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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Monday, February 21, 2005
Selah:::::::::::Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
I don't think any of us expected him to die quietly in bed, and with his final act, Hunter S. Thompson turned a gun on himself this weekend. He hadn't grown saner over the years, and we all knew about his serious fixation on firearms. To celebrate Hunter S. Thompson, we need to look beyond his public persona, and his final act, and go straight to the texts.
From his recently published The Rum Diaries (written in 1959) to the Fear And Loathing books, the guy could write. His Hell's Angels book broke serious ground for participatory journalism. Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 is the best book (and the funniest book) I've ever read on the campaign process. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is an extremely twisted and hilarious peek under the covers at the American Dream. His books of letters (The Proud Highway, etc.), The Curse of Lono, and other lesser known books were first rate. Even the later, crankier, and more misanthropic books still had much to recommend them; no matter what, the guy could write. He was not an objective journalist, but he was a great partisan journalist. He believed in his books. Everything else didn't count for much. I have probably learned more about writing from him than almost anyone else I've read. His journalistic background allowed him a structure that so many other people struggle to find. He found his voice early, and he stuck to it.
Buy a book or two and check him out if you haven't had the chance. /jack
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From his recently published The Rum Diaries (written in 1959) to the Fear And Loathing books, the guy could write. His Hell's Angels book broke serious ground for participatory journalism. Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 is the best book (and the funniest book) I've ever read on the campaign process. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is an extremely twisted and hilarious peek under the covers at the American Dream. His books of letters (The Proud Highway, etc.), The Curse of Lono, and other lesser known books were first rate. Even the later, crankier, and more misanthropic books still had much to recommend them; no matter what, the guy could write. He was not an objective journalist, but he was a great partisan journalist. He believed in his books. Everything else didn't count for much. I have probably learned more about writing from him than almost anyone else I've read. His journalistic background allowed him a structure that so many other people struggle to find. He found his voice early, and he stuck to it.
Buy a book or two and check him out if you haven't had the chance. /jack
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Sunday, February 20, 2005
With Friends Like This Piece Of Dogs***, POTUS Doesn't Really Need Enemies Like Us
The New York Times, Drudge, and others today report on The President's betrayal by his old Christian buddy and confidante Doug Wead. I won't go into details...read the stories. Doug Wead is lower than a snake's sphincter. He secretly taped conversations he had with George W. Bush in the late nineties. The President discussed his religious views, gay tolerance, drug use, and other matters. Wead says he recorded the conversations because he viewed Mr. Bush as a historic figure. Since Wead has a new book coming out about presidential childhoods, he will benefit from the publicity, but that was not his motive in disclosing the tapes. Yeah.
Mister President, I know how much you value confidentiality. I salute you for not having this treacherous little weasel bumped off. I'm not sure I could have exhibited the same forebearance. Wead still claims friendship and affection for The President. This guy makes Linda Tripp look like a paragon of virtue. If we're going to sink POTUS, let's do it by fair means. . .Lord knows, there must be some real dirt out there!
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Mister President, I know how much you value confidentiality. I salute you for not having this treacherous little weasel bumped off. I'm not sure I could have exhibited the same forebearance. Wead still claims friendship and affection for The President. This guy makes Linda Tripp look like a paragon of virtue. If we're going to sink POTUS, let's do it by fair means. . .Lord knows, there must be some real dirt out there!
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
The Grey Invasion Plan
One of my favorite documents of The Grey Story (or myth, or legend) is The Krill Papers. In this section, a "Nordic" invader describes to a UFO researcher, George Andrews, how The Greys might go about conquering our planet. [1]
"Were you a culture about to invade, you would not do it with a flourish of ships showing up in the heavens and undergo risk of being fired upon. That's the type of warfare slightly less evolved beings get into. You would create intense confusion and disagreement with only inferences to your presence -- inferences which would [in turn] cause controversial disagreement.
"The Greys are insidious little fiends. They did exactly [to us] what they're doing here [to you]. You are not on the verge of an invasion. You are not in the middle of an invasion. The invasion has already taken place. It's merely in its final stages.
"What would you invade? [Here he describes the operational plan of the Greys from the beginning.] You would go to the most secret of communities within a society. In the case of the United States, you would go and infiltrate the CIA. You would take over some of them and you would take over part of the KGB.
"You would create great dissension and disagreement between factions of the public at large -- some groups saying they have seen UFOs, others saying 'No, no, this is not possible.' You would involve two major countries in an on-going idiotic philosophical disagreement so that while the Soviet Union and the United States constantly battle back and forth about who has which piece of territory or whether one invades Iran or whether one invades Afghanistan or whatever... whether one dismantles one nuclear warhead or the other dismantles another group of warheads. You would sit back and laugh if you had the capacity to laugh.
"You would present yourself indeed to some in a group who would protect you [CIA or MJ-12] thinking they had a secret more secret and more perfect knowledge of something than anyone else on this planet had, and they would covet you and you would trust their own greed and you would trust their own mass stupidity to trap them. And you'd do it on both sides.
"You'd show yourself to some of the mass populace to further involve [factions of] the government in an attempt to shut them up, to keep them even more busy quieting them and trying to 'stop more information about UFOs from getting out.' You'd have the mass populace to a state where they distrusted the government. 'Oh, why don't they believe us? Why can't they understand that these things are really happening? We're not crazy!'
"So you would have battles constantly about whether UFOs exist or don't exist. You would have the public and the government at each other's throats. You would set two major superpowers at each other's throats. And you would have set up groups like 'haves' -- the wealthy but contented -- and the 'have- nots.' You would plant the seeds of massive discontent.
"Eventually you might have some show of ships landing in the 1990s. One or two. By the time they have landed, be assured they will be in complete control. You will start doing crossbreeds and more crossbreeds, generation after generation.
"You bribe the government with a few tidbits -- a Star Wars system. You tease and tempt the Soviet Union with a laser system far finer than any of their own scientists could think of. And you always have that subtle inference -- just on the borderline of consciousness so that UFOs don't seem to believable, yet you keep it couched in secrecy and make it seem quite so insane that no one would believe them. On top of it, you would unleash forces that would want to kill them [UFO contactees] if they disclosed that the CIA is dealing with the exact same things the [contact victim] is.
"Maybe one or two hundred years from now, some of the Greys will even physically mingle and you may have some creatures walking around who are pretty much hybrids between Greys and your own race. For now, anything that walks around will look much like yourselves. It's simpler. It holds down on mass panic.
"Everyone who has experiences with them [Greys] will be at odds with the government. To add to that, we will go into a complete phase of earthquake after earthquake and upheaval after upheaval.
"The inner core of the CIA is deeply controlled by the Greys. The CIA sees interaction with the Greys as a path to greater scientific achievement.
"One reason you are seeing so many different kinds of UFOs is that other cultures are watching with extreme interest. Scientists from other cultures arrive to watch. The Greys have not only taken over the intelligence agencies, they have also taken over what those agencies call 'lunatic fringe groups.'"
[1] Excerpts from "A SITUATION REPORT ON OUR ACQUISITION OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND INTERACTION WITH ALIEN CULTURES by O.H. KRILL" There are copies of this paper all over the internet. Its provenance is, of course, murky at best. But it's a hell of a read, whether it's fact or fabulation. /jack
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