12/18/11:I'm being lazy again, and much of the things that appeared in the "News" needed to be expanded upon, so I've done a little editing with stuff from here and hopefully I have an article worthy to be read in the FUTER...

12/29/11:Anotjher fascist bill commonly called SOPA is workig its way through Congress right now. It has the potential to devastate the blog and alternative News on the Internet...

A new bill being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives would give the U.S. government power to shut down any website that is determined to "engage in, enable or facilitate" copyright infringement. Many believe that the language of the new law is so vague that it would allow the government to permanently shut down any website that even links very briefly to "infringing material". Prominent websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube would be constantly in danger of being given a "death penalty". The American people need to ask their members of Congress this question: Do you plan to vote for SOPA (The Stop Online Piracy Act)? If the answer is yes, that is a clear indication that you should never cast a single vote for that member of Congress ever again.

12/07/11:

"Dear friend,

I just emailed Congress to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That would “disappear” whole domain names, fundamentally undermining Internet security, and/or choke off their financial support. The Internet Blacklist Legislation puts more sites than ever at risk, effectively upending the DMCA safe harbors that have been crucial to the growth of Internet innovation and creativity.

Sadly, these short-sighted and dangerous bills won’t do much to stop online infringement – but they will jeopardize our ability to speak and read online with the kind of freedom we cherish in the offline world. Deep-pocketed Hollywood lobbyists are aggressively pushing to control and censor the open Internet, willing to sacrifice free speech and our Internet culture in hopes of controlling how people view their movies and products.

We need to stop this bill before it goes any further. Will you contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation? Visit: https://eff.org/r.C8A"

11/17-19/11: There is a very dangerous Fascist Bill sponsered by the Hollywood Elite and the US Chamber of Commerce that is quietly working its way through Congress that basically makes linking to copyrighted material on the Internet a rationale for destroying huge swatches of DNS website names in one fell swoop - without any judical review at all, just like the Chinese Communist's System does. For example: if the "Barsoom Fish 'Rap" were to link to "infringing material" under this bill the Feds would be able to take down all of Yahoo! in one senario.

          Fascism through the use of fear is rising in this oountry and those with enough money can buy all sorts of special legislation. In this case, "Führer" ObamaNation will sign it if it comes across his desk because his signature was bought and paid-for multiple ways for quite some time. If he wins reelection then the country will swiftly move towards a more hardened Fascist State and -- 'surprise, surprise!' -- this will also be true if the 'Publican candidate should win as well, since they're taking money from the same sources. Do you love your Oppressors yet? We have the best Government money can buy! ...

SOPA will enable the U.S. government and law enforcement to block access to websites on a global scale, not necessarily within the confines of the United States’ legal jurisdiction.

11/08-15/11: It used to be that when one would try to bring up the subject of Chemtrails most people would think that it was just another bizarre "conspiracy theory" promoted by "Coast to Coast AM" - along with space aliens at "Area 51" or the "New World Order"; which means that the topic just has to be imaginary or that it has little or no substance of reality about it. 'It's only jet contrails', detractors will say -- implying that you must be stupid, or ignorant about what a jet contrail looks like. These chemtrails are more than just jet exhaust and the jets involved it it leave a X pattern in the skies, and doesn't dissapate, but widens until the skies are fully covered with a artificial haze...

          There have been many theories and attempts to explain over the years what the gov'mint is doing by intentionally polluting the air with chemicals, as well as what HAARP in Alaska is all about - which is alot more than using ELF waves to communicate with submarines, its official rationale - everything from causing earthquakes around the world to changing to ionisphere for weather manpulatoin have been put forth as explanations, yet something seriously wrong is going on there. To me its dong more than is stated objectives...

          The U.S. Government wouldn't be doing geo-engineering, or "climate remediation" to modify and conrol the weather to reflect away sunlight to try to stop global warming for instance. However, even though the documentation does exist on the gov'mint's own websites that show that the government's scientists and their contractors are showing a complete disregard for the health and safety of the ordinary citizen and the deleterious effects on plants like trees and other wildlife that such a program would cause.

Bluntly: The governments of Great Britain and the United States have a treaty called "Global Geo-engineerimng Governance" to do just that - experiment with the weather, and we are the experimental subjects. From a look at the evidence they're well beyond the experimental stage, and are ready to do it on a worldwide basis! This is not just a NeoPagan concern. To those that read the Bible: Hosea 8:7 says that "They sow the wind, ... [and they shall] reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal..." GROK ?!?!

          This brings up at least two questions that have to be asked: (1) How would you like your skies and your weather -- Natural or Manmade? and (2) Do you want to be sprayed with chemicals from experimental programs just like you were a bug? Here's a good video on the subject (if it doesn't work then try the original website on YouTube

11/04/11:Samhain went well, so now its time to work on the Yule Ish. One thing is bothering me though - the day of the holiday is usually the worst in the hits statistics. "'Tis a puzzlement?". That's one reason to keep most of the last Ish until its time to change over to the new one.

          Most of the "Under The Editor's Rock have a pattern to their names that is useful when y'all may want to look up a FUTER that I've written in the past three years. For instance the current example is: "edrock_samhain11.html" without the quotes. So this would be at "http://www.barsoomfishrap.org/edrock_samhain11.html" Where '11' is the year. The ones that aren't in the pattern will be converted when I find the time...

10/30 -31/11: A good article on Samhain is here SamhainThe Origin of Halloween.

10/28/11:So, it begins again, but without the bulls#it of having the U.N.'s approval[s]. It looks like we are in the prelude to another mini-war, and this time it looks like it's either going to be against Syria or even Pakistan, then possibly Iran in months, afterwards. The 'Mercan economy needs an economic boost and a military action fits the bill either as a way to hire more people, or to distract the public from its own problems for awhile. Naturally, it will cost $billions, or will get our 'good friend' and proxy, Israel to start it for us. Since we probably don't have the troops available for all these new conflicts, one should watch for and expect moves to reenstate the Draft. This, and other schemes to rein in our freedoms, will start after election day when the ObamaNation doesn't have to worry about reelection anymore, or the 'Publican winner does pretty much the same thing - for most of them, other than Ron Paul, are warmongers...

["Our"]... contemporary mass-produced popular culture exists solely for the purpose of emptying your wallet and your brain, not necessarily in that order.

The MSM has another use in the dumbing down of Merca: to help the warmongering Neo-cons and the ObamaNation use the MSM to sell their wars using propaganda and the usual deceitful presentations over "threats" that may or may not actually exist, all for the war profiteers, the oil companies, and the banksters that are supported by the gov'mint whenever there is a new "threat" on the horizen that gives the gov'mint a chance to go to exotic places, meet new people, and kill them for the private profiteers. Alas, the media whores and presstitutes will get to go beyond the usuaL fare as well:

"Roasting the public mind is like roasting a pig over an open fire. The heat of propaganda must be consistently applied to the public mind over a closed fire of myths until it is completely cooked. Then it is ready to be carved up and eaten by the wolves of war."...

10/23/11:The alledged war criminal Henry Kissenger once showed his distain for "lesser mortals", and his contempt for the U.S. military by bluntly asserting that , "... military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." (Woodward and Bernstein The Final Days in chapter 14). This is only one example of the things the psychopaths in and around the higher levels of the 'Mercan gov'mint believe without being so blunt about it in public. The 'Next Mini War' may be Iran with a side of Syria, and the bait is the alledged removal of most of our troops from Iraq, so as to sucker the Iranians to attack so that "We" can justify a new war with them. Meanwhile, the "false flags" (the attempts of one gov'mint to stage an event using the target enemy's' "colors" so it can be blamed on the target gov'mint in order to initiate hostilities) are being brought out of the closet already with the 'attempted assassination' of a Saudi diplomat alledgedly orchestrated by Iran. Attacking Iran is not a wise move, for it will end in a more generalized war (WWIII) as they have China and Russia on their side. We can expect a series of these as we approach the inevitable Iranian D-day...

10/20/11: Did y'all know that the anointed one, Barack Obama (Barry Soetoro), has set up a A Special Secret Kill List of foriegn nationals and Mer'can citizens the Gov'mint has decided to remove by murder without them being able to defend themselves in court? The ObamaNation has decided that it has the right to form special "Star Chambers" to have people killed without going through any legal process whatsoever. Most 'Mercans have little sympathy for Anwar al-Awlaki or his ilk, but our Constitution's Bill of Rights was written to protect those citizens or others who the gov'mint doesn't necessarily think are worthy enough to exist. If the Administration can kill a citizen outside of the country what's to stop them from assassinating citizens inside our country.

          Now, I'm not naive - the government has been known to kill people they don't like, but this new action officially has secret faceless bureaucrats deciding to circumvent all legal protections to get to someone and kill them without bothering to go through the legal system, such as it is. Meanwhile the "Fast and Furious" scandal is slowly but surely creeping its way upward toward the US Attorney General, Hillary Clinton, and the President 'hisself'. After selling guns to Mexican drug lords, it might have been nice if they had put a transmitter inside them to report their where abouts so that they could retrieve the guns before they were used in crimes...

10/10/11: How do we begin to understand that all is not right with Merca these days? There's alot of doomers that say it's the end of the world as we know it, commonly abreviated as 'TEOTWAWKI' [...♫Tis the End of The World as We Know it, and I feel fine. ♫. Here's an example of what's true, and few people will believe it until they're caught up in it, much like Cassandra's prophecies.

The depression will be nothing compared to 1930 when it hits us… If we lose America we have nowhere else to run for freedom. There is no country left that promotes free markets, corporations not in politics… There’s no country that has their own sound currency. This is one such opinion, and they are right - if we lose the promise of greedom and the middle class, ther're will be the 1% super rich and the oter

There is nowhere left to run.

If we lose America, we lose the world to the elite.

The 1% will continue to get rich, as we all live like slaves.

If you think the way of life is bad now, you will all be living in Projects like Hoovervilles.

We cannot continue to print money. We cannot continue to debase our currency.

... State’s rights. when you minimize government it is easier to control by the people… If you don’t like the policy in one state, you go to another state. Because that’s how America was set up. America was not supposed to be uniform in policy. Each state was supposed to reflect the views and positions of everyone in that state. It is much easier to influence Governors and Mayors than Presidents and Vice-Presidents.

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The Voices of Wyrd are saying that it's too late aready, and I tend to think that they are right: that It's too late to save the System and that it will eventally collapse under it own weight. For them it isn't a matter of if, but a matter of when.I've read that it could be the week of 11/06/11 which contains the magical times of 11:11:11:11am/pm. The OWS folks have it partially right Occupy Everthing!. [This may become a FUTER as there are opinions that are more relevant to that section]

10/05/11: Occupy Wall St. has finally come up with a list of demands - and there is no non-negotiable demand for the Anointed One, The ObamaNation, to resign. Again, this is odd since the ObamaNation has responsibility for most of the wrongs that they are demonstrating for and against.

The essence of the OWSer's argument is pretty simple: they've got a raw deal; somebody dealt them a bad hand; someone ran their society into a ditch and not a goddammed one of the older generation will set in motion the machinery to correct the situation, or even acknowledge it. Here Come the OWSers

          How about the murder of an American citizen ordered by the Imperator ObamaNation without showing any proof that Anwar al-Aulaqi was a terrorist to either the courts or the public. He was not a nice person, but extra-judicial killings are murder, plain and simple. How about the lack of new well-paying jobs, you know - the ones that are being moved 'offshore' to slave wage countries. And the auction of political figures and government regulations for cash 'donations'. Ain't "free speech" by bribery great - We have the best government that money can buy.

          It only seems to be disorganization and a plum waiting to be hijacked by the unions, the anarchists, the socialists, disaffected, George Soro's and the Democratic Party, and any other group with a greivance against the rich an powerful evidentially can participate. Though they seem to persue the same means, the ends are probably more diverse, but may not want to persue these ends if they knew what they were. However someone is behind the scenes is definately controlling this nascent mass movement for their own ends and coordinating it... [To be Continued]

10/02/11:Tie current The Arch Druid Report talks about ancient philosophies, what magick can and cannot do, as well as Philosophical ethics over the motives of certain magicks and the probable results, and other diverse subjects. I recommend this article...

09/25/11:I hope y'all had a fruitful Mabon! Wow! The Great Wheel has just turned again and I'm wondering about where all the time has gone. Samhain is just around the corner and somehow I have to get creative and think of some new rant subject to write about. I'm about to remove some of the News and put it into the "Calender" as Notes, and do some more work on the site . The index page is becoming crowded again so I'm probably do it next week. The new FUTER for Samhain won't be started until next week as well, but the headline page will say "Samhain". The new FUTER won't change until I change the background color (as usual)...

09/11/11:

First they came for the raw milk
and I didn't speak out because I drank no raw milk.

Then they came for the non-GMO farmers
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a farmer.

Next they came for the home gardeners
and I didn't speak out because I grew no gardens.

Then they came for me...
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Learn more:

09/22/11:Have a Merry Mabon! This is Mabon and I don't make a big hulla-ballow over it, but others do. I'm looking more towards Samhain which is gaining ground as a general "holiday" called Hallowe'en. It's going to take some time before I get Inspired to write the Under the Editor's Rock [FUTER] for it, but I should meet the deadline OK unless I Have more problems with my hands...

09/11/11: "Today marks 10th anniversary of 9-11-2001. We have not forgotten the nearly 3,000 lives that were taken by Islamic terrorists... Soon after 9/11/01 our nation launched what some have dubbed the Global War On a Noun. We can never win a war against a tactic. We need to have a defined enemy. Unfortunately, too few in Washington D.C. have the requisite fortitude to close our borders to radical Islamists and to expel those of them who are already here. Sadly, I believe that won't happen until after a couple of terrorists nukes or dirty bombs are detonated in American cities, most likely on the same day. That will be our reward for playing by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules and trying to be "The Nice Guys.".... http://www.survivalblog.com/2011/09/notes_from_jwr_408.html

09/09/11:Oops! I thought that I had changed the header to be Mabon instead of Samhain, and I didn't. Well, hopefully ir's now been fixed.

09/01/11:I spent Friday and much of Saturday in the hospital because of a pain in my chest. No, I didn't call 911 myselj - my caregiver did it over my objections. So the EMTs showed up promptly and I took a rough ride to an area hospital. After an extensive regimen of tests using high tech equipment, they found that I have heart arthymia - someting I akk ready knew about. The condition had improved when the EMTs gave me two squirts of nitroglyceran. They did nothing about my hand..

I'm still in hunt and peck mode and th FUTER for Samhain will again be a short one...

07/06/11:I hope everyone had a good July 4th! I went to the Elk Grove Park to have a picnic with my land ladie's extended family and watch some fireworks. My left index finger has developed into a medium sized blood blister which will take some time to heal. My other swollen finger looks like it may become a permanent feature like some of my other fingers. I'm seeing my doctor over this and other issues in mid-July.

06/25/11:I can't do alot of typing since I have sore wrists, some kind of swelling on my left index finger and my right forefinger id still swollen, so the Lughnasadh FUTER is probably going to be a short one. Nevertheless, I will still try to "hunt and peck my way through it...

06/18/11:Here is an article of interest: The first is about the new concept of cloud computing. It gives some caveats about trusting in the cloud and offers some ideas of what its all about. Cloud computing is an attempt of the high and mighty computer priests of old to retake the control of data, and computing itself, into more concentrated hands through a "cloud" stored in very large online databases. You need not worry about what programs to run because they also will be stored in, and run, from the Cloud. If they get their way then you'll have lost one of the advantages of having a PC - most of your programs and data are secure from search and seizure without a warrant - this is not true for the cloud! Defend what ever privacy you have left! Caveat Emptor!...

06/12/11:Here are two articles on separate subjects that may be of interest. The first subject is on False Flags - Operations, usually military, which are done to put blame for something, like a terrorist, on another nation or group that disagrees with those doing the False Flag. Let 's say that I want to blame Egypt for sinking one of our ships. As the false flager, I paint several of my, or someone else's, jets in Egyptian colors and insignia and bomb the ship so that Egypt gets the blame, and the attacker isn't known. This is essentially what happened to the Liberty - Iisraeli warplanes bombed it so that Prsident Johmson could claim someone else did it. Unfortunately for Johnson the ship wasn't sunk, and it's rumored that Prexy Johmson had a hissy fit over it. Such is -- 'Mercan politics gone rogue.

The second article is about 18 signs that the deterioration the 'Mercan empire, and it looks like 'Merca is rotting away from the inside out.

05/31/11:I've got some personal good news and some bad news... My forefinger isn't broken, it's "just" swollen; and when it comes to paying for my Veteran's Healthcare, "I am not the Father!" [Maury]. I don't have to pay the fees billed to me due to my poverty...

05/26/11:

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5, lines 22-31

05/19/11:My forefinger is still very sore and typing anything is painful and slow. I hope I didn't break a bone. I'm going to have to take my time in getting the Litha 'Rap out. I've written enough to post the results.

05/05/11: Airforce Academy gets new Neo-Pgan shrine. This will probably help with the bad publicity over over perceived Fundamentalist Chrustian bias among the Air Force officer corps.

05/04/11:           The numbers aren't looking that great, but I have to keep what's here until I begin to write the next "From Under the Editor's Rock (FUTER) for June. I might actually have to do some work this time because the economy article didn't bring in the numbers The FUTER usually does. I mangaged to hurt my right fore finger(the one between the thumb and the index finger), so typing is slow and painful right now...

05/01/11:

Pagan Fertility Rituals And Rites
Apr 8, 2010 Steve Rogerson

Pagan fertility rites can be used for humans, cattle or crops and range from dancing round the maypole to blessing cattle as they go out into the field.

          There are many fertility rites and rituals practised by Pagans and these mostly fall into three groups – those aimed at boosting human fertility, rituals for animal fertility and those aimed at increasing the amount produced by crops. Dancing is common in many such rituals, among the most famous being various Morris dances and dancing around the maypole.

Maypole Dancing

          Dancing around the maypole is meant to be a ritual to welcome in the spring and bring good luck to farmers. Its origins are probably Germanic. The UK parliament banned maypole dancing in 1664 but it was restored later by King Charles II. Long ribbons are attached to the pole and each person grabs hold of a ribbon and dances round the pole in different directions to create a pattern. In most countries, maypole dancing takes place on or around the 1st of May but in Sweden it is also part of the midsummer celebrations.

Morris Dancing

          Wassailing dances performed by Morris dancers are again meant to boost the fertility of crops. Elements of the dance also have other Pagan intentions such as clashing sticks to represent the battle between good and evil and ringing bells to scare away evil spirits. Wassailing also predates Christmas carols when people would go door-to-door singing. It some parts of England, it refers to cider drinking to the health of the apple trees.

Human Fertility

          There are many goddesses associated with fertility and it was common to place statues or carvings of a goddess near to a couple’s bed. The statues could also be placed on the family altar with suitable offerings made. The Fertility Moon web site goes into more details about the different goddesses

Beltane

Beltane literally means the fires of Bel, a Celtic god. The Beltane festival held in the spring often involves a bonfire and courting couples gathering blossoms. As well as human and crop fertility, the fire and smoke were also meant to increase the fertility of cattle, which were brought to the fire.

Pomlazka

Pomlazka is still practiced in the Czech Republic on Easter Monday and involves men and boys spanking local women and girls with birch or willow branches until they give them decorated eggs. The whipping is meant to preserve the woman’s health and beauty for the coming year. These days, for men at least, the egg is normally replaced with a strong alcoholic drink. A version of this in Scandinavia has children dressed as witches going door to door asking for chocolate eggs while waving decorated willow branches.

Finnish Cattle Ritual

In some parts of Finland, it used to be the tradition that when the cows were first let out onto the new pastures in spring, a woman would stand over the barn door with her legs apart so the cows would be blessed by her lady parts and thus be more fertile.

Sources

All the information in this article is generally available from multiple sources both in print and on the web. Thank you to Snowgrouse for helpful suggestions. The Fertility Moon site mentioned can be found here.

For more information on the Pagan origins of Christian festivals, see this article.

Read more at Suite101: Pagan Fertility Rituals and Rites
http://pagan- wiccan-practice. suite101. com/articlecfm/pagan-fertility -rituals- and-rites# ixzz0kZLSGIne

04/17/11:The new war in Libya continues off of the "front pages" of the MSM, and no one has a clue as what will happen next. However, no war was ever won without having the introduction of professional ground troops to take and occupy the land. Controlling the skies and and using airpower alone just isn't good enough to win anything substantial - ever - even if its just a resignation of a despot! The present rebels, whatever else they may be, are incompetants when it comes to keeping territory they take from the government forces, and they are slowly losing the "stalemate". They aren't getting the aid they had hoped for from the air, and ost of them don't understand where the business end of a rifle is. Mission creep is invevitable just like in Vietnam when the "advisors" under Kennedy weren't enough to keep it from being lost, and ground troops had to be introduced to carry on the mission that the South Vietamese were incapable of handling themselves. Vietnam was run by the politicians in Washingtn and not the commanders in the field, and the resolution of the United States was tested and it failed because the powers-that-be in the latter stages of the conflict were more interested in getting out of the quagmire than "winning" the "police action". So Libya's despot is slowly winning, and as it becomes clear that the rebel forces are losing, and the more this happens the greater the temptation there will be to do more...

04/06/11:An angry Gerald Celente from the "Trends Journal" tells it like it is on the beginnings of the next global war and what we could do about it if we only had the guts. Where are the protests?...