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20100930
Rep. Waters: "I'm oftentimes stunned by" Fox 's anti-immigrant rhetoric | Media Matters for America
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Wash. Post: The GOP's dilemma: Winning over gay rights advocates could mean losing part of its base http://ping.fm/iJdmm
20100929
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20100928
Army Failed to Notify Family of AWOL Status, Leading to Apparent Suicide by Cop http://ping.fm/PwLWX
BRIEF: Activism group files federal suit over inclusion in state intelligence bulletins http://ping.fm/liuSw
ProPublica: This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan http://ping.fm/dvWHW
FRC Staffer Says Americans Who Fail To Toe The Religious Right Line Are Serving Satan
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AP: Italian church abuse victims want clerical abuse declared a crime against humanity http://ping.fm/NbPeE
New Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Survey Explores Religious Knowledge in the U.S. http://ping.fm/TPeNW
Waynes World Bohemian Rhapsody
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The best film scene ever! Waynes World Bohemian Rhapsody, please comment and subscribe ;)
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20100927
Banned Books Week 2010: 15 Iconic Movies Based On Banned Books (PHOTOS)
all i know is that the ALA--and librarians in general--deserve our support.
it was 1962 the first time i went to our Public Library. i have never failed to be impressed by the librarians and their willingness to help me find books. i was never told that a book 'wasn't good' for me or 'inappropriate'. what mind i have was expanded by them and their help. school libraries were stricter.
i was reading newspapers before i ever went to school, and remained starved for things to read. i lived on a farm miles out of town. my father sharecropped, besides taking on other jobs. my mother was constantly working. if not for the public library, i might have died intellectually.
being given virtually free access allowed me to expand my mental horizons exponentially. i was exposed to concepts and ideas far removed from the cotton fields of northeast Texas. it's my belief that it gave me a psychological stabilization which came in handy years later, when i was sent overseas by the Marines. i was able to embrace concepts not associated with American society.
and through the years. . .the sixties to now. . .i've built a library of my own, of several thousand books. many are out of print; some are paperbacks dating from the 1940's. they include works going back to the Sumerian 'Epic of Gilgamesh'.
public libraries have fought censorship and the Patriot Act, and continue to fight. they are hurting. they deserve our help.
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bambi meets godzilla
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bambi meets godzilla. an old cartoon.
SNL Returns with Christine O'Donnell as First Political Target with Masturbation Parody http://ping.fm/leRIn
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Mitch McConnell Says Social Security Is 'Unfunded.' U.S. Treasury Bonds Are Worthless? News To Us! http://ping.fm/rB75s
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20100926
Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand
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Lyrics:
Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place
at your command
Can I stay here
for a while
Can I see your
sweet sweet smile
Old enough now
to change your name
When so many love you
is it the same?
It's the woman in you
that makes you want
to play this game.
20100925
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20100924
20100923
As Palin Goes, So Goes The GOP: Growing Number Of Candidates Oppose Abortion In Cases Of Rape, Incest
governments ARE interfering. . .in the states, anyway. in several states there may only be one abortion clinic. the woman/girl may have to go hundreds of miles to get there, where she's lectured endlessly about the foetus being a human life and they're shown graphic pictures (from all trimesters), & then maybe told to wait a day. if they don't have money for a hotel room or such, and knowing they'll be subjected to more of the same propaganda, they may just give up.
in which case they might seek illegal abortions. Mexico usedta be popular for that; it might be again soon. in which case, they may have the additional factor of being in danger from the cartels and their wars. . .
and, of course, there'll also be the 'back-alley abortions' we also usedta have, as well as the 'do-it-yourself' type. all of three types caused the death of a lot of women. . .as well as any foetus they carried.
now, kiddies. . .this is called 'pro-life'. this is called 'compassionate conservatism'. remember it. i did. if they get power, you'll be hearing about it very soon. . .
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The driving force behind the Motown Sound for most of that company's hits throughout the 60's and into the 70's was a group of musicians fondly called the "Funk Brothers". In the early part of 1966, the Funk Brothers had completed the rhythm track for the soon-to-be Supremes' hit "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart", and in their spare time (and probably in need of some extra dough), a group of them wandered over to a small studio in Detroit and helped a local trio called The Capitols put t.
The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
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How Dummies Redefine Feminism
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Are Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, & Christine O'Donnell the future voice of American women?
20100922
Worst Person In The World! - Liz Cheney
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22 September, 2010 MSNBC
"If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electrn's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whther the electron is as rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'." - J Robert Oppenheimer
20100921
Flat Earthers: Climate Change Deniers
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A disturbing trend has emerged among many Republican Senate candidates: a refusal to accept the sound and settled science that man-made carbon pollution is causing the planet to warm. If these candidates win in November, the number of card-carrying members of this "Flat Earth Society" will rise exponentially in the world's greatest deliberative body.
Sarah Palin's Top 10 Tea Party Mamma Grizzlies (from DC Douglas)
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A Sarah Palin 2010 Mid-Term Voter's Guide! Pass it on to any upstanding Christian American voter you know!
20100920
How To Give Head
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Europol Report: All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 99.6% that Aren’t
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RAND report: Threat of homegrown jihadism exaggerated, Zero U.S. civilians killed since 9/11
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All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that Aren’t
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20100919
Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Count Me In
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2010 0918: Wicca, Satanism and the Christian Mind-Set
Last night, Bill Maher aired an old TV clip from his 'Politically Incorrect' show in the 90's. Anti-masturbation crusader and born-again Christian Christine O'Donnell, who just won the GOP primary for the Senate seat in Delaware: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/18/odonnell-witchcraft-politically-incorrect_n_722035.html
(also several copies on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christine+o%27donnell++witch&aq=f [search page])
in the clip she describes a date with a 'witch', and visiting a place with a 'satanic altar'.
this upsets wiccans, who have no belief in Satan and see the two as separate belief-systems. however, that's not the Christian worldview, especially that of the fundamentalist extremist Christian.
this has occurred at both Huffington Post and Bill Maher's page, here on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=153714874648748&comments
so i attempted to explain the dissonant concepts. . .
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you're right. . .Wicca has nothing to do with Satanism. but you don't understand Christian demonology. everything in Christianity has to fit into the mindset of 'God-Satan-Jesus'.
there were witches in the Old Testament, most notably the Witch of Endor. however, they were not wiccan witches, any more than they were Japanese witches or African witches or Indian witches or South American witches.
wiccan witches aren't the only ones in the world. that's a Mediterranean/European bias, as is most of our cultural outlook. culturally we tend to look at things from that viewpoint, and ignore the variety of the rest of the world.
for instance, in some parts of Africa every bad thing that happens is due to a witch, including a natural death. the agent of death may be explainable, but a witch is always behind it and must be sought out.
some years ago there were reports of witches being hunted, incarcerated or killed in India and Africa. the old mind-sets still rule, and they're not associated with wicca, either.
in the Bible, God had formerly been a deity dispensing good and evil equally; it's all through the Old Testament. with the Zoroastrian influence on Judaism during the Babylonian/Persian Captivity, Satan becomes for the first time a major player. evil could be passed off to him, and God would be a force for good alone.
in this respect, God became Ormuzd (light) while Satan became Ahriman (darkness). however, that wasn't quite right; it implied that Satan was as powerful as God, so something else was needed.
enter Jesus. he took over the Ormuzd role. God fades into the background, and the 'eternal struggle' is now between Jesus and Satan.
now, i've spent most of the day repeatedly explaining this at Huffington Post, although i'm an ignorant fool. still, i have some resources.
The 'Malleus Maleficarum' ('The Hammer Of God') was written in Germany to provide a guide to deal with witches. . .
(the title may have been a pagan pun, since it came from Germany. their previous religion in that area was related to that of the Scandinavian Vikings, and the 'Hammer of God' may refer to Mjolnir The Destroyer, the hammer of Thor. . .echoes of their paganistic past?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum
in order to fit witches into Christian dogma, it was logically necessary to make them agents of Satan. therefore the writer(s) of the 'Malleus' went to work. . .
"The Malleus Maleficarum" asserts that three elements are necessary for witchcraft: the evil-intentioned witch, the help of the Devil, and the Permission of God." (Wikipedia)
got a copy of the 'Hammer' at our university library. damned good reading.
anyway, check the history of demonology and witchcraft after Christianity has spread throughout Europe. you'll see--from their side--that Satan is behind every witch and warlock and demon and spirit and, as Saul of Tarsus put it, evil 'power and principality'.
this is the same kinda job they did on other Christian churches after the Council of Nicea. wiped 'em out. and it was another reason for wiping out the Aztec and Maya; they incorporated crosses and baptisms and confessions and even more 'Christian' elements into their religions, which of course made them Satanic.
. . .ya gotta understand the mind-set. . .anyway, from my own library. . .
"The pact with the Devil was the essence of witchcraft. The pact pinpointed sorcery as heresy, and thereby brought witchcraft under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition. But to every demonologist, Protestant as well as Catholic, the agreement to work with the Devil to deny and oppose the Christian God was the core of the crime. . . .The pact, not any acts of evil-doing, constituted the offense. And so-called white witches were just as damnable as doers of evil."
- pp 369-370, 'Pact with the Devil', from 'The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology', by Russell Hope Robbins, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Crown Publishers Inc, New York, copyright 1959, 571 pp.
now, the Inquisitions basically started out as land-grabs, both in Europe and in Massachusetts, and the victims were primarily women, as was here. also the financial wealth of the victims was poured into the coffers of the church/state. it even included victims such as highly-placed members of the priesthood. as time went on, however, like here (at Salem and after 911[read: terrorists]), they started seeing witches everywhere, and lots of poor innocents were caught up in it.
for the Catholic Church, there was the formal ecclesiastical investigation first. if witchcraft was 'confirmed' (as it usually was, not always), the victim was handed over to the secular authorities for formal execution. it should be noted that King James (of the KJV) and Isabella (who helped Columbus) were great witch-hunters in their time.
there are a very great many similarities between the inquisitorial procedures and those of the American (and other) government(s) after 911. if i could, i'd list them; but it's in the Encyclopedia i quoted.
the 'Pact with the Devil' was the 'proof'', obtained through torture. if they confessed too soon, it was believed they were trying to avoid the torture by lying, and torture was continued. if they died from the torture, they said 'the Devil broke' their backs.
(think Khalid Sheik Mohammed, waterboarded 183 times in a month. the torture 'worked', as with the Inquisitions: they got their 'confession', finally, proving that we'd gone back to the days of the Holy Inquisitions and the Star Chambers.)
once the confession was obtained, the pesky 'witch' could be disposed of, and the property/wealth stolen. but Satan was an inherent and necessary part of every Christian prosecution of witches, Catholic or Protestant.
regardless of the truth of Wicca, the Christian mind-set, specifically fundamentalist/extremist Christianity, is going to define you and any other witch in the world as an agent of Satan. moral, immoral or amoral.
for the (relatively) educated people, witchcraft trials were a way to increase wealth and property at the expense of others. for the poor, uneducated common person, he or she lived in a world in which demons and angels were literally seen and experienced on a regular basis. they lived in a world or literal fear not unlike this nation has been going through since 911, what with Islamophobia, antiimmigration and the sublimated racism and more against Obama.
but, as i say, to fit into the Christian mold, the 'witch' MUST be an agent of Satan. regardless of origin. as wiccans, you may know how the demonization by some Christians works. all or nothing.
i hope this helps explain things a bit. . .
PS: Bill says he has 22 more clips, and he's gonna keep releasing them till she comes on the show. what if each one is worse than the one before. . ?
. . .gonna be fun to watch. . .
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20100918
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TX soldier recovers after amputation
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Coming Back To Me - The Jefferson Airplane -1967
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Love This Wonderful Song And This Wonderful Album. Something Very Special About This Song
Blues For Baby And Me - Elton John (Don't Shoot Me 4 of 10)
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BLUES FOR BABY AND ME
Elton John
Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973)
Your old man got mad when I told him we were leaving
He cursed and he raged and he swore at the ceiling
He called you his child, said honey get wise to his game
He'll get you in trouble I know it, those bums are all the same
There's a greyhound outside in the lane, it's waiting for us
So tell him goodbye, we gotta go west on that bus
And it's all over now
Don't you worry no more
Gonna go west to the sea
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20100917
Out of Context 2
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Due to the popularity of the first, here's a follow up of some more of your favorite movies, and how odd they seem when you only see 5 seconds of them at a time.
20100916
Texas Textbook Massacre: State Board Suggests Books 'Tainted' With 'Pro-Islamic, Anti-Christian Distortions'
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The Blue Oyster
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The compilation of the Blue Oyster bar! The best salad bar in town!
John Wayne Doing the Jitterbug
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One of the few clips of John Wayne dancing. Here he is doing the jitterbug or attempting it in the movie 'The Fighting Seabees'.
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
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Peal Jam - Even Flow Official Video
Lyrics:
Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, Feelin' maybe he'll see a little betters any days
Oh, head down, faces that he sees don't look it ain't that familiar
Oh, girlfriend he can't have when he's happy looks insane, oh yeah
Even flow
thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know
so he chases them away
someday yet he'll begin his life again
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Pearl Jam - Alive (Official Music Video)HD
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Alive, from The Album "Ten". Video filmed on 3 August 1991, during a concert in RKCNDY group in Seattle.
Monkey & Bulldog doing Sit ups
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Godzilla and Son commercial
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This is an ad council commercial for 'being a good dad' funny video shows Godzilla and Son goofing around.
ABBA Megamix
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20100915
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Annie, better know as Fatcat has first attempt to get in the pot and failed. As a kitten she enjoyed playing in pots but doesn't seem to realise she has got to big!
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Sniff'n the Tears - Driver's Seat 1978
Doing alright,
a little drivin' on a Saturday night
And come what may,
gonna dance the day away
Jenny was sweet,
show a smile for the people she meets
I'm trouble, let's drive,
I don't know the way you came alive
News is blue (the news is blue),
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How America's Evangelical Leaders Wield Power
* there aren't that many young people being employed nowadays, let alone old people. . .although the numbers seem to be starting to climb. for many, there are no alternatives. it's a form of indentured servitude or slavery, in my opinion.
* this country is shifting to a new economic-technologial paradigm, which is not amenable to many older people. as we shift to an information age, those who've worked all their lives in an industrial paradigm will be confronted by a new world. they won't have the training/experience/competency to work in the new jobs in most cases, thereby making them unemployable. twenty-thirty years of computer experience isn't the same as twenty-thirty years of road construction or house construction.
* as always, the GOP is trying to do away with MediCare, Social Security, etc. if this happens, the logical consequence is that older beneficiaries of such programs will be unable to pay their bills, keep their houses, maintain their health or their mental-emotional stability. for those unable to move in with family (placing a burden on them as well), thhere will be cases in which the elderly will end up kicked out of their homes and live on the street, with no healthcare or assistance of any type. this heightens the odds of death occurring earlier than otherwise.
if the plans to destroy Social Security and MediCare succeed, the GOP will be the real 'death panels'.
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20100914
Run Through The Jungle (CCR by Kalamazoo)
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Hommage à CCR tribute (kalamazoo 16 mars 2007)
Run Through The Jungle
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Creedence - Run Through the Jungle
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Creedence County Rockers Ed Hug slide & lead guitar,Lou Caruso vocals & rythym,Joe Caruso base,,Bill Fitzpatrick drums
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What goes up
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When I saw "Immortal" by Enki Bilal, my first thought was "this was made for the Alan Parsons Project!"
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Eye in the Sky - UFO Music Video
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A montage of video clips from various UFO-related tv programs and films, accompanied by the song, "Eye in the Sky," by the Alan Parsons Project
I first made this video in 1989 and have since made a few revisions to it. Inspired by the 1985 HBO documentary titled "UFO's: What's Going On?
Ron Paul - America where are you now?
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Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches
But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light
And once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and ..
The Invasion of Iraq - Episode VIII - Burnin' For You
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Pictures from the US led Coalition Invasion of Iraq taken in 2004. Music is by Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' For You
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This is a Movie describing the Strangeness and Horror that one experienced through a lifetime (primarily in the USA). It Contains Iraqi War footage, 9-11 Terrorist Attack footage, and other self-made videos, all combined with Jimi Hendrix' song Are You Experienced?
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Montresor and Fortunato can exist inside us all. What is terrible is when the world finds itself the pawns in the middle of Fortunato and Montresor's war.
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How America's Evangelical Leaders Wield Power
ZiloRS, while i agree with most of your points (and Tyrannasarus'), i would say that there is some real history in the Bible; specifically, in Exodus.
i've been keeping up with reports now and then about the eruption of Thera/Santorini, in the northern Aegean. it would appear to have happened about the time of the Exodus from Egypt. i've reposted stories about this at Newsvine and Care2.
if you know about the Krakatoa explosion from history, think of it as a brick thrown into a pond.
now, think about the Mediterranean; far smaller. the explosion of Thera was also vastly more powerful than that of Krakatoa. it would have been like throwing a brick into a bathtub of water. all the effects of the explosion would have been magnified.
that entire region is very highly active tectonically, even now.
it's my belief--partially confirmed by some studies over the past three decades--that the explosion of Thera could account for all the ten plagues of the Bible and more.
it resulted in the collapse of the Minoan Civilization and sent survivors in all directions, becoming known as the Sea Peoples by the Egyptians and the Philistines of the Old Testament.
i believe that that much will slowly but surely be confirmed in time.
of course, the Hebrews were interpreting that activity in light of their culture and technology, not ours. a very weird time.
http://primarysources.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/28/4083798-biblical-plagues-really-happened-say-scientists
About Christianity
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20100913
How America's Evangelical Leaders Wield Power
they don't. people all over the world know the 'truth'. it's really just a rather limited, often authoritarian ontological viewpoint, possibly a mutation of primatological social behaviors to maintain social hierarchal attitudes.
in their heart of hearts, many realize their ignorance. for them, it's a way of maintaining a stable worldview in the face of a reality which overwhelms and frightens them.
for others, it literally is the truth, and none other exists. in the face of certain death, it's the only reality they see or will confirm.
one of the benefits is that religion's a very very very powerful form of social control.
i've seen films of what can only be called 'funerals', yet those services were held by elephants and chimpanzees. strip away the ritual and dogma, and i saw no difference.
the late Joseph Campbell did quite an essay years back in dealing with the relationship of mythology (or religion, no real difference) to schizophrenia. and Jung's done a LOT of great work about religion and mythology.
i was born in the Church of Christ. when i joined the Marines, i checked out other services (including non-Christian) available. when i got to Japan, i found even more to study.
i've continued since. i wish i could get copies of the Mahabharata, the Zend Avesta, and the Jain scriptures.
some 35 years later, i have a 'religion'. however, it's mine, and won't be pushed on anyone. it was born with me, annd it'll die with me.
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How Dummies Restore Honor
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The Dummy emulates Fearmonger in Chief, Glenn Beck, and works to Restore Honor
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Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
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Heavy Metal Cover What a Wonderful World
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Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul (Video) - Re-Edit
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Considerations On "The War On Terror" (2010 0612)
“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
[2].jpg?download&psid=1 "Mustafa Abu al-Yazid (aka Sheik Saeed al-Masri)")
(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.”
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