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BYE, BYE 2005
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Four new terms that entered the international dialogue, during 2005:

In Sweden........ Industrisafari = a guided tour of old industrial areas in order to soak up their architecture and their atmosphere of how work used to be.

In Norway........ Tjock-TV = an old-fashioned "fat" TV as opposed to the new, slim, flat-screened ones.

In the USA........ Jihad-Enabler = The New York Times, Kevin Sites, and other America-hating, seditious organisms.

In France........ Citroen-Flambe = any French automobile set on fire by Islamofascist thugs who have nothing else to do.

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Regarding the New York Times and other Jihad-Enablers........The New York Post stated earlier this week, that the NYT is badly in need of adult supervision, after which the FBI and the Justice Department initiated several investigations described here by Jim Kouri.

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IN TODAY'S FORTUNE COOKIE:

"The constellation of wisdom
is shining down on you."

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I was thinking today, that Bill Cosby, whom I adore, made a
REALLY BiiiiiiG MISTAKE
when he admonished black ghetto kids for being the illiterate gangbangers they are.

All he achieved with that, is that everybody hated him.

What he should've done instead.........what he could still do, instead.........is to
start one of his excellent TV shows about exactly that problem, and resolve it within the story-events of every installment.

If he did that, they'd all be watching it (secretly or openly) and then they'd all be becoming what the show would help them to envision they could be.

I've learned from me myself being in this world, that I can do some things really really well, and that I positively suck at a whole lot of others things, from which I then learned to work within the parameters of my talents, and to stay away from trying to do anything in any of those other areas of life in which I'm totally ineffective and incompetent.

Like public speaking.........which I cannot do.

Like verbal fighting.........which I simply don't know how to.

Like being part of a group or pack...........which I cannot ever be.

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ANOTHER EXCELLENT BLOG
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I've added another
unique voice to my blogroll:
The Great Satan

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By the way.....in case you haven't heard yet?
Novels by men about men, are now being called
PHALLIC NOVELS

Which makes me wonder if novels about men written by women, would also qualify for a P-word?

And what about novels about women written by men?
Or novels about women written by women?
Are those OVARY NOVELS, or do we get to use the C-word?

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A NEW TERM FOR THE
T-WORD
?

The International media seems to have gotten tired of using "insurgent" to replace the
at-all-costs-to-be-avoided
T-word
(yeah..........."terrorist")

At first, they switched to "Islamic Extremist", but some editors or extremists must have told them that this term was a much too offensive one to describe rapists and murderers, because most journalists seem to have suddenly adopted the term
"Islamic Fundamentalists".

That REALLY describes rapists and murderers, doesn't it?

I'm too far away from my dictionary, so I googled it.

"Islamic Fundamentalists believe that
there was once a perfect moment and
they're trying to recapture that perfect moment."

So next time you read about some terrorist monsters having exploded 30 cops in Iraq, decapitated a government official in Afghanistan, or gang-raped a woman in Stockholm, please try to remember that they were only committing those atrocities in the hope of recapturing a perfect moment, OK?

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STEPHEN COLBERT
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In case you've not yet discovered it, Stephen Colbert runs a late-night half hour called The Colbert Report (right after the Daily yuck) that's really quite amazing. I think it's the first intelligent TV-show since that British guy was on 20 years ago. I forgot his name.........got it: Dick Cavett.

What I admire about Colbert, is the beautiful brain-dance in which he engages his guests, who usually consist of two separate individuals.

It's fun to watch how he invites these people into a dialogue about something that's important to THEM.........after which he creates a kind of "invent-it-as-you-go" script for them to follow, so they can't help but become incredibly funny in a fast, high-powered exchange that often has the most dogmatic, most stern one of them, become victim to a delightful interaction of brilliant amusement.

All this, while never offending anyone and never resorting to the annoying politial insults that have become so popular among other hosts.

Watch this guy, if you can.
He's way cool!

PS.........about TV?
It has now become not only possible but quite normal, to click through 72 channels during primetime viewing hours, without ever seeing anything but commercials.
The TV industry is committing
self-annihilation
at an amazing pace!

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If.........

If you write one short but affirmative sentence about your life each day, you'll have found 365 reasons for being happy, at the end of 2006

If you eat one Hershey bar each day, you'll have consumed 365 Hershey bars a year from now

If you break one bad habit every week, you'll have dumped 52 bad habits at the end of 2006

If you buy one share of a promising stock every Friday, you'll be the proud owner of 52 shares of that promising stock at the end of 2006

If you give one person per day an encouraging compliment, you'll have made 365 people happier than they would have been without you, at the end of 2006

If you clean one small area of your desk or room or home each day, you'll have cleaned a truly gigantic area when next year's Christmas rolls around

If you write one private lovenote every day, you will have multiplied your own loving impulse by 365 times, at the end of next year

If you pull one weed or trim one branch in your garden, each day, you'll clean up the whole messx365 without getting exhausted by doing it all at once

If you could get yourself to take only one great shot with your new camera each day, you'd have 365 great photographs at the end of 2006

If you take only one dolomite (a natural calcium & magnesium combo) pill every day, your bones will be twice as strong as they are now, when 2007 arrives.

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IN TODAY'S FORTUNE COOKIE:

"Help preserve our wildlife:
throw more parties!"

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HOW BLIND CAN HOLLYWOOD BE
???

I'm listening to George Clooney talk about the films he's acted in, and this last one he directed..........I'm hearing him talk about how politically astute he thinks he is and about how people in Hollywood were being blacklisted during that "terrible" McCarthy era of the fifty's...........I'm hearing him use the word "neocon" in the same, sneering way someone else might use the words "nigger" or "kike"..........and I'm thinking that this man is totally blind to the fact that right now, in his own Hollywood
-- which he seems to think is oh, so cool and righteous --
he himself and others like him, are blacklisting everyone who doesn't agree with their own kind of intensely
anti-American, anti-male, pro-terrorist
propaganda............and I'm feeling really sad because I used to really like this man as an actor and wish I hadn't had to discover that he seems to be just one more brainwashed puppet of the
extremist-leftwing-Hollywood-terrorism
of today, that has forgotten how to sublimate its aggressive impulses into the art of filmmaking............which is why they're now defiling our screens with nothing but lousy products that are no longer art, but have instead become a shameless attempt to deceive the world's population about the true reality of everything.

So I made this comparison-list of the difference
--- the incredibly important difference ---
between
LOVE and HATE
or
SUBLIMATION
and
AGGRESSION:
(which without sublimation, mutates into terrorism)

1
sublimation promotes life----------terrorism promotes death

2
sublimation promotes peace----------terrorism promotes chaos

3
sublimation promotes creativity----------terrorism promotes destruction

4
sublimation promotes safety----------terrorism promotes danger

5
sublimation promotes trust----------terrorism promotes betrayal

6
sublimation promotes liberty----------terrorism promotes anarchy

7
sublimation promotes beauty----------terrorism promotes garbage

8
sublimation promotes respect----------terrorism promotes contempt

9
sublimation promotes hope----------terrorism promotes despair

10
sublimation = everything----------terrorism = nothingness

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SPIELBERG'S "MUNICH" TRAVESTY
EXPOSED
:::::

Debbie Schlussel has witten an excellent, totally researched and point-by-point expose of Steven Spielberg's

"I HATE MY OWN HERITAGE
AS A JEW AND AS AN AMERICAN"
#3

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IN TODAY'S FORTUNE COOKIE:

"If you can shape it in your mind
you will find it in your life"

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THE FOUNTAINHEAD, ANYONE?
ATLAS SHRUGGED, ANYONE?
???

The Ayn Rand Institute has a gift for classroom teachers:

Free copies of Ayn Rand's novels.

So far, they have received orders for 257,000 books.

A reaction to this news item (found on a message board) :

"Any chance of getting a children's edition of these books to Congress? Ones with small words, large print, and pretty pictures that can be understood by tiny minds?"

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NEW BLOGS
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I discovered two excellent blogs I'd like to share with you. They are JIM KOURI and DADvocate

I've added both of them top my own exclusive blogroll to which I only add additional ones after not having gotten tired of reading them, for about a month.

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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN'S
HIDDEN AGENDA
O

Everyone seems to think that Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" is about promoting gay marriage or unpromoting heterosexual marriage, but I really don't think that this is true.

Ang Lee is part of the Hollywood anti-American "in" crowd that thrives on national and international forms of recognition being bestowed on those whose work destroys every USA mythology that ever existed, especially that of the American Man who has nevertheless remained a much-admired and envied image of heroism to most men and women around the globe.

In spite of the real-life fact that US military men are feared by every other force and by every terrorist piece-of-garbage anywhere, Hollywood nevertheless makes film after film in which they are portrayed as cowards, ruthless killers, or incompetent fools.

Other films and TV shows have successfully destroyed the images of US law-enforcement agencies, our founding fathers, our thinkers, our brilliant IT inventors, and all the other creators of the greatest nation on earth, which Hollywood likes to portray as the world's most oppressive "phallocracy".

Spike Lee (a classmate and personal friend of Ang Lee, by the way) portrayed all black thugs as America's heroes, and all white guys as America's thugs.

Oliver Stone portrayed all Indian warriors as America's heroes, and all white guys as America's genocidal murderers.

The list of movies defiling American men, is endless. The list of ugly, feminized actors willing to take part in this disgusting offensive, is also endless. The list of authors and academics seeking to pander to this fanatical mission of destruction, is bottomless.

SO WHAT WAS LEFT TO DESTROY?

That last remaining American hero........the cowboy.

And how to best begin to ridicule this gun-toting, horse-riding, boot-wearing image of total masculinity?

You make him be gay, that's how.

I can just imagine Ang Lee laughing his head off at the thought of doing it. And I guess that just being gay in itself, was not enough of an attack, so he added adultery and betrayal to the mix. And now, the magnificent cowboy of everyone's imagination, has become a cad, a liar, a piece of phallocentric garbage.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

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IDLE
MEDITATION
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A flock of round, tiny gray birds descends on a naked, leafless tree.........then, as if choreographed, 2 or 3 of them at a time hop unto an evergreen where they quickly eat as many white berries as they can.........then return to the leafless tree for a moment, and fly away for good.

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The wind is busy making a fuzzy sidewinder cloud out of the sharp white line of an airforce jet-trail drifting above me.

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I was going to put the radio on, but the perfect silence here is so beautiful, that I couldn't get myself to do it.
I love silence.
I need its calming bliss.

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I feel sad with the knowledge that a few thousand transit workers (who earn twice as much as the city's cops and firemen) are holding 7 million New Yorkers hostage during these icecold, last few days before Christmas.
MALIGNANT
NARCISSISM
made manifest.

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Something's running really fast over my roof. Could be a blackbird.
Or a rabbit.
Perhaps a squirrel?
I turn on the radio.
Jimy Hendrix's "If 6 were 9"
GREATNESS
made manifest.

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TOURIST
NATION
O

"We are now entering what used to be the famous city of New Orleans, which was completely destroyed during the summer of 2005, when its levees broke, its buildings flooded, and its population vanished."

"This used to be the State of New Mexico, which was invaded by the MS-13 gang during the winter of 2008, re-named Nuevo Mexico, and re-populated with 140 million Mexican gardeners."

"This used to be the World Trade Center towers, until Saudi terrorists crashed 2 hijacked planes full of passengers into them in broad daylight, causing 220 floors of skyscraper filled with more than 3000 working Americans, to collapse inside a giant plume of fire, bodyparts, and smoke. For $19.99 you may purchase a piece of 911 scorched metal in a velvet-lined box."

"What we're beginning to approach now, ladies and gentlemen, is the blackened ruins of what used to be Las Vegas, once a gambling metropolous called "Satan's playground" by the Iranian Dictator Ahmedinejad, just before his white-robed ministers invaded it with 22 nuclear bombs."

I thought this would be funny, but it's not.

I thought I'd be giggling writing it, but I'm not.

I had planned a lot more,
but find that I can't continue this.
Strange, hm?

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FINALLY!
NOW, YOU TOO, CAN BE A
CONCEPTUAL ARTIST!

First lesson free........THE SNOWMAN.

Send a blank check (to any PO Box in Nigeria) for:

Lesson #2........THE EASTER BUNNY

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RANDOM
THOUGHTS

I was searching for follow-up news on the Sydney riots, when all I found was a wire service report almost comically titled
"Anti-Social Behavior in Sydney"
in which the reporter wrote that a car full of molotov cocktails and other weapons had been prevented by police from reaching its destination, without stating what that destination had been, and without saying who the people inside that car were.
Which means we can safely assume that they were Islamofascists, because the criminal intentions of white guys would never have been protected like that.

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I saw a wonderful show on A&E.
Called Random 1........it has a beautiful logo, and is a reality-type show in which a small group of people helped a guy who was desperate because he'd lost his job, to find a new one. The reason it was so special, is because we're almost never being given a view of male desperation. One seldom gets a chance to realize just how pervasive that total vacuum of male experience has become, in today's media. I hope these people continue to break the stereo-type of "only women suffer" that's forever being thrown at us.

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I don't know who or what "Verison" is, but they should re-design their logo, as it has what I consider to be the worst design-fault a logo can have, in that it has TWO red slashes, which prevents the eye from being able to rest on one single focus.

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Dwight Yoakam's song
"Fast as I Can"
is still the best country song ever
played by the best country band ever.

I love perfection.

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C-Span's now-dead Booknotes showed a 1999 interview with
Mark Pendergrast, the author of
"Uncommon Grounds"
(nice title)
which is a book about coffee, would you believe?
Sounds boring, right?
But this guy so much loved his subject-matter, that coffee became a fascinating product. I noticed that it wasn't the idea of coffee, he loved so much, but also anything else on earth that grabbed his interest. It's a beautiful thing to watch, when a person truly loves whatever he is writing, thinking, or talking about. Because they get you to share that love. You just can't help yourself. And it feels great!

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WOW.........YOU'VE GOTTA GO
READ JOSHUA
!!!

He's got a couple of messages for Iran's Ahmedinejad...........like proof of how much his Koran is exactly like Hitler's "Mein Kampf".......positively masterfully presented........with side-by-side quotes and semi-quotes.

Go take a look and scroll down slowly, because there's a lot of good stuff there until you get to the pictures of those 2 books.

Thank you, Joshua!!

I so much admire you.

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273 - 148
BEING ILLEGAL = A FELONY!

Wow.....finally.......the house passed a bill that would make it illegal to be an illegal alien who illegally entered the United States and illegally obtained work when hired illegally by contractors and corporations who feel they don't have to obey the law of the land when profits are their main objective.

We're halfway there.

I'm glad.

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EVERYTHING
HAS
A
CAUSE
!

A person does not suddenly and mysteriously become ill.........a car does not suddenly and mysteriously break down..........a city does not suddenly and mysteriously turn into a place of riots. If there's one thing I truly believe in, it's the undisputable fact that things don't "just happen" but that they all -- no matter what they are -- have a causative factor that's been ignored in spite of repeated warnings.

Here's a transcript of a speech given by an Australian police detective who describes the many causes of the slow and inevitable deterioration in Sydney which resulted in last week's seemingly chaotic explosion of violence. I recognize everything he says, because the exact same events occurred in New York City during the exact same time-period. I lived through them, and New York would have exploded worse than Sydney did, if Rudy Guilliani hadn't become its mayor and hadn't had the manly courage to clean up the horrific mess created by those truly ill-informed, cowardly, multicultural dreamers of the 80's.

At the time, Guilliani was being viciously attacked and defiled by New York's intellectuals, journalists, black leaders, and artists, all of whom called him a fascist and a nazi.

Now, he's being remembered as the truly heroic man he was (and is).

The warnings put forth by this Australian speech, ought to be heard by the same cowardly forces of multicultural stupidity that now manipulate the societies of Holland, Sweden, Norway, England, Belgium, France, and other members of the EU, where the same process of deterioration and lawlessness is well underway. And if those people think they're smarter than Australians and New Yorkers............trust me: they're not, and they're headed in the exact same direction which will eventually produce the exact same chaotic results.

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QUOTES
AND
NOTES
O

"Never sure of where I was going
I still made really good time."

-- Lionel Fisher --

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HEADLINE:
"Bush and McCain reach torture deal."

-- MSN News --

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Did you ever see/hear White Stripes? It's a man and a woman - she plays the drums - doing something that's sort of a bad imitation of that 1970's Rocky Horror Show.

There's no hope of these two ever becoming anything better than that.
No matter how much time we give them.

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Can one know a country by its national anthem?

This is the national anthem of Palestinians

This is the national anthem of Israel

This is the national anthem of France

I had the national anthem of China linked here, but when I returned to check it, it had been replaced by something else. Typical, hm?

Oh, boy.........this is the national anthem of Mexico

This is Sooo funny..........the EU national anthem is a Beethoven oldy

Afganistan is on its fifth anthem....their latest one is really happy!

I could get addicted to listening to the world's national anthems, but I have an appointment to keep and miles to go, before I sleep........

Bye, bye!

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CULTURAL
IGNORANCE
ENFORCEMENT
?

During a recent car chase monitored by Fox News, it was announced that during the
police-vs-criminal-stand-off-ending
of that chase, viewers were being shown a
delayed video tape
to protect them from seeing any bloody or otherwise disturbing incidents that might occur.

What the fuck?????

Who gave our news media permission to censor the news?
Such censorship is thought-control of the first order, making me wonder what else they've been leaving out to "protect" us?

Remember way back then, when they refused to show videos of beheadings of Americans, even though the entire rest of the world saw those tapes? How were we to ever understand the nature of the enemy with whom we were at war, if we could not see the crimes they were committing against us?

If a news organization decides to in any way censor the news, it needs to be made to leave the airwaves.
Or, alternatively, we ourselves need to censor their programs.
Period.
Really.

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MEASURING
YOUR
SPIRIT
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10____________50____________100

On a scale from 10 to 100 with

10 = being sad
and
100 = being happy

make a mark of where you're at, right now.

If you seem to be more sad than happy, do 2 things each day, that you know will make you smile. These don't have to be big things, but small, seemingly insignificant ones, like buying your favorite candy bar, watching a movie you love, or having lunch with a really good friend.

Keep doing the same or different things like that, for two weeks, then draw another "10___50___100" diagram on a piece of paper, and again measure your spirit by making a mark of where you're at. If there's no change, you were much too sad for a quicky cure, so proceed to now do 4 things each day, that you know will make you smile.

Continue to create small gifts of affection for yourself, re-measure your spirit, every few weeks,
and don't give up if this process takes
a while to create visible change, OK?

You can also agree to do this with another person by each of you creating happy smiles for the other.

You can even do it for someone else without them knowing that you're doing it.

Or........you could make a giant measuring chart and arrange to do this with an entire group that's suffering from sad, angry, or unproductive spirit-depletion.

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FINALLY
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Has the Pentagon finally gone un-PC?

If this article has it right, there's cause for a great big HURRAH!

Everywhere on earth where there's genocide, hatred, beheadings, riots, and other forms of extreme violence, such violence is being caused by Islamofascists. Think about it..................Sudan, Russia, Pakistan, Australia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, France, Holland, Sweden, Lebanon, Syria, Indonesia............the list is endless.

But if our government is finally "getting it" the world might just survive this onslaught of Islamic hatred, and Americans could return to doing what they do best, which is to

CREATE THE FUTURE

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DYSFUNCTIONAL
INCOHERENCE
#3

Walid Phares is a Lebanese born and raised Christian who moved to the USA about 15 years ago. He has just published his latest book "Future Jihad" and believes that the US needs a cultural and intellectual revolution if it wants to survive, because the Jihadis understand us perfectly.......while we have no understanding of the Jihadis.
I heard him speak.
He's a pretty amazing fellow!

Here are the names of
3 former terrorists
who have quit the Jihad and are seeking to inform Americans about what's REALLY going on, except our liberal/suicidal establishment doesn't seem too eager to allow them to do this:
Walid Shoebat
Zak Anani
Ibrahim Abadall

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NEWS REPORTS
OR
DYSFUNCTIONAL
INCOHERENCE
#2

More than 50 cars full of Australian "Lebs" -- or Islamofascist Lebanese immigrants, armed with baseball bats and other tools of street war, destroyed hundreds of parked cars a la Paris example, except they didn't burn them and I wonder why not..........or is that going to follow, soon?

News reports on what's almost affectionately called "race riots" are so bloody unclear about who's doing what and where, that you never know if the "white" Australians are bashing the Lebs or the Lebs are bashing the Whites. Everybody's being extrememly PC about it all, and there's hardly any way to understand what's going on overthere.

The Whites are being portayed as the perpetrators and the Lebs are being portrayed as the victims, even though this entire outbreak of violence is only the end result of Lebs having repeatedly raped White Australian women who, they say, deserve to be raped because they dress like ho's, dance in public, drink beer, and don't wear any head scarves.

This rape-thing has been going on for a long time. Just like it has been happening in Holland, Sweden, Norway, and other EU countries. So maybe the Whites in Australia are more protective of their women than those creepy, leftwing, cowardly males of the EU who have yet to begin to protect or avenge their own women-folk?

It's quite possible that the 2 lifeguards who were attacked by the Islamofascist Lebs were women -- no one says or writes anything at all about this precipitating incident, so you can't know.

It's all being disguised and misrepresented by PC here's and PC there's. I have some Australian friends who are overthere, right now, so maybe I'll get to hear more truths when they return. Meantime, I read several Aussi blogs and newspapers, and got zilch from all of them.

I am not eager to assume that white Aussis are less tolerant and more violent than Leb Aussis, if Aussis they are..............from what's happening throughout western civilzation, right now, it's much more possible that any Islamofascist group is more intolerant and violent than any of the inhabitants of their host countries.

It's being suggested by several heavy-duty intellectuals, that all these millions of Islamofascists moving into western civilizations is an act of disguised warfare...........an invasion..........an intent to conquer these lands with people, instead of with armies............an unannounced and mostly unrecognized (by the West) World War 4.

Part of this intent is said to be Saudi Arabia's gift of $40 million to Harvard and to another US university, this week.
The pre-planned "intellectual" branch of this war, which is intended to re-educate America's children by installing Islamofascist professors. Which Harvard has already agreed to do.

What do you think?

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NEWS REPORTS
OR
DYSFUNCTIONAL
INCOHERENCE
?

After 4 explosions rocked much of the south of England and an oil refinery burst into 200-foot-high flames, the local police was reported as almost immediately having stated that it had not been a terrorist attack.

When people living near the disaster-site called in to say that roofs were blown off buildings and that homes had opened up as if they were doll houses, officials assured the media and the population that nothing "sinister" had occurred.

When fire fighters who battled the blaze said that the heat was so intense, no one could go near the tanks to ascertain what had caused them to explode, media reports nevertheless indicated that there was nothing unusual about those explosions.

And when locals reported having heard a plane fly over just before the place blew up, government and media entities assured them that they had probably imagined this.

It is, of course, entirely possible that Islamofascists who knew from having observed the installation, that no one would be there on a Sunday............. just walked in, rigged 4 tanks with explosives, and walked out.

It's also entirely possible that Islamofascists, inspired by 9/11 and last week's worldwide Jihad-order to hit on oil installations, kamikazid 4 small planes into 4 oil tanks and thereby blew the place up on 12/11.

What seems entirely impossible, however, is that 4 giant oil tanks decided to self-explode on a Sunday morning when there were no workers present in that refinery, to cause any kind of accidental neglect.

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WHY
NOT
?

Why is there no mandatory retirement age for US Senators and Congressional Representatives?

Probably because if there were, they would have had to vote it into law themselves.

I think there should be.

I'm watching some of those people and can't understand what they're doing on the hill, when where they ought to be, is safely at home writing memoirs and enjoying similar kinds of peaceful activities.

It's simply wrong, to force oneself to go to work every day, with blown-out cheeks, diseased hearts, the inability to walk, and various other signs of physical and emotional deterioration.

Not only that, but these are the individuals on whose judgement our entire nation depends for its basic survival. The least they could require of each other, is that they be competent to perform this all-important task.

Which many of them, are decidedly not.

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LOVE.........YOU WILL
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you're ready to stop
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MANIFEST SOMETHING
ONE HAS NEVER BOTHERED
TO DEFINE
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It's been my own experience, that this is really true.
So what do you think you hope
to find or experience during 2006?
Write down the 6 things that come to your mind without too much effort. You may find that 5 of them come quickly, and that the 6th one takes some time to locate. That's because #6 is probably the thing that you didn't even know you wanted.

You can save your list or toss it out.

You can hide it, or read it every day.

You can even change it, if you wish.

But writing it was the most important part.
Because it made you become conscious of your desires, and they can therefore begin to manifest.

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BECK = BACK
!!

It was so wonderful to see a new song & video by Beck, titled
"Hell YES"
I felt myself wishing I could have directed that video, as it had the seeds of greatness, with those 4 little robots dancing in sinc. Yet it never managed to burst into glorious bloom.

Beck's image appearing behind them in shades of blue was also excellent. Oh, well.......I guess I should be grateful that VH1 played it at all, after promoting a quarter of a century of musical nothingness.
I swear, if I see one more ugly, hate-infested
gangster doing hip-hop-crap, I'll vomit.

Anyway.....Beck is Back and I'm glad he is!!

HOPE EXISTS

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FREEDOM............IT
will be yours as soon as
you recognize the
nature of your
prison
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MORE
BESTS and MOSTS
of
2005

MOST evil CEO of 2005..........that Gilette exec who fired 6000 employees to falsely increase his company's profits, then stashed $185 million of those profits into his own bank account.

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BEST presentation of 2005..........Iowa's representative Steve King showing with charts and quotes, why alQaida is certain that we'll betray the people of Iraq just like we betrayed the people of Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia.

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MOST Jew-Hating event of 2005..........the forced deportation of more than 9,000 Israelis by their own elected government.

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BEST song of 2005..........Brad Paisley's "alcohol".

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MOST ignorant jurists of 2005..........the intellectually defective morons who chose the winners of the Tate/Turner Artist Prize.

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BEST blog post of 2005.......... BlackFive's: "Many of the journalists making public assessments about the progress of war in Iraq, are unqualified to do so.......the inaccurate picture they paint has distorted the world view.......through their incompetent, uninformed, and unbalanced reporting, many members of the media are aiding and abetting the enemy."

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MOST ugly architectural disaster of 2005..........MIT's Gehri-designed Strata building, which looks like an old-fashioned apartment complex that's having a psychotic breakdown.

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BEST White House appointment of 2005..........John Bolton, our new, brilliant, and very promising ambassador to the United Nations.

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MOST often-asked question of 2005.......... "Whatever happened to Lenny Kravitz?"

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PEACE........IT WILL
manifest as soon as you
find the courage to
fight for your
rights
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QUOTES and NOTES
O

"Every so often, I like to stick my head
out the window, look up, and
smile for a satellite picture."

---Steven Wright---

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NEWS FLASH:
Iranian investors and corporate executives
have moved more than $13 billion out of Iran
and (probably, but I'm guessing) into US markets.

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The Blogospere's Pajamas Media's logo
is a bathrobe.

I guess they're shy.......:-)

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The EPA has issued a citation to one of our chocolate factories which it says is in violation of the clean air act, as its immediate neighborhood smells of chocolate.

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What do you think of Jim Cramer at CNBC who has been let loose to do his thing, which is to scream and yell and stomp like a total lunatic for I don't know how many hours every day
( I can only listen to him for 5 seconds )
which sort of makes him the financial market's Jerry Springer Show
(except he's a lot worse than that )
and I can only hope that such total lack of civilized restraint will not become infectuous and thereby cause a whole lot of additional disgusting, screaming, yelling, and stomping lunatics to be let loose all over our TV screens, where, at the very same time, the totally acceptable words
"shit" and "fuck"
are being bleeped all day long?

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PSYCHIATRIST: "Why are you yelling and stomping like that?"

PATIENT: "Because I can do whatever the fuck I want to."

PSYCHIATRIST: "Who told you that?"

PATIENT: "God........"

PSYCHIATRIST: "No, I didn't."

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TODAY'S
RADICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
GOES TO:

RITA COSBY
of
MSNBC
for having the courage to fly to a totally deserted
part of Afghanistan with a bunch of really cool wrestlers
and being just plain a super lady
while interviewing our troops stationed in that
Godforsaken wilderness.

Thank you, Rita!

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SODEMIETER
REDUX
&

Have you been following Saddam's trial in Baghdad?

I swear, I don't understand why he is allowed to talk or yell whenever and for as long as he chooses to.

I swear, I don't understand why he is allowed to not show up the next day, because he "chooses" to.

I swear, I don't understand why the witnesses who speak against him and his cohorts, are being made to stand right next to those animals, which must be totally terrifying for these courageous individuals.

And I swear, I don't understand why the US news media, which on a day like today, for instance, have no problem showing hour after boring hour of repeat video film of an empty plane parked in a Miami airport, can not be bothered to show the Saddam trial for more than 60 seconds at a time.

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PATIENT: "How am I doing?"

PSYCHIATRIST: "You're finally doing OK, but you drove ME nuts getting there!"

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AN
IRONIC
NEWS
ITEM
::::

40 German travel agents on a sponsored trip to learn about tourism-opportunities in South Africa, were robbed at gunpoint by 2 men who boarded their bus near Cape Town and escaped after committing this ironic robbery.

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I found this item on ExpatYank who writes a really cool and interesting blog. Scroll down to his "Frequent Flyer" post for additional creative thoughts.

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THE
SANCTIMONIOUS
CREEPOZOIDS
OF
EUROPE
"!"

The Darfur genocide continues day after day, yet Europe simply can't be bothered to care about thousands of people being murdered there............but when the US appears to have detained without cause, one Islamofascist person of questionable motivation, every EU nation is riding its high horse of sanctimonious outrage and accuses the US of being the single most criminal element in the entire flocking universe.

What a bunch of total morons.

What a collection of moral retards.

And then our own, all-American ACLU, that paragon of legal immoral virtue, wants to issue a lawsuit against the CIA for unlawful detention of this Kuwaiti-born, German national of Lebanese descent who is the pure-as-the-driven-snow unemployed father of 5 who'd like to be compensated with a lot of illegally-obtained dollars so he can continue to enjoy his wonderful life of lazy terrorist intent, without having to ever work for a living.

There's something truly psychotic in the world of today.

Everything that's "evil" has been transmuted into being "good"..........while everything that's "good" has been transmuted into being "evil".

People seem no longer to understand the difference.
Or perhaps they never did, and the problem is that there is no leader anywhere, who might be able to correct such profound confusion. It's as if millions had reverted back to the fascist beginnings of a 1930's Germany.
Except now their
vicious hatred
has been disguised as
multicultural tolerance.

Scary stuff.

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STRESSFUL
SITUATIONS
and
EVENTS
XXX

We all exist in a kind of psychological storm shelter that can be partially or completely destroyed by unexpected, stressful events that are profoundly different from the usual.

Such an event will disrupt the integrative functions of our personality. It can impair judgement and sound reasoning. A previously strong sense of self may be replaced by anxiety and confusion. Moments of intense rage distort our view of reality. Fear of the unknown predominates. Feelings of total helplessness emerge to frighten us even more.

Neurosis and normality exist on a sort of continuous loop. An acute and frightening life-event can make even the sanest person feel crazy as hell. Our societal impulse is to take a pill. After all......we take a pill for everything else that bothers us, so why not swallow one for stressful events?

The answer is simple: every psychological, physical, or financial storm that hits us, is a protective emisary which arrived to warn us that it's time for a different kind of lifestyle than the one we've been engaging in.

We may have disregarded our need for physical rest, our nutritional needs, our need for affection and safety, for financial security, professional achievement, or physical protection.

The easiest examples for me to use, are some frivolous-sounding events in my own existence that -- if ignored -- might have had some very serious consequences.

-- 1 --
I used to regularly drive to a distant town with a large bag of potato chips on the car seat next to mine, and by the time I got home, I'd always have a belly ache.
potato chips-------> belly ache
potato chips-------> belly ache
potato chips------->belly ache
For years, I saw the connection. For years, I continued to munch potato chips. Until, one day, a very severe belly ache forced me to become aware of the fact that belly aches are NOT a normal part of life and that I had made myself deaf to what they were trying to tell me.........which was that I was voluntarily consuming all kinds of dangerous products that would eventually result in a serious illness. So I read up on food additives, chemical poisons in prepared foods, and nutritional matters. I changed my eating habits 100%, and haven't had a single belly-ache since.

-- 2 --
Ever since I turned 18 and arrived in New York
I pranced around on 4-inch heels.
I loved them.
They were a part of my image, and I only took them off when I went to sleep. Then, decades later, one of my 4-inch heels got stuck in a hole in the sidewalk and made me tumble to the ground. It was pitch black outside. Cars were carelessly whizzing by me on the highway, their drivers unaware that I was lying on the ground. When I finally managed to get up, I saw that my little bag had flown to maybe ten feet away from me, and it looked so alone....so sad....so totally deserted, lying there, all by itself, that I started to cry. At that moment, I somehow realized that I was that little bag and that no one in the entire world gave a hoot about whether or not I walked barefoot, in ugly sneakers, or in 4-inch heels that made every walking moment, a truly dangerous one.

It took me a couple of weeks to recover from the injuries I sustained with that fall, and during those weeks, I slowly, one at a time, tossed my beautiful, treasured collection of high-heeled shoes into the garbage. I saved one pair. For the memory. Last week, I saw it and put it on. I couldn't even walk across the room, wearing those ridiculous shoes! And I'm convinced that if I hadn't dumped them all when I did, I would have injured myself a hundred times worse with the next "emisary" fall.

So if a stressful event occurs in your own life..........don't take a pill. Instead, try to figure out what this self-protective emisary is attempting to warn you about, then make the change it has required of you, OK?

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THE
MOST
OF
2005

MOST courageous world leader --- England's Tony Blair

MOST dangerous world leader --- Iran's Ahmadinejad

MOST contemptible world leader --- Zimbabwe's Mugabe

MOST incompetent world leader -- Israel's Ariel Sharon

MOST untrustworthy world leader --- Russia's Vladimir Putin

MOST pedophilic world leader --- Swaziland's King Mswati III

MOST belligerent world leader --- Venezuela's Hugo Chavez

MOST duplicitous world leader --- Syria's Bashar Assad

MOST unknown world leader --- Belgium's ________?

MOST cruel world leader --- Sudan's Al-Bashir

MOST audacious world leader --- Mexico's Vincente Fox

MOST head-in-the-sand world leader --- France's Jacques Chirac

Most vanished-out-of-sight world leader --- Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai

MOST arrogant world leader --- Aruba's Nelson Oduber

MOST non-existent world leader --- Somalia's __________

MOST politically correct world leader --- Holland's Jan Balkenende

MOST long-named world leader --- Saudi Arabia's Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud

MOST deaf-to-his-own-people's-needs world leader --- USA's George Bush

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FAKES
FRAUDS
AND
THE REAL STUFF

MICHAEL CHERTOFF of HOMELAND SECURITY:
A smooth talker who possesses a genius-level ability to use the English language as a tool of obfuscation.

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SHEPARD SMITH at FOX NEWS:
Still the best, most interesting and inventive car-chase commentator anywhere.

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JON STEWART of THE DAILY SHOW:
getting more offensive and obnoxious with every passing daily show.

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CLAUDIA ROSETT and BRIGITTE GABRIEL:
The two most courageous and insightful investigative jounalists around today. Rosett repeatedly exposes the United Nations for the total fraud it has become -- Gabriel exposes Hezbollah and other organizations of that ilk, for the total evil of their publicly denied intentions.

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JOHN CORBETT of NORTHERN EXPOSURE FAME:
An actor making a come-back -- or should that be re-entry? -- as a country music singer? He portrayed the perfect artist on Northern Exposure, where he helped create those memorable, gigantic
sling-shot events during which he catapulted pianos, caskets, and other artifacts of society, high into the sky to the sound of
Procol Harum's
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Events that for many of us, were the best ones ever produced!
He deserves a second-chance career, and I hope that he'll succeed. It takes incredible courage, to start from scratch in a whole new field. I've done it myself. And though it made me anxious as all hell, I somehow managed to survive its fear of failure and its financial insecurity.

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DAVID SPADE of the SHOWBIZ SHOW:
In my personal opinion, this guy is one of the most creative and brilliant people around..........and also, one of the only two genuinely sane human beings to be seen on TV, right now.

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CRAIG FERGUSON:
someone needs to re-educate this Scottish fellow so he'll stop making those typically European anti-homosexual hate-jokes.

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And here's someone being presented as a world-class artist with the description of being a man who "attacks his canvasses with passion, purpose, and a keen eye for detail".
And this is the result of his passionate pursuit.

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JULIA CAMERON:
This author of more than a dozen books on how to be an artist, a writer, and other matters of creative expansion in the personality, has created or paid for the creation of, one of the most vacuously uncreative, unexpanisive websites I've seen in a very long time.
Which means...............(correct).

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STUFF YOU MIGHT NOT
WANT TO GIVE ANYONE FOR
CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS
O

Sorry....I just couldn't help myself......that was a micro-protest against all the reconstructionists who want to replace the word "Christmas" with "Holiday".

Anyway....this Christmas, you might not want to give anyone the newly-minted Buffalo Nickel that's the size of a silver dollar and which has a silver coating so it looks really cool, but it wasn't made by the US Mint, so it has no monitary or collector's value of any kind and I can't imagine why anyone would want to own it except for to maybe glue it unto a cap or jacket?

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You also might not want to give any of your kids that motorized, underwater scooter with which they could swim or float really fast for about an hour, after which it needs to be recharged like those drills everybody's using now........except that your kid might be way deep underwater or very far away from shore, by that time, and if they can't re-charge the thing.....how could they ever get back to where you're standing.........uselessly waiting for them to show up again?

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And don't give anyone a vacuum cleaner that's being advertised as the latest invention in vacuum cleaners, i.e. a BAGLESS one........when it took humanity countless decades to invent dust-collecting bags for vacuum cleaners so we wouldn't have to empty its loose-flying dust into the trash and be overcome by an allergic dust-attack!

This really is a product of Extreme Corporate Chutspah that needs to be boycotted, protested, exposed, and gotten rid of.

Oooooh....they're playing Queen's "We will, we will rock you"
I'm in radio-heaven!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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SODEMIETER
NOGANTOE
!

Saddam is having a party running the trial that was supposed to silence him once and for all.
Can't we do anything right?
How much do you want to bet that terrorists will liberate and re-instate him as Supreme Dictator of Iraq?
This is the most PC war and PC peace I've ever had the displeasure to observe.
We're oh, so busy bending over, to show the world how "just" we are. We're bending over so far, that there's no doubt we'll get fucked.
And you know what? If we do, we shall have deserved it.

Why isn't this man in a glass cage from which no one can hear him speak unless his microphone gets turned on?

Why are terrorists getting all this extra time to figure out where he's being kept?

Why is Saddam getting off month after month, while witnesses, who no doubt tremble with anxiety at having to speak against this monster, repeatedly come to that court to tremble for nothing, since they're being sent home again until the next time, and the next time, and the next time after that?

I'm waiting for Stephen Colbert to do one of his brilliant segments on this
in
"The Colbert Report"

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A
NEW
ROLLING ART
WEBSITE
O

Here's a brand-new
"Rolling Art"
website.

If you run, you might just be the first person on earth to see it.

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FINALLY
!

It took them a year to act after their own hearings, but Congress finally passed a law that will require corporations to replenish the pension funds they've been depleting for such a long time now, and to maintain them at optimum levels in the future.

Too bad Congress didn't force ITSELF to replenish and maintain at optimum levels, that depleted pension fund called
Social Security!

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HIGH NOTES
AND
LOW NOTES
O

Miranda Lambert
writes her own songs and her own music.
She's a genuine artist.
Watch this rising star, because she'll not only be a lasting light, but a very original and expanding one, who possesses a truly unique talent.

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I always wondered what happened to the Dave Matthews Band. OK.......so I didn't wonder........saying so, seemed an easy way to begin to talk about them.

Anyway....they've re-emerged. They've found their voice. And what a voice it is! They've discovered that if you repeat both a verbal line and its musical line over and over and over, your audience will think that you're presenting them with a profoundly metaphysical experience. So that's what the Dave Matthews Band is doing now. It's sort of like "I've gotta go..........I've gotta go..........I've gotta go..........I've gotta go..........I've gotta go..........I've gotta go..........I've gotta go.........."

(don't say it....I know what you're thinking:-) :-)

So anyway, they do those repeating lines over and over and over, and the audience goes nuts because they figure they're getting genuine art for their money, and a whole lot of scrawny boy-bands watching it are saying, "Hey....we can do that!" ...........and so what we have now, is a giant wave of ugly non-artists going into the same kind of orgasmic fervor of one-liners that have, sadly, become this year's musical crop of extreme nothingness.

This stuff is so bad......even shoplifters are returning it.

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I watched Dolly Parton in an interview. She's an adorable lady. She's smart, caring, always ready to laugh, and quite beautiful. But I can't stand to listen to her sing. She has recorded John Lennon's "Imagine" and boy, does she ever manage to totally destroy it! I don't even understand what it is she does that's so destructive. I can't put my finger on it. I can't describe it. I just know that it really, really, sucks........really, really, sucks.........really, really, sucks.........really, really, sucks.........really, really, sucks.........really, really, sucks.........really, really sucks.

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ABOUT
THE
WAR
X

I've never given much thought to why we are in Iraq and whether or not we should stay. In the early 90's, then President Bush #1 with the all-too-willing assistance of then Secretary of State Powell, walked out on the Iraqi and Kuwaiti people in what I consider to have been a monumental error of judgement. So it seemed only logical that President Bush #2 would go back there to correct that error. I have no problem with us being there. And I'd have no problem now, if we decided to take out Iran, while we have them caught in the middle and it would take us maybe a week at most, to do so. In fact.....I hope we do. Because if we don't, Iraq and Iran will become bosom-buddies in Sharia Law and World-Class Terror. Those bastards have repeatedly threatened us for decades, they've declared war on us by flying planes into our skyscrapers and by murdering 3000 Americans, so we need to put an end to their aggressive impulses once and for all.

You may think that this doesn't jive with what I wrote yesterday about our interference with other countries, but it does. Because these particular countries have interfered with us first. They run around yelling, "Death to America!........Death to the Great Satan!" so we need to take such threats as seriously as they are meant, and act accordingly. It's the only way to end their incessant attacks against the USA and against all other civilized nations.

The alternative is to wait until they begin to nuke us all.

Which they will.
With intense pleasure.

And I have zero doubt
about that being a future reality.

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ANGEL
EYES
X

I'm spending my holiday at home in the
peace-and-quiet-heaven
of solitude. I watched the movie "Angel Eyes", the visual essence of which, was no doubt inspired by Traffic, which had arrived one year earlier. I thought it was really well-done. Caviesie is a creepy guy. He could be anything........a criminal, an islamo terrorist, a creature from another planet. I saw him in a real-life interview once, and felt that he had a feverish, almost borderline-psychotic quality. But that was just after he'd done Jesus, so perhaps that role had not yet had enough time to exit his psyche.

I really like Jennifer Lopez, but Hollywood seems to have purposely destroyed her innate kindness, her loving qualities, and her natural affection for men. Because in this movie, she'd been transformed into the archetypical American bitch who had once lived with an abusive father (naturally) and a victim-mother (naturally) and so she hated all men (naturally) and got to regularly beat them up in her capacity as a violent police officer (naturally).

Lopez and Caviesie could have been a perfect pair, if it hadn't been for the totally ill-conceived, constant level of anger her character had been instructed to express. I felt myself wishing that she'd refused to play the role like that. Because her unprovoked rage prevented what could have been a wonderful movie, from reaching that apex.
It was still pretty good, however.
And nicely spaced.

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AMERICAN
CHUTSPAH

After I wrote yesterday's post about us maintaining military bases all around the world, I kept wondering why we're doing that and why we do a whole lot of other things. Like why did President Bush make a speech in China, last week, in which he admonished that country to provide more freedom for its people..............the arrogance of which, seems totally outrageous? I remember being furious when Hilary went to Bejjing, way back when, and did her public rage-in about the Chinese law that allowed only one child per family. And then, of course, there's our Secretary of State Rice ordering governments to act according to how SHE thinks they need to run their own countries. And our State Department putting out a manifesto, this week, in which they propose that Israel must abolish its own nuclear weapons, in order to ensure that everyone else in the Middle East shall follow suit.........which is the most ludicrous and politically backward thing I've ever heard of! .

I mean........

I mean........

WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE?

WHY DON"T WE SHUT THE FUCK UP?

The very same individuals who don't know how to do anything right in our own country, seem to nevertheless have the ultimate chutspah to believe that they can tell the entire rest of the world how to run theirs.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE?

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CONGRESSIONAL
NARCISSISM
X

The political games played by both sides in Congress just keep going on and on, while no one there, it seems, has even the slightest interest in doing any of the things the American people have asked them to do.

So now they're all into demanding an Iraqi Exit Strategy.

REALLY?

How come they've never demanded an Exit Strategy for the tens of thousands of troops we have stationed in Germany and Japan........where they've been sitting around doing nothing for more than 60 years, while enriching the German and Japanese economies at US taxpayer expense?

How come they've never demanded an Exit Strategy for the military forces we maintain in Korea...........where they've been sitting around for more than half a century, doing nothing but enrich the Korean economy at US taxpayer expense?

How come they've never demanded any Exit Strategies for all the other military bases we maintain around the globe, while those within the US go bankrupt or are cancelled out of existence, destroying the economy of entire regions, while Congress never seems to give a damn?

One really cannot help but develop a deep contempt for such Congressional Narcissists, can one?

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DO YOU HAVE
A
LONG COMMUTE
?

Yesterday, as I was driving to the next town over, which is about an hour's ride, I was thinking about a friend of mine who commutes twice that distance to work and how, when you're driving, your right foot is stuck on the gas pedal without relief.......how your hand or hands are stuck on the steering wheel without relief.......how your left foot is stuck doing nothing, without relief, and how the entire rest of your body is stuck in one position, without relief. No wonder, I can barely walk during the first few moments when I've finally reached my destination and get out of my car! So I gave all of that a lot of thought, and came up with a couple of ideas that should make a long commute more pleasant for your brain and more healthy for your body:

---1---
Life is about moments - not destinations.
Meditate on this, if it seems silly at first, because it's really true. So if you have a long commute, add another 30 minutes to the time you allow for it, find a good place (halfway there) to stop off in, and do so, each and every time. In the morning, you could stop off to treat yourself to a really good breakfast. In the afternoon, you could stop halfway back to either get a good dinner, do some food or fun shopping, or get to know another town. If you force yourself to do these things twice each day every single day you'll suddenly realize after about two or three weeks, that your body is more energized, and that your entire outlook on life has improved dramatically.

I guarantee that!

---2---
Sitting immobile for long periods of time
deprives your body of oxygen
OXYGEN = LIFE
Therefore, to prevent your body from becoming depleted:
-------> SING! <-------
If it comes naturally, that's fine -- just do it very loud (loud is important, because that makes you inhale ten times as much oxygen!)
If singing has never been your thing, get yourself a bunch of karaoke CD's of your all-time favorite songs (google for your particular taste) and you'll be surprised how much fun you'll have with those! You will literally be able to feel the oxygen pouring into your system when you're doing that........ while at the same time preventing yourself from being victimized by poor eye sight, muscle spasms, oxygen-deprived blood, headaches, and all kinds of other commuter-ailments.

---3---
For just in case you get tired of singing........buy yourself an easy-to-use recording device that can be left "on" in the seat next to you, so you can simply talk into it whenever you have an idea or a thought that needs to be saved. Alternatively, use it to tell a story. One short story each trip. Start it with a sentence like, "She walked over to him and smiled....."
or
"He had never imagined that he'd be.........."
or
"He suddenly felt himself wishing that he had........"
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I'll probably get some additional commuter ideas, but until then........I hope you'll try and enjoy the above.

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TRAFFIC
O

It's not just a movie.
It's not just a documentary.
It's not an art film.
It's a masterpiece.

I don't understand how an epic like that can appear in our nation without it having changed the entire focus of the war on drugs. It's so brilliantly made, I couldn't walk away from it for even a moment. No fashionable, flickering, camera-tricks........no overwhelming soundtrack.........no seductive women..........no ill-conceived sexual encounters.........no cardboard figures engaging in unreal dialogue.

The New York Times -- erroneously as usual -- called Traffic a ".......gloomy meditation on greed, violence, and contemporary ennui."

W-R-O-N-G-!

Steven Soderbergh painted a true-to-life canvas on which the US//Mexico drugtrade is displayed as a void-of-glamour reality of which the very last sentence is simply,
"How can you wage war against your own family....."
Which is the only political statement ever being made, during almost 3 hours of such ruthless honesty, that you wonder why these things just continue to continue in spite of being exposed for what they really are. Just like the illegal border crossings. Just like so many other things that no one seems to have the courage to change or fight or even try to understand. So then along comes a filmmaker who does understand, who takes a chunk of time out of his own life in an attempt to communicate his underestanding, yet still..........nothing changes and his voice falls on ears so deaf, they have totally forgotten what hearing is all about.

One can only come to the conclusion that we are in dire need of a whole new kind of leadership. That those who are in charge of things now, are so profoundly incompetent, that we'll collapse before we improve, if they're allowed to retain their positions of power.

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WHY ARE SOME BLOGGERS
VOLUNTARILY
PUTTING ON
A
STRAIGHTJACKET
?

I don't understand that meeting in Manhattan, where a bunch of bloggers organized themselves to become The New York Times of Blogs or whatever the hell they're dreaming of. They started a website on which they're all being told what to write about.

Like little children getting their homework assignment.

Is that weird, or what?

A lot of people find the concept of "freedom" hard to live up to. They don't know what to do with it, so they shackle themselves until they've lost it. Wasn't blogging supposed to be the ultimate expression of freedom? Wasn't their blog the one place where everybody could write whatever they wanted to write? Oh, you silly, careless people........you're throwing away a precious gift. So what'll you do when it's gone..........fight whoever is confining you, when it's you yourselves who begged to be confined?

I swear I don't understand any of this. The alternative explanation is that they've now created an exclusive club. The Blogger's "IN" club. They really should have called it CLOSED SOURCE MEDIA. Pretty soon others will follow suit. Then we'll have THE CHRISTIAN BLOGGERS...............THE JEWISH BLOGGERS................THE MUSLIM BLOGGERS...............THE GAY BLOGGERS..............THE ANARCHIST BLOGGERS..............THE FEMINIST BLOGGERS ( oh, wait......they've already organized themselves into the Cotillion or something like that -- where they all get their period on the exact same day:-)

None of this affects my own life as a blogger. But what if it expands? Like those ludicrous alcohol laws? Might it eventually create all kinds of rules that will end everyone else's freedom to continue to blog as they originally chose to?

Little people with little minds ought not to be in control of anything. Because they'll only reduce it and reduce it. Until they've squshed it totally flat to fit inside their own narrow way of being on this earth.

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FREE
TO
FLY
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I drove off in my little Celica, yesterday, and it was wonderful!
I walked different streets and saw some different signs glued to the bumpers of cars parked on the side.

Like: "Doctors should teach nutrition
not pharmaceutical addiction!"

Like: "More than a million individuals make more than $25,000 a year selling stuff on eBay..........are you?"

Like: "There needs to be less corruption.......or more opportunity for me to participate in some of it."

Like: "Fight global warming:
turn on your airconditioner and
open all the windows!"

Like: "Maybe you're just experiencing
a different reality?"

I walked into a bar, heard some nice music, then discovered that we have some really backward alcohol laws. Like.........I can buy a bottle of beer in a bar, but the moment I open it, I can't take it outside that bar and drink it on the street or in my car.........but if I buy a CAN of beer in a bar, I can take it to a park, open it there, and drink it there.........is that weird, or what? Who created such totally absurd laws? And why do we stand for it?

Then I saw a whole lot of really bad art.........and then I discovered one fantastically great artist, and I just stood there........silently.........admiring his works and feeling like it was OK again, to be alive in a world where such a man creates the magic of perfect beauty.

Then I drove through the desert of empty landscapes and remembered the Long Island Expressway and thought how great it is to live in a place where I can see the horizon from miles away.

Then I came back home again and saw that the cute little ladybug had finally escaped from its screendoor prison and that we had both found
the freedom to fly.

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FINDING THE FREEDOM
TO
FLY
AWAY

Early this morning, I saw that a cute little ladybug was stuck between my sliding-glass door and the screen in front of it. I figured I'd liberate it. I went outside and opened the screen door while leaving the sliding-glass door closed, so the cute little ladybug would be able to leave that gray, lifeless screen, and escape into the beautiful world where a gezillion flowers waited for it to come and visit them.

But the cute little ladybug continued to hop around on the gray, lifeless screen door, often coming to
withing a quarter-of-an-inch of total freedom, but then hopping back again to deep inside its gray, lifeless prison, so I left the screen door open and went for a walk, but when
I returned, there it still was..........my strangely self-imprisoned ladybug.

I don't know if the metaphor works, but I too, am often just like that. Even now, while watching that cute little ladybug, I realized that it's truly magnificent outside, that I could just get into my car and drive far away to some unknown place where I'd maybe find a live band, some good art, and an interesting man to flirt with.

So I went........

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I saw what I thought was the beginning of a film I really really liked, except that what I saw turned out to be the second half or ending of it, and so then I didn't admire it anymore.
It was "High Fidelity" with John Cusack, in which he off-and-on talks directly to the camera, like when a woman he thinks he loves does something so vulgar and offensively stupid, that he asks the camera, "How did I edit all this out?" .............which is a fabulous little sentence that so perfectly describes what we all do, when we desperately want to love someone just to be loving someone in order to end too long a time of not loving anyone.

The film was messy, though. Like it seemed to want to apologize for the Cusack character being much too smart and much too insightful, by making his business partners be 2 disgusting idiots..........the kind of guys you don't want to have to look at ever, and to hear talk, never ever..........but there they were, all the time, rudely interrupting what could have been a great movie about a very smart and very insightful man able to communicate those qualities.

Being that I thought I was watching the beginning, I was sure this Cusack character would be developed and would learn to understand himself, after which he'd share that understanding and we'd all come away from this movie with a better grip on life's weirdness. But that never happened. The film just got more and more confusing, Cusack's love-life became more and more compromising, and in the end, it seemed that he would settle for loving the wrong kind of woman for the wrong kind of reasons and that his next movie (or the director's next movie) would be the inevitable scenes of a bitter divorce.

So this is the question this movie asks without seeking to ask it: should a director be able to create some kind of resolution to the problem he presents........or is it OK to present a major life-struggle without having any idea on how to resolve it?

It seems to me that Hollywood's questionable filmmakers know exactly how to resolve a political problem. In fact, they insist on doing so, when that's the one area in which they ought to leave such resolution to the viewers, instead of inserting their pathetically obvious attempts at wanting to politically brainwash them.

Yet in a film like "High Fidelity", they have zero answers for what everybody on earth always struggles with. If I'd been its director, I would have given some hope to my audience by indicating (perhaps with a fleeting glance) that Cusack's character would eventually find the warm, soft, loving woman whose personality didn't require any deleting at all.

Perhaps, one day, I'll see the beginning of "High Fidelity".

Although, after years of missing it, I finally saw the beginning of "Serendipity" and wished I hadn't, because it really, really sucked, which was in large part attributable to its much too loud, 1950's-style, yucky music.

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HAVE YOU HEARD
THE
NEW
MINUTEMAN
SLOGAN
?

"Americans doing the jobs
that
Congress won't do."

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LAST NIGHT
ON
TV

I swear....last night's TV was like watching the abuses of
Sodom, Gomorrah, and God.

Since all 3 channels were next to each other and I was sure that watching any one of them exclusively would make me slightly miserable, I switched back and forth between all 3 of them and became totally miserable.

ONE was an annual Country Music award thing that (have you noticed?) seems to be happening every other month now and on which all performers, whether playing for entertainment purposes or being awarded best-of-whatever, were an absolute, total disaster void of talent. Featured ad nauseum, was that chiefette-void-of-talent Faith Hill, the abusive-as-hell marital partner to Tim McGraw, whose once-madly-successful career she's in the process of annihilating by having hijacked it to promote her own puny abilities.

TWO was an annual Vibe award thing in which everybody but Mariah Carrey looked and acted like they'd just come off a slaveship from Nigeria, and all the women were dressed like ho's and all the men were jumping around like the void-of-talent and abusive-as-all-hell, gangsta-rap-thugs they are.

THREE was God in the form of Dr. Phil, who was
continually -- and extremely abusively -- shouting into the
3-inches-away-from-his, tear-soaked faces of a bunch of ex-wives whose husbands had committed the ultimate abuse, according to Dr. Phil and his own, always smiling now-wife (whom he was trying to impress with this performance), by leaving them (those women) just when they'd turned 50 and were too old to do laundry or be otherwise resuscitated for another man.

Well....yes...so there I was, switching from ONE to TWO to THREE and not wanting to see anything that was happening on any of them, really, so I'd once in a while go through all
72 channels of shit on my tv to
CHOOSE FROM.......... CHOOSE FROM.......... CHOOSE FROM.............
and then, blissfully.........I fell asleep and dreamt that I was redesigning television programs.........and when I woke up again it was 4 in the morning and all the award ceremonies and all the Dr. Phil shoutfests were gone forever, and I went online and read some blogs and discovered that
the EU--UN spooks in Tunisia have
failed to steal the Internet away from us and then I smiled and
whisper-shouted "Yeah" with my fist in the air, and felt like
a normal human being again.

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MORE UGLY
MAN--HATE

In the giant stack of Christmas gift catalogs that arrived in my mailbox, this week, there was one I'd never seen before. Announcing itself as "Gifts to Celebrate and Inspire Women"......it contained a large collection of some of the ugliest junk ever, and enough man-hating and child-hating items for me to decide to expose some of them here.

I guess the worst one -- probably designed by Andrea Yates (the Mom who drowned her kids in a bathtub) -- was a hanging of five tiles, the first of which had a large stickfigure on it, with the words "come to the edge she said"............followed by tile #2 that had 3 little stick figures on it, and the words " we are afraid they said".............the large figure returned on tile #3 repeating "come to the edge".............tile #4 had "they came".............tile #5 now had the 3 little stick figures tumbling down and the words "she pushed them and they flew".

Another tile that had a pretty bow on it, said: "if it has tires or testicles it's gonna give you trouble"............. this "gift from hell" made me wonder how women would react if there was a tile that said: "if it has an engine or a cunt it's gonna give you trouble".......?

Then there was a cute little hanging tile with cute little ducks on it, that said: "Having kids is like being pecked to death by a duck"............which again made me wonder how women would react to a gift-tile that said: "Having a mom is like being torn to shreds by a tiger".

I saw a steel toiletpaper receptacle in the shape of a cowboy, on whom the roll of toiletpaper was suspended from what I assume was his erection...............and an offensive reproduction of Michelangelo's David painted on a lightswitch-cover........yes, you guessed it.....the switch was his penis...........just think of all the fun a man-hater could have with that piece of junk!

And then there was the communist plaque that read:
"When I said 'I do' I didn't mean laundry".............as if
washing her family's clothes, turns a wife and mother into a slave of the capitalist profiteers called husband and children.

There was more, but ...........
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PSYCHIATRIST: "Then stop writing about it."
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HEADNOTES
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FOOTNOTES
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I got to know John Bolton, the new US Ambassador to the UN via a speech he delivered. I trust this guy.
He's an independent thinker.
He's got a fine sense of humor.
He's my kind of man.

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I also discovered Amherst's Latino Culture Professor
Ilan Stavans, author of "Dictionary Days".
A brilliant, one-of-a-kind thinker.
Also, with a fine sense of humor.
And a totally fascinating communicator.

Compared to such men, America's leftists are like hyena's..........those ugly, snarling, innately frightened creatures of the night that gnaw on the rotting remains of dead animals.

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QUESTION:
Why did the EU and the UN arrange to hold this coming week's
"We want to steal the Internet from the US!"
conference
in Tunisia, which is a 98% Arab//Muslim nation???

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Did you know that the word JIHAD dates back to the 7th century, and that it was later used to describe the 10th century Islamofascist wars against Christians in Jerusalem?

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Close to 10,000 cars have now been torched in France, Denmark, Belgium, and Greece. What a windfall for the European Automobile Industry! Its executives must be living in
future-profit-heaven......!

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News reports indicate that a mob of several thousand Islamofascists in Pakistan, torched Christian churches, schools, convents, and homes. These uncivilized, terrorist monsters, are all operating as if this were still the 10th century. Except they've learned to fly planes into buildings and use the internet, for this Jihad.

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During the initial months of us entering Iraq, America-haters Noam Chomsky and Tarik Ali were giving lots of speeches that set Turkey against the USA . Remember how they wouldn't let us use their airfields? Chomsky even proposed that the US liberation of Iraq was no different than the Japan bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Yeah, sure..........and I guess a whole lot of Americans
also made a video in 1941.......during which they smiled at the camera
and said, "Thank you, Japan!"

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WHEN IS IT
ART
?

This piece of total-garbage-non-art cleverly titled CUBI XXVIII in an attempt to give it some belated mystery, sold for $23.8 million dollars, this week. The New York Times, always ready to support extreme incompetence, described it as ".....an elegantly composed melding of boxes and columns."

Good art.....good design......they provide a visual center of gravity from which our eyes can safely wander to look at other parts of the work while always returning to rest at that center of gravity. This CUBI-thing does not contain such a center. It forces you to see all of its disconnected, meaningless parts at incredible speed............over and over and over........never being able to rest. But that's only a tiny source of its failure, which is so monumental, that there's no point in even describing it any further.

Fabricating works of art out of steel, is a conscious choice on the part of their creators. Yet most of such works are nothing but found pieces welded together at random, signifying nothing other than a vacuous mind at work. If you feed the words "steel sculpture" into the Google Images Search, you'll find thousands of ugly, uncontrolled and undesigned pieces of junk like this 24-million-dollar CUBI-TRASH that has an actual value of perhaps $23.80.

Perhaps that's why, in comparison, the carefully-conceived works of Anish Kapoor and Richard Serra stand out as treasures?

Kapoor's polished steel shapes are perfectly formed, truly unique, and aestetically pleasing, while

Serra celebrates the innate strength of steel, by shaping his sculptures so they can stand on their own in a display of clean and powerful curves.

Sorry that I made you click to another site in order to see the CUBI..........I just couldn't stand to have it permanently displayed on my blog.

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THANK YOU
America!

There's a one-minute spot being shown on TV.

It's just some children and other Iraqi Kurds smiling at the camera and saying,
"Thank you, America!"

It's one really powerful minute.
Because we haven't had that at all, you know? Many of our finest men have died......we have spent billions.......repeated terrorist attacks have saddened us.......and all we got on top of that, was a whole lot of world-wide hatred.

This one single minute of appreciation, somehow makes all of it worthwhile.

But we need more of that.

Really.

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BOOSTING YOUR
IMMUNE SYSTEM
#2

One of the most pernicious things that can lower or even destroy our immune system, is the attacks we sometimes level against ourselves. Imagine the following exercize as being a pill that can prevent such attacks.

Taking this pill involves re-starting and completing the following sentences on a piece of real-life paper. Nothing else is required, OK?

1. I'm very proud of myself because________________________

2. I think I'm really good at_______________________

3. One of my finest qualities is________________________

4. I admire myself because______________________

5. What I appreciate most about the way I treat others, is_________________________

6. I'm the best______________________I've ever known.

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THE AGE-OLD ART
OF
INCITEMENT
VIA
NAME CALLING

Islamofascist journalists, dictators, preachers, and other terrorist supporters, practice daily forms of contempt for civilized countries, by creating names for those they want to secretly or openly eradicate.

EUROPE = THE CHRISTIAN CLUB

ISRAEL = THE ZIONIST ENTITY

AMERICA = THE GREAT SATAN

I wonder what would be a well-deserved name for Islamofascists?

MALIGNANT NARCISSISTS?

MEDIEVAL OBFUSCATORS?

PATHOLOGICAL DETONATORS?

GENOCIDAL DECONSTRUCTIONISTS?

MALEVOLENT EXPLODERS?

WORLD--WIDE LIQUIDATORS?

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THIS WEEK'S
RADICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
goes to
JACK INGRAM
about whom I know absolutely nothing
but that he is a country/rock musician-singer
who is absolutely totally fantastic.

I heard him for the first time, last week, and I haven't reacted that strongly to a new voice in music, since I first heard Bob Dylan.

He's got a CD coming out in January. I believe it's titled "Wherever You Are" and I'm not sure, but I think it's being promoted by Toby K's recording company.

Hearing this guy made me so happy
I can't even begin to tell you!!

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Sing to the tune of: "Oh, what fun it is to ride.....in a one-horse open sleigh...."

"OH, WHAT FUN IT IS TO BURN
WHATEVER I CHOOSE TO HAAAATE....."

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Setting things on fire is getting to be the thing to do whenever you don't care for the way something or someone in this world is not being what you've decided it ought to be.

Pissed-off commuters, tired of a railroad's constant delays in Joburg, South Africa, torched 4 entire trains to express their rage, causing untold millions in damage and guess what else?.......... yes, you guessed right................a whole lot of additional delays.

I don't know if they were Muslims, Christians, or Atheists.
They just loved the concept of French flame-power.
It provides instant satisfaction
and
it's the new, easy-to-learn form of terrorist expression par excellence..........even a total idiot can throw a firebomb into a car, a train, or a nursery school.

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Hollywood also likes the concept of flame-power.
This is a description in my local paper of one of the countless terrorist-rage-movies they now produce:
"Transamerica..........the story of a conservative transsexual woman
who learns that when she was a he
she fathered a son
who is now a teenage-runaway-sex-hustler
on the streets of New York."

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And then there's Brokeback Mountain
a flame-power attempt by some
additional camera-cowards, to destroy yet another
American hero -- our cowboy -- by turning him
into the hated object of their disgusting
never-ending contempt for everything American.

Europe loves this movie. They've already blessed it with the first of many awards to come. Hollywood is so full-to-the-brim with filmmaking terrorist thugs who create nothing but absolute garbage, that it will soon expire as a result of its own terminal meaninglessness.

I can't wait.........can you?

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PSYCHIATRIST: "Then don't watch it."

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THE
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THE
TERRORIST
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Imagine a field of green grass bathed in sunshine.
You hear the happy laughter of children playing there.
You see them running around, jumping, hugging each other.
SUDDENLY
out of nowhere
you hear the verocious growls of 3 rotweilers let loose on those children with one soft-spoken command to "kill" uttered by their misformed owner who has literally spent his entire life doing nothing else but teach his animals how to rip apart a child.
Imagine the children's screams.
Imagine the eery silence that follows and the blood that's everywhere.

You have just imagined all terrorist acts ever committed.

So what's your opinion of the owner of those dogs?

Do you think that his lack of money or a beautiful woman or a fancy car, bestowed on him the right to murder those children just because he experienced their happy laughter as an offense to his own private lack?

Do you think he is a hero?

Do you think that the MEDIA should concentrate on his lack of money, his not having a beautiful woman or a fancy car...........while completely ignoring the fact that he ordered his dogs to murder those children?

Do you think that he should not receive the death penalty, because he had a moral right to hate those children for being happy while he himself was feeling miserable?

Do you think that after having sicked his vicious animals on those children, society should now reward this heinous act by presenting him with some wealth, a beautiful woman, and a fancy car?

Or do you believe that this terrorist monster is the most despicable, most disgusting, most cowardly piece of garbage on the face of this earth, and that he should be treated as such?

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R. C. GORMAN ............the prolific Navajo painter, left forever, for one of his happy sky countries, last night.

Gorman was one of the first Indian artists I admired a long time ago, when I was still a New Yorker who'd never been West. I loved his women...........tiny little faces floating above a billowing mass of solid white or brilliantly-colored garment, they were like nothing I had ever seen before.

He gave so much, to the world.

I hope he was a happy man.

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EUROPE'S
BURNING
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Islamofascist terrorists are finally showing their true colors to the peaceloving, multicultural Europeans who have sustained the terrorist's lazy lifestyles on national welfare programs for more than a decade, hoping to avert their wrath, their violence, and their publicly expressed desire to destroy the very civilization that allowed them to become part of its societies.
It had to happen, didn't it?
But where's the outrage?
Gangs of boys and men are doing whatever the hell they feel like doing, and the EU police seems unable to either stop them or to protect Europe's hardworking, law-abiding, tax-paying population from these non-working, non-contributing criminals who have already burned into oblivion, whatever they've come across. Yet news reports keep re-iterating the idiot mantra that these thugs have had a hard time being accepted by their surrounding societies and that they are unable to find suitable work.

Have you ever heard such total, stupid nonsense?

These thugs are proxy-palestinians.
They don't want to work.
They don't want to be accepted.
They've always had the utmost contempt for the EU fools who accepted them in their midst, and they only dreamt of creating this mayhem..............of burning everybody's cars and buildings and terrorizing the rest of the population and its meek, impotent police force, while giving the finger to the frightened officials of every city that tried to close its eyes to the ever-expanding acts of violence these goons have engaged in since the moment they arrived there.

Will this stop Europe's utter stupidity?

I can't predict anything, as I don't understand why they let it get out of hand like this, when anyone with half a brain could see it coming. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. These guys just discovered that no one has the will or even the moral courage to stop them. They'll just go on to bigger and better crimes, don't you think?

All Europeans are now Israelis.

Are you still preaching peace?

Or are you finally getting ready yet to carry an AK47 and to begin to defend yourselves, your women, and your children?

How does it feel, to be on your own
with no direction known
like a rolling stone?

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we can struggle
t o -- o v e r c o m e
our limitations
or
we can choose
t o -- e m b r a c e
our strengths

To achieve this, make a long list of all your limitations.
Then make a long list of all your strengths.
Now try to match a limitation with a strength.

For instance: I have a very low tolerance for being with people who are agitated, aggressive, or otherwise disturbed and disturbing. I need 2 hours of recovery-time for every 15 minutes spent with such a person, and I used to perceive that as a limitation. My strength is that I can spend entire days (weeks, even:-) in complete and happy solitude. I used to fight both my limitation and my strength, because I always assumed that being with people was better than being alone...........and so it wasn't until I clearly understood that for me, being alone is preferable to being with people, that I started to really enjoy my solitude and to appreciate my ability to exist in it.

So the idea is that instead of spending your entire life being critical of your inablity to live up to your own expectations

which in all probability were once your parents' expectations

you could simply decide to celebrate whatever you're naturally good at, instead.

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