Democrats for Christ - or how I learned everything I need to know about power-coupling from the Clinton's

Criminals infest politics in equal proportion to the legion of selfish cheats who pilfer charitable food banks. All about us we hear the politicians bleating in many tongues... English, Punjabi, Chinese, French... about "public service" and "vision" and the raw horror of their deceit and oily vanity make us wince in pain. When will we be free of their din? Well, human nature is beyond the influence of Christian moralizing and in any case, I'm not a Christian. I need something stronger than religion to keep me sane and flying straight and level, and I urge you to keep searching for your own antidote. The bite of the common liar is painful and often fatal, so be ever vigilant.

Case in point... the vile couple who won control the Illinois State House, were caught out by FBI wiretaps, but who continue to hold on to power using the full battery of legal and media tricks they learned from watching another criminal conspiracy in action - Billy and Hillary Clinton.

The Internet is polluted with commentary on Clinton and Blagojevich crimes, so I won't add my urine to the stream. If you like the Clinton's you'll like the Blago's. They're scales off the same rotting fish. I do though enjoy juxtoposition in imagery. Canadian news editing being what it's become, you probably haven't seen these two images. Who would have thought the darling Blagojevich pair were such family folks... such sanctimonious Bible believers.

Associated Press photo

We all know that Rod is a thug, and nobody but his mama (and Jesse Jackson senior) will mourn if somebody were to put a shotgun under his chin, but Madame Blagojevich is blessed with the same DNA. "The First Lady of Illinois" (says her vanity web page) is no lady. Some of the FBI wiretap transcripts are in U.S. VERSUS ROD. R. BLOGOJEVICH and JOHN HARRIS, filed in a Chicago courthouse on December 7, 2008. Much of Rods foulmouthed ranting has been reported, prefacing each of his demands for cash or favours in exchange for Obama's Senate seat, but no one looks into the business record of the hustling-realtor wife.

Chicago Tribune photo

There was a small sample in the deposition, capturing a day when the Blago's were huddled by their phone to discuss blocking the sale or development of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, unless they could get revenge on their political enemies. "During the call, ROD BLAGOJEVICH's wife can be heard in the background telling ROD BLAGOJEVICH to tell Deputy Governor A "to hold up that fucking Cubs shit... fuck them."

The Blago's were demanding that the Chicago Tribune fire several editorial writers who have consistently challenged the criminal conspiracy of Mr. and Mrs. Governor Blagojevich. Well the prosecutor filed his charges a full month ago, and the Blago's still rule Illinois. If this isn't a carbon copy of the Clinton White House years, then someone name me a better comparable. Yes, yes the "Alaska Hillbilly" "Bible thumping" "White Republican trash" Sarah Palin has been gutted and sent to the freezer, but the political barracudas continue to enjoy the love and support of the majority media.

Rod Blagojevich's lawyer is very confident, and he has reason to be. Clarence Darrow, who was no stranger to Chicago politics, once defended violent anarchists in Illinois. He said "There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action." Blago's lawyer says the Governor is only guilty of expressing his thoughts, and that does not constitute an unlawful transaction. Blago has known for years that his phones were tapped, but he understands also what the Clinton's demonstrated so well. The media is not intellectually or morally healthy, and so you can where them down with the equivalent of Muhammed Ali's "rope-a-dope". Calling politics a blood sport and it's not just a metaphor.

Governor Blagojevich deleted the contents of his FACEBOOK account (sample above) after he was arrested by the FBI. A history conscious soul copied some choice content before it was obliterated by Blago himself. A whiff of that BLAGO BLATHER can be found HERE.

Bypassing unfriendly News Editors - Israeli Defence Force YOUTUBE page

Israel Defence Force (IDF) on YOUTUBE. Here is a screenshot showing the eight clips currently available on the IDF YouTube page. http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk

It seems that the Israelis are fed up with allowing foreign news agencies to filter their message. There is much at stake with coverage of the retaliatory air strikes the IAF and army gunships are mounting in Gaza. The informed will recall the many hundreds of faked images and staged videos the Palestinians and their foreign supporters (some Canadian) created during the last go-round. This combat season we find something innovative. IDF public affairs stories and even gun camera video are being posted on a new IDF created YOUTUBE page. http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk

An Aljeezera photo distributed to Western news bureaus on December 17, 2008 shows an example of what provoked the current Israeli counter-strike. This NOT a rocket launcher. It is an improvised 3inch mortar, very crude but no doubt very lethal. This lemon grove must be very close to the border fence if this hooded mortar team had any hope of hitting a Jewish settlement.

The current IDF mission is code named Operation Cast Lead. Israeli drones are orbiting Gaza 24/7 and doing a superlative job targeting Hamas militia and their Kazzam and Grad rocket launching sites. Israeli suppression of launching positions and resupply squads has been amazing.

Black clad HAMAS militiamen were caught in the open on the first day of IDF strikes on Gaza. In photos from the Aljeezera news agency, December 27/08 we see a HAMAS compound strewn with dead. Note that first arrivals have stripped the bodies of weapons but nobody ministers to the fallen, or puts on any display of mourning.

Possibly at the request of the Aljeezeera photographer, a bystander volunteered to add some drama to this next image. Note that he can't quite bring himself to let go of his cellphone.

And a needed reminder of events in 2006, when Israel went sniffing for HAMAS tunnel networks - this from an Israeli cartoonist at DryBonesBlog. Since the famous "Land for Peace" agreement the IDF has had to renter Gaza several times. The Palestinians don't hide the existence of a massive tunnel network (they've published photos of the "humanitarian" variety) but they dispute that tunnels are ever used to bring in explosives and light infantry weapons. Here we see a former Israeli greenhouse complex fallen into mixed usage... there does appear to be something growing, just not as lush as the Israeli crop.

Update January 1st : World Media goes Ape when I.A.F. takes out Terrorist Muslim cleric Nizar Rayyan with an F16 strike.

Of course while IDF is a newcomer to YouTube, the Islamic radicals have used the video pipeline since its inception. Example... here is the Hamas warrior cleric Nizar Rayyam spreading the militant word:

Nizar Rayyan was very high on the Israeli "Most Wanted" list, for his role in the planning and financing of terror missions which killed Jews. Today their air force took him out with an air dropped bomb. Judging by the instantaneous impulse of the world media to describe the attack as the "assasination" of a "respected" leader (over 35,000 news articles)

we are firmly enjoined to consider this casualty a "good guy".

Nazim Rayyam, the spiritual leader of the Hamas militia, who gave his holy "blessing" to Hamas female suicide bombers, was killed in an air strike today in Gaza. Initial news reports indicate that all four of his wives and nine of his children died with him. While it is bitterly unfair that innocent children die with the militant father, no doubt he made a conscious decision to keep them very close for his own protection.

Diehard sticklers for Constitutional propriety take challenge of Obama's Citizenship to the Supreme Court

Dr. Alan Keyes and Barack Obama in debate during the 2004 Senate race in Illinois. Keyes has been contesting President Elect Obama's eligibility to assume the formal title of President, under the citizenship requirements of the U.S. Constitution. Keyes has a petition of his own on file but he supports the Donofrio petition which has just gone to the Supreme Court.

The case of the faked Obama birth registration simply will not go away, and that does surprise me. I thought the issue was as dead as his meaningless slogan "CHANGE". Last night I read a wonderful essay penned in 2007 by an American named Sam Smith on the subject of "Post Literate America" in which he commented on the meaningless rhetoric which pollutes U.S. political culture: "One can, for example, already feel the nation sinking into the semiotic fantasyland of a presidential, treating verbal symbols as substance and mushy abstractions as hardened intent." I have no idea whose rhetoric Smith was referring to, Republican or Democrat, or both, but I wholeheartedly agree.

I encountered that rhetoric this morning as jumped through the Internet, tasting the sweet and sour of websites and Blogs discussing the lawsuits accumulating around the Obama Birth Certificate ploy. Whether Obama is a "natural born" American is a moot point, but what remains certain is that the man does not wish the world to see the original declaration which his mother signed.

A screen capture of yesterday's article in the AFRO, which alleges that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is biased, and that in entertaining to the Keyes petition which challenges the status of Kenyan-American Barack Obama, he is responding to a highly personal conservative political view.

The status quo American media refuses to touch this hot potato, and if they mention the lawsuits at all, are quick to attack the credibility of the plaintiffs. At least one Black newspaper is addressing the politics of the case - THE AFRO in Baltimore has an interesting and very current article here. In an attempt to discredit Thomas and his interest in the petition of Dr. Keyes, the AFRO is thick with reminders of his ties to Republican presidents: "Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and has been one of its most conservative members.
Before his ascension to the court, he was appointed by Bush to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Earlier, he served as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - appointed by President Reagan - and worked various jobs under former Republican Sen. John Danforth.
It would take a simple majority of five justices to put Donofrio’s emergency stay on the oral argument docket. Because it is an emergency by design, the argument would take place within days."

I had to smile when I saw that one frustrated American posted his own (or perhaps his Dad's 1963 State of Hawaii birth certificate online, Ta Da! , on a X-Box gaming forum. It shows what a legitimate registration of live birth looked like in that registry used by Obama's mother.

I like this fellows comments to another game aficionado on the TEAM XBOX Forum: "See, when I hear something about someone's birth certificate, this is what I think of. The paperwork that was filled out at the hospital, signed by the parents, the doctor and an attending. Real people, who saw you enter the world all slimy and screaming, who sign the paper to say "we were here and it happened."

And the following is the stripped down pro-forma certificate which the OBAMA CAMPAIGN posted on its national website for the duration of the Presidential campaign. I copied it during the campaign. I don't know if it's still archived but there are copies everywhere.

This bare bones certificate offered by the DNC contributes ZERO to the search for the truth. As it printed on a green form revised to "11/01" or November 2001, it was purchased sometime within the last seven years. Genealogists and others, certainly a Harvard trained lawyer and Senator, can purchase database generated documents for a few bucks. Fans of celebrities often acquire them and I have several U.S. birth certificates for biographical research subjects. Actually I never settle for this kind of reductionist printout and have always managed to trace subjects back to source records. In Obama's case, the State of Hawaii is excluding researchers from examining the original declaration signed by Obama's mother. They have no legal grounds for doing so.


And finally, here is the "cover my ass" letter released on October 31, 2008 by Dr. Chiyome Fukino, person in charge of State health records in Hawaii. She claims to have "personally seen and verified" that Obama's original (we are deliberately left to assume COMPLETE) birth registration is on file. She had the gall to quote the statute that prevents her from releasing a "certified" copy of the record, understanding full well that most of the legally curious would be content if she simply held the original in front of a TV camera. Any Martin (in his court filing) made the only statement which has any validity at this late juncture, now that B.H.O. is elected : "Having released what he claimed was the "original," and having been found to have dissembled, Obama has waived any objections to release of the "real" original document."
Millions of Kenyans believe that Obama was born in a hospital in their country, and B.H.O. has made no attempt to discourage them of their belief.

Censorship, editorial cartooning and Europe's crazed Imams

In the coming Post Literate Era, public education will emphasize verbal and visual forms of communication, and the wired world is expected to be fully navigable by spoken command. In that high speed global community most forms of censorship will involve the banning of unacceptablee images. If some shudder today at the careless display of a swastika or a burning cross, that will count as nothing in a world patrolled by the agents of Image Control.

The October 2008 edition of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC had a full page on the contagion of worldwide censorship. Today we abide the incessant protests of the faint of heart or the faux of heart, condemning the most innocuous of words or phrases. Too often it leads to the murder of those who spoke or wrote blasphemy.

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has been thrust once again into the spotlight wielded by Europe's crazed imams. Why? Simply because some of his cartoons have been selected to enhance a Danish journalist's book of essays.

Lars Hedegaard's new book GROFT SAGT or "ROUGHLY SAID" is a collection of his hundred best columns. [ ISBN 13: 9788792417015 ] The fact that it is illustrated with 26 Kurt Westergaard cartoons has Europe's Muslim politicians frothing mad once again. Not one Danish publishing company had the guts to print it, forcing a Danish Free Speech association to step up to the plate.

This is one of the Westergaard cartoons in Jyllens Posten which in 2006 led to rioting, arsons and murder. In fact the anarchists bomb metaphor enjoys a 130 year tradition in European graphics and even school kids in North America recognize it from the Spy vs Spy strip in MAD magazine.

And what of the offending subject matter in the twenty six Kurt Westergaard cartoons? Bare breasted women in the company of the sacred prophet, several bombs in turbans, (now a Westergaard trademark) Muslims with multiple wives, U.S. President George Bush as a Muslim with crossed fingers, assorted Christian priests, European political figures, examples of divine intervention, Hitler as a taxi driver, etc, etc. Nothing with the power to arrest our planet in its solar orbit, but enough to inflame those who view the world through the lens of Medieval texts.

Obama TIME warp - the Ministry of Propaganda has a shiny new shovel

Talk about your 'Blast from the Past': all of a sudden we are witnessing American nostalgia for 1930s style propaganda! Here's a taste.
TIME magazine this week is offering a neat piece of 'photo foolery' (see bottom cover) which portrays Barack Hussein Obama as a clone of F.D.R. Nobody knows yet what B.H.O. has up his sleeve in terms of "CHANGE". We lesser mortals just hope B.H.O. knows how to deal an honest hand.

This is Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, on the cover of TIME magazine in 1933. Goebbels was a master of photo foolery and would have gotten a great chuckle out of this week's B.H.O cover.

A slight pause for the TIME magazine cover published April 24, 2008. "How his mother made him who he is." The highly resourceful American woman registered a "live birth" in Honolulu, but no one has yet found a record of any doctor in Hawaii who attended her or any hospital which admitted her. Once upon a time (no pun intended) the TIME-LIFE crew had the investigative resources to crack such minor mysteries. Today they just shovel the shit like everybody else.

The TIME magazine cover for November 24, 2008 - A neat distortion. Recall that the paraplegic Franklin Roosevelt was frequently shown at the wheel of an auto, on horseback, etc, - part of the propaganda used to conceal the fact that he couldn't walk. We can expect TIME to offer the Obama crew equal and obedient service. Isn't this all very exciting?

Second thoughts - December 3:

When you fool us twice Barak, shame on us! They can't Photo Shop your entire administration.

Guess whose back in charge? The lying lawyer from the Arkansas State House. [This is an unaltered digital image.] So this is what B.H.O. meant by CHANGE WE CAN TRUST. Nothing you can ever say or do will redeem you for this Mr. President. Well, maybe if hell freezes over Hillary will slink into the White House library one cold night and stash another well weeded box of Whitewater billing records. Thanks for pissing on Vince Foster's grave Bro!

NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO. The irony of the next four years may strangle American Democracy in its rocking chair. Of course the the fundamental flaw of democracy is that the criminal and the willfully stupid also get to vote. The results are a valid snapshot of current societal values.

WALMART Vancouver, B.C. Supercenter - a bigger story here than Obama ascendancy

Yes, yes Vancouverites went ape over the Obama ascendancy. They babbled and they burbled. Great stuff! As for me, I'm just content that my man B.H.O. slew the great dragon. Where's that Replay button? I would pull off B.H.O.'s runners and kiss his sweaty toes anytime, anywhere, for knocking Hillary on her ass. He's my hero, "bright and true".
Now, on to more important matters. It's a given that any election victory anywhere, which weakens U.S. corporate power is applauded here on the Left Coast. How they perceive an Obama victory as a shot-across-the-bow of Corporate America is beyond me, but they do. If Obama is to survive for more than one term he needs to forge an open and meaningful partnership with America brightest corporate leaders in order to establish this "Change" thing he has been on about.

A prime example of what America needs badly is WALMART. That one company creates more reliable jobs for unskilled workers than any other firm you can name. More than that, WALMART is where the working poor, and the suburban mortgage slaves, flock to shop for the bargains they need to sustain their families. It's no different here, although you wouldn't know if from the vicious campaign waged for years to keep WALMART out of Vancouver. While I'm at it, I might as well throw the NDP controlled civic regime in Burnaby into that hobo stewpot.

The former COSTCO site at 3585 Grandview Highway, one block in from Burnaby, is now mid-way through a $4.4 million renovation. The new WALMART Supercenter opens in May of 2009 and its coming has driven wooden stakes through the chests of some of Vancouver's notorious zombie politicians.

Does anyone remember the Great Walmart Debate at City Hall back in June of 2005? The green posturing was ludicrous - especially as WALMART had spent a $$bundle employing a top flight Vancouver architectural firm to design a low signature, sustainable building for its commercial development site in South Vancouver. The haters called the design "Greenwashing". WALMART was taught a humiliating lesson in etiquette by civic politicians - hereabouts kissing on both fleshy cheeks must be followed immediately by tongue work in the groove. Vancouver Councillor Peter Ladner briefly attempted to bring the truth into the open by pointing up COPE ideology, an "undercurrent," lurking beneath council's debate: "About Wal-Mart's labour practices, it's sourcing practices, the satanic nature of giant multinational corporations."

The retort from COPE councilman and ankle-biting lawyer Tim Louis said it all: "The largest contributor to the Bush regime in his re-election campaign was Wal-Mart." Vancouver civic politicians were determined to strike a blow against corporate America and U.S. Republicans, on behalf of Socialists everywhere.

And so remains the reason why WALMART finally has a foot in the door in the "People's Republic" of East Vancouver, as it is sometimes termed. Why must they now refurbish an old building rather than build the "World Class" environmental showpiece they originally envisaged? It's simple enough. The zoning of the COSTCO site on Grandview Highway was upgraded in 2006 before the owners offered the property to WALMART. The new owner does not require Vancouver City Council's blessing or its political lectures in order to trade with the citizens of East Vancouver and Burnaby, who are poised to make the site the most profitable WALMART in B.C. And should WALMART ever offer a similar GREEN project to Vancouver, the company will be torpedoed by the same crowd of Pygmies who ate their emissaries in 2005. The 2008 civic election will change nothing.

An artists rendering of the "super-green" WALMART proposal for South Marine Drive, blown up by COPE saboteurs in 2005.

Tim Louie, one of Vancouver's zaniest Zombie politicians. A stalwart among the WALMART haters, Louie was trained in agitprop and deep cover op's by the Rankin cell of the Loyal Order of Leftist Lawyer's. Somebody send this guy a WALMART gift card for Christmas!

Well here is one more hopeful sign of a turnaround in local thinking... one politically influential group understands the need to welcome business to Vancouver. S.U.C.C.E.S.S., the immigrant services society is sponsoring a WALMART employment workshop in East Vancouver, which will do much to help new immigrants find gainful employment. You can read about the workshop here.

UN GANG, RED SCORPIONS, INDEPENDANT SOLDIERS - these hits are getting boring

The details of the last four execution murders in B.C. were so pedestrian that the news media didn't even bother to go out and secure photos of the dead. The soldiers in Vancouver drug gangs are going to have to make an effort, maybe use a flamethrower or a piano wire garrot or something equally sinister PDQ, or their moves will disappear completely from tomorrow's headlines.
True the SUN gave Todd "Joe" Kranz the front page yesterday, because a reporter had a scoop with confidential documents, but most gangster killings are now getting lost in the back pages. The only gangsters worth writing about these days are men who are high tier, because the very process of connecting dots makes a story. Simply getting gunned down in a parking lot is not sufficient excuse to chase after your family for a quote. Most reporters are content with Google sniffing a few quotes and a picture from Facebook tribute pages.

In October we read of Jimmy (Grover) Lee shot in front of his rental over there in Surrey. Jimmy was a crack shack operator and an auto parts fence. On the same day up in Prince George, B.C. two denizens of an infamous drug crib were executed. They were Brittany Giese, age 19, and Garrett McComb, age 23. That single day body count allowed some Media the novelty of a hat trick headline. Soon after, Rukesh Rutnam Naidu, a "soldier" who was "known to police", was gunned down in the parkade at Oakridge Mall. Naidu's death got a little more air play because he was whacked in an upscale locale, but other than that, nobody really gave a shit. And since Oakridge Mall has more cameras than an Iranian nuclear reactor facility, there is video of the Naidu set up, but we will never see it.

WORLD EXTREME FIGHTING on Clearbrook Road in Abbotsford, B.C. - the site of B.C.'s most recent drug dealer execution. Joe Krantz was cornered in a stairwell at the rear and riddled with bullets.


The late Joe Krantz, posing in corn-row hair job and flashing a bad-ass gangster hand signal proves he was just as culturally confused as he was criminal. This is the photo the Vancouver SUN Google-sniffed, scraped and published with Joe's goodbye story. It's lifted from an extreme sports website.

Honestly folks, time is our most precious commodity, and even though the Vancouver crime file has its rewards, the constant thinning of the herd in gangster land is getting really tiring. Unless they bump off an ex-MLA who invests in the drug trade or a some gorgeous Asian babe who loves her soldier, the print media are soon going to fall asleep. Kim Bolan will keep at it, but even she must be getting worried about devoting her whole life to one song. Punjabi terrorists and seedy dropout drug thugs are horrible company to host in any healthy mind.

This is the two page summary, heavily redacted, of the testimony of Cassidy Krantz, after she was removed from the home. Only an eight year old, she offered more explicit detail than the police usually get out of adult witnesses.