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BP's "oil volcano(s)" in the Gulf was spewing out very dangerous toxic chemicals and Volitile Organic Compounds that may impact the South East and eventually the entire Atlantic Seaboard under the right conditions. When it comes ashore it could mean a whole lot of people are going to be very sick and many mioght die and crops will be poisoned as well. Under the right conditions there could also be a massive methane explosion. There are alrady workers suffering from symptoms called Toxicant-Induced Loss of Tolerance or
TILT. The National Institutes of Health, has defined the illness as a “chronic, recurring disease caused by a person’s inability to tolerate an environmental chemical or class of foreign chemicals.” A hurricane could easily move these toxic chemicals
VOCs, onshore as wind, rain and storm surge.
For the caring ecologist in you: If you are in the Gulf or are planning on going to the Gulf to help out you need to know about this information before you go. This link,
"Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead", is self explanatory.
Please remember, BP is in denial and is still trying to cut costs from what is going on, even after the disaster occoured. For some reason most of the responders to their ever loveing time to respond. It's almost like they wanted this disaster to get as bad as it has for some reason - the possible politics could be mindbending - mebbe the true story will come out in a couple of decades. They have created their own "Potemkin Villages" - when the government officals are there they see the happy workers cleaning up the Gulf, and when they leave, POOF! so do the workers, cleanup boats and equipment.
BP has, in the past, refused to let its workers wear gasmasks or other specialized protective clothing, so that everyone won't panic. However, there is a rumor that the first relief drill platform's first floor has filled up with the toxic gases and gasmasks had to be issured. Expect extreme exploitation and absolutely no protection from the possibly deadly air and water. File this under 'business as usual'. Here's a small sample of what is coming out of the sea floor:
Because there is almost a MSM news blackout because it's now 'old news', all we have left to go on are leaks and rumors, and as the rumors fly they are running wild. For instance:
If the fishermen and ther boat owners decide to not help out with cleaning up the spill then their disaster compensation checks will be alot lower.
As if we don't have enough troubles with Iraq,
Congress hasn’t officially voted for a Declaration of War since World War II. In modern times they use creative wording in bills that authorize the broad use of force across borders in the sweeping “War on Terror." The Bush Doctrine of preemptively attacking countries because they may pose a threat to America in the future was universally trashed by progressives, but is still alive and well under the Obamanation, the Prince of Peace, without one dissenting vote in the Senate. This authority is what the Obama Administration claims also gives them the legal argument to bomb sovereign countries like Pakistan..." Blacklisted News.
Sometimes nations knowingly enter into a war with resolve, and sometimes they stumble into one. The Iraq and Afghanisan wars were started for the pettiest and dubious of reasons, but at least the public was told they were entering into one. The one with Iran is being stumbled into since it is unlikely Congress thought about it much and no one seemed to have noticed that declaring unilateral sanctions on another country is an act of war. This is the reason Japan in WWII was pushed to attack the US at Pearl Harbor by the US. Like it or not,we are in the beginnings of further troubles with Iran...
The CAWT_Network Yahoo! Group is sponsored by the Church of All Worlds Tradition Network (CAWTN) Two Rivers Nest and exists for anyone to express their thoughts about the evolving CAW Tradition, starting or getting publicity for a CAWTN Nest, and anything else of interest, of course. If you want an article to appear here, then all you have to do to submit articles is e-mail them to me.
CAW III's Nesting (coven) program has been restarted, but getting recognized as a Proto-Nest has some requirements many CAW startups may not be meet the qualifications for awhile. A Shadow Nest has the advantage on *NOT* needing Official Permission to exist. A CAWTN Nest isn't a CAW Proto-Nest until you apply for proto-nest status, or as a 'nest forming' with CAW...
CAWTN is an informal network which is not formally a part of CAW. One reason, out of many, is that this gives me the freedom to ignore 501.c.3 political restrictions because CAWTN is not a 501.c.3 church - this protects CAW from my "musings. Another reason is that sometimes a "shadow nest" can do things a CAW Nest can't do, much like the Baker Street Irregulars could do things Sherlock Homes couldn't have done...
'Tis a Mystery -- CAWTN existed years before it was given a name - before I wrote its funky "Bylaws", before the hostile takeover of CAW II, before Liza Ravenheart wrote about the CAWT, and before I realized it existed. The WOW moment lead me to that conclusion happened before my short, OK not so short, letter was published in the very last Scarlet Flame which explained Something Interesting, (The Gods Themselves must have intervened to get it published before the Ohio BoD pulled the Plug on Scarlet Flame)...
There was a lot of bitterness and angst over conflicts and misunderstandings of what was going on in CAW II, and some people have decided to go elsewhere because of it. This was partially a reflection of what's been going on in society at large - CAW has survived power plays by rogue Clergy, numerous personality conflicts, squabbles over money and Green Egg, highly infectious forms of HP[S] Disease, unfair treatment of members, the passing of a CAW President, and attempted dissolution off CAW and mass resignations from the Ohio BoD. However, this freedom has come at a terrible cost, and many people left CAW without understanding what it was really all about, or how to succeed within it. I'd like to help change that - we have the "C.U.R.E." - [ "We can rebuild him..." ;-> ]. CAWT_Network is offered to begin the process, and started a bone-head CAW II Classroom of sorts. there's only one registration, and that's to the CAWT_Network Y! Group itself. It sould be noted that the Group hasn't done much of anything in the last six months...
The Usual Links and Stuff are here!!
The present position on theCAWT Wheel of the Year is about re-establishing ties with CAW members that were broken during the Cusp. Green Egg, has been restablished as CAW's Flag pubication, the new version is an on-line Magazine...
However, if you want to send me E-mail then send stuff to My Primary Email, My Google Account, or My Personal "Business" Email.
07/25/10 - 07/26/10I have a sore neck which is keeping me from freely moving my head from side to side; my right kneecap is hurting, as well as my back and shoulder blades. So, I may not be doing much unless it ablolutely has to be done for a few days.
There's not much going on except North Korea(NK) is threatening every thing from a "physical reaction" to a nuclear strike because of the sceduled US/South Koriea (SK) wargames. NK's leader is a certifable loony-tune, but he does have the capacity to make things awfully hot in the Far East militarily, and it would be foolish and unfortunate to ignore his rantings...
07/02/04/10 - 07/06/10 Have a great Fourth of July. As most people know, July 4th is a National Holiday in the USA celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It should be a time of sober reflection about the way the country is headed politically, religiously, socially and economically. Freedom is being taken away day by day in favor of safety by the entrenched bureaucracy. These alphabet agencies are very close to making their own laws, in the wake of a do-nothing Congress that has passed its power, authority, and responsibility to them, and many of them have become litte fiefdoms of absolute power over the American People on their own through the writing huge amounts of regulations. However, it is a holiday, so enjoy yourselves and take in some 'safe and sane' fireworks. enjoy a professionl show, and break out the barbeques...
06/29/10:The "Important Information" warning about the Gulf has been moved to the new From Under The Edtor's Rock (FUTER) as this story isn't going away anytime soon. Please keep in mind that the two articles there are in [Draft] form, and I may have to go further than just stating the facts, so it's a FUTER article. Also in the FUTER is the odd bill the Congress has voted on which all but declares war on Iran - in fact. in most places it wourld be considered to be a declaration of war under another name.
06/20-21/10: Have a Blessed Litha!
06/10-18/10:Other than it being the day after election day, not much is going on. On the Democratic side, Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer are waking up after long naps to realize they're still in the race in November. On the 'Publican side, the race for who is the greatest conservative reactionary was won by Meg Whitman, in my opinion, a truly frightening candidate. I haven't seen alot of the other results, but on the whole it was a good election for women candidates.
The Lord works in mysterious ways, One wonders what sort of God blasts a statue of Jaysussss-ah (Jesus, for those unitiiated enough to get the joke?), his alledged co-equal in the Trinity, down to its iron skeleton. Mebbe it has to do with the sins of the pastor, or the congregation, or both. God may not have liked the statue thinking it resembles the idols of the Heathen too much, yet it's the Heathen idols that are still intact. Who knows? The anatomically correct horse on top of the Trader's World sign (maybe 50 feet down the road) was untouched, as well as the Hustler Store across the highway. That kind of stuff shouldn't theologically happen unless the god in
06/01/10:For those who didn't access the main page over the 3 day Memorial holiday: You missed the waving American flag!
05/28-30/10:This is Memorial Day weekend and with all of the partying going on it's easy to forget the meaning of the holiday. Memorial Day was once called Decoration Day and people would go to Veteran's Cemetaries and decorate their graves with flowers. It was started after the Civil War and has been moved around the calendar a few times. It is a time to reflect on and honor the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform that died for our country in all our armed confict and wars. We owe what freedom we have left to those who put their life on the line and lost it to preserve our it, so take the time and Remember...
05/27/10:I've revamped and brought back "Citizen Bacillus" because the ObamaCare Bill is such a precedent setter. If the federal government can make you buy health insurance; then what would stop Them from deciding that you should buy a whole lot of things you'd rather not have. Mebbe the next welfare program will consist of money or coupons or ration tickets to force "The Consumer Class" to buy stuff and keep the economy rolling! They will pay you to buy them! Please keep in mind that I could go alot further with this piece, but I really don't want to give a desperate and cornered Them any more ideas. The authorized Church idea is only unthinkable if you believe that the Constitution isn't a "filthy rag" that can be walked on with impunity and that it's an impediment to religious tyranny. They won't tell you that you have to belong to any one religion - just that you have to attend a religious or non/anti-religious group or congregation of your "choice"...
05/12-22/10:I'm back a little sooner than I expected, so I've started the process to create the Litha Ish, and this meant that the letters and announcements had to go. But, don't worry! I'm putting most of them on the Second Page (pagetwo.html) They'll have a "new" icon on the left. I still don't have a firm topic for UTER but it may be about the oil spill in the Gulf and what went wrong. But, I have to do more reading first to get a better overview of what happened, but it looks like it was the machinery failure, using a cheap method to stop the oil flow plus a faulty cement job and a methane bubble that did it in...
04/30/10:I'm going to be away from the Internet for at least a month, so nothing much will be updated until the middle to the latter part of May.
04/20/10:My computer is fixed and it only cost me $300! I could have gotten a new one for a little more, but with the improvements I ordered it will have to do for quite awhile. I'm protected with Norton Anti-virus and with 1 gig of more memory it seems to be alot faster! I also had to drop using my evaluation copy of "Windows 7" OS. I liked it alot, but I didn't have the extra $90 to move to it permanently. Maybe one day I will because it got rid of two minor XP annoyances. The first is not being able to display the calender without having to go through setup, and the other is listing webpages so it you don't want to see the pop-ups you can delete them without having to look at them. It ran slow though, and it didn't come with a whole lot of stuff that is standard in XP. Saving all my work cost me a bundle, but I didn't lose some important files...
The numbers look good for the past couple of days that I've been away, so I think I have time to look for new stuff by Beltaine. I've got a lot of e-mail to wade through and stuff to organize so I'll be busy...
04/13/10:Catastrophe! While I was updating my computer I had to turn it off then restart it. It didn't restart. in fact it was stuck on the first part of the first page, which probably indicates a serious hardware problem. So, the 'Rap will be not be updated until I get it fixed or buy a new computer, as the cost of fixing it may equal or exceed the purchase price....
04/01/10:Today is April Fool's day - and my birthday. I haven't got any tricks up my sleeve this year, sorry - I just didn't get around to them with my "busy" schedule. I can't be on the computer all day, in fact three hours tires me out ;-( My not so famous words are, "Not much is going on now". When I put that on the website something usually happens to prove me wrong. I'm going to put all the websites on this page on pagetwo as I clear the index page to make way for new material. This should start around the weekend, as I don't feel that well right now. I'm also struggling with an article for Under the Editor' Rock so even though it seems that nothing is going on, it is...
03/14 - 18/10:From the recent news, it may seem like I'm exclusively focusing on what Oberon writes, but what he's saying and his projects are important news that I just had to republish for those who choose not to belong to CAW-Phoenix (Yahoo) Group, which is the source for the articles above. I usually ask permission before I reprint something, so there's not a whole lot of articles written by others that I can put here because of that. I do have advance permission to republish articles by Oberon and Lance from CAW-Phoenix Group. The advert for his speech and potluck is provided gratis...
BTW, I could use some articles that y'all might want to see here. The advantage of using this site instead of one of your own is I do all the HTML coding to make it presenatable. I don't have a lot of readers, but type in "CAW Tradition" into a search engine - my website is usually on the first page. Getting CAW news is hard when your on the outside looking in. As I've sad before, I recently switched to 'Windows 7' and I can't even print out the membership form since my printer doesn't work with it. I'm also alot poorer than I was when I was a Scion. so I can't really afford paying dues for services I'm not ready to use, and I object to using Paypal since I couldn't change a mistake on their app and ended up with 'Bulgaria' as being my countrychange, so I had to cancel it. I may try again someday though...
03/07-09/10:I have some good news ;-) and some bad news... ;-(
03/04/10:Our Economic Elite have engineered a coup against the middle class, endangering its existence, and it's time we recognized what been going on in our country. This link has something to say that I think needs to be aired out in the light of day. If stupid is as stupid does, then greed is as greed does. I seems that there comes a time in every rich person's soon to be black heart where mere monetary wealth is no longer enough to satisfy their urge for power. Then they reach out with their money to fund a charity, work behind the scenes. They also spend their money to get more perks from the gov'mint as tax breaks, or decide to either fund politicians for favorable legislation, lobby legislators for favorable laws, or run for office themselves (Meg Whitman who is betting her own mega-bucks to become the next Governor of California).
Goldman Sachs is a good example of this. They've alledgedly conspired with the Grecian gov'mint to create exotic financial transactions to hide its debts through arcane financial hocus-pocus from the rest of the EU. Previously they sold trashy derivatives to unsuspecting clients while taking out insurance on those same derivatives to profit again when the mortgage bundles reverted to their true worth which is a lot less than its nominal value. Having grown tired of unscruplous money making and obscene salaries for the top executives which some say came from the long suffering taxpayer they've decided that mere money grubbing is not enough. They have an inside track to put its executives into executive positions in the ObamaNation's gov'mint, including, and expecially, the US Treasury. Now the fox guards the sheep's money, and GS can use the Treasury as one big ATM when it needs to. Our government is the best gov'mint money can buy, and they have alot of power to hand out in the lobbyist and job swapping games. It's time for the Treasury boss to resign and for the trials to begin...
02/14-17/10:Sorry about the broken links to Jerry Brown, et al. I didn't see the spaces in the http address for two of them and the duplicate http://s in the address line or the copy error they overlooked because the http appeared twice in each website. I should have double checked them for this because for some reason people put spaces in website names and generally don't know how to write websites correctly, mea culpa...
I've trimmed back on the old news and placed them in the notes in "Calendar". It was just getting too large, and no one probably reads the old stuff anyways.
02/10/10: I've added another appeal for correspondence with the powers-that-be which has to do with prisoner's religious rights to worship within the faith they choose, and be included in the so-called top tier religions (the top tier idea is foriegn to the bill of rights as written, there is no "top tier" in the first amendment), or just Xtianity - the perferred stand of the WallBuilders. The California prison system is being urged to adopt this stand by some Xtian cretins who will ruin even their own standing, as many of Xtians don't believe that Xtianity is a religion at all, but a relationship. Even a stupe can figure out that the 1st Amendment covers all religious expression, because if it doesn't then the Bill of Rights doesn't exist for large groups of minority religions or even minority Xtian cults...
02/02 - 04/10:Here's some interesting news out of the U.S. Air Force Academy on their recognition of Neo-Paganism and their
new stone circle.
01/29/10:Massachusetts has a new 'Publican Senator in a state long held by the "blue" column, and it was the "Kennedy Seat" to boot. Very few MSM news outlets paid attention to, or even noticed this race, until it suddenly looked like the Dem candidate would be ecliped by the 'Publican dark horse, much like Sauron's Eye couldn't focus on the Ring until it was too late, and then the Black Swan event, the highly improbable event that no one was looking for - happened. The Democrat's runaway freight train - the ObamaCare and the 'Cap and Trade' bill and other runaway bills - have been stopped for now, but only if the 'Publicans' can all vote as one, otherwise that small advantage will slip through their fingers...
Is this is a harbringer of a defeat to come for the Dems in November? It will be if the Dems don't get the message and reform their wicked ways: pandering to large corporations such as the Pharma, Wall Street, Financial, and Health care industries; goverment bankruptcy; bribery; buying votes; holding secret meetings instead of open, transparent ones that Obama promisedwould be done openly; the occupations of Afganistan and Iraq; the closing of Guantanamo; the treatment of terrorists as criminals in a court instead of what they really are - enemy combatants. The People are slowly waking up, will speak loudly, and deal with the corruption that prevades Washington DC and Wall Street, if the Dems don't do so, by throwing the bums out yet again...
Getting the Goglet of Fire to work again took up alot of time and I had some frustrating time to figure out why it wouldn't work. This one is a little fatter than the original image, and I think it looks better that way, for now...
01/05-12/10:It's staring out the year in hopeless optimism that things will be marginally better for most of us eventually - and the operative word here is "marginally". Meanwhile, the decks of the 'Rap have almost been cleared and I have a new installment of the FUTER to write, but not right at this moment, for I'm still getting over the holidays which is much like the cold I can't get rid of. Actually I've just started it and it's in DRAFT Mode.
01/01/10:It's a New Year in Chicago, so here's some actual good news - Happy New Years! Unforturnately it won't last, it usually doesn't - there's always some bunch of morons or idiots that will do something stupid to ruin it for anyone who cares, and problems don't melt away because of a change in calendars. So, though it's usually unwise, it's time for optimism at least for a while - enjoy the day!...
The 'Rap was last updated
Sunday, 25-Jul-10 21:52:09 PDT.
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US Gets Ready For Hostilities With Iran [Draft]
Afghoulistan Afghanistan, the undeclared hostilities in Pakistan, and the BP oil volcano, the ObamaNation has set its pieces in place for a strike on Iran, either directly, or indirectly with "help" with Israel. This is appalling! Iran presents no threat to the United States or its allies; all they can do is manufacture threats and bluster and hot air - mostly coming from Iran's President - a toothless puppet of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. If they cooperate with the international bodies that regulate the use of uranium and plutonium then, as much as we don't like it, they have a right to persue the peaceful use of this technology by international law.
"War with Iran has already been decided by the powers that be and the modern-day quasi-declaration of war happened last Thursday. Using the same legislative and propaganda playbook that led to the Iraq War, the U.S. Government has just officially declared War on Iran. Reuters reported “Congress on Thursday approved tough new unilateral sanctions aimed at squeezing Iran’s energy and banking sectors, which could also hurt companies from other countries doing business with Tehran. The House of Representatives passed the bill 408-8 and sent it to President Barack Obama for signing into law. The Senate had approved it 99-0 earlier in the day.”
General Information
The Introduction
The Introduction explains what the 'Rap is all about. BTW -- for those people who found the 'Rap by accident may be asking, Who on Earth is the Goddess, Anyways?...
I have a sheik_sebir's Forum Please, take the time to answer either the Religious Survey 1040 for 2010 (Long form) or the quick and dirty 2010 1040-EZ Form Survey (Short Form) if you want to ask a quick question. The IRS tax form references are an inside joke, I used to be a Call Center Rep for the IRS, and they're really not bad at all -- the surveys that is!
'Rap News
question is mightily righteously pissed at just about everything. This is only one ligntning strike in a series of disasters afflicting the US, but it's also an interesting co-incidence (do you believe in coincidence?). So, mebbe Pastor Wright (The ObamaNation's Pastor until he unceremoniously dumped him) is right and God has damned 'Merca, and mebbe God's judgement of 'Merca is under way after all. This sort of thing can't be explained away unless many, many people have become very, very naughty all at once and the Lord is trying to tell us something... ;->
The good news is that I've migrated to "Windows 7" and the internet connection works; the bad news is the HP printer won't work for printing, but for some reason the scan does work - just the opposite of the way it was on XP. (HP didn't make a generic driver for it) I can't get the printer to work on the second computer in the network either because it's "obsolete" as well, so I'll probably have to replace it, I found that my computer does have a hardware glitch (most of the software problems ended with the install) that stops me from using the computer immediately after Windows is supposed to load (it looks like I have to let it warm up first for up to 10 minutes as all I get is the black warning screen and an occasional warning about data corruption). All of my "Favorites" were wiped clean, so I'm sarting from scratch. I'll survive this ezperience :-) Win 7 has changed some things around compared to XP, so it's back on the learning curve for me. ( I'm a poet who doesn't know it.) I expect to upgrade on the next printer I get, when I can afford it...
