Now the Department Of Homeland Security is proposing that all airline passengers wear a bracelet. A bracelet that has a tazer like action that can immobilize the wearer. It also carries personal information on the passenger and has a GPS imbedded.No boarding pass needed while you wear it.
Yayyyyyyy! Another way to discourage people from flying while infringing on our privacy yet again. Who knows who has the technology to read the info and the ability to set the tazer off?
Total insanity for sure. People are supposed to feel more secure with these things. I would think the forced wearing of these things would make them even more paranoid. (especially if copies of Orwells 1984 was placed in the pocket on the back of the seat in front of you)
There are people I know (I was raised by a old fashioned fundamentalist preacher) that consider this the “Mark of the Beast”. There are other, thinking people, who just see it as another invasion of our private lives. I will be totally surprised if anyone sees this as just a small inconvenience. This could be the end of the airline industry. With all of the problems they already have think how it will be when no one wants to fly anymore.
Tamara, a friend and regular reader, wondered about my lack of mentioning the death of a bigot here.
I just haven’t felt good enough to say much of anything in the last couple of days, but I have wanted to.
I have been trying to cover the UFO Festival here but the Pain is intense and all of the getting around town foiled my attempts to even cover the parade. I have a few pics of revelers and stuff but stopped even trying to attend yeaterday when I had to realize that I felt too badly to venture out. I think the festival deserved more of my energy than Helms’s death did but I have some opinions anyway.
Growing up I heard my dad say “They split hell wide open.”, when he heard about someone he considered evil’s death. I am sure he wouldn’t say that about Jessie but I will. Hatred is evil and if there were actually a hell, Helms would have “split it open”.
I think it is fitting that he died on Independence Day. We are now free from his hateful rantings even though the crap he spewed is still being spewed from his supporters mouths. The vocal trampler of human rights is dead. he made the wicked witch look like a saint. I will celebrate July 4 with a new fervor from now on.
In the words of my friend Palm Springs Bum from Santa Cruz…ROT IN HELL!
(I dont care if I spelled his name wrong. I never respected him enough to edit it now.)
Christopher Hitchens’ words about waterboarding. Not just idle accusations but firsthand experience.
Vanity Fair asked him if he would agree to get the waterboard experience administered by members of the waterboarding experts, our very own Special Forces. Watch the video of his experience here. Seems like the music itself would make me feel tortured.
While the right wing and the current administration advocate it and say it is not torture those who have been waterboarded seem to have a differing opinion.
Ted got on his Soapbox 2.0 to talk about drugs and our soldiers. No…not that fine Afghani hash or the deadly opium and heroin available in the middle east, but about the prescription anti-depressants they are giving the troops. Maybe if they were smoking the hash they would be in a better mental state…naw…your mental health is gonna be horrible when death and suffering surrounds you. Especially when you are part of the cause of the suffering and your best buddy from The World just died in your arms.
As a former user of anti depressants I know that they “help” you cope with horrible life events by giving you an “I just don’t give a fuck” attitude about life…or death. What a handy tool for the government to keep problems down when the soldiers are told they are being flopped into another tour as part of the stop-loss backdoor draft. What a great stride to keeping the troops who invade homes filled with children and old folks in an I don’t care place of mind.
Last night during Clinton’s “concession” speech the crowd started chanting “Denver, Denver…”. She grinned that weird evil grin she has and shushed them with her hands. She knows she will be there…as the Veep candidate.
Another group is organizing a rally of sorts in Denver at the same time the DNC is in swing. (on a side note I thought it was epic that Obama picked the very spot the repubes are having their convention to give his speech last night) An organization calling themselves ReCreate 68. Why would anyone want to recreate the violence that prevailed outside the DNC in Chicago in 1968? I guess I am getting old because I don’t like being beaten by cops these days.
This time however the cops have a new weapon. The news calls it a “Buck Rogers Ray Gun. It uses heat and stops advancing peoplef rom up to a half mile away. One Fly wonders if they will use it in August.
Orwellian 1984 has made it to China. The production of constant surveillance equipment is high. How long until “Golden Shield” technology is in place in your town? Is it already there?
This article from Naomi Klien is long but worth the read at Rolling Stone .com.
Here is another link to commentary and analisys of the impact on the United States. The Left Coaster
Sometimes I get bored with the stuff that the internets and teevee has to offer. I mean, just how much war and poverty can I stand? A good book is sometimes just what I need. After reading the book I did yesterday I think I still need a good book. This one was far from good but I did laugh. After I smoked a bowl or two of the weed. (thats the only way i could wrap my mind around the stuff he was trying so hard to explain to me)
My room mate Cat works at the International UFO Museum And Research Center here in Roswell. One of the perks is she can bring home books from their library. They have a massive library and document center that rivals most if not all of the UFO reasearch libraries in the world. The have it even if the book has no foundation or basis. Conspiracy theorists abound and the book I read is by one of these people. Ronnie McCullen will be here for the UFO Festival in July and although I want to see him I can’t promise I wont laugh in his face. The festival centers around the crash of July 4, 1947 and much of the event revolves around the museum.
The book I endured for a while yesterday is called “Sold Out Warning Has Our Government Sold It’s Soul For Technology?” Ronnie McMullen is an old fashioned King James Version bible thumper who believes in aliens, abductions and how the Illuminati and our government is involved with these same aliens.
Before I go any further I want to state that I am not so arrogant to believe earthlings are the only “intelligent” life forms in our universe. I have seen lights in the night sky doing strange things while driving across the open expanses of nothingness in the western states here. I don’t know what kind of aircraft would do the stuff these lights did but they were probably earth based. They are still unidentified flying objects to me but I had no encounters with them. Probably just planes and atmospheric stuff making illusion.
Or aliens. I really don’t care.
Ronnie, however, does care. The book went on about the serpent who tempted Eve in the Garden Of Eden. How he was one of the lizard people, who are actually demons, giving her the chance to be godlike with the knowledge she would acquire if she ate the fruit. A temptation she yielded to according to the story.
Using scriptures from his bible, old American Indian lore and the advancement of technology he has come up with a theory of how the leaders of the world are in cahoots with the aliens/demons who live in underground bunkers and tunnels that are honeycombed around the world. He believes the flying discs and aliens come from Hell under us and not from other planets or anywhere else in space. His theory is that these are the angels who were cast out of Heaven with the angel Lucifer. Their mission is to take over and keep this earth for themselves. Not allowing god in Heaven to have anymore say in our lives.
Using scripture he showed how the “purity” of Jesus’ blood was not messed with like the other tribes of the world were. The family of Christ never had sex with the lizards from Adam and Eve on. How that purity is important as well as our purity is. He implores us not to have sex with the lizard/serpent/aliens so we can be saved when the demons take over.
His main thesis was that the world leaders have traded their/our souls to these demons for technology. Technology gives them godlike power and the demons get us in the end. Being raised by a fundamentalist preacher and studying Christian theology for years I knew the scriptures he quoted. Living in Roswell I have heard a lot of theories about this subject. I guess its just natural for Christians to think that everything in our world has to revolve around their seperatist/hateful religion. Even aliens can’t catch a break from them. The old religious attitude of “If I don’t understand it it must be evil and ungodly” prevails.
I don’t recommend you rush to buy this inane piece of drivel. However, if your local library has a copy or you run across one in a thrift store for a buck or less then pick it up and get a few laughs. It is less than 200 pages long and is an easy read. Written on a grade school level so even our undereducated masses can understand he gets his message across well. I know it was easier for me to comprehend after I got stoned.
I think the underlying message is that if the government would spend less time making deals with the lizard people and more time worrying about our kids’ education we wouldn’t have to endure the crappy theories this mans book spews.
In an interview with Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News Obama promised investigation of crimes in todays White House. Citing last Fridays release of Bush saying that he knew of torture plans and approved them the reporter asked how he would work with this information if elected.
“What I would want to do is to have my Justice Department and my Attorney General immediately review the information that’s already there and to find out are there inquiries that need to be pursued. I can’t prejudge that because we don’t have access to all the material right now. I think that you are right, if crimes have been committed, they should be investigated.”
All weekend we heard how Barack had alienated the people of Pennsylvania. McClinton and McSame rattled on about non issues while Obama tried to touch on things that matter. We, the general newswatchers, didn’t see coverage about the crimes the administration had admitted to through their Idiot In Chief. Share this info with everyone. It is important.
While there is much speculation on whats gonna happen in Cuba now that Fidel’s little brother has taken over the United States is still not torturing. While Raul’ Castro calls for a more democratic System in Cuba one of our own presidential candidates calls for the CIA to continue torturing suspected terrorists. While the new Castro looks to his people to tell him what they want their government to do our president is being asked by politicians to veto a bill banning them from using water boarding.
After voting against the CIA “fifth degree bill” John McCain defended himself on the campaign trail . He asked Bush to veto the bill he had voted against.
“I knew I would be criticized for it,” McCain said of his vote today, campaigning in Ohio. “I think I can show my record is clear. I said there should be additional techniques allowed to other agencies of government as long as they were not torture’.
George W Bush has said he will veto the bill which bans the CIA from using torture methods to get information from the bad guys. This is typical of the Bush , but with the lowest approval ratings of any president it would seem that a presidential candidate would want to distance himself from such a man. Especially from a man who wants to continue torturous practices while interrogating suspected terrorists.
All this time I thought McCain was against torture. After all, wasn’t he a victim of torture?
The Department Of Homeland Security has done it again. Making tracking you easier for them they, with the approval of the 2005 congress, have finalized the “Real ID”. By 2014 everyone will have their history on their drivers license magnetic strip. If you don’t have it you wont be able to drive, board a plane and who knows what else. This is scary and so Orwellian
Saying that those over 50 years old are less likely to be terrorists Those born after December 1964 wont have to comply until 2017. You will be denied access to airports and federal buildings without it.Read AP story here.
Alien Trucker
July 14th, 2008 by Rocky 
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