Spartacus Jones

Walkin' the Talk

2012-02-02T14:41:00.000-08:00

I find the opinions expressed by Congressman Ron Paul in this video to be impossible to disagree with.

But love him or hate him, one thing for certain: Congressman Paul doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk.
His voting record is completely consistent with everything he says.

Not like the typical politician who says one thing to get elected, and then does just the opposite once he's in office.
You know. Like Obama, for instance.

Right now, Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate for ending the various wars we're illegally engaged in, for restoring civil liberties and following the Constitution.

That's enough to get my vote.

How about you?

Got a better candidate?
Let's hear it.

sj

Fight.

2012-01-30T17:25:00.000-08:00

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
--US. Const. Art. VI

Let's just understand one simple thing: NO ONE has the lawful authority to pass any law, rule or regulation that contravenes or contradicts the Constitution of the United States.
The Constitution is THE SUPREME LAW and over-rules or supercedes any other law.
Period.

The NDAA does NOT nullify the Bill of Rights.
Quite the contrary, the Constitution renders the NDAA null and void from its inception.
Likewise the "Patriot Act" and a host of other disgraceful pieces of "legislation."
Congress doesn't have the authority to over-rules the Constitution.
These acts may have the color of law, but they are not, in fact, legally binding on anyone.

There is a difference between having the lawful authority to do something, and simply having the power to do something by force.

A mugger has the power by the threat of force to make you give up your wallet. That doesn't mean he has the lawful authority to take it.

A rapist may exert power over you by the threat of force and make you surrender your body. That doesn't give him the lawful authority to do it.

A murderer may have the power to kill you, but that doesn't give him the lawful authority to do so.

You have the natural and legal right to protect yourself, to resist unlawful actions even if you have to use lethal force to do it.
The law doesn't require you to meekly render your money, your body or your life to any thug who demands it.

Why should you"non-violently" (that is to say "passively") cooperate with any criminal who assaults you when you have the means to resist?

It's a simple equation:
Cooperate with a mugger, and you get mugged.
Cooperate with a rapist and you get raped.
Cooperate with a murderer and you get murdered.
Cooperate with an oppressor.....

Do the math.

sj

Wash-tey.

2012-01-30T17:20:00.000-08:00

For Those Who Have Forgotten

2012-01-28T19:02:00.000-08:00

This is what freedom feels like.

sj

What if....?

2012-01-28T13:54:00.000-08:00

A Myth is as Good as a Mile

2012-01-19T18:13:00.000-08:00

To say that I own a lot of books is like saying there’s a lot of sand in the Sahara.

Most of my furniture is books. The good furniture, anyway.

On my shelves reside old friends: Captain Blood, Scaramouche, Ivanhoe, Crazy Horse – books I first read as a child. Other, for me, keystone works such as The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (Eric Fromm), Without Conscience (Robert Hare) and Lame Deer: A Seeker of Visions (Doug Boyd).

Every once in a long,while, I come across a book that I find so compelling that I all but literally can’t put it down, and afterward feel a moral imperative to share it with others.

The Vegetarian Myth, by Lierre Keith, is such a book.

For anyone interested in social justice, the environment or their own health, Ms. Keith’s book is a must-read. As a one-time vegetarian, myself, I found her reflections particularly poignant.

This is an informationally dense book, extensively referenced, and the case against vegetarianism that Ms. Keith presents is as rational and logical a presentation as you will find on any subject. Not only does she refute the false moral, political and nutritional premises that are the well-meaning foundation of vegetarianism, but she does so with tremendous compassion. She understands tem from her own experience, from her own heart.

She also connects some very disturbing dots. Why, for example, are the same handful of corporations who are the biggest war profiteers, also the corporations profiteering from manipulation of your food supply?

But more, Ms. Keith’s voice is both unique and eloquent. Her gallows-humor asides are filled with heart-rending irony. And she pulls no punches just to be “polite.” She is honest and direct, saying what she means and meaning just what she says – something as rare as hens teeth.

If you eat, or love anyone who eats, or if you live on this earth or love anyone who does, you owe it to yourself to read The Vegetarian Myth.

For More:

http://lierrekeith.com

Stand Up for Liberty

2012-01-17T09:38:00.000-08:00

I know our schools aren’t what they could be, but god’s teeth, can’t anybody freaking READ anymore. The Enemy Expatriation Act, proposes to strip “citizenship rights” from suspected terrorists and those who fart during the playing of the national anthem, thus making it okey-dokey to deprive such villains of due process – charges, trial by jury, defense counsel, etc, etc.

The thing of it is, that’s a complete legal fiction.

Or, as my dad would say, it’s pure bullshit.

Civil liberties are NOT the exclusive birthright of citizens.

For those of you who haven’t read the Constitution lately – or, if you’re a member of Congress, ever – here’s a convenient copy of the Bill of Rights.

I’ve added some emphasis to elucidate the point.

Nota bene that in the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution) the word “citizen” does not appear. Enumerated rights belong to “the people” or to a “person,” but nowhere does it suggest these rights belong to citizens and citizens alone.

It’s not as if the framers used the word “person” when they meant “citizen.”

Article II Sect 1 says: No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

When they meant “citizen,” they said “citizen.”

The 11^th Amendment uses the term “citizen”

So does the 14^th Amendment, which defines who is a “citizen.” It also confirms that civil liberties belong to all “persons,” not just to “citizens.”

You have to get to the 15^th Amendment before you come to any “right” that is reserved to “citizens” alone: the right to vote.

So here’s the scam: divide and conquer.

First convince you that only “citizens” have Constitutional rights. Then, take away your citizenship and --presto! – there go your “rights.”

The thing is, THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT GRANTS TO CONGRESS OR TO ANYONE ELSE THE POWER TO STRIP YOU OF YOUR CITIZENSHIP.

And even if it did, the only right reserved to citizens is the right to vote.

All other rights belong to every “person” living in the United States, whether citizen or not.

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” -Thucydides

The BILL OF RIGHTS and Other Delights

1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

2. A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

3. No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

5. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.

6. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

7. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

8. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

9. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

11. The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.

14. Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

15. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

The "Good Guys" Don't Torture Anyone

2012-01-15T15:02:00.000-08:00

Not anyone.
And they don't kidnap people, "detain" them indefinitely without charges or trial.
And they don't.....
The list is too long.
No point anymore in pretending that we're the "good guys."

sj

Read it and Weep --- or Fight.

2012-01-15T08:45:00.000-08:00

10 Reasons the US is No Longer the Land of the Free

Jonathan Turley

Published on Saturday, January 14, 2012 by the Washington Post

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/14-6

Welcome to "Homeland" USA

2012-01-14T14:55:00.000-08:00

The first time I heard Dubya use the term "homeland," a I got queasy feeling in my stomach.
I grew up calling it "national security."
That's fair: The United States is Americans' nation.
But it's not Americans' "homeland."
Americans don't have a "homeland."
That is, they have many different "homelands," not one common one.

So this change from "nation" to "homeland" just made my skin crawl with a foreboding deja vu.
It was such a "nazi" figure of speech.
And the Bush family is not without connections to the nazis.

And now there's Obama.

I didn't even think it was possible for someone to be worse than Bush.
But Obama has proved me wrong.
He has taken Bush's fledgling fascist policies and enhanced them to truly Hitlerian proportions.
And I am not engaging in hyperbole.

Consider:

1. The President alone now decides whether you will be imprisoned, tortured or killed.

2. You have no right of habeus corpus. In fact, you have no rights at all.
You will not be arraigned before a judge, you will not have access to a lawyer, you will not have a speedy trial by a jury of your peers. You will simply disappear.

3. The President alone decides when, where and how to use the military. He claims the authority to attack anyone, anywhere, for any reason -- "pre-emptively."

4. The military and the police are completely indistinguishable. "Homeland" Security & the CIA -- the new Gestapo -- coordinate nationwide "policing" efforts against dissidents. Law enforcement officers will be above the law, respond to the slightest infraction with lethal force and will do so with complete impunity.

5. You must now allow yourself to be searched on demand by any "law enforcement officer" of any kind, on demand. You can't get on a plane, and soon, not a train or a bus -- without submitting to a search. Your phone and email conversations will be monitored. Everything you buy, or read will be recorded. Everyplace you go will be under surveillance. You have no right to privacy.

That's not "the land of the free."
That's Nazi Germany.

sj

Beauty is in the software of the beholder....

2012-01-13T08:49:00.000-08:00

I once blind-dated a Playboy Bunny.
Turned out she had the IQ of an actual bunny.

In my experience, "beautiful" women (and men) quite often seem to believe that their physical appearance entitles them to things they haven't earned and don't deserve -- things that less "beautiful" people have to work like hell for.
Being "cute" is their great contribution to humanity.

As you may surmise, that leaves me cold, to say the least.

The things I find "attractive" generally can't be seen on the outside.
Strength -- physical and moral.
Intelligence.
Integrity.
Those are things I find really "sexy."

But, hey, that's just me.

sj

Point of No Return

2012-01-10T12:09:00.000-08:00

Lotsa Luck

2012-01-10T10:12:00.000-08:00

Let’s suppose just for the moment that there really are ~~bogeymen witches anarchists communists~~ terrorists out to get us.

Of course that's bullshit.

But let's just suppose.

And let’s suppose just for the moment that it’s ok to have the Army come in, kick down their doors and grab them in the middle of the night, and whisk them away to some secret dungeon where they can be held forever, tortured until they confess to something, or just killed.

You know, just like the Nazis do in those old WWII movies?

Here's my question: What happens if they grab the wrong guy?

What if there are TWO guys named Joe Smith?

And what if they live in the same town?

And what if they are both about average height and weight, both married with two kids (a son and a daughter) and both drive a black Subaru.

But let's say Joe Smith the Terrorist has blue eyes and blonde hair, while Joe Smith the NON-terrorist has brown hair and brown eyes.

Don’t you think that Joe Smith the non-terrorist should have a right to go before a judge and show that he’s not the guy they’re looking for?

Shouldn’t the authorities have to prove they’ve got the right guy?

I mean, even if you don’t think an alleged “terrorist” deserves due process, what about the poor, completely innocent sap who gets picked up by mistake?

Are you going to argue that we should just "detain" (Newspeak for "kidnap and falsely imprison") everybody named Joe Smith, just to be on the "safe" side?

Or are you going to argue that the government – in this case, the military -- never makes a mistake?

Let me remind you that FUBAR, SNAFU, Charlie Foxtrot, and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot are all terms that originated in the military. If you need further confirmation, talk to some veterans. You’ll discover that “military precision” is another oxymoron (from the Latin, meaning, “ a moron dumber than an ox”).

The NDAA doesn't just include the most vile and repugnant prima facie violation of the US Constitution since the Fugitive Slave Act.

It includes bits that, back home in Chicago, we would call "just plain fucking stupid."

What are you going to do about it?

Now the "terrorist" is YOU

2012-01-09T14:52:00.000-08:00

Dig THIS...

2012-01-07T19:11:00.000-08:00

Very cool, man.

sj

A Hero's Tail

2012-01-05T06:55:00.000-08:00

Note well that on those 50 trips carrying ammunition up the line and wounded Marines back down, she did this all on her own, without being led or "herded."

Some people just won't believe this.
They don't know much about courage.
They don't know much about loyalty.
In short, they don't know much about horses.

sj

Thanks to my friend, Dr. Sue, for sending this to me.

Truth.

2012-01-02T17:52:00.001-08:00

Word.

2012-01-02T17:41:00.000-08:00

The ONLY candidate speaking out against endless, pre-emptive war unconstitutionally fought at executive whim is Ron Paul.
He's out to end the Fed, dismantle the TSA, scrap the income tax, end the rapidly expanding fascist police state, and stop the phoney "war on terror."
That's right at the top of my list of things to do if I were president, myself.
I don't agree with all his ideas and I might fight him on a couple of things.
But ss far as I can tell, he's not the "best" candidate to vote for; he's the ONLY candidate to vote for.

I hope he stays out of small aircraft.

sj

Music, Music, Music....

2012-01-02T11:12:00.000-08:00

Just finished a handful of new songs recently:

Color Blind - a dark tango, ode to a lady psychopath I once knew
There'd Be Some Changes Made - 1950's style Rockabilly protest song (check out the piano solo!)
Spanish Wine - dreamy, easy-listening "chanson de geste" with a touch of calypso
You Out-Played Me - uptempo jazz
On Wall Street - A political parody of the 60's Drifters classic "On Broadway"

You can listen to these tunes on reverbnation.com and also on facebook (look for the Spartacus Jones band page). Also on jango airplay if you're a subscriber. If you dig any of them, they're all available on CDbaby for a buck apiece.

I'm working on putting them up her on ye olde blogge,too, but apparently, anything after the longbow is too high-tech for me. Working on it.....

Meanwhile, if you're willing to do the internet gymnastics to give a listen, I'd be very grateful for any comments -- especially if you like them. :)

Thanks.

sj

If You Didn't Like Bush, then how in Hell.....?

2011-12-31T13:40:00.001-08:00

"The candidate supported by progressives — President Obama — himself holds heinous views on a slew of critical issues and himself has done heinous things with the power he has been vested. He has slaughtered civilians — Muslim children by the dozens — not once or twice, but continuously in numerous nations with drones, cluster bombs and other forms of attack. He has sought to overturn a global ban on cluster bombs. He has institutionalized the power of Presidents — in secret and with no checks — to target American citizens for assassination-by-CIA, far from any battlefield. He has waged an unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the protection of which was once a liberal shibboleth. He rendered permanently irrelevant the War Powers Resolution, a crown jewel in the list of post-Vietnam liberal accomplishments, and thus enshrined the power of Presidents to wage war even in the face of a Congressional vote against it. His obsession with secrecy is so extreme that it has become darkly laughable in its manifestations, and he even worked to amend the Freedom of Information Act (another crown jewel of liberal legislative successes) when compliance became inconvenient.
"He has entrenched for a generation the once-reviled, once-radical Bush/Cheney Terrorism powers of indefinite detention, military commissions, and the state secret privilege as a weapon to immunize political leaders from the rule of law. He has shielded Bush era criminals from every last form of accountability. He has vigorously prosecuted the cruel and supremely racist War on Drugs, including those parts he vowed during the campaign to relinquish — a war which devastates minority communities and encages and converts into felons huge numbers of minority youth for no good reason. He has empowered thieving bankers through the Wall Street bailout, Fed secrecy, efforts to shield mortgage defrauders from prosecution, and the appointment of an endless roster of former Goldman, Sachs executives and lobbyists. He’s brought the nation to a full-on Cold War and a covert hot war with Iran, on the brink of far greater hostilities. He has made the U.S. as subservient as ever to the destructive agenda of the right-wing Israeli government. His support for some of the Arab world’s most repressive regimes is as strong as ever.

"Most of all, America’s National Security State, its Surveillance State, and its posture of endless war is more robust than ever before. The nation suffers from what National Journal‘s Michael Hirsh just christened “Obama’s Romance with the CIA.” He has created what The Washington Post just dubbed “a vast drone/killing operation,” all behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy and without a shred of oversight. Obama’s steadfast devotion to what Dana Priest and William Arkin called “Top Secret America” has severe domestic repercussions as well, building up vast debt and deficits in the name of militarism that create the pretext for the “austerity” measures which the Washington class (including Obama) is plotting to impose on America’s middle and lower classes."

- Glenn Greenwald

Unconstitutional

2011-12-31T11:18:00.001-08:00

Fight. Harder.

2011-12-31T11:12:00.001-08:00

Mike Rivero Tells It Straight

2011-12-31T10:53:00.001-08:00

Home of the Brave

2011-12-24T17:43:00.000-08:00

They use to call it "the home of the brave."
"These colors don't run," the bumper sticker said.
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it," someone once said.

Now the Eagle has flown.
The nest is bare.
In his place is the new national bird: Chicken Little.

Home of the Craven.
The weak.
The suspicious.
The cowardly.

Calling out the SWAT team for every loud noise.
Treating cupcakes as potential bombs.
Strip searching elderly matrons.
And young children.
And pretty girls.
(Especially the pretty girls.
Can't be too careful, you know.)
Shoot first, ask questions, well, never.

And our new motto.
Not "E Pluribus Unum."
Instead, "Ad Absurdam, Ad Nauseum."

sj

Fight Back.

2011-12-17T15:11:00.001-08:00

Pass This On

2011-12-16T16:09:00.000-08:00

This is the point of no return.

sj

Fight Back

2011-12-15T10:56:00.001-08:00

Word.

2011-12-14T11:12:00.000-08:00

Truth from Low Key.
I hope you dig it.
Because now YOU'RE a "terrorist," too.

sj

LA Fights Back

2011-12-09T15:10:00.000-08:00

Bravo, Los Angeles!
I wonder if anyone will be next?

sj

Calling Officer Friendly.....

2011-12-09T15:06:00.001-08:00

Just Monkeying Around

2011-12-04T07:21:00.001-08:00

What IF?

2011-12-03T14:46:00.000-08:00

YOU ARE THE ENEMY

2011-12-02T06:41:00.001-08:00

IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THINK

2011-12-01T16:27:00.000-08:00

This is what they're NOT telling you on the TV news.

sj

Follow the Money

2011-11-29T18:18:00.001-08:00

Singing a New Song

2011-11-28T18:51:00.000-08:00

The Last Straw

2011-11-26T08:14:00.000-08:00

Friday, November 25, 2011

U.S. being declared a "Battlefield" -Military can arrest and Lock Up ANY U.S. citizen - We are about to become Nazi U.S.A. - Seriously! Bill Going to vote on floor Monday (11/28/11)

This is it! This would take away any last freedoms we think we may have.

A Bill that allows the military to become the police and declares the U.S. as a battlefield, then the military can take and detain any U.S. citizen in the battlefield! They never have to charge you with anything nor give you a trial with this bill! In other words, if they don't like what you say or do, you can be picked up and held for the rest of your life without ever be given a reason nor trial!

You can call or email your Congresspeople to vote against it.
After all, they've been SOOOOO responsive to the People's will so far, right?

This bill is nothing short of a declaration of war against the American People.
If you haven't already stocked up on arms and ammunition, better do it right now.
We are fighting the 4th Reich.

sj

What if...?

2011-11-25T19:08:00.000-08:00

Gobble-gobble.

2011-11-24T14:29:00.000-08:00

What Country IS This????

2011-11-23T08:22:00.000-08:00

For a couple of hundred years, countless good and decent people have given their blood, sweat tears to make America fulfill its promise of liberty and justice for all.
Trying to make those lofty words something real, something more than legalese gibberish scratched on parchment.
Something worth believing in.
Living for.
Even dying for.

But our country has been progressively taken over by a small minority of corrupt, greedy and power-obsessed psychopaths. It didn't happen over-night. This fight has been going on since the beginning.

Today, the America of myth and legend, the beacon of freedom and hope to the world, is dead.

Whether we can make it be reborn and rise from the ashes, remains to be seen.
One thing for certain.
There's only one other option:
To remain forever a slave.

sj

But You Can Leave Your Hat On

2011-11-22T07:29:00.000-08:00

Hurrah! for Lord Godiva.
Now THAT'S what I call "bareback."
No better way to ride.
The ultimate in "close contact."

Now, let's just get rid of that bit.

sj

The Last American President

2011-11-21T16:38:00.000-08:00

He was a "cold warrior" who had a change of heart.
He planned to demolish the CIA.
He planned to get us out of Vietnam.
He was repulsed by Operation Northwoods, which called for false flag attacks on Americans to be blamed on Cuba to justify an invasion there.
He signed an executive order returning the power of printing our money to the Congress, where it Constitutionally belongs, taking it away from the Federal Reserve.

And so, they murdered him.

And every following President has been an accessory after the fact in that murder.
Every President after JFK has been nothing more than a pimp for the bankers and their minions.

You're long gone, Jack.
But not forgotten.

sj

Never Refer to Cops as "Pigs..."

2011-11-20T15:05:00.000-08:00

...it's an unfair insult to pigs.

sj

Missing by Bruce Springstein

2011-11-17T18:48:00.000-08:00

Favorite of mine.
I hope you dig it.

sj

Woke up this morning, was a chill in the air

Went into the kitchen, your cigarettes were lying there

Your jacket hung on the chair where you left it last night

Everything was in place, everything seemed all right

But you were missing

Missing...

Last night I dreamed the sky went black

You were drifting down and you couldn't get back

You were lost and in trouble so far from home

I reached for you, my arms were like stone

I woke and you were missing

Missing...

I searched for something to explain

In the whispering rain, and the trembling leaves

Tell me baby where did you go

You were here just a moment ago

There's nights I still hear your footsteps fall

I can hear your voice moving down the hall

Your smell drifts through the bedroom

I lie awake, but I don't move

Missing you...

The Twilight of Fascism is the Dawn of Liberty

2011-11-16T07:34:00.000-08:00

"Taking the Gloves Off" also Removes the Mask...

2011-11-16T07:05:00.000-08:00

Good Start

2011-11-10T05:54:00.000-08:00

I'd add immediately shut down all the wars we're involved in, cut the military budget, and scale back the military to a truly defensive level -- and while we're at it, let's completely de-militarize the police.

sj

We Just Need to Make Some Cuts....

2011-11-09T04:33:00.001-08:00

Good-bye, Joe

2011-11-07T21:06:00.000-08:00

Smokin' Joe Frazier, the heavyweight champ whose rivalry with my personal hero Ali made boxing history, has died of liver cancer. He was 67.

He was a courageous fighter, and by all accounts, a very decent man, too.

Sorry to see him go so soon.

sj

Coincidence Theory

2011-11-05T15:35:00.000-07:00

If you still aren't sure whether the "main stream media" all take their marching orders from the same source, have a look a this clip.

Watchdogs of democracy?

Or lapdogs of fascism?

sj

Resistance is victory

2011-11-05T06:12:00.000-07:00

Healthcare Not Warfare

2011-11-04T16:07:00.000-07:00

From 0-90 in 2 Seconds

2011-11-03T08:47:00.000-07:00

This clip hits a nerve in me.
I can't stand bullies. I go from zero to "off the scale" on the anger-ometer in about half a heartbeat.
Maybe because, as a child I was subjected to the same kind of thing.
Daily.
For transgressions real or imagined.

This girl is apparently being beaten by her father for downloading music files on the internet.
She's 16.
Note how many times daddy uses some form of the word "fuck."
And I'm from Chicago where "fuck" is the city motto.

Note also the parents' demand that this girl meekly submit to being punished.
Remind you of anything?
How about the commands of police officers making an arrest that is, in itself, unlawful?
Yeah.
Absolute submission to authority, whether that authority is right or wrong.
Teach your children well.

To hell with that.
No wonder the country is in the toilet.

But I saved the best for last.
That cowardly sonovabitch swinging the belt IS A JUDGE!!!!
Judge William Adams of Texas.
And the kicker?

He reportedly oversees CHILD ABUSE CASES!

sj

Urge for Goin'

2011-11-02T06:42:00.000-07:00

I always come back to this tune.
This time of year,
I always ask myself,
Why am I not someplace like Jamaica?
Riding along the clean sand at edge of clear, blue-green water,
The warm wind like a lover's soft breath against my skin...
I never have a good answer.
But I never seem to go.

sj

Great Minds Think Alike

2011-10-30T14:58:00.000-07:00

Donner and Blitzen

2011-10-30T07:57:00.000-07:00

Inexcusable Police Violence

2011-10-28T13:35:00.000-07:00

International Equestrian Federation to Approve Horse Torture

2011-10-27T05:06:00.000-07:00

PLEASE ACT & FORWARD

The FEI are voting on November 11th in Rio that BLOOD dripping from horses mouths is OK in competition!!!

The German FN and Sjef Janssen agree with this ~ WHY??? ~ So they can WIN medals by openly abusing their horses, (tighter nosebands, harder hands, grinding teeth, horses biting themselves from pressure and tension). Dressage is supposed to be harmonious, relaxed with the horse in self carriage, remember?

Kyra Kyrklund is against it, as is Monica Theodorescu, Philippe Karl & Bea Borelle, Ingrid Klimke, Christine Stuckelberger and many many more...

Today you can voice up and sign the 10,000+ strong petition and its gaining momentum ~
SIGN it now, here:~ http://no-fei.com/

Go and join the FACEBOOK page of Claudia Sanders which is gaining unreal support.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/291566070872803/

Personally, I think anyone who bloodies a horse's mouth should get a little bloody themselves, and I'd be more than happy to arrange that. What a completely despicable idea.
Thanks to Frank Bell for sending this information along.

sj

Serve & Protect?

2011-10-26T16:44:00.000-07:00

In "the land of the free" when the People exercise a Constitutionally-guaranteed right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances, how does the government respond?

Once again the police are used as bully-boys, and they seem to enjoy the role.
Serve and Protect.
Yeah.
Serve the rich.
Protect the powerful.

Oakland cops, you're a disgrace.

sj

Listen.

2011-10-22T16:32:00.000-07:00

Does the word "gestapo" ring a bell???

2011-10-22T06:25:00.000-07:00

You're next.

sj

No Torture. Period.

2011-10-22T05:14:00.000-07:00

Sent this email to Canadian Attorney General Robert Nicholson regarding Dubya's jaunt north.
You might want to say something, too. Hey, you never know....

To: Nichor@parl.gc.ca
Subject: Former US President George Bush

Dear Sir:

In case it has escaped your notice, I regret to report that my beloved country has gone down a terrible path for the last decade.

Mr. George Bush, as President, led the charge into hell by lying us into an illegal and immoral war against peoples who had done us no harm. Mr. Bush also, by his own admission, ordered the torture of certain persons, a violation of US law --- and Canadian Law, too, if I understand correctly.

I regret to further inform you that our current president and congress are either too corrupt, too stupid, or too cowardly to enforce the law and bring the smug Mr. Bush to justice for either murder or torture. Yet it is imperative that no such criminal be afforded any place of refuge anywhere on earth.

Therefore, I must beseech you, our traditional good neighbor and friend, not to hesitate to enforce your own laws as they pertain to the villainous Mr. Bush, but, indeed, to pursue justice in this case with all the vigor and determination it deserves.

Torturing even a guilty person is inexcusable.
But If you think, for just a moment, of the horror of torturing persons who were, no doubt, completely innocent of any wrong-doing, surely the outrage and disgust any decent human being must feel at such a prospect will goad your conscience into action.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely.....

sj

Obama Belongs...

2011-10-20T16:53:00.000-07:00

...in the joint.
He can have a cell right next to Dubya and Cheney.

sj

What's Wrong With This Picture?

2011-10-19T19:28:00.000-07:00

Rigged Games

2011-10-18T06:01:00.000-07:00

I used to play poker a little. Not so much any more.

I favored draw poker.

Poker’s basically like this:

You get dealt some cards – everybody gets the same number.

You get a chance to swap some cards – everybody gets that chance.

Then you take the cards you’ve got in your hand and you try to make a winning hand out of it.

Either you’ve got better cards than everyone else – or you can make everyone else think you’ve got better cards.

Sometimes a guy with “good cards” doesn’t know how to play them, and so he loses, while a guy with not such “good cards” plays them very well and wins.

There’s really no such thing as a “winning hand.”

Any hand can be a winning hand; any hand can be a losing hand. It’s all in how you play your cards.

You have to put up some money in order to have a chance to win. That’s the “ante” and it goes in the pot. Then you go around and guys bet on the hand they have.

Then they discard some cards and draw new ones, hoping to improve their hand.

And then there’s another round of betting.

You can keep up with the bets, or you can fold – in which case you sacrifice all that you’ve put in so far.

If you play your cards well, you win the pot, however much or however little it is.

If you win the pot, you keep the money.

If you don’t win the pot, you lose your money.

Fair and square, right?

Sure.

Now imagine this:

You’ve got five guys at the table and maybe another 5 guys waiting for a turn to play or watching. Maybe at a classy game there are a couple of guys serving drinks and munchies to the players. Maybe some female admirers, too. Or, hell, some male admirers, for that matter.

Now this one particular guy has a funny take on the game.

First of all, he doesn’t want to ante-up. Instead of taking 10 bucks out of his own wallet to get in the game, he has this Big Thug with him – his “bodyguard,” he says. Huge beefy Neanderthal, armed to the teeth. And he sends this goon around the room to make everybody ELSE chip in for his ante.

Then, when he wins, he keeps the pot, all right. But when he loses, he sends his “bodyguard” around to make everyone ELSE chip in to cover his losses.

HOW he wins is a little creative, too. When HE’S holding a straight flush, he agrees that a straight flush beats 4-of-a-kind. But when HE’S holding the 4-of-a-kind, he claims that it beats a straight flush – and his Bodyguard is there to make sure everyone “plays by the rules.”

It’s no surprise that, by the end of the evening, this guy comes out way ahead.

Now it’s customary for everyone to chip in to cover things like food, booze and entertainment, and leave a nice tip for the servers and clean-up crew. Naturally, the biggest winner is expected to graciously chip in extra, maybe say to the biggest loser “hey, it’s on me this time.”

But not THIS guy.

He’s tossed down as much hooch as anybody else, and stuffed himself on chips, sandwiches and egg rolls. But he doesn’t kick in one lousy dime. Not even a tip for the servers or the entertainment. He leaves it to everyone ELSE to cover it.

He does pay his “bodyguard” well, though. You can see why.

And then, to add insult to injury, this guy crows about what a great card-player he is and tells the rest of us that, if we lost money in the game, it’s our own fault for not being as good a gambler as he is.

Maybe I’m too simple. But it seems to me that this is the same rigged game the big corporations, and the bankers, and their ilk are running on the rest of us – that 99% of us who play the game fair and square.

The rich guys get all kinds of breaks and favors from the government (their bodyguard) that we’re forced to chip in for or ELSE. It’s called “taxes.”

Then the rules flex and change to favor the rich guys – enforced by the government bodyguard, of course.

The rich guy enjoys all the “common” things that we all use – but never chips in to pay for any of it. When he makes money, he keeps it; when he loses money, he gets “bailed out” with our coerced tax money.

And then he has the nerve to claim he’s a “self-made” man.

Me, I wouldn’t stay in a rigged game. Would you?

I wouldn’t invite that guy back, either.

Might even have a quiet chat with him sometime.

Without his bodyguard around.

You follow?

Good Cop, Bad Cop

2011-10-17T18:55:00.000-07:00

I don't hesitate to point it out when a cop is stupid, crooked, brutal or otherwise unworthy to wear the badge and have the respect and trust of the People.

So I have to do the flip side of that, too.
When a cop does the right thing, is honest, and actually does "serve and protect" someone other than the rich an powerful, I have to stand up and salute.

This makes TWICE in the last week or so.
Could it be the start of a trend?
Probably not.
But wouldn't that be great?

sj

Finding the Path

2011-10-15T19:09:00.000-07:00

My friend Kim just lent me a copy of this dvd and I watched it this morning.
If you're involved with horses in any way, I strongly recommend it to you.

sj

Makes a Damn Good Point

2011-10-14T07:30:00.001-07:00

So far Congressman Paul is the only candidate who's talking about ending the wars.
That's enough to get my vote right there.

sj

One Good Cop

2011-10-13T10:34:00.001-07:00

This photo suggest that there might be at least one good cop out there.

Every police officer takes some kind of an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and trumps any state or local law that conflicts with it.

If police officers kept their word and honored that oath, they would not be attacking people who exercise their Constitutionally-guaranteed right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances -- they'd be protecting them.

Yeah. I'd pay big bucks to see that.

sj

Be Part of the Solution

2011-10-13T07:43:00.000-07:00

Pot. Kettle. Black.

2011-10-12T11:00:00.001-07:00

Connecting the Dots...

2011-10-09T05:56:00.001-07:00

When you make up your suspect list, you'd definitely want to look into these "persons of interest."

sj

I've Got a Little List....

2011-10-07T05:05:00.001-07:00

I don't know that the "Occupy Wall Street" movement has come up with a list of demands yet, but if they're stumped for ideas, I've got a couple.
If I were King of the Forest, or at least, President of the United States, these are the things I would do either immediately or within my first 100 days.

Cease Fire, Stand Down, Fall back. Cease military ops in all countries. Bring all troops home from Iraq & Afghanistan. Close all foreign bases and bring troops home. Re-direct military budget to humanitarian use at home first, then globally as possible – with no strings attached.

End the Federal Reserve Banking system. Return money-coining to Congress as per the Constitution.

Prosecute GW Bush et al for violations of the law: murder, torture, fraud, civil rights.

Prosecute and Impeach B. Obama et al for violations of the law: murder, torture, civil rights.

Implement single-payer national healthcare

Implement run-off voting system using verifiable paper ballots

Impeach the several Supreme Court Justices for high crimes re: Gore v. Bush and People United

Dismantle the TSA. Prosecute TSA officials for civil rights violations.

Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. Prosecute DHS officials as appropriate for civil rights violations. Cease and desist all surveillance on any person unless a proper warrant is issued (not a FISA “warrant”) by a judge in accordance with the 4^th amendment.

Break the Republican/Democrat monopoly on elections. Open elections to multiple parties and independents.

Pare military down to minimum necessary on-call defensive force.

Re-tool the weapons industry for peaceful ends. Criminalize the sale of military hardware outside the US.

De-militarize the police. Eliminate SWAT teams. Prosecute officers for violations of the law. Establish civilian review boards with subpoena power and authority to suspend, fire and/or send cases to D.A. for prosecution.

Stand-down the “Drug War.” Pardon and release all non-violent drug offenders. Cease and desist prosecutions for possession, use and/or sale of drugs and decriminalize drug use.

Establish an Ethics Division of the FBI and prosecute government employees for violations where conflicts of interest appear, eliminating the revolving door between government officials and the industries they are employed to oversee.

Eliminate corporate welfare and support small-business entrepreneurs with no-interest start-up capital.

Establish a fair tax system. Either everybody pays or nobody does. Allow tax-payers to ear-mark how their taxes will be used. Streamline the tax code and eliminate the IRS.

Thoughts?
Suggestions?

I'd love to hear them. None of us is as smart as all of us together.

sj

If Only

2011-10-05T05:04:00.000-07:00

...and take their jobs and use up their resources, too.

Too bad the Indians didn't treat the Euros the way the Euros treat everybody else.

sj

Right On the Money

2011-10-04T04:05:00.000-07:00

I may disagree on a couple of details regarding the role of the federal government vis-a-vis the role of state government, but what this lad has to say about the Federal Reserve Bank is solidly on point.

sj

"Hippie?????"

2011-10-03T06:31:00.000-07:00

Another "dirty" "hippie" at the Wall Street protest.
All the king's horses and all the king's name-calling can't obscure the fact that the protest is a broad-based popular demonstration by the "99%" who, despite their many differences, all definitely have ONE thing in common: getting screwed by the 1%.

sj

Thanks to VVAW for sending along this photo.

Murder is Murder

2011-10-01T19:38:00.000-07:00

ACLU Statement on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi

WASHINGTON - September 30 - U.S. airstrikes in Yemen today killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen who has never been charged with any crime.

ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said, "The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we've seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts. The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the President – any President – with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country."

ACLU National Security Project Litigation Director Ben Wizner said, "Outside the theater of war, the use of lethal force is lawful only as a last resort to counter an imminent threat of deadly attack. Based on the administration's public statements, the program that the President has authorized is far more sweeping. If the Constitution means anything, it surely means that the President does not have unreviewable authority to summarily execute any American whom he concludes is an enemy of the state."

More information on the government's targeted killing policy is available at:
www.aclu.org/targetedkillings

Am I the only one who sees the bitter irony in this?
So much has been made of Obama being the first black (though actually mixed-race) President.
And now Obama espouses the ethos of the lynch mob -- no charges, no trial, just string 'em up on "suspicion" of --- well, suspicion of exactly what is not quite clear.

Surely murder is a sufficient reason to impeach the bastard, don't you think?

sj

King Obama

2011-10-01T14:49:00.000-07:00

Truth

2011-10-01T05:43:00.000-07:00

Here's a great song from Jordan Page.
It picks up my spirits to hear young guys writing this kind of stuff.
Time to step up, man.

I hope you dig it.

sj

What if Cops Were Like THIS?

2011-09-30T13:32:00.001-07:00

Choose.

2011-09-30T05:38:00.000-07:00

OccupyTogether: The Best Among Us
by Chris Hedges

There are no excuses left.
Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history.

Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy.

Either you are a rebel or a slave.

To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of law means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded, is to be complicit in this radical evil. To stand on the sidelines and say “I am innocent” is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do nothing to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal. Ask Tim DeChristopher.

Choose.
But choose fast.
The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread. They have their long phalanxes of police on motorcycles, their rows of white paddy wagons, their foot soldiers hunting for you on the streets with pepper spray and orange plastic nets. They have their metal barricades set up on every single street leading into the New York financial district, where the mandarins in Brooks Brothers suits use your money, money they stole from you, to gamble and speculate and gorge themselves while one in four children outside those barricades depend on food stamps to eat.

Speculation in the 17th century was a crime.
Speculators were hanged.
Today they run the state and the financial markets. They disseminate the lies that pollute our airwaves. They know, even better than you, how pervasive the corruption and theft have become, how gamed the system is against you, how corporations have cemented into place a thin oligarchic class and an obsequious cadre of politicians, judges and journalists who live in their little gated Versailles while 6 million Americans are thrown out of their homes, a number soon to rise to 10 million, where a million people a year go bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills and 45,000 die from lack of proper care, where real joblessness is spiraling to over 20 percent, where the citizens, including students, spend lives toiling in debt peonage, working dead-end jobs, when they have jobs, a world devoid of hope, a world of masters and serfs.

The only word these corporations know is more.
They are disemboweling every last social service program funded by the taxpayers, from education to Social Security, because they want that money themselves.
Let the sick die.
Let the poor go hungry.
Let families be tossed in the street.
Let the unemployed rot.
Let children in the inner city or rural wastelands learn nothing and live in misery and fear. Let the students finish school with no jobs and no prospects of jobs.
Let the prison system, the largest in the industrial world, expand to swallow up all potential dissenters.
Let torture continue.
Let teachers, police, firefighters, postal employees and social workers join the ranks of the unemployed.
Let the roads, bridges, dams, levees, power grids, rail lines, subways, bus services, schools and libraries crumble or close.
Let the rising temperatures of the planet, the freak weather patterns, the hurricanes, the droughts, the flooding, the tornadoes, the melting polar ice caps, the poisoned water systems, the polluted air increase until the species dies.

Who the hell cares?
If the stocks of ExxonMobil or the coal industry or Goldman Sachs are high, life is good.
Profit. Profit. Profit.
That is what they chant behind those metal barricades. They have their fangs deep into your necks. If you do not shake them off very, very soon they will kill you. And they will kill the ecosystem, dooming your children and your children’s children. They are too stupid and too blind to see that they will perish with the rest of us. So either you rise up and supplant them, either you dismantle the corporate state, for a world of sanity, a world where we no longer kneel before the absurd idea that the demands of financial markets should govern human behavior, or we are frog-marched toward self-annihilation.

Chris Hedges writes a regular column for Truthdig.com. Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.

CommonDreams.org
Published on Friday, September 30, 2011 by TruthDig.com
Article printed from www.CommonDreams.org
Source URL: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/30-0

American Fall

2011-09-29T10:53:00.000-07:00

Despite attempts to discredit the Wall Street protesters
Despite attempts to intimidate them with brutality
More and more of the 99%
Endorse and support the protest

What goes around....

sj

Serve and Protect

2011-09-28T12:56:00.000-07:00

Here's a nice shot of THREE of "New York's Finest" protecting the Constitutional rights of a Wall Street protester.
THREE of them.
My, my, what tough guys they are.
Three big goons manhandling that one unarmed woman --- incidentally, just after the goon in the white shirt casually maced some other unarmed women.

"Land of the Free??"

sj

New news is old news

2011-09-27T10:10:00.000-07:00

Cops will continue to commit crimes against the people they are sworn to protect until the people hold them accountable.
And by that I don't mean filing a complaint which the police department will then summarily dismiss.
There's only one way to deal with a bully.
And you know what that is as well as I do.

sj

Your Right to Self-Defense

2011-09-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

As long as the police officer is acting lawfully, you have a duty to obey.
When the officer is acting unlawfully, you do not.
When the officer is acting unlawfully, that means he or she is committing a crime.
Officers do not have the lawful authority to commit a crime.
And you do have the right to defend yourself from a criminal assault.
That is, you have no legal duty to submit to an assailant, a rapist, a robber, a kidnapper, or a murderer -- even if the assailant, rapist, kidnapper, robber or murderer is a cop.

sj

Are You Mad About it Yet?

2011-09-25T10:37:00.000-07:00

This is what a police state looks like.
Why aren't you hearing about this on "the news?"

sj

Thanks, Pal. I'm flattered...

2011-09-24T05:41:00.000-07:00

If you don't keep company with horses, you won't understand this.
The other day, I arrived at the barn a little late and the herd had already been fed.
My partner was up in the far corner of his paddock where the crew had put his hay and grain on a high, dry spot.

As I started up the hill toward his paddock, I called out his name.

His head popped up from his grain bucket and he trotted down the hill and met me at the gate.
We greeted each other in our usual fashion, then walked back up and I waited while he finished his grain.

It dawned on me that something very special had just occurred.

I know that food is a "primary re-enforcer" for a horse. I thought about all the times we had led an unleadable horse by luring him with a little grain in a bucket.
But here, this old boy leaves his grain without hesitation, just to come over and say hello to me.

I don't want to make too big a thing of it, but I think it may mean that he kind of likes me.
Maybe I'm ok, after all.

sj

Bill of Rights: Use it or Lose it

2011-09-24T05:39:00.000-07:00

When the Truth Hurts Too Much....

2011-09-22T13:43:00.000-07:00

When my love swears that she is made of truth,

I do believe her though I know she lies.

Wm. Shakespeare, Sonnet 138

San Antone

2011-09-21T19:52:00.000-07:00

This is a really fine little song from the soundtrack of an excellent film, THE 9TH CONFIGURATION.

I hope you dig it.

sj

Guilty of Innocence

2011-09-21T12:31:00.000-07:00

Troy Davis.
Black guy.
Accused of killing a White cop.
7 of 9 witnesses against him have recanted, citing coercion by the cops.
One of the witnesses against him who hasn't recanted is the chief alternative suspect.
There's a truckload of "reasonable doubt" about Davis' guilt, but it looks like the State of Georgia will kill him on schedule, just the same.

Funny, there's no doubt whatsoever about the crimes of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, including torture and mass murder.
But nobody has even arrested them.

In America, a poor man's innocence doesn't matter.
Nor a rich man's guilt.

Shame on us all.

sj

"Eliminate the Impossible...

2011-09-18T17:21:00.000-07:00

...and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

But you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out.

sj

They Wouldn't DO That ---- WOULD They???

2011-09-14T19:32:00.000-07:00

They would.
They did.

sj

Pucker Up, Baby....

2011-09-14T05:06:00.000-07:00

Wes was the best.
One of my all-time favorites.
Listened to him a lot when I was a city kid.
Still dig him.
I guess you can take the boy out of Chicago
But you can't take the Chicago out of the boy.

I hope you dig him, too.

sj

Truth from the Late, Great George Carlin.

2011-09-14T04:31:00.000-07:00

Carlin was my favorite contemporary philosopher.

As a teacher, there's only one thing I really try to teach: bullshit-detecting.
OK, "critical thinking" in polite circles.
If you teach somebody about that, they'll be able to figure out everything else for themselves.

sj

Thanks to L, for sending this clip.

Be Dangerous

2011-09-13T10:21:00.000-07:00

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.

~ H.L. Mencken

So, Let me Get This Straight......

2011-09-12T15:08:00.001-07:00

Psychic Friends Network?

2011-09-11T12:35:00.000-07:00

Here's the thing:

Prior to 9/11/01 no similar steel-frame building had ever collapsed "due to the effects of fire."
So why would ANYONE have ANY expectation -- let alone the ability to predict with certainty -- that THESE buildings would suddenly become the first to do so?

Since 9/11/01, no OTHER similar steel-frame building has collapsed "due to the effects of fire." either.

Indeed, the ONLY similar steel-frame buildings EVER to "collapse from the effects of fire" were those three on 9/11/01.

Further, while we hear the "jet-fuel-inferno-melted-the-steel-beams" theory to explain the first two "collapses," the third building, building #7 was NOT struck by an aircraft and so the "jet-fuel-inferno-melted-the-steel-beams" theory cannot possibly apply.

We have three different buildings each subjected to a very different stress, but each "collapsing" in an identical manner.

Something stinks.

But if you believe the official story of how and why these buildings came down, that's okay with me.
As long as I get to play poker with you.
Bring the deed to the ranch.

liberty & justice,

sj

A Couple of Conspracy Nuts

2011-09-10T06:18:00.000-07:00

I Can Stand a Little Rain

2011-09-08T06:36:00.000-07:00

Rain.
Just a little rain.
Roads closed.
Schools closed.
Basements flooded.

For Mom Nature, hardly an increase in her pulse rate.
Just a little rain.

sj