Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire... or maybe your house?

I read Digg every day because it is a perfect confluence of interesting news, political stuff (always US, but hey, that's always a trip) and the truth about scientology and other stuff....

Today I found this fantastic, hilarious article on Ron Hubbard, who was probably one of the most deluded, egomaniacal people ever known to man. He was in great company though, providing you count Jim Jones and others like him to be 'good' company.

There seems to be something about combining egomaniacal personality with a (limited in this case) ability to write and a really, really interesting 'reality.' The man was certainly nuts and probably schizophrenic. He certainly took a lot of drugs and ascribed a LOT of stuff to himself that simply never, ever happened.

How any thinking person can buy in to scientology for anything other than it being a hilarious compilation of crap, is beyond me. Maybe the rumours of predatory legal practices and serious, life-threatening coercion are true.... Maybe it is also true that 99% of actors are seriously screwed up (which is why they 'be' anyone but themselves) and so ripe for being picked to 'join' any 'program' that will help them 'heal.'

In case you're wondering why I don't capitalise the "S" in scientology, it's because the cult deserves no respect, not even a capital letter. So there. My tiny protest.

People in the US Now Being Taught to be Terrified of Scarves!

In the latest episode of "How to Terrify and Subjugate the US Citizenry," Rachael Ray, the talk-show host, cookbook author and magazine editor, is being cast as a terrorist sympathizer because of a flowered scarf.

Dunkin' Donuts, for whom Ray is a spokesperson, is worried that its customers might think she is an "Arab Sypmathiser" so abruptly yanked an ad in which she wears a scarf that some genius says resembles a keffiyeh -- a traditional headdress worn by Arab men -- because conservative commentators became enraged by the ad and even threatened to boycott the company.

What? Fer god's sake, let 'em boycott! 60% of the population in the US is overweight and a huge (no pun intended) proportion of those are obese. let 'em boycott. It's better for their health! It might also improve their intelligence, which they're obviously without.

This is the dumbest thing ever. Seriously. Flowered paisley equals a Keffiya? I'm swearing in my head right now....

Remember about 10 years or so ago people stared wearing their underpants above their jeans and shortly people stopped being shocked at the site of underpants? Yeah. It's a scarf people. Get over it.

Those of us outside the US are laughing our butts off at how ridiculously afraid people in the US are of everything. They're like terrified little lemmings, starting at the smallest shadows, skittering off to grab their guns at the tinyest noise, sacrificing their children to fight the 'terrorists' thanks to endless lies!

Do USians not understand that their government has a plan to keep them poorly fed on cheap, crappy food, under educated and terrified of essentially nothing? Fat, stupid, terrified people are always ready and willing to defend themselves. It's just that, in this case, the terror is made up, manipulated and making a select few quite rich.

Good grief. In a country where everyone owns guns, where a person can get one with a car purchase or a bank account and where state administrators - or Hilary Clinton (AKA Annie Oakly) pose with guns for photos, I'd be far more terrified of my neighbour having a bad day and going all Yosemite Sam on me than of these nebulous 'terrorists.'

The terrorists are living in the White House and they're called Rice, Bush and Cheney, among a few. Good lord. USians are seriously nuts if they're worried about a flowered scarf worn by a mediocre cook promoting what can only be termed 'killer food.'

Even a recent Press Secretary has had it with the bullshit that pours out of the White House. Scott McClellan's new book, "What Happened," basically states that life in the US is pretty much based on a huge pack of lies. He's not very popular right now.

The border between us and the US is soooooo not big enough. Please will USians please build a dome over their country to protect the rest of us from such idiocy.

Speaking of idiocy, watch Idiocracy (Luke Wilson) to see how this story is going to play out. The entire film here on YouTube. Also via those lovely torrent sites everywhere.

Update: Julie Couillard Interview

Ms. Couillard answers the "who introduced you? question and speaks to the biker affiliations of her two previous relationships.

This woman was a realtor - and still holds an active license, she says.

As for how she met Bernier, she says she was approached by someone in politics about running for office. She was invited to a dinner and was told a minister would be present at that event, a minister whose brains she could pick about her possible entry into politics. That minister was Maxime Bernier.

There is an interesting moment at this point in the interview when she says that Bernier sat with her throughout the dinner and that, after dinner, she accompanied him back to his hotel, ostensibly for one more drink in the hotel bar. It seems quite odd that she would go back to the hotel of a relative stranger who is also a very public figure. That does not add up.

There's a second interesting moment where she almost uses the word "intimate," and gets the "in... " part out of her mouth but then changes her course. She's describing the first month of her relationship with Bernier.

I am probably quite naive on this subject, but I would say that a realtor with no political background would not usually be approached for office in national politics. Civic certainly; provincial conceivably but national? it's a stretch.

She says her background and her biker gang connections, which she describes as loose, were common knowledge and that nobody had a problem with it although she was alternately evasive and overly dismissive of her affiliations and those of her 'friends.'

That her background was not an issue is an unlikely possibility. Certainly her background was known, but also certainly that background would normally have precluded an invitation to political life. If her her affiliation with criminals is a problem now, it was a problem then, unless it was a useful detail for future use. It all smells like a setup.

Her anwers to many questions in this interview are evasive. She uses the term 'they' over often and the interviewer not once asks her "Who is 'they?'" nor does he ask her why she didn't just call Bernier to come pick up his documents. Watch the interview with the sound muted... body language is quite telling.

This 'scandal' is an engineered event. I suspect that this spectacle is a less damaging replacement for something else - perhaps relating to those leaked documents and the NAFTA-gate issue: better this minister is disgraced for something relatively minor than he - and the Conservative government - be exposed for something potentially far more damaging. The bottom line is that Bernier was a liability. Why, one can only speculate, but a liability that needed an expedient, effective solution.

Link to the interview here

Well that's convenient!...

Y'know, I often imagine that we Canadians don't have the political intrigue that we see in the US and in Britain but really, that's kinda a dumb mindset, especially given our very pro-US Prime Minister....

So, you'll remember that about a month ago, Ian Brodie, who is/was Stephen Harper's very out-of-the-limelight Chief of Staff, made an off the record comment about how the US Democratic candidates were batting the NAFTA thing about and how someone from down there called the PMO and said 'Don't fret, we're just politicing."

Well apparently there was lots more to that story because then there was this whole leaked documents thing and claims that the Canadian government was meddling in the US election process... big stink.

So Brodie put in his resignation last week, which sucks, because I know him and, as much as I wish he were not Harper's man, he's totally committed to the cause. He eats, breathes and bathes in politics.

Despite that, there is, or was, until today, still a big stink going on about that whole leakage thing, where it came from and who did it.

Enter Maxim Bernier of the girlfriend-who (way back in her youth) dated-a-Hell's-Angel. Monsieur Bernier has not had a reputation for being super good at his job but Harper has been a staunch supporter and has said on many occasions that Bernier's personal life and the past of his girlfriend are nobody's buisness. I agree, especially when her past is waaayy past. Everybody does dumb shit in their youth and we all know how attractive "Bad Boys" can be.

Anyway, it seems that the 'crisis' that caused Bernier to put in his resignation was something to do with him having left some documents at his girlfriends house - government docs. She found them, called the RCMP, she says and was told they were property of the Government of Canada. That doesn't make sense to me. Why would she call the RCMP instead of just calling Bernier to come get his stuff. I think this part of the story is pretty much BS. I think she's been heavily coached.

Sidebar: in Ottawa, about a block from Parliament, there's a great pub called Darcy McGee's. It's very, very frequented by members of Parliament. There is no doubt at all that all sorts of stuff - documents, coats, hats, shoes, condoms, pot; you name it - is left there on a regular basis. For sure there's been a critical doc left behind in that place a time or two. I'm pretty sure that MPs take work home all the time and that they leave stuff there too... Anyway, it isn't like Bernier was the first MP in history who left docs laying about.

But, in this case, leaving those docs with his paramour caused him to have to tender his resignation. But I think this is all far too convenient.

This Bernier thing seems to have blown up at a pretty interesting time. I'm sure, thanks to this non-news that's been spun as essentially a sex-scandal that has jeopardised the country's security (such a load!), Ian Brodie's departure is no longer news and NAFTA-gate seems off the table today too. Why now? Why is this now-ex girlfriend doing TV interviews? That's just weird!

I would love to know who introduced Bernier to the now-ex? THAT really interests me.

It just all smells like a sacrifice. Or a coverup and now we're back to that NAFTA leak thingie.

It is sooo nice to have a little conspiracy happening up here!

Locking your garbage up?

Yesterday I witnessed an event that totally blew my mind.

Behind the studio my man works at is a covered parking area big enough to house a 4/6' garbage enclosure and four cars. A couple of homeless men take turns sleeping in small space near the very back corner wall, just behind one of those short, triangular cement parking abutments. We see those men occasionally and sometimes they wave at us, but for the most part, they don't talk, they don't make eye contact and they sure don't mingle.

Next to the studio is a Jenny Craig location - you know, the weight loss Jenny that Kirsty Ally called when she ate herself into 350 or so pounds of fat (I guess the 'church of scientology' isn't that good at the stuff they say they're good at, given how fat that chick was/is soon to be again)....

This Jenny location has a large, square, green garbage bin out in their parking lot. I don't think there's any food in this Jenny Craig location, but I haven't ever needed their services, so I have no clue. As such, I can't imagine what the business might be tossing in their trash, but it must be really valuable because they have a padlock on their bin.

Yesterday, as I drove by, a Jenny Craig employee - a middle-aged white woman - was standing at the other side of the alley way, yelling at one of these homeless guys. I take it from what happened next that he'd been rummaging in 'her' trash bin. She was chewin' the hell out of that guy.

She then turned on her heal, totally ignoring what he was saying to her (and I thought she should have listened because the man hardly ever speaks), stalked back to the bin and made a great show of locking it.

Who locks a garbage bin? There are no bears in the city and the coyotes can't lift bin lids, so what for the padlock? Like seriously folks, if it's valuable enough that you don't want it stolen, it doesn't belong in the trash.

I suppose it is possible that 'Jenny' had thrown out food but, if they didn't want it and if they'd trashed it, why couldn't that man have it? I seriously don't get why that woman was so annoyed and so aggressive towards this homeless guy.

As I drove by, I wasn't exactly sure what I was seeing but as I parked and waited for my man, I watched in the rear view and it dawned on me that all this aggression this middle-aged, white woman (who has a job and was decently dressed and had somewhere to live) was showering on that man was just so out of place, unnecessary and really just so mean.

I suppose that somewhere in her obviously tiny consciousness she might have had the "but for the grace of 'god' go I," but then, the fact that she was so bizarrely possessive of her garbage gives me to believe she keeps her heart and soul properly padlocked as well.

What really sucks is that I just sat there. I could have got out and said something but I just bloody sat there because of a totally stupid reason: that woman's actions and aggression towards a weaker person reminded me of a nasty, mean, terrible female boss I had a few years ago. Dumb hey!? I hate that part of myself that doesn't act due to an old fear that I've transferred to an unrelated situation.

That makes me way worse than her.

United Nations to apply "responsibility to protect" doctrine to force international aid into Myanmar Petition

As you're certianly aware, there was a vicious and devastating cyclone in Burma last week.

Burma is 'ruled' by a psychopathic dictatorship - the extent of that psychopathology is evident in that the regime decided that while 100,000 of the country's population is either dead or missing, there should be held a referendum on keeping said regime in power.... good timing... not.

The Unitied Nations has a commitment to helping countries in crisis when those countries' administrations cannot or will not. Burma is a case of will not, as the administration will not provide Visas for aid workers and has limited aid to the country to very few drops of aid. Up until 5 days after the cyclone, only ONE transport of aid had been allowed into the country. One.

I have attached a petition directed to the United Nations. This petition directs the UN to act on its own resolutions and override the current whims of the Burmese government to allow aid and aid workers to enter the country.

Please sign this petition. The UN must know that the international community does not support genocide by starvation and disease.

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Man Caves!

My partner/spouse/boyfriend/AIP and I have been together for about 11 and a half years. He lives in a condo and I in a house; we're three blocks from each other. He sleeps here most nights but a couple times a week, he stays at the condo.

Why? Because we both know a man needs a cave.

We often tour open houses and I am regularly amazed at the homes some men must live in. It isn't the house so much, but the 'decorating' of said home, which in many cases unquestionably showcases who is the boss via endless pink paint and cabage-rose counterpanes and valences (which are gross dustcatchers anyway).


What man can retain his masculinity living in that kind of environment? It's no wonder there is almost always a dank, dusty, overflowing garage attached to such homes - the de facto cave.


As I'm a big ol' curmudgeon, I think that when a woman eradicates absolutely everything manly in the home she shares with her male partner/spouse, she is stating, without speaking, that she really would prefer her man not be in the home at all, but that's me and my weird perspective.


But seriously, no man - not even the gayest of the gay - thinks cabage roses are nice on anything. If a house looks like that it's because, when he's asked to comment on the decorating and paint choices, the guy hauls out the "yes dear," code for "Whatever, I'm totally not listening or interested. Where are the garage keys."


I laughed out loud at this article because it is true, true, true. A man needs a cave. Aparently the 'cave' in this story - a nasty, musty, bug and varmit-infested place on a swampy river is a very popular hangout for local men and a source of consternation for their wives/girlfriends, who don't get the 'cave' concept.


My man and I have the perfect relationship; he as a cave (which is not musty or smelly but sure is full of computer games...) and we have a house that is ours but has some man space inside and out, in the form of a crooked one-car garage.


Ask around girls: ask your guy friends, or your spouse if you dare, about the cave.


Photo Credit: Ryan Samuel, owner of the cabin.

A Country of Stupid People, By Design?

One way to keep your population under control is to keep them uneducated, stupid and simply not able to ask questions.

That process is also a great way to make sure you always have enough drones for your army... being stupid does not lead to great jobs. The army, however, will look after you, your wife/husband and your kids, even when you're killed in some illegal war.

Keeping people stupid also limits how much they understand of what they hear on the news and also limits how much the really know about anything outside their own neighbourhood, which is to say world affairs are way, way, way above their comprehension.

Yes, I'm talking about the USA in case there's any question.

Your Client List Could Kill You... if you're A DC Madam

One of the risks of working in Washington, especially if you're female, or a male who sleeps with other males, is getting an ear full of state secrets from lovers who's lips are loose when they're relaxed.

For years, Deborah Jeane Palfrey had been operating large, successful 'escort' agency with a client list that read like - no probably was - the roll call of the entire US congress, senate and yes, white house; Mr. Cheney for one....

Here's a link to four years of phone records, provided by Palfrey.

Suffice to say, Ms. Palfrey and her staff were the keepers of many, many secrets.

All's well until a person goes public and threatens to expose those secrets, which Ms. Palfrey was set to do, except that she was murdered a week before she was set to testify.

The lovely and always complicit US news media - and the Canadian and British media too - all reported Ms. Palfrey's death was a suicide, but that is a lie.

See, another cohort of Palfrey's had also been murdered not many months prior - her death also made to look like a suicide. She knew something similar was in store for herself.

Ms. Palfrey had recently been interviewed on her upcoming trial and she made it very clear to all those who interviewed her that she had absolutely no reason for suicide - see, a few non-mainstream journalists were making sure Palfrey had the opportunity to state she knew her colleague's death had been set up as a suicide. She also said if she turned up dead herself, that the death should be investigated.

Well, lately, Ms. Palfrey was found hanging by her neck in a shed on her mother's property.

Two seconds of investigation lead certainly to the impossibility of her death being a suicide: one, she would have had to climb onto the roof of said shed in order to rig up the hanging apparatus and two, the shed was on her mother's property, not far from her mother's house. Palfrey no longer lived at home, so choosing such a location is bizarre at best. Lastly, women rarely - very rarely - ever hang themselves.

So why was Ms. Palfrey "removed?" She was about to expose the planning and forethought that went into the destruction of the world trade centres and she was about to name names.

Here's the article from Prison Nation. There are other links here for those who think the US government would never do anything like killing someone to keep them quiet.... hahahaahaha...

9/11 Conspiracy Connection To DC Madam Murder

Former NSA analyst and Navy intelligence officer Wayne Madsen tells the The Alex Jones Show that one of the key motives behind the DC Madam's murder may have been the information her call girls picked up from Washington's top brass concerning foreknowledge and government complicity in the 9/11 attacks.

Madsen also connected another suspicious death - that of former CIA agent Roland Carnaby who was gunned down by Houston police last week - to another individual who was involved in both the 9/11 cover-up and the D.C. Madam scandal, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Noting that Palfrey and her defense team had tried to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act in the U.S. District Court in Washington, which is only used when classified information or the names of people who are intelligence officers needs to be discussed, Madsen said Palfrey, "Had information which could have a bearing on the 9/11 attacks that some of her employees may have picked up information beforehand that would have been very useful to the 9/11 investigation."

Madsen added that most of Palfrey's call girls had been active around the area of McLean Virginia, which is where the CIA and other intelligence agencies are based and where Dick Cheney lived at the time.

Host Alex Jones recalled that during interviews Palfrey had told him that her escort service was in fact being used as an intelligence operation to gather intelligence on individuals who used the service, particularly those connected to the military.

Madsen, who spoke personally to Palfrey on numerous occasions, recalls one conversation at dinner about a month a go with Palfrey and her asset forfeiture lawyer where Palfrey told him, 'I have information that would have been of great interest to the 9/11 Commission - there's information that they have (her call girls) that would have been very important for the 9/11 Commission to know having to do with intelligence they picked up about 9/11 before it happened'.

The former NSA official noted that some of Palfrey's call girls were being chauffeured by Sherlington Limousines to poker parties attended by former CIA director and co-chair of the Joint 9/11 Intelligence Inquiry Porter Goss. One of the reasons cited for Goss' abrupt resignation in May 2006 was his alleged involvement in a prostitution scandal where lobbyists were holding parties for GOP lawmakers that featured hookers and gambling at the Watergate Hotel in D.C.

On the morning of 9/11, Goss was having breakfast with the head of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) General Mahmoud Ahmad, the man who ordered a wire transfer of $100,000 to alleged lead hijacker Mohammed Atta.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey.

In addition, Madsen pointed out that Jack Abramoff, who was also connected to the DC Madam scandal, allowed at least two of the 9/11 hijackers to use one of his casino boats in the days before 9/11, and this is what Palfrey was probably referring to when she spoke about her call girls picking up information about 9/11 before it happened.

"There's the link, when you've got Abramoff and you had two of those hijackers on his casino boat a few days before 9/11 - I just wonder if that's what Jeane was talking about," said Madsen, "Because now I'm looking at this crazy incident in Houston with Roland Carnaby, a retired CIA guy who was still contracted to the CIA, being gunned down in broad daylight by the Houston police department - now I've been told by Agency sources in Houston that one of the people he was looking at was Abramhoff and the casino boats - so here you've got two people in the same week, looks like they were both assassinated in broad daylight," he concluded.

Many readers will recall that Newsweek reported that military brass in Washington received a warning the night before the 9/11 attacks which led to a September 11 flight being cancelled. "NEWSWEEK has learned that while U.S. intelligence received no specific warning, the state of alert had been high during the past two weeks, and a particularly urgent warning may have been received the night before the attacks, causing some top Pentagon brass to cancel a trip. Why that same information was not available to the 266 people who died aboard the four hijacked commercial aircraft may become a hot topic on the Hill," according to the September 13 2001 issue.

The connection to 9/11 is tantalizing and provides a key motive for why numerous power brokers would have wanted Palfrey to be shut up for good before she had the opportunity to release information in court that her call girls picked up about 9/11 pointing to foreknowledge and government complicity in the attacks.

Run your car on water.

This week, I happened across a link to a site where one can find directions on how to turn any gas powered car or truck into a water-run vehicle.

After a short but interesting debate on that site, one of the contributors posted this link
to a site that clearly explains the technology and outlines the 1998 murder of the inventor. Suffice to say, he did not bow to immense pressure from oil companies to discontinue his research and to destroy the technology.

Also on that site is a film called "Who Killed the Electric Car," which I have seen and which I highly recommend. That link is also live.

If any of us still really believe our governments and our corporations have any interest in anything other than war and profit, these two items should help us limit those beliefs.

Dick Cheney said, on camera two weeks ago, that the only reason the US is in the middle east is to protect the oil supply. That is the sum total of any truth that man has ever spoken.