The Terrorist Threat...

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency, evidence has been uncovered indicating a vast terror network may be operating on American soil. These potential terrorists may be of any religion, race, or walk of life - possibly even someone you know. In fact, as you read this, you may be surrounded by potential terrorists.

Homeland Security reports that the infrastructure exists to clandestinely arrest and execute any of these terror suspects without warning, or even cause. After years of investigation and information gathering enough is known about this vast terror network, known as "Americans," that any suspect or group of suspects can be pinpointed to within a meter of their actual location.

Homeland Security requires you to be vigilant. If you see any of these "Americans," report them immediately, or they may eat your children.

Why are you so political..?

I was asked that, yesterday. I didn't think I was political. I just thought I was ethical. Murder is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Lying is wrong. We're not talking "No, those pants don't make your ass look fat" lying, we're talking "This is why you should send your kids off to die" lying. There is no excuse. There is no justification. There is no point at which these things become right, or even less wrong. Don't give me that speech about omelettes and broken eggs, either. People aren't eggs, and if you're eating people omelettes, you are one sick puppy, and have no business in a leadership position.

I've been told I have a black and white view of the world. That's not entirely true. There are all those shades of grey, sure, but there's still white at one end, and black at the other. Murder, theft, and deception are all pretty damn black.

And one other thing - Nearly twenty years ago we started shouting "No blood for oil." The blood was spent, anyway, so where the hell is the oil? Did Bush and Bush II think we meant "Blood for no oil?" Exxon/Mobil, Shell, and British Petroleum report record profits every quarter, and we pay record-breaking prices for gas every year, but we're sitting on three of the largest untapped oilfields in the world in Iraq. Which part of that equation adds up? Here's an idea: Let's pull out of Iraq, and buy oil from them at a reasonable rate. They'll have an economy that isn't based on chlorine gas, and we won't have to kill civilians, torture people, or put black bags on old ladies' heads before throwing them down the oubliette. This is a good plan.

Farmers Branch, New Orleans, and the Federal Government...

From the Houston Chronicle: "It says especially to Congress that we're tired of the out-of-control illegal immigration problem. That if Congress doesn't do something about it, cities will,'' said Tim O'Hare, a City Council member who was the ordinance's lead proponent.

This isn't about immigration, or illegal aliens.

This isn't about race, or nationality, or even quality of character.

While I'm watching a guy get his face slammed into concrete by the cops while illegals trash his car unmolested, I see a sign asking "Were the pilgrims legal immigrants?"

America is not a nation founded by immigrants. America is a nation of conquerers. America is what happens when people with guns meet people with stone-age technology. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it's the way it is. Veni, vidi, vici, and here we are. Then someone decided that some poor European peasants would be perfect cheap labor to work in their new "industrial revolution" factories, and put up a sign that said "Send us your poor," and so on.

As shitty and underhanded as America is, it's still the best country there is. That's why everyone else is trying to get here. I can't blame them. In most countries, the people live under the same thumb I keep trying to dodge. If I could find a better country, I would be on anything that floats, trying to swim there, and they would be blogging about me. Keep in mind, however, that even though I understand their motivation doesn't mean I want America to become a third-world country.

And that's exactly what's happening. Immigrant labor raises our taxes and drives down our wages. You might not care, with your college degree and salary, but I'm unskilled labor. Those are my wages being driven down. You'd better believe I care.

So Farmers Branch passes a law to prevent property managers from renting to illegal aliens, and I cheer. I cheer, and I'm an asshole not being sympathetic to the plight of the illegals. I must be a racist. Added to that, I'm told, it places the responsibility of the Federal Government on landlords.

Fuck landlords. Fuck the Feds. The Feds aren't doing the job. The Feds aren't doing a lot of jobs. If the Feds aren't doing the Feds' job, should the job go undone? Maybe we should quit expecting so much from our government. As far as I'm concerned, the government's job is to fix my roads and my sewers, and stay the hell out of my way.

Think back on New Orleans, when my ex-girlfriend Katrina trashed the Gulf Coast. (I'm about to defend George Bush - someone call the papers.) Katrina wipes out New Orleans, and everyone got mad at Bush for not responding more quickly, when all the Federal Government had to do was stay out of the way. The City of New Orleans failed her people, the State of Louisiana failed her people, but everyone was mad at George Bush, who was hundreds of miles away, right where he belongs, and kinda useless, anyway. I don't understand why anyone expected anything from him in the first place. But everyone wants the Feds involved, so FEMA goes in there and fucks up the job some motivated citizens could've done for themselves. The cops, National Guard, and Blackwell Security (the military arm of Halliburton) went door to door, confiscating everyones' guns, locking everyone out of their homes, and then leaving them to twist in the wind. Crime skyrockets, and National Guard troops, fresh from combat in Afghanistan and unaccustomed to civil law enforcement (There's a reason for that), get a little jumpy and start shooting black people. "Temporary shelters," aka "trailer-homes," sit empty for over a year, and are eventually ruined without ever actually sheltering anyone, even temporarily. Millions of dollars are wasted on bureaucracy and red tape, while next to nothing is accomplished, and people remain, to this day, locked out of their own homes under penalty of arrest. The Feds could've sent some money, some food and water, some medicine, but otherwise stayed out of it, and fewer people would've died.

Then we have the Minutemen. In Arizona, they shoot Mexicans illegally crossing the border. It's too bad people have to die over it, but I'm not that sorry. The National Guard and Border Patrol hand out job applications to border-jumpers, so it falls to citizens to carry out the responsibilities that were once entrusted to the government. There is a reason they're called "illegal" aliens. There are laws governing admittance to this country. Ridiculously lax laws, that are apparently only enforced if you're an American trying to leave or come back. Next time, just jump the border and cut through some red tape. I read somewhere that a Mexican citizen had to demonstrate economic viability in order to immigrate, and that economic viability is not something you find littering the streets of Mexico. Think that's mean? Try emigrating to Canada. You, with your college education and marketable skills, would probably have to jump the border.

Think of America as your yard, and your house. You're pretty gracious, and all anyone has to do is ring your doorbell to gain entrance to your home. If someone sneaked in through the window, moved in, ate your food, ran up your cost of living, and took half of your paycheck, you wouldn't like it. You might go so far as to ask them to leave, regardless of where they were from or what color they were. You might even shoot them, if you caught them in the act, and had the means.

In reality, you would probably call the cops, who would get there just in time to tag you and photograph the crime-scene, and make sure there aren't any suspicious donuts in the area. You would do it because you've been trained all your life to be dependent on the government, rather than to be responsible for yourself.

Mushroom Clouds are Kinda Pretty...

I spent all day trying to think of something to say that might not induce suicide in the reader. I used to be a fun guy. I used to sing karaoke. Now, I see poison, and walking corpses everywhere.

One of my old in-stores from Papa John's in Allen, Eric, killed himself last week. Hung himself in his mom's garage. I don't feel bad about it, really. Everybody dies. Pretty mean thing to do to his mom, though.

On the lighter side of things, I rode my bike through a waist-high field of indian paintbrushes yesterday, completely free from fear of bee-stings. I haven't seen a bee yet, this year. There. That's pretty fucking cheerful.

"There was no dissent..." Truth is dead.

From AOL News:

"There was no dissent about the importance of the U.S. military mission in Iraq. "

I hope you'll take one minute, twenty-one seconds of your busy Sunday to hear Ron Paul's comments from the Republican Debate regarding the war in Iraq:



Do we have a mission in Iraq? Are we there to give democracy to the Iraqi people whether they want it or not? We were tricked into going. This is common knowledge. Seriously, if you don't have a full understanding of why we went to Iraq, and what we're doing there, send me an email, and I will explain it to you so thouroughly that you will die a little, inside, from gazing into the depths of human depravity and greed. Ron Paul is the only candidate who has said we must get out of Iraq without hesitation. The time-table is "Everybody on the plane! You're going home, right now."

As far as the blatant dishonesty of the media, I'm not sure why I'm bothering to complain. The media elected Hillary months ago. I can't turn on the TV for five minutes without seeing that.

From the same AOL article:

"The Iraq comments contrasted sharply with last week's debate among Democratic presidential hopefuls.

"Then, eight presidential hopefuls called for an end to the military involvement that so far has claimed the lives of more than 3,300 U.S. troops."

The herd is being driven toward the Democrats, toward Hillary. Obama is there to make white Americans think about whether they would prefer a black man or a white woman for president. If you're shocked that I would say so, too bad. It's the game. It's not just the game, it's the sucker-play. It's the Rope-a-Dope. It's setting 'em up and knocking 'em down. I've lost too many chess games to not see it.

Please, wake up.

Who's paranoid?

There are two people I know that read this. There is one other Anonymous commenter who has read this at least once. I hope you came back. I want to save as many as I can.

I almost got in a fight with a co-worker at a pool-hall the other day. I was talking about the failing dollar, the Federal Reserve, and the "housing bubble." My friend just bought a motorcycle. He doesn't want to hear it. He wants everything to be okay.

I want everything to be okay, too, but EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY.

Forget, for a moment, that the dollar is failing. Set aside the fact that the Federal Reserve is inflating our money-supply by $20-billion a week. Ignore the countless illegal immigrants flooding our labor-pool. Right now I want to talk about some downright apocalyptic shit. I'm going to spell it out for you, and I want you to pay attention, because I want you to survive.

I've mentioned the dying bees before, and I've been looking into it. Several people knowledgeable on the subject of beekeeping have expressed opinions, and studies have been done in France and Germany. Everything I've read about it (that didn't come from American media), regardless of the proposed cause, agrees on two points: This is happening just about everywhere, and if the bees go, mankind follows. That sounds sensational even to me. Some people will survive, I'm sure, just not many, and not you or me.

One of the proposed causes for the disappearance of trillions of bees is (drum-roll) cellphones. That one's so retarded I'm not even going to cover it further. It's not cellphones. Cellphones are radios, and many more powerful radios have been around far longer than cellphones. Even HAARP has been around too long to be the culprit.

The most commonly proposed cause is genetically modified food, as reported by Spiegel. GM foods, as they're known, have DNA from a toxic bacteria inserted into their own DNA to make them naturally resistant to insects. These foods produce a natural insecticide that makes them poisonous. The bees eat the pollen, and the toxin in the pollen destroys their immune systems, and they die.

From the article in Spiegel: "In many cases, scientists have found evidence of almost all known bee viruses in the few surviving bees found in the hives after most have disappeared. Some had five or six infections at the same time and were infested with fungi -- a sign, experts say, that the insects' immune system may have collapsed.

"The scientists are also surprised that bees and other insects usually leave the abandoned hives untouched. Nearby bee populations or parasites would normally raid the honey and pollen stores of colonies that have died for other reasons, such as excessive winter cold. "This suggests that there is something toxic in the colony itself which is repelling them," says Cox-Foster."

Going almost hand-in-hand with the GM foods is a study done by the French government specifically naming Gaucho, a pesticide made by Bayer. A perfect example of poison killing things.

My personal opinion on genetically modified food: Dying bees aside, genetically modified food is a bad idea. Pesticides are bad enough when one has the ability to wash them off. When these pesticides are an integral part of the food, it is no longer "food," but "pesticide." If I have a bug problem, I will buy some Bt corn, because a few ears of corn are cheaper than a can of Raid. If I'm hungry... Well, damn. Even organics are suspect, now, thanks to cross-pollination. An organic farmer has no way of ensuring that their crop has not been contaminated. One independent canola farmer in Canada, Percy Schmeiser, lost fifteen years of seed cultivation when his crops were contaminated with genetically modified canola from neighboring farms. The large commercial farms love it, though, because they get to sell more of their poisonous product unmolested by insects that die when they eat it.

One other proposed cause for mass disappearances of bees is the same increased sun activity that is causing global warming, or global warming itself, by either confusing the bees' navigation systems through increased electromagnetic activity, or by having their reproductive cycle interrupted by unseasonably warm winters.

Regardless of the cause, dying bees means unpollinated crops, which means scarcity, which means food prices rise. Coupled with the reduced buying power of the dollar and the ready-to-burst housing bubble, and the climate shift, this spells famine and pestilence, right here in America. Like you, assuming you're an American, I was raised to believe that nothing bad can happen to Americans. Americans don't starve, or die of diseases that might be considered "plagues." Americans don't get cholera, or typhoid, or polio. Those things happen to poor, misguided foreigners that didn't have the good sense to be born here.

I'm really not trying to depress anyone. My mom always gets depressed when I mention this shit. If I were trying to depress anyone, I would mention the eventual heat-death of the universe, and the absolute futility of existence in any form. That's depressing. I just want you to take precautions. Will it hurt you to set aside some canned goods? Canned goods are pretty cheap, and you can eat them whether you're starving, or just peckish. Will it hurt to buy some silver, just in case? Precious metals are a great long-term investment even if the world doesn't end. You should get a water filter, anyway, because pure water is a great idea, even if the seas don't rise, and crop failures don't cause worldwide hunger. Get a gun, too, because it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

You won't need a foil hat, though. That's a myth. The aliens can read your mind right through it, so you might as well maintain some degree of dignity.