God, I’m so glad that damn Short Story class is over. Note to anyone thinking of taking classes at Germanna, avoid Introduction to Short Story on the internet. It’s hard because there’s no guidence. Ugh.

I really need to get internet at home again.

Proof that Uday and Qusay’s pictures are forgeries!

Needle left in woman’s vagina for 50 years

A Taiwanese woman, who suffered sharp pain for more than 50 years whenever she had sex, was found to have a needle in her vagina.

A recent examination at a hospital found the rusty sewing needle.

It had been left inside the woman’s vagina by a midwife 53 years ago after a caesarean birth.

EEK!

The Bush Administration’s Top 40 Lies About War and Terrorism My biggest beef on this is that it continues to say the Bush administration could have done more to stop the terrorist attacks the day of. On top of that they play up media errors as Bush Administration errors and so on. This is bullshit.

Seems Berkley University’s now an expert on what makes conservatives tick…

Bob Hope died.

Banned at Borders? Musician, songwriter, et al Julia Rose played a show at Borders of Fredericksburg the other week full of delightful content that led to her getting banned from playing at the store ever again.

She went to the Free Lance Star for publicity.

Entertainer banned after Bush remark

Apparently, it’s become un-American–or at least highly controversial–for a woman to publicly say that the president of the United States’ body is less than perfect.

A Baltimore acoustic artist has been banned from playing the Fredericksburg Borders Books & Music store–apparently because she made fun of President Bush’s legs between songs in her show Friday night at Central Park.

Julia Rose, a singer-songwriter and a fitness advocate who often shows audiences her six-pack abs, told a Fredericksburg Borders audience Friday: “George Bush has chicken legs. He needs to pump some iron.”

“I never bashed Bush as president. I merely said his lower body needs some serious definition,” Rose explained later.

She said most of the audience laughed. But a few were offended and reportedly contacted Amy Korsun, area marketing manager for Borders Books & Music, to complain about Rose making “political” comments.

Then they wrote an editorial:

Banned at Borders

IT SEEMS INCONGRUOUS that the words “ban” and “bookstore” should appear in the same sentence. But Borders Books & Music at Central Park apparently banished a singer at least in part because her commentary, including a remark about President Bush’s legs, angered some customers.

Borders suggests that Julia Rose is simply not the local clientele’s cup of tea and that it had every right to terminate her contract. But Borders has a very scrawny leg to stand on itself if it is wielding such a quick ax on a performer who has been perfectly suitable at other Virginia stores in the chain. If there is any place in this country where freedom of expression should get the close calls, it has to be a general-interest bookstore.

To recap: Julia Rose is a singer-songwriter from Baltimore. Places like Borders are just her sort of venue, with, one would have thought, just her sort of crowd. Indeed, she’s a veteran of the Borders circuit from Northern Virginia to Richmond and was debuting at the Fredericksburg location on July 18, the fateful evening. She had been scheduled to play there next month, too. Not so now.

How bizarre. On Borders’ shelves and racks there are books, magazines, newspapers, and probably even CDs that upbraid the president over his policies and politics and poke fun at him and everyone else under the sun. Amy Korsun, the Borders marketing manager who cited Ms. Rose’s comment “George Bush has chicken legs” in terminating her, surely wouldn’t have it any other way. But one gets the feeling that when Ms. Rose sits before a mike and tweaks the president, free expression has taken the night off.

They even did a political cartoon.

So I wrote a letter:

Not only does Ms. Rose fail to mention the many customers who left the store complaining on that Friday because of her show but she also seems to think that the fact that she sang a song about a boy making love to his blow-up doll (with sound effects) wasn’t a factor.

She entered into a contract with Borders and entered into a FAMILY STORE and failed to fulfil her end and produced content that was entirely inappropriate for the environment.

Borders, acting on the complaints of its customers at the time, made a decision to ask Ms. Rose not to play at the Fredericksburg store again. This was completely because they were responding to the requests of FREDERICKSBURG CUSTOMERS and not company policy. This is the height of company responsibility, responding to the wishes of its customers who were there and witnessed as opposed to those that are simply acting on the word of the woman wronged who feels the need to misrepresent herself and the company in a ploy for publicity.

How can you protest a company for doing that? How can you complain about a company responding to the wishes of its customers? Isn’t that what we want? Isn’t that what we say is missing from box stores?

I wonder if anyone will pay attention to those facts…

The 2003 Blogathon is today. I didn’t realize that until, well, today. Huh. Oh well. Go visit and maybe sponsor, if you’re not as broke as me.

RIAA Hit List

Daily Internet Activities

‘Blogs’ shake the political discourse

liver Willis, 25, doesn’t match the old-school profile of political influence. He’s not a rich man or a player in Democratic circles; in the 2000 presidential campaign, the most he did was purchase a Gore/Lieberman hat.

But he has a political platform of his own, a website called oliverwillis.com, which he runs from his sparsely furnished apartment in Dedham. And when he posted an essay there, promoting former Vermont governor Howard Dean for Democratic nominee, he drew a flood of comments from people he had never met. When Oliver Willis talks, it turns out, the blogosphere cares.

That’s the beauty of a ”blog” (short for weblog), an online journal that can turn anyone with an Internet connection into a mini-media outlet. Blogs are easy to create, cheap to set up, and commonplace on the Web. They can draw thousands of readers per day and dozens of posted comments in a running conversation that Willis likes to think of as talk radio for the wired.

So it’s like any other updated website that’s been around for the last 10+ years…

Rogue seal kills scientist

A BRITISH scientist has died after being attacked by a seal while snorkelling in the Antarctic.

Marine biologist Kirsty Brown, 28, was studying the movement of icebergs when the animal struck, dragging her under the icy waters.
Colleagues who saw the incident from the shore launched a rescue boat and pulled Miss Brown on board.

Despite efforts to revive her, the experienced diver was pronounced dead an hour later. It is believed she drowned.

Although they are formidable hunters, leopard seals are solitary creatures and it is virtually unknown for them to attack humans.

Tuesday’s incident is believed to be the first fatal attack by a seal since the Scott Expedition of 1912.

Eek.

Searching ‘low budget divorce attornies in fredericksburg virginia’ though MSN search will get you three results, two of which are J’s Notes. Is that a career opportunity?

So the kids are out promoting LaRouche again. The ones at Lefant Plaza are just handing out the literature. But this one nutter at McPhereson is ranting about the perpetual Dick Cheney war machine that will draft his entire generation (i.e. - MY generation) and how ignoring the issues will sentence him to death. Woo-boy, that’s a lotta pressure.

But this leads me to wonder, “Gee, this LaDouche guy seems to have my best interest at heart. Perhaps I should look beyond my preconcieved notions that a man serving a prison term shouldn’t be able to viably run for president and see what this man is about.”

The Political Graveyard says:

LaRouche, Lyndon H., Jr. (b. 1922) — also known as Lyndon LaRouche — of New York City (unknown county), N.Y.; Loudoun County, Va. Born in Rochester, Strafford County, N.H., September 8, 1922. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Labor candidate for President of the United States, 1976; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992. Convicted on federal conspiracy charges in 1988, and sentenced to prison. Still living as of 1999.

Over in the 60 Greatest Conspiracies Archive we find:

60 Greatest Conspiracies: You’ve described Carl Jung as a Nazi…

LaROUCHE: He was pro-Nazi. He was an occultist, satanic cultism. I don’t know if he went as far as (Aleister) Crowley did in identifying Satan, but it was the same structure. Allen Dulles was very close to this crowd personally. As to what was going on in Allen’s mind at this time I don’t fully know. But then you get the MK-ULTRA operation.

60 Greatest Conspiracies: The mind control operation?

LaROUCHE: That was an Allen Dulles period operation which was run together with the occult types in British intelligence, such as Aldous Huxley. And also Gregory Bateson who creared, for example, the Grateful Dead out of an MK-ULTRA operation at the Palo Alto Veteran’s Hospital where he was supervising. The first United States-grown rock group of that type, the Grateful Dead, was generated as a British intelligence operation by the Occult Bureau of Huxley and bateson out of the Palo Alto Veteran’s Hospital where they were doing LSD and related experiments.

Protest.net informs us that Lyndon LaRouche is a Fascist Menace

The Babylonian Rabbi Pagan Cult

In the LaRouchite worldview, the oligarchic families of Great Britain are the font of all world evil. Over the years LaRouchite literature has maintained that political leadership in Great Britain is really controlled by banking families, especially Jewish banking families such as the Rothschilds, a standard antisemitic. While Jewish members of the LaRouche organization claim their mere presence is evidence that the organization cannot be antisemitic, this argument has not intellectual validity and falls in the face of substantial evidence that while coded, LaRouche philosophy is based on an antiemitic conspiracist theory.

The antisemitism of the LaRouchite organization is often well-hidden through convoluted conspiracist theories and obscure terminology, but despite its coded nature, a thorough reading of the LaRouchite literature reveals the central role a global and age-old conspriacy of “bad” Jews play in the LaRouchite worldview. LaRouche followers and representatives of the Nation of Islam have joined to present antisemitic public presentation describing an alleged conspiracy of Freemasons and the B”nai B”Rith to create and control the Ku Klux Klan. The LaRouche conspiracy theory links together Freemasons, the Ku Klux Klan and the Mafia in a conspiracy against Christian economics and science.

For LaRouche the conspiracy starts with Jews in Babylon.

And someone else has a strong opinion about LaRouche entitled That Douche named Lyndon LaRouche (Douche being the term he uses to refer to many things he loves, like passing kidney stones and poop on his shoe).

Another Black-White Extremist Link: NOI and Lyndon LaRouche

The most extensive ad hoc alliance involving Black and white extremists is the relationship between the Nation of Islam and the Lyndon LaRouche organization. LaRouche, who was paroled from federal prison in January 1994 after serving 5 years of a 15-year sentence for mail fraud and tax evasion, is a former Trotskyist who turned sharply rightward during the 1970s and who has made his reputation on bizarre conspiracy theories and extensive networking among the fringes of the political spectrum. LaRouche’s relationship with NOI provides clear proof of the chameleon-like character of his group; as recently as the mid-1980s, while LaRouche associates were preparing intelligence reports on American anti-Aparthied groups for the Republic of South Africa, LaRouche-controlled publications were denouncing NOI for their relationship with Libyan dictator Muammar Kaddafi, alleging that Farrakhan was involved with Kadaffi’s sponsorship of international terrorism. By the end of the decade, however, followers of LaRouche and Farrakhan — including NOI Health Minister Abdul Alim Muhammad — met in Paris to discuss the theory that the AIDS virus is part of a government conspiracy against African-Americans.

More recently, the two organizations have joined forces to denounce the Anti-Defamation League, which has exposed the anti-Semitism and extremism of both groups. During the fall of 1992, LaRouche representatives joined Abdul Alim Muhammad in two rallies at Washinton, D.C.’s Howard University devoted to the proposal that ADL is “the new Ku Klux Klan” — an ironic designation, considering the fact that LaRouche has been associated with several members of the “old” Ku Klux Klan. Joint LaRouche-NOI rallies have continued to take place at Black-oriented colleges in the District of Columbia, Baltimore, and Boston, throughout 1994.

Participants in these rallies have stopped at nothing to demonize the League. “ADL is behind drugs, destruction of children, and AIDS,” one LaRouche representative stated at Howard. “This is not an attack on Jews — it’s an attack on the Anti-Defamation League….and the synagogues of Satan [who] have too much control of the country,” a farrakhan supporter told The Washington Times. LaRouche rhetoric has also slipped into the public comments of NOI officials; New York NOI Minister Conrad Muhammad, for example, asked The New Yorker magazine in February 1994, “Why not condemn the criminal activities and the charges that have been laid at [ADL's] door that they were a front organization for Meyer Lansky and other gangsters?” These charges against ADL have been leveled exclusively by LaRouche publications.

But, wait. LaRouche isn’t all peaches and cream. No, it seems he was targeted by the Soviet Union in the 1980s!

Meet the man who may have saved your life, and may do it again!

Contrary to popular claims, it wasn’t any form of political maneuvering, inside and outside the Kremlin, that ended the Soviet era. All these were after-effects of the economic collapse when sector after sector of the country stopped functioning. It was LaRouche’s parameter alone that overburdened the Soviet system, which thereby may have saved humanity from the inevitable holocaust of a rapidly escalating cold war. Still, is was not a clear victory, because divisions remained that the cooperative development of the SDI system would have resolved. Nevertheless, the world was changed for the better.

This change in the course of humanity was caused Lyndon LaRouche. It was caused by his idea that introduced a new parameter in the economic equation which the Soviet Union was unable to respond to, by which its empire fell apart. In this way humanity escaped a holocaust that it, itself, was unprepared to respond to, and still is. The collapse of the Soviet Union may have ended the cold war together with the Ogarkov plan, but the vast arsenals of nuclear arms that stood ready to be unleashed have remained intact, both inside and outside of Russia, while new nuclear weapons are still being built every day as if more than 30,000 of them are not enough.

LaRouche’s intervention may have saved humanity out of a critically hot situation, but the building of a platform for unity and economic development throughout the world, which were evidently the central elements of LaRouche’s proposal, remains yet to be achieved. This may also be one of the main reasons why Lyndon LaRouche is still fighting in the political arena to inject some sanity into the political scene that is ruled by a greater insanity today than it was during the cold war years. The two key elements that are essential for avoiding a nuclear war in the long run, are global economic development and the development of unity which is fundamental to all. Nothing else will save our civilization and humanity with it. Like a broken record, Lyndon LaRouche has pointed this out again and again, especially in recent years, as the situation has become incredibly more precarious.

Man, what a guy! But then I discovered something else…

Trotskyism and Maoism

At the June 1968 SDS national convention, some of these people from the SDS chapter at Columbia University, who had come under the growing influence of an older former Trotskyist and SWP member named Lyndon LaRouche (alias Lynn Marcus), formed the Labor Committee. While the Labor Committee group was expelled from the Columbia SDS chapter later in the year, its influence spread geographically and it was to evolve into one of the most bizarre formations ever to appear in American politics. The name was changed to the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).

But a little background on LaRouche. He grew up on a Quaker background, if you can believe that. And what he is now might be understandable if you knew that in the 1960’s in NY he was operating under a different name, as Lynn Marcus, in honor of Lenin and Marx. Yep, folks, he was an out and out Red. I know, I once heard him speak, having been dragged along to something by a friend who told me that I had to hear this nut. In a sense, the person I can think of most similar to LaRouche is David Horowitz, who arose in I believe the early 1970’s as one of the original forces behind Ramparts, a very left-wing magazine. Look where he is now, on the extreme right.

And look how folks were trying to kil him in jail!

So after all this fun stuff I’m led to a few conclusions:

1) LaRouche is NOT in jail, no, he was released on parole in 1994 after serving 5 years of a 14 year sentence for tax evasion and fraud (sold stuff to old people without backing it up, didn’t pay taxes on it, stuff like that)
2) The guy is COMPLETELY FUCKING NUTS!
3) Google can find just about anything.

And maybe I’m just brainwashed…

They don’t get much deader than Usay and Qusay Hussein Now THAT’S progress. Really, I truly believe that if Saddam was 100% out of the picture we’d see at least half of the resistance disappear and support for the US tick up a bit more. As long as he is alive people will fear his return and fight for him. Once he’s gone, well, then we have a definite end to his reign.

Blair in 2004! Hey, if we can change the Constitution to allow more than two terms for President, surely we can change it to let Tony Blair run!

Abolish Marriage
Let’s really get the government out of our bedrooms.

Critics and enthusiasts of Lawrence v. Texas, last week’s Supreme Court decision invalidating state anti-sodomy laws, agree on one thing: The next argument is going to be about gay marriage. As Justice Scalia noted in his tart dissent, it follows from the logic of Lawrence. Mutually consenting sex with the person of your choice in the privacy of your own home is now a basic right of American citizenship under the Constitution. This does not mean that the government must supply it or guarantee it. But the government cannot forbid it, and the government also should not discriminate against you for choosing to exercise a basic right of citizenship. Offering an institution as important as marriage to male-female couples only is exactly this kind of discrimination. Or so the gay rights movement will now argue. Persuasively, I think.

Opponents of gay rights will resist mightily, although they have been in retreat for a couple of decades. General anti-gay sentiments are now considered a serious breach of civic etiquette, even in anti-gay circles. The current line of defense, which probably won’t hold either, is between social toleration of homosexuals and social approval of homosexuality. Or between accepting the reality that people are gay, even accepting that gays are people, and endorsing something called “the gay agenda.” Gay marriage, the opponents will argue, would cross this line. It would make homosexuality respectable and, worse, normal. Gays are welcome to exist all they want, and to do their inexplicable thing if they must, but they shouldn’t expect a government stamp of approval.

It’s going to get ugly. And then it’s going to get boring. So, we have two options here. We can add gay marriage to the short list of controversies?abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty?that are so frozen and ritualistic that debates about them are more like Kabuki performances than intellectual exercises. Or we can think outside the box. There is a solution that ought to satisfy both camps and may not be a bad idea even apart from the gay-marriage controversy.

That solution is to end the institution of marriage.

Minimalist Web Project That’s actually pretty sweet.

Save The Adverb, Quickly!

How much of a pottymouth are you?

Pizza keeps cancer away: study

A study has revealed that eating pizza on a regular basis could help stave off certain forms of cancer.

The eating habits of over 3,000 Italians suffering from cancer of the stomach or digestive tract were monitored during the study and compared with a sample of about 5,000 people suffering from other diseases, daily La Repubblica reported today.

The results showed that people who ate pizza once or several times a week were less likely to get cancer than those who chose not to eat it at all.

Sweet! I smell a new ad campaign for Pizza Hut.

To God:

Dear god,
stop making bad things happen, its not funny any more.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

New penis grown on boy’s arm

Yea, science!

Blair Won’t Resign Over Adviser’s Suicide

Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would take full responsibility if an inquiry finds the government contributed to the suicide of scientist David Kelly - identified Sunday by the British Broadcasting Corp. as its main source in accusing the government of hyping weapons evidence to justify war in Iraq.

Blair, dogged on his trip through east Asia by angry charges about the Ministry of Defense adviser’s death, said he has no intention of resigning over the dispute, as some critics at home have demanded.

Resign? Because some other guy decided to kill himself after a situation that he helped stir up? What?

KENNEY :
Irish, patronymic derived from Aodh ‘fire,’ the name of a pagan Irish deity, a common personal name.

What’s in your name?

J’s Notes is inaccessable in China! Wonder what I did to piss the commies off.

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I think the times are when they pinged my site as EEEEVVVVVVVVIIIILLLLLL!!!!! To think, one sixth of the world can’t bask in the aura of J~.