Mother's Day Proclamation

"From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up withOur own.

It says: "Disarm! Disarm!

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

Blood does not wipe out dishonor,Nor violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,

Let women now leave all that may be left of homeFor a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means

Whereby the great human family can live in peace..."



From the original Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe


Peace,

Steve

Say what?

I am surprised at how ignorant we are.

Very few people I've spoken to know that the Iraqi Parliament voted us off the island this week. A majority voted to demand that Bush set a withdrawal date, which is pretty tough to do since a fair number of the Iraqi Parliament has been killed or has left the country. But for this vote, they got a quorum.

They seem to know that Dick Cheney went to Iraq and stood behind an armored podium surrounded by camoflaged sand bags and told an assembled group of our troops that he appreciates the sacrifice they are making and will get to see their families in a couple of years, maybe. Then he got in a jet and flew away. People know about this part of the Dick Cheney news but they don't seem to know that Dick Cheney's name has popped up in the DC prostitute scandal.

Talk about service to your country. Any whore that has to service Dick Cheney...OK, I'm too grossed out to go there, sorry.

And folks don't seem to know that a billion dollars worth of Iraqi oil is missing and that Halliburton's fingerprints were left at the crime scene...Dick Cheney again. Oh wait, I read the numbers wrong...Iraq is missing between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels of oil a DAY! Taking the lower figure of 100,000 times 365 days a year times 3 years ( I know we've been there for four years but hey...corruption on this scale takes a while to get going even if you're the vice president) times $60 a barrel is about 6.6 BILLION DOLLARS on the low end and maybe 20 BILLION DOLLARS on the high end.

Screw getting guns and robbing banks! Clyde woulda run for high office if he were around today! And judging from Clyde's absolutely weird sex life, he would have had to be a republican. "Normal" ain't in the picture for those people, as we've seen with Jeff Gannon, male prostitute, Ann Coulter (you tell me), Bill O'Reilly (falafel in the shower), Newt Gingrich(boat load of wives), Duke Cunningham(boat load of prostitutes), etc etc...The list of sex scandals from the republicans is topped only by the list of out and out corruption investigations.

Here's another little tidbit that people are ignorant about. The institution of marriage is safe. It's true...Gay people aren't going to destroy it. Actually the most destructive group as far as marriage is concerned would be Baptists and Evangelicals. a marriage is much more likely to last among catholics and muslims, who have very very strict religious laws governing divorce, and also Atheists. Yep...Atheists are very likely to stay married with a 20% divorce rate. The overall rate is between 30 and 36% so your chance of a failed marriage is at least 50% greater in church...I have just one thng to say about that...

Ha!

There's a reason we are gettin stupider and its all about the media. it's RIGHT WING! As an example, CBS just fired one of their military advisors, General Batiste because he pointed out that president Bush lied when bush said that he listened to his commanders about Iraq. They kept employed seeral advisors who regularly pimp the 'Surge". Well the surge aint working and CBS is pimping for the Bush administration just like the DC Madame did for her girls.

Anyone who won't service Dick Cheney gets fired.


peace,

Steve


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"Over the last seven years of the Bush Presidency, we have seen the abuse of government to promote a political agenda designed to benefit the conservative base of the Republican Party, special interests and major financial contributors. From holding secret meetings for the energy industry to re-writing science findings to cooking the books on intelligence to the firing of U.S. Attorneys, this Administration has shown time and time again that it will abuse its power and authority."

Michael Moore's letter back

Supporting the Troops

Vice President Dick Cheney addresses U.S. troops Thursday, May 10, 2007 at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq.

"Many of you have had your deployments extended, and that puts an unexpected hardship on you and your families," the Vice President said.

"I want you to know the extension is vital to the mission. The Army and the country appreciate the extra burden that you carry."

Then Cheney got in his heavily guarded plane, and with gin and tonic in hand...sneered out the window at the black of night and flew back to his home.

Rude, Rdy-er, Rudy-est

Talking Points Memo has the story but Wonkette says it so much better:

"After getting the contribution from Iowa farmers Deb and Jerry
VonSprecken, Rudy’s campaign asked the VonSpreckens to host a fundraiser at
their house. They happily agreed and spent every spare moment getting the place
ready for the big event with Rudy and a hundred wealthy contributors.

But then the campaign found out the VonSpreckens are just working
farmers and don’t have a million dollars. See, Rudy’s campaigning to the very
wealthy in Iowa on abolition of the millionaire’s death tax, so he can’t be seen
with any goddamned poor people or his commitment to the ultra-rich will be
questioned."

Rudy Campaign Reportedly Snubs Farmer For Not Being Rich [TPM]

No Ruth?

I heard Hugo Chavez referred to as a "ruthless Dictator" on Fox News recently. Ignoring the fact that he was democratically elected in internationally supervised elections with far more credibility than recent American presidential elections, Hugo has about 70% approval rating in Venezuela. That's more than twice as many folks who approve compared to George Bush.

Hugo may be a socialist but he ain't no dictator. Whether or not he is without "ruth" is a matter of conjecture. So far all he has done is take back Venezuelan oil rights from the international oil cartels and used oil profits to help his own people. This of course has infuriated the American right wing, who think using perfectly good money to help your own citizens reeks of outdated American ideals, now tossed aside in favor of Corporatism and government "Of the rich, By the rich, and For the Rich".

One of these rich people who started his own religion is Pat Robertson. Preacher Robertson, being a self proclaimed man of Jesus, has called for Hugo to be shot for the crime of helping poor people with his country's oil money instead of giving it to Exxon-Mobil or Chevron.

Some people are turned off by Hugo's "Socialist" label. He is a democratic socialist, to be exact. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as George Bush and Condi Rice would have you believe. America's closest ally is an elective dictatorship and the Bush family's best friends run a dictatorial monarchy. 19 of the 20 terrorists who committed the acts of 9-11 come from Bush's best friend's country...Oh yeah...and so did the Bush family business partner's little brother...Osama Bin Laden. At least Hugo was elected by his people. Neither the Prime Minister of England, Tony Blair, nor the King of Saudi Arabia were elected by their people, and as we are finding out...Neither was George W. Bush, in all probability.

Hugo ain't perfect but he's a damned sight better than what we have, in regards to serving the citizens of his country. For instance, what do you think Hugo would have done about Katrina? I suspect he would have had a similar photo op but then there would have been a follow through, unlike what we saw with Bush, who was playing guitar while new Orleans drowned.

We have one Citgo station around here and I buy gas there when I can. If Venezuela can stand up to George W. Bush, I can help them by buying their gas.

Now if only we could get America to stand up to George W. Bush.

Peace,

Steve

For another voice, here's one person's...

Letter to Hugo

Well, If it makes ME lots of Money.

I can understand people causing harm by their actions when they have no idea about the relationship between their action and the resulting harm. But most people who learn that, say, tossing a rock at Mrs. Johnson's window will shatter it and throw glass shards all over her living room and maybe cause somebody to get cut and bleed all over everything and have to go to the hospital and get stitches and then have to go back and get the stitches taken out and it'll hurt and everything...Well, once human beings learn this they pretty much try not to put a rock through Mrs. Johnson's window.

Except for those human beings we have come to call "sociopaths." This type of personality never seems to ask what they can do for others but only what can they get others to do for them. Instead of "All for one and One for all" it's more like...

"All for me, and screw you."

Psychologists estimate that there are one or two sociopaths in every 200 or so people. We have all dealt with them whether we realize it or not. The legal system deals with them a lot, but there are very successful sociopaths who never get in legal trouble. They are called Chief Executive Officers and get paid lots of money to make lots of money for large corporations. like Disney, GE, and the Gambino Crime family.

I was thinking about sociopaths because they cause a great amount of long term damage to human society and the world in which we must live. They tend to think in short term gain and don't realize that things they do today can come back to bite them later on. I was actually thinking about sociopaths because of reading, not about President Bush this time, but about National Coal company. I decided that we humans have created an entity that has the basic purpose of avoiding personal responsibility. We call this evil thing a "Corporation."

Corporations have no morals. They feel no responsibility to human beings as a whole, only their stock holders, and in reality, only their majority stockholders, as anyone who ever tries to back a stockholder initiated action at The shareholder's annual meeting will find out.

For a Corporation, it is just like I said, "All for me and screw you." Only there is actually no "ME" as far as a corporation is concerned. In legal parlance, it is called a "legal fiction".

Now there are other facets to this fiction that we should think about. For instance, since Corporations have no inherent conscience, It is up to legislation to provide one. Labor laws are one attempt to provide corporations with a functioning conscience, and corporations don't like labor laws one bit. No sociopath would, actually. The very idea of treating other people fairly doesn't make one bit of sense to an "All for Me" mindset.

Here's an example of a corporation making it a good thing to screw people. It is from the Mountaintop removal people, National Coal:

An excerpt from National Coal's Securities Exchange Commission filing:

“We are not burdened by below market long term pricing contracts and because our
workforce is not unionized we do not have the extensive union pension and health
care liabilities, including black lung liabilities and post-retirement medical
benefits, that impact many of our competitors.”

Want me to translate that for you? Ok...

"Screw people...We have big machines! And so what if we leave a huge
mess that lasts for generations...we make lots of money!"

The SEC is the US government agency responsible for the Corporate Conscience but only as it relates to rich people's money, particularly rich people who are majority stockholders. You can boil the SEC philosophy down to a few simple phrases...

"It might be really bad unless it makes us money and then it's good."

"Destroy the environment? Well, if it makes us a lot of money..."

"Poison people's water wells? Well, if it makes us a lot of money..."

"Destroy entire mountain ranges, ecosystems, and the livelihoods of people who live there?..."

"Well, if it makes us a lot of money..."

"Destroy entire communities, poisoning them for generations, in order to get to high sulfur coal that we aren't allowed to burn in the United States because it poisons the very air we have to breathe, but we can ship it to China and let them burn it even though the sulfur just goes up into the air and blows right back over the USA and drops right back down on us as acid rain and poisons our water and kills fish and everything else and makes folks sick, but only those who have lungs..."

"Well, If it makes National Coal money..."

I think it is time to ask governor Bredesen to give some thought to surgically implanting a conscience into the coal industry.

Peace,

Steve

http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c436/

life on the other side of the window.

Flycatchers are nesting under every eave. This one sits a few feet away from my desk and sings merrily away, mocking me for being inside on a day like today.

The downies are almost tame and ignore us if there's peanut butter in the suet feeder. My home made suet can't take the heat and drips this time of year.

This is a really bad shot of the oriole hanging out on the hummer feeder. Apparently they do that. We don't see many of these here, ok, one so far ever. This one was stunning in the sun but wouldn't hang around for me to get a proper picture.

Here's How...

The Worst President in American history got re-elected..Here's how...

Break the Law and help steal the election for Bush and get appointed to a nice US Attorney's position in Bill Clinton's home state of Arkansas.

So Bush starts a war by lying to America, but our troops go to Iraq anyway.

A fair percentage of those troops are minorities who tend to vote Democratic.

Republican operatives send letters to the home addresses of troops who are stationed in Iraq at the moment.

The letters are "returned" of course, since the recipient is off in another country serving their country.

Republicans demand that the recipient be removed from voter lists because thier address is incorrect, thereby "caging" 70,000 votes in Florida alone and roughly one million votes overall. Had these people been allowed to cast their votes, George W. Bush would have won Ohio and some other states by too many votes for Republicans to steal.

This theft of the 2004 election for George W. Bush was orchistrated by Timothy Griffin, former aide to Karl Rove and now US Attorney for Arkansas. The methods he used are plainly illegal under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Mr. Griffin should be in jail.

Mr. Rove should be in jail.

Mr. Bush should be impeached.

The plan to keep these guys in office in spite of clear criminality?

"Gum it to death!"

All of this has come to light as a result of Karl Rove's emails being subpoenaed. Where is our "Liberal" Media?

Why aren't we as a nation outraged? Nobody knows this crime was committed. Griffin brags about it being kept out of the news.

Our Media are traitors to the Constitution. We have a President who stole his election and appointed a criminal to the position of US Attorney General.

Yesterday the band played "God save the Queen" at the White House...They should have played...

"God save America", because there is no justice in America's Justice Department.

Peace,

Steve

Kansas Governor Sebelius...

"We’re missing about half of our trucks from the National Guard units," Sebelius
said. "Clearly trucks to haul this debris away would be enormously helpful.
We are missing flatbeds. We are missing Humvees, which are used to get people to
safety and security and to haul equipment around. We are missing a number of our
well-trained National Guard personnel. The equipment that we continue to harp on
that has been sent overseas when our troops are deployed and not restored at the
same level could be enormously helpful."

Last December Governor Kathleen Sebelius asked the Pentagon to replenish Kansas equipment left by the National Guard in Iraq. This is just one more dirty little secret about the Iraq War. National Guard equipment needed to keep our states safe and respond to emergencies has been taken to Iraq and not replaced. State Governors from both parties have repeatedly asked President Bush to respond to their needs but nothing has happened. I have to question whether someone lying beneath the ruble will die because heavy rescue equipment is not available? Gone for Bush's war.


Feeling safer now?

Can't tell the Players...

It's tough to keep up with all the Republican scandals going on. Newt gingrich has publicly called for Republicans to pretend like George Bush is dead and to act like the Justice Department's Prosecutor gate, the jack Abramoff scandal, the DC Madame, Dusty Foggo Duke Cunningham, scandal, the Tom Delay indictments, didn't happen and what are you talking about the Iraq war, Walter Reed hospital, Katrina, "You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie" I don't know about any Katrina, why are you bringing up old news, Republicans are so damned crooked they can't walk a straight line between oxycontin and viagra doses, yeah, like that ever happens.

So anyway, just to get us a score card so we can keep track of which Republican is indicted, which Republican is investigated, which Republican is convicted, which Republican pleaded guilty, and which Republican is in jail, which Republican is on the DC madame's phone records but only for 90 minute perfectly legal $275.00 massages (yeah right) and because there are actually a few republicans who aren't on any of these lists, well so far...Ok, breathe...

So anyway, just so we can keep track of these people, Josh Marshall has an ongoing list, appropriately called "The Grand Ole Docket" which seems to get more names and scandals added every single day, and yes, it includes all the Democrats who are under investigation, there just aren't enough to notice by comparison.

I still have the same question about bribery...If a lawmaker accepts a bribe in return for voting a certain way...Why does the legislation remain on the books? I believe our laws would be significantly different if we struck all tainted legislation, and that America would be better for it.

And why isn't bribery punished as fiercely as treason? It's the same thing, isn't it?

Peace,

Steve


One reminder...As diligent as the folks at TPM work, they are behind in posting corruption information. For instance: Alaska "Bridge to nowhere" Senator Ted Stevens' son is currently under investigation for bribery. A chip off the old block, it appears.

Standards?

The eagles are flying upstream very early this morning, and that should mean they have their nest going again. When the nestling (or nestlings, they had twins last year) get to squawking, Mom and Dad fly by with all sorts of dead things in their talons. They are lazy and opportunistic, and food thieves but they'll keep the baby fed, whatever it takes. They will take road kill away from a bunch of crows on occasion.

Baby loves road kill, apparently.

I've seen them come by with rabbits, ground hogs, and squirrels, But I've never seen an eagle fly by with a possum. Even eagles got standards.

*****


The stupid season will last much much longer this election cycle. We will have primaries before Christmas this time. I wish we could wait until next spring to start this thing. And then, instead of letting Iowa and New Hampshire pick our nominees, why couldn't we have a series of National primaries? It's all screwed up, but don't worry...Our state parties will work overtime to figure out how to screw it up far worse than it is now.

*****

The takeover of American media by the right was excruciatingly apparent in the differences between the questions asked of the Presidential candidates in recent debates. I could only watch so much.

For the Democratic candidates, Brian Williams read questions that sounded like the "When did you stop beating your wife" sort of thing.

WILLIAMS: Senator [Barack] Obama, you go first. You've promised in your campaign a new kind of politics, but just this week, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on questionable ties you have with a donor who was charged last year for demanding kickbacks on Illinois business deals. Aren't you practicing the very same kind of politics that many of the others on this stage have engaged in?

Senator Obama answered well but there was a misleading attack on Senator Obama in the question itself. Brian Williams essentially implied that the other candidates were corrupt. If anybody practices that kind of politics they weren't on the Democratic stage but the other one later in the week. The Republican party is bleeding scandal anfter scandal but it was never brought up in their questions.

Williams also phrased a haircut question to John Edwards in such a way as to mislead folks about Edwards' haircut, which was simply billed to the wrong account. Edwards has great hair and spends a lot on a haircut..but not $4oo as was claimed.

This wasn't fair to the Republicans...Chris Matthews could not have addressed similar questions to Giuliani and McCain, because these GOP front runners...

Don't HAVE any hair.

Is it fair to ask Obama about a campaign donor he has never met but not ask Giuliani about his best friend at one point, Bernie Kerik who has connections with the Mob? And is charged with corruption?

Here's what Giuliani got asked:

Matthews: "Mayor Giuliani, how do we get back to Ronald Reagan's morning in America?"

That's not a question...that's a campaign ad!


*****

Is this what we bargained for when we invaded Iraq? Videos posted on the internet of a young girl being killed while an Iraqi security force watches?


Baghdad, May 4: "A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion... "

"A large crowd watched as eight or nine men stormed the house and dragged Aswad into the street. There they hurled stones at her for half an hour until she was dead. The stoning happened last month, but only came to light on Wednesday with the release of the Internet video. It is feared her death has triggered a retaliatory attack. Last week 23 Yezidi workmen were forced off a bus travelling from Mosulto Bashika by a group of Sunni gunmen and summarily shot dead."


The rest of this ugly story

Un real Reality

"The fact remains that it would be easy to point our finger at the bankers and the financiers, Jewish or not, for the fact that our great nation can't compete in the market place with the Asiatics. And it would be easy to blame the liberal leftist, Jewish or not, for sacrificing our working people on the altar of
economic Bolshevism."

"We have been complacent, because we have been gullible, and we have been naive, we have allowed them to exercise their genetic need to dominate a Christian world. So don't blame the Jews for doing it. Blame it on yourselves for letting them."

Fred Thompson

Well, OK, Fred actually did say these words but they were from a tv show in 1988 when Reagan was President.

Was Fred typecast? Will this get shown on a tv commercial? will America confuse the plain dealing honest poitician and lawyer Fred plays on tv with the real Fred? Will they identify the racist, fascist, fearmonger Fred plays on tv with the real Fred? TV roles such as that may have helped him win the Senate in Tennessee, but I wonder about his chances in the rest of the country.

Remember that they killed Pee Wee Herman because the actor who portrayed him got caught kinking out in a porn movie house. There is a distinct inability for Americans to distinguish TV from reality. If Gore runs, will we see the Saturday night Live clip of him in a hot tub with Joe Lieberman? I'll bet you money!

If Fred Thompson runs, and his wife is pushing hard for her chance to be first bimbo (Hey..Republicans started this), I have to think we'll see a rerun of Fred's immortal words as he speaks at a fundraiser while holding his copy of Mein Kampf, personally autographed by Adolph Hitler :

"Open your mind and open up your hearts and open up your wallets and accept your birthright to a land of pure blood, pure spirit, pure belief and our divinely ordered superiority as a people."

Actually, that's not that different from the Republican platform right now today, is it? Fred was simply ahead of his time.

Peace,

Steve


LA Times

suplemental reading for Extra Credit

This post is a liveblog from last night's debate:

You know what these guys do? They make Reagan seem kind of cuddly, don’t they?
He was a real mean, stupid old man and he’s looking better by the second.

Another take on the Republican debate...totally insipid, demeaning, low class...and funny.

(Parental Advisary) Note: comments are actually as funny as the piece.


Giulliani is actually nuts. Everyone who knows him or has reported on him says so.
(That's why he's such a good republican candidate)

And our President is diagnosed as a Narcissistic Sociopath?

This is not news to this group. WhitesCreek's official therapist made that diagnosis several years ago.

Rain

After the hard freeze killed back the spring foliage and blooms on our trees, everyone was wondering when we would actually see green again. We had the worst of situations, the freeze and a spring drought. not only are the trees stressed with frost damage but they got no "juice" to work with.

Normally we get a combination of springs drizzle, lasting for days, and spring storms lasting for a few minutes. This year we're missing the drizzle and the storms have been few and far between, but the ones we have gotten have been doozies. Last evening we got over an inch of rain in a few minutes. Unfortunaltely, I was driving home in the storm and couldn't really appreciate the light show and percussion that played back up to the water. Overnight we can now see green amongst the brown. It doesn't take Mom Nature long when she gets an opportunity.

I'm concerned about things though. Trees do a lot of things on many levels, to make our lives worth living, and they provide food for nearly everything in the forest. In the first rush of spring, they would normally provide pollen and nectar for a wide range of insects and the insects would be food for a wide range of bigger insects and birds, frogs, lizards, and so on, but this year I don't know what's going on up there in the tree tops. Later this year, the normal crop of nuts and berries will be nonexistant.

As a result, I predict bears in garbage cans all over the Southeast.

Next year, as a result of the missing acorn and hickory nut crop, there could be a missing bear cub crop. the food situation will be that dire in most areas of the freeze. I'm not sure how our authorities wil react to the roaming bear problem but I suspect a fair number of them ...bears, not authorities... will be killed. I hope not, but being prepared is not one of our strong points as far as local communities and their "Authorities" go.

In the meantime, I plan to enjoy our second spring. Let's hope summer takes its time getting here.

Steve

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Looks like Grover Norquist was a friend/client of Debrah Jean Palfrey's, of the D.C. Madame scandal. Why is it that people like Mr. Norquist, chief economist for Bush, can't get laid on his own? He apparently is not content with just screwing our entire Nation and needs the services of prostitutes as well.

Not a day passes, now, without some new corruption coming to light in the Bush Administration. the worst one of all is the Justice Department scandal. When Justice is corrupt, who will prosecute the criminals? Albert Gonzales and his minions seem to be willing to persecute Debrah Jean but not the lobbyists who used her services to bribe Congressmen.

Hang on, though...This one is just getting started.

Bush said what?

There's a big yah-yah going on about Bush's Presidential veto of the Iraq war budget. Bush and his accolytes have called the Democratic bill, "The Surrender Bill" because it tells the "enemy when we plan to leave.

Bush is engaging in nothing more than partisan politics, doing everything he possibly can to deflect criticism of his own abject failure as a president. Everything, thst is, except suddenly becoming competent at his job.

Here is a quote from Nancy Pelosi that points out how much of a hypocrite George W. Bush is:

The president said, in his comments, he did not believe in timelines, and he spoke out very forcefully against them. Yet in 1999, on June 5th, then-Governor Bush said, about President Clinton, “I think it’s important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they would be withdrawn.” Despite his past statements, President Bush refuses to apply the same standard to his own activities.

Somehow I keep coming around to thinking that if President Bush were actively trying to destroy America, he couldn't be doing any better job than he is now.

Speaker Pelosi is also doing an admirable job, but a job of turning the tide against this country's Conservative enemies. Let us hope that the only people who follow President Bush over the cliff he's headed for are his goose stepping, extreme right wing accolytes who are the remaining base of the Republican party.


Peace please,

Steve




Here's a fine take on the Presidential veto from the Knoxviews.com proprietor.

Last Night's game

Kingston (blue) at Cumberland County

Everyone loves the Ref...(Before the game)

Captains Bill, Cam, and Thomas with Coach Campbell.

In spite of the hair, Number 4 was a good player

Adam takes it away




Andrew = Intensity

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May Day Pecker

Linguistics explained

Paul Wolfiwitz thinks the World Bank is hypocritical for asking him to resign just for giving his girlfriend $200,000 a year in their money for sex. Pray tell, dear mr. Wolfiwitz, what exactly does the World Bank do that makes you feel so righteous in your own personal corruption?


Ok, Funniest quote yet from Wolfie:

Paul D. Wolfowitz defended himself vigorously on Monday, declaring that it would
be “unjust and frankly hypocritical” for the World Bank’s board to find him guilty of ethical lapses. ...

NY Times

I think what Wolfi is trying to say is that the World Bank is mostly a bunch of blod sucking leeches and how dare they call him a fungus for merely trying to get his girlfriend paid with their money instead of his own.

For the arithmetically impaired (which really means "disinterested" because it ain't that hard) let me put a $200,000 salary in perspective. At PamelaMartin.com Wolfi would have had to pay $275 a visit for whatever it was that his girlfriend was providing for him in the way of "Legal Massages" yeah right. That means that Wolfi could have had 727 nice little 90 minute massages for the same money but he would have had to pay for it himself and it may have been easy for a Jew to get a girl who "spoke greek" or could he have gotten one that "Spoke arabic" like his girlfriend does...whatever that means?

So Wolfi could have been visited twice a day, every day, all year for the World Bank's $200,000 and it could have been a different girl with a minimum education of 4 years of college plus a Masters Degree. That Pamela runs a quality line of Ho's, I mean Massage Therapists, if I do say so.

(And I might if you push me.)

Debrah Jean... Call Talon News

Here's a good overview of the DC Madam's operation. It's truthful and somewhat graphic without going overboard, but be forewarned. Andrew Tobius claims he just used PM for massages. Well maybe he did, but as you will see, the legality of a massage depends on what part of the body is getting the rub down, and that's as clean as I can say it.

Here you go:

PamelaMartin.com

Now let me say this...WhitesCreek's number is not, never has been, and as far as I can possibly forsee, will never ever be, in the phone log of any service like the one that Debrah Jean Palfrey was running. Having said that, I have mixed thoughts on prostitution and whether it should be legal or not.

One one hand I think that what ever freely consenting adults decide to do with each other, whether it is for a good meal and a movie or cash, is none of anyone else's business. The other hand thinks there is way too much opportunity for abuse. I get all circular in my reasoning and have no conclusion to share.

AS far as the Washington scandal is concerned I do have one question...Why is Debrah Jean Palfrey being investigated and charged for running a high class call girl operation but Jim Guckert, aka Jeff Gannon male prostitute who spent 100 nights in the White House, skating free?

Just askin'

Steve

Conceptual Reality

I'm still repairing the yard after my septic system failure. I'm still repairing the basement as well. The basement is where most of the stuff went that was supposed to go in the septic tank.Thousands of dollars later it has occurred to me that outhouses were replaced as we became more modern and civilized, but I'm not completely sure why. I mean why is it a mark of civilization that we poop INSIDE our houses now?

Isn't there something deeply and fundamentally wrong with that? We spend truckloads of money getting crap out of the house that we could just walk a few pleasant yards and deposit things nicely where there would be no chance of it ruining the carpet in the basement should there be a malfunction. As a public service I will not release further details of any graphic sort and shift focus to a more esoteric discussion..

I've lived in several places with no plumbing and I kind of liked it. Parts of it anyway. A living style that requires us to walk out into our yard at various hours and several times a day isn't all bad. I've had wonderful encounters with the indiginous night life and then there was the stray cat that took up residence in a rather fancy johnny house behind the place where we lived in the South Carolina hills. He turned out to be mean enough to survive our yard dogs and sweet enough to give away to some folks who laughed at his story and named him Seemore Butts.

That house was interesting in that the hand dug well had an electric pump installed and we had hot and cold water for the kitchen sink which drained to the garden patch. It made us careful about what we poured into the sink. The house was also interesting in that it had originally been a chicken coop for a large family farm but had been renovated for the grandmother in her last years. It is a mark of the old South that the farm animals had better roofs than the children, so don't feel sorry for granny because she was sent to the chicken coop. I suspect it was a loving gift.

I joke with our firstborn about his start in this world., but he doesn't seem to think that we need to use it as a slogan should he ever run for office. While Abe LIncoln was born in a log cabin, The same panache doesn't ring out from being "Conceived in a chicken coop."

Peace,

Steve


The "catfood eating bunting" turns out to be a Blue Grosbeak.