This movie is about the compelling story of a mentally challenged father raising his daughter with the help of an extraordinary group of friends. When the daughter reaches seven and begins to intellectually surpass her father, their close bond is threatened when a social worker decides the daughter should be placed in foster care.
It's a riveting story and you can find the movie's official site at the following link.
Amir Taheri: The Future of Iraq and The Arabian Peninsula After The Fall of Baghdad
The following excerpt from the article about the book shows that the ultimate goal of Al-Qaeda is the destruction of "secular democracy" along with all religions which are not Al-Qaeda's particular brand of Islam.
All-Ayyeri first made his name in the mid-1990s as a commander of the Farouq camp in eastern Afghanistan where thousands of “volunteers for martyrdom” were trained by Al Qaeda and the Taleban.Al-Ayyeri argues that the history of mankind is the story of “perpetual war between belief and unbelief”.
Over the millennia, both belief and unbelief have appeared in different guises. As far as belief is concerned, the absolutely final version is represented by Islam which “annuls all other religions and creeds.” Thus, Muslims can have only one goal: converting the entire humanity to Islam and “effacing the final traces of all other religions, creeds and ideologies.”
Unbelief (kufr), however, has come in numerous forms and shapes, but with a single objective: to destroy faith in God. In the West, unbelief has succeeded in making a majority of people forget God and worship the world. Islam, however, is resisting the trend because Allah means to give it final victory.
Another excerpt from the article is:
The first form of unbelief to attack the Muslim world was “modernism” ( hidatha) which led to the destruction of the caliphate and the emergence in the lands of Islam of states based on ethnic identities and territorial dimensions rather than religious faith.The second form of unbelief to confront Islam was nationalism which, imported from Europe, divided Muslims into Arabs, Persians, Turks and others. Al Ayyeri claims that nationalism has now been crushed in almost all Muslim lands. He claims that a true Muslim is not loyal to any particular nation-state.
The third form of unbelief mentioned by Al-Ayyeri is Socialism, which includes Communism. That, too, has been defeated and eliminated from the Muslim world, Al Ayyeri asserts.
Ba’athism, the ruling party’s ideology in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, is presented by Al Ayyeri as the fourth form of unbelief to afflict Muslims, especially Arabs. Ba’athism, which is also the official ideology of the Syrian regime under President Bashar al-Assad, offers Arabs a mixture of pan-Arabism and socialism as an alternative to Islam.
Al Ayyeri says Muslims “should welcome the destruction of Ba’athism in Iraq.”
“The end of Ba’ath rule in Iraq is good for Islam and Muslims,” he writes. “Where the banner of Ba’ath has fallen, shall rise the banner of Islam.”
The author notes as “a paradox” the fact that all the various forms of unbelief that threatened Islam were defeated with the help of the Western powers, and more specifically the United States.
The “modernising ” movement in the Muslim world was ultimately discredited when European imperial powers forced their domination on Muslim lands, turning the Westernised elite into their “ hired lackeys”.
The nationalists were defeated and discredited in wars led against them by various Western powers or, in the case of Nasserism in Egypt, by Israel.
The West also gave a helping hand in defeating socialism and Communism in the Muslim world. The most dramatic example of this came when the US helped the Afghan Mujahedin destroy the Soviet-backed Communist regime in Kabul.
And now the US and its British allies have destroyed Ba’athism in Iraq and may have fatally undermined its position in Syria as well.
What Al Ayyeri sees now is a “clean battlefield” in which Islam faces a new form of unbelief.
This, he labels: “secularist democracy”.
Al Ayyeri asserts that this new threat is “far more dangerous to Islam” than all its predecessors combined.
I always knew there was a reason Daniel Drezner was one of my heroes.
As the post below will explain, sleaziness and dishonesty at Brown University seem to know no bounds, especially in the egregiously misnamed "Third World Transition Program".
Critical Mass: Segregation at Brown
Oh no!! Another moron has contacted me and tried to convince me to agree with the premise that the Victor Oekerman clan is a fine, upstanding, white Christian family.
I was actually going to put some jokes about the homophobic, white supremacist Victor Oekerman family in a comedy routine for "open mike night" at a couple of comedy nightclubs in Portland, Oregon a couple of years ago, but the Oekerman family sent some people over to order me not to make any jokes about them because they are a fine, upstanding, white Christian family.
So I'll just make jokes about them on this website.
Only in beautiful, downtown Washington County, Oregon.
So in honor of the truth, I present another true expose.
One of the times the ex-wife tried to run me over
One of today's questions is, "What do the Oekermans have against basketball?"
Another question is, "Is driving through parks an Oekerman thing, or do most people do it?"
Another question, "If members of the Victor Oekerman clan are driving through parks, does that mean we should play basketball in the streets?"
What the hell is going on in England? Is England trying to be the next France or Washington County, OR?
desertlightjournal.blog-city.com - A TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SON
The following link via Summaryopinions.com will take you to a commentary by Marie Cocco.
Newsday.com - A Symbolic Candidate Does NOW Little Good
I generally agree with Marie Cocco except for one item. She says in her commentary,
"The pioneering feminist group, which still maintains a large grass-roots organization in many parts of the country, has just endorsed former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun for president."
The truth of the matter as stated in a book by Kimberly Schuld, a research fellow at the Capital Research Center, is that the National Organization of Women has lost its support from the vast majority of women because its leadership has become more and more like a lunatic fringe group. The following is an excerpt from a news article about the book.
In addition to exposing the financial strategies of feminist organizations, Schuld's book reveals that a "disconnect" exists between the groups and American women.
For example, she said the National Organization for Women (NOW) claims it has 500,000 contributing members, but an examination of the group's finances doesn't support that figure.
When Schuld combined her analysis of NOW's finances with "inside information" obtained from unnamed former NOW officers, she said the group could not possibly have more than 57,000 contributing members. Plus, NOW doesn't have the staff to maintain a database of 500,000 active members, she said.
"The truth is they don't have even 57,000 members, but yet the media prints, 'Kim Gandy and the National Organization for Women with their 500,000 members says ...blah, blah, blah," Schuld said. "Well, Kim Gandy doesn't have 500,000 members. She lies about it and nobody asks her what the truth is."
Today's highlighted Iranian blog is Editor:Myself.
Check out the links to the right of Editor: Myself.
The following link via How Appealing.
As I've written before, ever since my sister, Chris Andrea Hays, joined a stupid, homophobic, delusional, white supremacist hate group, she has gone around falsely accusing me and a lot of other people of horrendous crimes, including falsely accusing me and other people of molesting our kids.
She has done this for many, many years.
Her hatred has also led her to commit many crimes, including violent crimes, with my crazy ex-wife and others for many, many years. They get away with it because they are surrounded by a group of fanatics who lie for them and make wild, false accusations against anybody who speaks out about the crimes committed by my sister and my psycho ex-wife.
My sister also puts her kids through hell and inculcates her kids with the same delusions and hatred she feels for so many people.
A lot of people have asked me why she does all this and how she managed to learn to hate so many people.
I guess that brings up the question of the day: How did my sister learn to hate so many people, including me, and will she ever quit having delusions and hating so many people?
I agree with the article at the below link.
Unholy Narcissism Fuels Left and Right Extremists :: PrudentPolitics.org :: Op-ed articles about government, political issues, and other news.What do American convicted murderer Paul Hill and Islamic bomber-murderer Raed Abdel-Hamed Masq have in common? There is the obvious, that both are murderers, and the further obvious, that both have ardent supporters who would vehemently dispute that they are murderers. Both killed innocent people, who had no reason to know or think these particular murderers were on the way. Both had happy families with children. Both wanted to die for their cause. Both thought a big reward for their 'just' behavior waited just the other side of life. Both so much alike, they are the players in two seemingly disparate events, which happened across the world from each other, but which show through a closer examination of the similarities of their reasons for killing, that unholy narcissism fuels both left and right religious extremists.
Waste Basket Vol. VIII No. 36: Government Workforce Explodes
The following is from a radio commentary.
Judge Moore: Moses or Taskmaster?
In politics, as in religion, symbols are important. But when empty gestures start hiding real chicanery, it is time for a Reformation.Alabama Justice Roy Moore displays the Ten Commandments, and he is revered by some as Moses. Yet it may be he erected a golden calf, enthralling and blinding us to the wrongdoing in his courts.
Like every other court system in America, Alabama's judiciary is thoroughly corrupt. While this may not be Judge Moore’s doing, one does not rise to the Supreme Court without playing some unseemly games.
In this case, Judge Moore seems to be siding with the taskmasters.
Gregory Lemieux is one victim of the state’s rapacious judges. Like many other citizens, Lemieux was minding his own business in his own home, a faithful husband and dutiful father, when Judge James Smith seized his children and everything else he had, cost him his job and his home, and is now threatening to jail him indefinitely unless he pays protection money to Judge Smith’s gang of cronies and thieves.
Lemieux was not accused of any wrongdoing, either criminal or civil, when the state proceeded to turn him into an outlaw.
How is it that an innocent citizen, minding his own business, can face indefinite jail without trial? Simple: The state calls it "divorce." But it's closer to kidnapping and extortion.
A devout Catholic, Lemieux does not believe in divorce, and no grounds have been alleged against him. Yet once his wife decides to renege on her marital vows, her husband cannot avoid jail.
Once his wife filed for divorce, contact with his children became a crime. By divorcing she also gained an astounding $2,300 monthly, which he must pay on pain of incarceration. Even more appalling, he must pay thousands to lawyers he never even hired for a divorce he never agreed to and doesn’t believe in. All this despite the fact that he lost his job in direct result of this government intrusion into his private life. Clinical documentation to this effect was ignored by Judge Smith. Greg Lemieux is a slave, and he must make bricks without straw.
LeMieux appealed to Judge Moore, who is required by oath to protect and defend the Constitution against precisely this kind of arbitrary government. LeMieux received silence. He expects to be arrested when he next visits his children.
Judge Moore is presiding over a judiciary of gangsters. If he wants to turn his court into a temple, he might begin by throwing out the moneychangers.
For FCF News on Demand, this is Stephen Baskerville.
The following link will take you to more writings of Dr. Stephen Baskerville.
Writings on the
Divorce Regime,
Family Court Corruption,
and the
Government’s War on Fatherhood
Stephen Baskerville, PhD
Well, what can you say when a prosecutor is in denial about reality?
TalkLeft: Miami Prosecutor Fights Dismissal Despite DNA Clearing
What can I say? You'll just have to visit the following link to prove it to yourself.
I think I'll disagree with the post by IsThatLegal?. There is such a thing as ethnic culinary specialities. For example, an Irish seven course meal is a six pack and a potato. I have a lot of Irish in me so I can make these stupid Irish jokes. Of course, I make all sorts of jokes so the last sentence is just silly.
By the way, my Irish ancestors left Ireland and traveled all around the globe and screwed everybody they could possibly screw and that's why everybody on the planet has some Irish blood in them. This upsets my psycho ex-in-laws who are convinced they are members of the true Aryan, master race but like I say, "Screw 'em".
I've visited about 20 countries and it seems each country had an ethnic specialty dish of some kind. Of course, here in the U.S. there are so many ethnic groups that one can go to a Greek restaurant one night, an Italian restaurant another night, an Indian reastaurant on a third night and on and on.
We even have restaurants that specialize in regional specialty dishes.
Read the comments at the post by "Is That Legal?".
As I've written before my psycho ex-in-laws from hell believe almost everthing the cult's leaders tell them, even outrageous crap like the U.S. being "pulsed" with partical beam weaponry from Russia and China.
It seems some of my neighbors have been approached by members of the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman cult and have been informed of some outrageous falsehoods. I wonder if my neighors are gullible or not.
My relatives, Chris Andrea Hays and Neta Hays, and some members of their idiot church believe almost everything the cult's leaders tell them. Is this an excellent example of gullibility and foolishness? We report, you decide.
Below link via Instapundit.com
Electric Venom:The World Needs More Resentful Feminists
On a related note, the Psycho Ex-In-Laws from hell prohibit their women from doing research on the internet because the internet is evil as shown in the following email.
TIME TO PROTECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN AGAIN - IN A BARBARIC SOCIETY THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN SAFE, AND WE ARE SLIPPING INTO CHAOS.....
The credible evidence in our court cases in Oregon is that the STATE is operating this black market child selling/child pornography operation, and it is international. After Child Services head Kay Toran went to romania and taught them how to profit from their vulnerable children and orphans, the children being seized and adopted to usa nd europe were not arriving here. This is so bad that just recently the UN stopped all international adoptions because so many of these children were missing.....
thousands in every state and NO real statistics.....
the us Supreme Court is part of the problem , but our rights and accountability are at state government level, which brings us to pedophile chlid abuser protector JOHN KITZHABER and the Oregon Supreme Court. This evidence has been before them for five years and growing in our cases, and to this day only the pornographer has been protected, while we have been attacked and with ALL THIS KNOWN, Melissa has dissppeared into their market.....
We proved in l998 that the pronographer HAZEL SPEES, and the caseworker LARRY LAWSON and TIM IRMEN were grooming Melissa for the pornogrphay trade. The woman who had her seized was later arrested for black market child selling. The courts have done nothing but spend milions $$ literally, more than thirty cases against us on anything they can make up, and all this right out in the open. As these facts have come to light has this Governor investigated? NO has he interevened" NO - he has only protected the criminals, of which he is one.
The state Supreme Courts are the constitutional courts, and where these issues are supposed to be dealt with. Because it is so FETID all the way thorugh, you have these offices filled with pedophiles themselves, the whole gay agenda we deal with every day, and the HUGE money making machinee they have going....
The snuff movies and every kind of perversion on the internet are why WE have not lost our communications network - the people of the world are learning about their abuse through this same network, which the powers that be would LOVE to shut down - BUT THEY CAN'T GET THEIR PORNOGRAPHY AND SATIATE THEIR LUSTS UNLESS THEY HAVE THE INTERNET TOO - and so far they have not figured out how to do this.
I have read that most of the people on the internet are looking at pornography, in chat rooms or buying and selling...... that leaves a small and important segment of the population that are connecting the TRUTH on these websites for the benefit of ALL who will come and learn.
GOD SEES EVERYTHING AND WE TRUST THAT THE DAY IS SOON THAT THE INTENT OF THE HEART WILL DECIDE THE FATE OF THE SOUL .....
So many people think the world is somehow the same as when they were growing up but there is NOTHING that is the same anymore. These pictures decribed in this article that our children can find anywhere on the net, are unlike anything that was in circulation or accessible to children twenty years ago.
God help us all that the children today are being fed this diet of sex and violence, mixed human primal emotions, then influenced with the perversions of homosexuality when they are too young to understand their sexualtiy...
IT REALLY IS TIME TO START PROTECTING YOUR CHILDREN PEOPLE = THERE WAS A REASON WHY MOMS STAYED HOME AND DADS WORKED AND FELT GOOD ABOUT PROVIDING FOR THE FAMILY ...
But then again, we all know that the design of the global controllers is to destroy the Family Body and the rest falls into their control
we are there already.
THE ONLY ANSWER IS FOR MORE PEOPLE TO STAND AGAISNT THIS AGENDA WITH THE TRUTH. IN THE COURT, AND IN THE WORLD, THE ONLY POWER IS THE TRUTH AND THE SWORD FOR THOSE WHO SPEAK IT.
We hear stories of abuse like this constantly. In Oregon, KEVIN MANNIX governor candidate is financed by LOREN PARKS who is one of the biggest perverts in the country - he designed pedophile machines that are used by gays and the state alike to abuse chidlren and adults. And you see "church" groups like Christian Coalition SUPPORTING THIS FILTH.
Lastly, the people should know that these so called "assessment centers" that make pornography of the children, often with male and female foster people and caseworkers and "therapists" in there, SHOW PORNOGRAPHY TO THE MEN WHO ARE WIRED UP ON THE LOREN PARKS PENIS MACHINES AS THEY ARE QUESTIONED - WHERE DO THEY GET THIS PORNOGRAPHY????? IN THREE TRIALS NO ONE CAN SAY IN THE MARION COUNTY COURTHOUSE WHERE THE PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO OF MELISSA IS - IT IS NOT WHERE IT WAS CONCEALED CRIMINALLY BY JUDGE JOSEPH OCHOA TO PROTECT THE PORNOGRAPHY.
THIS WHOLE THING WAS SENT TO THE JUSTICE DEPT BY A POLICE CHIEF, AND ALL THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DID WAS RETALIATE MORE AND MORE, AND STILL.......THEY ARE THE PEDOPHILES !!!!
WAKE UP AMERICA - IT MAY BE TOO LATE ....
WE HAVE KNOWN FOR SOME TIME THAT WE WERE IN A WAR BUT YOU DID NOT SEE THE TANKS ON THE STREETS - WELL THAT IS HERE NOW......
Like Roger Weidner tells people "your children will spit on your grave for what you did not do when you could have to stop this....."
pamela gaston
a voice for children
Daniel W. Drezner and Outside the Beltway have two interesting posts about Bush's decision to seek help from the U.N. and the politicking that went on behind the scenes.
For even more info one might want some background by visiting USS Clueless.
Dylan Thomas - The Academy of American Poets
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door--
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--
Only this and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore--
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore--
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door--
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;--
This it is and nothing more."
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you"--here I opened wide the door;----
Darkness there and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"--
Merely this and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
"Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore--
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;--
'Tis the wind and nothing more!"
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door--
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door--
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore--
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door--
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as "Nevermore."
But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered--not a feather then he fluttered--
Till I scarcely more than muttered "Other friends have flown before--
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before."
Then the bird said "Nevermore."
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of 'Never--nevermore.'"
But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore--
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking "Nevermore."
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite--respite and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore;
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!--
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted--
On this home by Horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore--
Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil--prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us--by that God we both adore--
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore--
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
"Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted--nevermore!
This version appeared in the Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner, September 25, 1849. For other versions, please visit The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore site: http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/index.htm#R
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Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being—
Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes!—O thou
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill—
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere—
Destroyer and Preserver—hear, O hear!
Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
Angels of rain and lightning! they are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head
Of some fierce Mænad, ev'n from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith's height—
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might
Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst:—O hear!
Thou who didst waken from his summer-dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,
Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams,
Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss, and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic's level powers
Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear
And tremble and despoil themselves:—O hear!
If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O uncontrollable!—if even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be
The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed
Scarce seem'd a vision,—I would ne'er have striven
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd
One too like thee—tameless, and swift, and proud.
Make me thy lyre, ev'n as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! be thou me, impetuous one!
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
I read XRLQ on a regular basis. Blogging for many people is a labor of love, or in my case a sign of extreme mental illness, but, nevertheless, it is a labor that takes one's time and thoughts. For bloggers to be able to take time off and have others take over is a luxury.
So I would like to propose a toast to all substitute bloggers, even the ones I disagree with. It's nice to have XRLQ back - damnum absque injuria: I'm Back - even though now he's a TV news star.
Phil Carter brings up some interesting observations. When I went into the military in 1980 many people thought military people were the scum of the earth.
Since I've gotten out of the military I have been continuously insulted for having been a member of the military and, even today, in loony, homphobic, racist Washington County, OR, I am constantly being insulted for once having been a member of the military. I only served for four years but ever since I have been called the scum of the earth...AMONG OTHER THINGS.
According to Asia Business Intelligence the communist government of China is cracking down on speech that advocates political freedom. So what else is new?
Mark A. R. Kleiman - THE DECLINE OF PROSECUTORIAL ETHICS
In his post there's a couple of sentences I think I need to reread a few time in order to get the full import of the meaning. The sentences are as follows:
There's always some sort of tradeoff between crime prevention and accuracy; the only way to never punish an innocent person is never to punish anyone at all. But we could keep the prisons full if we only imprisoned those actually known beyond reasonable doubt to be guilty, and in my view the crime-control losses incident on tightening up somewhat on the standard of proof would be slight.
I agree wholeheartedly with the following paragraphs:
What most non-participants don't understand about the criminal law is that an appeal isn't supposed to be a fresh review of the evidence: it's almost exclusively about errors made at trial. As a matter of law, the fact that someone convicted in due form is factually innocent of the charge is not, in general, a reason to let him out of prison. (Justices Scalia and Thomas have argued [*] that the execution of a factually innocent person would not constitute a Constitutional violation.) So the ability of demonstrably innocent people behind bars to have their cases reopened depends on state law and state rules of criminal procedure, and the prosecutors have had considerable success in opposing such attempts both in the legislatures and in the courts. (Most horribly, some states explicitly allow police to destroy the evidence after some period; the proof of innocence in some case may be literally going down the drain as I write.)While I thought the defense bar's earlier position outrageous, the prosecution's current position is incalculably worse. It should go without saying that keeping innocent people in prison is not a means of crime control. Of course, any organization hates to admit error, but this reflects something uglier: the degeneration of the traditional prosecutor's ethic, which held that "the government wins its case whenever justice is done," into a merely adversarial, notches-on-the-belt mentality. No doubt the rightward swing on criminal justice issues, combined with the fact that District Attorneys are elected, has something to do with it. But that doesn't make it one whit less disgraceful. No self-respecting prosecutor should ever tell a court, "We think it's not quite certain that this person is innocent, so we propose to keep him in prison." (What's really amazing is that the victims and their families as often as not want to keep the matter "closed," as if having the wrong person punished were a pretty good substitute for having the right person punished.)
The Victim's Rights Amendment doesn't do anything to help victims. As a victim of violent assaults I can recognize that the people at the top of the pyramid of the Marxist "victim's rights" movement are using this as an excuse to consolidate power for themsleves.
TalkLeft has more info on this at the following link.
From Refdesk.com we have a link of the day. Social Law Library - State Resources - This site offers a comprehensive and current list, organized by state, of links to state agencies, courts, and laws.
O, how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame!
But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark inferior far to his
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
Or being wreck'd, I am a worthless boat,
He of tall building and of goodly pride:
Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this; my love was my decay.
In the interest of helping a fellow blogger overcome a problem I have assembled a set of links to products that might help David's little problem with Hotel Odors.
Hotel/Motel Rental Property Mold and Odor Removal
Ozone Blaster Room Sanitation Model
Most of the odor in hotel rooms are caused by cleaning supplies and mold. The odors caused by the cleaning supplies is unpleasant, but deadly to germs. While our much maligned chemical industry is responsible for a lot of mischief, they are also reponsible for finding new ways to kill germs that are smelly. QUE LASTIMA!!!???
Now it's time to plug David's book.
God only knows why people from uscourts.gov visit my website, but they do so now I get a chance to plug How Appealing's twenty questions for appellate judge types. Howard Bashman is always looking for appellate judges who don't mind being bugged by Howard Bashman and his twenty questions.
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The following link will take you to an article from a La Voz de Aztlan Editorial that brims with silliness, paranoia, racism, and xenophobia. Hard to believe Bustamente would want to be a part of this.
US Supreme Court's decision on "sodomy" will worsen the AIDS epidemic
For a more in-depth posting, check out this link from The Shark Blog.
The following mindless propaganda from the Iranian Daily and it's theocratic masters prove once again that true and honest news is not a part of the theocratic dictatorship of Iran.
MEMRI: Latest NewsIranian Daily: 'Extremist Jews Plotting to Assassinate Chirac,' Mossad Agents Behind Najaf Blast
If we want to find out what's really going on in Iran we have to check out Iranian bloggers.
This link will take you to a Jeff Jarvis post about what an Iranian blogger has to say.
HACKTIVISMO has a goal. The following is part of their goal.
THE HACKTIVISMO DECLARATION
assertions of liberty
in support of an uncensored internetDEEPLY ALARMED that state-sponsored censorship of the Internet is rapidly spreading with the assistance of transnational corporations,
TAKING AS A BASIS the principles and purposes enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that states, "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers", and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) that says,
- Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.
- Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.
- The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:
- For respect of the rights or reputations of others;
- For the protection of national security or of public order, or of public health or morals.
RECALLING that some member states of the United Nations have signed the ICCPR, or have ratified it in such a way as to prevent their citizens from using it in courts of law,
CONSIDERING that, such member states continue to willfully suppress wide-ranging access to lawfully published information on the Internet, despite the clear language of the ICCPR that freedom of expression exists in all media,
TAKING NOTE that transnational corporations continue to sell information technologies to the world's most repressive regimes knowing full well that they will be used to track and control an already harried citizenry,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the Internet is fast becoming a method of repression rather than an instrument of liberation,
BEARING IN MIND that in some countries it is a crime to demand the right to access lawfully published information, and of other basic human rights,
RECALLING that member states of the United Nations have failed to press the world's most egregious information rights violators to a higher standard,
MINDFUL that denying access to information could lead to spiritual, intellectual, and economic decline, the promotion of xenophobia and destabilization of international order,
CONCERNED that governments and transnationals are colluding to maintain the status quo,
DEEPLY ALARMED that world leaders have failed to address information rights issues directly and without equivocation,
RECOGNIZING the importance to fight against human rights abuses with respect to reasonable access to information on the Internet,
THEREFORE WE ARE CONVINCED that the international hacking community has a moral imperative to act, and we
DECLARE:
THAT FULL RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS INCLUDES THE LIBERTY OF FAIR AND REASONABLE ACCESS TO INFORMATION, WHETHER BY SHORTWAVE RADIO, AIR MAIL, SIMPLE TELEPHONY, THE GLOBAL INTERNET, OR OTHER MEDIA.
THAT WE RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT OF GOVERNMENTS TO FORBID THE PUBLICATION OF PROPERLY CATEGORIZED STATE SECRETS, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, AND MATTERS RELATED TO PERSONAL PRIVACY AND PRIVILEGE, AMONG OTHER ACCEPTED RESTRICTIONS. BUT WE OPPOSE THE USE OF STATE POWER TO CONTROL ACCESS TO THE WORKS OF CRITICS, INTELLECTUALS, ARTISTS, OR RELIGIOUS FIGURES.
THAT STATE SPONSORED CENSORSHIP OF THE INTERNET ERODES PEACEFUL AND CIVILIZED COEXISTENCE, AFFECTS THE EXERCISE OF DEMOCRACY, AND ENDANGERS THE SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONS.
THAT STATE-SPONSORED CENSORSHIP OF THE INTERNET IS A SERIOUS FORM OF ORGANIZED AND SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE AGAINST CITIZENS, IS INTENDED TO GENERATE CONFUSION AND XENOPHOBIA, AND IS A REPREHENSIBLE VIOLATION OF TRUST.
THAT WE WILL STUDY WAYS AND MEANS OF CIRCUMVENTING STATE SPONSORED CENSORSHIP OF THE INTERNET AND WILL IMPLEMENT TECHNOLOGIES TO CHALLENGE INFORMATION RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
Issued July 4, 2001 by Hacktivismo and the CULT OF THE DEAD COW.
California, as usual, is way ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to debt AND weird cartoon characters.
Weblog Entry - 08/21/2003: "Giant Talking Cartoon Penis"
I THINK we are too ready with complaint
In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope
Indeed beyond the zenith and the slope
Of yon gray blank of sky, we might grow faint
To muse upon eternity's constraint
Round our aspirant souls; but since the scope
Must widen early, is it well to droop,
For a few days consumed in loss and taint ?
O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge. What if the bread
Be bitter in thine inn, and thou unshod
To meet the flints ? At least it may be said
' Because the way is short, I thank thee, God. '
These poems are selections from the 1844 work originally entitled
_Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Author of The Seraphim, etc. In two
volumes_. They were prepared for electronic distribution by the inforM
staff. Questions or comments should be directed to inform-editor@umail.umd.edu.
The link below leads to a posting I wrote about how the morons in the homophobic, hate-filled, white supremacist Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang convinced some idiot in Maui to arrest the Maui Chief of Police for misprision of felonies and other bizarre, delusional crimes.
It now seems some members of the gang (at this point it's just one of those rumors floating around) are planning to arrest the Chief of Police of the Hillsboro, Oregon police department. I guess the Hillsboro Chief of Police is one of the few law enforcement officials the gang hasn't arrested yet.
In the interest of really irrelevant blogography, let's check out the Chief of Police of Hillsboro and see what he's like.
Chief Ron Louie has commanded the Hillsboro, Oregon, Police Department since 1992. He started in law enforcement in 1974 at the Palo Alto, CA., Police Department. From 1987-1992 he was the Chief of Police in Astoria, Oregon.Chief Louie has an AA degree, with Honors, in Business Administration from the College of San Mateo, a BA degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Social Science from Cal State University, Hayward, an MA degree in Anthropology from San Francisco State University and MPA degree from Cal State University, Hayward. He is a 1994 graduate of the FBI National Academy, and a 1999 graduate of the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development, Quantico, Virginia.
He is the recipient of the 1993 Top Asian American Law Enforcement Executive Award, 1994 Oregon Public Safety Standards Achievement Award, 1997 Excellence in Community Policing Award and 1999 Boys & Girls Club of America Community Service Award.
Oh lord!!! Not only is Chief Louie a member of the New World Order and the International Jewish Banking Cabal conspiracy, but according to the gang's bizarre, delusional beliefs, he is not a member of the "super duper, white, superior true Aryan race".
Uh oh, you know what this means, don't you? According to the weird, bizarre, delusional beliefs of the psycho gang, poor Chief Louie will never, ever, make it into Heaven. Gosh???!!!!
It seems I have some faithful readiers in Hillsboro, Oregon and a couple of them have sent me a couple of emails asking some questions.
I'll just paraphrase the questions into one question as follows:
It seems like every time your female housemate comes to Hillsboro she's filled with anger and hatred. What gives?
Answer: The morons in the homophobic, hate-filled, white supremacist Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang have convinced her that Hillsboro is being polluted by the various "inferior races" and this is ruining Hillsboro for members of the pure, white Aryan race. Since the gang has convinced her that she's a member of the pure, white Aryan race, she feels it's her duty as a member of the pure, white, super duper Aryan race to become angry with and hate whoever the gang tells her to become angry with and hate and the gang's leaders have told her to hate almost everybody in Hillsboro, so she does. These delusions are also believed by a couple of my relatives, Neta Hays and Chris Andrea Hays.
My advice is to just ignore her when she starts her delusional rantings because arguing with her or her buddies is a waste of time (see below post by Carl Worden). By the way, she and her buddies also hate me, my two daughters, the mother of my two daughters, and almost everybody in the neighborhood where I live.
As for the other question about the crazy, old, ugly hate-filled hags in Hillsboro, the answer is yes: despite all outward appearances they have become deluded with the belief they are members of the super duper, pure, white Aryan race.
Carl Worden of the Southern Oregon Militia, in an exchange with Mark Shibley of Southern Oregon University, has more info on the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang as follows:
Mr. Worden:
I'm a sociologist at Southern Oregon University, and I'm doing research on social movements in the Pacific Northwest that have religious or spiritual dimensions. I don't know much about the Militia movement and therefore was hoping we could speak so that I could ask you some questions about the religious/spiritual dimensions of the movement as you understand them. I know I won't get an accurate picture through new media accounts of the Southern Oregon Militia.
I'd appreciate your time and insight.
Thank you,
Mark Shibley
Hi Mark!
Sure, I'd be glad to help.
Certainly, mainstream Christianity is the primary religious affiliation the vast majority of men and women adhere to who make up the American Militia movement. However, also raising its butt-ugly head is something called "Christian Identity", which is anything BUT Christian and the people embracing it don't know jack about their identity.
CI believers insist they are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and are therefore God's true "Chosen". They believe the Chosen are all lily-white, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic and they insist Jews are not descended of the biblical Israel, but are the spawn of Satan himself. People of color and especially whites who marry people of color don't have a place in Heaven, according to the CI freaks.
When it gets right down to it, CI is a religion created to justify racism and anti-Semitism. It is an ugly religion and the people who adhere to it are some of the most evil and hateful people you will ever encounter, particularly if you question their belief system with hard, indisputable facts.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL did the public a terrible disservice by classifying all these various CI groups as "Militias". In truth, they are skin-head/Aryan Nations/Neo-Nazi freaks, and the only thing a true citizen's militia will probably ever have in common with them will be a gunfight. One cannot support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and at the same time embrace racist or anti-Semitic sentiments. The two belief systems are in enmity with one another.
Nevertheless, CI is making tremendous strides among the disaffected in society who are looking for a scapegoat, and their numbers are growing alarmingly.
Further, CI adherents are quite literally the most dangerous people we have living among us here in America. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were CI.
The members of the so-called "Order" who murdered Alan Berg, the Jewish radio talk show host in Denver, were CI. That freak, Buford Furrow, who attacked the Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles and then walked outside and killed a postal worker for no better reason than he wasn't white? Yep, he was CI too.
So the first challenge you'll face in this research is to determine if the people you are interviewing are actually true militia members or CI freaks labeled a militia by that con man Morris Dees of the SPLC.
I hope this information has been helpful.
Have a great day.