Saying Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience because Alaska is near Russia is like saying I am acquainted with the neighbor three streets behind me because the sewer lines connect.

I would have to go over there and meet them to say I knew them.

Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience because Alaska is near Russia.
- Cindy McCain

Can I get that on a bumpersticker?

Sheesh

Hat Tip: Below the Beltway

When someone drinks a glass of water and it goes into the stomach and through the blood and all around the body. If the water is fluoridated, how much of that actually gets into the teeth?

This time sixteen years ago we were dealing with the first Bush presidency. The economy was crap. And there was Clinton talking of hope and change. Now we’ve got another Bush, another manipulated war and another Democrat talking of hope and change. On the whole I think we fared better from 1993-2000 than we have from 2001 to today. While I’d rather see someone with programs that would dismantle some of the infrastructure that made the past eight years possible, I think I’ll take the hope and change offered by Obama rather than another four years of Republicans trying to scare me.

The question of when life beings is a stupid question.

That’s how your government and many governments the world over view it. Killing children and calling it child euthanasia or “retroactive abortion” shows that they not only think it’s a stupid question, they do not care what you or anyone else thinks about their policies. What is the difference, then, between killing a child who has a birth defect you don’t want to deal with and an Iraqi child blown to pieces from touching a cluster bomb unit, thinking it was a food pack or dying from birth defects caused by depleted uranium. As far as governments are concerned, these things are none of our business. They’d rather be free to run on whatever whim hits them in the morning and good luck finding out and damn you for wanting to try. If you really believe in the representative republic, then you might as well push the button yourselves because according to that theory the politicians are acting as you. When you vote for the politician you vote for the policy.

I’ve said before on here that one of the reasons I can no longer hang with GOP Christians is that for all the “hype-la” surrounding the Left Behind books and Lindsey’s Late Great Planet Earth, they are and we were, when I was one of them, voting the infrastructure of Armageddon into place by supporting the many agenda of Neo-conservatives. It’s a disconnected disingenuousness in that one does not have a clue about being disingenuous. Which retroactive abortion is OK? Neither? Then stop supporting this party and the parliament of evil on Capitol Hill. You say you’re pro-life but you not only look the other way when an execution is announced in the paper, you turn around and vote for people who mean to do no good.

There is a heavy but unconscious belief that the Bush Admin. is a Christian cadre of leaders. I heard a man say on the radio that when he tried to explain to his mother some of the things that go on in the Skull and Bones lodge. She said no, that she was sure George W. Bush was a Christian and then immediately started singing hymns. Mind control and the church are part of another post I am considering. There are a lot of people out there who don’t like and cannot handle being shocked. They’d rather not hear about a thing than confront it unedited and uncensored. And as a defense mechanism they spray on layers of insulation between themselves and whatever uncomfortable information they are encountering.

It’s time people stopped hiding in the attic. If this world is going to survive we’ve all got to deal with the fact that we’ve bought into lies. These people are not who you have been led to believe they are. When a president says that his lodge is so secret he cannot discuss it, he means his oath of loyalty to it is more important to him than his oath of loyalty to you. If he’s not serving you, who then is he serving? We’ve all got to deal with the raw reality of the things that we encounter, no matter how distasteful they are. Supporting this administration and to greater and greater extent, the Republican or Democratic party is supporting all their activities. Maybe you think voting for their opponents is a vote against the troops. You want to support the troops? Then get the troops better pay, better benefits, and some decent commanders to report to. After that get the commanders a decent “civilian leadership” to report to. Maybe if corrupt orders weren’t being handed down, corrupt orders wouldn’t be followed and we wouldn’t see so many atrocities.

If they got elected she might be more popular than McCain. I don’t know how much of the Hillary following she can pull away from the Dems.

I miss Ann Richards.

Police in St. Paul raided the HQ of a protest group called the RNC Welcoming Committee. I’m not surprised at this, however I have to wonder 1) why the cause of the warrant is not being made public and 2) whether they disclosed the reason to the people they raided. A 19-year old member of the group said “there were no bombs or anything here” to the reporter. At least he wasn’t at the airport when he said that.

A few months ago I joined a movement that the media and a couple friends of mine refer to as the “Conspiracy Theorists.” Now amongst ourselves we refer to it as the “Patriot Movement” but that is the subject of a different blog post. As I started examining the “evidence” and arguments I started to get angry. I realized that I had bought into several lies for a number of years since 2001. But as I looked further I realized that I couldn’t stop at 9-11 because the lying did not begin with 9-11.

As far as my life is concerned, we’re talking about 40 years of lies, manipulations, propaganda and bad information. Much of this is pretty innocent on the surface. I do not believe that my parents and teachers were intentionally lying or trying to manipulate me or my thinking. However much of what they did disseminate went to serve deliberate programs created with just those purposes in mind. I’m saying they didn’t lie but ultimately they worked for liars and manipulators.

The same goes for church. I didn’t convert to Christianity until I was 19. Within every congregation I have ever been a part of there has been a mindset of following, believing because someone or book (Bible) says so. And as I look at the way many, myself included, have bought into lies and propaganda from politicians, it’s the same situation as the education system and the misinformation that people hand off to one another in ignorance.

So as I have gotten increasingly angry and disgusted with the status quo and things and people that make it their business to perpetuate the status quo I have lashed out, sometimes loudly and violently, in protest. For a lot of my life I have held my tongue when dealing with people and situations who deserved everything but that. I am learning to not do that as much. While that practice has allowed me to be seen by many as a “nice guy” it has not helped the situations I have been involved in because people have not understood that they were wrong and needed to check themselves.

So now and in the future I am on a quest to understand history and philosophy. I don’t intend to become an expert in either field. Frankly there is more out there than I think I could master in the next 45 years, assuming I can make it to 90. The overriding part to that is that I am questioning EVERYTHING. Wherever I have been taught something, especially any thing that has required a moral or other judgment I am questioning whatever was taught and however I responded. When I say EVERYTHING I mean every area of life including religion, psychology, history, humanity, sociology, economics and philosophy.

As I said before I have done and am doing some lashing out in anger. Part of the problem I have been having is that as I realize that I have bought into a lie I have become angry with the person who sold it to me, whether they did so intentionally or not. I have also started re-evaluating relationships with those people. Some relationships I have no problem allowing to continue. And I know that the only key to resolving this is to forgive those people and to forgive myself for buying into things, especially without questioning.

I am forgiving the family members and other adults who participated in this when I was a child. I am forgiving the school teachers who were mostly handing down what was handed down to them. I am forgiving the evangelical church leaders and members I was around in the past. They too were mostly handing down what was handed down to them. And lastly I am forgiving myself for buying the lies, manipulations, propaganda and bad information. In the beginning I was little and didn’t know any better. I am also a product of several left-brain indoctrination programs (public schools) and continued to buy into what was told to me.

I have been changing some of the relationships I have had with some of the folks I am talking about above and there have been and are going to be some hurt feelings in that process. On the whole I am not going to try to do anything about that right now. I am studying and following the information and it is leading me to different understandings about life and myself and I am not and don’t expect to be the same person I was before all this started. As far as I am concerned the sweetened-condensed-canned version of life is nothing but sour milk and is no longer digestible.

I shall continue to report here the different discoveries and new perspectives I attain. Some of it may come out in extremely strong language depending on what it is.

It takes 26,000 years for our solar system to pass through 13 constellations which we call the zodiac. How do we know? Well the calculations can be done and have been done using observation and extrapolation. But if one clings too tightly to calendars of a more recent creation, such calculations are seen as the stuff of fancy. For if everything is only 6-7000 years old, how can the solar system have been around for 26 millennia? The schools of thought that gave us the 6000 year paradigm also gave us an Earth-centered universe, an immutable sky and a flat Earth. If those people were wrong about those three things how do we know they’re right about the age of the Earth? Maybe we know that the solar system takes that long in its travels because we’ve lived it?

I would have preferred to see Hillary in an orange jumpsuit.