Nixon's Empire Strikes Back
Nixon's Empire Strikes BackIf we just wait long enough, everything comes back around. It was this way with awful earthtones form the 60's and equally nutty clothing like bell bottoms. More sinister than any clothing fashion is the resurrection of men scandals when Nixon "fell." To succeed, they will shut down independent media, free thought, the watch dogs for us all. With the federal government working to cut the budget for public broadcasting, there will be less and less coverage from this "alternative" view. We will receive only the information the people in charge want us to receive. All those Nixonians should have been discredited. They, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and all Nixon's other go-to guys, are back in control. The elected people are not any better. Our senators are working to give up all oversight. The executive branch grows stronger. The freedoms guaranteed to us, what we hold most sacred, what we should hold most sacred, are being whittled away by such this as The Patriot Act. It is too much. We have puppets being appointed to the judiciary and just as frightening, our idiot-king just appointed two men to be ambassadors, to Great Britain and Italy. The qualifications of these men? Business men with no diplomatic backgrounds.. Oh, yes, I forgot to mention, they are rich and made large contributions. How nice.
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Sat 8/7/2004 12:37 PM
Leaks can be embarassing.
So, some poor senator takes it upon himself to leak information. He was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (what the heck do they do, anyway?).
The NSA (National Security Agency, the agency that tells the president what to worry about) had intercepted two messages in the days before the Sept. 11, 2001, disaster. These messages were in Arabic (duh) but were not translated until the day after the attack on our country. The messages said "the match is about to begin", and "tomorrow is zero hour."
Remember, folks, these messages only were specific about when. There is not mention of how, what or where. We didn't have any coded color chart to tell us how much danger we might be in back then.
Well, the poor senator is in hot water. The Senate Ethics Committee is looking into it because these messages that are intercepted are highly sensitive.
I think that in addition to being sensitive, and for all sorts of reasons they are, not the least of which is the fact that a message was intercepted, the senator has embarassed the Bush Administration. And they are pissed off. What was that senator thinking, anyway? Is it cool to have information no one else has, did it make him feel like a big shot, as if he was in charge of anything? Ah, who knows. It is slightly amusing to me because the senator is a Republican.
Yeah, I take a small perverse pleasure in this.
The news, by the way, came from an article from Associated Press reporter JEFFREY McMURRAY. I read it in my home down newspaper. I hope this link works if you are interested in seeing it for yourself.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/05/national1709EDT0701.DTL
Leaks can be embarassing.
So, some poor senator takes it upon himself to leak information. He was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (what the heck do they do, anyway?).
The NSA (National Security Agency, the agency that tells the president what to worry about) had intercepted two messages in the days before the Sept. 11, 2001, disaster. These messages were in Arabic (duh) but were not translated until the day after the attack on our country. The messages said "the match is about to begin", and "tomorrow is zero hour."
Remember, folks, these messages only were specific about when. There is not mention of how, what or where. We didn't have any coded color chart to tell us how much danger we might be in back then.
Well, the poor senator is in hot water. The Senate Ethics Committee is looking into it because these messages that are intercepted are highly sensitive.
I think that in addition to being sensitive, and for all sorts of reasons they are, not the least of which is the fact that a message was intercepted, the senator has embarassed the Bush Administration. And they are pissed off. What was that senator thinking, anyway? Is it cool to have information no one else has, did it make him feel like a big shot, as if he was in charge of anything? Ah, who knows. It is slightly amusing to me because the senator is a Republican.
Yeah, I take a small perverse pleasure in this.
The news, by the way, came from an article from Associated Press reporter JEFFREY McMURRAY. I read it in my home down newspaper. I hope this link works if you are interested in seeing it for yourself.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/05/national1709EDT0701.DTL
Thu 12/9/2004 9:44 AM
Look out, a distorted history is beginning to repeat.
Awesome! Just listened, and made notes, from KQED’s Forum program on the Intelligence Overhaul. Yeah, I don’t believe making bureaucracy bigger will help. We are no safer under the eye of government, of “big brother.” Actually, we are more in danger, individually in danger for our opinions, our dissident thoughts. Woe to the person who disagrees. But that is another issue. The radio program wasn’t about that.
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R412080900 check it out. Especially the last minutes of the program. Where a caller brings up the money issue and the idea that Americans are hated. In a nutshell, it ain’t about us. How convenient if it were. Just like any dysfunctional person (hey, I should know, this is my personal cross to bear), if it were about ‘us’ we could change, we could control it. See – control. Yeah, I’m a freak of the control kind, but that is beside the point. The point is, and yes I have one, Al Queda, this recent attack on our American way of life, isn’t because Americans are asses – we are, admit it. It isn’t because we are arrogant – we are. It is a religious insurgency. Al Queda has a hope for a future way of life, a world order, based in a sect of the Muslim religion. Do I need to remind everyone how oppressive and repressive that will be?
I had always held that we should all live together, live and let live, you believe what you want, I will believe what I want – we all have our truths. Just stay out of and away from my body. Give me liberty to pursue my path. Well, this won’t be the way it is in a world where we live by an interpretation of an ancient religious book by a repressive sect of leaders. What do we do about that?
Look out, a distorted history is beginning to repeat.
Awesome! Just listened, and made notes, from KQED’s Forum program on the Intelligence Overhaul. Yeah, I don’t believe making bureaucracy bigger will help. We are no safer under the eye of government, of “big brother.” Actually, we are more in danger, individually in danger for our opinions, our dissident thoughts. Woe to the person who disagrees. But that is another issue. The radio program wasn’t about that.
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R412080900 check it out. Especially the last minutes of the program. Where a caller brings up the money issue and the idea that Americans are hated. In a nutshell, it ain’t about us. How convenient if it were. Just like any dysfunctional person (hey, I should know, this is my personal cross to bear), if it were about ‘us’ we could change, we could control it. See – control. Yeah, I’m a freak of the control kind, but that is beside the point. The point is, and yes I have one, Al Queda, this recent attack on our American way of life, isn’t because Americans are asses – we are, admit it. It isn’t because we are arrogant – we are. It is a religious insurgency. Al Queda has a hope for a future way of life, a world order, based in a sect of the Muslim religion. Do I need to remind everyone how oppressive and repressive that will be?
I had always held that we should all live together, live and let live, you believe what you want, I will believe what I want – we all have our truths. Just stay out of and away from my body. Give me liberty to pursue my path. Well, this won’t be the way it is in a world where we live by an interpretation of an ancient religious book by a repressive sect of leaders. What do we do about that?
Sat 3/26/2005 8:03 AM
The more Morford and Moyers I read...the more frightened I become
Is this the crazy talk of conspiracy theorists? Or conspiracy terrorists? See the out-there rant of Mark Morford to see what I mean. I figure the thoughts behind the speculation that the GOP of United States is pursuing a scorched earth policy is not, cannot be, true, but don't it make you think? Is it possible?
What if "they" don't even know it? Pawns, perhaps? But wouldn't that make the god they believe in a terrible, manipulative, hateful god? Is that the god I want - or you want? Do we have a choice? Haven't you noticed how godless we have become? How evil, truly, are our leaders? Bill Moyers says it best, Welcome to Doomsday. I'm scared. We all should be. How far will the "fundamentalists," the literalists, take us back? Don't they realize this is the same desire of the other religions who want to return to the "basics?" Women, the slaves of men, any freedom of thought fatally suppressed. I won't go there. But there is here and here is spreading.
The more Morford and Moyers I read...the more frightened I become
Is this the crazy talk of conspiracy theorists? Or conspiracy terrorists? See the out-there rant of Mark Morford to see what I mean. I figure the thoughts behind the speculation that the GOP of United States is pursuing a scorched earth policy is not, cannot be, true, but don't it make you think? Is it possible?
What if "they" don't even know it? Pawns, perhaps? But wouldn't that make the god they believe in a terrible, manipulative, hateful god? Is that the god I want - or you want? Do we have a choice? Haven't you noticed how godless we have become? How evil, truly, are our leaders? Bill Moyers says it best, Welcome to Doomsday. I'm scared. We all should be. How far will the "fundamentalists," the literalists, take us back? Don't they realize this is the same desire of the other religions who want to return to the "basics?" Women, the slaves of men, any freedom of thought fatally suppressed. I won't go there. But there is here and here is spreading.
Friday, October 15, 2004
It goes on and on
Well, the world keeps turning. That phrase belies the fact that most of us relate to it as if it wasn't round. Think of it, what are some of the common phrases? Waiting for what lies "around the corner." or let's see what is "around the bend." We think of the world, our existence, as a continuum. It isn't, no matter what we think. There is no "road" we are on, that begins there and ends somewhere over the horizon. Do you hear me? Know what I mean? Can you see it? How hard is it, though, to put ourselves someplace other than having a beginning and an end?
Don't we speak of our adventures as having a start and and end place? I think that my life is many adventures, many of these playing out at the same time. Short adventures entwined with a longer adventure that is within an even longer adventure. For instance, the short adventures of my day to day work is within my career, and within that has been shorter adventures. The day to day, the adventure of working a certain position for the past 8 years which is within the entire time line of my overall work adventure. How strange to think of work as an adventure. Maybe that tells you something of how I think of my work - that I have enjoyed it, for the most part. I am glad to have been doing it as opposed to tracking and shipping large underground storage tanks (previous job) or purchasing steel from Germany and Japan (previous job). For a long time, I worked to live, for a longer time, I lived to work because I liked it immensely. Now, I just want to get through it, move on to a new position to jump start my passion - and enjoy working to live.
Ultimately, I look forward to ending my working adventure and continue with my life's adventure, of course with smaller adventures interjected. Like travel. Perhaps even a new passion to follow, make some money at it, write about it - or write. Can I become a journalist this late in life? Hm....
It goes on and on
Well, the world keeps turning. That phrase belies the fact that most of us relate to it as if it wasn't round. Think of it, what are some of the common phrases? Waiting for what lies "around the corner." or let's see what is "around the bend." We think of the world, our existence, as a continuum. It isn't, no matter what we think. There is no "road" we are on, that begins there and ends somewhere over the horizon. Do you hear me? Know what I mean? Can you see it? How hard is it, though, to put ourselves someplace other than having a beginning and an end?
Don't we speak of our adventures as having a start and and end place? I think that my life is many adventures, many of these playing out at the same time. Short adventures entwined with a longer adventure that is within an even longer adventure. For instance, the short adventures of my day to day work is within my career, and within that has been shorter adventures. The day to day, the adventure of working a certain position for the past 8 years which is within the entire time line of my overall work adventure. How strange to think of work as an adventure. Maybe that tells you something of how I think of my work - that I have enjoyed it, for the most part. I am glad to have been doing it as opposed to tracking and shipping large underground storage tanks (previous job) or purchasing steel from Germany and Japan (previous job). For a long time, I worked to live, for a longer time, I lived to work because I liked it immensely. Now, I just want to get through it, move on to a new position to jump start my passion - and enjoy working to live.
Ultimately, I look forward to ending my working adventure and continue with my life's adventure, of course with smaller adventures interjected. Like travel. Perhaps even a new passion to follow, make some money at it, write about it - or write. Can I become a journalist this late in life? Hm....
SF Gate: Multimedia (image)
Now this burns me up. My CA governor, Arnold, holding a poster of himself with the title "Real Action Heros." The soldiers in the photo are heros. So are a number of citizens who haven't had jobs portraying "heros" in the fairytown land of Hollywood. I am afraid the governor actually thinks he is a hero, has convinced himself that any of the roles he acted in, were heroic. I do not remember him ever acting as a hero in a "true life story" that Hollywood loves to do. Perhaps we can all hope he acts like a hero, and starts making decisions that are for the everyday actual heros living in California. I'd take acting like a hero from the governor over thinking himself one.
Now this burns me up. My CA governor, Arnold, holding a poster of himself with the title "Real Action Heros." The soldiers in the photo are heros. So are a number of citizens who haven't had jobs portraying "heros" in the fairytown land of Hollywood. I am afraid the governor actually thinks he is a hero, has convinced himself that any of the roles he acted in, were heroic. I do not remember him ever acting as a hero in a "true life story" that Hollywood loves to do. Perhaps we can all hope he acts like a hero, and starts making decisions that are for the everyday actual heros living in California. I'd take acting like a hero from the governor over thinking himself one.
Sunday, June 05, 2005
The 'I' Word
Impeach the SOB's
That is not a bad idea. Between the statements made by President Bush in May, about getting out and telling the same thing over and over again so it becomes "real" - just like the old adage if you tell yourself the same lie over and over, it becomes truth, the executive administration of the US kept telling itself, and the world, that Iraq was a threat RIGHT NOW and that we HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. It became such a true thing that we shipped off troops to another sovereign nation, to take it over, for nothing. It is shameful and President Bush has shamed us all, every one of us, and he did it telling lies when he knew it wasn't the truth.
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
Does this mean that he can make up his own truth? "That can't be right, find something that will make my view, my perception, the truth." Please tell me that cannot be the way it is.
Impeach the SOB's
That is not a bad idea. Between the statements made by President Bush in May, about getting out and telling the same thing over and over again so it becomes "real" - just like the old adage if you tell yourself the same lie over and over, it becomes truth, the executive administration of the US kept telling itself, and the world, that Iraq was a threat RIGHT NOW and that we HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. It became such a true thing that we shipped off troops to another sovereign nation, to take it over, for nothing. It is shameful and President Bush has shamed us all, every one of us, and he did it telling lies when he knew it wasn't the truth.
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
Does this mean that he can make up his own truth? "That can't be right, find something that will make my view, my perception, the truth." Please tell me that cannot be the way it is.
A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio
Balanced? As in Fox networks "fair and balanced?" Oh Puleeze. Presenting different views is not presenting truth. In-depth analysis and truth / fact finding is the number one reason I pay attention to NPR, and the mail reason I do not listen to trash radio, which includes Howard Stern as much as it does Rush Limbaugh.The censorship continues to build.
This is almost as scary as the beliefs of many members of the religious right that they have the right, nay, the duty to burn up the earth because it will hasten armeggedon and the end of days.
Balanced? As in Fox networks "fair and balanced?" Oh Puleeze. Presenting different views is not presenting truth. In-depth analysis and truth / fact finding is the number one reason I pay attention to NPR, and the mail reason I do not listen to trash radio, which includes Howard Stern as much as it does Rush Limbaugh.The censorship continues to build.
This is almost as scary as the beliefs of many members of the religious right that they have the right, nay, the duty to burn up the earth because it will hasten armeggedon and the end of days.
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