fuck fox
risk (pt 1)
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~James Dean
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." ~Michelangelo
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing." ~anonymous
risk (pt 2)
a caverned pool of blood
flowing slow like floe
feeding lightning energy strikes
instructing the body below
over the pool dangles a dagger
swinging low from a thread
it’s blade shimmers to a point
waiting to slice into my head
happiness
"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it." ~Helen Keller
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ~Buddha
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." ~Tom Bodett
time
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." ~Jim Rohn
“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back." ~Harvey MacKay
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." ~Steve Jobs
rise
something feels different, i'm hoping this will last
we've overcome the terror, we've left it in the past
i hope we stay progressive,
i hope this fire won't fade,
but i fear bush's signing statements are the only laws being made
dawn of a new day
dems win the house
dems win the senate
and rummy is out
my faith in democracy is momentarily partially restored :)
whatever
“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." ~Mark Twain
“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." ~Flora Edwards
new rules
Controlling Congress is for closers. Listen up, Democrats, it's as simple as A-B-C. "Always Be Closing." First prize: subpoena power in the new Congress. Second prize: set of steak knives. Third prize: you're fired.
The election is four days away and I'm through dicking around with you. Here are the leads. Here are your talking points.
One: when they say Democrats will raise taxes, you say, "We have to because someone spent all the money in the world cutting Paris Hilton's taxes and not killing Osama bin Laden." In just six years, the national debt has doubled. You can't keep spending money you don't take in. That's not even elementary economics. That's just called, "Don't be Michael Jackson."
Two: When they say the terrorists want the Democrats to win, you say, "Are you insane? George Bush has been a terrorist's wet dream." He inflames radical hatred against America and then runs on offering to protect us from it. It's like a guy throwing shit on you and then selling you relief from the flies.
Three: When they say, "Cut and Run" or "Defeat-ocrat," you say, "Bush lost the war. Period." All this nonsense - this nonsense about "the violence is getting worse over there because they're trying to influence the election"; no, it's getting worse because you drew up the postwar plans on the back of a cocktail napkin at Applebee's. And of course Democrats want to win. But that's impossible now that you've ethnically-cleansed the place by making it unlivable. Just like you did with New Orleans.
Four: When they say that actual combat veterans like John Kerry are denigrating the troops, you say, "You're completely full of shit." Remember when Al Gore caught all that flak for sighing and moaning during that debate? Yeah, don't do that. Just say, "You're full of shit." If I was a troop, the support I would want back home would mainly come in the form of people pressuring Washington to get me out of this pointless nightmare! That's how I would feel supported. So when they say, "Democrats are obstructionists," you say, "You're welcome." Sometimes, good people have to intercede to prevent dire consequences. You wouldn't like to think of me as an obstructionist, but what if Roseanne had offered to sing? So I would be happy to frame this debate as a fight between the obstructionists and the enablers.
There's your talking point. Vote Republican, and you vote to enable George Bush to keep ruling as an emperor. A retarded, child emperor-but an emperor.
So, Democrats, you've got four days to get out there and close! And it's not about slogans this time. Although, when it comes to slogans, the only one I'm prepared to accept from the opposition is, "The Republican Party: We're Sorry."
rampant rightwing hypocrisy rages on
haggard is a good family man, close to bush, and busy running the entire evangelical christian movement, actively pushing anti-gay legislation in Colorado and across the country
haggard is also a homo who fantasizes about having orgies with 6 college boys and buys crystal meth from male prostitutes
watch him telling all the little ones at jesus camp that "We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.”
what the fuck is wrong with these people???
then there's congressman tim murphy (R-PA)
a reporter shows him evidence that he broke the law, and he just takes it and keeps it
you have to be careful though
these evil bastards can be sneaky
in cali, a front company for big oil and big tobacco sends out "Voter Information Guides for Democrats", making sure to recommend that democrats vote against propositions that would increase penalties for violent sex offenders, fund children's health care with tax on cigs, and tax on oil companies to fund alternative energy research
there are so many GOP scandals right now it's ridiculous
no wonder the rich are getting much richer, much faster than everyone else
so sad that the party in charge of moral values has none
fearmongering fascists
stop exporting democracy
we need it more than they do
Olbermann Special Comment:
"There is tonight no political division in this country that he and his party will not exploit, nor have not exploited; no anxiety that he and his party will not inflame.
There is no line this President has not crossed — nor will not cross — to keep one political party, in power.
He has spread any and every fear among us, in a desperate effort to avoid that which he most fears — some check, some balance against what has become not an imperial, but a unilateral presidency.
And now it is evident that it no longer matters to him, whether that effort to avoid the judgment of the people, is subtle and nuanced — or laughably transparent."
honestly
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. ~Bertrand Russell
don't get burned again
here are 20 reasons why:
(there are hundreds)
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”
5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush’s vice- presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.
9. Diebold’s new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.
13. Diebold’s Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a “high degree of sophistication” to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold’s claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it!
17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
18. Bush’s Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.
19. All—not some—but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to 1!)—again always favoring Bush—have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.
they stole it in 2001 and 2004... what do they have to lose? other than power?
love and work
what’s the difference between love and work?
can they be one and the same?
what if they connected for this turk?
why can’t life be just a game?
end the sickness
discipline
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. ~Bertrand Russell
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. ~James Allen
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. ~William Feather
stay the course?
i hope the dems win, but i would not be surprised to see surprising results on election day
the republicans control the voting process
they can easily manipulate the machines
they control the counting
it would take very few evil bastards to produce a surprising result
it may have only taken 7 of them to pull off 911
terrorists
"The dictionary definition of the word “terrorize” is simple and not open to misinterpretation: “To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear.”
Note please, that the words “violence” and “death” are missing from that definition. For the key to terror, the key to terrorism is not the act, but the fear of the act.
That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings.
But why is the Republican Party imitating them?
Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; the Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear.
The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.
Only the Republicans have a bigger bank roll.
“To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear.”
By this definition, the people who put these videos together, first the terrorists and then the administration, whose shared goal is to scare you into panicking instead of thinking, they are the ones terrorizing you.
By this definition, the leading terrorist group in this world right now is al Qaeda.
But the leading terrorist group in this country right now is the Republican Party. "
life
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~John Lennon
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln
liar liar
bush says "we've never been stay the course"
bush is a liar:
BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16/04]
BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
how can you trust someone who repeatedly lies to your face?
stem cell research
"here's a man, a father to young children, a good person - and we're not doing everything humanly possible to help him? Everything humanly possible is the only moral and ethical choice here. The only one.
Wonder where we would be if the millions we spend every hour in Iraq were spent on stem cell research?
Wonder if Jesus would think maybe we should re-allocate some funds? And reconsider our opposition to saving lives? What do you think?"
olive power
i’m not white, i’m not black,
i’m olive; i bridge the gap
hand in hand, i demand
let’s take control of this land
the death of habeas corpus
Countdown Special Comment
"We have lived as if in a trance.
We have lived… as people in fear.
And now — our rights and our freedoms in peril — we slowly awake to learn that we have been afraid… of the wrong thing.
Therefore, tonight, have we truly become, the inheritors of our American legacy.
For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:
A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has said it is unacceptable to compare anything this country has ever done, to anything the terrorists have ever done.
We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has insisted again that "the United States does not torture. It's against our laws and it's against our values" and who has said it with a straight face while the pictures from Abu Ghraib Prison and the stories of Waterboarding figuratively fade in and out, around him.
We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens "Unlawful Enemy Combatants" and ship them somewhere — anywhere — but may now, if he so decides, declare you an "Unlawful Enemy Combatant" and ship you somewhere - anywhere.
And if you think this, hyperbole or hysteria… ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was President, or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was President, or the Japanese at Manzanar when Franklin Roosevelt was President.
And if you somehow think Habeas Corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an "unlawful enemy combatant" — exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? Do you think this Attorney General is going to help you?
This President now has his blank check.
He lied to get it.
He lied as he received it.
Is there any reason to even hope, he has not lied about how he intends to use it, nor who he intends to use it against?"
the underlying motive behind this fascist legislation is to retroactively immunize bush from the war crimes he has already commited
energize your base
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. ~Earl Nightingale
for all the conspiracy nuts
16% of americans believe the government's 911 story
likely the same retards who believe saddam had something to do with 911, and who believe bush is a good christian
bush plays christians for suckers
tempting faith
The book, "Tempting Faith," not out until Monday, but in our third story tonight, a Countdown exclusive we've obtained a copy and it is devastating work.
Author David Kuo's conservative Christian credentials are impeccable; his resume sprinkled with names like Bennett and Ashcroft. Now, as the Foley cover-up has many evangelical Christians wondering whether the G.O.P. is really in sync with their values, "Tempting Faith" provides the answer: No way.
Kuo, citing one example after another of a White House that repeatedly uses evangelical Christians for their votes — while consistently giving them nothing in return;
A White House which routinely speaks of the nation's most famous evangelical leaders behind their backs, with contempt and derision.
Furthermore, Faith-Based Initiatives were not only stiffed on one public promise after another by Mr. Bush — the office itself was eventually forced to answer a higher calling: Electing Republican politicians.
Kuo's bottom line: the Bush White House is playing millions of American Christians for suckers.
excerpt from the book:
"Every other White House office was up and running. The faith-based initiative still operated out of the nearly vacant transition offices.
Three days later, a Tuesday, Karl Rove summoned [Don] Willett [a former Bush aide from Texas who initially shepharded the program] to his office to announce that the entire faith-based initiative would be rolled out the following Monday. Willett asked just how — without a director, staff, office, or plan — the president could do that. Rove looked at him, took a deep breath, and said, “I don’t know. Just get me a f—ing faith-based thing. Got it?” Willett was shown the door."
wise words
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world ~Marcel Proust
fear works
"The threat of social alienation causes us to behave according to social norms. The law provides that we will go to prison if we do not comply. Our family and friends expect us to be the same person each day and support their norms. Our appearance, behavior, and expression dictate our access to financial and social opportunities. Products, drugs, and procedures that make people look or act more ‘normal’ are sold with a strategy of promoting an unattainable norm that alienates the widest group of consumers.
While it is easy to view social alienation only as a threat originating from outside of ourselves, each of us is also personally active in maintaining what is normal and supporting its authority. Everyone wants to be comfortable.
One critical result of dependence upon this socially reinforced and yet self-imposed normalcy is that we are far more likely to reject alternative views of history and society not supported by our popular culture or peers. Mainstream views promoted by our government, corporations, and media, are accepted by the public as the established norm, often based on inaccurate or incomplete information. Alternative views are stigmatized regardless of their veracity." - truthmove
655,000 iraqis needlessly killed by these jokers
here's bush's response:
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN: Thank you, Mr. President. Back on Iraq, a group of American and Iraqi health officials today released a report saying that 655,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq war. That figure is 20 times the figure that you cited in December at 30,000. Do you care to amend or update your figure and do you consider this a credible report?
PRESIDENT BUSH: No, I don’t control it a credible report, neither does General Casey and neither do Iraqi officials. I do know that a lot of innocent people have died and it troubles me and grieves me. And I applaud the Iraqis for their courage in the face of violence. I am, you know, amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they’re willing to — you know, that there’s a level of violence that they tolerate.
my blood
Pressure 100 over 60
Cholesterol 149
HDL 61
LDL 75
Tri 63
PSA 0.24 (norm. 0-4)
Testosterone 8.54 (norm. 2-11)
peace takes courage
An enemy and war born from ignorance
"The National Intelligence Estimate that was partially declassified last week shows the government's own assessment of what has followed from President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq -- a decision he made in stark defiance of warnings of history.
``Anti-US and anti globalization sentiment is on the rise and fueling other radical ideologies," the estimate said. ``This could prompt some leftist, nationalist, or separatist groups to adopt terrorist methods to attack US interests. The radicalization process is occurring more quickly, more anonymously in the Internet age."
The estimate itself thus points to a conclusion: Bush created a cohesive enemy where it did not really exist before. So-called jihadists have been rallied, strengthened, and made lethal by Iraq. They will haunt the world for years, in a global war unlike anything ever seen before. All of it unnecessary. Foolishness worthy of a stupid child. "
btw the national debt is $8,500,000,000,000
i wonder where all that money went?
hypocrite
that's Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fl) saying "we track library books better than we track pedophiles..."
he was co-chair of the Missing and Exploited Children Caucus, authoring legislation to overhaul national sex offender registration and notification laws
guess what? he's a goddamn pedophile
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