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Quite simply, if we want to maintain our way of life, our comfort and security, our plenty and convenience, our rights and privileges, then we must fight to save our nation and our form of government from the political class that has prostituted the hard work of our collective predecessors, and the self-aggrandizing who seek to exploit it to their advantage and the general detriment of the people and their legacy.

To borrow from William Wallace as portrayed by Mel Gibson, the job of the people is not to provide the government with privilege and power. It is the job of the government to ensure the privilege and power of their people.

Nature knows no such thing as brotherhood, goodness, altruism, or justice or peace. Such things are artificial constructs of an intelligent mind capable of intellectual abstraction from the concrete to the abstract and back to the concrete again. We do quite well in abstracting how to move a concrete rock. We do less well in making that abstraction into concrete action. While moving a rock is rarely a live or die proposition, the continuing stability and integrity of our nation, government, body politic, society and collective culture are.

I believe we are currently failing in this and in grave danger of self-destruction.

Nature knows the "law of the jungle". Nature knows kill or be killed. The survival of the weak, the vulnerable, and the just plain unable is not natural. It requires the strong to decide that such things are good and noble and decent, and then to make sacrifices by marshaling their forces, their strengths, their hearts to the task of making it happen. Peace, brotherhood, and justice are things bought by sweat and blood, heartache and anxiety, concentration and deliberation, and carried on the shoulders of more than we know and above all that on all that ride our hopes and dreams for the future.

We are failing now. We are not as strong as we once were. We once had a bright if somewhat at times tarnished image in spots. It was nothing we could not clean up, and we knew this not only with trusting faithful optimism, but our experience led us to this belief and we believed it not only avidly but coldly. Not only did we want to believe we were capable ever more of better, but we believed it even if we did not want to.

Our hearts are weakening, our shoulders straining, our backs breaking under the load of all our collective self-deceptions, our lies to each other and ourselves, and to the future who shall supplant and inherit our legacy.

However, all is not lost. We are still a strong people we men of Earth. We can do great things. We have done great things. We may yet do more. What is lacking is belief.

Right now I look across my land and see a people selling their futures to avoid dealing with the harsh realities, yet believing themselves brave for dealing with false but harsh unrealities. We console ourselves in the night when our doubts come a creeping upon us. We tell ourselves we could not have done better, and when the lie of it stinks enough to offend us, we pull the covers tighter and we beg for someone, G-d perhaps, to make it all go away.

Therefore since we all have abandoned our optimism, our faithful belief in ourselves and our future, it is to ourselves we must look to do one simple thing. Turn around my friends. Turn around and walk another way.

My wife told me something last night. She had a dream. She was in an office moving furniture and papers to make room and the room kept getting smaller. She moved furniture this way and that, paper here and there, and instead of making room, the expected space never materialized. Instead it got less. She began to wonder how anyone got anything in there in the first place. Then she realized she needed to get out. She tried to run down the hall but it got smaller and smaller as she went. Hall after hall, turn after turn, only smaller. Finally a door opened to her side, barely in her peripheral view and she realized the way out was not ahead or behind, but to her side.

I see this as similar to my growing realization that we've allowed ourself to be culturally fixated on a binary view of the world. Either forward or back. If you win, I lose. We get our way every time, or we get our way never. Everything always goes right or it always goes wrong. We will not compromise.

A question has passed through my mind. The question is: "What is the third choice?"

There is a third choice. Not forward continuing with more of the same malaise in our nation. Not backward tearing our nation and liberties to pieces. We must move laterally, step out of the way of the unstoppable force and the immovable object. We must change the definitions and the expectations of our own selves. We must do it together. We must maintain it. We must stick to it. We must dedicate ourselves to better, not worse.

Once we foresaw a shining future of flying cars, space colonies, lunar bases, and starflight. Now we are looking upon the developing nations such as China and India, and hypocritically shaking our finger at them and condescending to telling them they cannot have the development we had. They cannot burn coal and oil the way we did to achieve our plenty. They have to settle for less we tell them.

What arrogance we have to tell those who see our prosperity that they may not share in it. Are we next to declaim, decry, and apologize for our prosperity? Are we to rend our clothes, throw away our plenty, and cry for shame, we should not have aspired to such heights?

Do we also apologize for all those lives saved who otherwise would not have been? Do we apologize for the lives of those who would never have been born?

This all is folly. This all is arrogance. This all is false piousness, and fake concern, for we do not believe any such thing. We tell India and China they can not do these things because they are using the oil and coal we should have long long ago weaned ourselves from through technological innovation and the application of market forces to make them affordable and widespread, and by today we could help those developing nations with such technologies, and aid those nations to develop faster and without reinventing the wheel as it were. We built ourselves on the fast and cheap with then plentiful resources and now we do not want to share.

It's been said liberals are people who will give the shirt off of someone else's back. This global drive, mostly on the left, to laughably "live simply that others may simply live" will not even allow those in need to have a shirt. They speak of carrying capacity as if they had a shred of knowledge or wisdom to conceive of the complex interplay of life and the biosphere, passive and intelligently active, much less the G-d-like right to tell others how to live. They speak of lowered expectations, they portray a cannot-do attitude, and preach a despair so easy to foresee the end of, one might as well end one's life now, if one believes the doom spreading ninnies.

Worse, we are all falling for it. I've said before and will say again that anyone who sells you a solution to a problem automatically has therefore a vested interest in that problem never being solved. If it was, there would no longer be any need of them. Those who sell you milk are merely fulfilling an ongoing need that exists independent of them. Rest assured they'd never sell you a magic pill to permanently supply you will all the vitamins and minerals you would get from the milk. Not that they are themselves nefarious by this, but it is a good example.

Consider our own nation where we have recently been breaking our arms patting ourselves on the back over progress since the days of desegregation yet wailing and gnashing our teeth over the lack of progress and exhorting our population to accept more social programs in the name of eliminating white racism. If those who succeeded Doctor King truly cared about his work, we'd no longer need them as it would have been done by now. Instead, we have seen decades of ineptitude in so-called race relations as hamfistedly laid out as anything that things done by government could be done as. We have seen a client system set up where African-Americans are making great strides in some places, little in others, and all of it supports the continued empowerment of a few people at the top of the society be they local pastors, alleged community leaders, politicians mostly white and Democrat, or personalities such as Al Sharpton.

Treadmill to nowhere it seems, doesn't it. So too does everything else. We had an oil shortage that wasn't in the 70s and we are having an oil shortage that isn't in the 00's. We had exhortations to insulation, energy saving, conservation, and we had some technological advances but did anything truly change? No. The self-same people who preached these things at us preached an anti-freedom, anti-democracy, anti-progress, anti-technology, pro-socialist solution to empower themselves and of course the people would not so empower them. However, they had to have their way, and so they were empowered. They got into politics and lobbying and in groups were influential where the individual rarely is. As a result, we pay punitive taxes on gas, oil, electricity, and other energy services which we were told would go to cleaning up the world and advancing us to new technologies to supplant fossil fuels which of course they did no such thing.

If money was a solution to anything, it would actually have to be applied to the problem. Do you not think the educational system malaise of today would be what it is if the lottery income was actually going to education? Don't be silly. Of course it would, because even the educational system is corrupt and the money would never go to the payments for things to solve the problem with. They would be diverted because the system exists to empower and enrich those within it, not solve problems. The system survives by maintaining problems. It survives by continuing problems. It survives by keeping problems much like a farmer keeps livestock.

The system was supposed to be ours, and work for us. I still believe it can again. However, this cannot be until we are honest to each other and recognize that the system only works as long as it is for everyone, that all are equal and not some more equal than others, that it is not about the rich versus the middle class versus the poor, that is about all of us. If we do not, and we continue to allow ourselves to be turned upon each other by the system, we will become nothing more than livestock on a farm, vegetables in a field, commodities to be traded.

We are people. We are intelligent. We are capable of self-sacrifice, altruism, and effort on behalf of others. Every day we make use of those capabilities to create a clearing in the jungle of Earth called society and civilization. We carry each other on our shoulders. We hoist our futures high. We make the effort. We must not give up now. We must stop letting ourselves be sold on problems that don't exist, or problems which do but which are conveniently and profitably for others redefined to our detriment. We must stop having solutions to problems sold to us before we know what it is we are fixing.

We have to move to the side and look for the third choice.

We are the government. Resistance is futile. Your genetic material shall serve us.

WASHINGTON - The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.

Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest - Yahoo! News

Did you know you leave bits of DNA in skin cells when you use those ATM card readers at the store? When you smoke a cigarette? Better not drop a butt.

This is a killer statement of über-naivete:

(Erik) Ablin said the DNA collection would be subject to the same privacy laws applied to current DNA sampling. That means none of it would be used for identifying genetic traits, diseases or disorders.

Emphasis mine. Italic gives first name mentioned in earlier paragraph.

And we know that none of it would be used how? What in all the 232 years of this country tells you that our government would follow the law here any more than it has followed numerous other laws we already know they violate at will. Laws we have to follow but they don't.

Those who support the expanded collection believe that DNA sampling could get violent criminals off the streets and prevent them from committing more crimes.¹

A Chicago study in 2005 found that 53 murders and rapes could have been prevented if a DNA sample had been collected upon arrest.²

"Many innocent lives could have been saved had the government began this kind of DNA sampling in the 1990s when the technology to do so first became available," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said. Kyl sponsored the 2005 law that gave the Justice Department this authority.³

^Okay...

1. They believe this why? Alien 3 and "double y chromos"? What exactly makes them think that DNA determines human behavior? Is this not just as stupid as the idea that skin color decides behavior? What the fuck happened to "the content of our character"? Did we not just have a self-congratulatory arm breaking back patting festival of ego masturbation for Doctor King recently? Obviously we have a long way to go if we believe DNA determines outcome of your choices. Sorry Doc King. We're working on it, but people are still pretty damn stupid and superstitious.
   
2. What study, how was it done, and exactly what rationale says that murders and rapes can be prevented by knowing the DNA of previous offenders? That we could have matched DNA found at crime scenes? We already take DNA of previously convicted offenders. Oh wait, convicted. Merely arrested is what we're doing now. As in, if you were arrested previously you obviously are a bad sort in general for all time. This is by the way yet another piece of evidence that this is either not a Christian nation or Christians are hypocrites. Hello, Jesus, turn the other cheek, forgiveness and all that. Assuming people guilty flies in the face of assuming possibility of change which is the prerequisite for forgiveness and reintegrating the transgressor in society. Guess that core tenet was missed somehow.
   
3. There's little to no evidence of any such thing no matter how much CSI you've been watching. DNA testing is just not that advanced or fast. This is 2008. Not 3008. Not even 2018. We are not the Federation. This is not Star Trek. Stop watching TV and pick up an encyclopedia.

For all you apocalyptic Christians worried about the mark of the beast, don't worry about RFID chips. Your own DNA you were born with which the L-rd your G-d put in your cells by His divine design and genius will be used instead of a mark of the beast.

Are you truly surprised?

The Raw Story | Documents prove FBI has national eavesdropping program that tracks IMs, emails and cell phones

Money shot:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States -- and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court.

And now juxtapose: Judges can still punish acquitted defendants - Los Angeles Times

Money shot from that:

The Supreme Court declined Monday to reconsider a legal rule that might surprise most Americans: Judges can punish defendants for certain crimes even after a jury has acquitted them of those charges.
In recent years, the justices have described the right to jury trial as one of the bedrock principles of American law. At the same time, they have been unwilling to say that a jury's not-guilty verdict on some charges means the defendant cannot be punished. Instead, the court has said judges may take into account "acquitted conduct" when they decide on a prison term.

Let me address that second article first. Acquitted conduct means conduct a jury acquitted you of. As in, the jury ruled that they did not believe to a sufficient level under the constitution and law to convict and hence as far as American legal tradition is concerned, IT IS NOT CONSIDERED TO HAVE HAPPENED IN THE EYES OF THE COURT. Only things you are actually NOT acquitted of happened. If the jury acquits you, it did not happen, they cannot retry you (generally) for that charge again under the double jeopardy rule.

So conduct that our legal tradition says did not happen can now get you a prison sentence anyhow.

Nice end run around double jeopardy, huh? The right to a jury trial is now no impediment. Even if they fail to convict, they need only convince the judge to sentence you as if you were convicted.

Now then refer to the first subject. The FBI is now feeling free to conduct surveillance at will WITHOUT ANY ORDER AT ALL.

They say corruption proceeds from the top down. The people learn it from the rulers. This is how great civilizations collapse. The corruption of the powerful and in charge breeds contempt for the structures the corrupt represent. Without respect for those structures, the society which forms around those structures cannot stand.

Our courts, our executive, and our legislative are all on a feeding frenzy of self-aggrandizement and empowerment at our expense and will bring the police powers of the state to bear against we people at will.

OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE... NEXT ELECTION, VOTE EVERYONE OUT AND DO IT EVERY ELECTION. AND FORCE THEM TO EXPLAIN THEIR UNELECTED APPOINTMENTS UNTIL THEY SCREAM FOR MERCY. This government belongs to us, not "them". We are slowly losing our freedoms regardless of which side wins elections. How sad is it that the once great USA's system can no be fairly covered with a tag line from Aliens Versus Predator 2?

"Whoever Wins, We Lose"

BULLSHIT SCARE DE JOUR

End of the world as we know it - The Arizona Republic

Money shot of stupid:

After all, no alternative energy sources scale up to the level of a few million people, much less the 6.5 billion who currently occupy Earth. Oil is necessary to extract and deliver coal and natural gas. Oil is needed to produce solar panels and wind turbines, and to maintain the electrical grid.

Read the article and in fact, do a word search on that page for the word nuclear. It doesn't occur until the first response on the page about what the French are doing.

As was pointed out by conservatives a very very very long time ago regarding the left's obsession with preventing nuclear usage at all costs, it is not so much about a fright of accident based on sober scientific and technical assessments, as it is and much more so, about their obsession with the idea that modern advanced technological society is bad.

Watch The Science Channel and try really hard to miss the subtext in shows about pandemics to come. You will have to struggle to miss the point being contended, namely than mankind's ability to travel and interact with each other puts us at risk.

MUCH of the scientific establishment is not so much the Professor from Gilligan's Island as, well, the guy who wrote this article.

Guy R. McPherson is a professor of conservation biology at the University of Arizona.

If you, like me, are well aquatinted with the fact that the majority of college and university teachers hail from the bottom quartile of college and university students, well, this is not really too surprising. Further, if you also are aware of the heavily politicized, largely radical, and mostly leftist nature of academia, then it makes more sense.

I entreat you the reader to defend yourself against this obnoxious corruption of straightforward logical rational endeavor by the more venal aspects of man, namely political aggrandizement and appeasement of ego, and try not to cast off all belief in science. Yes, my fellow technical types are rife with veritable oceans of stupid afloat with much flotsam and jetsam of utter brainlessness, but once you get past that, you might find something to make a useful stake the put through the hearts of these sociopolitical vampires, who seek to suck dry the world's belief in a brighter future.

Meanwhile, I'll do the dirty work and call this article a fucking crock of horseshit. We have technology in hand to safely and elegantly empower our society for centuries and millennia. We merely lack the gumption to tell people like this to shut the fuck up. It is not the job of academia to read tea leaves, entrails, or their own vomit after spring break and foretell the future. It is their job to find way to make the future prosperous and wondrous for all mankind.

That's the way I was trained in science, that's my story, I'm sticking to it. Too bad I have to deal with so many sensationalist prick hacks fobbing off utter crap to an undereducated, miseducated, and all too credulous society of people emotionally drained by a political system running on crisis creation and mismanagement, and with the attention span of a Bill Clinton groupie.

Hmmmm...

Iranian news agency: Syria arrests Saudi official tied to Mughniyeh death | Jerusalem Post

I wonder what SA had to gain by Mug's death. Removing the embarrassment of someone who looked like the offspring of Bruce Vilanch and Harvey Fierstein being associated with terrorism?

Who ya gonna... oh fuck it, just read the article...

Officials with the Homestead Police Department have hired paranormal investigators after several unexplained events in the station, including a typewriter that types by itself, blasts of cold air and slamming doors.

Police Hire Paranormal Investigators After Unexplained Events - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando

Abstinence-only as bad as condoms-only education...

State lawmakers said the myths are spreading because of Florida's abstinence-only sex education, Local 6 reported.

Survey: Fla. Teens Believe Drinking Bleach Will Prevent HIV - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando

News flash America, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO TEACH THE KIDS YOURSELVES AND STOP RELYING ON THE STATE.

Unless of course you like the job the Germans did with their state educational system seventy years ago because it got all the kids goosestepping in the same direction.

Young teen pussy, THE place to score over the counter pain medication for school personnel...

Money shot of a quote, right at the end:

The invasiveness of the search also has to be weighed against the evil it was aimed at preventing. "Remember," the school district's lawyer recently told ABC News by way of justification, "this was prescription-strength ibuprofen." It's a good thing the school took swift action, before anyone got unauthorized relief from menstrual cramps.

Reason Magazine - The School Crotch Inspector

Read it and weep for the loss of our common sense.

A story which proves police marksmanship, public relations, and psychology classes are not working...

It has been one of the more lingering questions surrounding the shooting of Sean Bell: How can anyone sustain 19 gunshot wounds and live to tell about it?

Doctor Tells of a 19-Gunshot-Wound Survivor - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog

Mr. Bell, Mr. Guzman and Trent Benefield had just left Mr. Bell’s bachelor party at Club Kalua in Jamaica, Queens, when officers investigating the club, believing the men were armed, followed them. In the confrontation that followed, five officers opened fire with 50 shots, killing Mr. Bell and wounding Mr. Benefield and Mr. Guzman.

Emphasis mine.

Our nation's criminals to their credit consistently display better marksmanship, efficiency of ammunition usage, and discretion in choice of targets and times to shoot than our nation's police. Obviously, we're doing something wrong when an old wise guy can be more effective throwing someone a quick beating then telling them to go back to Jersey, than our national intelligence and military services are with waterboarding suspected terrorists.

Oh well. At least if the shit gets heavy in Iraq we can send these keystone cops.

There is eerie Zen-like simplicity in the joke about just needing three (now two) more bullets to reunite the Beatles.

Just in time for global warming...

An Iranian has opened the world's most northerly kebab outlet in the freezing wastelands of the Arctic circle.

World's most northerly kebab shop opened - Telegraph

Now we just need gyros, chicken, and falafel to be represented and we're all set for 7th avenue of the north.

Arkansas evolves and advances to at least the modernity of West Virginia

Toddlers can no longer marry in Ark.; state repeals law that removed minimum marriage age

Can we get a law requiring minimum competence in English spelling, grammar, and composition before being eligible to run for public office?

A girl to pray for...

A teenager who survived a murder-suicide that wiped out her family last year placed a frantic 911 call before she knew that her brother was the killer.

SoCal slayings survivor's 911 call: 'My family is dead

Just to be fair and equal, but of course, you might want to say a really big collective prayer for the species.

A boy to pray for...

The 12-year-old boy had finished his homework and was playing a video game when he heard his mother cry out. Rushing to her aid, he found her on the kitchen floor, straddled by a fellow resident of their Prince George's County boarding house, the man's hands wrapped tightly around her neck, the boy said yesterday.

Md. Boy, 12, Kills Man Attacking Mother - washingtonpost.com

How do you come back from that?

My phrase of the moment, you heard it here!

 

Paradigm Mismatch

Use it at will to replace "cognitive dissonance". Same thing, but more Net 3.0 or whatever.

Short meaning: when two concepts contingent upon one another are juxtaposed they are found to be in logical contradiction at one or more levels but which must by their related nature not be in contradiction.

Such as teaching people about freedom and rights but from the point of view that they are granted by the state, not something the state humbly recognizes exist independent of it.

Third grade kids: your prime source of interesting news today!

Yes, evidently a group of nine third grade children planned to attack and detain a teacher as you can read here: Top Stories - Police Release Photos of Weapons in Waycross Plot.

Why? Fuck knows. Capper at end:

The District Attorney is handling the case and students will most likely face juvenile charges of Unruly Child.

Well implicit in that charge is the idea that there's such a thing as a Ruly Child. In other words, there's a standard of compliance, obedience, and submission.

Maybe that's why so many kids are having problems... we teach them all about freedom, but we do it under a framework of demanding submission from them as if freedom is not a natural right or G-d given, but a privilege handed out conditionally by allegedly benevolent masters.

The paradigm mismatch©® must be getting to our society.

Army recognizes straight marriage belatedly...

In this article, Army does about-face on soldier couples in Iraq - CNN.com, you can read how the US Army has finally stopped thinking about who is blowing who in a broken Humvee at the back of the motor pool long enough to notice that the straights they champion, ohmigawd, no way, actually get married and sometimes BOTH of them are serving. As in with guns, not cocktails.

Welcome US Army to the year... I forget, when did humans begin mating and forming families?

You were warned, the Patriot act would be used for non-terrorist cases...

Kansas.com | 03/25/2008 | Patriot Act used in drug case; lawyer riled

The lawyer for a man accused of being a major cocaine supplier for the Wichita Crips gang contends that a secret search of the man's house under the Patriot Act was illegal.

1. Wichita. As in Wichita, Kansas. As in Dorothy and Toto country. Not a place you associate with international terrorist organizations and acts against the USA. Better have a really good reason right off.
2. Crips. As in Crips and Bloods. As in your two largest black gang-banger organizations. Not an organization you associate with international terrorist organizations and acts against the USA. Better have a really really good reason right off.
3. Wichita Crips. As in WTFBBQ. Man, don't make me slap that corn out of your hands.

What was the essence of their justification?

In the affidavit, the ATF agent contended that earlier disclosure to Andrews could "seriously jeopardize the investigation."

As in, we would have no case without abusing the constitution and the ends therefore justify the means.

Starbucks to California courts: We're above the law

Starbucks Corp. does not plan to compensate its California baristas for tips they shared with shift supervisors, defying a San Diego Superior Court ruling last week.

Starbucks To Defy Tip-Sharing Ruling - Money News Story - WKMG Orlando

Further, there's this fiction:

"The ruling would take away the right of shift supervisors to receive the tips they earn for providing superior customer service," said Chief Executive Howard Schultz, in a voicemail message to employees Wednesday night. "I want you to know that we strongly believe that this ruling is extremely unfair and beyond reason."

Uh, no. The shift supervisors in question are getting portions of the servers' tips when they themselves may not have actually functioned as a server.

Last week, San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett ordered Starbucks to pay baristas more than $100 million in back tips and interest, saying state law prohibits managers and supervisors from taking a cut from the tip jar. A hearing is set for May 1 before Cowett on how the California tip money should be distributed.

Starbucks responded in the statement that "shift supervisors are not managers and have no managerial authority," and customers don't differentiate between the supervisors and baristas when they tip.

Shift supervisors ARE managerial in that they have definite powers of decision making over the shifts of subordinates, and can terminate people in certain circumstance. That's management.

Why does this company keep reminding me of Krispy Kreme?

PC World - Microsoft Prepares 'Albany' to Compete with Google

One more time:

PC World - Microsoft Prepares 'Albany' to Compete with Google

One word Microsoft... Spitzer.

Muhahahahahahahahaha!

Verizon accuses cable TV operators of dragging their feet when consumers try to switch to Verizon's voice and television services.

PC World - Verizon Complains Cable Operators Slowing Switch to Fios

Hmmmm... Should I feel any sort of pity for them given that they have a better than 50% chance of failing to deliver a proper error-free T1 line by the deadline they give customers, and deliver it late with errors, closing the order without cooperative testing for acceptance by the customer, and then force the customer to file three trouble tickets in a row at the customer's expense when if they'd done the job they were paid for in the first place it would be working weeks earlier?

Take a frigging guess.

POT

KETTLE

BLACK

Gulag America Continues On

Police are like vampires. They shouldn't be invited into your homes," said Jamarhl Crawford, chairman of the New Black Panther Party in Roxbury, who moderated the meeting.

"Vampires are polite; they're smooth," he said in an interview the following day. "But once they get in, the door closes. Havoc ensues."

Other comparisons have been no more favorable.

"The community doesn't want this," Lisa Thurau-Gray, managing director of the Juvenile Justice Center at Suffolk University Law School, said at the meeting. She likened the police persistence to a sexual aggressor who refuses to stop assaulting a victim despite her pleas. "What part of no don't they understand?" she said.

Police limit searches for guns - The Boston Globe

What part? Any part. Because our government, when it comes to law enforcement, is possessed by an assumption of guilt of all suspects and all people not law enforcement are suspects. When the only tool in your box is a hammer, ever problem looks like a nail. The nail that sticks up, gets pounded down. Does this seem familiar to you now? It's the de facto state of American law and order. Law above all else, including and indeed most especially the the spirit behind having laws. Not to provide for the common good, but the empowerment of those who enforce it, and their masters.

We have a federal government that is presently earnestly arguing in multiple court venues against constitutional protections limiting law enforcement searches and seizures, and arguing in favor of warrantless wiretaps, and using things found in those explorations to justify warrants after the fact, which is a bedrock NO-NO of our nation.

Now then, the most clueless people here are the Boston Police who despite the long history of abuse of minority communities by police, and political abuse of black American society, and the current abuses of power by various state governments and the federal government, still live in a totally different world where the police walking door to door offering to search your home and clear you of suspicion when there was none to begin with and no cause for same is a perfectly fine and normal idea.

No, no, we don't suspect you of anything, but why take chances? We'll search you now and clear you up front. Wink wink nudge nudge...

Show me your sexually oriented materials papers!

A new state law that requires sellers of adult material to register with the state has Hoosier bookstore owners fuming about government censorship and threatening a legal challenge.

"This lumps us in with businesses that sell things that you can't even mention in a family newspaper," said Ernie Ford, owner of Fine Print Book Store in Greencastle. Advertisement Ford was talking about House Enrolled Act 1042, which Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law last week.

Ford was one of 15 independent Indiana booksellers who signed a letter last week urging Daniels to veto the legislation.

The new law that takes effect July 1 requires businesses that sell sexually explicit material to pay a $250 fee and register with the secretary of state, which would then pass the information to municipal or county officials so they can monitor the businesses for potential violations of local ordinances.

Booksellers incensed over sexual content law | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

Your are guilty until proven innocent. Until we get around to charging you with something, you pay us to watch you and eventually charge you with something.

That's the basic attitude here. It is wrong. And the American people will silently go to the slaughter of their civil rights, each time moving a foot closer to the inevitable, because it sounded good, not because it was good.

If the state of Indiana were a private organization, this would be a clear case of extortion and protection, and punishable under the RICO statutes. How nice the governments can engage in practices that when others do, they react with self-righteous indignation, ignoring the subliminal discordance in the public which can only engender disrespect for the rule of law and the very institution of government.

1% of American Adults Are Prisoners of the State

Of that,

• 1 in 15 black adults is in jail
• 1 in 9 black men aged 20-34 are in jail
• 1 in 100 black women aged 35-39 are in jail

On the one hand you have a liberal white elite who feel free to speak for African-Americans, disavow any moralists among them, discount structural deformations in the African-American subsection of society, and make excuses for every manner of bad behavior by black criminals which does nothing so well as further victimize those criminals' victims further, and those victims are overwhelmingly black.

On the other hand you have a conservative white elite who feel that throwing every single black man and woman who commits any offense behind bars instantly and forgetting about the key despite the fact that it has resulted in the African-American community being shot through with holes of absence like Swiss cheese, causing multiple generations to grow up with an insanely high likelihood of a relative either being in jail for part of the growing up, or shamed by the legacy of that former incarceration and by that hobbled in their ability to make a change, and provide for their family.

Is it any wonder so many black people feel unfairly put upon? It's a wonder they haven't revolted.

Yet, they haven't. They have been given more than sufficient cause to scream to Heaven, and rant and curse the bones of everyone around them, yet they don't revolt. Truly, there must be something amazingly positive amongst these people to survive this extreme dichotomy of more and greater official de jure freedom but with so much de facto lack of freedom.

Society's inter-woven net of mutual support and health and well being has been damn near severed from them, but they show a remarkable trait of mankind: humans can control themselves, their natural expected reactions to being assaulted emotionally and socially, and maintain dignity.

America, please wake up and stop bullshitting yourselves. In a desire to either take a total hands off to the Africans or a total hands on, you've allowed liberals to try to turn them into a political petting zoo and conservatives to turn them into a dog pound. These people are an inextricable part of the nation. They are as much a part of you. They are fellow humans.

They want to be part of the mutual support mechanisms of a civilized society but there cannot be a civilized society just for some people and not for others. Without those others sharing the same benefits, they must inevitably fail and fall to the nastier side of human nature and as a result, they will be harmed even further, and you will be harmed further. This is exactly what is happening now.

Here's a few suggestions for the country.

First, to black Americans, tell liberal whites to fuck off. No matter what your politics from liberal to conservative, speak for yourself. When someone in your community is being an ass, when your kids are misbehaving, and some liberal white moron starts to make excuses for what is a detriment to you, bind and gag the fucker, and discipline your kids and report the ass. Defend yourself. Just because you're victimized by someone who is also black doesn't mean you have to stand for it. Do you think white people put up with white criminals or their own kids because they're white. Fuck no.

Second, to white Americans, fucking stop thinking of that whole damn eye for an eye bullshit. You're the bloc most responsible for this craptastic situation of incarcerating entire neighborhoods and cities worth of American citizens. You have your heads up your collective asses filled with self-righteous bullshit about crime and punishment and the only thing you are doing is insuring that those you callously and harshly treat will resent society, and keep on being bad people.

Third, to all of you, good and bad behavior are no more subjective than your immediate interest in not getting bonked on the head and your wallet taken. It's that simple. All of you want the same things. You want your kids to listen to you. You want your neighbors to respect you. You want people to treat you nicely. You want justice without vengeance. You want repair of the world. You want bad people to be made good people. You want everything to work out.

It never will happen as long as you cannot forgive each other and are wrapped up in your own victimhood. Please, for the love of G-d, stop. Before the statistic reaches 2% and carries an obligatory after comment, "and the other 98% are awaiting arrest."

Sex in the Home of the Slaves, Land of the Cowards

Every day or so I check into daily.rotten.com and see the detritus of American and global civilization settling around our feet, breaking off from the structure below as we crush it with new structures above. Imagine a "soft bottom" structure whose first floor pancakes in an earthquake but instead of rebuilding the whole thing proper, the second floor now becomes the first and they build a new second floor and over and over.

One thing that really fucking bothers me is the way the American public is headed towards an almost police state mentality regarding sex, especially as it is enslaving children and teenagers who have not even had the chance to grow up and decide on the way through that process what they want to do with their developing sexuality, in the ostensible name of protecting them, but truly and really in the quest for creating another power bloc to be spoken for.

All over the Internet, we see stories of people being busted for trying to get in the pants of teen girls. Hey fine, a man really did strike up a conversation with a real girl and for sexual purposes. Fine, investigate and press charges. Win if you can in a court of law.

Nope. Not how we do it anymore. We put up sting operations and actively attempt to entice people who are on the fence sitting but weak willed side of things, and use such enticements as they most likely would never ever have the possibility of receiving from a young girl, and without such enticement lack the initiative to do more than jerk off at home.

Once arrested, these men are then tagged as "Sex Offenders". Consider for a minute the meaning of that phrase. First, they've narrowed it down to being about sex. Second, they've claimed there is an actual offense which implies it is against society as the law enforcement people involved are charged with protecting society against law breakers and other offenders against the public.

You cannot have an offense unless there is a norm to be broken. What this means is that if there is such as thing as a "Sex Offender" there must by contrast be a "Sex Non-Offender". Which furthermore implies that there is a norm which determines one's compliance. Moreover, it also then implies that society has given its elected officials the power to direct the appointed officials of law enforcement to enforce that norm.

Does no one see the danger of de facto acceptance of the concept of a societal norm for sex? Does no one see the danger of this de facto norm being essentially decided and defined by elected politicians and appointed police?

In the name of "for the children" we are willing to internalize and swallow that idea, that there can be a societal norm for sex and it can be handed to others who are most definitely not involved otherwise in our very personal sex lives, and offenders however they are defined punished in any way that the system wishes?

What punishments do we levy? We tag them for life with a name, with a classification, that allows for no forgiveness, no changeability, no hope. We take an offense that we claim on paper has XYZ for a punishment but then we go beyond that in a very real and damaging way to practically insuring that they will be left with no chance for change, let them know we will never believe in them again, and wonder why the recidivism rate is so high.

At no time does morality enter into it. We never have anything like the Jewish Mussar phenomenon. Not even a whiff of a mention of philosophy and ethics is made.  It is clear from the first moment that this is not about justice and correction of an offender. It is not even revenge for we ourselves in society who were not involved were not directly wronged and thus have no personal connection to claim vengeance. In fact, we make it clear that it is about society being deep down the bad guy. A cowardly bad guy. Like the Spartans who would prove themselves by murdering a Helot and getting away with it, we use the flimsy excuse of justice, we visit this hellishness on them with the fire of revenge, and we have no personal interest in it other than we've found a victim we can go cathartically medieval on.

Finally in the case of this child molester under every bed hysteria, we claim we are doing it for the children. At no time are the children involved in a sting operation so that argument is clearly bunk right there in that case. It was fishing and the claim that they would have targeted a real kid is not proven. We would not know unless they actually offend. Seeking to get people to make attempts at offending but not actually offending is what that is.

When it comes to real intergenerational sex, does anyone even ask the child what they thought? No. It is simply reflexively assumed that the child cannot decide for themselves what they want.

Well when I was in junior high, girls I went to school with thought boinking the high school seniors was cool. Some of them were eighteen already. Back then, it was ignored largely. Parents didn't know what their teens were up  to and didn't want to and unless there was a complaint the police did not become involved. They rightly had the attitude that how parents dealt with their kids' sexual experimentation was their business and as long as they did not come out and tell them to fuck, hey, they're trying but teens exist to bust their parents' boundaries. This is nothing new.

Today, parents are just as willfully clueless and still don't want to know who little twelve year old Suzy is doing behind the K-Mart after school, they just wish she wouldn't or that she'd even stop rolling her eyes and take them seriously when they told her about the birds and the bees or even to tie her fucking shoes.

Police on the other hand, whipped into motion by a feeling of righteousness in protecting the public morality which is neither their job nor should it be, as well as prodded by grabby politicians, are full tilt kiddy protecting machines. And as with most government functions failing miserably at it because of the ham fisted Mr. Magoo conceptual grasp crossed with the swatting flies with cruise missiles Sledge Hammer nature of government functions. Of course there's also the fact that they are not doing it to protect the kids because neither the kids nor the parents charged them with doing so, and indeed cannot because an unspoken foundation of America and indeed most humanity being that the family has ultimate responsibility and influence in matters of child rearing and not the state.

Why are they doing it?

They are doing it because the grabby politicians are empowered by it. Don't believe me? Check out this article in the NY Times. 1% of all American adults is not a small number. Every last one of those people is a ward of the state and I do not mean one of the fifty states, I mean the state as in government. That is over 1.5 million people who they can speak on behalf of. They have no rights. No choices. No voice. They are captive. Someone else speaks for them. Obviously since they are incarcerated, the power of the voice for them isn't going to them. It goes to someone else.

It works this way with the unincarcerated as well. Children have no voice. They are by law not allowed to speak for themselves. They are disenfranchised by virtue of an assumption that until they turn eighteen they cannot reason for themselves much less be responsible. Usually, classically, the parents speak for their own children and not for each others' nor those of people half way across the nation.

No longer. In the vacuum of parental responsibility taking in the USA, the politicians have found a new class to speak on behalf of. One which cannot gainsay them and disavow that spokesmanship. One whose rightful spokespeople won't disavow that stolen representation because of the nature of the subject matter being used. The politicians are protecting my kid from sex predators. Why should I speak up?

Just because the stated aim of protecting your kids is the same as your own natural imperative, does not mean the actual aim is the same and you should have a natural and inherent knowledge that you as the parent alone can have such an overly protective feeling towards your kids. Your interest is the biological imperative of passing on your genes and the spiritual imperative of continuing your own existence through the impression you make on them and what you teach them, what you impart by their experience of you.

What is the political class' interest in speaking for your kids? What is the only interest the political class ever has? Think for a minute.

How long will it be before it goes from deciding that the societal norm is that your kids cannot have sex with adults, to deciding that your kids cannot learn about sex from you?

The public schools are an arm of the state and hence politically connected. Anyone who has been a teacher know the politically tempestuous nature of schools and understands the incestuous nature of the connections between school administration and town council politics. Town council politics where schools are concerned is affected very heavily by the state government of state taxpayer fund disbursements, or lack thereof should compliance with political motivations not be forthcoming. States suckle at the teat of the federal hog and no one can miss the nature of our congress or presidency.

So already the series of connections from the federal circus to the state carnival to the local petting zoo is well established. Do you really want that bunch to be the sole societally accepted venue for transmission of sexual mores to your kids?

Consider that schools are presently not teaching children abstinence or even self control, but starting from a proposition that they are going to have sex no matter what short of a G-d they figure doesn't exist telling them not to. All they say is use a condom.

Your average mass media from television to radio to Internet is alive with sexual imagery. We had a sexual revolution. We had a sexual revolution hangover. We got horny again and society's mirror shows it. When was the last time you felt truly effective in your attempt at communicating to your kids that they should not have sex and wait for when they truly felt ready, unpressured, and truly wanting it? Do you think the mass society reflects anything that helps you in this?

Okay, now go back two paragraphs and compare that with the paragraph following. Not only is the mass culture putting forth an image of sexual promiscuity as exciting and fun, of sex coming without ramifications personal or interpersonal, but your kids' public school's official government position is that your kids are going to fuck and there is no point in trying to tell them not to.

I don't know about you but I don't want a proven power hungry and eternally self-aggrandizing bunch of morally perverted fucks like our political class to practice this schizophrenic imposition of wildly contradictory messages that on the one hand there's no point in even broaching the message of self-control in anything much less sex, and on the other hand that whoever or whatever they have sex with, they have no right to do it, no right to choose it, and someone is going to prosecute someone somehow if they do.

Does this not seem like a prescription for complete disaster?

It seems rather odd to me that in the shift of twenty-five years from when I was a teen to now that the number of sexual offenders is now several thousand percent greater but the population is not. One would have to expect a concomitant increase in crime across the board and yet there has not been. We do not live in walled villages with bars on our windows and armed police manning emplacements at each corner. There are no mohawk-topped  barbarians in assless chaps running loose raping and pillaging. This is not the criminal infested future we once imagined we'd have based on the tired conception of "if present trends continue".

The only thing that has changed is that police are now in a frenzy and hysteria driven so by politicians, their own egotistical need for feeling righteous and relevant, and the mass media phenomenon.

Did you never wonder if all the witched execute during the witch hunting hysteria of the previous centuries were real? Didn't it seem curious that before that, they had no problem with those thousands of witches in their midst and yet had been upright Christians for centuries already? Was it that witchcraft was suddenly being cleaned out? Or was it that they never were and were invented for the furtherance of the agenda of those doing the hunting and executing?

In the name of the further empowerment of a class that already has entirely too much power, the sexual doings of we the American people and the sexual and moral education of our children is being stolen at the gunpoint of a threat of societal ostracism and penal punishment. We silently let them take the power from us, even as the methods they use insure a further taking of our power ongoing into the future.

So when can we expect that intrafaith conference?

Saudi king says he'll convene interfaith conference with Jews | Jerusalem Post

Now if we can get rabbis from Reconstruction, Reform, Conservative, Modern Orthodox, and the various so-called Ultra camps together in one place talking nicely we'll really be making progress. I mean come on, if a Wahhabist Muslim can make the offer, why not?

How to crochet a kippah

Very simply, this design I hit on while making my own so it is entirely original and not based on anything I found somewhere else.

You will need to learn the basic terms elsewhere I am afraid. I may retromod this and add pics another time.

DC=Double Crochet

Okay, get a starting loop on your hook and chain 6.

Slip stitch the last to the first to make a ring.

Chain 3 to make your first radial spoke, DC through the hole in the center of the ring to make another. You need to do another sixteen for a total of eighteen radial spokes.

Slip stitch through the 3 link in the first chain 3 to join it.

Chain 4, double crochet to the left through the space between the radial spokes below. Chain 1, then double crochet in the next space. Keep going all the way around.

Slip stitch through the 3 link in the first chain 4 to join it.

Chain 4, DC through the space on the left like before, then do another DC in the same space (you'll note that thanks to the chain 1, they are wider spaces now), and then chain 1, move on to 2DC in the next space and chain 1, etc all the way around. At the last space you'll have the chain 4 occupying one of two radial slots. DC to its right in that space and then slip stitch to 3 link in that first chain of 4.

Chain 3, 2DC in the space on the left, then 1DC in the the space between two radial spokes, then 2DC in the larger space following, then 1DC, then 2, etc. all the way around.

When you get to the end, slip stitch through 3 link in the chain 3, chain 3, and do single DCs through each space between radial spokes below.

Including the center group of radial spokes you initially did, you should have 13 rows total. When you get to the final slip stitch and it is done, cut the yarn an inch from it, and pull it through that last loop tight.

This design will fit down over your head a little snug at first but loosen up quick, and will fit down farther than smaller kippahs that you have to clip to your hair.

How to end the Jerusalem dispute

Here in the United States of America, we are able to separate our capitols from their cities. If you ask someone in CT where the state capitol is, they say, Hartford. If you ask someone in Hartford where the state capitol is, they actually point to a physical location within Hartford and say over there.

Most cities around the world that function as their greater associative organization's HQ siting I would guess are like that. So, we're really not all that different. If you ask someone in London where the capitol of the UK is, they point towards Big Ben simply because it is easy to pick out and attached to the rest of the building in which parliament sits.

However, unlike most other nations if not all of them, our national capitol is not inside any given state. Whereas the area which includes London can boast of the nations HQ being right there, and not nearer to let's say Cardiff or Glasgow, no state or county or whatever can claim that about Washington, D.C. because it is as the final two letters abbreviate a district.

We have fifty states and several other entities plus a district separate from all the rest in which sits our capitol and well, the locals do have issues with the separation. The city is their home, and it for them on a daily basis has nothing to do with the running of the nation.

Despite that, it works pretty well. No state can hold the district hostage. Quite the other way around but that's normal for government, isn't it?

This is in a nutshell the way to let Jerusalem be the siting of the capitols of both Palestine and Israel. Let it be a separate district not controlled or owned by either but a separate place by constitution of both nations and the chosen siting of their government center.

Some will say because I am a ger tzedek that I can't possibly have the raw passionate feel for the desire of Israel and Jerusalem. I don't think there's anything intrinsic to being born Jewish. It's something you learn. And you choose to care or not as so many agnostic non-practicing Jews show. The desire of the Palestinians to hold Jerusalem is almost as strong if not historically tight other than having to sit by while Christendom and the western world in general traipsed through or fought with the eastern world on their doorstep. Since I'm not Muslim or from their land, the Palestinians would doubtless say I can't feel it enough the way they do.

Maybe, but maybe that allows me to step back and see a bigger picture. The Catholic Church is headquartered in its own one-city nation of Vatican City. Italy cannot claim to own it. It is its own place. Polish Catholics have just as much a right as any Italian Catholics to visit.

So to should we Jews and Muslims and Christians all have access to Jerusalem without worrying about any of the others claiming ownership. It's not about ownership. G-d does not command us to own, He commands us to respect and cherish. I respect and cherish my street. I don't own it, the collective whole of our citizenry does but that doesn't stop me from living there. I own my house and property on it.

So too can Israel as an entity own property just as it does anywhere else. The US can own property anywhere that the local government of jurisdiction allows the purchase. If Jerusalem was a separate district, all the parties involved here could have their government facilities there.

What are the chances of such enlightened mutual cooperation for the benefit of all? Very low. It would force into the light the current shadowy truth that the parties involved do not care for the sake of G-d, only their own petty getting their own way. This fight over Jerusalem is about pride and that is going to lose Jerusalem for all of us. How does this profit the nation of Israel and the Jewish people?

We need a District of Jerusalem. We need to get on with our lives.

But first, there's the matter of the Palestinian hornet's nest and the world that keeps poking it and encouraging it to be aggravated for their own ends to the eternal detriment of the Palestinian people and thus the Jews and everyone else as well as secondary casualties.

From the "Too Much Free Time" files...

Ala. Building Can't Shake Swastika Shape -TBO.com - News From AP

From the ground, the Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home looks like any other building. But fly over in an airplane, and the outline is unmistakable: It's one big swastika.

They even mentioned the other swastika building.

Take a piece of graph paper, and draw a box around a 7x7 space. Starting from the center square, go out in all four directions from it coloring in blocks. You get a cross. Now since you can't go outside the border, you want to expand the raw footage, what do you do?

Well, you could expand off each arm to make something like the German Iron Cross. Or the tetragrammaton cross symbol. OR you could then have each arm suddenly all turn the same way at a right angle along the perimeter. Either way you get a swastika. Either facing the same way as the Nazis or the other was as used in Asia.

Simple math and geometry, simple symmetry, simple regular efficient design. Why use a swastika shape and not the cross with cross bars? Simple. The swastika design encloses four quads for greenspace out on which windows have for a view. The other design ends up more like a Bronx apartment building with windows staring directly at each other.

Look at the pictures with both links and notice the space enclosed.

Another way is to do a square building with a cross section in the center, but that is just the swastika continued to enclose a space, but with a building that side if you need a portable lift to do repairs, how do you get it inside each quad WITHOUT lifting it over by crane OR taking apart and hand carrying the many pieces through the building to the inside quads and reassembling?

And fully enclosed quads have the problem of wind shear and containment. My high school had a fully enclosed area and when the prevailing winds whipped up, were near to rattling the windows out of their frames, and even light breezes outside the school became overpowering gusts within the enclosed area as wind whipped over the roof and down into the space.

We have more than enough problems in the Jewish world without this conspiratorial nonsense that makes us look like the fundamentalist Christian kooks who look for embarrassing secret dirt on the Vatican, or the idiots who try to find 666 everywhere.

WTF Round-Up For Today...

12-Year-Olds Accused Of Sex At School - Greenville News Story - WYFF Greenville

As expected, you see no one saying that maybe this should NOT have been a legal matter, that the school should have been quiet, saved face for the CHILDREN, and kept it between school administrators and the parents. Instead, now the kids are going to be known for getting arrested for getting it on, and bet your ass, no adult demonstrably guilty of lack of child rearing sense will be punished at all. Just the kids for doing what comes naturally.

Montgomery's Finest Won't Pay Fines - washingtonpost.com

Simple solution: have the owner of the vehicle, the municipality or country, pay the fines and then dock the pay of the offending officers and reprimand and punish them. OR remove the cameras. Using cameras everywhere like the UK is doing is odious and basically the final nail in the coffin of trusting each other on which our free society depends.

Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney | U.S. | Reuters

I would vote to have the entire state of Vermont arrested for intellectual perversion. That is, daring to think that what they think matters one fucking bit to anyone outside of a mental institution. Personally, I am all for a boycott of their state and all its economic offerings. Let's see them play Cuba of the north.

Gilligan's' Mary Ann Caught With Dope

Feel free to respond, "but that dope was Bob Denver years ago..."

Lack of material, girl: Madonna wears see-through skirt to her Hall of Fame induction | the Daily Mail

Check out the view through the second picture. She's wearing a strapless number underneath the see-through outer portion NO LOWER THAN MOST OTHER EVENING FORMAL GOWNS and the pants underneath aren't remotely like panties or a thong, they're more covering like gym shorts. In short, the outfit that Wonder Woman wears is more skimpy and this one makes Madonna look like a super villain enemy of Wonder Woman. But see-through gets played up? Slow news day Daily Mail?

School's bizarre ploy to beat internet perverts - masking pupils with Acid House smileys | the Daily Mail

Anyone else thinking of that Ghost in the Shell series?

Earth to America, please stop fucking long enough to pay attention to your kids...

Study finds 1 in 4 US teens has a STD - Yahoo! News

and linked on the same page...

ABC News: Spitzer Risked Everything He Has...for Sex

Look at the picture of Shpritz with his wife and daughters. Do ya really think they don't have sex or want to have sex or think sex is cool?

In the abstract, sex is canned awesome. It's great. Straight sex, gay sex, whatever. It's grand fun.

In reality, it involves human emotions and humans aren't the most rational creatures around. They fight wars over imaginary events thousands of years ago that no one can honestly say they have any proof ever happened. That may be a basis for meditation, moral and ethical treatment of others, etc., but not war and killing. And yet, we do.

I've had plenty of sex. With my wife and others and so has she. We had our younger swinging days years ago. You know what? It is over, the sex is done, the orgasmic highs are gone and we're left with what we had before that. Each other and an ongoing daily renewed commitment to living with each other in peace. The emotional benefits from that dramatically outweigh sex. Not that we don't have any, but it is not as important as just being able to stand each other.

During the 70s and 80s as America struggled through the aftermath of the sexual riot of the late 60s and early 70s, still groping each other, kids learned that their parents were full of shit. Single moms divorced because they believed anything not forbidden was compulsory. Sure you could live without a husband, but you could also jump off a bridge.

Men decided that if women weren't going to require them, all bets off, time to be a perma-bachelor and screw with abandon.

In the African-American community, this sort of thing was made a horrid and nearly permanent undercurrent and DEFENDED AS A WAY OF LIFE BY WHITE LIBERALS. What the fuck do you have to be smoking to think that a way of life that totally sucked for white families is perfectly cool for black families? Ask a black single mother with three kids how cool it is.

In short, the sexual revolution wasn't fought against anyone but ourselves and we essentially guillotined our own common sense like it was the Reign of Terror. Good going America.

I'm far from a prude. I love sex still and porn is not a problem. People's lack of control and willingness to overindulge absolutely everything that crosses their minds or crotches IS.

So are you really surprised? When I was a teen, it was the height of sophistication for twelve year old junior high girls to bang eighteen year old high school seniors from the football team. It made them cooler than the other girls, more grown up. For boys, it was to get any sex at all, and drink.

What were their influences? Playboy martini and jiggly Playmate parties. Sex in movies and television being depicted WITHOUT the emotional consequences, WITHOUT the human dimension and WITHOUT parents drilling it into them that sex is great in theory, very difficult to make right in practice given human emotion and cultural aspects.

In theory, we could lower the age of consent and as soon as puberty hits we could fuck and suck for all day. In practice, most thirty year olds I know of either gender should be stuck in chastity belts or locked in a room with Kleenex and a Penthouse for a decade until they grow up.

We're human, and we have drawbacks, and we need to take them seriously and account for them in raising the next generation. We must NOT give them false impressions and we must NOT gloss over our doubts about our abilities to conduct ourselves properly in the sexual arena just because we're horny. As one adult put to me as a teen, when in doubt, don't date, masturbate.

Have you seen Bratz dolls? Have you seen Barbie? Have you seen MTV? Have you seen prime time television? Okay, now have you seen anyone actually showing the true aftermath of the 70s sexual debacle?

No, and that's why this statistic is not shocking to me in the slightest. What's shocking is the utter cluelessness this country still operates under in the name of fearing conservatism. It's not prudery, it's common sense. STOP FUCKING LONG ENOUGH TO HEAR YOURSELF THINK.

Chaim Potok is to blame for so many Jewish fictional kids named Danny...

Judge a Book by its Cover: A Quickie for All of Our Jewish Friends

It's an old post over there, but worthy of bringing up. Especially this line:

I wonder how many of the 613 laws he's breaking on this cover alone.

Quite a few. Someone call Mogen David Adom. I think he needs to be brought in for a check for catatonia. On the other hand, maybe autistic kids are used for cosmetology classes in some lands.

Treif on a stick...

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Two signs of severe cracking up in Israel

Eitam: Banish traitors from Knesset and Israel | Jerusalem Post

Ashkelon man builds homemade missile | Jerusalem Post

The government of Israel's truly breathtakingly vast and grand incompetence on the same scale as America's is leading predictably to the people at large cracking up. Common citizens want to fire rockets back like the terrorists. Elected MKs want to publicly support the destruction of their own country.

It's like the kooks of the American white supremacist movement, going on about black helicopters and conspiracy theories and how we need to overthrow the government. Here though, we aren't under fire from foreign enemies right on our border unless you count the continuing influx of Canadian comedians or Mexicans willing to pick vegetables for pathetic insulting pay, which I don't.

Well, maybe the Canadian comedians, but the same could be said of the enemy within, Minnesota comedians. The point is that people at large are not waiting for the government to react to a perceived issue but in the case of Israel, the issue is NOT imaginary. It's as real as a Kassam hit.

Israel definitely cannot afford to keep up this American inspired atmosphere of hurry up and wait. It definitely cannot afford continuing religious schisms. It definitely cannot afford anything but a unified commitment to its own survival. It definitely cannot afford to follow more slow path to peace Jimmy Carter Camp David style bullshit.

Instead, Israel's government is busy passing laws and regulations that make anything like strong patriotic expressions of ever more questionable legality while letting elected officials publicly mouth support of what amounts to the destruction of their own nation, which is at the very least sedition.

Maybe the anti-Zionist religious fundamentalists have a point. Maybe Zionism alone isn't sufficient to overcome all of our human foibles and weaknesses. It certainly looks like Israeli government is willing to bend over for the fifth column out of nothing more than misplaced false compassion which is really fear of being tagged as bigots against Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims.

Well learn from the USA already Israel. For fear of being tagged racists, white conservatives have been afraid to cross the so-called race lines and support black and other minority voices shouting out for self-control, propriety, and family; if they do, they are called opportunistic, racist, and those they reach out to support within those communities are tagged as sell-outs and Uncle Toms.

The result is that African American parents have NO support against childhood rebellion and social upheaval from the white majority. Well, WE ARE ALL IN THIS WORLD TOGETHER. SOCIETY IS WHAT THE MIX OF ALL OF US IS CALLED. If the Arab/Muslim Israelis are upset, and Jewish Israelis are upset, then they have to start talking to each other and helping each other AS FELLOW ISRAELIS.

It definitely is in NO ONE'S interest for Hamas and Fatah to continue this way. Palestine has a chance to coexist with Israel in peace and prosperity and Hamas and Fatah are FUCKING THAT UP FIRST AND FOREMOST FOR THEIR OWN FELLOW PALESTINIANS.

Furthermore, they are doing it for the pleasure of Syria and Iran. Hello, Earth to Palestinians. You live in Palestine, NOT SYRIA. NOT IRAN. Stop letting those opportunistic bastards who are nowhere near your home, your street, your problems, to guide what you do and how you do it. HAMAS AND FATAH HAVE BETRAYED YOU FOR THE COIN OF SYRIA AND IRAN. They are traitors to your desire for a moment's rest. Yet you suck up to them while they are sucking up to would-be global troublemakers who are sacrificing your safety and security for their own selfishness?

Israel, time to reach out and reclaim YOUR OWN CITIZENS WHO YOU ARE LOSING THE LOYALTY OF. When that reaches critical mass, civil war becomes inevitable and you can take this from America, it can take CENTURIES to heal that IF you survive it. In your case, I don't think Iran and Syria will let you.

All we had to fear was Canadians and Mexicans on our borders and when was the last time you heard them mentioned in the same sentence as "international terrorism"? "Relatively harmless" is more common but that is never used in the same sentence as Syria OR Iran.

In my day, we actually got naked in front of each other...

--In one incident, a girl and a boy took nude photographs of themselves and sent the photographs to each other. This happened off campus, he said.
--In the other, a girl was given a cell phone by a boy. She took the cell phone into the girls bathroom at school, took nude photographs of herself and gave the cell phone back to the boy, he said.

Police: Students exchanged nude cell phone photos - Breaking News from the Press-Register - al.com

Wow. People are so conservative now they do it via electronic means. When I was in junior high girls and boys flashed each other in the hall near the bathrooms. News reports? Heck, we didn't even have the Internet. Teachers just suspended people for a day IF that much. Big freaking deal. Back then, they were smart enough to think that child pornography probably didn't include children themselves taking the pics because they were CHILDREN, JUVENILE, IMMATURE, ETC.

Now, they're sex offenders. Welcome to Political Correctness run amok.

They give the kids Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Romper Room and Sesame Street, then they give them nuclear war, AIDS, Al Queda, and Sex in the City. WHAT KIND OF FUCKING MADHOUSE DID YOU EXPECT EXACTLY?! Fail to raise your children, have the Internet and television do it, and what happens? THIS COUNTRY TODAY.

If you can't beat them, make them out to be on drugs...

The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mount Sinai could just have been the imaginings of a people in an altered state of awareness, Shanon hypothesized.

Was Moses high on Mount Sinai? - Science- msnbc.com

New tactic in the war on Jews and Christians by the mass culture, long expected. Make them out to be on drugs at the very beginning, thus rendering everything about them suspect from moment one, AND allow co-opting by the psychedelic New Age freaks who the mass culture already writes off as kooks.

Orthodox rabbi Yuval Sherlow told Israel Radio: “The Bible is trying to convey a very profound event. We have to fear not for the fate of the biblical Moses, but for the fate of science.”

Amen rabbi. Amen.

School Bans Hugs, Students Protest By Hugging

A school policy banning student hugging prompted dozens of east Valley students to protest with a giant group hug across the street from campus.

School Bans Hugs Over 2 Seconds - Local News Story - KPHO Phoenix

You know, I totally didn't see that coming and neither did you, did you?

Of course not.

Ah to be a teenager. Next they'll explicitly ban fucking and you know what will happen across the street.

Hamas will soon be able to strike any target in Israel' | Jerusalem Post

Uh, Israel ALREADY CAN strike any target in Gaza. Does it not occur to these yahoos in Hamas that if Israel was the new Nazis as they rabidly posit in the quote in the article that Gaza would now be a part of Israel, occupied by Israeli troops, and to complete the assertion, the Palestinian people loaded onto trains headed for death camps?

No, of course not. They're nuts and truth isn't the point.

Hamas will soon be able to strike any target in Israel' | Jerusalem Post

Did UFO aliens kill Russian Skiers?

Okay, that melodramatic tease worthy of The History Channel aside, read and judge for yourself: The St. Petersburg Times - Feature - Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved

If you take the description at face value, it's kind of unusual that bones are smashed without soft tissue damage, and the bodies and the point at which the flight began show every sign of a sudden run in terror and desperation.

West Virginia stereotyped as home of inbreds...

In other news, water is wet.

For crying out loud, this is a state where joking that their golf course carts have gun racks isn't actually a joke.

Film's casting call wants that 'inbred' look - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Signal... creepy way for this movie to hit the screens...

Man randomly stabs two in theater during horror film - AOL News

Further reports from the rebellion...

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan blocks YouTube website

The government has valid reason for that, but they have to find a better way of doing it. If we continue blocking popular websites, people will stop using the internet.

Mmmmmm... no.

The government has valid reason for that, but they have to find a better way of doing it. If we continue blocking popular websites, people will stop using find other ways to access the internet.

Fixed it.

If the government is going to feel free to wiretap any time, any way they want, and deal with the Constitutional niceties later, then people will by default go to encryption. They will go to composite and multilevel encryption techniques. They will rapidly implement ever newer and more complex methods. They will defy the government and make wiretapping totally useless. THAT is the result of this idiocy.

Around the world, governments are trying to close the barn door after the horse have already gone to town to catch a porn flick and go gambling. They're doing everything their tight-ass self-important anal-retentive nannies don't want them to do, and the more you tell them no and without a logical rational basis that resonates with their conscience, the more they want to break the rules.

Great fucking counterproductive way of making dealing with criminals impossible. Instead of doing things by the book and taking the chance of maybe catching them, you're rewriting the book and virtually insuring that human nature will make their maximum defenses go up and you know what? They'll buy the solutions online at Dell.com and at WalMart while they go shopping for bread and batteries. They'll buy the new encryption packaged standard with their PCs, download it casually from CNet.com, and have it mailed to them by friends to their Yahoo mail.

How are you gonna keep them down on the farm now that they've seen how little you trust them?

A reminder about Iran, Israel, and nukes

Israel: bonafide nuclear power
Iran: would-be nuclear power

Israel: never threatened to use any such power to eliminate Iran
Iran: constantly threatens directly and indirectly to eliminate Israel

Israel: surrounded by over a dozen nations within reach of nuclear fallout
Iran: would evidently not care about dropping that fallout all over those predominantly Muslim nations, Arab, Persian, and Turkic alike

Israel: has thousands of Palestinian citizens living and working there
Iran: would evidently like to incinerate those Palestinians as much as the Jews

Israel: has solid documentary evidence of Iran backing terrorist actions responsible for the death of their citizens
Iran: has solid documentary history of proudly backing terrorist actions responsible for the deaths of Israeli citizens

To you in charge in Iran, I hope you enjoy the hell you're going to bring down on yourselves. When that bomb slaughters Palestinian Muslims, Palestinian Christians, Druse and others, when the fallout lands in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, what do you think your Muslim brothers will do to you to avenge their dead?

To you the Iranian people... it was nice knowing you. Too bad your leaders are looking to get the entire eastern hemisphere of the Earth to turn on you.

Oh wait, did I forget the inevitable involvement of Russia and China and that your country will be center aisle, front row seat for that aftermath?

Sucks to be you.

Obama scores 10th straight victory - portals open between Earth and Outworld - Raiden nowhere to be seen!

Obama scores 10th straight victory - Yahoo! News

Iran switches gears, tries radiology...

Iran: 'Cancerous' Israel to soon disappear | Jerusalem Post

"The cancerous growth Israel will soon disappear," Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Muhammad Ali Jafari wrote to Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the FARS news agency reported Monday.

In a letter of condolence following last week's assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, Jafari said: "I am convinced that with every passing day Hizbullah's might is increasing and in the near future, we will witness the disappearance of this cancerous growth Israel by means of the Hizbullah fighters' radiation [therapy]."

 

^^NOT Harvey Fierstein.^^

I am now imagining hordes of Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorists in white lab coats charging forward into battle with x-ray results...

Kosher Marshmallow Cereal!

Bang It Out breaks the news (at least to me): Bangitout.com - Sign of the Moshiach: Kosher Marshmallow Cereal

If you don't have anything against Triangle K, sneak over to the Little Debbie section. You have nothing to lose but your portion of Olam HaBa... MUHAHAHAHAHA...

Oh yeah, thank you BangItOut.com for this tidbit and the buy it by the case link.

Texas catapults forward into twentieth century...

Selling Sex Toys Now Legal In Texas - Offbeat

Should buying sex toys be as easy as buying guns?

Yes, absolutely. Easier, even. Can you imagine how much better Columbine would have been with dildos, vibrators, and buttplugs instead of guns and bombs?

Who ya gonna call? China!

Offending content included "wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror", the administration said.

China bans ghosts from the net. - Unusual Tales - Specials - smh.com.au

This is the kind of thing that happens when you cross the streams.

Can words be overused? Some say they can.

TheKnish.com | "Baruch Hashem" Usage at Epidemic Levels, Baruch Hashem

B"H...

Alleged "scientists" watch too many Sci-FI channel alleged "movies" and formulate "allegedly" serious theory of danger

But scientists have urged NASA to be more cautious, saying aliens could misinterpret the song, and even take it as a battle cry.

"Before sending out even symbolic messages, we need an open discussion about the potential risks," New Scientist magazine reported Dr Douglas Vakoch of the SETI Institute as saying.

Professor Barrie Jones of Open University said: "the chances are slight, but the consequences would be huge the end of life on Earth".

Space songs 'could attract alien danger

In related news, the RIAA was investigating suing NASA for retransmission of copyrighted material without permission as well as considering asking SETI to track down any civilization that may have received the song, and their location so they could be sued as well. Said the RIAA spokesperson on condition of anonymity, "we may have to ask NASA to find a way to convey our subpoena, but we're sure that several administrations in Washington will have come and gone by then and the new and more intellectual property protective management won't hold the past legal action against us."

Feds continue to take easy path in War on Terror: define our own citizens as the enemy!

Maria Udy, a marketing executive with a global travel management firm in Bethesda, said her company laptop was seized by a federal agent as she was flying from Dulles International Airport to London in December 2006. Udy, a British citizen, said the agent told her he had "a security concern" with her. "I was basically given the option of handing over my laptop or not getting on that flight," she said.

Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches - washingtonpost.com

This is why I memorize URLs and retransmit them to other people by urinating in the snow. Makes it harder to share interesting links and limits it to the winter but it's better than having my cell phone savaged by the same sort of people who can't keep our border with Mexico less porous than a screen window, and regularly screw up my driver's license photo.

In the meantime, I suggest that all laptops be set up to do remote desktop thin client sort of use and NOT have ANY info stored locally AND to have time and IP range restricted VPN connections mandatory to do it, preferably requiring a call to a corporate vice president to clear access from the IP address being used at the time of connection when on the road. DRAG THESE FASCIST MOTHERFUCKERS INTO THE CESSPOOL OF CORPORATE AMERICA AND THEIR LEGAL MACHINE. Sooner or later, a federal judge is going to call bullshit and issue an order for someone high up to explain this and justify it or see it struck down on the spot.

Remember, we have freedom and freedom means freedom from interference, not freedom from freedom.

Better not wear this to shul...

BagOfNothing.com » Felted Bacon Scarf

England: serious law and order!

 

She denies a charge of "knowingly causing the deposit of controlled waste, namely an apple core, on land which did not have a waste management licence".

BBC NEWS | UK | England | West Midlands | Woman faces trial over apple core

Dutch, clouds of smoke...

Members of the Dutch Royal guard of honor rehearse by guiding ... - Yahoo! News Photos

which was on the sidebar of this...

Official says no drugs for off-duty police

which might only be unfortunate, might be ironic, given today's news, who knows...

Mississippi Pols Seek To Prove Their State Still World Leader in Moronic Stupidity

Mississippi Pols Seek To Ban Fats - February 1, 2008  <---ENOUGH SAID, CLICK IT ALREADY

Notre Dame, another brain trust in touch with reality...

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Does Britain really exist? I think people like this are a myth...

Britons are losing their grip on reality*, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

*Emphasis mine...

Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll - Yahoo! News

Now THAT is a way to start a story, huh? Unfortunately, it is entirely accurate to go by the poll detailed within the story.

Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi and Battle of Waterloo victor the Duke of Wellington also appeared in the top 10 of people thought to be myths.

Meanwhile, 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Holmes actually existed; 33 percent thought the same of W. E. Johns' fictional pilot and adventurer Biggles.

Could it be proximity to pot smoking nordic countries? The cuisine? The tea? I mean, come on, you're competing with us Americans for Kings of Stupid now and that's a tall hurdle to leap.

Because there's nothing like warning bad guys where the good guys are at all times...

In the first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in the nation, roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the citys subway system daily, beginning next month, officials said on Friday.

New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways - New York Times

Soon, similar techniques will be brought to bear against The Pirate Bay, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Wyoming school children, allowing them to snub their noses at authority when it is safe to do so.

Here's some other people who thought highly visible heavily armed police presence was a good idea for society:

And, as we all know, it was completely effective in the defense of their states, wasn't it? Oh wait, we're not supposed to be defending our state FROM freedom.

A new way to increase the metrosexual population has been achieved!

The cyber wars continue, and just as I said, the word "distributed" rears its head and takes a chomp of the technically unsophisticated and the historically ignorant...

It's a distributed system. We don't know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don't know it's The Pirate Bay," Kolmisoppi said. "They then rent locations and space for them somewhere else. It could be three countries. It could be six countries. We don't want to know because then you'll have a problem shutting them down.

Pirate Bay Says It Can't Be Sunk, Servers Scattered Worldwide | Threat Level from Wired.com

Already, encrypted torrent systems are online. Soon, trackers will be the traders themselves, pieces distributed and flitting between them like stock ticker data flying by, and as Princess Leia pointed out 31 years ago, once more with feeling, everyone repeat after Princess Danish-head...

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

The mean nasty nature of women at the start...

I've always been of the belief and more importantly the live experience that females are downright nastier, meaner, and more rotten than men when they want to be which in this world of victimhood über alles, including any responsibility for your actions seems like constantly. I know few men who will strike down low in the emotional balls (they'll kick you in the real ones though) while women... will. Sorry, but I had a sister who definitely had a set of attitudinal demon horns and a load of friends who ran in the same infernal circles.

Teens Unremorseful After Stealing From Girl Scout - West Palm Beach News Story - WPBF West Palm Beach

Smith's mother, Charlene Rubenstrunk, told WPBF that the girls returned to the store Thursday to taunt her daughter.

Parents, I may not have said this before, but it should be said: spay and neuter. Please.

Further tales of zero tolerance, dateline: Wyoming

The principal of Laramie Junior High and a police officer had warned students during an assembly the day before the French fry launch that if they threw food, they would suffer the consequences, Police Chief Bob Deutsch said.

The warning came after school officials had heard rumors of an impending food fight.

"They saw it as really the planning of a riot*, when you think about it," Deutsch said.

*Emphasis mine...

Cops in Wyoming ready to string up 13-year-old French-fry-toss plotters

"Zee plotters, zey haf been arrested!"

Sorry, just flashing on the keystone cops Nazi police state thinking.

Virginia Beach, bastion of visual morality (but for all the wrong reasons)

 

 

Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges.

I have several questions...

Should we be worried that they are more obsessed over young men's asses than the tacky tasteless nature of the fashions purveyed?

Will Virginia Beach forge ahead in the fight against the buttcrack and modify plumbers' license laws to require pants be kept up at all times?

Do you think the manager still thinks that job is worth $8.50 an hour?

Qutoable me

"Marriage is a forge that makes great blades of dull blanks."
-Me

Bag of Nothing pointed this out: Top 10 Bizarre Bible Moments

Top 10 Bizarre Biblical Tales - The List Universe

Over at Bag of Nothing, there was this post and so curious as usual I went over to see. I note they found my favorite moment of WTFBBQ in the bible. That would be number seven on the list.

Every time I read things like this I remember Kirk asking, "what does G-d need with a starship?"