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Knock knock...

2009-05-17T23:41:00.003-05:00

Someone was poking around my blog wondering if I was still around? I am. I am just not doing anything with it right now. But, perhaps I will soon. Sorry if you wanted to take over this blog, but I am not going away (afaik)... :-D

Was NYT Reporter David Rosenbaum Assasinated?

2006-06-16T21:43:00.000-05:00

The implications behind this story are being ignored.

A story is published in the New York Times revealing that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote a memo about wiretapping. The memo says wiretappling is "OK" for high level officials... Then, just two weeks later, that reporter is murdered on a quiet street in an upscale Washington, D.C. neighborhood by two "muggers". These two men lay in ambush in their car. They jump out, club the reporter with a pipe, steal his wallet but ignore his gold watch and his wedding ring and they drive off. Through a series of fantastic feats of clumsiness, the rescue teams botch his rescue, the ambulance takes 22 minutes to arrive, and sends him to the wrong hospital where he dies two days later.

Nah.. No story there....

Blogger Clyde Lewis has made these significant observations:

On December 24th, 2005, veteran news reporter and editor for the New York Times, David E. Rosenbaum, reported that Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito had authorized a 1984 memo arguing that then-President Ronald Reagan had the right to order wire taps without warrants.

The article entitled "DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE: THE NOMINATION Alito Memo in '84 Favored Immunity for Top Officials" served as a warning about Alito and how he supports the encroaching surveillance society.

This, obviously, is the hidden agenda behind the choice of Samuel Alito by George W. Bush.

The Friday before Alito's confirmation hearings, David E. Rosenbaum was beaten and robbed in front of his home in Washington D.C. He later died of his injuries at the hospital.

It was reported by the Washington Times that Rosenbaum lived in one of the safest neighborhoods in the D.C area. At first police thought that Rosenbaum had a stroke or a seizure. They didn't realize that he was a crime victim until he was evaluated at the hospital. The confusion cost police time that could have been spent combing the neighborhood for robbery suspects.

Rosenbaum's wallet was taken and it seemed a bit odd that he still was wearing his wedding band and a gold watch around his wrist. With his wedding band and watch on there was no reason for police to think it was a robbery

Other problems slowed the response to the crime scene to help Rosenbaum. It took little time for police and a fire truck to arrive, but it took 22 minutes for an ambulance to reach the scene. Fire department officials said that they had launched an investigation to determine why it took so long; they said they strive to get an ambulance to such scenes within 10 minutes.

Police had no leads and no suspects.

Miraculously on January 12th it was reported that 23-year-old Michael Hamlin walked into a police station and asked why his face was on television.

Hamlin was allegedly using Rosenbaum's credit card and his image from a surveillance camera was broadcast on the nightly news. Police said the credit card had been used seven times since Rosenbaum's death, to buy a total of $1,300 worth of merchandise.

Hamlin later confessed to the attack on Rosenbaum.

When the press asked the police why Hamlin turned himself in a police spokesman replied "Stranger things have happened."

Yes, very strange indeed.

Here we have some irony as a reporter writes his last story about the illegal surveillance society and then out of the blue his alleged murderer is caught using his credit card on a surveillance camera.

Hamlin was either the stupidest guy on the planet or he was unaware that he was doing anything wrong. According to his neighbors Hamlin was a responsible man, he had a job, and lived with his mother. He had no reason to rob Rosenbaum.

http://www.clydelewis.com/dis/diabolus/diabolus.shtml

Wouldn't it make a great "ODD NEWS" piece at the very least? Reporter's last story trashing surveillance but his killer is caught by surveillance?

HOWEVER, THIS IS ALL WE GET ON YAHOO "NEWS"...

Response faulted in journalist's attack

It's a throw away piece about how the paramedics screwed up and so did everybody else...

My Blog on Fantasy3D

2004-09-06T15:22:00.000-05:00

I've been putting letters to the editor, political cartoons and other rants over on my Fantasy3D site. It's easy for me to update it and since I have full access I can do other stuff too. Please check it out if you somehow arrived here! Thanks.

What a great site!

2004-04-06T16:35:00.000-05:00

America is having problems with it's memory. In fact, the whole damned internet appears to be having problems remembering things. Did Dick Cheney say what he said? Did Dubya REALLY take those huge vacations? Did Jim Lay really visit the Whitehouse? etc etc etc...

There's a great site to help us remember. They are busy remembering THIS VIDEO right now! Check it out! See our president spring into action when told belatedly that we were under attack! In less than six minutes, after sitting there in that classroom surrounded by his intellectual superiors, he decides to boldy board Air Force One ... and fly away!!

Keep in mind that before Bush even STARTED reading to those kids the FAA knew four commercial airliners had been hijacked. Only after the SECOND one hit the SECOND building at the World Trade Center did Dubya finally get the word. It turns out that I actually knew about it before HE did. Probably you did too.

Our hero.

Karl Rove is quite a poet!

2004-04-06T15:46:00.000-05:00

I just had to quote this poem by Karl Rove...


   Roses are red

   Oil is black

   But of course that's not why

   Your kid died in Iraq

For more Rove poetry, be sure to visit www.ilovekarlrove.com!

Is MSNBC getting SENILE?

2004-04-06T15:01:00.000-05:00

It appears that FOX isn't the only media outlet run by the Whitehouse. MSNBC decided that maybe the truth was too hard to swallow and pulled this article describing how DUBYA CLEARLY LIED about Iraq's nuclear cabability in the buildup to the unprovoked attack on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice doesn't have any worries about her performance

2004-04-06T14:55:00.000-05:00

Condoleezza Rice can't think of anything we should have done differently in the days leading up to 9-11.

Some selected quotes from an article on consortiumnews.com

"...Normal people simply don’t say such things. When something goes wrong on their watch, most people think of what they could have done better and the honest ones admit that in hindsight they missed some opportunities. With an event as momentous as a coordinated enemy assault on three prominent U.S. landmarks and the deaths of 3,000 people, it is hard to imagine that the national security coordinator can’t think of anything she, her boss or his administration could have done better in the preceding eight months...

"...Clearly, any honest post-mortem by Rice would include a recognition that more could have been done and should have been done. But instead of an admission that mistakes were made, the Bush administration has sought to airbrush the failures of executive leadership from the minds of the American people..."

Did the U.S. Sponsor a Coup in Haiti?

2004-03-06T21:30:00.000-06:00

Aristide says he was kidnapped. The folks in charge were previously trained by the U.S...

WHAT GIVES?

Republican Hypocrisy - Conservatives are not Libertarians

2004-02-17T00:14:00.000-06:00

For yet more proof that Republicans do not deserve the mantle of "less government interference" check this out.

CNN.com - Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys - Feb. 11, 2004

I seriously can't figure out why some friends of mine think that Republicans offer less government than Democrats. It's not a case of less government. If it were then John Ashcroft would have been run out of Washington, D.C. a long time ago and the "Patriot Act" would have been shredded instead of signed into law. The problem seems to be that Republicans have trouble with their sex lives, so they are frustrated and thus feel a strong need to take it out on others.

Busting moms selling sex paraphernalia is definately not what I want my government to be spending my vanishing tax dollars on right now.

OK, so let's try again get this Republican == Libertarian thing straightened out. Texas is a staunchly Republican state. So why the hell is the government of Texas interfering with this poor woman's livelihood? This woman is a church goer (and a Baptist, no less), a former school teacher, active in her community, etc, and yet the government launched a secret "sting" operation because she's selling (gasp) vibrators and she has the gall to admit that they can be used for (gasp again) sexual stimulation!

Get out of the damned stone age, Texas!! It's the 21st century now by anyone's calendar and vibrators and other sex toys are not the problem. Victorian attitudes about consensual sex and a reckless invasion of privacy is the problem.

Duh.

The Encounter

2004-02-06T16:44:00.000-06:00


Sunlight

  breaking through the clouds

    and shining down

      on the forests below.

The stygian darkness there enshrouds

  blinking eyes

    of eerie glow.


The man

  that the shadows now surround

    hears the crickets

      stop

        their quiet song.

He intently listens for a

  sound,

    for woods are where

      the Trolls belong.


His hand

  rests lightly

    on his sword.

A bird flies from some distant trees.

No sound is made

  by our strong lord,

    when in chilling fact

A Troll he sees.


The monster just stands there

  club on shoulder.

The man in an earlier day would shout and charge to attack!

  but now he's older.

So he sits there quietly

  to wait it out.


The Troll

  just noses through a

    mushroom pile,

And stoops to pick some

  perhaps for stew?

As it stands up

  TALL

    the man sees it smile.


"If I wanted," it grumbles, "instead I'd eat you."


"But you're probably no good."

It stalked off, through the wood.

Janet Jackson's Boob is News

2004-02-02T19:11:00.000-06:00

Janet Jackson exposed her breast during the SuperBowl halftime show. CBS previously denied a commercial from MoveOn.com, presumably because it was unfavorable to the Bush administration.

It appears that CBS, which dumped the mini-series "The Reagans" because it was too hot to handle, seems to be making consistently bad choices.

In other "news", it appears that we are in for six more weeks of winter. I am not sure which is more ludicrous, reading about Punxsutawney Phil on CNN International or reading about Janet Jackson just about everywhere.

And finally, in case you are interested, I found this page on the "BushIn30Seconds" website that I think provides a lot of very good reasons for people to dislike "Dubya".

police brutality

2004-01-31T19:13:00.000-06:00

video of protest and police brutality

Is this what democracy looks like?

The major news organizations seem to have completely ignored several clear examples of police brutality in Miami, FL during the Free Trade Agreement summit.

We all realize that "the media" is controlled by very large corporations. Very large corporations aren't going to tolerate nasty images of police thugs beating up peaceful protesters. This would interfere with their corporate global agenda.

I really want to be a moderate, but I am starting to think that I simply can't. I find that I am getting damn nervous. More nervous every day. Things seem to be getting out of hand right here in my America. It's the police not the protesters that are getting violent. I am arriving at more questions with seemingly ugly answers.

Is this country still a democracy? Do we still have the right to peaceable assembly? After all, police attacked peaceful protesters during the summit. When our rights to a peaceful assembly are violated and clear and compelling evidence exists to prove it happened, when there are several cases of torture and sexual assault in Miami jails, where the hell is the public outrage? This crap is no longer happening down in Guatemala or somewhere else far away. What if it was your daughter that had been sexually abused, or your son that had been held down while other police sprayed him in the face with pepper spray? And why on earth do you have to read about these things here in my blog? Why aren't people talking about this at your workplace or in your school? Are we all too focused on the damn Superbowl? Are we all too afraid of being considered "liberals"?

Here is what Joe Arriola, the Miami city manager, had to say about the (lest we forget: videotaped) police brutality and other charges of civil rights violations committed by his police force.

If you want to, you can write to him and share your thoughts.

Hello World!

2004-01-29T20:16:00.000-06:00

It is time I embraced the 21st century. I will try to keep this up-to-date.

Sadly, the real world will likely interfere and I will tilt after some other windmill.

In the meantime though, how about those missing WMD?