Fan Mail from a Soldier Returned from Iraq

Hey, my whole company read your stuff every chance we got. Our home page was BartCop and he links to your page every day.

As a matter of fact when one of the guys went off verbally on someone for being stupid the guys in the company would say "he just DOUBLE DARED that guy".

You're famous, dude.

Thanks for the welcome and keep up the good work.

I'm just sayin'...

Lo

The Sins of the Fathers ARE Visited Upon the Sons

Check out this timeline of the entire Bush Family Evil Empire.

Retraction from Hell

October 28th, 2003

PRESS RELEASE

EARTH LIBERATION FRONT TAKES CREDIT FOR SABOTAGE AT WALMART CONSTRUCTION SITE, INDIANA

For Immediate Release

MARTINSVILLE -- In its 11th known action of 2003, the Earth Liberation Front has taken credit for extensive sabotage at the site of a Walmart under construction in Martinsville, Indiana. An anonymous communique, sent to the ELF Press Office, claims the action took place on the 24th October and did significant damage to heavy machinery being used on site, as well as to the site itself.

October 31st, 2003

PRESS RELEASE

Frontline Information Service

ELF PRESS OFFICE RETRACTS STATEMENT CONCERNING WALMART ACTION IN INDIANA

For Immediate Release 

The ELF Press Office would like to issue a retraction of a statement we made in error concerning the Walmart action in Martinsville, Indiana. The sabotage action at the Walmart was not, in fact claimed by the Earth Liberation Front. The action was taken by another group of direct actionists not associated with the ELF, but because the Press Office received the communique anonymously, we made a false assumption that it was intended to be signed ELF. 

We have been corrected on this error by another anonymous email, and we offer our apologies to those who carried out the action. We certainly did not mean to mislead anyone as to the intentions of those who carried out the action. The ELF Press Office will continue to publicize the actions of the ELF and other underground direct action groups and we hope that those groups will continue to entrust us with their communiques and messages. 

We will be removing the information from the earthliberationfront.com website concerning this action and ask that this message be forwarded on to ensure that it is made clear that the action at Martinsville was not the work of the Earth Liberation Front, but another unnamed group who is also operating in the United States. 

Anagram of the Week

Rush Limbaugh = B.S. Humbug Liar.

More E-Mail from Hell

#1

We are three, 
Lujagali Akiki,
Kikambi Denis,
Kaggwa Karyesubula.

We want to join Lucifer agencies to the under world but we have no contacts and knowledge about going "UNDER WORLD".

Please master Lucifer, We are ready to work for you and against the so called CHRIST.

We live at BWAYIISE in kampala town and we were religion believers.

We want adirect going into the under earth.

We want now, so please send us an AGENT to bring us.

Your immediate response is hily appreciated.
your's ,
KIKAMBI.

#2

Dearest LUCIFER and all your AGENTS in town kampala, We dont know what kind of language do you understand properly, but let us think you can get us tonight to the under world.

We think of being Lucifer Brides in the under.

We got it from former shadow [rogers mugisha], we are here to replace him but we have no connecting people.

NOTE: please come for us now before it is too late. And know it all that there is no any hiden gender of ours at all. 

Where shall we go from this world of poverty, lack of jobs, and diseases if there is no SATAN under world.

KIKAMBI, KAGGWA, RUJAGALI

(Okay, I've posted a popular Satan for President in 2004 page and yeah, I do sign this newsletter "Satan," but it's obviously a joke and nobody's taken it seriously except for Lujagali, Kikami, and Kaggwa. Anxiously seeking help responding to this. Hey, maybe one of them is cute. I could use three "brides.")

Mr. Conspiracy Says...

Nobody is saying the Bushes are Nazis. What makes John Buchanan's stories newsworthy and not just ancient history is that George W. is guilty of the exact same behavior his grandfather Prescott has been accused of: war profiteering and trading with the enemy. Just because the sins of the grandfather have not been inherited by the grandson doesn't mean they haven't been adopted.

The U.S. is calling their latest actions in Iraq an offensive. I do not disagree.

Here's the gigantic energy bill they're trying to shove down America's throat at the last minute, just like the Homeland Security bill that no one had time to read before they shoved it down America's throat. It gives away your last penny to millionaires. Write your congressman and Senator and tell them not to sign it until you've had a chance to read it.

I Feel So Much Safer Now

"Two of the three major credit-reporting agencies, each holding detailed files on about 220 million U.S. consumers, are in the process of outsourcing sensitive operations abroad, and a third may follow suit shortly, industry officials acknowledge for the first time. Privacy advocates say the outsourcing of files that include Social Security numbers and complete credit histories could lead to a surge in identity theft because U.S. laws cannot be enforced overseas."
- Lazarus at Large -

Application of the Week

     iTunes is mainly meant to be used as a music manager and means of purchasing music online. However, in addition to purchasing music, one can listen to any of the music shared by others on a network. So, for example, if another person on your network has iTunes and decides to share their music, you can listen to it. iTunes does not allow you to save this music to your hard drive. 
    MyTunes adds this previously unimplemented feature by allowing you to save music from other computers to your hard drive.

This Week on Meria Heller's Show

November 17  Kevin Annett - Genocide In Canada and scoop! 
November 18  John Stanton, Author of many books on his latest article "Hitler's Ghost In The White House" 
November 20  Jim DeEugenio - Assassinations - JFK revisited 
November 25  Michelle Kinnucan - Journalist - Patriot Act & Spying on America

Each show free for 24 hours!

The Truth Will Come Out

The restrictions that the Bush White House has imposed upon the 9/11 Commission are totally fair and honest, proving that it will be just as unbiased as the Warren Commission.

Shockwave of the Week

Buster and his buddies make nuclear proliferation fun again.

Don't Take My Word For It

     "As secretary of state in 2001, Bill Jones moved to rid California of the type of antiquated voting machines that helped throw the presidential election into turmoil in Florida. Then last year he sponsored a successful $200-million industry-backed bond measure that gave counties money to buy high-tech replacements.
    "Now, the former elections chief is a paid consultant to one of the major voting machine firms vying for that business.
    "Other voting system companies use political figures as lobbyists. For example, former state assemblyman and Sacramento Mayor Phil Eisenberg contacted Sacramento County supervisors last year on behalf of Election Systems & Software. And former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu later contacted San Bernardino County supervisors on behalf of Diebold Election Systems."
- Tim Reiterman and Peter Nicholas: Ex-Officials Now Behind New Voting Machines: Those who led the state's ballot-count reforms now work for the firms making the equipment - 

"In Canada they mark an X in a box, and then people sit and count the votes by hand with representatives of the various parties watching everything. There are hardly any roads north of Toronto but the Canadians manage to get all their votes in four hours after the ballots close."
- Michael Moore -

"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous."
- Margaret Fonteyn -

"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them."
- Suzanne Necker -

"Should his company lose in court, Swartz envisions a world of monopolies that would make turn-of-the-century Standard Oil blush. He predicts deals between automakers and tiremakers, for instance, that would put copyright-protected chips in tires to prevent a car from starting unless it was fitted with automaker-approved tires. Imagine, for instance, if Toyotas would run only on Goodyear tires, he said. What would become of Michelin, Cooper, Pirelli and other tiremakers?"
- Caught by the Act [Article about Lexmark's lawsuit against Swartz's company which makes cartridges for their printers] -

"Our exit must be honorable. We cannot cut and run without drowning our national pride in our tears for what we will have done to Iraq and the inescapable damage to our international leadership and reputation. Our answer might well be found in the very place where our misadventure began - in the United Nations."
- Walter Cronkite: The U.N. and our Iraq dilemma -

"A pretty, blonde soldier ambushed by the Iraqis, courageously firing until her ammo runs out, shot and stabbed and carried off by the enemy who, after taking time out to rape her, deposit her unconscious body in a hospital, where she is slapped around by evil medical staff, then, nine days later, is rescued in a daring, nighttime raid that is videotaped and can be shown repeatedly around the world and who, as soon as she recovers, will tell what it's like to be an all-American hero. It was a gift from the propaganda gods. Just two problems: It didn't happen that way, and the designated hero, Private Jessica Lynch, refuses to say it did.
- Lynda Hurst: From hero, to whistle-blower, to celebrity -Jessica Lynch's Story is Turning 'Into a Monster' for the Bush Administration -

"This White House believes they can spin their way out of anything and they assume reality will surrender to their spin. In this case, they believed Jessica [Lynch] would play along. But she hasn't. She may not appear self-assertive, but she can clearly tell illusion from reality. Good for her."
- Mark Crispin Miller: media analyst at New York University -

"They learned the wrong lessons from Vietnam and still think lying to the public is the best course."
- Vince Carlin: former head of CBC Newsworld -

"Am I angry about the amount of coverage she's received rather than the soldiers who've come home and aren't getting proper medical support? Yes."
- Seth Pollack: executive director of Veterans for Common Sense -

    "The Pentagon, abetted by a supine media, touted that rescue as a heroic high-point of the Iraq war, a simple narrative of good triumphing over evil by means of American valor that even critics of the war would grow misty about, a badly needed diversion for the administration in the early days when 'shock and awe' was starting to sound like wishful thinking. Hence Lynch became the public face of the Iraq war: idealistic, brave, sympathetic.
    "No longer. Now Lynch is chafing at her Joan of Arc role, and she's criticizing the military for hyping her story. Briefly the embodiment of American virtue, she's fast become a symbol of Pentagon propaganda and schlocky media credulity. Where the 'real' Jessica Lynch fits in all this is unclear. And, really, who cares? More interesting is the view this whole episode offers of the 'real' Pentagon."
- Heroine Abuse -

"Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has accused the military of using her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue to sway public support for the war in Iraq. Lynch said she's bothered by the military's portrayal of her ordeal in Iraq. She said the U.S. military manipulated the story of her dramatic rescue -- and shouldn't have filmed it in the first place."
- NBC5: Jessica Lynch Says Military Manipulated Her Story -

"How does hellraising fiercely independent truth-telling muck-raking journalism make a buck? It doesn't."
- Mother Jones -

"You are not your body. Your body is not you. You are not the doer. You are not the enjoyer. You are pure awareness, The witness of all things. You are without expectation, Free. Wherever you go, Be happy!"
- Ashtavakra Gita 15:4 -

"According to Clinique spokespersons, the beautification of Mother Teresa will take several months."
- William Johnson -

    "There aren't many people in the United States who have as much experience with rock-and-earth dams and coal slurry impoundments as Jack Spadaro, a distinguished mining engineer who's been working in federal regulatory agencies for almost 30 years. That's why he was selected to be one of eight members of an accident investigation team to determine the causes of the nation's largest coal slurry spill at the Martin County Coal Company in Inez, Ky., on Oct. 11, 2000.
   "A coal slurry impoundment is a reservoir of thick liquid waste from coal processing that is constructed by damming the mouth of a valley with rock and earth. To residents living near these impoundments, they are disasters waiting to happen. The EPA called the Inez spill the worst environmental catastrophe in the history of the Eastern United States. Far more extensive in damage than the widely known 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska, the Martin County Coal slurry spill dumped an estimated 306 million gallons of toxic sludge down 100 miles of waterways.
   "Jack Spadaro has made it his life's work to figure out why these spills happen and how to stop them. But right now he is awaiting final word from officials at the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), a wing of the U.S. Department of Labor that is a lead regulatory agency for the coal industry, as to whether he will retain his job as the superintendent of the National Mine Safety and Health Academy, MSHA's training facility. His superiors are accusing him of a raft of misbehaviors -- including 'abusing his authority' and 'failing to follow instructions.' But as far as he's concerned, the reason he's facing dismissal is very simple: He's been in hot water since January 2001 -- when Bush administration officials took control of the Martin County Coal investigation." 
- Phillip Babich: Dirty business: How Bush and his coal industry cronies are covering up one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history -

"He is not noble who injures living beings. 
He is called noble because 
he is harmless towards all living beings."
- Buddha: Dhammapada 270 -

"John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General, our supreme commander in the 'War on Terror,' has ties in his past to white supremacist/neo-nazi groups. As George W. Bush's attorney general, Ashcroft has used the Department of Justice to support Republican efforts at voter suppression; many of them aimed at black voters. Ashcroft ran on a platform that included 'No Desegregation of Public Schools' in the Missouri Governors race. Here is a record of his efforts to block desegregation and voluntary busing in St. Louis and Kansas City."
- Jay Shaft: In a Police State Atmosphere, Fascists Will Rise to the Top -

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." 
- Auguste Rodin -

Contest of the Week

Everything Else

Mandatory reading: This interview with Gore Vidal gets right to the point. "We are talking about despotism. I have read not only the first PATRIOT Act but also the second one, which has not yet been totally made public nor approved by Congress and to which there is already great resistance. An American citizen can be fingered as a terrorist, and with what proof? No proof. All you need is the word of the attorney general or maybe the president himself. You can then be locked up without access to a lawyer, and then tried by military tribunal and even executed. Or, in a brand-new wrinkle, you can be exiled, stripped of your citizenship and packed off to another place not even organized as a country - like Tierra del Fuego or some rock in the Pacific. All of this is in the USA PATRIOT Act. The Founding Fathers would have found this to be despotism in spades. And they would have hanged anybody who tried to get this through the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Hanged."

If you're as sick of those "Who's hot" lists as I am, you've got to read Film Threat's Frigid 50: The Coldest People in Hollywood 2003.

Actual people review actual hardware, all listed as "Smooth Ride," "Mixed," or "Horror Story," at this excellent site full of technical information, the best ISPs, the cheapest products, information you can actually use before making a purchase.

Who says there can't be a cool film festival in Georgia? Check out the Dahlonega International Film Festival. They're looking for films now.

Who says there can't be a cool film festival in Brooklyn? Check out the Brooklyn International Film Festival. They're looking for films now.

Who says there can't be a gay and lesbian film festival in Miami? Check out the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. They're looking for films now.

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