NEWS FLASH! Denver’s Mayor Michael Hancock has ordered the Denver Police Department to arrest Baby Jesus for sleeping on the steps of the Civic Center, in defiance of Denver’s camping ban.
If Jesus were to come back to Earth and Ascend to Heaven once again, would he only have to go to the top of Pikes Peak these modern and strange days? If you see Ted Haggard this coming Easter Egg Sunday ask him this question, and please let us at NMT know what his response is? Inquiring theological minds want an answer to the important questions of Life! Yes we do!
See jesus christ in greek mythology-dying & rising gods for more theology discussion in today’s world. Millions still face havoc due to the uncertainty of God about just who he is. God himself may be even more imperfect than Humans themselves are? Now that’s really scary…. In fact, God may even be dead or a Black Hole in another universe in our multiverse society? Who knows?
Man these guys are a piss-you-off in large doses several times a day.
MY suggestion on Christmas trees? First, I actually read the books and there were no flying reindeer, pine trees, elf changelings, talking snowmen or grinches mentioned. Nor a marathon of different versions of a certain Dickens novel being acted out by everybody from Mickey Mouse to the casts of Good Times, Three’s Company, Alice and Aisle of Loosey. Even Gilligan’s Island. So I get to be a little bit cranky especially by well-known Holier-than-thou hypocrites like DumFOX Noose Nutwerx jumping in.
But here’s a way to keep your Christmas tree alive for longer than Humanity will be. Buy a live one in June or so, sometime when they’re not 50 bucks for a sapling, and plant it. Especially here where pine trees grow wild. I mean, in El Paso Texas it’s a death sentence to any pine tree you plant. Wow, what a concept… actually replenish the earth rather than deplete it.
That would be our old fiends Focus on yer own damn Family. We’re talking here about a corporation which produces NOTHING. No products. A book that was given for free (but at great personal cost from the donors) and what else? Hatred for non-compliant non-conformists and of course, a massive Tax Exemption because they can call themselves a church. I knew a “preacher” 30 years ago who did that as a money-laundering outlet for The Dixie Mafia.
I know here a few people who used to work in the mail room. Which, mind you, involves its own ZIP code. They (anecdotal evidence) opened the letters, threw the checks in one box, cash in another and prayer requests and personal letters into the dumpster. That 90 MegaBux represents a significant downturn for them, by the way.
Ninety… Million… Dollars… in one year.
They also include and count into their “congregation” quite a large chunk of the Republican and Tea parties. Folks who you know very well are going to deduct their “free will” offerings from their own taxes, thus forcing the United States Taxpayers to fund their Money Machine.
Yes, really generous of them.
Oh, and they don’t like people who get money without working for it… unless it’s Dobson and others exactly like them.
One of the things that’s being done in many places around the nation, even in churches and synagogues, 
is to have the children of the congregation, many as young as two, stand up and parrot the empty words of the Pledge of Allegiance and no, that isn’t photoshopped, those are real American Kids chanting words they didn’t understand to a graven image.
Right after the “attack” which is avowed as The Official Story Being True, (But the officials who tell the story also said that there were WMDs in Iraq and the Wars are about “freedom”… so, where do the lies end?) children in schools across the land supposedly came up with the idea, with no coaching from their parents or teachers, to have a synchronized chanting of the Pledge. As a show of “patriotism”. Kids who don’t know what death is, or any of the myriad twists and turns of the lies needed to start and sustain wars… told by their teachers to do this, and to lie to the world and say it was their own idea. And if they didn’t, they were “terrorists”. Now, who could find any fault with that?
How about maybe GOD? The Bible strictly prohibits making children swear oaths. Read the Laws of Moses before you jump down my throat about saying it.
Jewish kids say an oath, Bat Mitzvah for the girls and Bar Mitzvah for the boys, when they’re 13 years of age. The oath first Moses then Joshua had the people of Israel say. You see the cute little house sign that says “As for me, and MY house, we will serve the LORD”… without the rest of the stuff surrounding it like Joshua having anybody who didn’t swear the mitzvah killed. Seriously, if you read the Old Testament with open eyes, it ain’t going to be the same as they taught you in Sunday School.
Which is where Jews have an advantage, they don’t hold back and they do tell it like it’s written. Before they swear the Bar/Bat Mitzvah they have to study and be tested to see if they really know what they’re getting into. You can’t say later that you just didn’t know.
The oath is that you will from that day forth (“choose, now, who you will serve…”) obey every Law. So you have to KNOW every law.
There’s a catch to it, a huge gaping hole in it. Nobody ever kept the whole law, and swearing to do so but not doing it is a death-penalty offense. Sanhedrin after Sanhedrin have debated that point. Mostly because a lot of people in the world want to KILL a lot of other people in the world. And to feel no guilt about it.
So there’s a lot of noise bandied about in every religion that somehow there’s an amendment, an invisible escape clause, to the “Thou shalt not kill” command.
“Eye for an eye” keeps coming up. Doesn’t work. If “Eye for an eye” were applied, the only people who could legitimately be killed were the ones who pulled the trigger. Or in this case the airplanes. And they, according the Official And Not To Be Trusted Narrative, died with the others.
There are purification laws which allow you to not be killed for breaking the Law. These laws exist as part of Sha’aria as well so all y’all Islam Haters out ther can just suck it. Sha’aria and the Jewish laws are actually more civilized than for instance the Texas death penalty laws.
Now, the law also says that if you are guilty, with or without purification and redemption, of a death penalty law, you can not judge anybody else to death. “Judge not lest ye also be judged”.
Of course the sheer number of human beings put to death using the religious formula and, in contradiction of that formula, shows one important thing: No matter how pious the practioners of a religion seem to be there will always be those who just don’t give a fat rat’s as about what God has to say. Including having little kids mouth words of an idolatrous oath without understanding those words.
Strangely, one of the biggest “faults” many Christians find with the Jehovah’s Witness sect is that they refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance. They also refused to say Heil Hitler which is really the exact same thing. And the saints in Rome who were fed to the beasts, crucified, murdered in many many unpleasant ways… not for being Christian or Jewish, Rome had a more liberal Freedom of Religion code than anything practiced in the United States.
They were killed not for praying to God but for refusing to pray or swear oaths to the Roman Emperor or the Empire, both of which were declared to be gods
Just like the Pledge of Allegiance.
Coercing the kids into doing it by making the most meaningful threat you could possibly make to a child “You won’t have any friends” is just plain rotten.
The so-called “patriots” who dreamed that shit up are pure low life SCUM and, in the level of their fanatic devotion to War and Hatred, they surpass the wildest accusation they make against Islam and the whole “72 virgins” schtick.
And, they do it in the name of my God and my nation.
And pull out all the other Right Wing Fascist slogans to justify it, like “My country, right or wrong” and “love it or leave it”. Those are the slogans of dictatorships.
If you’re going to use them, try real hard to think, I know it hurts your head to think but try anyway, and don’t give out any crap about you’re saying it for “freedom”.
It’s difficult to inject logic into either politics or faith without being the subject of a lynching, but here goes.
There was a statue, 62 feet tall, of Jesus on the side of a highway in Ohio. People would actually pull over and pray to it. So last year about this time it was struck by lightning, caught fire and burned down. Or burned up. Means the same thing. Now, there’s long been a controversy in Christianity and Judaism and Islam over the making of graven images and with special notice given to a statue, picture or whatever of God.
Much Christian blood has been spilt by other Christians with Iconoclasm being one of the issues.
The Hundred Years War for instance. Somebody who was crawling up out of the Medieval Tradition and had learned to read, and noticed that there was a discrepancy of sorts between “Thou shalt not make any graven image” and the Church tradition of making lots and lots of graven images. So, that left no choice but to wage bloody, expensive and generally tragic War for a hundred years, hence the name. There were other issues, mostly having to do with which Christian king got to own which land and the people therein.
So, now, there’s almost completed, another Touchdown Jesus statue being made by the same corporation which makes the fiberglass Big Boy hamburger franchise statues. With the notation of “it’s lightning-proof”.
Here’s where logic should be employed…
If as the Bible says, God controls the storm, Jesus specifically, then it’s pretty likely that God has decisively said “NO!” to the statue of His Incarnation Jesus, and building another one right in the same spot and DARING God to strike that one with lightning might not be all that good an idea.
In fact, it might be considered downright foolish. And expensive, the last one cost $600,000 and the notion of fiscal conservativism is a big issue with Christians nowadays.
Not that the ones who sing the loudest praises of conservativism actually conserve anything but that’s a longstanding pet peeve of mine and y’all probably already noticed that it’s my pet peeve.
I was thinking of getting a dog and naming it Peeve so I could go around saying “that’s my pet, Peeve” but the humor would wear off after about, o, I dunno, the second time I told the joke. Dogs sometimes live to be twenty years old and I don’t think the joke would last quite that long.
But back to the theme, spending more than a half million to replace a statue that God already rejected, kind of violently and to the point, one could say “in a shocking display” is, I don’t know, maybe “squandering” as opposed to “saving”.
Mind you, it’s not my money. I do, however, wish and pray that people would stop doing things to make Christians look stupid.
In a related theme, a preacher named Pat Robertson has often tried to make White Southern Christians look stupid by telling the entire world that White Southern Christians all agree on his Hate Speech talking points, and that they’re not Hate but Love.
It’s incredibly insulting. I’m not any more than half white and I’m insulted. Maybe Brother Pat can go stand near that statue.
It’s not the blatant anti-Semitism involved in wanting to set Israel up as a target for near-total destruction, it’s not their arrogance in making money supplying the means, the money, weapons, propaganda, anti-social gospel of indifference, answering the question of Cain “am I my brothers keeper” with a resounding NO, warmongering on every level… setting all the preconditions for an apocalyptic global destruction, the one they make money predicting… predicting the ride of the Horsemen and grooming their horses for them at the same time…
No, the really shockingly delusional part about it is their overwhelmingly conceited belief that Everybody Else on the planet would be so stupid that we wouldn’t notice that.
We’re supposed to not notice that they’re warning of destruction, and sowing the economic seeds of that destruction daily, using the monetary policies that will ensure famines, ensure that natural disasters will have a far greater human scope than would be possible otherwise.
Huge concentrations of people on the edge of recurrent natural disasters, kept there for the profit of a very few.
Mass indoctrination of Hate, to keep the unnatural disasters of War going.
All traced back to a very tiny minority whose faith is in no God or gods but only in money.
They devour the houses of widows and orphans and for a pretense make long prayers.
Their bogus “support” for a Jewish state is just one facet of the evil they do in every other facet of their public and private lives.
They should feel shame but obviously do not.
In Genesis, God declares blessings on ALL the descendants of Abraham, Isaac AND Ishmael, Jacob AND Esau, not to mention the descendants of Abraham’s cousin Lot. That gets ignored in the AIPAC “christian” rhetoric, the only blessings recognized are a direct line of Abraham-Isaac-Jacob-Judah-David.
The whole of the Bible, old and new testaments, even the Apocrypha, is dedicated to showing that there is none righteous, no not one. That we can not be redeemed from ourselves by our own actions nor those of our ancestors. We don’t attain salvation or blessings from our heritage.
The notion of an ironclad blessing of righteousness placed on one tribe of humanity is a coin with two sides, on the darkside of it, would Herod be sainted, perhaps? Ahab? Would the man David, who in one chapter is called “A man after God’s own heart” be saved, and his descendants after, by his good works, or condemned by his evil works?
It’s more a case of God being extremely tolerant -to the point of absolute Liberalism – toward mankind as a whole. Judah sold his own brother into slavery and committed adultery with his daughter-in-law, marrying her after he got her pregnant, but is counted blessed.
These are examples of grace, not earned. Yet the blessing of grace is taken to be a license for mass murder.
The admonitions against such crimes is turned around to be somehow an invitation to commit more, and to feel good about doing it.
Lamborn is one of many playing that game.
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.
The PIGS in Bossier City/Shreveport, LA, shot a man in the back 8 times and claimed he was turned, facing them, with what they thought was a gun. How do you shoot somebody in the back 8 times, 0 times in the front, and he’s “facing you”?
Because the victim was black, the Back The Badge Morons who prevented any charges whatsoever against the ALL WHITE PIGS who murdered this man, welcomed the Ku Klux Klan to their block parties to “raise funds to defend the Courageous” Murdering PIG scum.
Including David Duke. Former leader of the United Klans.
Of course there’s no element of Racism in the Back the Badge Moron Movement. Just ask one, he’ll tell you… after having his Pig Heroes arrest you for daring to question him on the subject.
As for the typical PigSucker response that “well, you must have done SOMETHING wrong or the police would never have done that”
PROVE IT before saying it, you Literally God-Damned Coward Bitches!
Talking back isn’t against the law, assaulting somebody for doing it IS.
YOUR PIG HEROES commit the crimes and you snivel that it must be the fault of those they assault, sometimes to the point of murder?
Sickening bunch of sycophants.
You deserve the police state you’re permitting, only problem is, those of us who actually DO stand for freedom will be under your Police State Dictatorship right along with you.
It was Cops who murdered Jesus. Any cop today would cheerfully step up for the opportunity to drive the nails into His dying body.
And all you Back the Badge Morons would say it’s “Suicide by Cop”.
The Pigs in Bossier City? Never prosecuted. The Dallas PIGS who murdered Octagenarian Etta Collins shooting through her door nearly 3 decades ago? Never prosecuted. The Pigs in Denver who beat street-preacher Marvin Booker to death in a county jail cell? Never prosecuted. Only one of the Cold Blooded Murderers of Oscar Grant was prosecuted, but not for Murder, “involuntary homicide”.
Put the gun in Mr Grants back and pulled the trigger but it was “involuntary”. Here’s a CLUE, for all you Pig Lovers who celebrated your pigs getting away with murder AGAIN… if the PIG, who was kicked out of South Africa for being too racist, didn’t want to kill Mr Grant then he probably wouldn’t have placed the muzzle of an automatic pistol in his back and cocked the weapon…
But get up in Church and tell the Pigs how much you love them, do it in Jesus Name even though it was Cops who murdered Him.
You know why I don’t worship with y’all? Because a PIG who would cheerfully beat me up for “talking back” any other day of the week will try to shake my hand and tell me how much he considers me a beloved brother in Christ. Beating people up while they’re handcuffed isn’t any kind of love least of all Christian, and I’m not going to join you in your hypocrisy. I’m not going to smile at you, shake your hand and pretend that I actually believed that you’re just plum eat up with Christian Love for anybody who doesn’t bow down and worship your badge.
The execution in a Jail Cell in Denver, unacceptable… except, of course, to the Police and Judiciary and Social “leaders” in Denver. And the Feds who would have the task of prosecuting Civil Rights violations like, say, tasering and beating a handcuffed victim to death.
If the FBI and the “justice” Department gave any more of a shit about the lives of people they’re paid to protect than the other Pigs do. The murdered man in question was a Homeless Street Preacher, had the same occupation as Jesus. Who was also homeless, by the way
So why wouldn’t the Churches be outraged by this? You know, like the Third Self-Righteous Church of Denver with the Right Reverend P. Ompousass preaching conformity and obedience to the Police State? The question answers itself…
March against police terror! March for Marvin, Oleg, and all the victims!
from Queen City Antifa:
Friday, May 6 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Sunken Garden Park
8th and Speer
Denver, Colorado
The police are at war with the people. It’s time for the people to be at war with the police.
9 months ago, jail guards in the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center in Denver, murdered a homeless street preacher, Marvin Booker. Videotape of his brutal murder exists, but has never been made public. The Denver District Attorney declined to file charges against the deputies responsible.
No one has faced any justice for Marvin’s murder.
…
On May 3rd, Denver will host city wide elections for a new mayor and new city council members. Though most of the mayoral candidates have promised a change in the local police forces, the results of this election will change nothing.
No matter who is elected, the police will still terrorize our communities.
High profile cases of police violence fill the headlines of local media. Officers beat, taze, and pepper spray residents of the Denver Metro Area with impunity. Though several tolkeinized terminations have recently taken place, these firings will ultimately not stop the police terror raging in our neighborhoods and streets. In Aurora, police execute Russian migrant youth merely for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Denver, police raid homes and beat whole families.
This isn’t a case of a few bad apples. The whole orchard is diseased and rotten.
As the U.S. military occupies countries across the world to maintain control over a global economy that impoverishes billions, police forces across the United States occupy neighborhoods to maintain a social order that impoverishes millions in this country.
The poor and working class are beaten, murdered, imprisoned, evicted, raped, abused, and tortured in Iraq and Afghanistan by U.S. soldiers and in Denver by local police officers and other state agents.
We’ve marched three times in the last year, and our rage has become something that cannot be dismissed.
On May 6th, on a weekend that will see celebrations honoring the memories of struggles, revolutions, and people’s victories from centuries ago, we will fill the streets.
Whoever is elected on May 3rd, they will understand the power of the people they hope to control and govern after May 6th.
May 6th- Into the streets!
For Marvin Booker!
For Oleg Gidenko!
For all of us!
You know, there’s not many options. Threatening police actions and lawsuits for people mocking your positions on civic issues, especially when you’re hoping to be in government power, to be honest, would put you right up there with Rivera and his adopted/anointed replacement Bach-door. And the rest of the Clown Parade that is, sadly, our City Government. 
You’ve worked at St Mary’s, cool. But a few hours a week doesn’t equal one single day of the nightmare Hell that IS Homelessness. And it surely doesn’t give you any moral authority to go putting down people who have to endure that Hell. Go back to the Country Club, m’kay? That guy you saw cursing in the park, Remember? Your instant diagnosis of schizophrenia… what if he isn’t “crazy” or in the case of real schizophrenia, suffering from a degenerative neurological disorder? Would it make any difference to you, personally? How much concern does that show for HIS welfare as opposed to worrying that children might see what illness or death or age or poverty looks like? I call that the Prince Siddhartha Syndrome. Before he became The Buddha.
I don’t know nor do I give a rat’s ass if you personally said that poor people should be banned from public parks, but some of your friends and political colleagues DID and your thundering silence about their massive Hate-Crime is enough for me to lump you in with them.
I live with Autism, maybe you could study that one for a while before you make the assumption that Autists are somehow inferior to “neuro-typicals” the way you obviously did with the Fellow Child of God you wanted to keep out of the park.
There’s been some truly radical talk from your backers in this race, lady. Talk about actually banning people from appearing in public places if they “look” homeless.
One of your accomplices, Janis Heuberger, suggested banning bicyclists from Acacia Park, saying “only the Homeless ride bicycles”.
Now, I WAS homeless for a while, til I got SSI for my broken to hell foot and leg, and of course the Autism. I suffer not so much from these conditions as from the biting scorn of people who think those conditions somehow make Them superior to me. I can perfectly empathize with the fellow at the Acacia Park Pizza Party, if I had people like YOU looking down on me for daring to be in a public place without your royal permission I’d probably feel an overwhelming urge to shout at you too.
And, I’d be in the right to do so. You did far worse to him with your whispers and sneers than any curses he could possibly have screamed at YOU, your highness.
Go back to your Barbie-doll Perfect Rich Bitch world and leave people alone. I’d sooner be in the company of somebody like the Park Hollerin’ fellow than with a stuck up wannabee Princess.
The Homeless PEOPLE you love to hate aren’t the reason for the city’s decline. Capitalism is, in all its inglorious manifestations. That fellow depicted in the statue in the intersection? He cursed the city of Colorado Springs by founding it based on Grand Theft – Everything. The ultimate real-estate baron. There’s not a square inch of downtown that wasn’t taken at gunpoint.
There’s another park downtown, Monument Park, maybe you’ve seen it? It’s a “monument’ to some White Boys who picked a fight with some Indians who were “off the reservation”. And LOST. Teenage racist punks.
But it’s called the Last Indian Massacre in Colorado.
Imagine that. Born in America and told where you can be or not to be. Kind of like telling the homeless PEOPLE that they’re not allowed to be seen downtown, that they must stay on the Homeless Reservation at Marian House or the New Hope Center.
But that’s the kind of “We’re ever so much better than YOU” horse-shit the Colorado Springs Establishment loves to promote. It gets tiresome. It’s a blight on America and we really don’t need to promote it further, now, do we? Your groomers/handlers Silly Clark and Jerry Bootlicher can go to hell and, probably will. Heimlicher wants to live a thousand miles away and still run Colorado Springs, Hell NO!
By the way, your Hunger Meters? The ones we’re supposed to drop coins in rather than give to people on the street? They’re offensive. Really. Jesus said to give, and not spare, and asking no questions. People would occasionally stop me on the street and hand me money. It never went for cigarettes and whiskey and Wild Wild Women. (actual title of a song, google it)
So I took a washer I found in the street, spit a huge loogie all over it and dropped it into one of your meters. So much for your desire to control all alms-giving in town. “Give to the poor, as long as the Wealthy manage the money and the people, for We are Better Than You.” What all else do you tell people, that if they hire somebody who is homeless that he shouldn’t be paid in money?
Or, seeing as your friends think that merely APPEARING to be homeless is just cause for discrimination…
I mean, it’s the next illogical step in your dominance agenda, yes? Go back to your DreamHouse, Barbie.
Remember the Maine? In 1898 a popular uprising was threatening Spanish rule in Cuba. 
The US Navy cruised to the rescue. The rescue of whom, we never got the chance to find out. An explosion aboard the USS Maine gave America the pretext to blame a Spanish torpedo. An America inflamed by a jingoist press declared war on Spain and promptly seized her colonies “to protect US interests,” by coincidence just as the indigenous populations were overcoming their colonizer and were about to win their freedom. Today a US attack fleet speeds toward Egypt. Washington asserts its mission is to evacuate US nationals if need be.
I’d like to imagine the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge will position itself off Egypt’s coast to facilitate the Egyptian government’s stable transition to Democracy.
Perhaps the fleet intends to augment the security which Hosni Mubarak is deliberately destabilizing in Egypt. Perhaps they will offer medical care for Egyptian protesters denied access to Cairo hospitals if their wounds incriminate the government. Perhaps sophisticated Navy electronics will provide an alternate internet backbone if Mubarak tries cut his people off the web. Perhaps the US Navy can help jam the state television station still broadcasting lies to the broader population. I’m hoping our navy can erect a gallows prominently on the bow, to threaten Mubarak, speaking in the only language the despicable dictator might understand, an urgency he doesn’t feel from the peaceful protesters of Tahrir Square.
Possible?
Is it more likely to be a false flag like the Maine? Remember the USS Liberty? That was a US intelligence ship attacked in 1967 by unmarked Israeli planes, hoping that Egypt would catch the blame? There was more to that story and anyway it didn’t work out.
Remember whatever boat it was attacked/not-attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident? That worked.
“Showing the Flag” doesn’t have to be false flag. Remember the USS Cole? Worked in Yemen. Traditional foreign policy teaches that gunboat diplomacy asserts military dominance. Actually it runs a calculated risk. It draws out indignation and a show of defiance. Because a military wants to flush out resistance sooner than being taken by surprise.
Remember the enterprising Marines in Iraq who drove around with a megaphone insulting the Prophet Mohammad? They repeated Jesus Killed Mohammad until every last proud Muslim to renounce their blasphemy was baptized in an obliteration of firepower.
Remember the Maine? Americans remember the Maine like it remembers the Alamo or 9-11. We have no idea. We have no sense of deja vu about the US spreading its forces in defense of empire. I’m really hoping this is not the equivalent of the Soviets sending their tanks into Hungary in 1956.
But Americans have nothing on the educated Egyptians. Whatever America’s gunships have in mind, the Arab world has seen it. Jan25 organizers continue to defy media expectations about the movement losing steam. Attendance keep rising, yesterday pro-Mubarak citizens were proclaiming their changed allegiance. Today the labor unions are recognizing the imperative of launching a general strike, and protesters are venturing outside of the central demonstrations, threatening government buildings and facilities.
With every successive day of victories for the Democracy-seeking demonstrators of Tahrir Square, I have every confidence that the Egyptians will outwit this latest US envoy convoy.
Man in California stabbed to death in cockfight… by the gamecock. Anglo “rooster fanciers” put needle-like spurs onto the rooster’s natural back spur. to enhance the bloodshed. Then complain that Mexicans put actual blades on them. It’s an ancient “sport” and the reason there are any chickens at all outside Southeast Asia. Alexander the Great had mercenaries from all around and some of them had fighting cocks. Every wonder why, in Leviticus, in the list of all the clean animals, Kosher, not one mention of chickens? THE essential Kosher meal, Nana’s Chicken Soup? Chickens aren’t mentioned in the Bible until Maccabees. Jesus mentions them a couple of times. Maccabees and Jesus were well AFTER the time of Alexander. Anyway, the bird stabbed him in the leg and he died several hours later at the Emergency Room.
Why then weren’t they contracted by the U.S. Dept of (in)Justice to find the sender of the email on the White House LAN, who gave Pooter Libby the information to help the BushTards punish Valerie Plame Wilson for not backing up their LIES about WMDs? Wouldn’t the Capital Murders of 7000+ U.S. soldiers committed by the CheneyBush Kartel stir patriotic interest on the part of ANY of them? One of the Bush Lies was that they HAD initiated a thorough investigation into the Plame leak, but couldn’t find anything. Yet Disney and other entertainment outlets can find not only the ORIGIN of a file transfer, but also the computer receiving the data, or so they claim on all of the billions of IP addresses on the Internet, but they can’t find one person sending an email from a specific computer, at a specific time, from the White House which has a camera trained on every door, especially in a time of “heightened security”? On an extremely limited Local Area Network.
Since WHEN? Isn’t HBGary one of the firms contracted by not only the Dept of (in)Justice but also Homeland (in)Security and the Department of Remote Controlled Assassinations “Defense”?
Why do I suspect that the alleged hack attack on their website by “anonymous” is a Marinus van der Lubbe type of setup to convict without trial the persons HBGary and their whoremasters at DoJ and DoD had already targeted?
This is sick. On a day when the British are considering taking the first steps toward an Extraordinary Rendition to Guantanamo Torture Center of Wikileaks founder Assange, and BBC is reporting the “hack” against HBGary as though it’s an established fact, Beating the ol’ War Drum against Freedom, once more…
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20. half time show super bowl 2011 video
The Empire is going DOWN in Egypt, in Yemen, in Tunisia, in Jordan, it’s spilling over into Iraq where the BushCheneyObama appointed President for Life of Iraq, Nouri al Maliki, has been frightened into stating he’ll give up his Imperial Backed Satrap-in-Perpetuity role in three years. (gives him and the Empire time to change their tune if things turn around for them, perhaps?)
NONE of these made the top twenty. Instead people are fixing their gaze on the Bread and Circuses Imperial Games.
The closest thing to any interest in what the Evil Empire is doing is some commercial involving Darth Vader. And Ms Aguilera not singing the National Anthem right. Of course the Racist Pricks who make up the American Right Wing will blame that on her Spanish surname and I’ll bet that none of them can actually sing the entire song.
That’s THEIR level of so-called “patriotism”. Drown out the FACT that their murder spree at home and abroad, like the Baby-killing Drone Strikes which, according to the USAF only kill “Militants” are actually killing more civilians and especially Children than they are “militants”.
Drown it out with racist inspired chants of “she can’t sing the National Anthem!” Ahem.
/rant
anyway… back to REAL NEWS, m’kay? Wikileaks is under real attack for publishing data such as the USAF admitting in what they THOUGHT were “internal” communications that they don’t know Who the Fuck They’re Killing in more than half of their Literally God-damned air strikes. But they claim to know that the only people they’ve killed were Militants.
Wikileaks founder Assange is being held on drummed up charges in anticipation of the WarPigs being able to kill him.
The WarPigs are actively seeking people who don’t bow down, lick their boots and refrain from mentioning the Truth that counters their LIES. A REAL Criminal is coming to Colorado Springs to receive a Hero’s Medal for his acts of treachery, lies, murder, theft, conquest… all in the name of God. The Imperial Vassal States are in open rebellion against the Empire, the Empire has bugger all they can actually do about it, and people worry about a football game instead.
The “barbarians” aren’t at the gates, they’re firmly ensconced in the seat of Imperial Power. And they obviously fully intend to destroy everything they possibly can on their way down to Hell. And they’ll do it in the name of God and of Freedom.
Of course you know I would just never unleash a vicious attack like mocking a fake-patriot or faux-elitist move like wrapping ones bullshit in either the flag or the cross. Just have to point out that the flag lapel pin, the one Republicans bitched and whined so much about Democrats not wearing, the one Lisa Czeladtko is wearing in the picture chosen by Gag-Zette writer Daniel Chacon when “calling out” Ed over his Free Speech opposing a political candidate. Not that The Gag-zette (Colorado Springs Gazette, “Freedom” Communications”) has ever so much as given a mild tsk-tsk’ing to violent attacks on Free Speech in Colorado Springs, usually instigated by City Council or persons very close to them.St Paddies Day 2007 leaps to my mind. Or to Fake Patriotism. You’ll notice, if you’re observant, that the “flag” in question has 7 stripes and 18 stars.
It’s a sign of the depths of rabble rousing the “elitists” will plumb when wanting to silence any opposition to their agenda as “unpatriotic” and Anti-Christ.
“Calling out” by the way, is in Colorado and other Western states, a challenge to physical violence. Usually issued by a heavily armed Coward who is so sure of victory that he assumes he can force the other person to apologize for saying anything.
Then go get drunk with his redneck comrades. Might makes right, Oderint dum Metuant “let them hate us as long as they fear us”.
Maybe Chacon should more carefully consider HIS choice of words. That way he wouldn’t leave himself open to Attacks errr… criticism that lumps him in with the likes of Caligula, King Charles II of England and George W. Bush.
So the Rich Pigs are afraid their piglets will see what poverty looks like, instead of, as Ms Lisa Siddhattha suggests, hiding the poverty from the delicate eyes of the Piglets?
Lest they see the human price of their own opulent lifestyle.
Actually, her ties to Developers, like the Flag Pin, betray her true agenda.
According to the Developer Religion, evidenced by the Real Estate Developer who “founded” Colorado Springs, the idolatrous statue of whom sits in the meddle of the intersection at the Northwest corner of Acacia Park,
According to their money worship Cult of Mammon, the sight of poverty in CS would drive down real estate prices. Therefore they wouldn’t have enough blood-money profits from selling their stolen-at-gunpoint land.
One of their High Priestesses, Janis Heuberger, wrote in her blog that Bicycles should be banned from acacia Park, because “only the Homeless” ride bicycles. There were further suggestions by one of her sycophantic supporters that people who LOOK homeless should be banned from city parks.
Imagine that, the “non-elitists” as they style themselves, seeking to impose a conformist dress code on the citizens of Colorado Springs. To protect their profit margin. And even ban an economical, non-wasteful and healthy form of transportation. Unless you drive a gas-guzzler you’re not welcome in Colorado Springs. Nothing elitist about that, No Sir!
And failing to admit that it was Real Estate Developers who in one fell swoop crashed the economy, providing the pin that burst the bubble of Capitalism, turning millions of Americans into potentially homeless PEOPLE. (notice that, Chacon, Czeladtko, Heuberger? Those of us who speak the English Language know that “homeless” is an adjective, not a noun. “the homeless” should properly include the human title PEOPLE)
Ms Lisa and Ms Heuberger and Chacon might have their sycophants answer this by saying that I’m lumping all of them together. No, messieurs et mesdames, YOU lump yourselves together. Frequently.
First, it should be noted that Doctors, Psychiatrists and Chaplains are, like everybody else in the services, Combatants under the Geneva Conventions. Their orders are to keep the soldiers physically and mentally and “morally” able to follow their orders, which are to Kill Other Human Beings. That’s the whole purpose of a Military Organization. Although sometimes, if the Other Human Beings grovel enough to them (like Karzhai and al Maliki do) they’ll be allowed to live, just as slaves. So when a “Mountain Post” Chaplain, Baptist Minister, got blown away in VietRaqiStan early last month, and the local news kept up the steady patter about how he volunteered for “duty” after the 9/11 Bush-ordered Mass Murder, to spread the word of Jesus. Only, Jesus never told anybody to Kill anybody. So Chaplains have to make shit up in order to justify what they’re ordered to do, keep the Soldiers and Airmen and Marines and Sailors from feelings of guilt and remorse over Killing Other Human Beings.
Preachers, religious leaders, and other propagandists for the Enemy-du-Jour are frequently targeted under legal codes naming them as accomplices. Under the Bush Doctrine, which Obama never repealed, anybody who “gives aid and comfort” even by failing to enthusiastically support Killing Other Human Beings could be determined by a Homeland Security or Military or even Mercenary Contractor Assassination Squad to be an Enemy Combatant.
Without, of course, trial, charges, any kind of Rule of Law stuff.
These are the same kinds of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity for which first Nazis convicted at Nurnberg and many Iraqi officials were executed.
But because the U.S. Chaplains are Americans and for the most part Christian (there are also Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Native American Church, Wiccan etc Chaplains, so it’s almost an equal opportunity to sell the souls of your congregation deal), well, you do the math.
But, really, what exactly differentiates a Christian Chaplain from any other propagandist?
In Christian, Judaic and Muslim laws one of God’s Top Ten List is “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”. I don’t know the details on Sikh or Hindu or Buddhist or whoever else, completely out of range of my experience. I’m pretty sure they’ve got laws against blasphemy and killing as well.
Fact is, the Chaplain in question wasn’t, under the definitions he was hired and commanded to propagate and reinforce, “murdered”. But that’s a technicality. He might have embraced it, in fact there’s no way to be a Military (or Paramilitary, like the Police) Chaplain and say anything at all contrary to what you’re ordered to say.
Not ordered by God to say it, but by the Empire.
That brings up another issue. The Chaplains are also commanded (and could conceivably get the death penalty under a charge of Mutiny) to tell their Congregants that GOD, Himself, tells them they must obey every order of the Emperor.
The good Chaplain might have accepted these precepts, and sold them wholesale to his flock, (Pastor means Shepherd, every pastor is a preacher but, especially in Baptist churches, not every preacher is a pastor), that Murder by an Army is different from Murder by an individual.
If he was a willing accomplice in his own murder, then, hey, “Lucy, you got some ‘splainin to do”
Religion isn’t as simple as it seems from the outside.
First, connoisseurs of the history of Jesus would know that He was born in a barn. Nothing about flying reindeer, dancing snowmen, or a huge elf.
Or trees. There was a little bit of Grinchiness this year on the part of the U.S. Forest service, because of the global warming, the massive swarm of pine bark beetles that spawned, and the weakened conditions of the trees due to warmer temperatures and less water. One of the largest sections of Christmas Tree Harvesting the White River National Forest
Not, of course, going to affect COMMERCIAL tree-slaughter anytime soon, because the Timber companies have a big lobby and some impressive corporate ties to even MORE corporate lawyers and lobbyists. And they don’t give three shits about whether there’ll be forests in 50 years. Greedy Bastards is just a good start at describing them and the list gets uglier from there.
Then there’s the Christmas Tree in Abu Dhabi, UAE. at The Emirates Hotel. 45 feet tall and crusted with 14 MILLION dollars worth of ornaments. Ornaments like watches, necklaces, bracelets, rings… Everything to tickle the fancy of your average Corporate Traveler.
Remember the Corporate Partners of the tree-killing industry?
Like the Oil industry….
screams of the wounded men,
writhing in pain.
Details work day and night
burying the slain..
all their murders done
in Christ’s Holy Name,
Jesus looks down, and He weeps…
Jesus looks down
and He weeps.
Ok, so that story bugs me every year, they tell it ad nauseum, about the British and Germans taking a couple of hours break from slaughtering each other, in the name of God, at the battle of the Somme. From the German trenches comes the melody “Stillich Nacht, Heilig nacht” Then some Tommies in their trenches start singing it in English, more Germans and more Englischers join in…
An impromptu Christmas party just congeals in the middle of No Man’s Land. They sing songs, exchange gifts, show pictures of their families to one another…
And then go right back to slaughtering each other.
As you may have guessed, it’s time for my annual Christmas on War uncelebration. I go to fetch my e-mail, there’s a flash animation of a black Jeep SUK involved in a battle, a dual advertisement because they’re also hawking a video “game” called Call of Duty – BlackOps. where the mission apparently is to go in and assassinate as many locals as possible and kidnap their leaders to take them to a CIA dungeon for torture. It’s made into a Triple Offense because they’re hawking the SUV and the game, As Christmas Presents
Happy birthday to the Prince of Peace.
Other war toys and Murder Fantasy movies and video games dominate the Must-have list for the Red-suit Elf and his flying reindeer to bring to your kids.
The money changers have bought out the Temple and have reduced Christ to just another sales gimmick. What next, have that lizard from the car insurance commercial lying in a manger?
and the DumFox Noose Nutwerx is still piling on their bullshit about a “War on Christmas”. While following the marketing trend of having soldiers, in foreign countries to kill the citizens of those lands and take the resources of those lands, send “home” video Christmas greetings from Outer VietRaquiStan, as part of the heartwarming Christmas commercials showing people engaged in Traditional Christmas activities like unwrapping the Monster-Huge Screen TeeVee and other gifts too expensive for the regular American to buy.
Merry freakin’ Cashmas Christless Crassness
This is what we can expect when Mayor Lyin’ Hell Rivera and his cronies privatize city services like the thieving bitches are going to tell us at next Monday’s budget announcement.
One of the fire-non-fighters said that it’s an example of “robust Christianity, rather than that sappy effeminate version of Christianity where people help each other”. Well, you KNOW that got my blood pumping. First off, the guy came off as being really insecure about his own masculinity. And rather than coming out of his closet, he tries to “drag” Jesus in with him.
Let’s take it a notch further. Why not have the police be on a for-pay basis? Anybody who can’t afford police protection, too bad so sad. Make it even better, have fully privatized “police” auxiliary groups like the Minutemen patrol, and people who DON’T pay up, well, they must have something to hide, so let’s just drag them down to the court, which of course will be a pay-for-play proposition too, can’t afford an attorney? Too bad, you should have planned ahead and been born rich.
And if bad people dress up like the Private “police” and just break into your house and rob you at gunpoint, then the Real Minutemen Private “police” will investigate, if you pay their fee. What’s that? The Bad Wicked Naughty “pretend” private police took all your money so you can’t pay that fee? Awww… too bad, maybe we can get Glenn Beck or his Zombie followers to lecture you about Christianity. For a fee of course.
Which brings it back to the Other Side, the nonsensical non-secular non sequitur about Jesus telling the closet case Mucho Macho “christian” to torch the place errr Watch it burn to “teach the punk a lesson about paying up”.
(By the way, that’s Rural Tennessee, means the guy whose house they Burned Down errr… watched it burn down, was probably their cousin.)
See, the anonymous Rich Man from the Lazarus parable, he wasn’t in Hell for having no compassion on Lazarus, O good Heavens No!
He was in Hell for being effeminate and not calling the cops and locking his dumpster to keep that bum Lazarus from eating a free meal.
And the Samaritan, helping that fellow who got robbed and beaten and left laying in the ditch, he should have just gone right up to the fellow, kicked him in the face and told him it was his own fault for not hiring the local Minutemen to guard him. Then walk away laughing.
And that Jesus dude, What The Hell?
DYING for people who couldn’t possibly pay Him? Damn, He must have been a really effeminate sissy-boy. Probably had long hair and didn’t wear pants either. Or boots. Bet He had sandals or something sissy like that.
The ConservaTards like Glenn TeaTard Beck and Ms Stupid Sarah are all on the side of the Redneck Assholes who watched one of their cousins get burned out of his house.
From Macho Christian Values.
But that’s what we’re going to have if Mayor Rivera, Doug Bruce and all the others who want to use the “invisible hand” of the free market to take away any kind of Equal Protection from the Poor, and only their Very Rich Parasite Class Cronies will have any kind of city services.
Listening to Islamic studies scholar Robert Shedinger taunt the CC audience with whether Jesus may have been a Muslim reminds me of the not-so-old joke about returning the Statue of Liberty to the French, because we’re not using her anymore. At his fundamental, Jesus espoused what we are accustomed to consider were basic Christian Values, but who are American Christians to lay claim to those anymore?
Islam, on the other hand, is a religion to suit the poor and oppressed, traditionally Jesus’ favorites. Unless we’re talking Embed Jesus.
Shedinger urged “constructive dialog” between Muslims and Christians, that each might learn of our common ideals. But his lesson would seem to be entirely for the Christians. All religions share the Golden Rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, although one might doubt Americans have given that much thought for awhile.
While many would argue that American religious hypocrisy has been growing fetid over the course of a centuries of imperialist invasions and wars, the Fundamentalist Christian/Moral Majority “WWJD” has taken a turn since 9/11 to mean bomb, maim and torture. Has the American Jesus become Un-Christian, or is this the New World Order Christianity?
In spite of what may be pious America’s best intentions, Capitalism has relegated its moral cover to doublespeak and subterfuge, American churchgoers to dupes, and US missionaries to unwitting cohorts to the deprivations of our businessmen, soldiers and loan officers.
The War on Islam isn’t being waged by Christianity Proper, but by the systemic greed of Western Capitalism, secular and godless, unless you count money to be divine. Capitalism may have Xmas, but it has no claim on Jesus.
Kind of like the Miracle Inflamed Hemorrhoid that kept his buddy Rush from not only the draft, but enlisting as well.
On our blog, one of Glenn’s Peeps wrote the other day that if we don’t join their Hate Speech Mob we must be cowards.
What an amazing Epiphany that was! Here I’d always thought that people bunching together in a Mob was cowardice. What a wonderfully miraculous revelation that it’s the other way round.
Seriously, birds have been flying over Washing Tundy Sea for however long there’s been birds. It’s built partially in a swamp and in a very riparian ecosystem with lots of creeks and of course the Potomac River. Maybe God kept those birds from nesting anywhere near there for thousands of years and thus it’s miraculous that they Flew Up at a time when His Satanic Majesty was bloviating.
What’s his next miracle going to be, will he make the sun rise in the East instead of the Northwest as it usually does? Oh, and actually predict the exact time it will rise, by consulting the Arcane Book of The National Weather Service…
Score one for Christ, because now, even people who don’t believe in Him, now will believe that Satan is alive and well.
And it IS a religious experience, I did take the name of God in vain several times just contemplating the sheer stupidity of this.
“Oh Sweet Jesus, the stupid bastard thinks a flock of birds has anointed him Supreme High Priest! Oh God that’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in Oh God Make it stop!”
TeaTards, the gift that keeps on giving.
Jonah cut/n/pasting an entire satiric “news” story
Plans to build a state-of-the-art library next to Republican catastrophe Sarah Palin are causing outrage across mainstream America.
Almost 40% of Americans still support the idea of books
Campaigners have described the project as insensitive and a deliberate act of provocation by people with brains.
The issue is forming a dividing line in advance of November’s mid-term congressional elections with candidates being forced to declare whether they have ever been to a library or spoken to someone who has books in their home.
Meanwhile President Obama has caused unease within his own Democratic party by endorsing the library and claiming that not everyone who reads books is responsible for calling Mrs Palin a fuckwit nutjob nightmare of a human being.
But Bill McKay, a leading member of the right-wing Teapot movement, said: “Sarah Palin is a hallowed place for Americans who can’t read.
“How is she going to feel knowing that every day there are people going inside a building to find things out for themselves and have thoughts, right in the very shadow of her amazing nipples.”
He added: “Our founding fathers intended for every building in this country to be a church containing one book, written by Jesus, that would be read out in a strange voice by an orange man in a shiny suit who would also tell you who you were allowed to kill.
“Building a library next to Mrs Palin is like Pearl Harbour. Or 9/11.”
And Wayne Hayes, a pig masseur from Coontree, Virginia, said: “I is so angry right now.
“It’s like something is on fire right in the middle of my head. Like I’ve eaten a real hot chilli, but it’s gone up my nose tubes rather than down my ass tubes.”
He added: “Would these library lovers allow me to set up a stall next to the Smithsonian Museum and start selling DVDs of bible cartoons as long as it was in accordance with local regulations?
“Oh they would? I see. So is that why they’re better than me?”
So there was this History Channel show about the Templars. (I try not to look at stupid stuff like this, really I do) and the Oak Island “treasure” pit, and this Viking Rune stone found in Illinois or somewhere nearby… All supposedly to hide the treasure of the Templars, all their stolen blood money that nobody has any real records thereof… kind of like the Stolen Blood Money from the Modern Knights Templars, as Erik Prince calls his mercenary Murder,Inc “Xe (formerly “Blackwater”) International” and their accomplices in the Pentagon and Halliburton.
Maybe the Modern Templars are dumping the money into documentaries like this.
Oh, and it involved, near the end, the Micmak tribe and one of the most offensive use of the Great White Father crap that I’ve heard in a long time.
So apparently about 1400 the Scots prince Henry Sinclair came to what’s now Nova Scotia (how appropriate) so named after the British “liberated” it from the French and Metis inhabitants, who had called it Acadia. But that was like 350 years or so after Prince Henry came, set up court, made the Micmak swear allegiance to his Crusader Flag and dumped all his ill-gotten treasure into a booby trapped pit on Oak Island. Then split.
Somehow, in the 20 or so years that all this elaborate farce supposedly took place, the Crusader Prince never once offered to teach the Natives anything about such basic European hi-tech of the time as Metal, Gunpowder, and the Wheel, nor draft animals, nor for that matter anything at all about European culture. Also not a single artifact was given to the Micmak. But of course, they worshiped him and his men as gods, made them rulers over their tribe and just generally were so Shocked and Awed by all the technical superiority of the Great White Father even though, as previously mentioned, they didn’t actually demonstrate any of those techniques or technologies. All this based on a Micmak legend of an ancient visitor, ONE person riding in on the backs of TWO whales. Instead of a whole herd of Scots descendants of the Templars riding in boats.
Oh, and that the Micmak adopted as their flag a Scots regimental flag which somehow they hid from the French for a century and a half until a (purely coincidental, I’m, like, So Very Sure) English takeover of their island nation using Scots conscript regiments and renaming the island Nova Scotia. Couldn’t possibly be anything to do with the Scots Regimental flag… Nope.
But, then,things like “No actually valid evidence” doesn’t stop the True Believers in the Holy Grail.
Here’s the closest thing anybody has to a True Story of the Templars.
They were, just like every other blasphemous son-of-a-satanic-bitch Crusader, past and present,… Thieves. Thieves who hid behind the name of the Prince of Peace and simply murdered and still do murder anybody who gets in the way of gorging themselves on the blood-filled hog-slopping trough.
There’s not much mysterious or secret about that, certainly nothing that can be minimized with a “white” wash of Romantic Ideals of Chivalry. Knighthood, like every other aspect of the Feudal Hereditary Dictatorship known as “Royalty”, has far more in common with the Mafia than with the myth of the Round Table or for that matter, any semblance of anything Jesus said.
Oh, and about the Sinclair thing, the current “knowledge” the Hysteria Channel is regurgitating hold William Wallace to have been a Templar Crusader, because, you see, the English got their Royal Collective Arse beat all over Scotland, and of course, ONLY a Nobleman could have accomplished that. The Braveheart story of a Peasant Rebellion could thus not be possible.
They seem to be drumming that theme in very strongly, “resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, there is no way Mere Commoners can stand against the Great and Noble Ones”.
Which I witnessed, there’s this relative of mine who, for lack of a better word, is a Thief.
To be fair to MasterCharge and whatever Visa’s old name was (I’ll look it up) they DID reject half the applications. He put in 25. He only stayed at our house for a week and a half and with that one scam got about $25,000 which he promptly took to Las Vegas. Gambling is a more expensive vice than any dope.
But when I go to a local supermarket there’s a big push on for people to sign up for a 1-2-3 Rewards MasterCard. My usual joke for the past 6 damn years was that even MasterCard wouldn’t be dumb enough to give me a card. All the people there have heard me reject the offer of this credit card. Yet I’m still asked. I know the people, they’re not dumb in any way, Mass Senility seems to be out of the question. So why the Ask?
They have an internet-based customer opinion poll and one of the questions (just not on every single instance of the poll) is “Did the clerk offer you the 1-2-3 Rewards Master Card promotion?” It turns out, they’re required to offer it.
My little heh-heh-heh joke about MasterCard not being stupid enough to issue me “credit” was just that, a joke because I’m not rude enough to get in my friends’ faces and tell them in a big nasty public scene that the whole notion of the credit cards is a scam, strongly related to the ongoing bank scam involving real estate, mortgages and Toxic Debt. I go to a grocery store to buy groceries, not to buy Debt. And as the incident with which I started the narrative shows, yes, they WOULD be stupid enough. Or greedy enough. For every Cousin-doing-life-on-the-installment-plan there’s enough honest citizens, also known as “marks”, who will buy into the Credit Card scam, that the small-time thieves are written off as a business expense. And the loss taken off their income taxes, which has been loopholed to the point that a Corporate Entity can pay less in taxes than their workers do. Yet another scam written by the same Corporate Lawyers who can charge you compound interest on a Credit Card Debt, something which would otherwise be known as “Loan Sharking” and “usury” and would be illegal.
So I don’t jump into it. There’s a report circulating that Krogers stores are requiring their clerks to offer the Scam Card. Required as in “punished if they don’t”
If YOU or I were to offer local stores the option of selling my products at a price I demand and with the clause “or else” it would be called Racketeering. Something which the Anti-Union type of Thieves, including the board of directors of Kroger, accuse the UNIONS of doing.
For a legal and Religious point of view, many Christian sects prevalent in the area, like Mennonites, other Anabaptist sects, refuse to buy into credit cards. It’s a first amendment issue.
Like the Society of Friends (Quakers) don’t buy guns. Baptists and Pentecostals don’t buy liquor or Cigarettes and some of the Pentecostal churches refuse to buy medicines like Aspirin and cough syrup even.
And cite scripture for each such decision. The one about Credit Cards, without delving into the Mark of the Beast controversies, actually comes directly from Jesus saying not to lend out money at interest. I point that out mostly because there’s a large population of Mennonites in Colorado Springs.
Would it be constitutional, or forsaking that even ETHICAL to offer, constantly, to sell bacon to Jews, beef to Hindus, wine to Baptists, coffee to Mormons, prescription drugs to Assembly of God church members?
Would it be legal to force your employees to do so? Then there’s the larger issue of people who tee-total (refuse alcohol, tobacco and other drugs) out of respect for their bodies without resorting to a Religious backing for their own ethics. People who refuse to eat meat simply because they feel it’s wrong, or destructive to their bodies, destructive to the ecology, destructive to the economy, supports slave corporations like McDonalds etc.
Would it be ethical to force your employees to constantly push those products on people who Don’t Want Them?
Because they, the card companies, are every bit as much thieves as the guy who snarfs out 25 grand of their stolen money and goes to Vegas with the proceeds. To give employees the option of selling this line of thievery or leave the company is supposed to be “Right To Work” how, exactly?
We got our satellite TV today, and on History International there’s “History’s Mysteries”. War Profiteer/Wall Street Weasel (ok, so the European version thereof) financier Lownstein is flying across the English Channel. End of life history is he’s reported to go to the bathroom in his private plane and disappeared Found dead later. My thought, the crew took out the trash and jettisoned it over the Channel. Good riddance to bad rubbish. So why is an 80 year old murder important? The commercials. Borrow money from this start-up upstart bank that I’ve not heard of before. Buy gold. Sell your “unwanted” gold at a smaller price of course.
Infomercials lately, and the regular 30 second spots, “Mortgages being defaulted and foreclosed, buy properties for as little as a thousand dollars” … In other words, buy back into not Predatory Capitalism… but Carrion Fowl Capitalism. There’s a big service industry boost in cleaning, appraising and repairing Foreclosed Properties. And Bill Collectors, one called me about a medical bill that wasn’t even mine. I simply had said ummm… Yeah? and he launched into this spiel where in ten seconds he had called me “buddy” 4 separate times.
But the Vulture Capitalists are touting this as a way to get rich… off the blood and similar misfortunes of Other Human Beings. Kind of like, oh, je-ne sais quoi, like the Same Kind Of Investment Strategies that got America, and the rest of the world, into this financial mess in the first damn place. People who would willingly and with full knowledge before the fact scavenge their own society, their neighbors and probably even FAMILY aren’t exactly the type of people who should be trusted with the economy of the world. Although our Friends who come regularly to defend The Noble Free Market Profiteers will sharply disagree. I’ll probably get called a Bolshevik again. By the way, that’s a Russian word meaning “of the PEOPLE” so I guess that sets our critics apart from The People.
Talk about your basic narcissistic thought patterns. Kind of like their use of the word “do-gooder” as what they perceive to be an insult.
Not knowing or caring that the exact opposite of “do-gooder” is “Evildoer”. That’s truly amusing when used by people who consider themselves to be Jews or Christians. As Isaiah and Jesus put it “hypocrites who devour the houses of Widows and for a pretense make long prayers”.
Fitting that Monsieur Alfred is memorialized by such commercials.
I mean, it’s like they think they own Him, or at least the copyright on His name… It’s because it’s the Ultimate Chickenhawk Ethos… Somebody Else dies and they profit from it.