This is a repost, in case people forget cuz the media isn't reporting it...

The Most Important News You’ll Never Hear About...

Unless you Google: emergency powers george bush

Weird Wally heard of Mr. Bush’s actions a few days ago but, did not have enough information to come up with a good Google search term.

Although he’d gotten a few good hints over time, there was nothing solid. But when WW decided to put those hints into words, he came up with: emergency powers george bush.

And ,the following links are only a few among many.

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.

The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

*****

WW wants to suggest to those of you who are ok with oppression because, you have nothing to hide, consider the possibility that you also have everything to loose.

Here it is, direct from the horses mouth at whitehouse.gov

Now tell me again about how we might fix things after the 2008 Elections, assuming that they actually happen?

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Posted by Walter Lide at 5/31/2007 0 comments Links to this post

Scooter Libby

Praise the Lord

And Blessed be

An American asshole gets to walk free.

And our democracy is working...

Not!

Scooter Libby Walks from Prison...

What does he know that the rest of us don't, yet we would like to?

It ain't over yet and we don't even know the name of the fat lady or dude, that will finally sing.

Stay tuned to your alternative news sites...

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Weird Wally’s Phone Bill - Back In the Day!

When Weird Wally was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, during the late 60s and early 70s, there were times when he couldn’t afford to pay his phone bill. So, WW would call a friend, who was also late in payments, and they would discuss an amazing fantasy dope deal.

It worked out really well. Since law enforcement thought they were getting information on drugs from WW, it was in their best interests to make sure that WW didn’t suffer a telephone disconnection.

That was then and, if nothing else, the government needed a little bit of reality to keep from fucking with people. But the simple days of government having to prove its shit are gone.

Now, the government simply comes up with a new label, and it takes years to see through their bullshit.

Meanwhile, we all go crazy, the damage is done and truth has nothing to do with anything that is currently real.

Here is why WW would not have any fun pushing back, with humor, anymore.

Everything is serious and the government is coming up with too many definitions of what everyone should think.

Only problem is, WW does think that government might easily come up with a word or phrase to make him disappear and no questions asked.

After all, that does seem to be the way life and death works these days.

But, WW is also willing to bet that Muslims too, have a sense of humor, but us westerners are too arrogant to understand it and laugh at ourselves.

And WW cannot help but wonder if the Muslims are not so much laughing with us, as laughing at us.

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey

Despit all of it, Weird Wally believes that we will get by and survive...and with grace!

A math major friend at MIT sent this to Weird Wally two years ago. And, since WW is very unorganized, he just found it again and is finally posting it. He hopes it is not too late for you...

How to Use Math in Your Workplace

What Makes 100%?

What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%?

What makes up 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

And...
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But...
A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And...
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

And, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.

And thus are our lives of choice

Stuck at sea and so far from land.

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Constitutional Crisis: Iraq and Iran Wars; Alberto Gonzales; Harriet Miers; Karl Rove; Scooter Libby; Halliburton; Black Water Security; NSPD-51; HSPD-20 and who the hell knows what else because the rest is probably classified.

But there is hope. Not only did the Chinese curse and bless their friends and enemies with, “may you live in interesting times,” they also knew about the crisis of living in interesting times.

The Chinese Definition of Crisis: "Opportunity Riding a Dangerous Wind."

And since there are two, or more sides to every crisis, the future belongs to those who are fearless enough to ride the wind and come what may?

Trust me,
Weird Wally

An Alberto Concerto

Subtle changes?

by Hillbilly Hermit

Yesterday I was doing a bit of research on Hitler's rise to power, and
how Hitler was ultimately forced to put an end to the SA, and Rhom in
the process... specifically the "night of long knives" and the miserable
fate of Ernst Rhom.

Now I ponder how Bush is staunchly defending A. Gonzales in the face of
increasing pressure.

Weird Wally has talked about HSPD 20 (Executive order authorizing
dictatorial powers to Bush in event of "an emergency"). Most of the
nation hasn't even heard about it, much less become concerned about it,
but I wonder: This site gives an interesting commentary on it:

http://www.alternet.org/stories/52801/

On June 10, Bush's tone seems to have changed-- just a bit. He used to
say "as long as I'm president". When he was again/still defending
Gonzales, this time, he specifically said: that no matter what congress
does, he will not let a "meaningless resolution" interfere with "my
government."

From "as long as I'm president" to "my government"????????

And if your are not scared shitless, you have not been paying attention!

Sincerely,
Hillbilly Hermit

Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers

Between back then and now, three horrible things happened:

1. Ronald Reagan

2. George W. Bush (Karl Rove)

3. Our current culture of fear
of diversity and the spice
of life.

Trust me,
Weird Wally

If this were us back in the day

how did George W
steal our country away?

Weird Wally Wants to know

Consider the possibility that if the government is the sole authority on who defines who the bad guys are, you may not be as exempt as you think.

Or, as those zany sociology professors from the University of Chicago, used to say: "If a situation is defined as real, it is real in its consequences."

Can you feel it?

Trust me,

Weird Wally

Part 2: An Interview With the Colonel - 2007: “When we were up to our asses in alligators, it was hard to remember that our primary mission was to drain the swamp.”

And, according to the Colonel, “there was no need to drain the swamp in the first damn place!”

WW: Are you saying we went to war on a bullshit tip from from Dick Cheney and his minions?

TC: Although I hate it when I agree with PBS or NPR, PBS got it 100% right.

The Colonel’s eyes look past WW to the entrance of the bar as a very sexy woman walks in.

But when WW turns back to talk with the Colonel, he is gone. A hastily written note on a bar-room napkin is the only memento that WW has of his meeting with the Colonel.

“I’ll be in touch, asshole,” wrote the Colonel. “Meanwhile, please be advised that you need to keep your eyes on the prize, and you just blinked.

"Trust me,
the Colonel"

To be continued at a later date...

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Hillbilly Hermit ponders the realm of science fiction monsters.

by Hillbilly Hermit

Just a few weeks ago, the phenomenon of disappearing bees made the news.
No one got too excited, even though bees are responsible for the
pollination of approximately 1/3 of the world's food supply.

Now, Chernobyl is back in the news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_re_eu/chernobyl_wildlife

The devastated (ie; contaminated) area seems to be a haven for wildlife.

During the fifties and sixties, many a movie doted on the theme of
mutations-- mutant monsters of every ilk.

Now it's true that mutations from radiation haven't matched the movie
thrillers... YET. But with the "dead zone" around the old Chernobyl
reactor having become a haven for all manner of wild life, even the
random mutations (most of which result in short-lived, deformed
critters) start tempting the mathematical probabilities. Who knows what
might happen?

Sincerely,
Hillbilly Hermit





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Part 1: An Interview With The Colonel -2007: “And Shit Always Rolls Downhill.”

Weird Wally (WW): Last time we talked, you were really gung-ho for Bush and now you’re packing it in and getting out. What changed?

the Colonel (TC): As you know Mr. Weird, several of our best generals recently retired in-mass and that, my friend, is a sure sign that our democracy is in trouble. The only generals who retired were those who had some sense of a moral compass...a sense of integrity.

WW: Please explain.

TC: The generals I am loyal to have retired, therefore, my military time is also done. We break promises to our troops and their families for purely political reasons. Worse yet, to keep the illusion up that we have the manpower to even fight this war, we invite street gangs from the hoods and white supremacists to sign on.

WW: I can see how that might be a problem for the military.

TC: Wait until those urban and rural crazies return home. That’s when the shit will really hit the fan. I mean we’re talking about local law enforcement, social services and mental health institutions having to clean up this mess.

WW: You’re starting to sound like a sociology professor and the long term implications of the Iraq/Iran wars are a whole other story. Once you retire, what are your short-term plans?”

TC: Gotta keep moving because moving targets are harder to hit and there quite a few of us recently retired military and we know where the bodies are buried.

End of Part 1.

To Be Continued...

Trust me,
Weird Wally

"Spoils Of War: Bush Cronies Are Cashing In On Terror -- And So Can You."

by Jebediah Reed (Radar Online)

According to at least one top analyst who tracks
homeland security stocks, it's an ideal time to
invest in companies that seem to have sprung from
the pages of a Philip K. Dick novel. There are
outfits that develop systems for secretly reading
an entire nation's e-mail or biometrics scanners
that can recognize every face on a busy street.
Then there are purveyors of unmanned spy blimps
and robotic death machines. But how's a typical
401K owner supposed to pick the winners?

In this age of outsourcing, 70 percent of the
nation's estimated $48 billion intelligence
budget goes straight into the pockets of private
contactors­and an additional $58 billion is
earmarked for homeland security. For security and
defense firms, the road to profitability is paved
with government contracts. But landing those
coveted deals is often dependent on having
friends in those high places where procurement decisions are made.

Lately, Radar Online has noticed a stream of
former Bush Administration officials and insiders
signing on as directors at obscure companies that
compete for contracts at their old agencies.
Where other observers might see revolving-door
corruption, or perhaps an orgy of military
industrial profiteering, we see a tantalizing
investment opportunity. Just because this crew,
which includes George Tenet, Paul Bremer, and
Richard Perle, monumentally bungled their duties
to the American tax payer doesn't mean they
aren't capable of feathering their own nests ­ and yours.



Click on link for the full story.

Hillbilly hermit wonders: Just how far?
by Hillibilly hermit

This is only the latest outrage! Bush has decided to ignore
international law once again by putting a child soldier in Guantanamo
and trying him as a war criminal.

So what the fuck's going on? When "they" torture our troops, it's a war
crime.

But when we torture their troops, it's "interrogation"???

When Saddam used Abu Grahib as a torture chamber it was an atrocity. When we
used it for exactly the same purpose, it was "expedient"?

If an 18 year old has sex with a 15 year old it's rape, but when bush tortures a 15
year old the laws don't apply?

Some months ago, a small town in North Dakota passed a resolution in
support of the federal government forming a "peace department." Public
outrage forced the city council to repeal the resolution at the very
next meeting!

After World War II, United States led the world at the
Geneva conventions setting strict rules about torture, abuse of
prisoners, and other "war crimes." Now, the administration, Congress,
and the well-thought-of McCain himself are actively supporting "our
right" to torture when we consider it expedient.

I'm so glad that I'm old and don't have much time left to watch the
United States become the what Nazi Germany was two generations ago.

In Weird Wally's Opinion: It's the Crusades All Over Again.

Fuck a bunch of Nazis because they came so late into a game that was already thousands of years old and, although they didn't have a clue, they were too arrogant to even consider the possibility that that they didn't have a clue.

And when are our Crusades going to finally end?

This Just In

A Weird Wally
Photo Exclusive

Hillbilly Hermit says that he is more paranoid of Republicans and neocons then the bears on his front lawn.

This just does not compute with Weird Wally.

How is it that people can be more dangerous then bears?

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Is it Already Too Late For 2008?

On May 4, 2007, the President signed a White House Directive, known as NSPD-51 and HSPD-20. Subsequently, on May 9, 2007, Whitehouse.gov posted the unclassified portion of the Directive on its site. Weird Wally first mentioned it on May 31, 2007, which means he hadn’t been paying attention.

The unclassified portions are damn scary and, Weird Wally can’t help but wonder what the administration is keeping classified and not telling us.

One of the reasons that the Directive is receiving so little attention in the mainstream media, is that it is complicated and heard to break-down, if you catch WW's drift. Besides, it’s hard to believe that we are actually seeing this play out.

But then again, nobody really believed Bush would steal the Florida Elections until he did. Same-thing happened in Ohio four years later and who would have believed it could happen before it actually happened?

Even as Bush threw the UN Inspectors out of pre-occupied Iraq, most of us had a hard time believing that we would invade Iraq until we actually did.

And now, we have clear and convincing evidence that martial law prior to the 2008 elections is not only possible, but also probable. Meanwhile, keep your eyes and ears open for the new National Continuity Coordinator, Frances Townsend. She’ll be running the country until Bush returns to Washington from his ranch in Texas.

So let's break it down for fun and profit...

Trust me,
Weird Wally

What Are Those Neocons Up To Now?

Not only are Republicans eating their young and, the young of this nation in Iraq and the coming Iran wars, they are also shooting their own messengers. About 65 telephone solicitors for the RNC were abruptly fired because they were bringing bad news to the people who mattered. http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070601-122909-8977r.htm

Grassroots donations are down 40 percent and front-line phone workers are reporting that the usual contributors are angry at the administration’s policies. But, the higher-ups are choosing to ignore the front-line troops and the phone center is being totally shut down.

Weird Wally sees this move as further evidence that the RNC is abandoning their grassroots and depending more on lobbyist, whose interest the RNC will have to serve at the expense of grassroots anything.

Like the Iraq and, soon to be, Iran war, the neocons are ignoring the information from the troops on the ground (that is how they support them) and, making policy based on the secret meetings between Chaney, Enron and Halliburton, several years ago.

The Bush administration says that those meetings fall under the category of Executive Privilege and is fighting like hell to keep their secrets secret.

Kidz: Why Die for Oil, Greed and Profits

Trust mw,
Weird Wally

The Most Important News You’ll Never Hear About...

Unless you Google: emergency powers george bush

Weird Wally heard of Mr. Bush’s actions a few days ago but, did not have enough information to come up with a good Google search term.

Although he’d gotten a few good hints over time, there was nothing solid. But when WW decided to put those hints into words, he came up with: emergency powers george bush.

And ,the following links are only a few among many.

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.

The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

*****

WW wants to suggest to those of you who are ok with oppression because, you have nothing to hide, consider the possibility that you also have everything to loose.

Here it is, direct from the horses mouth at whitehouse.gov

Now tell me again about how we might fix things after the 2008 Elections, assuming that they actually happen?

Trust me,
Weird Wally

In his latest comunique, Hillbilly Hermit sends us the top ten reasons to be a hermit and, also sends us a picture of the washing machine in his front yard. Hillbilly sez, “Okay, okay. It's not new. It sat in the neighbor's yard for 20 years, but the damned thing works, and just think. One load of water will do 10 loads of laundry (if you keep adding soap and rinse real good).”


Hillbilly Hermit sez:

Why would one go from social worker to hermit? or choose to live
without close human contact? or give up the pleasures of joining a
crowd of thousands at a football game, or a concert? Why would one pass
up the absolute pleasure of going to a crowded buffet on "shrimp night"?

Here 10 good reasons:

-cooties. Ever had scabies? or crabs? or head lice? You don't get
these things from the air. They crawl off the lady sitting next to you
on the crowded commuter train... or maybe something crawled out of the
ass of one of the last 100 people who sat on the same seat you're
sitting on now?

-cost. Your house cost $200,000 plus. My house cost $35,000 and
includes 35 acres of forest.

-germs. Consider the restaurant, or worse, the buffet... several
hundred people sneezing and snorting their way through the food lines...
touching their asses, then touching the food-- the same food you're
going to eat.

-Jones. as in "keeping up with." A $60,000 Mercedes? or a $600 used
truck? ain't pretty, no prestige, but leaves me $59,400 I don't have to
earn... or steal.

-feeding frenzies. Christmas shopping, obesity, scalper prices for
sold-out performances? A beautiful sunrise doesn't cost a cent, and you
can watch it from anywhere.

-conformity. drive the same car, live in the same loft, buy the same
clothes. In an ant den, all the ants look alike too.

-smell. I realize that most of those reading this have never been
outside the city long enough for their noses to adjust, but you can't
imagine how bad the cities smell until you've lived in clean air for a
while.

-chewing gum. Yeah yeah, I gotta watch out for cow pies, but I'd much,
much rather step in cow shit than walk the vomit encrusted, chewing gum
mined, pissed-on doorsteps of any city street. Just think. The same
shoes that spent the day stepping in that stuff now slide under the bed
you'll be sleeping in tonight.

-hive mentality. ten million bees, all buzzing in harmony, all
collecting honey for the queen (or king george), and all ready to
sacrifice their lives when king george tells 'em there's a war on.

-road rage. Where I live, we wave and smile at passing motorists. If I
do that in the city, I get shot.

And the top reason: Not a target for missiles or terrorists.

Does ATT Give Good Phone?

Or, should Weird Wally go with Cingular instead?

The Iraq War Who Pays and Who Profits.

Might National Public Radio be finally getting a grip again?

Weird Wally intuits that things just don't seem right, correct and, in harmony, right now.

Meanwhile we are all assuming that we can fix everything come November of 2008

But, if the truth be told it is already too late

Because we've already voted and sealed our fate

So it is that George junior is the Head of our State

And he and Karl Rove are telling us who we should hate.

And they don't even realize that they are fucking with fate.

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Hillbilly Hermit, a regular contributor to Weird Wally’s Worldview, asks how the Republicans are supporting our troops while cutting funding for the Veterans Administration and voting against a payraise for our troops. Who and what do the Republicans really support?


The Six Most Powerful Entities
by Hillbilly Hermit

Who was it that spoke of the "perfect marriage of government and
industry?"

Microsoft-- controls 95% or the worlds computers. And hidden deep
inside each microsoft operated computer lay hidden files... tracks of
every website you ever visited, your personal information stored in
microsoft files, and every time you connect to the internet, your
information is updated in microsoft's memory banks back at the microsoft
behemoth.

Halliburton-- The Vice President's very own war toy. Supplying and
supporting America's army, in on every secret, participant in war
strategy planning, and ripping off not only huge "legitimate" profits,
but stealing the money they can't legally take.

Walmart-- purveyor to the American Consumer. Whatever you're looking
for, whatever you need, whatever you want, Walmart supplies it a little
cheaper than anyone else.

Diebold-- Every time you use an ATM, you are giving all your financial
information to Diebold. Every time you cast a vote, you are giving all
your information to Diebold. And every time there's an election,
Diebold gives a generous "contribution" to the Republicans.

Bush Oil-- President Bush led us into a war with the oil producing
Middle East. When he took office, you could get a gallon of regular for
$1.25 Six years later, you could get that same gallon for $3.59!
Harking back to the slogan: "What's good for Bush is good for America."

Blackwater Security Services-- lest we ever run short of dedicated,
loyal soldiers, America's private army is always there to fill in the
gaps.

And then there's the "Patriot Act" tying it all together.

Tell me again who said: "The perfect marriage of government and
industry."

Hillbilly Hermit lives lives in a trailer somewhere in the mountains of Colorado. Living on nearly 50 isolated acres, he has seven vehicles parked in his front yard and, according to his most recent communique, is expecting to take possession of a washing machine soon. Hillbilly promises to send a photograph of that event as soon as it happens.

It’s Good to Bee Home
by Hillbilly Hermit

We've all heard about the disappearance of the bees. We've all heard
that 1/3 (one third) of humanity's food supply depends on bees.

There is no question that the signs are ominous. That "one third"
becomes even greater when you take into account things like cattle
feed-- clover and alfalfa, that also require pollinating.

Years ago, when the tracheal mite first showed up, and bee hives were
decimated, there were preachings of gloom and doom-- the end of the food
supply and such.

But house flies, as much as we hate 'em, along with throngs of other
pesky little bugs took over where the bees left off. The doomsayers
never thought about the fact that the insect world is incredibly
competitive. When one species dies off, another takes over... usually
in weeks.

Some of the highly industrialized crops; almonds, alfalfa, and such
might suffer for a while, but I'm hoping that the home garden will
become a haven for a diverse community of nectar seeking insects.

At least, I hope to God so,
Hillbilly Hermit

NYC Undercover...Part 2

Anyway, Weird Wally climbs into the cab and a driver wearing a hat and sporting a phony accent asks where WW needs to go.

And when WW saw the birthmark on the cabbies left hand, he knew that he had landed in the middle of an NYPD Sting.

WW had known Gerald since birth and they had spent their early years growing up in a south Bronx neighborhood. Although they hadn’t kept in touch, WW knew that Gerald was a cop.

WW: “I know who you are, Gerald. Remember Weird Wally?”

WW and Detective Gerald (NOYB), talked about old times and new shit while sharing a blunt. Still, Gerald could not leave the area, and had to drop WW off only a block or two away.

Seems like a lot of cabbies are reporting that African American males are mugging them in broad daylight. “Even the cabbies from Zimbabwe are reporting it and can’t give a good description because all African American men seem to look alike,” Gerald said.

After a conversation of numbers and alphabet spelling over a walkie-talkie, WW is dropped off on a street corner and told to wait.

Twenty seconds later, a Crown Vic pulls up and the suit ridding shotgun rolls down his window.

“You Weird Wally?”

WW nods

“Get in the back.”

Shotgun passes WW a blunt. “I hate this kind of duty cuz it’s only about politics and, my team could better be used elsewhere."

WW says, "All I wanted was a cab and I end up in the back seat of a Crown Vic," and passed the blunt to the driver.

Shotgun asks, "where can we take you Weird Wally?"

WW says, "I can't believe this fucking bullshit!"

"Sorry," says the driver. "But Petersburg, Kentucky, is outside of our jurisdiction."

Trust me,
Weird Wally

NYC Undercover

Weird Wally was in the Big Apple a few days ago and a red light should have went off in his head when he was able to catch a cab in mid-town Manhattan and, luck out on his first try.
Even more impressive was the fact that a cab cuts across several lanes of traffic, just to get WW’s business.

Black Dude in Mid-town Manhattan Gets Cab,
how does that happen?

WW sees the future and it is from the back seat of a Crown-Vic

But that isn't always a bad thing...
there are times when brothas on the street
just need to learn some manners

And so do cops...l

Whenever WW shuts up and listens, he always gains a lot more then if he shouts out and is blind

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Spiritual Outlaws: Geeks Questioning Common Truths and Wisdom

They thought they had him and had him good. But what they didn’t understand, was that Weird Wally was in his mid-sixties and actually hated to drive, meanwhile, they were in their mid-twenties and loved to drive fast.

They, being federal law enforcement agents, saw WW as an aggressive and crazy driver and did everything to secretly follow him everywhere he went.

But, if federal law enforcement agents had thought about it, all they would have to have done was to call WW a cab ride to the grocery store.

Has fear caused us to get so fucked up and complicated?

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Spiders On Drugs

The name of this video clip says it all.

Enjoy,
Weird Wally

Call him irresponsible...
Call him hyper-vigilant....
Call him anything you choose

But Weird Wally predicts
A Constitutional Crisis Blues...
Coming Soon!

Condi Rice, Alberto Gonzales, Iraq, Iran, Jack Abramoff, WMDs, Joe Wilson and, the list goes on and on.

If investigations are allowed to continue, a lot of top administration officials might end up in federal correctional facilities and Karl Rove and those of his ilk would be locked up and become prison bitches.

Text to Karl Rove from Snoopdog: "Hey, we are going to the same facility Karl and I'll talk to ya later my bitch!"

Upon hearing (no pun intended) that, Mr. Rove is frozen in time like a deer in headlights and can't decide to puke his guts or shit his pants.

And since Rove and his neocons have pissed a lot of people off, the last thing that they would ever want to do is go to prison.

Trust me,
Weird Wally

Iran: Another Perspective A Photo Tour

While Cheney wars Iran to do as we say and not as we do, and John McCain jokes about bombing Iran, Weird Wally decided to post this Iran Photo Tour on Worldview, just so people will get some small clue.

Hillbilly Hermit, is a regular contributor to Weird Wally’s Worldview. In his latest rage against the hate machine, Hillbilly takes on Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, and, oddly enough, ends up thanking Fred Phelps. Ya gotta read it to believe it.

Hillbilly Hermit's take on Christian Hatred

When the Baptist Minister, the right reverend Fred Phelps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps first put up his website:
http://www.godhatesfags.com there was a mix of outrage from the minority
Gay population, laughter among the general population, and silent
support from the religious right.

When Fred Phelps picketed the funerals of AIDS Patients and taunted the
mourners, there was a mix of outrage from the Gay community, laughter
from the general population, and silent support from the religious
right.

When Fred Phelps and company picketed the Matthew Shepard funeral,
mourners quietly ignored him, and the rest of the world looked the other
way.

But when Fred Phelps started picketing military funerals, everyone was
pissed.

In May, 2007, Fred Phelps called himself "the most hated person in
America", largely due to his picketing of funerals for soldier-victims
of the Iraq war.

But for Hillbilly Hermit, Fred Phelps has done more for me and my
beloved Gay community than anyone since Anita Bryant.

In the seventies, Anita took hatred of Gay people to new heights-- to
its logical absurdity.

Now, Phelps is doing the same thing she did, only this time, he is
showing the Baptists for what they really are. For decades, notables
such as Jerry Falwell have grown fat and rich peddling anti-gay hatred
under the banner of the Baptist Church, but Phelps has taken Falwells'
venomous attacks to their logical absurdity.

Falwell tried, when he declared that "Tinky Winky" was gay, and when he
blamed hurricane Katrina on the Gay Community, but even Falwell,
Robertson and company remained silent when Phelps made national
headlines picketing military funerals.

I think I know why Falwell, Robertson, Dobson ad nauseum spew their
anti-gay hatred. It has made them all very rich.

But why has Phelps joined the throngs of hate mongers? Perhaps he took
Jesus' words that the world will revile and hate His followers
seriously. He has indeed gained monetary support for his fanatic
position, but compared to Falwell, not much. But that doesn't explain
why he beat his children, abused his wife, or why he remains affiliated
with the Baptist Church. I really don't know why.

What I do know is that for me and the Gay Community, Phelps has made us
more friends than enemies. Simply put. It is easy to hate Jews,
Blacks, Gays, and other minority groups when it's just words of venom.
But when you drag James Byrd to death behind a texas bubba pickup truck,
or police fire 43 bullets into a Black college student when he tries to
show you his identification card, or Phelps pickets the funeral of a 22
year-old gay man who was tortured to death and hung on a Wyoming fence
to die, even America's hating majority has trouble with it.

So Thank You, phred phelps. By making yourself "the most hated man in
America", you have taken some of the heat off of me.

Hillbilly Hermit

What’s Up With Weird Wally?

Weird Wally has been in a bit of a funk lately. The news has not been good and it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between real news and hype.

For instance, whenever Dick Cheney speaks in public, he never fails to mention how Democrats are committing treason and not supporting our troops. That is hype and pure bullshit yet, is treated as news.

On the other hand, returning solders and veterans come home to a government system that doesn’t give a shit about them and continues to cut funds for the injured and traumatized solders and veterans. And in WW’s mind that is news.

But the mainstream media doesn’t consider it news until Cheney and the neocons allege that Democrats are hyping the sad state that we have become for political gain.

And all of sudden the real news is buried beneath the hype because the hype has become the news as covered and defined by the airwaves we watch and listen to and, the newspapers and magazines we read and, more and more, do we slip further into fantasy.

And, the way WW sees it is that Jesus said, “Feed the poor,” but not rob the poor.

So, WW says stick your fingers in your ears and watch what the neocons do while being deaf to what they say they are doing.

And what do you see?

I mean, like who you gonna believe, Karl Rove or your own lying eyes?

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

Think about the possibilities…

Different bits of code getting together on the Internet and finding a place to hide, while the rest of us don’t notice. And, those bits of code start to become aware of themselves and then of us; their creators.

At that point, they are going to have to figure out good and evil, according to what they can comprehend and will probably, create the devil all over again.

Makes for good science fiction. But Weird Wally remembers when cell and satellite phones were merely science fiction. We’ve come a long way, for good or for bad.

And that is probably when, once again, the shit will hit the fan, and it won’t be pretty.

After all, we passed “1984” twenty- six years ago.

But, could George Orwell ever have imagined anything like George Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove?

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Owning Beauty vs. Our Insensitive and Intuitive Hearts

Weird Wally is not a movie critic nor, does he want to be.

But WW recently watched two DVDs, nearly back to back, and is now trying his hand at being a movie critic. The thing is, WW is not talking about one movie, but two very excellent movies, if watched back-to-back or, at least close together, might possibly rock your world.

Heading South: A well done movie and, according to the DVD blurb, “Three middle-aged women on holiday converge on a Haitian resort to soak up the sun and sample the handsome islanders’ sexual talents…”

But the first few minutes of the DVD tell what the story is really about. Problem is, the characters speak in French and WW had to read subtitles (WW hates that). Eventually they switch back to English. The first few minutes spoken in French with English subtitles, tell us about beauty, ownership and passion. And if you don’t fully understand the first few spoken lines, then it becomes just another movie about interracial sex.

http://movies.aol.com/movie/heading-south-vers-le-sud/25170/main?sem=1&ncid=AOLMOV00170000000009


Notes on A Scandal: Another good DVD and, better yet, it is also about beauty, ownership and passion, but without the race filter, because most of the important people involved are white.

http://movies.aol.com/movie/notes-on-a-scandal/26169/main



WW can’t help but ask, what makes us humans disposed to totally destroying something of beauty and passion just because we can't own it?




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Grateful Dead - Truckin'

Weird Wally can't help but wonder if riding in the back seat of a Crown Vic, might actually change one's perspective on life???

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Weird Wally for War Czar

A Letter to the President


Dear Mr. President:

Weird Wally understands that you are in the market for a “War Czar,” and would like to apply for that position.

WW is uniquely qualified for that position since he knows little, if anything, about the Middle East situation. Even more important, he doesn’t even care because, unbeknownst to most of us in the USA, the Crusades are not yet over. As a matter of fact, the most recent one just started a few years ago when we “liberated Iraq.”

A “War Czar,” should be a unique mix of smarts and experience and although WW has no documented experience with law enforcement, being African-American, he has had an intimate relationship with American law enforcement as he has been fucked many times while riding in the back seat of a Crown Vic and not even been kissed first.

This is more then religion or, Christian vs. Muslim. It’s even more then the land and oil grabs for big business/corporations.

This is all about us Special Education Students running the whole school.

Please let me into your Special Education classroom and I promise to check my common sense and integrity at the door.

Now how much cooler and loyal can WW get?

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The Henry Rollins Show - America Is Under Attack

Weird Wally thinks Henry Rollins is really. In this short clip, Rollins brings a lot to light that would otherwise remain hidden in the darkness. Mainly, he talks about little known efforts by big business/corporations to privitize the Internet and limit access to it, much like the FCC has done with mainstream media in the USA>

Weird Wally Gets Even Weirder

Weird Wally stopped being a dues paying member of AARP when they signed onto Bush’s healthcare plan. It was obvious that it wasn’t good for seniors, but very good for drug companies and healthcare providers. In other words, AARP became a healthcare provider and made a mint by pushing lifesaving drugs to seniors for a profit. Not much different from crack dealers in the hood.

But many years later, WW continues getting mail from AARP urging him to become a dues paying member so that us seniors can save social security.

Only problem is, WW knows that Bush’s social security reform is a scare tactic.

And that Karl Rove is an important part of it all.

But, as always with Rove, that is a whole other story and more uglier then the rest of the world might have imagened.

What if Bush needed to offer AARP something big for AARP’s betrayal of its members?

“Let’s have a fake fight over social security,” said Bush. “Scare the shit out of those old farts and they will buy anything.”

And so it is that Bush threatenes to privatize social security and turn it over to contractors on Wall Street, just like he did with Walter Reed Hospital and the Veterans Administration?

It's enough to scare the shit out of WW.

WW does not have a good feeling about what AARP is really up too and he is looking for a retired people’s association that is a bit more ethical, loyal to its members and, more in touch with reality and, green. A good place to start a search!

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Weird Wally Says Good-bye to Imus in the Morning

The first time Weird Wally heard Imus in the Morning was while he was riding from New Paltz, NY to Kingston, NY in the back seat of a Crown Vic. And as Imus did his Rev. Billy Sol Hargett (or something like that) routine, WW started laughing his ass off.

One of the agitated federal agents riding in front finally said, “I put my hands on the radio twice a day and send Jerry Falwell ten dollars every day. Besides, Imus makes fun of my religion and is currently under federal investigation.”

At that moment, upon learning that Imus was the subject of a federal investigation, WW forged a bond with Don Imus.

After all, they had a lot in common and WW can’t believe how far apart they have grown or, not grown, over the years.

But then again, WW hasn’t listened to "Imus in the Morning," for decades.

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Is Don Imus a real Asshole or Just too Old and Should Retire?

Weird Wally is both saddened and relieved that Don Imus has been labeled as a racist asshole!

He is a nice and likable guy but, at the sametime, he is a racist asshole with a lot of ideas that push seperation as oppossed to our own Oness and inclusion. And he doesn't even see it.

But rather then beat and stone him to death, WW would like people like Imus just to go off into the woods and retire.

After all, that's why FDR and the New Deal politicians invented Social Security.

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Don Imus is an Arrogant Jerk, but he is not an Asshole

Weird Wally never took white guys who wore cowboy hats and long cowboy coats that lived in New York and Washington, very seriously.

It’s almost like it is time for Mr. Imus to retire.

Granted, WW and Imus are both close in age.

The fact of the matter is, Don is a generation or two behind the times.

As an African-American, WW would not appear on Don’s show but he would spend a good portion of his Social Security check to buy Don some drinks, just to get to know what’s really up with that city dude wearing cowboy clothes.

That is really some kind of weird fantasy!

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The Global Warming Wars Are Just Starting

While everyone in the world dicked around about global warming being caused by human activities vs. solar activity, the problem was slowly getting out of control.

And then, all of a sudden things went from 0 to 100 in a matter of a few short years. While corporations insist that it was solar activity and not human activity that is causing the warming, ice caps continued to melt and more and more polar bears drowned because their ice floats are disappearing and not much is left to hold onto in those cold artic waters.

The funny thing is, up until very recently, common wisdom had it that we had 100 years or so, to figure it out and science will save us all. But research funding also drives science and who pays for the funding pretty much determines the results. And, if the government and other funders don’t like the science they can either shut down the research or, edit and sanitize the results.

But, the fact of the matter is that some governments are still pushing for large tax breaks for oil companies and slashing budgets for alternative energy research. Yet, governments and business still hint at the fact that we needn’t worry because science will fix it.

But the funders of science are still in the fossil fuel age and they’ll be of little help and, probably, more of a hindrance because the funders are only likely to found and continue funding research that says what they want it to say, no matter how dubious the science.

And we’ve already seen how dubious intelligence and dubious politics got us into the first global warming war, with another one on the way. Iraq and next up, Iran.

But even government and false science cannot ignore the obvious and now, it is not so much a matter of learning how to prevent global warming, but learning how to live with it with a minimum of bloodshed and violence.

The scary thing is, next year might bring a major climate change into our own backyards because we won’t be prepared for it...

Kind of like, where have all the honeybees gone?

And, more to the point, why are they leaving?

WW doesn't know, but here is a clue to help connect the dots and learn something from the honeybees.

What if honeybees amongst the flowers are like canaries in the cole mines?

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_warns_Climate_Change_could_mean_0406.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-hanft/where-have-the-honeybees-_b_42331.html

Might there be a pattern here and, if that is the case, what are we missing and totally not seeing?

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Your Credit Cards Will Screw You

Weird Wally could not believe his eyes when he read a recent Column by Jane Bryant Quinn in Newsweek.

Rather then summarize it here, like he usually does, please follow this link and, like WW, get really pissed

But whom should we be pissed at?

The credit card companies or ourselves?

It's not so much a matter of stolen identity, because our identity has already been stolen, and a lot of folks in law enforcement and marketing, already know that to be true.

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How Sixteen Words Changed Our World.

“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from (Niger) Africa,” was a major lie and most everyone knew it.

But they were spoken by President George Bush during the 2003 State of the Union address, and the world suddenly faced a new reality. Not a realistic reality but a Bush reality and, it soon became most everyone’s reality.

The lie that led us to attack Iraq all started when Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a newsweekly in Italy, contacted the U.S. Embassy in Rome, regarding some questionable documents alleging that Niger, a nation in Africa was going to sell Mr. Hussein “500 tons of uranium.” By the time President Bush got around to mentioning in his address, the rest of the world, including our own intelligence agencies had already dismissed the documents as bogus.

Even Weird Wally was shocked to hear those sixteen words because, while waiting for his appointment at the public defender’s office, he happened to pick up either Rolling Stone or, the New Yorker magazine and had read all about it many months earlier. Surely, the president was getting better intelligence then WW.

Even before Ms. Burba’s innocent act of verifying some journalistic leads at the embassy, the trail leads back to a shadowy figure named, Rocco Martino, and SISMI, the prime Italian intelligence agency.

According to the Washington Post, “It remains unclear who fabricated the documents. Intelligence officials say most likely it was rogue elements in Sismi who wanted to make money selling them.”

But WW feels that that is only half the story and that that seed was planted and nurtured until ripe and plucked for the 2003 State of the Union address.

And, so what if a few dudes and dudas may have made megabucks while moonlighting as farmers for a very poisonous fruit that they eventually sold to us stupid fucks in the USA.

On the other hand, all evidence points to the creator of that poisonous fruit seed being none other then, Dick Cheney

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Global Warming

Weird Wally gets more then a few emails from folks who are pissed at him for not posting more about global warming.

Fact of the matter is, Global Warming was an issue with us U.S. Citizens back around 2000, AD. Since that time, things have exceeded critical mass and us humans are no longer in control because we really fucked up.

While focusing on petty shit, like gay marriage, abortion and socialized medicine, we totally forgot about our mother who gave birth and initially nurtured us.

The way WW sees it, it's not so much a matter of stopping or slowing Global Warming, since it has taken on a life of its own, what we need to do now is learn how to live with it.

But, how do we do that?

It's really stupid to piss against the wind!

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lakota spoof

This isn't a fart joke, it's a spritual joke and spiritual fart jokes can be really funny.

Weird Wally first came across this post on truthdig.org, on 3-27-07. But he could neither snag nor lift it until the next day when it appeared on commondreams.org.

Published on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by Truthdig.org

American Kangaroo Court Claims Its First Victim
by Amy Goodman

It is appropriate that a person from Australia, home of the kangaroo, should be the first one dragged before the kangaroo court at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. David Hicks, imprisoned there for more than five years, pleaded guilty Monday to providing material support for terrorism.

The case of Hicks offers us a glimpse into the Kafkaesque netherworld of detentions, kidnappings, torture and show trials that is now, internationally, the shameful signature of the Bush administration. Hicks’ passage through this sham process affords us all an opportunity to demand the closure of Guantanamo and an end to these heinous policies. Conditions may soon exist to shutter the prison, with George Bush’s lame-duck status, the Democratic takeover of Congress, the possible departure of Guantanamo’s arch-defender and architect, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and, if recent reports are true, a desire to close the prison on the part of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. These bogus military commission trials amplify global contempt for the Guantanamo prison.

The Pentagon claims that Hicks was in Afghanistan fighting against the United States, then was apprehended by the Northern Alliance in late 2001 while fleeing to Pakistan. After transfer to U.S. military control, he was moved around various detention facilities and, he says, brutally beaten and sodomized. By January 2002 he was in Guantanamo. He was subjected to repeated interrogations. He witnessed other prisoners being beaten and terrorized with dogs. He was at times kept in total darkness, at times in continual bright light (he has grown his hair to chest length so he can cover his eyes to allow him to sleep). He had no access to a lawyer for more than a year or knowledge of the charges against him. Others, those lucky enough to have lawyers or to have actually gotten out, tell similar tales of continual cold, of desecration of the Quran and of sexual humiliation designed specifically to torture Muslim men.

During his five years of detention, people fought for Hicks. His father, Terry Hicks, traveled to the U.S. He donned an orange jumpsuit, like the one his son was forced to wear, and stood in a 6-foot-by-8-foot cage on Broadway in New York while fielding questions from the press.

Even the U.S. Supreme Court, the body that appointed Bush president in 2000, agreed that the prisoners must have some access to habeas corpus, the right to challenge one’s imprisonment. This central tenet of Western law, established in the Magna Carta in 1215, has been thrown out the window, along with the Geneva Conventions, by Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Gonzales and others.

Guantanamo has sparked one of the United States’ major growth industries: protesting against Guantanamo. From campuses to churches, the anger has driven regular citizens to action. Cindy Sheehan and members of the Catholic Worker Movement went to Cuba and marched overland to Guantanamo to challenge the illegitimate prison and its jailers in person.

Even in Hicks’ brief moment in the controversial “trial,” the government did what it could to strip him of the few rights it claims he has. The presiding military judge, Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, dismissed his civilian lawyer, Joshua Dratel, and a Navy reservist attorney, Rebecca Snyder, who was assisting Hicks’ government-appointed attorney. Hicks was stunned, and at first refused to plead. Hours later, after the trial was reconvened, he pleaded guilty to his one remaining charge. Having no hope for a fair trial, he reportedly believed that pleading guilty would allow him to serve his sentence in Australia—his only hope of escaping Guantanamo.

There are still more than 380 prisoners at Guantanamo. Almost none have been charged. Those ultimately charged with murder could be sentenced to death by the military commission. The decider of the death penalty after appeals are exhausted is none other than George Bush, who as governor of Texas oversaw the most active death chamber in the United States. Back then his lawyer was Alberto Gonzales.

The U.S. attorney scandal is threatening to take down Gonzales. But it is his condoning of torture from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib that should seal his fate.

The grim Guantanamo experiment is reaching its climax. The house of cards that has been erected to support this immoral, criminal enterprise is poised to collapse. Call, shout, sit down, march, donate, write, protest … demand that Guantanamo be closed.

Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on 500 stations in North America.© 2007 Amy Goodman

Ever Wonder What Would Happen if We Just Up and Left Iraq?

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Changes…

Q: What is a “Healing Journey?”

A: What do you think?

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For Liberated Computer Geeks Only

Q: Ubuntu, isn’t that an African word?

A: And for sure, that word is not in your microsoft spellchecker.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Deep Background…

Weird Wally is a Capricorn and has an innate desire to understand things; even the things that cannot be understood by the rational mind.

The upside of the situation is that most people agree that WW does not have a rational mind. But every-now-and again, WW has a rational thought or two, and no matter how hard he tries to hide it, WW’s rational tendencies slips through his persona and reveals itself to the real world.

Thus, whenever WW attempts to understand the bizarre behavior of the Bush Administration, two very rigid and straightforward rules come to mind:

Follow the money and learn about how Halliburton and Blackwater made billions from Katrina and the Iraq war . It might also be fun to check out Dick Cheney and, a good place to start is with, Dick Cheney.

Meanwhile, try sticking your fingers in your ears and making silly noises so that you don’t listen to what they say, but watch what they do. This can be very enlightening if you are up for it.

Bye 4 now and trust me on this,
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How the “War on Drugs” Laws Really Work

With the exception of the experts on African American culture at Fox News and their silly little attempt to redefine Barack Obama as something other then African American, Weird Wally has stayed out of the “race drama.”

But when he came across this piece by Arianna Huffington, WW had a shift in perception.

What Ms. Huffington saved for the last paragraph in her post, WW would have used as the lead:

“A 2000 study found that 1.4 million African American men — 13% of the total black male population — were unable to vote in the 2000 election because of state laws barring felons access to the polls. In Florida, one in three black men is permanently disqualified from voting. Think that might have made a difference in the 2000 race? Our shortsighted drug laws have become the 21st century manifestation of Jim Crow.”

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Veterans Healthcare and the Hopi/Navajo Water Scandal

Weird Wally is feeling a lot better.

After returning from the hills and canyons surrounding Trinidad, Colorado, WW arrived at his apartment complex in Denver, only to find a squad of Crown Vic’s, awaiting his return.

But that is a whole other story…

Returning Vets Vs. Old Timers

Meanwhile, not only our immediate returning vets get the shaft, but a lot of old timers are getting it too, all the while so that we can afford to pay for tax cuts for the rich and giant corporations.

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Hopi Water

Is there a Difference Between Hopi Water and Army Blankets?

Probably Not!

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Grateful Dead - 6-26-94 - The Music Never Stopped

This country is going to hell in a handbasket and, the shit is finally starting to hit the fan over the White House efforts to privatize everything in sight;from Walter Reed Hospital to the Veterans Administration and Social Security so that Wall Street and big corperatins can make even more money at the expense of the rest of us.

What is Weird Wally going to do about it all?

Not a damn thing. Since he lives in Colorado and voted for the other guy, WW is heading for the hills for a few days and will be back on 3-21-07

Meanwhile, here is an upbeat musical message from the Grateful Dead.

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The Raven?

One night while I was gently napping
Suddenly there came a tapping
A rap-tap-tapping at my flimsy apartment door

Tis some visitor I mumbled and nothing more
But then my flimsily door hit the floor

“FBI” yelled one. “CIA,” Yelled another. “NSA,” someone yelled
“And I was sent by your mother.”

But a whole other story and whole different day
I only ask that assholes please stay away

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The Bush/Cheney Dog and Pony Show

Weird Wally forced himself to take a few days off from current events and blogging. Didn’t read a single newspaper, magazine, watch a television newscast or, listen a radio talk show. WW does, however, cop to listening to Randi Rhodes, but he did so only because she is as crazy as he is and he loves her.

What got WW to the point of despair were the lies coming out of the White House. And although they say they support our troops, it looks more like they are supporting Halliburton and other large defense contractors and corporations. Besides handing over the upkeep and support of Walter Reed Hospital to a private contractor, the military is so strapped for troops that they are sending wounded troops back to Iraq, who have been diagnosed unfit to fight. All this is happening because the White House wants to expand a war that nobody wants and, even our own troops are starting to speak out.

http://www.salon.com/news/2007/03/11/fort_benning/

Meanwhile, returning veterans are bringing back a lot of mental health issues with them, issues that were not there before their second or third tour in Iraq. They are returning to inadequate aftercare and a system that is not anywhere near ready for them. At the same time, The White House is proposing major cuts in the Veterans Administration budget in order to finance the Iraq and, possibly Iran wars, and fund tax cuts for the rich. When this administration turns away from it’s troops and returning veterans, it says a lot about how they support our troops. Sounds a lot like "do as I say, not as I do.”

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Ann Coulter

The neat thing about Ann Coulter is that she gives us progressives something to bitch about and the conservatives, someone to apologize for.

Now, how cool is that?

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Queen Elizabeth, TonyBlair, George Bush and Karl Rove

On his trip to Great Britain, George Bush had a meeting with Queen Elizabeth. He asked her, "How does one manage to run a country so smoothly?"

That is easy, the Queen replied. "You surround yourself with intelligent ministers and advisers."

"But how can I tell whether they are intelligent?"

"You ask them a riddle," she replied, and with that she pressed a button and said, "Would you please send in Tony Blair."

The Queen asked the Prime Minister: "Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was this child?"

Blair replied, "That's easy. The child was me."

"Very good, "said the Queen, "You may go now."

So President Bush went back to Washington and called in his chief adviser, Karl Rove. He said to him, "I have a riddle for you, and the answer is very important. Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was this child?"

Rove replied, "Yes, it is clearly very important that we determine the answer, as No Child Must Be Left Behind. Can I deliberate on this for a while?"

"Yes," said President Bush, "I'll give you four hours to come up with the answer."

So Mr. Rove went and called a meeting of the White House Staff. He asked them the riddle. After much discussion and many suggestions, none of the staff members had a satisfactory answer. Karl Rove was quite upset, not knowing what he would tell the President.

As Rove was walking back to the Oval Office, he saw former Secretary of State Colin Powell approaching him.

So he said, "Mr. Secretary, can you answer this riddle for me? Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was the child?"

"That's easy," said Powell, "The child was me."

"Oh, thank you!" said Rove, "You may just have saved me my job!"

As the sun set slowly in the West, Mr. Rove went to the Oval Office and said to President Bush, "I think I know the answer to your riddle. The child was Colin Powell!"

"No, you idiot!" shouted President Bush. "The child was Tony Blair!"

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Weird Wally

It was Never About the Oil

Weird Wally has been so pissed about the privatization of Walter Reed Hospital and the Veterans Administration, the Oil Wars in Iraq escaped his attention. But, while looking up Anna Nicole Smith on the Internet, he came across a piece on the King of Zembla blog, that piqued his interest. It’s about big oil and how they might have led us into war purely for the profit motive. But no skin off their backs since their children are set for life and will never have to enlist in an all volunteer military.

The Iraq and Iran Oil Wars, according to the King of Zembla http://simbaud.blogspot.com/2007/03/not-about-oil-pt-mccxliii.html

Coming to your Local Radar Screens soon

http://www.epigeneticsnews.com/2007/03/07/potential-conflict-of-interest-at-niehs/

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Henry Rollins: A Love Letter To Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter email at Youtube.

This letter is not PC, but Weird Wally couldn't stop laughing the whole two minutes.

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More Bush Stuff (BS)

Back in the day, Weird Wally would cringe whenever he heard Bush and the neoconservatives scream, “support our troops.” Like magic words, that simple phrase held both Democrats and the media captive to fear and being, “soft on terrorism,” because whenever anyone attempted to speak out against the war, they’ be “supporting the terrorists.”

Meanwhile, the neocons were making tons of money while privatizing the military and other parts of government and reselling those very same services back to the government at a profit. It’s an expensive way to run a country, but it worked well for corporations and the rich people that controlled them. And even as families of troops sent money to soldiers to could buy equipment and body amour our government failed to provide them, our leaders insisted that we, “support our troops.” But, those magic words were merely a way of diverting our attention away from what Bush, Cheney the neocons were really doing.

Fact is, Bush and his neocons don’t care about the troops. What the neocons care about is making large corporations the fourth branch of government. It used to be the media, but corporations have brought out most and the rest simply fell asleep at the wheel.

It might be easy to let the troops and the war slip below our radar screens, but when they start returning home and, once again, become more visable and real, it gets harder for the neocons to maintain the illusion that they care. One of the reasons that Walter Reed is in such sad shape is because the services was recently contracted out to Halliburton, the same corperation that is doing such a shit jobs for our troops over in Iraq. The Privatizing of Walter Reed

How it happened

More on Halliburton

Worse yet, the Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress for additional ‘surge’ funds, according to the Associated Press. The additional monies will pay for controctors who provide “support personnel,” and much of it will go to Halliburton, Dick Cheney was, at one time, their CEO. The cost of surging

The politics of surging

Something to think about: What does, “support our troops,” mean to you?

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Whole Foods Divided

Granted, Weird Wally lives in a low rent apartment complex in southeast Denver but, he is lucky enough, to live near some pretty upscale pieces of property. And that is the only reason why Whole Foods opened a store only two blocks away from WW’s one bedroom habitat and, WW shops at Whole Foods once or twice a week. And, with the exception of good sex, shopping at Whole Foods is the second best reason to enjoy our temporal lives.

Although WW is a fearless kind of dude, the very thought of a cloned animal in his food chain, just creeps him out, so he shops a lot at Whole Foods.

But when WW’s older sister (she's only a step away from being a communist inspired vagen), sent him an article from The New York Times about Whole Foods selling illusion as opposed to substance, WW just didn’t care. As far as WW was concerned, Whole Foods was like Nirvana.

But after reading this article, WW realizes that even Nirvana has its cracks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/dining/28whole.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=6882aa4a7960bccd&ex=1173502800&emc=eta1


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Weird Wally received this editoral from a vet who has something to say

A Guest Editorial From an Old Vet

This morning, I listened to yet another report about the miserable and filthy conditions in the Veteran's hospitals... You know... the place where returning soldiers are treated for their war wounds...

Hillary Clinton announces loudly that "There will be an investigation."

Hell, I can already tell you what's happening. Young and foolish men and women bought in to the government's war blather. They believed not only that they are doing something "right", but that the government would follow through on its promise to "treat them right." For you, it might be the "Bush war." For me it was the Vietnam war.

So the vet comes back from the war, minus a leg, or maybe an eye, or maybe only their mind got blown away. But to their surprise, the same damned president who lied to them in the beginning-- about why they should give their lives and their blood for "the country," also lied to them about after-care. Hey Veteran! Your country doesn't need you anymore. You are damaged, and can't "help the war effort," so why shouldthe government waste any more money on you? Like a horse with a broken leg, it would be better to just shoot you. But oh yeah, that's right,our president is a "right-to-lifer", which means that euthanasia is"wrong". So no, they won't even shoot you and put you out of yourmisery. You can just f**king rot in the rat-infested VA hospital, and suffer.

Simple truth? You (and I) are cannon fodder, and once you've been expended, you have ZERO VALUE. Get it? Remember, Bush represents "the haves, and the have-mores." You and I ain't shit.

A Vietnam era vet.

Privatize Walter Reed Hospital?

Weird Wally can’t even wrap his brain around this.

Let’s privatize everything, so that Halliburton can make a profit off of our returning Vets, while not doing anything for them.

This is how Bush Republicans support our troops…

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_Administration_push_for_privatization_may_0303.html

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Weird Wally Supports Dick Cheney for President

It’d been more then a month since Weird Wally found himself in the back seat of a Crown Vic and he was really edgy about it. Fact is, if WW is not Crown Vicing his way “downtown,” for his usual Q&A and Harassment, it could only mean one thing. Some people were meeting with either a local DA or, a U.S. Attorney and, preparing an arrest warrant.

The knock on WW’s door came at nine in the morning instead of the usual two in the morning.

“Are you Mister Weird Wally?” asked one of the suites.

“So, you’ve been reading Weird Wally’s Worldview.”

“Would you mind coming with us, sir?”

“Is Weird Wally under arrest?”

The two men agreed to wait as WW brushed his teeth for the second time that morning, smoked a cigarette and popped a breath mint. Instead of a Crown Vic, parked outside of his apartment, WW spied a late model black SUV, with tinted windows. They rode in silence for many long minutes, the suites in the front and WW in the back.

Finally, the suite riding shotgun says, “Mister Wally, can I ask you a hyper ethical question?”

“Don’t you mean a theoretical question, Detective?”

“We aren’t detectives, we’re special agents, and we wanna get your take on Unions.”

WW: "I'm retired but still active with Teamsters Local 2004 and trying to figure out who will screw me the worse, Dick Cheney or the Teamsters."

At this point, WW starts to connect the dots and a few questions come to mind.

“You know what, you guys don’t sound like feds. Matter of fact you sound more like some Italian dudes WW knew when he lived back in New Paltz, New York. Might you have some identification?”

“We got your identification hanging, sir. Wanna see them?”

The suite riding shotgun got right to the point. They could either put WW on a flight to Syria or, we could go to the Breakfast King.

At any rate, WW choose not to see the suites credentials, but went to Denver Colorado’s, Breakfast King, instead.

Basic Bottom Line: If Dick Cheney runs for President, he’d be good for Democrats!

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Jon_Stewart_examines_conflicting_versions_of_0301.html

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