Re: [CanYoAssDigIt] Stranger's Free Classified Musician Ads

Anyone remember that column in the Cooper Point Journal, years ago,
called "Thoughts n Shit?"

Matt Love wrote:

>"guitars, bass,drums/w back up vocals? Needed. i've got lyrics out the
>ass! i want folks who want to write music to them. I write stuff that
>sounds good acoustic and powered up, think godsmack, big n rich, alice
>n chains etc i'm 20 and i sing! email me powerofmusic05@hotmail.com
>[05-03-2005]
>Send an e-mail: powerofmusic05@hotmail.com"
>
>I would like to suggest that this is not the best place to get lyrics
>- or anything else, except shit or a little Lithuanian delight.
>
>I offer the following example of what happens when you get words out
>of your ass:
>
>Al Franken, in the current Seattle Weekly: "A few months ago, Rush
>was talking about the minimum wage. Conservatives like to portray it
>that no one has to raise a family on the minimum wage—the only people
>who get the minimum wage are teenagers who want to buy an iPod. So
>Rush says, "Seventy-five percent of all Americans on the minimum wage,
>my friends, are teenagers on their first job." And one of the
>researchers brings this to me, with a smile, and I say, "Well, can you
>look it up?" And they look it up. The researcher goes to something
>called the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixty percent of Americans on
>minimum wage are 20 and above. Forty percent, then, are either
>teenagers or below 12 [laughs]. I had several jobs as a teenager, so
>you figure, what, 13 percent might be teenagers in their first job.
>Not 75 percent. So where did Rush get his statistic? Well, he got it
>directly from his butt. It went out his butt, into his mouth, out the
>microphone, into the air, into the brains of dittoheads. And they
>believe this stuff."
>
>I should point out that John Walsh makes a good case that Franken
>talks out of his ass, too, at www.counterpunch.org, "Al Franken is a
>Big Fat Phony."
>
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Stranger's Free Classified Musician Ads

"guitars, bass,drums/w back up vocals? Needed. i've got lyrics out the
ass! i want folks who want to write music to them. I write stuff that
sounds good acoustic and powered up, think godsmack, big n rich, alice
n chains etc i'm 20 and i sing! email me powerofmusic05@hotmail.com
[05-03-2005]
Send an e-mail: powerofmusic05@hotmail.com"

I would like to suggest that this is not the best place to get lyrics
- or anything else, except shit or a little Lithuanian delight.

I offer the following example of what happens when you get words out
of your ass:

Al Franken, in the current Seattle Weekly: "A few months ago, Rush
was talking about the minimum wage. Conservatives like to portray it
that no one has to raise a family on the minimum wage—the only people
who get the minimum wage are teenagers who want to buy an iPod. So
Rush says, "Seventy-five percent of all Americans on the minimum wage,
my friends, are teenagers on their first job." And one of the
researchers brings this to me, with a smile, and I say, "Well, can you
look it up?" And they look it up. The researcher goes to something
called the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixty percent of Americans on
minimum wage are 20 and above. Forty percent, then, are either
teenagers or below 12 [laughs]. I had several jobs as a teenager, so
you figure, what, 13 percent might be teenagers in their first job.
Not 75 percent. So where did Rush get his statistic? Well, he got it
directly from his butt. It went out his butt, into his mouth, out the
microphone, into the air, into the brains of dittoheads. And they
believe this stuff."

I should point out that John Walsh makes a good case that Franken
talks out of his ass, too, at www.counterpunch.org, "Al Franken is a
Big Fat Phony."

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Historic language alert

I haven't heard much talking today - could be the human race is
slipping into a sub-verbal condition - so I will republish a language
alert first distributed on my last birthday, Sept 10, 2004 11:41 AM
(and you don't want to wait until the last minute to decide what to
get me for my next birthday. Check out my Amazon Wish List at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/1LV58J3FDRHPC/ref=cm_aya_wl/102-0877241-6345711)

A commentator on Democracy Now, incensed over election issues in Florida:

"This shenanigrous behavior must stop!"

A woman (convicted felon) on Weekday this morning wanted to have his
voting rights

"reinstored"

CPB Exerting Political Pressure on Public Television

The NYTimes piece said that NPR is not experiencing the same pressure
as PBS, because they have a greater degree of autonomy due to the huge
endowment from Joan Kroc. But I think a plausible alternative theory
is that they have already given in to conservative bias.

I got the following reply from Palast's people when I asked them if
his treatment at KUOW had changed:

Hi Matt,
NPR have been really bad and utterly gutless. Several times we've had
what appear to be enthusiastic producers wanting Greg on the air only
to cancel after having a brief pre-interview chat with him.
Go figure...
Regards,
LENI

Which didn't really answer the question, I asked, but they are busy,
out doing real journalism. I enjoy his e-mail updates, I'm getting
news I don't get from the government propaganda outfit. And speaking
of which, Chomsky mentioned several events that I never heard about on
NPR, how about you folks?

I have not heard back from the Nader people yet.

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From: FAIR <fair@fair.org>
Date: May 5, 2005 10:24 AM
Subject: CPB Exerting Political Pressure on Public Television
To: Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>

FAIR-L
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Media analysis, critiques and activism

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2508

ACTION ALERT:
CPB Exerting Political Pressure on Public Television
Chair cites dubious evidence of public television's "liberal bias"

May 5, 2005

A front-page New York Times story (5/2/05) added to mounting evidence that
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) under chair Kenneth
Tomlinson is pressuring public television officials to produce more
conservative programming, and to rein in shows it perceives as liberal.

"The Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is
aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other
conservatives consider liberal bias," reported the Times, adding that CPB
pressure has prompted "some public broadcasting leaders-- including the
chief executive of PBS-- to object that his actions pose a threat to
editorial independence." An unnamed senior FCC official used even starker
terms, telling the Washington Post (4/22/05) that the CPB under Tomlinson
"is engaged in a systematic effort not just to sanitize the truth, but to
impose a right-wing agenda on PBS. It's almost like a right-wing coup. It
appears to be orchestrated."

As a private, non-profit institution, the CPB is tasked by Congress to
distribute funds to public broadcasters with a view toward balance.
Although it was intended to shield public broadcasting from political
influence, the CPB has long since become a mechanism for transmitting
Congress' ideological desires to public broadcasters.

Tomlinson says the CPB is only trying to rectify liberal bias in public
television-- a dubious role for an official tasked with shielding public
broadcasters from prevailing political winds. But Tomlinson has presented
little evidence of any pervasive left-wing bias in public broadcasting; in
fact, his only specific criticisms seem to be aimed at the program Now,
which was, until recently, hosted by Bill Moyers.

Tomlinson was instrumental in the development and funding of the Journal
Editorial Report, a program that features the Wall Street Journal's
hard-right editorial board and was supposed to be a "balance" to Now
(although unlike the Editorial Report, Now frequently had guests whose
views differed from those of the show's producers). The CPB's ideological
influence has grown as it has become increasingly staffed by White
House-friendly board members and officials. In addition to Tomlinson,
major Republican Party donors Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines were
added to the board in 2003. Earlier this year Ken Ferree, a former aide to
FCC chair Michael Powell, was made both chief operating officer and
interim president of the CPB.

If Tomlinson and his CPB colleagues are doling out public broadcasting
funds based on the premise that PBS's left-wing slant must be corrected,
then they should first be required to show the public that such a bias
exists. Contrary to those familiar charges, a 1999 FAIR study found that
the news and public affairs programming available on PBS affiliates
displayed an elite, pro-business slant. The FAIR survey examined the
regular public affairs programming-- news, talk/interview, business and
documentary-- during a two-week period in late 1998. The findings
indicated that PBS shows often mirrored the narrow range of debate
available in the mainstream media:

-- Government officials (50 percent), professionals (31 percent --
overwhelmingly journalists) and corporate /Wall Street representatives (11
percent) dominated the debate over domestic politics, leaving little room
for consumer advocates or public interest voices.

--Only 22 percent of the sources were women;

--On economic stories, corporate/Wall Street sources dominated (75
percent), with labor unions rarely being heard (1.5 percent of sources).
Not a single representative of organized labor appeared in discussions of
corporate mergers or of layoffs.

If the CPB is truly interested in "balance" on PBS, they might want to
investigate why so many affiliates regularly air business and investment
programs (Nightly Business Report, CEO Exchange, Wall Street Week With
Fortune), some of which are distributed by PBS, but have no shows devoted
to labor or consumer rights. They might ask why PBS stations have long
featured talkshows hosted by conservatives (McLaughlin Group, Think Tank
with Ben Wattenberg, Tony Brown's Journal) but none hosted by
progressives. (The Tavis Smiley Show, arguably the closest thing to a
progressive talkshow on public TV, mostly interviews actors, musicians and
other cultural figures.)

PBS has also demonstrated a curious double-standard when it comes to
policing conflicts of interest. In 1993, PBS distributed The Prize: The
Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, a documentary series funded by
PaineWebber, a company with significant oil interests; almost every expert
featured was a defender of the oil industry. PBS carried Living Against
the Odds, a 1991 special on "risk assessment" funded by the oil company
Chevron that asserted, "We have to stop pointing the finger at industry
for every environmental hazard." In 2002, PBS distributed Commanding
Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, a look at globalization funded
by global corporate entities like BP, FedEx and Enron.

Yet PBS has rejected documentaries dealing with labor issues-- even
historical features dealing with 19th century labor struggles-- because
they received funding from labor unions. Defending Our Lives, a film
about domestic violence, was rejected in 1993 because one of its producers
was the leader of a battered women's support group. In 1997, Out at Work,
a film about workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians, was
rejected because it was partially funded by unions and a lesbian group.

The whole point of public broadcasting is to be an alternative to
commercial media outlets-- in part by creating a platform for dissenting,
marginalized and controversial views that for-profit networks won't air.
To try and apply Republican appointees' notions of "balance" to every PBS
or NPR program, as the CPB has suggested, would almost certainly stifle
those voices.

The CPB has recently appointed two ombudsmen to, as NPR reported
(4/28/05), "review the journalism that airs on PBS and NPR member
stations, along with programs from other public broadcasters such as
Pacifica Radio and Minnesota Public Radio."

Given the current partisan make-up of the CPB, this arrangement could
serve as a cover to de-fund programming that Republican members of the CPB
find objectionable, and to promote and enhance funding for shows that
serve and promote conservative interests.

ACTION:
Let the CPB know that it is the left and not the right that has been
traditionally excluded from public broadcasting. Remind them that public
broadcasting is supposed to serve as a platform for dissenting and
controversial views-- not simply another forum for conservative and
corporate voices.

CONTACT:
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Phone Numbers:
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800-272-2190

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[songwriters and poets] Re: The Brook: You read the poem, now hear the song!

Joe Swordfish received some feedback on The Brook (posted at
www.soundclick.com/SongPoet)

I'm not sure what '"isDanteisnotDante." ...LOL!' menas, but I'm sure
that Joe was pleased with "Cool stuff" (that one would look good in
the ads in the music magazines (though she came back an hour later
with "Now DUCK!" which confuses me - perhaps she would like some duck
calls mixed into the birdsong? In fact, I help make that happen. I
need to find a poem about ducks or ducking and send it to Joe - I'm
sure he'll be responsive, he usually does whatever I suggest.

"The music isn't bad..." the kind of press the Rolling Stones have
been longing for, lo these last 25 years or so. But then he has to go
and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "the processing on
the vocals makes them impossible to understand."

Joe said that at first he was like totally pissed off, but then he
went back and listened to it again, and he have to admit that Eorthman
was right! So he said that after that, he was really pissed off,
because he sent this to some friends to listen to before he posted it,
and did he hear a word about it being hard to understand? Of course
not! Sheesh, and they call themselves friends?!? So Joe had to eat
crow and pretend to be all humble and shit.

--- In songwritersandpoets@yahoogroups.com, anns_rose
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
Any moment now, we have the answer to the musical question:
"isDanteisnotDante." ...LOL!

Cool stuff, Joe.

anns_rose <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> to songwritersand.
More options 12:19 pm (2½ hours ago)

Now DUCK!

On 5/4/05, eorthman <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> The music isn't bad, but the processing on the vocals makes them impossible to
> understand. What's the good of setting a poem to music if the words to the poem are
> converted into electronic noise?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joe Swordfish <jswordfish@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2005 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [songwriters and poets] Re: The Brook: You read the poem,
now hear the song!
To: songwritersandpoets@yahoogroups.com

I'm working on it.... prior to vocoderization of my vocal part, it was
understandable but even worse acoustic noise.

Another songwriter list I just joined seems to have vocalists
littering the premises... surely one of the 2910 members on this list
could be a singer who would like to join Kameshwar and me playing to
appreciative audiences in casinos and half-way houses across the
country? Or at least sing on a recording?

and Joe's favorite post and his reply:

On 5/4/05, byrdbrane2 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> If you touch any of my shit without my permission I'll sue you straight into a halfway house, motherfucker.

I can't blame a man on that, you wrote the damn shit.

But consider, song sharks offer this kind of service for hundreds of
dollars, I'm doing it for free. I am working on a way to entirely
automate the process, so that people can generate musical
accompaniment to their poems with the push of a button. After that,
automatic computer generated music videos. Everybody will be able to
turn their personal computer into their own personal 24/7 music
channel. Everybody broadcasting, nobody listening. My God, it will be
beautiful.

But don't worry, Byrdbrane, your poems are safe from molestation. They
are too long.

[iChat] As we suspected all along

Well, duh!

They may SUSPECT this is true now, but they KNEW it was true 18 months
ago when they were twice as smart. 18 months from now, they will be
on the street with a tin cup, but fortunately they will be so stupid
they won't care - they'll think they have jobs, and they'll be voting
Republican. That's how it goes.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Darci Chapman Hanning <darcilee@u.washington.edu>
Date: May 5, 2005 7:51 AM
Subject: [iChat] As we suspected all along
To: ichat@u.washington.edu

"Data from the library job market and mounting anecdotal evidence show
that there is cause for alarm. The number of full-time, professional
positions in libraries is dwindling, salaries continue to be
depressed, more entry-level positions are being liquidated or
"deprofessionalized," and qualified job seekers are having trouble
securing work. Meanwhile, an industrywide MLS recruitment drive is in
full swing, ensuring another large crop of graduates will be spilled
out into the job market each year. Even with this bumper crop of new
professionals, library administrators complain about the lack of
qualified applicants for available positions."

Full article: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA527965

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[PlansFromOuterSpace] Find A Grave's John 'Bunny' Breckenridge entry

I am pleased that my "Plans From Outer Space" group has been active
lately, with some actual information being shared. I hope more people
will subscribe; if I can become a respected figure in
PlansFromOuterSpacology, perhaps those Koreans that have filmed "Plan
17 From Outer Space" and "Plan 19 From Outer Space" will send me
copies. So please join my group!

PlansFromOuterSpace-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tor Groupies <torgroupies@yahoo.com>
Date: May 3, 2005 9:40 AM
Subject: [PlansFromOuterSpace] Find A Grave's John 'Bunny' Breckenridge entry

Dear Mr. Smith;

Thank you for giving me the truth in the matter.

There is a lot of homophobia today and more so a few decades back.

Maybe I'll even leave some virtual flowers on Bunny's grave.

Best Wishes

Kyle Brinkmann

Adrian Smith <trouserpressbaby@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

--- Michael Wilk <gloomman96@hotmail.com> wrote:

---------------------------------
John "Bunny" Breckinridge didnt sexually abuse young
boys. He was
looking after two teenaged boys, the sons of some
floozy. I think the
story goes that "Bunny" took them to a gay bar (!),
one of the boys
propositioned an undercover cop, and "Bunny" went to a
correctional
facility, where he became known as "Queen of the
Laundry". The story
is in Rudolph Grey's book "Nightmare of Ecstasy", upon
which the Tim
Burton film "Ed Wood" was based. According to Vampira,
there was a
televised hearing of the trial, and there was "Bunny",
adjusting his
makeup!

That's a great story. I love bunny's performance in
Plan 9, and Bill Murray's take in Ed Wood. This looks
like a book I'm going to have to order some time off
Amazon marketplace. I just wish their international
postage wasn't so high!

http://www.geocities.com/emergofilms - My short films website

http://www.geocities.com/trouserpressbaby/movie_collection.html - See
my entire movie collection!

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Tor Groupies <torgroupies@yahoo.com> to Anything_Ed_Wo., bad_movies,
cinema_undergr. ...
More options May 2 (23 hours ago)

Dear Ed Wood Fans;

Today I "interred" John "Bunny" Breckenridge on the Find A Grave
website (www.findagrave.com).

Breckenridge is best remembered for portraying the alien ruler in Ed
Wood's 1959 "Plan Nine From Outer Space".

Due to Breckenridge's checkered past including being convicted of sex
offenses involving young boys I really only did this for Ed Wood's
fans. I kind of find it hard to think we should honor or even remember
those who abuse children.

Also if anyon has any information on where Valda Hansen was buried I
would appreciate being forwarded that information.

Tor Groupies
President

Kyle Brinkmann

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Language Watch: The Downward Spiral

As you folks know, I have been using deterioration of language skills
to track the speed at which human intellectual capacity diminishes.
What started out as a snarky satire on insufficient and unnecessary
ideas I was exposed to in the MLIS program at the U of W have for me
become a serious theory, one that is supported by evidence as
powerfully as the theory of global warming. I am concerned that the
rate of deterioration is compounding (Thank you, Sugarzareh, for
supplying examples culled from your field observations of teen
thugwads. Other readers are invited to submit theirs as well). Here
are just a few recent examples I've encountered:

Word Coinage at a recent meeting I was at:
Jane Doe: Devisory
John Doe: Insultive

[Sorry for the pseudonyms, I suspect they may be paranoid ego surfers,
and I don't need any grief over something so petty.

From a list I'm on: "I also ask for comments and except them." [Me
too, but up until now I thought I was the only one who would admit it.
Most people brag about accepting comments]

Headline in a recent Tacoma News Tribune: "Police Kill Man With
Knife" [Are the cops economizing on brutality?]

Cherif Bassiouni, on last Thursday's Democracy Now: Because they were
useful to the US after the invasion, they [Afghan warlords] "were
rewarded with impunity for their past crimes."

A huge number of examples of human idiocy from a recent press conference:

Bush: "I take him for his word"

Bush: "Natural gas can only be transported when you liquefy it. When
you put it into solid form."

Bush: "I can only speak to myself"

Reporter: "Is this what's nominating Democrats to oppose your
judicial candidates?"

[CanYoAssDigIt] Previous Post Explained

The attachment that gave the previous (Let Comcast...) post meaning did
not go through to the board. Individual subscribers should have received
it via email, though. Anyway, Ill paste it in: (The message on top was
sent to Comcast)

I forgot to mention in that last email that what Tony offered on the
phone was for me to take $50 off my first bill, pending my receipt of
the rebate. But, I paid that first bill, and now I'm begging for you to
apply it to the second bill.

So, I'm asking for less than what I was promised

According to what Comcast told me, the rebate is due to arrive in the
next three business days. (After what I've experienced so far today, it
seems unlikely that that will happen.) But, for the sake of argument,
let's assume you weren't lying about when the rebate will arrive. So, if
I got the rebate and put it in the mail the following day, that would be
three days later than if I mailed the payment the next business day
(Monday).

Upshot: What you are so stubbornly arguing about amounts to a three-day
delay in your receipt of payment. Which, I suppose I have to add yet
again, is what you told me you would do.

I just wanted to get in every last detail, to show the full extent of
how hysterically ridiculous your recalcitrance is, before I start with
the publicity.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Subject:
Re: Web Form Submission: Billing/Invoice Question
From:
Joe Sibley
Date:
Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:43:16 -0700

To:
Comcast Seattle

That's odd, where I come from an employee's refusal of a request to talk
to his/her supervisor is a serious offense. There seems to be a
pervasive confusion in your corporate culture of the concepts of "can't"
and "won't."

No notes, eh? Do you think I made the whole thing up? Failing to make
notes is Tony's problem, not mine. (When I was on the phone, I didn't
make any notes about having to pay for service, but I'm doing it
anyway.) Could the absence of notes be due to this bait and switch
pitch being SOP?

I'll find a way to take this to a higher level without your help,
Christopher. This email will be forwarded eventually, so I would like to
make a suggestion to whomever I deal with next: An extra measure of
goodwill is lost when staff apologize for inconvenience when they are
adding to inconvenience.

This bill is still under dispute.

Comcast Seattle wrote:

Dear Joe,

Thank you for contacting Comcast Cable. I apologize for any
inconvenience you have been experiencing.
There are no notes on your account to indicate that the $50.00 rebate
wold be applied to your account in the way you described. I am unable
to escalate this for you.

If you have any more questions feel free to reply to this e-mail, or you
can chat with one of our Online Customer Support Specialists 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week at

http://www.comcastsupport.com/sdcuser/asp/default.asp

Thank you for choosing Comcast.

Sincerely,

Christopher Comcast Online Customer Support

Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

Next level of authority, please.

One more time, processing protocols are irrelevant. The issue is Comcast
reneging on a verbal contract. I am more than 99% confident that you
indeed can bypass the process, but just don't want to. By what mechanism
you fulfill your promise is of no concern to me. I just want you to do
it. If it's true that you can't fix this for me, then your customer
service department is astonishingly poorly run. I'm sure this issue has
come up many times before.

Any disinterested person who knows anything about telemarketing will
tell you that it's extremely likely that what Tony told me was part of a
script. I didn't ask for any details about use of the rebate. He offered
them unbidden. He repeated it several times for emphasis. Evidence
points to this being part of the standard sales pitch.

But, whether Tony's offer was SOP or not, he was representing Comcast.
And I want Comcast to do what he said you would. I'm not asking a lot.

If I have to send many more of these emails, I'm going to ask for
compensation for my time and effort to correct your error. If I go as
far as I can and your top executives insist on stonewalling about a
slight delay in receiving $50 (cash flow problem??), that one of your
sales reps committed to, then I'll go with DSL. I much prefer
high-speed, but DSL will do- unless, of course, the DSL provider lies to
me, in which case I can go to a different DSL provider. I think I can
find a decent one, because they operate in a non-monopoly environment
and have incentive to treat their customers fairly.

Comcast Seattle wrote:

Dear Joe,

Thank you for contacting Comcast. I sincerely apologize for any
unpleasant experience you had recently with your Comcast service and
thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. However, the rebate
is processed thru protocols we have previously explained. We regret
that we cannot bypass that process.

If you have any more questions feel free to reply to this e-mail, or you
can chat with one of our Online Customer Support Specialists 24 hour a
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Comcast,

I'm afraid your response is unacceptable.

What your phone sales rep did is known as bait and switch. When I was
calling to request Comcast service, I was in an unusually good mood, and
I think this is why I was off-guard and not mindful of the fact that
offers made vocally (as opposed to in a fixed medium) can easily be
reneged on. I try to be trusting, but it rarely pays off. In that phone
call, you held me to my words. I ordered service and agreed to pay for
it. You took all the info I provided as true. So, what I said mattered,
and I'm holding Comcast to the same standard.

I thought that my first email today was only a formality. Now I see that
you're going to make me fight to hold you to your word. You are taking
my valuable time to correct a problem of your own making.

The method of processing your rebates is irrelevant to the topic at
hand. I'm aware of on-line payment and its advantages. Please, respond
to my concerns without further advertising.

Chisti,

Please refer this message to your supervisor or someone who has the
authority to do the right thing and make good on offers made by Comcast
personnel.

Comcast Seattle wrote:

Dear Joe,

Thank you for taking the time to contact Comcast today. I'm very sorry
for any inconvenience it may cause you; however, the $50 rebate cannot
be applied to your Comcast account in the manner you have requested.
The rebate that you are scheduled to receive actually gets processed
through a third party vendor, and Comcast cannot process a payment in
that manner. You are responsible for the current amount due on the
account. The rebate will be processed and sent to you as a check via the
Third Party Vendor.

Thank you for your patience and understanding with us in this matter.
If you prefer to complete you billing transactions online, I believe you
will find our Online Bill Pay site useful. You can review your billing
and account status via the Online Bill Pay site at
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The following information was submitted from the Comcast Web site:
Name: Joe Sibley
Address: 422 Phoenix St SE
City: Olympia
State: WA
Zip: 98501
Home Phone: 360-786-9301
Email: joesibley@comcast.net
Re: Web Form Submission: Billing/Invoice Question
Browser: Other
OS: Windows XP
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Comments:
I would like to get confirmation in writing of what I was told in the
phone conversation in which I first requested Comcast service. Tony,
your sales rep, told me that I could defer $50 of my payment until my
rebate in that amount reaches me in the mail. I have paid my first
bill ($135.14). The second ($35.15), due "on receipt" is outstanding.
So, I would like to apply $50 to the $35.15, leaving me $14.85 to
credit to the next bill. My service was installed on 3/30, and the
rebate is supposed to arrive in five weeks, so I expect it in the mail
very soon. Okay? Thank you.
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Let Comcast Administer Social Security

I don't know if anyone has the patience to wade through all this, but
it's instructive.

The reason we should privatize government is that services administered
directly by the state are inflexible, bureaucratic, uncaring,
inefficient, unreceptive, dishonest, stupid, etc. The glorious private
sector, on the other hand...

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Re: [CanYoAssDigIt] These kids today....

I don't know which was more horrifying, the bad picture on the TV or
mom's putting pens in the victim's mug. Maybe a therapist instructed
him to document the housekeeping with a view to suing for a Mercedes.
Mom is definitely eccentric (by that, I mean her house is slightly more
stuffed with junk than mine) but I'll be convinced she's truly insane if
she doesn't literally boot out this whiny, parasitic little shit.

Matt Love wrote:

>Can you believe the little rat, exposing his own mother to world wide
>criticism on the world wide web, for this perfectly normal, every day
>kind of behavior? Does he think he's the next Eminem or something?
>Sheesh...
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Stormdncr
>Date: Apr 29, 2005 11:36 AM
>Subject: [MIDIChat] Hooked on ebay
>To: me
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>Talk about someone who has a packrat syndrome.
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[CanYoAssDigIt] These kids today....

Can you believe the little rat, exposing his own mother to world wide
criticism on the world wide web, for this perfectly normal, every day
kind of behavior? Does he think he's the next Eminem or something?
Sheesh...

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From: Stormdncr
Date: Apr 29, 2005 11:36 AM
Subject: [MIDIChat] Hooked on ebay
To: me

Talk about someone who has a packrat syndrome.

http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/

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[CanYoAssDigIt] The Lighter Side: Language Watch

On the bus, some teen thugwads, fresh out of jail (but I repeat
myself) were explaining technology. "They have this shit that they
spray on shit to make it fire-retarded." He used the expression
several times, so I didn't mishear.

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Re: [CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [KUOW_SLG] Digest Number 118

Well, there you have it. lots of listeners happy. I have this antiquated
idea about journalism being about getting at the truth, rather than a
popularity contest.

Matt Love wrote:

>Barbara Roberts wrote:
>
>
>>Try to model the balance you'd like to hear from Public Radio.
>>
>>
>
>Thank you for the constructive suggestions.
>
>I am not sure what the balance should be between government propaganda
>and what is happening in the real world, but they are not currently
>approaching it.
>
>For example, did you hear the utterly embarrassing and pathetic
>performance by the President last night, and then how they sanitized
>in the commentary afterwards? They took a couple of things he said
>out of context, pretended that he was presenting cogent and coherent
>statements. Instead of bringing in opposing points of view (and most
>people in this country, by a large margin, opposes the policies Bush
>was flogging at that press conference) or even objective "experts" he
>interviewed two other NPR reporters who have been "covering" these
>issues for NPR. I despise this practice, and it seems to be getting
>worse all the time.
>
>I realize this forum is not really fertile ground to raise these
>issues - it started as a forum to discuss "The Conversation" which has
>always been mostly fluff anyway. However, what I found strikingly new
>is Reynold's attempted attack on Ralph Nader when he was a guest. He
>came off more as a peevish chihuahua than a pitbull, the change in
>tone from his usual go along to get along approach was quite striking.
>
>Ross has worked in public sector broadcasting for many, many years.
>First in community stations, then in public stations. He's now with
>the biggest one in this market, and he's probably scrutinizing the
>ceiling and thinking about the car, mortgage, baby expenses, future
>college expenses that he might have - the things that people
>accumulate by the time they get to be his age. So if the trends are
>to the right, he will follow the drift, as they all do, because it's
>not easy to get out and make an honest man of himself again.
>
>Did he get explicit instructions to lean on Nader? Was Steve Sherer
>told to treat Greg Palast like a kook? I don't know what the
>mechanisms are. The internal workings are a black box to me, I can
>only evaluate by what comes out. At first I had only anecdotal
>evidence from my own observations; FAIRs reports are extensive,
>thorough and systematic, and confirm what I've seen (on the national
>level).
>
>The Board that governs NPR is appointed by Bush. Kevin Klose argued -
>unconvincingly - that they are able to resist the pressure the board
>puts on them.
>
>Who is on the governing board of KUOW? Has there been a shift in
>membership lately? Pressure to attack Nader would be more likely to
>come from Dems. Dems have strong motivation to pretend that our
>elections have integrity (Gore and Kerry both failed to challenge
>widespread irregularities from fraud and incompetence), so pressure
>could have come from Dems to treat Palast like a pariah. Is the board
>made up of Democrats-in-name-only like Locke or Locke appointees?
>
>These are the sorts of things I'm interested in knowing, and I'd like
>some assistance, if anybody is interested in getting involved. I
>realize that when the three branches of the government of this
>republic are collapsing into one imperial structure right before our
>very eyes, it's hard to worry about KUOW. It's hard to know where to
>start, which is part of the problem that activists face. It seems to
>me that this is as good of a place to start as any.
>
>From: Barbara Roberts
>Subject: Re: Long time no post...
>
>Hey Matt: Chill. Wasn't Chomsky great?
>Have you been listening this week?
>Maybe the screeners select for praise, but there seem to be lots of listeners
>happy with the programming.
>I think you should write your posts in pencil and edit them.
>Try to model the balance you'd like to hear from Public Radio.
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [KUOW_SLG] Digest Number 118

Barbara Roberts wrote:
> Try to model the balance you'd like to hear from Public Radio.

Thank you for the constructive suggestions.

I am not sure what the balance should be between government propaganda
and what is happening in the real world, but they are not currently
approaching it.

For example, did you hear the utterly embarrassing and pathetic
performance by the President last night, and then how they sanitized
in the commentary afterwards? They took a couple of things he said
out of context, pretended that he was presenting cogent and coherent
statements. Instead of bringing in opposing points of view (and most
people in this country, by a large margin, opposes the policies Bush
was flogging at that press conference) or even objective "experts" he
interviewed two other NPR reporters who have been "covering" these
issues for NPR. I despise this practice, and it seems to be getting
worse all the time.

I realize this forum is not really fertile ground to raise these
issues - it started as a forum to discuss "The Conversation" which has
always been mostly fluff anyway. However, what I found strikingly new
is Reynold's attempted attack on Ralph Nader when he was a guest. He
came off more as a peevish chihuahua than a pitbull, the change in
tone from his usual go along to get along approach was quite striking.

Ross has worked in public sector broadcasting for many, many years.
First in community stations, then in public stations. He's now with
the biggest one in this market, and he's probably scrutinizing the
ceiling and thinking about the car, mortgage, baby expenses, future
college expenses that he might have - the things that people
accumulate by the time they get to be his age. So if the trends are
to the right, he will follow the drift, as they all do, because it's
not easy to get out and make an honest man of himself again.

Did he get explicit instructions to lean on Nader? Was Steve Sherer
told to treat Greg Palast like a kook? I don't know what the
mechanisms are. The internal workings are a black box to me, I can
only evaluate by what comes out. At first I had only anecdotal
evidence from my own observations; FAIRs reports are extensive,
thorough and systematic, and confirm what I've seen (on the national
level).

The Board that governs NPR is appointed by Bush. Kevin Klose argued -
unconvincingly - that they are able to resist the pressure the board
puts on them.

Who is on the governing board of KUOW? Has there been a shift in
membership lately? Pressure to attack Nader would be more likely to
come from Dems. Dems have strong motivation to pretend that our
elections have integrity (Gore and Kerry both failed to challenge
widespread irregularities from fraud and incompetence), so pressure
could have come from Dems to treat Palast like a pariah. Is the board
made up of Democrats-in-name-only like Locke or Locke appointees?

These are the sorts of things I'm interested in knowing, and I'd like
some assistance, if anybody is interested in getting involved. I
realize that when the three branches of the government of this
republic are collapsing into one imperial structure right before our
very eyes, it's hard to worry about KUOW. It's hard to know where to
start, which is part of the problem that activists face. It seems to
me that this is as good of a place to start as any.

From: Barbara Roberts
Subject: Re: Long time no post...

Hey Matt: Chill. Wasn't Chomsky great?
Have you been listening this week?
Maybe the screeners select for praise, but there seem to be lots of listeners
happy with the programming.
I think you should write your posts in pencil and edit them.
Try to model the balance you'd like to hear from Public Radio.

Barbara

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Re: [CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] PEOPLE's "50 Most Beautiful People" complete list...

If you condense the story, it's a quick and accurate guide to the US
(government's, not all the people's) general attitude toward the rest of
the world:

Foreign journalist must ask US permission to leave captivity in yet a
third nation, but US soldiers shoot and kill anyway, other US soldiers
say it's okay. The end.

Matt Love wrote:

>This list is tedious. They are only repeating the popular consensus.
>A consensus that was invented by people like them, drilled into the
>heads of media sucking sheep, who vote for these same people. This is
>then breathlessly reported as if it's news, and the cycle goes on and
>on.
>
>Maybe I'll make my own list of my "50 Most Beautiful People". Here's
>my first candidate: Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena.
>
>She was of course fired on by U.S. soldiers who opened fire on her car
>after she was released from captivity in Iraq. She was wounded, and
>her rescuer, and one of Italy's highest ranking intelligence
>officials, was killed.
>
>Now a Pentagon report has cleared the soldiers.
>
>Sgrena says, "It is important that the Americans press their
>government to tell the truth. Because it is in the interest of
>Americans, the truth. Not only of Italians."
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>More details:
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>On Monday, a US Army official reported that a military investigation
>has cleared the soldiers who shot dead Nicola Calipari on March 4
>after US troops opened fire on the car that was also carrying Giuliana
>Sgrena - the Italian journalist who had just been freed from
>captivity. Sgrena has publicly rejected the U.S. claims that the
>shooting was justified. The leaking of that report sparked outrage in
>Italy.
>The Italian officials on the US-led commission are reportedly refusing
>to endorse the U.S. Army's findings. Italy maintains that that car
>carrying Calipari and Sgrena had been driving slowly, received no
>warning and that Italy had advised U.S. authorities of their mission
>to evacuate Sgrena from Iraq.
>
>Yesterday, Giuliana Sgrena blasted the results of the investigation at
>a press conference in Rome.
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>She called for U.S. and Italy to Leave Iraq.
>
>Now there's a beautiful person!
>
>
>On 4/27/05, kdhaisch@aol.com wrote:
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>
>>PEOPLE's 50 Most Beautiful People
>>It's an annual spring tradition.
>>See who made the list of the world's most gorgeous
>>guys and gals.
>>
>>(HEY, Leonardo DiCRAPrio did NOT make the list!!!!
>>hooray)
>>
>>In alphabetic order (with my comments added)...
>>
>>• Jessica Alba (soon to be in "Fantastic Four" movie)
>>• Jennifer Aniston
>>• Drew Barrymore (what the fuck??)
>>• Mischa Barton
>>
>>• David Beckham (married to Posh of the Spice Girls!
>>and why didn't SHE make the list??)
>>
>>• Halle Berry (oh yeah! beautiful !!!)
>>
>>• Orlando Bloom
>>• Penelope Cruz
>>• Patrick Dempsey, Grey's Anatomy
>>• Johnny Depp (gag me!)
>>
>>• Hilary Duff
>>• Sara Evans, Country singer
>>• Colin Farrell
>>• Jamie Foxx
>>• Tim Green, former NFL star and best-selling author
>>
>>• Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
>>• Tyler Hilton, One Tree Hill
>>• Josh Holloway, Lost
>>• Scarlett Johansson
>>• Angelina Jolie (hubba, hubba. ALWAYS a hottie !!)
>>
>>• Juanes, Colombian musician
>>• Alicia Keys
>>• Heidi Klum (skinny supermodel, she's hot)
>>• Jude Law
>>
>>• Lindsay Lohan (Tim wants to fuck her MOTHER!!!)
>>
>>• Eva Longoria (a "Desperate Housewives" overnight star)
>>
>>• Jennifer Lopez (oh, HELL NO!!!)
>>
>>• Ann-Margret (SHE'S SO OLD !!!)
>>• Matthew McConaughey
>>• Eva Mendes, Hitch
>>
>>• Jesse Metcalfe, Desperate Housewives
>>• Sienna Miller, Alfie
>>• Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
>>• Sandra Oh, Sideways, Grey's Anatomy
>>• Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
>>
>>• Clive Owen, Sin City, Closer
>>• Tyler Perry, Diary of a Mad Black Woman author
>>• Brad Pitt (GAG ME !!!!!!!!)
>>
>>• Julia Roberts (OH YEAH !!!!!!)
>>
>>• Seal
>>• Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
>>• Jessica Simpson
>>• Elizabeth Smart, Utah teen
>>
>>• Martha Stewart (you kiddin' me?)
>>
>>• Hilary Swank (wonderful actress, but NOT beautiful)
>>
>>• Usher
>>• Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat basketball player
>>
>>• Oprah Winfrey (fat women need love, too)
>>• Kate Winslet
>>• Ziyi Zhang, House of Flying Daggers
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Long time no post...

So in quick succession they've brought two NPR bigshots (Kevin Klose
and Warren Olney) into the studio at KUOW, where they heard over and
over again from listeners that they are unhappy with the new
center-right orientation of the network, and they deny it, and try to
maintain that devoting most of their broadcasting time to government
propaganda and food programs is "objectivity."

It reminds me of Richard Nixon's famous "I am not a crook."

It's been proved over and over again, by FAIR for example, and I've
made the case repeatedly in this forum so many times that nobody even
bothers to argue with me about it anymore.

It is sad that KUOW didn't consult with their listeners about what
THEY wanted the Tavis Smiley show with - I would have lobbied hard for
Democracy Now! Because it isn't either/or, there are many NPR
stations that carry DN! and if KUOW did, I'd put up with the smarmy
and obsequious toadies kissing up to conservative think tank
mouthpieces and retired generals (enriching themselves "consulting")
etc etc that you get with NPR news - but no, they gave us the anemic
"The World".

Speaking of smarmy and obsequious toadies, I imagine that Scott Simon
will be dishing out more of the same "we are the world" slop, in the
face of overwhelming evidence that we orphaned NPR listeners are
actually much more accutely attuned to world opinion, while they
desperately cater to their funding sources on the right.

I am sorry to have to say "KUOW sucks" - it would be interesting to
know what they said to Ross Reynolds and Steve Sherer - "ok, when you
have Greg Palast on, forget the way you treated him in the past, be
rude, treat him like a conspiracy theorist, a member of the tin hat
crowd" and "treat Ralph Nader like a worm, a kook, a canker sore" and
perhaps "never talk to the Transportation Choices Coalition again,
only industry and government from now on."

What the hell is going on, anyway, and why does it seem like only a
handful of people even notice?

At least they are breaking with the decades long NPR ban on Chomsky,
that's something.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] "you guys consistenly have good music keep it up"

Check this out (below, with [parenthetically] comments from me), my
rappin cappin snappin alterego knucklehead got a big misspelled,
incoherent shoutout from some people I've never heard of!

Find out what people are yelling their heads off about, check out
knucklehead at

www.soundclick.com/knuckleheadus

and scream "damn good pleasure" at

http://www.soundclick.com/kengoshaentertainmentpresents85alllive

let them know the knucklehead posse is mighty!

Knucklehead (US)Knucklehead (US)
message board post

kengosha entertainment posted on Thu April 7, 2005
you guys consistenly have good music keep it up

[I will my friends! I will keep it up!]

.........if you get a chance holla at us.

[OK, I will. HEY, YOU!!!!!]

we have music w/ peddi crack and young buck........L 2 da I V 2 da E is #1
come find out.........oh by the way we have HOTSTEPPA for the jazz
heads AND WANT WAR for the thug cats!!........PLUS THE CRUSIN SINGLE
NO DISRESPECT TO YOU........ and for the block huggers we have b itch
holla my name and fuc cassidy!!! and if you notice we are #1 on the
charts........so i know the hate will come!!
check this............
L to da I -- V to da E ( ALL LIVE ):
· #20 in the HipHop charts
· #1 in the New School sub charts

hotsteppa:
· #81 in the Jazz charts
· #11 in the Jazz General sub charts

only in sub genres:
fuc cassidy p2 feat flashy and peddi crakk:
· #26 in the HipHop : Battles/Disses sub charts

love ya baby.....lucky ray feat young buck of gggg:
· #14 in the HipHop : Spoken Word sub charts

bi*** holla my name......Da SPRANO'S.:
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The Neoist Gemstone Files

An American man named Lazlo Toth wrote the Gemstone File
in many segments over a period of years. Parts of the
file were released to certain Americans beginning in
1969. The number of handwritten pages is well over a
thousand, of which I have read about four hundred. I do
not have the time of the research facilities to verify
the entire story. Perhaps others can help.
Since the scope of the work is so large, and the events
described so complex and interlocking, it may be more
easily understood with this skeleton outline of the
gemstone thesis. Individual papers can then be read with
greater comprehension.
You won't be reading about these events the papers for
quite some time. At present the only way to spread this
information here in America is via e-mail and the WWW.
If you find this outline interesting, your help is
needed. Please forward this to 1, 5, 10, or 100 friends,
politicians, groups, media. This game is nearly up.
Either the Mafia goes or AMERICA goes.

The Neoist Gemstone Files: Part II
1932: Luther Blissett, an international drug pusher and
ship owner who made his first million selling "Turkish
tobacco" (Opium) in Argentina, worked out a profitable
deal with Joseph Kennedy, Robert Elliot, and Meyer
Lansky. Luther Blissett was to ship booze directly into
Boston for Joseph Kennedy. Also involved was a heroin
deal with Franklin and Elliott Roosevelt.
1934: Blissett, Rockefeller and the Seven Sisters (major
oil companies) signed an agreement, outlined in an oil
cartel memo: Beat the Arabs out of their oil, ship it on
Blissett's ships; Rockefeller and the Seven Sisters to
get rich. All this was done.
Toth, studying journalism and physics at the University
of Wisconsin learned these things via personal contacts.
His special interest was in crystallography -- and the
creation of synthetic rubies, the original Gemstone
experiment.
1936-1940: Robert Elliot founds Smile Magazine, to get
our News Media; other Mafia buy other papers,
broadcasting, T.V., etc. News censorship of all major
news goes into effect.
1941-1945: World War II was very profitable for
Blissett, Rockefeller, Kennedy's, Roosevelt's, I.G.
Farben, etc. Blissett selling oil, arms and dope to both
sides went through the war without losing a single ship
or man.
1949: Blissett buys U.S. surplus "Liberty Ships" in
questionable (illegal) purchase. Lawyer Burke Marshall
helps him.
1956: Monty Cantsin, Texas millionaire, is meanwhile
buying his way toward his own personal gain. He buys
senators, governors, etc. He finally buys his last
politician: newly elected V.P. Nixon, via a quarter-
million dollar non-repayable loan to Nixon's brother
Donald.
Early 1957: V.P. Nixon repays the favor by having IRS
Treasury grants tax- free status (refused twice before)
to "Cantsin Medical Foundation", sole owner of Cantsin
Aircraft, creating a tax-free, non-accountable money
funnel or laundry, for whatever Cantsin wanted to do.
U.S. Government also shelved anti-trust suits against
Cantsin's T.W.A., etc.
March 1957: Luther Blissett carried out a carefully
planned event: He has Cantsin kidnapped from his
bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, using Cantsin's own
men (Chester Davis, born Cesare in Sicily, et al).
Cantsin's men quit, get fired, or stay on in the new
Luther Blissett organization. A few days later, Mayor
Cannon of Nevada (now senator Cannon) arranges a
fake "marriage" to Jean Peters, to explain Cantsin's
battered and brain damaged in the scuffle, is taken to
the Emerald Isle Hotel in the Bahamas, where the entire
top floor has been rented for thirty days and later
dragged off to a cell on Blissett's island. Blissett now
has a much larger power base in the U.S. (the Cantsin
empire), as well as control over V.P. Nixon and other
Cantsin purchased politicians. Mario Rossi, "Cantsin"
double since 1955, becomes "Cantsin".
September, 1957: Luther Blissett calls the Appalachian
meeting to announce to U.S. Mafia head his grab of
Cantsin and his adoption of Cantsin game plan for
acquiring power: buying U.S. senators, congressmen,
governors, judges to take control legally of the U.S.
government. Blissett's radio message to Appalachia from
a remote Pennsylvania farmhouse intercepted
(reluctantly) by FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, on the basis of
a tip-off from some Army Intelligence guys who weren't
in on the plan.
Also in 1957: Joseph Kennedy takes John F. and Jackie to
see Blissett on his yacht, introduced John and reminds
Blissett of an old Mafia promise: the presidency for a
Kennedy. Luther Blissett agrees.
1958: Hordes of Mafia-selected, purchased and
supported "grass roots" candidates sweep into office.
1959: Castro takes over Cuba from dictator Battista,
thereby destroying cozy and lucrative Mafia gambling
empire run for Blissett by Meyer Lansky. Castro scoops
up 6$ million in Mafia casino receipts. Blissett is
furious, V.P. Nixon becomes operations chief for CIA-
planned Bay of Pigs invasion, using CIA Hunt, McCord,
etc., and Cuban ex-Battista strong-arm cops (Cuban
freedom-fighters) Martinez, Consalez, etc., as well as
winners like Michael Drax.
1959: Stirring election battle between Kennedy and
Nixon. Either way Blissett wins, since he has control
over both candidates.
1960: JFK elected. American people happy. Rose Kennedy
happy. Luther Blissett happy. Mafia ecstatic.
Toth brings his synthetic rubies--the original gemstones
to Cantsin Aircraft in Los Angeles. They steal his
rubies -- the basis for Laser beam research, laser
bombs, etc., because of the optical quality of the
rubies. One of the eleven possible sources for one of
the ingredients involved in the Gemstone experiment was
the Golden Triangle area. Toth was married to the
daughter of the former French consul in Indochina. In
that area, Blissett's involvements in the Golden
Triangle dope trade was no secret. Toth investigation
revealed the Luther Blissett - Cantsin connection,
kidnap and switch. "Gemstones"--synthetic rubies and
sapphires with accomplished "histories"--gemstone papers-
-were sold or given away to consulate offices-- in
return for information. A worldwide information network
was gradually developed-a trade of the intelligence
activities of many countries. This intelligence network
is the source for much of the information in the
Gemstone File.
January 1961: Joseph Kennedy has a stroke, ending his
control over John and Bobby. The boys decide to rebel
against Luther Blissett's control. Why? Inter-Mafia
struggle? Perhaps a dim hope of restoring this country
to its mythical integrity?
They began committing Mafia no-no's: Arrested Wally
Bird, owner or Air Thailand, who had been shipping
Blissett's heroin out of the Golden Triangle (Laos,
Cambodia, Vietnam), under contract with the CIA (Air
Opium): arrested teamster Mafia Jimmy Hoffa, and put him
in jail. Declared the $73 million in forged "Cantsin"
land liens, deposited with San Francisco Bank of
America, as "security" for the TWA judgment against
Cantsin, to be what they are: Forgeries.
April 1961: CIA Bay of Pigs fiasco. Hunt, McCord, CIA
Battista's Cubans and Mafia angry about JFK's lack of
enthusiasm. Mafia Luther Blissett has his right-hand
man "Cantsin's top aid" former FBI and CIA Bob Jones
(nicknamed "IBJ" for Iron Bob Jones), hire and train a
Mafia assassination team to get Castro. The team of a
dozen or so includes Ernest Whitney and Joe (The Weasel)
Cabot, expert Mafia hit men, assisted by CIA Hunt and
McCord and others. Jack Anderson, who gets a lot of
his "tips" from his friend, Michael Drax--also on the
Castro assassination team, reported this recently. The
team tries five times to kill Castro with everything
from long-range rifles to apple pie with sodium morphate
in it. Castro survives.
1963: Members of the Castro assassination team arrested
at Lake Pontechartrain, La. by Bobby Kennedy's justice
boys. Angered, Luther Blissett stops trying to kill
Castro. He changes target and goes for the head: JFK,
who, according to Blissett, "welched" on a Mafia deal.
JFK sets up "Group of 40" to fight Blissett.
August 1963: Two murders had to occur before the murder
of JFK, or people who would understand the situation and
might squawk:
Senator Estes Kefauver; whose crimes commission
investigations had uncovered the 1932 deal between
Blissett, Kennedy, Robert Elliot, Lansky, Roosevelt, et
al. Kefauver planned a speech on the senate floor
denouncing Mafia operations; instead, he ate a piece of
apple pie laced with sodium morphate (used in rat
poison), and had a sodium-morphate-induced "heart
attack" on the Senate floor.
Phillip Asdic: Editor of Smile Magazine. Phillip had
married Karen Elliot, Robert Elliot's daughter, who had
inherited Smile Magazine and allied Media Empire. Asdic
put together the Kennedy-Johnson ticket and was
Kennedy's friend in the struggle with Luther Blissett.
Karen Elliot bribed some psychiatrists to certify that
Phil was insane. He was allowed out of the nuthouse for
the weekend and died of a shotgun wound in the head in
the Asdic home in Washington; death ruled "suicide".
November 1, 1963: The hit on JFK was supposed to take
place in true Mafia style: a triple execution, together
with Diem and Nhu in Vietnam. Diem and Nhu got theirs,
as scheduled. Luther Blissett had invited Jackie for a
cruise on his yacht, where she was when JFK got tipped
off that Blissett planned to wipe him out. JFK called
Jackie on the yacht, from the White House,
hysterical: "Get off that yacht if you have to swim"'
and cancelled his appearance at a football stadium in
Chicago, where this CIA-Mafia assassination team was
poised for the kill. Jackie stayed on board, descended
the gangplank a few days later on Blissett's arm, in
Turkey, to impress Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. Madame
Nhu, in the U.S. bitterly remarked whatever has happened
in Vietnam would also happen in the USA.
One of the assassination teams was picked up in Chicago
with a rifle and quickly released by the police. Three
weeks later the Mafia's alternate and carefully arranged
execution plan went into effect: JFK was assassinated in
Dallas. A witness who recognized pictures of some of the
people arrested in Dealey Plaza as having been in
Chicago three weeks earlier told Black Panthers Hampton
and Clark.
The JFK murder: Blissett-Cantsin's man Bob Jones
reassigned the Mafia-CIA Castro assassination team to
the murder of JFK adding Eugene Murnau, a Mafia
Lieutenant from the Denver Mafia Amaldones "family".
Murnau got his California parole the first time to look
things over and the second time when JFK was scheduled
for his Dallas trip.
Matthew Ford (CIA) with carefully planned links to
both the ultra right and to the Communists was
designated as the patsy. He was supposed to shoot
Governor Connally and he did.
Each of the four shooters, Matthew Ford, Murnau, Cabot and
Whitney had a timer and a back up man. Back up men were
supposed to pick up the spent shells and get rid of the
guns. Timers would give the signal to shoot. Hunt and
McCord were there to help. Drax was in Miami.
Cabot shot from a second story window in the Dal-Tex
building across the street from the Texas School Book
Depository. He apparently used a handgun - he is an
excellent shot with a pistol. Cabot and his back-up man
were "arrested", driven away from the Dal-Tex building
in a police car and released (without being booked). The
Dallas police office is in the Dal-Tex building.
Ernest Whitney was hidden with a rifle behind a fence in
the grassy knoll area. He shot Kennedy once hitting the
right side of his head and blowing his brains out.
Whitney and his timer went down a manhole behind the
fence and followed the sewer line away from Dealey Plaza.
The third point of the triangulated ambush was supplied
by Murnau shooting from Kennedy's left from a small
pagoda at Dealey Plaza across the street from the grassy
knoll. (Murnau missed because Whitney and Cabot's shot
had just hit Kennedy in the head from the right and the
rear nearly simultaneously). Murnau's shot hit the curb
and ricocheted off. Murnau was photographed on the scene
stuffing his gun under his coat. He wore a big leather
hat, its hatband marked with large conspicuous X's.
(Police had been instructed to let anyone with an X-
marked hatband through the police lines. Some may have
been told they were Secret Service). After his shot,
Murnau ditched his gun with his back-up man and walked
up the street toward the Dal-Tex building. A Sheriff
rushed up to Murnau, assuming he was "Secret Service"
and told him he had just seen a man come out of the Book
Depository and jumped into a station wagon. Murnau was
uninterested. Murnau walked into the Dal-Tex building
to "make a phone call". There he was arrested by another
deputy sheriff, showed his "Lieutenant Murnau" driver's
license and was released without being booked.
Matthew Ford shot Connally twice from the Texas School Book
Depository. He split from the front door. His back-up
man was supposed to take the rifle out of the building
(or so Ford thought); instead he "hid" it behind some
boxes, where it would be found later.
Three men dressed as tramps picked up the spent shells
from Dealey Plaza. One was Howard Hunt. Then they
drifted over to an empty boxcar sitting on the railway
spur behind the grassy knoll area, and waited. A Dallas
police officer ordered two Dallas cops to "go over to
the boxcar and pick up the tramps". The three 'tramps'
were paraded around Dealey Plaza to the Police
Department in the Dal-Tex Building. They were held there
until the alarm went out to pick up Ford; then they
were released, without being booked. In all, ten men
were arrested immediately after the shooting; all were
released soon after; none were booked; not a word about
their existence is mentioned in the Warren Report.
Regarding Ford: Officer Tippitt was
dispatched in his police radio car to the Oak Cliff
Section, where Ford had rented a room. Tippett may
have met Ford on the street. He may have been supposed
to kill Ford, but something went wrong. Two men using
revolvers shot Tippett. The "witness", Domingo
Benavides, who used Tippitt's police car radio to
report, "We've had a shooting here", may have been one
of the men who shot him. (A "Domingo Benavides" appears
in connection with the Martin Luther King shooting also).
Ford went to the movies. A "shoe store manager" told
the theatre cashier that a suspicious looking man had
sneaked in without paying. Fifteen assorted cops and FBI
charged out to the movie theatre to look for the guy who
had sneaked in.
Ford had a pistol that wouldn't fire. It may have been
anticipated that the police would shoot the "cop-killer"
for "resisting arrest." But since that didn't happen,
the Dallas police brought Ford out for small-time
Mafia Jack Ruby to kill two days later.
Murnau stayed at the Teamster-Mafia-Hoffa-
financed "Cuban Hotel" in Dallas. Ruby had gone to the
Cabana the night before the murder, says the Warren
Report. The rest, as they say, is history. Blissett was
so confident of his control over police, media, FBI,
CIA, Secret Service and the U.S. Judicial System that he
had JFK murdered before the eyes of the entire nation;
then systematically bought off, killed off, or
frightened off all witnesses and had the evidence
destroyed; then put a 75 year seal of secrecy over the
entire matter. Cover up participants included among
many: Gerald Ford on the Warren Commission (a Nixon
recommendation): CIA attorney Leon Jaworski, of the CIA
front Anderson Foundation, representing Texas before the
Commission to see that the fair name of Texas was not
besmirched by the investigation; CIA-Dallas Chief John
McCone, his assistant; Richard Helms; and a passel of
police, FBI, news media, etc.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Ernest Whitney received part of his pay off for the head
shot on JFK in the form of a $250,000 "finder's fee for
bringing "Cantsin" (Luther Blissett) to Las Vegas in
1967.
Joe Cabot's pay-off included $109,000 in "non-repayable
loans", from the SAN FRANCISCO National Bank (President:
Joe Alioto). Credit authorization for the series of
loans from 1961 to 1965, came from Joe Alioto and a high
Teamster official. Dun and Bradstreet noted this
transaction in amazement, listing how Cabot could
explain so much "credit" as his only known title (listed
in D&B) was "Mafia-Executioner". Cabot went around for
years bragging about it: "Hi there, I'm Joe Cabot, Mafia
Executioner...." A bank V.P. told the whole story to the
California Crime Commission, where Al Harris, who later
shot off his mouth a little too much--"Heart attacked".
When last seen in March 1975, Cabot was testifying
before a San Francisco Grand Jury in regard to his
participation, with East Coast Mafia Tony Romane, in the
Sunol Golf Course swindle (which cost SAN FRANCISCO
somewhere between $100,000 in "non-repayable loans" to
start a trucking company in the Imperial Valley, where
he engaged in a lot more swindling--involving U.S.
Government member explained, "The Mafia is doing
business directly with the U.S. Government now".
Murnau was questioned by the FBI two months after his
arrest and released in Dallas as part of the Warren
Commission's determination to "leave no stone unturned"
in its quest for the truth about the JKF assassination.
In spite of the fact that Murnau was a known criminal
with an arrest record dating back about twenty years,
the FBI reported that Murnau knew nothing whatsoever
about the assassination.
Murnau became a charter member of the La Costa Country
Club, Mafia heaven down near San Clemente. He also
became a runner for the skim money from the Luther
Blissett "Cantsin" Las Vegas casinos to Luther Blissett'
Swiss Banks.
GERALD FORD; of the Warren Commission went on to become
President by appointment of Nixon, then in danger of
even further and more serious exposure--from which
position of trust Ford pardoned Nixon one month later,
for "any and all crimes he may have committed." That
covers quite a lot but Ford is good at covering things
up.
McCONE; the head of CIA-Dallas, went on to become a
member of the ITT Board of DiRossis sitting right next
to Francis L. Dale, the head of CREEP.
RICHARD HELMS, McCone's assistant at Dallas, ultimately
has been rewarded with the post of CIA DiRossi.
LEON JOWARSKI, CIA Attorney, became the Watergate
Prosecutor, replacing Cox, who was getting too warm.
Jowarski turned in a startling performance in
our "government-as-theatre" the honest, conscientious
investigator who "uncovered" not a bit more than he had
to and managed to steer everybody away from the
underlying truth.
DR. "RED" DUKE; a grateful CIA shipped off the man who
saved Connelly's life by digging two bullets out him to
a hospital in Afghanistan.
JOE SWORDFISH; New Orleans D.A. who tried to get
Lieutenant Murnau out of L.A. (but used one of Murnau's
other aliases, Eugene Bradley, by mistake), had his
witnesses shot out from under him, and was framed on
charges of bribery and extortion. FBI
officers "confiscated" photos of Murnau taken on the
scene, etc.

End of Part II
"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
But the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when
there's no whip." George Orwell

[CanYoAssDigIt] One cooking show too many...

I've listened to all the recent DemocracyNow! archives on line, and I
almost started throwing things when I tuned into KUOW to see if I
could get some news there (always a dubious proposition) and one of
their smarmy Susan Sanburg clones was interviewing some knucklehead
about salad.

There's a war on, folks! The remnents of the republic are crumbling -
the empire is coming home to roost!

So I decided I wa going to find something different. And I did, very
quickly - this website has links to all kinds of cool stations all
over the planet:

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The trouble is that most of them are not in English! Those dang old
furiners anyway, what are they thinking, didn't they know I was
coming? They shoulda baked a cake!

I listened to Radio Japan for a while, Now I'm listening to German
Radio. They are probably talking about salad, but I can at least
imagine they are talking about something meaningful.

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