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Finally, A Preacher I Could Follow

Disclose.tv Bishop says Hell was invented by the Church Video

I Think I've Heard This Tune Before...Some Call It "The Neo-Liberal Sonata"

ATHENS, Greece – Hundreds of youths rioted in Athens on Saturday, throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at police who responded with tear gas at a May Day rally against austerity measures being enacted by the cash-strapped government to secure foreign loans to stave off bankruptcy. The center-left government is set to announce more sweeping spending cuts through 2012 to win support for an international loan package worth euro45 billion ($60 billion) this year alone. The Cabinet meets Sunday morning to finalize the measures, with Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou expected to announce them at noon and then immediately fly to Brussels for an emergency meeting of euro-zone finance ministers.

The International Monetary Fund has said it will provide the money over three years, along with Greece's partners in the euro zone. IMF and EU negotiators began talks in Athens on April 21 and continued through Friday.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Saturday after a meeting of French government officials that she was confident euro-zone finance ministers would approve the package by the end of the weekend. Governments are discussing a package of up to euro120 billion ($159 billion) over three years, she said.

In March, Athens announced belt-tightening measures aimed to save some euro4.8 billion this year through cuts in civil service pay, higher indirect taxes and a crackdown on widespread tax evasion. But these proved insufficient, and additional austerity measures will likely include further hikes in consumer taxes, and deeper cuts in pensions and public service pay. Unions are furious.

"These measures are death. How people are going to live tomorrow, how they're going to survive, I do not understand," said Nikos Diamantopoulos, who was participating in a rally organized by pro-Communist unions.

Greece spent freely for years and ran up debt equal to 115 percent of gross domestic product. It has been effectively shut out of bond markets to refinance its debt pile because investors fear default and are demanding high rates of interest the government says it cannot pay.

Signs that the help will soon be approved have calmed markets, which previously pushed Greece's cost of borrowing to untenably high levels high as EU and German officials showed little urgency in addressing the problem.

On Friday the interest rate gap, or spread, between Greek 10-year bonds and their benchmark German equivalent narrowed to 6.20 percentage points, from a staggering 10 points Wednesday.

But Athens was in for more bad news as credit agency Moody's Investor Services downgraded the debt rating of nine Greek banks: National Bank of Greece, EFG Eurobank Ergasias, Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank, Emporiki Bank of Greece, Agricultural Bank of Greece, General Bank of Greece, Marfin Egnatia Bank and Attica Bank.

Moody's said the banks' might face further downgrades — a move that would come alongside Moody's ongoing review of the country's sovereign debt rating.

On Thursday, the agency confirmed that it is awaiting to see details of an EU-IMF rescue package before a possible revision of Greece's credit rating, but that a "multi-notch downgrade" remained likely.

This has become such a familiar scenario that it almost doesn't warrant notice.
Greece joins an ever increasing club of unfortunate saps forced to undergo an IMF financial enema. It has worked so well for Mexico that Mexicans die by the hundred thousands each year just to come here. Of course, that's the tiny bit that Americans see, all those illegal immigrants streaming across the border. What they don't see is the huge number of migrant workers inside Mexico, forced by globalization to float from shanty town to shanty town in search of whatever subsistence wage job they can find.

The Greeks have my sympathy. Whatever led them to this point is now utterly irrelevant to the globalists holding the purse strings. They'll lend Greece this exorbitant sum of money but I suspect it will help no one but the foreign banks who hold Greece's bad paper. Everyone else in the country will just have to learn how to eat shit and like it. Given the IMF's history, this is pretty much a given.

What interests me though, was this quote:

Greece spent freely for years and ran up debt equal to 115 percent of gross domestic product.

Hmmmm...sound the least bit familiar?

If my math is correct, the U.S. stands at about 90% on the "GDP/Debt" scale. With a debt that's increasing at roughly $4 billion a day, can we be far behind?
Does anyone in this dipshit cuntry seriously think the global community will give a flying fuck when po-dunk America runs off the same cliff?

To answer my own question...yeah I think they do?

I think we are in for the mother of all wake up calls.

It's About Time Something In That Damn Book Turned Out To Be True

From New Scientist:

WHEN we fall under the spell of a charismatic figure, areas of the brain responsible for scepticism and vigilance become less active. That's the finding of a study which looked at people's response to prayers spoken by someone purportedly possessing divine healing powers.

To identify the brain processes underlying the influence of charismatic individuals, Uffe Schjødt of Aarhus University in Denmark and colleagues turned to Pentecostal Christians, who believe that some people have divinely inspired powers of healing, wisdom and prophecy.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Schjødt and his colleagues scanned the brains of 20 Pentecostalists and 20 non-believers while playing them recorded prayers. The volunteers were told that six of the prayers were read by a non-Christian, six by an ordinary Christian and six by a healer. In fact, all were read by ordinary Christians.

Only in the devout volunteers did the brain activity monitored by the researchers change in response to the prayers. Parts of the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices, which play key roles in vigilance and scepticism when judging the truth and importance of what people say, were deactivated when the subjects listened to a supposed healer. Activity diminished to a lesser extent when the speaker was supposedly a normal Christian (Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq023).

Schjødt says that this explains why certain individuals can gain influence over others, and concludes that their ability to do so depends heavily on preconceived notions of their authority and trustworthiness.

It's not clear whether the results extend beyond religious leaders, but Schjødt speculates that brain regions may be deactivated in a similar way in response to doctors, parents and politicians.

(I'm living proof of that last bit. Evidently my entire brain shuts down whenever I hear a Sarah Palin speech.)

Which segues nicely into this:

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said on Monday they believe they may have found Noah's Ark - 4000m up a mountain in Turkey.

The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat.

"It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it," said Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International.

The structure had several compartments, some with wooden beams, which were believed to house animals, he said.

The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement on the grounds that one had never been found above 3500m in the vicinity, Yeung said.

Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected while a major archaeological dig is conducted, Yeung added.

The biblical story says God decided to flood the earth after seeing how corrupt it had become, and told Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal species.

After the flood waters receded, the Bible says, the ark came to rest on a mountain. Many believe that Mount Ararat, the highest point in the region, is where the ark and her inhabitants came aground.

Surprisingly, this looks a lot like another version of Noah's Ark found 15 miles away on a different Turkish mountain.




Maybe while God was planting dinosaur bones to confuse us & test our faith, he had multiple versions of the Ark built to...ummmmm...confuse us & test our faith.

While I have a feeling this will end badly, I'm ever hopeful that, this time, with the Ark's discovery, the elusive saddled dinosaur's existence will be proven, once & for all.

Mooooooooom!!!!! Georgie Stole A Cookie Again!!! Moooooooooooom!!!!

From the ever illustrious New York Times:

“If the disclosures at these hearings are not the final nail that persuades the American people to demand this be done now, I don’t know what would be,” said Senator Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota. “To bet against your clients, to bet against your country, all for the sake of big profits. The timing is serendipitous but it should increase the pressure on Republicans.”

Well, I think I've found one of those Americans who lives in an altered dimension. Only this is the one where only the Republicans are corrupt corporate puppets & only a few traitorous rotten bananas spoil it for the rest of the wealthy who actually care about America & her people.

His name is Senator Byron Dorgan.



Ummmmm...is this what they mean by "the multi-verse?"

Honestly, I can't think of any other explanation. Unless this guy has spent the last 30 years in his basement, living on canned goods & water run off from rain showers.
America has been slowly cored out like an apple. It has been done in plain sight by both Democrats & Republicans at the behest of their Corporate Masters. I know, because I've watched it happen. Clinton had as much fun sucking corporate NAFTA cock as Monica Lewinsky had sucking his presidential pecker.

Which makes this statement by Senator Harry Reid doubly ludicrous:

“Republicans will have more opportunities to show whose side they are truly on."

Considering Reid voted for both NAFTA and the Iraq War, one could also wonder whose side Mr. Reid is on. Considering he has justified his Iraq War vote with the crackpot assertion that Hussein “smuggled [his WMDs] out of the country,” one also has to wonder at how high the man's elevator travels up the shaft. I wonder if the phrase "neoliberal lap dog" has any meaning for Mr. Reid?

With an unemployment rate hovering somewhere near 20% this motherfucker is playing partisan pocket pool?

Maybe this "service economy" will cough up a couple hundred thousand new jobs toot sweet. I can think of one sure fire way for our daughters to stay solvent in this new, rich man's world:

"Oh yeah baby! Suck it. That's right.
Maybe daddy will give you a twenty.
You can go out & get your dad's meds.
Heh!
Heh! Heh!"

Un-motherfucking-believable!



On a more personal level, my brother, who still lives at my mom's house, told me she received 2 pieces of mail last week. One from Best Buy & one from a furniture store whose name escapes me. As I've said before, my mom loved to shop. She just didn't bother ensuring she actually had money to shop. As an example, my brother found a box with 30 credit cards in it. I think you get the picture.
Consequently, about 2 years ago, my mom had to file for bankruptcy.
So, due to that bankruptcy deal, both Best Buy & the furniture store want their shit back. In Best Buy's case it's a slew of DVDs (?????? Are they expecting to resell them?), while the furniture store wants their rocking chair back.
Evidently they've placed liens on everything. DVDs included.

What a hoot!

If this is some new corporate strategy to squeeze the last bit of blood out of the average rock headed American consumer, good luck with that little plan.
In my mom's case, I'd be more than happy to give them the address of the cemetery.
Hell, I'll even give them the plot number & directions.

Only in America.

Really.

If this is Oz, the wizard behind the screen is John Wayne Gacy in full clown mode. He's holding a razor studded star spangled dildo in one hand & a cross in the other.
And he's always smiling.

It's high time you people took a good look at your red white & blue festooned fairy tale.

It's starting to smell funny.

Like roadkill in July.

Pretty soon, I think, smelly roadkill might be looking mighty damn good to a lot of us.

On The Menu Today...Some Bile Laden Gruel...No, No, No...Not Osama Bin Laden You Red White & Blue Illiterates

In my previous outpouring of bilious gruel, I touched on a recent poll naming the ever illustrious Ronald Reagan as the 2nd most beloved president in American history. This was tied in with an effort to replace Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 dollar bill.
Luckily, a majority of Americans said ixnay to that little bad idea. Although, it would be kind of fitting to have Reagan's head near my asshole.
Maybe, just for shits & giggles, I give old Ronnie's portrait a wipe or 2 after a spicy Mexican meal.
Still, this "# 2 most beloved president" shit sticks in my craw.
So, anyone who stumbles upon this, I beg for enlightenment.
Please explain how a guy who seemed to signal our 1st foray into Reality TV by having an actor play Hollywood's idea of a president, sputtering home spun picket fence inanities, as he simultaneously spears home spun picket fence America right in its dumbfounded little heart;

a guy who, when a whole bunch of Marines were turned into overdone Tator Tots & overcooked hamburger meat in Lebanon, decided to just, oh, I don't know, run away;

a guy who sold fucking missiles to a nation who had, a short while previously, taken a bunch of Americans as hostages;

a guy who used the money from the missile sale to fund a Congressionally prohibited, and therefore unconstitutional war in Nicaragua;

a guy who used this funding to open an arms pipeline into Costa Rica which became a reverse drug pipeline that brought in so much cheap coke that it kickstarted the crack epidemic;

a guy whose wife wouldn't let him undertake any important business without her first consulting the stars;

a guy who swore that he'd eliminate the inheritance tax for rich and poor alike;

a guy who wanted, in the 70s, to open an anti-crime mind kontrol Gulag in California;

a guy who repeated war movie plots as his own war experiences at fund raisers;

a guy whose favorite preachers were Jerry "bloated corpse" Falwell & Jimmy "pussy peeper" Swaggart and who, like them, believed wholeheartedly in dispensational destruction & inevitable nuclear armageddon;

a guy who turned creditor America into debtor America

CAN BE NAMED THE 2ND MOST BELOVED PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN FUCKING HISTORY?????

ARE YOU PEOPLE COMPLETELY RETARDED?


DID YOU ALL JUST BEAM IN FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION WHERE RONNIE "I LOVE FUCKING YOU PEOPLE" REAGAN WAS SOMEHOW TRANSFORMED INTO MAYBERRY"S SHERIFF ANDY?

ARE YOU PEOPLE ALL ON CRACK?

OR METH?

OR JUST ADDLED BY THE STENCH OF YOUR OWN ASS CHEEKS AS YOU WONDER WHY IT"S ALWAYS SO DARK & TIGHT & THAT SMELL, STRANGELY REMINISCENT OF FECES AND UNWASHED ASS?

FUCK U PEOPLE....

Y'ALL ARE COMPLETELY & UNEQUIVOCALLY ENFEEBLED TO YOUR CORES.

Okay America...Just Move Along...Nothing To See Here But Crowd Control...Nothing To Worry About...

Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis today spoke out against a request for the Illinois National Guard to be to deployed on Chicago’s streets to help tackle gun violence.

Stopping just short of outright rejecting the request from state lawmakers Rep. John Fritchey and Rep. LaShawn Ford, Weis said “I don't think the National Guard is the solution.”

At a press conference earlier Sunday, Fritchey and Ford had called on Gov. Quinn and Mayor Daley to deploy troops. The action, in coordination with Weis, should be taken as soon as possible to help get guns and criminals off the street, they said.

The two Chicago Democrats noted National Guard members are now working side-by-side with U.S. troops to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while another deadly war is taking place in Chicago neighborhoods.

“Is calling for National Guard deployment a drastic action? Of course it is,” said Fritchey. “Is it warranted under these circumstances? Without question. If we can bring (the National Guard) in to help fill sandbags for flooding... to deal with tornado debris, we can bring them in to save lives.”

This is how it starts. First they core out the country so jobs are scarce. Then, when the indigenous population resorts to a bloody & violent black market economy for survival, they declare "WAR" on the indigenous population. One could replace Chicago with Columbia & you'd have pretty much the same scenario.
Neo-liberal globalization & free market fantasies have made us little more than another banana republic. With their NAFTAs & their WTOs & their Transnational Corporations, they've consolidated much for the few, while the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves in this Social Darwinist nightmare. They've privatized the profits while socializing the costs. I've watched them do this since Reagan stuck his serpentine pate out of his little serpent hole.
Doubly ironic that Reagan was recently named the 2nd most loved president right behind ol' Honest Abe. I can't help but think that either Lincoln had some hefty fucking skeletons in his closet or Americans are completely butt ignorant about Reagan's legacy. To me, that's like electing Jesus & Satan as your favorite dieties.
Triply ironic, I suppose, is this pointless babbling about "Socialism," given corporate America's long love affair with it. Although, I suppose the term "Corporatism" does describe it better since the cash flows upward to an elite minority rather than down towards the mass of society. I would ultimately call that hair splitting.

So far this year, 113 people have been killed across Chicago — precisely the same number as the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined during the same time period, the legislators noted.

"U.S. troops have been winning the hearts and minds (of people) in Iraq," Ford said. “They’ve stabilized those communities. They made those communities much better. Now those communities are safe. That’s what we want right here in Illinois, for the National Guard to come in and stabilize these communities.”

And they've killed a hell of a lot of people, haven't they? I believe they have a word for that, don't they? The ever lovely and multi-faceted "COLLATERAL DAMAGE."
In Chicago we have 113 dead in 5 months, while in Iraq, in the last 2 months of last year and the first two months of this year, we have, at least, 908 war related deaths.
People who wouldn't be dead if we didn't invade. While the military may be "winning some hearts & minds" they were directly responsible for stopping a lot of hearts and splattering a lot of brains in the process.

Fritchey and Ford noted the National Guard has been deployed in other states to prevent violence related to specific events and protests, but added that they were unaware of guardsmen and women being deployed to assist with general urban unrest.

They stressed a call for National Guard help here should not be equated with marshal law.

“We’re not talking about rolling tanks down the street,” Fritchey said. “We’re not talking about armed presence on every corner. We’re talking about individuals, men and woman that have been specifically trained to assist law enforcement and, assist with civil unrest. This is what the National Guard in part is trained to do.”

"We're talking about individuals?" What the fuck does that mean? "Individuals" also drive tanks. I'm not aware of sentient tanks. At least, not yet.

But Weis cautioned against “comparing apples and oranges.”

Referring to the Kent State shootings in 1970, when National Guardsmen fatally shot four student protesters at a campus demonstration, Weis said that “when you mix military functions with law enforcement functions, there is sometimes a disconnect.”

Noting that the military does not operate under the same constitutional constraints as the police, he questioned how Chicago residents would react to soldiers raiding homes without warrants, and said that in his 25 years of law enforcement experience, he had never seen an example of military personnel working under local civilian command.

“The National Guard is very useful if we had a big earthquake or huge flood or a catastrophe like that, where we simply had to control folks,” he said, “But the problems we’re facing are illegal weapons, narcotics and gangs. And while I will always look out for as much help as we can, I don't think the National Guard is the solution.”

The lawmakers could better help by passing tougher gun control laws, he said, also calling on communities affected by violence to “break the code of silence” against identifying criminals.

Strangely, the cop seems the sanest one here. What's the catch?

Quinn spokesman Bob Reed declined comment.

Fritchey and Ford noted that 80 percent of city homicide victims are black. Ford represents constituents in the West side communities of Austin, Lawndale and West Garfield, that have been hard hit by homicides and other crime. Fritchey represents constituents in the lower-crime North side communities of Bucktown, DePaul, Lincoln Park, Roscoe Village and Ravenswood.

The legislators said while they believe more should be done to deal with the violence, their views shouldn’t be seen as criticism of local law enforcement, whose resources are stretched thin.

They added Weis recently pointed out most violent crime in Chicago happens on just 9 percent of the city's blocks. To target these “hot spots,” Weis has said he was seeking 100 officers to volunteer for a summer-long “strategic response team.”

Deploying the Guard is a better option, Fritchey and Ford contend.

While Weis came out against the suggestion Sunday, he did add that he had yet to discuss it with the mayor and that is something he was willing to “explore.”

“I’d have to see what the mayor’s position on this is,” he said. “If he’s open to it, you know, of course, I’d be open to it. I have certain concerns, based on my time in law enforcement and the United States military.”

There it is. A company man to the end. A low level flunky willing to follow orders. I'd bet Nazi Germany had boatloads full of "good soldiers" just as eager to please.



I'm not much on predictions, but I've a feeling the collapse of 2008 was just a bile filled hiccup of a prelude before the real vomiting begins. For decades, Americans were dumb enough to provide the cannon fodder & cash to protect the globalists from the Red Menace. They funded our mutation from a creditor nation to a debtor nation knowing they needed our muscle. But the Red Menace is a fading memory while Communist China continues to grow into a Capitalist's wet dream of a society.
Hell, we could always fall back on a canard that seems to be a staple of this dipshit cuntry's propaganda: "If you just work hard you too can be a success."
What a hoot!
Recently heard Glenn Beck bemoan the fact that American's "just don't want success anymore."
This from a man who gets paid oodles of money to sit on his pudgy pasty posterior and give pre-formed opinions to people too stupid or too lazy to form their own.
Christ, this yahoo is just a 19th century Scientologist, with his belief in Joe Smith & his Moroni hustle.
I'd love a little success.
I just made some bad choices.
I became painfully aware of these as I emptied out my mother's bedroom here, watching all the remaining bits of her disappear as finally as she did.
I've come to the conclusion that my career choice is equivalent to, on society's little success scale, spending 18 years pissing out a window.
For all my babbling about the stupidity of your average talking monkey, who is the real idiot here?

I'll give you one hint:

One colorful euphemism for him is "stiffy."

Or maybe "wanker."

Or "John Thomas"

Or "crawling king snake."

Or "flaccid member."

You're bright.

I'm sure you get the picture.