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GOP Blocks Iraq Probe
According to Dekba stories Saddam Hussein in Iraq - More than a Taped Voice and Saddam’s WMD in Samarra Tunnels - US intelligence Estimates the US military knows (generally) where Saddam and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) are but is afraid to go in after them. What a pickle!

An ArmyTimes piece says, "In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap - and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately." Frugal chickenhawks, eh?

An AsiaTimes piece notes: With time running short, the U.S. is rediscovering the wheel - reactivating local cops, paying salaries of former soldiers in Iraq, and re-establishing the secret police. Another long-standing tradition of occupation. [via ALDaily]

I sometimes get mail

Like the following. Other readers are welcome to respond to either party. If you dare. Personally, I'm often amazed by the near-infinite complexity of human consciousness and perception. That's a nice way to say it, eh?

----- Original Message -----
From: DAS206@aol.com
To: ric@sonic.net
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 1:11 AM
Subject: Sk.Log

Several weeks ago, I had an experience. An experience that still continues to battle.

At first it started out as a phone call from a disgruntled exboyfriend of my mothers.

He threatened me and then drove by my house once very suspiciously.

Well, needles to say I was on guard all that weekend. The following week was full of little things that could not be explained in the view of reality.

1st I heard someone in my woods, not far from the house. I must state that I live in a neighborhood with lots of people around. Anyway after a few days of hearing ether a person or a bear "and a bear is very unlikely" tromping through the woods. I called the police. They came out and found nothing "they didn't look that hard"! Again the next night I called them, still nothing. After a few more days of feeling like I was under some kind of surveillance, or someone's stalking methods. I again called, this time when they came out the police told me that if no crime has been committed then theirs nothing they can do. So don't call them unless a crime actually has been committed.

The proceeding morning "almost 12 days into it" my dog started barking at the corner of the house. It was almost 5 am on like a Mon, or Tue. I let her out and she went directly the corner of the house and then steadily headed towards the neighbors. I then called her back and went inside. I then put up our baby monitor in the front window and heard "at least I think it was threw my ears" a male voice angerly stating that he was going to come down here and kill me "different threats were made" Then a female voice came into this pleading him not to.

I then went out side and sat on our pourchcouch and had a bowl of cereal and listened to what was in the monitor now in my ears or head. "havnt figured that one out"

After several threats made from this " I will call voice" voice, I then went in side and began to talk back "vocally" threw the monitor. Making no threats what so ever. Thinking they were receiving me threw a scanner or another monitor or something. Because I could hear there responses to to what I was saying.

Now here inlays my question,

After taking the monitor down and still hearing the voice. After several days of still hearing this voice threaten, then express to someone els as well as me that they don't understand how I got in there head, and I don't understand how they got in mine. I have been in like a so called physiological warfare with this voice.

I just want him to lieve me alone, and he wants to kill me for a reason unknown, or just the fact that to him is the only way I will get out of his head.

I feal like maybe we both were on a negative mental trip -- Me wanting to catch who was in the woods and around my house. And him angrily aggressive to me about me calling the police.

Is it possible that we have unknowingly entered into eachothers minds due to the fact of negative thoughts and energy's.

Or possibly that he set out to get my head. For reasons unknown. And then because of my own open mindedness I picked up on this and now knowing what his thoughts are?

Now that I have said the above, I will add that I am a strong believer in Christ, and all that God has blessed me with.

And it due to the life I lived many years ago. And knowing now that I was so called like one of the devils rite hand men. That really what is going on is the devil and God and me battling over my soul.

I would much rather believe that then to except that someone is in my head, and I am in theirs.

To a pastor its the battle over my soul, to a phycoligist Im experiencing paranoid delusions, and to a person familiar with thought control, Im in a phsycoligacal battle

What is you view ,, PLEASE

The Joys of Winter
Amidst a heatwave, I could use some winter joys. O well. The latest journal entries document a brief trip to coastal and mountain coolness. Meanwhile I'm still working on the Guatemala photos. They'll be up Real Soon Now...

Planning on a trip to Roswell and Area 51? I'm thinking about it, and those are two of the cool spots on today's national weather map. Also Hudson Bay and the Olympic Peninsula (which is a Definite Maybe).

The latest Wired is the Super Powers issue -- read about Being Invisible, Random Chaos, Antigravity, Time Travel, Real SuperPowers, etc. Fun for the whole family, eh? But what Super Powers would YOU like to have?

Egyptian Ratscrew

Yummy! WE ARE MEAT! NOT METALLIC! and The Hacker's Diet and Masturbator's Diet and Recipe for Jellied Moose Nose and MAN JUICE DIET! and Hmm hmmm cockroach juice... and How much H2O is enuf? and Anorexia Is Not A Diet and Pranic Diets - Stop Eating and MilSpec Snax and Change Diet And Semen Flavor and Wheat Meat Ain't Murder and JunkFood Junkies and find Tres Leches recipes -- Yummy!

"I'm hung like Einstein and smart as a horse!" --Anon.

Talked his way past Royal security

OK, so he climbed an embankment, a tree, a wall and a terrace, then talked contractors and security guards into letting him mingle with the Brit Royal family and guests. And only because he looked so normal, pretending to be drunk. How many Reptilioids could have infiltrated the event? How many DID?!? Do many Royal friends look like this? Do many of YOUR friends? Do YOU?

There have been many conspiracy theories linking the Brit Royals to world rule, international drug-slave-weapons trade, and various other nefarious actions. Do this image and story confirm your belief in such theories? Why not? Are you yourself a Royal friend or co-conspirator?

Mississippi River: the film

Andrei Codresceu, editor of the literary magazine Exquisite Corpse proposed a film about the Mississippi River. Here are my script suggestions:

In Robt Heinlein's FRIDAY the bisexual superwoman French-kisses a bulldyke recruiter and joins a mercenary group in Memphis Under-The-Hill that's attempting to infiltrate the Chicago Republic, but their steamboats are sabotaged somewhere upstream, exploding violently, and survivor Friday must swim across the Mississippi River, etc. Incorporate this into the film and it'll be the SUPER ACTION BLOCKBUSTER HIT of the summer, or whenever.

Or: in Robt Jones' BLOOD SPORT, the Mississippi River arises in the Tanggula Shan between Tibet and China, flows sluggishly thru the Bolivian Altiplano, cascades down the tempestuous Zambezi Gorges, crosses the Colorado Plateau and Danube Basin before forming the Achafalaya-Mississippi Delta and emptying into the Gulf at the Shatt-al-Arab. Jaded thrill-seekers traveling up- and down-river from Natchez encounter many multicultural adventures and wild beasts: some of a questing party are devoured, others are raped by mutant man-llama chimerae, others befriend shy Yazoo headhunters, yet others discover a lost UFO civilization. The HERO/INE leads the survivors past many hazards, to... ???

Or: GW (Global Warming) Bush, at the behest of his Reptilioid Republican masters, not only promotes McFood so the RRs will have a nice juicy harvest of obese humans, but also increases fossil-fuel burning which accelerates the melting of icecaps, glaciers, etc. The oceans rise; the Mississippi River also rises, slowly engulfing the entire Valley between the Rockies and the Appalachians, with just the Ozark-Ouichata Plateau and Black Hills remaining as isolated islands. NOLAns (NewOrleanders) have built a crystal dome over the Crescent City and live out their usual lives under the murky waters, albeit with far fewer tourists to exploit.

Or: a flock of wild geese flies down the length of the Mississippi River in the autumn, shitting the entire way. The POV is that of selected individual shit-droplets as they fall, a panorama of the river from north-to-south, high-to-low elevation, swirling around like a magical dance. Smell-o-vision, of course. Hmmm, not much ACTION ADVENTURE in that -- unless the shit-droplets have personalities, battle on the way down, etc.

Devoured By Change
* Apocalypse soon: God sez we must oppose MidEast peace!
* The Virgin Mary arrives at 7:30 every evening (except Friday).
* Voodoo wizard George Orwell killed boy using black magic!
* Paganism & witchcraft are on the rise in Britain! Ooga booga!

* Alien Intelligence Strangest Of All? The Science Fiction Rule
* Argument Mapping helps you figure out really complex crap!
* Beware! Centaurs or aliens running wild in Nigeria at twilight!
* Crop Circles In Italian Wheatfields - there goes the spaghetti!

* Metaphysics & Grids: The Earth's grid system is The Matrix?
* Have a face-to-face encounter with an actual extraterrestrial!
* Female Avatars Face Gender Bias Online - pass another law!
* The Time Travel Fund will take you (and your money) far away.

* If water has a memory what does my urine know about me?
* Bryan College, Christ Above All - above reason, logic, IQ, etc.
* Clyde Lewis: Insane paranoic or just very badly programmed?
* James' Bones: It Takes an Expert To Believe Real Nonsense

Almost Every Conspiracy
* Pseudoarchaeology, yea or nay? But not pseudohistory nor pseudothought!
* A massive archeological dig is underway two miles beneath Antarctic ice!
* Or is this a mere marketing venture? What? No giant albino penguins?

* Is your neighbour secretly black? How to recognize Indo-Mongol-Satanoids!
* Never mind "pedophilic" priests -- Pope John Paul himself is "666"! Yow!
* BIRD MANNA! G0D sent all the aliens, of course. [via Flaneur at Large]

* A GRAVITY-WARP CAPACITOR - Can two plates lift themselves?!?!?!
* CHIRON: The cosmic blueprint for the World Trade Center calamity!!
* The Blackshirts are here, and so are the Fathers. Beware! [via null]

"I'm freaked out by the body. I used to pretend that I was hollow, because I couldn't stand the idea of having all those organs inside, it made me feel sick." --Chris Cunningham

And see the prior entries!