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the creepy crack head friend of mine
the homeless place he calls his thought
the silly putty tinker toy
the mirror ball reflects below
the grazing herd the lemming goat
the move toward the moving from
the winter home upon the hill
the summer shade a caving in
the psychotronic talking box
the mainstream ninety-two percent
the laughing dying culture pop
the point of view the bleeding heart
the easily digested hurt
the famous moldy party hop
a fantasy the way it could
the shaping things a prostitute
a naked mix a magazine
a picture of us in a dream

ultra/ULTRA get me in there
ultra/ULTRA get me out

>> ^ShakaUVM:
Fedquip said, "Watch the video again, this conversation never happened, the cop never told the driver it was a taser, never said he wasnt going to "play this game"..and I dont see any jumping around?"
Yeah, that was exactly what I picked up on in this video. It's interesting because we get to immediately see a cop's recollection of an event, and shows how cops lie under oath -- or even to themselves. Cops can and do flip out with little provocation, and then lie about it to save their asses, but our courts always take a cop's testimony over a citizen's. It's a really messed up situation.
I was in the car where a Texas Ranger threatened to arrest my dad and hold him overnight because my dad didn't want to provide his SSN (when we called to complain, they said, yeah, that guy has been having some mental problems...). I thought we were about a hair's breadth from being shot, all of us.
Personally, I had a cop pull me over while doing 65, and then lie about it under oath saying I was doing 87 (I had been, but earlier, not anywhere near where he pulled me over). I even found evidence showing that he contradicted his testimony under oath with his sworn statement from the scene, and the judge (who lives in a nowhere town and gets paid from issuing false tickets) ignored the perjury that I caught him in and upheld the ticket anyway.
Cops taser people waay to easily these days. They think that because it's non-lethal, it's okay to taser people in situations where shooting or beating them would be inappropriate. Of course, it hurts as much as getting hit with a nightclub, but they don't seem to consider that, do they?
His hands out of sight had nothing to do with him being tasered. Listen to the end of the tape -- the cop tasered him because he was "jumping around".


Um, yeah, you were still speeding - it doesn't matter if you were pulling into a parking lot when he pulled you over. He still caught you going almost NINETY miles an hour - and you think that you DON'T deserve a ticket?
They don't have to pull you over the instant you were caught, ya know...

I hear that his bro, Bob Artillery-Shell;
sent ninety-nine perckerwoods, straight into hell!!

Saddam was not a terrorist, to say he is a terrorist is a logically fallacy, that would make Bush a terrorist as well for invading two sovergien nations. Also does that make the US a terrorist nation to be the only country in the world to use nuclear weapons offensively? Imagine that! Any day those guys could nuke someone! The horror! We must invade now!

The case for WMDs in Iraq was built because of the Bush Administration desire to go to war in Iraq riding off the 9/11 attacks, since it was not possible to rationally argue for it in anyway the WMD case was built relying mostly on the information of a single informant code named 'Curveball':

Curveball was the pseudonym given by the Central Intelligence Agency to Rafid Ahmed Alwan an Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program. Alwan's allegations were subsequently shown to be false by the Iraq Survey Group's final report published in 2004. Despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service regarding the authenticity of the claims, the US Government utilized them to build a rationale for military action in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, including in the 2003 State of the Union address, where President Bush said "we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs", and Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council, which contained a computer generated image of a mobile biological weapons laboratory. On November 4, 2007, 60 Minutes revealed Curveball's real identity. Former CIA official Tyler Drumheller summed up Curveball as "a guy trying to get his green card essentially, in Germany, and playing the system for what it was worth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)

This all lead up to Colin Powell's presentation at the UN, utterly destroying any shred of credibility of both Powell and the CIA. The case for war was cherry picked. After the war various study groups were formed to solidify the case for WMDs, the admission that no WMDs were found or any found were from depleted 1990 Gulf War stocks was much to damaging for the Administration which argued that Iraq had nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, so various counter study groups were formed since there was political motivation to build a legitimated case for war in Iraq:

On January 23, 2004, the head of the ISG, David Kay, resigned his position, stating that he believed WMD stockpiles would not be found in Iraq. "I don't think they existed," commented Kay. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last Gulf War and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the nineties."

In a briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Kay criticized the pre-war WMD intelligence and the agencies that produced it, saying "It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Survey_Group

This of course all makes sense, the administration couldn't come from the invasion say it was catastrophically mistaken in gathering intelligence pre-invasion, so various counter arguments were created everything ranging from Iraq had to be invaded because it had skilled labor in the WMD industry, to that knowledge could seep into Syria and Iran (which it of course did due to the Iraqi dispora).

However all this was damage control, and the administration skillfully changed the narrative now to freedom and democracy in Iraq as well as "We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here".

The worsening of the war also diverted public attention, but it is telling that most of the media avoided exploring this topic like it was the black plague, the usual patriotic attacks along the line of "Our troops are dying and questioning their sacrifice even if no WMDs are found, is unpatriotic." Never mind that they wouldn't need to die considering international pressure during UN discussions around January 2003 would lead to eventual opening up of Iraq to serious inspections, but war was on the agenda months before, when US was preparing to go to war with Afghanistan, it was already preparing for war in Iraq.

I can attest to this personally since I was in Kuwait at the time, the build up of man power and arms was well underway even before December/January. The administration decided to act unilaterally, the UN and coalition thing were just smoke and mirrors to create some sort of legitimacy to what was basically an unprovoked invasion.

But the facts are clear The Iraq Survey group under Charles Duelfer said Iraq's nuclear capability had decayed and not grown since the 1991 war. This was reported in October 2004, "Report concludes no WMD in Iraq", of course as I said the narrative was being actively changed by then the Administration said that the report showed "intent" so it was good we attacked then when we did. Which is about as logically as saying the US has intent to nuke someone else because it happens to possess nuclear weapons and has done it before thus we should invade and disarm it.

>> ^swampgirl:
And I didn't think the nudity was all that explicit.


Have you been to the movies lately? That was hard core compared to modern movies. Heck, I don't think there has even been the traditional stripper scene (well, very few) in hardly a single detective movie since the early nineties.

That said, great find, great sift, great booty.

1. Kindergarten teacher's hair: Dark and light grey (bonus: Pulled back and tied into bun)
2. Clockwise: 11 rotations until dizziness, Counterclockwise: 12 rotations until dizzness
3. "Reflections" assisted living home in Flagstaff Arizona. (it's not where you plan on going but it's where you'll end up)

In reply to this comment by Kuga:
You're telling me you were specifically wondering what a random Sifter like me thought about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears and the heroine of a cheesy nineties show? o.O

Got any other inexplicably random questions about me bouncing around that head of yours... like what my kindergarten teacher's hair color was, or how many times I can spin around in a circle before getting dizzy, or which retirement home I plan on going to when I'm old?

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
>> ^Kuga:
What, that I was a teenager during the mid 90's?

Yes.

And that your thoughts on paris hilton and britney spears

and your thoughts on Xena, Warrior Princess...

oddly these are all questions I had about you. Dunno why, just did.

You're telling me you were specifically wondering what a random Sifter like me thought about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears and the heroine of a cheesy nineties show? o.O

Got any other inexplicably random questions about me bouncing around that head of yours... like what my kindergarten teacher's hair color was, or how many times I can spin around in a circle before getting dizzy, or which retirement home I plan on going to when I'm old?

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
>> ^Kuga:
What, that I was a teenager during the mid 90's?

Yes.

And that your thoughts on paris hilton and britney spears

and your thoughts on Xena, Warrior Princess...

oddly these are all questions I had about you. Dunno why, just did.

I appreciate it, but don't waste your power points on me. I've got plenty of stars. Use them to *beg for one of your own personal queue videos. Or give a quality star to someone who deserves it. Like CaptainPlanet.

Do you save your pictures online, like at Flickr, ImageShack, or Photobucket? That's the first step to posting images in your blog. Let me know, and maybe I can walk you through it. However I must warn you that I'm not the best instructor.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Oh boy what have I got myself into? I appreciate your acknowledgment of my tacky marketing scheme. Does it work? I'd be curious to know if you go look at the theme or try and guess what it is. I'd love to post them all, but I have the html skills of a ninety year old. Anyone lend a hand?

Thanks kp *looks in pockets, no power points*

I'll getcha back, американца тишины. I mean, Капиталистическая Свинья

Oh boy what have I got myself into? I appreciate your acknowledgment of my tacky marketing scheme. Does it work? I'd be curious to know if you go look at the theme or try and guess what it is. I'd love to post them all, but I have the html skills of a ninety year old. Anyone lend a hand?

Thanks kp *looks in pockets, no power points*

I'll getcha back, американца тишины. I mean, Капиталистическая Свинья

^

I wouldn't really say it was newsworthy since they're talking about it on a late late night show. And really, that was just his interpretation of it. But, it does say a lot about the culture climate in the U.S. However, I don't see that as a negative. Rather it is a positive sign that religious beliefs are shifting within the culture and it is becoming much more acceptable and easy to talk about these things. In the same way that the civil rights movement of the sixties and the gay movements of the nineties changed what is considered acceptable attitudes and behaviors, the current crop of atheists "coming out" are creating space for a more realistic conversation about religion.

"Ninety years ago, I was a freak; today, I'm an amateur." That's a good line.

The mom does a 180 and faces the fridge at one point in the clip. Bad script supervisor or someone has edited in a couple extra stares. I smoked a joint with Wayne once. He's been a pretty successful producer since the mid nineties.

powerful meditations and exercises. the basics, inner smile, healing sounds, and microcosmic orbit are all simple but powerful exercises for attention and well...growing your soul dude. I had the great fortune back in late eighties and early nineties to have attended several workshops and meet Mantak Chia. Very down to earth, funny, and likes chicken low mein (but then who doesn't I guess).
Honestly I've fallen out of a daily practice, but this is a path with a heart for many, many peeps, it does bring about some real positive changes in one's life in my opinion. /ramble off

"Ninety-one, um playin tha drooms!"

*promote for awesome badassery

Reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt's reaction to an attempt on his life (Wikipedia):
"While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank failed in an assassination attempt on Roosevelt. Schrank did shoot the former President, but the bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest only after hitting both his steel eyeglass case and a copy of his speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt declined suggestions that he go to the hospital, and delivered his scheduled speech. He spoke vigorously for ninety minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Afterwards, doctors determined that he was not seriously wounded and that it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in his chest. Roosevelt carried it with him until he died."