This is the new blog...CONFESSION ZERO

SING IT! (New Orleans)




WARBLE



Sing it, George! Sing it! Sing it!
Sing it, baby! Sing it!
Carry your message to the world
Warble from shore to shore
Harmonize into Baghdad
Sing your truths to the dead
Sing in the darkened streets
Sing it under watery New Orleans
Sing it loud! Sing it fiercely!
Lie! Lie! Lie! Lie!
Sing your lies to the masses,
Watch now as they burn,
The glow reflected in your eyes
And through your dark soul...
Sing it, baby! Sing it!
Sing it! Sing it!
Empire awaits!


Thank you Blue Gal and...


http://www.suspect-device.com/blog/?p=1525

http://www.suspect-device.com/blog/?p=1544

http://www.suspect-device.com/blog/?p=1550

http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com/2007/08/katrina-anniversary.html

http://www.blogintegrity.net/2007/08/criminal-neglig.html

http://www.first-draft.com/2007/08/remember.html

http://www.first-draft.com/2007/08/bush-coming-to-.html

http://flprogressive.blogspot.com/2007/08/two-years-ago-today.html



Imperialism's Rant



What is one of the bigger problems facing the USA today?

-video removed by You Tube :>/-

All the products of people like Ted Nugent, and Ted Nugent, for he is a product of other "Ted Nugent’s", and they are all the byproduct of years and years of the (1) dumbing down of the American education system, particularly K through 12, (2) which includes the educators. They are a product as well of (3) the lack of any worthy historical perspectives and of (4) the growing divide and disconnect between the rich and the middleclass/poor.

(1) George W. Bush: “The illiteracy rate of our children are appalling.”

(2) The educators, both k-12 and college professors, are, in many cases just plain lazy and do not search for the truths under the sheen of their own phantom power, or they have incorporated the lies they’ve been sold into their own fixed paradigm of reality (truth) and then pass this “truth” down from generation to generation until the result is practically impossible to salvage and the “truth” is barely discernable from the lie.

(3) A byproduct of the entrenched lies is the inability for us to view reality with the educated perspective of our own countries history, especially the last fifty years of it. One mention of empire or atrocities perpetrated by the US government and you’re likely to be labeled a “traitor” or a “terrorist”, two readily lobbed words from those with no bona fide perspective.

(4) The divide of rich and poor and its inevitable disconnect are not just a result of “the way the ball bounced”, in other words they are not happenstance. They are a concerted effort to maximize empire. It is designed to line the pockets of the few and place the “slave” population in the untenable position of survival without turning to crime or escaping through drug use, which includes caffeine, nicotine, over the counter type drugs and the illicit types. It’s important to note that the imperialist gets richer from this scenario. Big pharmacy equals big money and is, in and of itself, a virulent and extremely profitable turntable of recidivism. Big Pharma is the energizer bunny for all the other imperialist corporations.

Ted Nugent and the gentleman featured in the video are the direct result of a concerted effort (imperialism) by the powers that be to reduce the debate in this country to a driveling, unimaginative, inane, rant. A rant that benefits neither the speaker nor the listener, all it does is create a greater ignorance and further distances any hope of our actually hearing “the truth”, or better yet, acting upon this truth when we do hear it.

There are also a good number of intelligent people in this country that are just as ignorant, some willful, others not, only these people have positions of power and influence which makes them all the more dangerous to the much needed truth.

Coming after these influential souls, are the true power brokers, the powers that be, as they are oft called. Whether they are the products of willful ignorance or just pure narcissists matters not, for they all stem from the same vine and they know precisely what their actions are producing. Take Iraq for instance; the occupation of Iraq may not seem as it has gone as planned, or even Afghanistan, for that matter, but in truth, it has gone masterfully well for the imperialists.
Follow the money.

It will take many, many years for Iraq to recover from American (imperialistic) intervention, yet, during this time, America will have placed itself strategically within Iraq’s borders and never give her the chance. The imperialist will allow her to resemble a beacon of democracy while not actually ever being one. Appearances can be rather deceiving, especially when viewed through the lens of empire.

The imperialist needs Iraq to be poor and vacant of resistance and empty of rebellious puppets like Saddam Hussein. The imperialist does not want an independent Iraq; it wants an Iraq that is a partner to “US interests” until the time comes that it is drained of any and all resources (oil) and no longer holds any strategic value, save for a pathway toward more conquests. For this reason it is logical, at least to the neocon, that Iran is next in line. It is not because Iran poses a real and lasting threat to its neighbors or to the American people, far from it. If anything Iran is a self-sufficient, self-sustaining state with no more of a crazed and evil man at the helm than has the US, more intelligent, yes, but no more sinister. Iran is self-sustaining and that doesn’t fit the imperial mold; any nation that does not readily allow empire’s temptress to climb into its bed (only to take all the covers) will not be tolerated.

So, as with Iraq, Iran is in the path of the only kind of empire there is; lethal.

If you are not aware that America is indeed a ruthless empire, might I suggest you begin listening to the voices of real power, I mean really listen! Stop merely ingesting their words as an inevitable path that the world is naturally taking and instead begin to dissect their words, test them, and weigh them against the actions of their orator. It matters not the speakers party affiliation, their gender or race or color or religion, for empire recognizes and is allegiant only to empire. The only question that truly matters when it comes to the voices of real power, do their words, combined with their actions, benefit the entire peoples of this world?

Here is my gut and head talking and listening and my eyes witnessing:
Iraq was never meant to be a beacon of democracy for the Middle East to emulate. Never. It is merely a stepping stone for the power hungry elite and has all the bloody markings of empire on the march. It cannot end well, not for the people of the world, unless we begin to listen and act- now...


© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman

Ted Nugent: Draft Dodging Coward

Hannity Hearts Nugent


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BOTTOMLESS APPETITE




Then at last the wolves began to devour one another
They ripped into the other’s flesh relentlessly
They said nothing of their brotherhood
Nothing of humanity
They said nothing
Just engraved flesh to bone

And to their loved ones
It was told they had become ill
Or a roadside trap had sunk their haunches
A martyr for the cause
Blossoms of more beautiful death moving over their shoulders
And to the country wolves
The safe
The listless
The counterfeit freedom lovers
To them it all seemed
A natural progression of the ferocious world
Enviously seeking their freedoms
Their riches, their dreams

Soon the blossoms wilted
And a rancid stench drifted over the Sunday service
Until their worship turned outward
And pounced upon its host




© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman



IMPRECATORY FAILURE




"Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies." - Psalm 139:21-22

With that, let us look at what it means to pray in the imprecatory style…

im∙pre∙cate (transitive and intransitive verb)

imprecate [im`prә’kàte]

curse
to call down something bad
or harmful, especially a
curse on somebody.

(formal)
im∙pre∙ca∙tor (noun)
With this limitedly defined word I conclude that it is something akin to two children fighting over a stuffed animal or a GI Joe and calling one another’s mama “fat”.

For many of the so-called “faithful”, however, it is much more than reckless playground banter.

Take Pastor Wiley Drake for example; this “man of God a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/44143894.html">has called and is calling for the
Imprecatory Prayer against the Religious Liberty Watchdog Group, the AU.

PASTOR DRAKE: In light of the recent attack from the enemies of God I ask the children of God to go into action with Imprecatory Prayer. Especially against Americans United for Separation of Church and State . I made an attempt to go to them via Matthew 18:15 but they refused to talk to me. Specifically target Joe Conn or Jeremy Learing. They are those who lead the attack.It is actually Jeremy LearNing that he meant to invoke the wrath of God upon, so if you are Jeremy Learing and not Jeremy Learning, watch out for that pesky horde of locusts.

Here are the
Imprecatory Psalms" I found via Theopedia:

Psalm 35:5 - May they be like chaff before the wind.
Psalm 55:15
- Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the grave.
Psalm 58:6
- O God, break the teeth in their mouths.
Psalm 69:28
- May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.
Psalm 109:9
- May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Psalm 137:9 - How blessed will be the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
I see a glaring problem with these prayers of wrath. The teachings of Jesus. Remember that guy, Pastor Drake?

To accentuate my feelings on the hypocrisy I find in this thinking I can direct you to MoJoey of
Deep Thoughts and his post How is this different from Jihad?

Here’s a
grand rationale for such prayers by David R. Reid via his web-page, Devotions for Growing Christians on the page titled,PLEASE ZAP THEM, LORD!


Imprecatory psalms can reflect a godly way of thinking
"There is a kind of hate for the sinner (viewed as morally corrupt and hostile to
God) that may coexist with pity and even a desire for their salvation... [T]hat there comes a point of such extended, hardened, high-handed lovelessness toward God that it may be appropriate to call down anathema on it."

"...it is appropriate that we pray that Christ would vindicate his holy name and program by destroying the enemies of righteousness, just as he preserves those who love his name."

They are merely explanatory of what would happen
"...they merely were stating what would happen to the wicked; they were not actually asking God to destroy the wicked."
Remind you of anything?
How about radicalism?
How about terrorism?
Shock and awe?
Jihad?

Let's end the grande flourish of rationale with Mr. Reid’s closing argument-

The desire for personal revenge is never an option for the Christian and we should always have the mind and heart of God "not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). But at the same time we do not want the name and character of our God blasphemed. We long for and pray for the time when God's righteousness will be realized "on earth as it is in heaven." We pray these prayers knowing full well that in the final analysis the universal reign of righteousness by a holy God demands the eternal punishment of the wicked. The imprecatory psalms are the Old Testament expression of this godly attitude.

This thinking, and the execution of Imprecatory prayers, while on the surface seems childish, is, when applied to our present reality, a very dangerous and downright delusional evocation.



IMPRECATORY FAILURE


They were told to pray upon the sins of others;
instructed to desire their adversary’s end
until the hand no longer covered the ashen face,
until the slaughter across the sand was complete.
Infants dashed against rock.
Fatherless and widowed.
Teeth broken in their mouths.
Buried and breathing.

Begging God to perform their soul-fouled work,
invoking prayers of bone-prattled doom,
calling forth their god-smacking wrath
riddled with the brown flesh of Islam;
The face of mother.
The back of father.
The heart of brother.
The neck of sister.

O! This sickness brings forth such loss and
carries the hordes of stench to madness!
O! Let these prayers fall upon the dead lips of
thy conjured and stinking god forthwith!
Reason dashed against idols,
breath snapped in the throat,
buried and fruitless shall be thy
imprecatory failure…



© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman



Thanks to The Faithful Skeptic for the inspiration.



SOMETHING HOWLS



(Ben Heine - Cartoons)

Pastor says the decision wasn't based on hatred, but on principle...


ARLINGTON, TEXAS — a mega-church canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay.
Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard Sinclair was gay when they offered to host his service, said his sister, Kathleen Wright. But after his obituary listed his life partner as one of his survivors, she said, it was called off.
"It's a slap in the face. It's like, 'Oh, we're sorry he died, but he's gay so we can't help you,' " she said Friday.

Is it that you suffer not for this soldier’s fading?

The landscape of your thinking is littered,
Tufts of lifeless matter dark as death fall away-
You’ve this behind you; furrows of measured evil
Snaking across the damp gorge of your being.
You are not sacred in time, not humane, righteous.
You crawl upon your knees, grovel of your creation,
Yet it’s not your author and no one bends for you.

Something is howling. Something is howling now.
Something wicked this way screams…It shrieks.
It shrieks at your shadow, “You’re already dead!”
Its talons scrape the ground at your feet- you fail to see.

Come. Follow its marks upon the dust.
Come! It beckons!
Follow its howling through your darkness;
Let it show you the place where bombs descend.
Let it show you your god.




© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman



BEFORE VALOR



(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)


Before valor fades or a soldier’s honorably lain;
Before shrapnel and horrors stand forward;

Before the screech of missiles, snap of breath;
Before the water chokes, the marine howls;
Before the steady drum and bugle sound;
Before the sidewalks are washed of the event;
Before shivering flesh and darkness ignite;
Before food, clothing and shelter;
Before the whispered birth of wayward night;
Before all else; were we alive?

Did we sense humanity’s plea;
Grasp this; our solemn relationship;
Fortunate to have been born at all,
To breathe where breath is free;
That the world exhales next to us,
Eats, drinks, prays, dies alongside our death…

O is there no truth that lives,
That wrestles deceit to its knees;
Living that scowls at hopeless war
Whose breath stinks beyond our living?

When spirits fade and innocence slain,
Lowered to their private defeat,
With each, a world’s breath, mislaid.



© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman



WE SHALL NEVER FORGET AUGUST 6, 2001

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August 6, 2001: Bush Administration Warned 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States'

Two and a half years after 9/11, the American public learned today that President Bush received explicit warnings that Osama bin Laden was planning to attack the United States – including activities "consistent with preparations for hijacking." Yet, there was no domestic follow-up by the Bush administration. No high level meetings. No sense of urgency. No warnings to FBI agents across the country.
We now know why the Bush administration has been hiding the Aug. 6, 2001, intelligence briefing for the president, called "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." All of the 9/11 Commission members – Republicans and Democrats – have asked the Bush administration to declassify this document. There are precedents for releasing presidential daily briefings and the American public deserves to know what President Bush knew and when.

We also learned that there appears to have been no response to explicit and repeated warnings about al Qaeda attacks. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's claim that the FBI sent warnings to field offices was directly disputed by commissioners who said they had conducted thousands of interviews and reviewed thousands of documents. Their conclusion: no one at the FBI can recall such orders.

Today's hearing also confirmed evidence that the administration had done little or nothing to combat the terrorist threat between Jan. 20, 2001, and Sept. 10, 2001. Rice repeatedly used the claim that the administration was developing a "strategic approach" as an excuse for not acting. There was no response to the bombing of the USS Cole that claimed 17 American lives and the administration tried to cut counterterrorism funding.


WE SHALL NEVER FORGET AUGUST 6, 2001


Sleeping now are the eyes of a weary land
and a quietude of expectation nestles in without objection
as we, the inhabitants, close eyes to this;
our monumental watch
and falling upon deaf ears,
the warming waters groan laps at our exposed and tender shore.

We’ve no time for lullabies …heavy rains a coming,
surging toward our liberty like buckling steel frames.
O dreams of yesterday will not comfort our present sloth,
our minds need piercing to recall this beginning!

Review not the canopies decent,
or the yawning hole in our five-sided shield,
or the plummeting souls voyaging homeward,
or the bird plunging short to plant a scorched field;
none of these stir the mind where freedom’s loved,
they bow only at the feet of bloodlust
and do not serve our better selves.

We may yet quake and moan at what came before,
but it is that which followed that we shall never forget.



© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman



Zen Cabin's "Catapult the Shame" BlogSwarm

WE SHOULD ALL



Part of Zen Cabin's "Catapult the Shame" BlogSwarm

(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)


Dark ideas search for the rigid rope
which strangles truth to its gloomy demise

We should all be tired of the cries,
We should all be weary of the loss
We should all be exhausted of the lies
We should all be holding our breath
We should all be grousing of wars
We should all be moaning at death
We should all be drained from deceit
We should all be tattered of regret
We should all be shrieking out loud
That we shall never forget!


© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman



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