AWWW SHIT!, MOMADAY!

" Thus in the oral tradition, language bears the burden of the sacred, the burden of belief. In a written tradition, the place of language is not so certain."
- N. Scott Momaday

" I found that the education I had recieved was of no benefit to me. There was no chance to get employment, nothing for me to do whereby I could earn my board and clothes, no opportunity to learn more and remain with the whites. It disheartened me and I went back to live as I had before going to school."
-N.Scott Momaday

" I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from the high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered woman and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A peoples dream died there. It was a beautiful dream."
- Black Elk

" This is a crucial point, then: the West was occupied. It was the home of peoples who had come upon the North American continent many thousands of years before, who had in the course of their habitation become the spirit and intelligence of the earth, who had died into the ground again and again and so made it sacred. Those Europeans who ventured into the West must have seen themselves in some way as latecomers and intruders. In spite of their narcissism, some aspect of their intrusion must have occured to them as sacrilege, for they were in the unfortunate position of robbing the native peoples of their homeland and the land of its spiritual resources. By virtue of their culture and history- a culture of acquisition and a history of conquest- they were peculiarly prepared to commit sacrilege, the theft of the sacred."
-N.Scott Momaday

" One who has only an oral tradition thinks of language in this way: my words exist at the level of my voice. If I do not speak with care, my words are wasted. If I do not listen with care, words are lost. If I do not remember carefully, the very purpose of words is frustrated. This respect for words suggests an inherent morality in man's understanding and use of language. Moreover, that moral comprehension is everywhere evident in American Indian speech. On the other hand, the written tradition tends to encourage an indifference to language. That is to say, writing produces a false security where our attitudes toward language are concerned. We take liberties with words; we become blind to their sacred aspect."
-N.Scott Momaday

THE END TIMES ARE HERE

The End Times are here and it is not because of the Super Christian Nutballs. No it is because we let a complete boob be nominated a s a President. The boy king who has no idea what he is doing is leading the country,arrgh excuse me while I go puke. He has acknowleged that he has committed a felony by spying on American citizens. Does the public care? NO!! The Bush Admin. gets more brazen day by day one would think that they just don't care. Are the Bush admin. that secure in the fact that they will be elected again? Apparently they are, they have claimed control over us all and frankly make no bones about it. The Patriot Act(unconstitutional) will be shut down to the benefit of these nutballs.( Pay Attention! This way they can say without the Patriot Act Americans will be unsafe). Take note people the Republicans have to win the 2006 elections, THEY HAVE TO, meaning they will do anything to win the elections. Just like they did in 2000, and 2004. The AP reported today that a high amount of explosives have been stolen in New Mexico, the same thing happened in the year 2000. These explosives will be used to make you very afraid of the non-existent terrorist threat, basically there is none. Get ready for a world of shit and just remember Al-Qaida is not the terrorist the Bush Admin is ,these guys are scumbags who are power hungry feasting on fear. No matter what happens in the future, do not be afraid the actions taken on preying on your fear, take the time and investigate, these guys are scum suckers who don't care about you. Just remember that the Bush Admin. was warned 50+ times about Sept. 11th they don't care about you they care about them the uber-rich.
BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID

STEWART UDALL, PART ZWEI

In writing the " Mtyhs of August" Mr. Udall exposed the myths of the time about the development of the atomic bomb and how it could change our world. In the conclusion of the book he had a sunny outlook on how the world could interact and get along in a peaceful manner without the need to waste valuable tax dollars on defense. Unfortunately the exact opposite has happened, Mr Udall didn't account for the fact that the American people just could'nt be bothered with the fact that the gov. was robbing them blind. Mr. Udall had some fantastic ideas that no one paid heed to so now I reach into my bag and throw them amongst the crowd like pollen during fall in the Carolina's.

He is saying these things in 1994 and how we bypassed them and let them happen is something for the psychiatrists to figure out.

-that secrecy is a poison to the body politic of our society

-that free access to and public dissemination of information is essential to the maintenance of free political institutions

-that the rule of law must never be comprimised, so that public officials will never entertain the thought that they are not answerable for their actions to the public that they presumadly serve.

What we have is ideas and principles fomented in the past which have been forgotten in the name of "terrorism". 40 or 50 years ago it was the Communists who were going to take over America, never mind the fact that we were way ahead of them in the nuclear arms race. The RED THREAT caused us to get the schools prepared for an attack by hiding under our desks. It seems almost laughable now but back then we felt safe. And through this book we can realize it was all a farce. The officials of the Gov. tricked us, there was no threat we were used to give these pusbags the go ahead to build up our armed forces, because we weren't safe. We needed protection and the more crazy and drastic the threats were the more we were afraid. It was all a farce just like the war on terror is. We are not in danger, even if you want to take a cynical point of view, hey only3,000 were killed on 9/11 but the general populous was safe. We have no reason to be afraid and we have no reason to take everything the gov. says as fact. All we have is to protect ourselves from the individual who can lay out millions of dollars to run for office. These people don't have the majority of Americans in mind, take a look read, ask questions because the Democracy we feel so good about is being thrown out. They don't care about Democracy ,they care about power. Be afraid, be very afraid.

STEWART UDALL PART EINS

Sewart Udall wrote a very important book back in 1994 that still resonates today. The book is titled " The Myths Of August " and lays out the tragedy of secrecy in our government back in the 50"s unfortunately it is still alive today (secrecy that is). He drew a list of big issues that still trouble us today here are a few;

- What were the influences that allowed a Cold War mentality to cow critical thought in this country and to gain such a powerful grip on the minds of our nations leaders? ( You can slide in terrorism for Cold War)

- Why were members of Congress and the American people intimidated for so long by claims of insiders that only they should have access to information needed to make rational decisions about our country's security? ( Ohh that sounds like the PATRIOT ACT and all the other bullshit laws congress has passed to make us safe from the terrorists.)

- What were the influences that pushed America's once-prized moral principles into the background and encouraged our leaders to approve Cold War modes of conduct here and abroad that diminished our claim to moral leadership? (Ouch sounds like Abu Graihb and rendition)

- And what factors have combined to encourage our elected leaders to consciously mislead the American people and to hide behind classified information rather than admit mistakes? ( Geez can anyone say the Bush admin.?)

The scary thing is that these questions were related to the development of the Atomic Bomb and should we have dropped them on Japan. Unfortunately the Bush admin has co-opted the exact same operational traits and converted them to the war on terror. So my question is do we learn anything from history? Do we learn when government becomes a big secret for " National Security Reasons " leaving out Congressional decisions and exempting the American people from the conversation. A tried and true meme is FEAR used over and over again. First it was the Communists,greenlighting ridiculous spending of our tax dollars to equip the military industrial complex , because the Soviets could attack at any time. Now we cower on the roadside for fear of the " Terrorist attacks soon to come". The same logic is being used but we as Americans still don't get it. We have this childlike quality of viewing the Government as the be all end all to protect us never once contemplating the fact that maybe the Government doesn't care about our protection. Maybe it is good for us to be afraid and maybe in reality we don't have that much to be afraid about. Maybe we can turn that fake American bravado into reality ( We are the greatest Nation in the world) and hold our Government responsible. After all we pay their salaries they are beholden to US! Somewhere along the way we have lost this ideal and just hope and pray that Daddy will take care of us in a time of crisis. I leave you with a quote from Stewart Udall;
" As I looked back in the 1980's, it was painfully evident that the United States of America had paid a heavy moral and political price by ignoring the open-government commands of our Constitution. To me, it was no accident that most of the blunders that have marred the history of our nation over the past half-century were the outgrowth of secret decisions made by presidents and by unelected national security wizards. To recite the names of these blunders- Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Watergate, and Iran-Contra - is to underscore lessons of history the next generations of Americans should never forget."
Well guess what folks here we are again going through the exact same bullshit,when do we take the reigns and hold the people, elected officials who WE PAY TO DO A JOB , accountable for what we want?!?

WAR ON THE UNIVERSE

So we have the," war on terrah", war on drugs, war on crime, war on being a human being living in America, and now the WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!!!
I am afraid because there is a war out there I don't know about but wait, FAUX NEWS came through I felt safe and now I realize that there are evil doers who want to do away with X-MAS. Those fucking bastards won't get away with it! But seriously folks the bullshit runs long and hard so I am going to inject reality into the ridiculous argument of the ATTACK ON X-MAS(AHHHH).
The argument is that HEY they are full of shit. Christmas is a pagan holiday in the first place, Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25th, and what do you tell the Jews, the Hindus, Atheists, Buddhists and every other flippin religious group in America?( and yes there are many) History is a pawn to our powerful desires after all why do we praise Columbus? Here you have an idiot who set out to sail to India to find a quicker route to the spices. Well, HEY he landed ass-backwards on a continent far-far away from India and still referred to the people he met as INDIANS! WE WORSHIP HIM WITH HIS OWN HOLIDAY!!!Is there a time period when we can admit we made a mistake? If I set out to sail to Cuba and accidentally landed in Madagascar can I have a Holiday? and if I name the people I meet Cubans is that okay to? Will you write history books about my great discovery? Anyway getting back to Christmas( which has nothing to do with Jesus) we will use another example. The example being the fact that during the conference at Nicea, Constantine had wanted to bring the people of the empire together so he melded beliefs together and came out with the barbarian principle of Sunday being a holy day with Sol, the god of the sun, and the Jewish holy day of Saturday (the day which Jesus and his disciples practiced as holy) and decided that Sunday would be the holy day thus throwing the barbarians a bone and Constantine ,who had converted to Christ but still held onto pagan beliefs, a day to worship. So lets take these beliefs with a grain of salt and relize for one that Constantine had to make concessions to bring the Empire together.