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Monday, March 28, 2005

Our imaginary attorney general Kline to pick a fictional doctor

It has been reported by the local Godarchy Line (right-wing Christian fascists), regarding Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s investigation of practices at the abortion clinics, that Kline will choose a doctor and a judge another. Kine has no credentials to be an attorney, which was established in the press at the time he was elected. He was not a qualified attorney; he only had the backing of evangelical churches. Naturally, he will pick a doctor who is not qualified, perhaps someone with the same credentials as Dr. Sues or Dr. Johnny Fever. In other words, it will be a fictitious doctor, just as Kline is a fictitious attorney.
Godarchy admitted, Sunday, March 21, that Kline is out to close down the abortion clinics in Kansas.
My suggestions is that Kline choose Professor Ludwig von Drake, of Walt Disney fame. After all, Disney was a conservative and the famouse scientist duck was very smart and knowledgeable about almost any subject. Of course he was not a real person, but neither is Kline, since he has no attorney credentials. Both are the equivalent of fictional characters and both are cartoonish.For more information on Professor Ludwig von Drake, he is Donald Duck's nutty professor, scientist and psychologist uncle from Austria.

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie

My new book Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie: Tales from the 1970s counter-culture: Drugs, sex, politics and rock and roll, is still available at such places Amazon.com: or The picture of it can be seen on the Barnes & Noble.com website:
or can also be purchased Direct from the publisher:

Some Iraqis still resist occupation

An addition of "Frontline," on PBS, March 22, presented an interview of an Afghanistan who was recruited to the CIA. They sent him to Camp X-ray, where he agreed to go to see if other prisoners would talk to him. Our troops treated him so badly that he considered suicide. The conditions he described included being stripped and once dressed in the orange jumpsuit, forced to squat in the same position and same place for over 24 hours.
He went on to say that most of the people there were not Al Qaeda and many had been turned on for cash. This is part of the great “Bush Doctrine” to spread “democracy” in the Middle East. Charles Krauthammer, (“Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine” Time, March 14, 2005); and columnist Johathan Gurwitz, (“Critics having to admit Bush was right,” The Wichita Eagle, March 23) are now championing this effort.
But the violence in Iraq persists. We call them terrorists, but they are resisting occupation of their country by an arrogant imperialist power run by a president who is drunk with ambition and power. Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte and Julius Caesar all thought their conquests were for the best of humanity. President Bush suffers from the same illusion.
Not only are there still Iraqis who mistrust the US government, there are still many citizens here in the US who distrust the same government. We see the Republican Party trying to strip away all opposition, not by arresting opponents, but by marginalizing them and using the press to black out their voices.
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!!!

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

China wants Taiwan, why?

China has been making noise about invading Taiwan if the Island claims independence. The US has an agreement to defend the Island if it is attacked. What will coke sniffing, beer guzzling “Frat-boy” Bush do? He’ll have to make a decision, or at least his flunkies will. He probably won’t know what to do.
The funny thing is that China’s claim to be socialist has been challenged by a group of people living on Taiwan who are part of the ChingKang Mountains Institute. There article is called RETHINKING SOCIALISM: WHAT IS SOCIALIST TRANSITION? In the conclusion of this piece they decided that the modern People’s Republic of China has abandoned socialism. In there conclusion they claim:
"In this essay, we presented our analysis of the socialist transition in China and the reverse of the transition from socialism to capitalism. The analysis is based on the concrete experiences of China in the past forty-some years. We quoted what Lenin said about the road to socialism earlier in this essay. He said, "We do not claim that Marx or the Marxists know the road to socialism in all its completeness. That is nonsense. We know the direction of this road, we know what class forces lead along it, but concretely and practically it will be learned from the experiences of the millions who take up the task." During the past eighty years, thousands of millions had taken up the task to advance their societies toward sociaiism. Unfortunately, the first round of attempts to build socialism failed. We need to learn from their valuable experiences, because thousands of millions will take up the task again in the future. Socialism has not failed, because we have not yet entered its threshold."
http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/WIST.html
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Friday, March 18, 2005

SpongeBob and the Revolutionary Worker

SpongeBob SquarePants was interviewed in the Revolutionary Worker over his attacks by the Christian Right. Could SpongeBob be a closet communist or a front for a Maoist conspiracy? First Mighty Mouse is caught snorting cocaine, homosexuality is running rampant through the cartoon world and SpongeBob actually owns a waterlogged book by Lenin. What next?
We may need to recruit Harvey Birdman, attorney at law, to defend all these cartoon characters.


The article, "In Hot Water with SpongeBob SquarePants"
by Nikolai Garcia (L.A. Writers Collective)
can be viewed at:

http://rwor.org/a/1268/sponge-bob.htm

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Bigots and Phelpites gear up in Kansas for April 5th

April 5th is the big date for those “droves of voters” who ran out and voted for anti-gay candidates despite the serious need of school financing. The first actions of our new Kansas legislators was to appease the religious bigots who have pushed for this amendment. They immediately passed the amendment and set it up to be voted on. Not until March have they begun the more important task of passing a funding bill for the states education. Gay marriage is already illegal in Kansas, so the amendment was never needed. School funding is a mess. Teachers are loosing their jobs and the Wichita school district has already considered cutting programs such as athletics, drivers ed and ROTC.
The Christian bigot “droves of voters” have gotten what they want at the expense of our children’s future. We may be one of the first generations in a long time to leave our children worse off than both ourselves and our parents. All of this so a voting block can incorporate their bigoted beliefs at the expense of everyone else. This may affect people in heterosexual relationships not formally involve marriage. This new law could affect a lot of innocent people, causing them legal problems they never had before.
Much of the arguments for this, often found by letters to the editor of the Wichita Eagle, are based on Biblical passages. They claim they are only following the moral path set down by “the word of God.” There are many parts to the Bible that are outdated, such as those suggesting that women be raped as part of the spoils of war:
“And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved al the women alive?
Behold these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespasses against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among he congregation of the LORD.
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” (Numbers 31:15 – 18)
If they are to take that Bible literally, they should consider the Ten Commandments:
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass.” (Exodus 20:17).
So are the fundamentalists going to bring back slavery and encourage our troops in Iraq to rape the women they capture? That is what the “word of God” tells us is the right thing to do if the Bible it to be taken literally. Those of us with some sense need to remind people that the Bible was written for people living 2,000 years ago. In Genesis there is a passage of “parting the waters” to create the earth. Early humans believed that space was filled with water. We know better than that now. The bigoted beliefs of the homophobes are backed up only by superstition, not any “word of God.” What compassionate God would encourage us to rape women or keep slaves?
It’s time for the homophobes to grow up and face reality. There is no Easter Bunny and the Bible is just a book. It is not an excuse to take away people’s rights.

Monday, March 14, 2005

"KKKansas Idiot"

-words by Red Day, music by Green Day
Don't wanna be a KKKansas idiot.
Don't want a state under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindless fucking KKKansans.
Welcome to a new kind of bigotry.
All across the liberal hanging tree.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Newspaper dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
Well maybe I'm the faggot Kansan.
I'm not a part of the redneck Foxans.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.
Welcome to a new kind of bigotry.
All across the liberal hanging tree.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Newspaper dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
Don't wanna be a KKKansas idiot.
One state controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot KKKansans.
Welcome to a new kind of hustle.
Phelpites are all gonna whistle.
Their bigotry is meant to be okay.
Their television dreams kill tomorrow.
Still they expect the rest of us to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Conservatives want academia next

While Charles Krauthammer may believe that the “Bush Doctrine” is now spreading democracy throughout the Middle East, (“Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine” Time, March 14, 2005), one question that has to nag us all is: How can a leader of a nation that is leaning toward a one party police state spread democracy. Can President George “Dubya” Bush really spread democracy abroad while his party chokes it off here at home?
In the same issue of Time, “Fighting Words 101,” it reports that conservative students are filing bias complaints against professors who criticize Republican points of view or their icons. According to the article, legislators are now trying to pass laws, such as David Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Rights, which sounds like an attempt to protect freedom of speech. But it is actually intended as a tool for students who want to fight against the teachings of what they consider “liberal bias.”
This is not surprising. The Republican Party has complete control of all branches of government. They control most of the media, especially the pundits and spin doctors. Academia is one of the last liberal strongholds and the conservatives are determined to eliminate it. Buzz phrases such as “Lose touch with the community” are used to dissuade universities from having such speakers as Michael Moore, or hosting the “Vagina monologs.” The so called community excuse seems to imply that the community’s politics, which at this time is mostly conservative, have a right to insulate themselves from the minority viewpoints.
Conservative students are complaining about a lack of balance on the teaching staff at many universities. Of course no one is pushing for such “balance” on TV news. Our two party system leaves no room for a balance of political diversity in our house or senate. The Democrats, the party in decline, try to act more like Republicans to win over the center, while they continue to alienate the progressives, liberals and leftists. They keep loosing elections; yet keep on the same political track. At the same time, we are one of the last bourgeois democracies that restrict access of third parties in our elections.
So again the question is can a person who has stolen one election, and excluded input from all other political groupings, really promote democracy? The resistance in Iraq continues. The Wichita Eagle, March 9, 2005, reported “Syria backers outdo critics.” As for Walid Jumblatt, Druze leader, who praised Bush in Krauthammer’s article, he needs to pull his head out. If Hitler were alive today, he might try to pass himself off as a friend of the Jews. Bush can’t promote what he doesn’t understand and he doesn’t understand democracy.

Friday, March 11, 2005

Indentured servitude returns with new bankruptcy laws.

Congress is about to pass another anti-bankruptcy law, designed to stick working class and some middle class people with a life-time of debt. Our congress-people talk of personal responsibility, while the main reason for all these bankruptcies are our outdated medical system, which cuts medical benefits for the insured, those provided to working people and even people on Medicare. Medical expenses are the largest cause of debt in America today and the Republican solution is to pass draconian laws that stick people with lifetime debts they will never pay off.

FLASH! ACTION ALERT! FLASH!This just in from the U. S. Congress!
Bush and Co. use Bible quotes to fool good "cloth coated" Republicans into mass bankruptcies that they can't default on. If you are just another low - wage conservative this might be your last chance to do something about your narrow self - interests by calling your congressional representatives this morning! We are informed that the Senate amendment discussions are in progress today. Do something or you'll be running in the streets with the rest of us when Bush declares martial law.
See the article below on "Debt Slavery" an unabridged edition from the American Center for International Law's Executive Director, Evan Augustine Peterson III, J. D.
From:
Fightin' Cock Flyer: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 10, 2005

“Dubya” Bush violates international law in Colombia

The George “Dubya” Bush administration is now getting the US directly involved the war in Colombia. Today’s Wichita Eagle reported that Sonia (Omaira Rojas) was extradited to the U.S. for charges of “drug trafficking and supporting illegal activities.”
The FARC has never directly sold drugs. It has represented the coca growers union and it has charged traffickers taxes, but the FARC has never been directly involved in dealing cocaine. That charge is 100% bogus. What is alarming is that we are now taking prisoners from someone else’s civil war. The FARC has not had anything to do with us nor have they made any threats against the U.S.
Another guerrilla leader, Ricardo Palmera, was extradited to the US, from Ecuador, last year. This is a serious breach of international law and proof that president Dubya is out of control.
For more information than that tinny blip in the Eagle, go to:
BBC News “Colombia hands FARC leader to US” 31 December, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4138753.stm
“Rebel Leader ordered extradited to US,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 27, 2005
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270539feb27,1,3166361.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

For a reaction from the FARC:
THE GUILTY
As in any Hollywood movie, the reality the U.S. presents about Plan Colombia's implementation is simplistic.
Good, respectable citizens are victims of the evil drug traffickers who corrupt the very foundation of the land of the free with their loads of cocaine, and they must be eliminated by force, with weapons that would make even Rambo green with envy. Yet the scene is not the U.S. streets, but rather the thick, green jungles of the Amazon in the south of Colombia. This is where Rambo-esque heroes descend. Only they can handle this problem and save humanity from such evil.
In this version of the "eternal conquerors" establishing a difference among those who produce the coca leaf, those who process it, and those who traffic it, matters little. There is no clarification whatsoever about the guerrilla, its true target. Environmental damage is not even discussed. All information about the paramilitaries, the Armed Forces' extension of the dirty war in keeping with U.S. strategic plans, is omitted. Those displaced by the application of these plans do not exist. The "heroes" are already promising that it will be a clean, fast, and successful operation.
Just as the Nixon administration did, the Clinton administration is betting on a solution to drug trafficking by targeting the supply. There is no better evidence of this than the words of his first anti-drug czar, Lee Brown: "It is easier to go to the hive than to catch the bees as they fly over the U.S." Easier, and less traumatic for a society used to solving its problems by force, outside U.S. borders.
http://farc-ep.ch/pagina_ingles/

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

A pro-life bomber now writes for the Wichita Eagle.

The Wichita Eagle (March 8, 2005) published an opinion piece “Kline correct in seeking abortion clinic records,” by Cheryl Sullengner. They gave her the title of outreach coordinator for Operation Rescue. What they didn’t say is that Sullen is also a convicted clinic bomber. She could have killed someone and obviously got only a slap on the wrist for an act of terrorism.
There is no reason to believe that she has repented from her ways. And it is obvious that the Eagle and Operation Rescue don’t care that a pro-life activist have committed acts of terrorism. I personally correspond to a Jaan Laaman, who will spend most of his life behind bars because he and eight others put a small bomb in an army recruiting center late at night, when no one was there, to protest our involvement in El Salvador. He got a sentence that was tripled due to the RICO act. He spend most of is life in jail, for the same crime, while Sullenger walks around as if nothing happened. Laaman was part of the Ohio 7 United Freedom Front. Their story can be found at:
http://www.nightslantern.ca/prison/seven.htm
Cheryl Sullenger’s crime story can be found under “Crime Families,” at:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:S3CbQbpgfZAJ:www.postfun.com/pfp/news/archive/1298.html+Cheryl+Sullenger,+clinic+bombings&hl=en
How is this fair? And how can someone pro-life risk killing innocent by-standers if they are really concerned about life.

Yes we kill communists in the US

It’s not surprising that our troops shot at Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena. She wrote for a leftist newspaper. In the US it is permissible to kill a communist and that has been done before. Four members of the Communist Workers Party were shot by the Ku Klux Klan in 1979. A jury let the Klansmen go because “they were just killing communists.” See: http://www.gjf.org/Oct14.html
In America, we take pride in our freedom. That includes the freedom to kill communists and discriminate against gays. As our beloved president said:
“Freedom is on the march.”
Heaven help us all.

Monday, March 07, 2005

CIA behind bombing in Lebanon?

After our government passed the Patriot Act and ordered the CIA and FBI to do what ever it takes to win the so called “war on terrorism” I can’t help wondering if the CIA isn’t behind the bombing in Lebanon. After all, who has benefited from this act? Not Syria, who is under harassment and maybe attack from the U.S. No, the U.S. has benefited greatly and Bush has been brimming with smiles and bragging that his plan for democracy is going just swell. Does that plan include bombing innocent people to get what he wants.He certainly executed the innocent in Texas to build his reputation.

Friday, March 04, 2005

APIΣTIΠΠOΣ and EΠIKOYPOΣ are just as good as the Bible

Unlike a lot of the narrow-minded people in Kansas, I have read more than just the Bible. I’ve read Epicurus and have read about such great thinkers as Aristippus. There were many great philosophers besides Jesus Christ. He may have been a philosopher, but he was nothing divine. Gilgamesh was one of the first God-heads and if we can stop believing in myths such as Gilgamesh we can stop believing in fairy tales, such as divine people and creationism.

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie: Tales from the 1970s counter-culture: Drugs, sex, politics and rock and roll

Once again I’m plugging my new book Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie. It takes the reader through the life of a 1970s counter-culture drug user. Mark Spies goes from casual pot smoking to habitual use of pharmaceutical narcotics and cocaine. Due to the changing sexual attitudes, Spies has several unconventional sexual encounters. The 1970s brought us the “Woodstock generation.” There was a sense of idealism that developed at the beginning and died at the end of that decade. Many counter-culture books focus on the 1960s, yet there are plenty of events in the 1970s that deserve attention. Nixon’s war in Vietnam and Cambodia dominated the news and affected America’s youth. Nixon’s war on drugs impacted the counter-culture life style. Then there was punk rock, disco, casual cocaine use and revolutions braking out around the world by 1979.
With politics in the background, this book gives the reader a look at drug use and the difficult business of drug dealing. The drugs, sexual attitudes, music and politics made the 1970s what they were. Taken as a whole, this book will give some insight into the people and events of the 1970s counter-culture.
The Author is a free-lance writer, living in Maize, KS. He is the author of War on Drugs/ War on People, published by Ide House, 1995, an expose of government corruption connected with the “war on drugs.” Otto has published numerous articles in magazines, journals and newspapers.

At Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1420821067/qid=1109800493/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-1412908-5766520?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

At Barnes and Noble.com:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=LF8RrP2BeB&isbn=1420821067&itm=1


Straight from the publisher:
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~28016.aspx

毛-ist Rebels kick as in Nepal

The ruling Nepal government is in a state of crisis. The Maoist guerrillas might now control 80 percent of the country and the King has declared a state of emergency. All political parties have been banned and the King has taken full control of the government, dissolving parliament. Newspapers have been shut down and heavily censored by the military. The Bush administration is quite alarmed at these events. Bush had declared the guerrillas “terrorists” and fears the new state of emergency will only make matters worse. The US, Britain and India, which has Maoist guerrillas of its own, are all pumping weapons and aid to Nepal.

For complete article at the Revolutionary Worker:
http://rwor.org/a/1268/nepal-two-futures.htm

The Idiot factor: Tiahrt trashes Kansas

Todd Tiahrt, got an F (zero percent) rating by the Conservation Voters, an organization aimed at protecting the environment. He gets 100 percent favorable from property rights groups. Tiahrt supports spending money to erradicate animals that feed on livestock and rules making it easier for lanowners to alter wet lands (The Wichita Eagle, February 12, 2000).Tiahrt has not voted for a single bill to protect the environments.

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Bush sucks weed

So George W. Bush was secretly recorded admitting he smoked pot and maybe snorted cocaine. Doug Wead recorded that because he thought president Bush will someday be a great man.Some friend if he leaked it out. I’ve always felt that those who believe in enforcing drug laws on young experimenters should volunteer to place themselves in prison, just to set a good example. Former President Bill Clinton should have done that whether he inhaled or not.Bush will go down in history all right. He’ll be comfortably added to all the other great conquerors, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler. They also wanted to build a new world on the blood of their own people and those of others. He is indeed one of the great war criminals of history.

The Idiot factor: Tiahrt embarrases Kansas

Kansas Representative Todd Tiahrt, Republican, angered AIDS activist by putting a ban on programs that distribute needles to addicts. Tiahrt, who spearheaded the move, with the help of other conservatives, complain that this program encourages drug use. AIDS activist claim this program saves lives and these representatives actions will literally kill people (The Wichita Eagle, August 1, 1999).Besides the AIDS issue, Washington, DC’s home rule advocates were also angered that the federal government is dictating what programs they can operate on the local level. The bill also included a ban on the use of medical marijuana.This is not the first time Tiahrt has led an effort to halt needle exchange programs. Last year he voted for a house amendment to ban the use of any tax money for needle exchange programs. (The Wichita Eagle August 8, 1998) The programs are used to prevent the spread of AIDS.Critics have argued these programs work. Since were started, there has been a 30 percent drop in AIDS among intravenous drug users, according to the National Institute of Health. At least 60 federally funded studies have shown that such programs work in reducing AIDS, while showing no significant increase in drug use. (The Wichita Eagle, 4 May 1998). Presently, needle exchange programs are endorsed by DC Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.Representative Albert Wynn, Democrat from Maryland, called Tiarht’s move “arrogant and misguided.” Washington DC has one of the nations highest rate of new HIV infections.Tiarht said the program promotes drug abuse and doesn’t work. In this latest effort, he sites a study done by the Office of National Drug Control Policy that claims the public health risks of needle exchange programs outweigh their benefits.The ONDCP is a hawkish “war on drugs” organization. By using them as a source, we see That Tiarht is more concerned with his twisted sense of morality than the public welfare.

Tiahrt pushed to get the Statue of former Kansan Gov. George Glick removed from the US Congress hall of statues and replaced with Ike Eisenhower. According to the Eagle, May, 28, 2003, Tiahrt thought ‘Who’s Glick?’ Then wondered why his statue was there. And ‘wouldn’t it be nice if Kansas he a statue that was well known and represented the hard work and courage Kansans are known for?’