Wicked Winds of Rape and Bloodletting - The Cure Saves the Day

Okay, let's see if we've got this right. We’re being told that this is the worst financial crisis since 1929. We could be headed for another Great Depression....by Monday. So it seems to me it is time to put aside ideological differences and come together in a bipartisan fashion. To put aside Presidential Politics and come up with a solution before another bank fails. If we don't act quickly, as George w. Bush said yesterday referring to the entire US economy, "this sucker could go down." ~ Randi Rhodes
http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php

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A deal is made with Pelosi as wicked, wild wind blows through Washington!


HANK PAULSON (pictured above) PROMISES WALL STREET WILL EAT DOLLAR-MEALS EVERY DAY AS PART OF DEAL DESPITE THE FACT WALL STREET LIVES OFF THE BLOOD OF THE YOUNG



VAMPIRE LEAGUE MODERATES NEGOTIATIONS

House Speaker Madame, Nancy Pelosi, invited the "League" to moderate these historic negotiations, knowing full well a feeding frenzy could break out . . .

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IN OTHER NEWS . . .

Wasilla Watch: Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits
The rape-kit controversy is a troubling matter. The insult to rape victims is obvious. So is the sexism inherent in singling them out to foot the bill for investigating their own case.
And the main result of billing rape victims is to protect their attackers by discouraging women from reporting sexual assaults.
That’s why when Senator Joseph Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, drafted the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, he included provisions to make states ineligible for federal grant money if they charged rape victims for exams and the kits containing the medical supplies needed to conduct them. (Senator John McCain, Ms. Palin’s running mate, voted against Mr. Biden’s initiative, and his name has not been among the long list of co-sponsors each time the act has been renewed.) . . . In the absence of answers, speculation is bubbling in the blogosphere that Wasilla’s policy of billing rape victims may have something to do with Ms. Palin’s extreme opposition to abortion, even in cases of rape. Sexual-assault victims are typically offered an emergency contraception pill, which some people in the anti-choice camp wrongly equate with abortion.
My hunch is that it was the result of outmoded attitudes and boneheaded budget cutting. Still, Ms. Palin has been governor for under two years, and she’s running for vice president largely on her experience as mayor of tiny Wasilla — a far superior credential, she’s told us, to being a community organizer. On the rape kits, as on other issues, she owes voters a direct answer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/opinion/26fri4.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin


Meanwhile . . . McCain Runs Away --- Again. Because?
But even that wasn’t the top political threat McCain faced last week. Bigger still was the mounting evidence of the seamless synergy between his campaign and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage monsters at the heart of the housing bust that set off our current calamity. Most of all, it was the fast-moving events on that front that precipitated his panic to roll out his diversionary, over-the-top theatrics on Wednesday.
What we were learning — through The New York Times, Newsweek and Roll Call — was ugly. Davis Manafort, the lobbying firm owned by McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, had received $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac from late 2005 until last month. This was in addition to the $30,000 a month that Davis was paid from 2000 to 2005 by the so-called Homeownership Alliance, an advocacy organization that he headed and that was financed by Freddie and Fannie to fight regulation . . .

McCain ditches Letterman - Uh-oh . . .
In a journalistic coup de grâce worthy of “60 Minutes,” Letterman went on to unmask his no-show guest as a liar. McCain had phoned himself that afternoon to say he was “getting on a plane immediately” to deal with the grave situation in Washington, Letterman told the audience. Then he showed video of McCain being touched up by a makeup artist while awaiting an interview by Couric that same evening at another CBS studio in New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28rich.html?em

"Do you suspend your campaign? No, because that makes me think maybe there will be other things down the road, like if he’s in the White House, he might just suspend being president. I mean, we’ve got a guy like that now!” ~ David Letterman, after being ditched by McCain

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Who will save the day amidst the chaos?

In the Heart of the Young (Winger)

There's a fire

In the heart of the young

Human temples

Drawing power from the sun

Raising sails

Navigating the dawn

Hear the thunder

Now, we're a million strong

The light shines in the heart of the young

We're fighting for a new way to say

Carry on,

And see behind this material

Illusion,

The future of all is alive in the heart of the young

There's a song

In the heart of the young

Loud and clearly

The band goes marchin' on

With the force

Of a thousand gods

Hear the music

We're a million strong

Put your trust in the heart of the young

The rise of the rebellion has

Just begun,

The trumpets sound off the countdown for a

New day's dawn,

The future of all will survive, it's alive

Show me you're still alive

There's a fire

It's there in the heart of the young

See the lightning

Strike the curtain

With the force

Of a thousand gods

Hear the thunder

It's in the heart of the young

Can't you feel it burn in the heart of the young

We're fighting for a new way to say

Carry on,

The trumpets sound off the countdown for a

New day's dawn,

The future of all is alive in the heart of the young

The future of all will survive, it's alive

The future of all will survive, it's alive

The future of all will survive, it's alive . . .

Lost in Lands of War

Randi opines about John McCain's V.P. Pick:
A woman who, like George W. Bush, believes God is a card-carrying Republican who can't possibly disapprove of war and neglecting the poor. A woman who, like George W. Bush, surrounds herself completely with 'yes men' types and fires anyone who dares to have a different perspective. A woman who, like George W. Bush, was a hard partying youngster who found religion, and uses that discovery to hypocritically judge the rest of us on morality. A naive woman eager to be led around by the uneducated nose, by faceless, shadowy operatives who rank America's best interest far behind their own. ~ Randi Rhodes http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?/archives/77-Friday,-September-5,-2008.html

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. . . a painting of a woman astride a magnificent, galloping spirit horse. It is full of of flowing, powerful energies, and the artist inscribes this caption under it: "It is woman who will unleash the feminine energies which will heal and unify our planet. First she must make her own journey." This journey is the key to our own wholeness and liberation, and ultimately that of the world. Our experience will be, already is, a paradigm for the evolution of humanity itself. ~ Madonna Kolbenschlag (from, Lost in the Land of Oz)

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Chris Hedges writes:
A cult of masculinity defines the Wasilla Assembly of God church and the Juneau Christian Centre where she worshipped. This cult propagates a vision of the world where believers are warriors. They are taught to ready themselves to engage in a final cataclysmic clash with the forces of Satan. This cosmic struggle, infused with the language of war, death and violence, leads inevitably to the slaughter by the righteous of all non-Christians. The photos of Palin hunched over dead animals she has shot are not simply images of a woman who is a member of the National Rifle Association. They are images of a woman who believes violence against nonbelievers is ultimately part of her religious life.
The cult of masculinity is used to banish ambiguity, especially sexual ambiguity. It fosters a world of binary opposites: God and man, the saved and the unsaved, the church and the world, Christianity and secular humanism, and male and female. All in life is rigidly defined. Disorder and chaos are banished. Reality, when it is defined in these absolutes, is predictable and understandable, something deeply comforting to believers who have often had trouble coping with the messiness of human existence.
All configurations of human life that do not conform to the rigid Christian model, such as homosexuality, are forms of disorder, tools of Satan, and must be abolished. This is why Palin opposes gay marriage and calls for gays to be cured. A world that can be predicted and understood, a world that has clear markers, can be made rational. It can be managed and controlled. The petrified, binary world of fixed, immutable and established roles is a world where people, many of them damaged by bouts with failure and despair, can bury their chaotic and fragmented personalities. They can live with the illusion that they are strong, whole and protected. Those who do not fit into these narrow definitions must be proselytized and converted.
The decline of America is ascribed to the decline of male prowess. This decline has led to weakness and moral decay. It has resulted in a bewildering human and social complexity that, often seen as feminine, is the work of Satan. This is why Palin consistently celebrates "male" values. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080915_for_palin_its_a_christian_mans_world/

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It's Time

When will we stop drowning in the sea-saw cult of war and say it's over?
It's time . . .

Put the toys away.
SAY IT!

"Take care."

"Now let's put this right."


Let us throw off the curses of guilt and shame undeserved.
Reach out and show the world the right way.
The femina authentic is here.
Just waiting . . .

But so far I have only seen the wounds and the wounding on display.
Laying there wasting . . . after war!
Wastelands gone crazy-mad!
Floundering - stuck - in gut-stopping mud
Squashing humanity down.
Bloodshed after bloodshed over and over, unabating!


Until humanity embraces the femininus without shame and stops trying to squash it we will go on and on down the same road destroying ourselves - and for what I do not know? Our world still lives under a delusional curse begat by men who were sore afraid
they designed this code:

Fear the femininus inside each and every one of you.

It is sin and it is evil.

For our way is the way of our Lord.

As it was written.

(That which was bogus from the beginning . . . )

The denial of the femina -
A perversion.
Still pervades . . .

Though it is in its last throes, because you see the deniers throwing tantrums as their fires burn out madly.

We are overtaking them.
This is the time.
The future is just ahead.
But we all must grab it now.
Together,
AS ONE.

It's the God's Truth Mr. Maverick?

It’s nakedly evident that this 72 year old [John McCain] has morphed himself into something new now. Although his voting record decries what he claims to be. And that when he had the most important decision that he could make, before he was ever given the executive branch of the government to run - that decision being - who would his running mate be at 72 years old? He picked and cow-towed and caved into the most radical elements of the right wing. He caved into the radical right and he picked a radical right running mate instead of being a maverick and picking pro-abortion rights’ Joe Lieberman.
If McCain were truly a maverick he would have done that. But he did not stand up to his party. He never has. That’s why his voting record is identical to Bush’s voting record. That’s why McCain has been for everything that Bush has been for - including warrantless wiretapping, including rendition and torture, including GITMO. This man has flip-flopped on everything but ends up voting with Bush 90% of the time. ~ Randi Rhodes http://novamnetwork.com/podcasts/rhodes/premium/RhodesShow-(11-09-2008)-lo.mp3

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Robert Parry opines:
McCain, in effect, reinvented himself as a “reformer” in the 1990s after he got caught in the late 1980s in a savings-and-loan influence-peddling scheme with Cindy McCain’s business partner, Charles Keating.
Even in recent years while cultivating his reform image, McCain – as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee – has maintained cozy relationships with business lobbyists and, indeed, stocked his campaign staff with many of the insiders he rails against.

Yet, because of his long history of flattering press clippings – he once called the journalists on his “Straight Talk Express” his “base” – McCain seems to always expect gentle treatment, regardless of his actions. That confidence has enabled him to get away with stating the opposite of obvious truths and suffering little consequence.

McCain now seems to have located a soul-mate in Sarah Palin, who shares McCain’s assuredness in making public statements that are clear-cut lies and then insisting they are absolute truth.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/091308.html

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2008 Republican Ticket

John McCain and Sarah Palin

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And now . . . Today if you were to believe in illusions . . .

We have the REFORMERS!!!

There . . . you see them coming up over the horizon, blazing sun at their backs, stomping to the beat of a drum, marching, running up to the city on a hill -- Washington.

Yes, there is Washington, D.C. screams Sarah --- just catching

view -- ahh . . . yes . . . there it is . . . and it is filthy!!

Filth not only hanging from trees, but slime running down the great houses - even the White House!!

This is the time we have been waiting for, John and Sarah scream in acclamation - this is God's plan!!

WE will turn this damn den of inequity upside down and on its face.


And by the time - WE - McCain and Palin are done it will be cleaned UP!!


Months, maybe years later . . . There they are . . . removing their red rubber gloves, sweat flowing from their collective brows, and slowly, slowly raising their right arms, as the Red, White, and Blue languidly flips and flows over Abraham Lincoln's statuary. And at that, they are both caught up in the fervency of the moment as they slowly (in unison) curve their right hands over their still sweating brows and salute the man who inspired them both.


Abraham Lincoln

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed." ~ Abraham Lincoln

WHAT *WAS* THAT? Bohemian Rhapsody at the Republican Convention

DALLAS (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav is threatening to rain on the Republican festivities in Minnesota, drawing attention away from the party during its crucial national convention.
The killer storm has also revived memories of President George W. Bush's tardy response to Hurricane Katrina

which devastated New Orleans three years ago.

The timing could not be worse for the Republicans. The storm is forecast to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast on the same day the party kicks off its four-day convention in St. Paul to anoint John McCain as its presidential candidate for the November 4 election.
"The timing is bad because it clearly is going to be a distraction from the convention. And it may for some people bring back memories of the Bush administration and its response to Hurricane Katrina," said Matthew Wilson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. ~By Ed Stoddard
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN3151045020080831

Welcome to the 2008 Republican Convention Recap

Is this the real life

Is this just fantasy

Caught in a landslide

No escape from reality

Open your eyes

Look up to the skies and see . . .

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I see a little silhouetto of a man, scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango-

Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-galileo, galileo, galileo, galileo, galileo figaro-magnifico!!

For someone who went to parochial schools all his life, this is a very frightening thing that's happening right now . . . Rudy "Lightning Strikes" Giuliani

The Original "Thunderbird" McCain

“At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*nt.” ~John McCain

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They [Republicans] have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W., and then letting them learn on the job. So they crash into the globe a few times while they’re learning to drive, what’s the big deal? ~ Maureen Dowd
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/31dowd.html


Mr. "No big deal"

Rice told the commission Thursday that the briefing included mostly "historical information" and that most of the threat information known in the summer of 2001 referred to overseas targets.
She said she did not recall any reports about al Qaeda using aircraft as weapons before September 11.
Former counterterrorism aide Richard Clarke had testified two weeks before that the White House had ignored warnings about bin Laden's terrorist organization. Clarke said the Bush administration, including Rice, was aware of al Qaeda threats but did not treat them as "urgent."
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After reaching the White House, a CIA briefer, identified in the book only as Rich B., started his presentation by saying: “There will be a significant terrorist attack in the coming weeks or months!”
Rich B. then displayed a chart showing “seven specific pieces of intelligence gathered over the past 24 hours, all of them predicting an imminent attack,” Tenet wrote. The briefer presented another chart with “the more chilling statements we had in our possession through intelligence.”
These comments included a mid-June statement by Osama bin Laden to trainees about an attack in the near future; talk about decisive acts and a “big event”; and fresh intelligence about predictions of “a stunning turn of events in the weeks ahead,” Tenet wrote.
Rich B. told Rice that the attack will be “spectacular” and designed to inflict heavy casualties against U.S. targets, Tenet wrote.
“Attack preparations have been made,” Rich B. said about al-Qaeda’s plans. “Multiple and simultaneous attacks are possible, and they will occur with little or no warning.”
When Rice asked what needed to be done, the CIA’s Black responded, “This country needs to go on a war footing now.” The CIA officials sought approval for broad covert-action authority that had been languishing since March, Tenet wrote.
Despite the July 10 briefing, other senior Bush administration officials continued to pooh-pooh the seriousness of the al-Qaeda threat. Two leading neoconservatives at the Pentagon – Stephen Cambone and Paul Wolfowitz – suggested that the CIA might be falling for a disinformation campaign, Tenet wrote.
But the evidence of an impending attack continued to pour in. At one CIA meeting in late July, Tenet wrote that Rich B. told senior officials bluntly, “they’re coming here,” a declaration that was followed by stunned silence.
The intelligence community’s evidence was summarized in the special PDB that was delivered to Bush while he was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford.
The PDB ended by noting that “FBI information … indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York. The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives.”
Bush apparently was not pleased by the CIA’s intrusion on his vacation nor with the report’s lack of specific targets and dates. He glared at the CIA briefer and snapped, “All right, you’ve covered your ass,” according to an account in author Ron Suskind’s The One Percent Doctrine., which relied heavily on senior CIA officials.http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/050607.html

Did you say something about covering your ass, Mr. President?


Enter: (from stage right) Miss Congeniality for Veep or Mrs.

So What?

Sarah Palin is not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. She's going to Washington to serve the people of this country (AND Alaska).

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(When everything feels like the movies?)

"There's something sort of classic about women ripping each other down over a crime that was committed by a man," she added. "Women are either maniacs or morons -- that's what so frustrating about Hollywood's depiction of women. They're either compliant, beautiful wives, and therefore the good woman; or you've got a seething monster, a witch, who inserts herself in the family manse and tries to destroy the family. It seems like we only have one film a year where women are actually allowed to be buddies and go to the mat for each other . . ." ~ Susan Faludihttp://movies.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?res=9E0CE7DB1139F936A35752C0A964958260

The hand that could rock our cradle.

No,no,no,no,no,no,no-Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me . . . ~ Bohemian Rhapsody - Mercury)