Those who would set limits to free speech , invariably come up with the same hackneyed reference, i.e., "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater".

As others have pointed out, this is a fallacious statement. If there actually IS a fire, you would endanger lives NOT to advise others that a fire is raging. And, if a play is being shown, and hollering "FIRE" is part of the play, of COURSE you can yell fire in a crowded theater.

I've personally been in a crowded theater and seen a character in a movie yell "FIRE" and no one stopped the movie for the yelling of same.

So, when you hear an opponent of free speech making this ludicrous statement, just be aware of the limitations of their knowledge, and the overall incorrectness of what they say.

Several years ago, those words to a popular song, meant something to those of us who lived through the VietNam War. For all the lost lives, ruined countryside, broken promises,
and men, left forever altered for their experiences there..in the end, the North Vietnamese took the country over.

For all the British and German lives lost in the American Revolution, the Americans still won.

The point is, it is very hard to outlast the indigenous population when they don't want occupying forces there. They have the time. Eventually, Rome had to leave Great Britain, and Hadrian's Wall was all that was really there left to mark their passing.

We are now being told that the Iraq War is "winnable"...long after it was supposed to be over. Instead of throngs throwing down roses before our troops, women are throwing down children in front of Humvees, hoping to stop them for an ambush.

We are spending 5.8 BILLION, almost 6 BILLION there A MONTH....and for what? Does anyone seriously think that we are going to have a "democratic government"? Heck, our OWN government is not a democracy....ours is a "constitutional republic".

So, what is our exit strategy? Are we just hanging around until Bushy decides he wants to take his toys and go home? And, in the meantime, how many boys must be killed, how many must be paralyzed, how many must lose arms and legs?

Is this what a conservative "mandate" brings? Those of us in opposition, countered the chants of "Four More Years"... with
"Four More Wars"....how prophetic we turned out to be after all!

~Code

The dollar has dropped in value against the Euro again, for the seventh time in four years.

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"The U.S. dollar plunged to a new low against the euro Wednesday as markets shrugged off Washington's insistence that it is committed to a strong dollar. And with the causes of the drop -- worries over oil prices and the U.S. trade and budget deficits -- not going away, some economists see the euro soaring to $1.35 or beyond."

I believe this reinforces the message I have been repeating for over a year now...i.e., that this economy in the US, is in great trouble.

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The majority of Americans feel this creature is doing a good job?????

Now, I usually believe in the inherent good common sense of the American public and am GENERALLY of the opinion that the American public tends to be a reasonable bunch....however, this article just flat out proves me wrong....or at least, the extrapolated results of this poll would cause me to believe that it proves me wrong....

From the article :
"(CNN) -- Fifty-five percent of Americans like the way President Bush is handling his job, while the approval rating for his Iraq policies is slightly lower, according to the first full CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll following the November 2 presidential election.

Forty-two percent of those polled don't believe Bush is doing a good job. Sixty percent have a positive opinion of Bush, versus 39 percent with the opposite view."

WTF????????? Sixty percent have a "positive opinion of Bush"? Look, are you folks on CRACK or something harder?

How can 55 percent of the Americans actually say they like the way Bush is handling his job with a straight face? There is obviously something seriously wrong with 55 percent of the American public, if this poll is to be believed.

You folks obviously didn't wake up before the election, not DURING the election, and are obviously still hallucinating after the election.

The war is costing 5.8 BILLION A MONTH....Bush has asked for a budget of 388 BILLION. Now, if we round it off, that's around 6 BILLION a month, times 12 = 72 Billion a year that we will be spending on this war AT PRESENT LEVELS, which is almost 20 percent of the entire budget. It was noted that, as a result of this 388 BILLION BUDGET, lots of social programs would find their programs cut in funding levels.

Yeah, why the hell should we take care of our own people (as the mandate in the constitution is), when we can bomb the hell out of other people across the world.

Something is seriously wrong here folks...and it's a damn shame the majority is staying blind to that.

YOU VOTED FOR BUSH?

READ THE ARROGANT ASSHOLE'S OWN WORDS !

"Of course not," he said. "I'm the commander. See, I don't have to explain why I say things."

That's his way of reinforcing his message he was sending to you in this snap of a video from him.

BUSH IS WORKIN' HARD LOVIN' HIS NOMINEE

FOR SECRETARY OF EDUCATION, MARGARET SPELLINGS

BUSH CAUGHT IN LIE

Remember the Bush Bulge?

Before the election, this became quite the buzz, and even, prompted Charlie Gibson
during his October 26,2004, interview with Bush on Good Morning America, to ask
about it...

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we read...
" This morning, in part two of his interview with Bush on ABC's "Good Morning America," Charlie Gibson spit it out. Brandishing a copy of the photo, he asked: "Final question. What the hell was that on your back, in the first debate?"

Bush chuckled.

Bush: "Well, you know, Karen Hughes and Dan Bartlett have rigged up a sound system -- "

Gibson: "You're getting in trouble -- "

Bush: "I don't know what that is. I mean, it is, uh, it is, it's a -- I'm embarrassed to say it's a poorly tailored shirt."

Gibson: "It was the shirt?"

Bush: "Yeah, absolutely."

Gibson: "There was no sound system, there was no electrical signal? There was --"

Bush: "How does an electrical -- please explain to me how it works so maybe if I were ever to debate again I could figure it out. I guess the assumption was that if I was straying off course they would, kind of like a hunting dog, they would punch a buzzer and I would jerk back into place. I -- it's just absurd."

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OK...so Bush himself is saying the "bulge" was, to use HIS WORDS...a :" poorly tailored shirt".

Prior to this, the White House had vehemently denied Bush had anything on under his coat, and did not have a bullet-proof vest on.

WELL...WELL...WELL...

Check this out...apparently, the Secret Service are now making a bald faced LIAR out of Bushy....

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"

According to The Hill, the Secret Service is now admitting that the bulge was a result of a bullet-proof vest that is typically worn by the president at all public events.

It is unclear why the Bush team simply did not tell the truth to begin with as it is no large surprise that protective vests are typically worn by the president. Instead, the campaign looked to discredit those who mentioned the subject as conspiracy theorists."

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A lie here, and a lie there, and before you know it....BUSH IS A BONA FIDE LIAR !

DID KERRY REALLY WIN THE ELECTION?

Greg Palast says Kerry really won. In an article at

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php" title="http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php" target="_blank"http://www.tompaine.com/artic...

" Kerry won. Here are  the facts.

I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad.  But I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry.

Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. At 1:05 a.m. Wednesday morning, CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47 percent.  The exit polls were later combined with—and therefore contaminated by—the tabulated results, ultimately becoming a mirror of the apparent actual vote. [To read about the skewing of exit polls to conform to official results, click here .] Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49 percent. Unless a third gender voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.

So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters ask, "Who did you vote for?" Unfortunately, they don't ask the crucial, question, "Was your vote counted?" The voters don't know.

Here's why. Although the exit polls show that most voters in Ohio punched cards for Kerry-Edwards, thousands of these votes were simply not recorded. This was predictable and it was predicted. [See TomPaine.com, "An Election Spoiled Rotten,"  November 1.]

Once again, at the heart of the Ohio uncounted vote game are, I'm sorry to report, hanging chads and pregnant chads, plus some other ballot tricks old and new.

The election in Ohio was not decided by the voters but by something called "spoilage." Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of the vote is voided, just thrown away, not recorded. When the bobble-head boobs on the tube tell you Ohio or any state was won by 51 percent to 49 percent, don't you believe it ... it has never happened in the United States, because the total never reaches a neat 100 percent. The television totals simply subtract out the spoiled vote.

Whose Votes Are Discarded?

And not all votes spoil equally. Most of those votes, say every official report, come from African-American and minority precincts. (To learn more, click here.)

We saw this in Florida in 2000. Exit polls showed Gore with a plurality of at least 50,000, but it didn't match the official count. That's because the official, Secretary of State Katherine Harris, excluded 179,855 spoiled votes.  In Florida, as in Ohio, most of these votes lost were cast on punch cards where the hole wasn't punched through completely—leaving a 'hanging chad,'—or was punched extra times.  Whose cards were discarded? Expert statisticians investigating spoilage for the government calculated that 54 percent of the ballots thrown in the dumpster were cast by black folks. (To read the report from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, click here .)

And here's the key: Florida is terribly typical. The majority of ballots thrown out (there will be nearly 2 million tossed out from Tuesday's election) will have been cast by African American and other minority citizens.

So here we go again. Or, here we don't go again. Because unlike last time, Democrats aren't even asking Ohio to count these cards with the not-quite-punched holes (called "undervotes" in the voting biz). Nor are they demanding we look at the "overvotes" where voter intent may be discerned.

Ohio is one of the last states in America to still use the vote-spoiling punch-card machines. And the Secretary of State of Ohio, J. Kenneth Blackwell, wrote before the election, “the possibility of a close election with punch cards as the state’s primary voting device invites a Florida-like calamity.”

But this week, Blackwell, a rabidly partisan Republican, has warmed up to the result of sticking with machines that have a habit of eating Democratic votes. When asked if he feared being this year's Katherine Harris, Blackwell noted that Ms. Fix-it's efforts landed her a seat in Congress.

Exactly how many votes were lost to spoilage this time? Blackwell's office, notably, won't say, though the law requires it be reported. Hmm. But we know that last time, the total of Ohio votes discarded reached a democracy-damaging 1.96 percent. The machines produced their typical loss—that's 110,000 votes—overwhelmingly Democratic.

The Impact Of Challenges

First and foremost, Kerry was had by chads. But the Democrat wasn't punched out by punch cards alone. There were also the 'challenges.' That's a polite word for the Republican Party of Ohio's use of an old Ku Klux Klan technique: the attempt to block thousands of voters of color at the polls. In Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida, the GOP laid plans for poll workers to ambush citizens under arcane laws—almost never used—allowing party-designated poll watchers to finger individual voters and demand they be denied a ballot. The Ohio courts were horrified and federal law prohibits targeting of voters where race is a factor in the challenge. But our Supreme Court was prepared to let Republicans stand in the voting booth door.

In the end, the challenges were not overwhelming, but they were there. Many apparently resulted in voters getting these funky "provisional" ballots—a kind of voting placebo—which may or may not be counted. Blackwell estimates there were 175,000; Democrats say 250,000. Pick your number. But as challenges were aimed at minorities, no one doubts these are, again, overwhelmingly Democratic. Count them up, add in the spoiled punch cards (easy to tally with the human eye in a recount), and the totals begin to match the exit polls; and, golly, you've got yourself a new president. Remember, Bush won by 136,483 votes in Ohio.

Enchanted State's Enchanted Vote

Now, on to New Mexico, where a Kerry plurality—if all votes are counted—is more obvious still. Before the election, in TomPaine.com, I wrote, "John Kerry is down by several thousand votes in New Mexico, though not one ballot has yet been counted."

How did that happen? It's the spoilage, stupid; and the provisional ballots.

CNN said George Bush took New Mexico by 11,620 votes. Again, the network total added up to that miraculous, and non-existent, '100 percent' of ballots cast.

New Mexico reported in the last race a spoilage rate of 2.68 percent, votes lost almost entirely in Hispanic, Native American and poor precincts—Democratic turf. From Tuesday's vote, assuming the same ballot-loss rate, we can expect to see 18,000 ballots in the spoilage bin.

Spoilage has a very Democratic look in New Mexico. Hispanic voters in the Enchanted State, who voted more than two to one for Kerry, are five times as likely to have their vote spoil as a white voter. Counting these uncounted votes would easily overtake the Bush 'plurality.'

Already, the election-bending effects of spoilage are popping up in the election stats, exactly where we'd expect them: in heavily Hispanic areas controlled by Republican elections officials. Chaves County, in the "Little Texas" area of New Mexico, has a 44 percent Hispanic population, plus African Americans and Native Americans, yet George Bush "won" there 68 percent to 31 percent.

I spoke with Chaves' Republican county clerk before the election, and he told me that this huge spoilage rate among Hispanics simply indicated that such people simply can't make up their minds on the choice of candidate for president. Oddly, these brown people drive across the desert to register their indecision in a voting booth.

Now, let's add in the effect on the New Mexico tally of provisional ballots.

"They were handing them out like candy," Albuquerque journalist Renee Blake reported of provisional ballots. About 20,000 were given out. Who got them?

Santiago Juarez who ran the "Faithful Citizenship" program for the Catholic Archdiocese in New Mexico, told me that "his" voters, poor Hispanics, whom he identified as solid Kerry supporters, were handed the iffy provisional ballots. Hispanics were given provisional ballots, rather than the countable kind "almost religiously," he said, at polling stations when there was the least question about a voter's identification. Some voters, Santiago said, were simply turned away."

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What bothers me is that a group of interested parties, after the heat of the election of 2000 cooled, did a massive recount of all votes and concluded that Al Gore really won. Was anything done about THAT?
NO! Why the hell NOT? From what I can see, in BOTH elections, the modus operandi of the Bush cartel, is to get a perceived win, by any means necessary, and then to try to quash any real effort to find out who really won the election, primarily by making the Democrats afraid to look like sore losers if they demand further investigations.

It further underlines what I have said before. The Bush Reich, much like the Third Reich, is corrupt to the core. It is all about creating a perception that then becomes reality in the mind of the gullible.

As they say, don't look at the man behind the curtain, the Great and Powerful OZ...why? Because there IS no magic, just smoke and mirrors. Bush is the emperor with no clothes, and although there are plenty of us out here SAYING he has no clothes...unfortunately, the masses have put stoppers in their ears, wrapped themselves in their comforters, got a hot toddy in their hands, and have gone back to their Matrix like lives of delusion.

The movie, The Matrix is actually a great metaphor for real life in America. The people have become deluded that Bush is a "Christian man", that he protects them from the Boogeyman Bin Laden, and the "tare-ists", and if takes all your rights and all your money in the process, then, well, I guess it's all right, right? HELL NO IT'S NOT RIGHT!

As we see the rats leaving the ship in staggered droves, we can say a fond farewell to the snake handling, "Let the Eagle Soar" singing Ashcroft, and I suppose, before long, Donald "There are Known Unknowns" Rumsfeld, Don "the economy is great" Evans..and we will see others leave. They in turn, will be replaced by a new cast of villains. But, the new villains will not be as high profile or idiosyncratic as these were. No, the new folks will be more low key, more faceless, more subservient.

They will no doubt go through the same Stepford Wife Transformation Factory that robot Laura went through. They will be the kind of good automatons that the Second Infection / Bush Reich term two, demands.

So, Kerry won...Hooray! But, he ain't in the White House. Someone should look into this! :) 

Odd and scary things are happening. Since Bush has be re-elected, or should I say, allegedly elected, we've seen publishers of textbooks in Texas forced to change the content, such as removing references to contraception devices and to stressing abstinence. We've seen the textbook publishers be forced to change the definition of marriage to be specifically, a "man and a woman", not just two people who live in a committed relationship. We've seen a fighter plane strafe a school with live ammo in New Jersey, and we've started seeing administration personnel leave the White House. We've seen Ashcroft, as a parting shot, attack federal judges because they would DARE to question Bush, and his odd tactics.

We've seen serious questions arise about possible improper preferential treatment of Merck with regard to Vioxx, by the FDA, and most recently, the FDA dismissed a vocal critic, who happens to be an acknowledged critic of COX-2 inhibitor drugs, such as Bextra and Vioxx.

We know that Bush has refused to answer simple questions about the relationship between himself and Ken Lay of ENRON.

So, all this is developing as I write this. The question of course is this. What can we expect from four more years of the Bush Reich?

We will see more of the same. In the first four years, or as I like to call it, "The First Infection", RESIDENT George Bush (I shall from now on call him Resident, because he lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Drive, but, he is not my PRESIDENT, only a RESIDENT), we saw 9/11, we saw the passage of the Patriot Act, we saw the deficit climb to unprecedented highs, we saw unprecedented job losses, he started a war with a preemptive strike on a country that had not attacked us, we saw a convicted FELON, put in charge of a giant program to try to turn citizens into snitches to turn in their fellow citizens, and the establishement of a giant network to keep tabs on everyone (Total Information Awareness, Terror Information Awareness...then renamed...The Beast..
http://www.uncoveror.com/beast.htm" title="http://www.uncoveror.com/beast.htm" target="_blank"http://www.uncoveror.com/beas... ).

So, what can we expect from "The Second Infection"...i.e. the second term of RESIDENT George Bush?

We can expect certain agendas to be promoted. One, we will see an increase in this "faith based" crap. Faith based apparently , is this NewSpeak term for religious. By that, I mean that we can expect to see more money flowig to "faith based initiatives"...hey, the Religious Right played a big part in the "Election" in 2004 , of RESIDENT George Bush, so paybacks will be exptected.

We can expect our personal rights and liberties to be further attacked for the whole of the next four years.

We can also, reasonably expect more WAR. And, yes, during the next four years, I believe we will see the reinstatement of the military draft and involuntary conscription.

For BUSHY, (RESIDENT BUSH), citizens really are just those little green plastic toy soliders we used to play with as children.
People are functionaries to be expended in his "Christian Jihad" against the Moslem world.

Bush is fighting the fire of terrorism, with gasoline. He is making the world catch ablaze with his personal agenda to establish himself as a "war president".

We can expect to see more attacks on file trading, P2P networks. We can expect to see the DOJ become more and more involved in pursuing those alleged to be guilty of "piracy", which is NOT piracy, but merely alleged copyright infringement.

We can also look forward to more and more of the alienation of the United States from the rest of the world.

No country wants to just funnel their precious young people down the fiery chute that leads to an ignominous death in a dirt covered foreign country.

What can we do to oppose that. Well, I don't really know.

You can allegedly thank your neighbor for this. After all, if around one out of two voters voted for Resident Bush, and you didn't vote for him, your neighbor probably did.

~Code
 

I usually get up early and listen to C-Span's “Washington Journal” in the morning. I do so, because I get to hear people, regular people from around the country, call in and express their feelings.

This morning, I was particularly intrigued by a woman who called in with a distinctively Southern accent, who sounded like the product of an unholy union between retarded cousins. This inbred woman spoke like she just popped out of the movie DELIVERANCE ( you remember that epic with Ned Beatty, where they used the line “now squeal like a pig....Yeeeehaaaaw...oh yeah, Burt Reynolds starred in it too).

I could just envision her, in her tattered bathrobe, yellow stained fingers and teeth clenching a Marlboro, and plopped down in front of a small color television, with its rabbit ears mangled and twisted like coiled DNA...torn and worn King James Bible in hand, as she ranted and raved and did a bad job paraphrasing the Bible.

But, amidst her addled brain's rattling and vibrating, emitting noxious thoughts, and droning on in a West Virginian accent, it struck me that, in spite of the famous line uttered by Bush in the Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11 film, “Some call you the elite, I call you my BASE.”, these are the real base of Bush. These are the simpleminded fools who pushed him over the top, IF one believes the election was fair.

Now, I am Southern born and bred. Unlike Bush, I was born in Texas, and have attended Texas schools all my life...not that IVY league bullshit he cavorted around in during his years in college.

And, I blame Bush for the exploitation of the feeble minded. The Nascar dads, who fill their Sundays watching cars on steroids go round and round and round, wasting gas and emitting a deafening roar, the “security moms“ wheeling the poor unfortunates born to them, around in MiniVans, the older people on fixed income who are stirred up when the words “homosexual“ or “gay“ appear in concert with marriage, or the really mentally challenged people who think the ultimate power in the universe personally told them to oppose abortion and hassle young ladies who go to these clinics seeking a solution to an unplanned pregnancy.

Do you think Bush cares about the plight of these poor people in the South?
Not on your tin type. For every rich person making over 200 K a year, there were hundreds of the intellecutally challenged, poor Southerners who are “agin queers marrying“ and think that abortion is the same thing as killing babies.

So, Bush appeals not to Homo sapiens , “thinking man“, but to the lowest common denominator.

This is immediately clear if you think about the fact that even Bush supporters, have generally admitted that Kerry won ALL televised debates.

So, WHY do these toothless wonders support Bush? Simple, because he has skillfully painted himself as “one of them“. He makes flubs while speaking, makes up words, and has that incredibly annoying habit of doing this little laugh, when nothing is said that is funny. This is the same vocal masturbation that people used to see on the Andy Griffith show. Usually, one noticed it the most when the village goobers met at the barbershop of Floyd (who always struck me as a paedophile). They would mix that odd little laugh with “yeah, yep“ and this was their form of verbal retort when people would talk about good fishing or the weather changing.

And, these are the SAME families that will be losing loved ones in the wars around the world that Bush will start.

I really think he is something of a loon. He seems to see himself as a cross between Gomer Pyle and Julius Caesar. But, problem is, he is a petty little alcoholic town idiot. You can put the town drunk, like Otis, again from the Andy Griffith show, in a suit and put him in the Oval Office, and he will still flub his speaking, and make a horrible mess of things.

Thus...I submit to you...George Walker OTIS Bush.

~CodeWarriorz Thoughts

Yesterday, outside a restaurant I went to..there were newsstand/vending machines for two papers in Texas. One was a Dallas paper (Dallas Morning News) and the other was for a smaller city.

The HEADLINES of both were interesting. They were not about Fallujah, not about the Economy, not about Arafat...they were about Texas schoolbooks.

The Dallas Morning News article was proclaiming that the textbooks would now carry a strong message about the importance of abstinence from pre-marital sex. The other paper had a headline about major textbook publishers such as Holt Rhinehart Winston, agreeing, apparently under pressure now, to change their definition of marriage, to one which specifically states that marriage is relationship between a man and a woman.

From:
http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_ item&" title="http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_ item&" target="_blank"http://newstandardnews.net/co...;itemid=1203
Nov 7 - The Texas Board of Education has approved new health textbooks that specifically define marriage as between one man and one woman and focus on abstinence only sex education. The decision comes after the board pressured the publishers to change what one board member referred to as "asexual stealth phrases" in favor of more gender-specific language, reports the Associated Press.

At the Board’s request, publishers Glencoe/McGraw-Hill and Holt Rinehart & Winston, changed the phrases "married partners" to "husband and wife." According to the AP, Holt Rinehart & Winston included the definition of marriage as a "lifelong union between a husband and a wife," while Glencoe/McGraw-Hill changed "when two people marry" to "when a man and a woman marry" and "partners" to "husbands and wives."

The Board also chose textbooks that all but leave out contraception as an option for preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. According to Reuters, three out of four approved texts fail to mention contraception at all, while one only mentions condoms in passing.

The Board’s critics said that in addition to putting teens at risk, the decision may violate state regulations, which require sex education curriculum to include information about contraception. Board members countered that the books were satisfactory because information about contraceptives is included in teaching supplements or teachers’ editions."

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Look, we are headed for scary, scary times as a result of the Bush election (not re-election
because in  my opinion, he was SELECTED by the Supreme Court, not ELECTED).
Wrap the McCarthyism of the 50s, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Spanish Inquisition into
a nice slimy ball, and you have a small sampling of what we are in for during the next four years.

IS IT ALL ABOUT SEX ?

What won the election for Bush ?

Frank Rich of the New York Times speculated on CNN that the BUSH win
was all about Sex. He pointed out that Abortion is about sex, Gay Marriage is
about sex.... according to him, stem cell research is about sex as well.

While there may be some merit to this view, I have to go back to the idea that
America responded to the very simplistic approach of the Bush Reich.

For most people, something that is said simply, in small words,  by someone looking straight
into the camera, without laughing, can be a powerful message. Now, that is true of simple minded
folks whether they are educated or not.

In fact, simple minded people are easily led, and due to their simple minded adherence to the
fascists of  the world, simple minded people have enabled most of the horrible things that
governments have inflicted on the human race.

I first became aware of this problem with simple minded people during my first encounters with
lawyers. One common mantra of lawyers to clients is that they should use few words, adopt a
serious , yet friendly demeanor, and that the words should be simple, and "straightforward".

This is EXTREMELY problematic to me, to the point of being anathema.

Why do I say that? I say that because it encourages lying. This line of thought encourages,
nay, DEMANDS that people look at the world as if it is black and white....no shades of gray.

This approach rewards idiotic, easy liars, and punishes the thoughtful person trying to give the
most truthful answer.

For example. I ask you "Is a tree green?". Now, the way I would look at the question is this.
Firstly, what type of tree? To give a proper answer, one must know which tree is being referenced.
Number two, the question does not specify what time of the year is referenced. Different types of
trees change color at different times of the year. What PART of the tree is referenced? Is the questioner
talking about every part of a tree...because obviously , all parts of a living tree are not green. This brings
up another question...is the question referring to a living, real tree, or an artificial tree?

The next question is, is the question talking about just the perception of a person looking at a tree,
or the physics. For example, a green leaf or green blade of grass, is actually, NOT green, because it
is reflecting the green from the leaf, and therefore, it technically is all colors EXCEPT green.

But, the simple minded person would just say plainly, " YES, trees are green".

This is the difference between a liar like Geoge W. Bush, and a more thoughtful guy like Kerry.

For Bush, the power in words is not their truthfulness, but in their ability to be short, to the point,
and not leave room for interpretation.

It's looking straight into the camera and saying "You know where I stand." and this resonating
with the simpleminded. Yeah George, we know where you stand...you stand hip deep in a big,
steaming, stinking pile of BullShit.

The whole country seems immersed in mass hysteria...right wing cancer if you will.

Then, I remembered my hero...the little boy in the story who was the only one to have the courage enogh to proclaim...the Emperor has no clothes....

This emperor has NO SHAME...has no real MORALS....and has no right to be where he is.

I decided the proper course, is to redouble my efforts against this tyrant, to use my voice as a writer to hold their collective feet to the fire...and to show in no uncertain terms...the moral and intellectual bankrupt status of this "Pretender to the Throne".

I have decided that a healthy mixture of satire and truth telling is the best way to do that. If you check out my blog...you will note that the humor is caustic in its orientation.

Here's a ditty I came up with yesterday...
========================= =============
"well my name is Dubya and my Dad's an O.G.
I threw down my gang signs at the Iraqis...

I never done a driveby, but I soaked suds in the Guard....
And everyone knows, I say I'm workin' hard....
(then the scratch part happens)..
work...work...workin' hard....workin' hard...

Me and the Dems will be workin' hand in glove...
and I promised the OB-Gyns they could practice their love...
(scratch continues)...practice...practice.... practice their love..."
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It's dangerous, in a represssive regime, to speak out ....to speak truth to power. But, we must do what we can to gently nudge this country away from the brink of insanity and total totalitarianism.

I miss my country. I miss freedom. Yesterday, a group of
black, military looking helicopters, flying in formation, flew low over my office..so low you could almost feel the hair on your neck blown by the breeze from the rotors. The "thump, thump,thump" of their blades and the roar of their engines was a sound of something ominous.

My immediate thought was that, "Here we go....martial law".

Something bad is coming my droogs....and it isn't "doubleplus good"...As Alex would say..."It feels like a bit of the old ultraviolence."

We are headed for a dark time....the Neo Dark Ages, run by the Neo Cons...with Heinrich Himmler...aka :Turd Blossom, aka Karl Rove....overseeing...standing tall in silouhette, arm extended at a 45 degree....with the Fundamentalist version of Sieg Heil spurring on the truth believers.

I can see the grape stains of the KoolAid, circling the mouths of 51 percent of the population...almost obliterate by the foaming at the mouth, and the slowly building chants of ....W A R....W A R...W A R Guys in the military are telling me that something big is on the way...there are big buildups going on, and they don't know what is going to happen.....

Iran is the new Iraq...and we are in for war....neverending war. They elected someone who glories in calling himself a "war president".....

He is a theocratic pushing his own perverted Jihad..I've written at length about it and call it Bush's Jihad.....

The ASSES of EVIL have plans...dark plans for all of us....

Globalism will be more than a word...it will become the new modus operandi....

Copyright will be enforced at the point of a gun...they will cry we need to build more prisons....

Deserters from the military, thought criminals....those who stand up to the Fuhrer must be dealt with....

Dark times my droogies....dark times....
and little Alex...though courageous..is getting afraid.

Something Wicked this Way Comes...it's been creeping forward for four years...and is closer every day.

God / Yahweh....bless Amerika....
land of the enslaved...home of the fearful....

I thought I would touch on a topic I brought up some time ago. The old saying is that you don't discuss two things with friends...religion, and politics. Fairly recently, I understood, in a moment of epiphany, or more appropriately, a EUREKA moment, WHY the two are not discussed.

They are both , as Bushy would say, "FAITH BASED".

GOD SAID I COULD
I have long been interested in how, early on, one person was able to convince a group of people he lived with, to follow what he said, and make him their leader or king. History teaches us that, although the earliest of such leaders may have established dominance based on physical size and aggressiveness (in the US, presidents ON THE WHOLE..though exceptions exist), have been taller than the average citizen), early on in civilizations, political leaders were clever to convince people they had a "divine right" to rule.

The beginnings of monarchies around the world, from the China to Rome, ALL pretended that their leaders were divine in some fashion. We know that even into the 20th century, the Emperor of Japan was considered to have the touch of divinity.

And, when you think of it...this was a clever pretense. After all, a mortal man, just like you or I, bad temper, half stupid, with warts and all...what right would such a person have to tell me or you what to do? How would they have any right to tell me or you to give them tribute, to make us bow and scrape before them, or to send us marching off to war for their own petty reasons?

Cleverly, these historical figures, or ASSHOLES as I like to call them, recognized that in order to get people to do their bidding, they, like children pretending to carry out the will of the GREAT FATHER in the sky, would have to convince the masses that the great and powerful OZ, or Thor or whatever name they wanted to tack onto their god, "had their back", and that they spoke for him.

Thus, to go against the ruler, was to go against powerful unseen forces that had control over your life and the lives of your family.

OK...this is bullshit folks, plain and simple. I believe in a Supreme Being, and lemme tell you something. The God that made everything, is NOT so little or petty, that he would be backing these horrible, decadent tyrants throughout the decades.
Believe it or not, She, He, or It, has better things to do than that.

But, despite what I say, all the early kings, queens, monarchs, etc., have skillfully used this pretended connection with divine right to rule, to keep the people under control.

FEARMONGERING
Part and parcel of the religion of politics, is the use of fear to control people, and it dovetails perfectly with the above observation. "If you don't do what I as the ruler says, then God will get mad and punish you", and also, "If you don't have me as your leader, the enemies will get you."

Adolph Hitler used the fear more than pretending authorization from heaven. He painted the Jews and Gypsies as evil creatures that were ruining the country, and he also painted the other countries as trying to keep Germany down.

Using the "common enemy" theme, has been a central concept in the world of politics forever. You take people that normally would have little in common, and unite them by pointing to the boogeyman down the hall.

SKIP TO THE PRESENT
What we see in the politics of the United States currently, is the very same thing.
The dynamics and psychology of the present administration, under the clever puppet string manipulation of Karl Rove, et al, has been to make a clear weaving of "God is with me" and "Support me or the boogeyman down the hall will get ya" themes.

Bush has, in no uncertain terms, established in the minds of the ditto zombies, that God talks to him and is leading his actions. He also has very clearly, been using the "boogeyman" fearmongering model since 9/11.

In fact, his mantra has continued to be, when confronted with facts about the awful things he has done, is dropping back to "God and 9/11".

So...the picture painted is that if you oppose Bush...you are... a) against God
and ...b) For the Boogeyman.

Yeah, that is pretty simplistic. And, guess what, it IS that simple.

A SAD, SAD STORY
It is sad that "the man behind the curtain" has skillfully manipulated an evil version of the Wizard of Oz.

I feel sad that the American public appears to have allowed themselves to be so easily and transparently manipulated.

For those people who have lost their jobs, who have no health care, and lost family in Iraq, and who voted Bush....you're stupid. I'm sorry to be so blunt, and that is not rhetoric. Ignorance is not knowing something, but stupidity is having the information and not acting wisely based upon it.

A DARK FOUR YEARS ON THE HORIZON
This country had a chance to open the window blinds and let hope and light in.

They had a chance for change, to bring peace to our country and to try to rebuild our economy from its present shambles.

It appears they have chosen not to change for the better, but to stay on board the bus, with a madman at the wheel, in a headlong rush to the edge of the cliff.

They say you can fool some of the people, some of the time, and all of the people some of the time...but not all of the people, all of the time.

Apparently, you only have to fool most of the people, for four years.

"So it goes." -Kurt Vonnegut....

God help us...the Boogeyman was re-elected.

~CodeWarriorz Thoughts.

Well...four years ago, many Americans make a GIGANTIC mistake in voting for a retarded cowboy wannabe, born in Connecticut, a product of Ivy league education, and funded by Bin Laden oil money in his early career.

You can forgive America screwing up ONCE...but four years later, we HAD a chance to fix it.

If Americans vote Bush into the presidency AGAIN....

I will lose ALL hope for America.
~Code