Who has been visiting the White House lately?

[jackofnightmares]

I was following the case of the secrete service White House visitor's logs. For years the case had dragged on with journalists trying to get access to them under the Freedom Of Information Act. They were always considered public documents until Bush came in. Then they were classified for for reasons of national security. Obama has sided with Bush and is keeping them secrete too

[mtmynd]

I wonder what I'd do with that information? Build scenarios, I reckon.

[stilltrucking]

I don't know. For the Bush administration the reporter requesting the information was interested in what religious leaders had visited him. I don't know why he was interested in what preachers had Bush's ear besides Billy Graham. You know George believed he was carrying out god's will. He talked to god all the time, and god answered him.



Maybe the reporter was planning on making documentary movie. Call it Zeitgeist II. Faith based politics of the true believers.

Oh well
a little traveling music maestro.

Sweet potato pie
and shut my mouth
gone gone gone with the wind
ain't nobody looking back again
they ought a get a rich man to vote like that

[mnaz]

It's like you always say. God is a real estate broker.

[still.trucking]

I don't know I tend to take the long view of real estate. It is all holy land to me.



I got your book, money well spent.
Waiting for Geoff Parson's book to come
should be here next week.
Money well spent I am sure.
I tried to post back to him a couple of times about it but had to delete them because I sounded like I was preaching at him. I re posted them to my "artlog" just to take responsibility for them in case he saw them.

I am looking to a link to revolution rabbits book, not sure if he got it published yet.

what were talking about
Oh yeah I remember now. I was thinking about the Bush policies Obama is leaving in place. Warrant-less searches is another— I think read something about that too. But I am too lazy to Google it now.



















































mingo would know
about how the first nations here in the promised land thought about "owner ship" of land. I don't think they could get their heads around that European construct. .



I guess I got that wrong. I think I was trying to say they could not understand how land could be bought and sold.

Native Americans believe they are closely linked with the land and everything that grows on the land or lives on the land. Because of this belief, the idea of "owning" land did not exist among the Native Americans. They lived off the land, but did not consider that they owned it.

This is not to say that they shared the land with other tribes, because they did establish territorial rights to certain parts of America among the many tribes. Intrusion into another tribe's territory was considered an invasion and was often met with warfare.

Before contact with Europeans, land tenure and use favored women. Inheritance passed through the maternal side and women controlled the use of the land. The Iroquois women also controlled the community's store of goods, in addition to farming in female cooperatives. The Northwest Tlingit women handled any money in the tribe, as men were thought to be foolish in their spending habits. The Tlingit women also controlled any fur transactions. In nomadic tribes, such as the Plains Indians, women owned and distributed all the domestic goods, while men controlled all items relating to hunting and warfare.

When the Europeans arrived in America, they were shocked by the Native Americans' matriarchal and matrilineal system. The European conquerors began to chain the Native Americans to the land through farming. As with the Twa tribe, many Native American tribes were subjected to the Spanish system of encomienda, which remained in effect in New Mexico between 1600 and 1680. This Spanish system "provided for the involuntary seizure of a percentage of each Pueblo farmer's crop every year to support Spanish missionary, military, and civil institutions" (Folsom 14).

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