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Rick Perry: There's A New Neocon Sheriff In Town
-John Wayne
Ever since dude ranch desperado George Felix Allen's presidential ambitions were blown up back when he was caught on video taunting a dark skinned man with a racial slur the fascist Republican party has been missing that cowboy archetype that played so well to the masses of asses. The whole allure of the hallowed Ronald Reagan and later George W. Bush was to roll out the ass kicker in chief riding upon a trusty steed, Stetson cocked back and ready to enforce the rule of the west on opponents that evoked celluloid heroes such as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. It worked too. George W. Bush, a man who was allegedly terrified of horses was somehow packaged into a real live Murkan cowboy. This despite his much touted Crawford, TX ranch being nothing more than a stage set which was rolled out in 2000 just prior to the election and conveniently put up for sale in late 2008 when Bush decided that a tony suburb of Dallas would be his future home. The western myth runs deep in this lemming colony where the real truths of greed, exploitation, violence and the genocide of the indigenous population are ignored while the John Wayne style of revisionist history has come to be the accepted 'truth'. The neocons, being disciples of Leo Strauss who embraced the big fib or the "noble lie" as a cover story for raw imperialism had experimented briefly with tough talking harpies like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann (last seen performing simulated fellatio on a corndog the size of a horse's penis in Iowa) pandering to fat, ignorant, racist white assholes but it just didn't resonate like the western iconography. So with the ridiculous Tea Party re-branding of the party base along with it's costumed freaks experiencing a downward spiral in it's national perception it was time to go back to the well. The new sheriff in town would be Texas Governor Rick Perry, a silly and shameless buffoon who appeals to the dregs of society and can serve as the perfect bridge between the flagging teabaggers and the traditional Christian fascists who are the party's shock troops. Perry also gets a bonus for already being a killer, his Texas reign has racked up a record number of executions, a big plus to the haters.
Perry is the perfect successor to George W. Bush. He is of course from the Lone Star State which is chock a block full of religious fanatics and Meskin' hatin' teabaggers as well as the home to the big oil money that has so toxically polluted our politics. Even with the Republican 2012 presidential field full of loons, crazies, frauds and one token Negro pizza king there is no way that any of the assclowns will be able to beat a weakened and self-destructive Barack Obama. Mitt Romney and John Huntsman have zero chance because they are Mormons trying to nail down the nomination in a party that is comprised of Christian bigots and Ron Paul is invisible as far as the media is concerned for his antiwar, pro-civil liberties principles. With Perry, they have a bonafide southern fried motherfucker who will have the party base swarming like a plague of maggots over a five day old bowl of menudo. That Perry has been quietly groomed by none other than arch-neocon Douglas J. Feith, he of the former Pentagon Office of Special Plans or the "Lie Factory" that provided the Bushreich with the false information justifying the attack and occupation of Iraq, a country that posed no threat to the United States. Doug Feith is one of the slimiest bastards of the neocon cabal that included Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, propagandist William Kristol, Iran-Contra criminal Elliott Abrams, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and too many other vermin to waste any more time listing here who embraced the PNAC doctrine of global conquest that has mired this country in war for the rest of our lives. Feith, who along with many of the other dual citizens of the neocons is an ultra right-wing Zionist was instrumental in producing the notorious policy paper for Bibi Netanyahu entitled A Clean Break that would provide the ideological heft for the fascist transformation of Israel as it carved out lebensraum with the backing of the U.S establishment that continues to subsidize the butchery to this day.
With the Palin Project now on the rocks thanks largely to the idiosyncratic nature of the wild Alaskan dingbat that has turned her into a national punchline it was imperative that a new host be prepped for the parasites. With Netanyahu and the maniacal Avigdor Lieberman over in God's chosen land itching to nuke Iran but opposed by the recalcitrant Obama administration a more pliant and receptive type who would eagerly follow orders from Givat Ram to launch WW III is needed. Perry is a natural and his appeal to the Rapture death cult that has so well served neocon and extreme right-wing Israeli war freaks is a huge asset. The neocon Whermacht that is the now fully jacked up on crazy tea served out of Kool Aid vats Christian cultural war machine will be mobilized and foaming a the mouth come the months leading up to next November. Hell hath no fury like a death-worshiping Christofascist who was recently burned by Harold Camping's Rapture that failed to materialize and they are already in a masturbatory frenzy over the coming jihad against the infidel Obama. As I stated in my recent piece Norwegian Tea: Will Anti-Muslim Crusade Bring Blood to America For 2012? the GOP and their neocon backers and gearing up for an onslaught of hate unprecedented in American history. With Perry as their champion and operatives like Glenn Beck over in Israel honing his chops this week the beasts are ready to take to the streets here in Der Heimat on a blood scent and a scorched earth mandate.
Perry's appeal to the crazy Christers provides the neocons with what they lacked since Bush left Washington, the new sheriff in town lookin' to lead the posse and string up all those deemed to be their enemies for a public lynching. Despite the fact that he is just another useful idiot and fraud and is pegged as such by Antiwar.com's always spot-on Justin Raimondo as such in his recent piece entitled Rick Perry, 'Hawk Internationalist' from which I excerpt:
Just look at who's been giving him foreign policy advice: according to Josh Rogin, over at Foreignpolicy.com, he's been in meetings "sometimes for hours" with the likes of former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith, former NSC "strategy guru" William Luti, and a host of other neocons from the last administration, many of whom were instrumental in lying us into war in Iraq. Feith and Luti were the nexus of a disinformation network which fed false "intelligence" to the Congress, the White House, and the public to justify a disastrous invasion which we are still paying for in lives and treasure.Oh, and what a surprise: it turns out the Perry-neocon lash-up was brokered by disgraced former Defense Secretary Donald "Known Unknowns" Rumsfeld.
Another clueless Texas Governor surrounded by the same Praetorian Guard of conniving neocons who led us down the road to imperial overstretch and fiscal ruin last time around – isn't that just what the GOP needs right now?
Raimondo is despised by the neocons. For years he has refused to back down while casting light on the entire fetid nest of neocon cockroaches that are the Israeli extremist right-wing's American fifth column. This is likely why antiwar.com is now the subject of an FBI investigation, the true targets of the phony war on terror as I have been saying for years have ALWAYS been American dissidents who oppose the warfare state.
As for Rick Perry, the all-American cowboy archetype has led to nothing but trouble, revisionism and an excuse to engage in mayhem in lands where brown people live. Neocon imperialism as exemplified in the infamous PNAC manifesto Rebuilding America's Defenses is just reverse engineered John Wayne who once remarked that:
Just substitute "Indians" for Iraqis, Iranians or Afghans are as the right-wingers like to lump them all together A-rabs, mix in a holy Christian crusader narrative and you have the recipe for more ruinous and never-ending wars of murder and resource theft. This is the American dogma that brought us our very own four horsemen of the apocalypse in George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and the Marlboro Man and Perry is sharpening his spurs as the next gun for hire. John Wayne also once remarked "life is tough but its tougher when you're stupid".
Perhaps he had the teabaggers and their ilk in mind….
The Terrorists are Coming! The Terrorists are Coming!
It has been a bountiful week for those who still vehemently back the PNAC doctrine and the phony war on terror is back with a vengeance. Friday's surprise announcement by the Obama administration Justice Department that the big bad planner of the 9/11 attacks is going to be tried in New York City and a GASP civilian court sent shockwaves through the fascist right and set off a flurry of puckering assholes that loudly rang out from Washington to Tel Aviv. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the reputed mastermind behind the false flag black op that took place over eight years past and rebooted American history much to the glee of the war freaks will be leaving Guantanamo Bay and coming to the Big Apple in what will likely be the biggest rally of Deathers, Birthers and teabagger terrorists in history. They won't have to doctor any crowd photos for this one, you can bet that marching orders are already being cut, Christian Zionist phone trees are ablaze and the imbecile polemicists like Krauthammer, Kristol and Goldberg will be shrieking with manufactured outrage worth every damned penny to the Military Industrial Complex and the Israeli right-wingers who subsidize the drivel that is grist for the genocide machine.
Global Menace? Looks like any Dittohead loser with a hangover
The KSM announcement is on the heels of the Fort Hood shooting by that damned dirty Muslim sleeper cell killer (as the corporate media hosts of the Zionist parasites want you to believe) Nidal Malik Hasan commited an act of filthy brutal anti-American terrorism on a U.S. military installation by Jesus. The crafty neocons and their Republican fascist politicians have been all over this in trying to take what is just another tragic result of an evil policy of imperialist wars and murder and spread the meme that it is TERRORISM, that way the statement can be made that after originally allowing 9/11 to happen, the Bush-Cheney junta had kept us all safe and snuggly while in less than a year Obama has presided over a terrorist attack. These shits are so predicable that any person with even an ounce of sense can see them working seconds after the idea is formed in their diseased brains which is why they are able to appeal primarily to the dumbest of the dumb that are the wretched Dick Armey of Darkness teabaggers, Palinazis and Neo-Confederate losers who show up on command to intimidate government officials and spread the rancid lies that they are fed by a crackerjack propaganda apparatus that churns out talking points like Goldman Sachs churns the markets.
Discrediting the very idea of Gitmo and the torture state is a full frontal assault on the shadow government, the necessity of a legal black hole and the chilling implied threat that any American dissident can be disappeared, tortured and imprisoned for life by our very government is an out and out necessity for running an Empire. In that the official fairy tale of 9/11 was the lynchpin for the new American fascist state it is imperative that the gulag system be maintained at all costs so the pushback on the KSM show trial is going to be immediate, sustained and withering. Much of the neocon high command knows that Gitmo has to stay open for business because when they roar back into power in the apocalyptic year of 2012 with a renewed vigor on a huge wave of right-wing populist resentment enabled by the catastrophic failure of the Democrats to do one fucking thing for a besieged working class and for allowing the healthcare debate to be turned into yet another clusterfuck driven by abortion they are going to need somewhere to send the hated liberals and anti-war intelligensia. Of course the Muslims will also be targeted because as we all know, the enemies of the paraniod cesspool of murder and revenge that is the state of Israel are by God the enemies of America. Judas Lieberman is already setting up his little kangaroo courts thanks to the eunuch Harry Reid failing to strip the slimy little prick of his powerful Senate Homeland Security Commitee. Hell, if there were any reason to keep the place open it would be to send Lieberman there to live in a 4 x 6 wire cage with his scrawny ass in an orange jumpsuit just waiting for drooling Jack Bauer mentored thugs to anally gang rape the little fucking traitor….hey, jack, ass crack, tie another one to the rack baybee….
But I digress
Frank Rich of the damned librul New York Times as on the money again in his weekly column, The Missing Link from Killeen to Kabul:
The dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right.
Their verdict was unambiguous: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born psychiatrist of Palestinian parentage who sent e-mail to a radical imam, was a terrorist. And he did not act alone. His co-conspirators included our military brass, the Defense Department, the F.B.I., the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and, of course, the liberal media and the Obama administration. All these institutions had failed to heed the warning signs raised by Hasan's behavior and activities because they are blinded by political correctness toward Muslims, too eager to portray criminals as sympathetic victims of social injustice, and too cowardly to call out evil when it strikes 42 innocents in cold blood.
The invective aimed at these heinous P.C. pantywaists nearly matched that aimed at Hasan. Joe Lieberman announced hearings to investigate the Army for its dereliction of duty on homeland security. Peter Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, vowed to unmask cover-ups in the White House and at the C.I.A. The Weekly Standard blog published a broadside damning the F.B.I. for neglecting the "broader terrorist plot" of which Hasan was only one of the connected dots. Jerome Corsi, the major-domo of the successful Swift-boating of John Kerry, unearthed what he said was proof that Hasan had advised President Obama during the transition.
William Bennett excoriated soft military leaders like Gen. George Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, who had stood up for diversity and fretted openly about a backlash against Muslim soldiers in his ranks. "Blind diversity" that embraces Islam "equals death," wrote Michelle Malkin. "There is a powerful case to be made that Islamic extremism is not some fringe phenomenon but part of the mainstream of Islamic life around the world," wrote the columnist Jonah Goldberg. Islam is "not a religion," declared the irrepressible Pat Robertson, but "a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world."
Republican terrorists drag out Rudy 'Mr. 9/11' Giuliani
Of course the closets are being emptied of every Republican ghoul of any notoriety at all this week, the Sunday morning bloviation circuit had such luminaries as Mr. 9/11 himself – Rudy Giuliani. Somebody should have issuee a warning to George Stephanopoulos and the other insider chirping Mockingbirds – better erect some sort of barrier between yourselves and the cross-dressing fascist fear pimp or be drenched in spittle which assuredly was flying, this is especially important considering the Swine Flu – Tooty Fruity Rudy was on at least three of the shows giving new meaning to saturation coverage. Joining Mr. 9/11 will be the monstrously insipid Peter Hoekstra, the philandering little fascist dwarf Newt Gingrich, and according to my TV Guide Meet the Press is going to have Al Sharpton on as the token nigger. The talking points are going to be pounded more then the meat of millions of angry white males who will be goose-stepping to stores this week to plunk down their coin on the eagerly anticipated Going Rogue the ghost written right wing hunk of asswipe of the week where the dear Führess Sarah Barracuda will air her long laundry list of grievances just in time for Festivus. I must say that I have never seen such a pack of wimps and whiners as the right-wingers, the culture of victimhood writ large and for a bunch of angry, armed to the teeth so-called patriots they never cease to amaze me how the dump poopy in their britches at the very thought of Muslims being transferred to the U.S. from Gitmo. You would figure that a bunch of manly men would just be ready to rock were there ever a terrurst [sic] invasion but if they had any balls I guess that they would just join the military and would be sanctioned to shoot A-RABS until they ran out of ammo. The Republicans, Beckers and Palinazis are like the yappy little five pound Chihuahua going up against a Rottweiler that outweighs it by ninety pounds, their bark is much more annoying than their bite which of course never comes because when the Rottweiler growls pack they hit the land speed record in the other direction leaving a trail of piss.
Bud Zomper was perhaps one of the most revolting human beings that I have ever had the misfortune of knowing. Bud was bout six foot one, three hundred and seventy pounds or so, a large dude but not muscular or anything. He was one of the people that the few of us who were still left from the old freak gang from high school had come to associate with, he used to sell dope for awhile and we always knew that we could count on good ole Bud to share the product whenever we wanted. By the way, Bud's real name was Robert but since he was a king hell pothead he gained the moniker Bud.
Bud was a fart fanatic, it was incredible because he actually had names for all of his farts, sort of like a baseball pitcher names pitches. There was the 'peek-a-boo' which Bud defined as the top of a turd actually poking out and then retreating (I know this is gross but I have to do it), he had the 'burning brake fart' which was used whenever in the car, the jokester would suddenly shout 'FUCK' and start grasping at the emergency brake as though it was responsible for the smell, by the time the rest of the passengers knew what was going on the son of a bitch had power-locked all the windows and laughing his fat ass off. There was the 'toxic plume' fart that could defoliate triple canopy jungle and his all time favorite was the 'forty foot streamer' which he delighted in letting loose in the grocery store, he would hide behind the endcap like a pederast with a bag of candy on a playground to watch the reactions of the poor schmuck shoppers who wandered into the noxious atmosphere when turning the corner – this one he would always describe at length with all of the gruesome details when we were smoking dope. Bud worked at a local envelope manufacturer and had a grueling 40 minute commute on Interstate 25 during rush hour, he would amuse himself by counting the people in other cars that he saw picking their noses and would honk the horn and make the 'shame on your' sign with his fingers if he saw anyone eating the boogers.
One of Bud's worst habits and he obviously had many was that he had this horrendous foot fungus problem and right in the middle of bong hits in his living room he would pull off his socks and begin to pick at his feet which were unlike anything that I have ever seen on a live person before. He would fish this pair of small fingernail clippers out of the little jar on top of his coffee table that sat next to the vintage M & M peanut Christmas tin in which he kept his stash and gradually cut off little pieces of cheese yellow, dead flesh from his feet. Now this is horrible enough to dredge it out of my memory now but Jesus it was unbelievable then. He never had a girlfriend in the time that I knew him (surprise surprise) but every year or so he would take a weeklong vacation to Las Vegas where he would gamble, drink, eat the bountiful buffets and most importantly visit whatever that famous whorehouse was, maybe it was the Chicken Ranch, I really don't know. It was probably the one where the demigod celebrity John Wayne Bobbitt, that guy who got a part of his dick cut off back in the 1990's and then had it surgically reattached to become a modern American hero went to work. I always have wished that his wronged wife who did the cutting would have just chucked the offending piece of flesh into a storm drain but she didn't think it through and we Americans were stuck with yet another O.J. Simpson style circus maximus in the tabloid media. I sure as hell couldn't imagine any woman pushing back Bud's hairy belly to suck his cock unless she was getting paid for it though so the Vegas pilgrimage was of understandable importance to the disgusting fat fuck.
His brother Kenny lived in one of the rooms, he had some sort of social anxiety disorder and was one hell of a drinker but refused to come out of his room when Bud had company which was often because we used to engage in epic all night card games/pot smoking sessions back in the day. Kenny just couldn't deal with it so he holed up in his room doing Christ knows what other than drinking. in one of the most disgusting things that I have ever heard Kenny used to buy his beer in those big glass quart bottles, it was some godawful cheap swill too, nothing as good as say Miller or Budweiser or anything. With Kenny it was always the cheap high but anyway Bud discovered that Kenny was pissing in the empty quart bottles and storing them in his closet, once a week or so he would make a dumpster run. That was gross man, I could only imagine the smell, Bud also said that Kenny was a compulsive masturbator and this being back in the 80's there was no internet so he bought all of these shrink wrapped packages of fuck books off of the jack rack in the seedy local convenience store down the block. Bud said that he found a good number of hermaphrodite books and other kinky shit. I am sure that you see where I am going with this….
The Zomper brothers sometime in the early 1990s became the first Dittohead prototypes, back in the day when Limbaugh was being entertained in Daddy Bush's White House and the Father Coughlin II plan was being rolled out to capitalize on white male rage during the farm crisis. The Zomper romper stompers went from being simply pathetic losers to being pathetic losers with a cause. I lost touch with Bud along with many other dope addled, drunken miscreants when I relocated to the diseased penis of American that is that state of Florida about 17 years ago. In the days before my exodus though they were organizing locally with other right-wing mutants to combat gay rights ballot initiatives because all of the fags were coming from California to take over Colorado, an interesting perspective considering that one of those borderline retards had a collection of chicks with dicks porno mags in his closet next to his urine bottle collection.
For all that I know they are staffers for Tom Tancredo now or something. The point that I am making is that the Republicans, like their role models, the Nazis have an alluring pull for the dregs of society and no doubt there are millions of Zompers in the Dick Armey of Darkness that is the teabagger movement. You can check out many of them here, this is not for the squeamish and it will surprise nobody who frequents this blog but these morons are out there in force and thanks to Rudy Giuliani and his ilk like McAsshat and Lieberman with their anti-Muslim hysteria they are going to be a force to be reckoned with next November because sadly, they vote.
Just my two cents over the mornin' cup o' joe
Neocon Nocturnal Emissions
"They (sic) are a superstitious cowardly lot so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts, I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible…a…a…"
-Nocturnally fixated millionaire GOP donor Bruce Wayne
The needle on the good ole puke-o-meter got buried early this week when it came to my attention that certain fascist propagandists (chiefly that foreign pig Rupert Murdoch's recently acquired shit rag WSJ) were – get this – actually comparing the comic book hero Batman in the new mega-blockbuster The Dark Knight to George W. Bush and his phony war on terror.
I just can't make shit like this up so here you go:
What Bush and Batman Have in Common
By Andrew Klavan
July 25, 2008; Page A15
A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds . . .
Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."
There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.
And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society — in which people sometimes make the wrong choices — and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.
"The Dark Knight," then, is a conservative movie about the war on terror. And like another such film, last year's "300," "The Dark Knight" is making a fortune depicting the values and necessities that the Bush administration cannot seem to articulate for beans.
Conversely, time after time, left-wing films about the war on terror — films like "In The Valley of Elah," "Rendition" and "Redacted" — which preach moral equivalence and advocate surrender, that disrespect the military and their mission, that seem unable to distinguish the difference between America and Islamo-fascism, have bombed more spectacularly than Operation Shock and Awe.
Why is it then that left-wingers feel free to make their films direct and realistic, whereas Hollywood conservatives have to put on a mask in order to speak what they know to be the truth? Why is it, indeed, that the conservative values that power our defense — values like morality, faith, self-sacrifice and the nobility of fighting for the right — only appear in fantasy or comic-inspired films like "300," "Lord of the Rings," "Narnia," "Spiderman 3" and now "The Dark Knight"?
The moment filmmakers take on the problem of Islamic terrorism in realistic films, suddenly those values vanish. The good guys become indistinguishable from the bad guys, and we end up denigrating the very heroes who defend us. Why should this be?
The answers to these questions seem to me to be embedded in the story of "The Dark Knight" itself: Doing what's right is hard, and speaking the truth is dangerous. Many have been abhorred for it, some killed, one crucified.
Leftists frequently complain that right-wing morality is simplistic. Morality is relative, they say; nuanced, complex. They're wrong, of course, even on their own terms.
Left and right, all Americans know that freedom is better than slavery, that love is better than hate, kindness better than cruelty, tolerance better than bigotry. We don't always know how we know these things, and yet mysteriously we know them nonetheless.
The true complexity arises when we must defend these values in a world that does not universally embrace them — when we reach the place where we must be intolerant in order to defend tolerance, or unkind in order to defend kindness, or hateful in order to defend what we love.
When heroes arise who take those difficult duties on themselves, it is tempting for the rest of us to turn our backs on them, to vilify them in order to protect our own appearance of righteousness. We prosecute and execrate the violent soldier or the cruel interrogator in order to parade ourselves as paragons of the peaceful values they preserve. As Gary Oldman's Commissioner Gordon says of the hated and hunted Batman, "He has to run away — because we have to chase him."
That's real moral complexity. And when our artistic community is ready to show that sometimes men must kill in order to preserve life; that sometimes they must violate their values in order to maintain those values; and that while movie stars may strut in the bright light of our adulation for pretending to be heroes, true heroes often must slink in the shadows, slump-shouldered and despised — then and only then will we be able to pay President Bush his due and make good and true films about the war on terror.
Perhaps that's when Hollywood conservatives will be able to take off their masks and speak plainly in the light of day.
Mr. Klavan has won two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. His new novel, "Empire of Lies" (An Otto Penzler Book, Harcourt), is about an ordinary man confronting the war on terror.
Well there it was. I just had to post that gut-wrenching piece of shit in it's entirety, how fitting that the hack who wrote it has a novel called "Empire of Lies" but of course it's not the only one, far be it from neocons to actually use anything remotely resembling originality (note the hysterical commercial from the war criminal McCain comparing Jesus Obama to the ubiquitous Paris Hilton and that twisted little fuck bunny Brittney Spears – only in America), the Bush-Batman comparisons are rapidly spreading through the reich wing brain dead blogosphere and accompanying fascist media machine like freshly torched gas from a lighted Heineken fart. Even Spanky Limbaugh weighs in on it (no pun intended) as he panders to his addle brained dittohead dipshit co-dependent audience. In a strange bit of irony that largely goes unmentioned (especially in conservative circles) the guy who played Batman was recently arrested for beating his mother – real swell for the 'values' volk but certainly not surprising that the bottom feeders identify with such behavior. As with George W. Bush the Oedipus Complex seems to run deep with the sort of deviant fucks who gravitate the the fascist Republican party.
I haven't actually seen The Dark Knight myself as of yet although I plan on it. I loved the first one and am a big Christopher Nolan fan (you have just got to fucking see The Prestige if you haven't already) and even better it is supposed to have the trailer for my favorite graphic novel of all time, Watchmen premiered before it. The Dark Knight's reviews have been spectacular and I tend to like movies that are more than a bit on the dark side, after all, the world is certainly not a candy-coated apple like far too many ass ostriches and Pollyannas skipping down their white picket fence lined primrose paths to perdition would like to believe it is. It is a serious morality play in which Batman must cross the lines of morality to take down a psychotic and vicious enemy in Heath Ledger's Joker. who is pretty much a 'terrorist' in this one (actually a chaos loving anarchist would be a better description but in the post-Orwell era of 2008 what the fuck are words really worth?) and the think tankers have brilliantly seized on the plotline to unbelievably try to plant their freak flags right in the middle of Gotham City as justification for their ongoing war on American ideals and their savage stealing away of our freedoms under the cover of darkness.
It should come as no surprise that I feel the same tactics and worldview is merited when confronted with those who don't play by the rules and the neocons and their ilk are the real life villains who I speak of. To hell with peering into Nietzsche's abyss because sometimes you really DO have to become a monster to fight one and the fascist Republican war on America has certainly been waged by immoral monsters against a largely innocent albeit woefully ignorant public. I have always said that if you are going to deal with the large scale extermination projects that really rid us of our rats and cockroaches that you can't be afraid to get your hands dirty, in order to deal with slime you have to be willing to climb down into the gutter in which it resides. I dig Batman but really V For Vendetta is much more my bag when it comes to getting down and dirty with the scum and it is a much more serious depiction of the neocons and their perfect society as laid forth by Leo Strauss, Karl Schmidt and the rest of the fucking Nazis who so have so inspired them as they have hijacked America using their dirty little coup d'etat that 9/11 provided cover for.
Despite all the adoration of the extra-legal tactics utilized by the Batman as he throws down with the Joker an important point that is missed by the neocon goofballs is that while Batman may engage in illegal surveillance, random beatings and renditions, hard core vigilantism and a general willingness to operate outside the pesky confines of the law like Dirty Harry or any other stock action figure of the past thirty years he is doing so for a good reason – trying to save Gotham City from evil and the existential threat that the Joker represents. The key distinction however that is missed is that he is not engaging in these sort of end runs around the law for the purpose of illegally eavesdropping and blackmailing journalists and political opponents, thumping those who may be nuisances to the looting spree, imprisoning without trial members of an opposition political party and providing protection for the racketeers who pay the Republican crime machine for their mob style tactics. Also Batman doesn't engage in torturing naked Muslim men in gruesomely sadistic, sexually perverse tableaus which are then presumably filmed for the enjoyment of the sick fucks who run this big time con game that by now has become more revolting than even a jar of fresh vomit. The Rovian revisionism and use of movies and pop culture to manufacture consent for a very anti-American agenda would really be approaching parody if it weren't so dangerous.
These neocons are very strange people, one would speculate that they are fixated on black leather batsuits which would indicated a serious kink factor leaning towards BDSM, I can only imagine them going gaga over George Clooney's nippled bat suit and codpiece in the colossal failure Batman and Robin. There was also GOP hero and son of former Nazi goon Arnold Schwarzenegger in that one so the orgasm accelerator must have been irresistible. Then again, in this idolatry of Batman's crusade against the Joker maybe they are still more than a little pissed off at the late Heath Ledger for putting a burr under the saddle of the great American macho John Wayne archetype by playing a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. There are certainly a lot of seriously conflicted folks over in the Cult of the Elephant and for every Larry Craig that is exposed trying to suck a cock in a public toilet stall there are many more who are smart enough to keep a lower profile.
For those who are buffs of both history and American pop culture you may remember a certain Dr. Fredric Wertham who wrote a book called Seduction of the Innocent on the dangerous effects of comic books on America's youth that was then used as justification for a Congressional inquiry into the comic book industry back in the heyday of the good ole Joseph McCarthy era. Wertham's gaydar went off when he speculated that Batman and Robin may have indeed (and I shit you not) been homosexual partners and that Batman comics were a potential endorsement of such heinous and deviant lifestyles (I speak tongue in cheek of course, the water fountains in much of the country were still in many places still labeled as "colored" back in those days), he also inferred that Wonder Woman was a lesbian and railed against lurid depictions of murders in the popular horror comics of that day that ultimately resulted in the Comics Code Authority which was created as a form of self censorship by the industry.
Could it be that Wertham may actually have been onto something real? Perhaps Batman did trigger latent, prurient impulses in some – one can imagine the little wimpy Jewboy Billy Kristol beating off over Batman comic books in a darkened coat closet in daddy's upper east side digs, his Joker like grin already present as the demons in his noodle that would one day lead him to become a shill for mass murder on a grand scale feasting on the darkness of those little psychological cues that were sinisterly implanted in the stories. Normal dudes jacked off to hard and soft core porn, semi-normal (although sheltered dudes like boy Kristol) at least jacked off to Catwoman but now we are living in the PNAC world of sick freaks and fantasy as reality so who the fuck knows that the fuck people jack off to anymore…Armageddon perhaps?
I don't know, as freaky as it may be it is possible that Dr. Wertham is right about the leather fetishes and shit and perhaps the Murdoch Journal has a point that that bat cowl could fit squarely on King George's pointy little head – after all, Jeff Gannon was sitting on someone's face during all of those back door White House visits that he made awhile back.
Jesus Fucking Christ, is nothing sacred to these diseased pigfuckers
Plaintive Wails From Planet Shit
Good God, here we fucking go again. In addition to the renewed flogging of that tired old al-Qaeda warhorse, the ongoing focus on the most ridiculously destructive wedge issue of all time: ABORTION and the fear and smear bread and butter tactics of scaring the bejesus out of simpleton yokels while screeching "unpatriotic" and "traitor" at opponents. Leave it to the recently ousted Paul Wolfowitz to blame it all on the liberal media. The two-time loser Wolfman who was recently run out of the World Bank on a rail after his bestowing of a lavish salary on his personal fuck buddy Shaha Ali Riza (an Arab of all things which must have gone over like an inconvenient burst of flatulence at those AIPAC Anonymous gatherings) who dumped him soon afterwards generated mass outrage bemoaned his fate with that baleful neocon lament that it was ALL the media's fault. I am still trying to suppress a gag reflex at the thought of any woman doing the naked horizontal bop with that comb-sucking freak.
These people have absolutely no fucking shame! First they spend millions if not billions of dollars constructing a perpetual propaganda machine that makes Joseph Goebbels look like a rank amateur, further hedge their bets by consolidating nearly every fucking aspect of the mainstream media into five or six goliaths with interlocking directorates then use this vast electronic echo chamber to piss away an entire generation by selling them tabloid illusions as reality as well as instilling a deep seated free floating fear and the accompanying national meanness that comes with it and he actually has the balls to blame the pocket media for his Clintonesque worshipping of his own dick at the expense of any semblance of the sort of moral authority that could be reasonably expected from the president of the World Bank. But as we peasants are all too often reminded in the sordid land of post 9/11 Homeland Amerika the rules don't ever apply to either neocons or other servants the three-headed monster of the Bush-Cheney-Rove Axis of Evil.
Jesus fucking Christ these people have no shame but I repeat myself.
I would be hard pressed to think of a more nauseating spectacle than the unctuous fraud John Boehner's breaking into a blubbery jag of crocodile tears during the debate on the Iraq spending bill on Thursday. Times have changed, such an outburst ruined the political career of Ed Muskie in another era but then that was when high crimes and misdemeanors and fibbing about a blowjob was the trigger of impeachment proceedings. It was a performance for the ages that was so bad that it bordered on camp or the sort of faux macho cheese that you typically would find in an Arnold Schwarzenegger or Fred Thompson movie where the Alpha male musk fills the air like a ripe wheel chasing skunk that just met it's match on the hottest day in July. It reminded me of that scene in the movie "Used Cars" where Toby the dog plays along with one of the lot lizard scams by playing dead to generate sympathy and guilt that would cause the prospective buyer to shell out money for the overpriced lemon that he would drive off the lot (the door fell off on the way out) – "that price is just too fucking high"! (I just had to slip that line in). Boner's [sic] waterworks were right up there in terms of rank cynicism and in sneering insincerity as the tactics of any of the sleazeballs employed by the Fuchs Brothers on their competing lots and God knows in America there are ALWAYS buyers for that sort of lame horseshit – a land of suckers who breed like fucking rabbits and are ever proud to call themselves Republicans.
I know that it's one hell of a statement to make regarding the less than becoming conduct of the House Minority Leader especially given the recent history of the best little whorehouse in Washington but his bawl baby routine is right up there with every act of sordid rottenness of the House that begat Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay. It surpassed Ohio's star spangled tomboy Jean Schmidt's cowardly shanking of John Murtha, the banishment of John Conyers to a basement closet to conduct unofficial hearings on The Downing Street Memo, the calling of the Capitol police on Democrats by piss baby Republican sore winners, the routine tantrums of the jowly James Sensenbrunner and even the disgraced pervert Mark Foley's cybersex with young boys during legislative sessions. I just can't sugar coat it any more than that.
Le Enfant Terrible is taking Adolf Hitler's advice to heart that "If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed" invoked al-Qaeda 19 times during a hastily called press conference on Thursday. In repeating the talking point cadence to the army of red stated simian knuckledraggers Bush even managed to hit a new low for himself (no small accomplishment given his criminal career) by suggesting that the swarthy bearded ones were coming after the children of reporters who did not recognize that their primary duty was deference to the unitary executive and who refused to act as bobbleheads while engaging in their normal stenography. According to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post:
The session was called to draw attention to the fact that Democratic leaders had just caved in to Bush's demand that the Iraq spending bill have no withdrawal timeline. But as frequently happens at presidential events these days, it quickly became al-Qaeda, all the time. Bush invoked the terrorist group 19 times and even suggested it was going after individual reporters' kids.
"They are a threat to your children, David," he advised NBC's David Gregory.
"It's a danger to your children, Jim," Bush informed the New York Times' Jim Rutenberg.
This last warning was perplexing, because Rutenberg has no children, only a brown chow chow named Little Bear. It was unclear whether Bush was referring to a specific and credible threat to Little Bear or merely indicating there was increased "chatter in the system" about chow chows in general.
At least a passing bird had sense enough to shit on our national fucking disgrace of a 'war president' by offering up a great exclamation point to the Rose Garden snake oil sale event. The Republicans are determined to play the terrorism card and to deal it from the bottom of the deck until either hell freezes over or until the feckless, slack jawed sheep in the Democratic majority finally get the stones to hold REAL hearings and start impeaching, arresting and hauling all of the vermin off to prison where the filthy motherfuckers belong. Rudy Giuliani can't get three words out of his mouth without mentioning 9/11 and the remainder of the ideologically bankrupt goose stepper caucus parrots the party line as they always have. The Republican strategy always reminds me of that National Lampoon cover "If you don't buy this magazine we'll kill this dog".
While armchair patriots across the land fired up their BBQ's and swilled beer in honor of their three day weekends the 'commander guy' defiled the final resting place of America's fallen heroes by dragging his draft dodging ass to Arlington National Cemetery to spew lame platitudes about such empty slogans as duty, honor and sacrifice for democracy. If the dead could only call bullshit on the sort of amoral politicians who ensured that they would end up at Arlington they might say something like this from Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun:
As for the Neville Chamberlain wing of the war party, the Democrats made much ado that Queen Hillary and Barrack Obama voted against the Bush Iraq Carte Blanche Enabling Act but lost in translation is that neither actually voted when the fate of the bill was still in question. Both of them slithered out from their DLC rocks well after their symbolic votes had lost their meaning but it's good PR that will endlessly be pimped to the dumb asses happily awash in blissful ignorance in this attention deficit democracy. The Bob Schrum disciples will be sure to dissemble, spin post their swill on notorious Operation Mockingbird vacuum cleaner operation clearinghouses like Daily Kos and continue to talk a good fight while rolling over again and again for King George. At least Joe Biden cast his vote while the outcome hadn't been decided which while more deserving of merit than Hillary and Obama's cowardice shows that he has a tin ear outside of his regular appearances for Dick Cheney's favorite lapdog Tim Russert on 'Press The Meat' and still can't pull his foot out from that flaming bag of dogshit but in this twisted, sick bizarro world he proves even a one eyed man can be king in the land of the blinded albeit temporarily, such is the fleeting cognitive dissonance of the days of the Bushreich.
And finally, Satan's Memorial Day pit BBQ was a smashing success as the Reverend Jerry Falwell's fat ass was served basted with a nice chili chutney mixed with blackstrap molasses and slow roasted on a spit until well done.
You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.
But what do the dead say?
Did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god I'm glad I'm dead because death is always better than dishonor? Did they say I'm glad I died to make the world safe for democracy? Did they say that I like death better than losing liberty? Did any of them ever say it's good to think I got my guts blown out for the honor of my country? Did any of them ever say look at me I'm dead but I died for decency and that's better than being alive? Did any of them ever say here I am I've been rotting for two years in a foreign grave but it's wonderful to die for your native land? Did any of them say hurray I died for womanhood and I'm happy see how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?
Nobody but the dead know whether all these things people talk about are worth dying for or not. And the dead can't talk. So the words about noble deaths and sacred blood and honor and such are all put into dead lips by grave robbers and fakes who have no right to speak for the dead. If a man says death before dishonor he is either a fool or a liar because he doesn't know what death is. He isn't able to judge. He only knows about living. He doesn't know anything about dying. If he is a fool and believes in death before dishonor let him go ahead and die.
Yellow Jew Badges in Iran = Journalism as Yellow as it Gets
My local newspaper which long had been independent, a rare and vanishing breed in the days of media consolidation, corporate greed, yellow journalism, government propaganda disguised as news and sensationalism that belongs in checkout stand tabloids has slowly been taken over by the disease of newsless news and unsubstantiated conjecture through a losing battle of attrition given retirements and reassignments of key members of the editorial and news staffs. Yesterday morning it has officially joined the club of state run corporate press propaganda organs when a prominently placed editorial ran comparing the recent allegations on Iranian anti-Semitism to what else, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust while referring to the story on the mandatory wearing of badges as an identifier. This is entirely consistent with the anti-Israel message that is being attached to Iran and it's democratically elected president, the U.S. media takes quotes out of context and hypes any insinuation that Iran has declared that the state of Israel is an enemy as if that comes as any big surprise when it comes to any other country in the Middle East…they ALL hate Israel ! The cynical choice to callously and shamefully exploit the Holocaust to further foreign policy initiatives shows an amazing lack of regard to the true victims of anti-Semitism which thanks to Bush's war is enjoying a resurgence everywhere and dishoners the memory of the millions of Jews who were murdered by Hitler's Nazi regime.
The fact of the matter is that the story is such an obvious piece of black propaganda (along the same lines as the 'babies in incubators' yarn back in the leadup to the first Gulf War) that most mainstream news outlets (other than the usual sensationalism driven cable channels like FOX) found it to be so problematic and riddled with red flags that they wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Rupert Murdoch's Newsmax and The Drudge Report were on it like flies lighting on dogshit though and the reactionary right wing hate bloggers were pounding their keyboards with a frenzy usually reserved for pounding their puds over pictures of Ann Coulter to disseminate this story that was nearly immediately debunked. The original source, The National Post of Canada was rapidly backing away from the story as though it were an unexpectedly encountered rattlesnake on a nature trail.
There has been an onslaught of attempts to paint Ahmadinejad as a dangerous anti-Semite who is on a divine mission to ensure the destruction of the state of Israel for months now which of course could be expected given the neocon alliance with hard core elements within the Israeli government who want to see Iran eradicated and are all too willing to trade in the currency of the Holocaust for their own nefarious purposes by exploiting American sympathy and guilt in order to bolster public support for another bloody, ruinous foreign misadventure that Bush in his messianic mindset and the influential support of a Christian Zionist base of fundamentalist loonies bent on inciting a nuclear conflagration and therefore kicking off the events leading to the absurdity that is the Rapture will buy into it and nuke Tehran.
I was so pissed off that I did a rare thing, I wrote a scathing letter to the editor of my local paper, not that it will likely see the light of day, the bastards don't like to be called on their bullshit especially when it was their lead editorial despite the story not appearing elsewhere in the paper. It reeks of the activity of an inside operative on their editorial board and conjures up comparisons with the infamous Operation Mockingbird where the CIA utilized paid plants throughout the domestic press to disseminate agency propaganda. There was an excellent story done back in 1977 by Carl Bernstein the Washington Post Watergate reporter who didn't sell out. This is hard to find anywhere so hopefully the following link works, it did yesterday but you know how it goes with the creeping censorship of the internet:
I am even more pissed right now due to the double dipping, first my tax dollars are used to finance covert propaganda and then I have to pay to read it through subscribing to my newspaper. Nice Racket!
Incidentally, the incessant lying, the court packing, the NSA being used to spy on journalists and just all of the creeping fucking fascism that we are having rammed down our throats by Bush's jackbooted thugs also pisses me off.
But of course I am in the minority in a nation of sheeplike drones.
And besides, even if the story had contained more truthfulness than disinformation regarding the Iranian parliament passing such a bigoted and hateful measure wouldn't the act be at least somewhat morally equivalent to those of our own domestic demagogues in congress who are seeking to defile our constitution with discriminatory amendments targeting taxpaying American citizens based on a deep seated loathing of their lifestyle?


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Thursday, November 14, 2013
I'm Thrilled to Announce...
...actually, I should say thrilled and honored to announce, that my work (including this painting) is now being offered through the Woolworth Walk, a gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. The Woolworth Walk is a fabulous gallery, and I say I am honored because I am now in the company of so many of my favorite local artists! Quite the range of mediums are represented, in addition to painting: metalwork, fiber art, photography, pottery, jewelry, to name just a few.
As I said in my January blog post, when I first got accepted to the waiting list: "I am so thrilled. I have loved going to the Woolworth Walk ever since it opened, and have envisioned my art there ever since I decided I wanted to have a place to show/sell locally, rather than just on-line. The Woolworth Walk does a tremendous job with presentation, use of space, and lighting. The staff there are always extremely nice, too."
Now that I have spent more time there, I think I understated what I said about the staff. Not only are they extremely nice, they are friendly, helpful, upbeat, knowledgeable, and organized. I know they will be a joy for me and my customers to work with.
From now on, my sites will let you know whether a painting is for sale through my studio or through the Woolworth Walk. If you are interested in any painting available through the Woolworth Walk, please contact them to arrange sale and shipping at (828) 254-9234. And check out their website. I guarantee you will be impressed with the array of offerings there!
If you are interested in a painting available through my studio and first heard of my art through the Woolworth Walk, please let me know so that I can give the gallery proper credit. Thank you.
The cupcake painting was painted on Thanksgiving Day 2012. And then it spoiled my dinner. Yes, I blame the cupcake! But I loved painting (and eating) it. Coincidentally, I put that painting in the Woolworth Walk yesterday and then came home and read the local arts and entertainment newsweekly. I learned that the bakery the cupcake came from, The Sisters McMullen, is no more. Actually the bakery has been sold, and, I expect, will undergo some changes. I loved The Sisters McMullen, including the sisters, and am so sad to see them go. One of my Thanksgiving traditions was having pumpkin pie from the Sisters. I also need a new source of gorgeous cupcakes (for PAINTING, people!) and am so glad I captured one in paint while I had the chance. May both McMullen Sisters each be moving on to a new bright chapter in their lives...
And by the way, the cupcake painting is framed in a wood float frame with a gold finish and is $95 (contact the Woolworth Walk at 828-254-9234).
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Meeting Goals
With the holiday season approaching, I am thinking about end of year, reviewing my goal list, and considering what I hope to accomplish for next year. One item that was high on my list for 2013 was to paint flowers, since they are always a challenge, and I wanted to understand them better. I'm happy with what I have achieved and will continue to practice, practice, practice!
I would encourage all my artist friends to consider making a collage of your work--in our busy lives, we can cross things off our "to do" lists, but it's really nice to have visual evidence that we have accomplished something!
Thanks for looking...
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"Smoking" electronic cigars
I will honestly tell you that when I went to the IPCPR (International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association) in Las Vegas, here is the reaction I got: "Pinker, don't you dare put that in my mouth!" What a great sound bite that would be. I kept track and had 75 guys go from "No way" to "This is awesome" to "Wow" to "I have to get one of these." Think about freezing your ass off in the garage on a cold night because you can't smoke in the house. How about during a game or in a bar or restaurant? It doesn't stink up your clothes and you can't smell anything after a few seconds. I stopped smoking cigars in my car and now vape.
Guys and gals, this is an ALTERNATIVE. We love cigars at V4L, but let's face it: society doesn't love us. I know that there will be the hard-ass that says "No way" but I'm here
to tell you that I took this opportunity based solely on the cigar kicking ass, and it does the job.
It's been 6 1/2 weeks, and so far so good. I've been selling my whole life, and I have never sold anything that people enjoy and want to buy so much as the Zeus. Try it and you'll like it!


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a friend and peer from my years in montreal, i have been watching the meteoric rise of my homie A.M. aka Marcus Troy since his first forays into blogging and expressing his personal opinion in a public forum.
he and i used to have our friday sessions at the shop in montreal, just bouncing ideas back and forth and shooting the breeze about things we were passionate about: music, technical outerwear, design, sneakers(obviously), beautiful women, community, street art, online networks, communication, heritage, travel, etc.
now he has a nike-sponsored platform to give others a chance to share their story and express their individuality. i took the time to write mine, i think you should too. if you read this blog regularly, you're already a maverick because neither Kaeweezy or myself fit inside a box. we are truly mavericks in our own rite.
hit this link to see what i'm referring to, or he'll show up and make a grumpy face at your birthday dinner too.


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Twitter: Make It Meaningful
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Do you feel you add value to your followers?
This is something I ask myself and strive to achieve each and everyday. Yes, some days are better than others, but by making it a goal each and every day I do my best to eliminate the "fluff" that most of my followers could care less about.
Of course you need to have a personal side, otherwise why would anyone follow you? But if you have goals such as adding good content and share your knowledge, then you will be able to connect with a greater group out there than those whom you are already connected to.
Expand your presence. People want to read interesting, inspiring, shocking and insightful information so provide them with your unique value. Spend a few minutes each day reading articles on what YOU like and then share those with the Twitterverse.
To borrow a word from Scott Stratten (@unmarketing), all this will do is make AWESOMESAUCE to your value!


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Thursday, January 2, 2014
Paleo & Primal Diets: My quick, but not quick enough for Facebook, answer to the, "It's just a fad," argument
Earlier today on Facebook, I asked what your thoughts are when someone says to you that the Paleo/Primal lifestyle is just a fad. Your responses were all fantastic! Surprisingly, I've never actually been told that to my face-- not that I'm complaining! I think my friends & family don't want to sit through my response, although I know they all think it. I wanted to give my response, but it was just a hair too long-- Okay, way too long. Ha ha!-- for a Facebook post. So...have blog, will expound thoughts.
The Paleo & Primal Diets are just another fad. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Hmmm...that would make perfect sense were man only in existence for, say, the last 40-60 years.
The Paleo diet is based on the idea that what man has been eating since the dawn of our time on earth sustained our species & allowed it to thrive in the severest of conditions. Meat from animals that feed as naturally as possible (i.e. not grains--especially not GMO grains), vegetables, natural (including saturated) fats, roots, tubers, fruits, nuts & raw honey have been the basis of our diet for millennia. Even when we progressed (which might be putting too positive of a spin on it) from hunter/gatherers to herder/farmers, the grains we consumed were usually sprouted or fermented & completely biologically different from modern grains, and the dairy we consumed was raw & from grass fed/pastured animals.
Now, let's contrast that with what everyone sees as the "not a fad, balanced diet." Low calorie & low fat. According to mainstream health specialists, the government, and the food industry-- who we all know have our best interest in mind (note sarcasm)-- that is the way we should eat. However, the fact is we didn't even know what a calorie was prior to the 1970's, and nobody even dreamed that saturated fat was a problem until Ancel Keys' highly misleading study came out in the 1950's (which is addressed well in this short and sweet video clip from Big Fat Lies). So, from 1950-1970 we started the low calorie/low fat craze. This "not a fad" diet has been around for a whopping 40-60 years, compared to the Paleo diet which has been around for MILLENNIA, and all we have to show for this 40-60 year old "balanced diet" is an INCREASE in heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.
So, tell me, how can the Paleo/Primal diets-- diets based on the foods man ate for MILLENNIA-- be a fad, yet a low calorie/low fat diet that has only been around for 60 years, & has yielded very little lasting results, NOT be one? Which is really the fad here? Calling the Paleo diet a fad doesn't make much sense when you look at it that way.
So there you have it. My long, drawn-out response to the, "It's just a fad," argument.
Have you ever been challenged with the fad diet argument? What has your response been?
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On Day Seven, the group headed out to Neist Point, the westernmost point in Scotland. That should help you find it on the map!
Neist Point was a very picturesque spot. From the parking lot at the end of the long lane, you can either walk down to the lighthouse or up to the top of the cliffs.
Annette and I chose to walk up and across the top of the cliffs.
It felt very cold on top of the cliffs. I think the temperature was probably in the mid-40's F, but the wind was howling! I'm guessing it was a sustained 30 to 40 mph wind coming off of the water. What a wind chill!
On the top of the cliff there was an abandoned brick and concrete building. It was small, probably less than 10′ square. The front and the front half of the sides were open. It looked like an observation post to me. If I had to guess, it was probably from WWI or WWII. It was fun to try and figure out what the building was used for and how each of the features of the building were used.
Now that I am home, I looked for the building in the satellite view on the online maps. I found the building and I found what appears to be some rectangular indentations in the ground behind the building. That gets my imagination fired up! What was this place?
But that's not where the beauty was on that day. The beauty was in the land, the sea and the sunlight!
This image was taken as we first arrived. You can see how the lighting was still fairly even.
As the sun got lower, it was partially hidden by the clouds and this beautiful mottled light on the ground was the result.
It was a long walk down to the lighthouse and a steep climb back out, so I did not attempt to go to the lighthouse.
I think the better image of the lighthouse was from up here at the top of the cliffs.
In an earlier post about Scotland, I hinted that I didn't like to shoot into the sun, just to get the twinkling glint of the sun on the water. But, here in this last image, I did it anyway. I guess that I learned from trial and error during the workshop that if you shoot into the sun, you will likely end up with a silhouette. That's what I wanted this time, so I took the shot directly into the sun's reflection on the water.


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"Cumnor Hill House is an amazing care home. My Nan is looked after by a fantastic team that go out of their way to make her and all the residents to feel comfortable, cared for and happy.
The home is modern and has been built to a very high standard with an extremely comfortable feel and gorgeous decoration - just like a five-star hotel, with beautiful grounds around it. Always spotlessly clean."
We are delighted to welcome you to Cumnor Hill House, where we offer residents the chance to experience luxury living and exceptional care. We provide residential, nursing, dementia, respite and day care in a stimulating, beautiful environment just outside the City of Oxford. We are delighted to announce that we have recently been given an Outstanding rating by CQC, which is recognition for the hard work displayed by all our staff these past 18 months.
There are many things which set Cumnor Hill House apart from other care homes which you can find out more about throughout this website and our brochure. There are two which I believe stand out and help to shape our ethos:
Firstly, we are very selective when recruiting our staff and in return for them being the best at what they do, we pay everyone who works with us above the Living Wage. We believe this is a first in the local market and ensures a happy environment within the home, while recognising the value of the care profession.
Secondly, we offer one clear, all-inclusive weekly price to our residents. This reduces worry and helps people relax as well as being able to plan ahead.
We are proud of what we have achieved at Cumnor Hill House and we invite everyone who is interested in the home to visit us in person. Please contact me to arrange a convenient time – I very much look forward to meeting you soon.
Louise Axtell, General Manager
It might seem like an obvious thing to say if you are used to living independently, but it is one of the biggest fears of elderly people looking at care homes – that they will just become a number, and one's independence will naturally ebb away. We set out to counter this straight away and focusing on the individual is the best way of helping people to settle quickly in order that they can get on with enjoying life.
While we're incredibly proud of Cumnor Hill House's state-of-the-art design, its facilities, its comfortable rooms and its attractive furnishings, our priority is to deliver the best care possible, while never losing sight of the happiness of each and every resident. There are as many personalities in our home as there are residents; providing customised lifestyle care comes as naturally to us as ensuring residents receive the required medical care.
We judge the success of our care home by the happiness of our residents, many of whom will already be local to the area of Cumnor and Oxford. We want our home to be as much a part of the local community as the local school, shop and pub are, and we want our residents and staff to be involved as much as possible. Here is one example of how we do that.
We visited Cumnor Cricket Club to find out. The club was incredibly welcoming and we are delighted to be able to help with sponsorship for the coming year. We wish all teams involved the best of luck and we look forward to visiting some matches.
We are always looking for new and different activities for our residents to enjoy; Trips out, entertainment in the home, demonstrations and interesting talks. If you would like to get involved, contact our activities and events manager.


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The Kokomo High School TechnoKats are hosting the Indiana FIRST State Robotics Finals at Memorial Gym in downtown Kokomo this Friday and Saturday, April 13th and 14th. The Kokomo community is invited to the tournament to see Indiana's top 32 robotics teams in action. Entrance is FREE, and everyone is welcome.
The TechnoKats spent six weeks building a robot that can compete in an arcade-inspired competition: FIRST Power Up, where two alliances of video game characters and their human operators are trapped in an arcade game. Both alliances are working to defeat the boss in order to escape.
In this year's challenge, teams earn points by moving power cubes, taking control of the scale and switch, earning boost and force points, and by elevating the 120 pound robots at least 12 inches off the floor.
The TechnoKats recently tested their robot in the Indiana FIRST St. Joseph District Event at Penn High School, where 40 teams from Indiana and Michigan competed in the two-day tournament. The competition consisted of 80 qualification rounds, followed by a draft-style alliance selection, and bracketed elimination rounds of the Top 8 alliances. At the end of qualification rounds, the TechnoKats were ranked 14th.
TechnoKats Head Coach Dr. Joy Dewing explained that changes to the autonomous portion of this year's competition have made game play more difficult. During this part of the game, teams earn points by placing a game cube on the correct colored scale or switch, but the colors are selected randomly when the game begins. To be most successful, Dr. Dewing noted, a robot's autonomous software must move the robot, while also being able to detect color and make adjustments based on that color detection.
"This is a HUGE challenge for the robotics teams," Dr. Dewing added.
Scoring also is much different. In past years, both teams scored at once by manipulating game pieces. This year, however, teams score by having control of the switch and/or scale. Teams earn one point for each second they maintain control.
"Scores add up quickly in this year's game, and that makes strategy especially important," Dr. Dewing explained.
Junior TechnoKats scouting lead and Dean's List Semi-Finalist Sean Childers noted: "I'm happy with how our team is performing this year. We've shown a great deal of growth since last competition season."
FIRST Robotics is an international organization that promotes Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, as well as personal development through competition, community service, and mentoring.
TechnoKats assistant coach and KHS math teacher Christine Edwards said, "I love seeing our students working together – not just with our team, but with other teams as well."
Rookie TechnoKat Lilli Hinshaw added: "The people at robotics competitions are very nice. Although the competition is fierce on the field, when you're off the field, teams work together, sharing spare parts, helping repair damaged robots, and helping correct computer coding errors."
Kokomo School Corporation complies with applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. Kokomo School Corporation does not exclude people or treat them differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.


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Post-Christmas brunch. Its great that more cafes are sprouting up in the East although not nearly enough! Though I can still probably count the good ones on one hand.
This place is crowded, not surprising given the low supply/high demand of brunch places in the East. Penny Uni has a great laid-back decor with wide booths and large communal tables. Such a small place though!
Turkish Eggs - Poached eggs with smoked salmon and yogurt. Definitely a more unusual item and I would say makes for an acquired taste because the yogurt packs quite a punch. But the flavours go weirdly well together.
Poached eggs - decent version and reasonably priced.
Carrot cake for desert, this was ok but I still like my carrot cake more "coarse" - Cedele's version is the best!
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- the students are extremely independent so reading/writing groups are uninterrupted
- it is quiet!
I could really go on and on but the book explains it all. I would recommend watching the DVD especially for Daily 5 in Kindergarten.
Anyhow, here are a few pictures I took:
|You can see the students are engaged with what they are doing. At this table some are doing listening to reading and one girl is practicing writing on the dry-erase board. The students are allowed to sit wherever they like.
He is at the writing station with a picture dictionary.
|Here is one of my writing groups during Daily 5.
|Here is the Word Work station. In the beginning of the year I laminated all the students' names and they used playdoh to form their names. You can also laminate sight word cards well.


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Broom Closet
I had already altered the floor plan to create a larger entryway with a nice big coat closet for guests (and lets be honest, Bella) so it seemed even more unnecessary. I was just about to have them erase the small closet when I realized that nowhere, in our giant brand new home, had I planned for a place to keep the larger cleaning gadgets. And so, the little coat closet was turned into a broom closet.
Of course this broom closet required some elfa designing and planning. I needed it to keep the broom, the vacuum, the swiffer, a steam mop, a step ladder (we are a short people), a bucket, as well as parts and pieces for the above mentioned gadgets, other cleaning supplies, and paper towels.Read More


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Customers browsing at the bead show booth of goldsmith and jeweler Carl Clasmeyer are immediately drawn into a whimsical, puzzling, and playful world of miniature clasps, toggles, and pendants. They are also quickly captivated by this self-described "talker" and story teller from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"When I was maybe two-and-a-half years old, we lived in the Monterey Bay [California] area, and we used to go to the beach. My Mom says that I would draw pictures of people in the sand. And one day, an older lady came to watch. She said she was a retired art teacher and that kids my age don't perceive details like ears and noses. She told my Mom: 'I think you have an artist in the family'."
Clasmeyer loves to share stories about the pivotal times in his life which led to him becoming an artist. As a child, he was always fascinated with miniatures. He made a tiny miniature golf course where the club was a toothpick and the ball was a BB from his BB gun.
Another story dates back to when he was "stuck in a transport squadron" in the Air Force. "One Sunday, I was playing pool, and the first sergeant said that he wanted to see my room," Clasmeyer says. "And I think, 'Boy, am I in trouble!' I had drawings all over my room. And he said, 'I heard we had an artist here. You've got a real talent, son.' And later, he arranged for me to be an illustrator/draftsman in the Air Force. There are people like that who prop us up and set us on our path."
After the Air Force, Clasmeyer travelled a mostly self-taught, 40-year artistic path honing his skills as an engineer and draftsman, illustrator, painter, commercial artist, iron and metal worker, sculptor, carver, silversmith, and goldsmith. He's painted and restored vintage cars, painted murals on buildings, created company logos, illustrated government manuals, run a jewelry store, and designed countless engagement and wedding rings.
"If it weren't for the art, I wouldn't have gotten into the jewelry," Clasmeyer says. "And if it weren't for the jewelry, I wouldn't have gotten into the clasps."
It's the clasps that have drawn curious crowds around his trade show booths, as this 6-foot, 6-inch tall man with huge hands deftly demonstrates to customers how clasps smaller than his pinkie finger open and close. Many are so puzzle-like that they almost should come with an instruction sheet to describe their clever operating mechanisms! But don't get the wrong idea — once you understand how they operate, the clasps are easy to open and close yet totally secure.
His flying macaw clasp has spring-actuated wings which compress to the body when the circular perch/branch is slid over the body past them. Then the wings spring out, and one pulls the branch up to the bird's feet — right next to its microscopic food bowl. This clever clasp is so attractive that you will be tempted to wear it in front as a pendant on a chain. In sterling silver, it is 1 1⁄2 in. (3.8 cm) tall.
When the 1-in. (2.5 cm) long doghouse clasp is opened, a pooch is revealed. It is raising its paw to shake hands and is only 1⁄4 in. (5 mm) long.
To open the turtle clasp (shown in the group image above, lower right), one unsnaps the tail by pulling it downward. Then by squeezing the back legs together and pulling, out pops an unexpected frog. "That's the one that gets the most laughs and kinkiest comments that have shocked even me," Clasmeyer laughs. "People at shows start laughing and telling their friends to go see the guy with the big elephant backdrop who has the turtle/frog clasp. It's more than just functional. It's a conversation piece. It's a mind puzzle. It's a sculpture. It's humor. It's a triple treat! People love that."
In Clasmeyer's diverse inventory of 120 items (clasps, pendants, and beads), one can find dolphins, doghouses, elephants, horses, frogs, dragons, lobsters, mermaids, seahorses, hummingbirds, butterflies, turtles, frogs, parrots, cats, and more. On the more eclectic side, he has crafted tire and jack, wrench and nut, glass torch, boxcar, and mask and snorkel clasps.
As well as being a compelling storyteller, Clasmeyer is a great listener — of his customers. When he was selling at bead shows from 1999–2007, he had lots of sterling silver beads and a handful of clasps. He learned that the demand for innovative clasps overshadowed the desire for beads. So he went back to his workshop and changed his focus. Many of his subjects for future clasps come from customers. They'll ask for a hummingbird, and he'll add it to his list. His toggle of a diver captured within a shark's jaws was an idea suggested by a customer.
"All of my clasps are idea-driven and handmade by me — from design, to prototype, to molds, to production, and to assembly. It's a one-man operation, and they're all made in the U.S. of A.," Clasmeyer says proudly. For the clasps, he usually works in sterling silver, but he will do gold on request.
Clasmeyer also creates commissioned jewelry. One example is a ring he created for a "real car guy." It depicts a 1969 Chevy El Camino with bumpers in white gold, diamonds for headlights, and rubies for tail lights. "I love doing unique work that speaks about peoples' lives, their passions, their marriage, or their business. I really like making things that tell a story," he says.
"People say I have the optimistic energy of a 20-something," Clasmeyer says. "I truly believe that when you are pumped up by an inspiring vision and the happiness of creating something, that helps you stay young.
People tell me my clasps are unique in the world. They say they keep them in a curio box or on the mantel and show them off to friends. I've created adult toys!"
Well Carl, we certainly agree!
If you're interested in seeing more of Carl's clasps and pendants, check out the gallery of his work below, or visit his website, Clasmeyer Studios.


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Learn What is Involved in a Project Management Hierarchy.
Team Member Needs
When people refer to hierarchy, they generally think of management or team hierarchy as in who reports to whom. But, there's more to project management hierarchy than this. Besides who plays what role, you also need to look at the needs of your team and the hierarchy of your project requirements.
Your team is not comprised of robots; these are real people with real needs. Each project team member will have different needs, and team needs will vary based on the person. Even experienced team members will have needs that you must fulfill.
Basic human needs involve water, food and shelter. Project management team member needs will generally involve understanding the given commands and feeling appreciated by their superiors. Understanding their role in the project will be the foundation on which the rest is built. If your team member does not feel a part of the team, then they won't perform to their fullest.
The next step is to ensure that your team member fully understands to what they should be doing. This will breed in them a sense of accomplishment. Finally, you need to reward team members for good behavior.
Project Management Hierarchy
The next set of the project management hierarchy is the hierarchy of skills. This is generally geared towards project managers who have to support their team members. This entire structure is built upon leadership. Project management leadership is the base from which everything else is built. If you don't have a good leader, then you won't have a good team.
One step up from leadership is management. A project manager must be able to communicate effectively with his team and get the team to work together. This often involves motivating them and meeting the basic team need for reward.
From there, the project manager leader needs to master the basic project management skills with the ultimate goal of being an effective and mature project manager.
Project Schedule
The final part of the project management hierarchy involves the project schedule hierarchy. This involves laying out the objectives of your project, which is the base of your project. You must know for what you are working before you can start working on it.
Next, you need to identify the underlying assumptions about the project, which will help you come up with the results that you want to achieve. These results should be measurable, and you need to clearly identify these so you know for what you are working.
Finally, you can use these foundational points to create the top part of this pyramid: the work breakdown structure. This will help your team figure out what actually needs to be done and when it needs to be done by. The work breakdown structure will also create a hierarchy of tasks to be completed, further narrowing down your focus on what are the most important steps to your project.
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Another senseless shooting has occurred. The details are still sketchy as I write this, but a gunman walked into a Sikh Temple outside of a Milwaukee suburb and six people died and three others injured. There is speculation that the gunman was a white supremacist.
The Sikh community has suffered greatly since 9-11. Some folks assume they are Muslims because of their Turbans. They are not. As far as I am concerned, there is no way to every justify walking into a religious community and killing people. I do not care if they are Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Unitarian or United Methodist. I will never understand why anyone thinks they have the right to kill people because of their faith or their looks or their background.
Regardless of the motive, of one thing I am clear, we as a nation must get back to our basic values. Freedom of religion, freedom to choose how we live out our faith, and freedom of speech where we actually listen to one another and learn from one another. We need to find new ways to communicate and interact with people who are different from us. As Christians, we must learn respect for other faiths and stand against up any prejudice and hate when we hear it.
I am tired. Tired of mass shootings where the victims are forgotten quickly, but the perpetrator is remembered forever. I am tired of yelling and ugliness on both sides of any argument. I truly understand deeply held beliefs. I do not understand the conviction "that what I believe in gives me license to do as I please, say what I want and hurt others." I am pretty sure that "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is part of almost all faith traditions.
Today, I am praying for the Sikh community in Wisconsin and everywhere. Their faith in One Supreme Being, equality of men and women, respect for other faiths and service to all people embody the values we claim as Americans. May this tragedy challenge us to live more faithfully into a people that respects others, teaches openness and understanding. Through opening and understanding, may I be
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Sinus Lift
- After the procedure, you may have some bleeding in the area. You may use 2-3 gauze pads and apply gentle pressure to the area for 20-30 minutes. You may experience some bleeding from your nose.
- Do not blow your nose. Try to avoid sneezing. Sneezing and blowing your nose could dislodge graft material or lead to an infection.
- You may have some swelling and/or bruising for up to 3 days following surgery.
- Stay on a soft diet for 3-5 days after surgery and avoid chewing in the surgical area if possible.
- Take all prescribed medications as directed. Do not take the antibiotic or pain medicine on an empty stomach, as this may cause nausea.
- You will need a post-operative appointment in 10-14 days for suture removal.


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Mairead McGuinness Fine Gael MEP for Sligo and Vice-President of the European Parliament has welcomed the announcement that AbbVie is to create 50 jobs at Ballytivnan in Sligo saying: "This is a very positive development. It is indicative of the strength of the medical devices sector in Ireland and of the quality of the Irish workforce.
"It is also indicative of a growing economy where it is now evident that growth is spreading into the regions.
"This is important for the country as a whole and we need to see a continued recovery reaching all regions of the country.
"Meanwhile, the Government's €250 million plan aimed at providing 14,000 jobs in the Midlands will underpin and accelerate that growth," she said.


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The new Glenn Ligon show at Luhring Augustine Chelsea, "Neon," features one piece that will only be illuminated for one day.
One Black Day features the date of the upcoming presidential election written in neon cursive. It will be illuminated on that day, and then turned off, never to be turned on again. Neat, right?