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Archive for May, 2011


More pictures of dead American victims of terrorism…

Chief Bigfoot, one of the first to be slaughtered by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee.Chief Bigfoot, one of the first to be slaughtered by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee.

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Pentagon says bombing civilians necessary, will continue.

Of Course. Then we’ll have Nut-Jobs like Charlie from the dead soldier picture comments saying that “No Marine he ever knew ever killed a baby”, well, Charlie, Your Comrades Sure The Hell Do, Daily, and the Pentagon says it’s “necessary” because mommy and daddy didn’t surrender, didn’t bow down and lick the jackboots of the NATO Imperial Stormtroopers like you.
Some “freedom” y’all are fighting for, Free to submit to Corporate American rule or die, and your kids with you.


U.S.A.I.D. preliminary report says Haiti under-disastered and overpaid

Yep, by saying that fewer people were killed and less destruction occurred they’re setting the stage for another bill the Haitian PEOPLE will have to pay, forcing them farther into perpetual debt slavery to the Great Powers. It’s like that stupid joke the TeaParty and other racist rednecks like to tell, about the Mississippi sheriff sending his deputy down the hill to check for survivors when a busload of black kids went off the road. Deputy comes back and says “yep, they’re all dead”. Sheriff says “Are you sure?” Deputy says “Yeah. Some of them said they weren’t, but You know how THEY lie.
 
I suppose next U.S.A.I.D will say that Haiti faked the whole earthquake just to get welfare.


UPDATE: Marvin Booker Still Dead, Denver Pigs who murdered him still immune from prosecution

Yep. Exactly that. Cops can beat a handcuffed prisoner to death and suffer no consequences under the so-called “law”.
The Fascist “Back the Badge” MORONS will chant “The policeman is always right, if you’ve done nothing wrong why should you fear the KGB, comrade, four legs good talking back to Pigs baaaaaddddddd…


Palestinian refuges denied Oslo camp

Karl Johans Gate
OSLO, NORWAY– Pro-Palestine demonstrators who marched on Thursday to demand political asylum found themselves surrounded the next morning and made to dismantle the tents they’d pitched beneath the statue of the subversive, now lauded, Henrik Wergeland.


W.A.S.P. Triumphalism, Memorial Day and The Wingless Vultures

I swear the Territory Days Triumphalism celebration (Like the so-called “Islamic Triumphalism” rally around the world last September 11th, remember that? They were celebrating Eid, one of their holidays they celebrate every damn year using the same Lunar Calendar the Israelis use. It’s like Famous Racist Jerkoff Mel Gibson if he would actually go so far as saying that Passover is Jewish Triumphalism for killing Jesus) is getting More Racist every year. Anyway, at Territory Days they’re celebrating Custer, Kit Carson, Gen Palmer, Colonel Chivington… claiming once more that the Sand Creek Massacre was instead a necessary battle because the Cheyenne and Arapaho, ama-yetli de sdya da ni ludk, Ka no kwo 'uhwana hisd Tsalagi who had a legal right to be there, were Threatening Being Bad Indians And Not Doing What Their Newly Self-Appointed White Overlords Told Them To Do. The White Overlords who didn’t have a legal right to be there.

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Torture and Murder of un-convicted prisoners isn’t off limits to them… so

So I guess Killing Civilians isn’t either.
Naturally it was the fault of the civilians themselves for living in the middle of a War Zone, obviously they asked God or Allah or the Great Gazzoo beforehand to be born into the poorest place on earth and the middle of a land coveted for millennia by so many Empires for its strategic location.
I bet it will make the usual War-Mongers in town, the ones who say they gave me the right to say this so I’d “goddam better shut my pie hole about it” Really Happy to know that some of the “Terrorists” executed without trial or even charges in this airstrike were Kids.

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Murderer gets 4 1/2 years for killing handcuffed prisoner.

In a plea bargain. Actually the Court Martial handed him 12 years.
I know people who got more time for passing a no-funds check.
The Army M.P. which in my book stands for Murdering Pus… errr punk…said he “knew it was wrong” then blamed the victim.
Yep. He had heard about a chaplain, who unlike a Prisoner IS a combatant… was killed by an IED. Which itself might have been more Army Bullshit, the Air Force dumped hundred ton after hundred ton of explosive devices all over Afghanistan.
It could as easily have been a case of long-delayed “friendly fire” and we’d never know from the Army accounts. Yeah, they DO lie through their teeth.
Anyway, Pig Boy, who like every other Prison Guard in the world took the job because it affords him access to helpless prisoners to abuse and get sexually aroused so he and his fellow Pigs could stand around spanking each others tiny little monkeys…
Said that the victim made him do it. By being vaguely of the same ethnicity as whoever was reported to have placed the alleged IED.
So the Court Martial, like ALL Judges, did what Pigs normally do, they gave their Fellow Pig the best deal they could hand him under the circumstances. This Farce Martial, the other side of Kangaroo Kourt lynch law, Pigs literally get away with Murder, took place on Ft Carson.
I’m not naming the Pig because I personally believe he sold his soul to get his power-trip on, just like every other PIG.
But, don’t y’all worry none, all y’all Back the Badge Morons, he’s in Federal custody so he and his Mom will have conjugal visits soon.


Glenn Beck says he’s going to Israel…

Going to Jerusalem to stand with Israel. uh huh…
Like, wouldn’t the Israelis prefer to have somebody who’s not a ChickenHawk? I mean, he had the choice and the chance to join the Army and go fight in the Middle East, chose not to. Same with most of the War Caucus in America. Both in and out of Official Government Service.
Glenn, you’re a putrid bitch.
Typical of your party affiliation, I know, and not even the worst piece of scum to float to the top of that cesspool.
There are Israelis who are working for peace, and you want instead to bring them more war, more death, more of your own sick brand of Hatred. You should be ashamed, so should any of your Demented Disciples. Unfortunately, none of you are.
I’ll say it, since there’s so much thundering silence on the issue, you’re going to start a war in which Jewish people get killed right along with everybody else, I guess that makes you Anti-Semitic. Like AIPAC who prop up Israel in the hopes that Israel will be destroyed in fire, thinking somehow that they’ll thus provoke God to action and that, somehow, God will smile upon them for destroying so many people and so much of His world. Delusional Bastards.


Town in Georgia has arsenic that residents didn’t know…

Sounds familiar, yes? but the Georgia in question is the former Soviet Republic. And like our own Poison Hill, “Gold Hill Mesa Estates” McMansions starting at a quarter million here in Colorado Springs, houses built on top of a toxic waste mound, it was about mine waste.
The other part of the story in the opening paragraph which some “capital is god” proponents would find shocking…
Georgia, two and a half decades after the “fall of communisim” has been living under the freest of free market capitalist regimes in the world, has only 60% of the wealth they had under the Soviet Union WHAT?
Wasn’t the Economic Strangulation of Communism replaced with the much better (so we’re told) Capitalism, replete with all the formerly publicly owned mines, gas wells and other industries having been turned over to International Colonialist Corporations didn’t bring them a net profit but instead a net LOSS?
My my my my my my my my… seems a certain set of Capitalist Propagandists have been busy little bees, spreading lies all over the place…


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AP says “In face of Federal inaction on Immigration”…

Way to slant a headline! “State initiatives to stem immigration fizzle in the face of Federal inaction.” How about reporting it like this?
“Racist State Legislators, in the face of opposition from Mainstream Americans, who would be the REAL targets of their Racial Profiling initiatives, even with massive funding from Nazi organizations like News Corp and Freedom Corporation (Channel 5 news, the Gazette…) and their Corporate Overlords, despite Nazi-Klan related heavily subsidized “grass roots” organizations such as the TeaParty and Minutemen, with all that expensive and highly organized firepower, still failed to force their Racist Agenda on the states the same way they FAILED to do so on the Federal Government” Oooh, I bet that stings. When you call yourselves non-racist but want to profile people, most of whom are United States Citizens, based on their appearance of belonging to heavily stereotyped and demonized ethnic, social or religious groups?

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AIPAC speechmeister Barack Obama may not be such a good liar after all

In his speech to AIPAC this year, President Obama described the foes of Zionism as determined to “wipe Israel off the map,” the last word quickly retracted and replaced with “Earth.” A quick glance at the prepared text shows this wasn’t a slip of the tongue, it was an official concession that Obama is familiar with the un-spun translation of Ahmadinejad’s words. But Obama’s reflexive on-the-fly edit reveals how literal the Zionists are about their myth-building, and how little leeway Obama has to break with the US Israel agenda. The war drumming against a nuclear-powered Iran invokes the specter of an annihilation of the Jews based on s supposed threat to “wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.” I think today’s vocab malfunction suggests that Obama knows the rest of the authentic translation reads: “to wipe the Zionist regime off the map.” With the advent of the Arab Spring, the term has become the Illegal Zionist Entity formerly know as Israel. Throw in the Apartheid qualifier and Ahmadinejad’s threat is an objective to which a greater and greater number agree.


In case of Rapture can I have your car

Maybe I’m being judgmental or something, but I get this really powerful feeling that if the rapture happens today then nobody would notice. The people who are so very sure they’re on the list will still be waiting. Maybe counting on making a fortune in the Looting Market would be kind of a mistake. And, given how Jesus talked about rich folks, I wouldn’t go counting on a recently depopulated mansion or any luxury cars being suddenly made available. And I don’t think that we could get rid of Pat Robertson or Dobson that easily. In fact I don’t think the City of Colorado Springs would be much affected by Rapture. Just, you know, sayin’ is all.


Carlos Santana booed at Racist Atlanta “Civil Rights” baseball celebration

For pointing out that Georgia’s Arizona style “show your papers law” is Racist. He was supposed to be the Token Mex for MLB. But he just AIN’T gonna be somebody’s Stepin Fetchit. And of course it’s not about Racism. I mean, when La Migra threw down on me with machine guns, while dressed like a Salvadoran Death Squad, and then very snottily told me that it was MY fault because I “looked Mex”… no, I don’t. Mexican is not any race, there are all of the so called “races” of the world in Mexico, Chinese-descended Mexicans, IRISH descendants, even Jewish Mexicans. What I “look” is American Indian from the Cherokee side of the family.

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Huckabee out, Trump out; Obama too can bow out, has same nothing to offer

hope change justice peaceIN LIGHT OF TERM 2008-2011,
IDEA FOR OBAMA 2012: If you’re neither going to close Guantanamo NOW, unmake war, support popular uprisings against authoritarianism, intercede with the environment, challenge corporate malfeasance, rein in the banksters, reverse class inequality, repeal the Patriot Act, reestablish transparency, restore justice, nor even reignite faith in American democratic righteousness,
MIGHT I SUGGEST YOU DECLINE presuming to need a second term? Because really, what is it you propose you have to offer?


Did you notice who are hosting the Steve Bach campaign signs?

Slumlords, Out-of-Business businesses with real estate signs from his Political Comrade Tim Leigh’s company, foreclosed houses with the same…
Way to GO! o ye non-elite Elitists! You crashed the economy of Colorado Springs and the entire world with your Mortgage Scams and now hope to be rewarded for such crimes by being given all the land in Colorado Springs and all the political power to spend the Peoples Money too. Your Ayn Rand-esque undeserved conceit would be more convincing if you actually WERE Better than other people, as your cartel claims to be. Tim Leigh, Princess Barbie, Sally Clark, Doug Bruce, you’re a bunch of lying arrogant thieves and your major “achievement” appears to have been investing in Vulture Capitalism. You might as well have your signs hosted by Crack Houses, it would be a moral Step-up from where you’re at now.


Why would anybody auto-detect IP Addresses…

Since I was asked this by somebody very recently who actually took the time to read something and to write out his answers to it, well, a Republibot using two IP addresses, wrote essentially the same “answer” to two posts with which Right Wing Nut Cases and their Corporate Sponsors wiould disagree..
Barbie (IP: 67.192.52.186)
And I thought I was the seibnsle one. Thanks for setting me straight.
Shirl (IP: 195.58.166.8)
And I thought I was the sseinlbe one. Thanks for setting me straight.
uummmm… babe, were you going for “senile” or “sensible” or something completely different?
Do they not teach spelling at your school? Maybe a home-school situation?
261,881 unique entries reported 6,470,343 times
That statistic from spamlist.com
Thats an average of 24,765.8790193 postings from each of the IP addresses reported.
given that whoever released these bots from 2 different IP addresses would have to have read 50,000 posts in order to make the average, And I Don’t Really Believe That For An Instant, I just have the impression that somehow you got your bot programmed for any catchphrases hostile to TeaBags, Minutemen, Ayn Rand Zombies and anybody else affiliated with the Right Wing Lunatic Fringe.
Shameful that you would do that, you know, sort of gives a perspective of your “movement”, you don’t actually have enough Real People to do the task of reading what your opponents think or say. Pitiful, really.


Just in time for Pig Memorial Day, “Cop Killer” and Sarah Palin

The RetardiKlan wannabee president is allegedly upset over the song “Cop Killer”. Just in time for Pig Memorial Day, which is tomorrow.
Not upset over her demented followers blowing away Americans including a Judge, and of course children, nor upset over Cops handcuffing and then violently assaulting them for the so called ‘crime’ of “calling them names” like Chickenshit Pig Assholes. Or cops beating a prisoner, handcuffed and helpless and outnumbered at least 5 to one…Marvin Booker, to death in a jail cell in Denver, or cops forcing a REAL man, Oscar Grant, to lay on the ground then shooting him in the back for the ‘crime’ of being black without permission. Or shooting the 7 year old child Alyanna Jones then lying about the circumstances. (they shot her through the wall of her home according to the Pig-loving propaganda show filming them) and they get away with it because of all the really STUPID people, the Back The Badge MORONS who insist that everything a PIG does is legitimate even if it’s illegal.
People tell me that being beaten while handcuffed by the Coward Ass Pigs is “my own fault” because I shouldn’t have “talked back to them”.
These are the same people who will talk back to anybody they feel is helpless. Just too, you know, COWARDLY to talk back to anybody who is in a position of power. Then LIE right through their cop-cum stained teeth about how they “fight for freedom”.
They’ll say “I don’t agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it… unless it’s somebody wearing a Uniform who’s denying your right to say it”.
I can predict that everybody who answers this with indignant rebukes and indignant defenses of the Pigs beating up and even killing people for talking back, is a pure and simple coward.
Sure, your military and police gave me “freedom of speech”. Freedom to say how wonderful they are but if I deviate from the script I can be punished, and y’all cowardly Back The Badge MORONS will bravely help the Mighty Pigs build their Blue Wall.

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Republicans already have a candidate for 2012: Barack Anwr Obama

Looking for a challenger right of Barack Obama can only yield a caricature, irrelevant, bigot or panderer. If any candidate will offer a real alternative to the duplicity of Obama’s corporatist agenda, wouldn’t he or she have to come from the left? Yes the Democratic Party is just sheep clothing for the usual wolves, but I’m still hopeful about the actual Democratic voter, or should I say I’m in denial, that the average progressive liberal will not fall for Obama again.


But of course Anglo-centric American History is a Core Credit.

So, part of the Arizona “show your papers” lynch “law” has a complete defunding of Ethnic Studies which reflect, cumulatively, the histories of a substantial majority of the people in the state. Specifically at U of A Tucson the Tucson Police RIOT squad were called to disperse and arrest students and advocates who exercised their rights to make statements opposing the slashing of Mexican-American studies, African American Studies and Native American Studies from the curriculum and the denial and decertification of degrees in which Ethnic Studies are counted as Core Credits. Much like the illegal harrassment of Ward Churchill in Denver, only on a grand scale.
At the required-by-law “does anybody object?” session the opponents of slashing E.S. were railroaded by an arbitrary time limit, any who spoke longer than the allowed time, was arrested. One dragged away in chains by the Tucson Riot Pigs was a respected and tenured professor, she is 69 years old and disabled.
We’ll have a huge crowd of the Racists here in the West Side of Colorado Springs over the Memorial Day weekend, people whose anguished and shrill shrieking screams rise up in a mighty Whiney Chorus if anybody DARES suggest that the Officially Approved “White Side of the Story” is wrong on many counts and the “settling” of the American West came about at the cost of economic, biological and siege warfare against Americans based solely on Racial Grounds.
Murdering thieves like Stanton and Palmer and Chivington, will be honored as Heroes.

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The lynching of Preston John Porter Jr. by a mob from Limon and Colo. Springs

A propos of, let’s
say, LYNCHING.
Burned at the stake, at Lake Station Colorado, near LimonColorado
state history records 175+ lynchings, of mostly cattle rustlers and horse thieves. Boosters laud our state’s few (5) racially-motivated lynchings, but in relation to Colorado’s small portion of African- Americans, the incident rate is not insignificant. What’s more, Colorado can tie any state for the worst race lynching ever, when in 1900, along the railroad tracks near Lake Station, black 16-year-old, 130 lb. Preston Porter Jr, innocent and probably mentally feeble, was burned at the stake by a cheering mob numbering over 300.

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Territorial Manifest Destiny Triumphalism strikes yet again.

Celebrating for Territory Days, (courtesy of the free hand-out paper that’s everywhere on the West Side) the “Heroic” Colonel Chivington, the one who led the Babykilling attempted genocide at Sand Creek. How earlier at Glorieta he had Defeated General Silsby (Texas Militia) and how those bad ol’ Arapaho and Cheyenne bottling off the trails in and out of Denver… and contentedly mooing about how the Utes, on the other hand, being “good Indians” and not joining the Resistance to their Genocidal occupation and robbery. Yeah, pat old Chief Ouray on his long gone head and tell him what good “boy” he was.
I tried, really, to look at it from their point of view. How from their Manifest Destiny outlook the “savages” must have been horrifically frightenning… Naaaahhhh… the Triumphalists went out of their way to paint the Cheyenne and Arapaho as the Taliban, one local historian actually said about what’s now Ft Carson that Colonel Chickensh… errr Chivington and his “men” were fighting an insurgency, a war on terror just like the one in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Nice of him to admit, sideways though it be, that the War Against The People of Iraq and Afghanistan is just another Land and Resource Grab just like the one they pulled off right here a hundred and fifty years ago and that the Taliban actually ARE the legitimate Resistance to Occupation. Oh, and Ouray? Chivington and later Palmer rewarded him for being such a Good “boy” by breaking every single treaty they had made with the Utes, even passing laws which effectively made it a Capital Offense to BE Ute.
Chickenshits on Parade.
And the Sand Creek Massacre was exactly that. A massacre, indiscriminately murdering women, children, elderly, didn’t matter.
Just like in VietRaqistan, every baby killed was an “unlawful combatant” and “radicalized” and “extremist”.
They gilded and polished the Chivington Turd.

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Sarah Palin mouthing off with more racist crap

So, who is surprised by that? Anyway, she now believes that she has some kind of say over who can or cannot be a guest at the White House. This time in response to a Rapper. The AP (Arrogant Propaganda) News has it that “Obamas defending having a rapper as guest” WTF? There’s not a damn thing to defend. It’s THEIR freakin’ house, until President Obama leaves office. Simple Sarah hasn’t got a God-Damn thing to say in the matter. Hell, George Bush entertained Murdering War Criminals like Cheney and Ollie North. Reagan too. Hell, Bush even had HER arrogant racist bitch ass at the White House.
And the SUBJECT? A Negro singer. Wait a minute… how is that NOT racist again? Reagan had Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles as guests. People on whom Mrs. Palin depends for politico-religious opinions, like Pat Robertson, are only slightly less Klan-like in their attitude since the 60s… That crap about the Vodun connection to the Haitian earthquake, he used to say that about Ray Charles’ music. ALL Rock, Blues, Jazz, Swing… supposedly to lure White Kids into the Negro Lifestyle of drugs, wild sex… and voodoo. It’s looking like the RepubliKlan Party IS going to try to win the election with only White votes.

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I just got an email from Pres. Obama

I just got an email from President Obama. He wants me to lead. He says the politicians in Washington won’t do their job unless I do their job for them. At face value, that’s just weird. Are constituents to imagine that stump speeches fall by the wayside when the polls close and representatives develop amnesia from which only lobbyists can deliver them? Does anyone really believe that the public has to jump hoops for good governance? Who drinks crap-flavored Kool-Aid?

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