Either a homicidal and sociopathic man (known since 2000?) has kept his security clearance and worked on bioweapons materials or a quiet, community-minded scientist has been hounded to his death and his reputation destroyed.

Either way this calls for a new and complete investigation. Either way some government heads must roll.

thread is very interesting. Good comments from people in the mental health field.

Tracy Mapes is a man on a mission, a man who might blow the whole thinf wide open. He seems to have blown everything else.

Iron & Wine
Our Endless Numbered Days

A folk record with a touch of country about a somehow tragic love story set against the backdrop of a family in a small southern town in the not too distant past.

Sets a great mood and works very well on this level.

But underneath lies a metaphorical love story between citizen and country in a post 9/11 world. It is fucking brilliant.

---

Naked As We Came

She says "wake up, it's no use pretending"
I'll keep stealing, breathing her.
Birds are leaving over autumn's ending
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes 'round the yard

She says "If I leave before you, darling
Don't you waste me in the ground"
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes round the yard

---

Make me cry like a baby.

a quick shot of poetry is always nice.

Ah, so that is the source of the verse?

-Tracy Mapes is a man on a mission, a man who might blow the whole thinf wide open. He seems to have blown everything else.-

AKA 'Dick' Tracey Mapes

I noticed about this thread is hard to put explain, but when I first read the column, it really got me, the contempt of the media for its listeners and readers. A lot of other commentors mentioned that, said that when they read it, their reaction was almost physical.

I mean, when you get what Glenn's saying in the column, it really gets to you. It's very scary. And infuriating.

I know. I can see him at his desk, looking at the thread, and saying to himself "These are the kind of aware, committed, activist citizens who need to hear my story. I know I can count on their sense of justice and outraged civic concern.

No doubt Salon will take up his cudgels in the near future.

You have ABC by the balls, Glenn. Bite hard.

I can't source this, but several years back I read that Scooter Libby was quite familiar with anthrax. If this can be sourced, it is awefuly close to the Oval Office. Maybe he was one of the sources?

And he wasn't pardoned for this.

Ah, so that is the source of the verse?

Yes. If you like folk at all grab the record off itunes or p2p if you must. Not an everyday record but when you are in the mood, few things are better.

The verse posted before is from "Passing Afternoon" a cut from the same record. Are using the words "cut" and "record" dating me enough?

Read that verse posted @ 07:38 again and think 9/11.

The line--

"Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves"

--is devastatingly beautifully.

So where are we now?

It seems to me that America and the world are at a tipping point.

The US government, including all of it's politicized federal agencies and most of it's judicial appointees all the way up to the Supreme Court, is nothing more or less than a profoundly corrupt cabal of international criminal fascists and they are likely committing crimes as serious as premeditated murder, possibly mass murder right in front of our faces and targeting and framing their enemies left, right and center for their crimes.

Iran is playing right into Cheney's hand, given the most recent developments, and another major invasion is highly likely, even at this late hour.

Bush, with the help of Cheney, Addington, Scalia, Bolton, Roberts, Mukasey, McConnell and numerous others, through a series of secret directives, signing statements and Justice legal opinions, has positioned himself to declare martial law and take over the entire leadership of all branches and the country's financial infrastructure and round up and incarcerate masses of civilians in FEMA facilities around the nation and elsewhere. Anyone who has been staying tuned knows that I am not exaggerating or imagining any of this.

There is a real possibility also of the general election being canceled via the ruse of a national emergency (see invasion of Iran above or some contrived 'domestic terror' event).

The greatest irony of all lies in the fact that if one person can hope to put a stop to letting loose with the nukes or mass pardoning the entire GOP crime family, it would be Madame Speaker, Ms. Pelosi, by virtue of permitting a vote on Kucinich's motion to impeach G.W. Bush, far and away the most blatantly criminal and dangerous 'President' in US history. Last I heard this is not on her busy agenda.

Just what is on her calendar this month anyway. Oh, right....

Is it a reasonable notion that an orchestrated campaign could be mounted to pressure Pelosi and Conyers by the Accountability Now organization in partnership with the entire rest of the left blogoshphere to act against Bushco before it's too late? I have got a nasty gut feeling that something wicked this way comes.

I recall Joe Biden commenting on CNN last fall, that if Bush attempted to start another war without Congressional authorization that he would move to impeach him himself.

I'd suggest that if Bush launches a false flag op or a war before January, that there won't be a Democrat alive or dead in America with a shred of power or influence sufficient to stop them or ensure a 2008 general election.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Defends Her Opposition to Impeachment: “If Somebody Had a Crime that the President Had Committed, That Would Be a Different Story.”

Fuck.....

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/30/house_speaker_nancy_pelosi_defends_her