The Strange Fruit of Torture - The Confession Backfired.

The first confession released by the Bush regime's Military Tribunals--that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed--has discredited the entire process. Writing in Jurist, Northwestern University law professor Anthony D'Amato likens Mohammed's confession to those that emerged in Stalin's show trials of Bolshevik leaders in the 1930s.

That was my own immediate thought. I remember speaking years ago with Soviet dissident Valdimir Bukovsky about the behavior of Soviet dissidents under torture. He replied that people pressed for names under torture would try to remember the names of war dead and people who had passed away. Those who retained enough of their wits under torture would confess to an unbelievable array of crimes in an effort to alert the public to the falsity of the entire process.

That is what Mohammed did. We know he was tortured, because his response to the obligatory question about his treatment during his years of detention is redacted. We also know that he was tortured, because otherwise there is no point for the US Justice (sic) Dept. memos giving the green light to torture or for the Military Commissions Act, which permits torture and death sentence based on confession extracted by torture.

Mohammed's confession of crimes and plots is so vast that Katherine Shrader of the Associated Press reports that the Americans who extracted Mohammed's confession do not believe it either. It is exaggerated, say Mohammed's tormentors, and must be taken with a grain of salt.

In other words, the US torture crew, reveling in their success, played into Mohammed's hands. Pride goes before a fall, as the saying goes.

Mohammed's confession admits to 31 planned and actual attacks all over the world, including blowing up the Panama Canal and assassinating presidents Carter and Clinton and the Pope. Having taken responsibility for the whole ball of wax along with everything else that he could imagine, he was the entire show. No other terrorists needed.

Reading responses of BBC listeners to Mohammed's confession reveals that the rest of the world is either laughing at the US government for being so stupid as to think that anyone anywhere would believe the confession or damning the Bush regime for being like the Gestapo and KGB.

Humorists are having a field day with the confession: "'I'm a very dangerous mastermind,' said Mohammed, who confessed to the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, the Brink's robbery, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the Lincoln and McKinley assassinations. Mohammed also accepted responsibility for spreading hay fever and cold sores around the world and for rained out picnics."

If there was anything remaining of the Bush regime not already discredited, Mohammed's confession removed any reputation left.

The most important part of the Mohammed story is yet to make the headlines. Despite having held and tortured hundreds of detainees for years in Gitmo, and we don't know how many more in secret prisons around the world, the US government has come up with only 14 "high value detainees."

In other words, the government has nothing on 99 percent of the detainees who allegedly are so dangerous and wicked that they must be kept in detention without charges, access to attorneys and contact with families.

And little wonder. The vast majority of detainees, alleged "enemy combatants," are not terrorists captured by the CIA and brave US troops. They are hapless persons who happened to be outside their tribal or home territories and were kidnapped by criminal gangs or war lords who profited greatly at the expense of the naive Americans who offered bounties for "terrorists."

The US government does not care that innocent people have been ensnared, because the US government desperately needs both to prove that there are vast numbers of terrorists and to demonstrate its proficiency in protecting Americans by capturing terrorists. Moreover, the US government needs "dangerous suspects" that it can use to keep Americans in a state of supine fearfulness and as a front behind which to undermine constitutional protections and the Bill of Rights.

The Bush-Cheney Regime succeeded in its evil plot, only to throw it all away by releasing the ridiculous confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Will Bush's totalitarian Military Tribunal now execute Mohammed on the basis of his confession extracted by torture, or would this be seen everywhere on earth as nothing but an act of murder?

If Bush can't have Mohammed murdered, the US government will have to shut Mohammed away where he cannot talk and tell his tale. The US government will have to replicate Orwell's memory hole by destroying Mohammed's mind with mind-altering drugs and abuse.

It is to such depths that George Bush and Dick Cheney have lowered America.

http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts03172007.html

The Strange Fruit of Torture - The Confession Backfired.

The first confession released by the Bush regime's Military Tribunals--that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed--has discredited the entire process. Writing in Jurist, Northwestern University law professor Anthony D'Amato likens Mohammed's confession to those that emerged in Stalin's show trials of Bolshevik leaders in the 1930s.

That was my own immediate thought. I remember speaking years ago with Soviet dissident Valdimir Bukovsky about the behavior of Soviet dissidents under torture. He replied that people pressed for names under torture would try to remember the names of war dead and people who had passed away. Those who retained enough of their wits under torture would confess to an unbelievable array of crimes in an effort to alert the public to the falsity of the entire process.

That is what Mohammed did. We know he was tortured, because his response to the obligatory question about his treatment during his years of detention is redacted. We also know that he was tortured, because otherwise there is no point for the US Justice (sic) Dept. memos giving the green light to torture or for the Military Commissions Act, which permits torture and death sentence based on confession extracted by torture.

Mohammed's confession of crimes and plots is so vast that Katherine Shrader of the Associated Press reports that the Americans who extracted Mohammed's confession do not believe it either. It is exaggerated, say Mohammed's tormentors, and must be taken with a grain of salt.

In other words, the US torture crew, reveling in their success, played into Mohammed's hands. Pride goes before a fall, as the saying goes.

Mohammed's confession admits to 31 planned and actual attacks all over the world, including blowing up the Panama Canal and assassinating presidents Carter and Clinton and the Pope. Having taken responsibility for the whole ball of wax along with everything else that he could imagine, he was the entire show. No other terrorists needed.

Reading responses of BBC listeners to Mohammed's confession reveals that the rest of the world is either laughing at the US government for being so stupid as to think that anyone anywhere would believe the confession or damning the Bush regime for being like the Gestapo and KGB.

Humorists are having a field day with the confession: "'I'm a very dangerous mastermind,' said Mohammed, who confessed to the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, the Brink's robbery, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the Lincoln and McKinley assassinations. Mohammed also accepted responsibility for spreading hay fever and cold sores around the world and for rained out picnics."

If there was anything remaining of the Bush regime not already discredited, Mohammed's confession removed any reputation left.

The most important part of the Mohammed story is yet to make the headlines. Despite having held and tortured hundreds of detainees for years in Gitmo, and we don't know how many more in secret prisons around the world, the US government has come up with only 14 "high value detainees."

In other words, the government has nothing on 99 percent of the detainees who allegedly are so dangerous and wicked that they must be kept in detention without charges, access to attorneys and contact with families.

And little wonder. The vast majority of detainees, alleged "enemy combatants," are not terrorists captured by the CIA and brave US troops. They are hapless persons who happened to be outside their tribal or home territories and were kidnapped by criminal gangs or war lords who profited greatly at the expense of the naive Americans who offered bounties for "terrorists."

The US government does not care that innocent people have been ensnared, because the US government desperately needs both to prove that there are vast numbers of terrorists and to demonstrate its proficiency in protecting Americans by capturing terrorists. Moreover, the US government needs "dangerous suspects" that it can use to keep Americans in a state of supine fearfulness and as a front behind which to undermine constitutional protections and the Bill of Rights.

The Bush-Cheney Regime succeeded in its evil plot, only to throw it all away by releasing the ridiculous confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Will Bush's totalitarian Military Tribunal now execute Mohammed on the basis of his confession extracted by torture, or would this be seen everywhere on earth as nothing but an act of murder?

If Bush can't have Mohammed murdered, the US government will have to shut Mohammed away where he cannot talk and tell his tale. The US government will have to replicate Orwell's memory hole by destroying Mohammed's mind with mind-altering drugs and abuse.

It is to such depths that George Bush and Dick Cheney have lowered America.

http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts03172007.html

Torturing people is obviously immoral for a start and also makes those who say they stand for peace and justice as bad as those they are administrating the justice onto.

Without defending any acts of torture.... I would like to point something out to those people who come onto this Blog COMPLAINING.... about how terrorists are being dealt with and the actions taken by the United States in recent years to presumably secure peace and democracy.

The thing I would like to point out is this... The threats upon the world now in this day and age in the form of criminal activity.. Including Terrorism, Drug and arms trafficking etc etc etc has evolved. These types of crimes and the methods and way that they are executed have changed from what they were twenty years ago. If you want proof of that then you can see it on the News in the form of Suicide Bomber's the Taliban in Afghanistan and so on (Criminality is not the same now as it was twenty years ago).

So what does this tell us?

It tells us that if Criminality has evolved and taken on a new dimension throughout the world then the methods that we use as a civilised nation to defend peace and justice must change to meet these new and very different forms of threats from worldwide criminals.

I am not condoning torturing here... I am pointing out the fact that dealing with modern day threats is very difficult for our governments.

Instead of coming on here and moaning about who has done what and why...... I challenge you to come up with an answer to combating criminal activity, If you are smart enough to look at this situation and write nearly a whole page of text condemning them actions and slagging down the government, then why can't you design a model that will deal with modern day threats from terrorists in a nice way, such as giving them their bombs back so they can blow themselves up.....

See coming on and moaning about the way in which America dishes out punishment is one thing but you can’t just say BAD America Bad America Bad America without considering what the alternatives are… You tell me how you would deal with worldwide threats if you found yourself in the Whitehouse first thing tomorrow morning. Also bare in mind that if you write this proposal it must be perfect, because what you are stating is that administering justice and dealing with criminal threats must be done without any mistakes, without anyone getting hurt.

I am Interested to hear what you propose as you obviously live in a perfect world and I am living in the real one. That goes for everyone else on here…. If you want to slagg down the US or any other Government on any of their Policies then….. I require you to make a proposal yourself in writing about how you would do it differently and better.

This should be interesting

Regards

The Hairy Monster xx xx

Good Morning Everyone,

The single most important news worthy item today is the fact that Brittany Spears has finished rehap! All is well in the World.

It is a sunny day and President Bush said that Congress may have a chat with his Staff but under know circumstances will anyone be questioned under the oath to tell the whole truth, nuttin but!

Anyway it is a wonder-full day in the neighborhood, girls and boys!

Happy spring to one and all, ruth

Simon
I agree with you. It does no good to point fingers if you don't have some subsatnce behind them. You can't just get rid of a bad system and not fill the void.

My opinion is both sides have grown out of control. The good guys are as bad as the bad guys. Do we just let them become the same thing?

They are extremist. They don't live by the rules. So more rules are more rules to break.
We can not pass enough laws to make us safe. We can not have enough wars to bring about peace.

In my opinion the only solution is a consciousness shift. Our current consciousness allows for criminals and terrorists and dictators and scary governments.
Until there is a new level of consciousness things will cycle as they always have.

Trying to fix the old systems is a waste of time. No one has been able to for thousands of years. Not monks not politicians not scientists no one. We are still at each others throats.

We always have the choice to shift our personal perspective. I believe we can shift our global perspective as well.

It should be interesting to hear some real solutions on this subject.

derek

HaPpy 1st DaY of SpRiNg!!

well, some are having spring..

we are again, way below zero, like -25 or thereabouts; the winds so strong, can blow you off your feet, black sky... sooO creepy!! I am chilled to the bone...

But, happy 1st day of spring.... wherever you are!

Does spring give any of you a sense of "renewal?"

with loving kindness,
North

Bush and his admin. MUST be made accountable for the near million deaths of innocent civilians in Iraq. Bush and his admin. Bush, in the worlds view, is just another Saddham.... in sheeps clothing.

I just don't understand, how/why the american people; allowed this war to continue for so long; knowing full well, it is an illegal war, a war of lies and deception, and primarily was geared to rape Iraq of it's wealth and natural resources.

I guess, those oil pipelines, are just about done?

I guess, this issue was prolonged, to make a great presidential election for 2008?

I guess, the americans instigate war, so will in turn, get their war, on the homefront... in my view, this is what Bush and his admin wants.

What better way, to "better" coral and control the american people?

Bush's blood, murder, torture and alchohol lust, has put the US in jeopardy.. and has turned the world against the US!!

I suggest, sending your Prez. to rehab with britney spears!! IF she can do it, the prez. can too! : )

Good points Derek, we need new transparent systems not influenced by special interests and the egoic mind, religion, and the fictions that support a framework of indentured servitude, unbalanced energy exchange etc.

We need truth; all injustice is born of lies told to the people and the propagation of disinformation.

Naj, thanks for that post #1. We need the voice of the discerning minds to be louder than that of the disinformation. I think the probability is that many are hot on the trail of the real perpetrators and things that don't make sense about 911 and they had to force confessions to try and through the public off the trail.

Everyone should know we may have 5 - 10 million people to support an Independent Subscriber based News Intelligence network. We will be inviting many journalists in the mainstream to abandon the corporate / government controlled media, for uninhibited reporting and a chance at that Pulitzer Prize. We know that there are a lot of good suppressed journalists, manipulated using fear. Our goal is to have The People support these independent journalists directly. We want to do this with scientists as well.

When we get the 5 - 10 million working in concert as an intelligence network for the people we will then work to turn the attention the population away from the controlled media. We will also organize the nation’s consumers to empower them against corporate malfeasance. We will open communications with Bankers, Shareholders, Investors, advertisers, Insurers etc. and communicate our intentions and plans so they can act accordingly. We will also, if corrections and amends are not made launch class action law suits against various industries, not so much for monetary reward but to bring the truth about their industries to light.

At some point we will remove all members of the entrenched shadow government with their affiliations to the criminal enterprise.

Yes, we are going after the villains, God bless them for giving so many a chance to be hero's.

Well at least it sounds good for the movie plot… we will see if it blends with reality.

First a disclaimer: I personaly don't trust "studies" at face value.

A friend of mine was telling me about a study done one people how did a lot of LSD in thier lives. He found that these people had the same understandings and awarenesses that "enlightened" monks have. They shared the same experiences as monks in deep meditation.

I have not found this study to read it for myself.
He asked his college philosophy teacher about it. Who added that before religions it was the shaman of the tribes, who through hallucenagenics and theatrics, guided our ancestors spiritual development.

Monks use meditation to reach altered states of awarenesses. Could religion be built on alterd states and drugs?

Strange stuff indeed.

S P R I N G - S P R I N G - S P R I N G
(is bouncing in my head)

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen

Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for the place to go
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
You come in to look for a king
Anybody could be that guy
Night is young and the music’s high
With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
You’re in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...

You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen

You’re a teaser, you turn ’em on
Leave them burning and then you’re gone
Looking out for another, anyone will do
You’re in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...

You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen...

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't bet fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from thr foe, that' all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happened to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, bye -the-bye
And the parting on left
Is now parting on the right
And our have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't bet fooled again

Meet the new boss
same as the old boss.........

Pete Townsend of the Who

sobering lyrics from the time or the last useless war...cycles......

peace comes from peace

derek

Yo I need to look a little closer at my posts.....
...a study done on people who did........

Whew boy...Naj has his turban in a knot! I think his camel bucked him off, and hurt his head! Glad his bomber belt didn't explode when he hit the ground! Then we wouldn't be treated to his humorous posts! Thank Allah he's just fine!

Now go on boy....be a good little terrorist supporter...it may good for 70 virgins...

we love you anyway!

norm

Yo Jean-Francios
I like your song better.
I shouldn't be so serious on the first day of spring.

#3 Terrorism, Drug and arms trafficking etc (and I will add the common thief etc.)

The majority of the people in prisons are not criminals but the product of a larger criminal enterprise that generates an environment and situation that creates a propensity to commit smaller crimes.

These are all products of a greater criminal enterprise one that uses a pen not a sword, one that controls the use of symbols, one that propagates fiction to establish an unbalanced energy exchange. It is one that uses forced redistribution of wealth (public money going to lucrative contracts), manipulation of markets, and legislation for profit and the creation of problems so that they can deliver (sell) solutions prepared in advance.

The real criminals on the planet.

The disease focused section of the medical industrial complex is killing tens of thousands of people, harming children, creating poverty and destruction. Yet, they avoid getting any attention.

How is this criminal enterprise possible? It gets support from a percentage of those below that are controlled from the top down using fear. They are threatened by a loss of their job and the ability to support their family. So they sell their souls to the devil, and because of this they cannot sleep at night. Many are silenced by fear that would speak the truth.

The solution is to create a forum where the truth can be spoken with out fear of reprisal. While the Internet is serving this purpose, and we will see many changes since secrets will be hard to keep, and voices can speak out, yet it is unstructured and not as effective as it can be. We need a formal structure to authenticate the source but allow anonymity so that people will not fear persecution.

We have a nation that chooses extreme violence over having a few people doing drugs and creates a huge black market to the benefit of organized crime.

We have a society that instead of destroying it's own fictions which lead to a life not worth living for many, a society that declares a war on an inanimate objects and chemicals.

Children do drugs as a result of society’s living lies. The first being the adults that drink alcohol which is a drug and then persecute others for using some other drug.

We tax the the poor via cigarettes taxes.

THE FORCES OF EGO produce a nation of fiction.

The good news is this is all collapsing, awareness is coming… it will all become a thing of the past, amazing things are happening!

So whatever happened to the poster who went by the name of jesus. I thought he was just getting into his stride. Why do we censor people on this site? Can we not trust our ability to self censor?

One or two people it seems took the poor guy a little too seriously. I thought he was just funny. It you are going to moderate a forum, moderate. Do not dictate.

Anyway, I never did get to find out what his book was called?

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Simon_Freejohn

Hi, it is me again. Your demand that any solution be perfect is a little demanding. I think that improvements can be made but there are bound to be problems, hurdles and even mistakes along the way. I am sure that George Bush and his gang of Neo-con advisers believed that their plan was a good one, at first. They had put years of planning and thought into it and they just assumed that the people they were trying to help wanted the same things they did.

But you don't need to be a genius to see that it has turned to doggy-doos.

Also, if a really great alternative was suggested, and many have been, the powers that be are not going to accept it. They will resist. And unless one has co-operation from those in power then there is no hope.

And the guy with the best idea, well, he'll just be assasinated, or crucified. That is how the powerful discourage the great minds and hearts of this world. They make them disappear.

In the United States only the powerful can come to power. The notion that anyone can do it is an illusion. Either that or you have to be a political whore on a grand scale. In which case you are happy to do whatever they say.

The day there is real democracy in the US will be the day that change is possible. That will not be in 2008.

The day after 9/11 I remember every Forum on the internet, no matter how enlightened or spiritual, was screaming for revenge! Only I, alone, said "do nothing. Listen, be patient, ask why this has happened? Not how can we avenge this?"

Everyone shouted me down. Even my friends.

In Tao it is written, "better to retreat a foot than to advance an inch."

But you know, we are no longer in the same position. Things have moved on a long way. Much more than the metaphorical foot. We have advanced a long way forward, and have found ourselves entrenched in hatred, mistrust, injustice, carnage. We went to avenge the death of 3000 innocent people and find our hands covered in the blood of approaching a million innocents. And all these new victims, what price would they extract from us?

But things can improve. Arrest the real criminals here, Bush, Cheyney, Blaire et al. Put them on public trial. Bring forward the evidence, which is overwhelming. Show the world we really believe in justice for all not just justice for ours.

Withdraw the troops. transform arms contracts into aid and humanitarian contracts. Disarm nuclear arsenals that serve no purpose. Engage in full and inclusive dialogue. Embrace your enemy. He is only your own reflection snarling back at you in the mirror of life. If you smile, the image in the mirror also smiles.

As Krishnamurti said, war is not a means to peace. Such a thought is absurd if it is properly thought through. Love is the answer, but no one dares try that.

Namaste'

"Whew boy...Naj has his turban in a knot! I think his camel bucked him off, and hurt his head!" so sayeth the brilliant humanitarian, open-minded, all-american sex symbol normette who is trying desperately hard to be funny..whoa!

i guess the above quote is not from a racist; it is from a natural humorist!

i suppose if post 2 was written by a Mr. Jones, he would have similarly poked fun at his kilt! no?

i would suggest this genius supplement his beans and brussel sprouts diet with some dhall and peas? and then u wouldn't want to be in the same room as him four hour hours later! no? whoa!

Well actually doodleman the #10 post is 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA, and now having actually read the lyrics to 'Won't Get Fooled Again' by the Who; the Who rocks! Always have! Keith Moon the terrorizer of Holiday Inns world-wide; o yeah! RIP brother Moon.

Richard Thomas knows what is going on; you go Richard, well actually, stay I mean, but you go, o, forget it, I am starting to sound like an old Clash song . . .

Norm brother, that 'terrorist supporter' stuff is really really lame brother.

The first step Simon would be to overthrow this corrupt American government, the second step would be to quit spending more than the whole rest of the world on weapons, the third step would be to close down our 170+ military bases all over the world, the fourth step would be to democratically elect a truly representative government, that is, Black Americans should be represented as per their population demographics, same with all other races and ethnicities (such as if we have only 4-5 million American Jews why is the Senate almost half Jewish and Congress about 30+%) as also we should have our economic demographics proportionally represented, say like there are fifty million Americans living below the poverty 'line' and yet I do not see even one impoverished American in the Senate or Congress, same goes with the working class . . .

taomaster, brother jesus is a Jewish brother who I have communicated with in a few e-mails and he has some mightily high aspirations, I won’t say anymore out of respect for him asking me not to, but, he uh, well he wants the same as many of us here, he just does not quite know how to get his message out; a lot like many of us here at Intentblog.

I think there is some old Jewish joke about how the world would probably not recognize the appearance of the Messiah b/c the Messiah would be too busy in some impoverished corner of the world helping the local suffering people . . .

And you are absolutely correct in that here in the United States we are the furthest thing from a democracy imaginable! This is an unholy corpotocracy that only the rich who subscribe to either one of two party platforms has the ability to run for ‘public’ office, with even third party views such as a Ralph Nader or Ron Paul run out of Washington on a rail, let alone a truly democratic platform in which many many differing political ideologies are available to us, the people. And this of course is the case all the way down to each and every municipality . . .

Revolution Now people!

Peace

Bolton says force may be needed against [the United States]
Ex envoy to U.N. says military action preferable to nuclear-armed [United States]

NEW YORK - President Bush’s former envoy to the United Nations says using military force against [the United States] would be preferable to allowing the country to acquire nuclear weapons.
John Bolton gained a reputation for speaking out during his 17 months as U.S. ambassador to the world body. But his remarks Tuesday night were some of his boldest yet, especially concerning [the United States].

“I believe that ultimately the only real prospect of getting [the United States] to give up nuclear weapons is to change the regime,” Bolton told reporters after an off-the-record speech to the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization.

How should this be done?

“By the force of the [American] people themselves,” Bolton replied. “But if the alternative is a nuclear [United States], as unpleasant as the use of military force would be, I think the prospect of a nuclear [United States] is worse.”

The U.N. Security Council is considering new sanctions against [Washington] for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, a process that can produce fissile material for nuclear weapons as well as fuel for nuclear power plants. [Washington’s] reaction to U.N. sanctions imposed in December was to step up its enrichment of uranium.

“I think [the United States] record is clear that they’re never going to give up the pursuit of uranium enrichment,” Bolton said, “and I think that there’s no disagreement within their leadership that that’s the road to nuclear weapons.”

Controversial figure
Bolton arrived at the United Nations in August 2005, a controversial figure appointed by Bush during a Congressional recess because he twice failed to be confirmed by the Senate. Still unable to get Senate backing, he stepped down in December.

Now back at the conservative American Enterprise Institute (imagine that he works at the same place as those authors of the ethnic and socioeconomic racist ‘The Bell Curve’), he says he’s writing a book about his days at the U.N. titled “Surrender is Not an Option.” Published by Simon & Schuster, it is due out in November.

Bolton also criticized the U.S. government for releasing $25 million in frozen North Korean assets held by a Macau bank suspected of helping North Korea launder money from counterfeiting and other illegal activities.

The United States had promised to release the funds as part of international efforts to roll back the communist regime’s nuclear weapons program.

“I think it’s a signal of weakness,” he said. “It’s a terrible signal to Iran and other would-be proliferators.”

The former ambassador also said it was time to contemplate regime change in [the United States], whose government is accused of inciting a conflict in the Middle East’s Iraq region that has killed 200,000 people and displaced 2.5 million since 2003.

He said so many elements of [The United States] are dissatisfied with the government that there would be a “lot of candidates” for undertaking regime change.

He-he . . .

http://[DELINKER]www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17717396/

Peace

[Middle East’s Iraq]

that is . . .

Peace

AJC Study Exposes (the United States's) Shameful Human Rights Conditions

NEW YORK, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Jewish Committee is urging the international community to focus attention on the deplorable human rights situation in (the United States).
The widespread persecution of (Americans) for their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, and gender and sexual orientation is documented in a new AJC study, Human Rights in (the United States), 2007. The study is available at www.ajc.org.
"We hope that this human rights report will help galvanize the international attention necessary to urge (the United States) to change its behavior, and to let the victims know that they do not stand alone and have not been forgotten," says AJC Executive Director David A. Harris.
"(The United States) should be judged by the standards of the international human rights covenants to which it is signatory and the rights it purports to protect in his own national legislation," concludes the AJC report. "When it is found wanting, it must be held accountable of its actions. Only in this way can (America’s) leaders understand that they cannot act with impunity, for human rights protections are indivisible."
The publication of Human Rights in (the United States) coincides with the release of the U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights abuses around the world. (The United States) is listed among nations considered the world's "most systematic human rights violators."
Today, in (the United States), for example, a penal law permits capital punishment-by stoning-for the crime of adultery, and girls as young as nine can be executed for so-called "morality crimes."
Human Rights in (the United States) asserts that the (United States) government-controlled judiciary, as well as extra-constitutional courts, such as the Revolutionary Courts and the Special Courts for the Clergy, target specific groups rejected by (Washington's) ruling elite. These legal bodies flout both international and (United States) law, often issuing summary decisions at closed trials that lack due process.
Targeted groups include, but are not limited to, political reformists, journalists, women, religious and ethnic minorities, homosexuals and children. Human Rights in (the United States) chronicles the abuse, imprisonment, torture and execution that individuals face on a daily basis.
Exposure of human rights abuses, the study argues, is the most effective response. "The history of nations that systematically violate human rights suggests that constant scrutiny of their actions does make a difference," Human Rights in (the United States) concludes. "Silence has never been an antidote."
AJC has a longstanding commitment to universal human rights, from its trailblazing work in ensuring that human rights would be enshrined in the charter of the United Nations to recent efforts regarding Darfur.

Yikes! I don't know if this is true, but I still don't want (the United States) to get a nuke. It's just a gut feeling..not based on any facts...

Hi Norm

I had a chance to watch, Republican Tom Delay of Texas butt heads with Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak, retired vice admiral of the U.S. Navy on “Meet the Press”. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17628142/ The stubborn and illogical Mr. Delay comes across with everything that is wrong with the Republican Party Today. Irrational justification of the war in Iraq, belligerent desire to use America’s military, to silence any perceived future threats to America before they happen. Using real and imagined events to keep the country in fear of “Terrorism”, so more money and lives can be squandered on their rash and often hidden agendas!

Democrat Joe Sestak, on the other hand comes off completely different, speaking with a voice of reason and flexibility, proposing strategy that makes sense, and is born out of 30 years of military and diplomatic experience. Voices like his are why Democrats will win the next election.

I then listen to Barrack Obama on “Larry King”, and once again the voice of reason, and perspective, that was reminiscent of John F. Kennedy. This guy is good for America!

Have a nice day down on the farm.

Kind Regards,
Stan

I hope you give some attention to our efforts also!

Obama the ‘Magic Negro’
By David Ehrenstein• Los Angeles Times • 3/20/07

AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.

But it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the “Magic Negro.”

The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. “He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,” reads the description on Wikipedia.

He’s there to assuage white “guilt” (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.

As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic — embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that’s not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is “Magic.”

Poitier really poured on the “magic” in “Lilies of the Field” (for which he won a best actor Oscar) and “To Sir, With Love” (which, along with “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” made him a No. 1 box-office attraction). In these films, Poitier triumphs through yeoman service to his white benefactors. “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” is particularly striking in this regard, as it posits miscegenation without evoking sex. (Talk about magic!)

The same can’t quite be said of Freeman in “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Seven” and the seemingly endless series of films in which he plays ersatz paterfamilias to a white woman bedeviled by a serial killer. But at least he survives, unlike Crothers in “The Shining,” in which psychic premonitions inspire him to rescue a white family he barely knows and get killed for his trouble. This heart-tug trope is parodied in Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.” The film’s sole black student at a Columbine-like high school arrives in the midst of a slaughter, helps a girl escape and is immediately gunned down. See what helping the white man gets you?

And what does the white man get out of the bargain? That’s a question asked by John Guare in “Six Degrees of Separation,” his brilliant retelling of the true saga of David Hampton — a young, personable gay con man who in the 1980s passed himself off as the son of none other than the real Sidney Poitier. Though he started small, using the ruse to get into Studio 54, Hampton discovered that countless gullible, well-heeled New Yorkers, vulnerable to the Magic Negro myth, were only too eager to believe in his baroque fantasy. (One of the few who wasn’t fooled was Andy Warhol, who was astonished his underlings believed Hampton’s whoppers. Clearly Warhol had no need for the accouterment of interracial “goodwill.”)

But the same can’t be said of most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn’t faded. That’s where Obama comes in: as Poitier’s “real” fake son.

The senator’s famously stem-winding stump speeches have been drawing huge crowds to hear him talk of uniting rather than dividing. A praiseworthy goal. Consequently, even the mild criticisms thrown his way have been waved away, “magically.” He used to smoke, but now he doesn’t; he racked up a bunch of delinquent parking tickets, but he paid them all back with an apology. And hey, is looking good in a bathing suit a bad thing?

The only mud that momentarily stuck was criticism (white and black alike) concerning Obama’s alleged “inauthenticty,” as compared to such sterling examples of “genuine” blackness as Al Sharpton and Snoop Dogg. Speaking as an African American whose last name has led to his racial “credentials” being challenged — often several times a day — I know how pesky this sort of thing can be.

Obama’s fame right now has little to do with his political record or what he’s written in his two (count ‘em) books, or even what he’s actually said in those stem-winders. It’s the way he’s said it that counts the most. It’s his manner, which, as presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden ham-fistedly reminded us, is “articulate.” His tone is always genial, his voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn’t called his opponents names (despite being baited by the media).

Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn’t project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.

http://inverted-world.com/index.php/news/news/obama_the_magic_negro/

The Democrats cut Fox out of their debate in August, because of a Roger Ailes joke.

The target of the joke was George Bush, not Barack
Obama.

Ailes said: "And it is true that Barack Obama is on the move. I don't know if it's true that President Bush called (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf and said, 'Why can't we catch this guy?' "

The joke is that Bush is too dumb to know the difference between Barack Hussein Obama and Osama Bin Laden.

How did they get this was an Anti-Obama joke?
Phonies.

Video:

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=Hko3wOnQd8Y

Environmentalism as Religion

by John M. Ostrowski

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/ostrowski-john1.html

"What harm is there in saying, Lord Cæsar, and in sacrificing, with the other ceremonies observed on such occasions, and so make sure of safety?"

~ from The Martyrdom of Polycarp

Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' Meets Its Challenger

By Brian Farmer
Published: 2007-03-20 17:25
www.jbs.org/node/3159

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:

As pointed out in the article, "Al Gore's movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' has met its match. A new documentary is out, and it goes where Gore's film dare not tread: to the scientific heart of the matter. 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' is a far-reaching documentary recently shown on British television, and it has also been viewed by millions of people on the Internet."

Follow this link to the source article: "'The Great Global Warming Swindle' Relies on Science"

COMMENTARY:

In the 1970s, we were being warned about the dangers of global cooling. Now we are being warned about the dangers of global warming. Well, which is it!?

The average earth temperature has risen by about one degree over the past 100+ years. Most of that temperature rise took place during the first half of that time span, while most of the increase in man-made greenhouse gases took place during the second half of that time span. This is the exact opposite of what you would expect, if it were true that man-made greenhouse gases cause global warming.

It's also been reported that average temperatures on other planets in the solar system are also rising.

These are just a couple of the many inconvenient truths that Al Gore conveniently ignores.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just released a summary of its latest report, which caused the media to claim that man-made global warming is a fact. The full report won't be released until May, to allow for final editing.

The IPCC has a history of publishing misleading reports. For example, in a 1996 report, it edited out these two statements:

• "None of the studies cited has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed climate changes to increases in greenhouse gases."
• "No study to date had positively attributed all or part of the climate changes...to man-made causes."

The geologic record shows that climate change has been going on throughout Earth's history, and is closely tied to solar cycles, not human activity. And yet, scientists who dispute man-made global warming are being smeared as the equivalent of Holocaust deniers.

The global warming issue is being driven by ideologues and demagogues, who are using deceitful, alarmist arguments, in order to justify seizing control of human activity everywhere on the planet.

To view "The Great Global Warming Swindle," go to:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831

Brian is a Research Associate of the John Birch Society.

Whose Ox Is Gored?

The media discover the former vice president's environmental exaggerations and hypocrisy.

Monday, March 19, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

http://opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009804

Jeff, (Spam)

Where did you become so adept at cut and paste? Do you have any of your own ideas or are you just our resident "Parrot"? Ack Ack...

Regards,
Stan

Jeff, Never mind Stan. Keep 'em coming!

Reading Recommendation:

(Sub: Global Warming Science)

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54483

WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE HYSTERIA
Exposing the secret agenda behind
today's obsession with global warming
Posted: March 1, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The U.N. recently announced global warming is leading inexorably to global catastrophe. Al Gore won the "best documentary" Oscar for his disaster film "An Inconvenient Truth." The news media beat the drum of "climate catastrophe" daily, all but ignoring scientists who say the threat is overblown or nonexistent. And across America, school children are frightened to death with tales of rising oceans, monster tornadoes, droughts and millions dying – all because of man-made global warming.

However, hidden just beneath the surface of the world's latest environmental craze is a stunningly different reality, as the March edition of WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine documents.

Titled "HYSTERIA: Exposing the secret agenda behind today's obsession with global warming," Whistleblower tells the rest of the story the "mainstream press" will never reveal.

To begin with, those who believe the dire warnings of today's establishment press should know, as U.S. Sen. James Inhofe has pointed out, that "for more than 100 years, journalists have quoted scientists predicting the destruction of civilization by, in alternation, either runaway heat or a new Ice Age."

Believe it or not, over the last century America's major media have predicted an impending global climate crisis four different times – each prediction warning that entire countries would be wiped out or that lower crop yields would mean "billions will die." In 1895, the panic was over an imminent ice age. Later, in the late 1920s, when the earth’s surface warmed less than half a degree, the media jumped on a new threat – global warming, which continued into the late 1950s. Then in 1975, the New York Times' headline blared, "A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable." Then in 1981 it was back to global warming, with the Times quoting seven government atmospheric scientists who predicted global warming of an "almost unprecedented magnitude."

Today, to cover all their bases, much of the press is changing its terminology from "global warming" to "climate change" or "climate catastrophe." That way they're covered either way: If the world gets colder, global warming is still at fault.

(Story continues below)

But hot-and-cold press coverage is just the beginning. Whistleblower's "HYSTERIA" issue reveals exactly why so many scientists, journalists and others (even the president's speechwriters now have him pay lip service to "climate change") are so gripped by global warming fever.

Here's a hint: As "Deep Throat" famously told Washington Post "Watergate" reporter Bob Woodward, "Follow the money."

Whistleblower shows how all the main players – from politicians and scientists to big corporations and the United Nations – benefit from instilling fear into billions of human beings over the unproven theory of man-made global warming. Indeed, just three weeks after the U.N. ratcheted up international fears over global warming, a panel of 18 scientists from 11 countries has now reported to the U.N. that the only thing that can stop catastrophic climate change is a global tax – on greenhouse gas emissions.

That's right. Global problems, real or conjured up, require global governmental solutions. As Whistleblower explains, environmentalism is nothing less than the global elitists' replacement ideology for communism/socialism. With communism largely discredited today – after all, 100-150 million people died at the hands of communist "visionaries" during the last century – elitists who desire to rule other people's lives have gravitated to an even more powerful ideology. More powerful because it seems to trump all other considerations, as it claims the very survival of life on earth is dependent on implementing its agenda.

Thus, while scientists and climatologists who dare to question the rigid orthodoxy of man-made catastrophic global warming are openly ridiculed and threatened with decertification, the movement for global governance, complete with global taxation, is moving into the fast lane.

"Global warming will be one of the most powerfully coercive weapons in the globalists' arsenal for the foreseeable future," said David Kupelian, WND managing editor and author of "The Marketing of Evil." "It's important that everyone understands the game being played. This issue of Whistleblower provides a powerful antidote to all the hysteria – namely, common sense and truth."

THE HEAT IS ON

Czech prez: Environmentalism is new communism
'Biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity'

Posted: March 20, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

As the House Energy and Commerce Committee prepares to question former Vice President Al Gore tomorrow morning about global warming, Czech President Vaclav Klaus is warning congressmen that environmental extremism is the modern equivalent of communism.

Responding yesterday to U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and former House Speaker Denny Hastert, R-Ill., the Czech leader said: "It becomes evident that while discussing climate we are not witnessing a clash of views about the environment, but a clash of views about human freedom."

"As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants," said Klaus, responding to questions posed by the two lawmakers. "Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."

Rest of the story:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54784

Jeff,

It is pretty funny hearing you ask me if I have any construtive critisim to offer the world. Pay attention I've been giving it here for years.

Truth is, that would be a better question for you to ask yourself since you can't seem do do anything but quote other people's opinions with a barrage of "cut and paste", but carry on at least Janet will read them that is provided she isn't really another you.

Stan

Jeff

Well thank you very much Jeff, you actually can have your own opinion! Surprise Surprise.

Regards,
Stan

Uh-o the resident paid AIPAC spammer has arrived . . .

Humanity first brother dispossess the billionaires!

Peace

no one reads his spamming stan...no need to worry! a fool does not know he's a fool...even when told so! they usually think they are making a point by bombarding others when in reality the only point they are making is how stupid they are!

Jeff,

You have the cheek to call me a ignorant bigot, and then write that this about a US Senator,

"Looking at the negro, he appears to be a queer weasel negro from out of the 1950s. Looks and sounds like a dumb monkey negro. "

You need some serious work on a psyc couch.

No more Regards for you!

Stan

".... Looking at the negro, he appears to be a queer weasel negro from out of the 1950s. Looks and sounds like a dumb monkey negro." so sayeth the racist spammer jeffrey...

boy, i guess all 10 remaining amigos are hardcore racists!...

Watch the news...

There is one who should have listen the advices.

Any sooner a big "ego-pier" is about to crash.

Diablo

I am sorry I asked Jeff to give us some of his own opinions... We were better off with his cut and paste crap.

Regards
Stan

administrators...please take note...the writer of post # 38 has crossed the line...

please remove his priviledges from this site once and for all. thank you!

Stan & Diablo you guys should check this out over at counterpunch dot org

"The Billionaires and How They Made It
Meet the Global Ruling Class"

http://[DELINKER]www.counterpunch.org/petras03212007.html

Peace

Criticizing President Bush’s policies or even his IQ in no way compares with the vicious racial slurs being used by the poster in # 38
Trying to attribute them to the LA Times article quoted in #25 is also disingenuous. Saying they are an attempt at humor is a witness to a very warped and bigoted mind.

Stan

Jeff

Try saying that monkey humor down in the ghetto some afternoon and you will find out how funny it is. If you live that long.

Craig

Interesting stuff! I think a class war is not far off.

Kind Regards,
Stan

Craig, Stan,

Since that article mentions about India, You guys may be interested to read this too..

http://www.mjakbar.org/mjblog.htm

Norm,

I have one for you too

http://www.counterpunch.com/fantina03212007.html

Arizona Gov. Admits Seeing Phoenix Lights

Ten years after the Arizona UFO incident known as the Phoenix Lights, former Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington III, has told journalist Leslie Kean that he himself was a witness to one of the strange unidentified flying objects, even though he originally did not say so publicly. "It was enormous and inexplicable," he said in an exclusive interview from his home in Phoenix. "Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too." Even though he had seen the gigantic triangular object that passed over the area hours before the Phoenix lights themselves appeared, Symington nevertheless held a press conference ridiculing the event. He now says that he did this because of building hysteria.

This is a very credible witness to the huge black triangular object that so many saw moving over head.

Apparently the military might have shot up flares trying to illuminate the sky

He was on CNN and said you knew in your gut it was other worldy.

and still the world is focused on what?

Jeff & Janet

People didn't believe enhailing smoke into one's lungs all day could be harmful until the Surgeon General and their Government finally admitted the mind blowingly obvious. If we use our common sense it does seem very clear, doesn't it? But there were corporations (cigarette companies) with a vested interest to keep the facts about smoking from the public for decades. So they bribed scientists & politicians while sexing up death through advertising so they could continue to make their huge unethical profits.

Now, do you have any common sense?

Look at all the billions of cars, industry etc., spewing out pollutants, not just carbon, but other filth too, and look at the huge mass extinction that appears to be taking place in the oceans and on the land and the massive increase in respiratory illness amongst kids, you should be able to come to common sense conclusions without having to rely on any documentary or survey.

But will you? Or are you so attached to your borrowed opinions that your ego is unable to let them go and will think up an alternative complex argument like "sh_it happens!"

It's another wonder-full day in the neighorhood girls and boys!

This President and his Administration are being seen in the light and what Americans are seeing is getting a little bit uglier every day.

Really, President Bush should just go back to CRAWford now, with the little Lady because last I looked no one is interested in anything he has to say, Amercia has pressed the mute button on President Bush..

Just like our little spammers, J&J, here at IB, no one gives hoot in hillbilly heaven, anymore, as to their perspective becuase America has experienced years of their perspective and what has it brought us? Naught for Americans. Death and Destruction for Iraqis. And, thanks to their perspectives our Nation will be crawling on all fours for years trying to get itself out of the quick sand of their Shucks and AWE adventure.

So, J&J, whatcha gonna do when your well runs dry?

Oh, yea, cut and paste, of course!

ruth

yo bigot..

from post 38..

"Looking at the negro, he appears to be a queer weasel negro from out of the 1950s. Looks and sounds like a dumb monkey negro."

dude, if u compare my teasing of the bloggers to ur nastiness above, u must be visiting from mars! shame on u!

#60...... Talk about the Kettle calling the Pot!

#19, empyrius, Your model for a new Government has serious flaws I am afraid. Answer me this simple question honestly.

Do you think that it is possible to have a government that can please every single person all of the time and never f***s up?

and also

Would you allow me to come round to your house and remove all of the doors and windows? because thats what you are suggesting when you are saying that America should disarm. America Disarming would cause absolute devastation to the entire world.

You see this is the reason why the politicians are sitting in places like the whitehouse and in Westminster and Brussels and people like you are not.... because you quite simply have no idea. one of the key things you need to know as a politician is that we do not live in a perfect world and that you need to have a practical and realistic approach to making very very difficult decisions such as Iraq and so on. People like yourself think that world is clear cut and is some how easy or even possible to wave a magic wand and bingo everything is sorted out.

Derek,

Some very clear and sensible suggestions there from you I thought. I to am of the opinion that a shift in human awareness as a collective is certainly the only way forward, on the practical side...how does this shift begin?

Taoist,

What you wrote makes a lot of sense and has some very deep political thinking within it. You Understand a very important key point and that is that politics is not about pleasing all of the people all of the time but more about jumping from one side of the line to the other and trying to keep a steady balance. The present US and UK governments have most certainly took one big jump and crossed the line causing much upheaval. We will not know the full extent for good or bad of their actions for many years to come.

It seems to me that very few people on here think at all about what it means to be a government or what it means to have to make decisions every day that effect the lives of millions of people.... YES we know you have complaints.... WE heard you.... but do you ever contemplate what the core of the Government is and what makes it tick?...What makes it strong?

Richard,

I thought your talk about how the prisons are filled with none criminals was very good and having come from a background myself where criminal activity was going on around me constantly I agree with what you said 100% about how the structure of criminality being a complex hierarchy. I would like to add also that Crime is itself a multi billion dollar Industry and also crime prevention and prosecution is a multi million dollar Industry that go hand in hand. They are like Cisco and Microsoft, both giants in the same business.Quite often their employees forget which Enterprise they are working for also.

Regards

The Hairy Monster xx xx

Everyone:

"Offer up your best Defense, This is the End of Innocence"--Don Henley

Anyone seriously interested in who the real criminals are should read this article. She says it much better than I ever could.

Bonnie

http://www.carolynbaker.org/archives/godfather-government-a-way-of-life-is-not-a-scandal-by-carolyn-baker/

Thanks Bonnie. That was an excellent article. I wish I had put the kettle on. Every American should read it.

I would like to also say, that the article I posted above; to me at least, points out many reasons why we all need to make a consciousness shift.

Bonnie

LOL Tao Yes Indeed! Mine is bubbling as we speak.

Bonnie

freebie...u have as much credibility as the writer of 38...after all...u are one one the 10...loyal amigos! no? and if u are looking to sell a kintergarten book...u are peddling in all the wrong places..but if there is any hope for u...maybe the other 9 amigos can show u some charity and make a donation to ur infantile cause! hehe!

Tao:

Here is another song you might enjoy. This is in appreciation of your total understanding of the teapot song.

Poli High

Poli High, Poli-Technic, Poli Technical High.
Poli High, Poli Technical High

Valley Low, Valley Lowa, Valley so low.
Valley Low, Valley Low, Valley High

Had a game, had a game, had a technical game.
By the name, by the name, called a technical game
Valley High, Valley High, Valley High
Poli Low

Then de whistle blow
Then de whistle blow

Second half, second half, Poli come from behind.
Hold that line, hold that line, hold that line
Far to go, going slow, Poli come from behind
Running out of time
Number Two, dressed in blue,
Make a run with the ball,
Hurry up Poli, pass Valley by

Then the rain start to fall
Making fools of them all
And so it end in a technical tie.

Good stuff Bonnie (and I was just going to write an exposé on ‘competition’: har har har)!

Akbar rocks Naj I have read some of his stuff before and I appreciate his voice! The Naxalites eh, too bad they have to resort to violence, but I guess in this life that is about the only way to really combat the forces of oppression.

I wish I could unify 800 million Indians and 800 million Chinese and 800 million Africans and 300 million South Americans! Talk about a worldwide revolution of the proletarian!!!!!! I was just lightly re-reading some Marx yesterday, and yes, disregarding his opinion that religion 'is the opiate of the masses,' an opinion that I think is pretty much on target, I am definitely a Christian Marxist! The only thing is that there cannot be a centralized government, b/c that is the very cauldron of the witches brew!

In the post-modern age of the 21st century our elected (mixed in with a lottery of course) representatives should be able to live in the region they represent and not be in Washington DC, where the only accountability they have is behind closed doors with no transcripts or video footage available to all. Secrecy, notably state secrets, is truly the enemy of humankind!

No Simon we certainly cannot please everybody, especially in light of the consumerist mentality, the exploitive nature of capitalism as a general economic system, that has been seared onto the collective American geist. I truly believe in this kind of an economic system, we have literally robbed humanity of, well, of our humanity. I have thought a lot about trying to explicate exactly what I mean by this, and it would literally be a book, but alas, as I have cried about before, all of my books are in Seattle, and I would definitely need all of my materials to properly write what I would write.

I know you are well aware of most of the basic concepts I would build upon though, you know like cooperation/collaboration v. competition, private property v. communality, individualism v. collectivism, blah blah blah. Also, we talk about a key component all the time here at Intentblog, the collective consciousness that humanity has just not yet been able to get in tune with and of course there are reasons for this; we here in America especially have been indoctrinated since our earliest years with the capitalism is good and ‘evil’ communism is bad (naturally b/c the richest people who manufactured our school books were already apart of the ‘havers’), that ‘American exceptionalism’ stuff that exonerates us of our crimes against humanity, and keeps us divided most especially unto the personal level, you know having every individual wanting to have the nicer SUV, latest cell-phone, newest fastest computer, makes more profit for the people making the big bucks, etc., etc. . . .

So of course the ‘powers that be’ want everybody to ‘look out for number one’ b/c that ensures ever more profit.

And even our ‘state’ religion, Christianity, has somehow been co-opted to glorify militarism, capitalism, and patriotism, which, truthfully, in my eyes I do not have a clue as to how they can get such notions by reading the words of Jesus Christ. Aye, tis sort of ironic that Christ died as an enemy of the state and of his peoples religion; pretty ironic indeed . . .

Verily it seems Barabbas the robber has been chosen over Christ the revolutionary once again!

I know this is already becoming a little long-winded, and you probably do not care to read this book, but since I am going I might as well try to explain myself a little more in-depthly so if you care to read on, consider . . .

Uh . . ., o forget it. I started just on the competition v. collaboration/cooperation ‘thing’ and it is quite apparent this could easily blossom into more than just a few pages. One day brother Simon, God-willing, I shall have the materials, time, and healthy state of mind to put this to paper before the darkness overtakes me . . .

Yet, of final note brother, ‘our’ government invaded Iraq for many reasons, none of which has anything to do with protecting me and you from ‘terrorists,’ and again, this could go on to being another book itself so . . .

Peace

Diablo.... you have about as much credibility as my Ass, son.....which is best kept out of sight I can assure you.

You know the traditional thing in maternity wards within hospitals all around the world for centuries is for doctors when a baby is born is to slap them on the ass when they are born for good luck......

When Diablo was born the doctor took one look at him and slapped his mother!

I am so sorry Diablo; I mean being dropped at birth and all...it must have been a terrible thing to try and recover from, still nobody can really blame the doctor I mean you are enough to send the nerves of anyone jumping.

If beauty is only skin deep Diablo....then I am sure you were born inside out.

If common sense and intellect were food then you would be an entire famine Son...

I know it is hard for you being as dumb/thick as you are and we should not really take the Mickey but.... but....well...think of it this way at least you know we all care about you on here and are thinking about you, especially about when it will be when the men in white coats are going to come and take you away so we can get some peace.

You know..... I was in Wal-Mart/Asda the other day Diablo and as I was walking through the store I was almost certain that I saw your name on a loaf of bread...... on closer inspection however it just read THICK CUT... sorry I thought you had gone into the bakery trade all of a sudden.

for our cousins in the US who didn’t get that joke...in the UK if we say that someone is Thick....it means they are dense/dumb/stupid...and the CUT...well I will let you figure it out cuz.

Diablo...I think you should be nominated for blogger of the year award...honestly I do... there is no question about it. I would vote for you... no question about it, you really make my day...in fact I think you should become the president of Blogging worldwide, In fact what the hell...nominate you for president of the United States...you can't be any worse than the one they got now...and on the bright side we could arrange a day trip to Dallas Texas for you in an open top car for your birthday.

Right on! President Diablo "Like the sound of that" got quite a ring to it.

Yeah we would all be set if you were in the Whitehouse mate. Solve all our problems I bet.

Yeah Commander and Chief Diablo I can just see you with your feathers on sitting in the oval office complaining about yourself all day long...typing here on intent blog calling for your own resignation.

What a dream...

I wonder who would be Vice president or am I being Skeptical here??

Vice president Abominable skeptical snowman has yet again come up with another quotation from a book...just when we thought he had run out the man comes up with another one!! Lord have mercy...god bless America and all who steal from her....he has done it again.... another quotation....My god where does this man Skeptic baby get the inspiration from... we should be paying more taxes just so he can trawl the Internet looking for cheesy silly quotes to make him look even smarter than ever before!...what a great nation we have because of abominations like him.

Sort yourselves out Man!

Regards

The Hairy Monster.... with the smelly feet xx xx xx

You might think that I dislike you Diablo taking into consideration everything I have just said about you above and I know some of it was a little bit in bad taste but all jokes aside and glasses raised......

You are wrong It is not that I dislike you really.....it is more to the fact that I just can't stand you.

Like if I was your father I would probably shoot myself out of sheer disgust....does that kind of give you some idea?

LOL

I am laughing really.....

Regards

The Hairy Monster. x

Jeff, I am always willing to learn. Please explain to me the difference between sense and science.

I was also unaware of my pathological colorblindedness. Are you a doctor, or is this a clever metaphore I am unable to grasp? Please explain. I cannot understand what colourblindness has to do with anything I have said, but your words sound so profound when you string big words like that so cleverly. I hope you can enlighten me. I am only a simple man.

http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/UnstoppableGlobalWarming.pdf

Isn't Gorry getting his reputation THRASHED? TEE HEE!

God bless the troops:

Stephen:

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Five doctors went to on a duck hunt: a GP, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a surgeon, and a pathologist.

After a while a bird came winging overhead, the GP raised his shogun but didn?t shoot because he wasn't sure if it was a duck or not.

The pediatrician also raised his gun, but then he wasn't sure if it was a male or female duck, so he didn't shoot.

The psychiatrist raised his gun and then thought, I know that's a duck, but does the duck know it's a duck??

The surgeon was the only one who shot.

Boom!!

He blew it away.

Then he turned to the pathologist and said, Go see if that was a duck.?

To those who show willingness to learn:

(Not for the biased, dogmatic, narrow-minded, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, sectarian, slanted, small-minded, twisted, unfair, warped, arrogant, assertive, bigoted, bullheaded, categorical, cocksure, despotic, dictative, doctrinaire, domineering, downright, egotistical, emphatic, fanatical, fascistic, imperious, intolerant, magisterial, narrow-minded, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, oracular, overbearing, peremptory, pigheaded, prejudiced, red-neck, stiff-necked, stubborn, stupid, tenacious, unequivocal, wrong-headed, biased, bigoted, bugged, burning, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, high-on, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, monomaniacal, narrow-minded, nuts-for, obsessed, obsessive, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, turned-on, unruly, willful, zealous , parochial, inward-looking, limited, local, narrow, petty, prejudiced, restricted, sectarian, sectional, shallow, small-minded, small-town, berserk, bigoted, bitten, bugged, corybantic, crazed, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, flipped, frantic, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant, irrational, keen, mad, mad-dog, maniacal, narrow-minded, nutty, obsessed, overboard, poisoned, raging, sick, sizzling, smoking, steamed up, stoned, ultraist, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, hog, mean, narrow, narrow-minded, parsimonious, prejudiced, arrogant, bloated, and the humorless.)

The Coming Ass Age
By Ann Coulter
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 22, 2007
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27500

No matter how much liberals try to dress up their nutty superstitions about global warming as "science," which only six-fingered lunatics could doubt, scratch a global warming "scientist" and you get a religious fanatic.

These days, new religions are barely up and running before they seize upon the worst aspects of the God-based religions.

First, there's the hypocrisy and corruption. At the 1992 Democratic Convention in New York, Al Gore said: "The central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment." The environment would not, however, be the central organizing principle of Gore's own life.

The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me – we have to do something about saving the polar bears."

Never mind his carbon footprint – have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's.

But I digress. As has been widely reported, Gore's Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the energy of the average home in that state. But it's OK, according to the priests of global warming. Gore has purchased "carbon offsets."

It took the Catholic Church hundreds of years to develop corrupt practices such as papal indulgences. The global warming religion has barely been around for 20 years, and yet its devotees are allowed to pollute by the simple expedient of paying for papal indulgences called "carbon offsets."

Americans spend an extra $2.2 billion on gas a year because they're overweight, requiring more fuel in cars to carry the extra pounds. So even with all those papal indulgences, Gore may have a small carbon footprint, but he has a huge carbon butt-print.

Further proving that liberalism is a religion, its practitioners respond with the zeal of Torquemada to any dissent from the faith in global warming.

A few years ago, Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg wrote a book titled "The Skeptical Environmentalist," disputing the hysteria surrounding global warming and other environmentalist scares. Lomborg is a Greenpeace anti-war protester – or, as he is described on liberal websites, he is a "young, gay vegetarian Dane with tight T-shirts." His book was cited favorably in the New York Times.

But for questioning the "science" behind global warming, Lomborg was brought up on charges of "scientific misconduct" by Denmark's Inquisition Court, called the "Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation." I take it Denmark's Ministry of Truth was booked solid that day.

The moment anyone diverges from official church doctrine on global warming, he is threatened with destruction. Heretics would be burned at the stake if liberals could figure out how to do it in a "carbon neutral" way.

Climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball is featured in the new documentary debunking global warming, titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." For this heresy, Ball has received hate mail with such messages as, "If you continue to speak out, you won't live to see further global warming."

I'm against political writers whining about their hate mail because it makes them sound like Paul Krugman. But that's political writers arguing about ideology.

Global warming is supposed to be "science." It's hard to imagine Niels Bohr responding to Albert Einstein's letter questioning quantum mechanics with a statement like: "If you continue to speak out, you won't live to see further quantum mechanics."

Come to think of it, one can't imagine the pope writing a letter to Jerry Falwell saying, "If you continue to speak out, you won't live to see further infallibility."

If this is how global warming devotees defend their scientific theory, it may be a few tweaks short of a scientific theory. Scientific facts are not subject to liberal bullying – which, by the way, is precisely why liberals hate science.

A few years ago, the New York Times ran an article about the continuing furious debates among physicists about quantum mechanics, which differs from global warming in the sense that it is supported by physical evidence and it doesn't make you feel good inside to "do something" about quantum mechanics. It is, in short, science.

Though he helped develop the theory of quantum mechanics, Einstein immediately set to work attacking it. MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark called the constant testing and arguing about quantum mechanics "a 75-year war."

That's how a real scientific theory operates. That's even how a real religion operates. Only a false religion needs hate mail, threats, courts of inquisition and Hollywood movies to sustain it.

Ann Coulter is a bestselling author and syndicated columnist. Her most recent book is Godless: The Church of Liberalism.

Best of the Web Today - March 22, 2007
By JAMES TARANTO

More Cowbell!
Several readers had interesting comments about Al Gore's comment,
which we noted yesterday: "The planet has a fever. If your baby has
a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to
intervene here, you don't say, 'well, I read a science fiction novel
that tells me it's not a problem.' " Reader Martin Shimp notes:

Clearly Gore never cared for his children while they had a fever.
Fevers can be a symptom of either a bacterial or viral issue. A
doctor can attempt a solution to a bacterial issue, but not a viral
one. A virus has to run its course while the body fights it--and a
fever is a sign of the struggle to eliminate the virus. Let's see a
scientific consensus that the Earth's fever is bacteria-related.

Reader Scott Jacobson questions Gore's premise:

Some great news for Daddy Gore: Little baby Earth does not have a
fever. It's been awhile since Daddy Gore had a little bundle at home
so maybe he has just forgotten that an infant is not considered to
have a fever until her body temperature is at or above 100.4
degrees, or 1.8 degrees above normal. In the last century, little
baby Earth's temperature has only gone up "almost one degree."

Overreacting is common among parents. I remember one morning when my
first child was still an infant. Imagine my horror when I discovered
that her temperature had risen to 99.5 degrees, almost a whole
degree in just under 12 hours. Naturally, I immediately sat down and
built a computer model, which clearly projected that by age 30, her
temperature was going to be a staggering 19,710 degrees!

Thankfully, with the help of a patient wife and an impatient
pediatrician, I came to realize that these fluctuations were normal,
and that my baby daughter would not be going supernova by the time
she reached her golden years.

And Kelly Murphy puts things in perspective nicely:

So let me see if I have this right. According to Al Gore, I would
have to be an idoit to decide, after reading "a science-fiction
novel" (he must be referring to "State of Fear") that it's OK to go
about living my life in a normal fashion. Instead, I should see one
science-fiction movie (his) and run screaming out of the theater
prepared to change every aspect of my life to avoid certain
destruction.

God bless the troops;

Stephen:
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Janet, Interesting perspective by Ann Coulter. She is one of my favorite columnists.

As to Post #78

Imagine Gorry presenting those facts to a judge in a criminal case defending himself? The judge would hold him in contempt of court for wasting the courts time and tell him to go back to LAW SCHOOL not only how to understand law, but how to BE A MAN!

The gall of Gore presenting his juvenile and huge costly... (costs in more ways than one, the BIG COST, to cripple US industry!!)... argument to the WORLDS greatest MINDS, is mind boggling in itself, and he actually thought his uneducated brainless mind could convince the PROFESSIONALS, now if that is not the sign of a psychotic maniac what is?

Ordinary citizens at IntentBlog can figure it out, imagine the consternation of the PROS.. There must be many disgusted jokes in the halls of the real THINKERS in the world on how an imbecile like Gore can even be heard as anything but an embarrassing joke, not only to the "country" but to the science
profession!

The kicker is, all this to FILL UP HIS OWN PERSONAL BANK ACCT., shouldn't that have warranted a TAR AND FEATHERING, IN YEARS PAST?... IF, he was lucky to get out of town at all?

Gorry couldn't get "numbers" straight, let alone FACTS!

to the 10 lost, confused amigos who think that bushman is logical, wise and smart...i say

whoahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaahahahhehehehehehehehehe!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to clear up something I didn’t pay attention then.

In the thread: When Politicians Don't Vote Their Conscience
Posted by Deepak Chopra - February 12, 2007

“To the guys on here trashing Hillary and saying what a terrible person she is, do you know her personally? How do you know she uses the F---word? And even if she does who gives a crap? Like if a male contender used the F---word anyone would blink an eye.
Oh....and she hurt Bill Clinton? And that, if in fact true, is a reason not to vote for her? Words fail me. Talk about blatant sexism.”
74. Posted by Olivia on February 13, 2007 11:44 AM

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Here are some facts which answer some of the objections:

WHAT A SWEET, WONDERFUL PERSON
Cheers to the Truth!

"Where is the G-damn f**king flag? I want the G-damn f**king flag up every f**king morning at f**king sunrise."
(From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 244 - Hillary to the staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion on Labor Day, 1991)

"You sold out, you mother f**ker! You sold out!"
From the book "Inside" by Joseph Califano, p. 213 - Hillary yelling at Democrat lawyer.

"It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-qaida in particular."
(Hillary telling a post-9/11 world what a 'great' commander in chief her husband was; Dateline, NBC 4/16/2004.)

"I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned [about Islam] has come from our daughter."
(TruthInMedia.org 8/8/1999 - Hillary at a White House function, proudly tells some Muslim groups she is gaining a greater appreciation of Islam because Chelsea was then taking a class on the "religion of peace")

"F**k off! It's enough that I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut."
(From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 - Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with "Good morning."

"You f**king idoit."
(From the book "Crossfire" p. 84 - Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event.)

"If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags!"
(From the book "The First Partner" p. 259 - Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.)

"Get f**ked! Get the f**k out of my way!!! Get out of my face!!!"
(From the book "Hillary's Scheme" p. 89 - Hillary's various comments to her Secret Service detail agents.)

"Stay the f**k back, stay the f**k away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just f**king do as I say, Okay!!!?"
(From the book "Unlimited Access", by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p. 139 - Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail.)

"Many of you are well enough off that [President Bush's] tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
(Hillary grandstanding at a fund raising speech in San Francisco; SFGate.com 6/28/2004.)

"Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!"
(From the book "The Survivor," by John Harris, p. 382 - Hillary in her 2000 Senate campaign)

"Where's the miserable c*ck sucker?"
(From the book "The Truth About Hillary" by Edward Klein, p. 5 - Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer)

"No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
(Was posted on Hillary Clinton's senate.gov web site on 1/28/05)

"Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!"
(From the book "Dereliction of Duty" p. 71-72 - Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.)

"A right-wing network was after his presidency...including perverting the Constitution."
(To Barbara Walters about the Republicans who impeached her husband; 20/20, ABC 6/8/2003.)

"Son of a bitch."
(From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 259 - Hillary's opinion of President George W. Bush when she found out he secretly visited Iraq just days before her highly publicized trip to Iraq)

"What are you doing inviting these people into my home? These people are our enemies! They are trying to destroy us!"
(From the book "The Survivor" by John Harris, p. 99 - Hillary screaming to an aide, when she found out that some Republicans had been invited to the Clinton White House)

"I mean, you've got a conservative and right-wing press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum."
(C-Span, 1/19/1997 - Hillary complains about the mainstream media, which are all conservatives in her opinion)

"Come on Bill, put your dick up! You can't f**k her here!!"
(From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 243 - Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female at an Arkansas political rally)

You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being. - Hillary Clinton
(From the book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Peggy Noonan, p. 55)

"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends."
(From the book "The Agenda" by Bob Woodward, ch. 14)

"We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West."
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 119 - During her 1993 commencement address at the University of Texas)

"The only way to make a difference is to acquire power."
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 68 - Hillary to a friend before starting law school.)

"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people."
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 20 - Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan)

"I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe." Hillary in 1996" From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 76 - Hillary in 1996)

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This ill-tempered, violent, foul mouthed, hateful and abusive woman wants to be your president and have total control as commander-in-chief of a military that her party so openly and proudly admit they detest. I can see someone like this gaining the respect of other nations, and especially from their leaders, who refuse to do as she tells them ...or else. No thanks, my country deserves a better leader, not a dominatrix!

Ps: Janet, Jeff and Steve, highly informative articles you all posted. Keep up the good work!

Nick, Thanks.

That was quite a mouthful from Hillary. I am sure not many know that. This should close the mouths of her blind supporters who support her for the simple reason that she is "a woman who dared to dream" for power.

*****

Article from ScienceDaily:

Researchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature'

Science Daily — Discussions on global warming often refer to 'global temperature.' Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, who has analyzed this topic in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from University of Guelph, Canada.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070315101129.htm

Jeff, Not that my friend Stan can't take care of himself and his friends, just warning you not to be abusive. Be nice. Keep posting your articles though.

Al Gore accused of dodging debate on global warming claims

Jim Brown OneNewsNow.comMarch 22, 2007

A former policy advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says Al Gore -- the man some Democrats on Capitol Hill call an "environmental prophet" -- "doesn't have the guts or the facts" to face him in a debate on whether humans' effect on the climate is dangerous.

Audio :

http://www.onenewsnow.com/audio/2007/03/22/JimMoncktonGoreVoicer.mp3

Senator says Gore's doomsday warnings lack scientific consensus

Jim Brown OneNewsNow.comMarch 22, 2007

An outspoken global warming skeptic in the U.S. Senate questions the science backing up Al Gore's dire predictions about climate change. Senator Jim Inhofe attempted yesterday to debunk the former vice president's claim that global warming is a "planetary emergency" that threatens mankind.

....

Inhofe, who has said global warming is the biggest hoax ever perpetuated on Americans, did not stop there, saying Gore lacks solid scientific evidence to back his assertion that the earth is getting sicker and needs a cure.

"This is a good one here -- this scares everybody," said Inhofe. "You said that the east Antarctica might melt, and this could raise sea levels by 20 feet -- so we're all going to die.

"However, according to many scientists, the Antarctica is gaining ice mass, not losing it," the lawmaker continued. "In 2005, a study published in Science a team of researchers led by Dr. Curt Davis found that the overall ice mass in the Antarctica was actually increasing."

Jeff

FYI, since you don't know me, I am an American Caucasian, who spent enough time in the ghettos of many of the big cities in America, including New York, Chicago, Denver, and Atlanta to name a few, to know for dead certain that you wouldn't last there 5 minutes with your bigoted sense of humor, and your mouth.
BTW You are the one making primal racial remarks about a USA Senator. Don’t imply that I am making them about your hero Bush. That is your style, not mine!

No Regards,
Stan

A Poem for A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the President of India

We are where we’ve have been
for centuries in the shackles of slavery
to the teachings of Lord Krishna in Bhagawad Gita
and Gabriel’s messages to Mohammad in Koran.

You can be in Maha Saba or Lok Saba.
You can be in Delhi, Mumbai, Madurai or Kolkatta
Or in your village along the Ganga or Jamuna,
Literate or illiterate,
Rich or poor,

Polished or naïve,
So long you listen to Krishna
Who made the four castes for you,
So long you listen to Mohammad
Whose Allah is the only Allah

And the rest of us are all kafirs,
You will be where you have been
For centuries in the shackles of slavery
To the teachings of Krishna in Gita
And Gabriel’s messages in Koran.

Presidents and parliamentarians,
Ministers and justices,,
You are all bhangi, jaat or chamar,
Baniya, brahaman, khashastri or shuddar
Or the believers of Allah in Koran.

No matter what laws you make,
No matter what’s at stake,
You may prosper with rupees
Number two or number one,
You'll always remain miles apart
For centuries to come, if you don’t
Be free from the slavery of your
Holy Bhagawad Gita and Koran.

- Ravi Kopra

***

Where are we?

Where are we now, dear friends,
In the Maha Sabha that shapes as history,
The call of heart beats of Indian people,
People ask us, people ask us;
“Oh! Parliamentarians, the sculptors of Mother India,
Lead us unto light, enrich our lives.
Your righteous toil, is our guiding light,
If you work hard, we all can prosper.”
Like King, so the people,
Nurture great thoughts, rise up in actions,
May righteous methods be your guide;
May you all prosper ever with Almighty’s grace.

- A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/poetrypop_in.jsp?id=15

Thank you Janet for confirming what many had already identified. In the interest of continued learning:

A Global Warming Swindle play-by-play
12 Mar 07
The UK Channel 4 documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle " has been touted by deniers and slammed by a lot of others, including one scientist who appeared in the film. Having taken a quick glance over the movie, the first thing that jumps out is that it's the same guys we write about on DSBlog all the time. There's nothing new here that we have not heard ad naseum from the same handful of global warming deniers.

Here's a few obvious points:

Putting lipstick on a Llama: Tim Ball, retired professor at the University of Winnipeg's department of geography, has magically turned into "Professor Tim Ball, University of Winnipeg, Department of Climatology." Here's some more on Tim Ball. $100 in iTunes to the first person to find the elusive department of climatology at the University of Winnipeg. I'll even give you the list of departments at U of W to make it easier.

Climate scientists are lying to us: Off the top, the narrator states we are all being lied to. In one broad brush stroke, the Swindle film brushes off the following groups who have stated that global warming is a serious problem and we humans are to blame: the National Academies of Science (or their respective equivalent) of China, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, United States, Japan, Italy and and Germany (pdf); the UK's Royal Society (pdf ); the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; NASA; and NOAA, to name just a few.

Of course, the Channel 4 film also forgot to mention that there has been no science in the peer-reviewed scientific literature refuting the consensus view that global warming is real and humans are the cause.

The two Paul's: Paul Reiter and Paul Copper make an appearance.

The "Great Science Funding Conspiracy" is put forth by Roy Spencer . Spencer claims that "climate scientists need there to be a problem in order to get funding."

Virginia's "Climatologist" (can I still say that?), Pat Michaels claims global warming is a big business. Darn rights it is Pat: How much did you make last year from the coal-fired electrical industry?

Nigel Calder might want to refresh his CV for "Swindle Part 2." Calder is touted in the film as the former editor of "New Scientist" magazine. Which is true, he was the editor between 1956 and 1966.

And this is all in the introductory scene.

To continue:

The Little Ice Age as evidence. Is this earth-shattering news uncovered by the crack team of researchers at Channel 4, destined to rip apart the scientific conclusions of climate scientists around the world? Have they never heard of this "little ice age?" Should someone phone NASA? Nope, here's a little background on the Little Ice Age written by an atmospheric scientist in language that is easy to understand.

The Medieval Warming period. For those DeSmog readers well-versed in the "science of global warming denial," it comes as no surprise that a mention of the Little Ice Age would be quickly followed by the next favorite bit of distracting blather: the Medieval Warming Period. Like the LIA, the MWV, has been factored into the science of climate change and factored out as a sign that somehow the global warming today is part of natural variation. Here's an explanation of the medieval warming period .

Blind betting now. I have paused the video and I am going to guess that the next little piece of earth-shattering news in the film will be the "Global Cooling of the 70's." Wish I had wagered money on that one. Here's some more information on the "Global Cooling of the 1970's."

And back to Tim Ball, who at this point in the film, is still parading as a Professor at the University of Winnipeg's department of climatology.

Water vapour makes up 95% of the atmosphere, C02 is unimportant. Again, I will first ask: Do you think the world's climate scientists are unaware of this? Do you think that they have all (in their mass money-making conspiracy) just ignored this in their scientific conclusions? The answer is no, scientists are well-aware of water vapour. Unfortunately the best debunking of the water vapour myth is quite technical, but it is the best one around and is written by a scientist here.

And surpise, surpise here comes Dr. Fredrick Singer. This is the same guy who challenged the effects of second-hand tobacco smoke. Not to mention the fact that he is affiliated with 11 think tanks and associations that have recieved funding from oil-giant ExxonMobil.

Then comes Carl Wunsch who is kicking himself for even appearing in the film.

Philip Stott and solar variability: "Isn't it bizarre to think that is humans, you know, when we are filling up our car, turning on our lights, we're the ones controlling climate? Just look up in the sky at that massive thing the sun." And here's where we start into the really good material. "Even humans are our $6.5 billion are minute compared to that [the sun]."

So here's some more on the skeptic's solar variability argument.

And I leave off with a seriously ticked MIT professor, Carl Wunsch, who states that: "The Great Global Warming Swindle, was 'grossly distorted' and 'as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two.'"

Here is the relevant link with all the live URL's to inform you on the facts behind the program makers and their claims. These are basically the bribed scientists with questionable scientific credentials I mentioned before.

http://www.desmogblog.com/a-global-warming-swindle-play-by-play

It seems that Jeff and Janet you are listening to handful of charlatans rather than the authentic and respected experts. But that is your choice.

It seems to me that anyone who's opinion varies from your political agenda is wrong. Period. That does seem pathological.

I have no political agenda or attachment so I am able to see things as they are.

It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood boys and girls!

to Jeff, Janet, Steve and Nick I will read your posts when you come out behind your cowardly cover names and take responsiblility for your posts, otherwise, I just happily scroll past your rightwing republican jibberish.

Really, your spamming efforts say much more about your perspective and your abilities to communicate in an honest and forthright way, you are a perfect reflection of what this Repbulican Administration has offered their fellow Americans in the last several years.. pure crap.

bye, bye ruth

Interesting article to read over lunch!!

http://www.alternet.org/story/49547/

"Unhinged Republicans Can't Even Get Their Insults Straight."

http://www.alternet.org/stories/49581/

A Response to the Song of Abdul Kalam, the President of India

O mother India
You gave birth to us
But you never loved us

You advise: work hard
Be truthful in gaining knowledge
and fame are for naught

You send us seven seas away
You keep on making many like us
(more than one billion already)
And you never think to stop

Is this love? Is this caring?
Or you mother Kali, mother India?
You give birth and abandon your children
You're worse than an animal, mother India

Keep your golden advice with you
Consul your president we’ve left behind with you
If we could honor the foreign lands
We could have honored you too

But you are cruel, you don’t know
You’re selfish and greedy you don’t know
You are a pundit-tani in heart
You care not for the shudar, jaat, bhangi or chamaar

You care for those who bribe you
Those who sing praises for you
Those who exploit the poor
And those who do chamchagiri for you

Don’t give your advice to us
It's worth naught unless
You first change yourself
advise your president, mother India
you're selfish and greedy, mother India.

- Ravi Kopra

***

MY SONG

President of India's tribute to Mother India

O Mother, Mother India,
You have nursed us and grown us,
And gave us a parting mission
And an eternal message.

“O my sons and daughters,
Wherever you go,
Whatever mission you do,
Remember my children,
My three advices golden!

Always be truthful even in danger,
Sweat and sweat to acquire,
Knowledge and name,
Wherever you live enrich that land.

O, Mother we crossed the oceans and seas
With many generation of yours with your blessings,
We made new lands prosperous,
We made knowledge as the way of life
Sweat as the way of life and
We give and give to honour you

What we do is for honoring you,
We will always be children yours,
Wherever we are,
Whatever we do,
We will always be children yours!.
O Mother, Mother India.

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/songspop_in.jsp?ver=eng&id=3

Yo TaoMaster
I agree having no attachment allows me to be open to all possibilities.
The answers, the solutions, the truths come naturaly when I let go of ego and be quiet.
Truth comes from nothing and all things. We are both everything and nothing. A meaningless miracle of the utmost importance but only for a moment then that moments gone. Carry on my wayward son. Yay for Kansas. Kerry Levgren is one of my favorite gods.
Anyway it doesn't make sense to many people to sit and be quite in the chaos. You have to do things. You have to explain and understand all the sides and pick a side. Defend you rights. Make laws, pass bills and endless policies.
Or I could just check out and sit on a beach for the next 40 years.
Either way we are what we are and we will be what we will be.
There are endless possible out comes to this movie and they will all be exciting. And I will be watching and participating to the fullest.

From all sides and none at all

derek

Meanwhile I will read each post with the same respect as if I had written it. Everyone is passionate about something here even if it seems disagreeable to some. Yay for disagreeable. That's how we grow.
Yay for cutting and pasting, there's some energy to harness there.

Yo get a gyroscope, wind that thing up and pull the string. Just sit quietly and meditate on this mysterious devise. You can get one for as little as $2.00 at any game store.

Our growth in technology going faster and faster. Our growth in consciousness growing faster and faster.
Exponential growth. Faster and faster until......too fast?
Or new level? Gyroscope

Too far out there?

derek

Nice poems Phoenician!

Peace

Thank you Craig. I am glad you like the poems.

***

What Abdul Kalam, The President of India Says

"All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures."

- Abdul Kalam
The President of India

***

Dear Abdul Kalam,
you are a scientist,
turned politician,
made president.

What proof you have of God?
What tells you we're the
creatures of some imaginary thing?
Some phantom with his family,
what a ludicrous thing!

Someone whom a phantom loves,
must be some phantom.
Phantom don't know real things.
You fancy them, Mr President.

What happened to the science you learnt?
Have you forgotten to reason and think?
Does a high position such as yours
cloud one's rationality
and like that of Indian gurus

(there are many including spiritual
quantum gurus in the West,
erstwhile medics and scientists
now turned into charlatans)
propels one to spirituality -
the idle thoughts of the idle?

- Ravi Kopra

Dear Thangu...It is with Great sadness that I've to share this news with you. India is virtually out of the world cup. Oh our dreams of discussing all, received buckets of cold water. How now? The cricket fraternity in India is shocked and depressed, reminding me of 1987 and 1996 depression which followed our losses.

Cricket the game is always bigger than individuals. I've always found Indians to be sissies, good in spirituality, no killer's instinct. Am sorry to say this, but lot of cricketers are third class characters, they need critics like you thanga to show them where they are screwed up. In a way I'm glad that a sissy rotten team like India is out. May the strongest and toughest team deservingly win, should be s.af or aust. I'm going to Loooovvvvvvvve their match today.

Bye thangu!

It's another wonderful day in the neighborhood girls and boys!

Looks like it has been pretty quite here at IB, not as many people commenting. I wonder, though, how many are reading all the comments each day and not responding, for them MUM is the word. Hmmmm.interesting.

Well, I am having my morning coffee and it is gloomy and mild on my ranch today, but spring is in the air and my soul is happy, happy, happy to experience its arrival. I have the soul of a bear, I would sleep all winter, if I could, and only awaken in the spring. Spring is exciting, really, if you listen, you can hear and feel it. The trees are getting ready to sprout their buds and in a couple of weeks the trees will be green again, love that green stuff, pretty, pretty, pretty.

Oh, someone wrote this on another post..something like this "a casual bush sucks is the same as a casual heil hitler." Can you imagine that? I almost dribbled coffee all over my keyboard. So in their twisted thinking, the other side of bush bashing is hitler hugging, no wonder they get so upset and spam their little bush hearts out, here at IB. Don't mind my insensitivity, I guess I am a lot like Brad Pitt whose ex-wife Jennifer said was missing a sensitivity chip. Have to chuckle though, bush basing/hitler hugging, maybe, the repubilcans can use it as a slogan for their new candidates. I am sure Americans will agree or maybe not, maybe, the rest of America's sensitivity chip is also missing. My guess, after all these years of republican dominance they just threw the damn chip out!

Well, this has been my Saturday morning chat, have a wonder-full spring awakening wherever you are! ruth

"India is virtually out of the world cup. Oh our dreams of discussing all, received buckets of cold water. How now? The cricket fraternity in India is shocked and depressed, reminding me of 1987 and 1996 depression which followed our losses."~~~from post 98.

what's up with all this cricket scandal dude? isn't pakistan crying in their beer too? and who killed their coach? damn! u guys are getting as bad as some of us americans! check urselves! damn!

It's pretty bad Diablo. I suspected on the first day itself when the news of bob woolmer passing away broke out. He was Strangulated in his room and died of asphyxiation as per the Forensic reports. Violence is prevalent everywhere now. Two of the pakistan players are detained.

Thangu: Watch how these two teams play their cricket. Anybody's game, close call. One of them is the deserving cup winner!!

Saturday Morning Thoughts Over a Cup of Tea

It is hard to be gloomy on such a beautiful spring morning when the daffodils and the tulips are saying look at me while you can and the fronds of my ferns are slowly unfolding like a beautiful woman awakening and stretching her arms and yawning into the first light of dawn.

And how I have been listening lately to the "good vibes" of some really really good music from the '60s. (And apparently some other people have too) And how the Seasons are the musical beats of 4/4 time in our earth-centered cosmos.

I know, I know, the relativity seekers, say there is no time, but even the artificial environments of modern civilization cannot do away with the seasons, and how their meaning is not just external--but internal as well. The seasons are the clocks within our phyches that tell us we are in the rhythmic flow of cyclic time.

And the alarm clocks are going off and trying to wake us up from our collective sleep and trying to tell us to grow up. Oh yes, we(me included) do not want to grow up and take responsibility for the mess we have all made.

Global warming and the chaos in the Middle East is giving us all the opportunity to grow up and become adults. And it is time for us all to stop fighting each other and become just us. I am not right and you are not wrong.

I am thinking on this beautiful spring morning that the Divine Mother is bigger than all of us, and can make fools of us all if she so chooses.
And I am optimistic we will grow up and I am going to listen to some more music.

Bonnie

Bob Woolmer, cricket coach, one of the best, strangled, and why? what does this say about ego, professionalism, humaneness and fair play? why the big echoing silence? i can feel the fear even in the NY Times article. if one is a pro and doing one's best, does one stand the chance of being murdered by those who know you and work with you, if you don't win the biggest prizes? it's medieval. why is it that only IV had the guts to say anything about it on IB?

Thoughts Over my Second Cup of Tea

Jethro Tull sang in the '60s

"If Jesus Saves, well he better Save himself, for the glory glory seekers will use his name in Death"

And there are no saviours "out there" No politician, no preacher, no government, no nothing will save us, except us. We are on our own. And we must grow up and realize that.

And God I think I should stop posting too.

Bonnie

I see you running,
Don't know what you are running from

Nobody's coming,
what do you do that was so wrong
Look back and turn back, look at yourself
Don't be afraid just look at yourself.

If you need assistance,
Or if all you need is love
There's no point in hiding,
Tell me what you're frightened of

You've got a friend, just look at yourself
Don't be afraid, just look at yourself.

Look back and turn back, look at yourself
Don't be afraid, just look at yourself

Uriah Heep--1971

"Two of the pakistan players are detained." from post 101...

that is pretty serious stuff dude...i suppose they will not be flying home with the rest of the team and a jamaican jail cell may not be what they had hoped for! whoa!

nice point heather!

There's not a lot on the US news about cricket and the death of the Pakistani coach. In looking at the international news, I found another medieval bit of news. Maybe this should be called (mid-evil) justice/law

http://www. spiegel.de/international/0,1518,473017,00.html

So I want to build an island.
Out of recycled tires or something. Some kind of space age material that you can start lashing together. Like a sponge, with holes made out of shredded tires. Piling it up, until most of it is under water like an iceberg. Eventually bringing in dirt and rocks, it could have electric motors to drive it away from storms. Huge underwater windows. It could be as big as a small city.

Theres a lot of realestate out in the ocean. There's cruise ships that can hold 5000 people, why not a man made island?

Just an idea I've been dreaming about for several years.

I wonder if it is structurally possible?

derek

With a movable island you don't have to worry about sea levels rising and destroying the beach.
More people could live on the equator during the ice age that is suppose to come because of global warming.

If someone could build such a thing would it be it's own nation? With it's own government?

just curious

Now, I'm scared of my life heather. LOL! Kidding. It's ok to talk about that tragic incident. I know what these humans are capable in taking revenges. Life!! Yes.

Diablo, you're funny! Came here to play the world cup, now some may have to count the no: of bars in the jail.

There's more info coming in now on the suspects. Match fixing is one main line. All Mired stuff! In other words, all F#$#%$# up.

What a Brilliant batting display it was from Australia yesterday! Two champion teams. They play their game like tough men, not those thumb sucking sissies!

I.V. I am glad you are O.K. and are enjoying the rest of the games! Hope they catch the hooligans who did this.

Bonnie

Heather, expressing her feelings about Bob Woolmer's death, in post #103 asks:

"if one is a pro and doing one's best, does one stand the chance of being murdered by those who know you and work with you, if you don't win the biggest prizes? it's medieval. why is it that only IV had the guts to say anything about it on IB?"

Bob woolmer is murdered. This is the only fact we know. The rest is all speculation.

The motive may not be the loss against the minnows Ireland. Media is speculating about the hand of the underworld Match-fixing and betting rackets. Woolmer was writing a book in which he might have intended to reveal some names regarding the player bookie nexus.(world cricket was hit by betting controversies in the past. Some South African, Pakistani and Indian players were proved guilty.)

The killer(s) may have been known to Bob Woolmer since there wasn't any forced entry into his hotel room.

Jamaican police and the Scotland Yard are on this case for days now. They don't have any suspects yet. Pakistani team is leaving home after finishing all formalities. If it was an inside job, the police could have easily nailed the suspects before they left the country.

I guess everyone is waiting for the mystery to be revealed. Or, does this turn out to be a perfect murder?

Reddy

It was a good game yesterday. South Africans started off their innings so well I thought they would repeat their 400 plus chase. de villiers's run out was a turning point for me in this game.

About India's loss to Sri Lanka, I guess it's good for the Indian fan to see India out of the Super Eights. It's better this way than to see their team get trashed in all games in next round. Having two bad games is better than having seven bad games.

I also wonder if the D Gang has any teeth in influencing the outcomes of cricket matches like what the media is reporting. If the match fixers have any teeth they should be able to influence the Bermuda vs Bangladesh game. Simply because they will lose business if India doesn't play in the next round. And also given that Bangladeshi players can be easily influenced, threatened or whatever by the D gang. If Bermuda wins, I believe all the hype about betting and underworld connections in cricket. This game will be a litmus test. Expected the unexpected.

heather, bonnie...CNN had some coverage of bob woolmer's shocking death...if u would like to read more about the tragedy ...Google BBC Sports...

i have some interest in the Cricket World Cup now being played in the West Indies since my parents native country, ireland, is doing well in the competition...considering their underdog status...it is their first time in the world cup...they were not supposed to beat powerful pakistan...it was a david and goliath thing...whoa!

How about this? Ireland beat Pakistan on St. Patrick's day.

Know all about The Death of Bob Woolmer:

This wiki page is constantly updated and has all info and relevant links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Bob_Woolmer

All about 2007 Cricket World Cup:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Cricket_World_Cup

hi Bonnie:am doing well. thx to allah!:-)

Thangu: You're brainy. ur brain works very well. Ur very clear in analysing and chaffing. Whenever there is no evidence, it amounts to speculation. For you spirituality is all speculation, isn't it? For those who have experienced it intuitively know it, and you will never believe them, coz u only go by evidence. That's fine Thangu! No arguments on that front.

Please be soft with those who are new to cricket. We've to be welcoming them for the love of cricket, shouldn't be harsh in anyway. All that you said in ur above post is correct. Two from the whole of the pakistan team and staff members are held up. Please don't treat them like St.Joseph or St.John. Can you do that favor to me please? Most of them are rogues. From shoaib to mushtaq to danish to inzamam. In the name of allah they can do anything. But yes, most likely it is the match fixing gang of St.Dawood! LOL! You brought out a terrific point in your next post. what Rationale man!!! I think you're a member of Dawood Ibrahim! LOL! Same Brains!! How possible? LOL! Same sharp crooked brains in picking up the possibilities. Your Grandpa from Cuddapah didn't advise you to join police or CBI when you were in college? :-)

Yeah, true about s.af what you said. Just that little bit of luck on that given day can change the whole thing. Without that direct hit, and Smith not suffering from that cramps, yes they would have made it. But, see thanga, this is what cricket is. I've myself played at the University level, and am a deep student of the game. At the end of the day, you never give excuses or reasons. That umpire was a muslim, so he gave me lbw or the pitch had lot of dew in the morning, that is why we lost. that is mostly for losers like Rahul dravid and zimbabwe and kenya captains, not for the pontings and smiths. they play toughest cricket possible and try to screw the opp as bad as possible. More often than not, they come out winners. This is exactly the Reason why they are called winners and others losers. Good sense thangu??

Reddy

This certainly looks like an Agatha Christie mystery. Although some of Pakistani team members were questioned again, none were detained, and all of them are to fly home after their two day rest in Montego Bay. News reports say that Bob Woolmer's food, which he ordered by room service the night before his death, may have been poisoned. He was strangulated in early morning somewhere after 3.00 AM after he send his last email. Mysterious death indeed given that the police haven't named any suspects yet. This could still be an inside job.

As to your reference of Cuddapah it is interesting to note that the pathologist who was in charge of Bob Woolmer autopsy is a medic from Chittor.

Bermuda vs Bangladesh, who knows?

If the Body in which you stay is not yours than why do you feel pain when it gets hurt?

Rajesh Sharma

What is Life?

Rajesh Sharma

Even Though there is strong Gravitational force, all living things go upwards.

Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma

Gravitational force pulls things downward, While fire goes upwards.

Rajesh Sharma

Thanga: I may just have to answer Rajesh first, then will get back to you.
Rajesh: Who told you in the first place that the body is not yours?? From where do you get all this nonsense? LOL! Everyone feels the pain when hurt, even in the enlightened state. You can confirm it by pinching someone hard when in deep meditation. To your other question, what is life? Life is what it is! LOL! Life indeed is like a glass half filled with water and half empty. It's another story that the present times in which we are living, it is only 10% filled rest 90% is empty. LOL!

To a good extent, we've a choice in either focussing on that empty part or the filled part. Meaning, in other words, either you can enjoy your life by living a healthy life and cherishing all wonderful things life has to offer or you can screw yourself up deep into misery and all the dark side which the same life offers.

Have you seen people in your daily life, those who are rich and have everything, but are sad and suck in their emotions, while on the other some are poor, inflicted with 101 problems in life, but still smiling and have the sweetest of emotions still flourishing in them?? How does that happen? I've seen many such. What is life then? Mostly what we make of it. It's a broad spectrum which has everything in it, whatever frequency, bandwidth to which you resonate you dwell into that. This is the reason why a happy childhood or not makes so much of a difference generally, as those past patterns become your guiding light in life.

I'm not into bhang, charas or any drugs Rajesh. Please don't say such things to me, otherwise I will get angry! LOL! Life is endowed with all natural drugs which give you high. God has provided all that. Human brains?? You know how f#$%$# up they are, leaving aside all that beauty which is naturally endowed will deviate into all such things like drugs and what not.

Don't you follow cricket Rajesh?

Rajesh, I knew you were royally screwed up in physics! LOL! Remember, it is always about the net sum of all forces combined together. First you've to know what all forces are there. no? If you see only gravity, then such comments from the super waves of your brain emanate.LOL!

Dear thanga: I don't think can write much to you. This Rajesh is taking away all my energy. LOL! So the latest is, they are not detaining any of them. DNA testing maaan!!! What a boon in forensic science. Underworld mafia is too powerful though. when politicians and the police itself are a part of that nexus, where is the escape?

Hi innocent,

Thanks for your reply and wonderful suggestions. I follow cricket but India is bad. Sachin is future captain. Rahul sucks. Bermuda win India party.

Hi Innocent,

Me think deep you sleep well?

Lie down straight.

Be aware of your breathing.

Bring your awareness to the tip of your leg toes. Concentrate on your leg toe.

Stretch your leg toes slightly, and then relax.

Relax your soles, heels.

Tighten your calf muscles and than relax them.

Pull up your kneecaps slightly, and then relax them.

Tighten your thighs, and than relax.

Squeeze your buttocks, hold, and relax.

Relax your hip joint.

Tighten your waist and relax.

Your whole body, and the whole portion from your waist to toes are completely relaxed.

Relax.

To enhance the relaxation chant AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

Feel the vibaration of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..., re-energizing and rejuvenating your entire lower body.

Squeeze the muscles of your abdomen and relax.

Feel the movement of your abdomen as you breathe in and out.

Fill your chest completely with air and expand it completely.

Relax your chest and back muscles.

Your back is touching the ground comfortably.

Your lower back, middle back, and upper back are completely relaxed.

Your entire spinal region is relaxed.

The seat of all emotions, your heart - relax your heart.

Form a fist of your palms, and tighten your hands, shoulders.

Relax your arms, shoulders, elbows, palms and fingers.

Relax your neck muscles.

Move it to left and right, and settle it down in the center.

Your neck muscles are completely relaxed.

Your entire mid-portion of body is completely relaxed.

Relax, and let go.

To enhance the relaxation, chant OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

Feel the vibrations of OOOOOOO... in the middle portion of your body.

Feel it removing all the knots and pains and stress from your body.

Tighten all the muscles of your face.

Squeeze in your cheeks, squeeze your eyes, knit your eye brows, frown and hold it.

Relax all the muscles of your face completely.

Relax your chin, upper lip, and lower lip.

Relax your teeth, upper jaw, and lower jaw.

Relax your tongue, upper palates, and lower palates.

The tip of your tongue inside your throat is relaxed.

Relax your nostrils, your cheeks, eyes, eyelids, and eyebrows.

Relax your forehead.

There should be no contractions, no wrinkles on your face.

Relax your temples, ears, and sides of your head, back of your head, the crown of your head.

The entire upper portion of your body is completely relaxed.

To enhance the relaxation, chant Mmmmmmmmmmm...

Feel the resonance of Mmmmmmmm... in the upper part of your body, in the head region.

All the stress, pressure, tension, pain is getting released.

Your entire body from the toes to head is completely relaxed.

Relax.

Feel yourself coming out of the body, and move to the top of the room.

Your body is lying on the ground. You are not the body.

You are now moving out of the room. Move up to the vast blue sky.

The limitless sky. The clouds are surrounding you.

Go beyond the sky. Merge with the vast blue sky.

You are the vast blue sky. Absorb the vastness of the vast blue sky.

You are in a state of total bliss.

Slowly cone back. Enter the room.

See your body lying down. Come into the body, with all the expansion and vastness.

Come into the body. You are the body.

Your whole body is now totally energized, refreshed, rejuvenated.

With this energy, let us chant AAAAAAAA...OOOOOOOOO...MMMMMMM....

Slowly move your limbs, your palms, and your fingers.

Bring your feet together.

Bring your hands by the side of your body.

Stretch up to your left hand. Fold your right leg, and place your right palm on your chest.

Blink your eyes a few times and slowly open your eyes.

Slowly turn to your left, and sit up.

Now, approach your computer.

You will have energy.

No one can take it.

You write better.

Try it.

Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma

Rajesh: Please don't write so much in one post. It's a pain to read such long ones. Short and medium are the best to read. What was that? Leg toes?? What other toes do you have in body? LOL!
You and Claire, I think will go along great!

It is with great sadness that I've to tell, most of those cricketers suck. they are living only on their reputation. Once upon a time great players. Sachin Tendulkar was always a sissy! He is like ganguly now. While watching cricket yest, I thought, my god even our batsmen once upon a time played cricket just like them, with more talent than them actually, but f#$%$#@ up in the head now. I just think they need to be rested, maybe by dropping them for a while. Knee jerk reactions will not help, it will only get more jerks than before. It will take a while for the anger and resentment of Indians to subside. Will you be praying god today Rajesh for Bermuda to win??

Prayer don't work in cricket. It work for healing as Joanie says. When you lose, pray for joy, it relieves you from stress. Milions prayed for India win world cup. small kids old men every one. They perform puja, prayed on one leg and no success to even next round. Prayer back fires. Don't pray. Praying for India win is selfish act.

Let universe reveal itself.

Let match fixers fix match for India favor. LOL

Hope is the right word. Prayer is so 20 minutes ago.

Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma

Prayer back fires~ Rajesh Sharma

That was Hilarious!!!

Rajesh wrote: "Let match fixers fix match for India favor. LOL

Hope is the right word. Prayer is so 20 minutes ago."

Let them fix in India's favor? You're a true patriot my son!! Your last sentence, I tried my best to decipher what you were trying to say, but I failed! LOL!

Hi Innocent

I read somewhere that people use in slang the phrase, "it/that is so five/ten/twenty minutes ago" to say something is out of fashion or in my case something which has lost its power for discussion as a topic.

Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma

Some Golden words from the mouth of Sharma to You all

You don't learn something from repeated mistakes(as they say) but mistakes will happen again and again till you learn.

Rajesh Sharma

So prayer is so 20min ago? Now, I understand. Thanks a lot for clarifying. I thought it was your usual incoherent thought process.
Prayer backfires! I will use that wisdom in the future. Bye now! will catch you later like a Bee.

The same mistake will keep on repeating until you learn to do the task right.

Catch you later, Innocent

I will be your nigga in waiting. So watch out. LOL

Rajesh Sharma

There is an other way of looking at it.

There are no mistakes, only experiences.

There are no problems, only challenges.

Mistake is Experience.

Problem is Challenge.

Mistake = Experience

Problem = Challenge

Never use word Mistake, use word Experience.

Never use word Problem, use word Challenge.

Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma

are those indian teams into the shady buisness of game-fixing or drugs? gee... i wonder...something doesn't seem right! will they cancel the World Cup if those two pakistani players are charged with the murder of the coach?

"are those indian teams into the shady buisness of game-fixing or drugs?"

wHAT DO YOU MEAN iNDIAN TEAMS?

there is only one Indian team and not one player in the team was/is accused of match fixing or taking peformance enhancing drugs!

"will they cancel the World Cup if those two pakistani players are charged with the murder of the coach?"

World Cup will go on even if a player is found guilty of murder. all the Pakistan players are now on their way back home. The only reason World Cup will be canceled is if there is a substantial evidence that the games in World cup(including Ireland vs Pakistan) are fixed by the bookies and if Woolmer's death is due to his knowledge of match-fixing in the current world cup.

People suspect match fixing because of the ireland vs pakistan result. Otherwise how could you expect a shit team like Ireland beat the mighty pakistan?
David used his weapon against Goliath but in this case Ireland didn't not do anything special, it was pretty bad performance by Pakistan. Simple.

Hello Intentbloggers

By using the words "those indian teams", making hasty generalizations and unsubstantiated accusations combined with ignorance of the game, Diablo is making RACIST remarks!

I think he/she should apologise!

Lots of Love
and concern for the game

Rajesh Sharma

Hello Administrators

Please take note...the writer of post # 136 has crossed the line...big time!

He/She has insulted all "indians" and cricket lovers across the globe by making a racist remark.
My sentiments are deeply hurt.

Please remove his/her posting privileges from this site once and for all.

Thank you

Rajesh Sharma

Dear Keith

Howdy this morning. AIO is always alive, I guess. OMG, or is it OMD, IB has been quiet recently, so it was good to see you still active, and it made me smile to read your hello. It was good to see Kate saying hi to Deepak, too.

I'm quiet bcause my brain is immersed in Chalmers. From his "Perception and the Fall from Eden", pg 1:

"In the Garden of Eden, we had unmediated contact with the world...[things]...were revealed to us in their true intrinsic glory. When an apple in Eden looked red to us, the apple was gloriously, perfectly and primitively red...But then there was a Fall. First, we ate from the Tree of Illusion. After this, objects sometimes seemed to have different colors and shapes at different times, even though there was reason to beleive the object itself had not changed. So the connection between visual experience and the world became contingent: we could no longer accept that visual experience always revealed the world exactly as it is. Second, we ate from the Tree of Science...We no longer live in Eden. Perhaps Eden never existed...But Eden still plays powerful role in our perceptual experience of the world. At some level, perception represents our world as an Edenic world, populated by perfect colors and shapes...And even though we have fallen from Eden, Eden still acts as a sort of ideal that regulates the content of our perceptual experience."

Dear Rajesh

It's remarkable how far a little anger goes towards clarifying one's writing style, nahi?

Dear thangaraj

Thanks for sharing the Wiki link about Woolmer's death. For me, the fact that there was no sign of struggle or resistance tells me Woolmer was killed by people he knew. If his diabetes, medication or poison had been a factor in weakening him so he didn't or couldn't resist, it would have taken less effort and time to smother him than to strangle him. Strangulation seems like a personally-motivated execution.

Dear Diable

I should have given you credit for your courage, too. My apologies for missing your comment on Wollmer.

Dear IV

Very funny. Ji haan it's OK, so why is no one else doing it?

Dear Bonnie

Even overseas, there is less news than would be expected for such a public murder mystery, especially for a top coach in such a profoundly important sport as cricket. Fewer articles than expected, and all somewhat guarded in tone. There is an atmosphere of fear.

love, Heath

The unspoken and most frightening aspect of the apparent Woolmer murder contemplating the cultural values that fed that act of personal violence: Low regard for human life and individual worth, plus powerful aspects of competitiveness, vengefulness, pride, ego, violence.

Dear Heath:
While surfing the web yesterday and reading all the gory news from around the world, a question came to my mind and it was:

Is there not some sort of karmic threshold of human behavior? Some sort of line beyond which the otherwise normal, healthy, relatively balanced human soul snaps itself in the ass with a giant rubber band and says, Oh holy hell, I have simply gone too far and now might be a good time for a spiritual cleansing, and is it too late to reverse this downward free fall toward all that is demeaning and lost and sad?

And if we could parse out why the hell we do such harmful disgusting things to each other while not feeling the slightest bit of remorse, we might evolve just a "smidgen"

I paid my income tax yesterday, and that was sure depressing when I think where it is going......
vengefulness, pride, ego, violence, fear........
And why did I work so hard for that?

Right now all I can say is Oh Holy Hell.

Hello Heather,
Have you read a book 'Wrinkles in Time' by George Smoot and Keay Davidson.

Smoot and a team of Berkeley researchers set out to uncover and to prove the secrets of the creation of the Universe.

It begins:
"...It is my personal story but also the story of many others who have attempted to answer the oldest and most central of mysteries - how and why did the universe begin and what is our place in it."

I was a hidden treasure and desired to be known, therefore I created creation in order to be known. Sufi creation myth

Hi to all Ib'ers this warm and lovely spring afternoon!
love ~~ Kate

Dear Bonnie,
Don't you wish we could have a say about where we would like to appropriate our tax money!
~ Kate

actually, in 'theory' we elect officials to do just that - spend money wisely and effectively. If only ...

Oh Joanie,
I will - but I may blush the color of his shoes
:))
~ Kate

1. pakistan is/was a powerful team team..

2. ireland is a team of part-timers who have full-time jobs as doctors, police officers, etc...

3. pakistani players are paid to play cricket; irish players are not;

4. the writer of 137 calls ireland a "shit" team. i would say the word can me appropriately used to describe his brain.

5. ireland should be complimented for going to the next stage of Cricket World Cup; while pakistan should be embarassed for being beaten by part-timers...

6. i suppose if they pay the irish players to play...then they would be capable of beating team. no?

Dear Kate

No, I don't know the book, need to check it out. Hugs to you, good to see you here more often.

Dear Bonnie

Two good questions, for which I have no answers. Maybe thangaraj could give a try to providing answers, of some kind, to your thoughts. He's a deeper thinker than I am.

Dear Diablo.

Good points.

Isn't it freedom of spirit that motivates achievement? Acting out of fear, anticipation of death or violence, or coercion does not allow people to perform at their best. This could be the reason for the disparity in performance betweeen the Pakistani and Irish cricket teams.

love, Heath

real magic

you know the heretofore-fabled luck of the year of the pig is real magic when:

* your aged, blind dog knocks over your little tea table, your Apple wireless mouse hits the floor with a bang, the mouse's battery compartment cover flies off, the cover's metal contact strip, normally held in place by the thinnest of adhesive flims, flies off too, in the opposite direction, you find the cover and the contact strip, rummage through your art supplies, find a 5-year-old roller-ball tube of still-fresh (!) Itoya O'Glue, roll the glue on the underside of the cover without making a mess, put the contact strip in place, wait 30 minutes with fingers crossed, test the mouse, it works, you can take off and replace the cover without the contact strip falling off, the mouse still works, and you can scratch the repair trip to the Soho Apple store off your agenda for the day.
* while rummaging for glue, you find the book of gold leaf you thought you'd lost 2 years ago.
* since the Soho trip is off the schedule, you decide to see The Namesake after all, and there are still tickets left even though it's a city springtime Sunday afternoon.
* your abusive former boyfriend stays out of your life one more day.
* the weather is perfect for drying freshly-washed winter sweaters, working around the house in the slippers your dogs don't like to carry around in their mouths, and walking around the city in jeans, Pumas, T, Thai silk scarf, and trench coat, hands in pockets, quietly singing Ab Mere Paas Tum Aayee Ho and You're Where I Belong.
* the air smells clean in Manhattan.
* you love to watch cricket, but you don't play it, you aren't on the Pakistani cricket team, you don't bet, you don't give or take bribes, you don't throw games, you don't believe in murder, violence or coercion, and you're not Bob Woolmer, God rest his soul.
* you're not a member of the Bush or Cheney family and friends circle.
* you really like the Clintons and the Gores, despite their many and significant foibles.
* you love to dance and sing, and you've been doing it all morning as you've been doing your chores.
* you think Miss Snark is the cat's pajamas.
* your son is finally getting married.
* you're good at keeping secrets.
* you can finally think of your father, who died more than five years ago, without crying too much, and you remember almost nothing of him except his loving ways.
* you have 18 hours before you have to be in the office again.
* you have three web design and two logo projects to do, and all of them are exciting projects for good clients.
* you really want to paint, and you may even do it.
* you're not sleepy.
* though pissed, you can still function.
* there's still time to hit the Met before you see The Namesake.
* it's not April yet, but it almost feels as if it is.
* your broken knee is almost completely healed.
* your torn bicep is almost completely healed.
* you're taking back the hammerdrill your son borrowed two years ago, so you can repair a bookcase.
* cherry trees will be blooming soon.

Times like these are real magic, they buffer all the other crap that goes on.

GO IRELAND!!!

HIP HIP HOORAY!!!

Dear Kate:
Re#144

Yes it would be nice. Today is so beautiful, though, it is hard to get my brain around taxes.

Bonnie

for bonnie, heather and others...

Shaharyar Khan pays tribute to Bob Woolmer

A gentle man, a superb coach

Shaharyar M Khan

March 25, 2007

'Bob had some cricketing differences with Inzamam-ul-Haq but these were addressed through dialogue and mutual understanding, even though for days the captain would go into a brooding silence while Bob attempted to overcome the problem through rational discussion.

The news of Bob Woolmer's murder deeply shocked me and I have written this appreciation in the memory of a dedicated professional and a superb human being. I had met Bob Woolmer cursorily before deciding, as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, to appoint him national coach. I had based the decision on the advice of Ramiz Raja, then chief executive, and on Bob's outstanding reputation as coach with Warwickshire and South Africa. I had also consulted the ICC, where Woolmer served as High Performance Director of Coaching.

To my pleasant surprise, Woolmer readily agreed and, at a meeting in a London hotel, we quickly agreed to the terms. I recall that at the meeting Woolmer demonstrated immediately his ability to interact sensitively with even the most difficult of players. Shoaib Akhtar had at the time adopted a position of non-cooperation with the PCB and had refused to join the national camp but Woolmer picked up the phone at the hotel and spoke to Shoaib in a most persuasive manner and obtained from him a commitment.

When Bob took over as coach, Pakistan were languishing in the lower levels of both Test and ODI rankings of the ICC tables. There was demoralisation, controversy and disunity among the players. Bob immediately addressed the issues of morale and performance in the team and worked assiduously to reverse these negative trends.

At a time of our lamentable exit from the World Cup, when the entire cricketing establishment is being blamed for Pakistan's failure, it is worth recording that during Woolmer's tenure Pakistan's performance led to the rise in its rankings to second and third spots in the ICC tables. Apart from the obvious improvement in performance, Woolmer was able to instil unity and a fighting spirit in the team that saw Pakistan succeed at home and abroad. Even when Pakistan lost to Australia and England, a fighting spirit was apparent with many a rearguard action and an ability to bounce back from reverses.

Bob Woolmer was not an authoritarian coach. He believed in gentle and sensitive persuasion of the players, spending hours with individuals demonstrating weaknesses of technique and even of attitude. He was an innovative coach and a master of developing coaching techniques to improve performance. He was opposed to dull routine and insisted on advanced fitness levels - an area he found shockingly inadequate when he took over coaching Pakistan. I advised him not to interfere in religious matters and to work round the issue. Several weeks later he came to me and said that he had appreciated my advice and added that he had found that praying together several times a day had let to bonding and a welcome team spirit in the team.

Woolmer was also a modest and sensitive human being. He decided with his colleagues to live in simple accommodation at the National Academy even though he was entitled to a more luxurious lifestyle. He accepted remuneration at a lower level than he would have found in the international market and his main ambition was to meet the challenge of making Pakistan's talented team a winning outfit. His emoluments were almost the same as for Javed Miandad whom he replaced as coach and about a third of the salary contracted by India with its foreign coach.

There were also several occasions when players, senior and junior, had differences with Bob. He never took umbrage at these outbursts and always went round later to the player to sit and rationally discuss the issue. He was nearly always successful and left the aggrieved player realising that facing disappointment equably was part of the game.

Woolmer also believed that the coach's role ended with the toss of the coin. He maintained that on the field, the captain was fully in charge of strategy and the players. After the game, he would return to the helm to analyse and advise. I recall that sometimes this stand-back role led to problems. For instance, in the vital Bangalore Test against India, the captain was batting and was expecting advice from the coach as to when the crucial declaration should be made. Bob felt that this decision was solely for the captain to make. I know that Inzamam was disappointed and I told Bob that perhaps he had on this occasion taken his non-interference too far.

Woolmer faced two major problems during his tenure. First, though he knew of my full support, he felt that senior officials in the Board were out to undermine his authority. On October 6, the day I resigned, Bob came to me with red eyes and said that he would also resign. I persuaded him not to do so, assuring him that I knew the new chairman would give him his full backing. I told Bob that the patron greatly appreciated his contribution in raising the team's performance and had on several occasions expressed this appreciation and had reiterated the need to support the coach.

Two days before leaving for the Caribbean, Bob came to see me saying he would be prepared to serve Pakistan even after the World Cup but the continuous sniping and harassment from PCB's senior elements would have to stop. He felt that it had been hugely disruptive to preparations and team morale. I again advised Bob to place his trust in the new chairman before making a decision.

'Bob's emoluments were almost the same as for Javed Miandad whom he replaced as coach and about a third of the salary contracted by India with its foreign coach' © Getty Images

The second obstacle that Bob faced was control of the team. Here he found that the captain's spiritual hold on the team prevented his holding full sway with the players, especially the senior members. Bob had some cricketing differences with Inzamam-ul-Haq but these were addressed through dialogue and mutual understanding, even though for days the captain would go into a brooding silence while Bob attempted to overcome the problem through rational discussion.

The more serious issue was that Inzamam was not only the cricketing leader but the spiritual talisman of the team who expected - and was mostly given - total obeisance by his team-mates. I recall Bob telling me, several months before the England tour, that he was severely hampered in addressing team issues because the players were constantly at joint prayers - at lunch, tea and after play. He said he never got a chance to coach the team. I advised him not to interfere in religious matters and to work round the issue. Several weeks later he came to me and said that he had appreciated my advice and added that he had found that praying together several times a day had let to bonding and a welcome team spirit in the team.

I will always remember Bob as a superb innovative coach who dedicated himself to harnessing Pakistan's wayward talent and transforming it into a successful motivated unit. To a large extent he had been successful despite the very real obstacles that he had faced. He was a modest, generous and warm-hearted man who gave his life for Pakistan. I cannot believe that anyone but a raving lunatic would have deliberately caused his death. His murder is a tragedy for Pakistan cricket.

I immensely appreciated Bob Woolmer's dedication as the national coach but beyond his professional abilities, I regarded Bob as a friend and a superb human being. I deeply mourn his death and consider it a national and personal tragedy.

The writer is a former chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

#115 Thanga: This is it! India is out! It is clear, cricket is played in the rt spirit and the underworld couldn't make it here this time. This very thing could well be the reason why they killed bob, as he was becoming more powerful in decision making of the pakistan team.

All those possibilities you brought are ruled out now. India and pakistan not in world cup? Can you imagine the losses? Thousands of crores.

There will be some top quality cricket from now on. Srilanka, nz, eng, wi. All these four teams are capable of upsetting the top guns, s.africa and australia. As a cricket fan, most definitely would like to see the two giants fighting it out in the finals, but we know life is strange. Anything can happen.

if a pakistani player or players were responsible for bob woolmer's death...why were they allowed to fly home with the rest of the team? apparently they were all finger printed and DNA samples taken so jamaican police should be able to make comparisons linking the culprit (s) to the crime...right? hmm..

From Times Online
March 23, 2007
Blogs and chat rooms abuzz over Woolmer murder

David Byers

Cricket fans today clogged news websites, blogs and internet sports discussion forums all over the world to react to news that Bob Woolmer, the former England cricketer and Pakistani coach, had been strangled in his hotel room.

Some called for the World Cup to be abandoned, while others claimed that the tourism industry of the West Indies, hosts of the tournament, would be ruined by such a move.

There were also demands for Pakistan to be kicked out of world cricket for corruption amid reports that a betting syndicate from the country was behind the murder - while one writer even tried to blame American foreign policy for the death, and another contended that strangling someone of Woolmer's size would have required "an elephant".

Commenting on Times Online, Adrian, from London, said the tournament should be abandoned. "They can't continue when this has happened. The spirit if the cup is gone, and nobody is safe. I feel that the forces at play behind the scenes will stop at nothing to get the results they want - I shudder to think what will happen if India get knocked out by Sri Lanka today."

His call was backed by countless bloggers from all over the world. Brian Bailey, a reader commenting on the BBC Sport cricket blog, said: "Go home, everyone, and mourn the death of Bob Woolmer. There is nothing more to be done."

Fauzia, meanwhile, added on the BBC site that the result of the tournament no longer mattered. "Even if West Indies create history by being the first hosts to win the tournament or even if Australia win the cup for the fourth time it wont really matter. The death of Bob Woolmer is something that has already marred this World Cup, and so it shall be."

Some cricket fans, however, called for the tournament to continue. Angus, writing on The Corridor (www.cricket.mailliw.com),the UK based cricket blog, said: "As awful as this event is, I don’t think they should cancel the tournament. It would cause utter chaos in the Caribbean, spell financial ruin for West Indian cricket, and every business dependent on the games. It would shut down most of the travel companies around the world who are arranging tours. It would be sad for all the players, and also for all the fans who have spent their life savings on the trip."

Meanwhile, conspiracy theories - some distinctly more credible than others - continued to circulate around the internet. Hasan, of Gillingham in Kent, wrote in Times Online that Woolmer was too big to be strangled. "Jamaican police are talking off their head. To strangulate a person of Woolmer's size, you would require an elephant. Bob was a big strong man - physically it would be impossible to strangulate him. May be half a dozen giants and a lot of racket. See the size of Bob's neck - no person could put his hand around it."

John Cook, the author of the Australian-run Cricket Blog (www.cricket-blog.com), wrote that match-fixing syndicates could be to blame. "A rumour has surfaced that match fixers from the criminal underworld fearing exposure may be responsible. This makes more sense than crazed, misguided fans, although no less obscene. It also means the timing had more to do with Woolmer working on two books than Pakistan's loss to Ireland (ironically neither book appears to expose illegal betting syndicates). Nevertheless, that Pakistan's cricket coach died from violent murder is unfathomable. Cricket has just lost any last shred of innocence."

Naeem, a Pakistan cricket fan commenting in a chat forum on The Corridor, said: "As a Pakistan cricket fan this is the worst news I have heard. I hope whoever was behind this is caught asap. Reports are suggesting it could be match fixing agents who were upset at the Pakistan defeat, as they probably lost millions on a game which Pakistan should have cruised. This has put me off cricket all together."

Calls to kick Pakistan out of world cricket on the back of alleged corruption also surfaced online. John Miller, from London, writing on the American CNN news network's discussion site, said: "Pakistan cricket always seems to court controversy. In the past we have had corruption, match fixing, ball tampering, and now murder. The ICC should kick out Pakistan from world cricket, but unfortunately political correctness will win."

But perhaps the most bizarre theory of all was posted by Ray Orr, of Queensland, Australia, who managed to find a way to blame US foreign policy for the death. Writing on CNN, he said: "Events like this are symptomatic of a violent world where the world's only superpower uses military force for its own ends. Sports fans themselves become violent at times."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article1558533.ece

(Ref. 154)

If there's a "buck" in it...."KILL THE COACH"! Another example on how human life is just a NUMBER to some, which can be converted to much larger numbers in MONEY if they are killed like RATS!

A seemingly "good man" treated like a RABBID RAT!

Lets say a prayer for his family, what a hell of a shock!

I got a chuckle out of the end paragraph in the
article, "CNN...LOOKIN AFTER "YOU"!

They managed to vilify Bush over a murdered Cricket coach, now they are not VERY hard up to throw dung??... while obviously making utter fools of themselves, adding to the popular belief that CNN are "agents" of the Headchoppers!

The people in CNN think they are insulated from harm if the headchoppers take over America, that being so, the only way they can be sure of that is to agree to the Islam way of life, but I think
the Homosexual crowd working at CNN might have something to say about that?

They might be allowed to stay alive if they convert, but being Homosexuals will guarantee them a life of SLAVERY..... not to be accepted as a "true Muslim" and they will pay an extra tax on top of it!

However being LIB militant homosexuals they wouldn't mind the TAX INCREASE AS LONG AS THEY CAN KEEP THEIR BODY PARTS! LOL!

AND TO HELL WITH AMERICA...ALLAH AKHBAR! (whatever!)

God bless the troops;

Steve:

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There is also a joke about the last Mayday parade in the Soviet Union.

After the tanks and the troops and the planes and the missiles rolled by there came ten men dressed in black.

"Are they Spies?" Asked Gorby?

"They are economists," replies the KGB director, "imagine the havoc they will wreak when we set them loose on the Americans"

( THE JOKE IS A CRUEL JOKE, BECAUSE THERE IS TRUTH TO IT... THE RUSSIANS NEVER SAW A "SALT" AGREEMENT THEY DIDN'T LOVE TO "BREAK"!.... TO NAME A FEW! )

Hot Item: Gossip Writer Sues the Clintons

BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
March 23, 2007
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/51057

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Lets see if this has legs, or will the Preditors attack team manager to muzzle this too?

I imagine there would be millions having mental orgasms looking at these two pathological lyers standing before a Judge!

And a goodly percentage of them will be the WOMEN they have TERRORIZED!

It would be long long overdue start of the cleansing of America!

However with their MONEY, and CONNECTIONS, we know it won't happen, just ANOTHER of their many CRIMES, they will escape from justice!

Oh well one thing for sure, they will both die, and probably the only way America will get rid of their SCOURGE!

God bless the troops;

Steve

"The murder of one of the most respected and admired coaches on the world stage threatens to be the most damaging episode in cricket history."

quotation from BBC Sports... i agree!

terrorism has now infiltrated a generally peaceful sport...it must be a sign of the times...damn... i think the competition must continue, regardless, cancelling it will prove nothing! i would like to see underdog ireland pull off more upsets...yeah!

Gore & Strong shadowship:

Somebody should turn the lights on

By Judi McLeod

Behind every good man, as the saying goes, there is a good woman.

Behind global warming guru Al Gore is global warming guru mastermind Maurice Strong.

Most folk knows that Gore and wife, Tipper live in a Tennessee mansion where nobody’s home but the lights are always on. But few are aware that the shadow cast by the former vice president is the shadow of United Nations mover and shaker Chairman Mo strong. Indeed, Gore’s signature song could easily be Me and My Shadow.

According to Strong, “He (Gore) won the election and lost the presidency”. (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) 2004),

The latest ambition of this deadly duo is to ban the incandescent light bulb worldwide on the basis that the invention of Thomas Edison uses too much energy or generates too much heat for Mother Earth to tolerate.

Reports of fire hazards posed by the use of energy efficient light bulbs if not used correctly don’t seem to be stopping CFL bulbs from becoming the latest rage. Nor are any hunts underway to check on which companies are getting the contracts to replace the lights generations have come to depend on.

Problem is Gore and his shadow don’t intend to stop with banning the incandescent light bulb.

Rep. Joe Barton, (R-Texas) who says if Gore’s desires are implemented, there would be no new businesses, cars or even people allowed in the United States, is right on the money.

Gore’s shadow Strong is a self-professed depopulationist. Strong believes there are too many people on the planet and that the too many are overly dependent on air conditioning, red meat and the Freon of refrigerators.

Writing Strong off as just another crackpot would be a dangerous pastime. With full access to corridors of power in the United Nations, the Canadian-born New Ager described by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reporter Ann-Marie McDonald as “a cross between Rasputin and Machiavelli” is one of the recognized architects of the Kyoto Protocol.

A go-to guy with a proven track record of changing your world, Strong has quietly worked the international scene for decades.

In the CBC’s The Life and Times of Maurice Strong, the storyline is about a 14-year-old school dropout who gets to the top at breakneck speed. Strong, who worked as a deckhand on ocean going ships lands on his feet as a UN desk clerk, at the tender age of 17. “Within a few months he meets David Rockefeller, whose father John made the UN (Manhattan headquarters) possible.”

McDonald, who says Strong “doesn’t know how to use a computer”, calls him “the Michelangelo of networking,” and “an internationally traveling salesman with bits of paper in his pockets”…but a man who “refuses to be pigeon holed”.

Difficult to pigeon hole someone whose finger is in so many pies.

The untouchable “Father Earth” is chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) the world’s first trader in greenhouse credits.

But Barton was wrong about cars not being allowed in the United States. The Chery, manufactured in the Peoples’ Republic of China, will, if anti-American Strong has his way, begin flooding the American market by this year.

How Gore and Strong can make Mother Earth their personal goldmine has got to be one contemporary history’s biggest mysteries.

The world doesn’t need less incandescent light bulbs, it needs probing floodlights.

When it comes to Al Gore and Maurice Strong, somebody should turn the lights on.

stan..

the spammer spent the weekend at bushman's crawford ranch...and now he is trying to deny it...he calls himself a simple man who sees things are they are and calls them so...i guess no one has yet advised him to see an eye doctor...no? how pathetic!

Reddy

Yes, It is good India is out of the competition and to be assured that match fixers don't have a sway on the tournament.

A 200 and a 500 is well on the cards with Bangladesh and Ireland having to play 13 games with the big Six. The cricket fan in India can now enjoy the games for pure competition sake rather than to be emotionally involved if the Indians were to play.

Later

dude u are one sick mother %^&*()# racist pig... u need a battery of doctors for many illnesses and ur primal racism and venom...u dont blog off and take up residency at that mental patient's crwaford ranch! u low life!

Yo Doodleman!

How's the Portable Island building coming along?
Need some help? I have some ideas.

Looks like it might be a handy thing to have for the future.

Bonnie

Shields says he couldn't hold people against their will

Pakistan's departure avoided 'diplomatic incident'

Cricinfo staff

March 26, 2007

Mark Shields: "Murder is not solved in 45 minutes like it is on TV" © AFP

Mark Shields, the deputy commissioner of Jamaican police, said he had to allow the Pakistan team to leave Jamaica in order to avoid a diplomatic incident in the aftermath of Bob Woolmer's murder. Speaking to The Times, Shields said the police did not have sufficient evidence to detain any team member and doing so "would have had an extremely adverse effect on the World Cup".

Shields was concerned there would have been an uproar "if I had started holding people against their will". Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room on March 18.

Part of the investigations include analysing the video tapes from the CCTV on the 12th floor of the Pegasus Hotel, where Woolmer had his room. Shields said the footage could provide the police with the breakthrough they needed. "I am very optimistic," he said. "If the quality is as good as I hope it is they will help us significantly in our investigation of who went on to the 12th floor that Sunday, or Saturday night."

Door keycards of every room in the hotel were also being checked to figure out movements inside the hotel leading up to the time of Woolmer's death. "It's a huge task," Shields said. "But when we do that we get the time of death." Police are also examining Woolmer's laptop for clues.

Shields said the police were yet to eliminate anyone as a suspect. "Everybody at the moment is a witness, but we do not have more suspicion about one person over another," he told the paper. "Murder is not solved in 45 minutes like it is on TV. In reality it's not like that."

According to an AFP report Shields said that although the doors to each room could not be viewed through the cameras, the ends of the corridor were visible. "[It] will give us an indication who was on that floor," he said.

He also dismissed rumours the players had argued with the coach after Pakistan's defeat against Ireland. "As far as I'm aware at the moment," he said, "the players and officials were very subdued and there was no heated exchange."

All members of the Pakistan team were questioned and later asked to provide DNA samples. Inzamam-ul-Haq, the Pakistan captain, and Mushtaq Ahmed, the assistant coach, were interviewed a second time before the team was allowed to leave Jamaica on Saturday. An inquest has also been ordered into the murder and Woolmer's body will remain in Jamaica until the proceedings are over.

Dalawar Chaudhry, a Pakistan official who organised the team's stopover in London, said the players were very low. "I have had a word with all the boys and they have lost someone very near and dear to them," Chaudhry told AFP. "A father figure has been lost ... They haven't been sleeping well. It's been a very emotional time."

Hey Bonnie

I'm not actually building an island. As an artist I love to daydream on paper.
Several years ago I started sketching islands. I saw a documentary on icebergs floating around and put two and two together.
Seems simple on paper but I am not an engineer. I am also landlocked here in the mountains.
I can imagine a bedroom underwater with a huge window looking directly into the ocean.
There could be many advantages to a movable island.
I see documentries on building giant sky scrapers and giant cruise ships. This could be much greener and safer. I'm sure the technology is out there.
It could become a total ecosystem.
I just thought it would be a nice break in conversation.

derek

I'm sitting here watching the sun rise on the mountains. When conditions are right, and they usaually are, the mountains glow a brilliant pink from the first rays. This lasts about 5 minutes.......amazing.............

derek

I've spent a lot of time in the islands and just wish I could move on around.
Imagine steering an island with a joystick. when a hurricane is coming you just nudge that joystick.
It could even have it's own desalination plant.
I wonder if birds would naturally migrate to such a place? I'm sure that over time it could support millions of spieces. Maybe create new ones.

Oh the glow was amazing again.

peace comes from peace

derek

Yay for artists..............

Thanga: I think dna testing reports will take us very close to the criminals. Yes, 500 is on the cards with any of the minnows, especially s.af/ireland. It's going to be painful to feel India out of it while we watch super 8's. Oh God!

Rajesh: are you enjoying your wknd in the outdoors with the bees?:-)

who killed bob?

what we know:

1. bob woolmer was on the 12th floor as some of the players.

2. he was "manually strangulated".

3. there was vomit and faeces and blood in the room, as well as bruises on his neck.

what we don't know:

1. who the killers are.

2. if bob had said or done something to inspire this crime

3. if there was game-fixing by pakistani players.

what is strange:

1. that they would let the team go back home when the potential killer(s) could be on the plane.

2. that some would want the games called off. what would that prove?

3. that some players are suspected of throwing games, similar to the pete rose situation.

go ireland go!

Seems that Ireland plays for no other reason than the sheer enjoyment of the game. That's excellence. That's passion!

I am cheering for Ireland!!

Go Ireland!! Go Team!!

(TO STAN AND OTHERS interested in Global Warming)

If his personal oil investments drives Bush's war(some say), what drives Al Gore? assuming both of them grossly exaggerate and misrepresent the facts.

I have been wondering how people like Al Gore function in this world and this article seems to carry the missing puzzle:

We’re All Going to Die — The Real Impact of Man Made Global Warming
By Phillip Ellis Jackson

http://tinyurl.com/26kc6m

Here's a relevant excerpt:

Three interrelated reasons explain why they do this: power, prestige, and money.

Power: As Defenders of the Environment, these individuals occupy a unique position of power and importance. Their words shape the public debate, and through that debate they try to influence public policy. The more their policies are put into practice, the more power they garner. They don’t need to be an elected official, because if they are successful, elected officials will look to them for their policy direction.

But the quest for power doesn’t automatically mean that an individual must lie (or to be more generous, refuse to put forward a completely honest view) in order to occupy this position of influence. I will argue, however, that the unique nature of the global warming debate requires them to promote a singular world view regardless of the evidence to support it, and in spite of the growing evidence against it. The decision tree looks something like this:

If global warming is only a theoretical concern, and not a concrete, existing problem, then there is no reason to make new policy and/or divert current resources to this crisis. Thus, it must be an existing problem that is significant, and growing, or other competing problems will take center stage.

Moreover, the solution to this existing, significant, and growing problem must involve a restructuring or redirection of society’s resources. If existing policies, processes and/or institutions can take care of the problem, there is no need for an outside entity to lead the effort or participate in any meaningful way. Thus, the solution must, by definition, demand a “new way” of doing business, led by individuals who are closely attuned to the unique new dynamics surrounding that issue. In short, their view must be that the very nature of the problem, as well as the unique features of its solution, requires individuals like them to play strong central roles.

If the facts at hand don’t conform to this scenario, then they must be massaged, distorted, or disregarded all together in order to preserve, protect, or expand their power.

Prestige: Closely related to the quest for power is the importance of prestige. It is certainly possible to define a problem and/or manufacture a solution that is entirely within the political mainstream. Rather than supplant existing processes and institutions, a group or individual could seek to “reinvent” them in a more efficient form. The goals and objectives might remain the same, but the manner in which they are pursued would be altered. Or, the process and/or institution could remain unchanged, but the goals could be tweaked so that resources are divided differently among its constituent parts. In either case the effort is designed to strengthen the existing system, not replace it.

For radical environmentalists, however, such an option would never be seriously considered. In addition to seeking power, they are also part of a social fabric that views itself as separate and distinct from the individuals managing current institutions and processes. Gaining the respect, approval, or admiration of these current leaders would alienate them from their peers and call their own motives into question. If Big Oil, supported by mainstream Republicans and other ROWG’s (rich old white guys) embrace their ideas, then there is either something intrinsically wrong with their proposals — or worse, their peers will conclude that they’ve compromised their principles and joined the enemy. Big Oil, Republicans, and ROWG are the problem. Bringing them down as they save the environment will not only enhance these activists’ power, it will elevate their personal prestige within the only group that matters; their fellow Left-wing radicals, and the Hollywood groupies who hang on their every word.

Money: Last, but certainly not least, is the issue of money. Those without power don’t get the funding. That is the ultimate, self-reinforcing goal.

It takes money to run a think tank, operate a website, travel around the country or pay one’s own personal bills. Those with power can persuade (read: extort) elected officials to help subsidize their activities with federal funds, either in an attempt to buy off more aggressive opposition that could threaten these officials’ own power base, or as a way of stoking the flames if the party in power is sympathetic to their cause and wants to create political mischief for their opponents.

Also, the more perceived power and prestige an organization has, the more likely it is to attract private donations from like-minded individuals or sympathetic foundations. Either way, money is the fuel that keeps things going, and raising more money is always a primary concern of every social activist on either side of the political spectrum.

For those who seek power and prestige but have not yet attained it, money becomes the driving force in shaping their message. To illustrate this point by borrowing from the political arena, if a group arises in opposition to the policies of President Bush, it will not serve its own best interests by conceding major points in that debate even if the evidence is overwhelming. The Bush tax cut policy has swelled the public coffers beyond even the most optimistic projections, just as the Administration said it would. Organizations formed in opposition to Bush cannot concede this point, or they will alienate the red meat radicals who viscerally hate the president and will tolerate no praise for him whatsoever. Their funds will then go to another competing group that remains true to the message that everything Bush does is corrupt, incompetent, or stupid, and they’ll be left panhandling for dollars to pay the light bill.

Jeff

I agree with Diablo. You are in an urgent need of some serious help. What with your racial slurs and gay jokes. It is too much.

The popular gently-expressive expletive "crap" takes on an entirely new dimension in the context of a sewer system collapse in the northern Gaza Strip. Not for the faint-of-heart or those eating. Brilliant photos, if you can take it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/world/middleeast/27cnd-gaza.html

(or click my name)

These photos are nothing like what the author is making it up. Anyone can take a look at them without having a knot or two in their stomach.

Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma

For people interested in digital touch interfaces, check this:

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/the-multi-touch-screen/

(or click my name)

Dear Rajesh

That's the value of the reporting -- it replaces the sense of smell. Unfortunately, four people were killed in this mishap, and maybe there will be more deaths, due to the dirtiness of the flood.

love, Heath

Hi Heather,

Thanks for the clarification.

Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma

Dear current crowd of Nasties

Read up on nastiness on the web, found an amusing column from Pogue from a couple of months ago, a f/u to a prev. one he'd written on this issue. He presented a few interesting reader comments. Two I liked were:

"It’s called ‘courage.com.’ Usage: ‘You sure have a lot of courage.com. I bet you can’t come here and say it to my face."

and

"...the percentage of nastiness climbs with the popularity of the blog..."

As for my theory, that Jeff is a hoax, and certainly not African-American, who knows. Wrong syntax, wrong ethos, and so on, chums. Aur the whole thing is so reminiscent of last year's alias wars.

Funny that when DK stepped off the floor, all this stuff got so far out of hand, so fast. noname gloating; "Jeff" coming out of pure copy-and-paste mode and attacking not only Diablo, but a woman he doesn't know, in a truly ugly style. The word "jealousy" is echoing in my mind. Coward, too, because as long as he was facing y'all, y'all didn't dare bite too hard.

I've often thought there are perhaps 3, maybe 4, players in the nastiness market here. People with courage.com, but not much else. Like kids who skateboard on steps and walkways on Sunday mornings and late at night, when they think no one's looking. But we can see you, even at night. If y'all were playing cricket or football in your spare time, maybe this blog would be more civil. But your courage is .com, so I guess expecting y'all to play sports, be kind to women and puppies, think before you copy and paste, and so on, these are unreachable dreams. If you had to give your real names, would you be like this? Methinks the answer is na.

Not one of y'all could stand up to serious pressure in real life. And not one of you knows how to open your heart and really love. If you could do either one or the other (not to mention both), you'd never do this kind of s---. I guess courage.com is the limit for y'all. Tsk-tsk, what a d/ed pity to waste such intelligence and passion on crap.

love, Heath