Things are going to get ugly

Figurative or not, this month is deadly, especially to those born in March.
It’s National Preparedness month.  It’s the calm before the tsunami.

The pending collapse of the dollar may happen as soon as this month.  QE3 has been initiated.  We’ll muddle it through if the power grid stays up; if the grid goes down for months, all bets are off.

• Other topics this month include:
  Honey bee plague, Visions of lights, Gyroscopes and Ezekiel figures, Today in the End Times, FBI vault and ‘aggressive weather balloons’, mind control (or the attempt at it), easy lies and incompetence, corporate media centralization, how the Libyan attack went down, law suit nation, Genetic Roulette, attempts to revise history, called complacent/gas prices, air Captain’s take on 9/11, spirituality, a super-hydrogel, the Navy SEAL that took part in the UBL raid, and six movies (five reviews).

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As early as October

World War III is around the corner, with joint partnerships with Russia, China and other countries looking for resources.  Hamas has stinger missiles from Libya.  On the cusp of Armageddon, Iran promotes the kind of anti-Semitism and denial not seen since 1938.  Holocaust denial floods the web.

Something “supernatural”: lawlessness and desperation grows.  Believe it or not, even cases of cannibalism are popping up.

2012.09.30

AP: convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, the younger, speaks.  In a newspaper interview published Sun., the ‘devastated’ reaction in court of a victim’s husband made him feel like the worst piece of scum.

NYC Radio City Music Hall: White Stripes frontman Jack White performs 45 min. w/o encore, draws crowd’s wrath—F--- Jack White! some chanted.

“Speed Freak” killer breaks silence on ‘where the bodies are’

Reuters, San Francisco: Wesley Shermantine, 46, more than a decade on death row, implicates childhood friend Loren Herzog, who’d committed suicide in Jan.  According to Shermantine’s claims, they killed 72 (‘24×3,’ as he put it) in San Joaquin Valley during the 1980s and ’90s.  He was convicted of murdering Chevy Wheeler, 16 in 1985, and both were convicted of killing Cyndi Vanderheiden, then-25 in 1998, but Herzog, who was in for three murders, had his conviction reduced on appeal to one ct. manslaughter, and was paroled after 11 yrs. in prison.

Authorities also consider Shermantine and Herzog suspects or possible suspects in the disappearances of Kimberly Billy, 19, Gayle Marks, who’d disappeared from Stockton in 1988 at 18, JoAnn Hobson, 16, and an unidentified teenage girl.  Also found at an abandoned well near a fmr. cattle ranch in Linden were skeletal remains of a fetus, along w. shoes, coats, a woman’s ring, a purse and nearly 1,000 bone fragments.  Sacramento-based bounty hunter Leonard Padilla had agreed to pay Shermantine up to $33K for info. leading to remains of his victims.

  Art  

Bad news, here: only $875 of the $1,500 has been pledged for the Boys and Girls Club mural KickStarter project.  The project will not be funded; $1,500 was not met or exceeded by 9.30 5 p.m. EDT.

2012.09.29

WXYZ-Detroit, MI lotto death: $1 mn. lotto game show winner Amanda Clayton, on probation after pleading no contest to welfare fraud over “public assistance, failing to report income and employment,” died due to an overdose, according to sources within the police dept.

2012.09.28

4PM: 53°F, rain.
Moonbat logic: Carr is a racist for pointing out that Warren used fake Native American status to gain special privileges.

Gasoline, food and health insurance (if possible)— that’s all typical Americans can afford.
Pelosi, Reid, Burstein, Romer: unemployment would be 5.6%; versus the reality, 8.1%.  The near-trillion dollar Keynesian stimulus didn’t work in the 1930s; it didn’t work in the ’70s.  Growth was bad at 1.7%, down to 1.25%.  Proof-positive Democrat: ‘Romney is an outsourcer’ ads play, while the outsourcing has been caused by current government, with “innovation” and taxes.

State-controlled media, here by mutual interests

The state of the media, becoming an arm of the corrupt government, where social media outpaces it to the point that 23% read the newspaper, in print and online; Jay Leno knows: an average of 28 minutes at airport screenings.

Former Democratic pollster for Jimmy Carter, Pat Godell: “twenty embassies were attacked yesterday, and where did you hear that?”  Bias is one thing, but censoring anything “that might hurt Obama” is another; any other President would be crucified.  The “respected” news media deciding what is true in the eyes of the public, denying “what the public have a right to know,” and in my opinion, made themselves the enemy of the American people.

Movie

The Dictator (2012, Paramount Pictures): rated R for pervasive language and some sexual content.  Sasha Baron Cohen plays Aladeen, the Admiral General, then President Prime Minister; Anna Ferris plays the inevitable love interest; other comedic actors and stand-up comics join the cast, including Bobby Lee as some representative to [premier of] China.

Aladeen controls everything, orders the execution of everyone that gets in his way, even those who can’t decide to walk left or right when trying to pass on the stairs.  And during a time of pressure to show at the U.N., his #2 (Ben Kingsley) shaves the dictator’s beard, and swaps him with a mentally retarded double, one that drinks from the water pitcher at the U.N. (and again after urinating in it).  Aladeen is unrecognized in the general public without the beard, and is helped by Ferris’ character escape a protest crackdown.

Following a man he recognizes into a restaurant, it turns out the dictator’s #2 wasn’t executing people at all; they were all sent to an anti-Aladeen restaurant.  Like the jokes in the movie, the plot becomes more and more crude and implausible, as he is saved by his former nuke builder and would-be executee, with the deal of job restoration to build that pointed-tip missile (Aladeen’s idea), and the crowd that’d kill him disperse as if nothing had happened.  After all of the criminal activity at the ‘Whole-ish Foods’ store, the only arrest came after a mistake.

You have technically impossible jokes that aren’t funny, American songs performed in the foreign language (or pseudo-language) of his pseudo-country, stereotypes spoken by him and his supporters, and commentary that calls the current state of the U.S. a dictatorship over that ‘one-percenter’ stuff.  This movie is not to be confused with the Charlie Chaplin movie, a far better choice.  Grade: D.

2012.09.27

Israeli PM: Iran had completed first stage of uranium enrichment; they are 70 percent of the way there, using something that looks like a fundraiser cartoon-bomb outline, filled 70%.  Yes, they’re the new Nazi-Germany...but a cartoon bomb?

Innocence of Muslims producer Nicoula, a Coptic Christian from Egypt, was arrested over his violation of terms (using the web) and the lawsuit by the dubbed-over woman (Cindy Lee Garcia) who was used in the video.

Beltway shooting spree: a man shot several people; at his house, the shooter had another gun, and 10,000 rounds of ammo.
The suspect shot himself in the head; the five-second delay method failed on Fox Report; Shepard Smith, a “closeted liberal, slowly coming out”: Get off it, get off it, get off it.  They broke too late, and after the short commercial, he apologized.

The Honey Bee Plague and Visions on Coast To Coast AM

Yesterday (or early-morning today): animal whisperer; she gets a reading that pets know when they’ll pass on.  Today (or next morning): insecticides and parasite infections plague the honey bee—pollination is required for so many plants, including grains.  Unverified: Einstein said that humankind wouldn’t last more than 4 years w/o honey bees.  Some parasites, from flies, pop the heads off ants.

Then, EarthFiles on Monsanto.  And visions 2010.05.26: aerial gyroscopes seen overhead.
Another, a dangling light: something is coming.  A male interviewee recalls sparks in a vision, ‘like coldfire’; the feeling came over of total peace, then floating a little bit; he may have heard a whisper of his name, this after the experiencer has lost his job.  Maybe this is the guardian angel...coming to rescue me from the pit.  When awakened, tears of joy.  The sleeper must awaken.  Linda: Humanity has been in a slumber, and we have to be awake.  Guided to Ezekiel.  (Uh-oh.)  Gyroscopic crafts, and the experience, the thought over what’s observed: there may be other dimensions, and time travel.  And the Ezekiel figure is on the ground, watching.

Battle between good and evil. A good set of beings, and an animal, evil set, and people are going to choose sides.  The beings will be real, and interdimensional, other-version people.  Isn’t it interesting, that many passages in the Bible may be (of visions) extra terrestrial? ponders George Noory.

Later, Linda answers a question: through the structure of certain materials in an order of structure, underground, these pyramids around the planet give off a lot of EM energy.

The current project, in Alaska of all places, is her most difficult: what we’re taught on evolution does not line up with the evidence; she would love to get hard evidence proving a hypothesis that makes more sense.  “Today would be very unrecognizable of the people one hundred years from now.”

2012.09.26

Electric bill late: lights out?  Two heaters on doesn’t help.

Loads of fruit in the trash: some schools are forcing bananas and humus

It costs people more when the kids don’t take them.  Oh, no, don’t blame how addictive the addictive junk food is, and don’t blame the lobbying chemical food corporations, in the back pockets of the bureaucrats.  “The lack of food choices is the problem,” when too few of said choices are organic.  What do you think is going to happen when children are forced to choose between school lunch GMO and vending machine GMO?  And the thought of junk food counseling ahead because of denial on origins and roles.

Critical thinking is almost nowhere to be found in school except for when students start it.

Obit

L.A.: Sons of Anarchy (FX) actor Johnny Lewis found dead at a Los Feliz home Wed. at 10:40 a.m., fell from a roof after allegedly murdering an elderly woman, Catherine Davis, 81, say police.  A toxicology report will find whether drugs or alcohol played a role.  He dated Katy Perry (Part of Me) in 2006.  The fifth season of the TV show had just started, and the producer is not surprised, saying Lewis was a violent man.

2012.09.25

Some songs today reflect the national dejection, of purpose undermined in society today—What do I stand for?

Opening ceremony at the OIC summit in Mecca, and then...
Science Monitor: “Iran has made mistakes ... we are ready to help to eliminate negative mindsets,” Iranian President (under a dictatorship) Ahmadinejad said at a dinner last night.  In New York, he says Israel will be “eliminated,” while Israelis shrug at PM Ben Netanyahu’s warnings on Iran.

Reuters, Beirut, Syria: as conditions further deteriorate, even schools are war grounds.  Rebel bombs explode at a school occupied by pro-govt. militias in Damascus.  But that’s not all.  The refugee crisis has broken the silence on the electric shock and burn treatment Syrian children have gotten in Syrian schools.  Khalid, 15, hanged by arms and beaten senseless at school, was witness to a 6-yr.-old who starved to death, tortured more than anyone else in the room.

Reuters, Moscow: over a death, pol. correctness and Putin’s ties to the resurgent Orthodox Church, Russian lawmakers call for jail for those who offend the religion of others.

Reuters, L.A.: CBS affiliate radio stations KNX and KFWB in Los were evacuated this morning after police and fire depts. were called to investigate a “ticking or beeping” package, police said.

Yahoo! The Ticket: Anti-Union(!) Gov. Scott Walker tweets support of unionized NFL refs.  His tweet has nothing to do with unions and everything to do with a blown call, press secy. Cullen Werwie wasted his time writing an email to Yahoo! News.

2012.09.24

Israeli envoys walk out of the U.N. chamber over M. Ahmadinejad’s speaking, implicitly calling for the correction of the Middle East (wipe Israel off the map), and shaking a hand w. Ban Ki-moon.  Ahmadinejad is now scheduled to meet with Occupy Wall Street, and will address the full U.N. assembly on Wed.

2012.09.23

Paid for by taxpayer money: another apology tour, this time for that stupid YouTube video that very few saw, and has almost no relation to the attack on the consulate in Libya.  Such “believers” in the First Amendment, the admin. has not taken this video down; the show is a distraction and a lie; they do not appreciate much of anything, and live in a fantasy land when it comes to their actual job.

It took CNN to report on J. C. Stevens’ journal/diary before handing it to the family, to say...uh, yeah, he knew the attack was coming.  Update: expert precision was used in the attack, and Stevens was sodomized.  Yes, sodomized.

Iran threatens attacks on U.S. bases in the event of an Israeli attack.  Revolutionary Guard Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the Guard’s aerospace division, made the warning.  The state has already made a denial-of-service attack, and then some, on JPMorgan, other bank web sites.  Even Kim Komando is saying, make sure you have enough cash on hand for a week/month.

Piers Morgan battles w. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over homosexuality.
Treatment of homosexuals in Iran: you’re executed, sometimes in the streets; many hide, leave or change their sex.

Tom Hanks uses an Emmy® as a hood ornament, testing it out on his car.

It’s the 64th Annual Emmy awards, on...Fox?  Jimmy Kimmel hosted, and, along with Tracy Morgan, a star, they pull off a prank.  And the awards go to...

2012.09.22

Fall officially starts in the 10 a.m. hour.

Islamist militia driven out of Benghazi bases.
Libyan protester counterattack: some storm the compound of an extremist militia linked to the U.S. Consulate attack.  And then the minister of Pakistan offers $100K for the head of the Innocence video maker.

Alexander Fraser Tytler knew better

The Daily Oklahoman/Elmer T. Peterson (1951.12.09):

Two centuries ago, a somewhat obscure Scotsman named Tytler made this profound observation: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.  It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.  After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.

Of course, now, monarchies with crowns are too obvious.

Foretold over 140 years ago: the grand scheme of things

Coast To Coast AM guest Steve Quale says mainstream media is the magician’s ultimate slight-of-hand, and the alternate media is so much of a threat that “something will have to happen.”  And so many thousands to millions of rounds of ammunition have been purchased by DHS over a relatively short amount of time.  Most people realize that the big news story of the day changes overnight.  (Or did he say don’t realize?)  We are seeing the calm before the tsunami right now.

There was a fake run on a Wal-Mart by state of the art Russian aircraft, loaded off U.S. carriers.  One insider notes an overseas operative: You Americans spent trillions on keeping us (Russians) at bay; now you spend millions to use us and our tactics on your people.  The United States (or what’s left) is just allowing things to happen, and many whistleblowers are quite frightened by the unusual tests of our vulnerabilities.  And with a new iPhone app, you can rat people out to the DHS if you think they’re a spy or a “right-wing extremist” for fully believing in the U.S. Constitution.

Economy is a realm of smoke and mirrors.  Apart from the farmer (scare crow), the steel-worker (Tin Man), etc., the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz was the figure of “the banker.”  Prices are going up notches, and will continue to rise.  And with the on-going elimination of borders and rights, for the debt-takeover and “repossession,” ask what you can do for your country — What country?

Those that believe they’re above the masses classify anyone that isn’t them—and this is the exact word being used—a zombie.  Pinned: you are either against someone else of some other creed, sect, ideology, or dumb; otherwise, you are a threat to them, and you need to be pacified, or set up for automatic elimination through killing one another.  Mutual destruction is a stated goal in the illuminati web site.

(The rest is stated for clarification, given the book of Revelation, and was neither said nor implied by the guest:)  The Lucifer (light-bearer) rebellion is of those people or entities that want to be the God of the Earth to sow the seeds of mutual destruction.  And with the recent correction of the dark angels, it’s all on Earth now.  Those that peacefully resist, with all energy put in respect and determination of mind and spirit, will thrive.

FBI vault: vault[dot]fbi[dot]gov: searchable files

Unsealed: Alien files; next two guests, Collette E. (of SyFy) and Vince R. (Viacom).  According to their account there are +160 alien races.  It took a long time to get all these documents, only to see half of it crossed out.  And all of those cases of “weather balloons.”  Jon B. Wells: Yeah, those weather balloons can be quite aggressive; weather balloons that attack us.  Black bars and triangles: NASA has really touched up a good many of photos.  (Actually, the non-rectangular images are multiple photos merged together, as Rover can’t produce an entire scene so clearly.)

2012.09.21

The patient get the spoils.

How is Monsanto dealing with Prop 37 in California?  An opposition ad that claims high litigation costs, claims to be backed by farmers, and acts like Prop 37 is just another food law.  The ad doesn’t even mention the term ‘GMO’.  What’s clear in it: Paid for by Monsanto.

Late night Congress, before shutting down until after the election: Rand Paul’s bill that would cut off defense funding to countries where embassies were attacked was defeated 10:1.

iPhone frenzy round the world.
Plus: How the iPhone 5 got its ‘insanely great’ A6 processor (Engadget.com); and its triple-core GPU (arstechnica.com).

Folklore on Coast To Coast AM, a program heard in Maine on at least nine stations

Varla Ventura explains the origins of vampires, werewolves and banshees.  The introduction of some (in)famous figures and silver are respectively pretty old.  And Ventura’s about to release a book on mermaids; she says they were prevalent around 300 years ago.

Banshees, or entities that show themselves as attractive women (like sirens, but will use any sound to attract women, using even males to tell them about the sound); they are figures of mothers of children that die of a young age, and foretell death; they attach themselves to, not locations but families, and would appear when someone is going to die.  Yet Ventura’s more scared of changelings, dark things that would swap a small child with another.

The thing about C2C: even after all the research that’s been done, one guy would come on to tell a story that would scare the crap out of the listeners: he and his girlfriend ~12 years ago, lying in bed, with a heater that wasn’t working properly (it was cold), heard something of a scream of a many tortured human voices at once, from the window.  Without clothes on, he shot up and went to the door, the porch w. a weapon.  It wasn’t until after getting things like night vision goggles that he would be able to muster the will power to enter the woods.

And those little evil elves, that are scarce in number before, are scarcer today.

A Friday late-night caller named “Crystal” says she was born a vampire, drinking blood for a living (currently from her boyfriend, off a shoulder blade or wrist, getting tested every six mos.), and that all of the immortality and garlic/crucifix repulsion stuff is Hollywood.  She says she has empathic and certain intuitive abilities.

From “Economic Solutions” in 1994, another caller reads the names of the global bankers that own the Federal Reserve.  They include the Rothschilds, one in Paris, Hamburg, and the Rockefellers.  Not to mention the shareholders.  And for those not familiar with “the Fed,” it’s not a part of the U.S. govt. but rather a private set of corporate banks.

The mind-control powder out of Columbia that gets people to obey commands without remembering is called “Devil’s Breath.”

Along with that in the zombification, the dumbing-down: sodium fluoride in water for babies; fluoride is a poison that causes blindness and brain damage, lowers personal drive and will power; read the labels.

A red book, confiscated by the govt.: maybe there are E.T.s in the middle of the Earth...

Movie

Jersey Shore Shark Attack! (2012, Hybrid).  Yes, the SyFy movie, out on DVD.  Rated ‘R’ in its disc release, it’s really just TV-14-V for a lot of blood and obvious fake violence—no sex or language except mild words like ‘balls.’

A parody of “The Jersey Shore meet Jaws,” the stars are characters with names like, “The Complication” (instead of The Situation), Balzac, and Nooki (née Nicolita, instead of Nicole “Snooki”).  Joining them are some big-name actors that’ve been in Mafia movies and TV shows.  They face an albino bull shark attack brought on by deep-drilling vibrations.  People get eaten.

The sleazy mayor and someone who sees a big money-making resort, both played by high-ranking actors, would not make dough if the truth got out, so they keep drilling.  More people get eaten.  It’s not until former N*Sync singer Joey Fatone gets eaten that people start listening to the three Italian guys.  And to go with the cheap sound effects, it appears no rights were bought to any songs; Fatone doesn’t perform anything.

‘Guido’ is not the only Italian or pseudo-Italian word that gets thrown around.  Two members of the yacht club would call the three ‘Neanderthals’.  And they pronounce the ‘h’.  A number of other dumb jokes and low-budget scenes would get played out.  The sharks are all CGI, and ‘convincing’ is not a term I’d use for any of the attack footage.

It’s a suspense/comedy that’s a little fun, but it’s slow going with an obvious plot.  The grade given here forces me to bump up Casa de mi Padre (9.08).  Grade: C.

2012.09.20

The weather for Winter on the East coast will be brutal.  Hail and a lot of snow.

Everyone depends on their personal opinions, according to leftist Universities

Jay Carney, a.k.a. American vers. of Baghdad Bob, today, hoping the American people are stupid enough: some people say that the Libyan attacks are preplanned; “the FBI are investigating, and will follow the facts wherever they lead.”

The Obama camp has no compunction, no conscience to hold back on lying, and the press don’t care.  Media bias this offensive: the public won’t get a detailed account until after the election.  The first ambassador to the U.S. killed in thirty years.

Future of the workforce?  What workforce?

Not seen since the Great Depression, 8.8% on (food stamp?) welfare—food stamp enrollment at record highs, with people no longer looking for work, 20% lower returns in sales taxes from last year August.

Undoing welfare reform: removing that 30/40% having to spend at least one constructive hour a week.  One hour a week is ‘too much.’  So now the political forces suddenly start caring about states’ rights by allowing states to experiment on a law that worked since being signed by President Clinton (under pressure by Dick Morris).

It’s worse for the younger generations: they don’t ...really think long term at all:

2012.09.19

2012.09.18

Corporate media continue to centralize.  With that centralization, the narratives.

Unfortunately, enough people continue to buy into false narratives sold by propagandists.  The refusal to listen has been added to the refusal to ask questions.  Where does the twitterverse play in?

Ignorant beliefs in modern society: the reactionary mysophobes that feel the need to clean or perfect everything produced helicopter parents.  These generations have produced generations that expect everything and utilize very little.  Add the settled belief of “the real connection” with the social media.  So much information is available at the touch of a finger, yet these kids that take forever to grow up—if ever, avoid anything that isn’t tied to the social media disconnection.

2012.09.17

New fault: the troops

“Cultural affronts,” the deputy general calls, as they step up sensitivity training over Islam, which includes “Wear surgical gloves when handling a copy of the Koran,” and Avoid winking.  An intelligence official says the people in the lands are “laughing their asses off.”  More excuses to kill Americans...

It again comes down to the corrupt United Nations

An Islamist is responsible for a U.N. resolution in the efforts of the Caliphate to censor speech deemed offensive to Muslims (by a central authority).

Susan Rice, amb. to the U.N.: it was the video airing on the internet.  (As if YouTube is broadcast television.)  There is no excuse for violence, and ... but ...  She gives a distorted history, all backed up by the same suspects in the media, with excuses: the Prophet cartoon, something that again was published months prior.

Didn’t Obama say bad things about the creators of South Park over the ep. where a costumed Santa Claus was said to contain the Prophet?

Media would bury this administration for this if it was Republican.
One of the talking heads calls the flawed response incompetent, anding with borderline ignorant.  How about completely ignorant?  The Progressives in power appear so ignorant, and so bigoted that they probably think that Islam is a violent religion, and we must progress past the violence.

Press dare not ask tough questions, they get away with lying on everything

Obama: I want to simplify the tax code.  I’ve actually done my own taxes. [some audience laughter] I don’t know about these other folks. ... You know? [cheers and applause]

Future news on what it will look like under Romney...by Nancy Pelosi?  Even under Bush, people came to an agreement.  Well, Romney will not become president.

Prison State + Medical Establishment: before and after becoming Michelle

A man that loves to kill women, and has done so in a women’s prison, sues everyone and gets some of what he wants.
Sex reassignment surgery is the only way to combat his attempted suicide and threats to castrate himself, living and dressing as a woman, gender identity commissary form.  My name is Robert, and I deserve the respect of being called Robert, he told a non-lawyer who dared to speak to him.

At least thirteen men want a sex change, and big Mass. District Judge Mark Wolf, appointed by an R, orders the state to have taxpayers pay for the costs, including all legal costs, defense, prosecution and lawyers.  Michelle McPhee on the Howie Carr show: Maybe we should change the Miranda warning to include, If you can’t afford a sex change...

Obit

General Hospital soap co-star John Ingle, 84, dies of cancer.  He had taped his last ep. on 8.24, that aired 9.11.  He had five daughters with Grace-Lynn Martin, who died in February, into year 58 of their marriage.

2012.09.16

Libyan officials warned, three days in advance, of 9.11 anniversary attacks planned for mos.

Susan Rice says the Libyan attack was not premeditated.
Hezbollah calls for more attacks on American symbols...over a video trailer?  Something that needs to be translated?  For a movie that may not even exist?  And no American studio would fund it.  Hillary Clinton says she would “like to apologize for the video, and that Islam is a great religion.” ... And then, over all of the extremism, Ben Ferguson asks, whether Islam is a great religion.

The Koran actually speaks against letting your hatred make you violent.  So this violence is the result of state-sponsored terrorism.  (Again.)

Pictures taken with a dead ambassador Stevens, with people giving the thumbs up: the State Dept. would like you to think that they were dragging him to a hospital...for five hours.

2012.09.15

It’s official: VEX is now included in the Portland Daily Sun, this week now on the back, turned over.  And “STAY ALIVE F__KER” caught my eye in Maakies.

2012.09.14

The bodies of the four slain Americans in Libya are now back on U.S. soil to be honored, two marines among them.

Foreign Policy failure cont’d: Complete Denial

This is not a case of protests directed at the United States, says Jay Carney, as yet more U.S. embassies are broken into.  Including the one in London?  Nothing to see here: people chant, “Obama, Obama, we are all Osamas.”

You forced us to cover you: garbage media blame Mitt Romney for the Obama admin.’s delays with recent violence in the Middle East.  Barack thought all of this anti-American sentiment in the Mid-East would come to an end because he’s such a “swell guy,” and one, that with “powerful tools to reach out”...he used the word ‘harmony.’  And to “close Guantànamo Bay next year”...back then.

Different Kind of Leak

A man who says he was pushed out of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition decides to dish some dirt, saying it’s ‘common knowledge’ that Tamara Holder is Jackson’s mistress.  On Fox Business Network’s Crypt Keepe— I mean, Don Imus morning show, Holder says Michelle Malkin — who is married, w. kids — needs to get laid.

“Tool Box for Life” w. Giovanni Lordi on C2C

George Noory says he’s “like a walking pharmacy.”
Bef. that, first hour, Bernardo Kastrup: the relationship bet. waking reality and dreams.
TheNumbersLady[dot]com: no. 5, the world no.; not 5 attacks but 2,100 attacks bef. Nov...

Even Earlier: 1948, 1967; Watchers 5, Days of Chaos, voice of Jesus to trigger Rapture.
Israeli preemptive strike, one way or another: sight/speculation of neutron bomb against the biological, EMP to disable the missiles...

Now Out in (Select) Theaters

Liberal Arts, the unrated IFC film starring its writer and director, Josh Radnor, at first seems to take page from Answer This!, given the romance between his character, “Jesse,” and “Zibby” (Elizabeth Olsen), a sophomore, and sixteen years his junior.  But Radnor, 38, co-star of How I Met Your Mother, plays an admissions counselor … that happily returns to his mid-Western college alma mater to honor his favorite English prof. … He continues to keep his head in books, and is slow to adapt.

It’s really a barely-coming of age story that puts a focus on those guys that have high hopes in their education and the ability to bond on wit, now stuck in their thirties. … It maintains humor and exceeds certain expectations.  What more could you want?  Grade: A-.

» read the full cover/review

2012.09.13

End of the dollar: the Fed starts “Quantitative Easing” #3, buying $40 bn. (per instance), driving interest rates even lower, promoting inflation.

One suspect has been officially arrested for the Libyan attack that killed four Americans, including amb. Stevens, 52, and a Massachusetts man (according to a woman that claims to be his sister).  Protesters tore down the U.S. flag and put up an Islamic black flag.  Many others were injured in the attack.

You could call it a terrorist attack.  A Libyan man explains the attacks: it was a two-part militant assault.  How often do protests start with people carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers?

AP: speaking from his hospital bed, a North Mali robber describes Shariah amputation by MUJAO, a group that fell to al-Qaeda-linked rebels five mos. ago; latest was on Mon.: right hand and left foot of five cousins accused of highway robbery.  The agony—a pain that made me forget everything.

Southwestern Exposure

Los Angeles: the identity of the filmmaker behind Innocence of Muslims has been exposed.  Police were sent to the producer’s CA home as means of protection.  A man in his 50s, he was convicted on fraud charges and barred from using the internet; he wrote his script in prison and released the video on the web anyway.  Back in 1997, he was making methamphetamines.

Movie

Keep your innocence. ...Guard that.  Cherish it.
Wyatt Earp’s Revenge (2011, Hybrid): rated PG-13 for violence, mild language and a pretty bloody scene at a dentist’s office — the prolonged pulling of a tooth and of bullets.  This tale, shown from two perspectives, of two generations, stars Shawn Roberts (Earp in 1878), Trace Adkins, Val Kilmer (Earp in 1907) and Daniel Booko.  It starts and ends with an appointment: Wyatt Earp and a reporter that is about to learn a secret.

The sons of a father that pulls strings decide to take advantage of the corruption.  They would take out lawmen and other obstacles to the point of controlling those parts of the old West, doing whatever they want.  That is, until brother Spike (Daniel Booko) accidentally kills an actress very close to Wyatt Earp; it was wrong place at the wrong time, a bullet ricochet in Dodge City.  After some basic forensics work, Earp and crew go to the town judge for an arrest warrant.  They’re denied one.

Determined, Earp decides to turn in his badge, and seek justice no matter what — vigilante justice.  His crew join him, and the judge gives this posse three days.  If they fail, they’ll be the ones taken in, dead or alive.  Against the clock, with people shot, shortcuts would need to be taken.  So the story becomes one of blame and forgiveness, of love and dirty justice.  If the story told is correct, the title is an exaggeration; a death, Earp says, was not one of revenge, but from injuries made before capture.

Wyatt Earp’s Revenge isn’t as polished as Dawn Rider.  It features music of the “less expensive” kind, and a Kilmer appearing unusually stiff for his appearance (he still looks young despite the mustache and some makeup), and the reporter’s exit is a bit clunky.  But overall it’s not a bad piece of history.  Grade: B.

2012.09.12

Genetic Roulette

FDA lied about what was going on—34K internal memos, “no testing was necessary.”  One that worked under George Soros now works at the FDA; “Food Safety,” Farm Bill, USDA—the corruption is...[now] typical.  As soon as anyone finds a problem they’re attacked.  One man, fired after 35 years.  Another’s friends in Argentina were attacked, one paralyzed.
Study: 100% of those that switched from GMO to non-GMO foods said they were in better health.  53% said they would avoid GMO foods if they were labeled positive, but the threat of Monsanto suing people...  Big money is being put up against Prop 37 in California; the labeling is confusing, it’s too expensive... Monsanto wanted to plant a flag in India in modifying/planting as many crops as they can there.  Their RoundUp binds with minerals, producing weaker plants and stronger pathogens.

Super-weed (ten feet high, spreading 400,000 seeds, requiring machetes) resistance: as products are no longer built to last, the next step: Agent Orange crops.  Current crops include corn, cotton, canola oil, papaya, some rice, soy, sugar beets (“Sugar”) and zucchini.  GMO foods are linked to stomach ulcers, IBS (42% increase) and other bowel problems as BT pesticide-infused GMOs are designed to punch holes in the GI.  They are also linked to Chron’s disease, allergies (food seen as ‘invaders’ to the immune system), new categories of diseases, miscarriages and autism.  Prisoners have no choice.

See also: Another Canadian documentary that could not be made in the U.S. (2011.07.17), turning-NewLeaf/RoundUp (2011.11.17) and corn (2012.07.13).  GeneticRoulette.com.

Between Lives on Coast To Coast AM

Filmmaker Richard Martini talks about his experience with hypnosis and the things he’s heard despite his skepticism.  He got patients that talked of other lives and of reoccurrences of familial spirits, such as parents and spouses.  And more and more people would be giving this same kind of information.  He would come to learn that you choose the kind of life you want before you even enter the womb, that roles would switch for new learning experiences (new difficulties, for example), and that past lives play a role in the origin of certain phobias.

His son, at an early age, without knowing much, would sound like a wise man.  With a bottle of water, closed, the son stomped on it.  The point?  Spirit is like water; it’s safe despite damage to the body; it exists on its own.  (It is virtually indestructible.)

Martini got some answers to some questions, from spirits on the other side, no less.  He would be told that the brain holds only 1/3 of the spirit, with the other 2/3 on the other side; anything more would “fry the circuitry.”  And as it being a bit of a waste in energy for the first weeks as a fetus, the spirit usually doesn’t enter until after four months in.

Movie

High School (2011): Rated R for language, drug content and some nudity — one of the leads goes to get some keys placed in the girls’ locker room, and some women walk out of the shower predictably nude over a cougar ring tone-ringing cell.  Adrien Brody got top billing, as the former A-student whose brain “shorted out” after doing PCP, among other things.  Michael Chiklis plays a higher-than-thou principal that loves looking at himself in the mirror (and another thing that lowers the grade), and Colin Hanks plays the #2.

The plot: another A-student in line did a little pot, and he doesn’t want to get caught with what’s left in his system after the principal decides to have all of the students undergo drug testing.  So...two old friends decide to spike the whole brownie Bake Sale with some potent stuff in a jar, in order to make the high look unavoidable; they move to affect the whole school.  So obviously, it’s the same joke played for hours: a teacher that thinks aloud (and in a typing class where the students have to cover her words); another, “it’s like God’s eye looking at itself”; the Boston tea party leverage/beverage turned into a “beverage” chant led by the history teacher, played by Curtis Armstrong, a.k.a. Booger from Revenge of the Nerds.

The movie is only slightly more serious than This Means War, as the main characters seem to care whether or not one student had too much (fourteen brownies, leaves on a stretcher)...but that’s about it.  You get distractions for theft, the “what” sound, as if from a frog in using the hard stuff, people getting the giggles and getting lost, the leads trying to not get killed by the eye-twitchy drug lord, and more distractions and techniques to stop the principal from denying their diploma.  Not so much thought in not going to jail — well, legal action does occur, instead due to sexual harassment footage.  Much of the film is implausible, and basic, even for a dumb High School formula, but it’s fun nonetheless.  Grade: C+.

2012.09.11

2,996 in a matter of hours, eleven years ago.
Remembering the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001...from footage of the hijackers, to the planes being flown into the World Trade Center buildings, to the ash clouds and fires, to the people who decided to jump to avoid being burned, including a man and woman holding hands, to the panic and calm, to the downing of United 93 in Pennsylvania, to the ash clouds and storms when the buildings fell, to the collapse of building seven.  A gay chaplain was killed by one of those who fell to their death.  Political nonsense was shattered; then came the solidarity, the chanting of U.S.A., the raising of the flag, the promise to never forget...for many would forget or never learn.  343 fire fighters lost their lives saving lives, not politics.  For a few more details, 2010/09.

There was no TSA and DHS back then.  We’re left with more corruption, “legitimate” detainment and torture, employees forced to grope you.  Even after 9/11, Ted Kennedy wanted to extend the very VISA program that promoted terrorist infiltration.  Come to America.

History forgotten and rewritten

The NBC networks were the ones to not cover the 9/11 remembrance; Today Show decided to cover the new season of reality shows.

Bill Clinton tried to rewrite history when he spoke at the DNC; he said/implied the housing problem started under Bush.  Thomas Sowell, who was trying to fight the sub-prime home loan mess since the 1990s, with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac writes “The Brass Standard” (American Spectator).

And Bush is blamed again for 9/11 in all but the last paragraph in an editorial in the New York Times, and in Vanity Fair, even though intel had bin Laden in the late ’90s, and Clinton decided to play golf.

Can’t Do Much of Anything, Get Called Complacent

Media call people complacent over gas just because they’re not acting out the way they did under Jimmy Carter...or the media are not reporting on it.  [Both.]
The price of gasoline, diesel, sure “fixed” with Federal taxes: over $3.80, $5.25 in Nantucket; compared to $1.89 for Unleaded when Bush left office.  Think of heating oil this winter...but of course, that’s after the election, so it doesn’t matter.  Since it affects trucking, it affects everything shipping, especially shopping.

At least we know Mr. “if you properly inflate your tires” doesn’t know how to help...
Mark Stein says it’s over in four years, regardless of who’s elected in November.

And Larry Flynt, with his Hustler magazine, want(s) dirt on Romney, offering up to $1 mn...  Oh, there’s nothing worse than those infamous tax returns...

2012.09.10

After delving into InkScape (portable version, 2011) to make a beach coast image, I spent all the rest of the day learning one of the scripting languages contained, Python — it’s over 20 years old.  I couldn’t find trig functions, so I programmed sine in a form that handles both float and Decimal precision in one.

2012.09.09

Talk about death-prone: an attempt to cancel a doctor appointment was made behind my back!
Talk about destruction of hope, where even reaching out is rendered meaningless.

2012.09.08

Scientists hope to be able to control cockroaches with implanted radios...

Most pronounced near Chongqing, the Yangtze River, a.k.a. the “golden watercourse,” turns red.
Some put water into bottles; everybody went back to work.

Strong winds and power outages across the north-eastern U.S.  Tornadoes in NY: one in Queens, one in Brooklyn.

The Big Bamboozle, on Coast To Coast AM

Air Capt. Philip Marshall lays out facts and technical specs on what really happened concerning 2001.09.11 — no “Pilots for 9/11 Truth” nonsense (how impossibly complicated for it to be a missile that hit the Pentagon).

A predominantly Saudi operation (15/19), the hijackers’ training was traced back to a base in AZ north of Tucson, where they were instructed in Arabic.  Saudis were escorted out of the country during a time when jet planes were supposed to be grounded.  It took Marshall, a professional, four tries w. the flight simulator to hit the Pentagon; it would take quite the training and practice to be able to do it at all.  Marshall doubts Khalid Sheik Mohammed is capable of doing much of anything.

With Pete Williams, who worked under Dick Cheney for decades, now working for NBC News, as the ‘Judicial correspondent,’ and the Special Activities Division, the corruption is...well, I’ve already delivered an impression on that for some time.  The Director of National Intelligence oversees all intel. agencies.  He basically went to Obama and said, “We have bin Laden; what do you want to do?”

To suffer again: United Airlines just got out of the fin. hole when the attacks occurred.

The next guest, Robert Gleason, talks of how suicide is the main reason for the disappearance/fall of civilizations, in End of Days.  People who experienced the Black Plague, he says, are more capable of handling the next blacker plague.

Nuclear-fission power plants: dangerous and, as Einstein put it, ‘a very complicated way to boil water’ (to turn turbines).  And the waste just adds with no end, mountains drilled to store the radioactive spent fuel rod material.  It was very easy to smuggle the fuel in the early days— 50, 80, 90%.  And John Wayne was one of the unlucky people to feel the “warm breeze” that came from [one of] the test detonations.  Reason to be anti-fission: in theory, it’s not that difficult to cause a plant melt down...

Movie

Casa de mi Padre (2011) is an R-rated Spanish-language action-comedy set in Mexico, starring Will Farell and Génesis Rodriguez, originally written in English.  This is Farell’s first time with this kind of film, memorizing lines he doesn’t understand, with the help of a translator before shooting.  There are also musical numbers in Spanish, such as No, No Se, an Olé performance...and Génesis’ father singing an American ’80s song in Spanish.  The brother is played by Diego Luna (Y Tu Mamá También).  Sad note: the actor that played the father, Pedro Armendariz Jr., died 2011.12.26, not far from the release date.

Farell plays Armando Alvarez, a “know-nothing” rancher that is faced with drug violence in the return of his brother.  And he gets into a love triangle with the brother’s fiancé (Génesis Rodriguez). The film has many ‘send-offs,’ homages, nods, etc. to a number of Westerns and Mexican standoff movies from the twentieth century, with some deliberately overstated drama, along with deliberate continuity problems and flubs: for the wedding blood bath, where all but four die, blood drips from a white rose...and one guy is still sitting, smoking.  It also gets weird: Jim Henson’s Creature team was used for a stuffed, animatronic Bengal tiger puppet.  Even weirder: mannequins were used throughout the movie, even in the singular, butt-massage of a sex scene.

The deleted scenes tell a story that’s more gritty, but also premature in giving away story details.  Some of what made the final cut is good, and some of it’s way off mark in stupidity for the low-budget target appearance; the opening scene is three characters caught up in laughing for minutes (when you think they’re done they start laughing again, and again).  The dialogue for that scene is no better; it’s meaningless in how the characters just end up describing what you’re already seeing.  One of the final scenes contains a federal agent happily waving off two, yelling “Bye!”  While many of the left-in outtakes work, and the feature commentary is worth listening to, you have too much a lot of material that’s more dumb than creative.  Grade: C+ B-.

2012.09.07

Aug. unemployment was 8.1/8.2% because nearly 400K stopped looking for work.

Natl. security problem?
The election tally will be calculated, sent overseas to Spain w. Scytl.

Added 9.29.
Dying fashion models, very little strength treatment measure, starving conditions (BMI of 16, with industry at 18 minimum), and the death of a British model in May due to heart failure.

2012.09.06

Drew Peterson was found guilty today for the 2004 murder of one of his ex-wives, Kathleen Savio.  The defense will appeal on the fact that the prosecution used hearsay testimony.

Denver, CO: Sierra Jane Downing, 7, from Pagosa Springs, survives bubonic plague, at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center.

Scientists develop super-hydrogel: 20x stretch, 9,000+ j/sm in strength

Scientists develop a new tough compound, an alginate-polyacrylamide-water hydrogel, that could someday be used as artificial cartilage, researchers say.  Rubber only stretches up to six times its length; this material can stretch up to 20 times.  The hydrogel can also withstand well over the 1,000 joules per square meter of fracture energy it takes to break human cartilage, vs. only 10 with typical hydrogels, 100 w. contact lenses.  Its strength is due to the biocompatibibility of the two polymers that make up the solid part, said Harvard mechanical engineer Zhigang Suo.

Prepare

Survivalist blog: only 10% of the U.S. population are really on it, know what’s going on; of that 10, 8 are in denial that it’ll happen.  Coast To Coast listeners mostly fit into the 2% that have already prepared.  The big difference bet. now and the Great Depression is now we have a Global economy, countries ‘intertwindled,’ and dependence on electricity for everything, all the way down to medicine (massive die-offs if the grid stays down).

The US$ would’ve already collapsed if it wasn’t for the €.
The U.S. Dollar is only seen as a safe haven compared to the worse Euro.  When countries default on debts, Labor is the commodity that moves; Russia took back their factories, workers when other countries they dealt with failed.

Items of importance:

1. Water.  Filtration, for rain/runoff or wells that can be manually pumped, etc.; electric pumps are unreliable in worst case scenario.
2. Food.  Store months, up to three years worth.  Store in jars and cans, but not in any size that would give away the fact that you’ve prepped a lot of food (break-ins).  For charity, it’s preferred that you have an intermediary, such as a church, where only the church knows where it came from.
3. Spare glasses.  Cheap and plenty, anywhere.
4. Fire arms, training.  Keep the guns locked, of course.  Fresh empty paint cans make for inexpensive ammo storage, good for up to 100 years.

Obit

Former Browns and Ravens owner Art Modell, 87, dies of natural causes at Johns Hopkins Hospital, early Thursday.
The fact is Modell was a marketing genius, the man who pioneered the idea of Monday Night Football and pushed for prime-time games on Thanksgiving, said Jason Cole of the Pro Football Writers Association, calling Modell the NFL version of Michael Jackson.  He even volunteered the Browns for those games when other owners thought the ideas were silly.  I don't think you get the NFL to where it is today without Art’s ideas and his willingness to push them, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in 2010.  Art understood the value of our product and what it meant to our culture.  And he didn’t get inducted into the Hall of Fame

2012.09.05

I wouldn’t wish the badness I get on others.

The DoJ can’t make an argument on NH voter integrity: NH voter ID law approved.
And now people from MA can’t be bused, with the ‘free stuff’ bribery, to vote in NH.  In other states, people taken from recent obits would be used for names.

DNC in Charlotte: Lies and distortions, as predicted

First I hear this female speaker I can’t identify compound the War on Women nonsense with being a woman is a preexisting condition.  And pregnancy is a disease?  And the gullible applaud.  4.5 mn. jobs created...when calculated, more like 7K.

The Rs are using as a political football.  Debbie Wasserman Schultz will lie all day and night.  She was caught on tape, saying, what the Republicans are doing is dangerous, using the figure of the Israeli ambassador.  “I didn’t say that,” you’d hear, trying to distract with, That comment was reported by a conservative newspaper; not surprising that they would deliberately misquote me.  And, of course, smear the Washington Examiner.

Even Piers Morgan is getting tired of it; when he asked why God was removed from the D platform, Schultz gave the “we have values of all faiths” routine, every time.  Bret Baier had to face other Ds being merely combative when asked.  What, are you calling us godless?

Elizabeth Warren will be on today at 10 p.m., against actual football.  Arguably, a compulsive liar (comes up with things, doesn’t need to), using big words, loves “hammer,” on the Today Show: “When Romney says his plan is to increase taxes for the middle class”... He never said that.  The oblivious Samantha Guthrie wouldn’t call her out on it.  Warren’s back-track: I interpreted his [fill-in-the-blank] to be...

It took some time, with several motions, and secular backlash, but they moved to put God back in the D platform, along w. Jerusalem.

The President’s Thursday appearance has been moved indoors due to a 30% chance of thunderstorms; 20-30K seats.  We have seen storms like this.  They deny the claim they got less than the 55-75K original seats filled.  People could get hurt ... there is/was no issue.  Obama used to say, “a little rain never hurt anybody.”

Various Moments

Free food and booze got people to see...Boston mayor Menino.  You could hear laughter in the audience, cutaways, as he dropped consonants and stumbled onto similar-sounding words.  ..’Cluding, Martha Luther King.  At least he said, “Government isn’t the solution or the enemy; [government] is a partner...”

“Versus Tea party extremism, ideologues.”  “Pay[ing] your fair share isn’t class warfare, it is patriotic!”

Statist campaign/representing ad: “the government is the only thing we belong to.”

Obit

Singer-songwriter Joseph “South” Souter, 72, died of a heart attack in his Buford home.  He performed Games People Play (two Grammys: Best Contemporary Song and Song of the Year) and Walk A Mile In My Shoes in the late 1960s and ’70s, and also wrote for other artists, with songs like Down in the Boondocks (for Billy Joe Royal) and the Grammy-nominated, Lynn Anderson-performed (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden.  During the ’60s he worked as a session guitar player for big names like Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Simon & Garfunkel.

2012.09.04

Even there is no top secret material in the book, the Pentagon has said they will take legal action against the Navy Seal.

The Democratic Party platform removed all instances of ‘God’.  The Republican platform has 10.
It was a re-run, it was like watching black and white television.

2012.09.03

Labor Day: a day forced off.

No Secrets, Only Inspiration

Don’t think they won’t prosecute anyway; Eric Holder prosecuted Navy SEALs for punching a long-sought terrorist.
Who should be prosecuted?  The Navy SEAL that authored a new book that chronicles the actual UBL raid, or the administrators that lied about and distorted what had happened and used those lies politically (bin Laden’s weapon wasn’t loaded, they continued to shoot him after death).  SEALs are the best under the worst (trained to live homeless); if you can’t personally hand off a letter to them, you are despicable.

People who want all the credit disparage the actual protectors.  And they still get blind support of the corrupt and cult of personality.

Obit

Actor and former body guard Michael Clark Duncan, 54 in a L.A. hospital after failing to recover from a 7.13 heart attack, with myocardial infarction, according to a statement issued on behalf of fiancée Rev. Omarosa Manigault (The Apprentice).  The six-foot-five co-star of The Green Mile (1999), for which he got an Oscar® nomination, also appeared in The Planet of the Apes, The Whole Nine Yards, and lent his voice for Kung Fu Panda.

2012.09.02

Supposed to be out only 48 hours

Oh, yes, I need to hear Sam Donaldson’s take on Clint Eastwood’s directorial stunt.  Donaldson, a guy that said Michael Dukakis wasn’t responsible for a convicted murderer William “Willie” Horton’s 48-hr. release in Maryland to rape a wife and assault the husband, and to never return, being caught eight months later... Dukakis vetoed a bill that would’ve stopped furloughs for first-degree murderers.  NYT: What Became of The Democrats? (1991.10.20)

You Better Homeschool

MST/Colin Woodard: Existing full-time virtual schools earn poor grades, say studies.
More and more, states are turning to online classes for schooling.  A WMI-U research study released in July found that only 27.7% of K12’s schools met federally mandated Adequate Yearly Progress goals.  Across a wide variety of school measures they do very poorly, even though their demographics looked to us like suburban schools, said its lead author, Gary Miron.  Standards: lower reading and math rates, and only half of students graduate, compared to 4/5 of students at public schools.

The largest online edu. company in the nation is K12, Inc., a company co-founded by convicted junk bond trader Michael Milken in 1999.    K12 donated $44K to the reelection of ID’s top edu. official, Tom Luna, who pushed online class-taking graduation requirements.  According to The Times-News (Idaho), while state law only allowed the taxpayer funds to go to schools operated by nonprofit organizations, the state’s largest virtual school diverted 70% of the $9 mn. it got in public money to K12, while a second virt. school sent 85% of its $829K allocation to Connections Education of Baltimore, #2 in the nation.

Too Much/Little for an Apology

Last month, Portland Press Herald felt heat after publishing photos of Reverend Robert Carlson, copyrighted photos that were taken following his 2006 resignation as campus chaplain of Husson University-Bangor after being told by president William Beardsley to never step foot on campus again.  Carlson would continue attending events until his suicide in November, 2011 after learning he was under investigation for sexual abuse of a minor.  On August 6, 2012, the paper decided to use photos of him from a Flickr album after failing to get permission from the owner, Audrey Slade.  Slade was surprised to find one of her 2010 photos used as a crux to convey the story.  The online form of the story was published the next day. …

Failing to acknowledge the … “© All Rights Reserved” mark, … they instead mark … the double-standard.  The paper has a long history of aggressively taking legal action against people for using their copyrighted content without authorization, from photos all the way down to brief quotes. …

… On Aug. 13, she told Al Diamon that the paper had agreed to pay her the $400 [she demanded, at $100/day; they took it down].  It felt like shut-up money, she said.  All I wanted was for them to say ‘I’m sorry.’  Diamon also asked [editor Steve Greenlee] for question, but the response was in the same line of excuses and zero clarification as to Portland Press Herald’s use policy, why the unsigned explanation was online-only, and why it was erased. …

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2012.09.01

Police state/Drug War: 800,000 drug arrests/year, 40,000 new laws.

Secret Svc visit a man for actually praying for Obama w. a Psalm, to mean “good luck on your way out, being replaced.”

It’s calling out to idiot America.
Atheist willing to do Tulsa prayer meeting, in the ‘way it would be constitutional,’ to have someone who doesn’t believe, someone who believes the Bible is just ink & paper, and binding.

Green anarchists with plastic bags to pick up trash.
Only three Tampa protesters arrested; one assaulted another (two arrests), and one carried a machete on his leg...  Police outnumbered protesters 4:1; smaller nos. due to weather, heat, not ‘enough good mass transit,’ too crowded.

$1.6 bn. raised over decades.
Jerry Lewis is nowhere to be seen in the new telethon; shortened the last time, they will broadcast taped concerts from multiple locations.

Tennis

Roger Federer back on top of the rankings, seeks his sixth U.S. Open title for age 31; while Venus Williams returns after withdrawing over the Sjogren’s (auto-immune) diagnosis, the hope of one more from Andy Roddick, the attempt of Andy Murray to follow up on the Olympic win with a singles title for Britain with a U.S. Open Grand Slam, not seen since 1936, and Kim Clijster’s retirement.

Update: Federer quickly lost to a 17-yr.-old, and Roddick’s out.

The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One

Explicitly titled “lie loans” to launder money, with banks lying to each other.
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry (2005) by William K. Black has come to sell 1,137,996 in books (Amazon).

How do you get these large corporate failures and scandals?  Well, the way that you do it is to make really bad loans, because they pay better, Black said on Bill Moyers Journal (2009.04.03).  Then you grow extremely rapidly—in other words, you’re a Ponzi-like scheme.  And the third thing you do is—we call it leverage.  That just means borrowing a lot of money, and the combination creates a situation where you have guaranteed record profits in the early years.  That makes you rich, through the bonuses that modern executive compensation has produced.  It also makes it inevitable that there’s going to be a disaster down the road.

Obit

Songwriter Harold “Hal” Lane David, 91, died in the morning of a stroke.  Along with Burt Bacharach, their hits included the Oscar®-nominated title song for What’s New Pussycat? and Alfie.

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