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IMO....the only way, under the current conditions, to have a game changing election, is through on-line voting.

Who is the real George W Bush? The Toronto Star wrote,... "Bush is not an imbecile. He's not a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he's incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he's a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss." For example,…in a Nashville speech, trying to strengthen his case against Saddam, Bush's script called for him to say, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." But the words that came out of his mouth were, ""Fool me once, shame . . . shame on . . . you," followed by a long pause, then, "Fool me—can't get fooled again!" "What's revealing about this is that Bush could not say, 'Shame on me' to save his life. That's a completely alien idea to him. This is a guy who is absolutely proud of his own inflexibility and rectitude." Many have expressed, including George W. Bush himself, that he is annointed of God, and his policies, it would seem his mission is help set the clock up to closing time for this planet and its inhabitants. Who is the real George W Bush? Bush's childhood friend Terry Throckmorton: "'We were terrible to animals. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. 'We would get BB guns and shoot them, or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.” Who is the real George W Bush? "I am fighting for the work of the lord", George W Bush April 11, 2002 "I am fighting for the work of the lord", Adolph Hitler, the Mein Kampf However,...Christian revisionists will write a different history,...much like they wrote out Thomas Paine as the Father of the American Revolution, and put their Samuel Adams in his place. "Washington's sword would have been yielded in vain had it not been supported by the pen of Paine" James Monroe Yet, in all of America, there are only 3 obscure (and recent) statues of Thomas Paine,...none of which are in Washington DC. Christianity is the single largest threat to America and its founding principles. Christianity's Ten Commandments are mostly in total opposition to the Bill of Rights. What do Christians think about that? "The inability or unwillingness to hate makes a person worthless. If we do not hate detestable things, the quality of our character is suspect. The Bible commands that we hate". H. A. (Buster) Dobbs, Church of Christ. "I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good . . . our goal is a Christian nation. We have the biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism..." Randall Terry, Director of Operation Rescue "Reason should be destroyed in all Christians." -- Martin Luther

Now your talking about George W Bush,...the man who after Iraq was "softened up" through the death over 50 million, mostly children, between 1991 and 2003, illegally invaded that Country, which laid the hate for a whole new generation of terrorist in a Country that had no al qaeda before that. In fact,....few Americans today know about the real Iraq before Bush's invasion. One could include George W Bush on a list of the 50 most Evil Villains in history,...Nixon wouldn't show up in the first 1000. Before 2003, Iraqis under Saddam didn't pay any direct taxes, had minimum restrictions on starting businesses, free medical care from cradle to grave, no property taxes, no sales taxes, minimal zoning and planning laws, free college education (including women) with daily meals provided in the campus cafeteria. Iraqi's were encouraged to own guns, had virtually no crime, no homeless, (The Bedouin choose their nomadic lifestyle) Iraqis were free to travel, write, create, make art and worship their God of their choice. Nearly all US rhetoric at the time was bogus. US Suppressed Gas Charge Report by Allis Chalmers 16 September/ septembre 2002. Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) The repeated American propaganda weapon to rationalise the deaths of more than one million innocent Iraqis since 1991 through economic sanctions is that Saddam Hussein used poison gas against Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war and against Iraq's own Kurdish citizens. The accusation is now being invoked to launch a full-scale American assault on Iraq. This claim of Iraq gassing its own citizens at Halabjah is suspect. First, both Iran and Iraq used chemical weapons against each other during their war. Second, at the termination of the Iran-Iraq war, professors Stephen Pelletiere and Leif Rosenberger, and Lt Colonel Douglas Johnson of the US Army War College (USAWC) undertook a study of the use of chemical weapons by Iran and Iraq in order to better understand battlefield chemical warfare. They concluded that it was Iran and not Iraq that killed the Kurds. In the first report they wrote: "In September 1988 — a month after the war had ended...the state department abruptly, and in what many viewed as sensational manner, condemned Iraq for allegedly using chemical weapons against its Kurdish population...with the result that numerous Kurdish civilians were killed. The Iraqi government denied that any such gassing had occurred...Having looked at all the evidence that was available to us, we find it impossible to confirm the state department's claim that gas was used in this instance. To begin with there were never any victims produced. International relief organisations who examined the Kurds — in Turkey where they had gone for asylum — failed to discover any. Nor were there any found inside Iraq. The claim rests solely on testimony of the Kurds who had crossed the border into Turkey, where they were interviewed by staffers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." Regarding the Halabjah incident where Iraqi soldiers were reported to have gassed their own Kurdish citizens, the USAWC investigators observed: "It appears that in seeking to punish Iraq, Congress was influenced by another incident that occurred five months earlier in another Iraq-Kurdish city, Halabjah. In March 1988, the Kurds at Halabjah were bombarded with chemical weapons, producing many deaths. Photographs of the Kurdish victims were widely disseminated in the international media. Iraq was blamed for the Halabjah attack even though it was subsequently brought out that Iran too had used chemical weapons in this operation, and it seemed likely that it was the Iranian bombardment that had actually killed the Kurds." [The Iranians thought the Kurds had fled Halabjah and that they were attacking occupying Iraqi forces. But the Iraqis had already vacated Halabjah and the Kurds had returned. Iran gassed the Kurds by accident] In March 1991 as the massive US-led attack on Iraq ended, I was visiting the USAWC to give a lecture on South Asian security and discussed this problem with professor Pelletiere at lunch. I recall Pelletiere telling me that the USAWC investigation showed that in the Iranian mass human wave battlefield strategy, Teheran used non-persistent poison gas against Iraqi soldiers so as to be able to attack and advance into the areas vacated by Iraqis. On the other hand, Baghdad used persistent gas to halt the Iranian human wave attacks. There was a certain consistency to this pattern. However, in the Halabjah incident, the USAWC investigators discovered that the gas used that killed hundreds of Kurds was the non-persistent gas, the chemical weapon of choice of the Iranians. Note it was the Iranians who arrived at the scene first, who reported the incident to UN observers, and who took pictures of the gassed Kurdish civilians. However, Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait in August and the truth of the Halabjah incident became inconvenient.

The statement from Brian was, "we had to wait for a semi-conservative Republican President to eventually bring it to a close" Although President Duong Van Minh actually ended the war, Richard Nixon ended American involvement in the Vietnam War. Without US involvement, the war had to be brought to a close, through South Vietnam's surrender.

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." Thomas Jefferson The only thing that will save America is for that day to come. The sooner the better.

That is a huge media-ted problem with Tea People,...who believe a government should be run as a private household,...the Ayn Rand household. I gravitate the other way,...more akin to Bucky Fuller. “We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” Buckminister Fuller

He is speaking of Richard Nixon.

No....I'm not "anti-Christ"....nor anti-Christian...people have the right to the delusion of their choice. The nice thing about OFF TOPIC....is that a dialogue can flow. Of course,...any discussion of politics in America must fully address the Christian meme http://www.christianitymeme.org/ Because since the 1950's, Christian revisionists have infiltrated every aspect of politics. Few Americans today realize that most of the Founding Fathers despised Christianity. "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ...The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." Thomas Jefferson Or how about a Republican President.... "My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them." Abraham Lincoln "Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian." Mary Todd Lincoln Very few Americans are interested in the truth,...for example,...according to people such Herman C. Weber, DD, an expert in religious censuses and statistics, stated that few early Americans were members of a Christian church. In the 1933 Yearbook of American Churches, for instance, it says that just 6.9% of U.S. citizens belonged to a church in 1800. By 1850, religious membership had risen to 15.5%. By 1900, Christians had doubled their percentage to 37%. However, not until 1942 did Christian affiliation exceed 50% of the U.S. population. The problem is not that I am "antichrist"....the problem is that most citizens today are antiAmericans,...and not only put the faith based delusions before the Constitution,...but vehemently reject anyone shining light on their delusion. As Sam Harris correctly said, “Moderates do not want to kill anyone in the name of God, but they want us to keep using the word God as though we knew what we were talking about. They do not want anything too critical said about people who really believe in the god of their fathers because tolerance, perhaps above all else, is sacred. To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world—to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish—is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it. However, we can no longer afford the luxury of such political correctness. We must finally recognize the price that we are paying to maintain the iconography of our ignorance.”

But will Jeb Bush honor the 1st Amendment? His father didn't. The First Amendment to the Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion." That is FREEDOM FROM RELIGION. Only second, to appease the religionists, does it say "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." That is FREEDOM OF RELIGION. "I don't know that those who don't believe in God should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." George HW Bush, August 27, 1987

Today,...neither a Barry Goldwater, nor Gary Johnson, could get 2% of the vote. And there within shines light on the disease of today's America. If you're seeking the presidency but no one notices, are you still seeking the presidency? http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201111/gary-johnson-republican-candidate-debate-interview

Goldwater said, that if Lyndon Johnson was not prepared to take the war to North Vietnam he should withdraw. It is a no brainer to say,...that if Goldwater became President, many thousands of young Americans would have lived beyond that war,...and many tens of thousands would not now have disabilities.

Conservatives, like Gary Johnson,...are not even allowed into a debate. A true conservative would call Christians on their anti-American activities.

If your base-line of "true, political, economic or social conservatism" is Barry Goldwater,...I would agree. But that kind of Conservatism, on it's death bed in the 50's, 60's and 70's, died in the 80's. "Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy." Barry Goldwater "The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' " - Barry Goldwater, September 16, 1981.

Yes,...Conservatives believe the 14th Amendment is an abomination, because conservatives are an abomination under the 14th Amendment, Sec 3.

The thing is,...not a single Republican or "right winger," or more correctly those consumed with the neurosis of conservatism, put their Oath to the Constitution before their Faith Based agendas. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Society/Conservatives_Deconstruct.html The Dictatorship in America should not be seen as limited to one person,...but the illiberal Conservative whole, who are enabled by the illiberal Left. There are very, very few actual liberals in America. What is a liberal? On September 14, 1960, John F Kennedy said, “a Liberal is someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, that is what a ‘Liberal’ means..." Conservatives look behind, not ahead,...and do not care about those Civil Liberties that conflict with their Faith Based agendas. Left Wingers, pretend to look ahead, not be hind,...and do not care about those Civil Liberties that conflict with their Faith Based agendas. Anyone who says that America was upon Christian based ideals is anti-American. Any politician who puts their beliefs above their Oath to the Constitution,...should immediately, under the 14th Amendment, sec 3,...have their citizenship revoked. That includes every current republican Senator and Congressperson,...every democrat Senator, and nearly all democrat congresspeople. "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion". President John Adams, 1797 Statement drafted by George Washington, unanomously ratified by the Senate, and signed into law by President John Adams in 1797, is a law because the US Constitution says all such statements are the law (According to Article VI of the United States Constitution. On February 10, 1814, Thomas Jefferson wrote that common law “is that system of law, which was introduced by the Saxons on their settlement in England . . . about the middle of the fifth century. But Christianity was not introduced till the seventh century. . . We may safely affirm that Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.” Christian values are not American values. Christian values are not nature’s values. Christian values can never lead the world towards an era of peace.

IMO the stepping stones began before the criminal W....as his father said, "I don't know that those who don't believe in God should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." George HW Bush, August 27, 1987 But back to W,....a very telling thing about America is why hasn't George W Bush been executed for treason and Crimes Against Humanity? His list of crimes are mind-boggling....here's just a few: http://warisacrime.org/busharticles Here's another definition of fascism: fascism. n. A philosophy or system of government, usually religious in nature, that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent faith-based nationalism, that suppresses the opposition through terror and censorship. Several years ago I came across a copy of a work sheet for a Tea Party seminar on Truth Suppression. Although some Tea People are libertarian, most are actually social conservatives with an agenda more sickening than the 1930's Nazi's. Every psychological survey I've seen of Tea People suggests they are some really sick people. Ultimately, IMO, the only way stop this Tea meme, is to make dishonesty a crime, with a severe punishment,...unfortunately,...with today's Middle being media-ted further Right than the Far Right of the Reagan Era,...it will take a serious revolution for honesty to come back to pre-McCarthy Era and their Right Wing revisionism.

I would say that America is already quite Fascist. "had to say: Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Benito Mussolini Commonly, fascism is usually defined as a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. America's fascism pivots upon a policy of belligerent monotheistic nationalism. Those opiated by the insanity of monotheism do not recognize the symptoms,...just as the common German was caught up in their nationalism in the 30's. "We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." ~ Anais Nin "Were cockroaches to have a notion of God, they would probably imagine Him as a very big and powerful cockroach." Voltaire “If a soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.” Victor Hugo. "Whoever has the blood of theism in his veins, stands from the start in a false and dishonest position to all things." Friedrich Nietzsche "Faith" means the will to avoid knowing what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche "Christianity and Democracy are inevitably enemies" RJ Rushdoony “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” Seneca, Roman philosopher "I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam." - Gore Vidal "Those who can make you in believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire

Americans will remain unhappy, until they let go of their faith-based Abrahamic and Capitalistic neurosis which they cling to for their identity, and are insistent about imposing on others.

American's are, for the most part, very easily media-ted,...for example, "Even after the final report of Charles Duelfer to Congress (Oct 2004) saying that Iraq did not have a significant WMD program, 72% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq had actual WMD. Iraq is in much worse condition after Bush's illegal invasion. To me, anyone who votes for current Republican candidates in America are anti-American,...as each and every Republican candidate puts their faith-based agendas before their Oath to the Constitution. The only choice the average American believe they have are with pathetic Democrats, who also put their faith-based agendas before their Oath to the Constitution. An excellent example of the sickness that has become America, especially since the Reagan Era, was the May 2002 9th District Court Ruling that said, "The Pledge, as currently codified, is an impermissible government endorsement of religion because it sends a message to unbelievers that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community." In essense, they said "Under God" promoted a situation where Taoists, atheists, polytheists, Buddhists, Deists, Wiccans, Humanists, female based monotheists, etc, are not members of the Community. Shortly after a federal court ruled the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional, the Senate, on the following day approved a resolution "expressing support for the Pledge of Allegiance, with the illegal term. The resolution passed 99-0. Americans called for the death of those Judges. A March 2004 poll by the Associated Press showed that nearly 86 percent of Americans want to keep the reference "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Apparently they don’t believe the First Amendment’s requirement that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” is an endorsement of their monotheistic form religious expression. In the song “Superstition,” Stevie Wonder sings, “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain’t the way.” Actually, the World suffers because of America's faith-based, Abrahamic superstitions. And that is why American's vote for the sick fxxk"s they do. "it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" J Krishnamurti IMO, the World today is sicker than any era in recorded history.

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O possum. Never has a thought, although humans project the thought that it does. Can we "see" the opossum as not separate,...not an object outside of us,...perhaps a reflection of an aspect of ourselves. Awesome pic,...IMO one could wake up while viewing this photo.

In Buddhism and Taoism the key to understanding is through SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE. The crux is, that "seeing" things as they are cannot occur through the 6 senses. Sakyamuni's enlightenment first revealed this, called the 4 Noble Truths; Suffering is a consequence of the desire to see things other than they are. Buddha did not say to have no desire,...he implied to not desire things to be other than are. All thinking see things other than they are. Thinking arises from the 6 senses (one's perceived sentience). When one can "see" as suggested in the Heart Sutra,...there is a "seeing" of the way things are.

Yes,....Intentional Communities are a challenge for groupthink law. Sorry to hear of your predicament, but the battle needs fighting. HH Dalai Lama said, "if something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures. In fact, one of the precepts of the Bodhisattva vows is to take strong countermeasures when the situation calls for it. If a Bodhisattva doesn't take strong countermeasures when the situation requires, then that constitutes an infraction of one of the vows." In this case, your Crown's contention that the majority groupthink should govern all is a serious neurosis that needs persistent counter-measures. I recall how difficult it was to get my publisher to list my works as "no-copyright"...the time, costs, aggravation was so unreasonable that I just gave up. Or how people are forced to wear clothing with designer labels, if they want nice threads....think North Face,...great clothes,...disgusting logos. Fighting the system is so often a losing proposition,...and yet the system that regulates choice is a sick system. "it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" J Krishnamurti

Sure,...however, most people prefer the "golden rule"....for example, Christian Evangelists, Muslim Jihadists, and various psychopaths. OK,...those folks are not the majority,...however, the majority does indeed enable them, which only occurs because the majority is fundamentally sick. "it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" J Krishnamurti

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