VeeJay says, "The Dems don't want the presidency or what? Why are they doing every possible stupid thing they can think of? Are they stupid? Are they following a script? Are they sleep walking?"

On Conscience

SHIRLEY
[angrily] Who made your millions for you? Me and my like. What's kep us poor? Keepin you rich. I wouldn't have your conscience, not for all your income.
UNDERSHAFT
I wouldn't have your income, not for all your conscience, Mr. Shirley.
- Act ll, Major Barbara George B. Shaw.

The Democrats continue to hammer nails into their own coffin. The best they have been able to come up with is a) There is something which we should do slightly differently in Iraq. b) The way we went into Iraq was improper. Neither position is tenable. Both will lead to suicide at the polls in November. And as for the economy they continue to duck and dodge the elephants in the livingroom. Or maybe playing possum would be a better way to characterize their charade. It reminds one of how that lame excuse for a Democrat, Gray Davis, rolled over and played dead for Arnold in California. It's not surprising. What do you expect when NeoCon Laissez-Faire Robber Barons hand out the loot and call the tune?

The Sweet Spot
New York Times, October 17, 2003, by Paul Krugman
"'What we have here is a form of looting.' So says George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, of the Bush administration's budget policies - and he's right."
Story ...

Don't they love talking Rot when they know it's Rot?
Kerry's '350 Tax Increases'
March 25, 2004, by Michael Kinsley, Washington Post
"The purpose of a phony statistic such as this one isn't to convince people of its own accuracy. The purpose is to trap your opponent in a discussion he doesn't want to have (in this case about his past votes on taxes), bog down the discussion in silly details that few people will follow, and leave a general impression that where there's smoke there must be fire. And certainly, if what matters to you above all else is paying fewer taxes, you'd be a fool to choose Kerry over Bush. But this isn't about taxes; it's about honesty. Honesty means more than factual accuracy, it means avoiding disingenuousness: not talking rot when you know it's rot.
"Yes, it's unfair. It's ridiculous. That's the point."

George Will in 2003
expressed mock concern over the amazing lack of knowledge of history on the part of American college students. George Bush couldn't be more delighted. Everyone has forgotten about the hated and feared Laissez-Faire Robber Barons and the appalling injustices they had inflicted at the turn of last century. The rascals are back in control. Next November, either George Bush will have won an "election" versus an articulate former general or an "election" versus a lovable naive ex-physician turned politician. Kerry? Sometimes it sounds like he's going to say something good but then garbles it up with creative semantics. George McGovern deja-vu deja-vu all over again. Bush would eat him for lunch. Dreaming of what it would be like to have a caring physician in the whitehouse to call each and every bluff proffered by Frist, the world's only heart surgeon who is also a living heart donor? Better to meditate on how many nanoseconds after the inauguration it would take for a Democrat to morph into an icehole as cold and callous as a NeoCon. During his future tenure George Bush will have callously destroyed Medicare and Medicaid despite the sincerest of objections from anyone who hasn't yet been hypnotized by NeoCon Laissez-Faire sophisms. The order has been given. Find more ways to make the shags pay. Social Security? Don't you wish. Get ready for Social Insecurity. The avarice of the Robber Barons is insatiable. They smell the honeymoney. The sweet smell of money has an attractive pull orders of magnitude more effective than the strongest pheromone. And Social Security is the largest as yet untapped HoneyMoney Pot. A HoneyMoney Pot which heretofore had just attracted flies. It's just begging to be licked clean. Some British economics scholars had estimated that George Bush policies will increase the federal debt burden on Americans by between 4 and 44 trillion dollars. That was before Social Security will have been handed over to the new NeoCon Laissez-Faire Robber Barons. That's a pretty big yoke. But Americans will get used to it.

Regarding the Federal Deficit
America's politicians are being total slime-weasels. They're pandering their brains out. Republicans added a hugely expensive new drug "benefit" for senior citizens, which the Democrats bitterly criticized because it isn't expensive ENOUGH. In other words, our so-called "leaders" are buying senior citizen and Baby Boomer votes by piling massive debt on future generations.
www.raisethefloor.org/

Sleep walking? Remember the $900 screwdrivers? Probably not.
Sleep walking will of course become popular with Iraqis. If you want to get the oxen to work for you, you have to put the yoke in place first.
What is the "yoke"? It's the same yoke which the peoples of many nations, including the American populace wear with such ostentation and pride. Overwhelming government debt.
How big will the yoke be for the Iraqis?
After each Iraqi city has been rebuilt to resemble Kuwait city? Big. Really Big.
Remember to inflate the cost of each bridge from a million $US to at least $50 million. If you read the news headlines, you can easily see that the initial costs will be tremendous. It is the height of irony that each bomb which fell will potentially be paid back several times over by the Iraqis. Remember the interest on your thirty year mortgage? Three times the original principal is what you wind up paying.

There are 25 million Iraqis. Divide that into $250 Billion and there you have it.
The per capita cost of Utopia and freedom from fear of terrists.

The American population is about three hundred million or so. Federal debt is about eight trillion now, in 2004. How big is that yoke per capita? You can do the math, can't you? When will Americans be released from that yoke? It's not going away any time soon. In the meantime you will help pay the interest on it to the Robber Barons. Your gift to the Robber Barons is the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving.

VeeJay says, "The initial costs are just for starters."
January 20, 2004
"REPORT: BUSH PLANS $50B IRAQ SPENDING REQUEST POST ELECTION President Bush and his aides have spent the last year and a half telling the American people that the war in Iraq would cost little. A new report by Defense News, however, says the president will propose another $50 billion, in addition to the $166 billion already spent. According to the non-partisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the request 'won't come until after the Nov. 2 presidential election' - effectively concealing the spending request from public scrutiny."
Story ...

Spare the innocent and subdue the proud.

Safety in Domestication
What's so bad about controlling the Shags for fun and profit? What's one of the most common allegories in the Bible? A shepherd tending flock. Domestication of sheep wasn't all that bad of a deal for sheep. Remember bears and wolves and lions and tigers love to eat them. They can't run very fast. They are an easy meal. Or they would be, if it weren't for shepherds. This sort of analogy, as is the case with most analogies, falls down at some point. The most obvious is the reluctance of many humans to be thought of as sheep. That doesn't bother George Bush and the theofacsist NeoCons. Good Ole Boy George is the first American president in decades to use friends-versus-enemies rhetoric. Airheads imagining things. Just when everyone else was trying on the silly notion of a global community, George puts a stop to such nonsense and self-righteously reimposes one of the oldest and most wearying of mental straitjackets. Evolution of consciousness? Nope. It's back to friend-and-foe. Us-and-them. Ally-and-enemy. Why? Because it's still useful. It can make the shags happy to be domesticated.

The Yoke is Invisible.
Wouldn't things more tangible, like having air conditioning to beat that gosh darn 120 degree heat next summer, be foremost on your mind if you were an Iraqi? Or food? Wouldn't 50-70% unemployment motivate people to stop bombing and grab for the Yoke? Heck, you would think.

Georgia, Afganistan, Iraq. These countries are currently being saddled with relatively huge yokes of debt in order that they may be easily controlled. Amnesiacs have probably forgotten how many other countries are already controlled by debt-yoke domestication strategies. Egypt, Brasil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia. Who would ever imagine that Saudi Arabia with its vast oil reserves would have a debt-yoke? Check the numbers, jelly bean. $150 billion dollars. It doesn't matter if there were to be regime changes or not. Those debt-yokes will remain.
Don't agree with deforestation in the tropics? Better to think about something else. Because of debt-yokes, rich foreign countries are virtually paid to chop down the forests. It's a cool strategy with many useful applications.

Piercing the Illusion
Introduction from the book cover: "Deals with the whys and wherefores of the dwindling of American Individual Liberties. It sets straight the widespread misconceptions of what Freedom really is. It leads the reader through American history, revealing facts that are not taught in the established version of history to which our children are subjected. It exposes beyond a shadow of a doubt how Americans have been enslaved and don't even realize it. It names the individuals and presents irrefutable evidence of their treasonous acts. It reveals how America is 180 degrees from the purpose of its founding."
save-a-patriot.org/
Piercing the Illusion, P.O. Box 91, Westminster, MD 21158
For ordering questions or further information on Piercing the Illusion, please contact the Fellowship at 410-857-4441, or e-mail us at book@save-a-patriot.org. (Call or write for quantity pricing.)

Army OKs Halliburton Waiver for Oil Deal
by Sue Pleming, Reuters, January 6, 2004
"The U.S. Army said on Tuesday it had granted Halliburton a waiver to bring fuel into Iraq via a no-bid deal with a Kuwaiti supplier despite a draft Pentagon audit that found evidence of overcharging for fuel."
"Bringing in fuel to Iraq is part of a larger no-bid contract KBR won in March to rebuild Iraq's oil industry. So far, the company has clocked up more than $2 billion of business under that deal and billions more under a separate logistics contract with the U.S. military"
Story ...
Gas used to be cheaper than water in Iraq. The Iraqis can kiss that goodbye. They can add those costs to the skyrocketing debt the US is saddling them with. Debt is a four letter word which in this case as in so many others is synonymous with the word, yoke.

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"George W. Bush is like a man who tells you that he's bought you a fancy new TV set for Christmas, but neglects to tell you that he charged it to your credit card, and that while he was at it he also used the card to buy some stuff for himself. Eventually, the bill will come due - and it will be your problem, not his."
Paul Krugman, New York Times

VeeJay says, "Is the Carlyle Group Powerful? Is this the best money can buy?
Yes and maybe, in that order.
Credibility Questions Could Boomerang on Bush
by Terry M. Neal, Washington Post, March 3, 2004
"It's incredible how transparent their flip-flops are... The great irony is that this administration makes these baseless attacks when in fact not only is George Bush a walking contradiction, but clearly he is the candidate in the race that has the known credibility problem.' Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt defended the president, drawing a distinction between Bush's and Kerry's reversals. 'The president is very consistent on points of principle and as regards to the foundational policies that he is advocating,' Holt said."
washingtonpost.com/

Will voters focus on Bush details?
1/21/2004, by Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe
"President Bush's major speeches are a combination of high-blown rhetoric, paltry particulars, and calculated cynicism. They need to be carefully scrutinized, both in terms of what they actually deliver and who their real audience is. Bush's reelection will hinge on whether voters pay attention to the rhetoric or the details. For instance, Bush's call to broaden the availability of health ..."
Story ...

Will voters focus on Bush details?
Of course not.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
- Franklin Delanor Roosevelt

Absurdity is more dangerous than a neighboring fire.
Politicians' exhortations are more dangerous than absurdity.
-- Jun, a Japanese scientist

The current band of brothers assembled to represent a sort of Democrat answer to the Cheney regime couldn't be more ridiculous. They add more proof to their lack of electability each time they open their mouths. Why don't they just say, "Hey, we were paid by the Carlyle group to lend credence to the supposition that there will have been at least a modicum of resistance to the re-election of Cheney's proxy. Democrats don't want the presidency." Could $Millions in numbered Swiss accounts be what they're really after. That wouldn't be sporting, would it? There needs to be some sort of decorus facade at the very least.

They are going to quibble about, as Robert Kutner puts it, "Bush's call to broaden health care availability." Broaden availability. Broaden availability? Can you say Red Herring?

Kerry Slams Bush on Road to Iraq War
January 25, 2004, AP
"Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says President Bush has breached a faith to keep young people from dying needlessly in combat, which he said was a lesson from the Vietnam War. 'You truly should go to war as a matter of last resort,' Kerry told CBS' '60 Minutes' in an interview to air Sunday night. 'I'm afraid the president rushed to war without a plan to win the peace.'"
Story...
Can you say very creative semantics? Can you say Red Herrings?

War. War. War. Clark was a general. Kerry was a decorated officer in Viet Nam. Do the Democrats know at least as much as the Republicans regarding war? Is president George W. Bush a coward? Both were rich. Both were Yale grads. Kerry killed gooks while Bush copped out. Is perpetual war inevitable if America wants to control oil and world hegemony? War. War. War. War. War. War. Like a broken record.

We didn't get past the first two paragraphs of this piece written by the right honorable Senator John Kerry. We couldn't stop laughing.
America's Energy Future, by Senator John F. Kerry
"Americans spend more than $20 billion each year on oil from the Persian Gulf - often from nations that are unstable and hostile to our interests and our values. I believe that we must end this dangerous dependence because it leaves American security and the American economy vulnerable to the vagaries of international oil markets and to those who would use oil as an economic and political weapon. It is time to break with the past and build an American energy future.
Reducing our dependence on oil and building a future of clean and abundant energy are urgent national priorities. Our current political leadership, however, does not treat them that way. Political support for research, development, and deployment is based on the whims of George Bush and Dick Cheney's pals in the oil business and so is funding bottled up by the Republican dominated Congressional appropriations process. When President, I will assure that the nation is on track to reduce oil dependence by creating an Energy Security and Conservation Trust Fund capitalized by existing oil and gas royalty revenues and dedicated to accelerating the commercialization of technologies that will reduce America's dangerous dependence on oil."
January 26, 2004
solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5949

Experts: Outsourcing Helps World Economy
Story ...

Duh. Do you need experts to tell you that? You won't hear that outsourcing helps the world economy in the election run-up. Why? Take a guess silly.

Bush Allies, Falling Down on the Jobs
March 10, 2004, by Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post
"All this is a bad brew for Bush. Some of the steepest increases in joblessness have occurred in 'battleground states.' The unemployment rate is 6.7 percent in Illinois (up from a recent low of 4.1 percent), 7.6 percent in Michigan (up from 3.1 percent) and 6.2 percent in Ohio (up from 3.6 percent). The Democrats, the press and the offshoring furor are all fanning job insecurity. But the cruelest blow may be that many of Bush's supposed allies in large and small businesses are quietly helping the other guy."
VeeJay says, "Does this mean that the Dems want the presidency?"
We don't think so. If Bush isn't reappointed, he may face jail. The Carlyle Group seems far too powerful to allow that. Besides he did the dirty work which was required of him. And he has more dirty work yet to do. Dirty work which Kerry can not be relied upon to carry out satisfactorily.

A billion
may be a difficult number to comprehend, but a viewer from Spokane, Washington put that figure into perspective this way:
-A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.
-A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
-A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
-A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.

Oil: The Illusion of Plenty
"One hundred and twelve billion of anything sounds like a limitless quantity. But in terms of barrels of oil, it's just a drop in the gas tank. The world uses about 27 billion barrels of oil per year, meaning that 112 billion barrels--the proven oil reserves of Iraq, the second largest proven oil reserves in the world--would last a little more than four years at today's usage rates. In the future, 112 billion barrels will likely prove even shorter-lived. In the United States, gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles and larger homes are deemed essential. As the underdeveloped world industrializes, demand for oil by billions of people increases; China and India are building superhighways and automobile factories. Energy demand is expected to rise by about 50 percent over the next 20 years, with about 40 percent of that demand to be supplied by petroleum."
thebulletin.org/issues/2004/jf04/jf04cavallo.html
For comparison, Saudi Arabia is said to have about 264 billion barrels of oil while Iraq is said to have about 200 billion barrels.

Give-Up-Itis. Give-Up-Itis.
Kerry or Bush?
Maybe it doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
Maybe there is some difference.
Three Democrats are registered for every Republican. Yet the last presidential election was close enough for the Republican Supreme Court to decide.
Why are so many Americans afflicted by Give-Up-Itis? Probably because the Bullshit is so deep there.

Bent's suggested reading.
"Recently the below mentioned books have been digested and even I had grave suspicions about lots of what has happened in the past, I did not realize how dangerous the globalization has become. For the last 40 years I have tried to educate my surroundings about overpopulation, depletion, pollution, climate change etc.(with little success) but did not realize the power of the oligarchs.
We have to eliminate the power of the members of the BILDERBERGS, COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS AND TRILATERAL COMMISSION If we don't, the fate of , not only mankind but the entire eco system, is doomed. Maybe we are already there, but if Ihave to go down, I will go down fighting.
Here is a starter: The following politicians are members of the 'COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS' = World domination.
PAUL MARTIN, JEAN CHRETIEN, W.G.BUSH, RICHARD B. CHENEY, KISSINGER, JOHN KERRY, TONY BLAIR and a hell of a lot more.
If some of the list members do not know what, ' COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS, stands for, I urge them to read the following books:"
groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/50176

The Prophecy -- 2024
"This book predicts the outcome of George W. Bush's second presidential run."
"what may be in store for our nation in the coming years.... Even though this book was written well before September 11, 2001, a number of government actions since that terrible tragedy are almost direct parallels to stories in this book."
Christian Patriots in Action
prophecy2024.com/

VeeJay says, "How does Bush spell compassion?"
C
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Etymology: Middle English, from Latin contemptus, from contemnere
1 a : the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : DISDAIN
b : lack of respect or reverence for something
2 : the state of being despised

DER BUSH-MESSER
Jede Woche analysiert SPIEGEL ONLINE die Chancen des US-Präsidenten für seine Wiederwahl.
spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,292538,00.html

Kerry says the White House avoids talking about the issues by shooting the messenger. (Audio)

Character Assasination Mode. Hysterical?
Kerry Calls on Rice to Testify
Mar 28, 4:01, by Nedra Pickler, AP
"On Clarke, Kerry said: 'Every time somebody comes up and says something that this White House doesn't like, they don't answer the questions about it or show you the truth about it. They go into character assassination mode.' Besides Clarke, Kerry cited the examples of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Medicare accountant Richard Foster. 'It is entirely inappropriate and almost hysterical of the White House to engage in this massive character assassination,' Kerry said later in an interview with Kansas City television station KMBC. O'Neill was fired as Treasury secretary in December 2002 after publicly questioning the need for additional tax cuts, a core campaign issue for Bush. Foster said he was prohibited by his superiors from sharing with Congress a much higher but more accurate cost estimate for the administration's Medicare program."
AP Story ...

VeeJay says, "Will Rice Testify?
March 25, 2004.
Have you ever watched members of British Parliament calling each other right-honorable-this and right-honorable-that as they insult each other? It's fun to watch, isn't it? It's a real sideshow. It's televised so that people can see what's going on in government. But guess what, jelly bean? It has little or nothing to do with what goes on in government. It's just a sideshow. That's why it's ok to allow the television cameras in. Yes of course Rice will testify before the cameras. She knows just exactly what to say. One interesting thing will be to see how much egg she can throw on Kerry's face after he made such a big deal about the fact that Rice-Bush may be hiding something. Another point you may watch for is how many times she will use cliches about connecting dots or lapses in intelligence.

Big Problems? Or Handy Solutions?
While striving for moral high ground Molly Ivins and Robert Bryce demonstrate that they do not quite seem to get it. That's why they have to nibble around the edges of big problems with a thin semblence of propriety. Fair and equitable global distribution is not possible. America and the G8 are a minority of humanity supported by a necessary hegemony. Take away hegemony and the G8 losses it's coveted lifestyle. In that light Bush's "ruinous policies" are well calculated to maintain the status quo. Says Robert Bryce, "Bush has done nothing to address America's long-term energy needs or deal with the greenhouse gas problem." And yet, Bush's masterplan is right on track. Even if Kerry were to be selected as the next President, the siege mentality which Bush has so diligently nurtured is not unlikely to be continued. For Bush the energy elephant as well as the population elephant are not the problems but, rather the solutions.
Vee Jay, 31; After the Tomahawks?
Secular moralists which western democracies produce in such abundance along with their NeoCon adversaries must deny that hegemony is the sine qua non which keeps their hot air ballons afloat. They come up with blurbs like this which work well if one is wearing blinders. What modifications would they suggest, one may wonder.

And then there's that other Red Herring: Lousy Intelligence? Lousy Intelligence Schmousy Intelligence.
whatreallyhappened.com/houston52.htm

Bush's Greatest Failure
3/26/2004 by Robert Bryce, Texas Observer
"Democrats are attacking George W. Bush on many fronts: the lousy intelligence that led to the Second Iraq War, his go-it-alone foreign policy, the faltering economy, the paucity of new job creation, his penchant for deficit spending, his questionable record while serving in the Texas Air National Guard, and even his syntax and invention of words like "nucular." All of those things are being used to bludgeon Bush.
But all of them pale when compared to the most important issue in America today: energy. George W. Bush's greatest failure as the 43rd president of the United States has been his lack of serious action on energy policy at a time when the world desperately needs leadership from America. Global energy consumption is soaring. Oil and gas production is faltering. Almost every month, new studies come out that corroborate the harm being done to the world's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, which comes from the burning of fossil fuels. And yet, Bush has done nothing to address America's long-term energy needs or deal with the greenhouse gas problem.
mollyivins.com/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1614

VeeJay says, "Is there an oil/energy crisis?"
Who cares? Some say Bush is a bad guy because he's an oil man making trainloads of money for himself and for the Carlyle Group with US troops and high gas prices. Bush says burn it up as fast as possible. Keep the Armageddon Express on schedule. What does Kerry say? Burn it up faster, keep putting American's interests ahead of the interests of all other members of the human race, and keep gas prices low. Did Bush break a promise? Kerry says he did.
John Kerry's Plan to Lower Gas Prices to Fuel Economy
March 25, 2004
"A Kerry Administration would act immediately to exert pressure on OPEC to abandon its cut in output quotas and instead increase oil supplies."
johnkerry.com/issues/energy/gas.html

VeeJay says, "Take Back the Media."

takebackthemedia.com/true911.html