tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107966912024-03-08T03:10:30.210-05:00dr0wning in the p0rn St0rmharbingers of the apocalypse, crank professors of human nature, and artists who make nothing: they float desperately in a sea of pornography and materialism. a few communicate at a virtual place called MindVox. gone to heroin and the vicissitudes of life for years, these souls occasionally grunt and burp to online life and recede again. here is a selection of their latest musings:p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-15534788201530863582012-08-29T01:08:00.002-04:002012-08-29T01:08:37.265-04:00Apparently, Google+ doesn't like the 'storm.<br />
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a <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/30/awlaki/index.html">breech of due process</a>-- i really don't see any other way to put it.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0639 Rushing Rd, Dover, AR 72837, USA35.422909536482848 -93.1448364257812535.409969036482849 -93.164577425781246 35.435850036482847 -93.125095425781254tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-36598319816808802542010-12-19T03:07:00.004-05:002010-12-19T03:22:29.843-05:00The Apocalytes or the Status QuoYou can't say, like this writer fantasizes in the last line of the quote, you would rather death and destruction befall the country. That's crazy. No one would think you were crazy if you said, "no I kind of like the country; we consume a lot of resources per person, etc."<br /><br />but the questions are these: how badly do you want things to stay the same? bad enough that you would ignore the writing on the wall?<br /><br />"If austerity is the trend in Europe, it is certainly not the case in the United States. The US political and financial ruling class, which can be credited for starting the global financial meltdown of 2008, is still betting on the “virtues” of shock capitalism by cutting taxes and not cutting spending. What Congress did last night is quite simple: Our politicians made the decision to charge our common national credit card with a $700 billion gift to themselves and their real constituents, which are the wealthiest 2 percent Americans. And, once again, future generations will have to pick-up the astronomic tab. That is, of course, unless the United States goes completely bankrupt from 30 years of reckless financial and economic policies."<br /><br />I'd love it if having an incredibly loose monetary policy would save the national economy too. the only thing is, the people implementing the policy may be like the former CEO of bear sterns: they may be able to walk away from a huge mess rich, fat, & easy.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-63551772864362647862010-12-12T14:38:00.002-05:002010-12-12T14:42:41.010-05:00Government is a Pawn in Capitalist Oligarchywithout oil, all the farmers and poor people's lives will suffer! they won't be able to drive their pickups around the farm, get to town to buy feed, or be able to get from home in their suburb to work downtown, or take the kids to school! Oh Dear! we better give oil and gas companies $70 bil.! Yes, that's what would be best for the American People.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-44442995621335660442008-04-18T15:23:00.001-04:002008-04-18T15:25:11.758-04:00Pope Further Left than U.S. President & Republicansto read this address from the pope and basically see a good chunk of the democratic platform is quite remarkable. historically, i believe the vatican has been more conservative than the U.S. government.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-7547421641345321862008-04-09T14:17:00.002-04:002008-04-09T14:23:19.680-04:00Juicy Chris Matthews Profilesome enjoyable reading for "opinion junkies" .. i only read the first bit up to the cleveland ritz. and it was a great scene.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-2516141380901560442008-02-15T16:39:00.003-05:002008-02-15T16:44:02.854-05:00Dubai's Incredible Growthin <a href="http://pornstorm.blogspot.com/2006/12/suburban-development-1906.html">a previous post</a>, we saw a new york subway station pictured in the midst of completely undeveloped land. that was in 1906. in dubai, there is much the same amount of growth. the city expects to have the most passenger traffic of any airport in the world. here's the <a href="http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/02/where-is-all-oil-money-going.html">stunning images of growth</a> from an economic blog.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-26573005500766544922008-01-20T21:40:00.000-05:002008-01-20T21:46:02.766-05:00lord have mercy -- iraq vet commits senseless murder of mother of his childrenthis is the stuff folk songs are made of. you have a soldier home who senselessly murders the mother of his twins. the story is complete with the stinging emptiness of the human mind pushed to its failure limits. the inability to understand, and the insignificance of the legal system's practical conclusion. this emptiness of this story is enough to make anyone religious. the writer of this article is quite the dramatist. kudos.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-58559167158397196222008-01-08T21:57:00.000-05:002008-01-08T23:40:53.377-05:00Watching MSNBC's live webcast of the new hampshire primary9:59 PM EST: MSNBC uses a moving camera to broadcast an image of a large television showing the obama / clinton results graphic.<br /><br />10:00 PM EST: there was a a weird story about how huckabee granted a convicted rapist clemency in part because of a religious conversion that happened in prison and in part because of huckabee's belief in redemption. the recorded piece was cut short by a return to a live webcast. apparently the webcast control room doesn't have things totally tight.<br /><br />10:06 PM EST: They say Clinton gets more votes in part because she answered questions live for 90 minutes today. that's something she hasn't done much at all. in principle it seems like a smart thing to do. i like the idea. but can a change in behavior only a few hours old radically change polling numbers? the minute by minute reportage of the campaign may give unequal weight to small events only 24 hours old.<br /><br />10:14 PM EST: Pat Buchannan et al. suggest that new hampshire voters deliberately cast their votes in the opposite direction that polls and pundits were saying they would since Obama's Iowa victory. it seems like a narcissistic hypothesis.<br /><br />10:27 PM EST: interesting backdrop for edward's "I'm continuing" speech. a few "middle class working male" types. attractive, retiremnt age, etc. now keith lets us know that guy is the actor who plays the plummer on desperate housewives.<br /><br />10:32 PM EST: NBC news projects Hillary Clinton as the winner at 66% of precincts reporting.<br /><br />10:36 PM EST: anchors can't hear interviewee in hillary's victory room. return to tim russert to suggest "gender gap", "contrarian spirit", and "people of new hampshire hate a fait accompli."<br /><br />10:39 PM EST: Tom Brokaw reads a hilarious list of Hillary's Dead headlines. New York Post-- Hillary: Panic<br /><br />10:41 PM EST: Terry McAuliffe sounds like an athlete or coach talking over the crowd in a post-game show. he seems a little out of breath.<br /><br />10:45 PM EST: DailyKos offline, because comment archiver goes to work at an inopportune time.<br /><br />10:46 PM EST: Event planners of Obama use some upbeat rock music for the approach to the stage. similar to the springsteen music edwards used.<br /><br />10:51 PM EST: One stumble, but Obama is an impressive speaker.<br /><br />10:56 PM EST: Obama gives a good list of 21st century challenges. Then he gives the not I but you turn.<br /><br />10:58 PM EST: "There has never been anything false about hope." Obama counters Clinton. we'll see this as a sound byte. and then they go into a "yes we can" refrain. it seems like an okay refrain for a speech, but that sort of repetition has a whiff of cliche to it. but it's not bad.<br /><br />11:05 PM EST: Tom Brokaw suggests trying to get ahead of the voters with "predictions" and "projections". Chris Matthews doesn't seem to like it and cuts him off. Tom jumps back in and introduces hillary. Chris stays quiet. Tom's tone is more serious and ceremonial than his younger's.<br /><br />11:08 PM EST: Hillary: "Thank You New Hampshire. you spoke. I listened, and I found my voice." She just found her voice now? at this age? hmm. she gave the "politics is not a game" sentence. she delivers it well.<br /><br />11:17 PM EST: one person in the "tweety, shut up" thread about msnbc broadcast said, "I'm marginally a Hillary backer, but Brokaw telling Chris Matthews to start letting the process to go forward in the way that it should and for them to stop trying to get ahead of the voters (and Matthews complaining "so what do we do before election day", to which Brokaw answered that they could analyze what the candidates are saying) was absolutely the best part of the night."<br /><br />11:28 PM EST: Keith Olbermann asks if Hillary is the front-runner now. He seems stuck on his perhaps incorrect use of the term over the past months.<br /><br />11:30 PM EST: Matthews asks if Hillary, really did, in an honest way, just find her voice in the last few days. It seems a fair question.<br /><br />11:37 PM EST: Matthews congratulates himself for saying something smart last night.<br /><br />11:38 PM EST: Scarborough defends news media from tom brokaw by saying that hillary was in fact way behind, and then in the last 24 hours everything changed. he implies that the news outlet made no mistakes, things just changed faster than they could report.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-21274571640920572722007-12-06T04:51:00.000-05:002007-12-06T04:52:12.094-05:00Man Sentenced in Bizarre Diagnosing ScamMONROE, La. (AP) — A man was sentenced to more than four years in prison for bilking friends and family out of more than $800,000 by convincing them that his wife was a government agent who could arrange to have their medical problems diagnosed by satellite imaging.<br /><br />Brent Eric Finley, 38, of Rayville, was sentenced in federal court in Monroe to serve 51 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. His wife, Stacey Finley, was sentenced in August to spend 63 months in prison and both are ordered to jointly pay restitution in the amount of $873,786.94.<br /><br />The Finleys pleaded guilty in August to wire fraud, according to court records.<br /><br />U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington said in a news release following Monday's sentencing of Brent Finley that the couple convinced numerous people that Stacey Finley was a CIA agent and with her contacts she could schedule a medical scan of the victims' bodies by satellite imaging that would detect any hidden medical problems.<br /><br />The Finley's convinced their victims that, if any medical problems were found, secret agents would administer medicine to them as they slept in exchange for payment, according to a bill of information filed when the Finleys were charged in May.<br /><br />"These audacious criminals should remind all of us that scam artists will go to great lengths to take our life's savings," Washington said.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1172467836982999072007-02-26T00:29:00.000-05:002007-02-26T00:30:37.003-05:00war in irani needed a little update on the politics & von hardenberg let me know the latest.<br /><br />when_i_kill_debbie<br />2/20/07 8:22 PM shit<br />2/20/07 8:22 PM wtf<br />2/20/07 8:22 PM a guy falls asleep and WW3 starts<br />2/20/07 8:22 PM<br />2/20/07 8:23 PM hey<br />2/20/07 8:23 PM should i drop out and focus on being a writer?<br />2/20/07 8:24 PM or should i just go ahead and TAKE midterms tomorrow?<br />2/20/07 8:24 PM<br />2/20/07 8:38 PM<br />2/20/07 8:38 PM we havent officially attacked yet<br />2/20/07 8:39 PM we're lobbing cruise missiles into iran and we have special forces attempting to provoke abadinejad<br />2/20/07 8:39 PM shit like that<br />2/20/07 8:39 PM supporting "rebels"<br />2/20/07 8:39 PM we moved a bunch of older warships into the region in case we are able to provoke them into sinking one or more of them<br />2/20/07 8:40 PM zbigniew brzezinski has come out publicly and warned congress that there will be a fake terror attack, blamed on iran<br />2/20/07 8:40 PM there is a falling out among the oligarchs, with the neocons going balls out for war<br />2/20/07 8:41 PM http://www.takingaimradio.com/shows/audio.html<br />2/20/07 8:41 PM theres some material on it there<br />2/20/07 8:41 PM ralph shoenman and mya shone<br />2/20/07 8:43 PM http://www.alexconstantine.blogspot.com/<br />2/20/07 8:43 PM COINTELPRO 2007: Pacifica Radio & the CIA, Part One – Talk Show Host Larry Bensky Welcomes a Peoples' Temple Death Squad Leader to the Airwaves By Alex Constantinep0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1170202576923865572007-01-30T19:16:00.000-05:002007-01-30T19:16:17.030-05:00if only they did this to living writersthis is review of hart crane is quite entertaining:<br /><br /><br />January 28, 2007<br />Hart Crane’s Bridge to Nowhere<br />By WILLIAM LOGAN<br /><br />HART CRANE Complete Poems and Selected Letters.<br />Edited by Langdon Hammer.<br />849 pp. The Library of America. $40.<br /><br />Before Hart Crane’s leap into the Caribbean that fatal April noon in 1932, he folded his jacket over the ship’s rail with impeccable manners. Striking out into the glassy sea, he was seen no more, dying younger than Byron but older than Shelley. Not being a seagoing breed, poets rarely die by water — Shelley drowned in a sudden squall; but he had written 1,500 pages of poetry, while Crane left only two very short books and the shards of a third. The hope for a homegrown American epic that died with him has never entirely revived.<br /><br />The precocious son of a wealthy Cleveland candy manufacturer (Crane’s father created the Life Saver mint but sold the rights cheap), Crane dropped out of high school and persuaded his parents to send him to New York, where he hoped to make his way as a writer. Wearing the scarlet A of ambition, at 17 he confidently predicted that he would “really without doubt be one of the foremost poets in America.” In fact, Crane was soon published in some of the best little magazines. He impressed his friends, not just with his bulb-eyed and brutish good looks (there’s always room in New York for a handsome boy with manners and a wild streak), but with his canny critical judgment. He was a fan of Pound before “The Cantos” and Joyce before “Ulysses,” and was terrified by Eliot before “The Waste Land.” As early as 1920 he was recommending, before either had published a book, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore, whom he referred to as “Marion” (Crane’s deranged spelling offers one of the quiet comedies of the new Library of America edition of his work).<br /><br />Most of Crane’s short life was spent scuffling for money. His tightfisted father kept him on an allowance at first, but expected Crane to get a job. The poet tried various fits and shifts, finding employment most frequently in advertising (writing copy for, among other things, a new synthetic leather called Naugahyde), though at times he was forced back to Ohio, where he spent an unhappy Christmas selling candy from an Akron drugstore counter. No doubt his father saw this as his son’s first step toward inheriting the family business, but the experiment was not a success.<br /><br />Crane’s early poems showed more style than talent, and from the start he was attracted to an obscurity that left some readers cold:<br /><br /> And yet these fine collapses are not lies<br /> More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane;<br /> Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise.<br /> We can evade you, and all else but the heart:<br /> What blame to us if the heart live on. <br /><br />It helps only a little to know that this dreadful mess was called “Chaplinesque.” One of Crane’s friends later knocked on his door with Charlie Chaplin in tow, and the three went out on the town until dawn. Having learned this, a hundred American poets will begin odes to Angelina Jolie.<br /><br />Crane was mystified, as most obscure poets are, when readers found his poems difficult — after all, they were perfectly clear to him. His obscurity was not that of Eliot or Pound, not a layered and allusive language whose intrigues deepened the more one examined it. Crane’s language, when not a matter of tangled metaphors (he mixed them almost more often than he mixed drinks), was a schoolboy code for which an English-Fustian, Fustian-English dictionary would have proved helpful. He came by his obscurity honestly — he didn’t read Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose style might have influenced him, until far too late. When you clear away the clutter from his verse, often you find only banalities — Crane flinched from Eliot’s dour observations and pince-nez disillusion, wanting to embody a rhapsodic vision of poetry it was difficult not to glaze with sentiment.<br /><br />Crane tried on various identities as a young man and failed at most of them. He was frank about his homosexuality only with close friends — his sexual appetites were voracious and involved far too many sailors. (The definitive work on the United States Navy’s contributions to cruising has yet to be written.) Crane dreamed of being a poet much more often than he sat at his desk and wrote poems; and he was forever complaining in letters that he had no time to write, though he found plenty of time to drink. He conceived his major poem, “The Bridge,” as early as 1923 but made only desultory progress toward it. (Remaining drunk all through Prohibition proved surprisingly easy.) It was hard work, avoiding real work; but Crane became an expert at writing cadging letters to his divorced parents and playing one against the other.<br /><br />Forever broke, dramatically threatening to slave away on the docks or drive a truck, Crane took to writing begging letters to millionaires, or at least one millionaire, and got lucky. The financier Otto Kahn, the major shareholder in the Metropolitan Opera, offered to loan him $2,000 to write “The Bridge” (Kahn also backed Gershwin and Eisenstein). The poet was soon ensconced in a shabby house in upstate New York, spending his benefactor’s initial installment as if it would last forever (on snowshoes, as well as wood carvings from the Congo, among other things) and asking for advances on the remainder. Kahn hardly lacked the wherewithal — his fireproof castle on Long Island grew to 100,000 square feet, and his 80-room Fifth Avenue mansion was stuffed with old masters.<br /><br />Crane usually bit the hand that fed him, but you have to like a poet whose revelation of his own genius occurred in a dentist’s chair (“An objective voice kept saying to me — ‘You have the higher consciousness. ... This is what is called genius’ ”). He told his father that critics believed his first book, “White Buildings” (1926), would be the most important debut in American poetry since “Leaves of Grass.” These critics, who happened to be his friends, loyally judged him by the poems he had yet to write.<br /><br />Chronically out of sorts, creatively ill (his life would have been far happier after the introduction of decongestants), prone to “enthusiasms” we might now call mania, argumentative, often spectacularly drunk, Crane would have gotten on anyone’s nerves. He had spent most of the millionaire’s thousands when he departed abruptly for his mother’s ramshackle plantation off Cuba (his family owned houses all over the place). There, after much grouching and complaint, he completed half of “The Bridge,” which he saw not as an epic but as a “long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.”<br /><br />It would take Crane three more years to finish the poem, spending months in California as companion to a neurasthenic stockbroker, squandering an inheritance from his grandmother on a trip to Paris, his drunkenness meanwhile growing wilder and more uncontrollable. When “The Bridge” was finally published in 1930, Crane felt betrayed by the mixed reviews it received from Allen Tate and Yvor Winters, his old friends, who had begun to have second thoughts, not about Crane’s gifts, but about his ability to profit from them.<br /><br />Much of “The Bridge” seems inert now —overlong, overbearing, overwrought, a Myth of America conceived by Tiffany and executed by Disney. Crane imagined the Brooklyn Bridge as a mystical symbol for art, for history, for America, for any old thing; in this spiritual version of Manifest Destiny, he threw his poem backward to Columbus and worked forward to the invention of the airplane. The canvas was broad, but its success would have required a language less Alexandrian than Crane possessed. At his best, he stayed just this side of wild-eyed prophesying, though his grandeurs might easily be mistaken for grandiosity:<br /><br /> How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest<br /> The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him,<br /> Shedding white rings of tumult, building high<br /> Over the chained bay waters Liberty —<br /> Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes<br /> As apparitional as sails that cross<br /> Some page of figures to be filed away;<br /> — Till elevators drop us from our day. <br /><br />This is a beautifully managed passage; but even Crane’s most thrilling lines can be cloying, always an adjective too rich or a noun too boisterous, the most beautiful stanzas naïve as history or infused with a crude faith in progress almost embarrassing now. He was drawn to a high-amp schmaltziness he must have taken as the proper emotional tone for a visionary.<br /><br />Crane wanted to drag the language of Marlowe and Webster into the Jazz Age. Beneath his jewel-encrusted lines, however, the poem seems trivial, its ideas torn from the daily paper or the pages of a high-school history textbook:<br /><br /> While Cetus-like, O thou Dirigible, enormous Lounger<br /> Of pendulous auroral beaches, — satellited wide<br /> By convoy planes, moonferrets that rejoin thee<br /> On fleeing balconies as thou dost glide,<br /> — Hast splintered space! <br /><br />We have no long poems this close to being great that are greater failures. (Why do American poets so often lose their bearings, and their taste, when writing about America?) The poem’s creaky swiveling through time, its brassy versifying and its phony demotic seem dated now, not because Crane was heavily indebted to “The Waste Land” (despite frequently disparaging Eliot), but because he learned so little from it. Reading “The Bridge” is like being stuck in a mawkish medley from “Show Boat” and “Oklahoma” — you’d buy the Brooklyn Bridge to make it stop. Critics since have tried to make a case for the poem, for the coherence of its incoherent parts (criticism, like poetry, is often wishful thinking); but “The Bridge” remains a fabulous architectural blueprint that wanted a discipline Crane could never provide.<br /><br />The poet’s last year was spent on a Guggenheim fellowship in Mexico (we are lucky he left nothing of his projected epic on the Aztecs). He behaved so badly that his friend Katherine Anne Porter ratted him out to the foundation, which almost terminated the fellowship. In his final months, exhausted and miserable, he began an affair with Malcolm Cowley’s estranged wife, an older woman Crane called “Twidget,” and wrote a homosexual friend that he had “broken ranks” with the “brotherhood.” Perhaps the romance was merely a sign of his boredom and mental exhaustion — it did nothing to slow down his secret pickups and Jack Tar chasing.<br /><br />The Library of America edition, edited by Langdon Hammer, contains more of Crane than most readers will ever need. The poems take up so little space, this well-edited volume has been pieced out with more than 500 pages of letters (Crane was an energetic correspondent though rarely one memorable or even bearable — great ones don’t usually whine so much). E. E. Cummings once remarked that Crane’s mind was “no bigger than a pin”; but Crane had a sharp critical temperament that appears to best advantage in his letters: “God DAMN this constant nostalgia for something always ‘new,’ ” he wrote, and “I detest a certain narcissism in the voluptuous melancholics of Eliot.” The edition’s scattershot notes are helpful, but the chronology of Crane’s life averts its gaze from his athletic philandering and the exact events leading to his suicide — he had been badly beaten during the night by a sailor he propositioned.<br /><br />Crane still makes young men want to write poetry — his best lines are extraordinary, even if there are few major poems, or even very good ones. He failed to write the poetry of the American continent Emerson was calling for before the Civil War: if the ideal seems naïvely nationalistic now, the country was once younger and less cynical. Crane was no innovative genius like Whitman; he was perhaps closer to a peasant poet like John Clare, an outsider too susceptible to praise and other vices of the city. Defensive about his lack of education, a Midwestern striver out of a Sinclair Lewis novel, Crane tried to make it among the big-city literary men, gripping a rum in one hand and a copy of “The Waste Land” in the other. Had beauty been enough, he might even have succeeded.<br /><br />William Logan is a poet and critic whose most recent books are “The Whispering Gallery” and “The Undiscovered Country.”p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1169083283826298082007-01-17T20:19:00.000-05:002007-01-17T20:21:23.840-05:00ethical realism<span style="font-style:italic;">by day brown</span><br /><br />may be a new trend in politics and culture. Underlying it, is the tacit agreement that there are fundamental flaws in the system of values and/or those who must manifest them. There is an overt call for more moral action. But *whose* morals?<br /><br />Shakespeare has Caesar say:"You will have to forgive the man Mercutio; he is a barbarian who thinks the customs of his tribe are the laws of Nature." But what *are* the laws of Nature? We have history, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, etc that all try to tell us what one group or other, at one time or other, thot those laws were. Part of the problem however, is that the very people giving us these reports have been themselves, bound by the customs of developed cultures, which were, in turn, evolutions of the very barbarism Shakespeare refers to.<br /><br />The results have been a lotta spin put on the data. After 100 years of anthropology, only recently have researchers actually taken the sacred psychedelic potions shamen have been providing all these years, and thereby gotten a missing handle on where the tribal head is at, as well as some understanding of the psycho-phobia that their own academic traditions have suffered from ever since Bishops began burning witches for providing similar potions.<br /><br />One of the effects of the hippie use of these same potions was a skeptical view of the claims of scripture, for which Christian control of the legal process demanded repression just as the Christian Bishops had begun doing nearly 1500 years ago. And archaeology has revealed the *original* sources of scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Mithraic & Zoroastrian texts, and the earliest of all, Gilgamesh.<br /><br />And yet, despite the obvious plagiarism, the claims that one Levantine text or other was divinely inspired goes so largely unchallenged that most voters dont even know the challenges exist. Which does reveal one of the Laws of Nature: if you tell men something that will pander to their egos, they will believe it, no matter how asinine.<br /><br />Another law of Nature is that not only will men deceive themselves, they will try to deceive others. We have the video of Chimps in the jungle. We see how a chimp will steal food, hide it, and then try to deceive others about where it went. Nobody claims the chimps who do this grew up deprived in a ghetto. No, baby, this is hardwired in Chimp *and Hominid DNA*.<br /><br />But contrary to what scripture says, not all Chimps & Hominids are like that. Not all men are such sinners that they need divine forgiveness. No, the primate field studies, which give us the term "alpha male" show us that it is *they* who organize the goon squads to go out into other territories, find a foraging couple, murder him and any progeny she may have, kidnap her, and gang rape her until she is pregnant again. But what do have, are the records, written by the scribes at the behest of alpha male warriors to craft a cosmology and a history that panders to their egotistical instincts. Which another Law of Nature says scribes will do.<br /><br />The field studies show us the bloodwork from darted primates that show us that alphaism is handed down on the Y chromosome. The alphas expect their sons to be just like them, and a Law of Nature is, that they are mostly right in that. Video also shows us that it is the alphas who commit all the rape, 'domestic abuse', and warfare. And we can see cosmologies that have been crafted to offer redemption to the alphas. Furthermore, the DNA shows us that it is the daughters of the alphas who are the abusive and incompetent mothers. And now we understand why there are any betas left in the gene pool: it is their daughters who provide the love the young need. And it is the betas, both male & female, who adopt the abused and abandoned young.<br /><br />And since we are talking about DNA here, another Ethically Realistic fact is that the ratio of alphas to betas in various gene pools varies, which has an enormous effect on development, or the lack thereof. Cultures which have high ratios of alphas use draconian methods to control the violence. We see abundant examples of this in history. But it is the cultures with high ratios of betas that are able to setup higher degrees of cooperation that have resulted in the military industrial complex that has been so effective against cultures that had a more warlike spirit, but lacked the innovation betas provide. Another Law of Nature is, that as the percentage of alphas increases, so does the problem of too many chiefs, but not enough Indians. They cannot cooperate, build consensus, or compromise; they tend to prefer dualistic scripture with simple good/evil choices since they lack the intuitive powers to handle ambiguity.<br /><br />Certain Eastern traditions, that once had more betas, produced Vedic & Buddhist scripture that appealed more to the nuanced sensibilities of betas. Who, unfortunately, have entered monasteries for millennia, taking themselves out of the gene pools. The remaining jackasses have viewed women as no more than the ground to sow seed in, and have similarly sent off their more troublesome, smarter girls to nunneries, and used the stupid bitches to bear their sons. Then, in more recent times, advanced cultures have sent people in to help with development, and when they saw a talented girl, sent her off to some Western University to be educated. The smart girls never returned. The Law of Nature, which hands down intelligence more on the mtDNA has had the iterative, compound, effects we see, with the jackasses getting more stupid with every generation.<br /><br />Thus we can see that the exquisite art and architecture done by their forefathers in early times was created by a much smarter class of men. But there are other problems in the developed cultures that again derive out of the DNA, genetically determined levels of various brain hormones like adrenalin, serotonin, dopamine... and the psychological effect they have, which is in turn driven by 150 or so neurotransmitters that are used in laying down new neural pathways in the mind during learning. And these neurotransmitters are often affected by environmental contaminants. Whatever else they are, pesticides used on food are neurotoxins. And while there is no immediate observable effect, which gave rise to the idea that they were harmless, they do interact, even at extremely low, homeopathic levels with the above neurotransmitters.<br /><br />The result is an epidemic of autism, ADD, ADHD, and a quarterly increase in the pathology journals every quarter of more acronyms. The Law of Nature, that there aint no free lunch seems somewhat applicable; the easy way to grow food aint the healthy way.<br /><br />But the upshot of all this, psychology, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, & chemistry, is that the Nature of Man is far more varied than any of the scriptures or other forms of received authority have claimed. The notion of Universal Laws of Nature needs to be stripped of these false assumptions, and more accurate rules, which can deal with the psychopathology, such as using meds rather than prison, would have better results.<br /><br />But one more Law of Nature is, that the powers that now be have investment in these falsities, and may with their inflexibility, their convictions, fail to adapt to reality as seen so often in history, and lead to a total collapse of the entire power structure. It is certainly not upta us. We can study ancient value systems, like the pagan <br />Stoics, and consider them in light of the primate field studies, the DNA, and psychological experiments on group think or obedience such as were carried out by Milgram and Zimbardo... and gain a clearer eye to our own past and our own DNA endowments and challenges.<br /><br />That will enable us to see the masses for what they are, more able to see when, and which direction they will move, not be swept up in disastrous mob action, but able to stand aside to let it all go by. All this may come to pass, but it wont come to stay. I dont advocate revolution; but we live in the Untied States of Denial of fundamental economic realities, like a 8.6 trillion dollar debt, that if there is a global intervention that wakes people up, they will be angry.<br /><br />The Roman Stoic Epictetus noted that when someone proved him in error, he was grateful to no longer be thinking wrongly. But, he went on to say, that when he performed the service for another, he always went away angry. One of the most important Laws of Nature is that mass anger is dangerous shit... often caused by errors in Ethical Realism.<br /><br /><br />With results we seep0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1166896409587477262006-12-23T12:49:00.000-05:002006-12-23T12:53:29.596-05:00suburban development 1906<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4119/850/1600/555520/old-station.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4119/850/400/71457/old-station.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />this picture is from the MTA website. the contrast of the weedy dirt track that would develop into a dense urban area. this is the build it and they will come attitude, i assume. the nearest thing i can think of to this in the present day is the outer highway ring they've just finished in Denver & San Antonio, and other western cities where they put in an expensive off-ramp that leaves you off by empty lots and a small, windy country road. p0rnst0rm is pro-development. the global population is growing exponentially, don't forget.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1162606397056779012006-11-03T21:13:00.000-05:002008-01-15T03:16:39.644-05:00Gina Hughes on Internet Addictionp0rnst0rm:: addicted to the internet? what about vapid tech columnists named gina who are addicted to whining like a moron?p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1162071645570097092006-10-28T17:35:00.000-04:002006-10-28T17:40:45.586-04:00watching the heavensThursday, October 26, 2006 01:02 PM ccadden::<br />Perhaps some of our fellow gnostics might dig this. Perhaps not. All I know is, for some reason, I'm on this lady's spam list, due to an extremely new-agey group I joined a few years ago, back in the fall of 2003, when the Harmonic Convergence occurred in the heavens. Everyone here know what that was? Probably not---because I think the only people who knew about the Harmonic Convergence/Concordance were people who watched the heavens a bit too closely. I do have to say though, it was a magical night when it happened. There was a thing or two going on, I'll admit.<br /><br />Thursday, October 26, 2006 07:25 PM mr hardenberg::<br />is it possible to watch the heavens too closely?<br /><br />Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:52 PM ccadden::<br />In this group, there were people who forced a heavenly coincidence/miracle into every configuration of planets the heavens shat out. Yeah, it was too much. Still, the configuration formed by the Harmonic Concordance was a rare and special one.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1154133786443354962006-07-28T20:43:00.000-04:002006-07-28T20:46:12.336-04:00Arcology for Southern Chinaread on, my friends, for here is a fact sheet from a professor at the university of hong kong on just why it's time to build an arcology of xx centry sci-fi fame in southern china. YES i'm sure it can be done for a small fraction of total chinese government spending. read on, explorers of the twenty first century, and perhaps you shall find more than just the drought apocalypse of the first few sections.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1152764707550277062006-07-13T00:25:00.000-04:002006-07-13T00:25:07.810-04:00garrison keillor puts down bernard-henri levy's articles about "america"'American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville,' by Bernard-Henri Levy reviewed by garrison keillor-- it was a series last year published in the atlantic monthly that i read some of, mostly for entertainment when i discovered that it was barely serious.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1152641205552690162006-07-11T14:06:00.000-04:002006-07-11T14:06:45.570-04:00since excesses of 60s research frozen in timethis article on hallucinogens speaks of adding these old drugs, mostly unresearched since the sixties, to the wide array of opiates, amphetamines, and mood-alterers availible to the self-medicator.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1152402795033268462006-07-08T19:53:00.000-04:002006-07-08T19:53:15.066-04:00some internet music thingi haven't read this yet. it's probably another wonder of the internet-- a window into senseless individual expression, i think-- some kind of new form that's come out of the internet medium. that's my idea. let's go see if it's there in this magazine, too.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1150787839424438232006-06-20T03:13:00.000-04:002006-06-20T03:25:40.386-04:00the inferno<p>it's something i have yet to read, though i have little doubt that it sheds some light on our existence here in the 21st century pornstorm. i've heard it said one must know the bible, the aeneid, and st. augustine's confessions in order to begin to follow all the references and whatnot. i'm only a little way into the aeneid at this point. here's <span style="font-weight:bold;">dante's inferno</span> read by <span style="font-weight:bold;">john cleese</span> divided into four files (<A href="http://media.putfile.com/dantes--inferno--read-by-john-cleese--1-of-4" >1</A>) (<A href="http://media.putfile.com/dantes--inferno--read-by-john-cleese--2-of-4" >2</A>) (<A href="http://media.putfile.com/dantes--inferno--read-by-john-cleese--3-of-4" >3</A>) (<A href="http://media.putfile.com/dantes--inferno--read-by-john-cleese--4-of-4" >4</A>) on <a href="http://www.putfile.com/">putfile.com</a>. and two images of the inferno.</p><br /><p><br /><IMG src="http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/imagemid/inferno.jpg"></p><br /><p><a href="http://www.skygodproject.net/history/hellmap.jpg"><br /><IMG width="400" src="http://www.skygodproject.net/history/hellmap.jpg"></a></p>p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1150017410730349372006-06-11T05:14:00.000-04:002006-06-11T05:16:50.743-04:00Psychopathia Sexualishere is the plot summary of a movie with limited engagements in US cities. just keeping the readership informed via our friend NERDMANN.<br /><br />"Employing a complex multi-narrative structure, Psychopathia Sexualis dramatizes case histories of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, drawn from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. Among the cases are a sexually repressed man who discovers an unhealthy appetite for blood; a homosexual man who submits himself to a doctor who promises to 'cure' his condition; and a masochist who hires a pair of corseted prostitutes to enact a most peculiar performance. In the final chapter, a woman who has spent her life suppressing her lesbian desires is hired to tutor a sexually curious young woman. These stories are bound together by the thread of an ambitious doctor who not only studies the patients, but uses them as pawns and playthings."p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1146810713228292952006-05-05T02:31:00.000-04:002006-05-05T02:31:53.256-04:00Bosnian Pyramids: Great Discovery or Colossal Hoax? - Yahoo! Newsin the great crank tradition, this archaeologist claims that like, galileo and columbus, he will bring about a revolution in human knowledge. read the end of the article. without cranks, would there be anyone with actual runaway optimism for the future? without them, would we be antiquarians mournfully attending to the ceremonies of the satus quo?p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1144176726545519902006-04-04T14:47:00.000-04:002006-04-04T14:52:06.560-04:00rainbow gatheringyo hippies, when are you headed to your next rainbow gathering? as the U.S. democratic social structure fractures into many independent self-interested religions, diasporas, economic fortresses, and immigrant communities, the old celtic druid traditions will find their way to the surface in these wilderness hippie gatherings. from these photos, there appears to be some sense of an inclusive community. what must you sacrifice to join? i'm not sure. let me know if you find out.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10796691.post-1142723502095453562006-03-18T18:08:00.000-05:002006-03-18T18:33:23.426-05:00The Place of Iraq in Geopolitics<span style="font-weight:bold;">THE CHINESE SUPPORTED 9-11 TO DISTRACT U.S. IDIOT ATTACK DOGS</span><br /><br />(idiot in the old medical sense: a person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers.)<br /><br />in the years before 9-11, the U.S. blood-thristy war mongers were writing texts on the rising threat of china and describing a U.S. -- China bi-polar world. they were setting up antagonism for an object for the war machine. the chinese, not stupid, knew of adolescent islamists wallowing in their own agony.<br /><br />the chinese helped al-qaeda scale up their ambitions. now the senseless u.s. war machine that always needs and "evil enemy" had someplace to fixate. a brilliant feint to allow continued peaceful prosperity for the chinese people.<br /><br />applaud the chinese for their intelligence on this count. their continued ability to manipulate the U.S. idiots in favor of global stability is perhaps the only hope for the global economy and preventing massive worldwide currency collapse and famine.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">OUTLOOK: we're in best possible hands with the chinese playing 1st fiddle.</span><br /><br />you can see C. Rice going after the chinese a la pre 9-11 in the article i've linked.p0rn st0rmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573410824796695047noreply@blogger.com0