A kind thanks for all of your help and support over the years. I could not do this without you!
Friday, November 18, 2011
Seeing Eye Lemmings release available now
I am trying to finance my next album, from Al Jones And The Famous Hungarians. You could be a great help by buying my last album, the classic, eclectic, original, epic and prescient album called "i run", by the Seeing Eye Lemmings. The Lemmings broke up recently, but the music lives on. Alternatively, you can make a donation of any size through my paypal account. Any donations over Ten Dollars US will receive a copy of the Lemmings album. Any donations over Twenty Five Dollars US will also receive an unique and unreleased demo of Al Jones And The Famous Hungarians.
A kind thanks for all of your help and support over the years. I could not do this without you!
A kind thanks for all of your help and support over the years. I could not do this without you!
Thursday, February 03, 2011
The Butchers! Happy Trails Video classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zp9vopbnQ
My classic video of Butchers performing "Happy Trails". No, not the olde one, but the one about a boy on a bad trip, circa 1990. Feedback and comments are welcome, indeed desirable. Write me.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Vote November 2, 2010
The party of "NO" is trying to buy this election with massive amounts of corporate money, much of which is from largely anonymous sources. They are trying to gin up some "enthusiasm" for their base by co-opting and backing the Tea Party wackos, who are well funded, but largely ignorant of the deeper issues facing us. Sound bites are not going to identify, nor drive solutions to globalization, the depression, the gutting of the middle class, health care reform nor energy policy.
Corporations are not people and they are NOT good citizens, because their motives are profit only, not the long term good of our country and its' people.
The republicans have failed to advance any meaningful solutions to our problems over the last ten years, beyond lower taxes and deregulation. The Obama administration has brought forward progressive solutions for health care, financial regulation and energy policy, and have been stymied by the right every step of the way. The repugs scream about fiscal responsibility, but were responsible for the largest bank bailout in history as well as two wars overseas, and never made a peep about how to pay for those.
We do not have to allow them to buy this election. If you are a Democrat, or identify with the party, get out and vote.
Corporations are not people and they are NOT good citizens, because their motives are profit only, not the long term good of our country and its' people.
The republicans have failed to advance any meaningful solutions to our problems over the last ten years, beyond lower taxes and deregulation. The Obama administration has brought forward progressive solutions for health care, financial regulation and energy policy, and have been stymied by the right every step of the way. The repugs scream about fiscal responsibility, but were responsible for the largest bank bailout in history as well as two wars overseas, and never made a peep about how to pay for those.
We do not have to allow them to buy this election. If you are a Democrat, or identify with the party, get out and vote.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
You Just Don't Get It
I love politics.
When I really want to get hyper, then upset, then disappointed, then suicidally depressed, it is greater to watch political jousting than the Super Bowl.
On the one hand, there is the right thing to do, and on the other, there is the politically expedient thing to do.
That is, that which is politically expedient for the politicians wishing to be re-elected, is what is right.
What buys re-election, of course, is money. Large corporations have it. You don't.
It is no wonder, then, that the politicians no longer serve the interests of the citizens at large. They serve those who pay their bills, i.e. the corporations.
Politicians--to a one-- serve several different interests. The least of these interests are those of the common man.
They serve their own interests. Corporate interests. Party affiliations. The powerful. The moneyed.
Politicians are at the root of the problem. Our Republic--the United States of America--was meant to be run by statesmen--NOT politicians...
I will never finish this post...
Corporations are NOT good citizens...
We the people must send Statesmen to Washington....
There are problems to solve, and we must employ creativity, ingenuity and backbone--as well as a vision that goes beyond the next quarter--in order to solve them.
When I really want to get hyper, then upset, then disappointed, then suicidally depressed, it is greater to watch political jousting than the Super Bowl.
On the one hand, there is the right thing to do, and on the other, there is the politically expedient thing to do.
That is, that which is politically expedient for the politicians wishing to be re-elected, is what is right.
What buys re-election, of course, is money. Large corporations have it. You don't.
It is no wonder, then, that the politicians no longer serve the interests of the citizens at large. They serve those who pay their bills, i.e. the corporations.
Politicians--to a one-- serve several different interests. The least of these interests are those of the common man.
They serve their own interests. Corporate interests. Party affiliations. The powerful. The moneyed.
Politicians are at the root of the problem. Our Republic--the United States of America--was meant to be run by statesmen--NOT politicians...
I will never finish this post...
Corporations are NOT good citizens...
We the people must send Statesmen to Washington....
There are problems to solve, and we must employ creativity, ingenuity and backbone--as well as a vision that goes beyond the next quarter--in order to solve them.
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Truther angers Unconverted Scientist
Yesterday, I was having a conversation with a colleague of mine at work, in which I suggested that he should "review the evidence for yourself." I had recommended a few youtube videos that I am fond of, which can be found if you search for 911 analysis, or 911 debunking. I was shocked to find him becoming angry, and then threatening me, saying, "I have friends who are over there in Afghanistan fighting so that idiots like you can have the right to talk bullshit...I don't want to hear another fucking word about this. If you bring it up again, I am going to make a complaint agaist you(sic)."
This intense reaction from my co-worker reminded me just why the truth has had an uphill battle regarding the facts of 911. Many citizens swallowed everything the government has told us about 911, and despite the lack of an open investigation, have chosen not to question the scanty evidence that the government has produced. Others have chosen to close their minds to the counter-evidence which is provided by the "truthers," and as my friend declared "I don't want to hear it...I don't fucking want to hear it." I asked him rhetorically..."What kind of scientist are you?"
Indeed, what kind of scientifically slanted mind does not "want" to hear, view and question the evidence for him/herself? Why have our citizens not asked questions and demanded answers to the contradictions, omissions and fabrications that taint the 911 Commission report? What kind of scientist does not question all of his or her assumptions, regarding evidence...i.e. where does this info come from, who said it, what motivations might the witness have to lie or tell the truth, what corroborating evidence exists which supports or refutes the evidence, and can I see the evidence for myself.
WOW. Consider what a closed mind it is that, when confronted with a view that differs from his/her own, threatens to complain, to threaten ones livelihood, rather than to begin to question ones own assumptions. I was trying to sound my friend out, to see what evidence he could produce that could make ME challenge MY own assumptions and conclusions about the evidence, and instead of a lively debate, I got silenced instead, by the threat against my job.
No wonder the truth has a hard time finding the light of day.
This intense reaction from my co-worker reminded me just why the truth has had an uphill battle regarding the facts of 911. Many citizens swallowed everything the government has told us about 911, and despite the lack of an open investigation, have chosen not to question the scanty evidence that the government has produced. Others have chosen to close their minds to the counter-evidence which is provided by the "truthers," and as my friend declared "I don't want to hear it...I don't fucking want to hear it." I asked him rhetorically..."What kind of scientist are you?"
Indeed, what kind of scientifically slanted mind does not "want" to hear, view and question the evidence for him/herself? Why have our citizens not asked questions and demanded answers to the contradictions, omissions and fabrications that taint the 911 Commission report? What kind of scientist does not question all of his or her assumptions, regarding evidence...i.e. where does this info come from, who said it, what motivations might the witness have to lie or tell the truth, what corroborating evidence exists which supports or refutes the evidence, and can I see the evidence for myself.
WOW. Consider what a closed mind it is that, when confronted with a view that differs from his/her own, threatens to complain, to threaten ones livelihood, rather than to begin to question ones own assumptions. I was trying to sound my friend out, to see what evidence he could produce that could make ME challenge MY own assumptions and conclusions about the evidence, and instead of a lively debate, I got silenced instead, by the threat against my job.
No wonder the truth has a hard time finding the light of day.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Anyway...
Anyway, I have come to agree with Mike Ruppert, who said, what would you rather focus on, the elephant that has already run you over, or the pack of elephants that is about to run you over(paraphrasing).
Corporate media entities are too beholden to the moneyed interests that own them to have your interests at heart.
Reporters do not ask the tough questions anymore, because they fear the loss of access to such places as the press room at the White House.
Editors pick and choose which stories to air based on the lowest common denominator, the "common" man, and the goal of delivering the maximum number of eyeballs to the advertisers. Wouldn't want to offend anyone by asking uncomfortable questions, or showing the uncomfortable realities, such as they did during the Vietnam war.
During the Vietnam "conflict" , the advertisers begged, please don't show any more dead bodies, cause it doesn't help us to sell cars. During the current engagement in Iraq, it was not allowed even to show the caskets of our dead soldiers arriving back in the United States for many years(I believe that the ban was recently lifted). But it shows you how far from reality we have come.
The very language has been used to alter reality, and it goes under the guise of political correctness. It's better to call a war a "conflict", the dead and wounded are now "casualties". But sanitizing the language does not change the nature of the beast. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, and who makes the definition controls the conversation.
The United States has nearly bankrupted us, morally, financially and politically by fighting wars all over the world, not a single one of which is a war as declared by Congress, which alone has the right to declare war in defense of our people. We would save trillions just by pulling our forces back to legally declared wars and legally defensible "conflicts", but I am afraid that ending all the waste and abuse of resources that enriches so many of the already rich, and is funneled to so many black programs would not please the powers that be. While they feed at the trough, nobody bothers to even question why we let it be so, where all of the money really goes, and why the labors of the poor are so exploited, so little rewarded.
The bank bailout is just another example of this exploitation. The bailout of those who mismanaged their businesses would have been better spent on covering the needs of the great mass of citizens, the ones that create all of the wealth, but do not have health coverage, the ones whose wages have stagnated even as corporate profits have soared, and been victimized by rising commodity prices.
My only consolation here, is that the Corps have shot themselves in the foot, and are now suffering the low profits(ouch) that their own greed has fostered. In their short sightedness, they have raped the middle class upon whom much of their profits are derived, triggering the foreclosures and debt that triggered the failings of banks, businesses and much of the world economy.
I'm rambling, but, I say, you can't have it both ways. There must be equity within the markets, the sharing of profits which raises incentive to the many to produce more, to create more, to synthesize more, and some attempt to rationally to balance resources with consumption. Reward folks their due, enough to create even more wealth, but not at the expense of our health and our planet. When we grow, you grow. Balance now.
DON'T TAKE US FOR MULES, FOOLS
Corporate media entities are too beholden to the moneyed interests that own them to have your interests at heart.
Reporters do not ask the tough questions anymore, because they fear the loss of access to such places as the press room at the White House.
Editors pick and choose which stories to air based on the lowest common denominator, the "common" man, and the goal of delivering the maximum number of eyeballs to the advertisers. Wouldn't want to offend anyone by asking uncomfortable questions, or showing the uncomfortable realities, such as they did during the Vietnam war.
During the Vietnam "conflict" , the advertisers begged, please don't show any more dead bodies, cause it doesn't help us to sell cars. During the current engagement in Iraq, it was not allowed even to show the caskets of our dead soldiers arriving back in the United States for many years(I believe that the ban was recently lifted). But it shows you how far from reality we have come.
The very language has been used to alter reality, and it goes under the guise of political correctness. It's better to call a war a "conflict", the dead and wounded are now "casualties". But sanitizing the language does not change the nature of the beast. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, and who makes the definition controls the conversation.
The United States has nearly bankrupted us, morally, financially and politically by fighting wars all over the world, not a single one of which is a war as declared by Congress, which alone has the right to declare war in defense of our people. We would save trillions just by pulling our forces back to legally declared wars and legally defensible "conflicts", but I am afraid that ending all the waste and abuse of resources that enriches so many of the already rich, and is funneled to so many black programs would not please the powers that be. While they feed at the trough, nobody bothers to even question why we let it be so, where all of the money really goes, and why the labors of the poor are so exploited, so little rewarded.
The bank bailout is just another example of this exploitation. The bailout of those who mismanaged their businesses would have been better spent on covering the needs of the great mass of citizens, the ones that create all of the wealth, but do not have health coverage, the ones whose wages have stagnated even as corporate profits have soared, and been victimized by rising commodity prices.
My only consolation here, is that the Corps have shot themselves in the foot, and are now suffering the low profits(ouch) that their own greed has fostered. In their short sightedness, they have raped the middle class upon whom much of their profits are derived, triggering the foreclosures and debt that triggered the failings of banks, businesses and much of the world economy.
I'm rambling, but, I say, you can't have it both ways. There must be equity within the markets, the sharing of profits which raises incentive to the many to produce more, to create more, to synthesize more, and some attempt to rationally to balance resources with consumption. Reward folks their due, enough to create even more wealth, but not at the expense of our health and our planet. When we grow, you grow. Balance now.
DON'T TAKE US FOR MULES, FOOLS
Thursday, April 09, 2009
the first day...911
Dan Rather was unconvinced. Gary Sick was unconvinced. I was unconvinced.
That night, after a very long shift, I finally sat down to SEE the carnage that I had only HEARD about throughout the day, that terrible day, September 11.
I was unconvinced. The scientist in me jumped up to do an assessment. Why? How? WHO? Searching the visceral video evidence, I smelled a rat. Something just didn't make sense?!!
I had to go to bed. Knowing, as I did, that the pundits and panderers and newscasters would say, speculate and reveal things that would likely never be said again that first night, I set up a video tape in record mode.
CBS news and Dan Rather replayed the now edited and sanitized video clips of the planes hitting the towers, the towers falling, reactions of people on the street and in the blood banks, the actions following the attack on the Pentagon,etc.
It did indeed reveal many anomalies, inconsistancies, prejudices, and outright fabrications that went into making up the whole 911 LIE.
Many things struck me as odd and staged, as I reviewed this document which ran from approximately 9:45pm on September 11, 2001 to 3:45am September 12.
A short list...
Bin Laden was already the prime suspect, even as the White House spokesperson said that "There was no talk about retaliation, tonight...it is far too early for that, senior White House officials said(Some minutes after 10pm)."
An hour or so later, the White House correspondent (John Roberts?) declared that there was "we think" there is some "pretty good" evidence that points to Bin Laden. The experts parroted each other saying that, gee, who else could it be? This despite President Bush's declaration that he would start a "full scale investigation" to find those responsible.
Each video seems to show a different plane hitting the building, some are light, some are dark, some depict the plane banking sharply to the left just before striking the building, while others seem to show a controlled and level approach.
The building do not collapse, they explode/implode, as in a demolition. Many people on the street mention explosions, secondary explosions and bombs.
Even Dan Rather seems to become impatient with the sanitized "truth" that is being purported. Reading between the lines, you can sense this, as when he repeats "Troy" three times during the intro and outro of a story by a correspondent named Troy(I'll get his last name). He also slips words and phrases like "demolished" and "black as a crows wing" into his reporting.
An outline of my observations and thoughts....
LACKING EVIDENCE
* Some things that were alleged to have happened but were never proved:
Phone calls from the hijacked planes
Islamo Terrorists: The list of nineteen hijackers, which was never revised, contained the names of at least seven persons who were later found to be alive and well and denied being involved...
A Plane hitting the Pentagon an HOUR and THIRTY MINUTES after the Incidents had begun
Bin Laden involvement
That the towers collapsed due to fire and the structural damage, a mere 56 minutes and 104 minutes after they were struck, respectively...
Questions:
Where are the black boxes?
Where are the remains of the planes, the jet engines, etc?
Where are the films of the Pentagon being struck?
Where are the trials and convictions of any of the perpetrators?
Where is Bin Laden?
Where are the tapes of the cockpit voices from the FAA?
Why did building 7 at the world trade center collapse that day. Is it coincidence that this building housed the Secret Service, the CIA(?) and Rudolph Guilliani's emergency response command center, an office that he apparently abandoned early on after the events began to unfold?
How convenient is it that FEMA showed up Monday night, the night before 9/11, and were able to jump into action as the "disaster" unfolded?
Where was President Cheney(ooops, Vice President) while these events were unfolding? Where was Bush?
Why was the NORAD defense during the time between approx 8:15 when the first plane was hijacked, until approx 9:45 when the pentagon was hit, and why did the FAA take the blame in the end?
Why was the term "Ground Zero" applied to the site of the WTC, a term which had always previously referred to the sites of nuclear weapons explosions
Add your questions here...
Anyways, I missed that boat a long time ago. If it does not alarm you that the events of the day led directly to:
*the railroading through Congress and Senate of the "Patriot" act(riot act!) (greased with a few anthrax letters)
*the 'War on Terror" (terror is a tactic)
*war in Afghanistan (conveniently, they are the biggest producer of opium and heroin in the world, now that the Taliban is no longer eradicating the poppy fields)
*war on Iraq (conveniently located over one of the worlds largest remaining untapped oil sources)
*the conscripting of our National Guard folks (who were established to protect the states) to fight these wars overseas, thereby avoiding the protests that would have been generated by a draft
*the complicity of the corporate press and media in perpetrating this hoax on the American people, while avoiding all of the inconvenient questions about the lack of evidence, the lack of inquiries and investigations, which would have shed light on this event (9/11) and its' aftermath (war of terror, torture, illegal wiretaps)...
*the steady erosion of our Constitution and of our rights
....then kiss the American Dream goodbye, put it back to bed with all of your other dreams.
That night, after a very long shift, I finally sat down to SEE the carnage that I had only HEARD about throughout the day, that terrible day, September 11.
I was unconvinced. The scientist in me jumped up to do an assessment. Why? How? WHO? Searching the visceral video evidence, I smelled a rat. Something just didn't make sense?!!
I had to go to bed. Knowing, as I did, that the pundits and panderers and newscasters would say, speculate and reveal things that would likely never be said again that first night, I set up a video tape in record mode.
CBS news and Dan Rather replayed the now edited and sanitized video clips of the planes hitting the towers, the towers falling, reactions of people on the street and in the blood banks, the actions following the attack on the Pentagon,etc.
It did indeed reveal many anomalies, inconsistancies, prejudices, and outright fabrications that went into making up the whole 911 LIE.
Many things struck me as odd and staged, as I reviewed this document which ran from approximately 9:45pm on September 11, 2001 to 3:45am September 12.
A short list...
Bin Laden was already the prime suspect, even as the White House spokesperson said that "There was no talk about retaliation, tonight...it is far too early for that, senior White House officials said(Some minutes after 10pm)."
An hour or so later, the White House correspondent (John Roberts?) declared that there was "we think" there is some "pretty good" evidence that points to Bin Laden. The experts parroted each other saying that, gee, who else could it be? This despite President Bush's declaration that he would start a "full scale investigation" to find those responsible.
Each video seems to show a different plane hitting the building, some are light, some are dark, some depict the plane banking sharply to the left just before striking the building, while others seem to show a controlled and level approach.
The building do not collapse, they explode/implode, as in a demolition. Many people on the street mention explosions, secondary explosions and bombs.
Even Dan Rather seems to become impatient with the sanitized "truth" that is being purported. Reading between the lines, you can sense this, as when he repeats "Troy" three times during the intro and outro of a story by a correspondent named Troy(I'll get his last name). He also slips words and phrases like "demolished" and "black as a crows wing" into his reporting.
An outline of my observations and thoughts....
LACKING EVIDENCE
* Some things that were alleged to have happened but were never proved:
Phone calls from the hijacked planes
Islamo Terrorists: The list of nineteen hijackers, which was never revised, contained the names of at least seven persons who were later found to be alive and well and denied being involved...
A Plane hitting the Pentagon an HOUR and THIRTY MINUTES after the Incidents had begun
Bin Laden involvement
That the towers collapsed due to fire and the structural damage, a mere 56 minutes and 104 minutes after they were struck, respectively...
Questions:
Where are the black boxes?
Where are the remains of the planes, the jet engines, etc?
Where are the films of the Pentagon being struck?
Where are the trials and convictions of any of the perpetrators?
Where is Bin Laden?
Where are the tapes of the cockpit voices from the FAA?
Why did building 7 at the world trade center collapse that day. Is it coincidence that this building housed the Secret Service, the CIA(?) and Rudolph Guilliani's emergency response command center, an office that he apparently abandoned early on after the events began to unfold?
How convenient is it that FEMA showed up Monday night, the night before 9/11, and were able to jump into action as the "disaster" unfolded?
Where was President Cheney(ooops, Vice President) while these events were unfolding? Where was Bush?
Why was the NORAD defense during the time between approx 8:15 when the first plane was hijacked, until approx 9:45 when the pentagon was hit, and why did the FAA take the blame in the end?
Why was the term "Ground Zero" applied to the site of the WTC, a term which had always previously referred to the sites of nuclear weapons explosions
Add your questions here...
Anyways, I missed that boat a long time ago. If it does not alarm you that the events of the day led directly to:
*the railroading through Congress and Senate of the "Patriot" act(riot act!) (greased with a few anthrax letters)
*the 'War on Terror" (terror is a tactic)
*war in Afghanistan (conveniently, they are the biggest producer of opium and heroin in the world, now that the Taliban is no longer eradicating the poppy fields)
*war on Iraq (conveniently located over one of the worlds largest remaining untapped oil sources)
*the conscripting of our National Guard folks (who were established to protect the states) to fight these wars overseas, thereby avoiding the protests that would have been generated by a draft
*the complicity of the corporate press and media in perpetrating this hoax on the American people, while avoiding all of the inconvenient questions about the lack of evidence, the lack of inquiries and investigations, which would have shed light on this event (9/11) and its' aftermath (war of terror, torture, illegal wiretaps)...
*the steady erosion of our Constitution and of our rights
....then kiss the American Dream goodbye, put it back to bed with all of your other dreams.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
MP3 Player
Digg News
Look Up a Word-Wikipedia
