What the New Pope Could Say

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Monday March 18, 2013 · 6:19 AM PDT

2013/03/18 · 06:19

What could the new Pope say to get my vote and admiration? Maybe something like this.

Dear people, Catholics and non Catholics alike my church has done you a great disservice in the past; we have craved and sought things that are beneath contempt for an organization representing the Spirit of God. We have shared the same worldly values as the most materialistically minded criminals and dictators, we have poisoned the ponds of Holy Water with debauchery, barbarism and disillusionment, we have sold God’s Word to the highest bidder, we have fleeced the people for filthy lucre at every opportunity.

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Wednesday August 22, 2012 · 2:19 PM PDT

2012/08/22 · 14:19

Tilling the Ground for the Seeds of Terrorism by Dennis Kucininch:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

After more than 10 years of war against al Qaeda and the accompanying global "war on terrorism," we have failed to learn that our actions create reactions. Our presence creates destabilization, then radicalization. Occupations create insurgencies. In Afghanistan, we have fueled the very insurgency we struggle to fight.
Al Qaeda had relatively little if any presence in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion. The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the subsequent destruction and violence, enabled al Qaeda to flourish. Al Qaeda and its affiliates are now conducting an accelerated campaign of relentless attacks and suicide bombings in Iraq.

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Just who is in control here?

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Just who is in control here?

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Minnie mouse

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Lonesome Rhoads

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Mr. Wizard

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The Brothers Grimm

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What's What?

oldtomblood

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Monday March 19, 2012 · 3:57 PM PDT

2012/03/19 · 15:57

So I read the article and the question was why do so many people seem impervious to the obvious malevolent malfunctioning of our nation at this time and point and moment. The fear being that until enough people are aware of the situation nothing will change and we will all be dragged down with the sinking plastic, fantastic, inevitable Wonderbread culture.

Yes, telling people what they don’t want to hear is a tough sell I’ve noticed this myself sometimes. And it is hard to blame people for not wanting to admit to themselves that things are as bad as some may be saying they are; an overdose of bad news can be overwhelming and it is often more prudent to take it in small portions.

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Thursday February 16, 2012 · 2:56 PM PST

2012/02/16 · 14:56

The Sci-Fi movie I find myself in or the one I imagined myself into, it’s hard to tell has a certain reality to it. You know, I’m familiar with the terrain and it appears to be solid and it’s the only one I know; it’s been the basis of my world view for years and years and I was mighty accustomed to it.

Then I began to have my doubts about the system, why were the results so disappointing, freedom should be better than this what’s going on here? Ever so slowly it crept over me, a sensation both exhilarating and unnerving; ever so slowly I began to harbor a sinking feeling that we had been taken over by alien forces that had used such a light hand that we did not perceive our enslavement.

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Which 50's SciFi movie do we most resemble?

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Which 50's SciFi movie do we most resemble?

Plan 9

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Pod movie

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Amazing shrinking

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Teenage alien

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Colossal man

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The thing

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Them

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Lights out

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Lights on

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Night creatures

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Red moon rising

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Dark side of the sun

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Sado Marxist?

oldtomblood

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Saturday January 28, 2012 · 12:33 PM PST

2012/01/28 · 12:33

"Dregs" by a republican:
I always find it interesting that Bolsheviks or reformed Bolsheviks like Ehrenburg point to Fascists like they were the White Trash. Always seems an effort inoculate themselves from the horrors of their ideology. Individualism vs. Collectivism etc by force or by force with a flower on top.

As if the followers of Marx weren't Sadists.

Leave it to a republican to equate the oddest of equations. Now I can’t say that I ever read any Marx but from a purely hearsay point of view he had a good and valid case to make against the oppression of the people by the aristocracy. The fact that his work was high jacked and used in ways that would have turned his stomach is a common one in human history.

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Do the people deserve a life?

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Do the people deserve a life?

yes

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maybe

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if only

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not a chance

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why not?

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For The Irrationally Gullible

oldtomblood

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Saturday September 10, 2011 · 5:13 AM PDT

2011/09/10 · 05:13

(In my opinion) at this stage of the game only the irrationally gullible believe anything our politicians say or do; they are all involved willingly or not, knowingly or not in a conspiracy of conmen who have plans that they need to keep under wraps. Right wing, left wing or no wing at all they all do the bidding of the same unseen forces that lurk behind the curtains of our current drama.

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Politics is a game for?

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Politics is a game for?

fools

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busy bodies

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the aristocracy

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mullet heads

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criminals

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lawyers

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mighty mouse's

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BetrayUs Delux

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Thursday August 18, 2011 · 2:53 PM PDT

2011/08/18 · 14:53

I put up a diary yesterday that spoke to my concern that David Patraeus has been appointed head of the CIA, I put it up on three sites and the response has been underwhelming in the extreme, no one else appears to care or see a problem with this. While we drone on endlessly about the candidates and their foibles behind the scenes big stuff is happening that should be getting our attention but it's not, the distractions are working as planned, the conspirators have us where they want us and no one has noticed.

Further thoughts:

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Our intentions in the Middle East are?

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Our intentions in the Middle East are?

noble

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right as rain

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Ah, BetrayUs

oldtomblood

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Wednesday August 17, 2011 · 3:07 PM PDT

2011/08/17 · 15:07

This was inspired by an article by Micheal Brenner called "I, Petraeus" in which he discusses the odd and convoluted way that General Petraeus has bounced back from being General Betrayus a few short years ago to running operations in the Middle East and now heading up the CIA, all at the bequest of the democrats, the same democrats that once found him unacceptable.

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D. Petraeus is destined for?

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D. Petraeus is destined for?

greatness

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the presidency

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it's a secret

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Rick Perry I Know This Guy?

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Monday August 15, 2011 · 3:46 PM PDT

2011/08/15 · 15:46

I've got to say that leadership is highly overrated and not what it's cracked up to be from where I stand; but then again who is going to take someone who has only voted once seriously when they focus their sights on "The Big Game" called politics? My credentials are bare to nonexistent, an aging hippie establishment questioning hermit, better suited to drawing little pictures or plucking stringed instruments than having worthwhile informed opinions on what the grownups are up too in the real world.

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Who does Rick Perry remind you of?

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Who does Rick Perry remind you of?

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Art Carney

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Elizabeth Taylor

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Elmore Gantry

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Jim Dandy

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A Corrupting Influence

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Sunday August 14, 2011 · 9:42 AM PDT

2011/08/14 · 09:42

Ok, let me set the stage, fill in the background for you, this was a comment wherein I try and explain to myself just what happened to the promise we once had and the ideals we once embraced, what caused us to make such a radical turn in the opposite direction ending up where we are now. For those without the interest or patience to wade through my analysis I am going to put the end at the beginning, the punch line at the beginning of the joke; then if anyone cares to see how I got there they can do the wading for themselves.

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Thursday August 11, 2011 · 6:53 AM PDT

2011/08/11 · 06:53

I envisioned that by means of psychotropic drugs and endless direct applications of right wing propaganda I was transformed into a person who became enraged by the words of one Dustin Hoffman and I went off on him and told him clearly what I thought of his left wing drivel. It was like an old fifties SciFi movie, I saw things from the aliens perspective, for a while there I was in a liberal body with a conservative brain, it was scary and I’m glad that chapter in my life is over, it was harrowing to the max and I don’t recommend it.

Dustin Hoffman said:
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert -
that this war is about what most wars are about:
hegemony, money, power and oil.

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Wednesday August 10, 2011 · 10:47 AM PDT

2011/08/10 · 10:47

I started something I see I can’t finish in one sitting, I bit off more than I can chew but I like the taste of it and plan to keep on eating. I figure it’s time for some offense and this is start, if it becomes an essay it might be called “Benevolent Dictator What Would You Do? Wherein we discuss potential cures for what is obviously a malfunctioning society, what is wrong with it and how might it be improved if you were in a position of absolute power and free from the restraints of political infighting.

Example: We have twelve people and the goal is to get a large rock to the top of a hill, if all twelve pull together in the same direction it is an easily accomplished task, no sweat or very little anyway, it can be done. Or as we see it happening in our government today six of the people get on one side of the rock and the other six get on the other and pull with all their might and to what effect, you guessed it no effect at all; the rock just sits there wondering what all the fuss is about.

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