Moby Dick

One of my favorite novels of all time
The White Whale remains remains...
The icon of that which is beyond mankind and can not be tamed

well I don't know

Been up watching the X files all night and having nothing better to do thought I would just toss this Misc. shit up here...bty Hi Mike we must continue our debate sometime

Fat Bottom Girls

They make the rok'n world go round

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A gift for the ragged bone man

I'd call up my friendly good angel
But she's out with a rented friend
call on her to protect me and listen to me but she died with my Mother and all those who no longer claim me
Electric cure and a nice dream
I wonder if I am strong enough
Do I belong enough
Will I last long enough
Will the walls of Jerico fall for me or will god laugh in his tower of power mad irony
Feels like rows of thousands coming down on me
fade out and return
this machine can not tell my tale of laughter and rage
I bring war
I am shiva I am lost
where are you
This fight for laugh
this foe Death presents to me
to you
Shiva
A gift of flesh for the ragged bone man

Harley Riders...Bikers or Bankers?

A Thought

You can never go home again....Would I want to?

Weeee

Yup

You know who you are

Words Words Words

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Grace and Reflection

A few odds and ends

Plates

Update II

I have not posted here as often as I have in the past...well I am a lot busier than i have been in the past and well now the cat is out of the bag about the idenitities of some of my readers it just isn't near as fun. I have not lost my desire to write by any means but some of the honesty here is compramised. That being the case I have dedicated my efforts to other projects (namely scrabbled_eggs.net and the blog associated wth it) but know that I DO plan to continue to post here...mainly to keep my jokingly secret readers with something to do in their rather large amount of free time.

Religion vs Science

Let's meet our fighters.
In the red corner wearing a purple robe and trademark crown of thorns, emitting a slightly supernatural and holy glow: JESUS "The Son of God" Christ!
In the blue corner wearing a grey wool suit and no socks with the really fucked up hair-do we have Albert "I'm a fucking genious" Einstein.
Who will win this match up? Let's take a look at the strengths and weak-points of our players:
Jesus, He's the son of God so he is a divine being with all the powers and blessings of Heaven. He's got be pretty tough after all he got nailed to a cross had a spear stuck in his side was sealed in a tomb was required to eat kosher all his life and he still made a comback. Impressive stuff, however before you say this would be a hands down victory for Jesus, remember that he was a pacifist. He might not even fight, do you recall all that love thy neighbor and give peace a chance schtick? 2000 years of having his religion twisted, manipulated and misinterpreted by moronic bully boys (and girls)for their own purposes and we have not even heard so much of a "Hey wait a second" out of him. Also he has been waiting for almost 2000 years for his promised return and there has beedn no sign of this guy so he might not even show up and that's a forfit victory for old man E=MC2'ed.
Einstein, first off he's German and we know they can fight just ask Poland or France or whoever else the Prussians have handed their ass's back too in their history...even the Romans (Who nailed Jesus to that cross)couldn't take them and at that time the Germans were just a buch of tribal barbarians. Einstein also figured out the physics required to unleash the power of the atom and convinced the most powerful nation on Earth to use it when they were already winning. It should be noted however that he was also a pacifist and just like Jesus he was a jew as well.He might not be to keen on fighting one of his own.
This fight is gonna be close but since it seems that God does not exist and science does my prediction is in favor of Einstein.

WINNER: EINSTEIN...?

Stolen elections and Corporate Media Whores

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a brilliant new article about the biggest political story in the history of the United States: An American politician illegitimately took the office of president by outright theft and fraud. Although such high crimes and misdemeanors have been rumored in previous elections, none in the history of the republic have been so thoroughly documented. George W. Bush is not the legitimate president of the United States.
Schoolchildren read (in the few remaining civics classes in America) about the multiple pollings and tense standoff that led to Thomas Jefferson's election as president in "the Revolution of 1800," because newspapers of the day looked into and reported on such things. But -- unless we speak out -- odds are that few will read about what happened in Ohio in 2004 in future history books, because modern newspaper editors are increasingly corporate appendages, and many of today's "reporters" worry more about currying favor with institutional power than investigating stories that may inconvenience or upset their "sources."
Kennedy's story -- "Was The 2004 Election Stolen?" -- broke on Thursday, June 1, 2006, when Rolling Stone magazine put it on their website and it was reprinted on other websites. It hit the newsstands soon thereafter. In the article, Kennedy lays out the details of exactly how the Republican Party, in several states but particularly in Ohio, engaged in a criminal conspiracy to both steal the 2004 election and to cover up the evidence of that theft.
The subtitle of the article lays out Kennedy's foundational premise: "Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House." And that's just the beginning of the story, which includes ballot-box stuffing, electronic voting machine manipulation, "caging" in defiance of a court order banning Republicans from the notorious practice, threats and intimidation of Democratic voters by imported Republican goon squads, and multiple illegal uses of the office of the Secretary of State to disenfranchise Democratic voters.
The Republican rebuttals/attacks have already begun, starting with a particularly tragic hit-piece in one of the higher-profile "online magazines" that claims to authoritatively quote so-called but unnamed "experts" who doubt Kennedy's sources, and takes a clip of Ohio law so out of context as to essentially reverse its meaning in support of the Republican talking points.
The day Kennedy's article came out, Republican callers began dialing into talk radio shows complaining about "massive Democrat (sic) voter fraud by registering illegal immigrants". Clearly the memory Republicans will put out if Kennedy's story gets traction in the mainstream media is that "election fraud is something both parties do," and they'll use that memory to push even harder for more Republican-helpful restrictions on voters who are old, urban, or poor enough not to have or easily acquire two forms of government-issued ID. We can't let them -- this is about real crimes, and the destruction of democracy in our republic.
Kennedy's article is an in-depth, on-the-ground report from Ohio about the 2004 election. In it, he acknowledges that he is building on the work of many who preceded him - this was a story not particularly difficult to uncover, even though the mainstream media has chosen to ignore it. Seminal investigations were done by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman of the Columbus, Ohio "Error!"., and by Michigan Congressman John Conyers, who held hearings in Ohio that resulted in a summary report now available in book form.
Just after the 2002 elections, an article was written for Common Dreams outing Senator Chuck Hagel's odd journey from voting machine peddler to the US Senate (being elected on his own machines). Six months later, in the summer of 2003, MoveOn.org commisioned a round-up article about voting machine problems which they emailed to over 2 million members, and was published on AlterNet. In both articles (and others since), building on the work of Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org, Lynn Landes, and many others, just as Kennedy has done.
It's not like the theft of the 2004 election is a secret to anybody who is looking. Mark Crispin Miller devoted an entire (brilliant) book to the topic, "Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)", and BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast lays it out in a chapter of his new book "Armed Madhouse" and articles at gregpalast.com.
Kennedy, however, has a name and reputation that demands instant recognition in the mainstream American media. And he didn't just recycle the work of those who preceded him - he went to Ohio, talked with elections officials, looked over records, investigated the investigators, and only included in his story those facts he felt were sufficiently solid that they could, as he was quoted saying, "convince a jury." In fact, he is calling for criminal investigations into his evidence, for indictments of culpable Republican officials, and jury trials.
Bravo.
Even with such a credible and high-profile figure involved, however, the response so far of America's corporate-owned mainstream media to Kennedy's article evokes echoes of the media's handling of similar Republican Party crimes in Florida in the 2000 election.
Although it was reported -- in The New York Times, no less -- that Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush in a statewide recount of Florida "no matter what standard was chosen to judge voter intent," most Americans don't know to this day that Gore actually won the 2000 election. The reason is a small percentage of Republican spin and a large percentage of journalistic cowardice in the mainstream media following 9/11. (This cowardice is limited to the USA, by the way -- the story was extensively covered in most of the rest of the world.)
In the 2000 case, The New York Times, on November 12, 2001 (My birthday, by the way), published a story summarizing the work of the newspaper consortium that spent nearly a year counting all the ballots in the 2000 Florida election. They found that a statewide recount -- the process the Florida Supreme Court had mandated and which had begun when George W. Bush sued before the US Supreme Court to stop the recount -- "could have produced enough votes to tilt the election his [Gore's] way, no matter what standard was chosen to judge voter intent."
The Times analysis further showed that had "spoiled" ballots -- ballots normally punched but "spoiled" because the voter also wrote onto the ballot the name of the candidate -- been counted, the results were even more spectacular. While 35,176 voters wrote in Bush's name after punching the hole for him, 80,775 wrote in Gore's name while punching the hole for Gore. Katherine Harris decided that these were "spoiled" ballots, and ordered that none of them should be counted. Many were from African American districts, where older and often broken machines were distributed, causing voters to write onto their ballots so their intent would be unambiguous. As the Times added in a sidebar article with a self-explanatory title by Ford Fessenden, in the 2000 election in Florida: "Ballots Cast by Blacks and Older Voters Were Tossed in Far Greater Numbers."
The November, 2001, New York Times article went on to document how, in a statewide recount, there was no possible doubt that Al Gore won Florida in 2000:
"If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards [all the ones that were used by either party], and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won, by a very narrow margin. For example, using the most permissive ''dimpled chad'' standard, nearly 25,000 additional votes would have been reaped, yielding 644 net new votes for Mr. Gore and giving him a 107-vote victory margin. ...
Using the most restrictive standard -- the fully punched ballot card -- 5,252 new votes would have been added to the Florida total, producing a net gain of 652 votes for Mr. Gore, and a 115-vote victory margin.
All the other combinations likewise produced additional votes for Mr. Gore, giving him a slight margin over Mr. Bush, when at least two of the three coders agreed."
And yet all of this information was buried well after the 17th paragraph of the story, which carried the baffling headline "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote."
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pointed out in an interview on a radio program on June 2, the reason the Times chose to bury the lead of their story and instead imply in the headline and first few paragraphs that Bush had legitimately won the 2000 election was because just a month earlier the US had been struck on 9/11 and the Times' publisher didn't want to undermine the president's legitimacy in a time of national crisis.
In a case eerily prescient of the Times' 2004 decision to delay reporting on Bush's illegal wiretapping of Americans until after the election, the Times' publisher and editors decided in November of 2001 that that wasn't a good time to reveal that Bush was an illegitimate president and that Al Gore actually had won the election, both by the majority vote and the electoral vote. (Although, to their credit, at least they reported that Gore got the most votes in Florida, as did The Washington Post, which also ran the story but buried it deep within an article that similarly seemed to imply Bush won legitimately. USA Today passed over it altogether, simply saying that Bush won. Big surprise there)
The big question for today is whether media history will repeat itself. Will the mainstream media do any first-source on-the-ground investigative reporting into the theft of the 2004 election, or simply treat it as a political "difference of opinion"? And if they do engage in the hard work of first-source reporting as the Times and their consortium did in 2001, and the results again come back that Bush is an illegitimate president, will they again bury that fact seventeen paragraphs into a story with a misleading headline and opening as they did when, in 2001, they counted the ballots and found that Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush did in Florida?
So far, it seems that the mainstream media is going to pass on doing any of their own first-source reporting, while Kenneth Blackwell begins the process of destroying evidence, which he'll be legally authorized to do in the next few months.
For example, on Friday, June 3, 2006, CNN briefly interviewed Kennedy, but treated the story as a political one rather than an example of investigative reporting. Instead of interviewing Kennedy about the details and substance of the story, Wolf Blitzer had on with Kennedy the infamous Terry Holt, spokesman for the Bush/Cheney campaign and a likely co-conspirator in the crime, instead of an investigative reporter who had examined Kennedy's evidence. Just as when Holt was confronted by Anderson Cooper in August of 2004 about the administration's manipulation of terror alerts during the campaign, Holt similarly ridiculed the idea of Republican election crimes, and Blitzer didn't challenge him -- or let Kennedy finish most of his sentences.
Three days after Kennedy's story broke in Rolling Stone, a Google news search shows no national "mainstream" media having picked up the story as a serious news report, or having done any follow-up reporting into the issues he raises whatsoever. An email reply from an editor at The Seattle Times, asking why they're not covering the story, is characteristic of the response from many other national newspapers: "We subscribe to many news services for our national and foreign coverage. However, Rolling Stone is not one of them."
The question should not be, "Is this a story we can quote or should investigate because it was first reported in a major newspaper?" Instead, it should be, "Is there credible evidence that the election of 2004 was stolen by Republicans engaged in openly criminal activity?" And, of course, "Are they preparing to do the same in 2006 and 2008?"
Our national mega-corporate-owned media -- now so driven by ad dollars that sensationalized "missing white girls" trump real news -- will only respond if enough of us raise enough questions with their editors and writers. Or if more of our members of congress (you can call your congressperson or senator at 202 225-3121) -- particularly the "media darlings" like Joe Biden and (gulp) Chuck Hagel, who are ubiquitous on the Sunday talking-head shows -- begin to speak out with the rare courage Congressman John Conyers showed when he pursued his investigation despite a virtual news blackout from the mainstream media.

TheLiberty

Can you believe I live next to this?

My name as an insult

I often wonder about the garbage going on back home.When I do one particular incident stands out. It is one my brother related to me. It goes as follows ... sort of anyway...
In an argument at my fathers house (Our Joyces house I should say, My step sister B.J. and stepmother attempted to insult my brother by calling him me...HA! How insulting! My brother took it as a compliment and well so did I. For people I hold such a poor opinion of to use my name as insult is delightful...lets me know I am doing something right.
Keep up the raipier wit "ya'll" anytime you care to go toe to toe...try me...
Love and kisses from the north west

We painted our faces instead of wearing giant bras on our heads

Shanzi after one of our goofy painting times...ain't she cute?

Everytime you masterbate God kills a kitten

Librains Defy NSA and Bush...Right On!

Bush is a Nazi and a retarded one at that...The Nsa is his SS (Blackshirts) and cheney his Gobbels ...if you doubt this read on...If you think I am a liberal trouble maker well...yeah I am...if you don't like it too bad...research my research and TRY to give me an argument in the defense of these goose steppers...I boil when I read about the shit they pull off in the name of FEAR...be not afraid...we are Americans and while occasionaly stupid we do lean toward fearlessness...

Four Connecticut librarians, members of Library Connection, a not-for profit cooperative organization for resource sharing across 26 Connecticut library branches sharing a centralized computer, were served with a National Security Letter (NSL) in August of last year as part of the FBI's attempt to attain access to patron's records.

The NSL is a little known statute in the Patriot Act that permits law enforcement to obtain records of people not suspected of any wrongdoing and without a court order. As part of the NSL, those served with the document are gagged and prohibited from disclosing that they have even been served.

The foursome of Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, George Christian, and Jan Nocek were automatically gagged from disclosing that they had received the letter, the contents of the letter, and even from discussions surrounding the Patriot Act.

The librarians, via the national and Connecticut branches of the ACLU, filed suit challenging the Patriot Act on first amendment grounds.

"People ask about private and confidential things in the library setting ... like about their health, their family issues and related books they take out ... these are confidential and we did this to protect our patrons from authorized snooping," said Peter Chase, Vice President of Library Connection."

On September 9 of last year, a federal judge lifted the gag order and rejected the government's argument that identifying the plaintiff would pose a threat to national security.

Yet the government continued to appeal the case throughout the reauthorization debate, passionately arguing that not a single incident of civil liberties violations by the Patriot Act had occurred. By continuing the appeal, the government effectively silenced any evidence to counter their claims.

"This all happened during the reauthorization debate and the government was saying no one's rights were being violated," said George Christian, staff liaison for Library Connection and one of the plaintiffs in the case.

As the debate over the reauthorization of the Patriot Act heated up, the librarians and others gagged by the NSL had to watch in silence, intimately aware of dangers they believed were not being exposed.

"We could not speak to Congress until after the renewal of the Patriot Act," Said Barbara Bailey, President of Library Connection and one of four plaintiffs in the case.

Although the ACLU, representing the librarians, filed the case on August 9 of last year, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales decried any civil liberties violations in a Washington Post op-ed in December, stating that "There have been no verified civil liberties abuses in the four years of the [Patriot] act's existence."

The suit names Alberto Gonzales, Robert Mueller, and an un-named FBI official as the defendants in the case. The plaintiffs are collectively referred to in all court filings as simply John Doe.

"My testimony was informed not only by the successes of the act but also by my personal meetings with representatives from groups such as the ACLU and the American Library Association," wrote Gonzales in his Washington Post piece. During the reauthorization discussion, I asked that certain provisions be clarified to ensure the protection of civil liberties, and Congress responded."

After the Patriot Act was reauthorized in March of this year, the government stopped its appeals. Last Wednesday, the Connecticut librarians were finally allowed to say that they were the John Doe in the case, but they are still prohibited from discussing the case or the NSL.

"There are other people who have been served with these letters. We hope by our testimony that more people are aware of this and people are able to speak out," said Jan Nocek, Secretary for Library Connection and one of the four plaintiffs in the case.

"Our clients were gagged by the government at a time when Congress needed to hear their voices the most," said Ann Beeson, ACLU's lead attorney in the case. "This administration has repeatedly shown that it will hide behind the cloak of national security to silence its critics and cover up embarrassing facts. Every time the government invokes national security in defense of secrecy -- as they've done most recently with NSA wiretapping -- the American public should remember these four librarians."

It is unknown how many NSLs have been served and to whom. A University of Illinois survey conducted in 2002 found that out of roughly one thousand libraries asked, eighty five libraries said they were asked by law enforcement for patrons' records.

According to an ABC News report, Assistant Attorney General William Moschella told members of Congress "that 9,254 National Security Letters were issued in 2005 involving 3,501 people."

But much like his successor, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed that the Patriot Act did not violate civil liberties and said that it has never been used to obtain library records.

Earlier this year, the Justice Department's inspector general issued no less than six reports to the relevant Congressional oversight committees indicating that there were no allegations of abuse and no violations of civil liberties since the original enactment of the Patriot Act days after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Daisy

Update

An update for those concerned ,those who don't give a rats rear end (ass for the more vulgar lexicons):
Shanzi and I now know the sex of the child we are expecting ; IT'S A GIRL! The name we are playing with is Deita-Daisy Petal (I have a thing for hyphenated names and while we are going to call her Daisy, I wanted to include my Grandmothers name in there as well...Deita...she went by the moniker Dee Dee so you see Deita Daisy works that way too).
Just dyed my hair lime green …not sure how I feel about it…but it seems to be a hit and thus a boost to my delicate ego.
I have made contact with my old friend Andrea from so many years, adventures and wonderfully weird times past. I can't tell you how pleased I am about that…so I wont.
I moved to Astoria Oregon two months ago and I absolutely love it. Shanzi said I would (It's her home town and she sold me on the place by describing it as a little San Francisco with a healthy dash of Athens Georgia and London's weather…it fits…I think I have found a place I can call home for a while).
Oh, to clear up a matter for the Burlokis of the world…I don't suddenly love the French. I still think of them as the smelly cheese as far as "ethniticities " go ( We are all northern European scum when you strip us of our accents, cultures, and oil war machines after all…white folks that is…it should be noted that while in Athens I was made an "Honorary Niggar" by my friend George…though I have to say I have to wonder about how seriously one should take such an honor from a black man who by his own account isn't too fond of black people[reads like the title Aryan Jew doesn't it?] and was fond of quoting to me "When the student is ready, the teacher shall appear"…yes it sounds wise in a Disney sort of way but not so much after the 59th or so time you hear it…in one day….anyway, thanks George…I think.)
Back to The French…For those inclined to think I had some sudden and insane idea to embrace The Franks (Read ; French) based on my announcement that my wedding day was to be on July 14th (Bastille day)…it was a joke…read a book and upgrade your sense of humor from the "Weekend at Bernie's" mode. By the way here is some humor for you…How do you conquer the French?…pause for effect…Show up.
Enough bashing of the descendents of ancient Gaul…okay one more …ever think about the Norman Invasion of 1066? You no when a bunch of northern French men took a look around them and said "To hell with this…I can't take being French anymore…lets go invade England, abuse the Irish and invent the blandest food know to man (English Food)…Thus the 1,000 year plus Empire was born, ensuring for man kind such cultural contributions as Boiled blood pudding, The Spitfire, Winston Churchill,The Sex Pistols, The Beatles, and endless bad teeth jokes (What I like to refer to as Bob Rot Mouth Jokes).
Anyway …lets hear it for the French…aren’t they great folks? A people who when they evolved upwards social became The Cajuns (That's an upward move?) well at least they gave us some of the best food available …perhaps it was an apology for the whole boiled meat thing the English do.
Also, Hailee our oldest is now living with us full time, Ariel and CeCe are just around the corner and max languishes back east in the care of Republicans and Rednecks…Life isn't perfect but my Chocolate Blancmange is. ..By the way I am not hiding from anyone…I am right here in the wind open with my perceptive (If fuzzy visioned) eyes wide open.
My brother just released a new album and goddamn it sounds pretty good…we are a talented if somewhat troubled brood, he and I.
That’s all for now I have an Orange-Apple cake to bake and a pot of coffee to devour greedily …take care ,may peace find you and remember not to take things too seriously…

Saint Tuesday, The Little Grey Mouse. yeah me Christopher

This is a little alteration of a Green Day song married with a very old Irish rhyme…my somewhat unoriginal spin on other peoples crafted angst tailored for use in some music I and some local untalented musician (They are not"real musicians" but they do have instruments) friends of mine are trying to weave into a passable number for public review sometime in the near future. If we pull it off they told me they might even let me sing they damn thing (EEEEKKK) or if my courage fails me (A likely scenario) play the bongos (Poorly) instead.
****RANT WARNING****
A pointless endeavor true… but a far more useful application of ones free time than oh say…trying to devise baiting schemes via technology beyond ones grasp when your middle aged, over ripe melon of a tookus should be acting like an adult rather than a shallow spoiled teenage girl… I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

Saint Tuesday's coming down across the alleyway
Up on the boulevard like a drunk braggart on parade
Light of a silhouette
He's insubordinate
Coming at you ,up to your door

My name is Saint Tuesday and I'm bastard lout
I'm the Suicide commando that your mother talked about
King of the forty thieves
And I'm here to represent
That needle in the vein of the establishment

I'm the patron saint of the denial
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal

Cigarettes , Ramen-noodles and a little bag of black hope
I am a son of a bitch and Edgar Allen Poe
Raised in the city under a halo of lights
The product of war and fear that under which we've been victimized

I'm the patron saint of the denial
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal
I'm a niggar, a whore and gypsy king
A rich man in a poor mans clothes all this without wearing anybody's ring

What did you say?

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?

I didn't think so.

SAINT TUESDAY! THE LITTLE GREY MOUSE!
Running through the forgotten corners of your ill kept house
Dancing in the fog by the western shore
In the walls and under the floor
The cat yowls drunk on the ladies wine
And the dogs been fed to Daddies golden cow so for now everything's almost fine


My name is Saint Tuesday I'm a son of nobody and the heir to a loaded gun
I'm the one that's from way down south
Exiled by appointment with nimble hands and a loud mouth
I'm a self-made assassin executing some fun
In the cult of secret fire and the club of the dispossessed.

I really hate to say it but I told you so
So shut your mouth before I shoot you down old boy
Welcome to the club and give me some blood
And the resident leader at the lost and found

It's comedy and tragedy
It's SAINT TUESDAY