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Heather, the fact that you spend so much time dealing with what I do and paying so much attention...I have to admit, that is pretty touching, haha. Your anger seems so forced. I wonder if you will ever care about something as much as you hate me.

Somebody sounds just a little bit bitter.

I think if the GOP fields too many candidates, a person like Arianna Huffington could get plurality of the votes and get to be governor.

A little bit more on Smedley Butler...does any of this sound familiar? Bush saying that "God told me to invade Afghanistan and Iraq" and the "Operation Iraqi Freedom" but yet he and Cheney try to downplay heavily the involvement of Halliburton etc. What Butler fought so hard to do was to take the focus off of moral and ideological arguments for war and concentrate on the geopolitical factors that actually motivated war. He tried to raise awareness of what the real motivating factors of war were as well as the consequences of war. He was one of the first Americans to really bring the economic implications of war to the forefront of the public conscience. In War is a Racket Butler “names names” and lays out in wonderfully blunt detail how the American “military machine” was used to the benefit of wealthy American industrialists. He noted how proponents of war typically call on God as a supporter of the cause and how they embellish the mission as one of liberation and the spreading of freedom, but that these people tend to shy away from discussing the economic details of military ventures.

Nuke, I suggest you take a look at Major General Smedley Butler's retirement speech when he retired from the Marines. This is from the mouth of the man who served for over 30 years in the Marine Corps... "I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” The trickery employed is that the war was that WW I was the "war to end all wars" yet according to Wilson's ambassador to England that the US declared war on Germany because it was "...the only way of maintaining our present pre-eminent trade status." "Our boys were sent off to die with beautiful ideals painted in front of them. No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason they were marching off to kill and die." -- Major General Smedley Butler, USMC World War II was about stopping the murder of the Jews in WW II yet FDR and Co. knew it was going on the entire time. There are many books that dispel the myths of WW II, especially "Saving Private Power" by Michael Zezima. WW II was not a just war. From a private memorandum between the Council on Foreign Relations and the State Department dated 1941 in now declassified documents "If war aims are stated which seem to be concerned solely with Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have a better propaganda effect." Hell, if we were against Hitler then why were so many US corporations like IBM and ones run by George W. Bush's granddaddy doing business with Hitler? And the extermination camps...Britain during the Boer War had used such camps and so had Spain and America in the Philippines. Historian Michael CC Adams notes that these precedents served as models for the Nazis. Hell, the US Army segregated blood and segregated military units too. And according to the declassified documents from the US government, it is now clear that Roosevelt knew about the death camps since the 1930s, yet refused to take action. You should also take a glance at Ralph McGehee's book "My 25 Years in the CIA". He spent 25 years in the CIA during the height of the Cold War and was involved with a lot of the governmental overthrows by the CIA. He discusses in great detail about how he wanted to be part of the CIA to fight communism and help his country. As he progressed, he found out that the CIA was not an intelligence agency but a very loosely conglomorated arm of the Presidency that just gives the President what he wants to hear and not the facts. He found as he worked on that his reports that told things how they actually were in Indonesia and Vietnam and Laos were rejected and his superiors wrote false reports saying we needed to invade and stop. These are just a few of the many examples of how people can be tricked into believing that certain things are so when they are not so glamorous in reality. Many kids are brought up on the steady diet of "US is a protector of freedom" when even people that work in the State Department [William Blum], Marine Major Generals and even people from the CIA say that the over-glorified image of what the United States is, is not really so. And tell me people, I am seriously wondering, since it has now been found that the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened...how can you approve of your nation sending people to die in Vietnam for a lie perpetrated by the US government? How can you hold so steadfast in your belief that we are a nation looking for freedom yet the US lies and deceives it's own people to send us off to die? Also Nuke, disapproval of Bush is rising to well over 40% now, so your opinion is not most of all Americans...it's about 50-50 now. Americans are stupid too. Trust me, if they knew the Bush lies, they wouldn't have sent you over there. I value the lives of the American military and wouldn't be proud that my nation used them after lying to my f***ing face. "My country: Right or Wrong has the same logic of My mother: Sober or drunk." -- George Orwell

Pinko is about the whole evil empire Soviet red stuff...so anybody that even sort of agreed with it has been slang termed "pinko". In his defense, he didn't know how Fidel would act in the future. So can't blame too much on him. There are a few really good books out about his life, I have the titles in my room but I can't get them now since I don't feel like walking downstairs. I can PM them to you if you want or something.

1549, actually Che and Fidel had a bit of a stormy relationship from time to time and didn't always agree on everything after Fidel gained power. But Che is a revered person in the regime because he was one of the men that put Fidel in power. However, they two did not always get along. I do not think it was Che's intent to put a man who oppressed people [aka Fidel] into power but a man who was less oppressive than the man before. Che's probably rolling over in his grave about some of the stuff Fidel has done.

I hope this is a photo of the right guy. The guy's name was Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. The following is a real quick bio. He was a doctor that got involved in revolutionary ideology and assisted Fidel in his revolution in Cuba. After leaving there, Guevara looked to install peoples' governments throughout Central and South America using guerrilla tactics to gain the peoples' support especially since so many Central and South American governments during the time were having their land centralized in ownership by a few power elite instead of the majority of the population. Guevara started his liberation movement in Bolivia, but unfortunately due to peasant reforms by the MNR there in the 1950s, the populus was not so inclined to assist him. Guevara wrote the book "Guerrilla Warfare" and there is also a book of his diary in Bolivia writing about how he wanted to assist the people against the corruption of capitalism that has destroyed the peasants because they were not allowed a voice in many of the Central and South American governments. [Not allowed the vote, not able to own land, working in poor labor conditions, etc. etc.] His revolution movement failed in Bolivia but he had a large following that something needed to be done against the ruling oligarchies of power elite and military dictatorships in South America. A CIA assisted Bolivian military squad finally captured Guevara and although told by the US not to kill him, the Bolivians killed him anyway. [Declassified documents I scrounged up writing a paper on Guevara...the professor I had is an expert in Andean history, especially Bolivia...said that the CIA feared killing Guevara because it would have a martyr effect] And after they cleaned up the body, they showed the world...and a lot of photo-journalists have equivicated this photo to the martyred Christ after the Crucifixion. [That was in a bunch of the books I barrowed from my professor about the topic of Che and Bolivia since I had to write a paper on why his liberation movement in Bolivia failed.] Che is still popular in many areas because he attempted to give a voice to the people and fought the power elite that harmed the people. He pioneered the idea of armed liberation after all other means have been exhausted to get rid of the evil. Although he used only the facts of what worked in Cuba as a means to plan his future endeavors...and what worked in Cuba didn't work in Bolivia. And he's on t-shirts and avatars etc. mainly because he is a pop culture icon but also he is an icon of revolution and liberation movements. I think I am going to buy a Che shirt with a photo of him followed by "Not bad...for a f***ing pinko commie" Some of his quotes: "Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery." "There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us." "If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."

FACT: Lynch wasn't rescued. The group encountered no resistance. FACT: The Iraqis tried to return her. FACT: A Canadian is playing an American "hero". FACT: US forces shot her ambulance and nearly killed her. FACT: NBC doesn't care about what really happened and is still going to produce the movie based on the now defunct myth surrounding her. FACT: GE does smart bomb building for the US military and owns NBC. FACT: The Lynch story was a Karl Rove spin masterpiece because he's buried the proof so damn well. So please BMR tell me where I'm whining. Or are you just trying to start another fight with me?

Well, I know for Clerks: The Animated Series ABC picked a screening audience for a different show [mostly middle aged women] and put them in the audience for the screening of Clerks:TAS. So it fell flat on it's face because that was not the demographic meant for it.

The only question is, will it bomb bigger than Gigli? Will this bomb be considered a weapon of mass destruction? Maybe it's from Iraq.

When you get done pass me some.

First, they call it "Saving Private Lynch" when the IRAQIS TRIED TO f***ING RETURN HER AND DIDN'T PUT UP AN OPPOSITION. Hell, they saved her from getting killed by US forces when they f***ing shot up her ambulance. I also find it comical that the woman isn't even an American playing her.

Well if you fell off a horse, you wouldn't be a Royals fan, you'd be Christopher Reeve. Sorry, but I had to go there.

I happened to be in Denver visiting my brother when they had the controversy about letting him perform at Ozzfest because he is anti-family etc. etc. They thought his song lyrics like "I'm not a slave to a God that doesn't exist" and him being the poster boy for fear because he wore women's lingerie etc. etc. meant that he was the most socially depraved act and of course, was responsible for the Columbine massacre. So they had large protests to try to stop him from playing but he played without incident. He has been controversial for his song lyrics, his on stage dress, his live shows, etc. But I still think he is a very intelligent person if you listen to him speak. I know how many of you feel about Michael Moore but I think the interview in Bowling for Columbine with Manson was fantastic. When Manson was asked "What would you tell the kids who committed Columbine?" he responded, "I wouldn't tell them anything. I'd listen. That's what nobody did." Movies, music, and TV will be blamed for violence because it's a lot easier than looking into the broader social causes of said violence. OldRoman, Columbine could have been averted by some sort of gun control. Can anybody tell me why a civilian needs a fully automatic rifle that has no other purpose than to kill? It's not even a f***ing hunting weapon. But of course some sort of basic gun control is beyond the scope of Congress, they'd rather solve everything by putting the 10 Commandments up everywhere.

The State Department, like the CIA, tries to give the "President" accurate things for his speech. Like when the CIA told him to remove the uranium in October, but Bush still said it in January anyways. They did not have any reason for Bush to use the "Axis of Evil". It was not an approved statement as obviously the State Department does not want to see the US seem as an aggressor but Chimpy went ahead with it anyway because he never gets held accountable for anything.

Israel is the #1 country that violates UN resolutions. US veto vote always stops the rest of the UN from punishing Israel. I also find it fun that the US is railing against other countries having nukes, yet Congress approved in June over $43 million for us to do research into "Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrators". Orwellian language notwithstanding, these are 2000 lb. bombs that Dubya wants to put nuclear tips on. After the research, they have said that testing will occur in the United States [and we all remember the cancer and birth defects from when they tested the WW II bombs here, right?] Israel has already said that if it feels sufficiently threatened, it will not fear using nukes. I just wonder if the US stopped selling them weapons, if they would stop being so brash about invading, building the giant wall, etc. etc. etc. My .02 With the John Wayne wannabe "President" in office, I'm sure Iran is scared s***less...after all they made the "Axis of Evil" that the State Department didn't authorize Chimpy to use in his State of the Union.

Jack the Ripper murders are historically important in the sense that it really is the first serial killer. Most people delve into research to figure out the whodunnit because it is pure hobby for them. So please tell me, where is the massive police manhunt into who Jack the Ripper is? Attempting to solve the mystery is some peoples' hobby, just like some peoples' hobby is watching the White Sox and discussing what they can do to be better [by the way, seeing Frank's 2000th hit live and in person at the Cell kicked ass ] and other people read. It's just something that some people find interesting. To you, trying to have fun figuring out the whodunnit with a person's personal time is a waste of time and money. Then again I'd say that having a military industrial complex and wanting to be involved with that while millions starve, can't get health care, etc. is a waste of money and time. It's all a matter of opinion.

Hmmm should someone like you be playing those games with all that killing? It's just video games. Don't be a Joe Lieberman. You can try to lure me into a debate again BMR but not this time. Sorry.

Hmmm should someone like you be playing those games with all that killing? It's just video games. Don't be a Joe Lieberman.

He said PS2, not Cock Box And Spiff is right, MK: Deadly Alliance is a pretty solid game. And CK, Medal of Honor is alright but I find the vibration at the beginning to be a total pain in the ass. The controls take a bit of getting used to.

Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick....and it's only $20

Hey CK -- I was listening to the Score a little bit at work this afternoon and I heard that somebody with the same name sent an e-mail into the show. I was just wondering if it was you and if it was you and if it was...what did you say that made the host say "I'm not reading the rest cuz it gets really nasty".

North or the photo?

Well, if we destroyed their beloved ivy, I think many may kill themselves in despair. :sosasucks :fthecubs