taliban, and finally to the Afghanistan of 2005: a warlord-dominated narco-state, in which heroin and opium provide fully half of the gross domestic product, and in which a thriving, Taliban-led Islamic fundamentalist insurgency is recently showing signs of emerging, once again, as a mortal threat to a tottering regime in Kabul. Zalmay Khalilzad, it seems, is getting out just in time."
- Robert Dreyfuss: Our Newest Proconsul -

"There has never been an administration, I don't believe in our history, more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda. I know it's frustrating for many of you, it's frustrating for me. Why can't the Democrats do more to stop them? I can tell you this: It's very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they're doing. It is very hard to tell people that they are making decisions that will undermine our checks and balances and constitutional system of government who don't care. It is very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth."
- Hillary Clinton -

"Michael Jackson is back at Neverland. Do you know where your prepubescent son is, dear? Yes, dear friends, Michael Jackson is free. Honestly, white people get away with everything! So, one more jury has found someone 'not guilty by reason of celebrity.' Surely, you are not naive enough to be surprised, are you? As Paris Hilton has proved, even being an inane, drugged-out, pornographic whore is utterly laudable just as long as we recognize your vacant mug from a weekly magazine. So, once again, it is cookies and porn time back at Neverland. As if young Hispanic boys didn't have enough to worry about with Catholic priests lurking around every confessional booth!"
- Betty Bowers -

"No 'terrorist' gene is known to exist or is likely to be found... Surely the(y), and their supporters were afflicted by something that caused their metamorphosis from normal human beings capable of gentleness and affection into desperate, maddened, fiends with nothing but murder in their hearts and minds. What was that? Simple logic says that we must go to the roots of terror. Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will anywhere."
- Ouch Borith, Permanent Representative Of the Kingdom Of Cambodia to the UN, 10/03/2001 -

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."
- Thich Nhat Hanh -

"George W. Bush himself is the strongest argument against intelligent design."
- God -

"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
- James Bryce -

"Once one dismisses
the rest of all possible worlds
One finds that this is
the best of all possible worlds."
- Dr. Pangloss: Candide -

"Before rhyming orange he knew that he
needed much more ingenuity"
- me -

Everything Else

The revelation of the identity of Deep Throat can't help but bring back memories of the fact that I was supposed to be the Deep Throat of Woodward's Wired, revealing to him the true identity of John Belushi's killers, giving Woodward remarkably similar advice to that of the original Deep Throat, "follow the drugs" instead of "follow the money." Woodward ignored my advice, never told where the drugs came from, and wrote a piece of crap that was as just as much a cover-up as the one by Richard Nixon that made him famous.
 

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