a compendium of ill willers

"A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."

— Ronald Reagan




Dumbing Download Complete

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/florida-mosque-bombed-fbi-calls-help-nation

On May 10th, a middle-aged man carried a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb into the Jacksonville Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers and detonated it. Fortunately, there were no injuries to people, though the bomb did damage property.





FlagWrap

... when you scratch the surface of their "small government" message, what you usually find is someone who doesn't like government because it is the institution which enforces the rights guaranteed under the constitution for people they despise.




by deviding it ? #$^&@

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10157270.stm

A teacher in the US state of Georgia has been suspended after allowing students to dress in mock Ku Klux Klan robes for a project.




MDX Success

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/no-latinos-no-tacos-flash_n_589258.html

Reactions to the "No Latinos no tacos" sign have been mixed.




photo credit: janet reno

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2010/04/none-dare-call-it-sedition.html

This is sedition in slow motion, a gradual corrosive undermining of the government's authority and capacity to run the country. And it's been at the core of their politics going all the way back to Goldwater.

This long assault has gone into overdrive since Obama's inauguration, as the rhetoric has ratcheted up from overheated to perfervid. We've reached the point where you can't go a week without hearing some prominent right wing leader calling for outright sedition -- an immediate and defiant populist uprising against some legitimate form of government authority.




armsagetsome

... values, identity and tribalism are necessary organizing principles and that means the right wing should be treated with the only respect you should grant anyone who sees you as their enemy: you take them seriously and do not underestimate their hostility toward you or their strength and commitment to their cause.




Ooops.

Seems the (crist) campaign forgot a little thing called “copyright”

http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2010/05/24/david-byrne-sues-charlie-crist-for-1-million/

1985 Talking Heads’ hit “Road to Nowhere” in a video posted on the Crist’s website


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7 Dreadful Spins

Rules of the Game of Life.
Charelton Heston displays his guns for all mortals to behold.

According to lore from pre-history, an old man who was very close to the heavens was given the monumental task of delivering the laws of god to regular folk. He called it the Ten Commandments and we live and die by them today. But there are other rules of behavior that are no less consequential to our earthy existence. They have been tweaked through the ages but are basically the same today as in the beginning of time.



Truth in Advertising- using human weakness to sell stuff.



Can we White-wash the Tally at the End of the Trail, No.

Let's be honest, who among us has avoided lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy or pride? When you line up at the big check-out counter, what will the scanner read of your lifetime of trial and error that typify human all experience?




Road-map for personal Growth.

Like google earth, we venture out into the world of virtual illusions. At first kind of slowly then gradually speeding to a frenzy, each personal journey shares a common road; a boulevard that is worn with potholes, speed-bumps and tolls. Be mindful of the signs along your way. All rivers may lead to the ocean, but man has dammed the way with detours and distractions that are cul-de-sacs at best, dead-ends at worst. There is no teflon coating on life's super highway.



In the Garden of Swampy Delights.

As chance would have it, many of us grew up watching silly sit-coms like Gilligan's Island or Star Trek without reading stuff like Rudolph Steiner or the Koran. But what is fascinating today is discovering the hidden lessons in Hollywood's most trivial TV shows.



Tale of the Castaways.

Each member of the cast of Gilligan's Island is the embodiment of one of each of the Seven Deadly Sins. Left to right- The Professor, Mary Ann, Gilligan, Ginger, Thurston Howell III, Mrs Howell, The Captain. Can you guess who is who?



It's getting Hot Up in Here!

Listen to the revealing words of the late great John Pope Paul II.
He said something like this...

...heaven and hell are not a place in the clouds or a hole of fire... they are a state of mind (a construct inside our heads) right here on earth.

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Park Your Karma Elsewhere

Thieves Abscond with Symbols of Three Abrahamic Faiths.

Miami Design District
January 9, 2009

Local neighborhood security american police have confirmed that a styrofoam sculpture was stolen Saturday night shortly after 2:00 am during Gallery Walk night. The monumental artwork was situated on private property opposite artist studios and on display for public viewing . The artwork is comprised of architectural models depicting three houses of worship; a Christian Cathedral, a Judaic Temple and an Islamic Mosque. The artist/sculptor said he was well aware of the risk of damage or theft in placing his work in an empty lot overnight but was more interested to see how the public would react to such vulnerability. Not surprisingly there were many positive comments that night by art enthusiasts that used the now empty site of Design Miami to park their cars to avoid tickets.

Someone said, "This is probably not a Hate Crime, it is an Asinine Love of Art Crime".

Strangely enough the pagan bandits inexplicably neglected to take the centerpiece of the sculpture.

The Irrefutable Kernel of Truth.



The Artists League of Greater Miami has offered an Award for anyone with information leading to an arrest of the perpetrators. Please leave anonymous tip in comments.

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Lions, Lambs n Proselytizers

I used to live in Brooklyn near the Watchtower, the place where Jehovah's witnesse's printing presses buzzed 24/7 filling truck-loads of literature bound for world-wide distribution, to be used in their door-to-door proselytizing. The pamphlets are thoroughly amusing in a deeply psychopathic way. Their vision of things earthly is the subject for a rather extensive and impressive collection of illustrations that can only be described as far-out and gregorian.


All is not well in the river's edge, baby moses no likey hair extensions.

If it is Sunday, it must be get-out-n-save-souls day. How many time have you been racked by a group of mild-mannered folk with offers of plain talk. I actually enjoy taking a moment to converse and exchange ideas with them, rattle some screws, and always take the free stuff.




To be fair, JW's are perfectly nice people. The artist that render copious amount of illustrations depicting their JW utopian vision of the world are inspiring to many young artist with Bob Ross leanings. There was a time when art and architecture, with cavernous cathedrals and glorious depictions of biblical scenes, had the ability to convert unsuspecting mongrels . But not so much today.



But when the lights go out, and the ink hits the press, Jehovah Witnesses are a cult like so many others that is all about doom, gloom and the selling of salvation. This apostate ain't buying.



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