A video was recently released of College basketball legend Bobby Knight, in hunters’ gear, spouting the stupid mouthy horseshit which he is so famous for, after his careless use of a firearm resulted in a harmless bystander being sprayed with pellets on their own property. When confronted, Knight used the extremely cowardly and lame excuse that he would’ve moved if the person filming him hadn’t used abusive language. But he wasn’t inclined to do so because HE had been insulted.

Now, millions of us are used to this stupid selfish moron justifying his own idiotic behavior. Let’s analyze this with some sense of reality. There is no sane person who is not going to be upset over being shot at. Knight carelessly discharged a firearm in a populated area. A woman was shot. Knight is so absorbed in his own senseless reality he felt his indignation justified regardless of the fact he had just carelessly shot another human being. Evidently, in Texas this is acceptable. But we must also remember it was Texas that welcomed this pig with open arms when the rest of the country had grown weary of his blowhard bullying and denounced him for being the pariah he is.

In Michigan he most definitely would be cited, and depending on where he was, would’ve more than likely had his head introduced to his heart via his anus. Of course, this coward knows that, and it is why he spent a lifetime bullying and slapping kids around. Men would never put up with his behavior. It is also easy to stand tall when holding a gun. It takes a man to meet people face to face on their own level. Publicly, Bobby Knight doesn’t exhibit this basic quality of manhood. Women with good men all over America can at least be secure in the knowledge that their men aren’t Bobby Knights.

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
-Joseph Stalin

Thomas Jefferson Foretold the Truth About American Banking

Thomas Jefferson understood, the problem is not taxes per se but rather a monetary system rigged by the bankers. “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

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I was watching a baseball game and I heard one of the announcers talking about a player who had admitted taking steroids and how the Yankees fans would accept him after that. The announcer stated dogmatically that the American people were the most forgiving people in the world. It is the appropriate venue for the announcer appraising his audience to say this but when we use it in the context of normal dialogue in America we run into trouble because America’s various ethnicities tend to identify themselves with race or ethnicity first, and nationality second. For example, if a caucasian says Americans are the most open minded people in the world, an onlooking Mexican immigrant might take exception to that at this point in history.

I am sure that most citizens of other countries from around the world feel they are at least as forgiving as Americans, and each has a credible claim. President Bush said Americans were the most forgiving people when he announced war on Afghanistan. Let us hope that the rest of the world is more forgiving than the American political administration has been and realize that American public knows the deeds of our government. We elected new members of congress to truly represent the citizens of America in 2006, but to our consternation the same diabolical machinery plods on as before, feeding the war machine and providing corporate welfare while its citizens must not only pay for health care themselves, but pay extraordinary sums. Our banks are robbing us blind, stealing our homes and our income, every decade or so the titans of banking and their cronies in congress cook up a scheme to rob hundreds of billions of dollars from the public to to keep their empire in order.

It is a sad commentary of our time that the word “war” has become a euphemism for organized murder. We wage war on ourselves for not supporting the latest mass murder our government has undertaken with the false rhetoric of freedom, and we readily question the morality of other societies that have the audacity to question our superiority. Debating doesn’t eliminate the way we look at things, it only solidifies our own reasoning whether we have won the debate or not. It does no good for humanity to debate which society is the most forgiving, and therefore it serves no good purpose to make such a claim.

“While timorous knowledge stands considering, audacious ignorance has done the deed.”
-Samuel Daniel(16th Century English Poet)

I can think of no statement more apt than this to describe to the world the state of our polarized, corrupt political system in America, and why America’s position as a cultural power and voice of integrity has been all but destroyed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people’s private communications and financial information.

Kerr’s comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.

Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.

The original law required a court order for any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil, to protect Americans’ privacy. The White House argued that the law was obstructing intelligence gathering because, as technology has changed, a growing amount of foreign communications passes through U.S.-based channels.

The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people’s private e-mails and phone calls without a FISA court order between 2001 and 2007.

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The horrific crime shocked a nation. Three young boys, cub scouts, were tied up, murdered and their naked bodies dumped in a drainage ditch.

As a Deep South community bayed for justice, attention focused on a group of misfit teenagers, heavy metal fans accused of killing the children in a Satanic ritual. The case became a sensation at a time when a ‘Satanic panic’ over cults was gripping 1990s America. All three were found guilty. Jason Baldwin, then 16, and Jessie Misskelley, 17, got life sentences. Damien Echols, 18, was put on death row, where he remains.

Now evidence, including DNA samples, has emerged to suggest the real killers are still at large and that three innocent men have been behind bars for almost 15 years. ‘No reasonable juror would convict… knowing what we know today,’ said defence lawyer Dennis Riordan.

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I used to worry that the US was in the grip of extremists who sincerely believed the Apocalypse was coming and that they and their friends would be airlifted to heavenly safety. I have since reconsidered. The country is indeed in the grip of extremists who are determined to act out the biblical climax - the saving of the chosen and the burning of the masses - but without any divine intervention. Heaven can wait. Thanks to the booming business of privatised disaster services, we’re getting the Rapture right here on earth.

Just look at what is happening in southern California. Even as wildfires devoured whole swaths of the region, some homes in the heart of the inferno were left intact, as if saved by a higher power. But it wasn’t the hand of God; in several cases it was the handiwork of Firebreak Spray Systems. Firebreak is a special service offered to customers of insurance giant American International Group - but only if they happen to live in the wealthiest zip codes in the country. Members of the company’s Private Client Group pay an average of $19,000 to have their homes sprayed with fire retardant. During the fires, the “mobile units”, racing around in firetrucks, even extinguished fires for their clients.

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In parts of Angola, Congo and the Congo Republic, a surprising number of children are identified as witches and beaten, abused or abandoned. Child advocates estimate that thousands of children living in the streets of Kinshasa, Congo’s rubble-strewn capital, have been accused of witchcraft and cast out by their families - often a rationale for not having to feed or care for them.

The authorities in one northern Angolan town identified 432 street children who had been abandoned or abused as suspected witches. A report last year by the government’s National Institute for the Child and the United Nations Children’s Fund described the number of children deemed to be witches as “massive.”

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