Report: Charlie Sheen Seeks Meeting With Obama to Discuss 9/11 'Cover-Up'

Sheen, 44, argues that “the official 9/11 story is a fraud” and claims the attacks served as “the pretext for the systematic dismantling of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.” Moreover, he charges that the Bush/Cheney “regime” was behind the attacks as a prelude to justify an invasion of Iraq. Sheen also insinuates that Usama bin Laden is working for the U.S. government.

Comment:

And here I thought the 1/2 man was the little guy. Just goes to show ya. We here in the People’s Republic of Minnesota are familiar the Jesse Ventura effect among the electorate. Certain political candidates can inspire a lunatic uprising and be swept into office. President Obama’s “Tinkerbell Effect” has completely won the Euphorians© over. This will get crazier as time progresses. The fun has only just begun.

That Ole Time Gospel - Radio

Correction: Sonlife has done considerable updating and no longer works with RadioShure. MS Windows Media Player does fine or Winamp, ect. Here is the link (http://jsm.ic.llnwd.net/stream/jsm_radio_high) if you want to enter the http address directly into a player.

Many threw Jimmy Swaggart out with the scandal water. But sometimes I crave an old time gospel service and worship music that matches and it doesn’t get any better than Jimmy Swaggart and Son Life Radio (for ole time gospel that is).

Go get a copy of Radio Sure and grab either portable or installer. Crank it up and it will look like this (thanks glasnost or is that perestroika):

Type in the word Jimmy and listen. It’s a treat if you ask me. This is the stuff I remember as a child. It only happened at special meetings and we had to drive out of town to get it. We lived in Viking Land which had two Lutheran churches and one small Catholic church in town and you were not hearing this in there. The little Lutheran Brethren church we attended was full of dedicated Christians, but let’s face it, if you ain’t Pentecostal, you can’t pull off dynamic worship with any consistency. I have my suspicions as to why but I’ll keep them to myself for now.

Donny projects some stridency but maybe he will grow on me. It appears the Swaggart family made it through the tough times. We must admire a family who not only doesn’t give up but builds. I've heard it said never trust a preacher who doesn’t walk with a limp (remember Jacob’s thigh). I think I can hear that limp in Brother Swaggart. (whoa - “brother” I’m gettin’ the lingo down)

Sure you could go to Pastor Swaggart’s website but then you miss out on a fun little internet radio player. I found the player while perusing the LiberKey site. LiberKey is a portable software data base to place on your hard drive or flash drive. It updates the programs automatically and easily. The update feature is awesome. I used many of these programs before I found LiberKey and had to chase down the updates individually. Vive la France! And that may be the only time you ever hear me say that – seriously. I lifted my boycott to accept the free LiberKey. Hey principal only runs so deep.

I’ve been trying to stay away from much ‘puter talk on the blog but then again I was trying to steer clear of politics also. Couldn’t help myself.

Edit: To explain LiberKey better; the LiberKey program is itself portable as well as the programs which reside in the directory. It resides on the disk without installing. When you start LiberKey it updates itself first. Then it checks on the individual programs within the data base and offers to update those if updates exist. The only thing that takes a little manual hunting is if some program has been added to the package after you initially downloaded it. LK will not add these programs automatically. If you view the program list on LK's web site these programs are clearly marked and you can download a manual install from here if you wish to add the program. Activate the LK associations after download and the new program can be added to LK. Remember to turn off "associations" when done. Henceforth that program will update. You can add additional programs from LK that are not included in you specific package. You can also add and index your own programs but I don't bother because I simply have LK as an addition to my portable directory. I use Launchy to actually find and start the programs. Launchy is another program I can no longer do without.

Again, I am stupendously impressed with this LiberKdy portable collection and management system.

Still No Lutefisk Connection? (No Norske?)

 

Three men have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes from London to North America with home-made liquid bombs.

A Woolwich Crown Court jury convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to activate bombs disguised as drinks.

via <Atlas Shrugs>

We all know that we should not profile, right? And why do we know that?

We Know This Instinctively

There are things we just instinctively know. Human life is valuable and should be preserved. That is something I instinctively know. But wait. There are those who “instinctively” know that human life does not have value unless that life is giving something of value back to society. So they instinctively know that society (the state) has intrinsic value. Human life only has value when and if that life provides benefit to the state.

Does this beg the question of who decides what is valuable? The “state” decides I suppose, in some bureaucratic form. Has not history shown this progression of deciding value, if and when society in general is valued above the individual?

So are humans exceptional or not? Here is a view from Dave Niose, President of the American Humanist Association, the USA's oldest and largest humanist organization. Maybe our views on the uniqueness of humanity is not instinctive and maybe it comes from a mix of culture, religion, education, and self-serving ambition, etc. Whatever the source, man’s views on human uniqueness run a full spectrum.

We see increasing pressure on human uniqueness. In the Matrix movie Agent Smith while interrogating Morpheus describes humans as a virus. "You are a plague, and we are the cure," proclaims Agent Smith. We clearly see this in Mr. Niose’ thinking. The increasing meme of humans destroying and using up the planet at intolerable rates is intense and extreme. This is simply a variant of the human animal paradigm.

Our good old USA has been dominated to this point by beliefs tending toward the uniqueness of humanity in comparison to all other life on planet earth. So Grandma has value even though she can not remember your name. But there is increasing pressure from the “man is just another animal” factions. Many see the current President/Czar/Pelosi-Congress as leaning more toward the “were just animals” side of things. This has become a central issue to the healthcare debate. An interesting blog on these issues is Second Hand Smoke.

I see another “we instinctively know” disagreement in the healthcare debate. How does a society pay for unlimited healthcare for all. The short answer, as we have seen and heard, is we can not. That brings in the rationing debate with all the “we must cut something” language from both sides. Why are both sides needing to talk about cuts? Because neither side dares take a Capitalist position. Can Trickle Down Economics work even with healthcare. This is something I instinctively believe. When the economic engine is running full steam, enough money and value is created in society that a majority of people benefit. When the capitalist economic engine of healthcare is chugging down the track we have advancements, discoveries, value and personnel aplenty. And all this trickling down in diverse and unequal ways.

Are there people who do not benefit? I would ague no. Everyone benefits. But there is inequality. Some benefit more than others. So here is the rub. If your “instincts” are such that economic and social equality is achievable, then you will see this trickle down structure as inadequate. Nothing will suffice but total and complete sameness. Oddly enough those in a position of power, those who decide, are always on some different benefit delivery track – Animal Farm all over again.

Healthcare is simply the ever popular boogie man for the communist/socialist/utopians to advance their collective agendas. Sure there are serious and concerned people on all sides of this issue. But the driving force is utopian collectivism. When has that ever worked? Please say Cuba, come on – I dare you.

Here is an interesting podcast interview with Wesley J. Smith from Second Hand Smoke.

Rounding Out The Political Posts - Debt Stinks

Did Sarah Palin truly derail Obama's health care and make him unelectable in 2012 as stated on Voting Female. That is affording Ms. Palin too much credit I think. But she does have a way of rallying the troops. I think the power elite on both sides of the aisle are afraid of Sarah Palin. They like to recite her lack of "qualifications" and joke about the ludicrousness of Palin Presidency. It must be conversely unnerving that Mr. Obama is now seated in the White House. B. H. Obama is, when logically judged and analyzed, equally if not more "unqualified" than Sarah Palin. All she needs is a little polishing, a huge power center and a little luck. OK, a lot of luck.

A Look Back (What Did We Know and When Did We Know It?)

Have you met people who are surprised at President Obama's current direction in policy and his selection of associates? I have. Do you need to resist asking under what rock they were living prior to the election? Hey, I think the whole world is heading for the toilet anyway in apocalyptic fashion but there is no need to rush the flush.

Never To Be On NBC