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DISCLAIMER- VIRG EXPRESSES NO OPINION ABOUT THE MOTIVES ANYONE SELLING CHICKEN OR ANY HOBBY LOBBYISTS. 

A Man Will Hear What He Wants To Hear And Disregard The Rest.

I've seen it, and the First Amendment just does not read like this.

It's ok to believe in the Baby Jesus though and to think everyone else is wrong if they don't.  See, Bobby Family Values.   It's just that the goverment can't make us believe or disbelieve anything.  That's a wonderful thing that makes this the land of the free. Do I hear an amen Elder Leland?
Thanks to Dr. Steve.

“IT'S A WONDERFUL TIME TO BE ALIVE. AS LONG AS ONE HAS ENOUGH DYNAMITE.” Bernard Mickey Wrangle

Thanks to Ken

Dying Like Doctors.

“'Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me' . . .Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped “NO CODE” to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo. . . . How has it come to this–that doctors administer so much care that they wouldn’t want for themselves? The simple, or not-so-simple, answer is this: patients, doctors, and the system.. . . .Hospice care, which focuses on providing terminally ill patients with comfort and dignity rather than on futile cures, provides most people with much better final days. Amazingly, studies have found that people placed in hospice care often live longer than people with the same disease who are seeking active cures." How Doctors Die- It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be.  Ken Murray, MD
Thanks to Judge C.

Mothers of My Mother

Though “Sassenaugh” was an insult to some of my ancestors, we speak the name of Æthelflæd with the same reverence as we do the names of Alaisiagae, Aoife, and Boadicea. We are of one blood. Thank you for life my mothers.

THE WHITE ESTABLISHMENT - It is a cultural reality. The Southern colonies were initially established by the third sons of english aristocracy, driven by inheritance law, and the indentured servants, prisoners and slaves they brought over. Hence a class society in which you are suppose to know and respect your betters. With this comes a primitive view of religion that holds everything as ordained on high. Indeed a central function of a church in such a society is to justify the social order. It is god's will that the big man lives in the big house (they are the job creators you see) and god's will that blacks should be slaves. 

The South was/is a culture dominated by belief values that never fully accepted the liberal democratic ideals that sprang from reason and inquiry, so well absorbed in the northern states, populated as they were by a single class of emigrants, most fleeing the rule of the big man.


The northern states evolved a middle class and professional society that emphasized education, free thought, equality and pursuit of science. The tea party was in Boston remember, the South came slowly and reluctantly to the revolution.
Because agricultural practices were so harsh on the land, the inland southern states were progressively populated from this same cultural pool, moving ever westward for fresh land. Being southern born I have to say the south has its virtues or rather there are virtuous sides to its flaws, blind loyalty being one of them; they know how to wave a flag and die for it.


The irony is that the red states peoples believe themselves to be the true Americans largely on the basis of this type of unquestioning loyalty but in reality America's founding political ideals are best expressed in the progressive blue states that drove the original revolution and that have driven the nation's progress and subsidized the South even today as it is still scared by it perverse refusal to educate and empower its people; this to in the interest of keeping wages low for the big man.


An even larger irony is that the Republican party now owns the Southern side of the ongoing civil war (it has never really ended) and the Democrats have adopted the yankees. That itself is an interesting story, born in the civil rights movement where the Democratic party had to choose between it intellectual labor driven values it had picked up over time and the inherited racism of it geographic roots. The Republican party, for two generations in the wilderness as an opposition minority party, could not resist the temptation to broaden its base at the expense of its own traditional values and here we are and here it is, locked into catering and empowering the racist religious ignorance demographic of America.  What a tragedy but Bill does not see it.  No, his stress is that the South is losing again. 

An Email Exchange Accross the Fence.

Damn. You still don't get it, do you!?!  

 

OK I'll try me more time...

 

It's not that the Demos have a "better get out the vote machine", it's that their message is one of Love, Peace, Caring, Respect and Helping their fellow human being. Sometimes they can go overboard, such as LBJs "Great Society" welfare program. But they genuinely show love and compassion for their fellow citizens. 

 

Whereas the Republicans have a dog-eat-dog, devil-take-the-hindmost, shoot first ask questions later, torture is great, the one with the most toys wins (and gets to make all the rules), government is bad bad bad, the person with the bigger bank account is a better person than any of them horrible ugly poooor people, worship of the giant Golden $ (see the ending of Atlas Shrugged) philosophy. 

 

From the day Obama was first elected the Republican Party stated that they were going to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING in their power to sabotage his Presidency. And they have. But when they did this they were sabotaging MY COUNTRY! DAMMIT! They fought tooth and nail everything Obama tried to do, even when it was something that they would be all for had someone with an (R) after their name proposed it! The Republican Party crawled into the bed of furthest right wing religious racist fanatics and stroked their cocks hoping it would "excite their base"... They have driven from their party the bespectacled, intelligent, moderate by championing the rebel flag waving, rotten tooth, low IQ, the earth is only 6000 yrs old, jock-strap chewing troglodyte. Their champions are the Sarah Palins, the Ann Coulters, the Rush Limbaaaaaaahhhhhhhgghgs... Why the fuck can't you see this shit? The Barry that live on the 3rd floor of that old house next to Audubon Park with Larry and listened to Firesign Theater records would have...

What you saw yesterday is the result... And unless the Republicans learn that respect for intelligence and compromise are qualities that they should embrace then it will only get worse for them. 

 

P.S. I did not write this but it sums things up pretty well in a spontanious way.

Sometimes I Want to Cry Too Abigael.

Thanks to Carol

Alastor Moody.

RIP my friend.  I admire few more than you.

Bobby Family Values

Likeness Is uncanny

This is taken from the letters to the editor of the Arkansas Democrat- Gazette, October 14th,2012. I have had the same feelings but Al beat me to the punch and how he did it so short and sweet.

"Likeness is uncanny"
       
      " The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's editorial page is just like Fox News in print."

                                                     Al Janssen
                                                           Little Rock

Mitt Will, Sooner or Later, Claim to Have a Vagina, but He'll Still Be the Same Ole Lame Ole . . . .

Comparative Intelligence of Selected Mammalian Species.

The food bin was recommended and installed by an engineer, a lawyer, a teacher, and a professional carpenter. The first night, the coons got the lid off. After the lid was secured, the coons started using the lever. They left the great mound of food, pictured here, on the porch. The cats apparently couldn't figure out what the mound was and appeared to be starving until the food was scooped from the mound and placed in their bowls.

Cuz Has Trouble Taking Pictures With The Kodak On His Newfangled Phone.

He did make it work on the one below, which is amazing since he was so startled.  He knew that bears did this, but never considered that deer might. .

I'm Cocksure That This is True.

Thanks to R.G.

rnc-attendees-throw-nuts-at-black-cnn-camerawoman-this-is-how-we-feed-animals

Should it surprise us that it happened or that they threw her out? Shouldn't the candidates whose campaigns depend upon the sentiment go with them? It is confusing to me.  In either event, it seems unfair that Issac interfered with the GOP (Good Old Party) convention. I wonder if they would agree to extend it if kind hearted democrats would agree to pay for it.

http://www.examiner.com/article/rnc-attendees-throw-nuts-at-black-cnn-camerawoman-this-is-how-we-feed-animals

MITT ROMNEY WAS BORN IN PARAGUAY?

"A MUST READ FOR ALL PATRIOTS:

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!  UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE ROMNEY BORN IN PARAGUAY!  DID ROMNEY COMMIT FELONY VOTER FRAUD? "

I just got this in an email from JT, a bi-partisan birther.  I checked with a couple of sources I trust who didn't buy this theory.  One believed that Romney’s ancestors were born in Mexico, where they had fled to avoid picky U.S. laws that marriage was only between one man and one woman.”  

The other said that Romney was born in Mexico where many of his relatives still live and are part of the governing class there.  He has also heard “that he and his family there are in a conspiracy with the NRA to arm what are alleged to be drug cartel criminals but are actually a mix of Mexican and American revolutionaries feed up with pinko-liberalism in this country.  They intend to infiltrate the government, particularly the National Guard.  Then, and this is the critical part, they intend to force through the UN a treaty that will join Mexico to the United States using China's leverage as our largest creditor to make us accept it.  Mexico will become the fifty first state.  Once that is done they will have the votes in congress to enact Akins forced pregnancy laws, decriminalize legitimate rape, move the capital to Salt Lake City and make Catholic-Mormonism the official Religion.  Forced prayer returned to the schools and silly stuff like evolution and biology removed, God will once again smile upon America.  With this done all that will need to be done is to get the job creators on an earned income tax credit, so they can just tap the treasury directly, toss the welfare moms onto the street and prosperity will abound.  This is what I hear anyway. Might not all be true but pretty sure some of it is.”  JT is "pretty sure that Mexico stuff is just a distraction from the true Paraguay story, though unfounded rumors do abound about the untimely, suspect death of the obstetrician."  He claims to have actually known a boy who was born on the Paraguay Plantation.  "He used to bring big round straw hats and real colorful clothes to grade school for show and tell day and talk about snakes there and that his dad had some other wives and some other kids he hadn't met."   

In any event here's the Paraguay version for what it's worth:  

This is a must email for you to send to ALL PATRIOTIC CITIZENS!  The strange and bizarre unfolding story of Romney’s foreign birth is now nearly beyond despute!

HERE ARE THE FACTS:

*Most Americans by now know of the Mexican Mormon Colony where Romney’s grandfather went in protest to the US Supreme Court’s outlawing of polygamy.  But few remember a second colony, farther away, in the mountains 50 miles north of Ascension, Paraguay, dubbed informally “the Paraguay Plantation”.   

*Records recovered from the FAA show a flight plan filed from Park City, Utah, to Ascension, Paraguay, on March 7, 1947.  The plane returned March 16, 1947, 2357 hrs.

*A flight plan was filed from Battle Creek, Michigan, to Park City, Utah,  for a private plane, for March 6, 1947.  The pilot:  the Romney family obstetrician.  No record exists of the plane’s return—Freedom  of Information request returned as unavailable.

*Doctors, as we all know, sign many, many things daily, from prescriptions to patient charts and other medical forms and records.  Regular visits are made in particular to the newborn by delivering physicians in the period immediately after birth.  Harper’s  Hospital, Detroit, where Romney shows to have been born on his birth certificate can produce no signed documents for his obstetrician between March 7 and March 17, though many exist for days just before and just after that time.

*It is customary in Michigan for birth certificates to be submitted the day after birth.  Romney’s was not submitted until March 18, 1947.  Michigan law requires submission to the state within 7 days.  Romney has so far refused to release his birth certificate, but a copy obtained by reliable sources show it to have been signed by his obstetrician on March 9, 2012.

*Willard Mitt Romney was born MARCH 9, 1947!

*Why, one would wonder, would it be so important for a children of members of the CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS  to be born in Paraguay?  Why all the secrecy?  Here’s why:  Polygamy was the norm for many of Paraguay’s indigenous tribes, was still legal there until the late ‘70s, and, unlike Mexico, it offered citizenship to anyone born there, even if they were children of foreign nationals.  This is true of no other western hemisphere country!  Given the history of persecution of Mormons—first in New York State, then on to Missouri and Illinois, and elsewhere, and most recently by the US Supreme Court in criminalizing polygamy,--Church elders reasoned that if Mormon children were born in Paraguay under cover of secrecy, those children would have citizenship in a homeland in the event persecution in the United States persisted or increased.  A safety valve, if you will, a safe haven.  If things got bad enough in the US, the fraud could be admitted and the children repatriated to Paraguay, a country rich in natural resources and ripe for colonization by industrious folk like the LDSers.  No crime would have been committed by the children, only by the well-meaning adults who arranged the fraud.   Leaked documents from the Tabernacle contain ample references to the plan, and, in some cases, partial lists of the names of kids so born—mostly from prominent families who could stand the expense of the journey—still exist.  None, apparently, survive for the year 1947.  Or so sources in the inner LDS sanctum suggest.

*There is no proof that Romney knew the secret of his birth, at least until his stint at the Salt Lake City Olympics, about which more below.

*While much of the “Paraguay Plantation Project” is still shrouded in secrecy, absolute proof of its existence and practices surfaced in a most surprising way around the time of the Salt Lake City Olympics.  LDS Leaders, conducting a review of the Church’s postmortem baptism practices, unearthed a scandal, mostly hushed up at the time, in which some LDS renegades were selling SSNs of deceased persons to parties mixed up in identity fraud.  As is well known, LDSers had been using the Social Security Archive since the early 40’s,--public record, and free—and the best source for a wealth of names of dead persons, with deaths updated in those days yearly, and identified by Social Security Number.  The Mormon connection came to light in the investigation of some of the early Nigerian Scams.  The LDS leaders did the right thing and ended the practice, and disciplined the wrongdoers.  But in the course of the investigation they also discovered that many of the babies born in Paraguay between 1944 and 1961, when the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) effectively was put to rest, had been issued social security numbers of the dead retrieved from the Mormon files, RATHER IN THE FASHION THAT OBAMA’S GRANDMOTHER IS SAID TO HAVE OBTAINED HIS SSN.  Romney is not, repeat NOT, implicated in this fraud—the wealthier families could afford the elaborate arrangements to obviate the need for more fabrication of records. 

*  Interestingly enough, the Plantation was closed in 1969, when, as happens with faraway colonial projects, the colony members got Mormon theology mixed up with “The Summer of Love” and hippy counterculture --One of the Grateful Dead members had been brought up a Mormon, and his visit to his sister in Paraguay prompted the apostacy.

*Flash forward to the Salt Lake City Olympics.  Romney’s prominence in the LDS Community had to mean that he knew of the SSN scandals detailed above, and, if so, he may have learned that his own birth was subject to question.  If so, and he learned of it at the time, he had, at that point committed no crimes.  BUT IF HE VOTED IN ANY ELECTION AFTER THAT, A FELONY HAS BEEN COMMITTED, as he was not a US Citizen and knew his vote to be make in the commission of voter fraud.

COINCIDENCE?   ENOUGH CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO PROVE THE CASE IN AN AMERICAN COURT OF LAW!  THE ONLY POSSIBLE LEGAL CONCLUSION:  

MITT ROMNEY WAS BORN IN PARAGUAY!

A Rainy Day’s Reflection.

 Among the 3,400 human dead at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern was the uncle of my grandfather, A.H. Snoddy, and Cuz's grandmother, Dial Pearl Estelle Snoddy Prim.  I can't remember his first name.  They drove a wagon from Johnson County to Pea Ridge to pick up the body.  That's about 110 miles each way.  

Cuz walked it yesterday in honor of our fallen Snoddy ancestor and of Col. Hezekiah Vibram and his valiant Five Fingers Brigade.  (No, Nicole, according to all accounts, he didn't.  Apparently women in them days saw things as you do.)

"Be Proud to Be a Decent American Rather than Be Just a Wanker Whipping up Fear."

Thank you President Higgins.

Roadkill

On August 5^th 2012 while reading the Arkansas Democrat Gazette Artbeat section by Ellis Widner I came across an image that was so profound that I had to find out more about it. The image was from a monotype with pastel by Warren Criswell entitled “Roadkill”. These types of images which are dark and mysterious always get my attention for some reason and that is probably some psychological glitch I have been affected by.

My first thoughts occurred when I pondered the artist’s meaning of the subject “Roadkill”. It was disturbing for two reasons, one was that the roadkill described was visually a human figure and two a mythological bird like figure was seemingly eating the corpse on the road.

Over the years I have contemplated the plight of life that I have witnessed being extinguished on highways by manmade vehicles. Quite gory and somewhat disturbing to me was the desire to photograph those mangled bodies known as road kill.

This image by Criswell seemed to be saying that we are witnessing the continuing slaughter of mankind not only here on our highways but also across the globe and even more pathetic in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 Just like the animals scattered on our roads, the human losses in war have mostly been ignored, unless a death victim is a relative or friend. The human mind tries to protect itself from the horrors of everyday life and from going “crazy”.

An excellent commentary in the Democrat Gazette recently by Dave Perozek on how we as humans are ignoring the ongoing slaughter of our young people in the unjust wars they are being asked to fight . The two major political parties have rarely mentioned these conflicts in the campaign rhetoric. I continue to sadly read the obituaries of the fallen daily in the newspaper, maybe the list should be placed on the front page in red letters but then over time we would ignore those. How quickly we turn our attention away from issues when someone says we are getting our troops out of the country in conflict. It’s like it’s over but the bodies keep coming home in coffins.

All of this is best summarized by Waylon Jennings in his 1978 hit “I’ve always been crazy” being crazy has “kept me from going insane”.