WFRL: Searching For Soul

Jake Wade & The Soul Searchers
Searching For Soul ~ 1970

But if from there

you seek the LORD your God,
you will find him
if you look for him
with all your heart
and with all your soul.
~ Deuteronomy 4:29

SOUL

נפשׁ
נֶפֶשׁ ‎ nephesh
neh‘-fesh
(From 5314)
properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): - any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.

5314:

נפשׁ
נָפַשׁ ‎ nâphash
naw-fash‘
A primitive root; to breathe; passively, to be breathed upon, that is, (figuratively) refreshed (as if by a current of air): - (be) refresh selves (-ed).

And with that
he breathed on them
and said,
"Receive the Holy Spirit."
~John 20:22

Glow Ballin' Con Fusion: 21st Century Schizoid Man?

King Crimson
21st Century Schizoid Man

Michael Travis, our 21st Century Schizoid Man?

Have you ever had the feeling that someone had entered your house or apartment while you were out? Have you ever noticed that things were "not quite as you left them" upon returning from work? Little things draw your attention, like chips in a new cookie jar, drawers not closed properly or cupboards slightly ajar. Luggage and musical instrument cases appear tampered with, and your clothing seem to have been moved haphazardly around your closet.

I have experienced all of the above and substantially more, for over a year. I have returned home to discover my door unlocked several times. My mail has been opened with a letter opener, and stuffed under my door. I have found a note left in a guitar case, outside of the closed case, and crumbled on the ground. This is spooky stuff folks.

I could be crazy. I may be a raving, delusional, 21st century schizoid man.

Or perhaps not.

Last week I installed a video surveillance system in my apartment. The system records any intrusion and sends an alert by email and SMS to my desk at work. The system works like a charm. It took no more than a few days to prove me more or less sane.

On April 21, 2009, while hard at work at my Massachusetts office, I was alerted by the security system to an intruder. From miles away I watched as a slimy trespasser slithered into my small apartment, looked around, and quietly left.

I called the cops.

A nice policeman arrived within minutes and I showed him the video.

The nice policeman said I should ask around to see if anyone can ID the intruder. I told the nice policeman (his name and badge number was covered by elastic bands,,,so I shall continue calling him "Nice Policeman") that he was the cop and investigating crime was his job, not mine.

I feel much better now. Really I do.

It may take time, but I will learn to love Post-America.

King Crimson
The Court of the Crimson King

The dance of the puppets
The rusted chains of prison moons
Are shattered by the sun.
I walk a road, horizons change
The tournaments begun.
The purple piper plays his tune,
The choir softly sing;
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,
For the court of the crimson king.

WFRL: John McTernan: Defend & Proclaim!

Brooklyn Funk Essentials
The Creator Has a Master Plan

John McTernan:
DEFEND & PROCLAIM!

John P. McTernan is a lifetime student of American history. He is an avid student of Biblical prophecy since becoming a Christian in the early 1970s. He authored the acclaimed God s Final Warning to America and co-authored the bestseller Israel: The Blessing or the Curse. During numerous appearances on television, radio, and in seminars he has defended Israel in light of Biblical prophecy. In 1974 John became involved with the Pro-Life Movement and is a Pro-Life leader in central Pennsylvania. He co-founded International Cops for Christ where he serves as an ordained chaplain. He served as a US Treasury agent for 26 years until retiring in 1998. He holds a B.S. from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is married and the father of four children.

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John McTernan's Insights

Purpose of this Blog:

The purpose of this blog is to keep the reader up to date with current information and events that are related to the Bible. The focus is on Israel and the United States, but all other relevant information will be reported, to show the reader the desperate, yet exciting, time we live in. Bible prophecy is coming alive right before our very eyes. The information is to ground us in God; to cause us to live holy; to be anchored in the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus: and to show the awesome authority of the Bible as the very word of God.

[SNIP]

This is NO time to ignore events.

Now is the time to run to the battle for the Lord Jesus. If you came under attack, you would want the support of thousands to stand with you. This is one of the goals of this blog: to raise up thousands who are not lukewarm. They will support those who are standing for righteousness.

BLOG TALK RADIO:
AS AMERICA HAS DONE TO ISRAEL

Author John McTernan discusses the correlation between anti-Israeli US government actions & simultaneous natural disasters that occur in America. Is this coincidence or Divine Judgment? You do not want to miss this show!

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity
Save Me

WFRL: Freedom Rider

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Freedom Rider

Like a hurricane around your heart

when earth and sky are torn apart
He comes gathering up the bits
while hoping that the puzzle fits
He leads you,
he leads you
Freedom Rider

With a silver star between his eyes
that open up at hidden lies
Big man crying with defeat,
see people gathering in the street
You feel him,
you feel him
Freedom Rider

When lightning strikes you to the bone,
you turn around, you're all alone
By the time you hear that siren sound,
then your soul is in the lost and found
Forever, forever
Freedom Rider
Here it comes

Torah Makes Free

Jack Bruce, Uli Jon Roth & Glenn Hughes
I Feel Free ~ 2006

FREE SPIRIT

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The sight was not only amusing, it was timely. Leaving my house for the synagogue early the third morning of Passover, a Sabbath this year, I wished my next-door neighbor a good morning. A muscular man, he was sitting in his doorway in his pajamas, curled up against the mist and chill, smoking a cigarette.

His wife (or maybe his landlord) doesn’t allow him to smoke in the house. And so he can often be found outside feeding his habit. This particular day, though, his just-woke-up-and-needed-one-so-bad look took on a larger import. It was a poignant reminder of what Jews were celebrating that week: release from slavery.

I imagined my neighbor regarding his perch as an escape from the oppression of the smoke-intolerant house. The reality, of course, is quite the opposite: his enslaver is his addiction.

The freedom for which Jews recently spent a week thanking their Liberator is also often misunderstood. Yes, the Jewish exodus from Egypt freed our ancestors from physical enslavement, but it was much more than a liberation movement, a shaking off of shackles and assertion of independence. The deepest enslavement the Jews suffered in Egypt, authentic Jewish sources explain, was spiritual in nature. The people had sunk to a deep level of defilement, having assimilated their masters’ unholy practices. And G-d’s intercession before the people could sink even any deeper into the moral morass – another moment in Egypt, the rabbis of the Midrash teach, would have rendered them beyond redemption – is the deepest reason for our Passover rejoicing.

Which made a statement issued by the advocacy arm of the Reform movement on the eve of the holiday so tragically ironic. It came in the wake of the Vermont legislature’s vote to legalize same-sex marriage in that state, and expressed how, “as we prepare for the Passover holiday,” the movement was “cheered by the sweetness of [the] victory for marriage equity…”

To some of us, the Vermont vote, like an Iowa court ruling shortly before it that yielded a similar outcome in that state, would have been more appropriately associated with the Seder plate’s bitter herbs. For the headlong societal rush to exalt behavior the Torah forbids not only to Jews but to all of humanity evidences a deep and dangerous misunderstanding. It confuses libertinism with liberty, free-for-all with freedom.

For true freedom entails responsibility; it is the freedom not of the body but of the soul. When G-d ordered Pharaoh “Let My people go!” He continued: “… so that they may serve Me.”

The Jewish concept of freedom does not entail being unfettered, but rather bound to what is meaningful; it does not mean independence but subservience – not to the mundane but to the Divine.

Which is why Passover, in a sense, doesn’t entirely end after its seven (or, outside of the Holy Land, eight) days. On the second day of the holiday, following the Biblical command, observant Jews begin counting, marking each of the following forty-nine days by pronouncing a blessing and assigning the day a number. The fiftieth day, the day after the counting is completed, is the holiday of Shavuot (“Weeks”); it is in a very real sense the culmination of Passover.

For according to Jewish tradition, Shavuot is the anniversary of what the exodus from Egypt was for: the revelation at Sinai, when the Torah was given to the Jewish people. And therein lies the ultimate meaning of Jewish freedom: emergence from our enslavement to lower urges, to substances, possessions, the dictates of society. Freedom of the spirit.

And so we count the days – quite literally – from the holiday of freedom to the holiday of Torah, expressing (and, hopefully, impressing on ourselves) just how inextricably the theme of Passover is linked to that of Shavuot, how the ultimate expression of true freedom is having the courage and mettle to throw off the yoke of temporal masters and commit ourselves to what is meaningful in an ultimate sense: the will and law of G-d.

The rabbis of the Talmud put it pithily, noting how similar the Hebrew word for “etched,” “charut” – used about the commandments carved on the Tablets of the Law – is to the Hebrew word for freedom, cherut.

“The only free person,” they explain, “is the one immersed in Torah.”

© 2009 AM ECHAD RESOURCES

[Rabbi Shafran is director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America.]

RadioHead

Street Spirit

Rows of houses, all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things will one day swallow whole
And fade out again, and fade out

This machine will, will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all, go under
And fade out again, and fade out again

Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again, and fade out again

Immerse your soul in love
Immerse your soul in love

WFRL: Little Girl Blue

Janis Joplin
on the Tom Jones Show ~ 1969
Little Girl Blue

Floatin' Powa News Service: Beyond the Discount Liquor Store ~

A Rude Revolution
Liquor Store

Have you reckoned a thousand acres much?
Have you reckoned the earth much?
Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud
to get at the meaning of poems?
Stop this day and night with me
and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun....
there are millions of suns left,
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand....
nor look through the eyes of the dead
nor feed on the spectres in books.
You shall not look through my eyes either,
nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides
and filter them from yourself.
~ Walt Whitman

He may get more:

BEIRUT, Lebanon — It is election season in Lebanon, and Hussein H., a jobless 24-year-old from south Beirut, is looking forward to selling his vote to the highest bidder. “Whoever pays the most will get my vote,” he said. “I won’t accept less than $800.”

Al-Qaida No. 2 urges followers in Iraq to "liberate Jerusalem"

"break the borders of neighboring countries and liberate Jerusalem from Israel"

U.S. Professor Becomes First Jew to Win "Arab Nobel Prize"
If I were him I would have told them to shove my "prize" right up the King's ass. But what he did instead was play pet Jew and generate propaganda for the Kingdom. Tre' Uncle Chom. For all the lives he saved with his science how many does kill now with this single act of craven vanity?

Baruch Dayan HaEmes (Blessed is GOD, the true judge).

The development of a drug that has revolutionized the treatment of many types of cancer has earned its inventor, Ronald Levy, MD, the 2009 King Faisal International Prize in Medicine.

More than 30 years ago, Levy, now chief of the oncology division at the Stanford University School of Medicine, embarked on a research agenda that harnessed the power of the body`s own immune system to fight cancer. Levy developed the concept that a drug made from a naturally produced blood protein called an antibody could be a cancer-fighting machine.

SNIP

Levy told Haaretz he was certain his wife and daughters would not be able to attend the ceremony, as their passports are full of visas from Israel and his wife and one of his daughters were born in Israel. To his surprise, when he went to the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, the attendants stamped their passports, and no one asked any questions.

In spite of their fears before the trip, Levy said his family was treated to royal hospitality during their entire stay in Saudi Arabia . He said that even when people were aware of his religion and his family's background, he was treated no different than anyone else. Also, Levy said Saudis were fascinated with hearing what he and other visitors think of their country, and if their expectations were proved wrong or not. Levy's victory is the first time in the award's 30 years that a Jew has won, which Levy says he took as a sign that Saudi Arabia is becoming more open.

U.S. Journalist Convicted of Spying in Iran

Iran: Free Potatoes Inflamed Electoral Fever
NO POTATOES FOR YOU, INFIDEL!

The Iranian authorities have distributed free potatoes in recent weeks in different cities. Several Iranian politicians have criticized the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government free potato distribution as an act of the presidential electoral campaign and call it a waste of public money. Iranian officials say that there was an excess of potatoes supply in Iran and the government has only bought and distributed them. The Iranian Tabnak site has published several photos of these potatoes distribution in a university in Isfahan. Several bloggers have offered their opinions on this ‘Potato Gate'.

Iraq parliament promises to push Shell out of gas deal

Iraqi lawmaker: Some oil contracts violate the law

OIC helps Turkish, Saudi aid to reach Gaza

The OIC General Secretariat welcomes the cessation of military activity in Chechnya
Naturally!

OIC General Secretariat delegation ends its visit to Sweden

The objective of the visit was to open a channel of communication with Sweden, a country with respectable track record of cooperating with the Muslim World on crucial issues of concern and to make the best use of Swedish Presidency to the EU to enhance institutional interaction and coordination between the OIC and EU.

Israeli ambassador to Switzerland called back

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday morning instructed Israel's Ambassador in Switzerland Ilan Elgar to return to Jerusalem for consultations following Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz's meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Bulgaria: Yom Hashoah commemorated

Jews in Bulgaria gathered at Sofia Synagogue for the annual observance of Yom Hashoah, the international day of mourning that commemorates the six million victims of Nazi death camps during the Holocaust in World War 2

Russia's Medvedev offers to rewrite energy rules
He's so selfless that Medvedev, always offering to rewrite rules & shit before anyone even has to ask him to do it. Thank you , Mask Man!

The Strategic Implications of Russian Move Against Hungary's MOL

EU passes new rules on opening up gas and electricity markets


Putin to boycott summit over Nabucco
NABUCCO is like the emperor's new clothes, it's an imaginary hooplewidget, a propaganda tool, it does not exist and it never will. Also Putin knows this but he is an excellent performance artist and greatly enjoys his work.

NABUCCO also happens to be the name of an Opera By Verdi.
NABUCCO is Nebuchadnezzar:

Basic Plot Summary of Verdi’s opera Nabucco

Part I: JERUSALEM Nabucco, King of Babylon, advances on Jerusalem. The Jews are forced to hide in the temple. Nabucco’s daughter, Fenena, is being held prisoner there, having been kidnapped by Zaccaria. The High Priest of Jerusalem, Zaccaria, leaves Fenena with Ismaele. Ismaele and Fenena are secretly lovers. Nabucco’s other daughter, Abigaille, offers to spare the Jews and Jerusalem if Ismaele will love her (as she is also in love with Ismaele). Ismaele rejects Abigaille. Nabucco arrives at the temple. Zaccaria attempts to kill Fenena, but Ismaele rescues her. The temple in Jerusalem is destroyed. The Jews condemn Ismaele.

Part II: THE UNBELIEVER The Jews have been taken captive and are in Babylon. Abigaille, now back in Babylon, finds out that she was born a slave and is not royalty. The Babylonians believe that Nabucco is dead based on a rumor started by the High Priest of Babylon, so they call Abigaille to take the throne. Zaccaria announces Fenena’s conversion to Judaism. Nabucco returns. He proclaims that he is God. Nabucco is struck by lightening and goes mad. Abigaille takes the crown.

Part III: THE PROPHECY Babylon salutes Abigaille as their ruler, but the High Priest calls for the execution of all Jews (starting with Nubucco’s daughter Fenena). Abigaille tricks the still mad Nabucco into signing Fenena’s death warrant. Nabucco denounces Abigaille as a slave. She rips up the document stating the fact that she is a slave. Hebrew captives, on the banks of the Euphrates, sing a song, yearning for their homeland. (Va, pensiero) Zaccaria prophesies that Babylon will fall.

Part IV: THE BROKEN IDOL Fenena prepares to die. Nabucco, recovered from his madness, asks the God of the Hebrews for forgiveness. Fenena, along with other Hebrews, is standing in front of the altar when shouts of “Viva Nabucco” are heard. Nabucco destroys the false idol, a statue of Baal. Nabucco frees the Hebrews. Abigaille poisons herself, begging Fenena for forgiveness, she dies. Nabucco is proclaimed King of Kings.

TA DA!

Thousands pour into Georgian capital to protest

Russia may cancel military talks with NATO

Kazakhstan snubs NATO games in support for Russia

Russia gives cautious response to Obama nuclear plan

Russia responded cautiously on Monday to U.S. President Barack Obama's plans for a nuclear-free world, saying a number of conditions would need to be met for the vision to become reality.

Obama pledged earlier this month in the Czech Republic to cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal, bring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into force and seek tough penalties for those that broke rules on non-proliferation.

On the first day of a two-day official visit to Finland, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in a speech at Helsinki University that the topic of nuclear disarmament had become one of "high hopes."

SHOOT THE HOPIUM, POST AMERICA!
Or at least stop off at your local Discount Liquors on your way home.

US signs Afghanistan transit deal with Tajikistan

Ambassadors of Afghanistan and Israel accredited in Turkmenistan

EU normalises relations with Turkmenistan

European Comission opens representation in Turkmenistan

Putin gets to work on Turkmenistan

New criminal procedure & labor codes adopted in Turkmenistan
Breast feeding, even! A notoriusly procedurally laborious endeavor obviously requiring legislation by State!!

"On protecting and advocating breast feeding and requirements to baby food,"
"On quality and safety of food products"
"On amendments to and annulment of some laws of Turkmenistan"
"On election of members of Gengeshes"
"On procedures of passing decisions in relation to the administrative-territorial system of Turkmenistan as well as giving and changing names of state enterprises, organizations, entities and other facilities."

British Ambassador to pay official visit to Kazahkstan

Invitation to visit Kazakhstan sent to Hillary Clinton

In connection with the solemn ceremony of laying of the first stone of the Kazakhstan-American Islamic Cultural Center planned in May, 2009,

...That's fucking solemn alright.

UAE plans to invest US$1 bln in Kazakhstan

UZBEKISTAN: A CASHLESS SOCIETY

Uzbekistan is bracing itself for a cash shortage. The Central Bank has ordered banks to cease making cash payments from April 23 until the end of the month, an opposition news site has claimed.

Experts say it may be a ham-fisted attempt to control consumer spending and keep a lid on inflation.

Christian Persecution persists in Uzbekistan

Persecution seems to be heightened in Uzbekistan as several more Christians are imprisoned or fined for sharing their faith with children.

Brides getting younger in Uzbekistan
Aisha was 6 when the Brophet married her and 9 when the Brophet mounted her.
STFU or We Kill You! Religion of Peace!

Uzbekistan lures Saudi tourists this summer
How much for the little girls, my friend? I hear you have cash shortage.

Pakistan, Uzbekistan feel warmth of ties
Tie her hands and feet till they are warm. How much for her? I hear you have cash shortage.

AUGUST, 2007: China and Russia Begin Teasing Washington

Moscow and Beijing have teamed up and appear determined to send a message to the White House, singly and together, which translated could mean, “Don’t mess with us” and “Stay clear of our allies.”

The two countries are currently playing war games together with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, all members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), considered a buffer to US oil and gas ambitions in the Caspian.

September 2008: The Supertheory of Supereverything
It's not like the Stanistan Follies have not been happening right in front of our eyes and for YEARS...

190K dead from Chinese radiation
The only thing standing in the way of PROGRESS is humanity! Those are not people, those are Possessions of State.

As many as 190,000 people in China may have died as a result of the country's atomic weapons tests.

China's Banks Ease Foreign Energy Deals

Westinghouse begins construction of nuclear plants in China

NW China raises birds to ward off locusts across Sino-Kazak border
My Country Has Many Locusts. Welcome!

For China's New Left, Old Values

China to issue stimulus plan on petrochem sector

India launches spy satellite

In GNU WHIRLED ODOR News:

WSJ: Recent events confirm that we're living in a new world of disorder

IMF set for huge expansion as world finance ministers meet

A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF

Bowing to a new economic world order, the IMF would grant fresh powers to the likes of China, India and Brazil.

THE NATION OF ISLAM SEZ:

"We are walking on the edge of something new that is leading us into the future of a New World Order that is right and exact"

POV CUBA: The Secret Summit

The United States president has been very active. According to press reports he has not only taken part in the plenary session of the Summit but also met with every regional subgroup.

G8 Agriculture Ministers' Meeting Final Declaration

In view of the Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the G8 Countries to be held on La Maddalena, from 8 to 10 July 2009, but also in view of other international fora where food security will be debated, we wish to forward the following messages to the world leaders:

1. Agriculture and food security are at the core of the international agenda.

Nonprofit Groups to Push for Exceptions to Lobby Rule

The White House has granted three waivers, the first to William J. Lynn, a Raytheon lobbyist who became deputy defense secretary. The other two went to Cecilia Muñoz of the National Council of La Raza, who is now White House director of intergovernmental affairs, and Jocelyn Frye of the National Partnership for Women and Families, who is now Michelle Obama’s policy director.

Cecilia Muñoz .... of the National Council of FUCKING La Raza. LA RAZA!
Attention all ye plebian gringos, pathetic gwylo, back stabbin' wasichu, moronic honkies, donkeys and assorted whipper snappin' cracker jacks:
LA RAZA means "The Race".
Also La Raza is McCain's favorite communist front immigration group.
And you people think you have two parties?
Ha Ha Ha!
Welcome to Post America! Enjoy your flight.

Who is White House director of intergovernmental affairs since 11/26/08, and with ZERO MSM attention. Google it, you'll see.

Munoz, meanwhile, will oversee the White House office responsible for relations between the administration and state and local governments. The 2000 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" winner is a senior vice president at the National Council of La Raza, a leading Hispanic civil rights group. There, she has spearheaded many of the organization's immigration initiatives. Currently, she is in charge of the group's entire advocacy and legislative agenda.

"We're continuing to build a White House team that can rise to the challenges facing this country -- and I couldn't be more excited to announce Jon and Cecilia," Obama said. "I'm confident that at a critical time in our history, this White House will restore openness and accountability to our executive branch and help to put government back in the hands of the people it serves."

Raytheon and Narus Partner to Offer Real-Time Network Traffic Intelligence to Protect Government
My Hair Rays hereby declare war on Raytheon!
ulululululululu!

The Good Lobbyist

New York Times - The president issued one for William Lynn, a lobbyist for the powerful defense contractor Raytheon who was his indispensable choice to be deputy secretary ..

One what? One waiver that cites UNUSUAL & EXIGENT Circumstances. Indispensible!

Wearing the Gubbmint Wire:

U.S. Army leaders are asking three U.S. prime defense contractors to develop wearable Army communications prototype systems that integrate radios, batteries, software, body armor, and combat helmet

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The Army is asking the Raytheon Co. Network Centric Systems segment in McKinney, Texas; General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, Ariz.; and Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to develop prototype wearable network centric warfare systems as part of the Ground Soldier Ensemble (GSE) program.

Ground Soldier Ensemble? Sounds like a gay Nazi dance troupe. WTF is it?

The Ground Soldier Ensemble (GSE) is a system-of-systems that provides dismounted soldiers increased situational awareness, decreased reaction times, and reduces the risk of fratricide. GSE focuses on providing mature technologies, that when integrated together on the Soldier, minimize the size, weight and power impacts to the Soldier while providing improved situational awareness and network connectivity capabilities at various echelon levels within a brigade combat team.

TACOM Contracting Center has established a Major System Website for Ground Soldier Ensemble (GSE), with an Executive Summary currently posted and available for review

That Executive Summary link, BTW, is dead now. And from reading that hooplebabble I still wouldn't really know WTF it is. Other than it "prevents fratricide". Ohhkay.

Fire causes $100000 in damage at Raytheon building

Earnings Preview: Raytheon Co.

Raytheon Celebrates Math Awareness Month by buying children for $300,000
Math awareness month? Dare I celebrate that I am aware that there is math this month!

Oracle to buy Sun Micro for over $7 billion

US Stocks Slide As Bank Solvency Worries Rise

The Republican Party: Capitalism’s Benedict Arnold

The current financial debacle is not the result of mere incompetence but rather intentional malice.

VIDEO: Stiglitz Slams Geithner, Summers, Obama and Goldman Sachs

Bank Profits Appear Out of Thin Air
Ta Da! Behold the Gold Man's Sacks!

Bank Nationalization Is On Its Way

An MSNBC/New York Times report indicates that the Obama Administration will go forth with bank nationalization by converting TARP aid into common stock shares in banks. The beauty of this approach, from the standpoint of the Administration, is that it avoids a showdown with Congress over bank nationalization by allowing nationalization to take place without any further Congressional authorization.

Rep. Weiner: TARP banks already 'effectively nationalized'

Secondary Sources: Reform, Backdoor Nationalization, Regulation

Brookings Institute: Bank Nationalization: A Survival Manual

Exploit-the-Earth Day!

House passes bill outlawing bestiality
That they even feel they NEED to says it all.
You can not legislate behavior. You can only COVENANT it.

United Kingdom May Launch Abortion Commercials
[there are no words]

“It’s crucial that women who are pregnant have access to high-quality, accurate information about all their choices,” said Julie Bentley, an IAG supporter whose salary is paid by the pro-abortion Family Planning Association.

Planned Parenthood Annual Report: Abortions, Revenue Up
Death is big business. And don't you fuck with these people's money or they will go all batshit crazy and put your clingy bitter ass on a terrorist watch list.

Sebelius wins committee approval as HHS secretary

"However, after learning about her inexplicable omission of donations from the late-term abortion doctor George Tiller, I have to reevaluate my support for her nomination," Hatch said in a statement. "I regard human life to be sacred, and it troubles me to have someone with an apparent cavalier attitude toward life — as well as a lack of candor on this important issue — head our nation's health services."

The White House stuck by Sebelius

Faked Evidence of “Gay Conversion”?
You mean sometimes "people of Science" might fake evidence to suit their agendas or in service to their government or corporate paymasters? Unheard of ! Absurd! Science of Peace!

The FP Quiz
No, not THAT FP!

Are you a globalization junkie? Test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works.

5.1 in North Sulawesi

Sumatran volcano shows intensified volcanic activity
It's a volcano. What other kind of activity would it have? Who writes this shit?

Abruzzo Earthquake Uncovered Long-Lost Fresco of Madonna and Child

Big earthquake coming sooner than we thought, Oregon geologist says
Yeah, I know. Viva Subduction.

Volcano 'poses tsunami threat' in Caribbean

Bubbles & the Shit Rockers
Liquor & Whores

WFRL: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Ennio Morricone
Theme from The Good The Bad & The Ugly

WFRL: We Are Scientists!

We Are Scientists
Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt

Come inside,
and enjoy our hospitality!
You will be safe here...

MrsOC's Feral House of Bongos Presents: COMBOBULATE

The Incredible Bongo Band
Let There Be Drums

Discombobulation.

Everyone uses this term. Why does no one ever say combobulation? There must be existing combobulation first before you can dis it, you'd think....

But NO
combobulation is not a word.
bobulate? Also, not a word.

So WTF is this term and where did it come from, I ask?

Discombobulation:
Origin:
1825–35, Americanism;
fanciful alteration of discompose
or discomfort

Hmmmmm, Americanism; fanciful alteration....
Which means one day people may be saying caliphellator, masterflation, hooplewanky and Jewtian too.

Oh freakin' my.

This morning after a night of smoking cigars
And drinking brown liquor
I am sore challenged
(Albeit not so sore as
I might have anticipated) myself
Again to combobulate.
Is that what one does?
Is that the name of the task
Of pulling the scattered bits
Of consciousness back
From the edges of perception
Into the wholeness of being?
Mending the vessels
Smashed, not in the act of creation
But in the happy fellowship
Of alcoholic revelry
Ah, yes, that wise man said
"Not in rioting and drunkenness"
Sadly, or luckily, for a man my age
Chambering and wontenness are not options
After an evening of scotch and cigars.
Age makes making no account for the flesh
Easier, in that regard, than youth.
~ Lucius Biberius Ultor

Come, Bob
You late.
Dis come
Bob
Yule ate
Combo bull
eight
Disco me
Bobo ulate
Come, Bobo
ulate.
~ Lucius Septimius

Combobulated,
Syncopated,
Elated, as I anticipated,
When the discombobulation,
Thudding 'cross our sorry nation,
Ceased to vex and hex me,
Discomfort, and obsess me,
Oh, dancin' to a bongo rhythm,
Is the way we should be livin'!
When the happy syncopation,
Fills us up with bright elation,
No more discombobulation,
Confusion, heartache, rearrangin',
I ease into combobulation!
~TalkinKamel

Combobulate?
I said aloud and several times at that
What is that word?
it’s incomplete, a brim without a hat
it strikes me as a piece of word
a little slice of “pi”
Or maybe as a great ape called
a “mate” without the “pri”
You see what sort of mischief
you could find yourself “volved” in
It could be anything at all
from “re” to “e” or “diss” -begin
To see the possibilities!
If you start lopping to create
You’re likely to combobulate
a decent subject for debate.
~ mrsoc

I'll take the sheeseburger combobulation
with fries
and a large soda.
~Battlestar PKactica

ComBabba-ulation!
~ PK, Super Genius

Salutations!
from ~
The Fabulous Isle of Combobulation.
Behold, we are a jewel among all nations,
Filled with feral ministrations,
strange and beautiful gyrations
and some gypsy undulations
(after much procrastination).
So meet me at the station
you don't need a reservation
come one
come all
come unification
The Fabulous Isle of Combobulation
awaits your convocation.
Whaddaya want, an engraved invitation?
~ Her Exigency, BabbaZee

The Majestics
Funky Chick

WFRL: Cashing the Zimmy

Johhny Cash does the Prophet Zimmy's
It Ain't Me Babe ~ 1965

WFRL: Walk Away

The James Gang
Walk Away

So, they shook the dust from their sandals
in protest against them
and they split to Iconium.
There the talmidim were filled with simcha deluxe
& mondo Floatin' Powa.
~ Acts 13 51:52
BabbaZee Bronx Paraphrase Translation

Yom Ha Shoah, Counting the Omer, and the World in a Coma....

Singing Hatikvah
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
April 15, 1945

THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL LIVE!

Shoah is the Hebrew word for "whirlwind." It is the term used to described the conflagration that swept up six million Jewish souls between 1938 and 1945. A war was waged against the Jews in which unspeakable atrocities were perpetrated against a defenseless people. Men and women, young and old alike, were butchered at the hands of the accursed Nazis, may their name be eradicated for all time. Every year, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the martyrs who sanctified the name of G-d in the camps, the ghettos, and in the gas chambers.

Yom HaShoah
(Holocaust Remembrance Day)

1. Yom HaShoah - How To Remember The Holocaust
   
2. Yom HaShoah and Lessons to be Remembered
   
3. Community - Then, Now, and Forever
   
4. The Sound of Silence
   
5. A Vital Transmission

The full name of the day commemorating the victims of the Holocaust is “Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah”— literally the "Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism." It is marked on the 27th day in the month of Nisan — a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers). It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

The date was selected by the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) on April 12, 1951. The full name became formal in a law that was enacted by the Knesset on August 19, 1953. Although the date was established by the Israeli government, it has become a day commemorated by Jewish communities and individuals worldwide.

This Yom Hashoah we are no closer to a new day than we were in 1938 when the Evian Conference was held on the French side of Lake Geneva, when the civilized world signaled to Hitler that no one gave a damn about the Jews.

2009. Here we are, convening in Geneva again. This time on the Swiss side. On Hitler's birthday, On Yom Hashoah, telegraphing to the entire glowball that absolutely zero has changed. Do not think for one minute the timing of this conference is innocent.

We count the Omer, we fast, we pray, while the world languishes in a very, very familiar coma. There is nothing new under the sun, and why should today be different than any other day?

Song Of Moses upon it all.

Full Text of Ahmadinejad's Remarks at Durban II

GLOWBALL UNITY THROUGH JEW KILLING!

The making of a global society is in fact the accomplishment of a noble held in the establishment of a common global system that will be run with the participation of all nations of the world in all major and basic decision making processes and the definite route to this sublime goal. Scientific and technical capacities as well as communication technologies have created a common and wider spread understanding of the world society and has provided the necessary ground for a common system.

Elie Wiesel attacked as "Zio-Nazi"
by Ahmadinejad's entourage at Durban II

Nobel Laureate Wiesel Condemns Ahmadinejad At Geneva Meeting

Wiesel called the presence of Ahmadinejad and his opening speech at the UN racism conference on April 20 "an insult to our intelligence."

"Here we are now in the United Nations, an organization created as a response to the atrocities of the Second World War and we have to protest against anti-Semitic speech," Wiesel said.

A UNITED Nations meeting on racism on Tuesday adopted a final declaration against racism, xenophobia and intolerance, a day after an anti-Israel speech by Iran's president triggered a mass walkout.

'Ladies and gentlemen, you have taken a momentous decision to adopt the document,' president of the meeting, Amos Wako said, describing it as a 'historic outcome.'

Wako, the attorney general of Kenya, added that the move 'shows that one can remain constructively engaged and reach a consensus.'

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has previously called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map, on Monday criticised the creation of a 'totally racist government in occupied Palestine' in 1948.

He called it 'the most cruel and repressive racist regime.' His speech prompted a walkout by 23 delegations of European Union countries, and a flurry of condemnation from Western nations. -- AFP

BTW? Those who "walked out' all went right back in, EXCEPT for the Czech Republic:

The phenomenon was astonishing. The UN provided a platform for a virulent antisemite on the anniversary of the birth of Adolf Hitler. In the name of fighting intolerance, they translated his words into six languages and broadcast them around the world. As he entered the grand room at the UN's Palais Wilson, he was met by a round of applause. And this is what he said.

He began by denying the Holocaust: The "Zionist regime" had been created "on the pretext of Jewish sufferings and the ambiguous and dubious question of holocaust."

And he continued with a genocidal agenda: "the egoist and uncivilized Zionism have been able to deeply penetrate into their political and economic structure including their legislation, mass media, companies, financial systems, and their security and intelligence agencies. They have imposed their domination to the extent that nothing can be done against their will. As long as they are at the helm of power, justice will never prevail in the world. It is time the ideal of Zionism, which is the paragon of racism, to be broken. The world Zionism personifies racism that falsely resorts to religion and abuse religious sentiments to hide their hatred and ugly faces."

As he spoke, the European Union countries that had not withdrawn earlier finally stood up and walked out. But they didn't really understand what had just happened at all, for when he was finished, all but the Czech Republic went right back in.

The American Response?

U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the UN Alejandro Wolff told reporters after Ahmadinejad's appearance at the conference, "I can't think of any other word than shameful." He said it was a a "vile and hateful speech."

But Wolff then brushed the address aside, making it clear that the evil expressed would not prevent S. Deputy Ambassador to the UN Alejandro Wolff told reporters after Ahmadinejad's appearance at the

"It does a grave injustice to the Iranian nation and the Iranian people, and we call on the Iranian leadership to show much more measured, moderate, honest and constructive rhetoric when dealing with issues in the region," he said.

U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood likewise told reporters in Washington that despite "this horrible rhetoric," America was still hoping to open diplomatic talks with Iran, in keeping with Obama's policy of engagement. "I am not precluding it because we have said very straightforwardly that we want to have direct diplomacy with Iran," Wood said.

Same bullshit as the Euros walking out and then walking RIGHT BACK IN.

"The 23 European countries … walked out all together because the speech by Mr Ahmadinejad was inadmissible," Mr Kouchner told Europe1 radio. "We didn't walk out of the conference and we'll come back."

France questions US boycott of racism conference

France's foreign minister warned Tuesday that the U.S. decision to boycott a U.N. racism conference could be a mistake and hurt efforts to reach out to Iran.

US Weighing Punishing Israel if it Attacks Iran

One of President Obama's closest foreign policy advisers, National Security Council member Samantha Power, is a proponent of ending military aid to Israel in order to force it to negotiate with Iran's Palestinian Islamist proxy, Hamas, and withdraw from all lands taken during the Six-Day War of June 1967. Power also advocates shifting aid to a Palestinian state. Overall, she views Israel as a liability and a historic mistake, in line with the European left position (and that of old-line, right-of-center, American isolationists and anti-Semites). Her antidemocratic admirers in the Democratic Party's (Hillary-hating) left wing agree and are eager for an opportunity to paint Israel as a Jewish North Korea (although they actually have more sympathy for North Korea than for Israel).

US banks want to open branches in Iran

Four American banks, including Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, filed requests with Central Bank of Iran....

Pope: UN racism conference 'important initiative'

THE RABBI IS CORRECT:

Do not think for one second that the Vatican and this Pope are not fully aware of the real agenda present at Durban.

Pope Benedict's decision to send a Vatican delegation to a United Nations conference on racism has opened a new rift in relations with Jewish groups, who fear it will be used as a platform to attack Israel.

"By participating, the Vatican has given its endorsement to what is being prepared there (against Israel)," Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, told the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Iran warns Israel not to attack nuclear sites

But parliament speaker Ali Larijani said if Israel attacked, "Iran will respond in a way that they will not be able to sleep easy anymore."

AMERICA warns Israel not to attack Iran's nuclear sites

Amid increasing suggestions that Israel might attack Iran's nuclear facilities, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned this week that such a strike would have dangerous consequences, and asserted that Tehran's acquisition of a bomb can be prevented only if "Iranians themselves decide it's too costly."

Using his strongest language on the subject to date, Gates told a group of Marine Corps students that a strike would probably delay Tehran's nuclear program from one to three years. A strike, however, would unify Iran, "cement their determination to have a nuclear program, and also build into the whole country an undying hatred of whoever hits them," he said.

Yah, that's right. AMERICA. Also in case you forgot GATES is a holdover from the Bush Administration. And his Igor is Bill Raytheon Lynn, who won his position despite his conflicts of interests with a note from the Black Messiah citing UNUSUAL and EXIGENT circumstances.

Ahmadinejad receives 'warm welcome' home after UN summit speech

The state-run news agency IRNA reported a "sensational scene" awaiting Ahmadinejad in Tehran. "People from all walks of life, including university students, [who] had gathered as of the early hours of Tuesday morning, warmly welcomed their political leader at the airport," Irna said. Those who opposed his speech were described as "hooligans"

Eli Wiesel, you hooligan!

Arab world applauds Ahmadinejad's speech amid catcalls for US

THE Iranian President's inflammatory speech to a United Nations conference in Geneva attracted largely positive reaction across the Arab world. Al-Quds, the Palestinian Arabic newspaper published in Jerusalem, led yesterday's issue with its coverage of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech.

"European and Western countries withdrew from the session during the speech of Iranian President as soon as he mentioned Palestine and criticised the establishment of the state of Israel," it said.

Al-Ayyam, published in the large West Bank city of Ramallah, devoted its front page to the walk-out staged by several European nations.

It cast the Ahmadinejad speech as criticism of the way Israel treated Palestinians.

A leading Arabic newspaper published in London and widely read across the Palestinian territories, al-Quds al-Arabi, said the Iranian President had only spoken the truth.

Mr Ahmadinejad "succeeded in exposing the Western double standards and in highlighting the Palestinian just cause when he affirmed in his speech at the opening session of Durban Review Conference Against Racism on the racism of Israel and on how the West solved the Jewish problem at the expense of the Palestinians", the editorial said.

"The European delegations that withdrew from the conference in protest against the speech of Ahmadinejad revealed in the clearest form their support to the Israeli racism and showed that they support the massacres committed against the Palestinian people, the latest of which was the recent aggression on Gaza Strip."

[HASAN CHOP]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped language describing the Holocaust as "ambiguous and dubious" from a speech attacking Israel
Yeah? Mighty fucking white of him.

UN racism talks 'back on track'

"In the drama of yesterday, everyone forgot what the conference is actually about," said Rupert Colville. "I think we are back on track now." His optimism was echoed by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who said the meeting is "not at all a failure but the beginning of a success"

Wigged hecklers booted from Durban II

Members of the European Union of Jewish Students also attempted to block the Iranian leader's appearance at a news conference. Heuze said Tuesday the students "have no chance of returning."

Music: John William's theme to Schindlers List
Performed by Itzhak Perlman

‏וַאֲבָֽרֲכָה֙ מְבָ֣רְכֶ֔יךָ וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ֖ אָאֹ֑ר וְנִבְרְכ֣וּ בְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הָאֲדָמָֽה׃

I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you
I will curse
Genesis 12