Monday, July 31, 2006

AIPAC IS A FOREIGN LOBBY GROUP

Plain and simple. Though not required to have a licsense as such, the following article shows where their interests lay. It is not in our National Security interests to support Israel without question. Sure, the Corporate and the blood thirsty IrReligious Right love it. One is addicted to the Blood Money and the other just can't wait for Armegeddon and work everyday to bring it about. AIPAC is another force that will ensure that even if we have a Government run by the Democrats, not much will change. I remember when Gov. Dean in his run for the Presidency, called for evenhandedness he was immediately criticized by AIPAC'S #1 whore Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and many a Dem. Sadly Gov. Dean folded. Another chance for an epiphany in the American politic shot down.

Check out the article by Ari Berman "AIPAC'S DANGEROUS GRIP ON WASHINGTON"

Saturday, July 29, 2006

GUSH SHALOM

Just as it is here in the United States, in Israel People of Peace are marginalized, lied about and ignored. I've been watching and reading and nary a mention that Peace demonstrations in Israel are growing. That Dana Olmert daughter of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was one of the many to protest. Her sign that she carried and placed in front of Israeli Defense Minister Peretzs' house read "STOP MURDERING CIVILIANS".

I remember after the Butchery of Sabra and Shattila 1982 by Ariel Sharon over 400,000 Israelis protested and demanded a pullout. I did a calculation then and came up with 10% of the total Israeli population protesting and demanding a pullout. I knew then that Israel would pull back. I hope the same thing would happen again. I think because Israel is a smaller society it is harder to feed BS to the people. Here it is gobbled up like a cake and ice cream.


So it is the Hope for a more Peaceful World that I reach across the Seas in Solidarity with the good people of Gush Shalom. You will find their link on the right.

Gush Shalom has recently put ads up in the Newspaper Haaretz. This is the voice that will grow.

"While the eyes of the public
Are riveted to the
Daily bloodletting in Lebanon -
The wholesale killing
In the Gaza Strip
Is going on.

Women and children
Are also killed
Every day.

This bill, too,
Will be presented to us
In the future"

That ad appeared on the 28th . This one 2 days earlier-

"THEN: The war was prepared well in advance.
THIS TIME: The same.

THEN: We went to war only to protect "the Peace of Galilee".
THIS TIME: We go to war to protect Haifa and Afula, too.

THEN: We waited for a provocation (the attempt on the life of Ambassador Argov).
THIS TIME: We waited for a provocation (the capture of two soldiers).

THEN: "We shall advance only 40 KM in order to eliminate the Katyushas."
THIS TIME: "We shall advance only a few kilometers in order to eliminate the rockets."

THEN: Sharon acted behind the back of the cabinet.
THIS TIME: Olmert-Peretz-Halutz act behind the back of the ministers.

THEN: We destroyed Lebanon.
THIS TIME: We are destroying Lebanon.

THEN: Only the PLO profited from the war. A few years later they returned to Palestine.
THIS TIME: Only Hezbollah will profit from the war. Their prestige in the Arab world increases every day.

THEN: We were stuck in the quagmire for 18 years.

FOR HOW LONG SHALL WE BE STUCK THIS TIME?"

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

CROWD CONTROL

A 79 minute film. When you have the time it's worth it. The WMV will play automatically.
The other option is Google Video.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

A NATION BLIND TO THEIR DISGRACE

WHAT WE HAVE SOWN, WE SHALL SURELY REAP.

NO BRAVERY.(click text to play)

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
Tears drying on their face.
He has been here.
Brothers lie in shallow graves.
Fathers lost without a trace.
A nation blind to their disgrace,
Since he's been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

Houses burnt beyond repair.
The smell of death is in the air.
A woman weeping in despair says,
He has been here.
Tracer lighting up the sky.
It's another families' turn to die.
A child afraid to even cry out says,
He has been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
But no one asks the question why,
He has been here.
Old men kneel and accept their fate.
Wives and daughters cut and raped.
A generation drenched in hate.
Yes, he has been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

Music and Lyrics by James Blunt.

Saturday, July 22, 2006

BIRTH PAINS



Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
















THE BUSH REGIMES' CULTURE OF LIFE.














HEY, LET'S ASK HER IF THIS IS LIKE BIRTH PAINS? DON'T WORRY MOTHER, MIDWIFE CONDI IS ON THE WAY.











Someone’s Lil Angel. Or Islamo- fascist- Hizbollah Terrorist?


















ENEMY COMBATANT. OBVIOUSLY.







WHY WOULD THEY NOT HATE US?









PEACE. IT'S POSSIBLE. BUT NOT WITH THESE CRAZY BASTARDS IN POWER.
(all pics snagged from Dancewater)

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

BUSH IS WHACKED.

HE JUST CAN'T TAKE THE PRESSURE. OUR PUPPET, OR RATHER CHENEYS' IS BROKEN.HIS SUMMIT TOUR WAS A TOTAL EMBARRASSMENT. I THINK HE KNOWS THAT HIS PUPPETEERS
ARE GOING TO ATTACK IRAN AND OR SYRIA. IT WILL TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER WEEK TO EVAC U.S. CITIZENS FROM LEBANON.

I THINK THE ONLY WAY TO STOP AN ATTACK ON SYRIA IS FOR PUTIN TO PUT MAJOR AIR ASSETS
IN SYRIA. FAILING THAT THE SYRIANS HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO BUNKER DOWN AND DEFEND.

THE IRANIANS ON THE OTHER HAND, DUE TO MORE POWERFUL ASSETS BOTH OFFENSIVLEY AND DEFENSIVLY COMBINED WITH A BETTER STRATEGIC POSITION TO ATTACK AND SHUT DOWN THE GULF AND INFLICT HEAVY BATTLE DAMAGE ON U.S. FORCES,THEIR BEST MOVE I THINK IS TO ATTACK FIRST.THAT IS, IF THEY ARE CONVINCED OF AN ATTACK BY THE U.S. AND OR ISRAEL.

IF THEY ARE WILLING TO EXPEND 100 OR SO AC AS KAMIKAZIS, SEND A COUPLE OF HUNDRED
SMALL FAST ATTACK CRAFT, AND EXPEND A LARGE AMOUNT OF ANTI SHIP MISSLES THEY CAN
INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES ON OUR NAVY. THE GULF CAN ALSO BE HEAVILY MINED WITH FAIR EASE
AT THE BEGINING OF HOSTILITIES.

I THINK ONCE THE ISREALIS ARE ABOUT IN DAMASCUS, THE BUSH REGIME WILL ATTACK. IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVES - TRY TO SIEZE THE SOUTHERN OIL FIELDS AND NEGATE IRANIAN FORCES IN GULF AND KEEP CONTROL OF WATERWAY.

THE NIGHTMARE IS GROWING. THAT'S WHY THE PUPPET IS GETTING FREAKY.

I think a lot of things are peaking.

PEACE. It's possible. Just not with these sick bastards in power.

Monday, July 17, 2006

"BUSH BLAIR UNPLUGGED"?




Yeah well maybe.........

What is really freaky is his comments made to the press as told later in this article.

'Bush also said that when he next spoke to G8 leaders, he would keep it brief.

"I'm just going to make it up. I'm not going to talk too damn long like the rest of them. Some of these guys talk too long. Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight," he said.'


At least he got something right. He should not talk too much.

What a disgrace. From his slicing the pig comments to Putins' retort to Bushes suggestion that Russia should have a democracy like Iraq does. Did you hear the derisive laughter from the people present?

Today CNN is reporting that the 1st U.S. citizens(44 by 2 helos) have been evacuated from Lebanon to Cyprus. Tommorow a highered Greek ship(est cap 700) is suppossed to start taking U.S.evacuees on.
There are around 25,000 U.S. citizens in Lebanon. The British are pulling out their Civvies too.

WORLD AFIRE AND OUR PUPPET IS BROKEN.

MAY GOD BLESS HUMANITY. AIN'T NO ONE ELSE GONNA.

In other Al Jazeera News

Israel spurns UN call for monitors

Israel detains Aljazeera bureau chief

UPDATE: AL JAZEERA BUREAU CHIEF FREED.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

TALIBAN POLICE ACADEMY 2

Saturday, July 15, 2006

PT CRUISER

ONLINE BLOGGER, FREEWAY BLOGGER, PATRIOTIC AMERICAN AND MY NEWEST FRIENDLY :)
Go peruse his blog. It's Human approved.
After that go to his top post and follow the link to Left In Aboite's post " Literal Leviticus". It'll bust ya up.

Friday, July 14, 2006

MADNESS

"One of the definitions of madness is the repetition countless times of the same action, always expecting a different result."

Go here for the rest of the article. You can read my comments there if so moved.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Jesusless: The Church of Conservatism

by Robert S. McElvaine

In Godless, her latest and most ill-tempered book-length rant, Ann Coulter asserts that liberalism is a "godless" religion. In fact, however, the most fundamental problem in Christianity in America and the world today is that the "fundamentalist" religion that most loudly proclaims itself to be "Christian" is Jesusless.

Coulter demonstrates how Jesusless she and her cohort who have co-opted the name of Christianity are when she identifies "Americans' Christian destiny" as "jet skis, steak on the electric grill, hot showers, and night skiing." For some reason, she fails to cite her source in the Gospels for her definition of Christian destiny, which amounts to: Jesus died for our jet skis.

Read the Gospels from beginning to end and nowhere will you find Jesus suggesting anything like what Coulter sees as the destiny of Christians. Quite the contrary. Indeed, there is no source in anything Jesus said for most of what the best-known "Christians" preach in his name these days. While Coulter fumes that "liberalism is the opposition party to God," the clear truth is that what passes for "Christianity" today is the opposition party to Jesus. She attacks "the liberal hostility to God-based religions" while exposing her own hostility to Jesus-based religion.

As has been widely reported, Coulter offers "Christian" sentiments about widows of 9/11 victims who are not on her side politically: "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis," the millionaire TV celebrity and right-wing lioness Coulter hisses. "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." If Jesus had remained in his grave, surely he would be spinning in it to hear such evil venom being spit out in his name.

"Christians" of the sort who buy Coulter's books call themselves "fundamentalists," but their emphasis is entirely upon the word's first syllable; they're all about having fun. But when it comes to the fundamental teachings of Jesus, they take a pass. Turn the other cheek? Self-sacrifice? Help the poor? Nonviolence? That stuff's too hard. They replace the Gospel accounts of what Jesus said with the Gospel according to John and Paul (Lennon and McCartney, that is): "Give me money / That's what I want."

The Church of Coulter -- and that of the loudest "Christians" today -- should be called what it plainly is: Jesusless: The Church of Mammon. Coulter makes millions by calling others treasonous and Godless and saying, "We should invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." Conversion should start at home, and Coulter first needs to convert herself from Mammonism to Christianity.

Like many others in the increasingly dominant and totally misnamed "Christian Right," Coulter has a persecution complex. Upon the publication of Godless, she used her syndicated column to write a self-review of her book, saying it would be ignored: "If you find Godless without asking for assistance, it's considered a minor miracle." This from a woman whose new Jesusless book was at that very moment rising to Number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. (That such a patently anti-Jesus book could become the best-selling book in America tells us just how far removed from being followers of Christ most of today's self-proclaimed Christians are.) She's lamenting all the way to the bank, her house of worship.

In my opinion, those who complain about a "War on Christianity" are right. The generals conducting that war include, in addition to Kill-a-Muslim-for-Christ Coulter, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ted Haggard, James Dobson, and the whole Unheavenly Host of televangelists and megachurch moneychangers and wolves in sheep's clothing who have expropriated the moral assets of Jesus and turned them to their own purposes. They never met a dollar they didn't like. They prefer profits to prophecy and pretend that Jesus did, too. They favor the rich over the poor and invert Jesus to contend that he did, too. They favor war over peace and lie by saying that Jesus did, too.

Coulter and millions of her fellow adherents to ChristianityLite -- a "religion" that is the equivalent of a "Lose weight without diet or exercise" scam ("Easy Jesus! Be saved without sacrifice or good works!") -- have aborted Jesus and rewritten his teachings to suit their own selfish desires. Their revision of the Beatitudes -- what we might call the Be-Ann-itudes -- goes something like this:

Blessed are the haughty in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who exult over others, for they shall be further rewarded.
Blessed are the arrogant, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for domination, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are those who show no mercy, for they shall obtain the wealth of others.
Blessed are the hard in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the war-makers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who persecute for their own sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when you revile others and persecute others and utter all sorts of evil against them falsely on my account.

Onward Jesusless "Christian" soldiers, marching others into war.

Robert S. McElvaine teaches history at Millsaps College and is the author of Eve's Seed (McGraw-Hill). He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled ChristianityLite: Getting to Heaven without the Hassle.

Original article - Sightings, Martin Marty Center
the Divinity School, University of Chicago, (PDF File)


A big thanks to Roundeather for bringing this article to my attention.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

A Hopeful Sign: The Religious Left is Back

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

I'VE BEEN TRYING

TO PUT UP A POST WITH PICS, BUT THEY JUST WON'T UPLOAD CORRECTLY.BLOGGER WAS "DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE". EVERY DAMN TIME THEY ARE SOMETHING IS SCREWED UP.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

peace

uh so how ya doin?

Monday, July 10, 2006

BREAKING FEAR

So here I am watching the morning replay of Countdown with Keith Olberman. He was talking with guests on how the Government is using fear for political purposes. Suddenly "Breaking News". A 4 story building has collapsed in Ney York City. MSNBC is reporting that AP reports there was a explosion and fire.

Just when people weren't buying the BS anymore. Will if this is a supposed attack, the evidence be shipped to China like they did with the 911 buildings?

Switching to CNN they are hyping the fear on some "Al Qeada American" "report". FOX is reporting it. I note the emphasis the FOX "reporter" used with the word "explosion".

Now they(MSNBC) are reporting it is a 3 story building.Listening to eyewitness from a local News feed(WNBC). If I heard the local reporter correctly the buildings in the area are used by Republicans. Building reported to be used as parking garage.

I see that there is much debris in the road and some in front of the neighboring building. The neighboring buildings seem to be old. At least 50 years. Some brownstones. The parking garage if that what it was could also have been used for utilities for the neighboring buildings. Many older buildings cannot take the load of the heavy machinery. Now they are reporting that a Doctors office was in the building.

Another eyewitness is reporting that she heard "double bangs" and then an explosion.
"I think something hit the building" she says. She thought at first bang it was a truck crashing.

I have to go now. I wanted to put my 1st impressions and 1st reports out. If I could only trust my government to tell me the truth. It's up to us find out what happened.

Before I go, I see that on the bottom ticker of MSNBC "WHITE HOUSE: NY BUILDING EXPLOSION IS NOT RELATED TO TERRORISM." My 1st impression is how in the hell would they even know at such an early stage? Well I gotta travel 75 miles to take my aged Father Inlaw shopping. I'll be back in the late afternoon.

Peace.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

REMEMBER THE LIE

"The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons."
-- George Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in a speech in Cincinnati.

REMEMBER Alaa Hassan

IRAQ:
A Story IPS Never Wanted to Tell
Aaron Glantz*

SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 5 (IPS) - IPS contributor Alaa Hassan was killed on his way to work last Wednesday. He was 35 years old. He is survived by his mother, five brothers, five sisters and his wife who is pregnant with their first child.

Alaa was not killed for being a reporter. Indeed, he had only just begun helping IPS gather news. When fighters ambushed him and machine-gunned his car, it was simply because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time -- one of so many people killed seemingly for no reason in Iraq each day.

The same day Alaa was killed, Reuters reports 11 other violent incidents in Iraq -- including the car bombings of day labourers in Baquba 50km north-east of Baghdad, and of shoppers in the Shia Qadamiya district of Baghdad.

At least four Iraqi policemen and a U.S. soldier died in separate attacks across the country. In Baquba, the U.S. military admitted to killing a "non-combatant" during a raid on a civilian home.

Most of the people killed Jun. 28 (along with the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have died over the last three years) will remain only numbers. Because we knew Alaa so well, we can tell his story.

Alaa lived in al-Tajiyyat neighbourhood in northeast Baghdad. He managed the inventory of a stationery store in Baghdad's famed book market on Mutanabe Street.

He lived near the Tigris river in housing that had been reserved for employees of the ministry of industry when Saddam Hussein was president.

He lived next door to what was once an electronics factory and across the street from the former building of the Institute of Arab National Oil Studies. Both were looted after the U.S. invasion. After that, the U.S. government turned them into military bases. So Alaa's neighbourhood was regularly attacked by insurgents.

The only way from his neighbourhood to central Baghdad was to cross the al-Muthana bridge over the Tigris river, a regular spot for insurgent attacks. Because of an Iraqi police checkpoint and a bend, every car passing over the bridge has to slow down. Killings occur here many times a week.

When Alaa crossed the bridge Jun. 28, gunmen sprayed his car with machine-gun fire, killing him with six bullets. A second passenger was seriously injured.

The day he died, Alaa had worried aloud about crossing the bridge. A good friend, Abu Laith, had just been killed there. "He was just coming home from work and randomly someone showed up and shot and killed him," Alaa had said.

"I know it's dangerous to leave the house," he told his brother Salam over the phone. "But what can I do? I have to go on living."

Alaa was always in a difficult situation. "The Americans built a base that's in front of my house that used to be a government institute, and another one across the street," he told his brother.

"Now when we go out the Americans are right there at our front door. The wall for the American base is exactly in front of the house. Now it's not safe to go from the house to the main road just a half a kilometre away."

Alaa Hassan was born near ancient Babylon, one of 11 children. His father was a courthouse clerk and his mother a housewife. As a young man, he moved to an area just outside Baghdad and worked as a computer programmer in the ministry of industry. He got married in 2000.

Under Saddam's reign, one could not get married (or open a shop or business for that matter) without security clearance. But Alaa apparently married without following proper procedures. He and his wife ran into difficulties with the marriage; eventually someone reported his illegal marriage to the government. Alaa was held in a torture centre for nine months in 2000.

"The family had to pay a bribe to find him," his brother Salam recalls. "He was held in a warehouse near the law college. They beat his hands and his body. He had bruises everywhere."

Salam recalls visiting Alaa where he was detained. "It was a big warehouse with a lot of rooms on the top floor. They would do the torture in an open area so all the other prisoners could see. Eventually, they decided to put him on trial. They sentenced him to 25 years in jail but we paid a bribe so it was reduced to three years."

Alaa served his sentence at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, among hardened criminals and political prisoners. He was incarcerated there until just before the U.S. invasion in 2003, when Saddam Hussein announced a general amnesty for all prisoners.

Alaa emerged from prison traumatised. He divorced his wife and moved back to Babylon.

He continued living with his family there for three months after the fall of Saddam, but eventually he decided to look for a job again. When a cousin found him a job in a stationery shop on Mutinabe street, he moved back to Baghdad.

He remarried three months before he was killed. He had just learnt his wife was pregnant.

As with many Iraqi casualties, it has been difficult for Alaa's family to grieve his death. When one of his brothers called the Baghdad morgue about retrieving his body, an employee advised them not to come because he said the area around the morgue is controlled by insurgents.

So his extended family and friends gathered together -- all armed -- and walked to the morgue together through firing to retrieve the body. When they arrived, they had to pick their way through corpses to find Alaa.

Alaa was buried in the holy city of Najaf last Wednesday. It was a difficult trip for the family because the roads are unsafe. The family obtained guards from the Mehdi Army of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who escorted the family on the highway to Najaf and provided security for the funeral.

Alaa's family will be observing the traditional 40 days mourning at their home in Babylon. His whole family is now moving out of Baghdad.

"If this continues for another three or four years every single family in Iraq will be affected by this war," Alaa’s brother Salam says. "It will put us on another path in the future and it will be very difficult to make it a peaceful country again."

*With colleague Alaa Hassan, Aaron Glantz covered the increasing violence and sectarian divisions swallowing up Basra in the south of Iraq; the untold stories of Haditha, raided by the U.S. army last year; and the local reactions over the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. (END/2006)

Original - http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=33865

Monday, July 03, 2006

THE QUEEN IS NOT AMUSED