. unique rabbits .

fued for take off

2006-02-17T01:11:00.000-08:00

listening.
to the sound of holy silence.
wrapped in night like the ancients.

fire in my mouth & lungs.
cobain in my ears.
quiet prayers in desert tongues.

cold glow of the forgotten place.

swamp moss & the wild water of martyrs shade my brain. forest morning growing with sleep. here i sit. on soft rocks next to petrified animals. swollen with infected embryos. nesting in my head. turning in the cranial uterus.

threatening obliteration.
dark universe.
digesting for power. digesting for birth.

unknown to any of us.
teeming with life. hungry to be discovered.
quivering, gelatinous earth.

my beauties.
my beloved abortions '
dripping from my pen.
broken girl, confused woman.
oh, my blind, multi-eyed spawn.
that never saw it coming.

each person, a word.
each life, a definition.

PATRIOT.

2006-01-31T18:41:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House chamber after she unfurled an anti-war banner before President Bush's State of the Union address.

D.B.S.

THE STATE OF THE UNION - by Gore Vidal

2006-01-31T14:50:00.000-08:00

"Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us."

"Today, the 31st of January, in the hallowed year, election year, of ’06, could be a memorable day if we all do our part, which is simply to concentrate, among other things, and do perhaps what a couple of groups have decided would be useful for the President, I guess his State of the Union. We might give him some idea of our state, which is one of great dissatisfaction with him and his regime. And there's talk of perhaps demonstrating in front of the Capitol or here or there around the country to show that the union is occupied by people who happen to be patriots. And patriots do not like this government.

This is an unpatriotic government. This is a government that deals openly in illegalities, whether it is attacking a country which has done us no harm, two countries -- Iraq and Afghanistan -- because we now believe, not in declaring war through Congress as the Constitution requires, but through the President. ‘Well, I think there are some terrorists over there, and I think we got to bomb them, huh? We'll bomb them.’ Now, we’ve had idiots as presidents before. He's not unique. But he's certainly the most active idiot that we have ever had.

And now here we are planning new wars, ongoing wars in the Middle East. And so as he comes with his State of the Union, which he is going to justify eavesdropping without judicial warrants on anybody in the United States that he wants to listen in on. This is what we call dictatorship. Dictatorship. Dictatorship. And it is time that we objected. Don't say wait ‘til the next election and do it through that. We can't trust the elections, thanks to Diebold and S&S and all the electronic devices which are being flogged across the country to make sure that elections can be so rigged that the villains will stay in power.

I think demonstrations across the country could be very useful on this famous Tuesday. Just say no. We've had enough of you. Go home to Crawford. We'll help you raise the money for a library, and you won't even ever have to read a book. We're not cruel. We just want to get rid of you and let you be an ex-president with his own library, which you can fill up with friends of yours who can neither read nor write, but they'll be well served and well paid, we hope, by corporate America, which will love you forever.

So I think it is really up to us to give some resonance to the State of the Union, which will be largely babble. He's not going really try to do anything about Social Security, we read in the papers. He has no major moves, other than going on and on about the legality of his illegal warrantless eavesdroppings and other breakings of the law.

I had a piece on the internet some of you may have seen a few days ago, and there's a story about Tiberius, who’s one of my favorite Roman emperors. He's had a very bad press, because the wrong people perhaps have written history. But when he became emperor, the Senate of Rome sent him congratulations with the comment, “Any law that you want us to pass, we shall do so automatically.” And he sent a message back. He said, “This is outrageous! Suppose I go mad. Suppose I don't know what I'm doing. Suppose I'm dead and somebody is pretending to be me. Never do that! Never accept something like preemptive war,” which luckily the Senate did not propose preemptive wars against places they didn't like. But Mr. Bush has done that.

So this is a sort of Tiberius time without, basically, a good emperor, and he was a good emperor in the sense that he sent back this legislation, which was to confirm anything he wanted to have done automatically. And they sent it back to him again. And then he said, “How eager you are to be slaves,” and washed his hands of the Senate and went to live in Capri, a much wiser choice, just as we can send this kid back to Crawford, Texas, where he'll be very, very happy cutting bushes of the leafy variety.

You know, it’s at a time when people say, ‘Well, it makes no difference what we do, you know, if we march and we make speeches, and this and that.’ It makes a lot of difference if millions of Americans just say, “We are fed up! We don't like you. We don't like what you're doing to the country and what you have done to the country. We don't like to live in a lawless land, where the rule of law has just been bypassed and hacks are appointed to the federal bench, who will carry on and carry on and carry on all of the illegalities which are so desperately needed by our military-industrial corporate masters.”

I think a day dedicated to that and to just showing up here and there around the country will be a good thing to do. And so, let the powers that be know that back of them, there's something called "We the people of the United States,” and all sovereignty rests in us, not in the board rooms of the Republicans.

yep. truth hurts.

2006-01-26T01:24:00.000-08:00

"uhm, but it was like, totally different -- saddam hussein was our buddy then."

FILIBUSTER

2006-01-24T15:43:00.000-08:00

IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE, IF YOU CARE ABOUT KEEPING OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FAIR & BALANCED, THEN "CALL" YOUR SENATORS & ASK THEM TO FILIBUSTER ALITO'S NOMINATION.

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/index.html

And the war goes on ....

2006-01-23T18:11:00.000-08:00

he lied. they keep dying .... and we remain SILENT.
for shame.

CNN.com -- The U.S. military said seven more U.S. troops had been killed - a soldier in a roadside bombing in Baghdad on Monday, two Air Force members in a blast near Taji north of the capital late Sunday, and four soldiers in a roadside bombing near the northern town of Hawijah on Friday.

stay informed.

2006-01-20T17:47:00.000-08:00

http://crooksandliars.com/

LARRY DAVID

2006-01-07T11:06:00.000-08:00

gotta love Larry David ..... ha.

Cowboys Are My Weakness ...
by Larry David

happy new year

2006-01-01T14:19:00.000-08:00

happy new year.
2thousand(sic)

MORE....

msnbc

2005-12-21T16:17:00.000-08:00

VOTE TO IMPEACH
((pass it on))

Surrealism

2005-12-02T01:03:00.000-08:00

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."
-- Salvador Dali

bring em home.

2005-11-30T12:26:00.000-08:00

Moveon.org has posted a petition to Congress asking to bring our troops home by 2006. I do support moving them out of Iraq but what does mean once the dust settles here at home and all those soldiers are back with their families? Will they remain enlisted? What will the media have to focus on then? The economy? The CIA leak scandal? The fact that Bush and Co. lied to get us into this bloody war? That over 2100 Americans have died for .....?? Will see another score of Terrorist scares? Alerts from Homeland Security? [what happened to those btw? interesting, isn't it?] And to what end will they go to maintain their grip on this country? Will more Democrats be voted into office in the 2006 Congressional elections? I hope so. I think if that happens, we could see some real movement on the IMPEACHMENT of GW Bush & Dick Cheney. Does voting count? If it brings balance back to the guvment, yes. It does. Besides, its our sacred franchise. George Carlin [who i love] has said that voting is only an illusion of freedom .... well, i kinda like my illusions [or delusions] and there is some really bad blood brewing between the Repugs & the Democraps ...

So if more Dems are elected to the Congress and take control over one our houses of government - could we see a good ole fashioned Roman style coup? They did it to Clinton [lovehim] over fucking an intern - so why not do it Bush for Fucking Over America??

Something to think about.

wow.

2005-11-29T11:11:00.000-08:00

this is where our tax dollars are going ...???

dats drummin'

2005-11-26T02:16:00.000-08:00

daaauhm.

2005-11-24T12:32:00.000-08:00

AMERICA SUFFERS FROM HISTORICAL AMNESIA.

buck fush

2005-11-23T12:22:00.000-08:00

FDR & SNL

2005-11-20T15:30:00.000-08:00

"We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people--whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth--is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill housed, and insecure."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thirty-second President of the United States (1933-1945).

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Saturday Night Live goes political:
click here to watch

kill or drug

2005-11-18T14:12:00.000-08:00

"All books are either dreams or swords. You can cut, or you can drug, with words."
- Amy Lowell

bravo.

2005-11-18T13:53:00.000-08:00

"I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there... I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done."
-- Rep. John Murtha, refering to Vice President Cheney's Vietnam War deferments

''The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion.''
-- Rep. John Murtha, Marine, Viet Nam Veteran, D-Pa., Nov. 17

SIGN THE PETITION.

i learned to hate from u.

2005-11-16T19:24:00.000-08:00

yeah.

2005-11-15T13:58:00.000-08:00

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein

I'll help you drown.

2005-11-07T02:09:00.000-08:00

listening to a demo of our new gathas. one has me in its grips. Milk of Regret. its like slipping into the ocean at night ... in July ... when its warm but the air is cold .. so i prefer to stay under .. until my lungs ache for air ...

20 in 6

2005-11-05T11:12:00.000-08:00

october 31st: 2026 Soldiers Dead in Iraq

TODAY: 2,042

roughly 20 Americans were killed in 6 days. For a lie.
everything Bush touches gets DAMAGED. they should impeach him and move on.

WE DESERVE BETTER.

silent u stay .. ...

2005-11-04T00:19:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans voted to cut student loan subsidies, child support enforcement and aid to firms hurt by unfair trade practices as various committees scrambled to piece together $50 billion in budget cuts.

More politically difficult votes -- to cut Medicaid, food stamps and farm subsidies -- were on tap Thursday as more panels weigh in on the bill.

burn. in the. pit.

2005-11-03T23:38:00.000-08:00

one of my favorite fansites. i appreciate every ounce of belief our supporters bestow upon us. thank you.

burninthepit.com

Go DEMS!

2005-11-01T22:04:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democrats forced the Senate into a closed session Tuesday to pressure the Republican majority into completing an investigation of the intelligence underpinning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Democrats demanded that Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts move forward on a promised investigation into how Bush administration officials handled prewar intelligence about Iraq's suspected weapons programs.

The probe would be a follow-up to the July 2004 Intelligence Committee report that blamed a "series of failures" by the CIA and other intelligence agencies for the mistaken belief among U.S. policymakers that Iraq had restarted its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs.

The Senate reopened about two hours later, after members agreed to appoint a bipartisan group of senators to assess the progress of the "Phase 2" probe, the office of Majority Leader Bill Frist said.

BRAVO! Finally! Some spine in the Democratic Party. Hopefully this is just the beginning .... I am emailing them today to send my support.

2005-10-31T15:07:00.000-08:00

Merry Samhain. The Day of the Dead. Honor your Gods, your Ancestors, those that have passed before us. For those interested in a coven ceremony, click here.

     And so the Goddess stood in darkness,
           Tear stained cheeks lashed by rain,
           Turned to face the veil of darkness,
           Turned to face the world of pain.
           Alone, an outcast, branded traitor;
           She it was who killed the land.

           To save the land from age and darkness,
           To save the land from fear and death,
           For love of life she sought to conquer,
           Sought to stay the hand of death.

           But in her love and in her madness
           She summoned death into the land;
           Summoned death to fight the darkness,
           Thus it was destroyed the land.

           Cracked silver lightning; shattering darkness,
           Revealing eyes, and visions born beyond.
           Iced visions of light,
           Echoes of dying laughter chill and cool the blood.
           Storm clouds tearing sky and screaming,
           Battles fought at heaven's gate,
           Fly upon the winds of madness,
           Seek the silver key of fate.

what is the price of a lie?

2005-10-31T14:55:00.000-08:00

only TEN days ago, it was 2000 Americans dead.
now its 2,026 AMERICANS KILLED IN IRAQ.

how many more before its too many?
3000? 4000?

what is the price of a LiE?
WHAT DOES IT COST TO ADMIT YOU WERE WRONG?

righteous.

2005-10-27T14:32:00.000-07:00

"The last thing this President wants is the first thing he needs: someone to slap his spoiled, pampered, trust-funded, plutocratic, never-worked-a-day-in-his-life cheek and make him face the reality of his foul-ups."
-- Paul Begala

i remember.

2005-10-25T17:51:00.000-07:00

"& I remember the 1st time I felt It alive inside me me. Turning with a dead weight. Opening & sliding those black feathers inches at a time. Its feet pushing & digging into my insides whenever one of its limbs went numb. I remember nights listening to it hum, feeling it move in mysteries, cleaning its wings for hours. I remember all this & know ...I never had a chance."

2005-10-24T15:57:00.000-07:00

click below to:

SAVE ROE.

Suicide Girls

2005-10-23T16:58:00.000-07:00

contrary to popular rumors :: NO :: i am not a model on SuicideGirls ... in fact, i was invited to join by some of those on the SG site ... i am not a participant ... more of a voyeur ... doing some "research" [yeah, research] for a possible fotographee book i was putting together ... i've had to put it on hold a bit now as we are soul-deep in the new album ... but who knows, if the muse recites ... i will respond.

btw, the new album is shaping up incredibly .. one of the stand outs for me is a new song called CROOKED SPOONS ... its one of the those moments that most artists who live in the abstract can understand ... its the song i have been waiting to write, but never really knew it ... until now ... meaning, its always sorta been there ... hiding in the umbra ... waiting for me to find it ... to give it the proper birth ... no more protein & guesses, the cocoon was not opened too soon ... it was ready to emerge ... and i am most proud of it ... its a twisted tale that is explosive & mind-bending ... i can't wait to play it in a live setting ...

we might be doing a show with American Headcharge in late November when they storm thru our beloved Lost Angeles ... if i have my way, those attending will get a taste of our new wicked mediSIN ... we will be rehearsing next week and the rest of the month for some secret, sponteneous shows that will be rising here and there ...

"crooked spoons on every wall ... genocide, lines the hall"

lunatics escape the asylum . . .

2005-10-22T15:11:00.000-07:00

eViL j & i spent a bit of time last night at the infamous RAINBOW bar on Sunset Blvd with our brother-in-arms, the guitar guru, Karma Cheema from American Headcharge ... was nice to see him and laugh like lunatics again ...

for his lies . . .

2005-10-21T14:25:00.000-07:00

yesterday:

1,988 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq

today:

1,993 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq

the conspirators . . .

2005-10-21T11:13:00.000-07:00

i choose to fight.

2005-10-20T16:00:00.000-07:00

a strong work ethic turns me on ... its what keeps my machinery working ... all pistons firing ... and its so very rare to find passionate people in this world ... most that i know just seem to want to get by with the least amount of resistance ... a leaf on the current ... but not me ... i want to be the salmon swimming against the flow ... searching desperately for my way back home.

its very difficult to live this way ... always in philosophical pursuit ... always believing an evolution will come ... if u just keep at it ... if u just keep digging ... the more u will find.

not many can follow this ideology ... they are more comfortable feeding their heads with teevee & grain alcohol ... with "settling" for whatever life gives them ... with surrendering whenever things got too tough.

i choose to stay.
i choose to fight.

this morning .. .

2005-10-20T12:09:00.000-07:00

we've been sacrificing our minds, our souls, & flesh for this album ... we've barricaded ourselves in a house in the hollywood hills & dedicated ourselves to writing this next opus ... i sleep on the floor everynight ... it keeps me focused ... i wake up every morning with a cup of coffee, some itunes radio [classical: magnatune], & read the news ... today i find a growing storm against the bush[league] administration for their role in outing a CIA operative just to force their case for the war in Iraq ... i only hope people take time to write or contact their local & national news sources, leaders & representatives asking for truth, fairness, & justice ... & that the same standards be applied to "them" as it would be to the rest of "us" ...

now its back to the labor of love ... creating these songs ... last night i recorded vocals on 2 very emotional & powerful songs ... March of the Martyrs & Milk of Regret ... they are beginning to take shape out of the haze ... taking ownership of their identities ... & growing into unstoppable sonic beasts.

HUNTER

2005-10-14T22:47:00.000-07:00

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
-- Hunter S. Thompson

[sic] & tIREd

2005-10-13T11:27:00.000-07:00

the greatest thing you ever did, was let me live . . .
digging thru the crust & out of hell
u let me .......... .. . save myself.

MYSPACE

2005-10-10T01:06:00.000-07:00

okay, so i have come to the conclusion that i hate friendster as much, if not more, than myspace ... so in keeping with a fair and balanced distribution of my hate ... i have decided, albeit relunctantly, to open a myspace account ... *ugh* ... i really feel like i am going to regret this ...

"Doom is the operative ethic"
-- Hunter S. Thompson

add me, ignore me, contact me ... whatever.
the address is http://www.myspace.com/estavidaloca

stars open among the lilies

2005-10-09T20:51:00.000-07:00

"Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls."
-- Sylvia Plath

e-hell

2005-10-09T12:44:00.000-07:00

i've had some e-mail issues as of late ... the server kept crashing & i haven't recv'd one message in 2 weeks ... its finally being remedied so if anyone sent me anything plz resend it later today ... i will do my best to read & reply if necessary ...

thx ...

on another note ... after many requests, i have begun to pay a bit more, perhaps a smidge more, attention to my Friendster account ... i HATE myspace for private reasons - but we do have an account there administered by eViL j ...

destroy pop culture

also, yes - i did open a profile on Suicide Girls ... strictly for research .. yes, RESEARCH .. for a possible poetry/art/fotographee book i am organizing ... yes a new poetry book .. with my art & fotographee ... i have many still life shots that i am really proud of but the SG site has inspired me to consider doing a foto shoot using models for some abstract ideas i have ... i know there have been posers using my name on the site before but smile_n_pretend is me ...

i feel like . . .

2005-10-07T10:51:00.000-07:00

i love this song. i remember recording it. where i was emotionally. that is the hallmark of great art, IMO. something that can grab u and transport u to a place of connection. from the opening notes of the song, i am back there, in that place, hoping the song will end so i can again be whole.

its beautiful.

Theocracy Now.

2005-10-07T00:03:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A second medical expert has resigned to protest the Food and Drug Administration's failure to allow over-the-counter sales of a "morning-after" contraceptive made by Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Dr. Frank Davidoff, an internal medicine specialist, said Thursday he stepped down from his position as a consultant to the FDA's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee about a month ago. Members of that panel and another committee of outside experts voted 23-4 in December 2003 to recommend non-prescription sales of the contraceptive, called Plan B.

The FDA so far has rejected that advice, as well as support from the agency's scientific staff. Then-FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford announced August 26 he was postponing a decision indefinitely and taking public comment for 60 days.

That delay "crossed the line for me," Davidoff said in an interview.

In his resignation letter, Davidoff said he wrote:
"I can no longer associate myself with an organization that is capable of making such an important decision so flagrantly on the basis of political influence, rather than the scientific and clinical evidence."

giggety-google'd

2005-10-02T11:58:00.000-07:00

my performance on HBO's Def Poetry is now on google's video section ... i am so very proud of this ... and would like to thank all of our supporters for sending such strong messages of encouragement ... i am because u are.

click below to view ... thx.

DEDICATED TO MY ENEMY

Hell-RAZORS

2005-09-29T21:49:00.000-07:00

we leave tomorrow for the Hell-RAZORS Ball ... we've been working very hard for this show ... lots of emotion and raw energy ... should be really fucking insane ... i think we go on at 4pm ... can't wait to experience the energy of the audience swarming around me ... the vibrations from the faces ... its gonna feel like heaven & taste like hell ... perfect.

more failures

2005-09-29T10:26:00.000-07:00

''I wouldn't have cared if it cost us $10,000 to protect our son, I would do it. But I think the U.S. has an obligation to make sure they have this equipment and to reimburse for it.''
-- A former Marine who spent nearly $1,000 two weeks ago to buy body armor for his son, a Marine serving in Fallujah

WASHINGTON (Sept. 29) - Nearly a year after Congress demanded action, the Pentagon has still failed to figure out a way to reimburse soldiers for body armor and equipment they purchased to better protect themselves while serving in Iraq.

Soldiers and their parents are still spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for armor they say the military won't provide. One U.S. senator said Wednesday he will try again to force the Pentagon to obey the reimbursement law it opposed from the outset and has so far not implemented.

Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said he will offer amendments to the defense appropriations bill working its way through Congress, to take the funding issue out of the hands of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and give control to military unit commanders in the field.

"Rumsfeld is violating the law," Dodd said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's been sitting on the books for over a year. They were opposed to it. It was insulting to them. I'm sorry that's how they felt."

muhwaaa hahaha

2005-09-28T09:56:00.000-07:00

CNN -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay [R] indicted on one count of criminal conspiracy by Texas grand jury, according to Travis County clerk's office.

and so it goes . . .

2005-09-25T14:00:00.000-07:00

"If the young people of this nation are going to hell," one Baptist minister reportedly told his congregation, "bands like OTEP are surely leading them there"

BEDLAM

2005-09-25T12:45:00.000-07:00

“Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.”
-- France Farmer

lest we forget

2005-09-25T00:58:00.000-07:00

the venom that slipped from your lips ...
the tiny lies shining in your eyes ...
the fangs in my veins ...

hollow carbonated soul ...

shallow swimmer ... surface dweller ...
i sleep too deep for you to wake me ...

the holy dance

2005-09-24T20:01:00.000-07:00

"... You are a spiritual voyager furthering the most ancient, noble quest of man. When you turn on, you shed the fake-prop TV studio and costume .. and join the holy dance of the visionaries."
-- The Politics of Ecstasy by Timothy Leary, PhD

"Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts."
-- Chief Seattle

role model

2005-09-23T19:06:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON - President Bush decided Wednesday to waive any financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia, Washington's closest Arab ally in the war on terrorism, for failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers.

wrath of the gods

2005-09-23T08:41:00.000-07:00

unbelievable ... no, its not global warming. according to some Conservative Christians, the source of the hurricanes is ........... *duhn duhn duhn*

GOD.

yes god. some conservative christians are again claiming that the hurricanes are punishment for various sins and assorted abominations from an angry god ... so instead of looking at what the corporations are doing to the environment *coughglobalwarmingcough*, they blame the gays, the liberals, feminists, & the pagans ...

but let's analyze this for a moment ...

the hurricanes are assaulting the gulf coast states ... those states are overwhelmingly conservative ... all voted for BUSH ... louisiana, florida, texas, mississippi ... all have histories of human rights violations [just look at the civil rights movements, the murder of a black man in jasper, tx, jeb bush, etc etc et fucking cetera] ... so perhaps this "attack" by the gods is in fact directed against CONSERVATIVES for fucking up this great nation by allowing their corporate friends to pollute the water, soil, and air so they can pack more money into their swollen pockets, for deception, lies, illegitimate wars, neglect, discrimination & stupidity ... thus exposing them to the WORLD for exactly what they are, what they've done, and what they will continue doing if they are allowed to do it.

what about the idea that the GODS are punishing GW BUSH for his ineptitude? i mean, with the attacks on Sept 11, the war in Iraq, & now the storms -- roughly 6000 americans have died on his watch due to attacks and war and disasters that some believe could have been prevented or lessened had he and his administration taken the signs and warnings seriously.

makes just as much sense as blaming the liberals and pagans and gays and feminists doesn't it?

let's review, shall we?

AP -- A Dallas TV station WFAA reports 24 people killed when bus loaded with Hurricane Rita evacuees erupted in flames south of Dallas.
-- yeah, those elderly folks were probably all gays and pagans. and if we follow the conservatives line of thinking -- they deserved it. right? [/sarcasm]

CNN -- Rising water due to Hurricane Rita washes over levee in New Orleans hard-hit 9th Ward, Army Corps of Engineers says.
-- wow, that christian/hebrew god YWH really has a temper, doesn't he? i mean, when he throws a tantrum he goes all out ... HE doesn't stop once he's got us wounded ... none of that sissy stuff for Him ... nope ... HE keeps kicking & kicking us when we're down. yep, that'll teach us. [/sarcasm]

so how do we repent? recall GW Bush? stop our slow slide into a Theocracy? tighten restrictions on corporations to stop polluting the globe? shift to a cleaner source of energy?

here's what i think ...

if the CONservatives are right & its the Hebrew God, then HE's either blind, stupid, or needs to take a refresher course in Geography ... cuz if HE really wanted to punish this country for carnal sins & debauchery ... then HE would be sending those hurricanes to Washington DC & wipe out the lot of them ...

or maybe its like Kurt Vonnegut said ... that the Earth is just cleansing itself of parasites ... using its immune system to destroy the virus of man ... nature is its anti-bodies ... we are the target.

or maybe SLAYER is right ...
GOD HATES US ALL.

its a little hard for me to believe that any "loving" god would murder "his" children just to prove a point ... we could consider global warming as a cause ... we could consider nature cleanses itself as all living things do ... or we could follow the CONservative line of thinking and consider that this is, in FACT, a sign from the Divine ... attacking the southern states where sins & crimes against the poor, minorities, and free thinking are commonplace ... where they voted to keep this idiot [p]Resident for another term ... so HURRICANES are sent to devastate the area ... in order to AGAIN show the incompetence of this [p]Resident & politicians in general ... to prove that even after SEPTEMBER 11th, after almost 2000 American soldiers dead in Iraq & thousands maimed & wounded -- WE ARE NOT SAFER.

maybe this is a sign that our nation is headed in the wrong direction ... that our Democracy is in danger of becoming a Theocracy ... that we should be standing up, speaking out, & fighting back ... maybe what should be said is .....

"Hey George! God's calling. & She's fucking pissed!"

maybe? seems just as plausible as blaming the counter-culture ... don't it?

writers block ...

2005-09-22T09:39:00.000-07:00

milk of regret

2005-09-21T22:55:00.000-07:00

we worked on this song again today ... its really something very special to me ... a part of my life captured within the chaotic confines of song & rhythm ... i am thinking of creating a 3 song demo by the 2nd week of October ... a bit of pre-production magick ... call it DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ...

1. March of the Martyrs
2. Milk of Regret
3. Religion Kills

buried alive

2005-09-21T21:12:00.000-07:00

WARHEAD

2005-09-21T17:16:00.000-07:00

i had forgotten this section of our site ... funny enough, its still just as applicable as it was when we wrote this song in late 2003 ...

WARHEAD

Bush Lied, Soldiers Keep Dying.

2005-09-21T16:23:00.000-07:00

1,908 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq (thru today)
14,265 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq
29,187 Iraqis Reported Killed (thru today)

patience

2005-09-21T09:03:00.000-07:00

i understand that waiting for the perfect moment is important ... i understand that good things come to those who wait ... i understand that patience is a virtue ... that things happen as they should ... but ... its sooooo very difficult for me to wake everyday brimming with song ideas, melodies, messages, rhythms, styles, and emotions that need to be given life only to have to wait until all things are put in place by people other than me ... schedules, interest, funding, the fucking alignment of the planets, the strength of the west wind, the direction the raven is flying, or whatever whim the gods and muses are enjoying at the moment ...

so i will keep filling my books with words & song ... i will keep recording the melodies in my digital recorder ... keep building ideas in GarageBand ... keep waiting and keep preparing ... so that when my time has come ... there will be no more delays ... no more waiting.

resolutions of inquiry

2005-09-21T08:09:00.000-07:00

village voice - Republicans on three separate congressional committees this week derailed three formal "resolutions of inquiry" by Democrats that would have required the Bush administration to turn over sensitive information and records relating to the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Had the resolutions of inquiry been adopted, they would have led to the first independent congressional inquiries of the Plame affair, and perhaps even the public testimony of senior Bush administration aides such as Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff, and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, about their personal roles.

As things currently stand, a special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, continues to conduct a grand jury investigation of Rove, Libby, and other White House officials, but the public has gained scant insight into what, if anything, that inquiry has uncovered.

top bush official arrested

2005-09-21T08:07:00.000-07:00

washingtonpost - The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal reached into the White House yesterday, picking off President Bush's top procurement official -- who just barely had time to resign before being arrested.

The federal charges against David Safavian stem from his tenure as chief of staff of the General Services Administration, predating his arrival at the White House a year ago. But his arrest nonetheless draws renewed attention to the ongoing corruption and influence-peddling inquiry swirling around Abramoff, a lobbyist well known for his connections to conservative Republicans in the White House and Congress.

And for a White House so desperate to build public confidence in its ability to respond to the Gulf Coast disaster, it doesn't exactly help that the man who up until Friday was overseeing contracting policy for the multi-billion dollar relief effort has now been charged with lying and obstructing a criminal investigation.

the 1st rule is ...

2005-09-20T19:20:00.000-07:00

"I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. Goddamnit, an entire generation of pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We are the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no great war, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression...is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rockstars, but we won't...And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very...very...pissed off."

the Becoming

2005-09-19T19:40:00.000-07:00

i can feel it ... turning within me ... cleaning its wings ... licking its wounds ... this dark thing ... gripping my ribs ... climbing my spine ... tapping messages on the dry bone ...

mindstorms

2005-09-19T16:45:00.000-07:00

i've been toying with the idea of adding a new sound to our mix ... we recorded JIHAD as a 5 piece ... 2 guitar players, one bass monster, one mouthpiece, and a percussionist ... could be something quite interesting to explore ... another guitar player ... especially with the new material we've been writing ... wow ... i am intrigued ...

must be nice ...

2005-09-18T11:16:00.000-07:00

to be the nephew of the [p]Resident ... being of age to join the military to fight the war in Iraq ... instead, getting arrested for resisting arrest and public intoxication ... not one BUSH family member has joined the service to fight for their "war on terror" or their beloved mission to "spread democracy in the Arab world".

hypocrits, liars, & thieves.

poetry

2005-09-17T15:45:00.000-07:00

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."
- Charles Simic

poetry

2005-09-17T15:42:00.000-07:00

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "
- Carl Sandburg

one bad apple? nah. the whole bunch is rotten.

2005-09-16T21:36:00.000-07:00

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials said. John Ellis Bush, 21, was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at 2:30 a.m. on a corner of Austin's Sixth Street bar district, said commission spokesman Roger Wade.

The nephew of President Bush was released on $2,500 bond for the resisting arrest charge, and on a personal recognizance bond for the public intoxication charge, officials said. Wade said he had no further details about the charges. Gov. Bush and his wife, Columba, appeared Friday evening at a museum reception in Miami.

"My son's doing fine. It's a private matter. We will support him. We're sad for him. But I'm not going to discuss it on the public square with 30 cameras," the governor told reporters. It's not the first time Florida's first family has experienced legal problems with one of their children.

Noelle Bush, the governor's daughter, was arrested in January 2002 and accused of trying to pass a fraudulent prescription at a pharmacy to obtain the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. She completed a drug rehabilitation program in August 2003 and a judge dismissed the drug charges against her.

electric poetry

2005-09-16T09:45:00.000-07:00

little sins

unappreciated

2005-09-15T21:56:00.000-07:00

broken vows

2005-09-15T13:15:00.000-07:00

covert conservative judicial nominees, hurricanes bashing the southern coasts, a war in the middle east, a war at home, silence among the masses, a threatening calm, an administration of relaxation. where will we be in 3 years? with the corporations in control? selling our souls for a gallon of petrol? another terrorist attack? another dagger in the back? they're asleep at the wheel. fatcat politicians smoking the opium of the poor & working peoples ethical appeal. the only solution is still revolution.

no independent commission?

2005-09-14T22:47:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled an attempt by Sen. Hillary Clinton to establish an independent, bipartisan panel patterned after the 9/11 Commission to investigate what went wrong with federal, state and local governments' response to Hurricane Katrina.

The New York Democrat's bid to establish the panel — which would have also made recommendations on how to improve the government's disaster response apparatus — failed to win the two-thirds majority needed to overcome procedural hurdles. Clinton got only 44 votes, all from Democrats and independent Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont. Fifty-four Republicans all voted no.

"Just as with 9/11, we did not get to the point where we believed we understood what happened until an independent investigation was conducted," Clinton said.

violence gives us cloud cover.

2005-09-14T10:20:00.000-07:00

some days nothing makes sense. the world feels soggy. the air is congested & blended [this morning] with a foul phantom floating between us. cars & foot traffic invade our air space. mean glares & puppy dog stares beam out like radiation. the grid i call a hole which has become my home quakes to the fickle fables of the crowding gods and gorgons. snakes and fates invade. my head hurts & aches in choppy splashes and booming thunder to the falling vocabularies eating their way thru her nicotene philosophies.

violence gives us cloud cover. i try and try but i can't tune out the frequency. sentence after sentence of wet-choking, sputtering gag heaves, & cough after cough after cough of fire and brimstone. is it another fist of words? domestic fu? another morning without breakfast. only silence. and questions. battered archeology. digging and digging. who do u think u are? wtf are u doing? why am i here? are you ready? can we go? have u seen my shoes?

i have no answers to offer.

this neighborhood is going to shit. her phone rings and the voicemail alert sings. across the hall someone is relentlessly IMing with the volume alllllthhheeewaaaay ...up. and i'm just trying to finish this entry. before i lose my trembling grip on reality and sifon thru the tools of war scattered thru-out this place and beat the lot of them til they piss blood and the rage dissipates. the fog is coming. the unending humming behind my eyes. the sense that i am not well. and will never be. until ... i finish ... this paragraph ... of unabated wrath ... and laugh ... in the milky bath of the throbbing aftermath.

true knowledge

2005-09-14T00:58:00.000-07:00

"true knowledge exists in knowing that you
know nothing."
- Socrates

meer mortals

2005-09-13T13:23:00.000-07:00

"Enlighten me, O Muses, tenants of
Olympian homes,
For you are goddesses, inside on
everything, know everything,
But we mortals hear only the news
and know nothing at all."
- Homer

unique rabbits

2005-09-12T17:15:00.000-07:00

"don't they know i'm a predator?
don't they know i'm insane?
don't they know its inevitable?
don't they know they are the prey?"

incompetent administration

2005-09-12T15:26:00.000-07:00

why can't we just RECALL the lot of em? round up ahnuld, geeduhbya, chainey .... then rally the citizens & have a good ole fashioned american political revolution .... "fire the bums", and start over. that would teach em.

below are [p]Resident gw Bush's words, taken from a news conference where he basically says [i think] there was a moment of relaxation after the levees broke ... & then ... he apparently doesn't even know the FEMA director "Brownie" [as he calls him] resigned today ... geezus ... doesn't prepare us for 911, doesn't respond to the hurricane disaster, doesn't know his FEMA director quits ... is there anything he does know?? i bet if u asked him what his last golf score was, he'd know ... or how many ludes u can take with a bottle of scotch before you black out ... ha. unbelievable.

edit:>>> ok, i have re-read that first bit [below] several times and its absolutely incomprehensible to me that the LEADER of our nation, AMERICA, is an ivy-league graduate, is a rich-geezer from one of the most priveleged and powerful families on the planet can barely form ONE coherent, adult thought ...

from thinkprogress.org:

Bush today:

"What I was referring to is this: When that storm came by, a lot of people said we dodged a bullet. When that storm came through at first, people said, Whew. There was a sense of relaxation. And that’s what I was referring to.

And I myself thought we had dodged a bullet. You know why? Because I was listening to people probably over the airwaves say, The bullet has been dodged. And that was what I was referring to. Of course, there were plans in case the levee had been breached. There was a sense of relaxation at a critical moment."

Bush’s Fluctuating Degree of Ability

Bush at 3:39 pm EST:

Question: Have you accepted the resignation of Michael Brown or have you heard about it?

Bush: No, I have not talked to Michael Brown or Mike Chertoff – that’s who I talk to. As you know, I’ve been working.

Bush at 3:42 pm EST:

"I can do more than one thing at one time. By the time I’m finished president, I hope you will realize that the government can do more than one thing at one time, and individuals in the government can."

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Bush Not Aware That His Own FEMA Director No Longer Works For Him

“Maybe you know something I don’t know.”

That was President Bush’s reponse to a reporter who asked whether he had heard that his own FEMA director, Michael Brown, resigned today from the administration. For the second time today, Bush demonstrated that the Commander-in-Chief is not on top of things.

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[post script]
i bet there is a lot of something i know that he doesn't ....

carnival of ineptitude

2005-09-12T15:14:00.000-07:00

a cute cartoon fused with the reality of this disaster ... click below.

whoopsi gras

tenacious "B"

2005-09-12T14:55:00.000-07:00

i just found out that one of evil j's neighbors [identified here as tenacious B] attended the last Key Club show and in his words [paraphrasing]:

"i came down to the pit area right before the show started, you came out on stage, the crowd erupted like maniacs, the music started, you let loose a vicious fucking scream, and then the pit exploded. the next thing i remember is being elbowed in the ribs, socked in the face, and then BAM, i went down ... but i got right back up."

well, much respect to him ... he broke his elbow ... a clean break along the radius ... that night ... in the swirling chaos of our rituals. and so it goes ...

milk of regret

2005-09-11T23:26:00.000-07:00

looong day today ... writing the new album ... worked on a new song ... milk of regret ... its really something special ... for me, if the opening notes of a riff can immediately summon the emotions i was experiencing when i first wrote the song then i know it is purposeful ... and this song does just that ... and much more ... its such an amazing journey ... it reminds me how i felt when we composed my confession and jonestown tea ... this song brings that level of emotion and experience back to me ... its very special.

we will never forget ...

2005-09-11T11:51:00.000-07:00

25 Mind-Numbingly Dumb Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath

1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
– President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina (Source)

2) "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them."
– Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005 (Source)

3) "It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level....It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed."
– House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Aug. 31, 2005 (Source)

4) "We've got a lot of rebuilding to do ... The good news is — and it's hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house — he's lost his entire house — there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter)
— President Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005 (Source)

5) "Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well."
– FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)

6) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
– President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring Hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005 (Source)

7) "I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water."
– Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on NPR's "All Things Considered," Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)

8) "Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.' Because if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse."
– Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, blaming media coverage for his failings, "Meet the Press," Sept. 4, 2005 (Source)

9) "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.”
– Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Sept. 6, 2005 (Source)

10) "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals...many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold."
– CNN's Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans' hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)

11) "What didn't go right?'"
– President Bush, as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), after she urged him to fire FEMA Director Michael Brown "because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right" in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort (Source)

12) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?"
– House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston (Source)

13) "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."
– Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal (Source)

14) "Louisiana is a city that is largely under water."
– Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, news conference, Sept. 3, 2005 (Source)

15) "I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school."
– First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005 (Source)

... READ MORE.

nine one one

2005-09-11T00:00:00.000-07:00

sept 11 ... we are not safer.

for shame.

i want my country back.

spinning in the chaos.

2005-09-10T23:30:00.000-07:00

back in the fire. tunneling in the dark. breaching the soft soil. fingering the secret glyphs. unraveling the ancient mystery. finding my way. again & again. a voice, a thought, another emotional ravaging. i am the creature that i seek. i am the rapist, the killer, the liar, the cheat.

true love.

2005-09-10T23:26:00.000-07:00

who's fucking who?

2005-09-10T23:13:00.000-07:00

anti-body

2005-09-10T15:27:00.000-07:00

woman with no shadow,
dancing in the gallows
screams - famine & plague.

still wet.

2005-09-10T14:47:00.000-07:00

the sky is swelling above me.

bulging and spreading like the learning brain of an angry skygod. roots and veins shooting in all directions. from beneath this tree, barren of leaves, the heavens scream out in secret lunacies. the branches curl upward and scratch the flesh of the crimson clouds. like the hands of death, the fingers invade my shell. whispering just these words, "still wet. only a bite."

a question to be asking ...

2005-09-10T14:32:00.000-07:00

"If our system did such a poor job when there was no enemy, how would the federal, state and local governments have coped with a terrorist attack that provided no advance warning and that was intent on causing as much death and destruction as possible?"
-- Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine)

.... when the devils are left unchallenged, & the hungry are left to die, democraZy will be snuffed out, in the blinking of an eye ....

antebellum

2005-09-10T10:14:00.000-07:00

hate your face. hate your weight. despise your height. hide your race.

be beautiful .. dress like we do .. conform.
be beautiful .. think like we do .. conform.

theotokos

2005-09-07T22:19:00.000-07:00

"When the cult of Osiris finally gave way to the new man-god, Jesus Christ, the Egyptians embracing Christianity found that the worship of Osiris and Jesus were compatible if not similar. Isis and her child Horus were identified with the Virgin Mary and the Christ child. In apocryphal literature of the first few centuries following the conversion of Egypt to Christianity, several legends of Isis were transferred to the Virgin Mary, as well as one of the goddess's epithets, Mut Netchet, which became Theotokos, or Mother of God, a very old and common title of Isis.

It was not until the reign of Justinian [AD 525-565] that the cult of Isis was abolished. In AD 641 when Byzantine control was destroyed by the Arab conquest of Egypt, Islam was brought to the land."

-- anthony s. mercantante

girl fight

2005-09-07T20:10:00.000-07:00

i built myself out of pretty things. puppydog tails, morning dew, & butterfly wings.

no.

i am i.

system status: normal

2005-09-07T20:06:00.000-07:00

run with scissors. fuck every whore in the city. defy logic. offend conservatives. speak out of turn. think freely. believe in yourself. do what you will. that is law.

fighting back

2005-09-07T19:04:00.000-07:00

to think, here we are ... in the 21st century ... circling further into the clutches of tyranny ... they will be the crucifix, & we will die in their arms.