Neosho, MO Rampage

A suspect is in custody after a shooting in a church in the small southwestern MO town of Neosho. He was reportedly shouting that the parishioners were all liars. As he held the gun to one victims head he reportedly asked if anyone would trade their life for that one. When no one stepped up, he shot the victim.

He also shot and wounded five others and killed three.

Read the sanitized Christian version at http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/12/church.shooting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

What they won't point out is the irony that being Christian is to strive to be Christ like. And Jesus said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 . And no one offered his/her life for the one that was offered in trade. Not one.

Of course, this is an extreme case of "practice what you preach", however it is indicative of Christianity at large and in general.It's all good until it affects me personally. Crime, war, the buffoons who have trampled all over the constitution and repeatedly lied to the sheople... None of it really matters until the meat meets the metal.

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And they bicker against one another... Part Two

Oh Partha, those who are foolish reject the real meanings of the Vedas out of attachment to those ornamental statements which glorify the pursuits of celestial pleasures, but which yield only poisonous effects. They say there is no higher truth than these.

Srimad-Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Sloka 42

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I am bemused as much as bedeviled by people who "believe" that by virtue of their religion that their truth is the only truth and that their interpretation of that truth nullifies the validity of any other scripture or perspective.

Let's face it. Most people become Christian, Vedantic, Muslim, or virtually any other faith simply because of the Geo-Social nature of their place of birth. They are raised to believe that their truth is the only truth, by and large. And when they find their voice, identity, self, the bickering begins. And anything that remotely suggests that they might be wrong is, in a word, "manure".

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All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Timothy 3:16

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I tend to believe that there is truth and instruction in all holy scripture. And that those who dismiss such instruction are exactly who prophets and saviors were warning against. "...they bicker among one another..."

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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mathew 5:9

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Mark 9:50

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Who is the most dangerous man on earth? It's the man who thinks that God is on his side.

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"I BELIEVE that God wants me to be president." George W. Bush

"I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany," Hitler - Berlin March, 1936

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands. George W. Bush

If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg held on 3 Oct. 1937

"freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." George W. Bush

"Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!" Hitler - Nuremberg Sept. 13, 1936.

Nourish continually the tree of your union with love and affection so that it may remain ever green throughout all seasons, and when God gives you sweet and lovely children consecrate yourselves to their instruction and guidance so that they may become the servants of the world of humanity.' [Bahá'í Prayers, London, 1951, pp 47-49 (paraphrase).] (William Sears, Thief in the Night)

Even if the thoughtless can recite many of the scriptures, if they do not act accordingly, they are not living the holy life, but are like a cowherd counting the cows of others. (Buddhist, Dhammapada - Sayings of the Buddha 2 (tr. J. Richards))

Even if the faithful can recite only a few of the scriptures, if they act accordingly,
having given up passion, hate, and folly, being possessed of true knowledge and serenity of mind, craving nothing in this world or the next, they are living the holy life. (Buddhist, Dhammapada - Sayings of the Buddha 2 (tr. J. Richards))

35,13 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to My words? saith the LORD. (Nev'im (Prophets), Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah))

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Manure? I think not. The stuff self-righteous wars are made of? Likely.

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And they bicker among one another....

111 And they say: None entereth paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian. These are their own desires. Say: Bring your proof (of what ye state) if ye are truthful.

112 Nay, but whosoever surrendereth his purpose to Allah while doing good, his reward is with his Lord; and there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.

113 And the Jews say the Christians follow nothing (true), and the Christians say the Jews follow nothing (true); yet both are readers of the Scripture. Even thus speak those who know not. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they differ.

(The Qur'an (Pickthall tr), Sura 2 - The Cow)

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Fossil Fuel Independence? I think not...

Twenty-eight years ago I returned home from a one year tour of active service on mainland Japan to spend thirty days leave before I was to report to my next duty station. Life circumstances brought me into close proximity to a man who I knew as a prolific gambler and sewing machine salesman/repair man. During my entire visit at home I heard this man talking about an engine that he had invented that "ran on air"... Compressed air, to be more specific.

Regardless of the details of the motor, I found it extremely difficult to buy into the notion that it was even remotely possible to power a motor that could power a drive train or a generator with the air that we breath. Or that a gambling sewing machine salesman could develop such a device.
On the last night of my leave from active duty, I was sitting in the Eagles Club in a college town in Arkansas listening to this man try to "sell" stock in the development and production of this motor. Frankly, I thought it was a con. And when the mark, or potential investor, left the table I told the sewing machine man that I just didn’t believe it.

He told me that the prototype was near by and he would show it to me. So, when the bar closed (had to close the bar! That’s what Marines and Gamblers did in those days.), we went to his shop and there in the middle of the shop floor sat a motor. On the wall all the way around the shop was models of the motor sliced in different angles to offer different views of the inner workings of the motor.

He started the motor up for me and I watched it run for over five minutes. In spite of my skepticism, I was now a believer. I will not go into the details of how the machine worked here. My only point is that IT WORKED! Imagine, an engine that requires nothing more than the air we breath to create power to do with as we may!

My friend tried for years to get his creation patented and every time he did, the big power and fuel companies blocked him. He eventually gave up and sold his creation to Exxon for little more than his expenses.
Fast forward thirty years. Now, they are developing "hybrid" vehicles that despite their apparent "greeness" are still dependent on fossil fuel and emitting green house gasses.

So, anyone who says that our government is "trying" to create better fuel economy and more environmentally friendly sources of transportation and power are simply lying. Nuclear, solar, wind, ... Not a single other energy source is as economic nor as clean as this motor. Yet, it is still not in development as an energy alternative.

Why? Because it is a one time, long term sale which requires little service...NO ONE CAN MAKE ANY MONEY ON IT! They can’t even think up a service, like telephone and cable, to continue to charge its users absorbent fees. You buy the motor, it runs for free just like we breath.
This war on terror is all about the oil, no matter what anyone says! And any effort by anyone to move away from oil and fossil fuels is blocked by the ones who benefit from all of the economically and environmentally costly power sources.

I have lived with this knowledge since 1979. Is it really any wonder that I am angry?

Now, who exactly has the money and is trying so hard to protect it? Well, I’ll connect capitalism and Christianity later. I’m mad and tired right now.

Cigarrest

Just a word to the wise from experience...
DO NOT ORDER THE CIGARREST PRODUCT!
The television commercial indicates that they will send you a "FREE TRIAL" if you only pay shipping. It includes "herbal, all natural" stop smoking placebo’s, vitamins, and even "minty" gum. They advertise that if you are not satisfied within thirty days that you need only call to cancel and all future shipments will be canceled.
What they do not explain is that they send in the initial shipment a 90 day supply for which, regardless of your cancel order, they will bill you nearly $70 per month for the next two months. And if you complain, they will not reimburse you.
I don’t suppose I need to tell anyone that if you are already living on a budget, an unauthorized deduction of $70 from ones account can easily cause an overdraft, for which your bank will also charge you an absorbent fee which sends you even further into arrears.
I don’t believe that the Cigarrest Company acts in good faith and I believe that their commercial is intentionally misleading.
High priced "patch" therapy, which is available in every community anywhere, are more effective, not to mention HONEST.
But if you really want to quit smoking, just lay the damned things down and quit. It’s hard, but people do it every day! You can, too.

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

I saw a commercial the other day that simply floored me. It was so repugnant that I simply had to call and ask them to send me their information so I could read it for myself, just to know that it was true, that they were for real.
It was a commercial for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and they wanted ME to send THEM money! The money is supposedly used to build bomb shelters for Israelis.
Here's an idea! Quit lobbing bombs at your neighbors and perhaps they will quit lobbing them at you! Quit CLAIMING the land "in the name of God" and treating those that you are displacing like shit.
And what REALLY irks me is that they are claiming that this organization is working toward peace... by building bomb shelters (if that is what they are doing with the money). And by the way, China displaced the Tibetans over half a century ago. Is anyone doing anything about that?
Well, we are making it easier for them to export their goods, like poison food, to unsuspecting consumers around the world.

Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire
It is proper to question our leadership... even patriotic! How many lives have been saved in battle by having select officers fall by friendly fire? It has been considered heretical and unpatriotic, and perhaps even more importantly, unsupportive of the troops to question the wisdom of the actions of our national and military leaders. Therefore, it is absolutely patriotic to speak out when a leader is clearly in the wrong.

It is proper to question our leadership... even patriotic! How many lives have been saved in battle by having select officers fall by friendly fire? And just think how many of THEM really needed killing! But instead of weeding out bad leaders, the Pentagon has been engaged in trying to make a hero out of a football player who was just doing his job and paid the ultimate price. Yet no one could bring themselves to question the wisdom of ever being there in the first place.

Therefore, it is absolutely patriotic to speak out when a leader is clearly in the wrong. Other leaders have been killed for less than the atrocities of the oil war!

Georgie Porgie

Georgie Porgie Puddin' Pie declared a war upon a lie.

All his cowboy buddies then sent young men to die in sin.

They sent their business big and small to pillage, plunder and steal it all.

Sadam was wanted "Alive or Dead" and blame his death on Iraq instead.

And imperialist Christians want to pull the plug but won't admit George is a common thug.

Georgie Porgie Puddin' Pie, kiss my ass why don't YOU die?

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Redneck Christmas

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the south
The Rednecks were drinking and trashing their house.
The Beer was all placed in their coolers with care
In hopes that their thinking would soon not be there.

When all of the sudden there arose such a fuss,
Billy Bob and Betty Sue had started to cuss.
"Your shirt and your bra are unbuttoned, undone!"
Billy Bob shouted, "Your cousin's a BUM!"
"How could you, you bitch?", he hollered with glee.
"You're screwin' your cousin and married to me!"

"Oh, go screw your mother, you self-righteous prick!
You're still just my brother, and HE's got a DICK!
Our kids are retarded, I can't even cook!
And our family tree hasn't even a crook!
If you were a man, you'd marry another -
Woman to beat on, and I don't mean your mother!"

They staggered outside and started to fight,
Then she pulled a gun and he pulled a knife.
The cousin fell in and yelled, "What's all the ruckus?
I come here to party, now, come on and fuck us!"

Then they all went to bed, Betty Sue in the middle.
When the new baby came who was father's a riddle.
As they drank all the beer and began losing sight,
T'was a redneck Christmas, Don't reality bite!

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Voting Fraud

I went to vote yesterday morning. I voted against the 35 Circuit Judge in MO, Stephen Sharp. I also voted against Steve Sokolof, the current prosecutor in our county.Granted, they are the only names on the ballot for these positions. But the reason I voted against these two individuals is that they not only did not prosecute a child molester for raping his own daughter, as the MO Department of Family Services found in an investigation and upheld by a citizens review panel.(His father is a retired cop in Arkansas). But they also allowed the child molester to take full custody of his son when his mother objected to this. But the MO Secretary of State shows that Sharp took a clean sweep of all votes! I feel that it is important for the record to show that there was at least one dissenter and that it was not a clean sweep. This just verifies to me that this county is crooked, dirty, and deceitful.This U.S. government is nothing but a sham!

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On Cloning

The potential medical benefits to be derived from stem cell research far outweigh the dangers regarding the possibility of human cloning. In fact, the only objection I can think of personally to human cloning is the possibility of cloning George W. Bush or virtually any of the members of the 109th Congress, Republicans, and Christian Evangelicals. Just think, they COULD clone more of the few middle class that are left and the lower class to go to Iraq to stop bullets!

Just a thought....

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Exit Strategy for Irag: Who has one?

Beside the fact that the American people are only given basically to groups of morons to choose from to run this country, a subject which I intend to expand on in a later post, Republicans claiming that the Democrats do not have one or simply wish to "cut and run" is simply propaganda and libelous slander. They have been rendered impotent by the current Congress and White House. Excluded from discussions on the subject, forced to vote on legislation that they have had mere minutes to examine, and out right stone walling by the Commander and Chimp and legislative majorities has created an air in Washington in which whatever Democrats say about virtually any subject goes unheard. Why should they even suggest anything? Firstly, as Bush wouldn't tell anyone if he had a strategy, which he clearly does not, for fear of informing the "enemy", if the Dems revealed a viable one, the Pubies would claim it as theirs and take credit for it.

If anyone were paying attention at the time, the so called "Shock and Awe" campaign turned out to be a fizzle and fart. And it became the defining moment when they dropped the ball by taking their eye off the prize! We were suppose to be hunting down Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts.

The simple fact is that Bush failed as an oil tycoon in Texas and took his frustration out on Texas Death Row inmates. But The killing fields in Texas were simply too small to satisfy his blood lust. So, he sent our troops to one of the richest oil fields in the world to kill the owners of the oil while his corporate buddies at Haliburton trucked the oil out as fast as they could.

Call it eminent domain.    

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Leading Evangelical Pastor Resigns amid Gay Affair accusations

The representative of over 30 million Evangelical Christians, Rev. Ted Haggard, has resigned his position after news of his 3 year affair with a male prostitute surfaces.

See the whole story on CNN.com

Personally, I could care less were it not for the fact that he leads the charge in the Evangelical anti-gay rights movement. The hypocrisy of conservatives is simply mind boggling! They claim to support small government, yet they want to tell people they don't even know what they can and cannot do in and out of the privacy of their own homes. When will Christianity realize that absolute power corrupts absolutely?

These glaring examples of pride and vanity care only about what feels good to them at the moment and lining their pockets with money handed them freely based upon their lies and deception.

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"You're nuthin' but a bitch"

And now Republican Ralph Arza of Florida threatens a witness in a complaint against him saying, "You're nuthin' but a bitch".

James Sensenbrenner Jr., Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, turning the mic's and lights off and walking out of a hearing that he didn't approve of.

Ohio's officious jackass of an ex-Congressman Bob Ney, who went down for accepting $170,000 in trips from Abramoff in exchange for various favors.

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, after finally being indicted for money laundering and his fellow Texan, Rep. Pete Sessions, who did Abramoff's bidding after accepting gifts and junkets.

Convicted bribe-taker and GOP ex-congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham who still denies any wrong doing.

Mark Foley (need I say more).

And these are only GLARING examples of their ilk, the New Republican.

And this very same party who holds no one to account, circumvents the Constitution of The United States of America, and unarguably mismanages wars, disasters and our money are STILL PROPPED UP BY THE CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL BASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deba, deba, deba, what the fuck, Buck?

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They've got what they can live with?!

President Bush responded to the question if they had enough troops on the ground in Iraq with, "They've got what they can live with."

They've got what they can live with?! What the hell is that suppose to mean? They are dying every freaking day! And it is clearly spiraling out of control. We have even been reduced to taking our orders there from the fledgling Iraqi government who is clearly taking their cues from Muktada al Sadir.

Our commander and chimp acts like a bully on the play ground insisting that his is the only way when it is clear to everyone on the play ground that his way is wrong. He thinks that if he just continues to insist that he is right that everyone will eventually see it his way!

And speaking of bullies, how about the body slam that the law student got for asking Allen a question! I hope that everyone see's the new Republican party for what it is: a bunch of spoiled rich boys who believe that they can do anything they want and resort to physical violence when someone says or does something that they don't like.

And the polls suggest that the upcoming election races are close. I am almost ashamed to be an American! Someone should be ashamed of something!

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The Worst Congress Ever

How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps .

By Matt Taibbi
10/31/06 "Rolling Stone" -- -- There is very little that sums up the record of the U.S. Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?

These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.

To be sure, Congress has always been a kind of muddy ideological cemetery, a place where good ideas go to die in a maelstrom of bureaucratic hedging and rank favor-trading. Its whole history is one long love letter to sleaze, idiocy and pigheaded, glacial conservatism. That Congress exists mainly to misspend our money and snore its way through even the direst political crises is something we Americans understand instinctively. "There is no native criminal class except Congress," Mark Twain said -- a joke that still provokes a laugh of recognition a hundred years later.

But the 109th Congress is no mild departure from the norm, no slight deviation in an already-underwhelming history. No, this is nothing less than a historic shift in how our democracy is run. The Republicans who control this Congress are revolutionaries, and they have brought their revolutionary vision for the House and Senate quite unpleasantly to fruition. In the past six years they have castrated the political minority, abdicated their oversight responsibilities mandated by the Constitution, enacted a conscious policy of massive borrowing and unrestrained spending, and installed a host of semipermanent mechanisms for transferring legislative power to commercial interests. They aimed far lower than any other Congress has ever aimed, and they nailed their target.

"The 109th Congress is so bad that it makes you wonder if democracy is a failed experiment," says Jonathan Turley, a noted constitutional scholar and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington Law School. "I think that if the Framers went to Capitol Hill today, it would shake their confidence in the system they created. Congress has become an exercise of raw power with no principles -- and in that environment corruption has flourished. The Republicans in Congress decided from the outset that their future would be inextricably tied to George Bush and his policies. It has become this sad session of members sitting down and drinking Kool-Aid delivered by Karl Rove. Congress became a mere extension of the White House."

Read the whole article...

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Pentagon boosts PR arsenal

Well folks, Congress and the White House have been feeding us camel dung for six years and now the Pentagon wants to start spinning their stories! I thought that the military swore to defend the Constitution, not win votes. We shouldn't be surprised, though. Neo-con, corporate Christianity has bought everything and everyone else in this once great land. Why shouldn't our military have a selling price, too. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/31/pentagon.pr/index.html

We don't even own our own voting machines! When we sell our elections, it should be of no surprise that our Constitution Protectors sell out, too.

Incidentally, I'm sick and tired of having my patriotism questioned! "Do you want to win..." is insulting! My question to these morons is, how many young men and women do you have to send to their death before you decide to pick a strategy that works?

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Jesus " of color "

So, it seems that some people really would like to have a black Jesus. OK, all right. We might as well throw that into the mix. It certainly wouldn't be the first thing that Christianity has gotten wrong. It seems that the debates in Christianity never end. Christians spend more time bickering and arguing between one another than any other faith. It's ridiculous.

It is well documented that Jesus of Nazareth was of Hebrew descent. He was descended from Jacob and from Abraham. We have no clear statement that I'm aware of in historical evidence that states that this line humans was not of color. However, we can be certain that the members of this race were easily identifiable and distinguishable from the other inhabitants of the area in which they resided, being the Middle East, as the entire race was taken into slavery in Egypt and in Babylon. It is an evolutionary fact that beings adapt to their environment. and their pigmentation may very well have darkened to some degree as a result of their environment. It is argued that their race was diluted while in exile from the Holy Land. And this may very well be so but as a race they were still very much distinguishable from the other inhabitants of land. We know this because they were exiled again and in a much more permanent manner. They more less went to the wind and spread throughout the world during their last exile.

But we do have historical evidence that this race, the Hebrew race, remained very tight and exclusionary when it came to mixing with other races in their final exile. In fact, it is apparent that they had assistance in remaining pure during the last 2000 years as historical evidence shows that the Hebrew race was generally disdained by others.

So, the debates as to what color Jesus of Nazareth was some is purely one of speculation gone awry.

A wonderful spiritualist Jew once said in regard to Jesus, " don't get so hung up on the messenger that you miss the message ". And it appears to me in this debate that this is exactly what everyone has done.

Jesus of Nazareth came here to this earth to speak specifically to the Hebrew race, and then to anyone who would listen, to say that there was no need for an intermediary between a person and their creator. His message was unmistakable in that the priesthood was unnecessary and had it been corrupted with power. Yet, very early in the Christian church history the so-called followers of Jesus turned their hearts and minds over to church leaders, the very people that Jesus came to debunk. Pastors, Deacons, and priests were again given free rein to stand between them and their creator.

And a Christian High priest named Ananias claimed that Jesus came to him in a vision or dream and told him that Saul of Tarsus was their new high priest. And thus established the new hierarchy of leadership and politicization of Christianity. (And let us not forget that the Christian Killer, Saul of Tarsus, is credited with writing this account!)

So, if you want to argue about something that matters, why don't you argue that more time is spent concentrating on the instructions of Christian priests than on what Jesus himself taught. After all, he did say that the priesthood was an unnecessary and corrupt.

And really, what difference does it make what color he was?

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Excusing Bush

I have pointed out inconsistencies in the words of George Bush and his cronies and in point accused him of cyber attacks on the American people. It is clear to me now that he actually could have very little to do with this kind of monitoring. He has recently admitted that he uses " the google" on "the internets". This leads me to believe that it is highly unlikely that hi tech surveillance is outside of his realm of comprehension.

This deduction can only mean that he has an army of Nazi's who bring these things to his attention and do the dirty work (constitutional violations) for him with his approval.

I ask you, is it truly endearing to have an ignorant psychopath as your commander in chief?

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Amendment 2

The Nazi neo-cons have ramped up their attack on Amendment 2, The Stem Cell Research initiative. And it's not surprising that they collected a group of athletes to speak to their target audience, sports fanatics. This moronic section of our population will believe anything they are told by an athlete for the simple reason that if they can read at all, they are too damned lazy to.

There is one athlete who says something to the effect, "...in the 2000 words that you don't read, this amendment constitutionally protects and guarantees human cloning."

The third item in the amendment is pasted below:

"(1) No person may clone or attempt to clone a human being."

Further on in the draft it goes on to delineate criminal prosecution for anyone who violates this condition.

This is just another example of the Nazi's gambit that the American public is just plain ignorant and lazy and will believe their blatant lies out of pure lethargy.

Here is the link to the Secretary of State's page that has the draft amendment for anyone who can read.

http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2006petitions/ppStemCell.asp

The Two Party System depends on the fact that most Americans will believe anything they are told.

You may not like me or my opinions, but please, for the love of Jesus, vote these bastards out! All of them! Both parties! Give it to someone, anyone else so that they will know that we won't accept "business as usual", screw the people, corporate designed rule anymore!

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