Is Wal-mart selling Nazi paraphernalia?

THE UNITED STATES AGAIN--You gotta love reactionaries on the Left and the right. The blogosphere is going ballistic over a Wal-mart selling t-shirts with a "Nazi-skull emblem" on them. Ferchrissakes, pay attention to Iraq, watch the lame duck Congress so they don't pass any more totalitarian laws.

Just do something useful.

The image is the SS Totenkopf (death's head) symbol, often worn by American bikers. It's pretty obvious this is an overreaction and that the shirts are a mistake by a lazy graphic designer.

But what if they sold the real thing? What if they sold actual Nazi paraphernalia from 1933-1945? I wouldn't be bothered by it at all. Really? Nope. People should have physical artifacts to prove that Nazism and the Holocaust really happened. These are objects with no power other than what we project onto them.

If you think a swastika or an Iron Cross holds some strange power over you, you might consider an analyst. Wal-mart is removing the shirts, so it appears that democracy's safe for another week. But we all know that it was Nazi paraphernalia that started WWII: an entire generation of Germans were hypnotized and obeyed all those medals, posters and uniforms, not Hitler. "But why would you even want that stuff?" I think I just said why.

[Ed., 12.28.2008--Yes, it was medals and Nazi paraphernalia that caused WWII. Not the devastation and reaction to WWI, not Versailles and the absurd reparations leveled on Germany, and not a Great Depression and a compliant conservative aristocratic establishment that allowed Hitler into Bismarck's cabinet--we can prevent another Third Reich by stamping-out any memory or reference to it. Fuck you.]

The Original Irritant:

http://www.bentcorner.com/2006/11/09/wal-mart-is-selling-shirts-with-a-nazi-ss-skull-on-it/

HUMPTY DUMPTY

WASHINGTON--Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall (in the polls again). All the king's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put Humpty together again (not even James Baker, and all of his men). Son of Sam I am, I do not like green eggs and ham! I do not like them on-the-lam, I do not like them, Son of Sam I am. I do not like them with hanging-chads, for this is the worst government we've ever had. Here comes oversight, I'll-be-damned! Since 1980, democracy's been a sham.

Friends of Humpty:
http://chickasawpicklesmell.blogspot.com/2006/09/friends-of-humpty-ode-to-churchs-cannon.html

The Wicker Man (1973/SPOILERS) review

'Oh Christ, oh Jesus Christ!'

Christopher Lee is dismissive of a lot of his screen-work, but this is one of his favorites (along with The Whip and the Body). It's hard to call this a horror film, but I guess you could say it is, depending upon who you root for. There really are no villains in this film, and hardcore religionists who would say the pagans who inhabit the island are evil are just flat-wrong.

Western civilization still has its sacrifices in our American death penalty, and in warfare.

Almost every generation is called-up to give of their numbers to Mars and the bottom-line. So-called conservative economists argue that a minimum-of-poverty is needed to maintain the tyranny of consumerism, the New Fascism.

There are sacrifices-aplenty in our 'modern' world, and the results are hardly-removed from pagan-sacrifices, just physically-removed and indirect from our daily lives (what could be more modern?). Oddly, the film is critical of both the ancient and the modern.

No, this is more a thriller with a 'horror reveal' at its climax, as it was originally conceived by director Robin Hardy. Sadly, the producers of the failing UK studio balked at his cut, and we have been left with cobbled-together theatrical and 'director's-cut' versions of the film with many of the scenes and insert-shots restored, but from shoddy sources like videotapes. The original-negatives of deleted material were hidden in a hole on an English country road according to Christopher Lee and others close to the production.

Why? Why did RKO destroy an hour of Orson Welles's 'The Magnificent Ambersons'? Revenge for Citizen Kane, of course. This is done as retribution by some producers, so that a director can never reinsert the footage. Why? Partly because producers cannot usually create movies like a director does, and some of them resent this fact. It also gives them a chance to legally-assert authorship, and thus solidify their ownership of a 'property' based under international copyright laws.

Due to the butchering of The Wicker Man, Christopher Lee has attempted for decades to do a remake, but it appears that this isn't going to happen with him now, and he refuses to discuss the Cage version.

The Nicholas Cage remake can only suffer from this fact, since it doesn't improve-upon the original. It actually does a poorer job, yet has a budget almost twenty-times the 1973 version. The remake basically says nothing-new, and actually takes a very wrong-headed attitude towards women.

Literally 'stealing the show', Lee plays the enigmatic and charming Lord Summerisle, and he haunts the entirety of the Wicker Man until the brutal ending. The other protagonist of the film is the character of Sergeant Howie, who has been sent by the mainland-Police to investigate the disappearance of young-girl on the island, namesake of the Lee character.

This island is Lord Summerisle's domain, and he has re-instituted various pagan beliefs alongside the island's agricultural-base or fruit orchards in the cold and hostile environment of the Hebrides. Temperate fruits aren't supposed to grow there, but miraculously, they do. The cop is entering a world he (and we, the audience) never knew existed. Unlike the remake, I'd say the Summerisle seems inviting and sensual. It's a place you might want to call home. As a stodgy-Christian, Howie doesn't really get this, and it seals-his-fate, creating a nice touch of irony.

It appears the 'new-beliefs' (really ancient, British-ones) are working, for the crops are abundant and the people of Summerisle seem happy and prosperous. There are numerous references to fertility symbols, and the musical-numbers are both inviting and haunting (if not a little goofy), and they lull Howie and the viewer into a complacency (as pagan rituals do to their sacrifices). Seargeant Howie (a daft-name, chosen so the audience doesn't fully-identify with him) is being tested by the pagans for his purity, and the gorgeous Britt Ekland is the bait, though her acting is a bit 'wooden' (or is it 'Wicker'?).

Still, she and her body double add a great erotic flavor to the film that makes paganism seem pretty inviting. Well, unless you're the sacrifice, though believers would likely have no-problem. This then, is the horror component of the film, a non-believer sacrificed by believers in an irrational-rejection of modernity. This kind of romanticism fueled the rise of Nazism, and the burning of the scapegoat.

There are many-reviewers who have said this is about a battle-between paganism and Orthodox Christianity. This is accurate, but there are some nuances to this, and comments on the surrender to irrationality by the pagans and Sergeant Howie.

Let's face it: the cop isn't likable, and we aren't really supposed to identify with-him until the end of the tale as simply another human-being caught-up in something he never wagered on. But that's where it ends. The current version of the 1973 Wicker Man is definitely flawed.

Like a pagan initiation, the story begins as a mystery, both tempting-and-warm, even human. The initiate penetrates more-and-more layers of the mystery of the cult until...you'll have to watch the movie, it is an ending for-the-ages. There really isn't any gore here, just a little-blood, so gorehounds won't like it, but who cares what they think? This is inverted-horror.

The Brothers Emanuel (08/07/2006 repost)

NOTE: This is a reposting of an August 7th piece I did on the Emanuels. Now that Rahm and other neoliberals (the same as neocons) are vying-for-control of the House majority and its culture, I thought a small-reminder of what kind of Democrat he is would be appropriate. He's a hawk, and extremely-conservative--centrist would not describe him accurately. Strangely, he isn't going for House majority whip, but this could be a purely-symbolic move that still leaves him with more-influence. He will unfortunately be on the House Ways and Means committe with Charles Rangle (NY), so don't expect him to support progressive taxation of the wealthiest after he asked them all for money to campaign-with. Emanuel is known for his 'foul mouth' (OK, maybe he isn't half-bad), so we could be in for some fun here. A Democratic Newt Gingrich (same values) with a dirty-yob, oh boy.

Somehow, Rahm Emanuel is being toasted as the architect of the victory, when 9 of the 22 pro-war candidates he chose...lost. He is very-much like a Karl Rove in this respect, but it appears the hawks are outnumbered in the House (and the world). His ilk in the Democratic party will try to prolong the war as long as they can, and even Hillary Clinton will keep-saying we need to 'chart a new-course', meaning the same-one. They just don't get it. For some weird reason, they think they can 'win' in Iraq, when it's clear to the entire world they cannot. It was easy to hide-behind their minority-status, but now that's gone, and the spin-cycle begins in the press.


MOLOCH, MOLOCH, take this sacrifice, oh desert god! We will feed-you Persian-children to supp-on...oh, hello. Many people would say the brothers Emanuel are vapid, amoral opportunists, but I...well, let's get it from the horse's mouth. Back in November of 2005 (more ancient history, I know), when Congressman Jack Murtha spoke-out against the War in Iraq (remember?), the Hollywood superagent's brother who was once a top-advisor to Bill Clinton--now the muckety-muck Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chairman--strode that centrist-line. Yep, he's another one of those Hillary/Lieberman-clones who can't take-a-stand on anything, especially when it comes to murdering-Iraqis. Washpo's Charles Babington reported Rahm Emanuel's reactions to Murtha's epiphanies about Iraq in his usual-manner--he deferred to power:'Murtha's Democratic colleagues reacted warily to his remarks, while Republicans pounced. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), head of the House Democrats' campaign effort, said, "Jack Murtha went out and spoke for Jack Murtha."

As for Iraq policy, Emanuel added: "At the right time, we will have a position."At the right time"? Apparently, that means when everyone in Iraq is dead, and the boys at Exxon, Mobil, Chevron (Condi's ex-employer...or are they?), and all the other oil-whores have supped on Iraqi-blood and oil--then, and only then, will his ilk speak-out. Then, we can have NBC or HBO do a miniseries bemoaning the deaths of our victims. The profits will be enormous, wow! I should buy-stock in a media-conglomerate fast...But, I can't leave it at that, no-no-no. This megalomaniac shuns genuinely-progressive canidates in his 6th District (like Christine Ceglis), as well as voting in the House just like Lieberman does in the Senate.

As the Sun Times scribe Lynn Sweet noted in late-march:Perhaps the NRCC is not aware that Emanuel does not always vote the same way as his other more liberal colleagues in leadership, for example, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Just this March 7, Emanuel and Pelosi divided over a key vote on reauthorizing additional amendments to the controversial USA Patriot Act. Emanuel was one of 66 Democrats to vote with 214 Republicans to pass the measure. Pelosi voted with 124 Democrats and 13 Republicans against passage. Moloch, Moloch, devourer of children. Take this child as your sacrifice to war. Drink the blood of our soldiers, and the Persians...

Rahmadan:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/hired/131492,CST-NWS-hired10.articlehttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0611080085nov08,1,2440897.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/08/MNGSMM8CRB1.DTL

Context:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0611090190nov09,1,5368150.column?coll=chi-news-col
http://www.counterpunch.org/frank11102006.html
http://www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php?articleid=6780

Karl Rove and Math

WASHINGTON--It appears obvious that Karl Rove's own secret-statistics and special math (special-ed. math--boo-yah!) were simply in his bulbous-head. He is GIANT BABY-MAN, after-all. Of course, none of the fallout was the fault of Karl Rove and President George W. Bush, but 'forces beyond our control.' Correct in-part, but really just another diversionary-tactic. The public (and the entire world) is tired of your policies in Iraq, it was the primary-reason for the results based on exit-polls. Yes, exit-polls. The rest of the world follows them, except the US during-and-after the 2000 elections. Before that, they were unassailable. Interestingly, Rove tells Time he still isn't buying-them, and this is consistent with 2000. He's going to have to accept feeling alone about this. It was this attitude that sank them, a contempt for public-opinon and the public-will (nevermind the common-good). By telling Americans, 'no, that's not what you think', is only going to piss-them-off.

But we've known for some-time that the Bush administration was irrational and anti-intellectual, and simply not up-to-the-job of running the government. Strangely, this was helpful to their image early-on--certain voters got to enjoy a President who was actually less-intelligent than they were. The problem is, it doesn't work, and the public figured-it-out. The neocons just wanted to let their backers feed at the public-trough and enjoy the power for however-long they could maintain the fiction that they were actually qualified to hold public-office. It was a seizure-of-power, not sour-grapes from the losing-side (Al Gore & the public). There should be investigations into the elections of 2000 and 2004, and even 2006. I am all-for-it, but if such Democratic-hacks as Rahm Emanuel get the majority-posts, it likely won't happen. As far as investigations go--where do you even begin? There's so-much for prosecutors to choose-from it dizzying, even the Teapotdome scandal seems quaint now.

Rove wants to dispel-the-notion that it was simply the war in Iraq, because he has to. It all hinges on Iraq, ultimately, because it isn't going-away anytime soon. Many of the scandals we experienced since the Spring of 2003 surrounded the run-up to war, as well as criminal-policies that led to such scandals as Abu-Ghraib, illegal-rendition and those pesky secret CIA-prisons that have yet-to-be-closed. Even the Democrats won't discuss the permanent bases in Iraq, not even now after the sweep. And where is Russ Feingold? Like Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders, they're trying to push liberals in the party to-the-margins.

This can be combatted in the blogosphere, and the opening-shots have already begun. But realize that there will be far-greater revelations in the coming-months as the investigations unfold. It's not even the darkest-day for the GOP yet. I would go-as-far as to recommend bracing-yourselves, because American soldiers have committed atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan that are actually going to outshine the ones during the Vietnam war once they've been revealed. If we had any innocence before, we won't have much of that naivete that we're known-for left. I think the average American suspects this, and I think it was part of the decision to vote the GOP out-of-office as a majority. Exit-polls are accurate, and we know that Karl Rove's math and head are both fuzzy. Didn't Jim Henson make him in the 1970s?

SOME DEMOCRATS ALREADY COPPING-OUT...LIKE JOE DONNELLY

Yes, Joe Donnelly said on local-television that 'No, this is a move to the middle,' meaning not the left, parroting the emergent party-line of conservative Democrats. Wrong, Joe. If you don't get us universal health-care, and reverse literally everything the Bush administration has had-passed as law--we're going to have your ass for-breakfast. Iraq will continue to deteriorate, and you'll be back here in South Bend, and permanently. The Democratic-majority will be short-lived if you don't end this war immediately. But it's OK, we didn't vote for you because we trusted you. It's wisest not to trust any politician at face-value, not ever. Hey, I met you at the Cinco de Mayo fair here in South Bend, Mr. Donnelly, and I shook your hand. My name is Crinkle. You show potential for being a real grass-roots guy, so do what's good for Michiana and America. If you vote to prolong-the-war, the voters will definitely punish you for it. If you don't support a new 9/11 commission, the voters will punish you for it. And if you don't support progressive taxation of the wealthy, the like will occur. You have a historic-opportunity here. Are you up to it?

The polls all point-to the fact that this was about dissatisfaction with Iraq and Washington-in-general, a referendum that we want our troops O-U-T. We're also more to-the-left than your party-hacks are. That's right, we want a whole lot of social-reform in the first100-days of this term, and you had better deliver. We donated to you, volunteered and campaigned for you, and we're watching you via-the-internet in ways that never existed the last-time you Democrats had a majority in Congress. Watch your backs. I knew you were a wishy-washy, Joe, but that's a good thing sometimes. You'll respond to pressure from us, your constituents, which could be constructive. But you really should fire your advisors and trust-your instincts, it's what defines office-holders with the goods. You had better behave during this term, Rahm Emanuel isn't your boss, WE ARE here in the 2nd district. But I have to also say: congratulations, just make us proud. Your last-name isn't Chocola, which is why I voted for you. Stay-away from Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton, Mr. Donnelly. Your constituents here don't like or trust them, but who in their right-mind does?

Give Joe Donnelly Your Thoughts @:
http://www.donnellyforuscongress.com/

SOCIALISM ON THE MARCH: AMERICA'S FIRST SOCIALIST SENATOR ELECTED FROM VERMONT (VIVA LA MUERTE)

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGAIN--Bernie Sanders, 65, is the very-first Socialist Senator in American history. If there is an afterlife, somewhere, Eugene Debs (Indiana-native), Big Bill Heywood and Joe Hill are smiling. This would not have been possible were it not for George W. Bush and the GOP-majority in Congress. I'd like to thank them right-now for this: thanks! This is wonderful, because the margin is slim in the Senate--BOTH PARTIES will have to curry-favor with Sanders and Lieberman, and as bad as Lieberman has been, he's good on social-legislation. America might just have decided to enter the 20th century! Soon, we might have more Socialists in Congress, let's go! Better Red than right (wrong). We might be able to actually THANK George W. Bush for making the Western Hemisphere a Left-leaning one. The irony is inescapable, canny, and a bourgeois-hoot (thanks Shawn). Oh yeah, and Daniel Ortega--former Sandanista leader--is now President of Nicauragua! I guess this means Iran-Contra was a failure. Here's to the coming-suicides! Viva la muerte! Viva la muerte, indeed. Now Kurt Vonnegut (Indiana-native) can actually die with some hope. It's time to vanquish the right in this country for-good.

Bernie's Site:
http://bernie.house.gov/

19-YEAR-OLD CONSTRUCTION WORKER CHARGED IN THE DEATH OF ADRIENNE SHELLY

NEW YORK CITY--It appears something really didn't fit with the death of deceased-actress, Adrienne Shelly. The suspect is a 19-year-old construction worker named Diego Pillco. NYPD have ascertained that another person's shoe-prints was found at the scene that weren't Shelly's, and Pillco has confirmed that he and Shelly had a few run-ins over noise from the construction-site. There might be other motives that are unknown at this time. Shelly was found hanging-from a shower rod in her New York apartment's bathroom, and the shoe-prints were found on the bathtub. There was no suicide-note at the scene, and friends and family noted that Shelly had been very 'up' about her new film. Pillco is in-custody and his questioning will continue. Police had not ruled-out foul play from the onset of the investigation. We shall see.

HOW DID THE TROOPS VOTE?

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGAIN--Hmmmmm? It got a lot of coverage in 2004--why not now? Let's get those numbers this-week! I wonder what the terror-alert color is today? Somehow, I think it's going to be Red tomorrow, but nobody will care. It's time for a real 9/11 commission, and a real report. It's time for transparency and accountability in government. This was a referendum, and the American people rejected GOP-rule and their dirty-war. We'll make the Democrats behave, just-you-see.

CONTENTION OVER SENATE RACE RESULTS LIKELY

THE UNITED STATES--At 11:30 PM Central Time, the Democrats have 48-seats in the Senate (the GOP, 46 so-far), and need a minimum of 51 for a tie-breaking majority. They'll also have to contend-with Joe Lieberman, but I think he can be caged and tamed. The GOP talking-necks are already barking about Bush's veto-power, but they're forgetting he cannot stop investigations into his administration's obvious pattern of criminality. He's done so-much, the Democrats will have to decide which action to break-him with. You cannot 'veto' a congressional-investigation, and if he tries, he's going to funny. It looks grim for the Bush administration, which is good for the human-race and nature. Now is the time to start calling-for federalized election-standards. There must be uniformity in all voting-districts, and all holes must be plugged. It would behoove all activists to focus on this topic while they continue calling to end the war, the illegal-wiretaps, and to investigate all GOP-criminality while they had the majority. This isn't about revenge, it's about saving our democracy, as well as for the safety of the rest of the world. If Democrats win the Senate, expect a hue-and-cry from the GOP, and 'concern' by the media that was not-present during the 2000 elections. The game is changing, and the media and their owners had better behave.

CNN PROJECTION: INCUMBENT CHOCOLA DEFEATED

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA--It's looking solid for Joe Donnelly, with 83% of the vote having been counted as I post this, Chocola is getting a pretty good spanking. I sincerely hope he has gay-hustler Jeff Gannon's phone-number, he'll need it. It'll be time for him to resume exploiting American-workers, but this-time it's going to be in the private-sector, and permanent. Sure, he could run-again, but nobody's going to forget this White House and Congress for at least two-generations. The GOP risked-it-all, and might just be in serious-trouble as a viable-party--unless they change. It's possible that the GOP will be forced to embrace tolerance of homosexuality, for-example. But what's important is this: the time has come to begin preparing to beat-up on Joe Donnelly. What? Yes. Why? Because if you don't push him to do things that help working-class Americans, he won't. It's a no-brainer (thanks President Cheney, and you be-careful on that hunting-trip!)! Mitch Daniels, your time is coming, you ugly scarfaced-mug.

Joe said some things about Hispanic people that I thought was pretty-unpleasant. People flee the horrors in Mexico when they come to America, how dare you. They flee horrible injustice, corruption, and if they speak-out, they're often found-murdered by off-duty Policia. And you would have had them as a voting-base forever! Are you stupid? Hey, I VOTED FOR YOU, so you had better do what we say. You are ACCOUNTABLE JOE DONNELLY, remember that. We want impeachment of the President. We want an end to illegal-wiretapping of Americans. We want an Economic Bill of Rights. We want universal health-care. We want, most-of-all, radical progressive-taxation of the wealthiest Americans, and we want it now. It's the only-way to end this ridiculous-deficit the Bush administration has created with the war in Iraq, and his irrational tax-cuts for the richest.

We want it now, not later. Not next election-cycle, but this session of Congress, so be prepared to be busy the next 100-days. You will have a real mandate in the House, and possibly the Senate, and you had better use whatever gains you have by-tomorrow. The American people are basically awake and on to you and your ways. The Bush administration bungled and gave us all a rare peek behind-the curtain that a Democrat would have been too-competent to allow. That's because many of you Democrats are sneaky, but you do respond to pressure from us working-class Americans. I have to admit--you're sneakier than the GOP, you don't get-caught often. Some of you even understand that the working-class is crucial to you having any influence whatsoever, and it is time for you to begin turning-down corporate donations for Howard Dean's approach of internet-fundraising. Or better-yet, take their money and don't give them much.That's right, Joe, the internet is important. We can now watch you all like hawks, too. Ain't technology great? Yeah, it sure is.

To Former Rep. Chris Chocola: Hey, stupid! Good-riddance, you awful, pathetic, arrogant-creep. You are a heartless, greedy, power-lusting scumbag, Christopher. Your wife and kids hate you, but you know this because you're a patriarchal-asshole. I hope you lose your entire fortune from a crushing-wave of progressive taxation that I pledge to fight-for. You are history, you little-scumbag, you can eat our shit. I hope any foreign-holdings you have get nationalized by a socialist government and you lose-everything. Even better would be if I heard you were homeless. Guess what? I would help you, because people like myself are human. We're not sure about you and your ilk, as you represent the lowest-impulses present in humans. You are a criminal. If you had horns, or were from another planet, your behavior might make some kind-of-sense. Obviously, you are at the animal-level of consciousness.

The one-thing you can be thankful-for is that you won't be in-office when Federal investigators realize that you took bribes from the corporate-sector, but it might not help you anyway. Your boss in the White House is going-down, and you are the new Schuyler Colfax. Who? He was a congressman from South Bend during the Civil War, and he got-caught in a corruption-scandal too. It's his legacy, and it will be yours (if anyone bothers to remember you at all).Since you're an all-or-nothing winner, this loss is going to hurt you more than it would a normal person. I enjoy knowing this fact. 'Winning' has been redefined in the American-lexicon, you moral-imbecile.You bet-it-all on your man...and lost. Jail would be too-good for you.Your world ends with a whimper, not a bang.

VAMPIRES A STATISTICAL-IMPOSSIBILITY SAYS FLORIDA PHYSICIST

FLORIDUH--In November, University of Central [Ed.-as opposed-to the left-thigh.] Florida physicist Costas Efthimiou has proven the statistical-impossibility of infective-vampirism. There are a lot of links to stories about this guy! It's a good-study, too, debunking what a scary-number of Americans believe (yes, worse than the virgin-birth) about neck-suckers. For reasons only known-to-himself, Efthimiou has placed the hypothetical-genesis of vampires at January 1st, 1600, when the planet Earth had roughly 500,000,000 people. Keep-in-mind that this study only includes vampirism that is transmittable, causing a replication of vampires through bites. But does he follow the Hammer school of vampires, or the Tod Browning one? But what about all the other versions of vampires in world culture? In some tales, a vampire-bite simply kills the victim. In just two and one-half years, according-to Efthimiou (say it fast, good-luck), there would have been no human-beings left, just vampires. Or just no food-supply for them. Honestly, if you believed vampires were real, you'd be nuts anyway. Efthimiou forgot-to-include the GOP and their backers. The study is pop-science, go-after the fundamentalists. After-all, wouldn't vampires want you think they didn't exist? Right-wing conspiracists will be on this one for a long-time. They're used to chasing-ghosts. How-many dead will vote in the elections, and how is Dr. Efthimiou going to disprove their existence? Haw.

What They're Saying About the Study:
http://www.startribune.com/484/story/768574.html
http://www.bobrivers.com/ontheshow/brsnews.asp?artid=6127&cat=10&dismode=article
http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=0024004105bd60439010c0c76ce2f004ea9&mode=news
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=84&sid=955481

The Actual Study:
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608059

DON'T VOTE (TO REPUBLICAN-VOTERS)

...if you're a Republican. Don't vote ever-again if you feel the need to ever vote-Republican. That's right, I would prefer you never vote again. You morons have fucked-up our country because you wanted a Preznent as dumb as you are--sorry, he's dumber-than-you. This is miraculous, I know, but it's true. It took you SIX-YEARS to figure this out, which possibly makes you brain-damaged, but you finally got it: the GOP doesn't give-a-shit about you. Well duh. I knew this 25-years-ago when I was 13. Now we know what maturity-level you all haven't been operating-at. You and your delusions-of-adequacy, morons. Old? Doddering, more-like. No-excuses, you are pathetic. Fuck-you. The irony is, it doesn't matter anymore if they steal the elections and 'win' (a meaningless-term in America these-days). If we get two-more-years of the GOP and the Bush administration, they will likely undo-themselves for the next several-decades--just like with Herbert Hoover, another dumbass. A reminder: Mark Foley. Fuck-you assholes, apologize and admit you all blew-it and we can talk--but only then.

GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME METH (AND DEE WIMMEN)

It had to be said, and I thank 'SME' at Huffington Post for it. Gimme that old time sodomy (for others, not me), my preachers must be as queer as a three-dollar-bill. It always struck-me that Church wimmen folks were the biggest fag-hags ever. Just look at Tammy Faye Bakker.

She cries a lot, but this is an expression of compassion and empathy that is lacking in most Americans (especially young people). Who was it who cried on the PTL Club for gays afflicted with AIDS in the early 1980s? It was Tammy. Hey, it was FUN watching her pussy husband crying as he was lead away in chains by the cops, so maybe it's time for women to be priests?

At least if they touch a boy, it's not as shocking. Since women are mothers, I kinda doubt it will be as frequent. And let's get women into political office, men are generally fuckheads in politics. OK, the women who have been in there are too, but not as bad (excepting Hillary, she's awful--500,000 Iraqi-children were murdered by her husband and she did nothing). Gimme that old-time religion, yes indeed, the kind with no Churches.

Tammy:

www.tammyfaye.com

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS SOMETHING MAJOR PLANNED FOR TODAY

USSA--You're the President ('Preznent'). OK, the Vice President really is, but this hypothetical. You've drunkenly-authorized hundreds of illegal-actions, and it looks like the forces of law-and-order are finally going to use those police battering-rams to come-get-you and your administration. You had a manic-depressive time in-office with soaring-highs (90% approval-ratings following 9/11), and crushing-lows (29% being the lowest, but lower is coming). You are clearly still a drunk, and probably a pharmaceutical-narcotics abuser. Most of you administration are criminals, but so are you. Here's to two-years of excruciating-hearings and your imprisonment in the Hague.

But your backers win: they got their no-bid contracts with the military, they made-off with $9 Billion tax-dollars from Baghdad, and they got their God-sanctioned tax-cuts (fuck-you). But now, it appears you're going to lose the Congressional-majority that has obstructed the forces of law-and-order, and it looks grim. This makes most Americans happy, by-the-way. Thanks, Justice Scalia, and fuck-you too. And ex-Justice O'Connor: nothing you can say, or do will erase the fact that you allowed this clown to be President (well, technically Cheney is, but...). Nope, you legacy is shit now, welcome aboard. It's nice being basically anonymous, certainly compared to your infamy Mrs. O'Connor. The rest of the Supreme Court is worthless, and the respect for law-and-order erodes every day they remain Justices. We should remove the ones that Bush appointed with a congressional amendment.

Even fixing-the-election probably won't work--what do you do? Why--and this is just a possibility--you call a national emergency. This is why you made-sure Congress voted to rescind Habeus Corpus (the right to know why you have become imprisoned), and so-much-more. No, none of this will stand or endure as law, it was done just for you. Your boy-fondling flunkies in Congress have stood-by you, and besides, you have dirt on them. Here's to you causing the largest-groundswell in consciousness-raising since the 1960s, you goofed...again-and-again-and-again-and-again. And, even if you won-back every seat in Congress, it wouldn't matter--the scadals aren't going-away. Not ever. You are possibly the lowest piece-of-shit that has ever inhabited the Oval Office, but then I have to consider Jame K. Polk and Harry S. Truman. Someday, I will piss on all of your graves.

PS: The dirty-tricks have begun apace. This excerpt is from an email I got from Democrats.com.

Karl Rove has been bragging for weeks about his "72-hour program" to swing the elections, which predict a Democratic takeover of Congress.Now we know what it is: a dirty trick campaign using robocalls. The calls are made to Democrats and swing voters at all times of day or night to make them angry. And they pretend to be from the Democrat ("Hello, I'm calling with information about Lois Murphy"). If you hang up, they call back 7-8 times, and each time you hear the Democrat's name, to get you angry at him or her. If you stay on, you get to hear a scathing attack on the Democrat.

PS-PS: Bush is made-up as a rodeo clown.

SADDAM VERDICT: BUSH ADMINISTRATION PUSHES-UP VERDICT FOR ELECTIONS

BAGHDAD--'The judiciary is operating independently and we need to give them credit for doing their job and doing it in the way they saw fit and proper,' stated Press Secretary Tony Snow. It must be nice to live in a country where the Higher Courts are independent of the Executive, I wonder what that's like. Americans haven't known what that is like since 2000. The conviction of Hussein is for one single-event in 1982 where a group of 148 Sunnis were executed over a botched-attempt to assassinate the Iraqi-dictator. 'The idea is preposterous [Ed.-except it isn't.] that somehow we've been scheming and plotting with the Iraqis.' Actually, Anthony, your-ilk has--like Donald Rumsfeld. Why isn't he testifying about his meetings with Saddam during these trials? Right, we would never have any cause to suspect any meddling in this trial, no-cause whatsoever. Of course they did this to help them in the elections. Guess what? It's not-working. You look stupid...well, you always have, GOP. Just not as bad as the people who voted for you.

Remember-back to when Hussein was captured? The reaction was...underwhelming. Perhaps they're salting Osama away, but I doubt this--the Bush administration let him get-away at Tora Bora. Really, if the Democrats wanted to win in a big-way, they would just keep-repeating those two-words, over-and-over like the echo-chamber we've lived-in for the past-six-years. 'Tora Bora, Tora Bora, Tora Bora!' It's fun, say it to your Republican-friends (why you would have any is beyond-me). So, while the GOP tries to fondle our children, then cover-it-up, we know they can only win as criminals by fixing-the-game. Three-card Monty (the shell-game), a game that originated with the Babylonian Priest-rulers is their forte, as well as baseball's 'bait-and-switch.' Or is it bait-and-snitch (Plame)? Yes, they are that base and unintelligent. But just a tad-smarter than those who voted-for-them (twice, which makes them fools of the highest-order). The real problem is that they simply cannot control their sexual-desires because they're constantly-repressed and seeking-release. Those desires have to be expressed somewhere, somehow. Real human-beings have to have sexual-release as a part of a normal-life. Ahem.

No, it won't work anymore, Saddam stopped being the boogeyman once he was captured, just like Noriega (another former 'CIA-asset'). Also, many Americans know we put the Baathist party in-power during the 1960s, and that the CIA trained their internal-security forces (along with East Germany). This paved-the-way for the rise of Saddam Hussein, and was considered one of the CIA's 'favorite jobs.' But that's why many of the internal-documents from that period aren't available to the defense and we, the American public. Ramsey Clark acknowledged that the trial was a joke and was thrown-out for criticizing the trial as a 'sham.' He should know a sham of justice when he sees it--he's overseen (overseer?) quite-a-few of them. That's what an Attorney General does, subvert justice, nationally. Hint: might be time to make the Attorney General of the United States an elected-post. Of course, this would just give the GOP more motive to steal the elections, but we can at least increase their chances of being caught, statistically-speaking.

It was a sham (or as Groucho used to say, 'A mockery of two-shams!' but not 'Sam the Sham'), even for a mass-murderer like Hussein. Nevermind that we continued to support the Hussein-regime after the 1988 gassing of the Kurds in Northern Iraq, it's unimportant. I would provide you a link to the UPI-story detailing Hussein's CIA-grooming, but it has been pulled from the internet, though I suspect someone copied-it. Good-luck finding it. Welcome to the information-age the GOP wants you to have--a tightly-controlled corporate information-highway where unpleasant information is discarded. Americans had better start learning their own history, it's time, and ignorance is no-excuse. Isn't that what the police tell us? If-only someone would just arrest the President. I know, you'd have to beat-the-crap out of all those Secret Service men, but a cadre of strapping Federal Marshalls could take em.' Grow-a-pair, America, we're all out of bubble-gum.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html
http://www.muslimedia.com/ARCHIVES/features98/saddam.htm
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=856
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north170.html
http://www.unknownnews.net/saddam.html

Another High Court Lacking-Autonomy:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061105/ap_on_re_us/o_connor_judicial_autonomy

ADRIENNE SHELLY 1966-2006

NEW YORK CITY--Actress Adrienne Shelly was found dead Wednesday in her NYC apartment, she had hung-herself with a bedsheet. She was most-famous for her roles in the indie-films of Hal Hartley, notably The Absolute Truth (1989), and Trust (1990). My personal-favorite was her role in the homage to John Waters, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (1993), as possibly the hottest piece of trailer-trash ever. She was also a writer and director, but she had an uneasy relationship with fame that possibly overcame her. One of her last-roles was in Factotum, based on the Charles Bukowski story, and starring Matt Dillon. She was a really talented and beautiful woman who is leaving-behind a husband and a daughter. Modern life got to be too-much. What a horrible-loss to the movies, she will be missed. I'm running-out of reasons to go the theater.

Bob Ney resigns today

Washington D.C.--Today was Bob Ney's (R-Oh.) last day as a congressman.

It's a mixed-bag situation: Ney is one of three Republicans in Congress who voted-against the Patriot Act in 2001.

Ney also voted against normalizing trade relations with China in 2000.

All-in-all, he's a moderate Republican in an ocean of GOP-Bolshevism. But, he's still corrupt. He's the one member of Congress so far who has admitted criminal acts in the Abramoff scandal involving illegal lobbying. One has to wonder if he's the fall-guy they needed, enabling the others (less-moderate incumbents?) in the GOP who haven't been served a subpoena to breath free-air a little longer.

Or at least long enough to keep protecting George W. Bush and his administration as well as all the other crooks in Congress (counting Democrats too) who are obstructing justice by not seriously investigating the rampant criminality that has been a hallmark of this presidency. I'm hoping several Lieberman-like Democrats get caught in the Abramoff net, like Hillary Clinton.

The timing of Ney's resignation is strange, it must have been touch-and-go whether the Bush administration would still need him to retain a majority after November. Apparently, they know something at the GOP that we all don't (a different tactic to steal the elections again?). Maybe they expect a domestic insurrection over this election? The third time's a charm.

EXPECT WAR WITH IRAN & SADDAM HUSSEIN VERDICT-RUMBLINGS AS PRE-ELECTION SURPRISE

THE UNITED STATES--With elections drawing-near, and an almost-inevitable shift of the GOP from power, expect some desperate-acts from the White House. The dirty-tricks are being readied now, and I think the only possible diversions they have left is a war with Iran and a guilty-verdict for Saddam Hussein...or another convenient-attack by 'terrorists' (from nations we call our 'allies'). It's amazing that it's being taken-for-granted that the GOP will attempt stealing the elections again. With the ending of Habeus Corpus (the right to know why you have been imprisoned), and the rollback of the Bill of Rights under the Patriot Acts, we could expect the GOP to call a national-emergency. At that point--if it happened--it will be time for general strikes, and the streets will have to be FULL. I think the public is ready for this confrontation, it has been a long-time-coming. You can only put-it-off, and there are things the public will not have. The irony of a guilty-verdict for Hussein is this: it will cause the insurgency to grow, the violence will escalate.

You tell me, man 2: John Kerry in ReAnimator