PALPUBLICANS SAY GOD IS BIAS

I never cease to be amazed at palpublicans and their strange egoistic attitudes. Palpublicans go as far as to speak for God, letting all know that God only blesses America & It's allies.

Whenever a palpublican is cornered in a debate with facts, they resort to name calling and 'God-speaking', never failing to say God Bless US or America is blessed by God.

I'm confused, isn't God to be the father of all mankind and he loves all of mankind equally? Isn't the Christian version of God a loving, compassionate, fair and all forgiving God? Now if this is true, doesn't logic tell us God blesses all of mankind, no matter what region of the world they live in?

Well don't trying telling any of that to peppermint1172, for God speaks to and through her as she has informed us by this statement:

peppermint1172: America is the greatest Nation on all the Eart besides Israel we are blessed by God

DangerRus: Do you really think GOD endorses political unions Peppermint?

DangerRus, kudos to you for speaking up and asking that very important question. Although I will admit I fear the answer, if it is yes then insanity might be an issue for peppermint, if it's no then it confirms that palpublicans lie and attempt to control people through their faith.

Maybe if I try logic geared towards the religious palpublicans that they swear by; the bible, and I graciously turn to the Gospels; particularly to the parable of the rich man and his servants, I can get the palpublicans to listen. The parable of the rich man and his servants in essence says--to those who are given much, much is expected.

No one can deny that we; Americans, have been given much--arguably more than any nation in the world's history--but what are we doing with our abundant resources? We squander them on war and preparations for war even as those preparations destroy our environment. We spend $18 billion a year caring for nuclear warheads we house--enough warheads that we could target every country on earth with 10 warheads. We have the equivalent stockpile of 155,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs, and Mr. Bush wants more. How could an all loving God bless a country that delights in war and apathy and turn his back on all other countries?

This religious 'ideologic' of palpublicans, does NOT make sense and in fact goes against the principal of Christianity and it's benign God, as I understand it.

I feel as though I need to close this post with some positive words of Christians, for not all Christians feel they are the only loved children of God and I wouldn't want to leave the impression all Christians are like palpublicans.

Oh, oh I got it, this should work:

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. - "Baha'u'llah,

oopps did an 19th century Persian say that?



They don't call me Facetious Muse for nothing

IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

It's finally happening, the world as we know it will soon cease to be. Yes, you heard me right after all the lies and broken promises of the last 7 1/2 years, even the hardest core neocons are willing to think and make their votes be something more than clannish. Even tommyjohnson44 is seeing the light.

tommyjohnson44: zen at this point i will take obama

Did tommy actually say this, of course he did. The question you should be asking yourself is 'How did tommy mean this'.

This is a prime example of how the republican party and the mass media take a partial sentence, repeat it out of content and get the public in an outrage.

Now many that go to SI rooms and know tommy more than likely knew if tommy said such a thing he was being facetious, but someone that doesn't know tommy and his views on paltalk would think that tommy is 'bitter and frustrated' enough to vote outside his party for Obama. You know like the mass media does.

This tactic has been used on the America people since at least 1928 when Edward L. Bernays took the ideas of his famous uncle Sigmund Freud, and applied them to the emerging science of mass persuasion. The only difference was that instead of using these principles to uncover hidden themes in the human unconscious, the way Freudian psychology does, Bernays studied these same ideas in order to learn how to mask agendas and to create illusions that deceive and misrepresent, for marketing purposes. And it has been going on ever since in the America's media propaganda.

When it comes to a discussion of what's going on in the world, the honest individual must admit that he has almost no idea. When was the last time George Bush invited you into the Green Room for a private chat with Cheney and Ashcroft about the future of big oil? When did Bill Gates last invite you up to his Redmond digs for a wine and cheese brainstorming session about the next Big Thing? Or when did your neighbor who lives three houses away from you call you up to tell you about the unfulfilled plans of his father who just found out he's dying of cancer? How many life stories of the world's six billion people do you know anything about? This is to say nothing of fluid events which are coming in and out of existence every day between the nations of the world. What do you really know about what is really going on?

Most only know what they have been told by the candidate, mass media, their political party or family & friends. Sound-bites, edited and omission to place the spin that is desired.

So for now on you can call me the Faux Noise of Paltalk, for I will do what the politicians and mass media has been doing for years and use snippets, partials and editing to hopefully teach the ignorant; such as tommyboy, how easily it is for ones words to be manipulated, misrepresented, distorted and then be fabricated, spinned, or rendered to have a totally different meaning than was intended.

So tommy let me be the first one to welcome you to the dark-side.


They don't call me Facetious Muse for nothing

HILLARY, A TRUE PATRIOT OR A POWER HUNGRY ELITIST

Is this a legit question to ask, I bet many of you are asking or rolling your eyes thinking here we go again another neo-con dissing the Clintons, sorry I'm a liberal.

I know there has been much talk in the past about the Clinton's criminal behavior and nothing has ever came from it. Myself, I thought through-out the years it was just a bunch of BS for the republicans to spin to 'control' the Clinton's rise. Yet, this is different, our country cannot handle another 4 years of lies and power-tripping leaders. I hope that you will watch this video, goodness only knows how much Hillary doesn't want you to.



First I want to thank Isabellah-1 for telling me about this video and being courageous enough to speak about it out loud, for lately it seems if you are a woman in the US that isn't for Hillary, you are a traitor to your gender(well won't be the first time those with open minds and intelligence get called that lol).

What I want to talk about is who Hillary's largest donor was in 2000 (Peter Paul) and how she had misspoke about who it was (a felony, according to the Justice Department).

Hillary’s seven years of misspeaking was defined to be a felony as the law was applied to Hillary’s finance director, according to DOJ Prosecutor Dan Schwaber. He said to the jury in May, 2005 at the trial of Hillary’s finance director David Rosen, that it was a crime “to deny the public’s right to know that Peter Paul personally gave more than $1.2 million to Hillary’s national campaign”.

Yet, both the government and the media both know Hillary has personally denied that right since August 2000 through personal statements published in the Washington Post and official statements under oath in Paul v Clinton and to investigators with the DOJ and FEC.

Sen. Clinton's actions are in violation of the following U.S. Statutes:

2 U.S.C. Sec 441a (a)(7)(B)(I) provides:

Expenditures made by any person in cooperation, consultation, or concert, with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, his authorized political committees, or their agents, shall be considered to be a contribution to such candidate. (Therefore Peter Paul's expenditures cannot be deemed to be a "soft money" contribution)

(f) No candidate shall knowingly accept any contribution in violation of the provisions of this section...

(a)(1)(A) No person shall make contributions... to any candidate with respect to any election for Federal office which, in the aggregate, exceed $2,000.

2 U.S.C. Sec 437g(d)(1)(A)(I) provides:

Any person who knowingly and willfully commits a violation of any provision of this act which involves the making, receiving, or reporting of any contribution, donation, or expenditure (I) aggregating $25,000 or more during a calendar year shall be fined under Title 18, or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both...

So forgetting about Hillary's voting record (bankruptcy bill, Iraq war, Iran), her 'borrowing' of Reagan's joke and her 'misstatements' about Bosnia, Hillary is proving herself to be an elitist and out of touch with the America people. I say this because only an elitist could avoid federal prosecution and think themselves above the law and more importantly think themselves above the US Constitution.

So before you rah rah for Hillary remember how the last 7 1/2 years have been with a leader that has thought exactly like Hillary, that he too is above the law and the US Constitution

Facts about Fair Tax Plan

The FairTax plan is devised to be revenue-neutral for the first year of operation. It will raise the same amount of revenue as is raised by current law. After the first year, revenue is expected to rise because of the growth generated by this plan. At that time the American people, Congress, and the President will have to decide whether to lower the tax rate or to spend the additional revenue.


When it comes to the IRS, whatever replaces the IRS under the Fair Tax would not resemble one another much at all. Any tax collection scheme must necessarily have collectors who collect the tax, and it will almost necessarily have auditors to determine who didn't pay the amount levied against him. The only alternative is to have NO taxation whatsoever, which would either rely on voluntary funding of government, or no government. The Fair Tax is designed to simplify the tax code, increase compliance, and make the government more efficient at collecting taxes. It is not about reducing the overall tax burden one cent. First, greater efficiency in tax collection implies lower costs. Therefore, almost the entire budget of the IRS could be reallocated to other areas or returned to the People.

Although the Fair Tax Plan would eliminate Social Security and Medicare taxes, it would not eliminate the programs. The Fair Tax will ensure funding of Social Security and Medicare, under the Fair Tax, Social Security will operate exactly as it does today, except that its funds will come from the Fair Tax. And, research shows that consumption is a more stable revenue source than income.


With Fair Tax a single rate, single-stage tax will be applied to the sale of all new consumer goods and services at the final point of consumption. This will result in 23% of a purchase being represented by tax. you will keep 100% of your paycheck-there will be no more income, capital gains, self-employment, gift or corporate taxes. Under the Fair Tax, no American will pay taxes on necessities., this leads us to prebate.


With the prebate it functions the same as the standard deduction and personal exemptions do under the current income tax. The prebate is not a “handout”. It is the refund of taxes paid (albeit, in advance). The Fair Tax has no exemptions so the prebate funds the tax on spending up to the poverty up front. Everyone believes that life’s necessities should not be taxed. The prebate is a more efficient method of not taxing necessities than having complicated rules about what constitutes a necessity. The prebate makes the Fair Tax a progressive tax because it untaxes the poor. While everyone pays the same tax at the retail counter, when you take into account the prebate, the effective tax rate is 0% for those at the poverty level ($26,400 for a two adult/two children family), 11.5% for the same family at twice the poverty level ($52,800), and 17.3% for the same family at four times the poverty level ($105,600). Only legal residents of the United States can qualify for the prebate; illegal immigrants cannot, but they will not be exempt from paying taxes under the Fair Tax. The gross revenue raised by the Fair Tax would supposedly remain neutral, however, each taxpayer would see his percentage reduced because of the addition of new taxpayers such as prostitutes, drug dealers, those who work 'under the table' and the illegal aliens who work with fraudulent or non-existent identities. Currently these people do not pay federal taxes because there is no record of their incomes.

Ok I have went on enough and even though I have tried to keep to only the facts I'm sure I have injected my personal thoughts in this matter so I will try to do a quick review of most points of the Fair Tax:

A single rate, single-stage tax will be applied to the sale of all new consumer goods and services at the final point of consumption. This will result in 23% of a purchase being represented by tax. you will keep 100% of your paycheck-there will be no more income, capital gains, self-employment, gift or corporate taxes. Under the FairTax, no American will pay taxes on necessities.

The Fair Tax empowers those with low incomes. Under the Fair Tax plan, no American will pay taxes on necessities. Every household will receive a rebate that is equal to the Fair Tax paid on essential goods and services, and wage earners will keep 100% of their paycheck.

Middle-income earners will benefit greatly under the Fair Tax. They will receive a rebate based on household size, just as will those in all other income brackets.

The wealthy will get a rebate based on household size, just as those in other income brackets will

It lets every worker keep their entire pay check-no payroll or income taxes

It allows those at/below the poverty level to have zero or negative taxes

It lets retirees keep their full pension or Social Security checks-untaxed

It lets everyone keep their capital gains and investment income-untaxed

It eliminates gift and inheritance taxes

It taxes spending of gifted and inherited wealth more fairly

It has a lower cost of enforcement

It makes the federal tax rate very visible, and therefore, politically risky to increase

It ends all personal and corporate income tax filings

It frees the $250 Billion tax accounting/law industry for more productive employment

It eliminates tax loopholes-no filings, no exemptions, no loopholes

The Fair Tax will allow people to make charitable contributions out of pre-tax dollars.


The Fair Tax will dramatically reduce the costs of goods and services by as much as 20 to 30%. All goods and services already contain the embedded costs of the current tax system in their prices. When these embedded taxes are removed, prices will come down.

The Fair Tax will ensure funding of Social Security and Medicare.

Retail businesses will collect the tax from the consumer-45 states already have a sales tax system, and the Fair Tax will simply be an additional line on the current sales tax reporting form. In rare cases, businesses that produce products or services that are not currently taxed under state sales tax codes will have to begin collecting the Fair Tax for the first time

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The focus of the Fair Tax concept should not be its supporters, but the idea itself, and as a side point, the Fair Tax did NOT begin as a project of the Church of Scientology at a time when it was seeking tax-exempt status.

Hope I did semi-justice to explaining Fair Tax Plan.

God Bless America

Talk about Islamic fundamentalists. Christian fundamentalists are just as bad and where are they 'harbored' (to coin a phrase of George Dubya Bush)…..America of course.

Read the article below. On one hand you have to laugh, on the other hand you have to cry. America done a good job of keeping separation between religion and constitution but recently, maybe its down to 2 consecutive Republican administrations, they have really started to worry me from this whole push to intermingle God and religion back into their culture on all levels.

This is a bad mix because it not only blurs the truth, it breeds hate, fear and resent. As Yoda once said "Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to suffering". Wise words from the green fellow.

WE ONLY SPY ON TERRORISTS...AND PROTESTERS

President Bush and VP Cheney have repeatedly said that domestic spying is only done to catch terrorists and their communications in the US. They have defended their domestic spying practices as ‘vital to national security’ and have gone to great lengths to defend even the illegal activities they have undertaken.

But they’re just trying to keep America from being attacked right? And they’re only going after terrorists, right?
Wrong.

According to documents obtained by the ACLU, at least 186 anti-war protests have been monitored by the Pentagon’s domestic surveillance program, collecting nearly 3000 reports on American citizens who are neither terrorists nor doing anything illegal. In fact, the groups being actively monitored are primarily groups that are against the Bush War in Iraq. Groups like Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Military Families Speak Out. Groups filled not with berserker jihadists, but instead filled with honorable American former service members and their families. People who have fought for this country or lost family members in this stupid and ill-fated war in Iraq.

And despite Pentagon officials claims that they aren’t interested in domestic groups (uh-huh), and that they aren’t monitoring them any more (yeah, right), other federal agencies like the DHS and FBI are keeping a watchful eye on these most dangerous of Americans.

Add this to the phone tapping and e-mail mining, library record checking, and postal surveillance, and by golly, we’re right there in that Orwell novel. Meanwhile, the real terrorists are living and planning in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Yeah, they’re only spying on the terrorists…it’s just that this administration considers anyone not falling in line with their idiocy to be a terrorist, a group that now includes over 60% of all Americans.

Boy, I feel safer everyday.

Two Models Of Helping

There are two principle models of what it means to help others.

In the first model, someone comes to us and asks for assistance with a problem, and we do what we can to assist them to resolve their problem - allowing them to define the problem themselves and also what an acceptable resolution of the problem would be, for them.

In the second model, people with specialized knowledge and expertise in some field define what they perceive to be "a problem" in people's lives and devise various means to acheive resolution of the perceived problem in a manner which is acceptable to the helpers. If the people whom the helpers perceive to possess this problem don't see their situation as being a "problem" for them, the helpers devise means and measures to ensure that these people will come to perceive their situation as a problem, just as the helpers do.

The first model is the basis of all true charity, whether between individuals or between governments/non-profit organizations and individuals.

The second model is the basis of all social engineering, nanny-statism and interventionist foreign policy. Its pretence to being charitable is false and fraudulent, as it frequently has ulterior motivations.

Which kind of helper are you, in your own life?

And then she said...

Just wanted to jot down (okay, copy & paste from my Kookie Jar) all my quotes/taglines that deal with religion, witchcraft, etc. in one place...none of this is intended to offend anyone. Quotes are attributed whenever possible. Please have a sense of humor; I'm pretty sure God does -- just look at the platypus!


A Christian relies on faith above everything else. A Wiccan relies on it only when nothing else is left.

A cult is a religion with no political power.--Tom Wolfe

A cult is someone ELSE's religion.

A good witch harms no one. A better witch laughs at the good witch.

A minimum good action is better than a maximum of good intentions.--Mahatma Gandhi

A ouija board is a waste of money if it doesn't work — and a waste of time if it does.

A religious war is like children fighting over who has the best imaginary friend.

A witch on time is an hour early for the Sabbat.

A witch rides a broom because nature abhors a vacuum.

A woman with PMS & ESP is a bitch who knows everything.

Abstinance makes the church grow fondlers.

"Accept the Prince of Peace as your personal savior or I'll kill you!" ... Excuse me? Why would I want anything to do with THAT idea?

According to Dianetics you start at 0 with life-death(?) and move up to the twenties before there occurs a miraculous leap up to the forties, the hundreds, practical sainthood and absolute universal connection. That was probably the clearest sign we got that this was scarier than we thought: it was a religious-philosophical belief founded on an *incorrect* number line.

"Air, Fire, Water, and Earth - Elementary, my dear Watson!"--Sherlock Holmes, the Pagan edition

ALL FANATICS MUST DIE!

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.--Fran Lebowitz

All the wild witches, those most noble ladies.--Yeats

Allah loves you. Here's your dynamite.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

And God said: Let there be vodka! And He saw that it was good. Then God said: Let there be light! And then He said: Whoa - too much light.

And God said to the cat: Go forth, and adopt a human pet.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.--Arthur C. Clarke

"As above, so below", they tell us. Then why do our gods look so much cooler than we do?

As a general rule, don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.

At first there was nothing. Then God said, "Let there be light!" Then there was still nothing. But you could see it!

Atheist achieving orgasm: "Oh Random! Oh, Chance!"

Attention Muslims: Fundamentalists are hijacking your religion. Attention Christians: Ditto!

Be original - cast a square!

Be tolerant of Christians - they only have *one* god.

Best thing about Pagan friends? They worship the ground you walk on!

Beware the man of one book.--St. Thomas Aquinas

Bin Laden supports school prayer.

Black magic is any magic that works for you, but not for me.

Blasphemy: When a religious person dares to think.

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

Blood rituals to dark gods are best performed in private.

Blood sacrifice is sex magic without the fun.

Bob is my copilot.

Bored? Recopy the Bible substituting your name for God.

Born again? Have you been potty trained again?

Born again? My Goddess got it right the first time!

Born again? Why, didn't your mother do it right the FIRST time?

Call my religion violent again, and I'll kill you!

Can't you see the Chairman of the Board for Microsoft walking up to Bill Gates and saying, "Sorry Bill, but quarterly profits are down and if things don't improve by Lammas we'll need to sacrifice a sacred King to renew the company...."

Christmas is weird. It's the only time of year when we love to sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of our socks.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.--George Bernard Shaw

Christians are supposed to be God's ambassadors, not His policemen.

Christians believe in the Father. Pagans believe in the whole family.

Come, mistah Crowley-man, talley me Khabbala...

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.--The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America

Copyright (c) 1993 Oregon Network Of Religious Deviants

Creationism, 'eh? So, when do the book burnings start?

Creator not found: (E)volve (S)in (P)arty ?

Cthulhu saves! (He might get hungry later.)

Dear Lord, please save me from your followers!

Deity for hire, inquire within.

Discordianism: Where reality is a figment of your imagination

Diversity is God's way of amusing herself.

Do I believe in the Bible? Hell, I've even SEEN one!

Do not call up that which you cannot put on hold.

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.--Hebrew proverb

Do you get repossessed if you don`t pay your exorcist?

Don't bother God. He's got his own problems - everything he makes dies.

Elder Gods, Old Ones? Bunch of malarky! Hastur, Hastur, Hastur... See? Nothing hap--

Eternal hell awaits those who question God's unconditional love!

Ever notice how Christians think freedom of religion is only for them?

Evolution is just a theory - kind of like gravity.

Facts are attempts to explain magic through logic.

Faith Healing Network - Killing children in the name of Jesus!

Faith is good, but scepticism is better.--Giuseppe Verdi

Fine, fine, fine - but do you have to save me right now?

First lesson for Pagans: If you're hungry, invoke for food. If you're sick, invoke for health. If you're poor, invoke for money. If you're lonely, invoke for love. If you're sad, invoke for happiness. Then you can start invoking to save the rain-forest.

For every Pagan who actually gets it, there are two who could get it but don't want to bother, three who'd never get it if they tried, and four who can't hear you above all the talking and loud music.

Forsake Her not, and She shall preserve thee; love Her and She shall keep thee.--Proverbs 4:6

Found Jesus? If nobody claims Him in 30 days, he's yours!

Freya, Goddess of Love and War: "If ya can't lay 'em, slay 'em!"

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.--George Carlin

Fundamentalism: Fund (give cash); a-mentalism (without brains).

Fundamentalists are more mental than fun.

Fundies for Ceridwen! Join Today!

Gays don't recruit children, but Christians sure do!

Give me that Old-Time Religion: Hail Odin!

God gave man Truth...and the evil among them helped turn it into religion.

God is an iron.--Spider Robinson

God loves you. (Some restrictions apply.).

God made the cat so that we might caress the tiger.

God was my copilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.

Greet Jehovah's Witnesses with a cheery, "Hail Satan!"

GURU: One who knows more jargon than you.

Happiness is a warm stone circle.

Have I found Jesus? Why? Did you lose him?

Have my priestess call your priestess...we'll do circle.

Have you ever wondered where people in Hell tell each other to go?

Having studied Christianity, I became Pagan.

Heck is a place for people who don't believe in Gosh.

Hey, relax! I've read two books on magick...what could go wrong?

Hi Mom! I've joined the Neo-Druid Dead Puppy Cult!

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.--Han Solo

How appropriate that the Bible refers to Christians as sheep.

How come the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are called "The ONE True God?"

How many fish do I have to put on my car before it's born again?

How to name it Heaven, if my cats are not there?

Humans: proof that Intelligent Design cannot possibly be true.

I am an agnostic pagan. I doubt the existence of many gods.

I asked God, and She said She is pro-choice!

I asked if I could be born again, but my mother refused.

I bet Jesus would have used HIS turn signals!

I bet you didn't believe in reincarnation last time either.

I can already sense you're going to be a major obstacle on my path to enlightenment.

I considered atheism, but there weren't enough holidays.

I don't believe in reincarnation, but I did in a past life.

I don't need a new religion, I haven't used up the old one yet!

I found Jesus, and he said, "Tag, you're it!"

I found Jesus! (He was behind the couch the whole time...)

I found Jesus, now it's my turn to hide.

I gave up Christianity for Lent.

I give evolution two opposable thumbs up!

I got your jihad right here...

I tried to follow Christ, but I got arrested for stalking.

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.--Marcus, Babylon 5

If God is within, I hope he likes enchiladas.

If religious groups want to get into politics, they should pay taxes.

If the Wiccan Rede was created, as some suggest, to alleviate the fears of non-Pagans, it appears not to have worked.

If you are going through hell, keep going.--Winston Churchill

If you believe in magic, you have the universe at your command.

If you gathered together all the known pieces of the True Cross, you could build a house big enough to hold all the authentic Gardnerian Books of Shadows!

If you want divine justice, die.

Ignorance: Making people feel righteous for over 2000 years.

I'll have no truck with psychiatry...there are some arts too black for even a witch!

I'm an atheist, thank God.

In a society less decadent than ours, Neo-Paganism wouldn't have a chance - but genuine Paganism would flourish.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.--Douglas Adams

Instead of praying: "Dear God, bring me someone fabulous," try: "Dear God, make me into someone fabulous."--Marianne Williamson

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

It is easier, and more humane, to bake a sacrificial harvest-loaf, than to tear apart a live goat with your bare hands. But which makes the most lasting impression?

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.--Albert Einstein

It's a 3rd degree secret of the Star Trek Trad, Next Generation branch.

It's all fun and games until someone gets sacrificed to Satan.

It's easier to be Born Again than to grow up.

Jahweh, promoting unprotected sex for 4,000 years!

Jesus is coming! Hide the porn.

Jesus is coming...no, wait... he's just breathing heavy.

Jesus is coming. On three, everyone yell "Surprise!"

Jesus is coming! Quick, look busy!

Jesus is coming. Should I spit or swallow?

Jesus is coming - soon to a theater near you.

Jesus loves me...but I make him wear a condom.

Jesus loves you, but he might not respect you in the morning.

Jesus loves you, but he's not ready for a commitment.

Jesus loves you - but then again, so does your dog.

Jesus loves you...just not in that way.

Jesus is cool - but some of his followers give me the creeps.

Jesus must be in jail; that's where everyone seems to find him!

Jesus must be so proud to see how much money people are making off his crucifiction.

Jesus saves and takes half damage.

Jesus saves, but Moses invests.

Jesus saves...by shopping wisely and using double coupons!

Jesus saves, Moses invests - but Cthulhu forecloses!

Jesus saves sinners... and redeems them for cash and valuable prizes.

Jesus saves sinners... he must have a lot by now.

Jesus to His followers: "You did WHAT in My Name?!?"

JIHAD: Jealousy Intolerance Hatred And Destruction

Join the Cthulhu Corps; it's not just a job, it's a higher position under an elder god.

Judgment and punishment, or some such silly conservative Christian hoopla.

Just doing my part to annoy right-wing conservative Christians.

Kill a Christmas tree for Jesus.

Killing people is bad. Unless it's in self defense. But not if it's euthanasia for someone in uncontrollable pain. Unless they're on death row. But not if it's a fetus. Unless it's during war or if they're gay or Islamic.

Last time we mixed politics with religion, people got burned at the stake.

Lead me not into temptation, for I can damned well find it myself.

Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting, 'All gods are bastards.'--Terry Pratchett

Lions: 5, Christians: 0.

Little Bunny Cthulhu hopping through the forest
Scooping up the field mice and sucking out their souls.
--Elder God Nursery Rhyme

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today, it's called golf.

Love is the Law. Lust is a subordinate clause.

Madness in the name of God is still only madness.

Magic is seldom spectacular because it seldom needs to be.

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er ...--Terry Pratchett

Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh." Magic armour is not all it's cracked up to be.--Terry Pratchett

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.--Benjamin Franklin

Many Neo-Pagans are just Creative Anachronists with a bit more sincerity.

Many people are drawn to Paganism for what it isn't. Those who stay with Paganism appreciate what it is.

Many wish to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.

May the entity of your choice smile kindly upon you.

Maybe God is a kid playing The Sims.

Maybe the Rapture already happened, and nobody got taken.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.--Aldous Huxley

Meddle not in the affairs of witches, for [POOF!] croak croak

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.--Pascal

Merry Meet, and Merry Part, and Mary Tyler Moore

Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right.

Morality? Like Psalms 137:9?

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.--Mark Twain

Mother Nature doesn't care if you are having fun.--Larry Niven

Mother is the name for God on the lips of all children.

My creation myth is better than your creation myth.

My cultlike following is accepting applications.

My guardian angel probably has a drinking problem.

My guru said there would be lifetimes like this.

My husband and I divorced over religious differences - he thought he was God and I didn't.

My karma ran over my dogma.

My next life will be normal.

My other car is a broom!

My path? C:\Pagan\Eclectic\Wiccan

My psychic advisor just keeps laughing.

My psychic girlfriend dumped me before we met.

My religious preference is freedom.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.--Christopher Morley

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.--Mary Kelly

Nature draws the line, and I just keep crossing that sucker.

Never expect a police officer to understand the ritual nature of your athame.

Never forget that there are genuinely good Christian people in the world, and that their religion may have something to do with it.

Never give your real address to entities you've just met on the astral plane.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.--Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Never mind the star, just get those camels off the lawn!

Never say, "Things couldn't get any worse." God takes that as a personal challenge.

Never sing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' during the Great Rite.

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. (I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.)

No, I'm not a cultist. I just sacrifice virgins for fun.

No magic is ever truly destructive. For what is destruction, except creation with an agenda?

No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.

No, no, chocolate goes in the North. Massage oil goes in the West!

No, Wiccans don't sacrifice people...although we might make an exception for you!

No witch stands so tall as when she stoops to clean the litter-box.

Nothing personal, but God told me to set you on fire.

Nowadays I am suspicious of any spiritual teaching that lacks humor.--Gerald May

Odin loves the little Vikings \ All the Vikings of the world.

Of course I'm a witch. I've got a tall pointy hat!

Of course the meek will inherit the earth! Did you think they were going to take it by force?

Of course you can cast a perfectly fine circle with a kitchen knife. But there's something about a two-hundred dollar hand-forged designer athame that makes you want to cast it more often.

Only 666 more shopping days before Armageddon!

Our god's the FUN god! Our god's the SUN god! Ra! Ra! Ra!

Pagans and heathens and witches, oh my!

Pagan gatherings would be a lot more restrained if participants thought they'd ever have to meet again in the real world.

Pagans do it in a circle.

Pass the Lord and praise the ammunition!

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.-- Terry Pratchett

People who want to share their religious views with you rarely want you to share yours with them.

Place blood sacrifice on keyboard to continue.

Playing Dungeons & Dragons actually is a lot like witchcraft - but don't tell anybody.

Please, Lord, let me prove that winning the lottery won't spoil me!

Practice random acts of intelligence & senseless acts of self-control!

Probably the toughest part of being good at a rain dance is getting thrown out of nightclubs.

Putting a Jesus fish or magnetic yellow ribbon on your car doesn't let you ignore basic traffic safety.--SomethingPositive.net

Quoting the Bible doesn't count as thinking.

Reality doesn't give a damn about your beliefs.

Religion is a fashionable substitute for faith.

Religion is what you're told; spirituality is what you learn.

Religion without a Goddess is halfway to atheism!

Religions revolve madly around sexual questions.

Remember, God gave you a brain, not a Bible!

Remember, kids, Satan loves you!

Remember that the customs of your tribe are not laws of nature.

Remember, your body is your temple; however, it's also your dancehall and bowling alley!

Repent or be damned! (If you've already repented, please disregard this notice.)

Roman Catholic: The world's most successful cult

Route 666 - Highway of the Beast

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.--Mark Twain

Satanism is Christianity for rebels with no imagination.

Saved? For what, a rainy day?

Saying "God told me" is no excuse for stupidity.

Science has done more for Western Civilization in 100 years then Christianity did in 1800 years.--John Burroughs

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.--Ashley Montague

Sex - Does God have a sense of humor or what?!

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation...the other eight are unimportant.--Henry Miller

Shoot a televangelist for Jesus!

Short summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat.

Shout louder! Maybe your god is busy.

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily.--Robert A. Heinlein

Since God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.

So, basically you're saying God planned this shit?

So charmingly heathen, your skin is like a teardrop on a popsicle.

Some people practice what they preach, others just practice preaching.

Someone's gotta tell the Volcano God that we're all out of virgins!

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?" Then a voice answers, "Nothing personal; your name just happened to come up.--Charlie Brown

Sometimes the garbage disposal gods require a sacrificial spoon.

Sorry I missed church, I've been busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian.

Spanish witch causes a brujaja.

Spiritual truth through superior weapons!

Study demonology with an enemy this Sunday.

Supporting America's Militant Agnostics: we don't know, and you don't either!

Support prayer in schools, but only if my kid can lead Wiccan rituals in school, too!

Sure, there's a downside: moaning at all hours, blood flowing into the yard and demons maniacally shrieking. Still, the "Hellish Potato Salad" he brings to the block parties makes it worthwhile to be Satan's neighbor.

Thank you for not trying to raise my conciousness.

The Bible does NOT say, "Love thy neighbor, unless he's gay."

The church is near
But the road is icy.
The tavern is far
But I will walk carefully.
--Ukranian proverb

The family that prays together is brainwashing the children.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on a woman.--Nancy Astor

The Goddess Loves You! (Just don't push it till she's had her coffee.)

The Goddess loves you - everyone else thinks you're an idiot.

The gods are not crazy - they're higher than kites!

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.--Bulwer-Lytton

The most radical notion in Wicca is that religion can be fun.

The original Pledge of Allegiance, 1892: I pledge allegiance to the flag and the republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The plural of "witch" is "argument".

The Road to Enlightenment is long and difficult...bring snacks and a book to read.

The words of the Magus are to know, to will, to dare, and one other I could remember if everyone would shut up a moment.

There is an angel inside of me whom I am constantly shocking.

There is more black magic in one day on Wall Street than in a decade of Wiccan Sabbats.

There once was a time when everyone feared God and the Church reigned supreme. It was called the Dark Ages.

There you are, getting on with your life, and Jesus is waiting just 'round the corner with a baseball bat.

This isn't hell, but I can see it from here.

This isn't hell. This is where you get sent when you've been bad in hell.

Those students who have become one with the universe will be allowed to go on and become two with the universe.

Those who don't believe in evolution are the ones who need it most.

Thou shalt not shove your religion down my throat.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night.--Sarah Williams

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

True gods were never meant to be worshipped, only absorbed.

Truly, the road to enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Trust in God, but question religion.

Unitarian prayer: "To whom it may concern..."

Unpopular Bible Fact: Adultery merits the death penalty. (Lev. 20:10)

Unpopular Bible Fact: Blended fabrics are forbidden. (Lev. 19:19)

Unpopular Bible Fact: Body/ear piercings are forbidden. (Lev. 21:5)

Unpopular Bible Fact: Christians should not judge others. (Mt. 7:1-5)

Unpopular Bible Fact: Crossbreeding cattle is forbidden. (Lev. 19:19)

Unpopular Bible Fact: Don't plant a variety of crops. (Lev. 19:19)

Unpopular Bible Fact: God forbids people to get tattoos. (Lev. 19:28)

Unpopular Bible Fact: Public prayer is wrong. (Matthew 6:1-6)

Unpopular Bible Fact: Rebellious kids are to be killed. (Lev. 20:9)

Want a taste of religion? Bite a minister.

Want a taste of religion? Lick a witch!

We apologize for the inconvenience.--God's final message

We are all Children of Cthulhu - especially the ones with lots of tentacles.

What would Freya do?

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.--Sinclair Lewis

When God created man, She must have been drunk and horny!

When Jesus said, "Love your enemies," I'm pretty sure he meant don't kill them.

When men speak of the future, the gods laugh.--Chinese proverb

When religion ruled the world, they called it the Dark Ages.

When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.--Oscar Wilde

When we talk to God it's called prayer. When God talks back it's called schizophrenia.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen--there will be something solid to stand on...or you will be taught how to fly.

Why do Christian Fundamentalists object to single parents on earth, yet have no problem accepting one in heaven?

Why should we assume God is good?

With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with.--Terry Pratchett

Y chromosomes: the Goddess' way of keeping things mildly interesting.

Ye shall know them by their fruits - look, there's one now!

Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.

Yes, I found religion. I found it to be completely worthless.

Yes, I've found Jesus. He's locked in my trunk.

You can order anything thou wilt at Aleister's Restaurant.

You toyed with unnatural forces. What kind of mother would I be if I didn't punish you?--Joyce, BTVS

Your God, our Nation. Learn the difference.

ZenCrafters -- Total enlightenment, in about an hour.

THOSE DAMN PAGANS AT IT AGAIN

I think most know that back in May, Bay Buchanan (conservative talk show guest and pundit, and sister of former conservative Presidential aspirant Patrick Buchanan) had an interesting take on the Gulf Coast disasters of last year, you know the neo-nut take, tired of hearing about it.

I agree with Bay, I am also tired of hearing about it, I am sick of hearing how the federal government failed to appropriate the money needed to shore up the levee system, and how what money was appropriated to New Orleans in particular was wasted to such a large degree by the state of Louisiana and city of New Orleans, that the end result was not only the failure of the levees, but the simultaneous failure of the pumps that could have otherwise pumped the water out of the New Orleans flooded areas realitively quickly.

I am sick of hearing about how Bush and his Administration denied the scope of the disaster in public, while every day the mainstream media conveyed images of the horror and disasters.

I'm sick of hearing Republican apologists constantly defend the incompetence of the Bush Administration. I am sick of hearing so many people engage in blaming the victims for not getting out of the area, even though many of them had no place to go, and no way to leave if they had a place. I am sick of hearing them being accused of purposely staying behind for purposes of looting, or out of hopes of filing lawsuits. I am sick with the knowledge, that, in reality, most of them had no way out.

I'm sick of hearing of how Bush and other politicians have promised New Orleans will be rebuilt, yet the reality seems to be no money is being made available for this effort, I am sick of so much it is hard to keep track of all of it. But the thing I am most sick of, Bay Buchanan, is people like yourself.

People who go have a listening audience and say things such as "It's those pagan we need to watch out for", yes Bay said that today on Situation Room on CNN. the topic was about that ever so bias US Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va saying "The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran."

Notice the age old trick of neo-nuts, one of their own spews racist BS and instead of the neo-nuts demanding Virgil Goode to apologize or denouncing what Virgil Goode said they instead try coyly to redirect. With Bay Buchanan's insult a geared towards all pagans with her stand offish comment, it shows how the neo-nuts really think. Neo-nuts do in fact believe in racism and allows it's use, when it serves their needs.

There are those of the Pagan faith that have died serving their country, yet they still are treated as jokes, as people that don't matter. Bay's remark was not anymore outrageous than Goodes' but I bet there will be no media coverage of Bay's insult to those of the pagan faith, there will be no group demanding accountability for Bay's words. The prejudice has the same destructive powers no matter how it is used.

Yet, I would wage that most would not see the revilement attitude presented in Bay's state "It's those pagans we need to watch out for". People will say Bay was joking and since she is a neo-nut it is ok for her to joke unlike Kerry.

Many will say (liberals and conservatives alike) that what Goode said was much worst than Bay's remark about pagans, I strongly disagree. What Goode said was an attack against Islam, a religion, faith, belief, what Bay said was an attack against Paganism, a religion, faith, belief. What Goode said portrays hate borne out of fear, what Bay said portrays hatred born from ignorance.

After thousands of years on this planet you would think that humans would grow the hell up and quit attacking others due to fears, when will people see that it the long run it really doesn't matter what your religious beliefs are or what color you skin is. Reality is, we are all the same, we all bled if cut, feel pain if hurt, experience love if lucky, and we all are capable of growing into mature adults. Unfortunate not so many care to grow into mature adults as one can see from the lowest to the highest of the land(s).

In today's time I find it even more important than ever to cry out against hate in any form. It seems that with 9-11 and Bush admin, the witch hunts and communists scare is back and in a big way. Now-a-days its ok to say you 'distrust' a person just because they are of the Islamic faith, hell some would even say it is understandable for one to say they hate. Since when has hate been productive, when did it become ok to replace blame instead of being held accountable? When did it become ok to preach hate and fear, oh wait now I remember when. It happened when Bush & his cronies came into power and people like Goode and Bay were proclaimed 'Great Americans'.

So now you know there is nothing to fear from people of the Islamic faith, Bay Buchanan told us it is 'Those pagans we need to watch out for'. So happy Bay cleared that all up for us, I guess that only leaves one unanswered question, when is the war against Pagans to start?

Now for some very (cough, cough) wise comments from well-known neo-nuts, and paltalkians thought they had the corner market on flip-flopping
RUMSFELD: It Would Be A Short War "Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that" "Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." –Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding "stuff happens," April 11, 2003 BUSH: days before the November elections, declared, "Absolutely, we're winning." Dec 19th "We're not winning, we're not losing," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. BUSH: "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." —discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, as quoted by Robertson. BUSH: "F**k Saddam, we're taking him out." –President Bush to three U.S. Senators in March 2002, a full year before the Iraq invasion DICK CHENEY: "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." June 20, 2005.

~~~~~~Yes, I'm always a Facetious Pain~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~Smile, it confuses people~~~~~~~

Also Goode refuses to apologize for his comments about Muslims.

America is Not Doomed

America will never be doomed if it has faith that shows us the love of respect, honor, truth, compassion, and equality that holds the hands of the people of the United Stated, where Conservatives, Liberals, and others are patriots to the Constitutional Freedom and Democracy of the Declaration of Independence, singing with our nation anthem, in the red, white, and blue spirit, where Free Speech of diversity is a birthright. We are not a nation of one religion but one of all religions that must unite in respect that must honor humanity in love over war, as prime ingredient of our own divine Liberty. We can never let our country become a Corporation, for our roots are in our people from the lower caste to the Billionaire who has one vote. We employ Washington in votes as stockholders of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin proclamation that no form of royal cast will dictate Executive Privilege.

No, we are not doomed, we just need politicians, who walk our streets to feel its heart come alive, not fraternities parties that want to segregate us with a special ticket, so that they call get their five star meal ticket benefits. My ticket was born inside me, and with a divine gift of Free Speech that declares secrecy null and void. That Washington’s closets of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell must account to its people, not to power brokers of green-blooded secret agendas.

We must do our homework, before we commit our troops upon the Truth, not Creative Fiction. That is why it is President Bush’s turn to step up to the plate, for somehow he may the best solution to the insanity that the future may bear if we find no good solution. He avoided the Vietnam War, but this one will draft him to the frontlines for a solution. It is not about being Republican or Democrat, but an American thing that must have all on board for a peaceful solution to the Iraq bloodbath. So blame me if you must, then add the majority of this nation in one way or another. But it is one and one making two multiplied by each state uniting together as a nation than a nation dividing with labels of blame.

I ask all to remember our troops that will be celebrating the holidays away from home. For no matter what party you belong to, I think we can all agree on this one issue, our troops deserve the best wishes from us all. Take a moment to send a Christmas and/or Holiday card (Send an ecard to the troops) to those who shine, the fathers & mothers, sons & daughters, who cannot be home. Let them all know no matter your views on the war, we wish them all back home safe and sound. Let them know we have not, nor ever will forget them, that forever they will be in our hearts.

Merriest Christmas & Happiest Holidays to all


Any Soldier Inc is a great place to get addy of troops.

Another one is A Million Thanks, FYI it is religious based, for those that care about that silly stuff ;)

Operation Band Aid it's to show your support for our wounded soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC), Germany.

One more is Annie's "Write to the Troops" Page it has items such as "Thanks a Soldier a week" & "Send Christmas Mail to Our Troops" Page

Remember this is about SUPPORT, not just STUFF!

A LETTER,from you, your children, the kids at church or school, is THE BEST THING to send. A show of personal support is far better than spending a bunch of money that you don't have.

A soldier in Iraq can't see your ribbon,
Or the flag at your front door.
But a letter they hold in their hands,
To them means so much more.

Hope this is a help Voxy

RAS

So many try to say the African-Americans keep racists alive with wanting to remember history and making sure that history is written factually. Others complain that African-Americans want to have everything handled to them on a silver platter due to what their ancestries endured at the hands of others, this also amazes me.

How hard is it for people to realized that for years the balance of equality, simply did not exist. Certain races were allowed to improve themselves without restriction, while other races could lose their life just for learning how to read. The playing field was (some might say still) NOT fair nor level in any stretch of the imagination. How can people not understand that years of being held back by injustices hinders the ability for one to succeed. How can a person succeed when at every turn they are being denied basic rights? If one is not ALLOWED to read, how can they get a high paying job? If one is not ALLOWED try, how can they be successful?

So often I hear some say that African-Americans cause the damage to their race. Some will quote affirmative action and reparations,this lead me to ask the question, should the US gov't pay reparations to black people? There are plenty of decent-enough arguments for paying black people reparations, but my favorite one is the fact that we're already paying reparations to other groups.

For example, the US is already paying reparations to the Japanese that were interned during World War II, similarly, and quite obviously, none of the Arabs currently locked up in Gitmo and possibly other secret prisons around the world (where torture is still legal) flew any planes into the World Trade Center. Assuming they aren't members of al Qaeda, wouldn't they have just as much claim to reparations as the Japanese interned during World War II? Think about that: In 20 years from now, you and I might be cutting a check to someone who could've been a spy for Osama bin Laden, but black people who's ancestors worked for free for 400 years can't get shit.

I say the above to point out the context in which I generally find myself during conversations regarding race and politics. It usually goes something like this: I ask someone a question about their feelings regarding reparations, affirmative action, racial profiling, or the like, and they usually respond with a sharp, racist statement against black people. An example would be something like the following:

Me:

So what do you think about social welfare?”

Their answer:

Blacks already have enough handouts as it is! Why should my money go to someone who’s going to waste it on Jordans and having three kids by three men???!!! I’m not being racist either man, but I’m also not being politically correct. I’m being real about it.”

You see what’s happened here? Somehow a genuine, concerned question that pertains to all of America and beyond turns into black people being vilified. All I asked was about social welfare, in any nation. And what I got was why black people are worthless.

These types of conversations happen on a daily basis with me. I ask a question and typically receive an answer that has absolutely nothing to do with the question. And the same goes for affirmative action. The conversation degenerates into praise and blame, rather than discussing say, the meanings of these findings by Princeton University. I’ve got to say folks, the elitism and self righteousness (and selfishness) that I find really sickens me.

Final thought: if you’re against race-based politics, cool. But be civil with it, and quit with the racism shit. That “Culture of Poverty” associated with black people is really starting to get on my fucking nerves. If you’re against affirmative action, reparations, or whatever it is, talk about stats, figures, theories. Don’t talk about Ray Ray down the block who’s on crack with a pacifier in his mouth. As Angry Asian Man would say, that’s racist! Or, if you’re me, that’s some RAS (racist-ass-shit).

It is time for everyone to cry out against racism, in any form, to do any less would be an insult to humanity.

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Paltalk Court is now in session, give it a try you never know you just might like it. Paltalk Court

What the hell It's Halloween Time :o)

About 6 years ago in Indiana, Jessica Smith was pushed down a sewer opening by 5 girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didn't submerge then police were called. They went down and brought up 17 year old Jessica Smith's body, she broke her neck hitting the ladder, then hit her side on concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell ... They believed them.

FACT: 2 months ago, 16 year old Ron Anderson read this post and didn't repost it. When he went to take a shower he heard laughter from his shower, he started freaking out and ran to his computer to repost it, He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep, 5 hours later his mom woke up in the middle of the night cause of a loud noise, Ron Anderson was gone, that morning a few hours later the police found him in the sewer, his neck broke and his face skin peeled off

If you don't repost this saying

"She was pushed"
or "They Pushed her down a sewer"

Then Jessica will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep you'll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Jessica will come and kill you.

Now just for those that might freak out about this here's the facts from Urban Legends

Origins: In October 2006, the spooky story about a teen killed by a fall into a sewer after five other girls shoved her began circulating in e-mail and on
MySpace.

No adolescent girl named Carmen Winstead or Jessica Smith died in such fashion, in Indiana, or in any other U.S. state "about six years ago." We searched for news reports about such a death and found none. This is a fiction, a typical chain letter of the sort favored by pre-teens. Its key difference lies in its recommended mode of transmission: rather than imploring recipients to mail (or e-mail) it to others, it requires them to post it on their MySpace pages.

As is common with "luck generation" or "ill luck avoidance" chain letters, a specific dire outcome is promised those who do not speed the tale on its way (the ghost of the murdered girl will seek them out and kill them), with proof of the danger being flirted with provided via the included news about the sorry fate that befell someone who failed to heed those instructions (his dead body discovered in the sewer, "his neck broke and his face skin peeled off"). We discuss two other examples of this type of chain letter: one ("Bed Reckoning") uses a seemingly spooky photo; the other ("Skinned Flick") builds upon a fictitious Instant Message exchange.

Enjoy Halloween time, it's the only time of the year everyone cn be excused for be a child at heart :o)

Iraq for sale

ys, with the help of binky the full verision of the movie Iraq for Sale can be seen for free online. Here is the link for anyone that wishes to see it. Iraq for Sale

I am sure this will go down as my shortest thread ever :) Please take time to watch this and share it with your friends.

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: The legalization of torture and permanent detention

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: The legalization of torture and permanent detention

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Thank you

News Analysis: Campaign 2006: The Issues, the Stakes, the Prospects

Scare the hell out of the American people. That, in a nutshell, is the Republicans’ fall congressional campaign strategy. If you doubt it, consider the following: George W. Bush launched a propaganda offensive in the run-up to the 9/11 anniversary with a speech in which he called Islamic terrorists “successors to fascists, to Nazis, to communists and other totalitarians of the 20th century”; Donald Rumsfeld in turn likened administration critics (read Democrats) to those who appeased Nazi Germany in the 1930s; Dick Cheney, appearing on Meet the Press, accused opponents of the war of inviting more violence; Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee in August released a hyped report on the supposedly grave threat to US national security posed by Iran—one strikingly similar to the hyped intelligence documents the administration used to build its case for war in Iraq.
I could go on, but you get the idea: The GOP is dusting off a strategy that’s worked wonders for them these past five years—one single-mindedly and cynically designed to increase public fear of terrorism.

Republicans running for the House and Senate in marginal districts and swing states have a problem. They’re just like Tony Blair, fatally weakened in Britain and derided in Europe as “Bush’s poodle” for rolling over for the US president’s every policy demand. Republicans in Congress, however much they may try now to distance themselves from a deeply unpopular president, are in trouble for having stood on their hind legs and jumped through hoops every time the White House has fed them a new policy biscuit. Thus, the policies of George Bush and his administration are—and well should be—the defining issue of this campaign.

No wonder the White House and Congressional Republicans are so desperate and have gone on the offensive: they read the August opinion polls, which demonstrated that the American people had finally come to believe that Mr. Bush’s war of choice—which has killed nearly 2,700 Americans, wounded and maimed many more, cost our national treasury over $420 billion, killed or wounded tens of thousands of Iraqis, and seems to degenerate each day—might just be a mistake, and one to be corrected at the voting booth.

In fact, in the mid-August polls, just prior to the Bush administration’s spin offensive, 53 percent of Americans were convinced that “going to war was a mistake,” 62 percent believed that “events were going badly in Iraq,” and 58 percent “disapproved of [Bush’s] handling of the economy.”

Republicans will do almost anything to keep control of Congress. And no wonder. As long as they hold a thin majority in the House, they have the absolute power of chairing all committees, power they’ve used to freeze out the Democrats. The Republican chairs hire staff, set legislative priorities, issue subpoenas, decide on the issues, and determine when to hold investigations, press conferences, and hearings. The White House wants to keep it that way. Hoekstra, for example, would no more undertake a serious investigation of the White House’s manipulation of flawed intelligence since the run-up to the Iraq war than he would turn down a fat corporate campaign contribution.

Legislative oversight and accountability under GOP leadership has become a wink, a nod, and a whitewash. Hoekstra happens to represent a safe district, but he knows only too well, as does the president, that if Republicans lose the House he will lose his chairmanship to a Democrat. There will be hearings and investigations of executive policies, just as there will be by other committees: Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, Government Reform, and Judiciary. This is downright scary to an administration that has turned executive secrecy and abuse of power into an art form, with the collusion of a cover-up Congress.

Bush, the Republican leadership, and Karl Rove are convinced that fear of terrorism is their best—indeed their only—trump card. It won the midyear elections for them in 2002 and the White House in 2004. They’re counting on using it to win again. What else do they have to run on? Not their handling of Hurricane Katrina, not health care, not education, not urban policy, not Social Security, not energy policy, not the environment, and certainly not jobs and economic security.


The political prospects

From now until Nov. 7, the American people can count on a high-stakes and brutal battle for control of Congress. This is undoubtedly the most important midterm election in a generation. If the Republicans win and maintain control of Congress, the nation will be faced with another two years of Bush’s policies. If the Democrats win the House, the Senate, or both, these policies will come under serious scrutiny and some might well be reversed.

In the Senate, the Republicans now have a 55-44 advantage, with one Independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Though the odds favor the Republicans retaining control of the Senate—18 Republican-held seats, 15 Democratic-held seats, and one open seat are up for re-election—Democrats have a long shot at gaining control. They have a good chance of winning seats in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Montana, and Ohio. They then have to pick up two additional seats in tougher races in Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri or Arizona to gain a majority.

The House is where the Democrats have the best shot at winning. Democrats must pick up 15 additional seats to win control of the House, where all 435 seats are up for grabs. At present, the composition of the House is 231 Republicans, 201 Democrats, one Independent who caucuses with the Democrats, and two vacancies.

In the upcoming election, only about 40 House seats are in play. Because of recent redistricting, most incumbents have safe seats. If the election were held today, of the 40 contested seats, the Democrats would likely pick up 28—mostly in the Northeast and Midwest—and the Republicans 12. That would give the Democrats a razor-thin two-vote majority. But it would be enough to change the dynamics of national politics and put the White House on the defensive.

It comes down to this: If the Democrats keep the election focused on the Iraq debacle and economic insecurity, they will win. If unforeseen events occur and the Republicans can frame the debate nationally around terror and/or the hot-button issue of immigration, the outcome could change.


The issues

For the past five and a half years, the president and his party have cooked up the ultimate recipe for keeping political power. A nation in a constant state of anxiety—over the threat of terrorism, or at war—is a nation off balance. And that insecurity is the perfect cover to divert public attention from the country’s serious domestic problems and the administration’s reactionary political agenda.

The “Bush doctrine” opens the door to a series of preemptive wars against “evil” regimes. The ostensible goal is to protect the United States and bring security, stability, safety, and democracy to the citizens of Damascus, Tehran, and Pyongyang, as the president claims to be doing in Baghdad and Kabul. Meanwhile, the administration and Republican congressional leaders show little or no concern for the security, stability, and safety of the citizens of New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York City, Cleveland, or thousands of other cities and small towns across America, who are facing enormous economic and social difficulties.

Just like in The Wizard of Oz, when we finally get to see who is operating the smoke-puffing machine, we find a consummate pitchman. In Bush’s case, the man behind the screen is a flag-waving, antiterrorist smear- and fear-monger who labels his opponents anti-patriotic. Bush has done a clever job of manipulating the mass media, but in reality his smooth imagery and down-home personality are severely undermining America’s values. While he composes hymns to patriotism, individualism, Sunday piety, trickle-down economics, “staying the course,” and family values, he is trying to gut every program providing for social, economic, and environmental justice. America’s families need less pious rhetoric, and more policies geared toward a healthy economy, secure jobs, decent health care, affordable housing, quality public education, renewable energy, and a sustainable environment. Bush seems unable, or unwilling, to grasp that the government has an important leadership role in this. In fact, providing tax giveaways for the rich and for corporate America is the only policy that seems to energize Bush and the Republicans in Congress.

At present, an air of suspended belief hangs over the radical changes of the past five and a half years. That is because Bush’s economic policy has been obscured by the events of September 11, the nation’s focus on terrorist alerts—which seem to occur whenever Bush takes a nosedive in the polls—and the Iraq war. But layoffs, shutdowns, cutbacks, outsourcing, gas prices, local tax hikes, and reduced paychecks are taking a huge toll. Bush’s economic policy, which in turn determines social policy, is much like the iceberg waiting in the path of a steaming Titanic.

Bush does not seem to understand that, while it is not a sin to be born to privilege, it is a sin to spend your life defending it. John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt understood that. They knew the narrowness privilege can breed. This administration, despite its early pledges of “compassionate conservatism,” has in fact adopted policies that amount to a war against the poor and the middle class.

The Bush tax and budget cuts were not made in order to jump-start the economy or balance the budget; they were simply massive cash transfers. Social programs are being slashed to pay for the war in Iraq, tax giveaways for the wealthy, and new defense contracts for arms makers who just happen to be big Republican campaign contributors.

Moreover, the administration has not provided the American people with a strategic vision as to how the war in Iraq and this excessive and bloated arms buildup fits into our larger defense, antiterrorist, and foreign policy. Is it in the national interest to relegate our most precious assets—our human, natural, and financial resources—to the junk pile? Is it in the national interest to throw more lives and money into the quagmire in Iraq? To increase the pace of an arms race where overkill has long been achieved and is useless, militarily, in land wars?

Thomas Jefferson warned us that we could be free or ignorant, but not both. We have not taken that warning to heart. We have not had a serious national debate about the Bush administration’s policies, because the Republican leadership in Congress has engaged in a massive cover-up and the mass media have treated politics—as well as economic and social policy—as entertainment: a combination of hype and palliative. The moral, political, and economic life of this country has suffered. As a consequence, we have lost our moral compass, as well as our intuitive sense of what is significant in both our national and public institutions.


Foreign policy: the Iraq war and national security

Since Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush want to invoke history, let’s look at real-world history, instead of the mindless drivel they are peddling. The Bush spinmeisters desperately want to undermine the simple truth that most Democrats understand history and complexity, particularly in regard to the most important decision a president can make: that of taking our country to war, with all its drastic consequences in terms of human lives and the expenditure of national treasure.

Bush does not seem to understand that those who do not learn from history are condemned to make the same mistakes. Both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, in leading the victorious WWII allies in the war against fascism, understood the suffering, the human costs, and the scourge of war. (Note that Bush kicked off his propaganda offensive with a speech at an American Legion convention. One wonders if there were any Vietnam vets in the audience who thought to themselves, “Oh yeah, this guy has a lot of experience in fighting for freedom. While I was getting shot at and dragging my sorry ass through the muck and mire of Vietnam jungles, he was doing drugs, getting drunk, and practicing his golf swing at Houston country clubs. Ditto for that freedom-fighting draft-dodger Cheney.”) Roosevelt and Churchill understood only too well the need for international cooperation, both diplomatic and military. They understood the critical need for the exchange of intelligence and multinational action by and among traditional allies. They understood the need for strategic alliances that every single president since then, Republican and Democrat, has understood, with the glaring exception of Bush. That’s why he is dangerous and why we need a Democratic Congress to hold him accountable.

Roosevelt, before his death, was quite clear. He said that the United Nations was the place to go not to end wars, but to end the beginnings of wars. And Churchill was just as explicit when he warned us, “The United Nations is an imperfect institution that is a reflection of an imperfect world. Its purpose is not to lead us into an ascent to heaven but to prevent us from going into a descent to hell.” Those words are just as true and prescient today as they were in the aftermath of WWII. The Democrats understand what they mean. Bush either isn’t interested, or he’s too arrogant to grasp their meaning.

Saddam Hussein was a despicable tyrant, but overthrowing him and invading Iraq did not lessen the threat of terror; it increased it. It did not strengthen American military capability; it weakened it. It did not make Americans at home or abroad safer; it had the opposite effect of increasing recruitment and support for Al Qaeda and other anti-American militant groups throughout the world. Invading Iraq did not increase international cooperation for antiterrorist efforts or the respect for America’s diplomatic leadership that is indispensable to the war on terror; it diminished them.

For five and a half years, I have listened carefully to the president and his chief advisers. All of it has reminded me of a passage in The Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad put it this way: “Their talk was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight. . .in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world.”

Conrad’s words capture the political machinations of the Bush administration’s years in Washington. They reflect the mood and the moral nullity of the reactionary enterprise that seeks to tear apart the public good at home and to promote the neoconservative fantasy of world domination that led us into a risky and tragic preemptive war in Iraq. The Bush administration just doesn’t get it. No country can sustain itself, much less grow, on a political fare of one-liners, secrecy, rerun ideas, deliberate distortions, arrogance, paranoia, and official policy pronouncements borrowed from Orwell’s 1984—where recession is recovery, war is peace, and a social policy based on aggressive hostility is compassion.


The stakes

Finally, let me leave you with 25 reasons as to why this election is important and why you should get involved. They are:

1. Iraq.

2. Woman’s choice.

3. Global warming.

4. Public education.

5. Civil liberties.

6. Decent jobs at livable wages.

7. Affordable housing.

8. National health insurance.

9. Torture and human rights abuse.

10. Separation of church and state.

11. Soaring federal deficits.

12. The Supreme Court and federal judges.

13. Increase in poverty and homelessness.

14. Assault weapons back on the street.

15. Social Security.

16. Consumer protection.

17. Huge national debt.

18. Preemptive wars and national security.

19. Mercury and acid rain.

20. Disaster preparedness and Hurricane Katrina.

21. Maldistribution of wealth.

22. Resumption of nuclear testing.

23. Homeland security—ports, mass transit, and chemical plants.

24. Renewable energy and gas prices.

25. Pervasive corruption, cronyism, manipulation and incompetence.

You could probably add a number of reasons of your own. What’s of paramount importance though, is that the issues are basic, the choices are stark, the stakes are high, and the consequences could be devastating.

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~~~~~~Forever A Facetious Pain~~~~~~
~~~~~~Hopeful Smiles~~~~~~



Arthur I. Blaustein is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches community development, public policy, and politics. His most recent books are Make a Difference: America’s Guide to Volunteering and Community Service and The American Promise: Justice and Opportunity. He served on the board of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Bill Clinton and was chair of the President’s National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity under Jimmy Carter.



Reprinted with permission of the author.

They wouldn't lie to me, would they? Peace on Earth

UNWINNABLE WARS OF THE REPUBLICANS: PART 1

As I sat watching C-Span a thought occurred to me, how many more unwinnable wars will the republicans back? We had the Vietnam War, War Against Drugs, Desert Storm and now the newest failure of republicans choice of wars, War Against Terrorism. Now I'm going to address each one of these one by one.

Unwinnable Wars of The Republicans part one
Vietnam War:
Let's start with some historic facts, shall we?

The Vietnam War was a conflict in which the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) and its allies fought against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) and its allies. By its end in 1975, the Vietnam War had claimed between two and four million lives. It is also known as Vietnam Conflict, the Second Indochina War and colloquially as Vietnam, The ’Nam or simply ’Nam. Vietnamese Communists have often referred to it as the American War or Kháng chiến chống Mỹ, the Resistance War Against America.

North Vietnam’s allies included the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. South Vietnam's main allies included the United States, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea; South Vietnam's allies deployed large numbers of troops. American combat troops were involved from 1959, but not in large numbers until 1965. They left the country in 1973. A large number of civilian casualties resulted from the war, which ended on April 30, 1975, with the capitulation of South Vietnam.

Now that we got the history out of the way, let's break this down. In 1959 Dwight David Eisenhower was president of the US, in fact he was president until 1961 and was a republican with Richard M. Nixon as his vice president. On 20th January, 1953 Eisenhower became the first soldier-President since Ulysses Grant (1869-77). Eisenhower left party matters to his vice-president, Richard Nixon (we all know his story).

Eisenhower's government was severely concerned about the success of communism in South East Asia. Between 1950 and 1953 they had lost 142,000 soldiers in attempting to stop communism entering South Korea. The United States feared that their efforts would have been wasted if communism were to spread to South Vietnam. Eisenhower was aware that he would have difficulty in persuading the American public to support another war so quickly after Korea. He therefore decided to rely on a small group of Military Advisers' to prevent South Vietnam becoming a communist state.

In foreign affairs during this period he relied heavily on Richard Nixon and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles. During the Suez Crisis President Dwight Eisenhower refused to support the Anglo-French action against Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt. Afterwards his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, became concerned about the growing influence of the Soviet Union in the Middle East.

In January 1957 made a speech in Congress where Eisenhower recommended the use of American forces to protect Middle East states against overt aggression from nations "controlled by international communism"(my, how views have changed for the middle east). He also urged the provision of economic aid to those countries with anti-communist governments. This new foreign policy became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.

As one can easily see here Eisenhower relied deeply on Nixon for most matters, while in the White House. Now I know that 'Ike' went down as one of the favorite presidents of the United States, but here is some info most don't know or simply refuse to 'remember'.

President Eisenhower is viewed by some Americans as having little or no interest in eliminating racial discrimination and segregation in American society. Others believe that he did very little to promote equal treatment for minority Americans during his presidency. In an entry from Ike's diary addresses his thought about segregation and

I quote

"Dwight D. Eisenhower, diary entry (24th July, 1953)
A few days ago I had luncheon with Governor Byrnes of South Carolina, my great friend, a man in whose company I always find a great deal for enjoyment.

He came to talk to me about the possibility of a supreme court ruling that would abolish segregation in public schools of the country. He is very fearful of the consequences in the South. He did not dwell long upon the possibility of riots, resultant ill feeling, and the like. He merely expressed very seriously the opinion that a number of states would immediately cease support for public schools.
During the course of this conversation, the governor brought out several times that the South no longer finds any great problem in dealing with adult Negroes. They are frightened at putting the children together.

The governor was obviously afraid that I would be carried away by the hope of capturing the Negro vote in this country, and as a consequence take a stand on the question that would forever defeat any possibility of developing a real Republican or "opposition" party in the South.

I told him that while I was not going to give in advance my attitude toward a supreme court opinion that I had not even seen and so could not know in what terms it would be couched, that my convictions would not be formed by political expediency. He is well aware of my belief that improvement in race relations is one of those things that will be healthy and sound only if it starts locally. I do not believe that prejudices, even palpably unjustified prejudices, will succumb to compulsion.

Consequently, I believe that federal law imposed upon our states in such a way as to bring about a conflict of the police powers of the states and of the nation, would set back the cause of progress in race relations for a long, long time."

As one can see within the highlighted part 'Ike' was against the possibility of a supreme court ruling that would rid the US of segregation, but hey he was a likable type of guy.

Here are some quotes from people of that era about Eisenhower:

"The incredible dullness wreaked upon the American landscape in Eisenhower's eight years has been the triumph of the corporation. A tasteless, sexless, odorless sanctity in architecture, manners, modes, styles has been the result. Eisenhower embodied half the needs of the nation, the needs of the timid, the petrified, the sanctimonious and the sluggish."--Norman Mailer, The Presidential Papers

"The trouble with Eisenhower is he's just a coward. He hasn't got any backbone at all. Ike didn't know anything, and all the time he was in office he didn't learn a thing."--Harry S Truman, 1961

"I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly well equipped to be chief executive of this country--particularly where Indian affairs are concerned."--Dean Acheson

Eisenhower also set the record for running up more debt than any earlier president, primarily to serve the requests of what Republican President Eisenhower had, with alarm, termed the "military- industrial complex." this record being broken only by Reagan and George W Bush, both who are/were republican.

Let's look a little further back into Einenhower's past, Hey how about what he wrote during his military career
"God, I hate the Germans..." (Dwight David Eisenhower in a letter to his wife in September, 1944.

Wonder how many know about 'Eisenhower's Death Camps' and how horrible they were and how injustice, yet 'Ike' was a nice guy, Americans bend backwards to be nice and friendly among ourselves as well as with foreigners. In our zeal to retain the image of nice guyism, we go to extremes rarely witnessed in other societies and give rise sometimes to very amusing, if not ludicrous, situations. The defeat many years earlier of the eminent intellectual Presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson, at the hands of a grin-gifted Gen. Eisenhower, was nothing but a reflection of the preference of the people for a friendly, nice guy to an erudite, awesome intellectual.

Now that I have bored you to tears the point is, the Vietnam War was NOT won in any sense of the matter, I know many will try to disagree with this statement and I challenge them to explain how the Vietnam War was won. We were engaged in the Vietnam War earlier than most know and it was under the presidential ruling of a republican.

I would strongly suggest the reading of 'Eisenhower's Death Camps': A U.S. Prison Guard's Story. I think if one takes the time to read this, they will easily see the similarities of Unwinnable Wars of The Republicans.

~~~~~~Forever A Facetious Pain~~~~~~
~~~~~~Sweet Smiles~~~~~~

This is only part one of a five part series in the Unwinnable Wars of the Republicans, stay turn for more, same facetious channel, same facetious time.