Why, are things going so wrong in the East Asian region? One name:
Kim Jong Il. Could there be a more appropriate name, even if it is spelled incorrectly (typical). I mean, ill, is spelled with two l's, after all. And he (and his family) have been pretty ill on the international and their own, national, stage, for a very long time now. Okay, a cheap shot, picking on a name foreign to me, but its too obvious not to mention.
Let's recap:
"On 8 July 1994, [the patently crazy] Kim Il-sung died, at the age of 82 from a heart attack. However, it took three years for Kim Jong-il to consolidate his power. Officially, Kim is part of a triumvirate heading the executive branch of the North Korean government along with Premier Choe Yong-rim and parliament chairman Kim Yong-nam
(no relations). Each nominally has powers equivalent to a third of a
president's powers in most other presidential systems. Kim Jong-il is
commander of the armed forces, Choe Yong-rim heads the government and
Kim Yong-nam handles foreign relations. In practice, however, Kim
Jong-il exercises absolute control over the government and the country." - Wikipedia
So they get a chance to wipe out his legacy and what do they do? Try to make him some kind of God, the ongoing "ghost" president of a country that couldn't need more, a rational and life affirming leader. Jong-il was appointed as its Supreme Commander; even though he's DEAD. This is a people, or at least a leadership, that couldn't seem to care less for their people, or Human life for that matter, at least in what we've been seeing. I know, if MY people were dying of starvation, I'd do SOME thing to save their lives, even if I didn't like it.
I remember when Jong-Il took over. He was reticent, running away from things, fearful of his position and slow to take control. I remember thinking that maybe this is the end of this broken and disgusting government in North Korea and perhaps, finally, the North Korean people could join the world and have a decent and pleasurable life style, with plenty of food, living situations and well, fun. My heart really goes out to the North Korean people and their relatives who have not seen them in so long and have had to bare knowledge and information of how their family members have, or may have died, of starvation or abuse.
Why is he doing the things he's doing? To prepare the way for his twenty-seven year old son, Kim Jong-un, to take control of the regime? Sure. To destabilize that region? Apparently. The actions taken of late have been focused only on the aim to prepare the way for a son he has to know, is ill prepared, just has he was when his father, the late leader and current president of the country, when he turned the despotic and fascistic, dictatorship over to Kim Jong Il; just as Il is about to do to his son, . Its like passing the ruling stick from one retarded and mentally unbalanced adolescent to another.
Historically, Kim Jong Il has lied, gone diametrically against things he himself has claimed, as well as turned against things he has agreed to. In fact, he has been predictable only in that he is unpredictable.
So, why hasn't China, who supplies fuel and resources to this screwed up, and semi (or possibly pseudo) insane regime, why, haven't they done something about Kim Jong Il and the path that North Korea is on to?
I have a theory as to why.
I think that China is like the parent, who is afraid to punish or reign in a poorly behaving child, because they are scared of them. They know, they can stomp on this "kid", put them down, take them out back and put a bullet in their head, ending their childish demands and misbehaviors. North Korean government, the Kim Jong family in particular, are like a child you feel responsible for, but are afraid that in the middle of the night, they may sneak in and slit your throat. Kill your other children, and stab your wife to death, before you can even wake to stop them.
For decades, the US has been afraid of China. Nothing like we were afraid of the Soviet Union, but still, any country that can muster a force of one million soldiers, however ill prepared or ill armed, is a force to be reckoned with. And now, with the Soviet Union dissolved, and both country's interested in capitalism, and in being a part of, and having a say in, world politics, the US is no long quite so concerned with these communist fashioned countries. I'm not even sure that Russia is communist any longer and certainly, China is now either becoming capitalist, or they have found a new meaning of communism. About time.
China, in reality, has been our financial compatriot for decades. I'm not sure I'd say now that they are our friend, but perhaps in many ways they are. So is South Korea, much more so, and perhaps that is in part why China is our friend. But like all friends, we have something between us; our economy of late, and Taiwan. But all friends do not agree on all things, so perhaps that is okay. I have always had a deep respect for China and their history. One of the few countries in the world who, when taken over by another country, had the attitude of, "we are not concerned, as we will out last you."
But now, they have a retarded child who is armed, living in their house, or at least, in their yard. And it would have to be chilling, to any parent to have to wonder, "when, will my child try to kill me, harm me, or my family?" How China could have allowed North Korea to kill so many of its own people, I will never understand. If ever there was a reason to invade another country on your borders, this was it. China has a lot of blood on their hands in North Korea, and no excuse is good enough to stop those ghosts from crossing their borders, to haunt the Chinese leaders in their sleep and weak moments.
But sometimes, you have to take that unbalanced, if not insane, child, and punish them, or take away their toys, or power. Sure, it can hurt, but who else is going to do it, after all.
I mean, in the end, it IS your child, isn't it?
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Hale's Pub Kitsap Mall, Silverdale, Washington
I ran up to Hale's Pub at Kitsap Mall, in Silverdale, Washington the other day and found it to be an excellent place for food and drink. Their Drink, rocks.
I've had their salad with blackened salmon and another time, their rock fish and chips, both excellent.
Their beers and ales are all excellent. For one thing, their near Guinness on tap is from a recipe tweaked by an ex-Guinness Brewmaster, flown here to work with them on their formula. And it was worth their money and effort, its a smooth, delicious dark confection.
All I can tell you is that if you live anywhere near this local micro brewery, stop on in and enjoy yourself. You'll be a happily, impressed imbiber, indeed.
Kitsap Sun article on Hale's Pub opening
Hale's Brewery
I've had their salad with blackened salmon and another time, their rock fish and chips, both excellent.
Their beers and ales are all excellent. For one thing, their near Guinness on tap is from a recipe tweaked by an ex-Guinness Brewmaster, flown here to work with them on their formula. And it was worth their money and effort, its a smooth, delicious dark confection.
All I can tell you is that if you live anywhere near this local micro brewery, stop on in and enjoy yourself. You'll be a happily, impressed imbiber, indeed.
Kitsap Sun article on Hale's Pub opening
Hale's Brewery
Monday, November 29, 2010
Willie Nelson busted again for pot
According to ABC News web site:
"Living country music legend Willie Nelson was charged with possession of marijuana after six ounces were discovered aboard his tour bus in Texas, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman."
First let me say as I have before, I barely take a drink anymore, my party days are long over. But I do feel a responsibility for speaking up for others and for MY America being a free and open society without the conservatives and fear-mongers pushing for hiding at home from the world and reality. That being said, do we REALLY want to bust people like Willie Nelson, a national treasure, for crap like this? You can give me all the reasons why he's not above the law...yada yada yada, but the point is, if it wasn't illegal, this wouldn't have happened.
This is ridiculous, really.
"Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West told the El Paso Times that Nelson, 77, claimed that the marijuana was his. According to police patrolman Bill Brooks, a sheriff from Hudspeth County was contacted and Nelson was among three people arrested at the scene. Nelson was held briefly and paid a $2,500 bond.
"It's kind of surprising, but I mean we treat him like anybody else," West told the El Paso Times. "He could get 180 days in county jail, which if he does, I'm going to make him cook and clean. He can wear the stripy uniforms just like the other ones do."
This really is ludicrous and typical police bravado. This officer should be cooking and cleaning for Willie if you ask me, showing how much he resents being forced to enforce a law as typically wasteful as this one. But instead, he is putting forward his legal obligation to charge an elderly legend with a victimless crime.
Obviously, Officer West mustn't be a fan of his music. But he is, apparently, just another mindless drone of the Marijuana Prohibition Laws, a leftover of the Alcohol Prohibition Laws. These anti-cannabis laws have put so many people in jail over the past many decades, ruined so many lives, that really, its a shame someone in the government, cannot go to prison over it. We need to get over our fears, our prejudices and misinformed attitudes about it.
Willie has been a strong advocate of cannabis decriminalization and has had his share of drug-related brushes with the law. So the police involved are probably looking at it like he is thumbing his nose at the God almighty law, rather than that he just like to smoke pot. I'm not an anarchist, I'm a reasonable-ist and a rationalist. Pot laws aren't either.
According to ABC News:
"In Louisiana in 2006, 1.5 pounds of marijuana and three ounces of hallucinogenic mushrooms were found on [Willie's] bus, and in 1995 he was arrested after he was pulled over in Waco, Texas, and police officers said they saw a joint in his car's ashtray."
I have argued for decades, that anything that can be found growing and is used naturally, and is for personal use, is only the problem of the individual involved, or any consenting adults associated with them. If you want to charge people for sales, I would even allow for that to be illegal if not purchased through channels allowing for quality and purity controls (otherwise needing to find it in a natural environment yourself, or to grow it in small quantities for personal use, much as alcohol is now allowed to be produced); but for people, intelligent adults, to decide to do something only to themselves in such an event, it is, or should be, solely up to them and not the government or other people to bother about or to be involved in regulating.
I look forward to one day, this being a free and open America, where adults are treated as intelligent, responsible adults living in a free and progressive society. That won't happen until everyone is properly educated about the truth and no secrets are being kept about what is going on. Its unbelievable to me that alcohol, with all its associated detriments and whose effects are very close to cocaine use, is allowed to be legal and privately produced, but cannabis remains illegal even though it is far less harmful in so many ways.
I just hope I don't die of old age, still wishing for a free and intelligent America to finally come to be.
"Living country music legend Willie Nelson was charged with possession of marijuana after six ounces were discovered aboard his tour bus in Texas, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman."
First let me say as I have before, I barely take a drink anymore, my party days are long over. But I do feel a responsibility for speaking up for others and for MY America being a free and open society without the conservatives and fear-mongers pushing for hiding at home from the world and reality. That being said, do we REALLY want to bust people like Willie Nelson, a national treasure, for crap like this? You can give me all the reasons why he's not above the law...yada yada yada, but the point is, if it wasn't illegal, this wouldn't have happened.
This is ridiculous, really.
"Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West told the El Paso Times that Nelson, 77, claimed that the marijuana was his. According to police patrolman Bill Brooks, a sheriff from Hudspeth County was contacted and Nelson was among three people arrested at the scene. Nelson was held briefly and paid a $2,500 bond.
"It's kind of surprising, but I mean we treat him like anybody else," West told the El Paso Times. "He could get 180 days in county jail, which if he does, I'm going to make him cook and clean. He can wear the stripy uniforms just like the other ones do."
This really is ludicrous and typical police bravado. This officer should be cooking and cleaning for Willie if you ask me, showing how much he resents being forced to enforce a law as typically wasteful as this one. But instead, he is putting forward his legal obligation to charge an elderly legend with a victimless crime.
Obviously, Officer West mustn't be a fan of his music. But he is, apparently, just another mindless drone of the Marijuana Prohibition Laws, a leftover of the Alcohol Prohibition Laws. These anti-cannabis laws have put so many people in jail over the past many decades, ruined so many lives, that really, its a shame someone in the government, cannot go to prison over it. We need to get over our fears, our prejudices and misinformed attitudes about it.
Willie has been a strong advocate of cannabis decriminalization and has had his share of drug-related brushes with the law. So the police involved are probably looking at it like he is thumbing his nose at the God almighty law, rather than that he just like to smoke pot. I'm not an anarchist, I'm a reasonable-ist and a rationalist. Pot laws aren't either.
According to ABC News:
"In Louisiana in 2006, 1.5 pounds of marijuana and three ounces of hallucinogenic mushrooms were found on [Willie's] bus, and in 1995 he was arrested after he was pulled over in Waco, Texas, and police officers said they saw a joint in his car's ashtray."
I have argued for decades, that anything that can be found growing and is used naturally, and is for personal use, is only the problem of the individual involved, or any consenting adults associated with them. If you want to charge people for sales, I would even allow for that to be illegal if not purchased through channels allowing for quality and purity controls (otherwise needing to find it in a natural environment yourself, or to grow it in small quantities for personal use, much as alcohol is now allowed to be produced); but for people, intelligent adults, to decide to do something only to themselves in such an event, it is, or should be, solely up to them and not the government or other people to bother about or to be involved in regulating.
I look forward to one day, this being a free and open America, where adults are treated as intelligent, responsible adults living in a free and progressive society. That won't happen until everyone is properly educated about the truth and no secrets are being kept about what is going on. Its unbelievable to me that alcohol, with all its associated detriments and whose effects are very close to cocaine use, is allowed to be legal and privately produced, but cannabis remains illegal even though it is far less harmful in so many ways.
I just hope I don't die of old age, still wishing for a free and intelligent America to finally come to be.
"The Exterminating Angels" - A contemplation
I just finished watching the French film, "The Exterminating Angels" Les
anges exterminateurs (original title) by Writer / Director, Jean-Claude
Brisseau. The story follows a filmmaker (Frédéric van den Driessche),
who holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his project about
female pleasure.
Jean-Claude Brisseau (born 17 July 1944) is a French filmmaker best
known for his 2002 film Secret Things ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006
film The Exterminating Angels ("Les Anges exterminateurs").
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| The Three Fates by Sampo Kaikkonen |
All of the negative consequences that François experiences come from the "other side" (even to the extent that one of his actors is possessed by the devil). His wife leaves him, not for what he is doing as regards to the filming of naked women in sexual encounters, this sort of thing she is used to as the wife of a filmmaker, but her motive lies in a moral impulse stemming from the spiritual ramifications of what he was doing. He becomes something like modern day mythological figure. He is Pandora's patron encouraging her to open the box.
The director in this film is searching for actresses who can project a perfect, even spiritual orgasm. As he puts it, you cannot teach incredible sex in an acting class. He is a prefect example of decorum and correctness, in every way other than what he is asking of the actresses, which itself is a reasonable request, considering the subject matter of the film project.
So the issues and problems all come from women and those connected to women in his endeavors. The effect of his actions leads to negative repercussions from the women in his life, to the point that one of the actresses in his film, appears to be possessed by the Devil. In the end, he looses everything, including his wife. She doesn't leave him for his actions as she had known all about it from the beginning, but because of the damage he causes around him in spiritual, or even Karmic ways.
In the end, he has asked for these women to dig down deeper inside themselves than they ever had gone before, or even had known they could go to. The intense sex leads to emotion, which leads to pain, which leads to all the wrong things that happen in the end.
Two Angels, "The Exterminating Angels" from the title, follow him around throughout the film, as if they are two of the three Fates. One of them appears to be in love with him and in the end, actually saves him, possibly because she thinks that because he was so naive about his actions, perhaps losing everything, is in the end, enough punishment. Though in how she responds to his situation, one almost could suspect she takes pleasure in his pain, perhaps because of how justified things end for him.
The director in this film is searching for actresses who can project a perfect, even spiritual orgasm. As he puts it, you cannot teach incredible sex in an acting class. He is a prefect example of decorum and correctness, in every way other than what he is asking of the actresses, which itself is a reasonable request, considering the subject matter of the film project.
So the issues and problems all come from women and those connected to women in his endeavors. The effect of his actions leads to negative repercussions from the women in his life, to the point that one of the actresses in his film, appears to be possessed by the Devil. In the end, he looses everything, including his wife. She doesn't leave him for his actions as she had known all about it from the beginning, but because of the damage he causes around him in spiritual, or even Karmic ways.
In the end, he has asked for these women to dig down deeper inside themselves than they ever had gone before, or even had known they could go to. The intense sex leads to emotion, which leads to pain, which leads to all the wrong things that happen in the end.
Two Angels, "The Exterminating Angels" from the title, follow him around throughout the film, as if they are two of the three Fates. One of them appears to be in love with him and in the end, actually saves him, possibly because she thinks that because he was so naive about his actions, perhaps losing everything, is in the end, enough punishment. Though in how she responds to his situation, one almost could suspect she takes pleasure in his pain, perhaps because of how justified things end for him.
In 2002 Brisseau was arrested on charges of harassment, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. The plaintiffs were three women who had performed sex acts in front of him during their auditions. This was to form the basis of the The Exterminating Angels movie. - Wikipedia
One of the things I found most fascinating about this tale, was in the director's anguish in the end, for his actions in delving deep into another's sexuality, taking them further than they had ever gone, taking them further than they had ever even known they could go. This is fascinating for the initiator, extremely pleasurable typically, for the subject(s), but in the end, it can be extremely destructive. Not only to the individuals involved, but also to all those around them.
Where you might expect that someone, especially considering they are doing it willingly, would like to explore the depths of passions that they could experience, or to "find themselves", to discover new areas where they find erotic pleasure, in a free and open way; many times in hindsight, what happens is that the person regrets, feels exposed, or abandoned. This can then lead to anger, or simply ego damage. And that, can lead to some very, very ugly lashing out behavior. And not always by the subject in question, but at times, by those close to them, or who love them.
Overall, I found the movie entertaining, engrossing and affective. Someone once told me that a good movie is one that sticks with you for days after having viewed it. I can see that this is one of those films.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Weekend Wise Words
Russell's teapot
In an article titled "Is There a God?" commissioned, but never published, by Illustrated magazine in 1952, Russell wrote:
"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."
Friday, November 26, 2010
Cannabis illegality
After just watching the Vanguard produced documentary "Marijuana Wars" on the Mexican drug Cartels about Cannabis, I have been left with one jarring question....
Why hasn't it been legalized in the US yet? Is it because of the Harry Anslinger, racist, abuse Americans legacy? Look it up. Stop calling it, "marijuana". And legalize it.
Who is it, that is fighting against this in our government? What do they have to gain?
Because I'm beginning to think that legalizing it really is the only way to go. Mexico is in main part, under siege by the drug cartels selling illegal drugs to the US. We need to take away the only one we can, from them, and that is, cannabis.Its their main product. Cut them off at the knees.
It would make so much sense, to take this away from those criminals, those serial murderers, those, kidnappers, family hostage takes; and, for that reason alone, one really has to wonder, what is holding us back from making it legal so that no criminals can make money off of production and sales of an illegal weed that is not synthesized in any way in order for it to be effective for recreational or medicinal purposes. It is the only illegal drug that I know of, that Doctors prescribe to patients. Doesn't THAT tell you something?
Stop looking at the smaller picture. Stop looking at the TV version of life, and start looking at the Big Screen version. All these tiny fears, do not add up against the big picture. Stop having petty concerns and start having big concerns.
Think about it. Vote on it. Do something. Because inaction, is an action and a decision. Because by doing nothing, aren't you actually siding with the drug cartels, the murderers?
Why hasn't it been legalized in the US yet? Is it because of the Harry Anslinger, racist, abuse Americans legacy? Look it up. Stop calling it, "marijuana". And legalize it.
Who is it, that is fighting against this in our government? What do they have to gain?
Because I'm beginning to think that legalizing it really is the only way to go. Mexico is in main part, under siege by the drug cartels selling illegal drugs to the US. We need to take away the only one we can, from them, and that is, cannabis.Its their main product. Cut them off at the knees.
It would make so much sense, to take this away from those criminals, those serial murderers, those, kidnappers, family hostage takes; and, for that reason alone, one really has to wonder, what is holding us back from making it legal so that no criminals can make money off of production and sales of an illegal weed that is not synthesized in any way in order for it to be effective for recreational or medicinal purposes. It is the only illegal drug that I know of, that Doctors prescribe to patients. Doesn't THAT tell you something?
Stop looking at the smaller picture. Stop looking at the TV version of life, and start looking at the Big Screen version. All these tiny fears, do not add up against the big picture. Stop having petty concerns and start having big concerns.
Think about it. Vote on it. Do something. Because inaction, is an action and a decision. Because by doing nothing, aren't you actually siding with the drug cartels, the murderers?
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ZOMBIE SURVIVAL – UK Style (Sean T Page)
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Surviving
a major zombie outbreak in the UK and battling them in the resulting
zombie war, are the two main themes of this website.
His book, The Official Zombie Handbook (UK) is being published through reputable purveyors of fine horror work, Severed Press.
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Do also check out the trailer for my book by Team Spleen Inna Bun Productions, directed and produced by the talented Ms Tabitha Mellor.
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