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What a cool mistake,,, it looks like it suppose to be this way,, some times screw ups work great,,, love the colors and the rainbow is just awesome, nice work..
Lovely colors & it just looks like a magical place floating in the clouds ;) Very nice
vibrant and vital ^_^ ur drawings bring the smile yo ma face...keep up ur awesome work
I love this one, the colors so vibrant and gorgeous, the unfinished part makes look like an oriental drawing.. 5/5h fave
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Around 10000 years ago, probably in Sumeria, some humans were tired of the hunter/gatherer/migratory experience. "Folks", their leader said in whatever tongue they spoke, "We're tired of walking around all the time. Wouldn't it be neat if we could spend our lives in one place all year round?"
The folks, ever suspicious, looked at the leaders. They rested their hands on their chins and said "I suppose.. but how the heck are we going to eat?"
The leaders looked around and found some grass sticking out of the earth. "Hey, we could make bread out of this stuff. If we planted and grew in en masse, we could save many grains for the lean times of the winter and early spring."
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"Look, it's eaither that or walk for hundreds of miles again."
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But after the much more backbreaking job of growing food, rather than simply picking up what just happened to be lying around, the people started to complain.
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The leader, who was drinking a then unknown beverage looked upon his people. "I'm sorry, what? I was too busy drinking this oddly fulfilling beverage that's been made from the grain you reaped. Here have a taste!"
And teh beverage was dispensed to the people of the land. And after several rounds, they celebrated and told each other how much they loved each other, and gave each other noogies and had sex with people they never would have whilst sober.
And they saw that it was good.
They next morning (or probably the next late evening, as they had to recover from the discovery of the hangover) the people met with their leader again.
"Where can we get more of that beverage that we had last night?", they asked.
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And so the people went back to farming, as they saw that not only could they make bread, but they also could get wildly drunk, even if it meant that they had to work that much harder.
Overly simplistic? Only just a tad. But beer and bread were discovered about the time that humans settled down into villages. And farming was much more difficult than hunting and gathering your meals. But the fruits of their labor was worth it, as beer had found it's way into their diet.

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I wanted to see how good this OU team is. Please leave comments and suggestions. Also please say which of the natures or etc. are best for the pokemon. Please do not give any team members the same item. Politoed- 252 HP, 128 Defense, 128 Special Defense Ability- Drizzle Nature- Bold/Calm Moves- Scald, Encore, Toxic, Ice Beam/Substitute Item- Shed Shell/Eject Button This guy is used just for setting up the drizzle I need to sweep or wall out the opposing team. He has Scald because of its good power and STAB and chance of burning the opponent. This makes it harder to take down. Encore is to make people regret using a move like torment or something. Toxic is to help wear down the opponent if Scald can't do it alone. And finally Ice Beam to provide some more type coverage. I was thinking about Substitute or some other convenient move for Politoed. The Eject Button could get rid of him right away for another Pokemon of mine to start walling/sweeping. Shed Shell is to escape the nasty effects of taunt and mean look. However, normally I would just send him out first to start the rain and swap him out as soon as possible. Any suggestions on him are very helpful. Vaporeon- 252 HP, 252 Special Defense, 4 Defense Ability- Hydration Nature- Sassy/Calm/Bold/Relaxed Moves- Rest, Scald, Acid Armor, Yawn/Wish/Aqua Ring Item- Leftovers/Shed Shell Now him, it doesn't get any better than him. First, I use Acid Armor and if needed, I use rest or use acid armor again. Rest and Hydration in rain is evil. Better yet, status is the main thing walls have trouble handling, but Hydration takes care of that too. I max out my Defense with Acid Armor and keep using rest and scald. Not to mention, the chance of scald burning them along with Vaporeon's already good special defense and great HP along with +6 Defense and a burn on the opponent makes him the greatest of mixed walls. However, I was thinking about the last move. I am totally lost on it and any suggestions for that would be great. Finally, I was thinking about the leftovers to slowly restore health for the smaller hits. If not, maybe Shed Shell to evade mean look and taunt. Toxicroak- 252 HP, 128 Defense, 128 Special Defense Ability- Dry Skin Nature- Adamant/Impish/Careful/Jolly Moves- Drain Punch, Substitute, Sucker Punch, Bulk Up Item- Black Sludge He is a mega bulky tank. With Dry Skin and the weather in his favor along with good HP and Black Sludge, he is a monster in battle. With his access to bulk up and the constant restoration he gets along with drain punch and fairly bulky substitutes, there is nothing there to stop him. As for those inconvenient frail, fast, and powerful sweepers like Gengar or Alakazam, Sucker Punch gets rid of them. And I may have forgot to tell you, but all the moves that have low PP, I am PP maxing. So he will have a few Drain Punches and Sucker Punches to use. Volcarona- 252 Special Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP Ability- Flame Body Nature- Modest/Timid Moves- Thunder, Hurricane, Psychic, Flamethrower/Fiery Dance Item- Choice Scarf/Choice Specs Man, this is probably my favorite kind of rain sweeper. With access to Hurricane and Thunder, which have perfect accuracy in rain, along with amazing special attack and great speed, Volcarona is perfect for messing with opponents. Hurricane and Thunder are self explanatory. Psychic is for coverage in a situation going not exactly as planned. Flamethrower or Fiery Dance might seem useless, but their purpose is to take care of steel type walls, and more importantly, to get rid of those pesky Pokemon trying to change the weather. I don't know between Fiery Dance or Flamethrower because Fiery Dance raises stats very conveniently but Flamethrower has more power and can get me out of a tight spot. I also don't know if I want scarf or specs. Specs takes care of things for good but scarf helps outspeed things. Alakazam- 252 Special Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP Ability- Magic Guard Nature- Modest/Timid Moves- Psyshock, Thunderbolt, Shadow Ball, Energy Ball/Focus Blast Item- Life Orb With Magic Guard, he cannot even be touched by anything but damage dealing moves, making Alakazam evade the dreaded effects of taunt and encore. The opponent will unexpectedly take advantage of Alakazam's normal incapability to handle conditions and will try to cripple it with condition moves. Psyshock is to take care of Blissey. Along with this ability and Psyshock, not even the pink monster that is Blissey can stand a chance. All the other moves are simply for coverage of different types. Rather than giving it a scarf or specs, I chose the life orb so that it doesn't have to be locked in with any of its moves. And Life Orb recoil with something like this isn't bad at all. Besides, I need a few backup Pokemon in case something goes wrong. Zangoose- 252 Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP Ability- Toxic Boost Nature- Adamant/Jolly Moves- Swords Dance, Close Combat, Facade, Shadow Claw Item- Toxic Orb OR Scizor- 252 Attack, 252 HP, 4 Defense Ability- Technician Nature- Naughty Moves- Bullet Punch, U-Turn, Night Slash, Brick Break Item- Choice Band Zangoose with the Toxic Orb and Toxic Boost is pretty self-explanatory. Swords Dance can boost attack by even more, to make it a great wall breaker. Facade with a Pokemon that has a status condition along with great attack thanks to toxic boost and STAB. Close Combat is for brute force to take down steel, rock, and dark types. Finally, there is Shadow Claw to take care of ghost types Close Combat and Facade can't hit. Then there is my Naughty Scizor with maxed out attack, 394. He has Bullet Punch because of the unstoppable power of Techinician STAB priority choice band maxed out attack Bullet Punch. 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Tornadus-T along with thunderus-T can pretty much wreck your team. You dont have entry hazards which i wont complain about but volt-turn teams are likely to be a problem.Try running jirach with set. Jirachi @ Leftovers Trait: Serene Grace EVs: 252 HP / 224 SDef / 32 Spd Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk) - Body Slam - Wish - Stealth Rock - Iron Head this atleast gives you stealth rocks as a form of entry hazards and also deals with tornadusT and thundurus-T as they wont like to get paralyzed from body slam. Bulky Dragonite can cause you alot of problems.Actually dragons in general cause you a problem with your current team as you dont have a steel type(You have not decided on either zangoose or scizor) and no real way to deal with scarfed mence scarfed latios and bulky DD dragonite.I want to know what the objective of your team is appart from winning and the ways you do it.How does each pokemon contribute to the other members.There is more but i want you to fix the problems with your layout first and like Lord Venomoth said change the way you present your pokemon. Looking for to check this thread again.GL
Besides the lack of sprites, that are recommended, and the poor presentation, some of your sets just don't make sense. Also please try to include less slashes the next time, with all those uncertainty it's hard to rate your team. Volcarona in Rain is awesome, but resorting to both Thunder and Hurricane while forgoing your Bug STAB is a horrible idea, since Tyranitar can switch on you all day long and take whatever you throw at him. Thunder and Hurricane will experience an accuracy drop of 30%, Psychic does nothing, and Flamethrower/Fire coverage is resisted. Also, not using Quiver Dance on Voclarona is not a good idea, since you can find many other, better special attackers. Dragonite is bulkier, and can use Thunder and Hurricane together, too. Genesect can be incredibly fast with a Choice Scarf, or just incredibly powerful with a boosting item (Expert Belt, Life Orb) and Download, and can fire off Thunders as well. Also, both of them aren't murdered so hard by Stealth Rock, while Volcarona loses 50% health while switching into it. If you want to use Volcarona in Rain, just try the Rain set onsite (o a slight variation), that still lets you fire off Hurricanes, while granting you a boosting move and a way to go past Tyranitar with a Bug STAB. Moths Like Water (Move your mouse to reveal the content) Moths Like Water (open) Moths Like Water (close) @ Leftovers / Life Orb Modest Nature 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe - Quiver Dance - Bug Buzz - Fire Blast - Hurricane Playing Toxicroak as a tank may have its merits, but not investing into Attack at all means everything (literally) with a phazing move can come in and Whirlwind / Roar you away. Try to remove those defensive EVs and use a spread of 244 HP / 252 Atk / 12 Def and an Adamant nature with the same moveset, that at least lets you hit harder and avoids the ridiculous situation of Heatran coming in and phazing you while you only deal 75% max to a Specially Defensive variant... While your Alakazam set can be good (although I would suggest a slight variaton of its moveset: Psyshock | Shadow Ball | Focus Blast | HP Ice, I can see marginal utility in Thunderbolt to check Gyarados but still think that Ice coverage is better for all those Dragons, and Landorus / Gliscor), but it absolutely need a Timid nature. Using a Modest nature takes away the main attractiveness of Alakazam, being fast and hitting hard, and enables things like Latios, Terrakion, Keldeo and anything over 105 base Speed to outpace you, which is VERY bad. Alakazam cannot take hits at all, and without Focus Sash you'll be OHKO'd by almost everything. Zangoose is just bad in OU, its stats and typing are much inferior to Scizor and many other attackers that cover similar roles. Scizor is a good improvement, although I would advice a general rebuilding of your team before thinking about what sweeper to use. You have a number of weaknesses that need to be addressed: - all of your pokemon are grounded, Spikes and boosted Ground moves will hurt, - strong Electric attackers can literally tear your team down, LO Thundurus absolutely destroys you after Alakazam is gone, - you have no answer for opposing Tornadus-T that will tear down your team in conjunction with something that can kill Vaporeon, - you lack a Stealth Rock user, which is vital to whittle down opposing pokes and to allow your sweepers to have an easier life while doing their job. A good idea could be Specially Bulky Rotom-W, that stops Tornadus cold, can take a Thunder from Scarf Thundurus-T and retaliate, and is not too concerned with opposing Spikes / Toxic Spikes. Also, a Grass pokemon will add some protection from Ground and Electric attacks; Celebi or Amoonguss can be good candidates. Specially Defensive Rotom-W (Move your mouse to reveal the content) Specially Defensive Rotom-W (open) Specially Defensive Rotom-W (close) @ Leftovers 252 HP / 32 SpA / 220 SpD Calm Nature - Hydro Pump - Volt Switch - Will-O-Wisp - Pain Split Not adding specific sets for Amoonguss or Celebi since they can be tailored to suit your needs best. For example, if you need a Stealth Rock setter, Celebi can do that. I hope my comments don't look too harsh to you. Good luck with the team!
Thanks for the help. I might use the Jirachi, and Dragonite is actually a much better idea than Volcarona because it has access to a great set of Multiscale with Dragon Dance and access to Roost and is not slaughtered by stealth rock, though Volcarona with a bug type move and quiver dance would work. Also, putting attack investments in to Toxicroak is a really good idea. I could use my Gengar with Destiny Bond, Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt, and HP Fighting and a Focus Sash to make up for avoiding spikes. Unfortunately, I got an Adamant Rotom, which won't get me far. I might try Toxic Orb with Poison Heal Breloom or just plain mean Celebi. A lot of good suggestions here. Thanks for your help.
does volcarona get thunder? as far as I know, the only thing that has access to thunder and hurricane is dragonite. there is no point in using modest for alakazam. rather say latios if using modest. there are better rain abusers than zangoose, like scizor, raikou and roserade-which can ohko h252 politoed and ttar with leaf storm, and gets weather ball


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Earlier in the week Jim Leyland made the announcement that Rick Porcello's next start would come July 21st and that he has 15 starts left. Porcello has been on inning and pitch restrictions as the Tigers try not to burn out one of the most promising young arms in the game. Through his first 16 starts he has amassed 87 innings. With 15 more starts and assuming the same type of restrictions on start length he would finish this season with 165-170 innings. But do those 15 starts include a potential postseason appearance?
I decided to look at how things shake out the rest of the way. Barring rain outs and keeping the rotation intact Porcello's remaining starts could be:
Date | Rest |
21-Jul | |
26-Jul | 4 |
1-Aug | 5 |
6-Aug | 4 |
11-Aug | 4 |
16-Aug | 4 |
22-Aug | 5 |
28-Aug | 5 |
2-Sep | 4 |
8-Sep | 5 |
13-Sep | 4 |
18-Sep | 4 |
23-Sep | 5 |
28-Sep | 4 |
3-Oct | 4 |
That's 15 starts and it takes us right into the Tigers final series of the season against the White Sox. So if the Tigers do make the post season, does Rick Porcello have a role? Does he pitch out of the bullpen? Do they wait and see what happens? Or do they skip him at some point. In late August there are a couple of off days and the Tigers could push him back meaning he doesn't pitch in the final series, saving a start for a potential post season appearance.


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Diaw, De Colo lead France in comeback vs. Great Britain
Great Britain held a 20-point lead on France but it wasn't enough to beat the French squad as France made an incredible comeback for a 79-74 win in exhibition play.
San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker made his debut for France after his playing status was in doubt due to an eye injury he suffered in a nightclub brawl in New York City but didn't play much for the game nor during the huge comeback by France.
The key to France's comeback was a focus on defense in the second-half which frustrated Great Britain. France took the lead with 1:30 left in regulation up 72-69 and never let go.
Team France was led by Spurs' Boris Diaw who finished with 14 points while Nando De Colo finished with 13 points and three rebounds. Team Great Britain was led by Bulls' Luol Deng with a game high of 23 point and 12 rebounds.
France will next play BCM Gravelines in exhibition play before the 2012 Olympic Games begin.


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HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana University baseball team fell short to No. 25-ranked South Alabama Tuesday in 13-7 slugfest at Pat Kenelly Diamond at Alumni Field.
South Alabama (18-4) pounded out 21 hits, including a pair of home runs, and made several spectacular plays in the field. The Jaguars scored multiple runs in the first, second, sixth, seventh and ninth innings.
Southeastern (14-7) scored seven runs on 10 hits, but stranded 12 runners, as its home winning streak was snapped at 12 games (dating back to last season).
Jaguar starter Matt Bell (4-0) picked up the win after allowing four unearned runs in 5.2 innings of work. Starter Kyle Cedotal (2-3) suffered the loss for the Lions, allowing four runs in two innings of work and fanning four.
Southeastern travels to Jackson State (10-10) Wednesday for a 6 p.m. game at Robert "Bob" Braddy Field. There is no local radio coverage.
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Cardhu is Back!
Jack Bettridge
Posted: July 16, 2010
After a five year absense Cardhu, the venerable Speyside Scotch whisky, is returning to the United States late this summer with its subtle sweet charms of fruit and flowers. Cardhu has only appeared in America as the heart of the Johnnie Walker blend since shortages forced it off the market in 2005.
Cardhu was at the center of a controversy that ultimately caused a change in the way Scotch whisky was classified earlier in this decade. The distillery, which was established in 1824, had been used mainly to create whisky for blending since John Walker & Sons took control in 1893. By this century, its single malt had developed an avid following, especially in southern Europe. Faced with shortages its owner, Diageo, decided to bottle the single malt as part of a blend of other malts, which it labeled Cardhu Pure Malt. The move resulted in an outcry among whisky purists and Cardhu—under any name—was taken off American shelves. The 12-year-old has sold as a single malt in Europe since 2005.
In 2006, the Scotch Malt Whisky Association altered the rules by which Scotch whisky is labeled. Prior to that time the terms "vatted malt," and, in the cases of Cardhu and Johnnie Green Label, "pure malt" were often used to describe a mixture of single malts from several distilleries. The SWA decreed that such whisky be designated "blended malts." This classification differs from "blended Scotch whisky" in that the latter contains grain whiskies and the former does not. Malts are made only from barley and distilled in pot stills. Grain whiskies are made from a combination of barley and other cereals and distilled in column stills.
Originally owned by the Cumming family, stills have operated at the Cardhu site on Mannoch Hill, overlooking the river Spey, since 1811. Until 1824, when John Cumming obtained a license, the whisky was illicit. Cumming's daughter-in-law would later take over, becoming one of Scotland's first great female distillers and expanding the operation immensely before selling to Walker.
The distillery, set on the north side of the river valley, is a very picturesque location and provides an excellent tour. Cardhu's elegant, swan-neck copper stills contribute to the soft, silky character of the whisky. Despite this smoothness, the 12-year-old is deceptively flavorful.
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Cardhu 12-year-old Highland Scotch Whisky
Appearance: Medium to light color, olive oil, faintest green, plump legs.
Nose: Floral, candied nose of fruits (peaches and pears), heather and honey.
Palate: Light, but flavorful with a silky character. Hard candy, honey spices and slight anise. It develops a hint of Stilton as you chew through it. A lush malty, bread character crops up momentarily in mid-palate. The slightest hint of peat.
Finish: The finish anchors you to the rich hard-candy and honey flavors that inform this malt and has a medium length.
Cigar pairing: You'll be tempted to smoke something mild with this, but it's worth it to push into the medium-bodied range in the search for flavor synergy.
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Submission Deadline: March 14, 2012 Contributions are sought for a special issue of the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics. The AJPAE is particularly interested in papers that address the following themes:
Spirituality and business ethics: Interest in spirituality within the workplace has grown exponentially in recent years – both from instrumental and normative perspectives. What have we learnt so far? How are the paradigms compatible with one another? How do we manage the demands of the different 'spirits': the spirit of capitalism, the spirit of Mother Earth, the spirit of religions, the spirit of Man, the spirit of Woman – amongst others?
Myths in business ethics: Dissatisfied with current trends in the field, a growing number of scholars 'go back to basics' and re-read original texts from philosophers, economists or early management theorists with hopes of clarifying assumptions most take for granted. What assumptions should be questioned? Which myths pervade the business ethics area? How did they form and develop? What could they tell us about ethics, business and people?
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Arctic States release UNFCCC COP 18 Statement
05 December 2012
The September 2012 sea ice minimum in the Arctic highlighted once again that the effects of climate change are especially dramatic in the Arctic. In a joint statement prepared for the COP 18 climate conference in Doha, the Arctic States call for international emission cuts, particularly regarding Short Lived Climate Forcers (SLCF), in order to slow Arctic warming. In addition the Arctic Council and the Swedish Chairmanship will also host a side-event on Arctic climate change 6 December during the conference.
Statement on Arctic warming
The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 18) of the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change in Doha, Qatar began 26 November and continues until 7 December.
The Arctic States use the 2012 sea ice extent minimum as a starting point for their joint statement. They note that Arctic inhabitants have observed rapid reductions in snow and ice cover and duration over the past decades. The dramatically accelerated ice loss and changes in snow and ice-conditions are confirmed by satellite observations and scientific studies. This warming has cascading effects on biodiversity, ecosystems and human living conditions in the Arctic and around the world. Arctic climate change is therefore of major global concern.
Arctic States call urgently upon the international community to limit the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius by cutting emissions of long lived greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, but also prioritizing Short Lived Climate Forcers (SLCF). SLCF include black carbon, or soot, which is produced when wood or fossil fuels are burned. The Arctic Council will continue to spearhead efforts to address short lived climate forcers. Read the full statement here.
Side-event on global effects of Arctic climate change
The side-event Arctic climate change – rapid change and global consequences will be held in room Lefkosia, Hall 3 of the EU Pavilion at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha. The event will offer a wide range of perspectives and broaden the dialog on Arctic climate change and its global effects as Arctic Environment Ministers meet with scientists and NGOs to discuss pressing questions on the subject.
Several ministers from the Arctic Council member states will participate in the side-event: the Swedish minister of the Environment, Lena Ek, who will begin the event with an introductory speech/introductory remarks on the current situation in the Arctic; Jens B Frederiksen, Greenland´s minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Transport; Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Building; and Peter Kent, Canada's Minister of the Environment.
Also, Lars-Otto Reiersen, executive secretary of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP); Samantha Smith, the leader of the WWF global climate and energy initiative, and Leehi Yona, youth delegate, will all be participating in the discussion moderated by Anders Turesson. Read the full event invitation here.


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ALTON—The Christmas Parade for the City of Alton is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 8 at 9 a.m. Citizens will be able to enjoy performances, treats and gifts from Santa Claus.
Assistant City Manager Steve Peña explained it would be a fun morning for all involved. The parade starts on Los Ebanos Road and turns east onto Mile 5 Road, where it will then hit Alton Boulevard and trickle into the Recreation Center located on West Dawes Avenue.
The parade will kick off the event, but will lead into a Christmas celebration.
"Everyone gets a bag full of goodies and can walk through stations we will have set up by local vendors," Peña said. "We will also have a toy give away and bike drawing."
The event has scheduled performances from the La Joya Jr. High Band and the Mission Jr. High Band. Peña added, attendees would also be able to enjoy hot dogs, tamales and sodas.
"We will have vendors who will also be giving away bags with trinkets, pencils and pens," Peña said. "We are also going to have Santa Claus help us with giving away gifts.
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When soldiers die, the politicians who sent them to their deaths typically use euphemisms and circumlocutions — like "lost," "fallen," or "ultimate sacrifice." On one level, the avoidance of blunt language can be seen as a sign of respect, but on another, it is just one more evasion of responsibility for the snuffing out of young lives.
There has been unusually wide (and for the most part supportive) reaction to my article of August 8 (They Died in Vain: Deal With It) on the killing of 30 American troops when their helicopter was shot down over Afghanistan on the night of the 6th. One website posting the article clocked 181 comments; scanning through them, I found many substantive, helpful ones.
Let me share one telling comment, which seemed to me particularly — if sadly — apt:
"Two lemmings are chatting while standing in the line to the cliff. One says to the other, 'Of course we have to go over the edge. Anything else would dishonor all the lemmings that have gone before us.'"
And so it goes, thought I, with our Lemming-in-Chief (LIC) Barack Obama … and those who lemmingly follow him.
The President's and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's words about the 30 dead soldiers, including members of the elite Seal Team 6, were very carefully chosen. But they bore the telltale earmarks of "the Lemming Syndrome."
"We will honor the fallen by showing our unyielding determination to press ahead … to move forward with the hard work," said Panetta on Aug. 8.
That same day, President Obama also stressed how "our troops will continue the hard work. … We will press on." There was also subdued talk from both leaders about how the troops were "lost."
Gosh, I thought, I did not know that the 30 U.S. troops were just "lost" or that they had simply "fallen." Sounds like maybe we can still find them and help them get up – when the hard truth is that they're dead.
Similarly, persistent use of "helicopter crash" seems to be a deliberate attempt to hide the hard reality that it was a rocket-propelled grenade that downed the helicopter and that this is why the troops ended up "fallen." The anodyne language helps soft-pedal the fact that Afghans who don't like American troops making middle-of-the-night raids all over their country have access to RPGs capable of downing aircraft.
These angry Afghans are usually described as "militants" or, in a sad reflection on the primitive level of the conversation on the war, simply as "the bad guys."
Perhaps others of my (Vietnam) generation are hearing what I am hearing as background music — the plaintive lyrics of the song, "When Will They Ever Learn?"
More evocative of such times — then and now — are the words Pete Seeger put to music during a large lemming infestation 44 years ago:
"We were neck-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on." Pete Seeger, 1967
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Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. During his career as a CIA analyst, he prepared and briefed the President's Daily Brief and chaired National Intelligence Estimates. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
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Simply amazing that still no media coverage has related this (and other) African/Middle East wars to Thomas Barnett's 2006 Naval War College book and strategy, "The Pentagon's New Map", which promulgates the current plan of the global corporate/financial/militarist Empire controlling our former country, to capture the entire 5000 miles swath of "GAP" countries from Mauritania to the Chinese boarder.
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Each of our Individual Voices Is More Important Than We've Realized
a study which says that even one dissenting voice can give people permission to think for themselves. Specifically:
Solomon Asch, with experiments originally carried out in the 1950s and well-replicated since, highlighted a phenomenon now known as "conformity". In the classic experiment, a subject sees a puzzle like the one in the nearby diagram: Which of the lines A, B, and C is the same size as the line X? Take a moment to determine your own answer...
The gotcha is that the subject is seated alongside a number of other people looking at the diagram - seemingly other subjects, actually confederates of the experimenter. The other "subjects" in the experiment, one after the other, say that line C seems to be the same size as X. The real subject is seated next-to-last. How many people, placed in this situation, would say "C" - giving an obviously incorrect answer that agrees with the unanimous answer of the other subjects? What do you think the percentage would be?
Three-quarters of the subjects in Asch's experiment gave a "conforming" answer at least once. A third of the subjects conformed more than half the time.
Get it so far? People tend to defer to what the herd thinks.
But here's the good news:
Adding a single dissenter - just one other person who gives the correct answer, or even an incorrect answer that's different from the group's incorrect answer - reduces conformity very sharply, down to 5-10%.
Why is this important? Well, it means that one person who publicly speaks up can sway a group of people away from group-think.
Thanks once again to Ray McGovern for continually speaking the truth to those who will listen. Since I was a child in Catholic school, I was keenly aware of the dangers of group think. We were told that only the Catholics had it right and that all non-believers were going to hell and not to even associate with them. As an American citizen I was told to salute the flag and to support any war effort we were involved in because as a nation, we were always doing what was right and there was certainly no need to question the official story - ever - period. I am not a child any more and have watched in horror as what seems to be the majority of my fellow citizens doing as they are told as we are led to the edge of madness over and over again. I have a saying: People do things because other people do them. And once again those same people will vote for the Dem rats and Oblahblah in 2012 in our broken and corrupt political system. Same old story; no need to question, observe or even think for ourselves - it has all been decided and taken care of. Do as you are told; watch the others going over the edge - it will be alright - we have god on our side.
John, great comment. I too had your upbringing, but it took me many years to understand the brainwashing that goes on with just those two things. Add in the songs 'God bless america, My country tis of thee, and all the other brainwashing songs and things we are subjected too.
Few people see that they are BS. Most people become Lemmings.
It's my understanding that "God Bless America" was written by Irving Berlin after escaping Nazi Germany, and only acquired its jingoistic nature sometime later.
Not true. Irving Berlin came as a child with his family from Russia to the U.S. in the 1890's. He never had to escape from Nazi Germany. He wrote "God Bless America" sometime around WWI. It became a hit when Kate Smith sang it in 1938.
Still, every time I hear the song "God Bless America" I can only think that perhaps the rest of the world's countries ought to be blessed too. If there is such a thing as God (I personally do not believe so), I wouldn't have much respect for Him (or is it It) if all the blessing was laid on the U.S.A.
John: Thank you for sharing the anecdotal information. You notice that both the call to patriotism, my country right or wrong, and the call to religious fealty, rest on a taught respect that demands OBEDIENCE to AUTHORITY.
When so many children are conditioned by religions that use the fear of hell and damnation to banish any questions, and get them to stand in line, saluting the religious institution that their forbears obeyed, it's easy to see why America is such an authoritarian culture.
Societies do punish those who don't go along with the rules, those who refuse to line up. It's no coincidence that the rise of the Christian Fundamentalist movement through its elaborate network of churches, TV stations, radio stations, and publishing, runs parallel with a leadership intent upon punishing "whistle-blowers," and any persons courageous enough to challenge orthodoxies, or expose the hypocrisy that hides behind a number of government agencies.
Principled persons like Bradley Manning, Tim De Christopher, Julian Assange, and others are key examples of current scape-goats.
Inverted totalitarianism relies upon the structures of fear to force renegades into complicance with "doctrines of conformity." Yet society ONLY grows from the rebel and inventive acts of those who step out of line! And this is why they are so feared by those invested in the status quo. Incidentally, rebels, radicals, revolutionaries, Truth tellers, and inventors are all sacred unto the sign-phase next up on the Universal Dial of Time. It's pure self-defense on the part of the established elites to work so hard to punish the Light bearers, as if they can maintain the darkness (that of a new Dark Age of short, but intensified, duration) in this way...
Light on!
This is what I believe is the crux of the problem. Here is our society faced with some serious issues, whether that be continued wars, the failure of our legal system and the multitudes we imprison, the increasing disparity between rich and poor, the coming energy crisis, or the poisoning of our planet. We are in serious need of coming up with new creative ways of living and working out these problems.
There are many intelligent, knowledgeable, and creative people in our society and we should be trying to engage these people. Instead they are stuffed into a box, many without even realizing it.
As polycarpe posted in another thread, people are kept in an adolescent state. What better way to keep people there than to have an adult population that is still scared by the boogyman? We are taught to feed our individualistic desires rather than learning how to work together and communicate with each other from the very beginning of our educations. This lack of connectedness with each other hinders our emotional and psychological growth. We become xenophobes. Many get a god complex about their notions and opinions that they are incapable of even discussing core issues. We don't have to work together, we don't have to take responsibility, actual responsibility for our own communities, our state, our nation, as this is all done for us by large corporate and governmental entities.
At some point, this will all smack us in the face. It looks more and more to me that the train going 500mph is showing no signs of slowing before the oncoming brick wall.
Although, this forum and CD gives me some hope. That there is a core group of people who do think for themselves and are willing to share their insightful thoughts.
Has CD thought of expanding on this forum as a way to bring this community closer?
NEO: I don't know if you were responding to my post, but I think you raised excellent points about the atomization of society, and the lack of any instruction in the ways and means to work together, or get along. Strangely enough, when I argue against the extreme footprint of militarism upon our society, some (in this forum) suggest that it's on the battlefield where men learn to bond. As if we have to be confronted by death to understand the benefits of sharing LIFE.
I have suggested a CD radio show as a means for some of our more vigorous "inside" debates to reach others; and I thought of even having quarterly social events, perhaps in each part of the nation. No mechanism for catalyzing these possibilities has shown up, to my knowledge.
When the system went down yesterday, it was disorienting because many of us rely on this site for our information, and also find ourselves stimulated by the interchange of views found here, and few other venues.
Much of what we've all been apprised of via this site and its authors (and more astute posters) would be considered alien or virtual conspiracy theory by the typical listeners to the MSM. When Truth itself is marginalized, a society can not avoid massive sociological problems. But the elites thought of this pre-emptively, hence the control of the media, added to recent inroads to shut off cell phone service, added to surveillance on citizens. What better way to co-opt any events that might come too close to raising awareness about the awful, unlawful, and nefarious activities of the status quo "owners?" And then making people like Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and Tim De Christopher into "examples."
Now that the US has lost its credit rating, and the stock market has once again imploded (and it's amazing how this event is being framed as a SEPARATE correction, as if it's not the NATURAL outcome of the fake money recently pumped in, without any remedial moves put in place to correct the problems in the first place!), with jobs off-shored, infrastructure in some areas crumbling, public schools being defunded, insurance companies going wild on their own deregulation frenzy, and natue coming apart at the seams all over... there is NO way the economy can ever return to its faux-driven astronomical heights.
Crash time... (the only thing slowing it down is the incredulity principle.)
Brush up your skills, because barter will become The Way very soon.
Yes, I was responding to your post Siouxrose, thank you for your comments.
I think the challenge that lies ahead of any given group in a crash scenario is how well that group or community pulls together. No person is an island unto themselves, we rely on each other every day, whether we want to admit it or not.
Unfortunately the mechanism that binds us (generally) is unfettered capitalism. This may change. This can change. It doesn't mean that capitalism in of itself is wrong, but perhaps there are other alternatives that may work as well or in conjunction.
To me it would seem that any system, line of thought, philosophy that can not or is unwilling to contemplate and re-examine beliefs and perspectives is stagnant. It is not enough to say, "well that's just the way things are". We all need to take responsibility for ourselves AND our communities, which means we all need to contribute. Which is hard for people to do when they're concerned with working hard to get out of debt or looking for a job to find housing, or when they have their big screen TV and SUV and don't have to take that responsibility.
The resources are there for us to survive whether the money or oil is available or not. I believe we can live good and fulfilling lives, but we need to organize. Many of us need to grow up, and perhaps a crash is what will force the issue.
Great articles Mr. McGovern,
The public should see the full cost of war, gravely injured and dead young men and women, while at the same time hearing a full debate over the often ambiguous and dubious justifications for continuing the incredibly costly war in Afghanistan.
People opposed to very questionable war and militarism often shudder when they hear members of the public and politicians say to active duty members of the military..."Thank you for your sacrifice", or "Thank you for your service". This is due to the fact that war's justifications coming from power hungry politicians and often warmongering uniformed military leaders are misleading and ambiguous at best and based on outright untruths and lies at worst. Simply put, our fellow citizens' (who are temporarily in military uniform) service and "sacrifice" have been wasted and were in vain.
These facts will not change when we avoid the real debate about war as we offer soldiers (and ourselves) misleading, shallow and cheap platitudes about "honoring" soldiers....the truth is the American people want less war, militarism, and needless deaths and injury of their brothers, sisters, family members and neighbors.
Mr. McGovern's recommendation: "Deal with it!" reminds me of the funeral oration given by Pericles after the Battle of Marathon. That is bascially what he told the Athenians who had lost relatives in the battle. He did not gloss over the losses, nor did he use euphemisms to ease the pain.
I wonder, Ray, will the psychopaths in charge of this country deign to call all of the people they will MURDER by slashing SS, Medicare and Medicaid "lost" or "fallen"?
Getting your ass blown up in the service of the fascist neoliberal elite sure is great copy but having yourself starved to death or watching your loved ones physically deteriorate due to lack of funds is just as effective and just as important a role in the global sweep of neoliberal fascism.
Why not honor all of the seniors and poor who will die for the great neoliberal fascist cause with medals?
We could call them Sacrifice Awards.
Five points for being blown up in a pointless war, 3 points for watching your parents die untreated, 2 points for every child who missed a treatment.
Then add just add up all your Sacrifce Award points, register at sacawards.com and you'll be eligible for lots of great deals from participating vendors like Walmart, GM and Monsanto.
These people are quite simply anti-human, traitors to our species.
These people are quite simply a species unto themselves.
""We will honor the fallen by showing our unyielding determination to press ahead … to move forward with the hard work"
"our troops will continue the hard work. … We will press on."
As long as "we" are working hard, and "we" are pressing on...well, it's sufficient, right? Life is not absurd, "we" are not murderers; the violent, oppressive, hypocritical, brave new world "we" have created is not the mother of all blights. "We" are not diseased (as a small distant voice somehere in our brain keeps telling us).
It is the language of slavery; do the "hard work", but avoid specifics, motives, and reasons at all costs.
Mr. McGovern,
You speak the truth, and for us "Lemming" mutants that have found a different reality, our frustration knows no boundaries. We watch in horror as thousands continue to die by the gun, or the bomb, or the depletion of resources, the lack of access to water, etc. And all the while the military industrial complex and the warmongers and profiteers expel euphemisms that seem to satisfy the majority of cliff jumpers, urging them on as one, just another day of destruction , horror and pain. Our "leaders" merely press the buttons, accepting pellets of complicity and convenience, food and sustenance and reward for what all lemmings deem right and just and honorable. The United States is diminished and at the hands of our "leaders" and those so eager to follow. The democratic party, the republican party merely facilitate and proclaim our duty to jump.
When another lemming begins the march towards oblivion its effect is hardly one persons downfall, it is the degradation and destruction of the whole civilization. And as one civilization succumbs so will all of us suffer.
Those who expel gasses through their mouths twisting our horrors into quaint tradition and honorable measures are the true monsters of us all. For in reality and in plain speak, those that exalt war and wrap it in flags are feasting on roasted lamb and fine wines atop all the dead.
OLD HARE: Great post! I feel what you do. And Yogananda long ago lectured at the U.N. relating the direct association between human acts of violence and reverberations sent through the unseen webs that hold nature together. He made it clear that were wars and the arms trades to continue, humanity would see an uptick in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, floods, and droughts. WE ARE THERE.
I realize that the either-or thinkers in our forum have difficulty grasping the holistic fact that High thinkers, those who enter into states of awareness most of us never touch, can come to an awareness synchronous with that which is measured by orthodox science and its technological devices. Truth, like a mountain, can be reached from a number of paths. That science has caught up with the mystics suggests the gravity of our situation...
Until people put down ARMS to join hands, the circles of life will remain not only broken, but will dangerously continue to come apart.
The analogy of lemmings to what our political leaders are doing in Vietnam [sorry, make that Afghanistan] by Ray McGovern is most relevant and incisive. But it is quite surprising that Mr. McGovern did not point out that not everyone has to be a lemming as I am sure that R. G. is quite aware of the GI rebellion that took place during the Vietnam conflict when thousands of military personnel, as seen in the extraordinary documentary Sir! No Sir!, refused to be lemmings by protesting against their government's militant policies at or near military bases both at home and abroad. Many of them had the courage of their convictions when they ended up in jail for their beliefs.
The point is that if those in the military who fought in Vietnam could say NO to what the government and the military was doing back then then surely those in the military can do the same thing today in far greater numbers than they are now doing. Will the current generation finally understand that they did not leave their brains behind in the civilian world by realizing that they, like the generation that was around some forty odd years ago, have a right to Question Authority even if that authority emanates from the military? Will those in the military finally come to the conclusion that they are dying and coming back to this country without an arm or a leg or paralyzed from the neck down because they have been lied to by their government? Or will they continue to stupidly and robotically obey the questionable orders that they are given by their commanding officers?
If only the robots in the military can reach the same epiphany that former Green Beret Master Sergeant Donald Duncan did when he wisely noted in Sir! No Sir! that:
I was doing it right but I wasn't doing right.
"The mass of men serves the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailors, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt."- Henry David Thoreau [1817-1862], American author and philosopher
Will those in the military today continue to justify Thoreau's belief that they are wooden men and men [and women] of straw or will more of them finally use their brains by saying NO to American imperialism?
ERROLL: I agree with you in principle, and applaud YOUR principles regarding challenging the MIC; but I would add that the mood in Amerika today is far more conservative than it was 40 years ago. Nixon's people learned from the Nazis and the rebels of the 60's, and they've made it UNMANLY to question war. So deeply is the idea of violence coupled with alleged manhood today, that any considered-viable leader must show their willingness to be HARD and FIRM and TOUGH on crime, or the enemy du jour.
I find it sad that women and gays would want to join the MIC, although the futility of the job search in today's industrially decimated environment lends at least a financial rationale for their doing so.
When I was coming of age, what passed for heroism was the character of a Gregory Peck or James Stewart challenging unjust rules.
If you notice (and the guy I date pointed this out to me), there's been a cunning increase, an upping of the ante on all sorts of violence as depicted on the screen. Today's hero is NEVER seen without his gun, as if it's a biological extension of his own being.
Heroism has been DIRECTLY and PURPOSELY linked with a love of violence.
Clint Eastwood's various shoot-outs came first, followed by plenty of Bruce Willis roles, or punching matches with Sly Stallone.
The pressure on men to act like bullies, to show a HARDness at all times, to not waiver in their willingness to use force, is conditioned into Amerikan males in a way that more than suggests a tribute to Rome and Sparta.
Until the romanticized concept of violence is exposed for the lethal rot that it is, too many psyches will remain conditioned to care-less behaviors. Think of the kids using their cell phones to retain images of those they abused in combat. It is beyond sickening. Violence and porn work together, as both cheapen life. If anyone thinks the torture practices that went on (and possibly still do) at Amerika's offshore prison complexes are not porn, they ought to do some soul searching.
Plus the incredible proliferation of porn via the Internet works hand in glove with the uptick in violence around the world, especially that which is engineered by Amerika's very own MIC.
If the subject weren't so grim, this discussion could be a game of Mad Libs.
A helicopter was [fill in the blank]. Innocent civilians were [fill in the blank].
Soldiers were [well, you get the idea].
Shot down? No, it crashed. Brutally killed? No, it was collateral damage.
And then there is the ultimate euphemism: The Department of Defense. Maybe we should go back to the pre-World War II terminology and call it what it is, the Department of War.
I agree – except on the use of "lemmings," though I suppose there is no way to stuff that expression back in the bag. The lemming claim is about as true as Adam being created from clay and Eve from one of Adam's ribs.
Actually, the true story of Disney's 1958 "White Wilderness" film (the sole source of this false tale), the construction of the lie, is perhaps a better match for the lies we've been told than the concept of lemmings following leaders to doom. As with the making of Disney's lemming "doc" it is the humans doing the lemming bit, not the lemmings, who have more sense.
That lemmings supposedly committed mass suicide by following leaders across waters where they all drowned is a lie, created by Disney "documentarians" as part of their animal story line. There is a famous scene where these lemmings jump over a cliff into the deep water (Arctic Ocean) and swim to their eventual doom. They never did any such thing. The film makers created the scene.
The film makers constructed a whirling table at the top of their "cliff" and set the camera just below. Then, on top, where the camera didn't see it, the film makers threw the poor lemmings onto the turntable which caused the lemmings to come flying off the camera side, giving the impression that they were jumping off a cliff. After that they show the lemmings in water (it was a river) to swim and told us that the animals were swimming out to open water, never to reach land, drowning instead.
When I checked for a reference for this comment I realized that, (real life irony here) the film won the Academy Award for best documentary feature. Also, another scene, of a polar bear cub, was manufactured in studio. Good ole' Disney. It is not hard to Google and get a lot of references but I will include this one from Wikipedia:
One quote: "... the particular species of lemming shown in the film is not known to migrate, much less commit mass suicide."
So much for God, country and Disney!
Thanks for posting this. I was scanning down the comments to see if it had been mentioned...and you saved me a bunch of typing.
The lemming analogy is fittingly apt in this day and age.
It is yet one more piece of regurgitated, corporate sponsored, nonsense passing itself off as truth...with a majority of the population lapping it up like famished kittens.
Even if Ray didn't mean to use the lemmings in this way...it is deviously appropriate none-the-less :)
Keep up the good fight, Mr. McGovern
ETA...great doc by the CBC about Hollywood and their often reprehensible treatment of animals.
As long as they've made movies, animals have been killed or injured to do it.
The controversial shot of lemmings leaping to their death from the Disney film, White Wilderness. In reality, they were flung from a turntable (not seen) into a river.In a landmark investigation twenty-five years ago, called Cruel Camera, the fifth estate's Bob McKeown uncovered an uncomfortable, even shocking, reality about moviemaking: animals, intentionally put in harm's way, abused, often killed to create the kind of cinematic excitement that draws a crowd.
As well, the fifth estate found that in wildlife documentaries, the casualties are often the truth. Nature films, including award-winning documentaries made by esteemed studio such as Disney, sometimes used fakery in their shots. (watch the original film online)
It certainly is true that the "lemming suicide" idea is false. I've read that the source of the story was the 1958 Disney movie, but it wasn't. It unquestionably popularized the notion.
I read a little nature guide when I was seven in 1957. There was a picure of a mass of lemmings going over a cliff into the ocean. The text said when the population of lemmings reached an unsustainable limit they "went over the cliff" en masse. My father, who assisted me in reading and interpreting the book, told me he had heard this about lemmings before. What the book failed to mention was that lemmings were attempting to migrate and not in as dramatic a manner as shown.
But Disney, yes...how about the famous "dance of the scorpions" from "The Living Desert"? I think that film won awards, too.
It's not that "we" never learn, it's that the MIC has a network of powerful controls in place, hence my favored euphemism: Mars rules!
Tradition, for the most part, maintains the patriarchal orthodoxy. Young men join "the services" to honor their fathers who did so before them, as did their fathers, and so on. Just as the cigarette company, Virginia Slims, catered to the type of female who wanted to prove herself to men, by utilizing the slogan, "You've come a long way, baby," to lure women into smoking, similar conditioning led some women into recently joining "the services." Welcome to the killing fields, in either place!
Until the entire Mars rules ethos which has been so deeply etched into our nation's character and psyche is exposed for the TERROR that it is, many people will act as those lemmings, and prefer the language of "killng them softy with our MIC song," to the reality of blood shed, severed limbs, and grotesquely exploded body parts. All that truth has been conveniently laundered out of media's portrayals of "heroism."
Societies have mostly been structured by men. Now some in this forum can reasonably argue that it was not all men, it was white men of privilege. And that IS true. Nonetheless, until religions give equal time to God the Mother, as they do God the Father, we will see women treated as second-class citizens, deprived of their sovereign rights, raped too often, and by extension, the Great Mother, nature, treated to similar disrespect. Without the TRUE partnership of the female side of The Force, the warrior Mars holds dominion. And ALL sentient beings are paying a price for this lack of balance.
Only an idiot can't see that the asymmetric focus on militarism has already begun to gut our nation of necessary services and infrastructure. This model that puts killing/war/aggression/soldiering first, is the precise reason why nature is everywhere coming asunder. And while it's true that many of us play a role in leaving a fossil-fuel-footprint behind, it's also true that had there been vigorous campaigns to invent and distribute less toxic energy systems, most of us would have gotten on-board.
The armies marching into lands thousands of miles away, and carting all their heavy equipment along, leaving a trail of blood and toxic detritus in their wake, are far more GUILTY of energy/resource exploitation than the average Joe or Jane who has to commute 18 miles to his or her job. (I thought I'd nip this favored blame-the-citizens meme in the bud, before the forum's foremost apologists for militarism and/or the status quo show up to use it.)
Obama is nothing but a war monger-in this, he is a true brother to Dubya, Cheney, Rove, Tenet, Wolfowitz, etc. His complete acquiescence to the far-right corporate war makers has proven there is no "hope" for ANY "change" from this or any other deely-entrenched Oligarch. Our troops continue, lemming-like, into this morass which has no purpose other than for them to be MURDERED by the inhuman war machinery. Smedley Butler was right-war is a racket.
I'd like Mr.O'Compromise to be hard, tough, and unyielding to Israelis, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, Rahm Emanuel, Cass Sunstein, Eric Holder, Dennis Ross, Peter Orszag, and Thomas Donilon.
Instead, he's hard and tough and mean to Arabs in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, to the poor and powerless in American society, and to older Americans, and to children in America, and to Bradley Manning.
Rad Pitt from 'Fight Club' [1999]: "God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't."
A President with a backbone has to choose whom to smile upon and whom to scowl at. One without a backbone smiles at everyone.
If I could just watch the other lemmings go over the edge, I'd be OK with that. But our nations are MAD (mutual assured destruction). The concept has never been repudiated, and I know now, as I have always known, that it is just a matter of time before it is employed. This bent on self-destruction goes much deeper than our escapades in Afghanistan and the plans are already drawn to include the nuclear weapons of India and China. All lemmings should be very concerned--you'll die even if you never went near the cliff.
Or as the Late Great Phil Ochs worded: "It's always the old to lead us to the War, Always the Young too fall, and look at all the've done with a sabor and a gun, tell me is it worth it all?"
Also let me add: What I was seeing the late 80's in Afganistan that the Soviet army was coming home and being given great praise for their heroics. They didnt win. Our generation of Solders or Generation of spectators of Fox News would say things like "The Soviets got there Asses handed to them". I think the U.S. is currently being handed the same.
Ahhh, it's a good web day for ctrl-z.
"Posted by ctrl-z
Aug 8 2011 - 2:01pm
Cartoon: Two lemmings are conversing while standing in the line to the cliff. One says to the other, "Of course we have to go over the edge. Anything else would dishonor all the lemmings that have gone before us.""
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/08-1 (a thread with 181 comments)
It takes almost an entire society to keep lying to people that have lost family members in these wars telling them they haven't died in vain or that they are fighting for our freedoms and other such nonsense or the media talking about our heroes. Americans are idiots to believe this crap but by and large they do.
Here is Shakespeare's take:
"Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word "honour"? What is that "honour"? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism".
This is a powerful "catechism" from one supposed to be a coward and fool, Sir John Falstaff during the battle of Shrewsbury. This testimony is as the French say "sans pareil". "Therefore I'll none of it" and that is the battle cry of revolutions.
I have played Owen Glendower in this play, Henry IV, part One and I have wondered many times whether WS was anti-war in his heart and what he would write to this site of Common Dreams were he alive today. Or would he write a play with the title "Obama, part one" with battles all around the globe? Even though England of his time was different from the USA today what emerges from his "King-plays" is that war-making of all kinds had long been and perhaps forever the principal industry of his island nation as it is of our nation today. I suspect that WS would immediately recognize that our society and war-making habits are no different from his England and Falstaff would have a big belly laugh if we claimed to be better and he had a huge belly. In fact, I can think of only very few nations in which that has never been the case or has not been the case for a long time and these are always small countries like Switzerland. But then I immediately remember the name Oerlikon which shows that the war profiteers of Switzerland simply feed on the war-making of other nations. There are leaches and leachees and as long as the leachees either sign up for war or vote funds for it or support war-making by being passive nothing will change.
"......you get an estimate of 1,486,338 deaths within that year. Even if you use the lower poverty totals from the Census Bureau, 43.6 million people, you get an estimate of 1,228,169 deaths in 2009. "
And that just for the US. The toll from Big Finance is much higher than that from War, the latter being an enabler for the former.
Thank you for the expression "Lemming-in-Chief".
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Oh, Cool-whip cracks me up. "look! we make it with soybeans and oil and sugar mashed with air! But it has no fat, so it's healthy!!!" Yeaaaaah, I think that tree bark or grass-clippings are probably healthier than cool-whip.
I have a friend who, even though I had explained my way of eating to her, bought some frozen dessert or other and told me : "you can have this! It's fat free and it's got fruit in it! It's healthy!" This is a woman who saw me eat a bowl of creamy pasta sauce sans pasta... And yet despite this was pushing some sugar filled fat free crap at me... Ahhh well at least I've got her buying butter and not margarine these days.
To quote Inigo Montoya: "healthy"... "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I am not feeling particularly sad or "superior" when I see other people's super processed foods in their shopping cart. I was exactly the same until 9 months ago and you know, I still could reproduce, have two healthy kids and have a rather happy life until 9 months ago when I changed my lifestyle. But I do feel MUCH MUCH better and my reference point for the "I-feel-good" state has shifted up dramatically. I do spot unhealthiness in many people when I go shopping, much more than before though. What can I personally do for this state of things ? Continue on my journey to reach my super-healthy-self, ... Everyone life's story is different and could well be a matter of "karma".


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Grocery List:
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- Lemons (3) $1.20
- Red pepper $0.80
- Lettuce (preferably romaine or red leaf) $0.82
- Bunch of carrots (about 4) $1.49
- Roma tomatoes (4) (or any ripe tomatoes) $1.41
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- Next, throw the pasta in water while you chop up the veggies.
- Make the black beans on the stove while you wash the dishes.
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Pan-Seared Chicken
1. Rub the chicken breast in 1 to 2 tbsp. of olive oil. Season liberally with salt and pepper on both sides.
2. Cook the chicken over medium heat in a non-stick pan on the stove top for 20 to 25 minutes or until no pink remains when cut with a knife in the center. Flip several times to cook evenly.
3. When the chicken is thoroughly cooked, cut 2/3 of it into strips, leaving 1/3 whole. Refrigerate.
Minimalist Hummus
1. Drain the chickpeas into a small cup or bowl. Reserve the liquid.
2. Peel one clove of garlic and throw it in the blender or food processor, blending briefly to dice. Add the drained chickpeas, the juice of one lemon, 2 Tbsp olive oil and about 1/2 tsp of salt.
3. Blend, adding the reserved liquid as needed to smooth out the dip. Check for taste, adding more salt, olive oil or lemon as needed.
4. Spoon the hummus into Tupperware and refrigerate, then rinse and dry the blender or processor.
Tasty modification: Add a small pinch of cayenne pepper, sun-dried tomatoes or roasted red peppers to the hummus.
Asian Dressing/Noodle Sauce
1. Peel one clove of garlic and throw it in the blender or food processor, blending briefly to dice.
2. Add 4 tbsp. sesame oil, 2 tbsp. soy sauce, 1 tbsp. vinegar and a pinch of sugar.
3. Blend for about 20 seconds, until the sauce becomes a rich brown.
4. Pour the sauce into Tupperware and stick in the fridge.
Tasty modification: Add red chili flakes or a dab of Asian chili sauce. Crush some peanuts into the sauce before serving.
Lemony Pasta Sauce
1. In a medium plastic bowl, juice 1-1/2 lemons, taking care that no seeds get into the bowl.
2. Add 1 tbsp. olive oil, 2 tbsp. of parmesan (less is needed if you are using fresh cheese) and a pinch of salt.
3. Whisk all of the ingredients, checking for taste. Refrigerate.
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1. Fill a medium pot 2/3 to the top with water and cover. Bring to a boil.
2. Add about 1/4- to 1/2-lb. of fettuccine cooking until al dente, according to package directions.
3. Drain in a colander and rinse well with cold water to avoid sticking.
4. Refrigerate in Tupperware.
Vegetable Prep
1. Slice the red pepper into long strips.
2. Dice 1-1/2 tomatoes; cut the other 2-1/2 tomatoes into rounds, then cut the rounds in half.
3. Rinse and tear the lettuce into a medium bowl.
4. Peel the carrots, making long, julienned strips with one of the carrots, then cut the remaining carrots into rounds.
5. Combine the lettuce, halved tomato rounds and carrot rounds in the bowl.
6. Refrigerate all of the ingredients.
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1. Drain and rinse a can of black beans.
2. Add one can of Rotel tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Cook over low heat for about five minutes. Refrigerate.
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