Faust: Where are you damned?
Mephistopheles: In hell.
Faust: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
- Christopher Marlow, 'The Tragedy Of Doctor Faustus'
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20100630
TRAFFIC The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys 02 The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys PART 1 http://ping.fm/bI9uH
20100629
Sharron Angle Opposes Abortion Even With Rape, Incest: 'God Has A Plan' (AUDIO)
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Keith Olbermann Mocks Sarah Palin's 'Imbecility,' 'Stupidity' (VIDEO)
basically the same 'call' that little Bush had. like Elijah to Elisha, he musta passed on the mantle 'fore he was swept off by the whirlwind of January 2009. . .
'I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.
-- George W. Bush, quoted in George Magazine, September, 2000
About Sarah Palin
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Daniel Inouye Succeeds Robert Byrd As Senate President Pro-Tempore, Third In Line Of Presidential Succession
Tojo sent him here on a 30-year plan so that he could disrupt and destroy the United States after he grew up and became a Senator.
it was necessary for him to maintain his cover by fighting with the United States in WWII and losing his right arm.
that way he could infiltrate American government from within as an 'American war hero'.
a similar plan is being hatched now: see
http://tpm
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Robert Byrd: Obama Aides Recall The Symbolism Of His Endorsement
"No good man is entirely good. No bad man is entirely bad." - The Mahabharata
"Light and darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor the evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its original nature. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal." - The Gospel of Philip
"If you think you can have good without evil, right without wrong, order without chaos, you understand nothing about the laws of the universe. You cannot have Heaven without Earth. Yin and Yang only exist together." - Chuang Tzu
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20100628
European Parliament calls on search engine companies to spy on all EU citizens
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20100627
Light and darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor the evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its original nature. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal. - The Gospel of Philip
Dick Cheney Hospitalized
he'll get the oil cut off from Saudi Arabia and other places. . .he spends a lot of time there, lately. . .and he's enough like J Edgar Hoover that i wouldn't put it past him to have 'the goods' on a lot of people in high places.
after all, Hoover terrorized 4-5 decades of presidents and cabinets and Congress with his knowledge about them. . .no one relaxed till he was safely dead.
for all i know, Cheney might have something set up if anything happens to him. . .but of course, it's only a guess and a fantasy. . .
About Dick Cheney
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"Let me tell you about the middle path. Dressing in rough and dirty garments, letting your hair grow matted, abstaining from eating any meat or fish, does not cleanse the one who is deluded. Mortifying the flesh through excessive hardship does not lead to a triumph over the senses. All self-inflicted suffering is useless as long as the feeling of self is dominant. You should lose your involvement with yourself and then eat and drink naturally, according to the needs of your body. Attachment to your appetites--whether you deprive or indulge them--can lead to slavery, but satisfying the needs of daily life is not wrong. Indeed, to keep a body in good health is a duty, for otherwise the mind will not stay strong and clear. This is the middle path." - Discourse II
20100626
20100625
Sarah Palin Defense Fund Was Created Illegally, According To Ethics Probe
which, altho i love the net, is why i still believe in copies, including paper copies.
too easy to alter or delete something you saw a minute ago, let alone five years ago.
About Sarah Palin
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Long John Baldry & Bobby Cameron Live, Don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll http://ping.fm/K0bt0
20100624
HuffPost Religion Announces the Launch of <em>Religion and Science: A Contemporary Discussion</em>
Dante Aligheri's "Divine Comedy" (Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise) was true and accurate science. . .as was known in the 15th century.
the point of a schism betweenn science and religion is psychological crap.
the problem is with present-day individuals and groups, who benefit from science while claiming their faith in a book millennia old.
this is the hypocritical nature of the dogmatist, especially in this country. for those who cling to the Judaeo-Christian Bible for their worldviews, they don't need cars, telephones, television, the internet, healthcare, etc, etc, etc., because they have the Bible.
if they truly 'believe', then there is nothing, and i repeat nothing, outside the Bible that they need.
annd if the Bible is all that's needed, then such 'believers' should be living in a manner that reflects Judea, 3000 BC-300 AD. 300 AD - 1600 AD could be somewhat tolerated, in small doses. . .things didn't improve all that much in the interim.
i suppose that would take care of the healthcare, employment and immigration problems in one fell swoop.
it'd certainly be more peaceful.
About Religion and Science
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HuffPost Religion Announces the Launch of <em>Religion and Science: A Contemporary Discussion</em>
if God is love, no sin exists, because--as God is the Creator--it follows that there can be no sin from a God of Love.
on the other hand, sin only becomes possible when God contains all extremes and all derivations and points along the spectrum. God is then Hate, as well as Love.
in my mind, the only Original Sin is ignorance. the only fatal sin is stupidity.
About Religion and Science
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Fascinating maps of how and where Americans move may shed light on Palin and Obama's popularity
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20100623
20100622
Mark Sanford Disappears AGAIN: South Carolina Gov Takes Vacation Without Alerting Lt. Gov. Of His Whereabouts
YAAYYY!!! SANFORD'S IN THE NEWS AGAIN!!!
maybe he got picked up by the mothership for his monthly anal probe.
(i swear, if it wasn't for South Carolina i'd despair. . .)
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Orrin Hatch: Drug Test The Unemployed
I've often thought that Senator Byrd (D-WV) was the only Senator who actually knew anything about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and that's because he kept a copy in his jacket pocket. For years, I watched him refer to it and read it and explain it, and check it to make sure of his statements.
Didn't always agree with his politics, but I've always admired and respected him, for that alone if nothing else.
Other than him, I'm with ya 100%.
About Careers
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General McChrystal's Rolling Stone Interview A 'Significant Mistake,' Gates Says
He did.
"The strategic shift of 2007 succeeded through a combination of good thinking, good luck and good timing." - Steven Metz, "Decisionmaking In Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: The Strategic Shift of 2007", Strategic Studies Institute (avail PDF)
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The mid-term Comgressional elections made it possible, becuase Rumsfield left the next day.
From the beginning of the Administration, Cheney & Rumsfield ruled. The vast majority of actions came from their playbooks; Bush was a puppet, which he now realizes. Both stifled the flow of information to Bush, leaving him blissfully more ignorant than he already was. All military decisions and actions were channelled through Rumsfield. Dissenting viewpoints and opinions weren't allowed.
Cheney and Rumsfield ganged up on Colin Powell to make him as ineffectual and empty as Bush. Powell realized this and left in 2004.
Finally, Bush started to show a spine by saying 'no' to Cheney in the affair of Scooter Libby. Democrats took over, and Rumsfield was no more. New ideas got kicked around without being censored by Rumsfield or Cheney, anlthough Cheney still had influence. Afew points of the Iraq Study Report were lifted, the rest ignored. And Bush decided to take a chance with the 'surge'. It was made easier by the fact of Sunni-Shia ethnic cleansing, which had been going on for some time, and the start of a true counterinsurgency strategy that ignored the personal preferences of Rumsfield.
The boy was lucky. Coulda been even worse.
About Afghanistan
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Wikileaks plans to release files about deadly U.S. airstrike on Afghan civilians
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U.S. indirectly paying Afghan warlords as part of security contract
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20100621
Happy is he who lives contented in solitude, is well-versed in the Doctrine and who has realized it. Happy is he who lives in this world free from ill-will, and is benevolent towards all beings. Happy is he who lives in this world free from passion, has overcome sensual enjoyment, and who has attained mastership over the conceit of "I am." This indeed is the highest happiness. - Udana 2.1
Joe Scarborough: Fox News 'The Only Organizing Institution For The GOP' (VIDEO)
hoo5, i think you're insulting high school graduates. . .at least, those of my generation.
to be honest, i'm not too sure of the present generation. . .
About Morning Joe
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J.D. Hayworth Infomercial: Arizona Senate Candidate Starred As Pitchman For 'Free' Federal Money In 2007 Infomercial (VIDEO)
i'm sorry. . .maybe i'm getting jaded, but i'm starting to see no difference at all between infomercials, televangelists and politicians. . .
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Faisal Shahzad, Times Square Car Bomb Suspect, Pleads Guilty To 'Mass Destruction' Charge
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Mike Huckabee New Yorker Interview: Talks Politics, Religion, Israel and Homosexuality
Jesus was very close to Mary Magdalene. her gospel was one of many that were almost totally destroyed by 'the one true church' after Constantine converted.
a few copies of these Gospels exist. copies of others may still be undiscovered.
keep in mind that in all four Biblical Gospels, she was the first to see Jesus after the Resurrection.
on the other hand, i never saw anything in the Gospels that said Jesus was against homosexuals. he knew what they were; he'd studied anpreached from the Torah and the books of the prophets. but he never said a word against homosexuality that i saw.
on the other hand, 'saint' Paul, coming after and having never met him, acted like Mary Magdalene didn't exist and started adding all kinds of things to Christianity, like slavery and domestic assault and child abuse and. . .
where one can be sure Jesus only hated hypocrites--as can be told by reading the Gospels--Paul added all kinds of groups to 'the damned'.
the right has a habit of paying attention only to the Old Testament, and the books after the Gospels.
ignoring the Gospels, they then call themselves 'Christian'.
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U.S. Troops, Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan Suspected of Corruption
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20100620
20100619
After Cutting Little Girls' Clitorises, Ivy League Doctor Tests Handiwork With a Vibrator
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Pass Supplemental Spending Bill Or We Start Doing Stupid Things: Gates
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20100618
20100617
Jeb Bush: People Blame My Brother For Their Sniffles (VIDEO)
well, there's plenty to blame him FOR.
here's a list of 400 scandals in the 'Bush' Administration, last edited in 2009.
Bush Scandals List http://www
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20100616
And He continued, in anguish, “The people are celebrating in My honour, pursuing the tradition woven by the ages around My name, but as to Myself, I am a stranger wandering from East to West upon this earth, and no one knows of Me. The foxes have their holes, and the birds of the skies their nests, but the Son of Man has no place to rest His head.†- Kahlil Gibran, 'The Feast Of The Eventide'
20100615
20100614
U.S. Knew About Afghan Mineral Bonanza in 2007
the proposed pipeline's caused a lot of unrest and more than some violence, as well as cries for self-autonomy in Baochistan, in southern Pakistan. . .see "Baloch Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Energy Resources: The Changing Context of Separatism in Pakistan" at
http://www
it's downloadble as a PDF file.
About Afghanistan
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it's downloadble as a PDF file.
About Afghanistan
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U.S. Knew About Afghan Mineral Bonanza in 2007
forget Al Qaeda and the Taliban. . .
THE REAL TERRORISTS ARE UNDERGROUND!
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THE REAL TERRORISTS ARE UNDERGROUND!
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20100613
20100612
Considerations on the 'War On Terror'
“Dead I am the one exterminating Son, slipping through the trees, strangling the breeze. . .”
– Rob Zombie, ‘Dragula’ (1998)
A story came out a few days ago at the Huffington Post, about yet another Al Qaeda #3 being killed: 'U.S. Officials: Al Qaeda No. 3 Killed', at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/31/al-qaeda-number-three-reported-killed_n_595561.html
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Mustafa Abu al-Yazid (aka Sheik Saeed al-Masri)
Moreover, this was yet another one who'd been reported killed before. I've reposted the stories of 'zombie terrorists' several times over the past few years, and i get sick of seeing them. Anyway, while looking over the comments, The Spirit Of The Lord entered me and moved me to speak. . .and so i did. . .
Observation: This is why there will never be an end to the 'War On Terror'. . . no terrorist is harder to kill than a zombie terrorist.
As long as one strand of DNA survives, it is able to take in all the necessary elemental requirements to fully reconstitute and regenerate the individual terrorist. Presently, the only way to effectively isolate and 'de-power' the zombie terrorist is to capture him/her, place the terrorist into a capsule atop a rocket, and shoot said terrorist into the core of the Sun.Even this does not guarantee eradication, however. the sun already contains hydrogen. Through nuclear fusion, the sun creates the other basic elements necessary to the survival of life--carbon, oxygen and nitrogen--and, as fusion continues, elements farther down on the periodic table will be created, eventually reaching iron.
With the formation of elements used to create enzymes, vitamins, hemoglobin and such, the zombie terrorists will be able to reconstitute themselves fully when solar fusion begins to create iron. Unless immediate action is then taken, we may then face innumerable zombie terrorists flying to earth from the core of the solar furnace.
At some point in the future, then, it will be necessary to retrieve the zombie terrorists from the solar core and send them into Sagittarius A (the central collapsar or black hole) at the galactic center, located in the constellation of Sagittarius, some ~27,000±1,000 light years away.
One may then say that we are finally 'safe from the terrorist threat'.
Judging by government news releases, we've definite proof that zombies exist. The unfortunate thing is that they're all terrorists, and usually members of al Qaeda. It therefore behooves us to seek more permanent ways to immobilize them, so the troops don't have to kill the same bad guys over and over again.
Besides the members of the original core al Qaeda movement, there are now several splinter or 'tribute' groups, mostly centered on the Middle East, members of which may potentially be spread across the face of the world. It can be conjectured that this is already the case with the original al Qaeda, itself.
Our misclassification of 'insurgents' and similar groups (Iraq, Afghanistan) as 'terrorists' since 2003 has further increased the number of potential zombie terrorists that must be dealt with. Even if we totally withdraw from Iraq, this threat will remain. In addition, legal definitions (who is an enemy?) made under the previous Administration ensure a constant flow of terrorists, including zombie terrorists. This is especially so since the entire world was declared a battleground, including the United States itself.
Former President George W Bush attempted to make the zombie danger clear in 2007, when he held a press conference and tried to elucidate the threat to America:
Using hindsight, we can now see how prescient Bush was. Several of the terrorists reported as killed have arisen months or years later, only to be captured or killed yet again. If this trend continues, all of the terrorists so far incapacitated will continue to rise by the light of the moon, so that they may further harm the citizens and property of the United States.
As a slight aside, I must note that, to my knowledge, only those zombies previously designated as ‘terrorists’ have resurfaced. No other individuals killed at the time of ‘death’—friends, family, bystanders, other innocents, etc—have risen again. Only individuals recognized by the United States/NATO coalition as ‘terrorists’ have been reborn after death. This leads to some interesting philosophical, political and religious implications for the curious, as regards the nature and possible utility of becoming a terrorist. . .but I digress.
President Barack Obama has claimed to be a Christian. His detractors have painted him as a Muslim; and, at times, a Communist, therefore an atheist. Whether Christian, Muslim or Atheist, one thing is clear: President Obama knows nothing about voodoo (vodun, vodou, vaudau). Papa Legba and Dhambala are complete blanks to him.
And to say he should already know ‘because he’s black’ is a totally unnecessary, unwarranted and bigoted, racist remark.
Knowledge of voodoo would give the President particular insight into dealing with the zombie terrorist threat. However, there are three versions of voodoo: West African, Haitian and American (Louisiana). Perhaps he could send Vice-President Joe Biden & Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to learn from bokors (priests, shamans, etc) how to immobilize or temporarily control the zombie's body. An example of bokor control of the zombie is found in the film 'Weekend At Bernie's 2'.
I'd assume that he would send them to Louisiana, as it houses the American form of voodoo. Haiti is still in a shambles after the recent earthquake, and there are still signs of discontent in West Africa. The loa (l'wha, lwa) are still in a state of agitation at either place.
If the bokors are pleased, they may present Secretary Gates with the necessary mojo needed for interim control of the zombie terrorists. One could postulate that, if successful, bokors may be incorporated into the Department Of Defense to specifically deal with zombie terrorists as a new form of Special Forces group, working in conjunction with more prosaic military units. It’s also possible that the bokors will in time become part of every counterinsurgery and counterterrorist fighting unit. If the former, their unit emblem might be a decapitated and bleeding chicken being held over the body of a terrorist.
Special commendations and medals may also be struck, with Congressional assent, to acknowledge the efficacy of bokor actions in the ‘War On Terror’. Whether they would be budgeted under the DOD or CIA is a matter I leave to those more qualified.
There are other reasons for seeking aid from Louisiana bokors. Conservatives and right-wing extremists would be up in arms yet again, this time at the thought of liberals disdaining 'good ol' American voodoo' and deigning instead to learn it from 'furriners'. It would be seen as another indication that the President is in collusion with the United Nations to form a one-world government, and it would also be a sign that the 'Damn Yankees' were again looking down on the noble 'Sons of the South'. Teabaggers would want to ‘take our bokors back’, and new conspiracies would arise through charismatics such as Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
The downside is that Louisiana and the Gulf States are already receiving a great deal of attention, thanks to BP, Halliburton and friends. . .although the visit could be 'managed' into a political op for dealing with the oil rig/oil spill crisis.
I quite think the President has enough political problems already without adding to them, especially if FOX News learns of his intentions. However, I must admit it would get Joe out of his hair for a while. . .
Once one postulates the zombie terrorist threat, it becomes clear that a large part of the GWOT Dept of Defense budget to date has been spent in ammunition alone, which has heretofore proven ineffective in halting this menace. This is the mentality of the high school football coach: "Yer gonna keep running that play till ya get it right."
This is a flawed strategy, which is speedily draining the American coffers. A different way must be found. My analysis indicates that, over time, the least expensive method of dealing with the zombie terrorist threat is a crash program into new methods of propulsion into space. Rocketry as it exists is based on principles over 1000 years old, and there must be better alternatives. And, for all the problems associated with this method, it is much cheaper and attainable than the only viable alternative, which would be imprisoning the zombies in the core of the Earth.
At present, we don't even have the technology to get past the crust, which varies from only 20 to 25 miles in thickness. There would then be another 4,000 thousand miles to go, through the molten mantle and into the core, which is composed of pure metallic iron. Among other difficulties, there would be definite problems drilling through pure iron; and, as already stated, we don't want to help the terrorists by giving them a ready source of iron that could help reconstitute their bodies. Imprisoning them at the Earth's core is thus not recommended.
I had considered yet other means of incapacitation, including imprisonment on the moon, or at one of the LaGrange points nearby, surrounded by hunter-killer craft from a consortium of WASP nations. However, the conversion of a single WASP to Islam means that he or she would eventually retrieve the codes necessary to nullify the WASP 'stingers' and free the zombie terrorists: think Denise Richards as 'White She-Devil', in the film 'Undercover Brother'.
Other alternatives were also explored, such as injection into the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) or towards a red dwarf star such as Wolf 359 or Barnard's Star. In either case, there was a probability that the zombie terrorists would return to plague us within a relatively short timespan. Thus, the sun.
We should be able to hit such a large target; after all, it's about 870,000 miles across. Even a Predator drone should be able to hit an object that size without collateral damage.
Perhaps.
Considering that the sun has another 5 billion years of hydrogen left to burn before entering the iron production cycle, we should have plenty of time (and room) for the storage of zombie terrorists.
Of course, this method would also produce innumerable spinoffs to benefit the American people and humanity in general. The space program has historically been one of the greater generators of beneficent technologies to man in all spheres of life. Therefore this program would have additional benefits to humanity, from health to transportation to entertainment.
Within the sun there would be significant, although not infinite, storage capacity for zombie terrorists, including those presently existing and those which will exist in the future.
However, as I have already stated, we cannot be complacent. We cannot sit on our laurels and assume the job is done. As we continue to stuff zombie terrorists into the Sun, we must continue to push for technologies that will assist us in their eventual injection and permanent immobilization at the Galactic Core. Otherwise, when the Sun finally begins to expand into a red giant, the zombie terrorists will have fully reformed their bodies, and will be able to ride the expanding surface of the Sun as it begins to consume Mercury, Venus and, yes, the Earth.
There is no time to lose. The Galactic Singularity is our only hope to permanently stop the zombie terrorist threat. Since there is little or no mental activity within the zombie brain, it is unlikely that escape from the event horizon of the collapsar is possible, under current Einsteinian relativistic theories. It is presently believed that all the laws of physics break down at the singularity; what implications this has for zombies, a spiritual manifestation, is also unknowable.
We have no time to waste.
Our children and the American Way of Life depends upon the total eradication of the zombie terrorist threat, no matter where they may be found.
“Good hunting, good luck, and God bless America.”
20100611
Mexico Border Patrol Shooting: Mexican Security Chased Away U.S. Border Patrol Agents
. . .so the annihilation of two countries, and possibly more, is evidence of "mercy"?
a God who demands fear deserves no worship. Not from me.
And, as Chuang Tzu said over 2300 years ago, "Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
NEWSFLASH: if this planet was created for anything, it was created for bacteria.
remember that. especially any time you get sick.
or you can always remember what "Saint" Augustine said: "All diseases of Christians can be ascribed to demons."
meaning you don't need doctors, just exorcists.
About Mexico
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20100610
Sarah Palin Breast Implants? Belmont Stakes Appearance Fuels Rumors (PHOTOS, VIDEO, POLL)
well, i'm getting old; i'm not up on current terminology.
and some of my posts have been deleted.
so i have to use the C-SPAN method: utilizing excess verbosity and intermittent eloquence to say someone's 'full of s..t'.
About Sarah Palin
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Sarah Palin Breast Implants? Belmont Stakes Appearance Fuels Rumors (PHOTOS, VIDEO, POLL)
fake breasts are popular. . .God knows sexual tension is.
i consider it a tease and hypocrisy.
but it fits. in the late 70s--or early 80s--i heard of studies that compared men's attitudes towards women. the ones who favored large breasts were, if i remember, more aggressive and conservative overall than leg men or those who preferred shapely rears.
sexual repression and psychological flagellation is a major conservative value; all you have to do is take a look at all the scandals which predominantly--not always--involve the right and hard-line conservatives, especially among the more religious.
repressing all that normal sexuality has to be expressed elsewhere, usually as aggression against others, including those who 'don't have the sense' to be as miserable as them.
part of it's also expressed in the 'tease'.
typical result of the Lutheran-C
messed-up minds, and messed-up bodies. seems to me now that she fits right in.
About Sarah Palin
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Sarah Palin Breast Implants? Belmont Stakes Appearance Fuels Rumors (PHOTOS, VIDEO, POLL)
Great.
Now she's even more fake than before.
Bet she has a tribal tattoo on her lower back, too.
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Medical Torture and the Definitions of Sin
Lindbergh resigned his military commission after the 1939 invasion of Poland and joined the antiwar movement. He had already attempted to put pressure on Britain to keep them from fighting Nazi Germany. He saw that our entry into WWII would enable the USSR to overcome Eastern Europe, and considered Nazism less of a threat. He pleaded for Jewish inaction to the Nazi threat.
In a Sept 11 1941 speech in Des Moines, although he stated he was not anti-semitic, "In the speech, he warned of the Jewish People's 'large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government'.
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The Wikipedia article on Lindbergh's relationship with the Nazis is quite informative. In one of his later writings, he says that the survival of the white race is more important than the survival of democracy in Europe.
"Holocaust researcher and investigative journalist Max Wallace, agrees with Franklin Roosevelt's assessment that Lindbergh was "pro-Nazi" in his book, 'The American Axis'. However, Wallace finds the Roosevelt Administration's accusations of dual loyalty or treason as unsubstantiated. Wallace considers Lindbergh a well-intentioned but bigoted and misguided Nazi sympathizer whose career as the leader of the isolationist movement had a destructive impact on Jewish people."
Even if he wasn't a conscious racist, he certainly supported the Nazis, and defended them repeatedly.
He was a representative product of his political and cultural mileu, with the ability to influence others.
About Christianity
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20100609
Sharron Angle: Nevada Candidate Already Providing Treasure Chest Of Goodies For Harry Reid
Buddhism has been around since 600 BC, as has been Jainism, Zoroastrianism and Taoism. They've got established track records, better than Christianity. Hinduism goes farther back yet, as does Judaism.
L Ron invented Scientology on a bet. I've been a reader of his stuff since I was a kid, some fifty-odd years back.
Most organized religions believe in either an afterlife or reincarnation. I could come up with one based on quantum mechanics, that would be of both types and neither. And it'd be more truthful than either type, since it would be tied to actual scientific experiments.
And believe me, it would tick EVERYBODY off, just like all the new kids on the block did: Protestantism, Mormonism, neopaganism, Church of Satan, Scientology. . .you name it.
I'm neither agnostic nor atheist; but my beliefs are my own.
I can respect Angle's religious views, but I spent 30 years in police work; I know a touch of psychology and sociology as well.
And, while Scientological methods might work in California, if you think they'll work in Nevada--especially within the prison system--then I've got some swampland you might be interested in.
Ms Angle's beliefs may not be proof of a lack of intellectual capability, but they are proof of a delusional nature.
One can be quite rational and intellectual and delusional, all at the same time. It's a predominantly human trait few of us, myself included, ever break out of. Although some of us try. . .
About Photo Galleries
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Pembroke Township: Mired In Poverty, Now Devastated By Tornadoes, With No Help In Sight
funny thing is that there doesn't seem to be any real Communist societies left in the world. . .unless you count China, and they've evolved from the pure-Communism model a long time ago. . .little thing called 'polycentrism', started with Tito in the 50's. It ain't the Leninist-M
Cuba's nothing more than a dictatorship; been that way since Castro took over. He knew we were likely to invade and take over like we'd done with Hawaii and Puerto Rico, so he aligned himself with the USSR more out of self-protection than ideology. He played us against each other, and it worked wonderfully. We were lots closer than the USSR, and at the time both of us were using the world to play our little games, regardless of what suffering occurred due to our actions.
North Korea's a pure theocracy, traditionally Oriental. Kim Jong Il and his father are promoted to the people as gods; there's repeated stories of all kinds of miraculous, magical events surrounding their births and lives. Some of Kim's behavior has paralleled stuff i've seen with other 'messiahs', like Koresh or Jim Jones. Difference is he has nukes.
Christianity. . .oh, that'd take a while. Only thing that's Christian 'bout it seems to be the name; the collective behavior sure ain't what Christ wanted. . .although I suspect that there are real Christians in the country, scattered here and there. . .
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Alvin Greene Felony Charges: South Carolina Senate Candidate Asked To Withdraw Over Criminal Past
. . .but it's so much FUNNNNNNNNNN to watch. . .
between Alaska, South Carolina and Arizona, things here in Texas don't seem quite as bad as they really are.
(operative word: 'seem')
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Medical Torture and the Definitions of Sin
i beg to differ (slightly, at that), but 'love thy neighbor' was part of some Oriental faiths for quite some time before Jesus.
Confucious expounded an identifiable form of the Golden Rule some 600 years earlier, for instance.
the problem lies in defining who 'thy neighbor' really is.
for the Jains, who also began some 600 years before Jesus, it included any form of life deemed to have consciousness, including all animals and not a few plants. it included scarves worn over the mouth to keep from breathing in airborne life, and a small broom to sweep insects out of the way.
death by vitamin deficiency and sometimes malnutrition occurred. this doesn't detract from their piety, and their will not to harm others.
and this is an extension of 'thy neighbor' which the Judaeo-Chr
The Jains still exist.
for the Buddhists, who likewise arose 600 years before Jesus, the goal was to awaken the 'Buddha-spirit' within 'all sentient beings'. this work for the benefit of all is by extension a form of love, and is thereby yet another definition of 'thy neighbor'.
on the other hand, morals are herd behavior.
i don't care for herds. i prefer ethics.
just because a crowd agrees on something doesn't mean it's right. the past ten years are proof of that.
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Medical Torture and the Definitions of Sin
Very true.
And among our other sins, we started eugenics and medical experimentation on unknowing or unwilling subjects: the Tuskegee experiment with syphilis was only one of many such.
Lobotomies used to be quite fashionable. Forced sterilization became policy in some parts of the USA, that "bastion of freedom for all".
The early Nazi party, supported by figures such as Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and Joseph Kennedy, took our ideas for their own. Henry Ford was one of Hitler's heroes; it's been said it's difficult to tell their anti-semitic writings apart.
What we think of as 'Nazi' behavior started here. Not only did large segments of the American population support the Nazis, but some people and companies (ex: IBM) continued to sell to them or support them after we were at war.
The United States unfortunately has, as you say, quite a knack for creating monsters.
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Torture is a time-honored tradition among the religious, and most especially in Christianity: It's one of the easiest things in the world to confirm.
Communism had its fling, but that was only for a century; Christianity's had two millennia of torture, ethnic cleansing, murder and genocide.
Every time a group tried to live under Jesus' sayings, they were usually quickly wiped out by the Church.
It was only about 100 years ago that Protestant-Catholic violence here began to decline. There were still laws on the books allowing the murder of Mormons until at least the 70's (in Missouri).
The established psychotic nature of Christian violence outshines anything that Muslims, past or present, have done.
Christianity is quite possibly the most schizophrenic of organized religions. I will submit that there are possibly real Christians that exist, people who follow nothing but what Jesus said. Unfortunately, we keep hearing and seeing the hypocrites and predators, as well as those who look to the dollar instead of God.
(It's no wonder that those who leave the Church have an abhorrence of all religion. The pity is that it's not the case at all; other faiths aren't necessarily the same.)
And many of the people are willingly victimized by their leaders, psychologically, financially, and at times sexually.
I'm not an atheist, but neither do I belong to a herd. My beliefs will not trouble anyone, and they'll die with me.
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Sharron Angle WINS Nevada Republican Senate Primary
you may be more correct than you know.
the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute put out a monograph a couple years ago concerning the possible breakdown of the Westphalian nation-state, due to (1) overpopulation, (2) lack of resources, (3) the inability of failing or failed state governments to control their territories or population, and (4) the growth of terrorism, insurgency, and organized crime worldwide.
This is not, of course, including the effects of global climate change, which will greatly exacerbate all the foregoing, especially in the production of wars and refugees.
the paper is available for download as a pdf file at
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it's called "From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. Strategy", and it was published by the SSI in June of 2008.
as i recall, the author saw a type of neofeudalism of limited area (city-states or other small territories) springing up to replace the concept of the nation-state. makes for fascinating reading.
if correct, the only way out of it i can see is one BIGGGG push into space, either by this country, others, or a consortium of same.
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Sharron Angle WINS Nevada Republican Senate Primary
On the bright side, Sue Lowden can return any unused campaign funds in the form of chickens.
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Sharron Angle WINS Nevada Republican Senate Primary
oh, crap. . .a teabagger who believes in Scientology for prison inmates. . .THAT'LL go over good with the gang members. . .
"Hey, Leroy, if you drop that soap I'm gonna measure your thetans."
i can just see a new crop of prison tattoos based on Scientological concepts, with headshots of Hubbard etched into the right shoulder and Tom Cruise (or John Travolta) on the left. . .Gideon Bibles being exchanged for copies of 'Dianetics'. . .
and what's this about making alcohol illegal? that's how organized crime took hold in this country in the first place. . .same thing's been happening ever since marijuana and certain other drugs were declared illegal, too.
guess she's fond of the mob and the dope runners. hope she has the money for all the new police officers she'd need.
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Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, Rare Genetic Condition, Accelerates Aging In Seven-Year-Old Ashanti Elliott-Smith (VIDEO)
it illustrates the point that there's more to the world than endless politics and hatred and violence and fluff pieces about entertainers and the androids people worship so zealously.
it's a window into a life. yours has meaning, so do others. this is yet another.
there's no black and white to things; there's only the rainbow. this is one of the colors you don't often see, and it's valuable in that regard.
look at it as a rare experience. you're being privileged to learn about something most people have never known. you've been given the chance to see how someone can deal with a phenomenon which could destroy others.
you're being given the chance to share in a unique moment, which may never happen again.
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Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, Rare Genetic Condition, Accelerates Aging In Seven-Year-Old Ashanti Elliott-Smith (VIDEO)
it's been said that death is the greatest gift the gods could bestow; it was often that way in religions around the world: 'Whom the gods love, die young'.
i could think of worse lives and worse conditions than this, lives of unending ignorance and emotional and physical pain and suffering and poverty.
in some ways, this child may be luckier than the rest of us.
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Humans don't really know anything yet. . .we're only starting to learn, and we're consistently hampered by the Faust-Frankenstein paradigm that 'There are some things man was not meant to know.'
This has especially made the United States suffer in the sense of medical research over the past ten years.
We crawl, little by little, grasping what little knowledge and wisdom we can. it's been that way since humans first arrived, and it'll continue into an unforeseen future.
We think we're the lords of creation, but a simple virus or bacterium can put the lie to that as easily as a bullet or a bomb.
So much for the 'lords of creation'.
At the risk of sounding trite, DeForest Kelly made a telling statement in his role as Leonard McCoy, MD, when he repeatedly referred to this as a period of 'witch doctors'.
This is our own outlook towards the past of medicine.
However, centuries ahead of the posutlated Federation world, those living then would look to McCoy's own period as that of 'witch doctors'.
And so it will be. . .we'll build on the past, but there'll remain things out of reach. And when we reach them, there'll be other things, even further out of reach.
It's been said that 'Every man and every woman is a star'. One could then liken the victims of progeria to novae, burning themselves out. . .but oh, so brilliant, so bright and beautiful a flame. . .
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Sandra Bullock & Scarlett Johannson Kiss At MTV Awards (PHOTOS)
i admit to bias. i'm used to real people and real affection.
as for blindness, i was blinded during a tonsillectomy in October 1962. the ether they used to knock me out got into my eyes. got most of my eyesight back.
i'm not lying; i'd rather say nothing than lie. waste of time and energy.
my ex-wife used to get mad at me because i couldn't/wouldn't get jealous.
two girls kissing (or more) doesn't turn me on any more than two guys kissing (or more). especially when it looks fake to me.
while Sandra might be somewhat attractive, Scarlett doesn't do anything for me.
i prefer real emotion. otherwise it's as sanitized and manufactured as everything and everyone else is nowadays.
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