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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Thoughts on Election 2006
For some reason, I spent all day today thinking that tomorrow was election day. I made myself a cheatsheet to take into the voting booth since I don't support the agendas or practices of either the Republican or Democratic parties. Most of the campaign ads and political commercials I've seen are insults to our intelligence, designed to mislead and deceive. I don't want to vote for candidates who don't offer anything but deception as a reason to vote for them. "I'll lie to you because I don't think you're very intelligent." That's kind of a turn-off to me. I end up voting for whichever candidate offended me the least. And none of them seem to have plans to address the real issues this country faces. How to put an end to terrorism. The growing national debt which will eventually bring our economy to a crash. Our reliance on overpriced energy obtained from nations whose populations hate us. The ridiculous cost of health care and prescription drugs in this country. The non-enforcement of laws regarding the employment of illegals. The continuing losses of personal liberties in the name of evangelical Christian morality. Some are making promises to address some of those issues, but I haven't seen anyone offer any actual plans. I'm not sure any of the politicians understand the problems. If someone tells them it's an issue, they blurt out some promises. That's as far as it goes.The occupation of Iraq seems to be the biggest issue this election year. It's really a side issue. It has become pretty obvious that our military occupation there serves to prop up the government we installed. When we leave, next year or in ten years, that government probably won't survive. The plan is to train the security forces. But those are made up of different tribes and factions and militia members who feud with each other. We're arming and training people who will take different sides in a civil war after we leave, next year or in 20 years. I supported the war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein was a sponsor of terrorism. I guess I never saw the memo explaining that we were going to stay there after Saddam was gone. Sure it would be nice if the Iraqis all turned into Arabic-speaking Americans, but that was certainly not a realistic goal. It's scary when our leaders don't seem to live in the real world.
The Foley scandal has been made into another big side issue. Why? The guy was attracted to 16-18 year old boys. That's not illegal. I've heard no assertions that he had sex with underage boys. Foley walked the edge and resigned when it went public. He was a hypocrite. He was in the pocket of the religious right, involved in the passing of Sharia laws, knowing all the while that his personal leanings would be really offensive to those he represented. I'm sure there are a lot of other politicians, Republican and Democrat both, with secret skeletons. Hypocrisy is part of the job description, isn't it? Americans elect the people who tell the lies they most want to hear.
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Friday, May 5, 2006
Palestinian Security Branch to be Composed of Terrorists, World War III to Begin in France, Swedes Declare Open Season on Jews, American Muslims Against Free Speech, Today's New Adult Links
The slave's daughter became sexually active a couple of months ago. She works at a fast food restaurant. It occurred to me last week to ask her how many of the managers at that restaurant she has slept with. The answer was "four or five." I guess she's one of the perks of employment there. You'd think they'd pay her better.The new Palestinian interior minister named a well-known terrorist as his top aide on Thursday and announced the formation of a new security branch to be composed almost entirely of terrorists. We live in strange times.
It looks like World War III will begin in France. At least that's how history will probably see it. I think the war has already begun, but the West has not yet decided to fight back. As this excellent article in the Brussel's Journal points out, upcoming events in France will open our eyes to the true nature of the war we're in.
The Swedish Chancellor of Justice has declared open season on Jews. He's decided not to prosecute the Grand Mosque of Stockholm, where audio cassettes with highly inflammatory anti-Semitic content were being sold. After Swedish radio programme Dagens Eko unveiled the contents of the cassettes in November 2005, a charge of racial incitement was filed with the police against the Stockholm mosque. The Swedish Chancellor of Justice responded by closing the pre-trial investigation on the grounds that “the lecture did admittedly feature statements that are highly degrading to Jews (among other things, they are consistently referred to as the brothers of apes and pigs)” but pointing out that such statements “should be judged differently – and therefore be regarded as permissible.
There are several comments to be made regarding the Chancellor’s remarkable statement. One is that it is important to remember in this election year that there is a sizeable Muslim minority in Sweden (Muslims number 400,000 souls in Sweden out of a total population of 9 million, whereas there are about 16,000 Jews living in that country). Another is that at the mosque, a curse was pronounced on all Jews everywhere and the audience were encouraged to participate in Jihad (holy war) against Jews, highlighting suicide bombers as an effective weapon and praising them as martyrs. The Middle East was not singled out. This would therefore appear to be a clear case of racial incitement. Yet the Chancellor of Justice opines that owing to the Middle East conflict, “such expressions, despite their content, cannot be regarded as racial incitement according to Swedish law”. One might indeed wonder how the phrase “kill the Jews” needs to be expressed in order to be regarded as sufficient incitement to kill Jews, according to the Chancellor, who finds nothing inflammatory in the statement. We live in strange times.
Speaker at a university in Memphis threatened by Muslims - I hadn't realized how much they were threatening free speech even in America until I read this account.
From the transcripts:
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Saturday, April 15, 2006
Somebody Buy My House, Throwing More Good Money After Bad, More Stupidity From the Government, Things You Need to Believe to be a Bush Republican, Baptists Applaud Deaths of U.S. Soldiers, Today's New Adult Links
This is shaping up to be a rough year for me. I can see the writing on the wall despite the government's efforts to whitewash it. The economy is nearing a collapse. Interest rates are rising rapidly. Energy costs are rising, which will push up the costs of all goods. The "real" unemployment rates are higher than they've been since the great depression. America's economy is financed by mortgage debt, and that money pump is going to seize up with the higher interest rates. I want to get out of debt before that happens, which means selling my house. I had intended to get my house on the market two weeks ago, but I hurt my back and couldn't move stuff into storage to get the house ready for sale. We're plodding away at the process, but I'm feeling a lot of desperation. The longer the delay, the harder it will be to sell the house with higher interest rates and the continuing loss of jobs in this area. I'm feeling trapped, and an inclination towards depression makes it a struggle for me to keep going.President Bush visited New Orleans Wednesday and says he will ask Congress for billions to rebuild the city. Just say no. It was a stupid idea to develop an area under sea level in the first place. It's still a stupid idea. Lets not waste taxpayer money setting ourselves up for the next New Orleans disaster.
A bill introduced on March 16 in the U.S. Senate seeks to require all commercial websites that provide “material that is harmful to minors” to register and operate within a Top Level Domain set aside specifically for that purpose. Sponsored by Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), the “Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2006” mandates that the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers establish the new international TLD and have it operational within 90 days of the enactment of the bill. The Secretary of Commerce will be empowered to devise and enforce regulations for the operation of the TLD, and will be responsible for imposing civil penalties on any Web publishers who do not abide by the regulations. Under the legislation, companies that fail to register in the new domain within six months of the establishment of the new TLD would be subject to civil penalties.
I can never figure out if legislation like this is the result of simple stupidity, or an attempt to decieve voters into thinking that the sponsors are doing something about porn on the Internet. It's stupidity if they honestly think that laws making it harder for American website owners to stay in business will have any effect on the availability of adult material on the net. The harder they make it for American businesses, the more money they shift to foreign websites. Is that a desirable goal for some reason? This bill, if it passes, will have some devastating effects for Americans. It's basically saying that all adult sites will have to use something like a .XXX domain name. For example, sex.com, sex.org, sex.us and sex.(30 other extensions) will all have to become sex.xxx. Obviously, only one of them can have that domain name. Which one? The others would all have to change their names completely. And all of them would drop off the search engines, losing years of work making themselves easy to find. Foreign websites would be unaffected by the law, of course, and gain a big advantage. The excuse given for the bill is that by having all American porn sites use a .XXX extension, parents could use filters to force their children to view only foreign porn sites. I don't buy that. If they're not already using filters, they won't after the law passes either. I'd like to think that Max Baucus and Mark Pryor are just not very intelligent. The alternative is that they are deceiving their constituency, or in the pockets of lobbyists for the domain name registrars, which stand to make a LOT of money if this bill becomes law. I'd rather believe them stupid than corrupt.
Things You Need To Believe To Be A Bush Republican - making the blog rounds:
Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Dubya’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Dubya needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.
Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.
The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money.
Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing health care to all Americans is socialism. HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.
Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
A president lying about an extramarital affair is a impeachable offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.
Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.
Supporting "Executive Privilege" for every Republican ever born, who will be born or who might be born (in perpetuity.)
What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.
Support for hunters who shoot their friends and blame them for wearing orange vests similar to those worn by quail.
In a press release put out Saturday, March 18, Westboro Baptist Church applauded the deaths of four U.S. soldiers, and then announced that they’d be picketing the funerals in their hometowns. Applauded the deaths of four U.S. soldiers. Certain things in life simply aren’t acceptable. Hurling insults outside a person’s funeral is one of them. This sort of thing is why I never trust a Christian. They have no moral compass and will happily victimize other people in the most reprehensible manner whenever some cleric issues a fatwa.
From the transcripts:
Q: What happened then?
A: He told me, he says, "I have to kill you because you can identify me."
Q: Did he kill you?
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
Saudi Arabia to Bankroll Hamas Terrorist Organization, FEMA's Mismanagement of our Tax Money, Bush's Dictator Delusion, The Cost We Pay for Farm Subsidies, Today's New Adult Links
I received an 1800 page directory of RV parks and campgrounds in the mail yesterday. That set my mind on fire again, and I spent the rest of the day perusing it, looking at maps, and daydreaming about going places and seeing things. I don't have an RV, so I also spent quite a few hours doing searches to see what I could get in a used motorhome. I don't have any money, either, so it's all just a part of the dream. I did manage to restrain myself from the temptation to go into my mapping program and start plotting routes that would put me at wireless hotspots each night of travel so we could still work every day. The first step in real life is to sell my house and auction off all my possessions. It looks like I'll need to find a lawyer and sue Stormpay for the $12,647 of my money they've frozen in my online bank account, too, so I can get back into some investing.Saudi Arabia has promised to give the Hamas terrorist organization $800 milliion/year to bankroll the government of Palestine. Hamas won control of the government a month ago in a democratic election, and the U.S. and Europe had threatened to stop paying its way. Saudi Arabia is a longstanding benefactor of the Palestinian Islamic terrorists. In some years, Hamas received $50 million in Saudi cash to fund its operations. Now they won't have to deliver the money in suitcases anymore. Israel's supreme court has come out with a ruling designating Palestine as an "enemy state."
Federal Emergency Management Agency wasted millions of taxpayer dollars by giving cash to ineligible recipients and overpaying for hotel rooms, government investigators said Monday. More than a third of the 2.5 million applicants who received aid under FEMA's emergency cash assistance program — which included the $2,000 debit cards given to evacuees --- turned out to be scammers using false names, fake Social Security numbers and false addresses. Thousands of additional dollars appear to have been squandered on hotel rooms for evacuees that were paid at retail rather than the contractor's lower estimated cost. They included $438/night rooms in New York City and beachfront condominiums in Panama City, Fla., at $375 a night, according to the audits.
Just what ARE the powers of the president? Congress said that presidents can't do warrantless surveillance on American citizens unless they go through the special FISA court established precisely for that purpose. President Bush decided that the law doesn't apply to him because he declared a war on terrorism. His argument is basically that the commander in chief during this "war" that will likely go on in perpetuity (or 10 years, whichever is longer) has the powers of a dictator. The link above goes to an article that explains pretty well why Bush is wrong on this.
Farm subsidies and trade barriers are costing America a lot:
1) By shielding the domestic market from global competition, government farm programs raise the cost of food and with it the overall cost of living. American consumers pay more than double the world price for sugar. American families also pay more for their milk, butter, and cheese, thanks to federal dairy price supports and trade barriers. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, between 2000 and 2002 the average domestic price of nonfat dry milk was 23 percent higher than the world price, cheese 37 percent higher, and butter more than double. Trade policies also drive up prices for peanuts, cotton, beef, orange juice, canned tuna, and other products.
2) When government intervention raises domestic prices for raw materials and other commodities, it imposes higher costs on “downstream” users in the supply chain. Those higher costs can mean higher prices for consumers, reduced global competitiveness for American exporters, lower sales, less investment. In the last two decades, the number of sugar refineries in the U.S. has dwindled from 23 to eight, largely because of the doubled price of domestic raw sugar. During the last decade thousands of jobs have been lost in the confectionary industry, with losses especially heavy in the Chicago area. Expensive food also hurts restaurants.
3) The Office of Management and Budget estimates that taxpayers shelled out $26 billion in direct agricultural subsidies in fiscal year 2005. Two-thirds of American farmers don’t receive subsidies. So where does all that tax money go? Mainly to large agribusinesses and the richest family farmers. In 2003, the most recent year for which comprehensive statistics are available, the top 10 percent of all subsidy recipients gobbled up 68 percent of the money, and the top 5 percent got 55 percent.
4) The distortions and perverse incentives of U.S. agricultural policies have encouraged practices that damage the environment. Trade barriers and subsidies stimulate production on marginal land, leading to overuse of pesticides, fertilizers, and other effluents. A central if unstated purpose of American farm policy is to promote production of commodities that would not be economical under competitive, free market conditions. A study by the Environmental Protection Agency found that 72 percent of U.S. rivers and 56 percent of lakes it surveyed suffer from agriculture-related pollution. Areas of the Gulf of Mexico have become “dead zones” because of the runoff from farms in the Midwest. Domestic sugar protection has maintained a concentration of producers in central Florida who have used up water from the endangered Florida Everglades while spitting back phosphorous content far above the level consistent with maintaining the surrounding ecosystem. Farm programs also waste scarce water resources, especially in the arid West. Agricultural water subsidies alone amount to around $2 billion annually, propping up such uneconomical enterprises as growing cotton in the Arizona desert.
5) Federal farm programs actually work against the interests of many farmers. Growers, especially the two-thirds who don’t receive subsidies, pay a heavy price through lost export opportunities from high trade barriers abroad. Agriculture exporters face average foreign tariffs that are several times higher than the average tariffs on manufactured products. If global barriers to farm trade were removed, the World Bank estimates, worldwide farm exports would be 74 percent higher in 2015 than they would otherwise. American farmers would be among the biggest winners:
In 2006 Congress will begin to write a new farm bill to replace the protectionist and subsidy-laden 2002 legislation that is set to expire in 2007. Let's do ourselves a big favor and do away with farm subsidies and trade barriers. Unilaterally. You can read a lot more on all the points mentioned above by Clicking Here.
From the transcripts:
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Friday, February 3, 2006
Stress and Sleeplessness, Hamas Gains 70,000 Recruits, Gov't Should Take Over Parenting, Anti-Abortionists are also Anti-Contraception, Wondering if Bush is Simply Stupid, Today's New Adult Links
My sleep is screwed up again. I'm blaming the Atkins diet. I went back on it a few weeks ago. My normal pattern was to sleep at night, and take a nap in the afternoons. I'd always feel sleepy after a meal with lots of carbohydrates. Without the carbs, I can't seem to fall asleep for short naps, and I rarely sleep more than four hours when I go to bed for a night's sleep. I wake up after four hours with lots of energy and a desire to get back to work. But I can't go 20 hours before I need to go to bed again, so my "nights" are coming at odd times during any 24-hour period. I hope this is temporary. I don't remember this happening the last time I was on the diet.I'm pretty stressed out right now. I think the government has raided a payment processor I use for online transactions, and some accounts have been frozen. Not mine, but a company that owes me $16,000 is one of them, and they have no way to pay me until it's resolved. It's hard to think about anything else. It's very difficult to work because my mind wanders off every few minutes.
The Hamas terrorist organization gained 70,000 new recruits last week Wednesday, armed and equipped by the U.S. and Europe. The Palestinians elected Hamas to 76 of the 132 seats in the Palestinian legislative council, a landslide victory effectively giving over control of the Palestinian government to the terrorist group. With control of the government will also come control over 70,000 security officers. Hamas leader Mahmoud al Zahar did not waste any time in making clear what the new rules are:
1. Washington must start talking to Hamas as the ruling force in the Palestinian Authority.
2. Hamas pledges to preserve the “independence of arms” of all armed terrorist groups.
3. No further concessions to Israel. The terror campaign will go on until Israel has been destroyed.The election was fair, and the Palestinians have made their voice heard. We need to respect that. But, Palestine is now ruled by a terrorist organization. We must stop giving the government of Palestine money and support, or the U.S. becomes a sponsor of terrorism. Existing state sponsors of terrorism, such as Iran, can easily make up the shortfall and fund the new government. Hamas needs to consider something new, though. Now that Hamas represents the government of Palestine, attacks on Israel will be an act of war from one government upon another. Israel would be completely within its rights to destroy the aggressor government in military strikes.
The agenda is clear, and it has nothing to do with protecting children. In the recent Senate hearings on indecency, Jack Valenti, former chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, told the Senate committee that it's really up to parents to control what their children see on television. "Parents, without question or doubt," he said, "have total power in their hands right now to control every TV program that enters their home by whatever method of delivery they have chosen" with the V-Chip technology that comes standard on hardware related to television. And that's certainly true. If parents don't want their children watching certain channels, or certain programs in particular, they can easily lock them out in the Parental Controls section of their programming configuration.
Focus on the Family, and the Parents Television Council, two special interest groups controlled by the religious right, objected strongly to the notion that parents should take responsibility. "The V-Chip is a dodge," said Brent Bozell, president of the PTC. The religious right believes that government censorship, rather than personal responsibility, is the best solution. Why, what's wrong with letting parents lock out programming they don't want their children watching? The truth is that protecting children, easily accomplished with Parental Controls, has nothing to do with those groups' real agenda. The real agenda is government censorship. They don't want ANY Americans watching programs that the Taliban disapproves of. Parental Controls won't accomplish that agenda. Government censorship can. Stop pretending that this issue has something to do with children. Lying is bad. Don't they teach that in church anymore?
Would everyone in the audience who hopes to have an abortion some day, please stand up? ... Anybody? ... No? I guess everyone here must be "pro-life" then. The truth is that no one sets a goal in life of having an abortion. Nobody likes abortion. So why do people have them? Because unwanted pregnancies sometimes present women with basically two nasty choices. Quit her job, go on welfare and be a single mom, or get an abortion. Drop out of school, go on welfare and be a single mom, or get an abortion. A lot of women want to get an education, have a career, get a husband... Few single moms manage to achieve any of those things. A few do. I have a daughter who achieved the first two of those goals as a single mom. But her unwanted children are growing up in a miserable environment. I avoid visiting my grandchildren because it makes me feel so sad for them. They always ask if they can come live with me.
The best solution to the dilemmas presented by unwanted pregnancies would be to prevent them. Keep baskets of condoms readily available in every high school and college. Keep tubs of condoms by the gas pumps. Make over the counter contraceptive pills and morning after pills cheap and readily available in every pharmacy. Is there any doubt that most would avoid unwanted pregnancies if the means for contraception were so readily at hand? Abortion would become a rare occurrence rather than a common one. Oddly, the anti-abortion activists oppose proposals like this. I don't get it. What's their REAL agenda, then? They offer no solution to the problem of unwanted pregnancies. They simply want to remove choice from those who have unprepared sex, and doom them to the other alternative - be a single mom on welfare, raising unwanted children. I'd rather have my tax dollars go for contraception than for welfare for people who didn't have contraception. I really feel resentful towards the anti-abortion bloc for blocking the implementation of any proposal that would reduce unwanted pregnancies. They're just bad people, I guess. An evil streak. I don't understand them at all.
Is Bush stupid -- or is America? For five years now, I've been watching the Bush government make stupid decisions, and explain them to the public as if to children who won't know any better. The way he's fighting the war on terrorism. The decision to occupy Iraq after bringing down Saddam. The policies that have led to unsustainable health care costs. Each time a stupid decision was made, I comforted myself with the thought that our president can't REALLY be stupid, can he? He must have secret agendas that we won't know about until he can present us with astounding accomplishments that none of us foresaw. There must be a secret reason to have all those troops sitting in Iraq. There must be a secret reason that we aren't dealing with those who sponsor terrorism. But I'm losing hope. I think Bush is actually being dumbly honest about his motivations for his foreign policies. As he has stated, he's on a mission from God. In his domestic policies, however, there are all kinds of hidden agendas. I'm guessing that his domestic handlers are a lot more clever than those advising him on foreign matters. A lot of people seem to accept Bush's childish explanations for his decisions. Is Bush stupid, or is America? I think....both. Click here for more on this.
From the transcripts:
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
I Want To Be an Internet Gypsy, President of Iran Welcomes Terrorist Leaders to Summit, Iranian Leaders Moving $ Billions Out of Western Banks, Gov't Spying On Our Internet Searches Now, Is America Becoming a Fascist State-a Checklist, Today's New Adult Links
I've decided to become an Internet gypsy after I sell my house. Instead of buying another house, I'm hoping I'll be able to come pretty close to paying cash for a nice, big motorhome. No mortgage. No property taxes. No utility bills. Just RV park fees, diesel and gas, and vehicle insurance. I estimate that it will cut my monthly expenses by a minimum of 50 percent. Probably closer to 75 percent. I'll get rid of two vehicles and get a trailer to haul my Harley. Slave can drive her Mustang and Child can drive the Avenger. After that, we can live anywhere we want for as long as we want. We'll move as often as we get tired of the neighbors, or tired of the views. In this age of wireless, cell phones and online banking, I'll be just as connected as ever. All my income for the last seven years has come from the net. There's no reason for that to change, and none of it relates to where I live. If I keep making good money from the "get paid to surf" program that I've mentioned in previous posts, and other programs like that, I'll almost certainly sell my adult website business. It's good money, but it's a lot of hours every day. I'm already making a lot more from my investments, letting my money make money for me. I think I'd rather retire on those than keep working so hard in an industry that the government is trying so hard to push overseas. Anyway, that's the plan. I'll keep you informed as it works out.Iranian president Ahmedenijad welcomed 10 terrorist leaders in a meeting with him in Damascus Friday. Among them was Abdallah Ramadan Shalah, the head of Jihad Islami, whose suicide bomber injured 25 Israelis in Tel Aviv Thursday. The group met to discuss funding, aid and support for the terrorist organizations from Iran. The Tel Aviv suicide bombing was hailed enthusiastically by Iran’s state TV, which was also the first to identify the terrorist group responsible. It seems apparent that Iran ordered the terrorist attack to commemorate the significance of this meeting. I don't think I've ever seen a government so openly support terrorism. In the past, Iran has always been careful to conceal the extent to which it sponsors terrorism. I wonder why they have become so bold now.
Iranian leaders are moving billions of dollars of their money out of Western banks in anticipation of possible sanctions over their nuclear weapons program. Iran’s spiritual ruler Ayatollah Ali Khameini has transferred his personal fortune of $1.2 billion from the Swiss UBS AG to banks in Singapore and Malaysia. I didn't realize clerics made that kind of money. Former president Hashemi Rafsanjani has ordered the removal of $2 billion from Canadian banks to establishments in Beirut, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore. In the last ten days, some $7.5 billion dollars have been drained from private Iranian accounts in Germany, Switzerland, France, Britain and Italy and concealed in Southeast Asian banks. That is in addition to the estimated $23 billion in government holdings that Iran has taken out of European banks and deposited in the Bahamas, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Dubai and Singapore. The Swiss banking giant UBS AG announced Sunday, Jan. 22, that all existing business with customers in Iran will be cancelled, except for Iranians in exile.
Why would Iran take it for granted that sanctions are going to be imposed? Perhaps because, as some intelligence sources are reporting, Iran has scheduled the test of a nuclear bomb for March 22. Then they can fess up and admit that they've been lying to the European negotiators all along...
The Feds are trying to force Google to tell them what you search for on the internet. The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period. The Mountain View-based search and advertising giant opposes releasing the information on a variety of grounds, saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets, according to court documents.
``This is exactly the kind of case that privacy advocates have long feared,'' said Ray Everett-Church, a South Bay privacy consultant. ``The idea that these massive databases are being thrown open to anyone with a court document is the worst-case scenario. If they lose this fight, consumers will think twice about letting Google deep into their lives.'' ``The government can't even claim that it's for national security,'' Everett-Church said. ``They're just using it to get the search engines to do their research for them in a way that compromises the civil liberties of other people.'' The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed to release the information, but not Google.
The government is already listening to our overseas phone calls, and reading the emails we exchange with people in other countries. The biggest concern that immediately leaps to my mind over this new thing is that it seems likely that the search engines record IP addresses along with the searches people do. That means that the government would be able to trace each search to the person who did the searching. That would be a huge loss of privacy. The government would be able to keep a record of everything you search for. Since I don't know what search engines are already giving the government that information (I understand that Yahoo and MSN are already doing so), I guess I'll stick with Google for my searches for now, and hope that they win in court. It would be very sad if we have to stop searching for anything we don't want on public record. The really scary thing is that we probably would not know that the government is spying on our searches if Google had cooperated too.
Is America becoming a Fascist State? It's still too early in the game to know for sure, but looking at other former fascist governments for common themes can tell us what to look for, at least. Comparing them, there seems to be 14 themes common to all of them:
1. Continually invoking patriotism in their rhetoric (It's unpatriotic to speak out against the war? It's unpatriotic to criticize the government?)
2. Disdain for the importance of personal liberty (No one should be allowed to view sexy or violent material?)
3. Identification of enemies / scapegoats as a unifying cause (Terrorism? Child pornographers?)
4. The supremacy of the military (We know we've got the best.)
5. Rampant sexism (Family Values? Females who get pregnant should be forced to have the babies? Women with children don't belong in the work force?)
6. A controlled mass media (Whistleblowers should be caught and prosecuted? Journalists should be jailed for protecting sources?)
7. Obsession with national security (Homeland Security? Warrantless searches? Spying on use of search engines?)
8. Religion and ruling élite tied together (government holding power by the good graces of the American Taliban voting bloc?)
9. Power of corporations protected (Oil industry? Pharmaceutical industry? Insurance industry? Credit card industry?)
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated (move the laborer jobs overseas?)
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts (Well, not unless they offend the American Taliban.)
12. Obsession with crime and punishment (We have more people in prison per capita than any nation in the world.)
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption (Look for upcoming revelations as investigations spin off from the Abramoff deal.)
14. Fraudulent elections (Gerrymandered redistricting by the party in power makes 98.2% of elections meaningless.)
Is America a fascist State? Not yet. We've mixed all the right ingredients, but we have to wait for it to finish baking.
From the transcripts:
Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies have been on dead people.Today's new adult galleries:
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Thursday, January 19, 2006
I Don't Like Al Gore, But..., I Guess the Christian Right "Owns" Marriage Now, Ralph Reed "Righteously Cast Out" by Christian Coalition, Thoughts on Pat Robertson, Today's New Adult Links
I'm still working 12 hours every day, mostly from a stupid stubbornness, I guess. The harder I work, and the more I spend on advertising, the less money my business makes. I don't want to let it go. It still makes a profit. Just not enough to live on anymore. I'll try to stick it out through the end of the year and see what it's doing then. It's getting to the point where I'll feel nothing but relief when I let it go. I'm really tired.On the other hand, the "get paid to surf" program I'm doing paid me another $4700 Tuesday. Is it possible to actually make a living this way? Give me a few more months and I'll know the answer to that.
Former Vice President Al Gore made a speech Monday. I think I've just spent an hour reading it. I've never much liked Al Gore, and there are things in his speech I don't agree with. But it's a great speech. I bring it to your attention because I think he said some Important Things for every American to think about.
Why does the Christian Right thinks that it "owns" marriage? In response to big political campaigns by the Christian Right, eleven states last year amended their constitutions to change the definition of marriage to agree with the evangelical Christian definition. Marriage has been around far longer than Christianity. The use of wedding rings was a pagan custom, not something the Bible talks about. In fact, wedding ceremonies themselves were a pagan custom, never commanded in the Bible. Now, one religion is adopting some pagan customs, rejecting others, putting their own unique twists on the whole thing, and shoving it down the throats of all Americans by changing the constitution to define marriage according to that religion's doctrine. It would appear that freedom of religion is on its way out in this country. We're taking steps towards the establishment of a State religion. Do we really want to go there?
It isn't looking too good for Ralph Reed, the Christian Coalition's candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Geogia. After lobbyist Jack Abramoff plead guilty to charges related to the purchasing of politicians, it came out that Abramoff paid millions to Reed for his help on behalf of an indian casino to shut down competing casinos nearby. The Christian Coalition lobbies against gambling. Emails between Abramoff and Reed leave little doubt that Reed knew full well that he was using the Christians without their knowledge to benefit a casino. "After reading the e-mail, it became pretty obvious he was putting money before God," said Phil Dacosta, a Georgia Christian Coalition member who had initially backed Reed. "We are righteously casting him out." In 2004, when the casino payments to Reed were disclosed, Reed issued a statement declaring "no direct knowledge of their [Abramoff's law firm's] clients or interests." In 2005, however, Senate investigators released a 1999 e-mail from Abramoff to Reed explicitly citing the client: "It would be really helpful if you could get me invoices [for services performed] as soon as possible so I can get Choctaw to get us checks ASAP." One of the most damaging e-mails was sent by Abramoff to partner Michael Scanlon, complaining about Reed's billing practices and expenditure claims: "He is a bad version of us! No more money for him." Scanlon and Abramoff have pleaded guilty to defrauding clients.
Since then, Reed has been having problems getting the Christians to keep giving him money. Whit Ayres, one of the state's best-known Republican consultants and pollsters, said the best way to determine Reed's political future would be to "ask Jack Abramoff. Only [the former lobbyist] and some prosecutors know what he has to say about Reed." Pichon, the Dawson County Republican, said: "If Reed ends up winning the primary, we might be at the point where we blow our brains out over that issue."
After Reed first entered national politics as executive director of the Christian Coalition, he described to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot his tactics in mobilizing Christian conservatives to sway elections: "I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." When it came to himself, however, Reed hardly worked at staying invisible. He was a familiar figure and a ready quote for political journalists. Republicans running for offices high and low sought his blessing. He made the cover of Time on May 15, 1995, in a stark black-and-white photo with the headline "The Right Hand Of God." These days, Reed rarely grants interviews. Well, Christians are always an easy mark, and Reed made millions scamming them. If he avoids prison, he can probably retire and just enjoy their money.
I've been thinking some more about Pat Robertson. Did you know that much of the world thinks that he speaks for most Christians in America? He has a herd of human sheep that runs into the millions, and many of them send him money on a regular basis to support him. He's a very wealthy man. When a 70 year-old fat man in Israel had a massive stroke recently, Pat Robertson pronounced to the world, "Look! That was God! God struck that man down for his politics." That brought to my mind one of the Ten Commandments. At least I think it was one of them. I'm a little rusty and no longer keep a Bible in the house. "Thou Shalt Not Take The Name Of The Lord Thy God In Vain." When I was a child, my parents told me that meant cursing. They didn't want me to say naughty words, and letting me know that I faced eternal damnation in Hell is the best method of rearing a child. When I was older, I realized that taking the name of God in vain has nothing to do with cursing. It means claiming to speak for God when God has not told you what to say. Misrepresenting him. Claiming that God told you something he didn't. If there is a Hell, I'll bet there's a special place in it for clerics who have claimed, erroneously, that they speak for God. I'm sure that some of these shepherds know that God didn't tell them to say what they've said. It's just their way of fleecing their sheep. Others, like Pat Robertson, claim to hear voices, much like Son of Sam. Maybe God doesn't hold people like that accountable. Pat Robertson is pretty old, too. When he dies, of heart attack or stroke or whatever, I wonder how many clerics around the world will announce, "Look! That was God! God struck that man down." And Pat Robertson will just smile from wherever he is, because he who dies with the most money, wins.
This COPS video illustrates the great danger posed by addiction to role-playing games. And Dungeons & Dragons in particular...
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
Harrassed by Someone Else's Creditors, Suspicious Crash Kills Top Iranian Military Officers, Using Christians for Fun and Profit, Maryland Heads for Special Health Tax on Walmart, Naked Women's Wrestling League News, Chinese Man Can't Be Photographed, Today's New Adult Links
I've been getting harassing phone calls every day from a bill collector who wants me to give my daughter a message. A daughter I haven't seen since last summer. He won't give me his name, his company's name, or his address. Wednesday, he claimed to be a business in another State, and that my daughter had applied for a job there. He said he was checking her references. He wanted to talk to her, but she had neglected to give her address and phone number on her job application. What? How stupid do you think I could possibly be? I'd really like to get his name and address. I'd like to take a few days away from the office and go on another road trip. I'd like him to know, face to face, why he shouldn't call me every day. The number that comes up in my caller ID is unlisted, so I can't find him with a reverse lookup. I'm pretty certain that it's illegal for a bill collector to refuse to give his name, his company name, and his address to me. I'm pretty certain it's illegal for a bill collector to daily harass a debtor's parent. I'd like to meet him to explain exactly how I feel about his illegal actions. I don't much like criminals who target me.The "get paid to surf" program I'm in paid me $4800 Friday. I'm expecting another $4800 payment around the 18th.
The suspicious crash of an Iranian executive jet Monday took the lives of a veritiable Who's Who of Iranian top military officers. The names include:
Gen. Ahmed Kazemi - head of the Republican Guard ground forces. He was one of the two officers killed in the crash who were directly responsible for the Shehab-3 and Shehab-4 missile programs, the key delivery vehicles for the nuclear warheads Iran is striving to develop.
Said Soleymani - Kazemi's operations commander
Col. Safdar Reshadi - Kazemi's deputy commander
Hanif Montazer-Qaem - director of the Republican Guard's intelligence branch. He was responsible for gathering information on any Israeli military plans to strike Iranian nuclear installations, as well as useful Israel targets for Tehran to strike in reprisal or pre-emptive operations.
Gholem-Reza Yazdani - artillery commander
Said Mohtadi - commander of the elite Army Division 27. He was in charge of the Iranian terrorist structures in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority. He ran the Republican Guard agents associated with Shiite and Sunni terrorists and insurgents in Iraq, including Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s network. Mohtadi also held the lines to Hizballah terrorist and security branches in Lebanon, as well as RG’s links with Palestinian terrorist organizations, such as the Jihad Islami and the Fatah-al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.The wiping out of all these top officers of Iran’s nuclear missile program and its intelligence and terrorist machines certainly leaves the question open: who's responsible? The crash has officially been blamed on heavy weather, but no one in Iran's top echelon believes that excuse, because there were no storms or unstable weather at the time of the crash. Read more on this at Debka Net Weekly. (subscription required)
On using Christians for fun and profit: I ran across a few items today:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/01/using-christian-conservatives-for-fun.html
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1205/18metreed.html
It's interesting to me because I like to understand how things work, don't know if you'll be interested. Basically, a Louisiana Indian tribe with a lucrative casino was worried about competition from some Indian casinos in neighboring Texas and wanted them shut down. They hired the Abramoff lobbying firm to get the job done. Abramoff thought the easiest way to do that was to hire the Reed lobbying firm because Reed controls the Christian conservative political groups, which oppose gambling (I have no idea why). Reed mobilizes the Christians and gets the Texas tribes shut down. Then Abramoff goes to those tribes and persuades them to hire his firm to get them opened up again. Abramoff makes lots of money. Reed makes lots of money. Abramoff's original client achieves its goal of getting rid of its competition in the gambling business. The Texas tribes get screwed by Abramoff, twice in succession. The Christian conservatives get cynically used as a dumb tool to benefit a Louisiana casino.
Maryland's Senate has voted to override the governor's veto of a new State Walmart health tax. If the Maryland House does the same, Maryland will become the first State with a special tax on a particular corporation. The bill says that Walmart must spend eight percent of its payroll on healthcare, or pay the difference to the State. I'm sure Walmart is busy doing a cost/benefit analysis of its options to decide what to do if the tax passes the House and becomes law. Walmart basically has two options. It can raise its prices in its Maryland stores to cover the cost of the tax, which would cause Walmart to to lose market share against competitors. Or it can close its stores in Maryland. Either way, it looks like consumers in Maryland will be paying more to buy consumer goods if this tax becomes law.
Past gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey, who lost out to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the election, is set to appear naked in the Naked Women’s Wrestling League, which is headed by Carmen Electra. Carey said that she’s “nervous and excited” about the chance to meet Electra. “When I was growing up,” Carey added, “I used to look at Carmen Electra and be like ‘whoa.’” In case you're not a fan of the NWWL, here are some big photo galleries featuring Mary Carey from her college years.
Chinese man impossible to Photograph
On January 6, 2006, Henan Province's Dahe Daily newspaper reported that the local police department was unable to take an ID photo of Ye Xiangting from Yelou Village in the Yangzhuang Township of Wugang City, Henan Province. No image of Ye Xiangting showed up in the computer photos, and there is still no clear explanation for the result. Ye Xiangting told the reporter about his recent visit to the Yangzhuang police station to get a photo taken for a new ID card. He sat in front of the camera, but no image of him would show up in the photo. The staff checked the camera very carefully, but found no problems. He retook photos of Ye Xiangting, but no photos of Ye Xiangting was found on the computer images. The staff had Ye Xiangting carefully check his clothes to be sure he did not carry anything that would interfere with the equipment. Finally, Ye sat in front of the camera and was photographed from every angle. The staff still failed to get any images of him. The staff could not find a reason. They took images of Ye Xiangting with other people. They were stunned when the other people showed up in the computer images, but not Ye. Ye Xiangting seemed to have "disappeared" from the photos. In the end, the staff had to give up. Ye Xiangting said that he has never encountered this kind of problem before. Normally, he could be photographed. The police station chief told the reporter they have encountered two similar cases. They are unclear about the cause and hope the experts can offer an explanation. I can think of one. Has he had a recent encounter with a neckbiter?Today's new adult galleries:
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Monday, January 9, 2006
"Roadmap to Peace" to be Discarded Soon, Religious Leader Arrested for Gay Sex Solicitation, War With Iran Inevitable, Partial List of Politicians for Sale, Today's New Adult Links
I have been asked on many occasions why I have dirty pictures and links to more of them on what is otherwise essentially a political blog. I wrote a long and incredibly pretentious answer to that question last night. I went to bed thinking about it, woke up thinking about it, and then I deleted it. The honest answer is that porn pays the bills. I make a little money every time one of my readers buys a membership to one of the websites I advertise. I don't have much interest in porn personally, and I hate writing advertising copy, so I write about events in the Middle East that seem to me to be leading up to a third World War, and politics in the U.S. that seem to me to be leading up to the development of a fascist theocracy here. Throw in a little porn for seasoning and that's my political soup. Ideologically, I'm a political independent concerned with the incessant assault against personal freedom in the U.S. by certain groups. I'm also concerned with an economy that seems headed for an inevitable crash due to debt, but I don't write about that much because I think the process has gone too far to be fixed anymore. We're in the stage of doing a lot of short-term fixes to keep it all going just a little longer. Anyway, I'm not expecting my blog to make the world better. Go look at some porn.The Palestinian elections January 25 should put an end to the futile "Roadmap for Peace" the world has belabored over for so long, once and for all. The Hamas terrorist organization is expected to win enough seats to effectively dominate the Palestinian government. Even the independents running for office are aligning themselves with Hamas for security and campaign funding. Hamas campaigners, confident of a strong showing in the Jan 25 elections for the Palestinian legislative council, announced in Gaza City Sunday, Jan. 8, that, if elected, they will put an end to any Palestinian talks with Israel. Negotiations with the Zionist entity will only take place through the barrel of a gun, said the man topping the Hamas list, Ismail Haniya. That will be a refreshing breath of fresh air after so long a stagnancy in the Roadmap for Peace process. Some honesty, at last.
Hamas leaders scoffed at European threats to cut off funds if the terrorist group enters Palestinian government. Sponsors of the terrorist organization already provide it with better funding than the government receives from Europe. After the elections, countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia will be able to provide them with funding openly (as foreign aid), rather than going through the secretive back channels they currently use. I don't know if anyone else has thought of this yet, but control of the Palestinian government should make Hamas the first openly terrorist organization with direct representation in the U.N. This is shaping up to be a very interesting year for Israel.
A Southern Baptist Convention leader was arrested Jan. 3 in Oklahoma City for offering to have sex with a male undercover police officer. Police arrested Lonnie Latham, pastor of South Tulsa Baptist Church in Tulsa, Okla., on a charge of offering to engage in a lewd act. He resigned from the Tulsa church Jan. 5. Latham is a member of the SBC Executive Committee and has supported SBC efforts to get gays to renounce their sexual attractions. A plainclothes officer investigating the complaints told police officials that, late on the evening of Jan. 3, Latham approached him at a nearby location and invited him back to another hotel -- located near the Oklahoma Baptist Building -- for oral sex. The pastor did not offer to exchange money for the act, according to police, and thus was arrested on the lewdness charge rather than solicitation. Police also impounded Latham's 2005 Mercedes.
The Southern Baptist Convention and its leaders have, in recent years, regularly spoken out in opposition to homosexuality as an orientation, as well as against legalizing same-sex marriage and other gay civil rights. Latham has publicly supported the SBC effort to convince gays to "accept Jesus Christ as their savior and reject their sinful, destructive lifestyle." Latham also has served as an officer of the conservative Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, which has repeatedly passed resolutions opposing homosexuality and gay rights. I guess Latham won't be invited to share his testimony in religious conventions much anymore.
It seems almost inevitable that America will go to war with Iran this year. Possibly with most of the Middle East. Many analysts believe that Iran will be able to start producing nuclear warheads for its missiles as early as March of this year. Iran seems to think so too. It has gone on a weaponry buying spree to prepare for the war it's doing its best to provoke. Russia announced a $1 billion arms agreement with Iran last month, and is in negotiations now to upgrade Iran's fleet of MIGs with state-of-the-art radar, electronic counter-measures, and reconnaissance systems. The Russians have also agreed to sell Iran S-300 anti-missile systems, believed to be the best on the market. Once Iran believes that it has the means to successfully defend itself against retaliation, President Ahmadinejad has said openly that it is the intention of his regime to "wipe the nation of Israel from the map" and to "destroy America." Iran's military forces have just completed a training seminar devoted to nuclear-biological-chemical warfare that included lectures on electromagnetic pulse weapons, graphite bombs and laser-guided bombs. The very same weapons that intelligence analysts believe Iran will attempt to use against us. Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, told Iranian TV on January 3 that Israel has “no strategic depth” and is “within our range.” As will be much of Europe when Iran's latest generation of missiles is tested. America is still out of Iran's missile range, but you can bet that's the first problem Iran intends to fix after it has a "nuclear deterrent" in place.
The threat of a nuclear attack by Iran seems realistic to me. Iran's president and other leaders are religious fanatics who believe that God wants them to do this, and will assure their victory. Diplomatic efforts to slow down Iran's nuclear weapons program have had no effect. Even the threat of possible U.N. sanctions against Iran is meaningless, because Iran knows that Russia and China would veto those sanctions. Iran intends to bring the "holy fire of God" down upon Israel and America, and it's not safe to assume that it will be deterred by the huge retaliation it would surely suffer. They have Faith. Reason is not held in high regard there, especially on issues where reason conflicts with faith. America basically has two options. It can allow Iran to develop its nuclear arsenal in the hope that Iran will use it early to wipe out the nation of Israel, providing us with the justification to attack Iran before Iran's missiles have the range to reach the U.S. Or America can attack Iran to prevent its regime from building nuclear weapons. The cost of such an attack to America will be huge. There is the very real possibility that all of the Middle East would respond at the least by boycotting America, refusing to sell oil to us. The governments of our best trading partners there are not likely to survive if they refuse to join such a boycott. At the very least, we'd be looking at a huge recession in our economy. The question of what to do seems to come down to "pay now, or pay later." America's history almost always supports the "pay later" choice. Iran is banking on that, that Americans do not have the will to do what's necessary until it's forced on them. I guess we'll see if it's going to be any different this year.
The Star Tribune has published a list of politicians who are suddenly donating to charity money they took from that legendary purchaser of politicians, Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty the other day and agreed to cooperate with investigators. It's quite a long list, and these only account for the cash
payoffspayouts. How do you give junkets and vacations and 5-star hotel accommodations back to charity? And the real question is: will this sudden outpouring of charitable generosity be enough to persuade the federal investigators to look the other way?A man ran a red light and hit a car containing four little old ladies. A witness was on his cell phone at the time and described what ensued to his friend, who was recording the call. This is worth listening to. Brings a new meaning to the phrase "Bible thumpers."
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Thursday, January 5, 2006
Tourism in Libya Not Ready For Primetime, Abramoff Admits Buying Politicians, Iran Makes Threats Against Europe and U.S., Palestine Invades Egypt, Today's New Adult Links
I went outside Tuesday for the first time in...three weeks, I guess. A dentist appointment provided the excuse. It felt weird to drive a car. The "get paid to surf" program paid me another $4300 Wednesday. I plan to shave my genitals tomorrow. I'm told that the gas the dentist uses has no lasting aftereffects.It's legal now for American tourists to go see Libya. Michael Totten did. If you're curious about what to expect, struggling with that difficult choice between Libya, or the Virgin Islands, be sure and read this article. And even if you're not, it's still pretty funny and sad.
Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff has plead guilty to charges relating to laundering bribe money used to buy politicians for his clients. Politicians are scrambling to make themselves smaller targets for the investigation. President Bush and House Speaker Dennis Hastert are among Republicans who are donating their share of the money to charities. Investigators are investigating payments from Abramoff to former House Republican leader Tom Delay, who is already under indictment in his home State of Texas on separate money laundering charges. Delay is taking the stance that he has done nothing illegal. "The corruption scheme with Mr. Abramoff is very extensive," Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher said. "Government officials and governmental action are not for sale." Well, maybe not NOW, anyways.
Iran is issuing new threats against Europe and the United States. Apparently referring to the threat of European sanctions over Iran's announced intention to continue its nuclear weapons program, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, said that "if we lose, the same will also happen to the other party (Europe) and they will have to prepare themselves to live in a hell. Larijani used even stronger words for the United States. "A small error on the part of USA or the Zionists will be enough to induce us to unleash hell," said Larijani. "They know this very well." The U.S. promptly responded to this threat by freezing the assets of two Iranian companies linked to the Islamic republic's nuclear drive. The Treasury Department said that the Novin Energy Co and Mesbah Energy Co are guilty of fostering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. That's called "calling your bluff." Unleash hell, Iran. Let's see what you've got.
Palestinian militants invaded Egypt Wednesday, after seizing control of the Rafah border crossing and taking over four government buildings. Two Egyptian troops were killed and 30 wounded by gunfire in the rampage. 3000 Egyptian troops responded to repel the invasion, but were forced to withdraw half a mile The Rafah crossing was handed to Palestinian control, under European supervision, as part of a U.S.-brokered deal with Israel last month. Later, the European supervision went by the wayside after Palestinian terrorists started kidnapping the European personnel. Since then, the border has been basically wide open to terrorists transporting guns and missiles into Gaza. The reason for Wednesday's rampage into Egypt was that officials of the Palestinian government had arrested a terrorist chief on suspicion for the kidnappings of some British citizens last week.
From the transcripts:
Q: Did he pick the dog up by the ears?
A: No.
Q: What was he doing with the dog's ears?
A: Picking them up in the air.
Q: Where was the dog at the time?
A: Attached to the ears.Today's new adult galleries:
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Sunday, January 1, 2006
New Year in My Office, U.K. Pays Ransom to Terrorists, Mexico's Really Angry With Us, Why Bush Decided to Bypass the Court System?, Is This "Black on Black" Discrimination Then?, Today's New Adult Links
A reader asked me what my plans were for New Year's Eve. I told her I'd probably be in the office, working. As I write this, the new year is less than two hours away. I'm in the office. Unless I have a doctor's appointment or something, I pretty much spend my life here. It used to be more fun, back when it was easy to make money with adult websites. Long hours meant more money, and I could take breaks to daydream about how to spend it all. That seems like a long time ago. Now I only break for meals and sleep, and the long hours are the product of fear that I won't be able to keep up on the bills if I slack off. Since it's New Year's, I'm reflecting on the quality of my life. It's not a pretty introspection. I simply don't know how to make my business prosper anymore. I do have one ray of hope for 2006, though, totally unrelated to my business. I just received another $4600 from that "get paid to surf" program I'm in. And I have another $4300 payment pending. If the program keeps running for even a few more months, I can get all my debts (aside from my mortgage) paid off. That would be a good thing.Great Britain has paid an unknown sum of money to a Palestinian terrorist organization holding three British hostages. Kate Burton, 25, a human rights worker at the Gaza-based al-Mizan organization, and her parents, were snatched at gunpoint in Rafah Wednesday by the Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades’ Black Panthers represented by their leader Nidal An-Najar. For London, paying out ransom to Palestinian terrorist kidnappers was a hard pill to swallow. This problem was overcome when the Palestinian Authority offered to front for the British and hand over the agreed sum. This made it possible to wind up the negotiations and obtain the Burtons’ freedom. So much for the official government policy of not paying ransoms because it only encourages more kidnappings of its citizens. And provides funding for terrorists... Going through a middleman may allow the government to decieve its citizens, but the terrorists know the truth.
Some of my neighbors lock their doors so I won't walk in without an invitation and look for money. Should I be offended by that? The Mexicans are really offended by that concept. Mexicans are almost universally offended by the U.S. Congress' proposal to build the new fence with security cameras on parts of the border. President Vicente Fox has called the proposal "shameful," opposition parties say it is racist, and most ordinary Mexicans interpret it as another insult to their country and to their relatives working in the United States. "I'm really pissed off," Elia Arredondo, a painter in Mexico City, said on Thursday. "I'm angry because I don't like people being treated like that." Treated like what? People who would cross the border without an invitation? Half a million of them do each year. "It is a way of demonstrating their rejection of us, the Mexicans," said Jonathan Torres, an emergency worker. I have to confess that I lock my doors, too, to keep people from coming in without permission. I never thought of that as demonstrating my rejection of people. Just seems like common sense.
We may now know why President Bush decided to bypass the court system and order warrantless spying on Americans. We'd only heard the statistics that, in 22 years, the FISA court had only disapproved two search warrant requests out of over 13,000. It was hard to understand why Bush would defy our laws and Constitutional rights and bypass a court that had proved so accommodating. It turns out that Bush DID try to go the legal route after 2001 and sought warrants from the court. The court rejected 179 of his requests for spying warrants because the Bush administration could not provide probable cause to justify them. Bush apparently decided to order the spying anyway, basically taking the position that his office is above the law.
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation was VERY critical of the Bush administration following Hurricane Katrina. Read on, this gets funny. "We have witnessed something shockingly awful and that is the lack of response, the quick response, from our government to those Americans who are suffering [and] who are dying," said U.S. Rep Jesse Jackson Jr., (D-Ill.) on Sept. 2, four days after Katrina made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast. U.S. Rep. Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), also present at the Congressional Black Caucus' Sept. 2 news conference, declared that she was "ashamed of America." "I'm ashamed of our government. We don't want another Iraq, where the money just goes off somewhere. This is real human need. And I'm outraged by the lack of response from our federal government," Kilpatrick said
The CBCF then launched its own relief fund on Sept. 21, with a stated goal of raising $1 million to help Gulf Coast residents rebuild their lives. As Cybercast News Service reported, the CBCF claimed immediate success, telling reporters on Sept. 21 that it had already received $700,000 in corporate pledges. Three months later, the Caucus has not yet given out one dollar in aid to any of the victims. And now it's saying that the balance in its fundraising coffer is less than $400,000. What did it do with the other $300,000 collected for hurricane victims? I guess all the Bush bashing they did, citing the urgency of needed aid for victims was just a fund raising ruse? They need to try to be more clever with their scams. If those who give money to charitable endeavors like this find out they've been tricked, you can't get more money out of them next time. Watch how the evangelical Christian organizations do it. Their flocks of rubes never get a clue.
From the transcripts:
Q: Mrs. Smith, you do believe that you are emotionally unstable?
A: I used to be.
Q: How many times have you committed suicide?
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Palestinian Terrorists Angry at Europeans, Next Up on Syria's Hit List is Lebanese Druze Leader, Judge Finds "Intelligent Design" Just a Ruse for Promoting Religion, America's Secret Police, Today's New Adult Links
Well, another sorry-assed Christmas is out of the way. I didn't have money to buy gifts, so I didn't go to the family get-together. I went last year without gifts and still remember too much guilt from receiving presents and not reciprocating. I still got a couple of presents. The slave bought me a new office chair. The arms had broken off my old one. And my daughter got me her usual yearly calendar. I'm not sure I've had sex this year, and it's almost over. I've been trying to work up the ambition.For the first time since Israel evacuated Gaza, some Palestinian terrorists have been turned back from the Rafah border crossing. Normally, terrorists get free passage through the crossing. I don't know why these were treated differently. Those turned back were three Palestinian terrorist chiefs: Jemal Abu Sema Dana, head of the PRC and king of Palestinian gunrunners, Ahmed al Jaabari, “chief of staff” of the Hamas armed Ezzeddin al Qassam Brigades, and Khaled al Dahdouh, commander of the Jihad Islami’s terrorist arm, al Quds Brigades, presented Palestinian passports stamped with Saudi visas to the border inspectors. All the authorities in charge of the Rafah crossing - Palestinian, Egyptian and European – agreed to turn them back. Counter-terror sources report that the trio was traveling to meet senior officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanese Hizballah, to receive last instructions for a major terrorist offensive against Israel. The plan is for the Hizballah to strike against northern Israel from Lebanon at the same time the Palestinians hit out from the West bank and Gaza Strip. The plan was agreed upon in Tehran by Iranian RG officials and two visiting Damascus-based Palestinian terrorist chiefs, Hamas politburo head Khaled Mashal and Jihad Islami leader Abdallah Ramadan Shalah. The pair has spent the last two weeks in Iran. Anyway, now the PRC is mad, and is reportedly planning some sort of revenge against the European border inspectors at the Rafah crossing.
Syria's next assassination target in Lebanon? The lastest edition of the television news program 60 Minutes had an odd segment devoted to the security precautions taken by two leading Lebanese politicians: the outspoken anti-Syrian Lebanese Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, and Saad Hariri, son of the murdered Lebanese former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. The show did not point any fingers at whom these people need to be protected from, so the show segment left viewers wondering what that was all about. It left me wondering. Are they sure that one of these men will be dead soon, and just want to have recent film footage of them while they are still alive? French intelligence has reported to the French government that Jumblatt has been marked as the next victim of assassination by Syrian intelligence. They are so sure of their information that Paris is preparing to send to Lebanon a special counter-terrorist unit of the French rapid deployment force to guard Jumblatt. Hariri is considered safe in the near term. Syria's assassination of his father early this year caused such an uproar in Lebanon that Syria was forced to withdraw it's military from Lebanon, which it had occupied for 15 years. Syria is facing possible U.N. sanctions for that assassination. Frankly, I'm surprised that Syria is plotting the deaths of more politicians in Lebanon. It makes you wonder if the rumors that Syrian president Assad is insane could be true, after paying such a high price for ordering the Rafiq Hariri killing. You can read more about these matters at Debka Net Weekly.
The anti-evolution theory of Intelligent Design has had its first test in court, after Pennsylvania school board members ordered that it be taught in biology class. A federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching "intelligent design" in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones delivered a stinging attack on the Dover Area School Board, saying its first-in-the-nation decision in October 2004 to insert intelligent design into the science curriculum violated the constitutional separation of church and state. Intelligent design holds that living organisms are so complex that they must have been created by some kind of higher force. Jones decried the "breathtaking inanity" of the Dover policy and accused several board members of lying to conceal their true motive, which he said was to promote religion. A six-week trial over the issue yielded "overwhelming evidence" establishing that intelligent design "is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory," said Jones. The judge said: "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board's real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom."
The school system said it will probably not appeal the ruling, because several members who backed intelligent design were thrown out by angry voters in November's elections and replaced with a new slate opposed to the policy. In his ruling, Jones said that while intelligent design, or ID, arguments "may be true, a proposition on which the court takes no position, ID is not science." Among other things, the judge said intelligent design "violates the centuries-old ground rules of science by invoking and permitting supernatural causation"; it relies on "flawed and illogical" arguments; and its attacks on evolution "have been refuted by the scientific community." The judge also said: "It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy."
Well, I'm sure you've heard by now that President Bush has committed more than 30 impeachable felonies in the past four years. A lot of people have been asking why he broke the law and bypassed the court system specifically set up to handle spying warrants. I'm going to explain that here. It's pretty unlikely that Bush will be impeached, since the Republican party controls both houses of Congress. The relevent law here is the Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA). It was enacted in 1978 after the public learned that the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations had huge domestic spying operations in place to spy on American citizens, to prevent that from ever happening again. The Act authorizes electronic surveillance without a court order to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year if the Attorney General certifies in writing under oath that (A) the electronic surveillance is solely directed at (i) the acquisition of the contents of communications transmitted by means of communications used exclusively between or among foreign powers; or (ii) the acquisition of technical intelligence, other than the spoken communications of individuals, from property or premises under the open and exclusive control of a foreign power; [and] (B) there is no substantial likelihood that the surveillance will acquire the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party." According to FISA's own records, it's received nearly 19,000 requests for wiretaps or search warrants since 1979; rejected just five of them. It also operates in secret so security shouldn't be a concern. And it can be applied retroactively. But do you see the problem here? FISA does NOT permit spying on Americans. That's why Bush bypassed the FISA court entirely.
President Bush's order allows warrantless searches of, among others, United States persons – exactly the situation the FISA law was enacted to prevent, and a situation that the PATRIOT Act did not change. Since the New York Times disclosed the domestic spying, the Bush administration has tried to offer several justifications. On "Meet the Press" Sunday, Rice claimed that the president had both constitutional power and legislative authority to issue the order, but when pressed by moderator Tim Russert twice to name the specific clause or statute which granted Bush such power, Rice had no specific answer. In a statement Monday, Attorney General Gonzales said that, "Our position is that the authorization to use military force which was passed by the Congress shortly after Sept. 11 constitutes that authority." Indeed, FISA provides that, "Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for a period not to exceed fifteen calendar days following a declaration of war by the Congress." One problem: Congress has never formally declared war – on Iraq, on terrorism, on drugs or on any other country or concept since FISA was enacted. And the President has not sought any warrants for domestic spying from the FISA court, knowing that it could not approve the warrants under the law.
The President's argument seems to be that there are implied powers of the commander in chief that enable this to be done. Basically, that his mandate to fight the war on terror gives him unlimited power, even to break this country's laws. We must simply trust him with this power, because neither Congress nor the Judicial branch of the government knows what he's doing with it. One of the FISA judges resigned in protest the other day, since the FISA law and the FISA court no longer have meaning. Most Americans don't realize how naked we are right now. They think the Constitution and our laws protect our civil liberties from the government. Not from this government. "Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order," Bush said during a speech on the Patriot Act in Buffalo, N.Y. "Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so." That was two years after he secretly authorized domestic spying without warrants. It's hard to keep trusting when you find out you're being lied to.
From the transcripts:
Q: Do you know how far pregnant you are right now?
A: I will be three months November 8th.
Q: Apparently then, the date of conception was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: What were you and your husband doing at that time?Today's new adult galleries:
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