Those of you who read my posts at InTheShadows or my recent comments at the just-vanished Sensible Erection know my views on Dubya's War. The rest of you, read on:
Dubya is a coward and a deserter (AWOL for 8 months in 72-73 - that's DESERTION). While a unit of my Army battalion (1/5 FA, 1st Inf Div) was being overrun and slaughtered by VietCong, Dubya was hiding out. He is scum. Back then, Colin Powell was busy covering-up the Mai Lai massacre; Dubya's associates and backers were avoiding military service; their children avoid military service. And the justifications presented for attacking Iraq turn out to be all lies. Lies.
Given that the leadership consists of shirkers, chickenhawks and liars, why should the US military follow their orders? Because troops pledge to follow orders, no matter how stupid or criminal.
Why attack Iraq, which poses no conceivable threat to the US? It's not for oil, or revenge, or prophesy - it's about hegemony, building a US base in a central location to threaten Russia, India, China, Europe. It's about imposing 'free-market' corporate cartel capitalism on the entire world. It's about total global domination. Nothing more, nothing less.
Have a nice war.
Iraq/War Blogs:
current events in blogosphere
googling media & warlogs
google for warblogs
Forbes rates the warblogs:
Daily Kos: analysis from California
Back To Iraq 2.0: but not there yet
Tacitus.org - slowly gets headlines
Salam Pax (RAED) aground in Baghdad
VodkaPundit.com - radiotalk asshole
Iraq Peace Team, aground in Baghdad
The Agonist - blogging various news
Kevin Sites - reported from Baghdad
BBC war news
History News Net Blog - smart looks
Debka- hot intelligence from Israel
Marduk's Babylonian Musings
* HYBRID, the RPG - X-rated, where X = [(C2/10)^2]
* Help! Hong Kong terrorist kill the Hong Kong people!
* What REALLY fell on Greenland: Meteor or UFO?
* Go ONE STEP BEYOND - become TransHuman
* Dumb stupid evil bastards ignore the Time Cube(s)
* Ignore Quantum theory and/or Theory of relativity
* Enjoy TIME TRAVEL in the privacy of your bathtub
* Once in every day, NARTH in every bathtub. Narf.
* The TRUTH! The TRUTH! The TRUTH! The TRUTH!
* Hey ANAMADIM: intensive NewAge weight control
Just a reminder: this ain't all fun'n'games, kids. Bush's gang wants to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, killing tens or hundreds of thousands of poor bastards who have the misfortune to live under a regime that Bush's gang had previously supported and supplied and armed. Yeah, Saddam had WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) (nukes) and ADWs (Area Denial Weapons) (biochems) because WE gave'em to him.
So now we're gonna use bunker-busters (nukes) and DU (depleted uranium) armor-piercers and various chemical and incendiary and hyperexplosive weapons on the people of the most repressed state in the MidEast. Look at the pictures on the above site, multiply by a zillion, and be aware: if you're a US citizen, you're letting this happen. Again.
* FAITH:
Nail Jesus! and
Soldier of God and
BBC: Jedi Faith and
JFK & JHC and
JEBUS IS LORD and
Game of Satan
* THOUGHT:
Existentialism Primer and
Lunar Republic and
Amnita Muscaria and
Modern Drunkard Magazine
* TECH:
The Time Is... and
BBC: Pix or Txt? and
Google Hacks and
Stone-age tech and
ICOM R2 group
* MUSIC:
Louie Louie and
EtherNet Guitar and Naked Orchestra and
Repercussion music and
Sensible music
Most Americans
believe in ghosts! Isaac Newton predicted end of world in 2060! Eating tomatoes "turns kids into criminals"! Peer review stifles fringe scientists! Tests on the Turin Shroud are bogus! Answers in Genesis' message are being heard! Community policing is a Communist plot! Cast out demons with potty-training! Those damn ExtraTerrestrials run everything on Earth! Columbia Shuttle Disaster = Textbook Psychological Warfare! Sinister Desert Rat Cult lives on InterNet! Religion to be destroyed by truth beyond lies! Natural Law is gonna get your Mamma!
OK, I've done a bit of updating lately, whilst neglecting needful things, but that's how it goes. Was preoccupied until the biopsy report came back: no bad news. Anyway, here's the latest:
* New stuff and improved format for the EatIt! pages (see below)
* Improved format and many new journal entries
* New issue of the Ridge Rat News
* New Restructuring notes and improved formats for many Go! pages, but that's an ongoing project that probably won't be finished for a few weeks - mucho editing to do.
* Review: Ron Thompson plays the Hotel St. George, Volcano Calif.
* Updates to the Guatemala journal, and I set up a newsletter for posting notes and photos while we're traveling.
And I have many photos that I haven't had time to process, nor places to display them online. I'll work on that. And I'm featured in an article in the Riverside Press-Enterprise [free signup needed] although I wish the focus had been more on Harry Oliver than myself. Bother.
From EatIt!:
* Celebrating America's favorite cannibal, Alferd Packer
* We're always doing that Organic Tango, baby baby!
* Rude food and beans on her toes and Dahmer talks
* A heap of food blogs can be found at Rebecca's Place
from CNN:
THE PORTFOLIO DIET. A new vegetarian diet emphasizing soy and soluble fiber can lower cholesterol
by a surprising one-third. But finicky eaters may balk at its daily helpings of okra, eggplant and Metamucil, among other things. The Portfolio diet, as it's called, involves several trendy nutrients that have been shown separately
to be good for the heart. "Not a very appetizing diet," commented Dr. Sanjay Gupta, "but a diet that works. Researchers are concerned that people may be not able to stick with it." Eat some nice healthy BBQ sawdust too.
* Secrets Govts Don't Want You To See! (cf. Black Jesuit Lizards)
* 25 Things not to tell a Psychiatrist. (I don't wanna hear it either.)
* Einstein Is Dead! Relativity Is A Vortex! And It Really Sucks!
"A Californian man went on trial after he allegedly dissected his six-year-old daughter's guinea pig because he thought it was a camera-equipped robot placed in his home by government agents."
* KGB Unveils UFO Secrets? (Or maybe just more disinformation?)
* Evolution Theory: Who Is Lying? (And what do they have to gain?)
* US & UK Took Hitler To Patagonia! (And all I got was this T-shirt!)
What's going on in Zihuatanejo? Why the Allstate missing lingerie? What drugs did they give her sister? Should she meet
Shari Soza? Suppose she's NOT just PsychoCeramic?
* The Patented Fractal Gene Thang: ARE YOU 99% MOUSE?
* How do you publicize a society that's secret? Mason lodge hires publicist, places ads, tries desperately to regain world control.
Life (NOT as we know it) on Venus: Microbes simply don't go about constructing massive bridges, complex interconnected reservoirs, tarmacs, townships nor airship technology and infrastructure.
* Break free from pornography addiction! Just don't touch me...
* Do you like Dolphins, ALISHA? They gave me paper pants that ripped in the crotch after wearing them for 5 minutes!
A correspondent wrote: "Ive been planning to type out Joaquin Millers 1875 epic poem the Ship in the desert anyway."
I replied: "All 205+ pages? Zowie! Anyway, there's no need to. I googled and found this, which has page images and plaintext of the epic. I haven't clicked on the VIEW TEXT link yet - maybe tonight. I hope this zaves you a bit of work. Or is it a challenge?
Can't live without ExoNews! But spyware is everywhere! And who knows if The End Is Near? But I always knew that L.A. was an inferno!
But enough of that. Last night I learned what deductive logic is. When phoning Guatemala from the USA, just use the access+country codes (011+502) and the 7-digit phone number, do NOT add a city code. And nobody hangs around the dips'n'chips when they're in a remote corner. Gotta remember that...
Well, I just bought, for real real cheap, at Ross, a couple of audio/video synth/mix packages from Magix: dance maker (1999) and music & video maker gen.6 (2001). Now I have to install them (actually I've tried dance maker) and then I have to use them. Watch out... and stay away from Tranvestite Paradise!
I've been busy - finished entering most of the Harry Oliver texts - what's left is either non-Harry or should be OCR'd. (And one of these days I'll index the major articles, maybe. Right.) I explain WHY I'm doing this in HIGH NOONER: Harry Oliver and the Wild West Mythos.
And I put my old River Rat Scrap Books online. And I've created the Ridge Rat News: #1, #2, #2a, #3, and am now working on #4. (All those went into my SkeptiNews log too.) With a little luck (and a bit of work) I'll have a lot of meta-Sierra regional stuff online before too long. All that, after starting planning (and journalizing) the upcoming Guatemala trip. Whew.
As if that ain't enough, I've noticed that my pages don't look so good outside of MicroSoft Internet Explorer (MSIE), so I've started reformatting everything to be tolerable in Mozilla-Netscape browsers. Which don't mean they're OK in the Opera browser -- THAT may require some major design simplification. Which means major thought and work. Ugh. Damn, I've let my stuff get too baroque...
Then I've got to update my journals for the last few months. Then I've got a lot of physical work (reorganization, haulage) around the new house, including: filtering tons of books; building a data network and music studio; hanging guitars. Then I've got some bicycles to maintain. Et cetera, et cetera. And I thought retirement would be easy. Oh well, when that's done I can make music, find books, ride around, whatever.
Now look at the prior entries.
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