With fingers firmly in place on the keyboard, I reward myself with thoughts of wisdom by putting pen to paper (so to speak). Even though I always feel better, I don’t always feel as though I’ve accomplished anything simply because of the people with whom I’ll connect with yet never meet. But it’s not all for naught; I firmly believe that the Internet is the only tool at hand we, the proletariat, have against chicken-hawks dictating the current events affecting not just our country, but the world. And so, I write on.

It is on days like today that my typing fingers are like the tail of a puppy before a bowl of food; I’m so excited I can barely contain myself! Yet my excitement is ambiguous: I feel good and I feel bad. I just responded to a pitiful, misguided, biased, fear-mongered Ditto-head blogger, whose relentless run from the truth is molting. More often than not when I do read his posts and replies, and those of like-minded bloggers, I react, naturally, with a good scream or a good laugh- and then move on. I have to. I must put into place the ‘ole bartenders’ creed: “Never argue with a drunk. (It’s pointless.)” But sometimes I have to move in the direction of their face- and get into it. You can only keep poking a holier-than-thou, bony finger of ignorance and arrogance into my back for so long.

I’ve had it with the Armchair Brigade of cowardly lions who only growl loud. How easy is it to support a war while pounding out the keyboard, instead of bullets in a field of enemy fire? How easy is it to call dissenters of war hideous names because the truth, facts and history are not on the side of warmongers? How easy it to say that “your thoughts and prayers” are with fallen loved ones on the same day that you stop by and have a beer with your buds after work? How easy is this? If every single person 50-yrs and under who support der Bush and his Republican Reich’s “vision” of Middle-eastern “democracy” had to, as a prerequisite, enlist and be assigned combat-duty in support of their support, the blatant rhetoric from the Armchair Brigade would be more revealing than a D.C. Madam’s phone book. It would also mandate more time off in between tours of duty of existing soldiers and America’s generation of youth- full of idealism, hope and promise, would be more alive than dead. Congressmen might actually read legislature before voting on it, because if they had children, their status would not shelter them from what they advocate. But the Armchair Brigade won’t do it; they won’t put their rhetoric where their mouth is- on the front line in Baghdad. No- they’d rather call us “terrorists loving liberals” who think our soldiers are “baby killers,” to take the subject off of their cowardice and fear and the fact that all they have are sand-box tactics.

Does this really represent the true core of decent, law-abiding, hard-working Americans?

Abraham Lincoln once said, “A house divided cannot stand.” His words, a portent to all that America has become today, are as true now as they were during the Civil War. We have become a nation divided; caught in a civil war at home again… a nation divided between the “Haves” and the “Have Nots;” divided between those who want to establish “peace” in the Middle-east with Twinkies, Toyota’s and a couple of nukes, and those who see the path of history before us and do not want to repeat it (by ignoring it). As long as these soldiers of misfortune and their Kool-Aid drinking groupies dominate open forums with disease-laden, unequivocally refuted Talk Radio sycophants and FOX-propagated puppets, draft-dodging cowards like Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh will continue to lead the sheep off the cliff. I, for one, do not want to see that cliff simply by default for being an American. I may be angry towards the ignorance of blogging infantrymen, but the more I speak-out on the perpetual lies that relentlessly feed the propaganda pulpit and their choir of spineless sheep, the less the Armchair Brigade can recline in their state of delusion and denial. If just one Lazy-Boy wakes up, that’s one less FOX in the chicken-house.

“It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.” –Frank Purdue

We all have those “aha!” moments in our lives; times that catch us like a fish and put a spotlight on the moment. There’s no telling when, where or how these moments happen- they just do. Earlier today I had such a revelation- watching “National Lampoon” (first movie), when Chevy Chase was caught skinny-dipping with an even more naked Christie Brinkley. The entire scene is hilarious, but my “aha!” moment came after Chevy created the ruckus that brought everyone out of their motel rooms. They eventually all went back inside, including his wife and kids, but before his son Rusty retreated, he stopped to have a little heart to heart with Dad.

Rusty, around 15-yrs old, was wise to his Dad’s “swim;” not fooled by his explanation and which can only be summed-up as, “classic Chevy.” But Chevy, in his immortal Clark W. Griswold character, wasn’t admitting a thing- and went on to “explain” to Rusty why he was really in the pool- half naked with a gorgeous, and naked, Christy Brinkley.

“So you were in the pool with that naked woman to place an order, Dad?” asks Rusty.

“Yes son, she is a waitress… a swimming waitress,” answers Clark.

“And she was taking your order, huh Dad?” continues Rusty.

“Yes son; I was placing an order,” says Clark.

“Do you think Mom will buy it, Dad?” Rusty asks facetiously.

“Goodnight, son” says Clark, after a long pause.

Aha! That’s exactly how America has been towards the utter fiasco of the incompetent and rapacious Bush regime. Invading Iraq wasn’t because Iraqis attacked us September 11, 2001 and America does not occupy it today because it’s for "democracy;" the rich have not feasted on gluttony whilst the poor scramble for leftovers because Bush and his 109th Congress and fellow follies are "compassionate conservatives;" our rights have not been eviscerated while Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, et al, tell us they’re above the law because of "national security;" our bridges and cities aren’t collapsing around us while the court of the 43rd gives billions to government contracts to “re-build” Iraq, because Bush is "protecting us" and corporate America isn’t paying corporate government to give illegal aliens "rights" in America, for Homeland Security. How many swimming waitresses are we supposed to believe are in the pool of our "safety & freedom," to take our orders- because Dad says so?

Asking this question aloud brought me back to an older Tootsie Pop commercial, when a coy, old owl asked: “How many bites does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? One, two- three!” Crunch. That’s when the owl with a motive bit down hard on the pop, too impatient to wait to get to the center. So how many times does Team Bush have to sucker us in before ALL Americans crunch down on the perfidious center of the Bush regime?

Guess if the owl wore a blue dress with presidential stains on it, it would only take once.

“It is always simple to drag the people along, whether in a democracy or a dictatorship… the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders; just tell them they’re being attacked, denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and expose the country to danger… it works the same in any country.” –Goering, from the "Nuremberg Diaries."

The Huston Plan was drafted by Tom Charles Huston in 1970, a White House aide to President Nixon; it was a 43-pg report outlining “security operations plans” that were created out of Nixon’s desire for absolute power and his disdain for the rule of law. This is a chapter in American history that bears no greater foreboding than right now. The Huston Plan was by far one of the greatest threats to constitutional democracy planted by the seeds from the harvesters of the Nixon administration- such as farmers Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney. These three names can also be found as “authors” of Progress for a New American Century (PNAC); it should also be noted that a younger protégé of this neoconservative movement was Karl Rove, who worked on Nixon’s campaign like a stage mother behind her beauty queen contestant daughter.

Yet today, in what could turn out to be one of the greatest ironies of life, what has inadvertently put the perfidy of the Bush administration under a great, big surge of light- Attorney General, I-don’t-recall-Gonzalez, revealed that a similar, secret program exists today. If Congress does in fact appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Alberto’s many lies, inconsistencies and his amnesia-of-convenience, the leaded curtains will come down to reveal who’s been hiding behind the great Oz once and for all. The Cheney administration has been proving, with over 800 “signing statements” (more than all presidents combined), Executive Orders, blatant disregard for Congress and the rule of law- that his regime has systematically been implementing an “updated” version of the Huston Plan, with special interest in its detailing on how to stop the presidential elections of 1972.

The links provided offer 1)-a very lengthy, legal read of The Huston Plan- which wasn’t revealed until the Watergate hearings were in full swing and used to bring up charges in the impeachment of Nixon and his out-of-control administration and 2) an interview Nixon gave in the late '70's with David Frost. Of course, Nixon chose to go first, on his own rather than forced to go- but as Hunter S. Thompson said: “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

To the seeds that have been sown and now reaping havoc upon our once great nation, Nixon’s crimes were not in what he did, but in that he got caught doing what he did.

The interview Nixon gave with David Frost is even more ominous, to be found not in legal jargon, but in Nixon's own words; they truly illustrate the man who would be king. His words, which mirror what the Commander-in-Thief says today, should be a cold shower down history-lane, to remind us that democracy isn’t just reason #3 for invading a nation that didn’t attack us. If the Constitution can twist and turn to fit the political agenda of the day, what makes us any different than, say... Iraq?

http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/churchfinalreportIIIm.htm

http://www.landmarkcases.org/nixon/nixonview.html

And for kicks 'n giggles (warning: the next link, from 'OpEdnews' is not for those liberal-hating hypocrites; but the last link is a great, and easy, read!)-

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_harvey_w_070730_will_bush_cancel_the.htm

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=9015

Well America, it was nice knowing you. You came with such promise, such hope. People found in you a place where it was possible to express freedom and passion of inquisitive souls… this was never easy but well worth it and for which flourished an endless bouquet of rewards. You were a land of dreams that inspired novels and movies and music, and tales of the heroes who fought with courage; truth, justice and the “American way.” So many of your children made you proud: mothers and poets; fathers and Indian chiefs; philosophers and teachers; athletes and astronauts… and even sometimes, presidents. In a sea of possibilities, you kept us safe with your anchored and unconditional love and in a kitchen of tradition, you were a melting pot of ethnicity, diversity and humanity.

Life in America was never “perfect” but we were a nation birthed from the dissenters of tyranny who wanted to live no more under the abuse of power; of despotic, totalitarian rule. Even if the world could never be heaven on earth- where bigotry and hatred are non-existent- men and women died so that their children may live. And we have continued to live. But not without too much blood spilled on your soil, for your soil and from your soil; injustice and man’s inhumanity to man remains a force to contend with throughout the world. But in America remained a belief that goodness would prevail because your children would never falter from the ideals of what is needed to preserve the land for which we stand. America, you always left a door opened for us to find and keep a “home of the free and the brave;” we, for the most part, were proud to stand on the foundation of your Constitution with its preamble: “We the people…” We took great pride in being the people. Our grandparents built things with pride and we took comfort in “Look for, the union label…” Made in the USA was not compromised to be made in China and our dollar was strong because we built a nation through tenacity.

Arguments will continue as to how America came to be but with your purple mountains and fruited plains, you remained a land of opportunity that provided sustenance of life and shelter from the storm- all throughout the ages. With a youthful entrance into the world you spoiled your children, “we the people,” with so much bounty and so much to look forward to. But something happened, something changed. In between trickle-down economics and adventures in fellatio, we became obsessed with plastic and iPods and idols- oh my! And now, as quickly as closing a history book- you, America, are poised to become “one nation, under surveillance, with liberty and justice for some.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

The above Executive Order, signed into law by George Bush, July 17, 2007, effectively makes it illegal to protest the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The loopholes are so vague and definitions so muddled and open to “interpretation” that an enemy combatant, or one deemed to be “helping” simply because Bush says so- could be a simple protest button or bumper stickers. The First Amendment, freedom of speech, our fundamental right to all that is democratic and free, has been taken in exchange for a little “national security.” As for anyone reading this who is a firm believer in the right to bear arms, might I suggest having a Kodak moment- and soon? With protesting illegal and the very real scenario of anyone being picked up off the street and thrown into a lovely tropical prison “camp,” with no recourse for a fair trial by our peers (Bush had Gonzo decimate the writ of Habeas Corpus eons ago); if we can be spied on and listened to “just because,” what makes the Second Amendment safe? I’ve been warning of this for years: Martial Law is on the horizon; count on it if Chicken Cheney isn’t stopped before Halliburton invades Iran- because a gun in the hands of private citizens is not conducive to a police state.

Liberal media? Show me just one mainstream media channel that has broadcast this as fervently as “celeb’s who go to jail” and athletes who hate dogs. The news that should be all over the airwaves, had the Fairness Doctrine Act not been abolished in 1987, is that our liberties inherent to constitutional rights are being thrown to the dogs. Bush will be judged as the worst president in US history, who eviscerated the Constitution, bragged about torturing and lost thousands upon thousands of lives in a war going on five years, all based on moving-the-goal-post-lies used to take and keep America in perpetual war. The Bush regime is a criminal enterprise with a seven-yr record of malfeasance and exploding examples of blatant disregard for the rule of law that proves it. What part of WAKE UP do people not understand? And that would be, as of today, the 25 percent of people who still support the bunker diatribes of the Burning Bush and his folly of Senior Mutant Ninja Republicans.

President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell speech, warned of what he called the great “military-industrial complex;” a prescient (wake-up) call to what is “a permanent war economy feeding off a permanent state of insecurity.” Imagine that.

Yesterday it was Condoleezza’s mushroom cloud, Bush’s WMD’s in Iraq and Cheney’s ties to al Qaeda. Today it’s Michael Chertoff’s gut. If anyone argues that “a little safety in exchange for a little freedom” is justified, because the man who went on vacation for a month after receiving a dire memo from his National Security Advisor, stating that “Bin Laden will attack America”- has prevented further attacks, to that I say: “Hey! Look at my cool new, troll-repelling rock! Ever since I found it, I haven’t seen any trolls!” Watch mainstream media and you will see that as Bush’s approval continues to sink below pre-Nixon-resignation-levels, Michael’s gut will be exploding with mushroom clouds and Cheney will be cloaked in his best Darth Vader attire. At about which time Bush will go on vacation.

“… the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.”- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

They’re doing it in Australia; they did it in Japan and they’re doing it wherever Cheney lands. Unfortunately, he represents the country I call home, so it’s cahones for everybody! While “Scooter” waits the verdict in a trial that has his boss’s thumbprints all over it- Dick goes down under. But the man who put the X back in EXXON is being reminded, wherever he goes, that we didn’t all eat the tainted spinach or attend the Ted Haggard Church of Hypocrisy. Some of us never bought into “McBaghdads” or Operation Chevron. But if Congress, whose job is to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution of America, and the mainstream media had been doing their job like good little politicians and journalists, our little shooter wouldn’t be throwing shrimp on the barbie with Johnny today. Congress and the media failed in their job miserably for which we, the people, will pay for dearly.

Not only do we know (at a minimum), that Bush lied to start a war; Cheney outed a covert spy during wartime- committing treason- and Condoleezza withheld national security information, as our National Security Advisor, when bin Laden warned of an imminent attack in August 2001, and then as our Secretary of State, ignored Iran’s desire to negotiate when they offered to help find bin Laden in 2003, but the door Cheney thought was bolted shut- has popped open. Now, inquiry minds want to know! What exactly was said during Dick’s “secret” energy meetings with his Halliburton friends- Exxon, Chevron and their Middle-eastern draft picks, months before Iraq was invaded? Why has Dick refused to disclose what was discussed; what “energy policies” did they enact that affected our lives and their stock portfolios?

Juan Gonzalez of The New York Daily News recently asked: “If Iraq had the world’s second-largest supply of bananas instead of petroleum, would American troops still be there?”

He asked this as new evidence exposes raw what “the big prize” in Iraq is really all about. Of course- democracy, freedom and weapons of mass destruction sell way more tickets to the show, but the reality is slicker than that. It’s about oil. Always has been. But fear sells; oil isn’t a scary bad guy. Would Pat Tillman have given up a million-dollar NFL contract to invade Iraq, for Halliburton? Would a “surge” of patriotism have re-elected Bush if, during his campaign, he preached to the choir with a couple of oil wells at his side- instead of the Twin Towers and Old Glory?

Executive pens from behemoth oil giants like Exxon-Mobil and Chevron, are dripping in blood, itching to sign on the gilded line of a proposed new Iraqi oil law to be finalized sometime late in March, 2007- if all goes as planned. This law would not only open up Iraq's vast oil reserves to foreign oil exploration, as expected, but for the first time- to executives from companies who’d actually be given seats on a new Iraqi Federal Oil and Gas Council- controlling all of Iraq's reserves. Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, British Petroleum and other Western oil giants could end up on the board of directors of the Iraqi Federal Oil and Gas Council, while Iraq's own national oil company would then become just another competitor. This new law would grant the council unlimited power to develop policies and implement plans for undeveloped oil fields; review and change all exploration and production contracts. Since most of Iraq's 73 certified petroleum fields have yet to be developed (Saudi Arabia has the largest oil reserves in the world; Iraq is second; Iran is third), the new council would instantly become a world energy powerhouse… Masters of the Universe- unite!

Suddenly, I've got a hankering to break out into a chorus of "Dr. Evil" laughter...

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