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"Freedom" has a new, expanded business plan. "Freedom" is now the tool which most effectively enables and propels the unstoppable military-industrial juggernaut, which runs on synthetic patriotism and pervasive, unspecific fear.... the manufactured "enemies of our freedom", which is its raw fuel. Th...

Therein lies the problem of literalist doctrine....

Jesus is not dead! Ask any good Southern Baptist.
He is Lord, and he is in heaven, and he is watching you...
Life on earth is eternal?!?.....Blasphemy!.... Repent!!
It's still not too late for you, Cecil!

Nice read, mtmynd....

Coolness....

Great stuff....

25. A titmouse has neither tits, nor is a mouse....

http://www.irontail.com/images/patches/newacesandeight1.gif The reason that they don't want to talk about this whole subject is not fear of having to fry Karl Rove. His resignation would make the whole thing disappear. Then they could simply rehire him as a consultant. Presto, business as usual. No...

Myself? I rarely go deep on the fly pattern.... at least not in general company....

Wow.... thanks Z., Hest... Sometimes it fits together.... into the flow, so to speak. These are essentially some unrelated, leftover notes, pieced together.... both of these subjects reach fairly deep into me, these days.... I identify with Shorty Harris.... sometimes I am him, though I have yet to ...

I agree that the "Coalition's" trumped-up invasion and extended occupation of Iraq was, in effect, asking for this sort of retaliation at some point, no matter how much Bush and Blair tried to wrap up the campaign in humanitarianism, freedom, and security. Not that fear of terrorist retaliation shou...

Glorious...

I just wanted to say.... great post.

I have been "downsizing" over the last several years....
It is, well,..... liberating. I will keep what means the most to me., but the rest was essentially weighing me down. Thanks.

Shorty Harris roamed the Bullfrog Hills of southern Nevada for years, living on borrowed time. He went forth with canteen and whiskey jug, mainly after a quiet slope with a big-sky view, I suspect. But he had a nose for precious metals, in part because he knew rudimentary geology, but in greater par...

None of it will ever matter with these people. They seem absolutely bulletproof. This Administration has been caught in such an ongoing prolific preponderance of belligerent deception and lies -- the hits just keep on coming-- yet nothing can touch it. Latest No. One Smash Hit.... Pres. Bush previou...

It was like whiplash, to hear his words.... after his tone of compassion and reflection on the needless waste, and his acknowledgment that, essentially, his side was wrong in this conflict.... to hear how quickly he would have joined "his people", in their morally-deficient cause, with little or no ...

Shelby Foote passed on recently. His writings formed the backbone of a popular series on public television about the American Civil War, in which he dutifully narrated scene after scene of mass-produced savagery in his gentle southern inflection, aged to a wisdom of experience and compassion for his...

I write sad songs on cheap vodka; clandestine letters to mortality. My will to live is based on fear, so I drank it under the table. What is the exchange rate? How many voiceless souls equal one determined death trader? Twenty well-paid scientists? I limp from a cracked motel room, gassed in a gothi...

The world's financial markets are about a psychology of fear.... what might go up, what might go down.... The world's foreign policies are about a psychology of fear.... Who might rise up, who should be put down.... My own will to live amounts to psychologies of fear.... where I was then, where I am...