"The Triumph of the Will"

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Thursday January 13, 2011 · 7:47 PM PST

2011/01/13 · 19:47

On September 11, 2001, America was attacked Pearl Harbor-style. Every single one of those dirty, murdering bastards died on that day, on what became just another shitty day in paradise formerly known as a "pre-9/11 world", if one were naive enough to believe there ever were such a thing as a "pre-Pearl Harbor, pre-9/11" peaceful world prior to these attacks, in the first place. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it "a day that shall live in infamy", after the Imperial Japanese surprise-attacked the first Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, him telling an isolationist American Congress to get ready for WWII, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto's own words foretold their future, that he feared all they did was awaken "a sleeping giant" that was soon to be coming to a Pacific theatre near him. He wouldn't live to see the prescience of his words. Or, if not in the prologue but most definitely in the epilogue, how much death, desolation, and mayhem the words "Tora, Tora, Tora" brought to bear upon Japan's own head, with interest.

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Tuesday November 30, 2010 · 8:06 AM PST

2010/11/30 · 08:06

Everyone alive remembers the unsinkable Titanic, despite the fact that nobody that was there then, is still alive today.

Nobody remembers the leader of the band.

Nobody remembers the band.

Nobody remembers the music.

Nobody remembers the futile cries for help!

Will anyone remember America 100 years from now?

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Sunday November 28, 2010 · 5:03 PM PST

2010/11/28 · 17:03

Disclaimer: I wrote this diary from the heart, two days ago. I had no intention of posting it. I apologize if it is way too long. I edited it down by 2,000 words today, lots of text and all the supporting links(except for Dallasdoc's diary link at the end) and many of my favorite quotations gone, poof! So I guess if you think that makes this a "rant", not a diary, so be it. I promise you'll be glad I (mercifully)pared this chapter out of "War and Peace" down to basically bullet points, to the very minimum possible and still be able to make any sense of it. I'm posting it now, only because I was asked to give my input by several kossacks, and because my "frustration factor" is only exceeded by my angst at what I see happening to America by so-called patriots, going on in broad daylight right in front of our eyes, unabated and unchecked every day.

So if you choose to stay for the ride, grab a sandwich and a cup of Joe. Turn off the TV and your cell. I'm going to be interjecting a crash course of a lot of deep thoughts into a very short amount of space and time. But I know you're real intelligent and you can handle anything anyone throws at you. The ways and the means I propose to restore America? Everyone handling these hard words, in the swallowing, maybe not so much...

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Sunday November 14, 2010 · 7:49 PM PST

2010/11/14 · 19:49

The way I see it, to put it in military terms, we need a "force multiplier", whose mere presence on the battlefield is a game changer. All throughout history there has been such force multipliers around. Napoleon's 5'6" presence alone was reputed to be worth about 30,000 troops. The Vickers and Maxim machine guns of WWI forever changed the landscape of Europe. The Russian T-34s, the German Tigers, the panzerfaust, the Sturmgewehr: "Storm Rifle" - the first assault rifles, the M-1, all ruled the battlefields of WWII. The Bradley fighting vehicle's 25mm chain gun, "Puff the magic dragon" minigun, just to name a few force multipliers, ie, game changers.

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Friday October 29, 2010 · 10:43 PM PDT

2010/10/29 · 22:43

Bush's promise after 9/11 was to attack any nation that harbored terrorists. And it wasn't an empty threat or a threatening promise. Just ask Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan if those were empty words. Anyone who wasn't living under a rock, especially the Yemen government who remembers the October 12, 2000 al-Qaeda bombing of the US Navy Destroyer, the USS Cole while it was anchored in Yemen's Port of Aden, should be thanking the terrorists that their bombs didn't go off causing another 9/11(Pearl Harbor) event, and that Barack Obama isn't George W. Bush.

But even President Obama admits that the packages constituted a "credible terrorist threat", which should be diplomatic code to Yemen that our current President's patience is not unlimited, and that they better hope that no more such packages with a Yemen return address, or if you prefer "Greeks bearing gifts"-that can be easily construed as an official act of war on their part, ever enter US airspace again...

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Tuesday October 19, 2010 · 11:58 PM PDT

2010/10/19 · 23:58

Think Progress nailed Senator Joe Lieberman three months ago right here in this article published on July 20th, 2010:
Lieberman: Utilities Want A ‘Breather’ From Letting People Breathe

"As negotiations on a stripped-down bill to limit global warming pollution from coal-fired power plants reach the final hour, Sen. Joe Lieberman(I-CT)is sympathizing with the utility industry’s attempt to suspend Clean Air Act rules on pollutants that kill tens of thousands of Americans a year".

My intro was too long...again. The rest of this quotation and my diary is under the fold...

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Monday October 18, 2010 · 11:47 AM PDT

2010/10/18 · 11:47

Truly the most arrogant presidential adminstration since our founding, the Bush-Cheney war criminal regime and its cast of un-impeached, un-charged, un-convicted conspirators, co-conspirators, and a host of other enablers on both sides of the aisle who held the coats for them, our newly-elected democratic president, in "turning the page before reading the page" and "looking forward not backwards", by winking and nodding at their crimes, even aiding and abetting their escape from the long arm of justice, in effect made a deal with the Devil.

And when anyone deals with the Devil on his terms, there's always, always HELL to pay-with interest. He's worse than any loan shark that ever carried a little black book of debts, or whoever charged a point for his services. Because the price for accomodation and capitulation usually brings with it not just costs in treasure, but the Devil always gets his dues, his repayment in flesh and blood-and in the end he damns your mortal souls! A deal is a deal. And when he's deals for the House, he always collects! The other half of my opening follows. It was too long...

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Sunday October 03, 2010 · 7:06 AM PDT

2010/10/03 · 07:06

That's what ten years old Vernon Pawlik and his grandmother Heidi were told when they tried to visit the West Wing of the Whitehouse last week after his grandfather, the last surviving black Medal of Honor recipient who served in WWII, the family received a personal invitation from the President. After being turned away because of his lack of proper attire, the WH was "not available for comment".

There are dress codes and then when I think about all the times I've seen our elected public servants appearing in public (who oftentimes look and act more like children themselves than the people they collect paychecks from to represent)I've come to realize that appropriate dress codes are more often in the eyes of the dress code police, than in the eyes of the beholder. I can't count the number of occasions I've even seen our President dressed in "not ready for prime time" attire befitting our nation's highest office. But I've often said that it's not the uniform, the suit, or the office that makes the man. It's the man that makes the uniform, the suit and the office.
At any rate, I'm sure that little boy will never forget his first visit to the WH.

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Wednesday September 29, 2010 · 3:07 PM PDT

2010/09/29 · 15:07

An angry and dissillusioned citizenry, deserted by both parties searching for answers, discovering that one's idea of change is another's idea for treachery: jobless, foreclosed, bankrupt, enslaved by fear and deception and like that man that got ran over by the train of tyranny, still thinking he both his legs of liberty and freedom, when with every passing heartbeat his lifesblood is flowing onto the ground!

Ammunition and firearms flying off the shelves so fast the manufacturers can't keep up with the back orders! And knowing that a forewarned people is a forearmed people, that freedom is not free, that it hangs in the balance today by the slenderest of threads like a Sword of Damacles, all we hear from them is, that our disobedience is not acceptable! Our failure to bow down to tyranny is a sign of weakness.That somehow, if we had only not been so inneffectual, that they wouldn't be the abject failures as leaders they are. Circumvent the Constitution and her People's House, and delegate all the authority to Czars they want to, a great orator and the greatest orations ever made, cannot absolve them from their responsibility for failing to follow the letter of the law when they have violated every tenet of the spirit of the law. Either we are a nation of laws and not men-or America is finished!

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Saturday June 12, 2010 · 6:17 AM PDT

2010/06/12 · 06:17

"Always let your conscience guide you and you will never fail or fall".

Cicero's injudicious maxim said,"salus populi suprema lex esto" (De Legibus, III, 3.8) -"Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law!"

Of course, Bush-Cheney, et al, most probably never read any of the works of the greatest orator in Roman history(and probably think the only Cicero that ever existed was Maximus Decimus Meridius's personal assistant in Gladiator), although they followed his maxim almost verbatim in the Bush Doctrine of preemptive, perpetual war, torture "to save American lives" mantra, and other acts of tyranny that would probably make the real "little boots" Caligula blush green with envy.

This diary is a culmination of a few days worth of work. My labor of love and devoted service. Call it what you desire and do with it what you must. Just let your conscience be your guide. Mine is telling me I've been up all night and I better go to bed and get some sleep. But I shall return(I think). It's a long one, so I divided it into parts...

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Wednesday June 02, 2010 · 12:47 PM PDT

2010/06/02 · 12:47

I'm not coming here a wolf in sheep's clothing playing the role of a Bush-lite Yale "skull & bones secret society" cheerleader, or Joe Friday's-Bill Gannon's reversible dinner jacket bad cop/good cop role in Dragnet today. And neither wilI I play you for a blind sheep being happily led to the slaughterhouse thinking it were the fulfillment of new promises of better lodgings, but I will talk to you as one with a working brain having our little fireside chat with another one as having a brain that is open, as opposed to being closed indefinitely, desperately in need of repairs. Don't follow me under the fold, if you're expecting pretty lies-or if you come to my diary with the ill intent to mock me, thinking this is some sordid game for you, or as if I have nothing else better to do with my short time I have left than debate a vulture over the rotting flesh of a horse that's already been dead in spirit for years longer than the instant it took for the grim reaper to slay it .

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Monday May 31, 2010 · 7:29 AM PDT

2010/05/31 · 07:29

While Americans are facing the greatest ecological disaster to hit our shores, following the United States House of Reprentatives, the United States Senate passes yet another "emergency supplemental" in support of President Obama's continuation of Bush's global war of terror[sic] on the American people, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan. This is not what I had in mind in 2008 when I voted for "change I could believe in".

According to Pakistan, their national The Daily Times newswire reported on Saturday, May 29, 2010, in an article appearing on their front page, entitled and I quote:
US Senate passes $349 million aid for Pakistan * House passes economic and security aid for Pakistan as part of a $60 billion war supplemental bill to fund Afghan operations and some projects requested by Obama admin
Oh, you know somebody's got some serious splainin' to do, how we can afford to be Pakistan's sugar daddy while the American people bear the brunt of this latest BP attack on our shores, but you know I'm not going to make it that easy under the fold...

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"The Triumph of the Will"

America reminds me of the sinking of the Titanic.

How we win "the war" against the American dream: Defining the terms and framing the national debate.

Meta: "What we have here is a lack of a force multiplier"

Yemen is very lucky Bush isn't the US President today

Sen. Joe Lieberman: "The man who would be king...maker."

Fiat justitia ruat caelum: "May justice be done though the heavens fall!"

Grandson of Medal of Honor winner told: "Access Denied"!

The End of Days-or just the end of us?

Introduction: Part I.

"Untenable. Unsustainable. Dumbed down".

Hey Pakistan, who's your sugar daddy?