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VeeJay says, "Who is Mad as Hell Mike?"

Mad as Hell, Mike, July 18, 2003

Got Rope?

Who is minding the store in Washington D.C.? Didn't we use to take care of the elderly, the poor, the disabled and our veterans or did that all go out with this contrived war on terrorism...YOU HEARD ME...contrived...

What ever happened to budget surpluses as far as the eye can see...OOPS...Bush and company has picked the treasury clean for themselves and their buddies...they want all of us to be responsible with our money yet they keep raising the debt limit and cutting services...

One of the most decorated war heros, Col George "Bud" Day, attorney, Medal of Honor recipient, and former POW officially filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court on 24 January 2003 seeking justice for hundreds of thousands of live WWII/Korea era military retirees who were promised life-time health care. The Bush administration is fighting him in court... When Vietnam Veterans and Gulf War Syndrome Victims wanted to sue the U.S. companies who made the chemical and biological agents which caused their illnesses in the first Persia Gulf War...Bush fought them in court... Bush has cut funding for many Veterans programs and health care...Senate Majority Leader Frist (R) recently told Veterans that they needed to sacrifice their health and lives for the war on terrorism...of course he owns a major health care provider...this is just not right... Let your friends in the service know what this administration thinks of them...

And then we have the climate of anger directed at the poor, the immigrant, the minorities and those who question just what all of these hoodlums in the Whitehouse are up to in our names...just look at the attack on the Dixie Chicks as an example...so what if one of them said they were ashamed of Dubya...the machine kicked into gear and artists like Toby Keith felt the need to put up a doctored photo of Natalie Maines with Saddam Hussein...see how they are willing to lie, cheat, steal and kill innocents and our children in countries far away to keep themselves in power...we saw it with McCain and Gore...we continue to see it with many others too...

AND THESE BUSH IMPERIAL CLONES CALL THEMSELVES PATRIOTS? They say they love America but obviously can't stand Americans exercising their Constitutional rights, I offer these words from members of their own party:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-- Republican President and War Veteran Theodore Roosevelt

Standing up for what is right, honorable and good is never treason...it is an obligation as citizen of this nation and a right ordained by a higher moral authority... And what about those Compassionate-Christian-Conservatives? Practicing the teachings of Christ is much more difficult than just preaching what some think Christ meant by Love God and one another...I am sure that killing others in God's name is not part of the deal...no matter whose God it is...after all...Jews, Muslims and Christians all worship the same "One true God of Abraham"... I don't thump a Bible up against my enemy's face...I reach out my hand, I feed him, I cloth him, I shelter him, I provide medicine and schooling to him and I try to understand his beliefs, culture, religion and anger against my country...in short fixing what has gone terribly wrong... This is the role of the peacemaker...

Not the Bush regime's version which is to push the world into Armageddon in a sort of born-again perverse self-fulfilling prophecy...definitely NOT Compassionate, Christian or Conservative...just plain ruthless, dangerous and evil...and the Shrubmeister's obsession with Saddam is diverting attention from domestic and foreign economic problems...Africa and South America are looking at revolution, civil unrest, bankruptcies and governmental collapses...not to mention starvation and disease...

And what about at home? PUNCH THEM IN THE NOSE...PUT A BULLET IN THEIR HEADS...RUN OVER THEM WITH YOUR CAR...all 'ragheads' are the same...I have heard all of these statements lately from my fellow Americans.

Of course let's not forget those horrible French...the ones who gave us the support to even become a nation to begin with...who gave us Lady Liberty...and now there is a movement to send her back to France? THIS IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS THE TACTICS USED BY THE TALIBAN...OR THE FEDAYEEN...OR EVEN HITLER'S LITTLE BROWNSHIRTED GOONS...SO WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT THAN THEY...in this case many of the ones saying these things are supporters of Bush and that should concern everyone that believes in the American ideals of Freedom, Justice and Fairness... WE ARE USING CLUSTER BOMBS WHICH DON'T PARTICULARLY CARE IF THEY KILL MILITANTS OR KIDS...WE USED CS GAS JUST LIKE PUTIN DID TO KILL ALL THOSE HOSTAGES...WE POISON WELLS USED BY MILITARY AND CIVILIANS ALIKE...WE HAVE BEEN PLACING OUR TROOPS IN SCHOOLS JUST LIKE THE BAD GUYS DO...OUR TROOPS SHOOT CIVILIANS AT WILL OUT OF BOREDOM...OUR COMPANIES BUY YOUNG GIRLS AS 'GIFTS' FOR US TROOPS AND SUBCONTRACTORS...AND WE AS A PEOPLE DON'T SEEM TO CARE IF OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR LEADERS ARE THE SAME ONES THAT CREATED ALL OF THESE BUMS, CROOKS AND THUGS AROUND THE WORLD TO START WITH...OR THAT WE FINANCED THEM...OR THAT WE SOLD THEM ALL OF THOSE TERRIBLE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION...THAT'S DIFFERENT...THEY WERE ARE ALLIES THEN...THEY WERE GOOD TRADING PARTNERS...WHATEVER...AND NOW WE FIND OUT THAT EVEN THE REASONS FOR ATTACKING IRAQ WERE MADE UP...US TROOPS WERE PRESENT AT THE MASSACRES AND MASS GRAVES IN AFGHANISTAN...THIS IS THE REAL REASON THAT MANY IN THE WORLD NOW HATE US...

This has got to be the most corrupt, secretive, licentious and contemptuous administration I have ever witnessed in my life and now it is dragging the whole globe into World War III with Dubya's latest slogan of the month "Armageddon, come hell or high water". There is a cure for endless and senseless warfare, Junior, it's called Peace...we need to stop exporting terror and WMD to all these third world dictators and scum...that is a good start in making the world a safer and better place...Dropping food, medicine and blankets, not bombs...digging wells, not graves...and building coalitions and shelters, not hardened bunkers in caves in Afghanistan covertly with India while giving or selling mines, biological and chemical agents and heavy weapons such as stinger missiles to the same people we now want to kill in that country and in Iraq...

We are not one bit safer than we were a year ago...we are very much poorer as a nation though, in more ways than one...not every train car is inspected, or all shipping containers at the docks and the trucks...forget it...you can still walk across the border to the North or South at will undetected and unchallenged...airport security is still MIA and now many carriers are just going to go out of business...and all we have to show for this all...huge deficits as far as the eye can see and the largest and most invasive government agency the nation has ever experienced...and the actions being taken by this administration is truly making many very nervous...spying on citizens, no legal representation, apprehension and detention without any charges, rounding up folks and forcing them to get dangerous vaccinations, big brother type agencies to monitor every e-mail, phone conversation and letter and then there is my cuz, Dubya...Mr. Nintendo with a big red button at his disposal threatening half of the world with attack and alienating us from the rest of the more civilized countries daily...he is unifying isn't he...every nation is quickly becoming united against us...

WE NEED A CHANGE OF REGIME RIGHT HERE AT HOME FIRST! This is why we need someone not from the DNC or RNC corporate candidate lists...that bunch have no spine and go along with everything the big contributors want...a McCain or Gore could win, but they walked away from the arena and didn't even take the time to say they got screwed by the Bush personal destruction team... We must not let the Taliban faction of the neo-con radical right in the GOP or the advisors in this corrupt regime filled with chickenhawks, pardoned criminals and cold war left-overs from prior failed administrations which gave us Watergate and Iran-Contra dictate this nation's foreign and domestic policy...or bankrupt the world's economy and march it into Armageddon...these folks are not real Republicans or even true Conservatives...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." -- Republican President and Five Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Where are those kinds of leaders...the ones who say let's go to the moon by the end of the year...the ones who will stand up and push alternative energy sources as though our lives depended on it...the Arianna Huffingtons who say let's stop driving gas hogs because we have the technology to build vehicles which are more efficient today...the Molly Ivins who say when are we gonna get serious about creating new jobs in new industries here at home...where are the water wells being drilled, the farms being created, the microwave satellites coverting solar power to useable electricity to transmitt to all parts of the world...and when will we stop peddling weapons of mass destruction around the world...when, when and who will take the reigns...the real heroes, the real patriots and the true leaders...

Being a patriot is more than just waving a flag made in China...it is understanding what the flag is supposed to represent...it isn't wearing the latest red, white and blue underwear fashions made by slave labor in South America...it is having the conviction to take the extra step and wear a uniform or go abroad as a citizen and doing good things in this country's name...not evil which cause others to hate our government enough to attack us...stuff which the "evil-doers" in this administration have done and continue to do...

Here are just a few examples: Zbigniew Brzezinski..
http://www.geocities.com/RepresentativePress/binLadenphoto.html
Donald Rumsfeld...
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.regime.change/
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=41&sid=1648385

The dynamic duo of Kissinger and Snowcroft...
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." ~ Henry Kissinger
~ January-February 2003 edition of Eagle Newsletter
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00144.htm
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/index.html

And let's not forget Bush, Blair, BCCI and the Bin Laden Group... http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd02152003.html

RIEGEL REPORT IN CONGRESS ON PROVIDING CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS...
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/medsearch/FocusAreas/riegle_report/riegle_report_main.html

US AMBASSADOR GIVING GREEN LIGHT TO SADDAM TO ATTACK KUWAIT...
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html

BUSH THREATENED TALIBAN BEFORE SEPT 11TH...DID THIS PROVOKE ATTACKS...
http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/usthreats.html

MARVIN BUSH...THE OTHER BROTHER...WTC/SECURITY/JOHN O'NEILL...
http://www.hereinreality.com/JohnONeill.html

Why are the families of victims of 9-11 Outraged with Investigation Head?
http://truthout.org/docs_02/020303E.htm

UNOCAL JUST SIGNED THE DEAL WITH AFGHANISTAN... OSAMA BIN LADEN'S LOCATION ON SEPT 11TH...and his family's great escape in the days that followed...
http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/bin_laden_location.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york091102.asp

The whole "We had no idea a plane could be used as a weapon" lie from Condi Rice...
http://www.xfiles.stylicious.com/lonegunmen/1aeb79.php
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm
http://www.nlsi.net/hs-alc-info.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html

"Who cares what you think..." "There ought to be limits to freedom..." "This would be allot easier if it were a dictatorship." -- George W. Bush
HE HAS TOLD US WHAT HE IS REALLY ABOUT

"Oct. 26, 1942, U.S. troops were under way for North Africa. On Oct. 28, the government issued orders seizing two Nazi front organizations run by the Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. U.S. forces landed under fire near Algiers on Nov. 8, 1942; heavy combat raged throughout November. Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation, long managed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942. In this action, the government announced that it was seizing only the Nazi interests, leaving the Nazis' U.S. partners to carry on the business. These and other actions taken by the U.S. government in wartime were, tragically, too little and too late. President Bush's family had already played a central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany; in financing and managing the buildup of Nazi war industries for the conquest of Europe and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of Nazi genocide theories and racial propaganda, with their well-known results." -- Webster G. Tarpley
http://tarpley.net/bushb.htm

And who was the go between on these business dealings of the Bush and Walker families with the Nazis...Hermann Goering...
"Why, of course the people don't want war... but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering at the Neuremburg Trials He was hanged...

Got Rope?
In the waning days of WWIII the tradespersons who will be in greatest demand will be those who have learned how to braid strong rope and tie a decent hangman's knot. I can only hope that there will be enough trees remaining after the nuclear winter...and I don't really care what political affiliation they are...oil and opium has never been a good enough reason to sacrifice this nation's precious blood...and death for liberty will have no value if we destroy our own freedoms and PUNCH those who practice freedom in their nose...

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war . . . and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."--James Madison, April 20, 1795

NOW LET'S INFORM THE AMERICAN VOTER AND RETURN THIS NATION TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS...WE THE PEOPLE!

Mad as Hell,
Mike Price, Rancho Lobo Blanco, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Disabled Navy Veteran 1968-76 ( http://www.AWOLBush.com )
Republican turned Democrat (active at all levels up to being a candidate)
Related to the Bush family (Through the Walkers on my mother's side)

"IT IS THE DUTY OF THE PATRIOT TO PROTECT HIS COUNTRY FROM ITS GOVERNMENT"
-- Thomas Paine

Blair rightly focuses on completing job in Iraq USA TODAY - Fri Jul 18, 5:57 AM ET In Washington on Thursday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair used a rare honor -- a speech to a joint session of Congress -- to make a compelling case for U.S. and British forces to stay the course in Iraq in spite of escalating guerrilla attacks. ''Finishing the fighting is not finishing the job,'' he said. ''We promised Iraq democratic government. We will deliver it.'' Story....

They may deliver "it" alright. If given the chance. A puppet ersatz democracy. Let them finish the job. Regardless of how badly the Iraqi people are robbed of their mineral and oil heritage by avaricious hegemonists and their shills. There will probably be enough leftover revenues used for building a decent life for the Iraqis, electricity, roads, schools, hospitals, sewage treatment plants, etc. And if the country is no longer considered a "terrist" country you should be able to go to visit archeological sites and people and other interesting things in Iraq. These considerations, what really matters to the non-elite classes of humans, are important.

We did predict that the anti-war folks would get egg on their faces. They did and they will get more egg on their faces. This does not mean that the ultimate Bushie goal is not Armageddon. That ultimate goal remains. But think of what is to be written in the history books. In order to create and maintain a contrived moral high ground after the Holocaust, this rebuilding of Iraq is necessarily important. It will contribute a misleading impression that the instigators of Operation Biblical Prophesy Fulfillment will have been blameless.

VeeJay says,"What is Hoodia?"

Hoodia gordonii is an exotic cactus from southern Africa. It has appetite suppressing compound(s). Useful for weight loss. Good alternative to ephedra, stomach stapling surgery, etc.
San bushmen who have eaten the cactus for thousands of years, have reportedly reached a lucrative settlement with pharmaceutical companies according to the BBC. For thousands of years, African tribesmen have eaten the Hoodia cactus to stave off hunger and thirst on long hunting trips. Bushmen who live around the Kalahari desert in southern Africa used to cut off a stem of the cactus about the size of a cucumber and munch on it over a couple of days. According to tradition, they ate together so they brought back what they caught and did not eat while hunting.

YahooSearchfor Hoodia
Hoodia gordonii information
desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Asclepiadaceae/Hoodia_gordonii.html
I have a large amount of Hoodia cactus for sale:
theplantmart.com/bbs/posts/2350.html
Sampling the Kalahari cactus diet. May 30, 2003, BBC, UK,
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2947810.stm


Hoodia gordonii is the species with the appetite suppressant of interest.

From succulents.co.za
"Hoodia is a genus in the Asclepiadaceae family. There are approximately 20 species in the genus. The unusual flowers are flat and saucer-like in shape and red, purple to brown or mottled dark yellow in colour. Flowers form prolifically near the stem tips in summer. The short stems are many angled with white spikes appearing at short intervals on each angle. Stems are single or branch forming, they occur in variable shades of green. Plants are found in a large part of Southern Africa."

Capsules of Hoodia extract may be ordered from:
hoodia.msn-messenger.com/order.htm


Hoodia gordonii is the species of interest. Click image for more info.

VeeJay says, "Have you read William Blum's books?
"Far and away the best book on the topic." - Noam Chomsky
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II
members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm
Rogue State A Guide to the World's Only Superpower.
If you would like to purchase copies signed by the author write to him at bblum6@aol.com
members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm
Or maybe Howard Zinn's The Twentieth Century: a People's History?"


Does it have to be like this? Who benefits? Who pays?
Americans continue their sleepwalk never bothering to ask.
And apparently not bothering to read newspaper headlines.

Bush is still hard at "work", stinging the middle class for whom he demonstrates relentless contempt. The latest Bush-Bait-And-Switcheroo:
Bush Plans to Cut Federal Pay Raises
by Leigh Strope, AP Labor Writer, August 28, 2003
"Citing a national emergency that has existed since the 2001 terrorist attacks, President Bush said Wednesday he will cut the pay raises that most civilian federal employees were to receive in January. In a letter to congressional leaders, Bush said he was using his authority to change the pay structure in times of 'national emergency or serious economic conditions' to limit raises to 2 percent. Federal employees covered by the government's general schedule pay system were to receive a 2.7 percent across-the-board boost of basic pay and also an increase based on private-sector wages in the areas where they work, called locality pay. About 1.2 million of the 1.8 million civilian federal work force are under the general schedule system and would be affected by the change, according to the Office of Personnel Management. Bush said granting those full raises would cost about $11 billion more than he had proposed in his budget. 'Such cost increases would threaten our efforts against terrorism or force deep cuts in discretionary spending or federal employment to stay within budget,' Bush wrote."
Story ...
The same relentless pattern. Americans continue to scarf up whatever slop Bush pours in their trough.

Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton
Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Thought, by Michael Dobbs, Washington Post, August 28, 2003:
"Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents."
"The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than was previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that as much as one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors."
Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton
"has positioned itself to take advantage of an increasing trend by the federal government to contract out many support operations overseas. It has emerged as the biggest single government contractor in Iraq, followed by such companies as Bechtel"
Story ...


Troop deployments and oil map of Mid-East region.

nietzsche

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