Throw a boot, go to jail....

One of my favorite people in the world
Muntadhar al-Zeidi was sentenced to three years
in prison for throwing a boot at the worst president
in U.S. history George W. Bush. This balls out dude is a national hero in the middle east. He yelled out,"Long Live Iraq" after hearing the verdict. The maximum sentence was 15 years, the lightest sentence was the three years he received. I stand behind his actions 100%. Sometimes you have to have civil disobedience to make your point. Can you imagine what right wing nut job nationalist militia men would do if Saddam occupied this country and them made a speech here. They would shoot him, hell with throwing boots. It takes alot of bravery to stand up for what you believe. Too bad he didn't hit Bush in the face and bloody his nose and blow up his house and kill his neighbors and destroy his life like Bush did to working families in Iraq. The Bush Crime Family has buckets of blood on their hands and should be in Jail. You get three years for throwing footwear at a Nazi, but you get billions of dollars for attacking and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children. I can't understand why people the world over hate this country???

Weird day today...

I went into work today as I have done every Monday for almost 12 years. I saw my buddy Aaron in the parking lot and said hello. I was off last week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so I was just catching up. I guess on Friday 03/06/09 twenty three people got laid off at work. Holy Shit! I had no idea. This is the third lay off I have been through since working there. Very unnerving!
The weird thing is that I was listening to a Howard Zinn cd earlier in the day. He was talking about the history of labor since about 1900. All the strikes etc, that you don't learn about in normal text books. The cd is brilliant and Howard Zinn is my hero. The president and vice president called a meeting at 4:00pm to assure us that things were going to be ok. Except that there are no guarantees about anything. So I have made it through three so far and I'm still kicking. So far they have cut our hours to 37.5 a week. They no longer match our 401(k) and there is no profit sharing anymore. Harsh and Ugly!
The health insurance is shit! It's an unpleasant reminder that no job is secure anymore in this country. I've been thinking about the state of affairs lately. My take on the whole thing is that America has burned itself out. Greed, politics, religion, nationalism,war, cronyism and so on have reached the apex. Nowhere to go but down! We are now in a mess because the people who are in the $50,000 to $150,000 range are losing their jobs. Before when the rest of us were suffering it was "oh well, THEY'LL get over it." Now white collar people are getting it up the ass. And guess what? It hurts! The rest of the world must be thinking,"how can the richest country on earth screw things up so bad?" By reading what my dad calls "lefty revisionist history" it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Just remember who you voted for in 2000 and 2004 and you may get the idea. This country was built on the Class Struggle and it's crumbling on the Class Struggle. Just an observation......

Family Research Coucil on Homosexuality

I mentioned The Family Research Council in a previous post concerning stem cell reasearch. It's a right wing religious outfit looking out for all of our best interests. I was looking through their tenets and found this interesting (not so humanist) text.
HOMOSEXUALITY:
Family Research Council believes that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed. It is by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical health effects. While the origins of same-sex attractions may be complex, there is no convincing evidence that a homosexual identity is ever something genetic or inborn. We oppose the vigorous efforts of homosexual activists to demand that homosexuality be accepted as equivalant to heterosexuality in law, in the media, and in schools. Attempts to join two men or two women in "marriage" constitute a radical redefinition and falsification of the instituition, and FRC supports state and federal constituitional amendments to prevent such redefinition by courts or legislature. Sympathy must be extended to those who struggle with unwanted same-sex attractions, and every effort should be made to assist such persons to overcome those attractions, as many already have.


I think this statement shows the arrogance of the religious right. A total intolerance to nature. They are suppressing anything that could possible provoke a questioning of religion. If we give everyone equality in terms of sexuality, ethnicity, political beliefs and on and on it really takes away from our need for a "god" figure. When people begin to think for themselves they "get out of line" and can't be controlled. It's hard to get them to show up at a designated church and give money. It's even harder to force an agenda on them. If you start them out at an early age religion can turn into "Brand Loyalty" that lasts a lifetime. To have blind faith in something that cannot be proven by science or nature seems along the lines in believing that pro wrestling is real even though it can physical be proven not to be so. You just gotta have faith....and connections in the political arena.

Northside Library Book Sale...

The Northside Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library is having a Book Sale on Friday March 20th 12:00pm to 6:00pm and Saturday March 21st from 10:00am to 5:00pm. I'm sure we will be stopping by sometime that weekend.

Northside Walk in April...

Just wanted to pass on this flyer for the first Northside 5K walk at Spring Grove Cemetery...I think we are planning to participate in this...

Obama and stem cell research and....

Here's a headline for you,"Obama to reverse embryonic stem cell ban.." Wow! This guy is doing more for "the people" of this country in the first 100 days that Bush did in 8 years. In order to satisfy the religious right George W. Bush signed an executive order that barred The National Institutes of Health from funding research on embryonic stem cells. The road to cures from diabetes to parkinson's disease can be greatly improved. Science and medicine are used to improve the quality of life for human beings. Now we go to the opposition. I've always been an advocate of separation of church and state here's one of the reasons. Tony Perkins who represents the Family Research Council , it's a right wing faith based think tank, here's the web address:
www.frc.org The book image shows how the religious are on a quest to change government policy. Tony Perkins and Harry Jackson say that if you unite the parties under the pro-life, pro-family mainstay we can influence immigration policy, poverty and social justice, racial reconcilliation and global warming. Why can't you address these issues under the guise of mankind not religious belief. They both say that if they can bring together the evangelical movement it can result in faith friendly policies. Barack is a very deeply religious man but I hope he continues to put politics and government first and foremost in policy making, not a belief in a superstition.

Painting of my leg tattoo..

This Clive Barker painting is called "The Arsonist" I have it tattooed on my left leg. I had it done when we lived in San Francisco. A short brutal german girl did it. She kept getting pissed at me because I came in the three Saturdays to finish it and was hung over all three times. I was bleeding like Dusty Rhodes in a cowbell match. I know she was cussing me in German but it didn't bother me in the least. I met Clive at a horror convention in Eugene Oregon, what a cool dude.