Slow slide to the end.

It’s a very interesting time in history to be alive.
Everyone seems to know the end is coming. If you stop trying so hard to ignore it, the signs are everywhere. Business drying up, people who havn’t been deemed “too big to fail” going belly up under the crushing weight of the market and it’s downward spiral. There’s naked hate in the streets, and a general acceptance that the last gasp is now, to enjoy it while you can.

It’s just a matter of time and what’s gonna spark off the sharp decline into full time, third world American living.

A lot of talk about succession and marriage rights and immigration and a devalued dollar means pressure is coming at Joe Sixpack from all sides. Lots of utterings that sound like Civil War. Important changes happen every day, hardly anyone knows about it thanks to a complacent dinosaur media. No one knows where the money is coming from but they sure as hell aren’t asking questions. Yesterday’s conquerors are todays brow beaten oppressed, they’re not shy about taking advantage of their victimhood to harvest pity from the ignorant and uninformed. Pack minded humans in survival mode are likely to do anything. I know that first hand.

Dark days ahead in the land of freedom. Here’s to you and yours, keep fighting the good fight.

Intelligent Design, Math, and You.

As is often true, I am on political forums, butting heads. One of the more interesting comments I came across today, and I wanted to share my two cents.  [xposted from Political Hotwire]

Election 08′: Taking a stress break.

So. I’m doing my best not to obsess over election coverage. I’ve been forcing myself to take breaks. I got a link to something that I felt I should share, since we could all use a good laugh right about now.

The End Of An Era: Notes on how to weather the impending storm of post-election violence.

“It is astounding to hear rightwing talkshow bloviators rant about the predicament of the Bush administration being caused by its failure to carry out the true conservative agenda. For there never has been and never will be a more doctrinally faithful instrument of the creed.”

- Simon Schama, “Nowhere Man: A Farewell To Dubya, All-Time Loser In Presidential History”

I came to my senses and had a feeling (Change 08)

Like expressive astronomy, neon noise pollution
helps the navigation of the midnight revolution
a lost sea of never was and could have been
Lied to, bet against, and covered in sin

Generation lost
But look what they found

Not so much hope and a shade left of green
can’t help that everything turns mean
verse is walking with rhythm, attracts the worm
the beat of the new mind only knows free form

the game is rigged
playing is how you lose
keep chasing the rabbit
all you do is finish
we tripped on truth while trippin
we slipped on salvation while the cock crowed thrice
there is no meaning of life when you put it in those terms
as an organism, survival trumps hearts
get it as you get breath
naturally

I came to my senses and had a feeling
maybe how we turn isn’t how we burn but how we learn

Stop Fighting It. (And why I don’t want to hear it anymore)

I’m sick and tired of people who still consider grass roots movements to be a laughing matter. Or worse yet, still clinging to the ragged popular myth that ‘they don’t work’.

Welcome to 2007, neanderthals. They work.

Oil’s Fair In Love and War

So, it has come to this.

Through study and observance of what is NOT being said by both parties in the American political system, I have reached a disturbing conclusion. For all the talk of Iraq being a mess, for all the talk of bringing troops home, for all the talk of it not making us any safer here at home, the war drums continue to beat. Why?

Silence is Death

When you think of the reason America’s founding fathers left merry old England, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?

Brainwashed

The following article may be a tad extreme for some, but it raises some very interesting points, IMHO.

“The American people have been, and continue to be, deliberately and pre-meditatively brainwashed through the media. The word “media” is a big and somewhat nebulous term so let me be clear, the wealthy individuals who own the big media companies and the wealthy individuals who run them have conspired with some very wealth corporate owners and national politicians, the “advertisers”, to brainwash the American people. The result of this brainwashing is a huge and growing population of morons, hypocrites, sociopaths, suckers, deviants, and physically ill Americans. I know this because some of these sick people are my close life-long friends and family members.

How I Learned To Start Caring

Main Entry: gov·ern·ment
Pronunciation: 'g&-v&r(n)-m&nt, -v&-m&nt; 'g&-b^&m-&nt, -v^&m-
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
1 : the act or process of governing; specifically : authoritative direction or control
2 Greek translation : “control of the mind”
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