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In this idiot filled world which spills over onto the internet, feelings run deep as JohnG.Anderson learned. Anderson 59, an ex Marine and Viet Nam Vet, joined an innocuous sounding picture sharing website, where he expressed his views and artwork. Finding the net is often filled with morons hiding behind monitors, he felt the need to block some people for foul language. The blocked no doubt feeling the unfairness of it all, retaliated by posting obscene photo shopped pictures of him. One of those blocked was 27 year old , highly decorated Navy man Russell Tavares. After trading barbs, Anderson as “Johnny Darkness”, and tellingly, Tavares as “Pyro Dice” things escalated. Anderson called Tavares the worst thing possible. Cover your eyes if you must, Anderson called Tavares a “nerd”.
Thus began Tavares’ 1,300 mile trek from Virgina to Elm Mott, Texas , marking his progress by posting photos showing the welcome signs at state borders for those following online to see. Upon arrival, Tavares did what apparently made sense to him. He burned Anderson’s trailer down. Showing no remorse though sentenced to seven years in prison, Tavares stated that Anderson had spread computer viruses and insulted his friends for too long, according to James Pack who investigated the case.
Anderson, an ex Marine lost everything in the fire, and now suffers harassment that he’s certain is related to the incident. People knock on his trailer late and night and have shot holes in his business. He claims that “No one used to mess with the haunted house guy”. Haunted houses were a major hobby of Anderson’s, lest you think only one side of this wagon is wobbly.
He plans to install $30,000 worth of Fencing topped with barbed wire. “He lost everything - over an internet squabble”, the investigator said. The irony? “Nerd” is one of the least offensive words this writer has seen in an internet squabble of any size.
Read Blow By Blow Here Chronical.com AP 7/30/07

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"I want you to tell people to love one another. I want you to fight to lift the standards back. What happened to us that we are now celebrating from being down? What happened we went from saying I'm  black and I'm proud to calling each other niggers and ho's and bitches. I sung people up and now they're singing people down, and we need to change the music. Lift the music back to where children and their grand mommas can sit and listen to the music together." Al Sharpton in his eulogy as to what James Brown told him just weeks before he died.

For years I have periodically checked the racist hate sites to see what’s up. For most of 20 years there was little to report, the front pages have overflowed with screeching about Affirmative Action. In lock step with the RNC and the GOP who do the same but in a secondary more carefully worded manner.

About two years ago that all changed, the hate sites became so consumed with Hispanic maids, lawnboys and lettuce pickers it has become hard to find most anything about African Americans at all, which is also true of Right-wing talk radio. Both these dynamics certainly have something to say about race and immigration in America. For if David Duke, the Klan, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage are singing the same song, it’s a sure bet the tune is rotten at the core. It is the nature of the Beast.

The mainstream media led by CNN's Lou Dobbs has also forgotten African Americans over the past year dwelling on the horror of people in our country working hard without the correct paperwork. In fact, the racist code word over the past few years, Jackson/Sharpton, is actually hard to find these days. Well that all changed a few weeks ago thanks to Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback Michael Vick who got caught sponsoring to the death dog fights.

The issue itself is about as low as humans can sink. All arguments defending dog fighting are crap. Deion Sanders who recently defended Vick with his statement that there was nothing wrong with it as it only expresses the reality of Black culture, kicked the ball through the goal posts.

If even I who has defended Hip Hop, Rap, and the reality of the poetry of The Hood for a generation has now had it up to HERE with this crap, I can well imagine the rest of the civilized world is even angrier than I am. This issue is not about third world cock fights where the chickens are going to be eaten anyway. Or even Matadors facing death in a bullring where the bull will be killed and eaten no matter. This is about man’s best friend being killed for the joy of watching something suffer for no reason other than the macho fun of it. There is no redeeming social factor involved, which as Mr. Sanders so blindly remarked, stinks to high Heaven just as much as the culture that promotes it. In fact this issue has so exasperated race relations in Atlanta where Blacks defend it and Whites decry it, that some believe Atlanta may burn again.

Recent polls showed that even Black grade school children think dogs fighting to the death is fun and cool. Their heroes are gang bangers, pimps, foul mouthed rappers and spoiled snot nosed athletes. It has gone over the top and it is time for a correction, which I don't have answers for.

To their benefit Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Bill Cosby have over the years called this culture out for what it is to no fanfare and little avail. Rap and Hip Hop is not music, it is culture. There is no musical talent involved, in fact what music there is has been stolen and remixed. I give it a 36, it’s easy to dance to, the bland repetitive Disco of yesterday rehashed for today. The fashion is based on excessive clownish jewelry, loose clothing to better hide big handguns and assault weapons, face and neck tattoos to imply one is a criminal, a killer and unemployable. And of course speech and dialect that demeans everything and everyone. It’s the glorification of violence, criminality and revenge, the low roads of humanity.

I know the defense that the music expresses the reality of The Hood, but I don’t recall much poetry that promoted the reality of slavery, Jim Crow, the Gestapo, or the Holocaust. How about burying the disgusting realities of what is the worst in us and start singing about what could be the best in us? No that is wrong, free expression is the basis of a free society, rather it is time stop the promotion of all this nasty, filthy violent crap.

Whooooooooaaaa, I feel good! Like I knew that I would now...

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Down here in Greater Dumbass we are most daily treated to some poor soul thanking, blessing and praising the Lord while they stand in front of a pile of ruble that was once their home. I suppose the reasoning is God did not choose to take their home AND their soul. Tornadoes down here are called The Fingers of God, so I will assume a bang in the head from a lightening strike are The Toes of God.

Over the weekend an angry God quietly zapped his little toe onto the head of Chief Justice John Roberts causing him to fall, lose consciousness and be rushed to a Hospital while vacationing in Maine. Doctors have called the incident a benign idiopathic seizure. In common language that means they have no idea what caused it. We down here in Greater Dumbass know! All things point to God.

This may lead one to wonder if God just randomly destroys people’s homes and heads because it's fun, or is there purpose behind his angriness? What has Justice Roberts done to deserve a zap in the head? As the angriest Heterosexual White Male in the Universe we can probably strike out Roberts recent rulings against Affirmative Action. Roberts denying women a right to an abortion? Probably not, God has a pretty poor record regarding the ladies. Because Roberts sides with the wealthiest at the expense of the poorest? Na, it was the Son not the Father who was the advocate for the poor and disposed. Oh that’s right, Roberts is a no nonsense follower of the Son. There you go, God zapped him for hypocrisy.

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When a President chooses the top celebrity Right-wing star of the Fox News Network as the spokesman for his administration, George W Bush and Tony Snow [cancer or not] both deserve big kicks in the nuts at every opportunity.

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Those who haven’t heard of the most recent salvo in the war on loitering gang bangers may not believe their ears when driving near the Tacoma Mall. If all goes as planned they’ll hear Beethoven, Bach, and Vivaldi rather than loud gangsta rap. They may even roll the window down slightly on their tightly locked door to make sure they’re not hallucinating.

Here in T-Town it’s war and you have to give Pierce Country Transit a “C” for creativity. Tired of the thugs and wanna-be gang bangers loitering at the city bus stops near the mall, they are installing speakers this week in order to pump classical music from Seattle’s KING-FM into the Tacoma Mall Transit Center. The move is expected to cause the loud and intimidating to move on if nothing else.

Other attempts at making it unpleasant were city staged pinochle games on dangerous street corners. Yes, that was the idea of an expert who stated that ”It’s said that jolting routine in trouble spots throws criminals off balance”. I might add that If you interrupt a pinochle player with a good hand he’s likely to disrupt your ear placement. Of course there is an official statement, “It’s based on routine activity theory and situational crime prevention. You mix different types of activities in locations that are crime-ridden to change the composition of the environment” said psychologist Jacqueline Helfgott who chairs the Criminal Justice Department at Seattle University. I’m certain she’s never waited for a bus much less at that stop in Tacoma or she’d have seen pinochle as no match.

Bus drivers like Tony Wilson, one of the true experts, who has driven for 18 years and are excellent at quelling disruptions themselves was skeptical. “It could do one of two things: It could calm the beast or it could just stir things up, I think the reason we don’t have music on the buses is that you can’t please everyone, it would just cause drama."
”Rod Baker, chief of public safety for Pierce Transit is more optimistic, “If the stream of divertimentos, scherzos and polonaises reduces disorder at the mall, speakers may be placed at other stops.” Is this as crazy as I THINK it is? Full article Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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Washington, DC -- In what had to be his third or fourth appearance (who can keep track), before the Senate Judiciary Committee, to give testimony about the Attorney General firings scandal, little Alberto Gonzales once again lowered the bar on truthfulness. A bar that was already flat on the floor from his previous testimony. And this guy after all, is the chief law enforcement officer in the country, the United States Attorney General.

As we sat watching his performance on C-SPAN, our jaws agape from the abusurdity of his non answers, one in our group remarked, "this can't be real, its gotta be a skit from The Daily Show."

It was truly remarkable to watch this little man with the big smug look on his face completely stonewall the members of the Judiciary Committee with lies and obfuscations to the point where even republican members of the committee were shaking their heads in disbelief.

Perjury is a serious crime, as ol' Scooter Libby discovered, and our group was astounded that Gomey would so obviously expose himself to this charge, not to mention the ridicule that would surely follow. Why we wondered, would he allow himself to be used in a manner that could only be seen as an effort to protect the White House, regardless of the consequences to himself? This man will never be taken seriously again, with perhaps the exception of a few ideologues. Who could live with that?

Our best guess is that either he has been compromised in crimes far greater than have been speculated to date, or simply that he knows he just has to carry Bush's water for 18 more months and retire into obscurity with a big payoff. Either way it's clear he doesn't have to worry about impeachment or being charged with perjury, the LPS (Libby pardon solution), will take care of that.

Someone out there must have a more astute political read on this. Why would Gonzales subject himself to such political infamy for eternity? What are we missing?

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Dumbass, Tx - Mason and Jason Porter, the 25 year old sons of the Rev. Ray Porter and his Dallas ministry have been miming evangelical Christianity now for 8 years. After reading this upbeat article the obvious becomes more obvious. If Television Evangelists along with every Christian fundamentalist ministry, PAC, Lobby, and most importantly the thousands of Christian radio stations across America would pick up on this great idea, what a kind, pleasant, reasonable and quiet society we could make of things. Full Story…

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Nutzoid, N.H. – Residents in the small town of Plainfield, N.H. have had it with Ed Brown who with his wife Elaine refuse to pay taxes on Elaine’s Dentistry income of $2 million dollars. With the influx of heavily armed Libertarian supporters to the Brown’s compound, including members of the Aryan Nations, The Klan, the NRA, perhaps Grover Norquist, the militias and celebrity Ayran Nation supporter Randy Weaver - the NRA hero who was given a $3 million dollar reward for killing a federal agent by some crazyass judge in Montana – the people of Plainfield are telling authorities to GO IN and get it over with.

The standoff has been going on now for over six months since the Browns’ have refused to serve their 60 month conviction of tax evasion. This has filled the small rural area with the most crazyass heavily armed nitwits America has to offer. Even the libertarian leaning LIVE FREE OR DIE people of New Hampshire are now okay with the DIE part of that for the Brown’s and company.

Over the weekend supporters for the Browns’ on site and throughout the nation - with the call to arms of various radical blogs and websites - have overloaded local phone lines with reports of about a 100 rounds of gunfire directed at the compound. Neighbors and police say it’s a complete fabrication which the gun nuts are using to try and draw the authorities in for their planed and hoped for shootout.

Like Koresh and Weaver before them, the Browns’ make it understood that they will die in a hail of gunfire rather than suffer themselves to the Rule of Law. Full Story...

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You have to admit, it's kinda fun to sit and watch the republican party pander to the religiously insane, by far the cornerstone of their base. It's estimated that 25% of Americans are very religious, attending church at least once a week, or about the same percentage of Americans that still give Bush a positive approval rating. Coincidence?

It's been reported that Bush felt his dad lost the '92 election to Clinton because poppy more or less blew off what he called the extra X chromosomers of the republican party. Regardless of your views, you have to admit 25% of the population is a pretty strong starting position in a national election. And play to this crowd Bush did; faith based initiative, gay marriage amendment, stem cell research veto, answering to a "higher father," and my all-time favorite, kicking his booze and coke habit through faith, whatever that means.

Bush rallied the nation to arms after 9/11 to fight the evil-doers who brought down the WTC towers killing almost three thousand innocents. He promised a crusade, which was not a particularly good choice of words considering the Muslims have been sensitive to it going back centuries when they fought King Richard and his crusaders. Now they face another King George. No, not the one America faced down in the War of Independence, but another George who's inventing presidential powers a king could only dream of having. In other words, centuries of hate between Muslims and Christians are now again at the forefront of crisis because it's so easy to interpret religious writings to your own ideological or theological bent.

For example, Christians who believe in the Bible verbatim, don't have a handy answer when asked who was the on the spot reporter who jotted down the conversation between Adam and Eve in Genesis. Nor do they have an explanation that there is no mention of dinosaurs. How can the good book miss something as big as the dinosaurs?

Muslims on the other hand, with the Koran in the very same hand, and even though it says no such thing, promise 72 black-eyed virgins to martyrs. Well, if I was a 16 year old teenage boy, with zero prospects, how much more convincing would I need to blow myself up?

What's particularly scary about this is that there are six billion people on this planet; 2.3 billion are Christians and 1.3 billion are Muslims. That's over three quarters of our population and they're all crazy. They're crazy because they believe things that nobody can prove. When someone says they've talked to God, or Jesus, or Allah, or Buddha, do you believe them? Has God or one of these other deities every talked to you? (Don't answer that). Or are you just a tiny bit suspicious that when these guys; Jerry Fallwell (RIP), Roberson, Dobson, Roberts tell you they've just gotten off the phone with God and He's instructed them to ask you for more money?

Religion, as the founding fathers foresaw, was not the solution but the problem. Many of them were either atheist or agnostic. And before we forget to mention it, the 4th largest religious category is, "non-believer." The point is, our founding fathers were actually quite clever in recognizing how dangerous religion could be, that there should be a separation between church and state. Bush and Rove have shamelessly usurped this constitutional separation for political advantage. To them it has always been about chasing that 25% of the electorate who are religiously insane, just to stay in power.

No one wants to make fun of anyone’s faith, whatever it happens to be, but let’s stop treading water and come up for some air here. Faith based is nothing more or nothing less than voo doo horseshit because not one person on this planet has a clue how life on Earth started. Anyone who tells you differently either has a financial vested interest, or they’ve been sucked into the vortex of religious insanity.

All of this is controversial, but it should really piss you off that Rove and Bush use religious fears for political advantage. How much more disgusting can it get?

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I’ve often wondered what it was about astronauts which made them capable of strapping themselves into a flame shooting projectile. Thanks to the desperate actions of astronaut Lisa Nowak, we may soon find out.

It seems some have “the right stuff”. At least two have been told that they were so impaired as to cause a flight risk, but flew anyway. Lisa’s actions have caused NASA to investigate astronauts’ mental and behavioral health, and may lead to strict guidelines on alcohol use. If so, Lisa will know what it’s like to be the most unpopular person at NASA.

Ms Nowak, who rode the Space Shuttle last year, brought attention to the problem last February, because of love. Presumably too drunk to fly, she put on a diaper, so as not to lose valuable time, strapped herself into her car, and drove all night from Houston to Orlando. You see, she had a plane to catch. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman was flying into Orlando.

It’s doubtful that she expected a welcoming committee in the form of Lisa Nowack, the third corner in a love triangle. While Nowak’s condition upon arrival in Orlando is best left to speculation, there is no doubt she arrived in time. She was arrested and charged with assault. The results of NASA’s investigation are to be released this Friday. If strict rules are enforced, will there be anyone left who will fly without “the right stuff”? The rest of story here Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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