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POLITICS

I don't have much faith in our political leaders. I don't think they're in it for our good. I strongly feel they go into politics for their own good. Follow the money people. All the way down to city government. We're told to tighten our belts while they're out there splurging our taxes on nonsensical grants, pork. The government wastes more money than you can imagine. I offer you a few URL's to check out so you can see for yourselves: (clicking on the links will open a new window)

1. Citizens Against Government Waste

2. The Better Government Association

3. US House Of Reps. Committee On The Budget

4. Advocates for Self-Government
Go there & run a search for "Government Waste"
& check out the results

It's amazing what our own government gets away with. Why do we allow it?? It's high time the political 'servants' are made to stop the waste.
We need to demand that the waste stops!! AND if you want to find some of the best criminal acts on earth, check into the private lives of your politicians! They're stealing us all blind!!

Now, I urge all of you to read the book-- George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster G Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin. Each American citizen should know about this family's history. It's a pretty long book, therefore I suggest you download the whole thing to read if you're connected to the internet via dial-up. You can view the book & download it (in ZIP format) from Mr. Tarpley's website at: Webster G. Tarpley

Also go here & read this about Dubya & bros.

Then check this out: Bush and Nazi ties?

Oops, & here's that non-seperation of church & state at work ... CIA Think Tank to Head Bush Religion Initiative. Ohhhhhh what a web they weave!!!


A bit of humor but oh so close to home. Betty Bowers has a fun site with Laura Bush's Guide to Raising Christian Ladies: Jenna & Barbara! LOL

Oops, this must be awful embarrassing to the Dubya family.

And what will the Xtain Coalition say about this??? Hmmmmmmmm?
Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter gets job to recruit homosexuals
into Republican Party
How can that be???

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ORGANIZED RELIGION


Oh boy, this is a good one. So much to say about this -- so little time. First off, I don't believe it's necessary to belong to ANY religion because we are all a part of the Creator. I'm not a christian & prefer to be referred to as a Spiritualist. I believe in the Creator & reincarnation. I think we all 'come back' until we 'get it right'. My thoughts concerning organized religion is that this is a scheme thought up by man for control of the masses. Scare the hell outta the people & convince them that we converse with 'god' & god says this and that. Wars are fought over religion. People are enslaved, tortured, & murdered by religious 'believers'. The people who go to these buildings they call 'churches' & listen to the religious leaders translations of what that book (written by man) really means. They actually have to listen to someone else in order to know right from wrong & how to live an honest life? I really don't think so. All each of us have to do is look deep inside ourselves to find that we're all part of our Creator & we all have a conscience which, if allowed, can guide us in the right direction.

Religion & politics have shared domination of countries since the beginning. People fled to this land to escape such a life where religion ruled. Many christian church folks have no idea what the history is for their religion. They're told of the 'righteousness' of their 'beliefs' & think any who do not live & believe as they do, will burn in hell. Give me a break!!!

They use their interpretations of their written word to justify hatred. Well that's fine and dandy but who can trust words written by man? Why do they need someone else telling them how to live & what to think???? Are they all morons that need guidance in doing good? Why? They've traveled to the continents, entrapped the aborigines, enslaved them, tortured them, & forced their beliefs onto them. Those who refused to convert were tortured & murdered. All this by god fearing christian solders!!! What a friggin' crock!

Oh what a great people we Euro whites are. We screamed 'freedom' .... but we did the same thing to those who lived here before we did. We stole their land that they loved. We murdered those who refused to convert to the christian way of life. We forced them to deny their beliefs for what??? For the beliefs of people who had such a 'loving' track record??? A people screaming for religious freedom while hunting people they thought of as witches. Burning them at the stake because they felt evil had taken them over when infact it was EVIL to murder them for not believing as the christian believer did. All someone had to do was accuse another of being a witch & that poor person was convicted. Not ifs, &'s or buts about it. No one needed any proof. Oh what a loving lot they are. Lie about someone so they will be tortured & murdered. And they have the brass ones to be screaming about christians being murdered in other lands these days. Is there any wonder??? Pay-backs are a bitch aren't they?! So is there any wonder that christians believe the 'written word' (written by man, mind you) when they have such a long history of lying & believing lies?

Yup, ya want torture, murder, lying, deceit, theft, child molestation's, bribery, cover-ups, mayhem, embezzlement & all that good stuff ----- just look no further than government & organized religion. What a couple they make! And these are the ones who talk down about Hitler & Nazism!!!! Makes ya wanna throw up, doesn't it?

Very good reading:

1. Salem Witchcraft By Tim Sutter © 2000-2002

2. Salem Witch Museum

Then there are those who 'believe' that the intentions of the founding fathers of our country was to create a 'christian' nation. This is not true. Our founding fathers were not christians. I'll provide you with a few links so you may be educated on this matter.


1. From: The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, pp. 8,9 (Republished 1984, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY) ...

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of...Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."

2. From: George Washington and Religion by Paul F. Boller Jr., pp. 16, 87, 88, 108, 113, 121, 127 (1963, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX) ...

George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his voluminous correspondence. Washington Championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion.

3. From: The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw, pp. 17 (1976, North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC) Quoting a letter by JA to Charles Cushing Oct 19, 1756, and John Adams, A Biography in his Own Words, edited by James Peabody, p. 403 (1973, Newsweek, New York NY) Quoting letter by JA to Jefferson April 19, 1817, and in reference to the treaty, Thomas Jefferson, Passionate Pilgrim by Alf Mapp Jr., pp. 311 (1991, Madison Books, Lanham, MD) quoting letter by TJ to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, June, 1814 ...

John Adams, the country's second president, was drawn to the study of law but faced pressure from his father to become a clergyman. He wrote that he found among the lawyers 'noble and gallant achievements" but among the clergy, the "pretended sanctity of some absolute dunces". Late in life he wrote: "Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!"

It was during Adam's administration that the Senate ratified the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, which states in Article XI that "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."

4. From: Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie, p. 453 (1974, W.W) Norton and Co. Inc. New York, NY) Quoting a letter by TJ to Alexander Smyth Jan 17, 1825, and Thomas Jefferson, Passionate Pilgrim by Alf Mapp Jr., pp. 246 (1991, Madison Books, Lanham, MD) quoting letter by TJ to John Adams, July 5, 1814 ...

Thomas Jefferson, third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, said:"I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian." He referred to the Revelation of St. John as "the ravings of a maniac" and wrote: "The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ levelled to every understanding and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism's of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power, and pre-eminence. The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonisms engrafted on them: and for this obvious reason that nonsense can never be explained."

5. From: The Madisons by Virginia Moore, P. 43 (1979, McGraw-Hill Co. New York, NY) quoting a letter by JM to William Bradford April 1, 1774, and James Madison, A Biography in his Own Words, edited by Joseph Gardner, p. 93, (1974, Newsweek, New York, NY) Quoting Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments by JM, June 1785 ...

James Madison, fourth president and father of the Constitution, was not religious in any conventional sense. "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

6. From: Religion of the American Enlightenment by G. Adolph Koch, p. 40 (1968, Thomas Crowell Co., New York, NY.) quoting preface and p. 352 of Reason, the Only Oracle of Man and A Sense of History compiled by American Heritage Press Inc., p. 103 (1985, American Heritage Press, Inc., New York, NY.) ...

Ethan Allen, whose capture of Fort Ticonderoga while commanding the Green Mountain Boys helped inspire Congress and the country to pursue the War of Independence, said, "That Jesus Christ was not God is evidence from his own words." In the same book, Allen noted that he was generally "denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious that I am no Christian." When Allen married Fanny Buchanan, he stopped his own wedding ceremony when the judge asked him if he promised "to live with Fanny Buchanan agreeable to the laws of God." Allen refused to answer until the judge agreed that the God referred to was the God of Nature, and the laws those "written in the great book of nature."

7. From: Benjamin Franklin, A Biography in his Own Words, edited by Thomas Fleming, p. 404, (1972, Newsweek, New York, NY) quoting letter by BF to Exra Stiles March 9, 1970 ...

Benjamin Franklin, delegate to the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, said:
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion...has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the Truth with less trouble." He died a month later, and historians consider him, like so many great Americans of his time, to be a Deist, not a Christian.


The Treaty of Tripoli, passed by the U.S. Senate in 1797, read in part: "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." The treaty was written during the Washington administration, and sent to the Senate during the Adams administration. It was read aloud to the Senate, and each Senator received a printed copy. This was the 339th time that a recorded vote was required by the Senate, but only the third time a vote was unanimous (the next time was to honor George Washington). There is no record of any debate or dissension on the treaty. It was reprinted in full in three newspapers - two in Philadelphia, one in New York City. There is no record of public outcry or complaint in subsequent editions of the papers.

CHECK THIS LINK OUT: Notes on the Founding Fathers and the Separation of Church and State

We've all been reading how so many of the leaders of the christian churches have been getting caught almost 'with their pants down'. Then the godfather of the catholics summons his fella's over there to the Vatican to chat about it all. Hmmmmmmm, did his hindass, er I mean highness NOT know this stuff had been going on throughout the ages?? Where's he been???? Now, I don't know about you but I didn't hear or read anything concerning the 'victims' of those assaults. I read plenty of wishy-washy things da pope had said but what about the victims & what they've gone through at the hands (well to put in mildly) of his boys???? In MY opinion, da pope-meister was more concerned about how the church was going to fair through being caught! In the past, they got away with more than molesting innocent children. They're so hell bent on screaming "MORALS" we must live by, that it sickens me to even think about such crap being swept under the rug, by the very institution that dictates how we must live & think. Each of their child molestors should be sent to ME for punishment!!

Please don't for one minute believe that the molestations are only in the US. I've included in this portion a link to some very interesting information for you. Head on over to the following link to see for yourself: Clergy Crimes Index This is VERY interesting reading, And while you're there, read up on those who believe the Vatican holds quite a bit of 'treasures' stolen from the Jewish people. Take a gander at - Nazi Gold (listed on the site) and the Vatican. Then pop on over here: Roma National Congress to read something very interesting too. Then hop on over to The Outrage.

Check out how the pope-meister tried to get mass murder Augusto Pinochet (remember him?) released "for humanitarian reasons"!!! What? Is that old fart NUTS????

Now, where did this institution of the Catholic Church & christianity come from? How was it started. Lets check this out, shall we? Holy Roman Catholic Church then after that, here's sumtin else you can take a gander at: The CIA.

Well I'm no Xtian, but being the Spiritualist I am, I will pray for those who have faith in the Xtain church or ANY (organized) religious 'cult'.


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WELFARE

Oh my goodness what a farce, huh? How many of you know why welfare & food stamps were created? For a little history check this out ... Gilder Lehrman
Now, what I'd like to know is how come there are so many womyn out there, who collect welfare, producing more & more babies out of wedlock? Wouldn't it be wiser to educated these womyn NOT to be baby-factories? Why does my taxes have to pay for these womyn who are so damned irresponsible??? I see it every day! They're bringing into this world our future juvenile delinquents! Many of these kids produced by so many of these womyn know more about drug dealing than they do about L-O-V-E, R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y and R-E-S-P-E-C-T!! I'm sorry but in these times there shouldn't be any excuse for a "mistake". I know for a fact that womyn can go and get protection from the health depts in their communities. Why the lack of common sense??? Why do I have to pay more taxes to feed, cloth, shelter & provide schooling for these 'families'? I do NOT like having the responsibility of their carelessness and/or thoughtlessness! This has gone on far too long. Is there any wonder our jails are over crowded? QUIT HAVING BABIES IF YOU CAN'T LOVE THEM ENOUGH TO SUPPORT THEM BECAUSE I SURE AS HELL DON'T LOVE THEM AS MY OWN!!!! Our taxes would be better spent teaching these womyn to keep their damn legs closed and teaching the men to keep their 'trouble-makers' in their pants!!!

I've worked hard all my life. I don't mind sharing some of my earnings but when there are so many lazy-assed people being given my money while I'm working with pain & have to scrimp & save to have ANYTHING I own ........ I get a little pissed off.

I know a womyn who doesn't work & is on welfare. Four and a half years ago when I first met her she only had 2 kids. She now has FOUR all by different men!!! Plug that womyn up, huh????

Now, corperate welfare is something else but my tax dollars are still being stolen from me to go to corp leaders who can very well afford to pay their own way. Dubya is very "giving" to them all. I mean, lookie-here how he is making pals rich(ER) with his 'war' in Iraq!! Rebuilding that country after we 'invaded' it and not giving a thought of the many, many hungry, homeless folks right here in our own country. What a friggin' a$$hole!!

A few linkis to check out:

1- Corporate Welfare Org

2- Nader Org

3- Public Citizen Org

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RUDE PEOPLE

I don't know about you but rude people make me sick. There's no excuse for it. The kids are just as bad as the grown-ups. Well why doesn't that shock me?

Where's the respect for others in this world these days? Kids talk back to their parents & the parents let them get away with it.

Billie & I go out to eat & it nerver fails ...... we meet up with a screaming little brat & what do the parents do? NOTHING!!! Is this what Dr Spock started??? Or another good one ..... a parent tells the kid to do something & the kid either ignores what's said or comes back with a big fat, "No!" That's bullcrap! So let me get this correct --- we worry that the prisons are being overcrowded & we wonder why. Ummmmmmmmm, hint ..... redden a few fanny's when it's called for & maybe your kids might learn to behave & respect others.

But then again sometimes the parents are too damn busy working to take the time to do their job of parenting. Oh THAT explains it. I say, if one parent can't stay home with the kid, then make it your decision NOT to produce any. Being a parent is a full-time job so why plan on producing little ones if you can't do the parental job correctly.

I'm all for kids, I love kids but I can't handle kids who are not being watched, taught & LOVED by their parents. Ya plan on getting married or being a single parent? Make sure you can afford to be home for that kid. Don't expect the schools to teach the kid everything which is YOUR responsibility. The schools have enough to do then to be parents to YOUR children.

The question used to be, "Do you know where your child is?" but these days it's, "Hey kid, do you know where your parents are?"

Raising a child to be a honorable, productive adult in society is a hard job & it doesn't require a 'test' to see if you're up to it so have a bit of common sense & really think about what you're doing before allowing sperm to meet egg!!! We already have enough juvenile delinquants running around in this world.

I truly believe that RESPECT is no longer valued when bringing up kids. This is one reason we have so many out there who get in so much trouble. It doesn't matter if the parents are rich or poor.

Then there are some older adults who must think I owe them something. I try to be as polite as possible but it doesn't get me anywhere with some of them. I have to tell ya, it pisses me off at times. An example -- I'll go to the trouble of walking back to the exit door at a store to hold it open for some old fart coming out. Do I get a "thank you"? Most of the time I do but there's always those SOB's who say nothing. Don't even look me in the eye. Welllllll, F-U!

I figure it this way, if I act respectfully to you, I expect it in return. That's how I was brought up. BUT if you don't show me any respect, don't expect any from me.

And how about teaching your kids not to run in front of me, nearly knocking me over, in the stores. If they haven't been taught to act like they have some kind of obedience, keep them home. One of these days I'm gonna see it coming and stick my foot out for them.

What ever happened to "please" & "thank you"??? It's not necessary for "Ma-am" or "Sir".

If you're walkikng past me an knock into me, how's about saying "I'm sorry" instead of ignoring the fact that you violated my space & person???

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WARNING LABELS

Oh here's a great one ...... the silly warning labels that anyone with half a bird brain could figure out without company's having to take the extra expense (which is added to us the consumer of course) to print them on the packages. I know why they feel they have to do it ..... with the ease there is for suing for this and that, but come on now, you have to admit that some of them are pretty stupid.

WANT A FEW EXAMPLES?

One a bottle of dog shampoo - "Caution: The contents of this bottle should not be fed to fish."

On a curling iron - "For external use only!" (Ahh shucks, now how are our gay brothers gonna pleasure themselves??)

On a cardboard sunshield that keeps the sun off the dashboard - "Do not drive with sunshield in place." (Okay, I want to know who sued & blamed the maker of that sunshield!!!)

On a toilet bowl cleaning brush - "Do not use orally." (This is no joke!! Hmmmmm, could THAT be what happened to Moms Mably???)

In the manual for a microwave oven - "Do not use for drying pets." (Honey, where's the dog????)

On a tube of deodorant - "Do not use intimately." (One can only imagine .......)

On a portable stroller - "Caution: Remove infant before folding for storage."

On a child sized Superman costume - "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly." (Oh yeah???? Well then I want my money back!!!)

On a supermarket dessert box - "Product will be hot after heating."
(Ummmmmmmmm, okaaaaaay, thanks for telling me.)

Stamped on the metal barrel of a .22 cal. rifle - "Warning: Misuse may cause injury or death." (Now we can understand why there's so many accidental shootings!)

In the instructions for an electric thermometer - "Do not use orally after using rectally." (Ewwwwwwwww!!!)

Clairol Herbal Essences Maximum Hold Hairspray - WARNING: Do not smoke until hair is dry.

Nikon warns when operating its cameras - "Care should be taken not to put your finger in your eye accidentally."

On a package of Fisherman's Friend® throat lozenges - "Not meant as substitute for human companionship." (Ummmmmmm, no comment!)

On a Swedish chainsaw - "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals" (Oh mercy Swedes sure are brave!)

On a pair of shin guards made for bicyclists - "Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover." (So does that mean I still have to wear a helmet??)

On a motorcycle helmet-mounted rear-view mirror - "Remember, objects in the mirror are actually behind you."

On a box of Midol PMS relief tablets - "Warning: do not use if you have prostate problems."

On the back of a cardboard windshield (for keeping the car from getting too hot when parked - "Please remove before driving." (Why can't I just stick my head out da winder??)


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SHARING THE ROADS



We've all had experiences with others on the highways & bi-ways that make us wanna grab the drivers & choke the daylites outta them. It's so much of a hassle trying to explain it to the judge though, isn't it?

Well being a truck driver & cycle rider, I've been involved in some pretty scary episodes. My pet peeves? Here's a little list. I'm sure you've had many of these happen to you too.

1- When it's pouring down rain, there are those who don't give a damn if you see them or not. How do I know? They don't put their headlights on!!! Driving down a 4 lane highway they see the truck ahead of them is throwing out spray from the tires. They want to pass the truck so even though they can't see worth crap, they start to pass but linger just where the spray is. The driver can't see them & decides to go over to the other lane to avoid hitting someone that may be stranded on the shoulder of the highway ..... Oh gee! I can hear the driver who didn't have his lights on ....... "You no good son of a b$%@h!!!" Yeah, & I say, "Up yours pal!!" Just try hard to remember that when you are in need of the windshield wipers, automatically flip on your headlights! Simple, isn't it? Even a MORON can remember that.

2- Your traveling at highway speed, this jerk pulls out in front of you & seems to have lost his gas pedal ....... ummmmmmmmm, can you say, "Get the hell outta my way you dirty bas$#rd!!!!"???

3- Writing in a journal etc while traveling 60 mph ..... this my dear visitors is a super big "No! No!"

4- Screaming at the kids in the back seat! Well, this could be part of the parenting job that so many don't seem to do .... teach the kids at an early age to behave!!!

5- Use signals, use signals use signals!!! And if they don't turn off after you make your turn ....... TURN THEM OFF BY HAND!!!

6- PLEEZ -- when you see an accident, get out of the way of the emergancy vehicles!! Rubber-necking can cost lives!!!

7- Make eye contact with others on the roads when you come to a stop sign. Don't assume everyone can read your mind. Ya don't own the road!

8- If you're passing parked cars WATCH OUT FOR KIDS RUNNING OUT BETWEEN THEM!!! (I know, this can also be put under "parenting".)

9- If you're in front of me and decide to come to a 'standing on the brakes stop' be prepaired to have a MACK grill up your 'poop-shoot'!

10- Don't back out into traffic! (I thought that was against the law but I see so many police doing it - oh, I forgot .... they're above the law aren't they?!)

11- If you want to stop to speak to someone ..... get that damn vehicle of yours outta the road!!! So many times this happens & I just want to let me truck climb in your backseat!

12- Pull off the road if you can't wait to use that cellphone or get yourself one of those 'hands-free' jobbies.

13- Do you REALLY have to empty your ashtray out the window while I'm behind you on my cycle???

14- You're on a two lane highway & the truck ahead of you begins to pass the vehicle ahead of him ........ DO NOT FOLLOW HIM AROUND THAT OTHER VEHICLE!!!!! Don't laugh, it happens ... even with police! A womyn officer was killed in this area not too long ago doing that very thing.

15- When ya see me comin' up behind ya, "Get the hell outta my way!!!!!!" LOL

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