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Thursday, 21 September 2006
This is truly amazing.
Mood:
 on fire
Now Playing: anywhere they want.
Topic: Politics
We have an administration that has no respect for the constitution. Lies to the american public as a matter of policy. Starts a war to pay their contributors (and generate election spin). Secretly starts spying on its own citizens. Begins torturing kiddnapped detainees and holding them without trial or charge, then wants to decriminalize torture. Covertly has Haliburton converting deserted US bases into prisons. What makes you all think that your government wont hold you and torture you for a confession AT THEIR WHIM or even in error! When we remove the protection it is gone. This is insanity.
Posted by springbrooke
at 7:19 PM PDT
Updated: Thursday, 21 September 2006 7:26 PM PDT
Sunday, 3 September 2006
experimental vehicle lanes
What the US needs to do is set aside some experimental vehicle lanes and provide tax breaks and grant money for individual americans to build their own personal transportation. This would have the effect of breaking the deadlock the major automakers have on design/development. It would encourage the kind of "cottage invention industry" that occured at the turn of the last century in many fields including automotive. But such a bold move doesnt stand a chance if we put 500 pound experimental vehicles on the same roadway with 10,000 pound Urban assault vehicles, er SUV's. Next, tax em all for road maintanance by the pound. If you wear em out you fix em
Posted by springbrooke
at 6:26 AM PDT
Updated: Sunday, 3 September 2006 6:33 AM PDT
Monday, 21 August 2006
http://www.evrsoft.com/fastsubmit/
Posted by springbrooke
at 11:42 PM PDT
Updated: Monday, 21 August 2006 11:44 PM PDT
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
911 part 1
Mood:
on fire
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Posted by springbrooke
at 2:06 AM PDT
911 part 2
Mood:
on fire
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Posted by springbrooke
at 2:04 AM PDT
911 Part 3
Mood:
on fire
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Posted by springbrooke
at 2:00 AM PDT
Updated: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 2:01 AM PDT
Friday, 21 July 2006
Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis
Open letter to the Catholic Church, all other religious organizations, citizens and Governments of the world, parents and victims of sexual abuse. I am writing this letter with the intent to resolve and heal all parties to the structured, ritualized and pervasive practice of inappropriate sexualization and initiation of our children.
To that end, I propose and urge adoption of the following steps in that process:
1. All current exploitative actions and conventions that allow these actions are to be stopped. All unsupervised interaction between clergy (or authority figures) and children is to be stopped permanently. All clergy not in compliance with their vows based on peer and community evaluation are to have their credentials suspended pending investigation and exoneration of any unresolved charges. Any clergy that is exonerated from charges of abusive action shall be permitted to apply for reeducation. Any clergy member unwilling to accept the requirements of their status shall resign. Clergy members found to not be in compliance will be suspended from their positions and prosecuted.
2. Abusers are often abused as children. Therefore, enforcement of current criminal law and penalties are to be suspended pending a complete evaluation of the efficacy of punishment for what appears to an almost "universal" situation, in an effort to avoid punishing victims. We have been punishing the previously abused, guaranteeing that the cycle will be perpetuated, in the penal system if no where else.
3. A new and accurate "community standard" of sexual conduct is to be established and made a part of the new social contract. New guidelines based on realistic anthropological and behavioral data shall be adopted to change our actions and attitudes relative to the sexualization of children and other unprotected individuals. The new guidelines shall not include current standards of criminalization and will include a compassionate humane therapeutic response for victims
I am an abuse survivor....I am not in opposition or contradiction to the position of "catch and punish" the perpetrators of acts of sexualizing children. We are entitled to "an eye for an eye". Criminal "Injustice", however, does not provide any benefit to the abused. It is not primarily the prisoner who is harmed by the acts of sexual brutality routinely employed by staff and other inmates; it is all of us who now have "peace officers" who use sexual abuse as reward and punishment. So when an otherwise law-abiding citizen is jailed for a traffic offense or a victimless crime, it can (and has) become a death sentence.
And after the term is served and our perpetrator (if he survives, now infected with virulent diseases that make his sexual attention lethal) is released, complete with the knowledge that his style of crime is "the law of the land". He has received no therapy, he has not had any testing or evaluation, and he has "paid for his crimes" and learned how to indulge his pathology without coming to the attention of authorities.
I am not speaking about "caring" for abusers as much as I am urging all survivors and others to respond in a way that will STOP the opportunity, the occurrence and finally the results of inappropriate sexual initiation. How can we do that without caring, for the abuser as well as the abused.
If your sources are dusty, you had best renew your quest. Abused children almost ALWAYS act out their abuse and guess what, you get to (have to) play both parts. Where do you think sex abusers come from? We live what we experience; we are capable of little else...
Posted by springbrooke
at 7:39 AM PDT
Updated: Saturday, 22 July 2006 6:20 AM PDT
Monday, 29 May 2006
Life After the Oil Crash
Mood:
 sad
Now Playing: Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You
Topic: Energy
"What Can I do to Prepare?"
What you can or will do to prepare for this situation will depend on your age, health, marital status, geographic location, financial situation and other factors too numerous to mention. The best advice I can offer that applies to the widest number of people is to do the following to the best of your ability:
1. Relocate to an area as least vulnerable to these issues as possible.
2. Reallocate your financial assets so that you are as best positioned to handle these issues as you can realistically hope to be.
3. Relocalize your lifestyle as much as possible so that you are as least dependent on far-flung, petroleum-powered transportation and distribution networks as possible.
3. Strengthen your body so that you are as least dependent on our petroleum-dependent system of health care as possible.
4. Solidify any skills and/or social networks you have that might prove valuable in light of these changes.
5. If you're in shock and what to interact with others about these issues, check out "Running on Empty 3". Understand that being in shock is pretty much "par-for-the course" when it comes to learning about these issues. Trust me when I say it subsides after a while.
6. If you want to discuss personal preparation with others, check out "Running on Empty 2" and the Planning for the Future Forum on PeakOil.com
7. If you feel the need to tell friends or family, be forewarned that most people don't take too kindly to this information. Your best bet, in my opinion, is either send them an email with a link to this site and some of the other excellent Peak Oil websites or give them a copy of the documentary End of Suburbia. Note: I sell End of Suburbia on this site so I do stand to profit from my recommendation. I am, however, far from the only person who recommends the film as a tool for introducing others to Peak Oil.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Index.html
Posted by springbrooke
at 12:48 AM PDT
Wednesday, 22 February 2006
Posted by springbrooke
at 1:18 PM PST
Thursday, 12 January 2006
Cost of Bush's War
Cost of the War in Iraq
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Posted by springbrooke
at 4:46 PM PST
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