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The Vidiot's weekly blog: What pissed me off this week? 3/28/2005 (A day early this week.) (updated every Monday at some point during the day) ...'cause I'm angry and my friends are sick of listening to me... Track your congresscritters here!
Free stuff can be found here Mirror (in case geocities is wacky or, in case of trouble in New York, check it for messages): http://129.79.148.33/vidiotcontact/ OK. That's it. I'm going to talk about the Schiavo case... but I'm not going to talk about Terri Schiavo. As I said last week, she's none of anyone's gawdamn business. No. What I'm going to go off on is the ribald, and I mean RIBALD hypocrisy of the GOP. (Meanwhile, for them, killing healthy people is AOK.) How DARE they! Bastards! They spend the entire 2004 election cycle talking about state's rights and the sanctity of marriage and now in 2005, in one fell swoop, they take the opposite stand for Schiavo because politically, it excites their base! (And look at who's funding a lot of this!) It blows my mind and I can't stand it anymore! Listen, I understand that in politics, each and every decision is not going to thrill me. If it did, we'd have healthcare for everyone, no corporate personhood and forgiven debts for the whole friggin planet. And I even get the whole "fighting" for what you believe in thing. But contrary to how a repuglican would spin it, when you manipulate the system to win, you don't "play the system", you pervert the system and I'm damned sick of it. You know, maybe I'm not rich 'cause I don't "play the game." I don't worship the almighty dollar. I don't hoard my money, play the market along with the "pump and dumpers" and reap my profits, social responsibilities be damned. But dammit! Why the hell is that greedy, self-centered crap "acceptable" behavior to begin with?! It's immoral, plain and simple. Sorry, I'm just so pissed off this week because day after day, I've been subjected to some religious sycophant spouting off on how inhumane it is to starve Terri Schiavo, or how "GOD" wouldn't want us to act that way towards another human being, when the fact of the matter is that the whole thing should be a private FAMILY matter and this whole thing is just another media-created, Gary-Condit-Lacie-Peterson-Micheal-Jackson, distraction-from-reality thing. [Micheal Rivero over at whatreallyhappened.com has a theory: Since the war killed so many innocent people and the prison torture thing is just so ugly, the media is hell-bent on trying to convince Americans that they aren't bad people after all and that Americans really do care about their fellow man (or, in this case, woman.) Keep them happy and keep them shopping.] The reality is that GW's numbers are WAY down, that this week was the anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, that GM is failing in a BIG way, our deficit is dangerous, that the price of oil is up and inflation along with it, that GW is winding up to a war with Iran, that the Pentagon recently confirmed unilateral pre-emptive AND proactive strikes are now official U.S. FRICKIN' policy and that the parasitic neocons are firming up their grip and pushing us towards Empire overreach. THAT'S what our illustrious media should be talking about instead of this Schiavo CRAP! [Read that Ritter interview on the Parasitic Neocons, and this article about Neocons and Priuses makes a lot of sense.] And you know what? They're not even doing the Schiavo story any justice. Note the narrative: greedy, evil, possibly abusive, self-centered husband vs. pious parents and loving family, as well as Terri being in a "questionable" vegetative state. But every time this case is heard in a court of law -- how many times has this case came before a judge? -- they all ruled in favor of the husband. Since 1998! EVERY TIME! What does that tell you? It tells you that the narrative the media is using to distract us from any real news is just that: a narrative, a story. In other words, A BIG, FAT, OSTENTATIOUS LIE!!!! HOW UNUSUAL!!!!!!!!! MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS LYING TO US!!!!!! Who 'da thunk it! ARRRRGHGHGHGHGHhghghhghghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! . . . .. OK. I'm back.
{sigh} The only thing that could POSSIBLY cheer me up is if Farscape's Ben Browder joins the cast of SG1. Way Too Much Time on Their Hands Site of the Week: How to really confuse your party guests. Free Web Utility Site of the Week: Ourmedia.org Satire of the Week as well as Must Read of the Week: Interview with the Devil Good Idea of the Week: Freecycle.org Cool Tech of the Week: Giant Spiderbot (Though, I wholly don't approve of its present use.) Video of the Week: The use of explosives in the 9/11 attack String Theory Interview of the Week: Parallel Universes: Michio Kaku Evil Fucks of the Week Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Co. in Des Moines, Iowa, for trying to foreclose on the home of soldiers, despite a law to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen.
I'm having a flashback. Does anybody else remember the Iraqi defectors that turned out to be ALL WRONG, besides me?
Hello? Is anybody there?????? It's like a whole collective, mass-amnesia thing. What about this citizen snoop thing. Does anyone remember that? Well, it's back too.
Everything old is new again? Second verse, same as the first? Any other cliches that work here? Why bother? The media is all propaganda anyway. From MSNBC:
Regaining stature? With who? Evil morons? WTF? I'll never forget when Mork said to Mindy "You mean, you have nuclear energy and you don't have 'Nuke Away' spray? What do you do with all that nuclear waste? Do you just let it sit there??!!"
The Housing Bubble You think the housing market isn't in trouble? Either you're paying too much attention to the mainstream media,
or you're delusional. Between Greenspan's antics this week
Which will have to impact the mortgage market eventually.
And Fannie Mae trimming it's portfolio
And some anecdotal evidence
Along with a crunch on credit cards
The bubble will pop. It's getting harder to discount those people who say that there's been a cycle in this country, wherein people buy property, pay their usury fees, build up wealth, then suffer from inflation and have to default, only to hand everything over to the banks so the whole cycle can begin again.
State's Rights? Well, I think Florida has every right to just cut itself off from the rest of us and float on out to sea. Just lopp it off, right above the panhandle... 'cause I know we don't want what's in that panhandle either. And you know what? You can let Michigan do that too, but I doubt Canada would want it.
I only ask that a few questions be answered. Why?
I'll tell you why. Because the car was shot from behind on a cleared road, that's why.
(Of course, just to point out, the author of this piece, Wayne Madsen, though he may be factually correct, using the inflammatory phrase "assassination of Italian SISMI intelligence man" doesn't help him gain any respectability. I've read a lot of his stuff, and it's all very logical and backed up with lots of verifiable facts. It's just that his writing is, well, breathless. Listen, Wayne, a little advice: I'm allowed to be a rabid freak but we need you to not be a rabid freak! You'll never get mainstream coverage if you continue to write like a fringe reporter. I believe that what you're saying is valid -- I truly do -- SO COOL IT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! We need people like you to be heard, so the lemmings can be tricked into listening to what you have to say!!!! ) JEEBUS! I'M PISSED OFF THIS WEEK. Yikes. SO not helping me to sleep easy.
News of the Weird Whew. I'm glad they figured that out.
Cool. Dino soft tissue.
Imagine this guy trying to pick you up in a bar.
Is that a dick on your arm are you just happy to see me?
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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Dreams Blog These blogs will be covering the primaries and elections: Salon.com's
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