All The Great Sound Jockeys (Swim In Identical Spaces)

You can tell a lot about people by the music they make and/or enjoy.

Starting with whether or not they're really and truly "open minded".

In Jazz's early days, after the customers had gone home, artists held "cutting sessions" to compete and play with some unorthodox ideas they liked.

Nobody else would've understood.

I'm saying the artists studiously avoided the so-called "music lovers" they knew were lacking interest in, or failed to grasp, creation in service to the ears and mind - and not their heart or feet.

Those people in need of a pulse to run daytime.

Denied the best.

That's never changed.

America's got a mighty river of ideas, but forced to flow underground, where the sun-worshiping, self-proclaimed naturists are too scared to venture or swim.

They'll overwhelm you they're all there is.

Their outlook rules the airwaves - always the same - a weak municipal tap, available on demand, easily adjusted for hot and cold, and totally unavailable if you don't pay your bill.

Their art's not a resource or a necessity - but still life and death.

That's their "show" - demanded and paid for BTW - and one more recording artist's explanation for the sorry state of American political life:

When you're listening to those guys, we'll always be all wet,...

Mormons and Scientologists Have NOTHING In Common

What are these people hiding?

“They (his local LDS leaders) were upset by the fact that I was discussing the temple, which is connected to Mitt Romney in my article,” Twede told The Daily Beast. “I revealed things about the temple, and secrecy, and other things that they just don’t want anyone to talk about.”

So what does this "church" - but any church really - need "secrecy" for? Scientology needed it to hide the whole Xenu story, and how much abuse they were heaping on their followers.

Could Mormonism need to hide the fact their whole "prophets" deal is a racket? That they're still baptizing people against their will - and the will of their loved ones? How beholden Mitt Romney actually is to them? What are the Mormons hiding? Seriously - we might be electing one to office:

 What's the big secret?

 

Political Correctness: I Don't Believe In Your Alien God

Congrats are in order! 

According to The HuffPo, Mormonism has made the big time as a target of organized atheism:

Mormon underwear has plans to attend the Democratic National Convention, and it won't be on a person. 

The American Atheists' Center recently unveiled a planned billboard campaign "which exposes the foolishness of religion in the political landscape," according to a press release.   

The billboards offer up exaggerated beliefs of targeted religions, including Mormonism, in order to make the case that atheism is "simply reasonable." 

...The billboards serve to not just draw attention to atheism, but to the close ties religion has with the election this year. 

"The election of our leaders in the United States is one of the most important decisions that we as citizens make. Allowing our judgment to be clouded by sheer silliness is unacceptable. We want to show the people of our country the foolishness of mixing religion with politics," the president of the organization says.

Well alright! ("Looks like we made it,...") Considering the histories of the two persecuted groups, I almost don't know who to salute first!

I'm glad to see the "God is a space alien" line, just so we can kill any suggestion that Mormons are Christian in the manner most understand. Joseph Smith was an illiterate wing-nut, grabbing a bit from this religion, a bit from that belief, and mixing it all up as his 19th century occult-infested mind saw fit, so - in an effort to appear more normal - a lot of the woo is rarely mentioned by the "church" or it's followers, which is too bad because it can be some of the most fascinating parts. It won't get them elected president, the liars, but it beats the "golly-gosh" routine for imagery.

Anyway, now the effort to hide what they didn't want known is the most fascinating thing about it - good job, assholes.

BTW, remember that weak-assed ABC News special I told you about? Well, they had a segment on Mormon secrecy that basically attempted to say it was everyone else's fault, which is bullshit, but not what I want to talk about - here's what I want to talk about:

How is it an organization with so much secrecy is being allowed to maintain it? 

I'm talking about - from above Mitt Romney on down - the LDS "church" is taking a we-don't-have-to-show-you-shit approach, and the media's response is simply "O-kay," like it's normal in a presidential race for the candidate and those behind his belief system to dictate the rules. To potentially have a president in a power-hungry cult (No, no - those "imposing" temples are to symbolize glory!) which is openly telling us they'll be maintaining secret communications - when we know they're politically active - is simply beyond the pale.

It also points to how - whether it's Obama in the last election or Romney in this one, or the mainstream press or the conservative blogosphere - based on political momentum, various people and groups weirdly get a pass from any reality check in a campaign year.

Mind you - it's not as weird as believing "God is a space alien" and wearing Mormon underwear - but as these things go, it's pretty-fucking-weird,…
 

The Next Step (Is The Obvious One)

"As former staffers lift the veil of secrecy that for years has obscured the inner workings of the Church of Scientology, a new mystery emerges: Why are government authorities looking the other way? The Internal Revenue Service has ample reason to reconsider its decision to grant Scientology tax-exempt status as a religion. Labor officials should determine whether wage and working condition violations have occurred, and law enforcement ought to investigate whether the church's restraint on members' free movement crossed a legal line.

The Church of Scientology trumpets its global reach and expansions in communities large and small across America. Its presence can be disruptive, as Clearwater has learned since the church secretly moved in and established its spiritual headquarters in the city more than 25 years ago. Government cannot afford to be complacent, and those politicians and community leaders who have normalized relations with Scientology can no longer claim ignorance about the nature of the church and the treatment of its workers."

-- The St. Petersburg Times

Oh, Say, CAN'T You See?

"Mr. Young says that he assisted the affair by setting up private meetings between Mr. Edwards and Ms. Hunter. He wrote that Mr. Edwards once calmed an anxious Ms. Hunter by promising her that after his wife died, he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony in New York with an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band."

-- Mickey Kaus, further informing us about A) what an unsurprising sleaze John Edwards is, B) the content of Edwards's assistant, Andrew Young's new book, and C) Rielle Hunter, and what kind of "ghoulish slapstick" makes a NewAger's heart sing - let's see: just add hefty doses of secrecy, sex, delusional thinking, lying, adultery, cancer, and death, along with the wayward warbling and wanking of Dave Matthews - because NewAgers are sure (once everything they desire is attained) it's all supposed to ultimately result in the rest of us admiring them so much that, once all the mayhem they cause for others is over, we'll gladly give them a clean Slate.

C'mon kids: Put this shit with the ACORN scandal, etc., and a pretty accurate picture of this NewAge Democratic Party should be starting to emerge. It's wonderful these things are being exposed because, by having them revealed in this manner, no one can say anyone forced these folks into doing these things - this is just who they are - finally standing naked before us, for all to see.

Now don't touch the naughty bits.

Hat Tip: Althouse

No Relation

"Just 25 percent of the country supports the president's plans, and if you polled the president's own family, it's not obvious he'd do any better."

-- Michael Goldfarb, discovering Chump-Change ain't too popular with his own folks - and they ain't got a lot of Hope either - but, instead of that being unusual, it seems to be The Weekly Standard.

You Might As Well Forget It: We're Lost

"Its existence was highly classified."

-- Stephen F. Hayes, revealing that Joe Biden, our out-of-his-fucking-mind stupid Vice President - who just can't shut-up - has revealed the location of the Vice President's secret bunker (while in the process of dissing Dick Cheney, of course) surpassing the usual idiocy that passes for The Weekly Standard.

A NewAge Queen Of Quackery Holds The Cards

"You guys are good! How did you hear that? Boy you people are good."

-- Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey's best friend, on the leaked news the NewAge Winfrey had a "top secret" dinner with Barack Obama before the inauguration, on the "Oprahblog" of The Chicago Sun-Times.