Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are, jointly, the strongest threat to Republican dominance in a generation. So it should come as no surprise (CNN) that frustrated conservative students are plotting to kill Hillary Clinton, and that Barack Obama has had to get a Secret Service detail. Some Republican Party members cannot deal with the fact that the Democratic Party and its idealistic vision for America are ascendant — and so, like they did with Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Republicans are planning to kill Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Any such attempt will only more openly expose the Republicans for the hatemongers they are.

Bear with me please …

For 6 years now, I have been checking irregulartimes to find out what the word from across the pond was. Yeh … I’m English. I’m drunk too … like I said, bear with me So, I’m wondering how many people who visit this site are feeling the need for large scale social revolution. Because I am. In fact, I have renounced my life in exchange for a just social system applicable to all human beings. This is quite a big thing for me (I’ll have you know) as I am a physics undergraduate, with a life of luxury almost guaranteed for me under our current social system.

 But the only way I can feel ”true” … the only world I feel I can bring a child into, is a world where each individual human is encouraged to be a productive and happy member of a world society. I do not feel I can live as a parasite, living off the labour of my third world counterparts.  

So I continue my degree … I struggle on, knowing as I work (or laze about when I cannot be bothered to work, ) that some poor soul(s) is/are labouring for my bread, or the copper for my computer , or the nylon for my nikes. When I finish my degree, I will (no doubt) begin working for a successful multinational corporation, exploiting the children of those who now labour for me.

In 2012 many people believe that the world will come to an end, based on the abstruse conjectures around the mayan calendrical system. By this time, I will be working deep within the bowels of said corporation. My true friends, my soldiers, true humans, true revolutionaries, will also be working deep in the corporate structure, across many fields.  Perhaps, dear reader, you will be too. You see, I believe there is a significance to the mayan calendrical system. I believe, that at the end of this baktun 12 in 2012 (which began with cortez arriving in mexico,) the people of the former colonial powers should recognize their obligations to the people who have been our slaves for half a millenia. 

Bringing this full circle, my life goal is world revolution against the abstract legal systems which force our society into a perverse master-slave system by 2017. Many friends of mine will follow me in this. I would be interested in an indication from all visitors of this site of their interest in a general revolt against established models of society. I don’t claim to have the answer. I just want to know, how many of you want to find one ?

 For Peace, Love, Sustainable Living, and a Neo-society of open humans :

Yours, Mike McNally

 P.S. mcnallers@hotmail.com if you are interested in non-violent world revolution in our lifetime. And please comment, even if you think I am a joke, or clinically naive. Or, perhaps, you want to hear more. I will oblige.

     

They told you that buzzards were only scavengers. They told you only rotting carrion had anything to fear. They were lying.

In northern Spain, residents are finally telling the truth. Vultures are no mere scavengers.

A group of hungry vultures has been seen to attack a mother cow and her calf, murdering them before eating them. This seems to be the new vulture ethic: Create your own carrion!

If vultures in Spain can switch from searching for dead animals to eat to looking for live animals to eat, then they can evolve their behavior again. One more change like this, and those vultures could be hunting human beings. Once they make such a switch, the territory available to them would nearly worldwide, including such hunting grounds as Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, and Los Angeles.

Don’t be afraid to spread the warning. The emperor has no clothes! Protect your children! Reinforce your windows with plywood! The vultures are coming!

Are there any so blind as those who refuse to see what I tell them?

If you will open your eyes, then consider these two facts for just a moment:

Fact #1: Yesterday, I revealed the coming evolutionary leap of vultures all around the Earth, from scavengers to evil, plotting predators.
Fact #2: Today, scientists observed the most powerful explosion ever seen, a supernova more powerful than any other exploding star ever recorded by humankind.

Is it a mere coincidence that these two things happened, one right after the other? A child could see how absurd that suggestion is. Do you know what the chances are of that being a coincidence? Honest historians will tell you the truth: It’s never happened before - not ever!

So, the question is not whether the coincidence has any meaning. Rather, the important question is this: What is the meaning of the coincidence of the supersupernova explosion right after the vulture conspiracy was revealed?

The conclusion is unavoidable: Jesus Christ has been born again, and is bringing with him the end of the world. Yes, skeptics may scoff, but they when have they ever shown the courage to believe in anything.

Just as the star of Bethlehem announced the first coming of Christ, this newest, even stronger star announces the coming of Jesus once again. The vultures, well, the vultures are preparing for the cosmic battle of Armageddon.

Prepare yourselves! We’re all going to die, and only some of us will be born again!

I’ve been struggling for a long time to identify my discomfort with Vice President Dick Cheney. But this morning, I saw a photograph that brought it all together for me.

I can keep my suspicions private no longer. Isn’t it time we all start asking the question that has long been on our minds? Is Dick Cheney The Penguin?

Nefarious plots? Check.
Hideout in a secret, undisclosed location? Check.

Physical resemblance? Now, thanks to this photograph, confirmed.

I’m not saying it’s a slam dunk or anything. I’ll leave conclusions like that to George Tenet. Maybe it’s a coincidence. Maybe I’ll shine the bat signal tonight and see if Dick Cheney comes out to play.

I was just looking at an article on the web site of the New York Daily News just a couple minutes ago, when a popup advertisement for Orbitz got in the way of my reading. After a second or two, the Orbitz ad retreated behind other windows, waiting for me to find it and read it again later.

Two hits for the price of one. How clever.

As I was deleting the Orbitz popup ad off my screen, I realized that for quite some time now, I’d stopped thinking of Orbitz as a company through which I can get special deals on travel. I had honestly forgotten that Orbitz had anything to do with travel.

All I think of these days when it comes to Orbitz is its annoying popup advertisements, the ones that interfere with where I really want to go online. Consider the brand implications of that: Orbitz has become a brand of popup ads. Orbitz has become a brand of pestering and interference.

In short, the Orbitz brand has become aligned with frustration and delay. Note to Orbitz marketing team: For a travel company, that might not be a good idea.

Flipping around through the world associated with Irregular Times, I found a new corner today - Progressive Bumper Sticker. It’s a web site that is what it sounds like, but is more than what you might think.

It’s not just a catalog of progressive bumper stickers. In fact, it doesn’t even seem to be quite that yet - not enough entries.

Besides, the bumper stickers are from all over the web - different systems like Zazzle and CafePress, and different stores within those systems.

The idea of the web site is interesting to me. They don’t just put in a link to a progressive bumper sticker. They discuss the concepts behind the bumper sticker design.

It’s kind of like reading the cards of text on the wall next to the paintings in an art museum, except there seems to be a lot more relevance to these ideas, as they overtly political, and overtly progressive… or, well, liberal, as I would describe it.

It’s not a big sweeping site purporting to unite the masses behind a new movement of enlightenment and liberty and super genius charismatic leadership, though Progressive Bumper Sticker does good in its own way. It’s just a web site that looks at an unexplored niche, and tells what it sees. Simple.

Vroom, vroom.

Read here about Hillary Clinton’s willingness to quietly, without fanfare or fuss, reach across the aisle to George Herbert Walker Bush, the president of the early 1990s. While Barack Obama speaks in soaring cadences about reaching across partisan divisions, Hillary Clinton is doing it. George Herbert Walker Bush has come to admire Hillary Clinton’s wit and wisdom. I look forward to her entering the White House as president and building those kind of cross-party alliances full-time.

This is too close to happening to be funny, I found this on the web, if anyone knows who wrote it, let me know so I can give credit.

Operator: Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?

Customer: Hi, I’d like to place an order.

Operator: I must have your NIDN first, sir.

Customer: My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it’s 6102049998-45-54610.

Operator: Thank you Mr Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number is 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number is 266-2566. Email address is sheehan@home.net. Which number are you calling from sir?

Customer: Huh? I’m at home. Where’d you get all this information?

Operator: We’re wired into the HSS, sir.

Customer: The HSS, what is that?

Operator: We’re wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time.

Customer: (sighs) Oh well, I’d like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas.

Operator: I don’t think that’s a good idea, sir.

Customer: Whaddya mean?

Operator: Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate that you’ve got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won’t allow such an unhealthy choice.

Customer: What?!?! What do you recommend, then?

Operator: You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I’m sure you’ll like it.

Customer: What makes you think I’d like something like that?

Operator: Well, you checked out ‘Gourmet Soybean Recipes’ from your local library last week, sir. That’s why I made the suggestion.

Customer: All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then.

Operator: That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids. Your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99.

Customer: Lemme give you my credit card number.

Operator: I’m sorry sir, but I’m afraid you’ll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit.

Customer: I’ll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here.

Operator: That won’t work either, sir. Your checking account is overdrawn also.

Customer: Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I’ll have the cash ready. How long will it take?

Operator: We’re running a little behind, sir. It’ll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you’re in a hurry you might want to pick’em up while you’re out getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward.

Customer: Wait! How do you know I ride a scooter?

Operator: It says here you’re in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo’ed. But your Harley’s paid for and you just filled the tank yesterday.

Customer: Well, I’ll be a #%#^^&$%^$@#

Operator: I’d advise watching your language, sir. You’ve already got a July 4, 2003 conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here in September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at a judge. Oh yes, I see here that you just got out from a 90 day stay in the State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your return to society?

Customer: (speechless)

Operator: Will there be anything else, sir?

Customer: Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke..

Operator: I’m sorry sir, but our ad’s exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits this.

Thank you for calling Pizza Hut.

The next time you hear some supposed “expert” from The Heritage Foundation given the chance to speak on an NPR program like the Diane Rehm show, remember this graphic here, taken straight from The Heritage Foundation’s web site. It’s from a page of political propaganda promoting the evisceration of Social Security.

You see, The Heritage Foundation isn’t really a think tank so much as it is a propaganda factory dedicated to pumping out justifications for the right wing agenda. That’s why The Heritage Foundation’s page on Social Security includes this graphic (I added the critical words below). Even now in 2007, two years after the American people overwhelmingly rejected the right wing plan to kill Social Security, The Heritage Foundation is still trying to push it. They’re still working the tired old line that, because the Social Security system might be short of some money a couple of generations in the future, we ought to just go ahead and kill it now.

This claim has been made by the right wing since the 1970s. It’s a matter of political faith, not careful research and consideration. The right wingers just hate the idea of the government helping working people to come together to ensure some security for the families in the face of old age, infirmity, and tragic accidents. They’d prefer that we rely on shaky private schemes that involve investing in corporations like Halliburton and Enron.

Social Security doesn’t have insufficient funds - not anything close to it. The Heritage Foundation does, however, have insufficient credibility.

Rahim Faiez writes for the Associated Press this morning, “Suspected insurgents ambushed a U.S.-led coalition and Afghan patrol in the volatile south, sparking a battle and airstrikes that killed 25 suspected insurgents, officials said Monday.”

Here’s what I don’t understand: The people who performed the ambush performed an act of insurgency. So, how come they’re described as suspected insurgents?

I’d write more about this, but a suspected baseball just made a suspected hole in my window, and I see a suspected kid running down the street. Gotta go.

Liberals never can understand the value of hard day’s work. They’re just lazy effette professors who want to keep their fingernails clean.

How do I know this? I read for myself, that’s how.

Liberals hate sweatshops. Everywhere they go, they call for no sweat in factories.

Really! They expect companies to employ people, but never ask the workers to break a sweat. Wimps!

I mean, if people don’t ever sweat in factories, then how will they ever lift big boxes? Will they have to have little boxes with doilies on them?

The socialist liberals with their Marxist love of the free market of laziness keep on demanding that companies like Hanes and The Gap hire only people who never break a sweat. No sweatshops! No sweatshops!

They also demand that no children be hired to make Americans good clothing with honest family values in them. Well, how are those kids ever going to learn the value of a good hard day of work unless we help them?

Do you know, I went to Bangladesh once, almost. I saw pictures of people in Bangladesh, anyway, and let me tell you that, although they’re all very poor, they’re also very happy. They love it. They wouldn’t trade their so-called lifestyle for our decadent society of mansions and jewelry and fancy cars and Hollywood liberals. No sir!

They want our money, which is why they’re happy to work for a nickel a day.

You know what burns me? The liberals insult those people. They call those people “exploited”, and try to take away their jobs by instituting some kind of minimum wage or something.

I am so sick of liberal wimps insulting workers that I’m going to go to Wal-Mart and go buy more shirts made in Indonesia, just to make them mad.

It’s a higher moral calling.

Traitor!

That’s all I have to say after reading this news on DemocraHATEic presidential candidate Bill Richardson:

At one point, asked a question about his heritage, Richardson offered to answer the question in either English or Spanish — then burst into French.

French! What gall! Everybody knows that Christopher Columbus, and Ponce De Leon, and Leif Ericson, and all the other first settlers of America, spoke ENGLISH! Leon, Christopher, and Eric are all English names (OK, Leif, he was a hippy. His sister was named Ivy.). Now we know what he’ll do the next time some Islamofascist terrorist comes along! Richardson will give him a pat on the head, and a welfare check, and a BAGUETTE! With QUESO on it!

Traitor!

I found an article that really hits the nail on the head when it comes to the whole Al Bore global hot air thing. It’s called Why is it always the Planet with Environmentalists?

I am so sick of environmentalists talking about the planet. Planet this, planet that. Blah, blah, blah.

I’m tired of hearing about how much planet Earth is in trouble. Why should I work to save the planet when Osama Bin Laden is plotting to blow up the shopping mall down the street from me?

Well, this article asks the question, but it doesn’t have enough guts to get to the real answer.

Environmentalists are always talking about the planet because they’re really just a planet-worshipping cult. They believe that the Earth is a godess, and they hold orgiastic rituals to worship her, in what was foretold in prophecy as a sure sign of armageddon to come. Environmentalism is a cult, and its followers are a bunch of weirdos.

As for the planet, I say we allow market forces to determine whether it’s really worth keeping.

The following United States Senators have decided to do the right thing. They have decided to vote against the Democratic leadership’s plan to allow George W. Bush to continue the war in Iraq with no strings attached:

Chris Dodd*
Russ Feingold
John Kerry
Bernard Sanders

*You may not know this, if you only pay attention to the front runners, but Senator Chris Dodd is running for President in 2008. Give his campaign a second look today.

Give the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama a mouthful. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are waffling. Their backbones are wobbling. They say that, gosh, they just aren’t sure whether it’s a good idea to vote against an open-ended, no-restrictions reapproval of the war in Iraq.

What the hell are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton thinking?!?

Sadly, it’s all too familiar what the other Democratic senator running for President, Joseph Biden, is thinking. Senator Biden is thinking that now that Joseph Lieberman is an independent, he has a shot at becoming George W. Bush’s new favorite Democrat. He deserves the nickname Blank Check Biden.

Joseph Biden says he will vote in favor of reapproving and refunding the war in Iraq, giving George W. Bush exactly what he wants.

Don’t just look at the campaign rhetoric of the Democratic candidates for President. Look at their actions. The actions of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden this week show that their opposition to the Iraq War is weak. They’re looking like posers who say that they’re against the war in Iraq, but won’t lift a finger to do anything about it.

Shame on them. We need stronger leadership than what they have to offer.

If you believe in supernatural omens, look to Nepal for disaster. A statue in the village of Dolakha has got moisture on it.

Nepalese Hindus believe that when the idol of Bhimeshwor has moisture on it, very bad things happen. They believe that the statue is sweating. According to Shanta Krishna Shrestha, who manages the temple that houses the statue, a sweaty Bhimeshwor statue “denotes something like major political change or a natural calamity”.

How convenient for Shanta Krishna Shrestha, whose employment depends on panicky people making donations to the temple, that the statue is sweating. She has some of the same divine fortune that Ram Bomjon had when he performed his tricky little miracle (no one allowed to inspect the amazing fasting boy or see him after dark, please!).

So, how can we test the claim that the sweaty statue of Dolakha is an omen of major political or natural disaster to occur in Nepal? Well, we could wait and see if any major political or natural disaster takes place soon, but what would that prove? It could just be a coincidence. After all, political and natural disasters take place all the time.

Well, at least if a natural or political disaster does not take place, that proves that the sweaty statue omen cult is a fraud, right? Not absolutely. You see, those who believe in the power of moisture on the statue to foretell a dark future also believe that if a ritual known as the Kshyama Puja is performed, then the foretold disaster can be diverted.

It just so happens that the Kshyama Puja has been performed, with the results sent for the Prime Minister of Nepal to inspect. So, if no great political change or natural catastrophe takes place, believers can say that it is because the god has been appeased.

The system belief in the sweat omen of Bhimeshwor is carefully designed to evade every attempt of proof or disproof. That in itself is cause for suspicion.

A side note about Bhimeshwor: It seems that Bhimeshwor, also known as Bhimsen, is linked to Bhima, the strongman of the Pandava brothers, who is one of the main characters of the Mahabharata, of which the Baghavad-Gita is a part. A statue of Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas, is present in the sweaty temple of Dolakha as well.

These green green lima bean liberal econazis make me sick, what with their provocative global sexual cults and weird attachment to the idea of clean air and water. As if there is something inherently dirty about air and water!

Now I find this newest environmentalist wacko slogan: I don’t just hug trees. I kiss them too.

You kiss trees? Watch out for the splinter, spotted owl lover!

This tree loving nonsense has gone far enough. Gag me with a spoon - a good old fashioned metal spoon!

I am so sick of liberals being negative when it comes to our glorious war against terror.

Don’t they get it that people don’t want terror? Do we have to bash it through their head with a brick? I say that we wake the liberals up. Ordinary converstaion isn’t enough for them.

Liberals need to be scared. They need to be frightened in order to get them to support the war on terror. I say that we wake them up in the middle of the night and take them off to prison and show them videotapes of what terrorist do to people. I say that we terrify the liberals to get them to see the way the world really is. Then they’ll join us in our war against terrorists. It’s the only way!

Liberals, of course, will whine and complain. They’ll say that we’re using the tactics of those we oppose. Well, I don’t oppose the tactics, so I don’t know what they’re talking about, stupid liberals! Like, if I punch out a bully I’m wrong for using violence or something. As if!

Oh, war is a crime! Stop war! Do it now! Aren’t these liberals just like a bunch of spoiled toddlers? Stop the war now! No more criminal government! Wah, wah, wah! I want my pudding! Stop the killing! Diaper full!

Liberals need to stop being against things. They keep on talking about how they’re against war and against killing and against bombing and against torture and against invading other sovereign countries, and against war crimes.

Well, what are the liberals for? I mean, come on! What’s the alternative they suggest? There isn’t any alternative to war, which is why we’ll always need to be at war against evil. For the sake of peace, we cannot allow the naysayers to obstruct our troops as they march off to the war that, yes, is necessary!

Senator Hillary Clinton raised the ire of some Democrats when she voted to authorize a possible Iraq war in 2002. I say “some” because at that time, a number of Democrats as well as Republicans thought it was a good idea. Let’s not engage in historical revisionism on that point. Still, though, Senator Clinton has done a lot of thinking, studying, watching and reconsidering, and that’s what a good leader should do. Last night, Senator Hillary Clinton decided that enough was enough, and she voted a firm “NO” on sending President Bush another blank check for Iraq. Clinton explained her vote:

“Tonight I voted against the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill because it fails to compel the President to give our troops a new strategy in Iraq. I believe that the President should begin a phased redeployment of our troops out of Iraq and abandon this escalation. I fully support our troops, and wish the President had followed the will of the people and signed the original bill we sent which both funded the troops and set a new course of phased redeployment. But the President vetoed Congress’s new strategy and so Congress must reject the President’s failed policies. I will also continue to press with Senator Byrd for our legislation to end the authorization of the war in Iraq.”

Understand what Senator Clinton has done here. She has firmly, finally, joined the anti-war contingent of Americans that is our new majority. She passes my test.

Preaching of Lord in human form and digestion of the truth

Jesus preached wonderful knowledge. The ordinary fishermen were convinced and followed Him as the Lord. The priests of church were great saints who were unmarried and left every thing for the sake of God. Those priests were certainly higher then ordinary people. The ordinary people followed Jesus because they were convinced in their minds, intelligence and consciousness. They clarified their doubts with Jesus directly and were convinced. This is called as Atma Pramanam. These ordinary people did not look for the voting of the priests to Jesus. In fact, the priests opposed Jesus and crucified Him. In spite, of that the ordinary people followed Jesus since they were convinced. A priest has left every thing for the sake of God. No doubt they are greater people since they have greater urge. The greater urge itself cannot qualify any person. A student may have a greater urge for the answer but he might have not understood the answer given by the teacher. Another student might have not so much urge but has understood the answer. Between these two students who is greater?

Janaka was a king and did not leave the kingdom. Suka was a saint and left every thing with extreme urge for God. Janaka was appointed as examiner of Suka by sage Vyasa. Who is greater between these two? Though Janaka was a house holder and did not leave anything, he is the student with answer. Suka is a saint who left every thing and got answer from Janaka only. Quest is appreciable but cannot be the qualification. Capacity to understand the answer lies with the internal mental development (Samskara). The external orange robe, the quest for God, leaving every thing and roaming every where, attaining a post of Pithadhipati, studying scriptures by tradition etc., are certainly appreciable but are not the qualifications of greatness. A student may be in the uniform dress. He may have lot of urge to get the knowledge. He might have left his house and roamed from school to school. He might have become a teacher of a school. He might have studied the course according to discipline. He might have memorized and got through the examination and He might have thus got the degree and became the teacher. But still his doubts in the subject were not answered. Einstein and Ramanujam did not get a pass and could not get the degree. But they have perfectly understood the subject. Therefore, attainment lies in their internal samskaras and attaining the real preacher.

Both the samskaras and Guru (Preacher) are important for the attainment and not the other points. Both the pearl shell and the rain drop are essential for the formation of a pearl. Except these two, all the other factors are ephemeral only. You should judge anything by your self and in association with others through discussions and debates. In coming to the conclusion you can take the help of the discussions with others. But you should use your own intelligence and consciousness in final conclusion. In this way the participation of others is helpful. But to see whether some body lifted his hand or not for voting is a point is foolishness. You can discuss with him about the point. You should lift your hand based on your final conclusion. Even a cleaver person may go wrong in that particular point. Your vote should not depend on his vote.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org