the FreeFall sensation

Exactly forty-five years ago, tomorrow, the President of the United States was assassinated.

John F. Kennedy, and his memory, are many things to many people...




We small children in Minnesota, sitting in our first-grade classroom, were in tears: we were way too young to know how to 'hate liberals', why to 'hate republicans'. My ultra-loved, ultra liberal mother was devastated... My father was in shock, but it was tainted by his virulent violent Republicanism.

And the rest?

'History', with the biggest H, and the biggest Question mark since Humanity invented the English phrase 'conspiracy theorist'. Flash forward, to our modern times. One year ago, crystelZENmud wrote a post: 08

November 2007

Impeachment: power of We, the People...



While it didn't dwell on the basis for our pontification, we have long held the nagging thought that it was amazing what has happened to our country since Republicans began 'killing Democrats', since their gun-happy days in the 1960s when great social leaders were gunned down 'mysteriously' by a series of identically-bizarre, identically-Loner 'Social Outcasts' (Oswald, Sirhan, Ray, Bremer; shot respectively Kennedy, Kennedy, King and Wallace).

In the same vein, the assassination of John Lennon, the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, and the behaviour of Osama bin Laden (known throughout time as 'USAMA', except in the US Media), all do share a mysterious pattern, even without delving into the facts of each case... Almost as if a group of people had hit on the perfect formula to turn some loser into a Manchurian Candidate, and then set them out on the street to do their evil work?

The corollary to this theory, is that it appeared to have evolved in the 1990s. As if someone, again, had decided that "soonaer or later, we're going to slip: we need to modernize our 'warfare'".

Well... the insanity is back... you can find ample stories in rightwing blogs about 'Obama's Birth Certificate', and laugh to your heart's fulfilment, as many rabid and barely-competent radically violent rightwing conspiracy junkies (nb: there's no 'nuance' between a 'theorist' and a 'junkie'... it's pretty Black-and-White).

The difference between someone rationally dispising or deploring the policies of a failed President Bush, and the irrationally-driven fears mongered by rightwing hate-radio and blogs, chat-sites and more, is astounding. As someone very close said: Republicans tend to be 'wrong but strong'.


Where to take this, in an era that mirrors those exuberant days of the early Sixties, before the US of A was buried in a Vietnam war that would stain it for a generation, and the rise and fall of the Woodstock nation, which 'died' as young and undeveloped as Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison and others?

Rodney King, victim of police brutality, requested that 'we all try to get along?', after his ordeal was ended with victory against the police in LA that beat him (the first 'video bystander' whistleblower case in our times).

Racism took a deep cut with the election of Barack Hussien Obama. It hasn't been since 1988, that a President received such a strong percentage over fifty percent: Papa Bush beat Michael Dukakis, and took 53.4 percent, very close to Obama's apparent 52.8 percent.


Here at ZEN Central, we are anxious to see the transition, fearing still that the legacy of Bush will taint the next generation of Oval Office occupants. Our greatest expectation, mirrors our greatest fear: that Obama can establish a road towards peace INSIDE these United States, that puts his followers in the right position to continue cleaning up the domestic and foreign tragedies that modern Republicanism has bestowed, upon us... a verifiable fiasco that will take a generation to heal... if 'McCoys versus the Hatfields'-type of relations remain between the Two Political Parties, and between America and the cultures it has sought to destroy.

Obama is limited, one chosen representative: if he acts more as a Guide, than a Leader, there's hope for your childrens' tomorrows...

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© 2008

A Day in the Life of a RepubliCULTer...

aka: Nothing to Fear but Smear Itself...

This is a <SATIRIC> column: it uses descriptive language
that form the backbone of the RepubliCULT:
the author apologizes for their crude faults

I went into a restaurant last week: independently owned, clean; the food looked great. As I sat down at a table for two (yet alone), the smiling waitress came up with a cheerful, seemingly–sincere smile, offered me a menu, described the two daily specials, and said she'd be right back.

But why did she leave? After all, I'm the client, and I'm a Republican. I studied her manner, as she briskly served drinks to the couples that entered before me. They looked like your average Joe and Jane Six–pack, hard–working blue collar types... I wondered who they would be voting for.

The waitress smiled at me again, but didn't come back for my order. I started speculating whether she was married, or single, with children, or without. Not having been in this particular spot before, I now noticed her eyes seemed a bit tired: was she a double–jobber? Tough: it's a dog–eat–dog world, isn't it? Ever since I came out of college, and after Dad helped me get a job at the Brokerage, it has been almost too easy.

Finally! Claire, her name apparently (can we believe name tags these days? It seems everyone on the news is not what they appear to be... does she date a terrorist from the Sixties?), bounced in to take my order: a chef's salad with Roquefort dressing, and a Martini. I noticed the restaurant filling up, and hoped this bimbo would bring my damn food; I had accounts to contact this afternoon, and the pressure, in this turbulent bear market, was being felt even in our own Ivory tower. I was gunning for my first SIX–digit bonus, before Jimmy Carter screwed up this bull market.

Damn it! Damn her!

How long was it taking, to make a simple chef's salad? Bitch! What an amateur this waitress was... she actually started talking politics with that other table near by. Ignoring me? How dare a floozy like her talk about that nigger candidate at work? WHO does she think she is? My stomach acid was flaring, and the Martini scorched its way through my throat like bile on its way up.

What was I doing in this devil's nest? They might as well be whores, those bitches and assholes talking about Clinton's Legacy, and 'Change we can believe in'! As she brought my salad, with one of those Kneejerk Liberal smiles that make any honest taxpayer want to puke, I thought I was going to hurl my Martini across the table. I decided to eat that fuckin' salad and get the hell out of there.

I couldn't take it any more. I noticed here and there, certain clients were wearing lapel pins, with Donkeys on them. Jesus and Mary! Don't they know we are at WAR with Terrorists? How could they so blatantly dishonor our troops? My appetite was gone, but I know (much more than the rest of these scumbags) the value of a dollar, godDAMNit, so I finished my salad, and took a long look around this 'nest of Satan' for the last time...

Then, I spotted the Chef.

Was he also the owner? He looked across the room, and I could almost feel his mind analyzing the covers, how much 'average ticket per patron' and then, WOW. He has an American flag pin on his breast!

He's one of US? A true American? Look, there's actually a GW Bush bumper–sticker on the back wall of the kitchen!

The waitress appeared puzzled as she approached, and I asked for the ticket. Was I scowling? My voice too tense? Too damn transparent: that isn't good in these times. We must stay strong, stay the course, and prevent America from giving in to Communists and Socialists like that darkie. I never understand how people can actually claim GW Bush is a Socialist, when he obviously had to save our US Banks from those godless Commies that tried to destroy our banking system.

She's probably some back–water slut from the wrong side of the tracks. And then, it dawned on me.

I had a Plan! When my check came, I figured out that a tip should be about $6.00 (well, I did have three Martinis: but I am NOT an alcoholic), and I realized that I had the power to screw this trash-waitress.

Instead of leaving the tip on the table, I went towards the kitchen door. Why should I contribute my hard–earned commissions to the Enemy: a Liberal? The money ought to go the Owner: maybe he'll get me a better table next time...

“Hey, you're the owner?”

The cook smiled at me. “Nine years next week,” wiping his hands on his apron.

“Take this, it's not much but you can put it into your 'Expansion Fund', ehh?”

“Thanks, Mac! I see by your Flag–pin that you're for the Maverick.”

“That's right... and you ought to fire that bitch–waitress: she's bad for repeat business. Could try finding a Republican to fill her place...”

He laughed... “Mac, you ever seen a Republican waitress?”

“That's the pre–Trophy Bride phase, no?”

“You crack me up...”

And we shared that laugh only Republicans can understand...

Damn it's good to be a Real American! Why tip a waitress when you can possibly get better treatment by the owner, by offering him the tip money you used to give to 'The Enemy'?

A genuine protected American SATIRE... from

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© 2008

Change of colours for the fall season?

:-)


Here at crystelZENmud, aka ZEN Central, we've often thought of renaming this blog “All that my Brother doesn't See”... But it just doesn't denote that sexy star–appeal, so we haven't.


But this column is dedicated to 'that Brother' that many of us have, a brother lost in the RepubliCULT, a brother needing to be de–programmed before he becomes, yet again, and as happens every Four Years, an angry, illogical, unrealistic Manchurian Voter.


When your family must acknowledge that it has lost one of its own, into the evil tentacles of the RepubliCULT, it is often worse than if that person was an alcoholic. Being addicted to RepubliCULT–mania, is as sickening to a person's soul as if they were an alcoholic, or tobacco addict. They show signs of 'Stockholm Syndrome', the 'thrill' of seeking protection through the very powers that are keeping them hostages, mind and soul lost from Reality. Brainwashing works its evil on them, as repeated images and spoken words trap their mind to 'evidence' that isn't, 'truth' revealed as only propaganda.


Spotting RepubliCULT–mania is rather easy, although its marked presence stains the very souls of all who must deal with these irrational beings. They are easily demasked, by the plethora of sayings that are passed through the Cult, which is structured in Cell layers similar to those of Al-Qaida. From email lists, to office water coolers, to FOX NEWS, these RepubliCULT Cells transmit the 'daily sound–bite'.


How many concerned families have heard these addicts say in the last ten days: “Obama is not a bad person...”?


With a sickening feeling, you knew that they were programmed to so act, responding in locksteps to McCain's admonishment to his lagging supply of supporters 'not to kill the opponent', and 'not to fear him', if elected president.


This example is the latest and weakest of the RepubliCULT period, and it bears repeating the evolution of cultish brainwashing utterances...

“Get over it.”

This was the first of the series, vintage year Y2K, as the RepubliCULT forbade democratic election processes from working out, by utilizing the US Supreme Court to steal Florida's Electoral College votes. Gore was trying 'to steal votes', and the entire RepubliCULT movement began.

“We don't need Kyoto”

This entered the American lexicon in 2001, as Americans watched the first president in US history to 'withdraw' the US 'signature' from an internationally–ratified Treaty. “You're destroying our competitiveness!” they said... we didn't believe them. Retrospectively, the US auto industry, now on total life support, destroyed their own competitiveness by building gigantic SUV fleets, true agents of pollution and environmental destruction. Were they as much a tool of the US oil industry, as were car buyers their own tools?

“It's Clinton's fault”

A phrase that found early and steady use, in every year of the Bush presidency, to deflect ANY criticism off of the present misAdministration. Individuals that used this phrase often were deaf to any rational Truth about Bush... they couldn't dream of taking responsibility for any acts taken by Bush the Lesser (GWB aka “Bush 43”). But we are jumping ahead of ourselves.

“Bomb them back to the Stone Age”

Nearly the essence of RepubliCULTism: after the horrendous failures by the Executive Branch to protect Americans from an assault on its airports, monuments and security, after 'September Eleventh', only RepubliCULTists could be blind enough to not understand that Afghanistan was truly the incongruous country, where Stone Age and SUV collided. They didn't care, that the Taleban were a construct of US ally Pakistan, designed to bring the country into a closer relationship with Pakistan, for geopolitical reasons. Any US citizen raising their voice, in righteous concern of misapplied, overwhelming US force, that any justified US attacks were well–targeted, were confronted with the above phrase, which itself spawned off our next example:

“Collateral damage”

Although first commonly used in the Persian Gulf War, that of Bush the Greater in 1990–91, the media slaked the Americans' lusty thirst for revenge, in late 2001, in sterilizing the killing of civilian babies and siblings under this Rubric of Mass Diversion.

“Axis of Evil”

An Oscar ® –worthy (apologies to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is required) bromide that Bush's handlers hacked up for the State of the Union 2002, the first in US modern history to be based in fantastic lies and false information, solely designed to ramp up the Fear, the underlying quality that Bush's programmed cyborg–like RepubliCULT base in their automaton state. Iraq, Iran, North Korea, became the Dark Hats against which pretzel–choked Cowboy George, the 'idiot son of an asshole' President, could slake his thirst for scaremongering, as happy as when he shot rabbits as a child.

“March to War”

It became an onslaught by ABCBSNBCNNFOXMSNBC in every sense, on all our senses, when the logic of attacking Al–Qaida was not producing the necessary Rovian (for Karl Rove, the Uber–mensch director of Bush's actions) political momentum. The 'Dead or Alive' bin Laden kept eluding our Army, but that became okay, they were told, because Bush told his CULT that bin Laden 'really was irrelevant'. But did the RepubliCULT flinch, at this 180° flip–flop? No: Iraq became the leading role, and the universal Mainstream Media (MSM) became agencies of propaganda, with undeniable bias presented in 24/7 media coverage, throughout the summer and fall of 2002. The Congressional elections were the Victory Bush was seeking, not any reduction in Terrorism. He achieved that: one of Bush's party's crowning achievements was the removal of Max Cleland from his seat in Georgia.

“Mushroom Cloud”

One of George's 'Aces' up his sleeve: sending Dick Cheney, the dangerous mad Vice President, and Condaleeza Rice, his gay National Security Director, onto the Sunday TV sets with constant and controlled messages of how Saddam could destroy the Eastern US seaboard, RepubliCULTists gorged on fear, and had Cell-relayed talking points to stifle rational opposition to this second War in two years.

“Mission Accomplished”

Does anything reek worse than arrogance unleashed? Bush, ever in the quest of more 'Show–Me' photo–ops, defined arrogance with his postured landing on a US aircraft carrier, after the Rumsfeld–designed Iraqi invasion had rushed into Baghdad, in an effort to surround and protect the US Government's true objective: the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. Having achieved this, in spite of all rational predictions by a broad array of US Retired and present Command Staff, Bush's supporters achieved unanimity in quashing dissension, just as Press Secretary Ari Fleischman was warning that 'certain people should watch what they say, watch what they do.' Your brother, your RepubliCULTist sibling, started telling you (or continued to...) you were Un–American, treasonous, communist, terrorist sympathizers. All that and more, while Bush actually didn't perceive his failures, and his misAdministration's failures, to accurately plan and accomplish the 'liberation' phase, while ignoring the 'Occupation' and 'counter–insurgency'.

“The War President”

Settling in for the long–term, Bush started to show the signs of how much he really hated the United States, ignoring requests to speak to Congress about the 9–11 Commission, seeking and justifying Torture, introducing the Patriot Act. Wiretapping, ENRON, California's associated electrical cost fire–storm; these were a few of Bush's favourite stings...

“Swiftboating”

Only a RepubliCULT, and its supporting Mainstream Media, could stigmatize a true US warrior through the purchased lies of numerous US veterans, paid to lie, and whose lies were widespread and repeated incessantly through the MSM. Having prolonged the Iraq war, the hidden–Saddam cave, the Jessica Lynch fantasy rescue, 2004 was a masterstroke for the the Master Deceiver, Karl Rove's vision held for the last time, as he orchestrated a rout of Rationality, defeating the lacklustre candidate John Kerry.

“Terror Alert Level Orange”

RepubliCULTists couldn't stop spinning, as each new anti–Bush statistic or factoid was countered by the Department of Homeland Security's issuance of a new 'terror threat'... and dutiful RepubliCULTists scurried like scared rats to stores that stocked Duct tape and plastic.

“Save Social Security”

As we wondered 'why the rush?', Bush's minions put Panic Mode into effect in the late summer of 2006, decrying the fatality of Social Security being able to survive in its governmentally–operated structures. It had to be privatized, instantly, now, with no national dialogue. A bold move to shift massive amounts of money into private Wall Street Fiefdoms, Bush and Rove's last gasp attempt to force an electorate to jump through the hoops and bark at the moon, was the start of the downfall of this former Super Bowl–worthy political team. (BTW: They never wanted you to know the simple solution, the solution needed once per generation. By a modest rise in the salary–ceiling (from 96K to, say: 116K) from which SS contributions were made, the funding methodology would be updated from the last time that exercise happened, in the first Reagan administration.


And your very own RepubliCULT brother, throughout these events, reminded you, being the only one of the two whose outlook was based in Reality, in Rational Logic, that you were a 'kneejerk liberal' (often emailed as KJ, or KJL), 'un–American', 'in league with the terrorists'. You were treasonous, a 'surrender monkey', who didn't have any idea how much 'they hate us for our freedoms'.


But you know that's untrue: watch any scene from Iraq, Palestine, or elsewhere, and see how they are wearing Nikes, NY Yankees shirts, listening to US rap, watching US films (although we might concede they could be rooting for 'the bad guys'...)


How did you survive these years of insanities?


Easily: you knew that the majority of the world thought as you do, and you knew that, together, we were witnessing the first openly Outlaw misAdministration in US history: a Rogue State in essence.


This inner strength of a Liberal, is the true great tradition of the United States.


The Country can survive the Big Government Spending of the RepubliCULT War President.


The Country can survive the Massive Deficits of the RepubliCULT War President.


The Country can survive the Torture of the RepubliCULT War President.


The Country can survive the Lying of the RepubliCULT War President.


The Country can survive the Legacy of the RepubliCULT War President.


But it will not be easy to reverse the damage; especially since Deregulation was highlighted in these, the last two months (barring unforeseen irregularities or further 'illegal' actions by the War President, and his RepubliCULT). There is no assurance, that the MSM won't turn against Obama the minute his Administration starts taking strides to reduce Corporate Welfare, to create balanced Foreign Policy, to boost the true economic engine of the US economy: the working classes.


Be very proud, as the Liberal you are, to be concerned for our planet's environment, our energy independence, our children, and their children's futures.


Be very proud that your Liberal forebears were those who established the mechanisms that prevented Great Depressions for eighty years, who gave women the right to vote.


Even when they vote for the RepubliCULT.


Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do..

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© 2008

Climate Hussein – Saddam Change

This is the first in a series of none–too–soon, historical glimpses at the soon to be infamous...

BUSH LEGACY

Some seven years ago, BushCO descended into Washington, driven into office by a media–push that nailed his opponent as 'Al Gore: the Liar', painting him as Clinton Twice, and it was done. (Upon deprecation of its own historically-neutral role in State Voting Cases, by the US Supreme Court)

The question posed now, for this first essay is this: what makes Bush's stance on Climate Change any different from that which he took against Saddam Hussein?

Justifying the war in Iraq, which circumvented sixty to nearly four hundred years of developed International Law, much of our modern era international structures having been expressly fashioned via American input and legal theory after World War II, Bush the Lesser turned toward his ideological lackeys, for the creation of his Bush Doctrine.

a reminder, that cZENm does not 'rely' on Wikipedia, but
finds it totally acceptable as a first step for
anyone seeking deeper understanding
(especially if you go to the footnoted links for further reading)

The Bush Doctrine presented the premise that, when a nation has 'evidence' of imminent attack, international law cannot force that nation into a paralytic state, awaiting 'nuclear annihilation' or otherwise. Experts in International Law (“I-law”) universally attacked such an opened Pandora's Box, announcing that its implementation would also lead to imitation: a form of flattery otherwise occasionally denominated as 'Blowback' (which most often relates to Intelligence-efforts).

Bush, Cheney, and their admin–underlings, Rice, or Powell; in concerted effort these Neoconservatives trumpeted a theory that many Americans accepted in overwhelmingly strong numbers after September 11, 2001: fear of the unknown potential future actions of Saddam Hussein were sufficient 'imminent threat' to start an action, widely condemned around the world, to structure an invasion force, invade, conquer, and 'liberate'. The timing of their fearmongering, not incidentally, allowed a strong Republican increase in the 2002 Congressional elections.

The rest is history.

This presents the situation posed in our title, above: what makes Climate Change any different than Saddam Hussein?

Rephrasing: is hypothetical, yet unrealistic action taken by a despot, whom our CIA helped to attain his dictatorial powers, which provokes real action by a US president, any different from actions observed whose overwhelming data announces significant climatic shifts that will, more likely than not, return to any former state of equilibrium?

Bush took America and its taxpayers to the well, in hyped–out propaganda drives that have cost this country a better future, to create the paranoiac state of a perpetual War on Terror, with seven and five-year actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Similar actions, the Fear Campaigns, included the Social Security 'SCARE' of summer 2006, and the vastly more deadly Financial Crash of fall 2008.

John, you didn't run far enough...

Bush fought America and its taxpayers all the way, in denying action and evidence on Climate Change, asking for the sufficient level of proof that he could have demanded in Iraq, by supporting the UN Inspections under supervision by Hans Blix.

Imminent attack by a weakened Middle Eastern dictator – imminent climatic evolution?

“We don't have in our possession, sufficient confirmatory proof to act...”.

Such was not said, against Saddam, and the Bush Legacy is what it is, based on one man's claim of Leadership...

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© 2008

Paulson's MESS: the Emergency Voter Relief Act

America's voters are in a fragile state, due to the persistent destruction of American institutions by the regime in power now, the most craven generation of Republicans since Hoover's. A true cult, a multi–generational 'pay–back' for the 'welfare state' created and expanded since Roosevelt's adoption of 'Keynesian' state action.

Remember the pre–Roosevelt, post–Civil War era?

We Americans were, due to the minimalist structure of the government of that time (just at the dawning of the Industrial Age, throughout the Robber Baron era?), suffering from a series of serious crashes in roughly a ten–year cycle (1873, 1884, 1893, 1907, and 1913). In the last seventy to seventy–five years , since Roosevelt's stability–inducing New Deal began implementation, 'regulation' prevented these regular cyclic 'melt–downs' and panic, reducing their impact far below the levels now being experienced.

And, as an aside, the last panic occurred epochs before the invention of the 24/7 news cycle of incessant superlative–spewing Brainwashing Media influence... Americans are reminded of Panic on Wall Street some 135 times per hour, all networks and considered.

According to an article appearing in last Saturday's International Herald Tribune: How SEC opened path for storm in 55 minutes (Different title Online How U.S. regulators laid the groundwork for disaster: issue of October 4–5, 2008), Henry Paulson was personally part of a five–bank contingent that convinced the SEC Commissioners (in 2005) to exempt their five large firms from debt–limit restrictions on their brokerage units. As writer Stephen Labaton reasons, this allowed those corporations to:

“... unshackle billions of dollars held in reserve as a cushion against losses on their investments.... [to] flow up to the parent company, enabling it to to invest in the fast growing but opaque world of mortgage–backed securities, credit derivatives – a form of insurance for bond holders – and other exotic instruments.”

Dismantling regulatory agencies and deregulating commerce: the only speciality of the Bush era not involving the death or wounding of children. Look, people: it's a family history: the Bush family steals money daily from the Treasury, they've done it for two generations!!

But this article is not about the aftermath we are all witnessing, and the Paulson plan, which he apparently designed to allow his personal failures to be supported by the good faith of the world in the ability of future tax receipts taken from the American people. For it is in their name, as Secretary of the Treasury Paulson (to paraphrase an internet cartoon concerning GW Bush: “Can you believe that Henry Paulson has the same job once held by Alexander Hamilton and Samuel Portland Chase?”), that he has perpetrated, through constant mediatized panic–information dissemination, the last great theft of the Bush era.

Bush: the Father of American Socialism.

A plan should be implemented by vote in the House and Senate, through Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, in emergency pre–election sessions of those bodies, for a temporary amendment relaxing the normal transition period that lasts until January 21^st, the day of the normal Inauguration of the coming President.

American markets in free–fall, spinning up and down with the hourly news? If an Emergency Voters' Relief Act were passed, the November 4th election results could be certified by November 11th, and Congress could accept them by November 25th.

In wording agreed by bipartisan input and voting, a new special Inaugural Ceremony could be welcomed by voters, markets and leaders around the world, that occurred in the first two weeks of December, such as the 9th of December.

As a so–called 'one time decision' of the US Supreme Court determined the course of US failures in the new Millennium, so now should a 'one–time decision' by Congress announce to the world that the Bush Era, by extra–ordinary legislation of Congress, is to be expeditiously terminated...

... with prejudice.

Republicans, now finding the name Bush to be toxic to the greatest degree known, should see this not even as an attack on their Party or its leadership, but as a means for their own lost convictions, that of a small central government, to be restored as quickly as possible.

George Bush himself, he who has redefined the job as the monotonous period of his life between long vacations, who has thrilled in dismantling...

Dismantling...

... the well–functioning government he'd inherited in 2001, would probably welcome a chance to spend Christmas without the burden of exacting more pain upon the people in whose name he has chosen to serve poorly.

A Christmas present to the American people, whether Obama or McCain, would be in knowing that the worst presidency in our nation's history had been 'put to sleep' by “the Doctor's orders”.

As Paulson indicated that his service would not extend past that of his President, the fringe benefits of a Congressional Emergency Voters' Relief Act could include the bringing to an end his monumental fuck–ups (or conjectured deliberate choices – for competitive reasons?), which would certainly aid vast segments of the markets he has consciously and premeditatedly forced into disarray.

The Emergency Voters' Relief Act:

see you at the Inauguration ... in December?

If Congress so chose, the wording of the EVR Act could be transformed by the incoming Congress into an Amendment to the Constitution, with implementation applicable to the following Election in 2012. By doing so, Constitutionalists would not have a bone to gnaw on, regarding an irregular term of office for the man who assumes Presidential powers.

No one would argue, especially not George W Bush, that his term in office is inviolate. Democrats who hold the majority, and exist under a Speaker of the House who unwisely counselled that 'impeachment was off the table', would have a unique rebuke to the idiot–in–Chief, and Republicans would be able to campaign with passive admission that, finally, it's good for them to acknowledge that...

Bush was WRONG

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© 2008

One Hundred and 2 Score years ago...

It took how many generations, how much hate, how many different prejudices, white against black, and black against white, to arrive here today; to an American election that pits a Black Democrat against a White Republican?

Too many... are we not presented today, with the election for which Abe Lincoln died?


This post needs to be short on words and long on thought-stimulation... think about the long history, of race in America: the deaths of prominent Black Americans, the deaths of poor lynching victims, thousands of falsely-accused Americans hounded by over-zealous prosecutors throughout the South, and of course the rest of the United States, where prejudices also flourished.

As ZENmud Central revamps its fall lineup, and prepares to join in the demystification of US politics for a world-wide audience, with an admitted tilt to the LEFT of center, here's a thought regarding the ALASKAN SNOWSTORM that is bearing down on John McCain...


As if you, the reader, were my most staunch Republican Brother, I'd say this to either of you: "what I see, in the 'tea leaves' of this McCain campaign choice, is that of a man who hardly ever reads the legislation for which he casts his name in voting, so do I see a man who 'trusted' someone else to TELL HIM who his running mate should be..."


Would you trust your country to a man that chose Joe Biden?

Would you trust your country to a man that chose Sarah Palin?


Will her candidacy survive Gustav or St Paul?

ONLY Friday knows... It's got some short Kneel-ish time still to go...

And it was a strong message, was it not, when Senator Obama took the issue of an oppnent's daughter's pregnancy off the political mud-map?

Certainly it displays more 'sense' than we are used to from either side recently...

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© 2008

Generation Nation...

It wasn't that long ago, in the lifespan of a country, that a young Senator chose a fellow Party Senator to be his 'older and wiser' Vice Presidential candidate...

When John Kennedy became the first 'soldier-President' from the young American men that fought in trenches and PT boats, they took the torch from the Generation that ran the War...

Barrack Obama has such a dream... the first President who represents the "Born in the Fifties" generation...

My mother cried
When president Kennedy died

She said it was the communists
But I knew better

Would they drop the bomb on us
While we made love on the beach?

We were the class they couldn't teach
'Cos we knew better!

We were born...
Born in the fifties!!

Born...
Born in the fifties!!

Meanwhile, back at the Media BS zone... did anyone else think about the fact that certain Media-driven Republicans are screaming about the choice of Joe Biden as VP, those of short memory having forgotten that every component of such a specious argument AGAINST Obama, was used in the year 2000 FOR one treasonous Dick CHENEY?

Only Americans seem to prefer to remain at the center of the Human Stage, without a cue-card, without a clue...

NB: if you're in Denver for this Convention, you have to think 'Mexican food'... some of the best restaurants in Denver are not on any guide... ask your taxi dude!

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© 2008

Chinese Appleseed

China Appleseed

"Welcome back my Friends, to the show which only ends (during vacation months)..."


At ZEN Central, intimitely associated with WADAwatch, this has been a summer of renewal, much as is hoped for by a great majority of buzzed, shocked American citizens, waking up from their eight-year nightmare, realizing (sadly only a few) that the Media who feeds the greater majority of them, the overwhelming majority of content / information that they absorb, has literally gone insane...


"China Appleseed" refers to the belief held here at ZEN Central, that the equation:

'Human Rights <> China <> Olympics'

... is not to be labeled a catastrophy, at this point.

We have now witnessed the 'Implantation' phase, and we await the 'Germination' phase. How is that?

Think! In a society enclosed by its directors, few signs enter from abroad, about the strident pleas of NGOs, politicians and citizens of the world, to 'reform China now!'...

But, in presenting the Olympics as a showcase of 'China', the country was invaded by the hordes of Athletes, armies of journalists, photographers and videographers, fans and families, friends and rich showboating capitalists, many of whom owe a great part of their success to the ability to manufacture at very low costs within China these last two decades or so...

The Directors of China, its president and Central Committees, can think that they showed China to the world, but: for the very first time, great throngs of Chinese observed tangential scenes surrounding the events in multiple occasions... the volunteers, Chinese or 'imported', interacted and from these moments, perhaps, greater seeds of liberty (a concept that has been suspended by the Bush misAdministration) may flourish, in the decades to come, for this breach in the dike of the Great Walls (political...) of China.

If Jimmy Page didn't 'start' it, the entire mass of energy from the exuberance of these Games should declench a revolution, quietly and slowly. When and wherever Johnny Appleseed roamed, the fruits of his work did not appear instantly...

AFTERAFFECTS???

Would China dare a 're-education' of the masses of volunteers and Athletes who presented the human Chinese component to the spectacle that we humans shared?

Are Russian agressions only just beginning, or will they be ending soon? Has the world learned how to play the US people in their political quest for a new President, and if so?


Welcome back my friends...

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© 2008

We told you so...

ZENmud wrote this in April:

Kicking ASO and taking names later...


... there's a way that the UCI could kick ASO butt.

Rival Tour.

No France.

EuroTour 2008.
(maybe 2009? And maybe "World Champions Tour" or...)

10 million Swiss francs to the one man who can ride three weeks, +/– 3600 km in nineteen days, London to Athens, or Prague, or both...

UCI rules.

Over fourteen times the winner's purse. Performing a doping control on each and every participant, as a minimum, of once per two days.

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