11 Million Dollars a Minute

My poor granddaughter.

My New Life

You are The Sun

Happiness, Content, Joy.

The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.

Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.

The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the long dark night, Apollo to the Moon's Diana. A positive card, it promises you your day in the sun. Glory, gain, triumph, pleasure, truth, success. As the moon symbolized inspiration from the unconscious, from dreams, this card symbolizes discoveries made fully consciousness and wide awake. You have an understanding and enjoyment of science and math, beautifully constructed music, carefully reasoned philosophy. It is a card of intellect, clarity of mind, and feelings of youthful energy.

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Wake Up America!

The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory

The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory

Many of my friends know that I’m a fan of good conspiracy theories. I have pondered and wondered why King George and Darth have had so much power and I have now come up with the best of the lot. Based on the recent developments in the United States Congress and the appointment of Judge “machine-gun” Alito to the highest court in the nation, it is becoming quite clear to me. Let us not forget that this is the man who argued in favor of having a ten-year-old girl strip searched, denied a woman her day in court because she thought (God forbid she would have the audacity to think) that she was being discriminated against and, my favorite, claiming dissent in U.S. v. Rybar, 103 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 1996), focusing on the commerce clause (the machine gun issue).

The facts as I see them:
1) The Republicans seem to be unafraid of the Democrats taking over the two houses of Congress.
2) The Democrats who are up for re-election don’t seem to care about their constituency (the progressives who voted for them) or that they could possibly lose their next election.
3) The conservative Republicans seem very willing to abdicate their duties and responsibilities in order to give the President unlimited powers, which he will do with the help of this very regressive judiciary.
4) The voice of the people with regards to the recent “Filibuster for a Congressional Filibuster” (www1.theyoungturks.com/xoops/) hosted by the Young Turks, and with a lot of help from the likes of Thom Hartmann, Peter B. Collins, Mike Malloy, Bob Kincaid (www.headonradio.com), Brad Friedman, Sam Seder, Jake Koskoff, John Pike, John Amato (crooksandliars.com), Shelby (Radiopower.org), Ben Burch (WhiteRoseSociety.org), and Michael Shure, went unheeded by the senators voting on Alito’s appointment.
5) The private contractor hired to provide Alaska's electronic voting machines is Diebold Election Systems. It has told Alaska officials it owns the "structure of the database" though the data itself is public. (http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7386582p-7298824c.html)

It was reported that the Federalist Society planned weeks ago for a really big party to celebrate Judge Alito’s appointment for Monday, 30 January. I thought that was a curious thing for them to do, weeks ahead of the appointment. So I went looking for the Federalist Society on the net (Wikipedia, www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society; People for the American Way, www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3149, the Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072401201.html).

Well, it’s becoming patently clear to me what is going on:
1) The Republicans feel that, with the help of Diebold, they can retain majority in both houses.
2) The Democrats up for re-election have made a deal with the Republicans. Not for anything as crass as money. Instead, a promise that the Republicans will not foist upon the election a strong enough Republican who might actually take the seat away from the Democrats (look at the nonsense going on in the Clinton race in New York).
3) The conservative Republicans fall into the same category of the Democrats up for re-election, thereby securing their return to Congress and eventual retirement funds.
4) The Democrats who were approached to vote “No” on cloture led the people to believe that they would vote one way and then voted the other because of the above item 2.
5) Diebold is owned by a friend of George Bush and was instrumental in defeating Paul Hackett in Ohio. (www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_267.shtml)

Now, while it is true that a truly good conspiracy can never actually be proved, I’ve begun to connect the dots. I fear that we’re lost to the American Taliban, hosted by your friendly neighborhood Nazi in the Federalist Society. The only thing we can actually hope for is for God, in his infinite wisdom, to intelligently design the demise of those in power today who hate America, our Constitution and all that it has stood for since 1776 and its subsequent amendments.

And just think, folks, it all started with Prescott Bush.

Up the REVOLUTION!

This is forwarded from my friend Max. I've watched the documentary, produced by the BBC.

The documentary has never been shown on American television. You can download it for free at http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

Pass it on to anyone who might be interested. It explain a great deal about what's going on today.

Would you trust your soul to this man?

Intelligent Design?

Maybe the Big Guy is trying to tell us something?

The Face That Launched a Thousand Terrorists

When this man tells you that we're going to do this

We usually end up like this...

And this....

Off To Court We Go…

This blog is dedicated to the oxymoron called the Czech Judicial System.

Well, I went to court once again and, yet again I will go to court.

Back in July a representative from the “bitovy podnik” - the organization that handles the property that’s been stolen from people, takes rents from them and supposedly repairs any problems within the residences – did not show up at court because he "didn’t get notice in time to make arrangement to come to court". The judge summoned him again, to show up in August. The judge mentioned in court: according to Czech constitution law people were to get back property. The two lawyers for the city and the state were visibly stunned, argued and were told that this is the law. I was very hopeful. My lawyer was visibly pleased because he said it would be over in August.

In August the representative from the bitovy podnik did not show up and the judge fined the organization 10,000 CZK – not for my benefit, but for the court’s. He could have, according to Czech law, have found in my favor but chose, instead, to postpone the proceedings until September, insisting that the representative be present. The two lawyers for the city and state were unhappy that they would have to come back to court yet again, since it seemed that the judge had already made a decision in my favor the preceding month anyway. I was very angry and my lawyer explained that the judge obviously didn’t feel that it was proper to make a decision without the rep being there. We went round about it and finally I decided to wait one more month.

My lawyer was confident that things would be finalized this time. The man who wants to buy the house (who has restituted property after his 7 year wait, and who owns property on Václavské nám.) and his son, who just graduated from law school here in Prague, came along to hear what was going on.

So, last week we went to court and the representative did show up. He explained that there was no reason for these proceedings because the city owned the property. Both the city and state lawyers looked astounded as this was pronounced, my lawyer jumped up angry and Jan, the son, was translating for me so I understood what was going on. At the end, the judge said this was a very complicated case and we would postpone until October 5^th.

Now I really understand what’s going on. Czech constitution law states that people who live in what was once private property will restitute the private property without tenants. The bitovy podnik would be responsible for finding new apartments for the people who currently reside in my house. The law is different for people who live in apartment houses. In that situation, the city is not responsible for relocating tenants, but the owner is. Therefore, if I were to make an agreement with the bitovy podnik to allow the tenants to stay, I would probably get the house back faster.

However, it would cost approximately 3million crowns per tenant to move them out. Without tenants, the house is worth about 1.5 million dollars – with tenants, less than 1 million. Is it worth it for me to give up ? million dollars? I think not. Therefore, I shall stay and fight.

Now, the people who want to buy the house are driving me crazy with conversation (always in Czech, which I don’t understand, and am tired of listening to). They are willing to give me money to go to the States to get Vlasta and bring here back here to sign papers giving me power of attorney and to make an agreement with us to buy the house. The original deal was that they would give me 20 million crowns (approx. $870,000) after taxes and paying the lawyer. I would get a net 20 million. Last night, the deal changed: they will give me 20 million and I would pay the tax (5%) and the attorney (10%). That would net me approx. $740,000. Because of this, I no longer trust them. This is unacceptable and I’m going to begin talking to real estate agents again. So the saga continues.

Vigil for the Victims of Katrina

Austin American-Statesman

Young Grace Vyborny [Mama Stephanie behind her] joins others in prayer during a vigil for the victims of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina.

The South Austin vigil was sponsored by Katrina Help Austin.