Bypass the MSM and hit up Firedoglake for your Libby coverage:
Judge Walton: He is not a flight risk or danger to the community, but I don’t see the issues raised as close, so I deny his request to be released pending appeal. I will allow him to self report, but unless I am overruled, he will have to report.
I was told so often during my life that the United States was a great country. In grade school the USSR became Russia, and in junior high we saved Kuwait from a bad man. Over time I struggled with the notion that most of what I thought about my country during those years was bullshit. Howard Zinn then informs me that most of what I learned about US history was bullshit as well. This made me a proud version of what a lot of Americans love to hate. In fact, so many of the people who voted for George W. Bush twice but are now hating his guts over immigration, are those same people who looked down on me for criticizing the guy when we invaded Iraq. Which has me wondering now, whether this defection has now turned the virtue of dissent into bullshit as well. Perhaps I’m simply coming at it from the wrong angle though, as bullshit is really an inherent facet of politics and history and people anyhow.
Indeed – the symptoms that seem to bother me so much today, were certainly there before. The difference is simply a matter of degree. Like visions of old public service announcements turned to cobwebs in the back of my mind, it appears that we’ve decided to ignore just about every good piece of advice available to us for long enough to warrant an intervention. Whereas the republic was a recreational drug user throughout my childhood, today it’s got a junk habit that could resurrect Williams Burroughs and kill him again in the same day. It has crippled our ability to do any of those things we could do before, but rather than realize it at some point, there’s always maintenance of the high, like what we’ve got to steal and how to get the money from all that without getting caught, arrested or worse. In our earlier years we landed Neil Armstrong on the moon and built the Hoover Dam. Now we can’t even build a fence.
Symptoms like these are difficult to ignore, but we’re good at it now. Anti-American was the tune you’d hear in that head of yours before thinking the worst about this country and its government. As to the serious junk fiend there’s nothing worse than being told you’ve got a problem, and for the government this person goes by the name of ‘whistleblower’. For the Limbaugh fans out there, this is a word that can kill a good high in a bad way, so we’ve become very lethal in regards to these people in particular. Without even hearing what one has to say…you can just tell that they’re speaking up because they hate America, and they’re dumb enough to think you’d fall for it. Agency after agency, year after year it happened, and so the idea Republicans came up with was to just appoint whoever raised the most campaign money or was otherwise known to have no ethical understanding or aptitude outside the basic concept of loyalty. The idea being that as long as the addict was inhibited by swarming droves of drug peddling hacks there’d eventually be nobody left to complain about anything.
Thankfully an election allowed for our government to get counseling and some kind of a methadone regimen started. I honestly don’t think that the general public is even capable of grasping the scope of what has been done to so many of the government’s most civic-minded collections of talent we’d been able to take for granted for so long. It’s impossible for any of us to know how serious these injuries actually are, due to the heroin effect a lack of information turns into over such a long period of time. Borrowing a line from our Secretary of State, if Iraq is experiencing “birth pangs”, then we in United States are in the middle of a Trainspoting ‘three buckets and a dead baby crawling across the ceiling’ kind of withdrawal. The body is purging and becoming ugly in a way that’s making the brain in charge wish it was dead, and every time one of the buckets gets used, the stink is bothersome for only as long as it takes another wave of expulsion to burn its way out.
That the brain is stupid and the nervous system prefers another fix above all else is the only thing any of us can be sure about at this point. The messages haven’t been delivered intact or on time for as long as I can remember, with unconnected dots still being ignored, and addiction continuing on in its debilitating triumph over everything. Nerves like Tim Russert and David Gregory appear to work correctly at times, but for the most part they’re beholden to the drug above all else. Take for instance the appearance of Orin Hatch on Meet the Press a little while back, where he stated that Carol Lam, the former US Attorney from San Diego who successfully prosecuted Duke Cunningham, wasn’t a trial lawyer and had worked on Clinton’s election campaign. The statements were 100% false, yet Russert wasn’t fazed in the least, and even when given a full week to realize it and decide how to address what amounted to a failure on his part, Russert tells me to read about the lies that Hatch told on NBC’s website. More pressing matters needed to be addressed, like what David Broder and a couple other dizzy fucks had to say about an election still 18 months away.
David Gregory fills in for Chris Matthews on Hardball and just lets the dope do it’s thing, leading of course to a similar lapse, this time involving Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Syria. Beltway drug addicts had come to the conclusion that a shot in the vein was easier than actually taking the time to read a couple of articles, quotes from those who actually went on the Democratic and Republican trips to the Middle East, perhaps a blog or two (Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald perhaps?), and figure out why certain strings were being pulled that week. This knucklehead came out firing at Scott McClellan for months in a day after day over the CIA-leak contradictions he was trying to sell from the podium, yet his dope-addled, lazy faculties couldn’t determine whether or not the right-wing croakers he’d run into earlier were really his friends, and weren’t just using him for what he could provide? It was a brown powder in a bag that cooked up nice, and did the trick for Gregory, who was banking on his sudden “balance” to somehow end up making him seem more acceptable to the brain and its corporate media minions, all of whom now depend on this nervous system to continue using, while the mutilation ensues.
As far as that goes, what we’re living through right now is the saddest, most transparently motivated attempt by the elite to destroy whatever isn’t to their liking that we’ll ever see in our lifetimes. Digits are being loped off and fused back onto the body in wrong places, testes removed and reattached to the right ass cheek in the spot where a man’s wallet goes, and as for the rest of what’s supposed to be down in front, it’s on the top of the head now like a unicorn, smacking us right between the eyes whenever we try to walk anywhere. A sensation that our hapless, wealthy President and Vice President have both enjoyed during their years of free air travel and bodyguards, though as white blood cells begin to multiply and go to work, and the withdrawal sickness evolves, our sense of things like ‘I don’t remember having eight fingers attached to my chin’ or ‘how come my feet are gone’ become real. Of course, with this nervous system of smack addicts to rely on, over time there’s a good chance that a memory of this body even having feet or thumbs to begin with will be impossible.
Just as nature planned it, there’s consolidation in every industry, a perfect example being AT&T, which was so well managed in the beginning of the new century that it had to resort to the gimmicks of a penny stock, a five to one reverse stock split to get its shares out of the $5-10 neck-deep muck, now having bought SBC and seemingly every other telecom outfit that could have competed with it, the big money is happy and satisfied with the thrill of predictability once more, and the process of anti-anti-trust that began in the 80s is finally making the work that comes with managing wealth so much easier than it was with all that pesky “competition” to worry about.
Catching the fever in this regard is so tempting for so many, not only because the demands of having to go to work and earn a living becomes a bore once you become one of those serial board-member types, but if a larger company with the cash wants to give my stock options $3 more in value than they’re worth today and all I have to do is break the news to my 20,000 (soon to be laid off) strong workforce, file some paperwork with the rarely curious SEC, accept the bribe of a seat on the board of the acquisition company and a few million and change of this, that, dollars, shares, write ups in Dow Jones publications, a handful of pocketed “analysts” who will write about how keen my sense is for the “right deal” is what this country is all about.
And I think here is where the thing can end for today, as it has come around to the supposed root of all evil. The true force perhaps, behind the transformation of our elected government into nothing more than “something on TV”. I think that’s as much bullshit as anything else really. Another cop-out to go on the pile atop history, the pledge of allegiance, dissent and whatever else I babbled on about here.
This woman is either a deranged sociopath or basically someone who is emblematic of the ‘loyal Bushie’ mindset, which appears to embody a complete lack of respect for the law, along with an enormous level of ignorance in not being able to even imagine ever having to answer questions in front of a committee. Ms. Doan clearly has no shame, and is treating all of this as if were a game of some kind. She’s playing in front of the committee, just as she was playing with the GSA and the careers of its federal employees when she was in charge. She happened to be great at the political fund-raising game, and like a kid winning a contest for selling the most candy bars door to door for their school, she won a prize. In GOP-land that prize is an appointment to head up a very important government agency. Qualified or not, the government itself is carved up and handed out as prizes to people like Ms. Doan.
Her behavior in these hearings, especially when confronted with her prior testimony, is that of a pouting, spoiled little girl, whose propensity for tantrums happens to be spattered throughout the pages of sworn testimony she has provided up to this point. Caught in a flat out lie or (in the case of this video clip) caught stupidly admitting to investigators that she would retaliate against whoever provided evidence against her, the capacity of this woman to simply do the right thing is nonexistent. Every one of her actions towards the job, her employees and the investigation, is driven by a primal reflex that recognizes no boundaries or even the slightest notion that her natural instincts could be fallible in any way. She feels entitled to behave in this manner. She sold the most candy bars, and therefore she cannot possibly be wrong. Anyone who suggests otherwise is stupid.
S.J.Res.14 – A joint resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people. (voting results)
Several senators decided to take a pass on work yesterday, as the “no vote” list includes: Biden, Brownback, Obama, Coburn, Dodd, McCain. Ted Stevens understood where he was at the time, but apparently not much else, as his vote wasn’t for or against, but rather “present”.
Notable “nea” votes were cast by Graham and Kyl. Along with Coburn, these Republicans were capable of expressing how they felt about Gonzalez up until yesterday’s vote on the resolution. Here is what they had to say to the Attorney General when he testified at a judiciary committee hearing (Source):
Coburn: “I believe you (Gonzales) ought to suffer the consequences and think best way to put this behind us is with your resignation.”
Graham: “Most of this is a stretch,” Graham said after listening to Gonzales’ explanation of the dismissals. “It’s clear to me that some of these people just had personality conflicts with people in your office or the White House and (they) just made up reasons to fire them.”
Kyl: “Sadly your actions have severely shaken the confidence of the American people in you, and in your ability to fulfill your public trust. … Would you explain to the American people why it is so important that you should remain in this office?”
Who was standing up for “core principles” yesterday? Follow the public statements and subsequent votes on the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and a pattern emerges. Men who honestly love our country and believe in the sanctity of our system of justice, will sell out for the sake of their party. Now they’ve done so for the likes of Alberto Gonzalez. Anyone in need of a refresher on how low this truly is to sink, take a look at these:
I take it there are a lot of pissed off HBO subscribers out there today. Don’t count me in with that crowd – I thought the ending was perfect. That final scene had me jumping over every person that came in through the door, everybody seemed like the one that would be there to pull the trigger…a moment for us to jump inside and get a taste of the day to day anxiety, the terror. This is the life of Tony Soprano, and the source of all his mental ills. The family is in tact, but a blow of the wind this way or that way could send it all crashing down. David Chase…what a masterpiece!
(source) These stories, in real life, don’t end with the boss escaping murder or jail too often. Those at the top get shit on and tossed out like garbage. The next day, whatever vermin is left on the street simply go about feeding like nothing ever happened. Tony has known this since he first got into it as a kid, and his panic attacks are a direct result of knowing all too well how the story must end.
The final episode
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(fromDailyKOS) My wife is an officer in Iraq. She did a decade of service as an enlisted soldier. She wanted to have an effect on policy and make decisions on a day to day basis when she chose to become an officer. She is in Iraq with a team tasked to train the Iraqis how to do their job. This particular had once been for the Special Forces. I know because I played the Green Beret game for a brief time. I was trained as an airborne grunt. I chose to be a trill seeker, a ground-pounder. Eleven-Bravo…Hooah (Al’s note: 11B = infantry, boots – no vehicles). I thoroughly enjoyed my time wearing our nations uniform. I am from a long line of military men. Grandfather, Father, Uncle, Brother, spouse etc.
I got out in 2002 and refused offers to continue my service. I knew what was coming…many of us knew. Sadaam was going to be taken out and a future in the Army looked bloody. I was confused and shocked, then pissed off when hearing all the Iraq war drums. I searched for any connection to Sadaam and 9-11. I have been an Iraq war hater/critic from a year before we invaded. On 9/11, my wife and I were both were in uniform. Read More
Napoleon’s words sent me into one of my research kicks, and so I’ve been digging around a bit, reading a lot of material from the first quarter of the 20th century. There’s a lot I could cite, but this one here was really good, as it deals with the position of strength US workers found themselves in during WW1, when the country depended too much on production to have management doing its thing. A walkout in these conditions would not only threaten their employer’s operation, but perhaps the war effort as well. So unions were strong in these times, but once the war ended it was a different story. In this excerpt we’ll see the Supreme Court playing a role (as it already has begun to under Chief Justice Roberts see ‘Supreme Court Decides to Favor Discrimination Against Women Workers‘).
Excerpt from ‘Labor and the New Nationalism‘ by Robert W. Bruere
Published in May 1919, Harper’s Magazine (Subscription Req’d)
“…For it is when one looks to the tradition of our courts and of our public policy, and especially when one contrasts that tradition with the actual practice of our government during the war, that one discovers the most baneful point of irritation. The roots of our tradition with respect to labor strike back into the ancient English commonlaw doctrine of criminal conspiracy, which was first applied in this country in 1806 against the shoemakers of Philadelphia, whom a jury convicted of “conspiracy to raise their wages.” According to Commons, who analyzes the issues in his History of Labor in the United States, the verdict was received by a divided public opinion. The Jeffersonian newspapers throughout the country made the cause of the workers their own and bitterly arraigned the court and the law under which the shoemakers were convicted. But the workers were then in the main unfranchised, and, though the courts shifted the emphasis in their adverse interpretation of the law, their attitude toward organized attempts to increase wages or better working conditions remained generally hostile. The right to organize and bargain collectively is possibly the most coveted right to which wage-workers have aspired for more than a century . To secure the full recognition of that right and its implied privileges, they have made their greatest sacrifices. It is frequently assumed that this right to organize is no longer in dispute in America; that collective bargaining is no longer a question of law, but rests exclusively with the discretion of the employers and the organized strength of the workers. This assumption is far from true.
The attitude of the courts toward collective action remains hostile, as appears most clearly perhaps in two comparatively recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court. On January 25, 1915, this court held unconstitutional a law of the state of Kansas which forbade any employer to require from employees or prospective employees an agreement, either written or verbal, not to join or to continue as members of trade-unions. Violations were classed as misdemeanors, punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both. On July I, 1911, T. B. Coppage, a superintendent employed by the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company at Fort Scott, Kansas, instructed a switchman named Hedges to sign an agreement to withdraw from his union. Hedges refused and was discharged. The trial court found Coppage guilty of a misdemeanor. Coppage, contending that the statute under which he had been convicted was unconstitutional, took an appeal. The highest appellate tribunal of Kansas upheld the law and affirmed Coppage’s. conviction. But the United States Supreme Court later reversed the state court by a divided vote, Justices Day, Holmes, and Hughes dissenting.
Subsequently, in December, 1917, in the case of Hitchman Coal & Coke Co. us, Mitchell et al., the Supreme Court reinforced the position taken in the Coppage case by declaring it unlawful for agents of a labor union to attempt to recruit members among workmen who, as a condition of their employment, had signed such individual agreements as the legislature of Kansas had sought to outlaw…”
Since there’s not enough time to post on everything I pile up for the future, I’ll be making a post like this every so often. Here are 13 videos I really liked:
Our Accu-Wrath Forecast
Hannity & Colmbes – Hitchens/Fallwell
I’m finding it to be pretty interesting how this GOP race has played out so far. Not that I’m surprised that Mitt Romney is on top, since he really is best looking one who says nothing controversial to whoever his audience is…but obviously the Ron Paul factor is something they never bargained for – I’ve got a bunch of clips here on the topic of the GOP debates:
McLaughlin Group 5-4-07 1st GOP Debate
Fox News debate analysis (home-made & fascinating)
There was a time in my life when something like this would never get by me. Three straight nights of the game starting after 10PM, and all day long I’m thinking the 4th in Oakland is a night game. Schilling pitches a complete game, missing a no-hitter by one batter, and I missed it. *&$%!!!
(Story) Maybe the next time a Boston pitcher takes a no-hit bid into the ninth inning, he’ll listen to catcher Jason Varitek. Curt Schilling came within one out of his first career no-hitter Thursday, losing his bid when Shannon Stewart lined a clean single to right field after Schilling shook off his catcher. Schilling finished with a one-hitter as the Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 1-0. “We get two outs, and I was sure, and I had a plan, and I shook Tek off,” Schilling said. “And I get a big `What if?’ for the rest of my life.”
Without fail, when a Sox pitcher is giving up hits (I’m thinking about Dice-K here), he’s missing location. When the pitch meets Varitek’s glove, and it’s the pitch he called for, it always seems to go right.
Wolf Blitzer is moderating in New Hampshire, and he asks the entire crop of potential GOP candidates for ’08 to raise their hand if they believe that gays should be allowed to serve in the military. Not one hand went up. This is called ‘stroking the Republican base like it needs to be stroked’. There is no other way to arouse the voters who show up to cast ballots in a Republican primary, but with a dominant grasp of the issues, along with the magic words that’ll bring them to attention. It is a formula that can only be ignored in those rare instances when the voter is faced with star-fucking as an alternative.
If you hope to circumvent the reality of what it actually takes to make it through this gauntlet of intolerance, then you’d better be famous. Because nothing else to an ‘up is down’ right-winger is nearly as potent as the thrilling dynamic of feeling akin to someone on TV. And when it’s the most irrational right-wing subset of them all, this phenomenon is taken to the absolute limits. Hence the natural partnership established between former Marine Corporal Matt Sanchez and the brain trust over at a blog called ‘Right Wing News‘. Anyone unfamiliar with Mr. Sanchez, can bone up on his story with a few lines from something I posted on 4/12/07:
12/4/2006 – On this date the New York Post publishes a column written by marine Corporal Matt Sanchez concerning harassment of the military on the campus of Columbia University (3)
2 – Number of times Sanchez subsequently appeared on Fox News (Hannity and Colmes – VIDEO) (The O’Reiley Factor – VIDEO)
3/2/2007 – On this date the American Conservative Union honored Matt Sanchez with the Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award at the 34th annual CPAC (4)
200 – Dollar amount required for a man to pay Sanchez for sex (5)
3 – Number of gay porno films Sanchez is known to have starred in
12,000 – Amount of money the Marines have accused Sanchez of stealing from various donors to fund a fictional deployment to Iraq (6)
After finding out about his past, it is obvious what happened next. The show-biz folks who turned him into something he wasn’t – pumped him up for their own sake – proceeded to drop him like his name was Foley and pretend he’d never existed. Only problem was, in the process of creating this fictional character, nobody ever bothered to let the poor guy know that he wasn’t real. It is a hallmark of the star-fucking cannibalistic nature at play here, that the most relevant ones (Coulter, BillO), those who can actually create these characters, are sharks in the ocean, forever moving forward, feeding and forgetting.
In the subsequent interactions I’ve had with Sanchez this week, on deadissue and Right Wing News, it has become clear that this is what happened. And although it sounds bad, I can assure you that it is getting worse by the day. As his star was falling so rapidly, he had the misfortune of crossing paths with his mirror image, and the cycle began once more. Only this time the podium and network studio is a laptop in Fallujah, and the audience of millions is a delusional collection of right-wingers on a blog where “the truth” = “civil war in Iraq is a myth created by the liberal media”.
Stephen Colbert on one of his best nights doesn’t even come close to a couple hours at ‘Right Wing News’. And while liberal blogs like Firedoglake are turning into juggernauts, this blog (like most of its right-wing brethren) has moved in the exact opposite direction. An exclamation point to this observation is the periodic post containing nothing but a handful of advertiser links (unlabeled, just posted as ‘Link #1, Link #2, etc.) with a request that readers give each of them a few clicks. With that in mind, you can imagine how excited they became when a crumb from show-biz table named Sanchez fell their way and agreed to post exclusively on ‘Right Wing News’ from within Iraq. Read More
For more background on all this, you can see the documentary I posted a few weeks ago:
(by Tom Segev – JERUSALEM) Forty years ago, on the morning of June 5, 1967, Jordan launched an artillery attack on the Israeli part of Jerusalem. In reaction, Israel conquered the Arab sections of the city as well as the West Bank. History is full of “what ifs,” and historians should not indulge in such speculation. But journalists may. What if Israel hadn’t taken East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the Six-Day War? Would the Palestinian situation have found some solution and would Israel be living at least in relative peace with its neighbors? Would Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism have been avoided?
Perhaps. The alternate history is not as inconceivable as one might think. Leading Israeli policy planners had determined six months before the Six-Day War that capturing the West Bank would be bad for the country. Recently declassified Israeli government documents show that according to these policy planners, taking over the West Bank would weaken the relative strength of Israel’s Jewish majority, encourage Palestinian nationalism and ultimately lead to violent resistance. Read More
Not only does Hillary stand in front of the first one, but ABC News manages to get it wrong another way on the same page. You know that each of these mistakes made their way past a number of eyes. 50 years ago neither of these mistakes would have made it through, but today…WITH spellchecker, they both make it through. See if at least the article mistake is fixed by now (ABC News).
(BostonGlobe) Asante Samuel: “I’m not coming to camp. I’m not showing up until the 10th week [of the season]. I feel unappreciated. The way they’re treating me is just wrong.” ~~ He added the ‘week 10′ thing, which is original. Will we have 3 first round picks for next year? I’d rather have Samuel locked up for 2-3 years, but as I explained earlier:
(Asante Samuel – 1/9/07) “There are plenty of them going here or there each offseason, but the “shut-down” cornerbacks in this league are few and far between. What results of course is maximum 7 year contracts with signing bonus cash entering the player’s bank account in 5 million dollar chunks or more on the first day of training camp. Asante Samuel has his eyes on just that heading into the divisional round of the playoffs. With 11 interceptions under his belt so far, the chances of a holdout…are probably higher than Samuel receiving that kind of a contract from Bill Belichick.“
Bruce Bowen ages a year in this series vs. Lebron, and the team that can figure it out consistently on defense and hit open shots will prevail. I was enlightened by something I read earlier today:
(CavsBlog) Reason to Believe #1: Cleveland is 2-0 against the Spurs this year. The Cavs played San Antonio twice this season. The first was the second game of the season way back in November (box score) and the second was the day after New Years’ (box score).
Boise State University ~ the entire second set is a masterpiece. My #1 favorite bootleg for years, and here’s one part of it. Hard to pick which one to feature here, but I had to go with the energy on DWD and then a ferocious rendition of Frankenstein. Notice how Trey signals to Page and Mike after DWD (the walk), and also Fishman’s ‘One of these days…’, something that ran with the credits in an episode of Sopranos last year (from my favorite Pink Floyd album):
Update 8PM: After simply choosing a new username (kent brockman) and email, I was able to create a new account, then post for the rest of the day. My main point in all of this was to perhaps warn Mr. Sanchez of the fact that the GOP has already tossed him aside, and to be careful about going into this new phase with high expectations of what will come of it. His celebrity status is enough for Right Wing News to work hard at making him feel like a big shot, because…let’s face it, they haven’t got much else going on over there from the looks of it. In fact, if you scroll down the front page a little ways, you’ll come across a post that contains 4-5 links, which they urge you to click on. Cyber-panhandling…if that phrase hasn’t been made famous yet, then this is a perfect opportunity to introduce it into our language.
Oh – so after a number of hours, one of the storm troopers is still thinking that kent brockman is Hal Kimball, and I’ve already said my piece, so I help the poor guy out and explain the obvious, that deadissue and kent are the same person and have been all along. My IP address has now been blocked. Heh – not bad. ~~
Matt Sanchez is a blogger in Iraq, and he’s posted a rant about how the mainstream media is too chicken-shit to leave the Green Zone (he apparently is notified of the activities of the entire media apparatus in the country on a regular basis)…stop me if you’ve heard this one before from a right-winger…and so he is debunking news articles, one in particular about a suicide bombing that was reported by the Wall Street Journal, without facts or a follow-up to the news division or even a single word from the article itself. You’re just supposed to take his word for it, and that is precisely what 99/100 readers of Right Wing News are prepared to do. Here’s a link to the Sanchez post, ‘Embed Matt Sanchez Reports From Fallujah‘.
I was able to post comments up until I submitted this (went into moderation and so I posted a comment that showed up on the site – meaning that, I wasn’t banned until they read the following): Read More
“At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001 ], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country” – Dennis Milligan, Arkansas Republican Party Chairman
H/T nkz83
Outstanding find, Thank God For YouTube!!! Part 2 is below the fold. (H/T Andrew Sullivan, hockey assist Your Daily Awesome)
GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY ~ of methods such as specific manipulation of the body and mind’s emotions as well as its ability to speak to you using signs & language bop that will pop loud or soft depending on how good you’ve been. When it’s tallied, how much did you – affect – infect – kill – produce – accumulate – steal – keep – burn – learn – love – share share – lose ~~
Hunkered over this night’s product – words, words and more words have provoked my right shoulder blade into organizing a non-peaceful protest against my body ~~
Persephone theory – thought if all she ate was 4 then I’m sure the bitch could have gone without – but I kind of like the idea that a woman is responsible for the existence of winter ~~
My apartment is the only one decorated with Christmas lights for blocks. It’s a good feeling to drive up at night, but I’m fearing burglary now more than ever. The weird guy downstairs would probably figure it out though as during most of the time he’s home you can expect a bolt out of his door upon hearing footsteps…but seeing that I’m the one being robbed they’d probably just kill him and get away with it all. The guy bugs the hell out of my friends when he jumps out of his door like that, and he definitely frightens the girls. Just as well I guess as most of the time all anyone brings here is the potential to make a mess that I end up cleaning every time, but maybe if I related the lights-burglary thinking to him, he’d stay inside just in case. Surely what’s going to go down is the opposite of what I hope for ~~
(from Control Congress) preussow Says: Al, how can she (Hillary) lose you, she keeps changing the stance on the audience and surely at one point she hit your button.
Al Swearengen Says: Nah – I expect all politicians to lie on the campaign trail, as it has always been that way (no magical place in world history exists where this wasn’t the case), but Hillary is so full of sh*t compared with Obama, Biden, Dodd…I tend to go through a loop where I’m settled on Obama, then decide to think of him as the worst of the worst for a while to see what it’s like without him in the running, and the politicians who have been around in Congress for so long just get me feeling even worse, and right-wing talk radio helps out with this experiment, as apparently Obama is really a terrorist with half a brain, big nigger lips and no work experience…
I can’t get around it. Hillary just makes me feel like a consumer, and Obama makes me feel like an American. Edwards used to be that guy on TV asking if you’ve ever been injured in an accident that wasn’t your fault…I’m not done with him just yet, but it is something that makes me feel like a mark. Biden is my favorite Senator out of the bunch, and he’s probably the smartest guy in the race from both sides. What he’ll have to do along the lines of (political) sex for money along the way is bound to make me sad, because it is beneath him really…to have to go through all this, like it’s really worth something to voluntarily turn yourself into a whore in the face of such damning odds against you ever actually being “the one”…
Hillary sucks. What will happen is, Obama will have a lead going into a big primary day, get shot in the face by some redneck and die on the podium somewhere, and Hillary will win because of it.
This here is a bit of some journal I’d found a couple weeks ago, long after remembering it was written or still in existence. Very engrossing for me since then, picking it up and catching a glimpse of Al, age 21. Thought I’d drop a couple portions here and there, nothing deep…there’s a lot here, so I basically just opened up a few minutes ago and decided to post whatever was there.
My discussion of things I’m going to write is right in line with my discussions of things I’ve already kicked out ~ Sonic’s transcription is vital now, as I can’t remember a damn thing about what I wrote even a year ago – I imagine it’s good, about as good as it is now I suppose ~ All I’ve really acquired is perception and a problem ~~
I’m through with the match-making racket for good now – Bobby couldn’t have been for real about Julie, couldn’t have been real about anything ~ and my ability to judge a person’s character must not apply to high school students who’ve eaten too much acid ~~
(about 20 days later, Roberta is a roommate) Roberta’s drive for the truth was sickened by her constant contradiction regarding her feelings – her middle name was contradiction, and such a multitude of that viscous swill in anyone’s head is bound to aggravate everyone they are close to – nothing computed logic-wise…ever, it was always a problem (i.e. boyfriend) ~ we’ll use the boyfriend. He’s this rat-like, stingy, selfish bastard who does nothing but burden her and everyone else around him ~ she’s fed up one day & confides in yours’ truly. Agrees with me that he needs to go, for hours and hours she elaborates on how shitty he is & how he needs to go and no more than a day later here they are again ~~
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