Political campaigns wobble along on tired, overused, and incoherent metaphors. The 2012 event, whether you think it's an election or a selection, also features candidates who squeak along on the rusty wheels of gambling, sailing, traveling, and warring.
One common metaphor is the gambling hyperbole. "The stakes have never been higher!"
To reply, of course the stakes have been described as being higher. This gambling metaphor is dragged out whenever the candidate's speechwriters have come to a dead end. The candidate and speechwriters should be ashamed of having to stick their hands in the muddy waters of using an overworn analogy. But, they aren't ashamed, they continue to bleat about "The stakes have never been higher!"
It often takes a doctor to dignose ills in a patient, and so with political metaphors. Dr. Hunter S. Thompson peers at the 1972 US election pitting George McGovern and Richard Nixon. Hunter is ruthless at peeling the tarnishing gilt off political rhetoric, leaving it blowing tattered and looking ridiculous. For a fascinating, insighful, funny, and tragic look at the turn of the US in 1972, read
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 by Hunter. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7748.Fear_and_Loathing_on_the_Campaign_Trail_72
Hunter records the boxing metaphor, used by losing candidates who pretend that they have just been nice, and now it's time to "take off the gloves," implying that the losing candidate is now ready to beat up the other loser candidate.
Kudos to any candidates with original thoughts and original writers, who have the desire to serve the good citizens of the US, and honor the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.
For the other candidates, who look and sound like dangerous clowns, may they also endure a metaphor, of the last circle of Hell, where they must listen to endless loops of their ridiculous and treacherous tired rhetoric.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Californians to Vote on Proposition 34 to End the Death Penalty, November 06, 2012
"California's Historic Opportunity to End the Death Penalty. By John Cusack and John Dear. Truthout. Wednesday, Oct. 03, 2012.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11923-californias-historic-opportunity-to-end-the-death-penalty
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Washington Wolves Mirrored in The Ohio Lodge by Tony Fitzpatrick
Washington Wolves Mirrored in The Ohio Lodge by Tony Fitzpatrick
Via John Cusack's My Space:
http://tonyfitzpatrick.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/the-ohio-lodge/
It's writing describing a man who had just shot a deer, which he needed for food, being unemployed. Here is what he saw when he walked up to the dead deer, a doe:
"...he realized she was staring right at him, her eyes large and liquid, unblinking pools of black just boring into him from the snow...She kept staring. He turned his back and fished in his pocket for a cigarette. He lit it and felt the doe’s eyes on his back."
The man feels guilt, even though he needed the food.
This story seems to apply to the events during the last week of September 2012 in Washington State, when the tyranny of one rancher, added to the stupidity of people who pass as officials for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, who subverted their position from conservation to destruction of endangered wolves.
The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife liars and lunatics who sponsored the state-funded killing of a wolf family, there is no excuse. May the people who caused the deaths of the wolf family feel the eyes of the dead wolves staring on their backs. The wolves are dead, but the wolf spirits are not dead, and they will find ways to avenge the loss of an entire wolf family.
Via John Cusack's My Space:
http://tonyfitzpatrick.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/the-ohio-lodge/
It's writing describing a man who had just shot a deer, which he needed for food, being unemployed. Here is what he saw when he walked up to the dead deer, a doe:
"...he realized she was staring right at him, her eyes large and liquid, unblinking pools of black just boring into him from the snow...She kept staring. He turned his back and fished in his pocket for a cigarette. He lit it and felt the doe’s eyes on his back."
The man feels guilt, even though he needed the food.
This story seems to apply to the events during the last week of September 2012 in Washington State, when the tyranny of one rancher, added to the stupidity of people who pass as officials for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, who subverted their position from conservation to destruction of endangered wolves.
The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife liars and lunatics who sponsored the state-funded killing of a wolf family, there is no excuse. May the people who caused the deaths of the wolf family feel the eyes of the dead wolves staring on their backs. The wolves are dead, but the wolf spirits are not dead, and they will find ways to avenge the loss of an entire wolf family.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Washington State Department of Wildlife KILLERS Destroy Entire Wolf Pack!!!
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife KILLERS shot an entire wolf pack this week!
Calling themselves "officials," these state-sponsored killers ended September 2012 with a wolf bloodbath.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/28/14139127-wolf-pack-that-killed-cattle-taken-out-by-sharpshooters?lite
Killing an entire wolf pack is a horror story, not only for the wolves, who certainly didn't know that eating beef would sentence them to death. It's also a horror story for anyone who loves wild animals.
While the entire eastern side of Washington State is plagued with forest fires, the WSDFW KILLERS decided to expend taxpayer money to use a helicopter to gun down the wolves using the wolves' GPS tracking collar. Meanwhile, forests and homes are burning, and wildlife is under fire, but the KILLERS at the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife KILLERS decided instead to shoot like cowards at defenseless wild animals, while the state is literally burning around them.
"The collar around its neck was supposed to lead biologists to a better understanding of how an alpha male wolf leads its pack. Instead, that GPS collar is what sharpshooters in a helicopter used to track down and kill the followers of the Wedge Wolf Pack in northeast Washington state."
"Wolf Pack Wiped Out." Posted by Gary Chittim, King 5 News, Seattle, WA.
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2782817.shtml?cat=500
"ENDANGERED SPECIES — Some people are cheering and others are mourning Washington's mission involving a helicopter and gunman to kill six wolves this week and eliminate the Wedge Pack ...Eliminating a pack is a milestone in Washington wolf recovery and management. But it's a milestone long past in Idaho and Montana."
"Bad Week for Wolves in Washington and Elsewhere." Posted by Rich Landers. September 28, 2012 http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/
Here are other related links to this travesty from a Google search:
One commentor to the Spokesman-Review story says:
"The State of Washington just killed almost 20% of the state’s Wolf population, with taxpayer dollars, for the benefit of one rancher."
"Officials Finish Culling Cattle-Preying Wedge Pack." By Rich Landers. Spokesman-Review. September 28, 2102 in Outdoors.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/sep/28/officials-finish-culling-cattle-preying-wedge-pack/
"This is a very dark week for Washington state, 6 wolves killed in three days...End grazing leases and kick these ranchers off our public land. That is the only solution to this, not pandering to them and using taxpayer dollars to kill native wolves. Badly done WDFW, badly done!!"
"Wedge Pack Slaughter Hangs Like a Pall over Washington State." Howling for Justice. September 28, 2012.
http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/wedge-pack-slaughter-hangs-like-a-pall-over-washington-state/
"If Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife estimate is correct, there's an outside chance that one lonely wolf remains from the Wedge pack in the northeast corner of Washington state.
If so, here's some advice: Flee to Canada."
"Wedge Wolf, If You Are Out There, Run for Your Life." Posted by John B. Saul. Seattle Times. September 28, 2012. http://seattletimes.com/html/edcetera/2019283422_wedge_wolves_take_this_advice.html
"WDFW wipes out Wedge Pack – The hunt is over, and tragically the Wedge Pack is no more. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced yesterday that they have completed their mission by removing a total of six wolves this week, including the alpha male and female."
"Wolf Weekly Wrap-up." By John Motsinger. Defenders of Wildlife. September 28, 2012.
http://www.defendersblog.org/2012/09/wolf-weekly-wrap-up-94/
"Helicopter Gunner Kills 6th Wedge Pack Wolf: Effort Concludes; Alpha Male, Female Dead."
http://canislupus101.blogspot.com/2012/09/helicopter-gunner-kills-6th-wedge-pack.html
Photos:
http://www.all-about-wolves.com/free_wolf_photos.aspx
There are thousands of comments on this site:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/25/14093139-two-wolves-from-washington-state-gray-wolf-pack-killed-for-preying-on-cattle#comments
"My Great Grandfather taught us... life, land, and the animals that roam upon it are gifts from the Creator, who designated us as caretakers. The animals give their lives, so that we may live, and out of gratitude we should enrich their lives for without them, we cease to exist."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/bill-mcirvine-rancher-wedge-wolf-pack-video_n_1914123.html
TAKE ACTION FOR WOLVES
It's too late for the wolves gunned down by September 28, 2012.
It's not too late to let the incompetent, idiotic bureacrats in Washington and Pacific Northwest States know how you feel:
http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/take-action-for-wolves/
http://www.nwsportsmanmag.com/2012/09/25/no-report-of-success-in-wedge-wolf-hunt-so-far/
Washington State Tourism
Washington State Travel Counselor at 1-866-964-8913.Monday through Friday – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (PST)
tourisminfo@watourismalliance.com
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Governor Gregoire
Phone: (360) 902-4111Fax: (360) 753-4110
Website: www.governor.wa.gov
E-mail: Contact Via ‘Web Form“
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire: 360-902-4111
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife KILLING
Director Phil Anderson: 360-902-2200
From the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife:They call Wolf Slaughtering "Wolf Conservation and Management" !!!
Taking cues from fascist double-speak "WDFW concludes action to remove Northeast Washington wolf pack."
September 27, 2012
Contact: Dave Ware, (360) 902-2509
Northeast Washington wolf pack
http://wdfw.wa.gov/
This is the rhetoric of cowards, military wannabes, and lunatics!!!!
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Judge reverses his own ruling; TSA carte blanche to trample the Declaration of Independence, the Consitution, and the Bill of Rights. September 26, 2012. Via Prison Planet.
http://www.infowars.com/federal-court-backtracks-on-tsa-body-scanner-ruling/
http://www.infowars.com/federal-court-backtracks-on-tsa-body-scanner-ruling/
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Wolf Pack Execution in Progress in Washington State
Are you upset about the State of Washington's decision to execute an entire wolf pack?
Please call these numbers and demand that Washington State stop killing these endangered animals.
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire: 360-902-4111
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Phil Anderson: 360-902-2200
Note: The Department of Fish and Wildlife has received so many calls that there is greeting:
If you are calling about the Wolf Ridge pack, please press #.
But, if you press #, you get a recording that there are so many calls, they can't take yours.
Instead, I stayed on the line, and left a message on the poaching hotline.
Killing endangered animals is a form of poaching, and to have state wildlife officials engaged in poaching is illegal.
The state has plenty of non-lethal options. Wildlife experts have touted tried and true options, including using domesticated animals such as donkeys or llamas as guard animals. While there may be limits on the effectiveness, searching for non-lethal solutions is a good start to ending sadistic practices of torturing and killing wolves.
http://www.ehow.com/way_5814595_can-farmers-protect-livestock-wolves_.html
http://agrilife.org/texnatwildlife/coyotes/table-of-contents/alternative-methods-of-predator-control/
Please sign this petition http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-torture-of-wolves-in-our-forests
The latest news regarding a newly-discovered wolf pack in Washington state, is that state officials have decided to condemn the wolves to death for hunting for food. The wolves are blamed for killing a rancher's cattle that graze on public lands. In a classic case of dystopian double think, State officials believe that killing this wolf pack will help make a sustainable area for future wolf packs, ie killing as a means of living. http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/sep2112a/
“Once wolves become habituated to livestock as their primary food source, all of the wolf experts we’ve talked to agree that we have no alternative but to remove the entire pack,” Anderson said. “By doing that, we will preserve the opportunity for the recovery of gray wolves in balance with viable livestock operations.”
Despite being officially labeled an endangered species, the pack of gray wolves called the "Wedge" pack have already lost two wolves, shot from helicopters near the Canadian border. In the September 26, 2012 article "State kills two wolves in Stevens County" by
Monday through Friday – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (PST)
tourisminfo@watourismalliance.com
===
Fax: (360) 753-4110
Website: www.governor.wa.gov
E-mail: Contact Via ‘Web Form“
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002
Please call these numbers and demand that Washington State stop killing these endangered animals.
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire: 360-902-4111
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Phil Anderson: 360-902-2200
Note: The Department of Fish and Wildlife has received so many calls that there is greeting:
If you are calling about the Wolf Ridge pack, please press #.
But, if you press #, you get a recording that there are so many calls, they can't take yours.
Instead, I stayed on the line, and left a message on the poaching hotline.
Killing endangered animals is a form of poaching, and to have state wildlife officials engaged in poaching is illegal.
The state has plenty of non-lethal options. Wildlife experts have touted tried and true options, including using domesticated animals such as donkeys or llamas as guard animals. While there may be limits on the effectiveness, searching for non-lethal solutions is a good start to ending sadistic practices of torturing and killing wolves.
http://www.ehow.com/way_5814595_can-farmers-protect-livestock-wolves_.html
http://agrilife.org/texnatwildlife/coyotes/table-of-contents/alternative-methods-of-predator-control/
Please sign this petition http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-torture-of-wolves-in-our-forests
The latest news regarding a newly-discovered wolf pack in Washington state, is that state officials have decided to condemn the wolves to death for hunting for food. The wolves are blamed for killing a rancher's cattle that graze on public lands. In a classic case of dystopian double think, State officials believe that killing this wolf pack will help make a sustainable area for future wolf packs, ie killing as a means of living. http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/sep2112a/
“Once wolves become habituated to livestock as their primary food source, all of the wolf experts we’ve talked to agree that we have no alternative but to remove the entire pack,” Anderson said. “By doing that, we will preserve the opportunity for the recovery of gray wolves in balance with viable livestock operations.”
Despite being officially labeled an endangered species, the pack of gray wolves called the "Wedge" pack have already lost two wolves, shot from helicopters near the Canadian border. In the September 26, 2012 article "State kills two wolves in Stevens County" by
Rich Landers of The Spokesman-Review, Landers writes:
"Shooting from a helicopter, a marksman with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife killed two wolves in northeast Washington on Tuesday in the effort to eliminate a pack that has preyed on at least 17 cattle since July in a remote grazing area near the U.S.-Canada border."
On the Howling for Justice blog, the article "Death Rains Down from the Sky, 2 Washington Wedge Pack Wolves Aerial Gunned..."
"Sad, sad news Wolf Warriors. 2 Wedge Pack wolves met death from the sky today as WDFW sharpshooters slaughtered two wolves and are in pursuit of the rest of the pack, including puppies. This is a dark day for Washington state."
The blog includes a call for action, to call the Washington State Department of Tourism and Governor Gregoire:
Washington State Tourism
Washington State Travel Counselor at 1-866-964-8913.Monday through Friday – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (PST)
tourisminfo@watourismalliance.com
===
Governor Gregoire
Phone: (360) 902-4111Fax: (360) 753-4110
Website: www.governor.wa.gov
E-mail: Contact Via ‘Web Form“
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire: 360-902-4111
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Phil Anderson: 360-902-2200
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Phil Anderson: 360-902-2200
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
911 Anniversary of Bush/Cheney's Murder in Cold Blood
The 11th Anniversary of 911. Another year that Bush, Cheney, et al remain free after attacking US and killing over 3,000 people. It's past time to put these traitors on trial, these killers of Americans, and murderers of police and firefighters, sending them to their deaths in cold blood.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-11th-anniversary-of-911.html
Try to find the truth on this possibly censored researched essay, suddenly not available?
An Interesting Day: President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11 ... Bush's appearance at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, on ...
This page appears to still be up and running:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/9-11bushbooker.html
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