The Pissant*
(or, Welcome to my Qibla)

[33.46] And as one inviting to Allah by His permission, and as a light-giving torch. -The Glorious Quran, "The Clans"

"With their combined weight greater than the combined weight of all humans, ants are the most numerous type of animal.
Strong in relation to their size, ants can carry 10 to 20 times their body weight. They work in teams to move extremely heavy things.
Ant brains are largest amongst insects. Mushroom shaped brain appendages have function similar to the gray-matter of human brains.

It has been estimated that an ant's brain may have the same processing power as a Macintosh II computer."

If only we could say the same thing about human beings.


How The Ants Got Famous

They stood on their hind legs
congratulating themselves. How
they did, the ants, become famous.
Lifting six times their weight:
grains of sugar, wheat capsules
and so many types of resins
called capitulations. Even
in the love generations, men
were heartier than their women,
chosen very well, as is always
the case, for their breeding:
Connecticut to New Hampshire,
Wilshire to Orange
and Pinal to Greenlee county.
The march of these creatures
was not very long to us
but to them, it was
a very long and hoary deal.
Tree trunks to consider, alimony,
panhandling and no hole to crawl into.
It was a very long way to Mecca.

[27.23] Surely I found a woman ruling over them, and she has been given abundance and she has a mighty throne:

"But an attempt to overthrow the alpha female is risky. If the challenging beta ant is not successful she is often killed in the attack, and even if she survives, she loses her beta status and becomes a low-ranking worker."

[27.13] So when Our clear signs came to them, they said: This is clear enchantment.

"To do this, they must have in their "cockpit" a compass for determining direction, a gauge for measuring distance, and some record of the pathway they have taken, as well as an integrator to tell them the direct path home. The latest research into this tiny creature shows that when it moves over little hills, it can calculate the distance back along the flat.

The compass used by this ant (Cataglyphis fortis) is based on sunlight, which is scattered as it meets air molecules in the earth's atmosphere. The result is that the light is polarised in a way that we humans are not able to see. But the ant has cells in its eyes that are sensitive to this polarised light, and the information is processed so that the ant has a sense of the direction in which it is facing."

[27.23] Surely I found a woman ruling over them (the Namlites or "Ants"), and she has been given abundance and she has a mighty throne: [27.24] I found her and her people adoring the sun instead of Allah, and the Shaitan has made their deeds fair-seeming to them and thus turned them from the way, so they do not go aright...

"But it does not only use this system, together with how far it has travelled, to get back home. It also uses landmarks along its horizon to correct any errors it might make in its calculations. Experiments have shown that, as it approaches its home, the ant continually compares what it sees with a memorised snapshot that it took when it set out, and moves so as to reduce any difference between the two. If the terrain is flat with no landmarks, the ant adopts a systematic search strategy, looping around the area where the home base is most likely to be."

[27.38] He said: O chiefs! which of you can bring to me her throne before they come to me in submission?[27.39] One audacious among the jinn said: I will bring it to you before you rise up from your place; and most surely I am strong (and) trusty for it.[27.40] One who had the knowledge of the Book said: I will bring it to you in the twinkling of an eye. Then when he saw it settled beside him, he said: This is of the grace of my Lord that He may try me whether I am grateful or ungrateful; and whoever is grateful, he is grateful only for his own soul, and whoever is ungrateful, then surely my Lord is Self-sufficient, Honored.[27.41] He said: Alter her throne for her, we will see whether she follows the right way or is of those who do not go aright.

"It turns out that the US Navy uses a similar looping strategy to that of our ant for searching for missiles lost by the US Air Force. And robots are now being built that roam the desert using the mechanisms first identified in the ant. Surely, no engineer working at the drawing board could ever have come up with such imaginative solutions."



http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010713/ai_n14415791

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=586505

Aye..."surely" no engineer could have come up with that!

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1567920

"Our data further suggest that the ant’s polarization compass works independently of the sun compass."

Historically speaking, the orientation of "this" anthill (humanity) was turned southward from its original location (Jerusalem) to the new one (Mecca) by Allah via his communications to the last prophet Mohamed (SA) but this caused the Christians and Jews much distress. Distresses them to this day and don't even talk about athiests. That sort of stuff just burns them up. But who understands all of that!

[2.142] The fools among the people will say: What has turned them from their qiblah which they had? Say: The East and the West belong only to Allah; He guides whom He likes to the right path.
[2.143] And thus We have made you a medium (just) nation that you may be the bearers of witness to the people and (that) the Apostle may be a bearer of witness to you; and We did not make that which you would have to be the qiblah but that We might distinguish him who follows the Apostle from him who turns back upon his heels, and this was surely hard except for those whom Allah has guided aright; and Allah was not going to make your faith to be fruitless; most surely Allah is Affectionate, Merciful to the people.
[2.144] Indeed We see the turning of your face to heaven, so We shall surely turn you to a qiblah which you shall like; turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque, and wherever you are, turn your face towards it, and those who have been given the Book most surely know that it is the truth from their Lord; and Allah is not at all heedless of what they do.
[2.145] And even if you bring to those who have been given the Book every sign they would not follow your qiblah, nor can you be a follower of their qiblah, neither are they the followers of each other's qiblah, and if you follow their desires after the knowledge that has come to you, then you shall most surely be among the unjust. - The Glorious Quran, "The Cow" which is a mandatory Sura and one that contains many of the fundamental readings for the jurisprudent.

*"He is an angry as a pissemyre,Though þat he haue al that he kan desire."[Chaucer]

More about ants, pissants and firebeasts:

http://www.hawaiiantgroup.org/solenopsis/solinv.htm

FIRE ANTS COULD COST CALIFORNIA MILLIONS

DAVIS, California, March 12, 2002 (ENS) - If the imported red fire ant becomes established in California, the insect could cost Californians from $387 to $989 million a year, says a researcher from the University of California at Davis.

"There's no way of predicting how far and how fast the ants will spread in California," said Karen Jetter, a postdoctoral researcher at the UC Davis-based Agricultural Issues Center. Jetter and colleagues released their findings on the potential economic impact of the fire ant in the January issue of "California Agriculture" magazine, published by the University of California's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

The fire ant, already established in several Southern states, was discovered in California's San Joaquin Valley almond orchards in 1997 and has since shown up in many parts of Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles counties. Last October, it also was found and destroyed on the Cal Expo grounds in Sacramento County.

The authors estimate that, in the absence of eradication efforts, it would take 10 years for the ant to become established and could inflict costs totaling from $3.9 to $9.9 billion during that period, mostly to households.

A $65.4 million, five year eradication program is being coordinated by the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the nursery industry to prevent, lessen or delay the projected losses from the ant's arrival in California.

Based on the biology of the fire ants, the researchers think it is unlikely that they will be eradicated during the first five year funding period. The project will be reviewed, however, and considered for extension based on progress made during the first five years.

In agriculture, the ant's large mounded nests can damage mowing and harvesting equipment, irrigation lines, and electrical equipment. The ants girdle and kill young citrus trees and attack cattle and other livestock. They also damage vegetable and melon crops by eating developing fruit, seeds, roots and tubers and subject nursery and hay crops to quarantine regulations.

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2007-05/2007-05-14-voa2.cfm

"Now, government researchers want to work with a private company to produce large amounts of the virus. It could then be used as a biological control."

Oh...I'll bet they do. I'd say it isn't a very good idea. Afterall, we did get the polio vaccine out in time but ended up spreading AIDS all over the darn place. Seems we just can't seem to figure this stuff out and dig our ant hill deeper and deeper.

"Tell me what you're wearing?"

http://www.slate.com/id/2151428/

Heh. I used to really wonder at that tradition that states our paradigm is coming to a close soon when we see people committing illegal sexual acts on the "highways". I imagined all sorts of horrors! Driving down I-10 or the Beirut Autostrat and seeing men and women and menandmen and womenandwomen engaged in all types of coital excess.

Guess I was just over reacting again!

I suppose illegal meant, "not legal" as in...not under any statute, secular or otherwise. ROFLOL

The Flood(s)

http://carmenisacat.blogspot.com/2006/02/flood-how-is-it-one-waits-in-womb.html

ABOSOLUTELY Must-See

Footage you cannot and will not find on any news channel.

How the US and Israel have
always shot themselves in the Foot

Before the Non Muslim army arrived in Iraq




After the Non Muslim army is in Iraq for five years



Sadly enough...this is the will of Allah to show the world the face of the great Satan.

Can you see him? I sure can.

[13.11] For his sake there are angels following one another, before him and behind him, who guard him by Allah's commandment; surely Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change their own condition; and when Allah intends evil to a people, there is no averting it, and besides Him they have no protector. (The Glorious Quran)

*Interestingly enough...some people are beginning to see "our" problem (the muslim one). If only...if only they knew what it was before this trial and tribulation. The Shia of Southern Iraq like the Shia of South Lebanon actually believed that the US and even Israel (in Lebanon) might relieve them of the oppression of Sunni muslims (the Sunnis have oppressed the Shia for centuries people) as well as their oppression under the Maronite Christians in Lebanon who commonly referred to the poor Shia of Lebanon as "the people with tails" or "abu thanab". In Lebanon as well, it was the PLO and the Palestinian factions who terrorized the Lebanese during the Civil War of the last century and were not very good "guests" (that fact is why Hezbollah's defense of the Palestinians is such a profound statement to all muslims Sunni or Shia). No one ever really wants to hear about the crimes of Palestinians in Lebanon, especially now that so many non muslims have thrown their support in the direction of two diametrically opposed groups i.e. the Sunni Palestinians and the Shia muslims of Hezbollah. Many of our "new" supporters fail to realize that Sayyed Nasrallah supports the Palestinians as muslims but does not support their Sunni doctrine.

As it turned out in Lebanon, the southerners at one time literally threw rice on the Israeli army as they entered the south (1982) as they felt the IDF would bring order to the situation there. Eventually however Israel was exposed as was the Maronite Christian sect. All the parties in that conflict (the US, Israel, Christian Maronites (Phlangist Party)) sought to establish a "Christian State" in Lebanon to improve or guarantee the so-called existence of the highly illegal and immoral state of Israel. What most people believe to be the biggest threat to Lebanon was the always touted "Islamic State". News flash...theUS and Israel wanted a Christian State (a far less threatening ideology to most Westerners who are mostly non muslim and hence, "pro" Christian states that masquerade as "democracy")... there and actively sought it via the support of Lebanese factions AGAINST other Lebanese, mostly innocent people with no particular membership in any faction whatsoever regardless of sect. This is the second part of the profound lesson of Hezbollah. Not only have they not (up until now) sought to create an Islamic state in Lebanon but they have refused to commit atrocities against their own "kind" i.e. citizens of Lebanon regardless of sect. Until now. Indicators exist that suggest the idea that Nasrallah may indeed seek one if foreign interventionism as well as internal collaboration (Siniora (Sunni Beaurocrat) and Jumblatt (Druze warlord with alot of blood on his hands, mostly Maronite Christian blood) seek to engage them in another internal struggle. Some observers in the past have suggested that such a battle would last less than six hours and Hezbollah would overwhelm Lebanon literally in the blink of an eye and form another Shia dominated Islamic State in the region.

Secondly, the US sought to end the war in Iraq against Iran (1970s) which both the US and Saudi Arabia financed, advised on and played both ends against the middle (with Israel's arms sales to Iran during the Iran Contra affair) using their generalissimo Saddam Hussein. In that war, the US and Israel and Saudi Arabia are guilty on ALL COUNTS. Ayatollah Khomeini who KNEW he had been given a very raw deal (an eight year fiasco) refused to give up and I imagine expected the US to make good on its foul deed in which Iraq invaded Iran without any reason whatsoever to do so except US/Sunni hegemony in the region. Well, they never did (reparate) and instead they began a different Civil War in Lebanon, a Proxy war in order to distract attention, arms and "energy" from the long and criminal action of what I and many others call, "The First Gulf War" i.e. the Iran/Iraq debacle. We are actually now in stage three or rather Gulf War III even though most do not realize that nor do they believe the US had a role in that.

They blame Khomeini. When in doubt, always blame Khomeini or maybe Idi Amin or Fidel Castro. Villify him even. Like Idi Amin...they relate stories of cannibalism about him i.e. that he destroyed his own people in order to gain power. Just as the US and Israel have attempted to put Sayyed Nasrallah in that position AS IF he invited Israel into Lebanon last year. Yeah right. He took a few prisoners...an age old practice between countries who are at war and one that Israel and Hezbollah had engaged in between each other on numerous other occasions. It was NOT the basis for starting a war and it certainly wasnt the reason Israel attacked Lebanon this time either. Israel committed one hell of a big stupid mistake. A mistake that many believe is the beginning of the end of Israeli oppression in the ME if not the end of the Israeli state itself and Zionism in general.

This all had to happen unfortunately. Yes. It did. I suppose many believe it could be avoided or even thought it would be best avoided...tolerated I imagine (the bitter oppression of the Shia in the ME) for a "bit longer". Toleration in the sense that the US has (in the words of Condi Rice) "sacrificed human rights for diplomacy" in the ME. She spoke the truth but it appears she and others had no desire to actually honor the intent of that statement i.e. to stop sacrificing human rights for so called "diplomacy" or rather, backscratching each other's backsides. None at all.

I'd say the US is not only the loser in this overall but they do not have any legs left to stand on. Not even with the Sunnis. Although the Sunni monarchies in the area remain on good terms with the US I assure you, most of their subjects do not. Anywhere in the region.

And that is due to what Nasrallah and everyone else who understands Islam knows about last year's "war" with Israel.

It was literally a divine victory. It does not belong only to the Shia, the Lebanese or to Nasrallah. A divine victory is fought in the way of Allah, for the good of all people and without regard to personal loss. Just like the old days in revolutionary America when we all used to be far better people with much higher values and standards for society and government.

That victory over Israel belongs to us all. In fact, it belongs to humanity as a whole including Jews who are as much victims of religious exploitation as anyone else.

Zionism is not only evil, it is temporary as all such things are.

ODE TO TENNESSEE

Once upon a time everything
was homemade. The tortillas
down to the choclate eclairs
the little girls and little boys
would pick their share of as they
dangled from the arms
of chain-smoking, novena-plastered
mothers in pill box hats. The bread
smelted forth out a great silent
machine, those round
gray towers – a day's worth of bread
handed over the counters
of grocers and day-old places
full of handwritten credits.
The sales-girl faces the same
over and over from the liquor shops
to the mercantile where the women
felt the worth of yards of gingham
with garden-tended hands stuck
in apron pockets over poodle frocks.
And as they fondled bolts of laundry
hung out to dry on sagging lines
nearwhere the stockyard blood
soaked into the sawdust from coin-op horses,
they hummed the benediction

another day older and deeper in debt.
Eight hours in the mineral graves
for ten loaves or six yards of eyelet,
before the burns and infestations,
the migrations of paisley, the formation
of smokes over the Dead Sea downwind
from Cananea, pleurosis-nervosis in most of us.
The commemorations were handmade and so trusted,
the dusting powders and ore cars full of snuff,
Yardley Rose of Avon, poor damn Lucky Strike.
The seas too tired to part.


The Douglas smelter was the single most polluting industrial plant in North America, and Phelps Dodge "did everything to maintain production" despite its clear violation of the 1970 Clean Air Act (p. 137).

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200204/ai_n9035572

Islam will be Culturally Determined and will be the religion of the world. Like it or not people.

"One of the most extraordinary human beings..." named Joseph Cohen. "One day Joseph was chatting on a religious website..." This Jew says he now has "true belief" and he is absolutely correct. "It is in the Quran, there is no belief after disbelief. You cannot go in and out."

**Renouncing "certitude" carries the penalty of death, not renouncing the lesser form of Islam called "faith". Most muslims including almost all Sunnis have faith and lack certitude which is what most Shia have (not all of course but most). It is a goal and when it is reached one cannot "turn back". Certainly there is no such thing as turning back from certitude. This is the inner meaning of being steadfast. Steadfastness refers to adherence to the actual Sunna of the prophet and NOT the "sunna" of what is known as "ahl al sunna wa jummah" or the "Sunni Doctrine" which was a doctrine that rose in response to the actual party mentioned in the Quran called the Ahlul Bayt.



Between Genesis and Organogenesis! Man oh man!



Redefining what is "beautiful" and defining what is "truth":



"Islam is a logical religion."



"It was a process of becoming disenchanted with the truth."

Another amazing person. His mother was the oldest muslim in Europe and would have been 119 at the time of this video but she died some time just before:

"I could no longer preach things that I didn't believe."

Canadian Muslim:



Surfer Girl Muslim:



Scientist becomes muslim "in a flash". Just like that!



Admission for this British muslim equated with admitting she is "gay"! Wow. And when she is covered, she redefines for women what is beautiful and yes...she is gorgeous. Absolutely. She is "ammar" or like a "moon". What a face.



A Greek German? Well..whatever. Al'ham'du'lillah.



Here is one of the losers whom you can identify by his speech/knowledge level and behavior:



[47.30] And if We please We would have made you know them so that you would certainly have recognized them by their marks and most certainly you can recognize them by the intent of (their) speech; and Allah knows your deeds.

2:99
We have sent down to thee Manifest Signs (ayat); and none reject them but those who are perverse.

Chant for this guy: loser, loser, loser. Like to mock eh? Get ready pal for the real mocking.

And remember this message: Peace to all who believe in Allah.

Lights, Lights and More Lights!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mysterious+lights



The best Waggle Dance Video ever!



And this is also quite exciting:



That guy is just too much.

Mike Mayfield...who understands that guy either!

He is almost as good as StrongBad:



That last video is perhaps the best Strong Bad ever made. Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants. Reminds me so much of South Lebanon.

Not even Charlie the Unicorn is as good as that. Maybe that energy drink video though....powerspawning and all of that. Just like the bees.

Charlie the Unicorn goes to Candy Mountain:



Shun the nonbeliever....chaaahlie.

And there are always copy cats. Can't ever think up their own ideas:

Get Read!

http://www.cfr.org/publication/11176/shia_revival.html

The Shia Revival effectively demonstrates the political and
historical counterpoints to modern Iraq, asking Westerners to
reconsider their assumptions about the Shia and recognize the
delicate balance that must be maintained with the Sunnis. Throughout
the Middle East, the presence of Sunni extremists retaliating
against the Shia revival will pose the gravest danger to the United
States.

Nasr voices an uncomfortable point: Westerners have too often
conceived of the Middle East through a rarefied Sunni perspective.
In these changing times, the Western world must learn to understand
the history, motivations, and philosophy of the Shia, and how the
differences between Shias and Sunnis will help shape the future of
the region.

ADVANCED PRAISE FOR THE SHIA REVIVAL:

“The Shia Revival is a treasure trove of information and analysis….
A ‘must read’ for anyone interested in American foreign policy
today.”

—Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Sultan of Oman Professor, Harvard University
and author of Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics.

“Brilliant, clear, and erudite. This is indispensable reading for
anybody who is trying to make sense of the tragic conflict in the
Middle East.”

—Karen Armstrong, author of Islam, A Short History

“The best book by far on Shiism and Shia-Suni conflicts…. An
extraordinarily insightful analysis, engaging and accessible to
policymakers, scholars, students, and nonspecialists alike.”

—John L. Esposito, University Professor of Religion and
International Affairs, Georgetown University and author of Unholy
War: Terror in the Name of Islam

“As enlightening as it is thought-provoking, The Shia Revival is
important to both the expert and the layperson…. It is lively,
engaging, provocative, and should not be missed.”

—Kenneth M. Pollack, Director of Research at the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution and author of The
Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America

“ Smart, clear and timely.”

—Warren Bass, Washington Post

“So enlightening and perspective altering that no one concerned
about the Middle East should miss reading it.”

—Ray Olson , Booklist

“ Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming
with illuminating anecdotes.”

—Max Rodenbeck, New YorkReview of Books

The Good Crop




American Gothic

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none.The simulacrum is true.=Ecclesiastes, from Baudrillard's The Precession of the Simulacra.

Accidents are essential to nature. Someone, somewhere said that I'm sure. It would make sense you know for people to happen into their accidents a little too late. - Lady Jane Thomas to Lanny Muss

It used to be the sky
and vast dominion meant
this crop next,
fill it up or erase it.
All the water in
the far off sea was clean-under
and outrageously deep,
freshening the edges
of such flat places.
Once upon a time mom and dad
could fill a car for the weekend
with gum and wrappers
as children fell
asleep in the corners,
jarred and blinking in the glow
of good intentions.
There was no where to run,
no real need to
with plenty of jargon to fill the time.
Nothing needed to be done about
the same old secrets:
engine on, engine off.
Easy does it and upsy daisy
in the rigamarole, we kept
the getty-up and go
in the thingamajig under the hood.
Time doesn't pass
in these juke boxes anymore,
there's more fidget in a pesky market
than on the streets
where everyone used to ride

look no hands

by the seat of the pants
all torn and socks full of thorns.
The weeds mattered more
...than the sanctions
when girls got up slow,
boys grew up thin.
Way back when a window was
mostly pegs and putty
instead of glide and shine
no one minded a crack.
No one bothered to count the missing bits
of paint or the patches on a pair,
it was expected.

We could stitch-up
the universe with a thread,
..that is how strong we were
to organize the world
with a rake and we sure did.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq



What The Thunder said:

[13.11] For his sake there are angels following one another, before him and behind him, who guard him by Allah's commandment; surely Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change their own condition; and when Allah intends evil to a people, there is no averting it, and besides Him they have no protector.

Sermon 5, The Peak of Eloquence:

(Delivered when the Holy Prophet died and `Abbas ibn `Abd al-Muttalib and Abu Sufyan ibn Harb offered to pay allegiance to Amir al-mu'minin for the Caliphate.)

O' People! Steer clear through the waves of mischief by boats of deliverance, turn away from the path of dissension and put off the crowns of pride. Prosperous is one who rises with wings (i.e. when he has power) or else he remains peaceful and others enjoy ease. It (i.e. the aspiration for Caliphate) is like turbid water or like a morsel that would suffocate the person who swallows it. One who plucks fruits before ripening is like one who cultivated in another's field.

If I speak out they would call me greedy towards power but if I keep quiet they would say I was afraid of death. It is a pity that after all the ups and downs (I have been through). By Allah the son of Abu Talib (2) is more familiar with death than an infant with the breast of its mother. I have hidden knowledge, if I disclose it you will start trembling like ropes in deep wells.

In The Locality Of Whimpers
(from the Book of Warnings)

The static of those times was deafening,
transcripts and telegrams bogging
down all the lines, apothecaries
and epistlaries grew quite rich.
They all began to tell their stories,
everyone of them, quite dismal
because of the chatter and negations. We all
hoped for more but came up with so much
less. So many forgotten aftermaths,
so many more to make, we felt quite sad.
Our whimpers grew into infamous
proportions, exponential even,
until we cried with a single voice:
Enough is enough, we want more!
Lost as strangers in the strangeness
of going home to find the huts burned
to their most basic ashes, those
ashes in the sky or the breath
of our friend Iblis. He was tremendously
hard to find except in the fine print
of certain texts and tribunals. He wasn't
what you would call, a good listener.
These ashes like whispers,
that spooky action at a distance
while he stands to gain more than a few
untended souls and heartbroken women.
A real deadbeat dad rounding up his vixen.

That is what they say about him anyway.

She said to him early on, "Come and get me,
if you can. I hide quite near the tan area
called the gray matter. It isn't easy to find
but try anyway. I've got nerves of steel."

A reading suggested by a rather famous fellow (who insists he is not famous but I assure you...he is accomplished):

Briggflatts I imagine is about as important as this 'ourville with words as obscure to some as are his. Slag and dump, muck and blue eyed Mexican.

http://slought.org/content/11120/

Lan would suggest such things I might add. Cloud's Hill, Tehran and all of that. Those who have some connection to the things that I am connected to.

Kismet. Karma. Fate.

Poets and all their nuances.

"Rocks happen by chance." -Bunting

"Washed stones strike
in salty kilns the others,
the smooth and rocky
exile, this forgery
and treason*." -Porter

Bunting on Islam:

"Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anaemia."

...and yes...he is rather delightful and no, I haven't mowed the lawn.

A bit about the artist and a nice bit:

http://jacketmagazine.com/10/cadd-bunt.html

*Because the poem about City Sheepherders is about the Palestinian issue, the sonics of "reason" was replaced with treason. The assumed rhyme is there for the careful "sonics" oriented reader you know but there aren't many of those left who can get out of the poem and add to it on their own.

On Mining and Prayers for Miners

While watching one of the prolonged segments concerning this weeks disaster: Utah Miners Buried....I heard yet another broadcaster tell a family "spokesperson" that "our prayers are with you" and I had to wonder...

Really? Do each and every one of those newscasters actually go and "pray" for the "victims" of such things? And what exactly are those things? Who exactly are the "victims"?

Not to be critical or profit from those that are awaiting word about a person buried in a mine, a snow cave or a child whose blood has been found in a hotel room from where she was abducted. But to focus in on that idea that death comes to us all and why is one death more important than another? Well obviously..it is big business i.e. "The News". It gets viewers, it distracts people from their own death more or less and it is "exciting". Not to miners no doubt and perhaps I'll find and post that old soggy poem called "In the Mines of Mexico, They Weep". Because all miners and miner families know exactly what this is about. It is about their worst fear and that fear would be: dying in a mine collapse.

My very own miner father demanded that when he died he should be cremated and not BURIED. Not even in death does a miner want to be buried...it is THAT bad. All the same...it is just death and I must wonder....why is it we do not wait with our breaths held for every single death as it approaches? I must wonder at how many people actually cry over someone else's death and realize in a very serious way that their own death is FAR more important than anyone else's. It's always been that way you know because a miner is really buried and might experience that thing called "the agony of the grave" that some of us Shia know all about.

Back to the point however. How on earth do people on the TV get away with saying such things as "our prayers" are with you. I have a feeling that most of them don't pray, don't know how to pray and do it about as often as they clean up their sheds out back. Once a week if you are conscientious and maybe once a month if you are the guilty type; and once a year if you only hope to find something lost and suspect it might be there and never if you are really messy, disorganized and have better things to think about and always have, always will. Those usually end up on Oprah and two British ladies go in and muck them out.

Muck of course.....is a mining term.

My prayers haven't been "with" anyone in particular except a girl I met in the ER the other day. She truly affected me and I've actually prayed for her twice specifically. I had good reason to. She was a miracle to me and I pray that I was a miracle to her.

In The Mines Of Mexico They Weep

Now there shall be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again. - Walt Whitman, in the preface to Leaves of Grass.

In a twilight pilgrimmage
via these frost-cracked streets
close to the Campbell or Shattuck shaft
full of our father's breath and breathing,
we unfold our own cloth on the Fourth of July
one crease at a time on the crags
near the Vista in Warren, down from
the Loma Linda and the old mine-boss palaces.
Flashlights dangle at dusk in the hands
of children. The night catches us deeply
unaware but children don't think like that

they are that

and think more about the starting time
and the firemen on top of the dumps
who begin and end the show
in a wave of lanterns.
How we crave that signal
up there on those mountains of slag
thinking, as ours do, of the breath
of canaries and candles deep in those old holes.

A persistent and unheard whimper
fills space on this weary-
happy picnic in July or maybe
it only fills the weariness with something else.
I clasp a child tight in my arms,
a finger closes the tender wound:
hush hush, our waiting begins, we settle down.

Our Fourth of July is in sweet-tortuous ruin
flung aside into a bin of appetites lost.
We've run from one excitement to another
thankful for a gentle sun, there was no burning
and there will be few scars if any.
The miles between this and that
contract like stars in heaven where
light reaches us much too late
and we as well, get there accordingly.

This is the anniversary of all
that's happened here -
for each body on this ragged quilt,
each poor soul and dumbstruck
face tipped up toward the sky.
The silence between one person and the next
is only the truth where commentary has failed.
I look around me one last time
before the sun takes all the light away -
count the faces I own, erase what's left.
It is a small town thing on such occasions.

The darkness is complete
when the fireworks begin.
My daughter tells me
during one of the beautiful
interims which go like this:

ooh, aah, wonderful!
then another interim and another

'one day, the sun will die'

as copper sulphur spark comets flower dark,
my father scatters in the sky.
Oh! Mufasa, talk to me!

The Quran and the "Law"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_re_us/padilla_terror_charges

A return to the days of Scopes versus the Book(s).

Now....I'm not sure whether I'd be a better lawyer for the defense or the DA on this one.

I'm thinking I'd be a good lawyer for the DA but unfortunately, the US justice system has not just yet figured out that all humans are subject to the law of the Creator and that the laws of the US justice system are based on the law of the Creator via Moses (SA) and are called "Mosaic Laws" and the "Noahide" (from the old prophet Noah as in the "ark")....otherwise we could rape, plunder and murder because there is no evidence really that any of these things is actually against the "law" or morally wrong just because a few people 'sense' these things aren't right....because the "law" was taught to human beings a very long time ago (WE did not invent such things NOR would we)...over and over and over. And humans did, as humans do....exile themselves from such Creator dictated laws because it benefits them materially to do so and always has. It does not of course actually benefit anyone except a selfish few and even then..those "selfish few" apparently are completely unaware that the material benefits of such disregard for the law are limited only to this life and not the hereafter. In the hereafter they lose completely.

The "law" is such that it is manifested to each and every human being whether they like it or not and whether or not they are "unwilling" or "willing" adherents to the "law".

What gets me is that "people" i.e. non muslims believe that Islam invented such things as wife slapping, money laundering, lying and capital punishment (to mention a few examples of human endeavors) simply because it ADMINISTERS and DESCRIBES these things.

Those things exist whether or not the Quran mentions them. And many things the Quran does not mention. The Quran is simply a guide and a good guide it is...on how to avoid getting into the various pickles we get into as a human race. The kinds of pickles which end up with a Peruvian sex offender on bail executing a handful of law abiding college students:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_re_us/schoolyard_killings;_ylt=AtwRqzf1gI5n2V72QS7CsVas0NUE

Apparently, the lawyers have misguided and abused the law in order to make money (*and some other perks) and have allowed folks like OJ Simpson to commit "honor killings" and get off scott free. Like this Peruvian fellow that we are hearing about just about now who was allowed to go scott free into the world and execute innocent human beings because of a "judge" (read: lawyer) who is not only confused but needs to be involuntarily committed to a mental institution on grounds of insanity for releasing this monster into society to commit more atrocities.

A similar case in Germany in which the Quran is put on the bench:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/015741.php

"The Koran seems to have become the basis for a court decision in Frankfurt."

From the Glorious Quran:

The Dinner Table
[5.44] Surely We revealed the Taurat in which was guidance and light; with it the prophets who submitted themselves (to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jews, and the masters of Divine knowledge and the doctors, because they were required to guard (part) of the Book of Allah, and they were witnesses thereof; therefore fear not the people and fear Me, and do not take a small price for My communications; and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are they that are the unbelievers.

[5.63] Why do not the learned men and the doctors of law prohibit them from their speaking of what is sinful and their eating of what is unlawfully acquired? Certainly evil is that which they work.

The Immunity
[9.31] They have taken their doctors of law and their monks for lords besides Allah, and (also) the Messiah son of Marium and they were enjoined that they should serve one God only, there is no god but He; far from His glory be what they set up (with Him).
[9.34] O you who believe! most surely many of the doctors of law and the monks eat away the property of men falsely, and turn (them) from Allah's way; and (as for) those who hoard up gold and silver and do not spend it in Allah's way, announce to them a painful chastisement...

*Other perks including the type where one president aids the next candidate to gain office in order to pardon him (Ford/Nixon) or as is the case with GWB the president literally stacks the judicial deck to protect the interests of a select few.

Evidence of how curious people are getting all of a sudden.

The Cult of Journalistic Plagiarism (er....I mean, the majority of plagiarists, confabulists and propagandists turn on one of their own):

http://www.slate.com/id/2171840/

http://www.sakakini.org/literature/tmohammedali.htm

WARNING

Lovers of hunting,
and beginners seeking your prey:
Don’t aim your rifles
at my happiness,
which isn’t worth
the price of the bullet
(you’d waste on it).
What seems to you
so nimble and fine,
like a fawn,
and flees
every which way,
like a partridge,
isn’t happiness.
Trust me:
my happiness bears
no relation to happiness.

by Taha Mohamed Ali from Never Mind

THROMBOSIS IN THE VEINS OF PETROLEUM

When I was a child
I fell into the abyss
but didn’t die;
I drowned in the pond
when I was young,
but did not die;
and now, God help us—
one of my habits is running
into battalions of land mines
along the border,
as my songs
and the days of my youth
are dispersed:
here a flower,
there a scream;
and yet,
I do not die!

*
They butchered me
on the doorstep
like a lamb for the feast—
thrombosis
in the veins of petroleum;
In God’s name
they slit my throat
from ear to ear
a thousand times,
and each time
my dripping blood would swing
back and forth
like the feet of a man
hanged from a gallows,
and come to rest,
a large, crimson mallow
blossom—
a beacon
to guide ships
and mark
the site of palaces
and embassies.
*
And tomorrow,
God help us—
the phone won’t ring
in a brothel or castle,
and not in a single Gulf Emirate,
except to offer a new prescription
for my extermination.
But …
just as the mallow tells us,
and as the borders know,
I won’t die! I will not die!!
I’ll linger on—a piece of shrapnel
the size of a penknife
lodged in the neck;
I’ll remain—
a blood stain
the size of a cloud
on the shirt of this world!

by Taha Mohamed Ali from Never Mind

How the West was Won:

""We can't send millions and millions of dollars to Pakistan for military aid and be a constant ally to them and yet not see more aggressive action in dealing with al-Qaida," he told reporters in Oakland, Calif."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070809/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_emergency

A mini account of the history of Shia discontent in Pakistan:

http://www.saag.org/papers9/paper810.html

"While the ISI and the Army have remained silent on who is responsible for the anti-Shia massacres since the beginning of this year, Police officers in Karachi say that the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ), the militant wing of the SSP, the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen al-Alami (HUM-AA) and the Harkat-ul- Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) have formed a new outfit called 313, which has been operating on behalf of the IIF. According to them, while its attacks are presently directed at the Shias, it is likely to target American and other Western lives and interests soon. All the three are members of the IIF."

The impossibility of "Spin" for news issuing out of the rogue state of Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/889694.html

The frightening part of this reality (that only BAD people support Israeli doctrine anymore) is that Israel is like a Gorilla who escaped from the Zoo. That type of Gorilla might do just about anything you know, even scale the walls of the Empire State Building.

Afterall...most of us know what they did with the WTC.

Great News! Iraq War Ends!

The US kills the "mastermind" of the Sunni/Shi'i divide which has lasted over 1400 lunar years!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070805/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Hmm. Now. If this isn't the most suspicious and dim witted endeavor that I've ever seen. Where "we" come from (i.e. Islam) we usually tend to perform a public inquiry and hold a trial prior to killing criminals.

...yawn. When will the gringos ever learn?

FREE JOHN WALKER LINDH/FIRE HITCHENS/IMPEACH BUSH

THREE CRIMES;THREE (or more) WRITERS: ONE WRITING STYLE

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003414-1,00.html

http://www.tornadohills.com/dahmer/life.htm

We find that both Jeffery Dahmer and John Walker Lindh (note the Lee Harvey Oswaldish-ness of that name!) had DREADFUL HEALTH PROBLEMS in childhood. Imagine that. Two famous US criminals, one of them suspected of....er...hating US arrogance and loving Islam too much...and the other a known homosexual who murdered and ate several human beings ...share some truly OUTRAGEOUS qualities.

Jeffery Dahmer had a HERNIA!

A short time before Jeffrey's fourth birthday, Jeffrey was diagnosed with a double hernia that needed to be operated on. This operation left Jeffrey feeling open and exposed nobody explained to Dahmer what was going on. He felt scared by the operation, complete strangers coming up to him and exploring his body. This experience is said to have marked his subconscious forever.

He (the muslim Lindh) was skinny and "sickly," a classmate's mother recalls, and he frequently missed classes. It turned out John was suffering from an intestinal disorder, a particularly embarrassing affliction for a preteen that meant frequent trips to the bathroom. In 1993 the family pulled John out of yet another elementary school and opted to teach him at home.

We also find out that Jeffery Dahmer and John Lindh share two very curious characteristics...

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (note we get the three part Lee Harvey Oswald name once again but this time for Dahmer) came into the world at 4.34pm on the 21st of May at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee 1960.

At 1 in the morning on the day John Phillip Walker Lindh (4 names this time in case the reader is in any doubt about WHICH John Lindh) was born, his father Frank drove home from the hospital, listening to the radio in the quiet of his car: it was a dramatic rendition of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. I wonder...what if the car had not been quiet in this terrible foreshadowing of events?

...they both CAME INTO THE WORLD at a specific time!

One of the other shocking revelations about these two criminal "masterminds" is that they were extremely unusual children:

By the time of his second son's birth Lionel Dahmer and his family moved into there own house at 4480 West Bath Road, surrounded by open forest where Jeffrey could lose himself in a world of make believe.

John and his pals created games out of their heads, fantasy games involving knights and ogres or movie characters. This was a time "to act like something you're not," says Parr, "like a policeman."

...and they played make believe! Utterly shocking I tell you. Utterly shocking.

I'd like to know however about Christopher Hitchens' childhood if you know what I mean? What made this man such a potty mouthed baby talker? He is constantly using the word "poo poo". I think this is a very dangerous signal to the world about his potential for "violence" and the encouragement of same:

http://www.slate.com/id/2085263/

Saddahm-er Hussein

Forget Hitler and Stalin; Saddam's role model was the cannibal from Milwaukee. - Christopher Hitchens for Slate Magazine - who goes on to state:

"There is a difference, in other words, between propaganda and research, and the difference always becomes blurred in wartime."

Not of course...by the pen of Christopher Hitchens who is suggesting in this article that Iran is just as bad as Iraq, just as motivated and ought to be dealt the same criminal blows to their "imagined" arsenal in light of the known arsenal of Israel and the US which was used last year against the Lebanese people to supposedly gain the freedom of two prisoners of war. How about Mr. Lindh eh Mr. Hitchens? You are a silly old fool indeed and a thin ghost writer for the regime you support because they support you.

From Mr. Hitchens confabulatory pen come all sorts of disingenuous remarks from various exercises in professional propagandism...things like the famous Proof without Proof of weapons that were buried like the body parts were secreted in the fridge of Mr. Dahmer. One has to wonder is the man stoopid or a liar? I'm sure that Allah will know which it is and in the end, due to his athiesm Mr. Hitchens has no hope whatsoever regarding paradise. None. It's too bad really. Athiests you see like Mr. Hitchens cannot even reserve the hope that "when they get there" they can ask to go back and do it all over again. It's truly too bad he doesn't know about the fine print of the Quran regarding his type of arrogance...forget the ignorance. Ignorance I'll bet...is excusable. Statistically speaking, George W. Bush AND Saddam Hussein have significantly better chances of a return "to the paradise" which was lost when Adam and Eve (our early ancestors) failed to follow one teeny, tiny, itsy bitsy rule: Don't accept advice from anyone except me (spoken by Allah, the Creator). It wuddint about no sex nor encyclopeadias Mister.

Hell Hitchens is not only for murderers but it is also for liars or did you not know that?

And um....forget Hitler? How on earth can people like us "forget" Hitler you moron when propagandists like you are paid so much to keep reminding us of all these crazy connections!

*Sorry Mr. H, I've a little too much time on my hands. I was a lonely child who suffered a broken neck at the age of four. I spent alot of time on my own imagining that I was a horse. When I was at the swimming pool (where I was ashamed of my chunky body due to too little roughage and chronic constipation) I became a dolphin. The only thing I do not share with any of you three famous and not so famous writers (and teams of them at Time) is my style.

You are either with us or against us it seems. I'm with John Walker Lindh. There is no such thing as being half-right you know.

http://www.freejohnwalker.net/

John Walker Lindh

Inmate # 45426-083

USP Florence AdmaxU.S. Penitentiary

PO BOX 8500Florence, CO 81226

*Mail to Mr. Lindh will be screened by federal authorities.

http://carmenisacat.blogspot.com/2006/03/life-is-hell-well-when-jeffrey-dahmer.html

*The great Imam known as the Commander of the Faithful aka Ali ibn Abi Taleb (peace upon him and his progeny) distinguished categorically between many types of things and people. He said about those who seek the right but end up finding the wrong are not like those who seek the wrong and end up with the very same thing.

Steadfastness of Hezbollah will be the key to Lebanese victory over US/Zionist insurgency and foreign interventionism:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2811628.ece

As long as the Shi'i of S. Lebanon (allied with the mostly sympathetic Palestinian refugees, the mostly sympathetic and mostly poor Christians, the majority sympathetic Druze and the resentfully sympathetic Sunnis) refuse to enter a war, there will not be one. This is not just a prediction but a fact.

'Rebellions can be made by 2 per cent active and 98 per cent passively sympathetic' - T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)

The "key" to understanding "war" is to know that wars are not always fought with weapons and those that are fought with weapons seldom prove fruitful. It is the wars that are fought without them via resistance (which resort only to self defensive actions) that generally achieve long lasting success. The only occupation that has ever really proven successful is the White Man's occupation of North America and we can see that due to both legal and illegal immigration...that is not actually a "done deal".

If you look at it the way I do, we humans are all occupiers. Occupiers of the Dominion of Allah the Supreme Dictator of all that is Dictated. Those of us who realize our place in this Dominion are guaranteed success. This of course is one very dangerous idea to those who believe themselves to be "permanent" occupiers of one nation or another (usually due to racial superiority complexes but also due to an overwhelming arrogance to Allah manifested by extreme materialism). There is no such thing as a permanent occupation because all of us die, all civilizations eventually collapse and even the animal kingdom experiences the sacred extinctions. And all of us return to the same Creator at the same time (has not happened yet). Those in the graves are awaiting that time.

And your Lord is the Self-sufficient one, the Lord of mercy; if He pleases, He may take you off, and make whom He pleases successors after you, even as He raised you up from the seed of another people.

Say: O my people! act according to your ability; I too am acting; so you will soon come to know, for whom (of us) will be the (good) end of the abode; surely the unjust shall not be successful. -The Cattle, Proof 6:133-135

A must read article by the always astute Robert Fisk:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2768261.ece

Why do I post such things as executive orders.

Because I still can. It may be in the future that people like me cannot post such things in the future while residing in the US.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070802-1.html


From the White House Blog er, site:

Executive Order: Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its Democratic Processes and Institutions
Message to the Congress of the United States

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, determine that the actions of certain persons to undermine Lebanon's legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic institutions, to contribute to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Lebanon, including through politically motivated violence and intimidation, to reassert Syrian control or contribute to Syrian interference in Lebanon, or to infringe upon or undermine Lebanese sovereignty contribute to political and economic instability in that country and the region and constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

I hereby order:

Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person, including any overseas branch, of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

(i) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:

(A) to have taken, or to pose a significant risk of taking, actions, including acts of violence, that have the purpose or effect of undermining Lebanon's democratic processes or institutions, contributing to the breakdown of the rule of law in Lebanon, supporting the reassertion of Syrian control or otherwise contributing to Syrian interference in Lebanon, or infringing upon or undermining Lebanese sovereignty;

(B) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of, such actions, including acts of violence, or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order;

(C) to be a spouse or dependent child of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(D) to be owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

(b) I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by paragraph (a) of this section.

(c) The prohibitions in paragraph (a) of this section include but are not limited to (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order:

(a) the term "person" means an individual or entity;

(b) the term "entity" means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and

(c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.

Sec. 4. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that, for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of this order.

Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government, consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and, where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely manner of the measures taken. The Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure compliance with those provisions of section 401 of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641) applicable to the Department of the Treasury in relation to this order.

Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to submit the recurring and final reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in this order, consistent with section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).

Sec. 7. This order is not intended to create, nor does it create, any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 1, 2007.

Now. I realize this probably won't affect a nobody like me. It is meant to deal a blow to those who are seeking to elect a president in Lebanon to replace Emile Lahoud with the rather Hezbollah friendly Aoun.

All the same it gives me the shivers...shivers me right down to me timbers you know.

Meanwhile...back at the ranch:

"Sec. 4. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that, for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of this order."

Is Bush planning to seize the assets of all Lebanese "citizens" and their "children" and their "spouses"? Well...it looks like it to me. Never know about this kind of stuff though....disinformation and more fear tactics.

All I have to say is a couple of my friends were absolutely right about the "Little Napoleon". I wasn't wrong but I hoped that civil war could be averted in Iraq. Stupid hope in retrospect.

http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=3329

Vote Ron Paul in 2008

Facts of the matter are..the ONLY reason the ME is unstable or has EVER been unstable is the skewed support the US has provided Israel which needs to be turned off NOW. Not only that...Israel has a seriously outdated nuclear reactor that threatens the public health of everyone in the area and needs not only to be monitored but totally shut down as it was built prior to nuclear inspections anywhere. Forget the moral high or low ground on this one and remember just the common sense for a change.

Israel KNEW its time of enjoying US taxpayer money would come to an end. A person only has to have been reading the Israeli dailies for a few years to know that. Soft hearted Americans however seem to have a very hard time cutting this rogue nation off AS IF the money they are sending to Israel is going to feed the poor. It isn't. It is going towards genocide and all discussion of China's facilitation of genocide elsewhere (Darfur) is pointless when the US is financing one of the longest running ethnic cleansing operations in modern history. The history we all seem to think is the history where we know what we are doing (as opposed to those dim witted ancients who are no longer with us for some strange reason).

"This latest deal is so over the top that Israel is not opposing the $33 billion to Arab states because it gets $30 billion to maintain its military edge. En route to the Middle East this week, Rice denied that the military package was an attempt to buy allies with bombs. She also denied that the United States was relaxing its standards for democracy and human rights."

The fine print of this deal isn't even fine print. It's right there and any moron can read it and digest it. You don't have to be a practiced theological researcher like myself in order to get that much out of this heinous deal.

The reactor on a fault line:

"Considering its size, Israel is currently second in the world in terms of the presence of high-grade plutonium, behind Britain, and in sixth place in the world in terms of accumulated quantities of high-grade plutonium. The large quantity of nuclear waste collected in the last decades may cause a wide-scale disaster whose effect would reach way beyond the Negev region in case of a mishap or earthquake. "

"Should there be a nuclear leak, it may poison our water sources and soil for hundreds and thousands of years. The reactor is old and safety measures are unknown to us. Even a mini-Chernobyl disaster as a result of human error or the reactor’s age could make Israel unfit for human life."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3431419,00.html

But a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit said that “the weak response in the Middle East to pressures for democratization, as well as the experience with imported political change in Iraq, is making a mockery of George Bush’s ‘freedom’ agenda.” Reuters this week quoted Paul Salem, director of the Middle East Center at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as saying that the arms deal meant Bush’s effort to spread democracy in the region was “more than dead.”

The 63 billion dollar sham...heh...in "Sham":

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2906/

While "no" American bridge should ever collapse (why?...oh because of their/our moral superiority).....

Water taps run dry in Baghdad

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

On Syriana:

http://carmenisacat.blogspot.com/search?q=Syriana

This weekend while in South Lebanon I watched the movie Syriana with old what's his name...from Ocean's Seven....and boy! What a bunch of plotless bullshit. And the parts about Beirut...so out of context. Since the movie takes place now...post 9/11 and in the Era of so-called "Oil Wars" how is it that in Beirut the stage is set with Freedom Fighters on buildings with machine guns? Now...back in the early to mid eighties there were a few of those but mid to late 90's? Nope. But that is the point of propaganda......to make you confused. Never was there a more beautiful depiction of confusion. But the great part is the hero (in the end) just goes home like Bilbo Baggins with some kind of 'knowledge' ring...

DISINFORMATION and Syriana

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8388018095393470573

"All this tortured hidden bullshit...." per this distracted and disinformative interview on so called "free" radio.

Oh...it isn't just about oil. Oil is one thing but there is this whole issue about finding out about the real liars....those who have been lying for too many centuries to count and those who LIKE the lies.

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER HYPOCRISY

Some of the people who died to protect the BRIDGES and HUMAN BEINGS of Lebanon in the criminal war inflicted on Lebanon in the summer of 2006:





The man who led Lebanon to the decisive victory over the war mongering thieves of Israel who destroyed almost EVERY single bridge in the country in their most VILE attempt to eradicate the world from people who STAND UP TO THEIR HYPOCRISY, INJUSTICE, MURDER, THEFT, DECEIT and overall animal like tendency to behave as if they are a superior RACE:




All photos by my daughter Sarah. The last photo taken in the souk of Bint Jubail which is no longer a city but a pile of RUBBLE. It is the city formerly occupied by Israel and reclaimed by Hezbollah for the citizens of Lebanon.

My condolences to anyone who lost loved ones in Minnesota but to hear the statement "No American bridge should ever collapse" is the most disgusting and fascist rhetoric to date regarding the way Americans see themselves as better human beings, more worthy of praise and all of that literal HOGWASH. That there are heroes...well. No. ANYONE would save another life except for America who didn't lift a finger to stop the war crimes last year perpetrated by Israel and in fact TRANSPORTED cluster bombs TO ISRAEL which are still killing HUMAN BEINGS to this day.

The STATUS QUO of Jewish Israeli Prisoner Swapping and War Criming

(or...how Breaking US News COVERTS the MORONICALLY MORALLY INFERIOR practice of US BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN SLASH NEONAZI ZIONIST foreign policy (nothing foreign about it...it is bigotry at its finest) in the Middle East.)

"Israel is interested in a two-stage prisoner exchange deal with Hezbollah, the United Nation's Mideast envoy Michael Williams has said in the past few days. He added the organization has so far declined the offer.

According to Williams, who revealed the information in several public events over the past week, Jerusalem is willing to release a certain number of prisoners in the first stage of the deal, in exchange for information and a sign of life from Eldad Regev and Ehud Golwasser, the two Israel Defense Forces soldiers abducted by Hezbollah last year."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/888919.html

Wow...one damn bridge goes down in America and it is "of historical" importance. Not to me nor is it to alot of people dying for the arrogance and ignorance and evil of the people in power in Israel.

How so? When in fact the US paid and supported Israel to destroy almost EVERY single bridge in a tiny country (Lebanon) which was under violent attack and people needed to escape over them in the river rich nation in order to escape possible EXECUTION by those wonderful Jews in Israel? Not only a war crime but also one of the main reasons Israel failed in its invasion. What kind of kooky morons bomb their entry routes to an invasion (never mind their escape routes should they lose which these arrogant and completely UNRELIGIOUS monsters never even considered). You see they KNEW they were attacking a poor and relatively defenseless group of people which makes their war crimes even more NAUSEATING. They ASSUMED a bit too much due to several factors not the LEAST of which was their SO CALLED MORAL SUPERIORITY.

They aren't morally superior to anything except MAYBE a few leftover BIGOTS in the USA.

Who cares. So what. Really.

The real breaking and ACTUAL BIG news (that is news NOT about one or two dead Gringos on their way to a friggin baseball game)...actual news that is worth reporting on and making a "to do" over....we have a story that is bound to make your eyes WATER. Especially if you happen to be a person who was physically, mentally or spiritually affected by last year's VILLAINOUS attempt to commit ETHNIC/RELIGIOUS cleansing (by Israel) of anyone who dares to stand up to Israel in Lebanon (the code word for that status is HEZBOLLAH)....you'll literally have to change your shoes because of the tears you lose from your eyeballs due to a combination of the cynical laughing and desperate crying.

Last year's brutal crime against an entire religious group at the hands of a "so called" religious faction (read: ideology aka Zionism in any form) was SUPPOSEDLY about the return and exchange of political prisoners.

Now...correct me if I am wrong here. Political prisoner taking is the STATUS QUO of all people regardless of ethnicity, religion, location or time frame of WAR (ancient to modern). It is a commonly accepted practice and a LAW exists in the most sacred text ever revealed regarding it. It has been practiced and is being practiced in Guantanamo to Abu Gharaib (not very well I might add) RIGHT NOW. BY EVERY SINGLE NATION ON THE PLANET which is involved in a conflict.

So today we get what should be great news. Israel...thinking that people are no longer paying attention to their heinous behaviors and misdeeds of last year and the continuous ones they commit due to their illegal status as a "state" or as a so-called "democracy"....have slipped a little deal to Hezbollah. How about that.

AS IF....they actually inflicted such devastation on Lebanon in order to get back prisoners (illogical and not a part of natural reason or law).

THAT was the LIE but it isn't surprising because Israel is the world's number one LIAR followed closely by the United States of America.

Schadenfreude in the City

Where did this problem start,
this stuff about wondering where
a siren goes in the dark
or during the rain, the curtains
pulled aside and you want to see
mainstreet, hope to see a fire
or the headlight of someone's car
dangling like an eye out
of its socket, all hay-wires.
Here, it is night and a plane
ascends, banks then disappears.
A siren peals through the almost silent
predawn cold and continues on.
Then another. It is always
the second one that gets you going.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070802/ap_on_re_us/minnesota_bridge_collapse

The Falls, Bisbee Arizona
Photo by Radiann Porter, August 2007

At last however, the ground
became as flat as it used to be.

Highly Suggested Reading from one of America's best "alive" poets..

From Dick Bakken's new online chapbook from Island Hills Books:

WHERE IS AMERICA GOING!

The Columbine Body Count

http://islandhills.tripod.com/bakken.htm

"I believe it's over. America is dead and finished. Our schoolboy pony express shooters are just now getting their gallop up. Going postal is on its way to messages we can't even nightmare. Our full volcanic compression of 400—of 2000!—years of lies and hypocrisy—so darkly denied, buried, suppressed to ferociously hellish explosiveness—is blowing like St. Helens back into our present."

Lilac's impression:

I've known Dick ever since I was knee high to a gracehoper. I met Dick one balmy August day up in the old Victorian just a hop, skip and jump away from St. Patrick's Catholic Cathedral. My voice I suppose, is what did it as I was suffering from too much inhaled therapies for the blues prior to the blues becoming an all out epidemic in America's High School High halls. We were all a bit different then. All the same...we came out just as we are right now.

As a small town theologian I can honestly say, Dick is recommending a ride on the ghost ship which avoids the flood.

In terms of the poetic merit of the chapbook, I can relay the news that it is as fine-tuned as anything anyone has ever endeavored to write. I have little doubt that Dick spent as many hours and days hacking it down to size and shape as he said he did. Dick rides a fantastic multi-trick pony into the skies on this one and finalizes it with a hearty Mufasa at the end where all great works of literature must aim their arrows in order to shoot their prize.

In the Shambles
(For the Jews)

They became the kings
of things who used
light in miraculous ways.
The people had given up
on elephants but the dogs
kept a watch going anway
and were adopted faster than people.
This was at the time
of extra-ordinary heavens,
each one better than the next.
Massive libraries were as hollow
as the sacred sounds
they hoped to project:
hard to find, rare, on request
put precious little stock in the litter.
Motion turned up everywhere
in fact, water played more
than one game in alchemy.
Generational handicaps were
not much of a concern
in the smaller societies
where chiefs had traded
the grass shares for better digs
and no one paid any longer
for a just cause or an actual
spirit play. Spin-wheels bled
personal drama into a worn-out
battter of happy-go-lucky
and hunky-dory handshakes
made motors stall and babies weep.
Imperial highways took years
to barge through and complete
armies were gathered from
the prisons to customize the sides.
Battle scars stained just about
every podium a kind of dull gray
with speeches called mark my words.
When the great huge storm
came up from every south,
twice as often in the north,
fallen rain grew more
useless every single day.
We struggled against the doors
which refused to shut right
because of the glaciers
whose groans kept us awake
way into the night.
So much for all these plugs
we used to say when basically
all the vendors left pieces
the size of moth's eyes.
Each little place had one
important theocracy -
the chiming kept knives
and razors sharp enough
to gut fish for the old
restaurant we used
to look at and long for.
At last however, the ground
became as flat as it used to be.
The maps stretched for miles
and miles took years to explain.
We tried to get word out
as soon as we could.

http://www.wisconsinproject.org/pubs/articles/1987/heavywatercheaters.htm

Because of heavy water, France, India, and Israel all have been able to make nuclear explosives free of international control.

Why was the destruction of the Shi'i
mosque at Samarra* so important?

The history of Sunni Islam is actually the history of the oppression of the Shia, their martyrdoms and burial places. Places like Saudi Arabia to this day do not allow anyone to have a marker or headstone on a grave. This is related to the fact that they simply do not want anyone to know what it is that they did to the earliest followers of the Sunnah of the prophet Mohamed (SA) who are known as Shi'i. I actually lived just down the road from a Saudi graveyard and the people there used to stack rocks on top of the graves hoping against hope to be able to one day come back and be able to recognize where their baby or granny was buried. It is truly unfair and all due to an oppression that seeks to hide the past from us all, their past. The Sunni Oppressor past and as well, to disguise the present from modern observers who would really like an explanation.

The hoary details:

"Gathering the people who lived there, Imam Husain (A) asked the name of the place. Some said that it was called Naynava, others said it was also called Mariya. Imam Husain (A) asked if there was any other name. Someone said it was also known as Shattul Furaat. Then one old man came forward and said that he had heard his ancestors say that one name for this area was Karbala.

When Imam Husain (A) heard this, he smiled and thanked Allah and then said, "Surely this is the plain where my Holy Grandfather has prophesied that I, with my faithful companions shall lay slain after suffering three days of hunger and thirst. We will not move from here - we have reached our destination."

Imam Husain (A) then ordered for his caravan to stop and tents were pitched next to the banks of the river Euphrates.

The caravan of Imam Husain (A) had arrived in Karbala and their tents were pitched next to the river Euphrates. As his companions settled down, Imam Husain (A) took his brother Abbas (A) around the barren desert and pointed out the various places where each of his comrades would fall and be slain on the Day of Ashura.

The people living in the area were from the tribe of Bani Asad. Imam Husain (A) purchased the land of Karbala from them and then gifted it back to them. He then addressed the men of Bani Asad saying, "On the tenth of this month you will see our dead bodies lying on this plain with our heads severed and taken away. Please bury us, and when our devotees come to visit our graves, treat them with honour and point out to them the places of our burial." He then turned to the women of the tribe and said, "O virtuous ladies! If your husbands, fearing Yazid, do not bury us, then please encourage them to do so or do it yourselves." Finally, he turned to the children of Bani Asad and said, "O innocent ones! If your parents, out of fear of the ruler, do not bury us then, by way of playing, bring some earth and throw it on our bodies to hide them." This heartrending appeal of Imam Husain (A) made all the listeners weep. "

For part of the entire story of Kerbala:

http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/islam/0000082.php

Other chapters appear on the Shia News site and each one is equally delectable and agreed upon by all muslims be they Sunni or Shi'i.

Notes on the shrine at Samarra:

http://www.al-islam.org/shrines/samarra.htm

Perhaps non muslims will soon begin to understand why the Shi'i perform self flagellation during Ashura (Muharram 10) and will recognize what kind of disaster that the US has facilitated (in Iraq where Kerbala is located) out of both ignorance and greed...and either knowingly or unknowingly..it doesn't really matter now whose fault it "is". Because it is.

Why is Mia so mad at Steven Stealberg?

http://www.slate.com/id/2170857/#Darfur

I'll tell you why I hate the SOB. First, he stole the story of an Iranian who stayed in the Charles de Gaulle airport for nine years and made the main character (played by Tom Hanks) in the movie The Terminal into a some type of "Marxist" citizen of an unknown "Marxist" breakaway Republik.

Now...if that wasn't bad enough....

The dog sent money to Israel last year and made a big deal about how much he loves the New Nazi-ism aka Zionism and how everyone in creation ought to send money to these genocidal racists who live there and stole the land from the Palestinians who had lived there for centuries.

Oh. As if people would: Boycott this monster.

I am so honored to be seen with some of these poets. The prolific Lyn Lifshin and the recluse Kristine Ong Muslim. Man. Makes me want to submit again.

So the next few posts are a celebration of those poets who are upcoming in 4am Poetry Review.

In Pedestal, this wonderful poem that just trips all over itself and scores a great big three pointer at the end there:

Malaika King Albrecht - Sounds After the Howl

http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/Content/cb.asp?cbid=5102

Carolyn Srygley-Moore - Two Poems
Casting Out The Whistler's Tarantula

http://www.threecandles.org/poetry/cmoore.html