My Errant Mind

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Check out GoodReads.com (which also has author bios and information). You might enjoy it!

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Not surprising really. The GOC (Government of Columbia) used the International Red Cross logo in violation of the Geneva Convention during its recent hostage rescue. Pretty much the same thing terrorists do, isn’t it…hiding in mosques and such?

There isn’t much difference between Columbia’s government and the FARC. Columbia has had a corrupt government for many years, and certainly engages in less than legal and ethical activities. It even supports some narco-trafficking paramilitaries. But the GOC is on good terms with our own Federal government, and signing deals with Panama and the Port of New Orleans and the American Congress just as fast as it can.

America has neglected Latin America for far too long, and now China and even Hezbollah are rampant throughout South America. The governments we’re on good terms with aren’t exactly progressive nor without their share of oppression and human rights abuses—not to mention they contribute to the global narcotics market in no small measure. Which even Afghanistan does. Funny how we support so many nations producing so much of the drugs on the world market, isn’t it? Even funnier that our own military and law enforcement agencies even aid and abet narco-trafficking and human rights abuses (such as against the Mapuche and other citizens in Chile).

I’m sure there’s a good reason for it though, right?

Anyone out there actually think anything will happen to Columbia for its war crimes? That’s what using the Red Cross logo in a military operation constitutes after all. Nothing will happen to Columbia’s government, no one will stand trial, and no one will go to prison or be executed or removed from power. It is perfectly fine to violate the law when those carrying the biggest sticks (and waterboarding like it’s a sport) are your patrons after all.

Despite the largest bank collapse in recent history with IndyMac, despite the problems with mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, despite oil prices through the roof for no real good reason, despite massive layoffs, despite wars, despite growing problems with gangs and drugs and crime across the country, all is well, according to our President.

Sort of brings to mind the whole ostrich with its head in the sand image, doesn’t it?

And isn’t it funny how the two mortgage leeches…errr…lenders and even the collapsing bank, have the same sort of names, right down to the syllablic emphasis? It’s basically “la-de-da.” Which is pretty much what President Bush is saying about all the bad stuff wrong with our nation and its current situation and direction.

It seems like someone spoke the secret codeword and “all financial institutions with the 3 syllable la-de-da sort of name should fail this week.” Kind of makes you wonder about conspiracy theories and who controls the world’s wealth all over again, doesn’t it?

Maybe since oil dropped a whopping $7.33 (For light sweet crude. I wonder, by the way, if that’s what the oil companies call it because of geological characteristics or what it means to their bank accounts?) Bush thinks all is well? There’s been no real reason for rising oil or gas prices in the past several years other than speculators driving it up to their benefit, right? The situation around the world hasn’t changed really, and while demand has increased a bit, there has always been a surplus in supply it seems to me.

Or, are there other reasons, such as other commodities and products growing scarcer, other markets that are in part responsible for driving up prices in all other sectors? Some certainly think so.

A lot of the argument is fear over supply availability if there’s a war with Iran, which is being driven largely by American war rhetoric. I wonder how much of that media war drumming is paid for by those with their hands dipping into the pockets of big oil companies? But there should be no need for war with Iran if we start drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, right? Wrong, greedy corporations never have enough, and nothing we do will change that.

I hope Congress DOES NOT OK drilling in the Gulf. It won’t “reverse the psychology” as Bush suggested. What the hell does that mean anyway, really? That people won’t fear oil shortages for a few more years because 8 years from now there will be a few more drops in the bucket?

It’s time to stop wasting billions of dollars on Iraq already, and start pouring that money into our nation’s own infrastructure and finding sustainable energy and development paradigms for the future without oil, which will arrive. It doesn’t matter when, it IS coming, and the sooner we prepare for it instead of squandering our resources trying to hang on to a sinking ship, the better off we’ll be as a society. People need to start asking their city councils and elected officials what they’re doing right now, today, to ensure their communities will have power and agricultural and other resources a generation from now.

What will become of your children and grandchildren? A time is approaching when communities (especially larger cities) are going to face large scale predicaments when they have no sustainable local economies, utilities infrastructure and agriculture. Small towns ought to be coming up with solutions today for how they will provide power generations and sustainable local economies 10, 20 and 50 years from now. Those that don’t are signing the death warrants for their communities.

With food rationing in parts of the world, and hoarding in others—including the USA—(and the UN predicting even worse to come), will your community survive if no one locally farms? Will retailers be able to have food brought in from the outside with skyrocketing fuel costs? And what of the rising epidemics of salmonella and ecoli outbreaks, which show every sign of increasing in frequency and intensity? What will your community do when there is no more petroleum or coal or natural gas? Sure, that may be even several generations away, but when that time comes, it will be too late to address the issue for most communities.

After all, if EVERY community in America has the same issues of resources drying up at the same time, do you think the Federal government can possibly come up with the money and resources to create solutions for them all at once? Hell, we can’t even keep pot holes fixed on highways as it is as a nation, or get water to a major city hit by a hurricane for nearly a week—what makes you think an event of civilization-altering scale will be something the government is equipped to handle? The government is trying its best to keep you in the dark that such a time is even coming.

Most people probably don’t give a damn, it’s sad to say. But those who will be retiring 5 or more years from now are going to find their retirement shrinking as inflation and costs of living (costs of everything in fact) continuing to climb at rates that will far outpace any wage increases. Especially on a global scale. The US dollar is pitiful against the Euro right now, partly because of our President’s lack of concern for the economy and partly because no one in government right now has the slightest clue how to fix it all (aside from Ron Paul, who understands economics and monetary policy better than any member of Congress or anyone in the President’s administration).

And now that Swiss Banks are losing their luster and rolling over for the IRS, a lot of other economic issues are going to crop up in the near future—just wait and see. The US government is going to become the most aggressive wage garnisher/tax collector on the face of the Earth by 2020 and there are a myriad reasons why. That is, if it survives that long.

Honestly, I think we’re in as bad a situation as any that we’ve been in since this nation’s founding with the sole exceptions of The Great Depression and the American Civil War.

With the recent formation of a Mediterranean Union, the European Union, the African Union and so forth…does anyone really believe still that the North American Union (let’s call it what it is though, the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership, which our political leaders keep trying to hide, or else they will deny any such agenda exists…) is not in the works? Already, Canadian and Mexican militaries have the OK to enter the sovereign territory of the USA in event of major disasters, and our military has the OK to enter theirs as well—under the auspices of helping restore civil order and so forth.

I know there will be a lot of Americans who simply won’t accept that. I sure as hell would view any Mexican troops entering the USA as an invasion and sufficient grounds for throwing off our government for having turned on us. Our own nation was formed on several arguments for independence, one of which was that King George was quartering troops among the citizenry in times of peace. I wonder what the hell makes our present government think for a minute that not only quartering foreign troops among us in times of peace but having them restricting the freedoms and rights of American citizens or arresting them or physically imprisoning them will be anything less than cause for another Revolution? Same goes for Canadian troops. Any foreign troops being invited into our borders under any such guise of restoring civil order will spark the Second American Revolution or the Second American Civil War.

They know it will, which is precisely why they are sure to invite both country’s militaries, because they know it will take overwhelming odds to defeat any American citizens who choose to rise up and throw up an oppressive government. Which probably means that the renewed talk of another assault weapons ban isn’t just coincidental.

Or does everyone else think that American laws and policies are not starting to line up more generally with those such as found in the Europe, Canada and Australia?

By the way, the smart thing to do in the future is to ask your bank about their mortgage/lending policy, debt outstanding and so forth, and to avoid those heavy on mortgage lending, you think? Given the current state of the USA’s economy, it would make a lot of sense to start stuffing your rainy day money away in overseas banks or investments.

Just thinking out loud…

Well, the whole world has seen it and been aware of it for decades. I just thought I would remind anyone who might have forgotten. Also, I wonder if there’s anyone out there who would like to see Rhodesia revived? Drop me a line, I’m curious.

Couldn’t possibly do any worse than Zimbabwe has done and is doing.

Don’t you just love the mess that the UK, USA and other Western governments have made out of southern Africa with their guilty conscience agenda?

Who knows, maybe the whole region is ready for change, what with the rampant crime and racism in South Africa. Waitaminute…racism in South Africa? That’s what all the violence lately is about. So much for fixing the country by handing it over to the ANC. Racism and ethnic strife both, against whites and black non-South Africans alike.

Some of it is part of the effort aimed at land reclamation and distribution that has been going on in Zimbabwe and South Africa both. One particular target are the white farmers of the region.

Maybe there is an apocalypse on the way? Maybe there’s more to the prophesies of Nicolaas “Siener” van Rensburg than meets the eye?

Well, it has been nearly a week since Congressman Paul dropped out of the Presidential race, and I’m just now working my way out of the disappointment to get around to writing about it. Americans have missed out on the best opportunity to change the direction of our country they are likely to have during this century.

It amazes me how people complain about everything you can think of…gas, war, the economy, foreign trade, outsourced jobs, illegal immigration, our national deficit, our prestige as a nation…and yet most chose to vote for those who have been instrumental in creating the problems in all of those areas. And, who will keep our nation headed down the path that will lead to a collapse of our country as we know it.

There is, of course, the underlying reasons that all of that occurs: people are comfortable with the status quo or profit from it. Americans have bought into the lies perpetuated by a few in the establishment, and even intellectuals and scholars tend now to believe fallacies such as the notion that America could not exist or thrive without the dozens of taxes created in the last 100 years, never mind the fact we did fine without them at some point.

Congressman Paul has a new project, The Campaign for Liberty, which will attempt to get more Libertarian politicians elected. I wish him the best of luck.

America, you missed a great opportunity…

[I wore a t-shirt in high school with that very saying on it over 20 years ago. Ron Paul was fighting for what's right long before I was born, and is the only person who has run for President in my lifetime worthy of my vote. He's going to get it in November, whether he's on the ballot or not...]

There are some things for which no words will ever be truly adequate to express the way one feels. After reading about this article from Sacramento news site KCRA.com and waiting overnight to see if I could find them, I still haven’t.

Passers-by witnessed a man brutally “punching, slapping, kicking, stomping, shaking” an infant on in the middle of the road, according to Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Deputy, Royjindar Singh. At least one, a volunteer fire department Chief tried to intervene, but was unsuccessful. An elderly couple called 911 and reported the horrific attack.

The man was shot and killed by a law enforcement officer whose chopper made an emergency landing nearby so that he could intervene. Prevented from reaching the scene of the attack on the road by an electric fence, he shot the man. The man died at the scene.

According to the man who tried to confront him, the attacker said there were “demons” in the child.

There is indeed evil in this world, and that man murdering that baby so violently is an example of it as clear as they come. It is no abstract religious dogma, but something real. It exists, and when evil people are killed, the world is a better place for it.

What a truly disturbing story, for so many reasons and on so many levels…

If you haven’t heard of the tomato born salmonella outbreak, you should immediately read the following article describing it: FDA Warns Consumers Nationwide Not to Eat Certain Types of Raw Red Tomatoes

The link is to the official FDA press release on the www.fda.gov website.

To all my friends no matter where in the States you are, please check your tomatoes, beware of your tacos, burgers and beef (there was also a recall of 13,000 lbs. of beef as well in a separate incident) and anything else that has a tomato in it for about the next two to three weeks (hopefully, by then they will have all the bad ones pulled from shelves, and those currently shipped will have aged enough to be pulled even if not tracked). Taco Bell, Burger King, and McDonald’s have all stopped serving tomatoes in various places.

You know, with the number of ecoli and salmonella outbreaks the USA has experienced, and with the world food shortage crisis, everyone ought to start learning to garden and at least begin growing what they can. Another option is investing in a farmer. Seriously, you invest in shares of a farmers production–and it is a trend that has been catching on.

The situation with tainted foodstuffs is unlikely to improve during the coming decades. In fact, as demand from an increasing global population ratchets up, oversight and inspection will likely get sloppier in the name of expediting food shipments and meeting that demand. Those farmers who suffered so much in the 80’s and lost farms are those we need now. The shortcomings of the giant corporate farms are showing, their threat to our way of life is obvious and growing—not just because of lax procedures, but because of the increasing loss of legacy seed being replaced with sterile corporate seed.

Those who control the food supply will have even greater power than those who control the oil very soon. Food hoarding is already taking place in the northeast of the country as the food price crisis sets in. Additionally, many immigrants are sending food that they have purchased here in the USA overseas to family members.

Following on the footsteps of the food pricing crisis, the food production crisis is already rearing its head. Hence, the UN task force created to tackle what most other nations have already recognized.

We have seen that the separation of church and state in America is disappearing along with other liberties, freedoms and any notion of justice or sense of duty to Americans. This video sheds a light on something that is troubling to me as an American veteran, which is the influence of evangelical Christians in the US military.

Even back in the 1990’s it was apparent—however, it was growing into a considerable problem. As if there wasn’t enough abuse of rank and privilege in the military, preferential treatment and others being skimmed over for advancement because they do not share a particular faith is a bad thing. It is even worse when top officers and those responsible for military-wide policy have their own personal crusading agendas.

That is yet another reason why I am against organized religion.

We have all sorts of lobbyists and special interest groups attempting to determine what equipment and weaponry our warriors ought to be fighting with or using, and now we have evangelical Christians seeking to pervert the loyalties of American fighting men and women.

The sort of things these idiots stand for are exactly the sort of things I promised to fight against—enemies foreign and domestic—when I enlisted. Any institution which seeks to pervert the loyalties of soldiers, insert its own agenda and policies into our military, and to encourage strife and warfare in the name of religion is an enemy of America in my book…be it Islam or evangelical Christianity.

Recently, soldiers have been finding themselves hounded by their chain of command for being Atheists. Pagan soldiers have had a hard time getting recognition of their faiths—which the followers of the Jewish sky-god in all their myriad variants have long enjoyed. Also recently in the news are reports about PMC (Private Military Corporation/Company) Blackwater having these self-same ties to evangelical Christianity and having unusually high percentages of such Christians evangelicals in their ranks—from the operatives in the field right through the senior level executives.

How bad has it become? Well, last fall, Secretary of State Rice was accused of hampering a Congressional panel investigating issues in Iraq. Why? Because they were investigating Blackwater.

It’s bad enough we have to defend America from Islamists and their terrorism, but now we have our own internal threat in the form of right-wing neo-cons with evangelical fervor in control of the world’s largest PMC and a growing number of military servicemembers who subscribe to that same zealotry.

Really…as if America doesn’t have enough problems, now the same idiots that don’t think I should be able to buy beer on Sunday have their own private military and are trying to subvert our national military. Is there ever going to be a day when America isn’t being sold out by Americans in order to make a buck or religious zealots wanting to reclaim a piece of dirt in the Middle East for the Jewish people?

Does anyone wonder why I dislike all those running around committing insanity in the name of some Jewish sky-god or some Arab moon-demon?

You know, the list of people and organizations I don’t like is far longer than the list of those causes and people that I do like. More and more I keep hoping that there will be some sort of Apocalypse, just so those of us who can’t stand all the zealots that operate in the name of money, the UN, religions, drugs, terror, globalism—and all the other lunacies—will have a chance to get rid of them.

They’re just fucking up our world.

You think I’m kidding? The fanatics of the Jewish sky-god are right here in America, armed to the teeth and preparing for the Apocalypse themselves, just waiting to establish yet another religious state–much like Al Qaeda wanted to create an Islamic caliphate in Iraq. Only they will call it the Christian Colonial Republic.

It’s nice to know if there is an Apocalypse, that freedom loving people will have no end of enemies and opponents to fight if they want to avoid having to live under religious oppression. These sorts will be my enemy just as much as any supposed anti-Christ! In fact, I would view both in pretty much the same light—a threat to liberty.

I didn’t recall Patrick Henry saying, “Give me religion or give me death,” but rather, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

My self-compiled SHF-T (Shit Hits Fan-Threats…”shifty” for short. Kinda like METT-T. Catchy, huh?) list is growing almost daily…

One of the many problems with America and Europe—all of western civilization in fact—is that western civilization has let itself be defined by religion that came out of the Middle East. Two centuries later, people are still running around fighting wars over the words of men long dead, a divine unmarried carpenter born of a virgin and a holy pedophile bandit with a taste for blood and taxes at that.

It’s no wonder the world is so screwed up. Makes me laugh every time I see those idiots in the KKK, the various Aryan sorts that claim to be standing up for racial pride of whites…yet who have tied their identity to the religions of those whose races they hate and look down on. Isn’t that just hilarious?

The whole Christian identity movement doesn’t realize how ridiculous their premise sounds to anyone who realizes that the faith they cling to is not the faiths of their ancestors or their race. And they are all running around toting their guns and hoping for an Apocalypse too, just so they can perpetuate more fallacy, idiocy…and violence on the world…and, err…say it is in the name of peace-loving baby Jesus, right?

Remarkable, the human propensity for madness, isn’t it?

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French courts convicted Brigette Bardot of inciting discrimination and racial hatred for saying that Muslims were destroying France. They fined her $23,325 and order her to pay over $1000 in damages to the organization that filed the suit.

Since when are Muslims a race?

Muslims are not a race. Sorry, France—you have shown the world once again how cowardly you are by giving in to your fears, uhm, once again. France is now a de facto hostage of Islamists. The Muslim tide has secured a foothold in the heart of Europe, and now we can look forward to more of those glorious and fun riots, mob burnings, looting and more Sharia court inspired murders. Whippee!!!

Won’t be long at all until Paris is filled with AK47’s firing at wedding celebrations!

It’s no wonder the only brave French aside from Bardot are those in the Legion…which are, uhm, mainly foreigners.

Worse, French stupidity is giving others ideas, even right here in America. Come on, you didn’t think it would talk all that long, did you?

If some idiot wants to call me racist because I think Islam is the scourge of modern civilization, let them. I’ll laugh long into my twilight years at the thought that exactly the kind of uneducated buffoonery that Islam propagates is behind the erroneous accusations by those who can’t read a simple dictionary entry.

Wouldn’t it be cool if a bunch of pro-Western mercenaries carved out a country somewhere where Islam wasn’t welcome and made Brigette Bardot their Queen? The idea isn’t anywhere near as silly as the actions of the French government.

Hey, Brigette, send me an email. Most of my friends are soldiers and former soldiers…

Oh, and lets not forget how the religion of peace blew up the Danish embassy while we’re at it. I need to start drawing some Muhammed cartoons.

Yes, just when you thought TSA held the crown for idiocy in travel security for making people remove their deadly nipple rings, the British come along and snatch it away! How exciting this whole global goat-fuck on terrorism has become.

Now, the British are making you take off your Transformer t-shirts before boarding planes because they pose a security risk. WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!

Oh, those crazy Brits. What’s next? Anyone care to venture a guess as to which agency in the world will seize the crown next? Who would’ve thought the nation that gave the world cricket could snatch the top honors from the TSA?

While I think it was probably not a smart thing to do, and perhaps in poor taste, I don’t see how US military commanders can call it a crime. The soldier, a sniper, was punished and reassigned to duty back in the States.

According to Major General Jeffrey Hammond:

“The actions of one soldier were nothing more than criminal behavior,” Hammond said. “I’ve come to this land to protect you, to support you — not to harm you — and the behavior of this soldier was nothing short of wrong and unacceptable.”

(Source: CNN.com)

Another military “official” apparently kissed a Quran and presented it as a gift to some tribal sheiks.

Well, here we have the US military kissing asses and Qurans and punishing soldiers who shoot books? I wonder what would happen if a whole lot of soldiers started shooting Qurans for a free ride home?

And then you have Iraqis crying about it being a crime. It’s a book. Get over it and yourselves.

Here we have an American soldier defending the government of Iraq and America getting punished because he doesn’t like the holy book of terrorism and barbarism–and his own chain of command screwing up his career in a heartbeat to kiss ass. Remember your oath? Enemies, foreign and domestic? There are a lot of those in the chain of command anymore.

Your leadership will sell you out in a heartbeat; happens every time in the military. The good news, if American servicemembers want to come home all they need to do is shoot, burn or piss on a Quaran. Wouldn’t it be funny as hell if a few thousand decided to voice their disgust with the mission in Iraq, the government of Iraq, and our own political leaders by doing a simple thing that in America we have the freedom to do, but in the faux ‘democrazy’ of Iraq you cannot?

Nancy Pelosi has been going about it all wrong. She ought to just stand next to a giant cardboard cutout of John Wayne and suggest that real Americans would shoot or burn or piss on or otherwise desecrate the Quaran. The war would be over in a flash as our welcome was worn out and soldiers were sent stateside by the thousands.

If anyone knows who that sniper was, pass along the word that he’s forever welcome at my fire. You have brothers-in-arms (both current and former) out there that won’t sell you out. We aren’t at all like our Quran-kissing government and certain Quran-kissing officers appointed by it.

I can’t wait for the hate-mail. I’ll have something to read at least. Truthfully, I could care less. Islam is a religion of hate and intolerance and the Quran promotes oppression, barbarity, and everything that stands against the values of Western civilization. Since I’m not in the Army anymore, I think I’ll go buy a copy of the Quran to shoot, burn and piss on in a showing of support and solidarity for the unfortunate sniper who was merely expressing his dissatisfaction with the war.

In fact, I invite all members of Western Civilization to join me in this show of support.

In fact, I think we ought to create a Pro Western Civilization and Freedoms Day, where we celebrate by burning copies of the Quran and posting cartoons of Muhammad online. I nominate July 4 as the perfect day since there will already be lots of bangs and burning going on.

To anyone who might think to complain about my characterization, don’t bother until millions of Muslims condemn terrorism and take to the streets protesting against Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Qaeda and Muqtada Al Sadr. You see, if you take exception with my characterization that the Quran doesn’t advocate violence and oppression, then you must demonstrate it and your willingness to condemn those (and even fight against them) who use it for those purposes. Until the Muslim world does, their silent condoning of it will win them no sympathy from me.

It’s time we call it like it is. Religion is screwing up our world and holding human progress back. All religions. I’m all for spirituality and a belief in the divine…but the moment people organize and declare some moral authority and knowledge of the divine that another cannot access for personal, political and other reasons and begin seeking money, influence and power…that’s where I draw the line at tolerating it.

Maybe while I’m at it I’ll shoot, burn and piss on copies of a Bible and the Torah as well. It is largely the Abrahamic faiths that have screwed up the world for most of the last several millennia after all. I wonder if that sniper is willing to shoot a copy of the Bible?

Now, lest you think I don’t understand the need for being sensitive to the concerns of people in a host nation while on a military mission, you’re quite wrong. What he did was not smart at all.

But a crime? Please. Already I have read on liberal blogs how horrible this whole thing was, yet those same liberals are too happy to condone real crimes that illegal aliens commit in coming to this country and the real crimes they commit after they are here, and the crimes of the unethical business owners who hire them to make an easy dollar, and the crimes of the politicians who seek to give our nation away.

July 4, baby. Send my your Quran videos and photos.

In fact, I think I may do something I have not previously done and open my blog up to blogging by anyone who wants to guest blog on the topic of the conflict between Western civilization and the forces of Islamification, the topic of religious corruption and misuse, or on the topics of freedoms and liberties. In fact, I’m declaring now that the entire month of June and the first week of July, I am now accepting and soliciting posts on those topics should anyone care to jump in on the issues.

I’m not saying I will take any and all submissions and post them, but if it is well written and you ran a spell check, there’s no reason it won’t get posted–unless it is full of hate-mongering and comments that are slurs, racist rantings, etc. Let that be clear: I take exception with ideologies and actions and politics and even with individuals, but not with any race or ethnic group (I’m multi-racial myself after all).