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The
Vidiot's
weekly blog:
What
pissed me off this week? 12/20/2004
(updated
every Monday at some point during the day)
...'cause
I'm angry and my friends are sick of listening to me...
Cost
of the War in Iraq
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Paper done,submitted,and hopefully graded with an A+. (Doubt it, but there's
always delusional hope.) Now on to bigger things: Neti Pots!
Ever heard of a
Neti Pot? (Go ahead. Google it. I'll
wait.)
You're back. Good.
So, here's what
I have to say about them: THEY ROCK! I got rid of a full-blown sinus infection
-- replete with achy molars -- using a neti pot. Fuck big pharma and their
antibiotics that cause an overgrowth of yeast. Don't need 'em. A neti
pot, warm water and a little salt is all you need. Makes me wonder though.
If big pharma has been shoving antibiotics down our throats, with the
full knowledge that there's a perfectly viable, non-medicinal alternative
out there, what other diseases might they be withholding non-medical alternatives
to? Diabetes? Cancer? Makes one wonder, doesn't it?
On to politics:
Kerik. Kerik. Kerik.
You
gotta' love this guy. He's a mess.
He's about the messiest
person ever. Possible
bigamist? Mob
ties? Arrest warrant? Love
nest? Inside stock deals? Double-timing his mistress? And to top it
all off, the nanny
thing might've just been made up! He's
a complete and utter moron.
I have my own conspiracy
theory about this debacle. There's no doubt that Giuliani was raising
money to run for something. Could be he was going to run for Gov.
of NY. BUT what if he wanted to make a run for president. The man's got
the ego to think he could pull it off DESPITE
the fact that he's married for the third time after cheating on both his
ex-wives, the first of whom was his cousin. (Actually, come to think of
it, that cousin thing might work for him in some of those red states like
Kentucky and Arkansas.) He might've been making some rumblings about running
in 2008, but we all know who the Bushies want to run in 2008: Jeb
Bush. Maybe the whole Kerik thing was really to take Giuliani down.
'Cause, that's basically what it did. I mean, look at what the story has
morphed into over this weekend. It's now about how Kerik never filled
out the proper discovery forms for his position here in NYC. That really
makes Giuliani look bad. It now basically has almost nothing to do with
Kerik and everything to do with Giuliani and his support of Kerik. (And
don't think for a minute that Jeb is the "smart" one. He's
a religionut too.)
Eh, I could be wrong.
Science
story of the Week: String
Theory
Dean Speech
of the Week: The
Future Of The Democratic Party
Hypocrisy
Catch of the Week: Yesterday
& Today
Censored
stories of the Year: The
Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004
UFO site
of the Week: Ufology
Good Idea
of the Week: Make
Vermont Canada's 11th Province
Whistling
Site of the Week: Whistling
Records
Political
Announcement of the Week: Elliot
Spitzer for Governor of NY
Religion
Site of the Week: Belief-o-matic
Gift Idea
of the Week: The
Tampon Doll
Weird Dolls
of the Week: Toddlerpedes
Cool Flash
of the Week: Spider
Mouse
"I
Wish I'd Wrote That" of the Week: Dying
for Consumption
Technology
of the Week: Podcasting
(Bartcop, are you listening?)
I HATE those
Magnetic Yellow Ribbons Article of the Week: "Support
our troops" Indeed!
Stupid Religion
Site of the Week: Matrixism
Lewd Statue
of the Week: Victor
Noir
New Blog
of the Week: Real
Climate
Missed Voice
of the Week: Zappa
on Crossfire
Hero
of the Week
Not so much for saving any
lives, but for bucking
the system and doing it with a smile.
Excerpt:
Taxi Ray offers the best bargain in the city on four wheels: free rides
in his Checker cab.
Evil
Bastards of the Week
Actually, banks are evil
bastards all of the time, but I just found out about this
awful predatory lending practice.
Excerpt:
Payday lenders' fees typically run at an annual percentage rate of 390
percent or higher compared with about 18 percent for cash advances drawn
on a credit card.
What's it like to have no
soul?
Votergate,
the biggest scandal you never heard of.
The votergate
story is getting big...but you wouldn't know it if you watched TV...or
read the papers...or listened to the radio. To use a cliche: The silence
from our media has been deafening. I can't possibly cover all of the stories
here, but a few that I've read and found interesting are as follows:
Patriot
Act, part Deux
Some of this law that they
passed was good, but some of it was bad. It was yet another bill THAT
NOBODY READ.
Excerpt:
If you were a member of Congress, would you vote "yes" on
a 3,000 page bill that you never had a chance to read? Most reasonable
people wouldn't. Most reasonable people would want to read and study
legislation before deciding how to vote; especially legislation as monumental
as the intelligence reorganization legislation or the so-called 9/11
bill.
And my blog could now be
considered "illegal" since I collect
news stories to share with you all.
Excerpt:
SECTION 102 of the new Patriot Act ll states clearly that any information
gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal,
can be considered to be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign
power. This makes news gathering illegal.
Excerpt:
Here's another terrifying story from the expanding police state. This
activist, a Constitutional scholar, had created a free speech display
on her private property. When the police towed off her property she
called to complain, the police chief told her that she would be arrested.
She was -- and forcibly drugged and sent to the State Hospital for the
violent and criminally insane.
Except:
After the bill was approved, reports emerged that it included a number
of little-noticed provisions that would greatly expand the government's
policing power and in effect broaden the USA Patriot Act. The Washington
Post reports that the new intelligence bill loosens standards for FBI
surveillance warrants and allows the Justice Department to more easily
detain people without bail. The bill will allow the FBI to obtain secret
surveillance and search warrants of individuals even if the individual
has no connection with a foreign government or established terrorist
group.
Excerpt:
The new intelligence reform bill unifies America's 15-agency spy network
under one person and grew out of recommendations issued by the 10-member,
bipartisan 9/11 commission, which spent more than a year reviewing the
attacks.
But what's the big deal about
that job? you may ask. Well, that position will collect all the intelligence
information from all of the agencies. Ok, so you say, "fair enough"
And the director will not have the authority to alter it in any way.
Again, you might say "fair enough" BUT, turns out, and funny thing this,
the only people allowed to wade through it and pick out the important
stuff and read into it what they will, well, the only people who can
do that are in the executive branch. Not that they don't do
that already mind you
Excerpt:The
United States manipulated intelligence on North Korea's nuclear program
in a similar fashion to its use of weapons of mass destruction to justify
the war on Iraq, a US foreign policy expert said in an article.
That means that Bush and
his people can now manipulate the intelligence to suit their political
needs. And woe is the person
of conscience who refuses.
Excerpt:
A senior CIA operative who handled sensitive informants in Iraq asserts
that CIA managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass
destruction and retaliated against him after he refused.
So, basically, we have a
Porter Goss controlled CIA, and all the other intelligence-gathering
agencies with heads appointed by Bush, who can manipulate the intelligence
gathering, who then hand it off to the Director, who then hands it off
to the President who can message it even more and WHAMMY! We have instant,
politically motivated intelligence! You have to admire them for their
evilness. It is perfection.
Chip
chip chip goes our Bill of Rights.
Excerpt:
Hearing arguments on whether two journalists should be jailed for refusing
to name their confidential sources to a grand jury, a three-judge panel
of the federal appeals court in Washington seemed on Wednesday to reject
their main argument, which is based on the First Amendment.
Trust me, soon, the media
will be overtly
controlled (not just covertly, the way it is now.)
Excerpt:
MANY promising intelligence leads on terrorist networks have been compromised
by media reporting, the Defence Department's top intelligence bureaucrat
has declared.
Yup. It's the Media's fault.
Therefore, the media must be controlled.
And freedom
of expression? We don't need no freedom of expression.
Excerpt:
A portrait of President George W. Bush using monkeys to form his image
has led to the closure of a New York art exhibition over the weekend
and anguished protests over freedom of expression.
I'm
shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
Did you know that Total Information
Awareness was ready BEFORE
9/11? What a shock.
Excerpt:Citizens
For Legitimate Government can report today an exclusive story about
the Total Information Awareness program (TIA), initiated by Admiral
(retired) John Poindexter. CLG exclusive source tells us that a day
after 9-11, Poindexter’s office of the TIA program was already
established in the Pentagon. Says inside, unnamed source, Poindexter
had the TIA program ready to roll out on 9/12/2001, the day after 9-11.
Five days after 9-11, the TIA office was fully functional. Asked if
that means the program was ready to rollout previous to 9/11, the source
familiar with the program and privy to top-secret government contractors
said, "of course."
And the US and Britain had
something
to do with the coup plot in New Guinea.
Excerpt:Two
reports on the background to the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea
were sent in December 2003 and January 2004 by South African “security
expert” Johann Smith to British intelligence and to Michael Westphal,
senior colleague of Donald Rumsfeld and deputy assistant secretary of
defence.
Excerpt:
Today, the news of Gary Webb’s untimely death at 49 shot around
the Internet. To many, Webb was a true media hero, a man who reported
a controversial -- albeit well-documented -- connection between the
rise of crack cocaine in Los Angeles, the CIA, and the Contras.
That makes four dead Bush
biographers. A statistical WOWnomally.
Excerpt:
"Examining the male U.S.suicide rate for recent years , we can
extrapolate a conservative estimate of 17 male suicides per 100,000
people, or 0.017%. The odds of 4 specific, male biographers committing
suicide would be the 4th power of 17/100000, or 8.3521 4.913 x 10^-17...roughly
1 chance 10,000,000,000,000,000. About as good a definition of impossible
as you can get.
Notice that I used
word "suicide"
with little quotes around it.
Excerpt:
Note the plural "wounds". An actual suicide from a gunshot
to the head wouldn't leave the victim in any state to pull the trigger
a second time. Vince Foster, care to comment?
(The use of the plural "wounds"
has been defended.)
Gee, do you think he was
"suicided"?
Excerpt:
Former DEA agent Cele Castillo concurs that Webb was murdered and that
in such a 'revenge hit' situation it was common in his experience that
the murderers would have likely talked to Webb at length about how and
why they were about to kill him.
And what was his claim to
fame? His investigation into the Bush family's involvement in Iran
Contra.
Excerpt:
The story makes the allegation that beyond selling drugs in America
in the 1980's, the US-backed Contra rebels, fighting a Cuban-backed
Nicaraguan regime, were largely responsible for introducing crack-cocaine
into the US. This issue has raised interest to the point that a Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence has begun hearings on it.
Excerpt:
In 1996, journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that forced
a long-overdue investigation of a very dark chapter of recent U.S. foreign
policy – the Reagan-Bush administration’s protection of
cocaine traffickers who operated under the cover of the Nicaraguan contra
war in the 1980s.
So here's my conspiracy theory
of the week: Porter Goss just took over the CIA. He has been linked
with Iran Contra.
Excerpt:Porter
Goss, it's interesting to note, claimed that he was the one who turned
the man who would later become a member of the Sandinista ruling council,
Tomas Borges. Borges was subsequently the CIA's point man in Nicaragua
pursuant to the CIA's narcotics trafficking during Iran Contra.
Excerpt:
Al Martin, one of America's foremost government whistleblowers and a
retired Navy Lt. Commander, claims that Porter Goss, the Bush-Cheney
choice to be DCI (CIA Director), was active in covering up the CIA's
Iran-Contra era narcotics trafficking in Florida, while he was a member
of the Vice Presidential Task Force on Drugs in Miami in 1983 then headed
by George Bush Sr.
WHAT IF Mr. Goss' first order
of business was to clean up some of the messes he left behind? And what
if Gary Webb, who had been investigating Iran Contra, had some information
on Mr. Goss, and Goss decided to make "an example" out of
Webb. Flex his muscles, show everyone who's boss.
Eh, I could be wrong.
Cronyism
is the story.
This
story is all wrong.
Excerpt:
A United Nations panel has found that the US-led occupation authority
failed to exercise proper controls over Iraq's oil industry and could
not say how much oil had gone missing since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The US didn't "fail"
to control the oil. It's the international community that failed to
keep an eye on the US and the US has since managed to funnel the extra
cash into secret offshore accounts.
Religiocrazy!
I'm so sick of this religion
crap. Get
it out of my face.
Excerpt:
Emboldened by their Election Day successes, some Christian conservatives
around the country are trying to put more Christ into Christmas this
season.
And get it out of my government.
Period. End of conversation.
But nooooo, we've got some
sort of crazy-assed fundamentalist in the White House, so now, they
want to include the 10 freakin' commandments in EVERYTHING.
Sweeeeet Jeeeezus!
Excerpt:
The Bush administration, saying that religion ``has played a defining
role'' in the nation's history, urged the U.S. Supreme Court to permit
Ten Commandments displays in courthouses.
Excerpt:
A south Alabama judge refused to delay a trial Tuesday when an attorney
objected to the judge wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments
embroidered in gold on the front of the garment.
(Oh. Doesn't he look purdy
with all that gold
glitter on the front of his robe.)
Hey! Wouldn't it be funny
if GW turned out to be the antichrist?
Excerpt:
"Bush is one of the key figures leading the church away from Jesus,"
says Christian author Bob Miller, who wrote the nonbluenose Christian
best seller Blue Like Jazz. Miller is no pantywaist - he had the balls
to run a ministry at Reed College in Portland, Ore., which is so godless
that its soccer team is said in campus legend to have once staged a
halftime crucifixion in a game against a Christian school. But he couldn't
stomach it when, for instance, Texas Gov. Bush not only allowed the
execution of his fellow born-again Christian, the penitent ax murderer
Karla Faye Tucker, but made vicious fun of her on TV ("Please don't
kill me!" Bush said, mocking her prayerful plea for God's mercy).
Miller classifies Bush Christians as modern Pharisees - the allegedly
proud, rigid, legalistic hypocrites John the Baptist called "a
generation of vipers." "The worst condemnation that Jesus
has for anybody, I mean the worst, is for Pharisees," says Miller.
"If you asked Jerry Falwell who the Pharisees are in our society,
they can't point anybody out." There are no mirrors in Bush's church.
Shooting
ourselves in the foot.
Not that I can believe anything in Capitol Hill Blue, but this
is weird story.
Excerpt:President
Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network
of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent
terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House
said Wednesday.
There's no way he could do
this. Too much rides on the GPS system working. It would cripple everything
in this country. Makes no sense. Then again, when has that ever stopped
them.
Resistance
is futile.
So let me get this straight:
If you decide that you are against the policies of this government,
and your conscious tells you that you cannot give your money to the
war machine, they can
take it from you anyway. INteresting.
Excerpt:
Members of Austin Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation (ACOMT)report
increased wage seizures of their wages and bank accounts by the IRS.
ACOMT opposes participation in war by refusing to pay federal taxes
that fund the military. The group advocates federal legislation enabling
Conscientious Objectors to war taxes to direct their income taxes to
a fund which the Treasury Department could use only for non-military
purposes.
{sigh}
Why Alberto Gonzales is being
made attorney general.
Excerpt:
Just two weeks after the September 11 attacks, a secret memo to White
House counsel Alberto Gonzales’ office concluded that President
Bush had the power to deploy military force “preemptively”
against any terrorist groups or countries that supported them—regardless
of whether they had any connection to the attacks on the World Trade
Towers or the Pentagon.
Chicken
hawks shits
They're so afraid of us.
Hey, aren't these
guys supposed to LIKE Cheney?
Excerpt:
Ok, you gotta love this. Everything is going so well in Afghanistan
that we had to FRISK OUR OWN SOLDIERS entering a US military cafeteria
today in Afghanistan. Why? Because Dick Cheney was there to have lunch
with them.
Wow, if they're afraid of
our own troops, imagine what they must think
of us?
Excerpt:
President George W Bush will be sworn in next month for a second term
amid the tightest security in inaugural history, with police planning
to search every one of the tens of thousands of people expected to line
the parade route.
They
don't even try to hide it.
With all the rats that have
jumped shipped in this second Bush administration, they have to make
sure that they have jobs to go to. It's part of the sacred triumvirate:
business, government, regulatory manipulation.
Excerpt:
The timing was perfect: On Nov. 23 -- exactly three weeks after the
election and as a flurry of top Bush administration officials announced
their departures -- the Office of Government Ethics declared that it
was relaxing prohibitions on lobbying by former Cabinet secretaries
and other top officials.
Excerpt:
But since the politics of privatization depend on convincing the public
that there is a Social Security crisis, the privatizers have done their
best to invent one.
(Here's
an excellent Josh Marshall blog entry on Social Security.)
That
does it.
Now
I HAVE to go to Sirius.
Excerpt:
Clear Channel Communications Inc., the nation's largest radio station
operator, has picked Fox News Radio to be the primary source of national
news for most of its news and talk stations, officials announced Monday.
Would you like a little Zell
with your easy rock?
Excerpt:
U.S. Sen. Zell Miller will be joining Fox News Channel as a contributor
next month, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Tuesday. The irreverent
“Democrat” is also joining a law firm, though he’s
not a lawyer, in a somewhat curious career move.
Excerpt:
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission rejected a request from a
radio broadcaster to consider applying federal indecency limits to pay
satellite radio services like Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. where Stern
is headed in 2006, according to a letter released on Wednesday.
Uh-oh.
This
can only be filed under "uh-oh, that can 't be good."
Excerpt:
Quietly but with malice, OPEC cartel nations have been dumping the U.S.
dollar over the past three years, according to the Bank for International
Settlements (BIS).
Excerpt:
China and Russia will hold their first joint military exercise next
year, the Chinese government said Monday, as President Hu Jintao called
for an expansion of the rapidly growing alliance between the former
Cold War rivals.
Operation
Poisoned Eagle
I'm beginning to believe
the GW is such a fundamentalist, that he truly believes that the end
times are here. Why else would he attack the environment the way he
does? Apparently, he doesn't think any of us will be around long enough
to need a healthy environment. So I guess we should just quit our complaining.
Nobody will listen
to us anyway.
Excerpt:
“Things have gotten pretty extreme when the Environmental Protection
Agency is no longer permitted to voice environmental concerns,”
stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “’Never was heard
a discouraging word’ is no longer just a lyric from Home on the
Range; it is the new federal environmental mantra.”
Excerpt:
The Environmental Protection Agency is close to issuing new guidelines
making it easier for sewage authorities to dump partially treated wastewater
during heavy rainfalls, according to documents obtained by The Washington
Post.
And he's not stopping there.
He
wants to wipe out the green code, that body of legislation created
by Nixon that has thus far done a fair, though imperfect, job of maintaining
the environment.
Excerpt:
United States President George Bush's new administration and its supporters
controlling congress are setting out to dismantle three decades of US
environmental protection.
He's also allowing companies
to continue
to use an ozone-depleting chemical.
Excerpt:
The Bush administration announced new rules Thursday to allow U.S. farmers
who grow tomatoes, strawberries and other crops to continue using methyl
bromide, an ozone-depleting pesticide that had been scheduled to be
phased out worldwide next year.
Syria?
Iran? Syria AND Iran?
It's been awhile since they've
rattled Syria's cage. I mean, they've been trying to frame a war on
Iran
for while now.
Excerpt:
Having been proved 100% wrong about Iraq, the Bush administration now
claims that the nonexistent WMD are in Iran, or maybe Syria. During
recent weeks the Bush administration worked overtime to terrify the
US public into believing that Iran is building nuclear weapons and missiles
with which to destroy American cities.
But once again, they're pointing
at Syria.
Excerpt:
U.S. military intelligence officials have concluded that the Iraqi insurgency
is being directed to a greater degree than previously recognized from
Syria, where they said former Saddam Hussein loyalists have found sanctuary
and are channeling money and other support to those fighting the established
government.
I have an idea!
Why not just combine
Iran and Syria into one easy-to-attack, evil empire!!
Excerpt:
Iraq's defense minister on Wednesday accused neighboring Iran and Syria
of supporting terrorists in his country and charged that a senior Iraqi
Shiite was leading a "pro-Iranian" coalition into next month's
national elections.
If they start up another
war -- or hell, if they continue on with this one --they'll have to
institute
a draft.
Excerpt:
By the end of this recruiting year, the Regular Army, Reserves and Guard
could fall short more than 50 percent of its projected requirement,
or about 60,000 new soldiers. And according to many recruiters, quality
recruits are giving way to mental midgets who have a hard time telling
their left foot from their right.
Excerpt:
The Pentagon is implementing new military plans that will make the concept
of women in combat a reality.
I
hang my head in shame.
Sometimes, I'm embarrassed
to be an American.
Excerpt:
DOZENS of seats on the world's most luxurious cruise liner have collapsed
under the weight of obese American passengers.
Excerpt:
Sugar has for generations sweetened our palates and expanded our waistlines.
But it is not only our health that has suffered from the global cultivation
of sugar cane. Studies conducted over recent years have shown that the
crop has also been bad for two of the most important and unique ecosystems
in the world - the Florida everglades and the Great Barrier Reef in
Australia.
Oh, and we're dumb
too. Can't do the math.
Excerpt:
The United States scored below 20 of the 29 industrialized countries
tested. Its performance was about the same as Poland, Hungary and Spain.
Excerpt:
Canada has scored third out of 41 countries on a global test of math
skills, partly because it does so well helping children of all backgrounds
to succeed, a study shows.
Excerpt:
Students attending school in districts that have phased out the teaching
of evolution will no longer be forced to answer SAT questions about
the controversial theory. Instead, they'll answer questions about the
six days in which God created the earth and the great flood that took
place 4,300 years ago.
This
made me laugh.
These are the major
reasons people become queer.
Excerpt:
7. Seeing homosexual people. Any exposure to homosexuals, gays, lesbians,
bisexuals, or other perverts gives the impression that these lifestyles
are attractive and acceptable.
Falling
space debris
I'm lifting the commentary
directlry from WhatReallyHappened.com. It's too funny to ignore.
Pathetic
dodge to cover-up falling satellites.
Posted Dec 20, 2004 08:55 AM PST
Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH
"Oh CRAP, those @#$%@ bloggers have noticed all the space junk
we've knocked out of orbit testing our new space weapon thingie. What
do we do NOW?
"Ummmm, well, how about we dust off that Planet-X hoax we tried
to use to make the bloggers look like kooks and plant a few stories
linking the two, to discourage serious analysis.
"You mean like how we used UFOs to explain away accidental sightings
of the early tests of the SR-71, the F-117...
"...HAVE BLUE, SENIOR CITIZEN, aurora, all those, yeah, like that."
"Boy we sure made those folks look like idiots, thinking those
planes were full of outer space aliens and such. Do you really think
that will work again?
"Heck, why not? If those fools bought this last election they'll
buy ANYTHING! We had most of them convinced that balloon inflater was
a 'mobile biological weapons laboratory', remember?
Yep, that was a good 'un!"
He's
beginning to look a lot like Hitler
Didn't Hitler's people feel
the need to limit the rights of Jews?
Excerpt:Nearly
half of all Americans say the U.S. government should restrict the civil
liberties of Muslim Americans, according to a nationwide poll.
Excerpt:TIME
explained what was perhaps the most controversial of its choices thus:
"Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the
democratic, freedom-loving world faces today" (1/2/39).
Excerpt:
US President George W Bush has given America's highest civilian award
to three men closely involved in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Former CIA director George Tenet, Gen Tommy Franks and Iraq overseer
Paul Bremer were given the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White
House.
And didn't Hitler use the
Military
in a lot of parades?
Excerpt:Officials
are tight-lipped about details, awaiting a briefing this week from the
Presidential Inaugural Committee. But the military theme will thread
through the 10 days of inaugural events that are normally highlighted
by pomp and circumstance, a time when the nation's capital turns into
a lavish backdrop for the revelry of the winning party.
(Though, my paranoia tells
me he wants the military front and center, just in case we protestors
get "out of hand".)
Hitler dodged
taxes
Excerpt:
Adolf Hitler spent years evading taxes and owed German authorities 405,000
Reichsmarks -- equivalent to $8 million today -- by the time his tax
debts were forgiven soon after he took power, a researcher said on Friday.
Excerpt:
As if Bush's sale of his $606,000 share of Texas Rangers stock to owner
Tom Hicks for $15 million wasn't enough, there's more from deep in the
heart of Texas to nail the good old boy, namely the possibility of tax
evasion. That is, Bush declared the proceeds as a long-term capital
gain, which it wasn't, as opposed to ordinary income, which it was.
This means Bush paid at the capital gains' rate of 20 percent as opposed
to the ordinary income rate of 39.6 percent. Beating the IRS out of
nearly 20 percent in additional taxes. But the fun doesn't stop there.
Excerpt:
On March 15, 1933, a cabinet meeting was held during which Hitler and
Göring discussed how to obstruct what was left of the democratic
process to get an Enabling Act passed by the Reichstag. This law would
hand over the constitutional functions of the Reichstag to Hitler, including
the power to make laws, control the budget and approve treaties with
foreign governments. The emergency decree signed by Hindenburg on February
28, after the Reichstag fire, made it easy for them to interfere with
non-Nazi elected representatives of the people by simply arresting them.
Excerpt:
A billboard recently put up in Orlando bearing a smiling photograph
of President Bush with the words “Our Leader” is raising
eyebrows among progressives who feel the poster is akin to that of propaganda
used by tyrannical regimes.
So they found the
name "Hitler" in the Nostradamus book. I wonder if they've
looked for Bush.
Excerpt:
Here are scans of the verses where HITLER appears in the ancient work
of Nostradamus. That means all the skeptics are wrong, Nostradamus did
directly name HITLER in his prophecies. All the early forgeries concealed
that FACT! Click the images to view the whole scan.
News
of the Weird
If a poltergeist can do this,
someone had better check out some of my dad's old haunts.
Excerpt:
A pub boss has called in ghostbusters after barmaids complained their
bums were being pinched - by a randy poltergeist.
What does one say
to an alien?
Excerpt:
There’s also the enticement that pondering what to say and how
to say it might help snag that extraterrestrial signal in the first
place. It could give us a clue as to what we’re looking for.
This
explains a lot about John Lennon.
Excerpt:
The legendary Beatle, who was murdered in 1980, told Uri he was visited
by extra-terrestrials when he was in bed with wife Yoko Ono in 1975.
Oh, and Houston is supposed
to blow up on the 27th.
Happy Holidays!
Previous
rants
What do we
do about all of this crap? I have no idea. Part of me wants to start teach-ins
at my local pub. Just go to the bar, rant and rave and inform the idiots
who still think Dan Rather is telling them the truth. Another part of me
wants to organize a voter observation program to insure that this moron
isn't in the White House all the way to 2008. I sincerely believe that if
we protected the voting rights of the underprivileged that any Democrat
could SWEEP any election. And we'd have to start with the Florida Election
for Governor THIS FALL (like these
guys!.) I don't think Democrats are the answer. But they are at least a
start.
At the very least,
point your CNN-loving friends to my links
page. Just getting started in reading alternate news sites gets people
thinking. I have one friend who was very happy-go-lucky, thinking ol'
Greta was telling the whole truth until I opened up his eyes a bit. Now,
he's all depressed. He'll get over it. You gotta' get depressed before
you get angry and you gotta' get angry before you can accomplish anything.
We're all in mourning. We have to move through the steps. But we gotta'
hurry it up.
Read. Inform.
Spread the word. Even if it means your friends avoid you for awhile. If
they really love you, they'll start to listen.
"POSSE
COMITATUS ACT" (18 USC 1385): A Reconstruction Era criminal law proscribing
use of Army (later, Air Force) to "execute the laws" except where expressly
authorized by Constitution or Congress. Limit on use of military for civilian
law enforcement also applies to Navy by regulation. Dec '81 additional
laws were enacted (codified 10 USC 371-78) clarifying permissible military
assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies--including the Coast Guard--especially
in combating drug smuggling into the United States. Posse Comitatus clarifications
emphasize supportive and technical assistance (e.g., use of facilities,
vessels, aircraft, intelligence, tech aid, surveillance, etc.) while generally
prohibiting direct participation of DoD personnel in law enforcement (e.g.,
search, seizure, and arrests). For example, Coast Guard Law Enforcement
Detachments (LEDETS) serve aboard Navy vessels and perform the actual
boardings of interdicted suspect drug smuggling vessels and, if needed,
arrest their crews). Positive results have been realized especially from
Navy ship/aircraft involvement.
(Tom
Ridge has practically said he'd do away with this act.)
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