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Friday, June 22, 2007 11:53 AM
Original article: Why they fight

states' rights

Is sending abortion rights "back to the states" really the worst thing that can happen if Roe v Wade is overturned? Couldn't a vehemently anti-choice Court go beyond this and ban abortion entirely by applying the "compelling state interest" used to regulate third trimester abortions to the entire pregnancy?

I honestly don't know the answer to this, so someone please enlighten me.

Washington would have to take time away from its busy schedule and learn the law before answering this question, and we can't have that. Especially since the establishment loves abortion.

Thursday, June 28, 2007 05:17 PM
Original article: Interview with Helen Thomas

Diplomacy

Good interview, but the last bit, "two aircraft carriers pointing missiles, and submarines, in their backyard" is not what comes to my mind when I think about diplomacy.

Friday, June 29, 2007 11:50 AM
Original article: Interview with Helen Thomas

diplomacy

Modern American Diplomacy = Do what we say and not as we do or there will be an "intervention" using coercion and force.

Friday, June 29, 2007 12:16 PM

The easy way out

It is easier to be apathetic and trust the Government. That way people can have more time to not care, to watch 24 and go to soccer games. If people fear changes in the status quo, then they will tolerate quite a bit of injustice and feign ignorance instead of thinking about serious issues.

Cheney is just a symptom. The problem is the perverted cult of secrecy that surround the elites. They are taught (and have been taught for many many years) to believe that secrecy is power. That is what Freemasonry is all about, the "secret" knowledge that the designer of Solomon's Temple had regarding geometric relations and how to derive aesthetically pleasing angles and proportions like the golden ratio. Three of the architect's workers killed him because he would not give up this knowledge. His death made him "free" because he refused to give up knowledge to some thugs.

There are many secret, and not so secret (but still with secrets of course) societies with members who are powerful, entrenched pillars of the establishment. I don't think it a coincidence that Bush supposedly tapped Cheney at Bohemian Grove. The blue bloods are bred to be secretive early in life, at least to their ivy league cult frats (like Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key), but maybe even earlier still, and then graduating to the big boy cult frats (e.g. Bohemian Grove). Until these societies and their ilk are exposed and the body politic cleansed of their power and influence (to be replaced by, I don't know, the will of the people?) secrecy will continue to be a problem. Not only for the people but for the politicians that are socially blackmailed through the perverted "rituals" and whatnot that these stupid groups come up with (e.g. "You tell anyone about this mock human sacrifice to the Owl statue and I'll tell your congregation" kind of stuff).

Secrecy is so highly correlated with power and success in the minds of our elite masters that it flows over into everything else, even when it isn't the most appropriate method, like intelligence gathering. It also gives blank checks and blind eyes to black ops. Robert D. Steele of www.oss.net claims to have developed a system of intelligence gathering that is completely open source and is leaps and bounds ahead of DHS, which is essentially just another layer of bureaucracy to muck of the works and for cronies to promote themselves into. When it comes to intelligence and nonfiction, Robert D. Steele is serious business, just ask amazon.com.

Friday, June 29, 2007 12:35 PM

Or better yet....

invited to Cheney's bunker for a swell evening spent swilling Lowenbraus and watching the Creepy Veep's world-class collection of lesbian snuff films.

Or maybe getting a seat next to Cheney during the Cremation of Care, then getting to join the butt sechs with strapping young men in the Owl's Nest at the "No Girls Allowed" man party hedonfest that is the grove.

Friday, June 29, 2007 12:56 PM
Original article: Rudy can fail

What did he do?

what did Ghouliani do? What didn't he do? He did it all, he may have even committed treason by erasing the crime scene!

In Scoop and Dump we trust. Yeah right. Start building those nations Rudy, since according to you Nation Building is now one of our "things". Maybe one of the countries Scoop and Dump plans on building will elect him into office. He probably has a lot better chance of winning in an country he just built in his mind then he does here or in any real country. At least nation building works in his and his neocon handlers' minds, because it doesn't work outside of that context.

Monday, July 2, 2007 08:27 AM
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