Do You Think I'm Sexy?

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

-Rod Stewart

There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike, They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things-their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women.

-Alexis de Tocqueville

STAMPING OUT FEMINISM

An attempt to stamp out feminism will have less of a chance of success than an attempt to stamp out cold; neither of them exists. The absence of heat produces cold just as the absence of light results in darkness and the absence of sound results in quiet; however, there are no entities such as cold, darkness, and quiet; they are the effects of a lack of heat, light, and sound. There can only be one assertive influence causing any condition, if there were two, constant conflict would ensue. If darkness were an entity it would constantly fight light. The same conflict would occur if quiet or cold were entities. The attempt by government to legislate the receptive feminine entity into an assertive influence has created such a conflict. The effect of this legislation has produced an effect called feminism.

Feminism is an effect such as malnutrition, diabetes, and cirrhosis of the liver; they are all symptoms, not entities unto themselves. Feminism as been likened to evil, which is also an effect, it is the absence of good. No amount of legislation can eliminate the evil that ensues from the absence of good. The United States has more lawyers per capita than any nation in the world and more laws; it also has more men in prison. Our nation has a high incarceration rate and high rates of various types of crimes. It has a high level of teenage pregnancy, unwed motherhood, divorce and adultery. Drunkenness, debauchery, and crime continue to grow in all areas. We have reduced our ability to create good. The greatest societal good comes from the family and there can be no family without patriarchy. The legislating away of the power of men has destroyed the cohesive and assertive power necessary to build family. The government has taken away all authority of men and reduced their function to that of a work unit. Consequently the family has collapsed and all morality along with it. The United States has the most violent boys in the world; putting more of them in jail has not decreased the violence, it has increased it.

The laws that the government have created are an effect of Western man not having an understanding of the universal patriarchal order nor an ability to implement it on the rare occasions that he does understand it. His thinking is feminine oriented and like a woman he too considers himself to be a victim of all things. Poor Western man, his life has been torn asunder by those bad feminists. To address his grievances he goes to the very government that created the conditions that he complains about, an action similar to a slave calling upon the master to improve his working conditions; it doesn't happen.

By removing the power of men the government has done the equivalent of removing the sun from the solar system. Without a sun there will not be any energy for nurturing to take place, the planets will fall out of orbit, chaos will ensue, and the solar system will collapse. Likewise our society has lost its virility, nurturing has decreased, women have lost all sense of propriety, and our society is collapsing. No amount of government intervention can change this condition. Only virile men who will rise up and assume their familial responsibilities can create the conditions where nurturing can take place and good will develop.

-Elder George

I Miss Frank Zappa

"I asked how many other D.C. wives are 'non-members' of an organization that raises money by mail, has a tax-exempt status, and seems intent on running the constitution of the United States through the family paper shredder. I asked her if it was a cult. Finally she said she couldn't give me an answer and that she had to call their lawyer."

Sounded like a reasonable question to me,...

Sing A Simple Song

I don't know about you, but I didn't know John Denver was a graduate of EST (Erhard Seminars Training) I just thought of him as the "Thank God, I'm a Country Boy" guy who, quite unfortunately, died in a plane crash. But it seems:

"He was an early follower of Werner Erhard, founder of the self-improvement association known as EST (Erhard Seminars Training). Denver once asked Erhard if he might become a trainer in the EST organization, but was told he could contribute more by continuing his career as an entertainer, spreading the message through his music, of taking personal responsibility for whatever happens in the world. Several of his subsequent songs reflected that philosophy."

So I'm back to thinking about new wage manipulation of the public - including me, BTW - like EST getting me to sing John Denver's songs, internalizing values that are not my own, which is exactly what they, and the companies that hired them, were sued for, back-in-the-day, before EST went underground to re-emerge as The Landmark Forum. It's crazy-making stuff. And EST isn't the only one. Rick Ross showed Scientology was on PBS - spreading their whack-job ideas to all of us as kids - but I want to stay on the theme of music.

I've already mentioned Denny Fridkin's description of his whole band being sucked into Scientology - and we should all know about Issac Hayes, Herbie Hancock, Chic Corea, and Beck, by now. Keep in mind, like Tom Cruise and John Denver, each of those artists perform, partially, to recruit as many others into the cult as they can. That was L. Ron's vision.

Jeremy Spencer (above left, formally of Fleetwood Mac) was a Children of God member. That means he was having sex with children. Have the police gone after him as they've gone after others? One can only wonder. Many of those "Family" kids grow up severely damaged, or they're left, sleep-walking through life, spouting evasive nonsense, like, "People think this is all about sex, but it's greater than sexual relations. It's about how you relate and feel about people. It's about loving God with all your soul." Yea, yea - and all those damaged women, working in strip clubs, are really nuns - I get it, I really do. Jeez. Just shut-up and let me hear your demo, O.K.?

Amazingly intelligent, and crazy-as-hell, The Beastie Boys have totally-mellowed-out since bowing their heads to the Dali Lama, only to start producing some of the worst music of their careers (I've said it before and I'll say it again: The connection between new wage believing - and sucking at Rock 'n' Roll - is clear.). Sheryl Crow, who has always made God-awful music - but, strangely, keeps snagging TV commercials - has to be into,...*something*, being part of the one-square-of-toilet-paper crowd, because sane people just don't talk like that. And, of course, the latest addition to the new wage musical canon is the Smashing Pumpkins's Billy Corgan, whose latest outing, Zeitgeist, catches the dismal, depressing, feeling of these times perfectly.

No Blood For Oil

"I was not saying that [oil's] the administration's motive, I'm just saying that if somebody asked me, 'Are we fortunate in taking out Saddam?' I would say it was essential."

- Alan Greenspan (above) the former Fed Chairman who every news outlet misquoted, to hype the release of his book, The Age of Turbulance

Let's Make A Deal: I'll Wash Your Hands, If You'll Wash Mine (They ARE Dirty, Aren't They?)

I was just over at Steve Salerno's Shamblog and he's writing about “life coaching” - which kind of ties in to yesterday's topic of Jennifer Niesslein's Self-Help experiment (she had one woman who was encouraging her to clap in certain areas of her house to disperse “negative energy”). Anyway, Steve mentioned that life coaches have ethical guidelines (!) that basically add up to a non-aggression pact:

You don't bad-mouth me and I won't bad-mouth you.

So guess which “profession” shares the exact same ethical guideline? You guessed it: Homeopaths! (Yes, my favorite NewAgers in the whole NewAge world!) It is absolutely against the rules for one homeopath to ever accuse another of, say, shaking the water wrong. Why, if you do that, they'll probably kick you out of the whole water-shaking club.

And then, really, where would you be?

There's That Word Again. What Word? "Cult" Funny How It Keeps Coming Up,...Weird. I Know: I Was Just Reading About Our Times,...

Of course, as with most middle class cult-things these days, somehow Oprah was involved:

"It really came to a head when I was watching 'Oprah' and she said something I didn't quite understand. She said, 'The first thing about fixing your life is owning the truth about your life.' I was like, 'I don't know what that means.' But everybody on the show seemed to be really grooving on it."

*From a Salon interview with Jennifer Niesslein (linked in this post's title) author of Practically Perfect in Every Way

Yes, "everyone on the show" (and, presumably, everyone watching at home) seems to understand the incomprehensible message - which is just vague enough for them to make their own connections - and starts believing they must do what Oprah says. What can it hurt, right?

"Jennifer Niesslein would never for a moment have claimed to be unhappy with her life. She had a husband and son whom she dearly loved, a detached suburban home, two dogs and an enviable job: she knew she was luckier than most and she was grateful. And yet something niggled.

She wasn’t sad but, to use her words, she wasn’t 'super-happy' either.

Few people can have failed to notice the plethora of self-help books that have blossomed over the past two decades, all promising the same thing – to make you happier; improve your marriage, your parenting, your homemaking skills, your finances, your figure, your attitude, and help you to experience a tangible increase in joy. Niesslein’s theory was that if she spent two years following them to the letter she would get a result.

And at the end of the two years was she happier? Well, cynics prepare to be smug. Because no, she was not. In fact in some ways she believes that the self-help books damaged her.

...There was a cult-like element,,...One book which is a good example of this is The Secret by Rhonda Byrne."

**From a Times Online article about the author

"A cult-like element". So I'm not the only one. We children of the '60s are surrounded by by this nonsense and it's only going to get worse as the hippies die. They are determined to rip our lives apart until they take their last breaths. And we've been willing to let them.

But how could we not be? They were older than us. They've been burning with it all of our lives.

Why Cults Have It So Easy - In 3 Easy Steps:

1) Too few people who know anything.


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2) Too many people who know nothing.



3) And the few people who know anything, to many, ARE nothing.

The Cult Of Britney (Leave Her Alone!)

This poor guy/gal just doesn't know what's happening to him. How artists today, once they start to suck, join cults to have a ready-made audience keeping them in the public eye. Britney's not going anywhere, baby. Stop crying. She's kissed Madonna. She's posed nude. The psychic mafia has her in it's big ol' registry. She'll be fine.

Worry about yourself.

Join Us

"When people say, 'There must be a certain type of person involved in the cult phenomena', what they're really trying to say is 'I don't want to accept that this could happen to me'."

-- A line of dialogue from Ondi Timoner's new film, Join Us, which is "exploring why America is the number one breeding ground of cults in the world, and how mind control can happen to just about anyone."

"It's like joining a church, you have to be a believer, you have to have the right set of views."

-- A line of dialogue from Even Coyne Maloney's new film, Indoctrinate U, "about free speech on college campuses."

"I think the guy's a con artist."

-- A line of dialogue from Kevin Leffler's new film, Shooting Michael Moore, that shows "while writing books and shooting films that expose America’s inequities and presenting himself as a moral compass, he abused the non-profit status, engaged in questionable tax practices, violated environmental laws, and invested in Halliburton, oil stocks, leading drug companies, and HMO-chains. Additionally, contrary to his public persona, he used and deceived both the “little people” as well as U.S servicemen, and Flint’s populace is still waiting for him to bring promised jobs."

Scientology: Under The Radar

I've spent a lot of years explaining politics to my friends. Being the only one who served in the military, I was also the only one who really seemed to care about what happened in Washington. And I was usually right in my assessments. The only big "wrong call" I can remember was when the Democrats took both houses of Congress. (I expected one, after the Mark Foley mess, but certainly not both of them. Oh well.) I like following politics - really like it - more than most "underground" musicians, so I "pick and stick" with my various stories and watch how they play out.

Now that I've added cultism to the mix, I still do the same thing: follow the stories. To many of my friends, now that I'm divorced from my new age ex, this seems strange or, at least, obsessive. But, to me, it's just a continuum of what I've always done - with the added weirdness of her cultish-thinking thrown into the mix. I feel my ex would be proud. Lord knows, I didn't pay attention to it when I was married to her, no matter how hard she tried to manipulate me.

I mention all this because I was reading about a survey on news; comparing the mainstream media's interests against what stories are followed on client-controled sites like Digg.com, where pieces come up, all higgly-piggly, only to vanish when some new faddish thing appears. What got my attention was when the authors of the survey story, reflecting on the Digg phenomenon, wondered, "What's going to happen to investigative journalism?" And I didn't have an answer.

Indeed, what IS going to happen to the news? Most Americans are pretty flighty when it comes to our information. Today, the story might be Iraq, and tomorrow Britney. The idea that the public should actually be following any one, or two, story lines seems almost "alien" to most people. But that's exactly what they should be doing. Let me show you why:



Remember 2005's South Park/Scientology episode, Trapped In The Closet? It was a hell of a conversation starter for a while, right? We learned that Scientologists believed in aliens, they had Issac Hayes's mind, and all that. (There was also talk of them being tied to PBS, and Satan, but nobody seriously believes the Satan part. PBS? Sure. You ever watched PBS?) Well, anyway, the question is, what have the Scientologists been up to since South Park? Do you know? Surely they didn't get all embarrassed and just go away, right? No way, Jose! They've been busy little perfect alien-worshipping weirdos, doing their e-meter thing, and continuing to try and to take over the world.

There was the stuff about the slime ball mayor of cultish San Francisco, Gavin Newsom (above) who was dating a Scientologist - before he was sleeping with his campaign manager and best friend's wife to the strange, and obscene, applause of the voters. (He claimed - after the South Park episode - that he "couldn't tell you two things about it." Sure. Me, and your former campaign manager/best friend, believe you.) This was at the same time the Scientologists were, coincidentally, trying to buy a historic building in SF. Should we assume Scientology isn't above whoring (like The Family cult did) to get what they want? Well, whatever, they didn't get it (as far as I know) thanks to some quick-thinking maneuvers by Board of Supervisors President, Aaron Peskin, and the cries of the building's neighbors. But it was close.

And who could forget the deaths of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan? Two high-flying, beautiful, creative-types - who everyone called "brilliant" - until they started telling their friends the Scientologists were after them. Now they're dead and being dissed, by the likes of Malcolm McLaren, which I guess means they'll just end up being two more notches on that long-assed Scientology Death Belt Tom Cruise must wear to bed at night.


John Travolta led a campaign against the BBC, after the Scientologists almost drove one of their reporters crazy (above). This was part of their European Offensive which got very little coverage here in the States. Seriously, it should have gotten more because there's some weird and meaty stuff to it. Like this:

That's Richard Armitage's scheduling calendar, above. You remember Richard Armitage, don't you? The man who admitted revealing Valerie Plame's name to Bob Woodward, while the very-astute Democratic political watchers were busy doing their civic duty of standing up for justice - and blaming Lewis "Scooter" Libby for it? (Good job, Guys: You really know politics,...and fairness.) Anyway, as you can see from the circled appointment, it seems that Ol' Rich was also talking to - who else? - Tom Cruise. Tom wanted to talk about getting the German's to back off his cult and he wanted the American government's help. (As much as Scooter seemed to love Tom Cruise, Orb #1 didn't seem to get too far with him.) Mr. Armitage - who appears to be, how shall I say it? "Ethically challenged" - used to be the head of the State Dept. And what do we have, now, but *new news* that the State Dept. is breathing down Germany's neck on behalf of Scientology - where Tom Cruise is currently shooting a movie. Coincidence? You decide. Something tells me, if the Democrats would've been all fired up about putting Richard Armitage in jail for revealing Valery Plame's name - because that's what he said he did - Tom Cruise wouldn't have gotten anywhere with Washington and the Germans wouldn't be upset. But that's just stupid Ol' Republican cult-watching me.



People (normal people, anyway) might be surprised that Scientology can get as high up as the State Dept., but these guys are everywhere now. They staged an exhibit in the Columbia, Missouri Capital Rotunda. Tony Blair (whose wife, Cherie, is a total new wage fruitcake) gave them the high sign. Even that bogus assshole, Uri Gellar - the guy James Randi busted on The Tonight Show With Johnnie Carson (above) - has been defending Scientology. But - hey - that figures.

Once Jim Carrey's movies started to suck, he seemed to have found new wage (prompting TIME Magazine to ask if he'd "flipped out" - a reasonable question) but that was right after he indicated he'd been hanging with Tom Cruise, so who knows? Tom also tried to convert Angelina Jolie and Superman's Brandon Routh (Jolie should've been easy since her father is a cultist. Maybe Tom's losing his touch? Or maybe Brad Pitt just wasn't having it?) We definitely know Dana Elfman's in because she's been acting like a whack-job and her art sucks. (Those are the two sure indicators.)

If reports are true, Scientology has gone after paedophiles and killers, New York City Firefighters (who ought to know better) and, recently, Denny Fridkin (drummer for the rock group, People!) told how his whole band got sucked into it. And all this without nary a peep of opposition from anyone - especially any stupid investigative journalism arm of the media. Just little Ol' me. All by myself.

So, that's what I've been up to, how 'bout you?


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Who Are You Going To Believe? (Forget belief: THINK About It)

"We may differ with our American friends about tactics, I might not see eye to eye with them on all matters. But my message to them is one of appreciation and gratitude,...To them I say, you have liberated a people, brought them into the modern world. They used to live in fear and now they live in liberty. Iraqis were cut off from the modern world, and thanks to American intervention we now belong to the world around us. We used to be decimated and killed like locusts in Saddam's endless wars, and we have now come into the light. A teacher used to work for $2 a month, now there is a living wage, and indeed in some sectors of our economy, we are suffering from labor shortages."

- Nouri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq



(09-17) 04:00 PDT Washington

Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview that the removal of Saddam Hussein was "essential" to secure world oil supplies, a point he emphasized to the White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Greenspan, who was the country's top voice on monetary policy at the time Bush decided to go to war in Iraq, has refrained from extensive public comment on it until now, but he made the striking comment in a new memoir out today that "the Iraq War is largely about oil."

In the interview, he clarified that sentence in his 531-page book, saying that while securing global oil supplies was "not the administration's motive," he had presented the White House with the case for why removing Hussein was important for the global economy.

"I was not saying that that's the administration's motive," Greenspan said in the interview Saturday, "I'm just saying that if somebody asked me, 'Are we fortunate in taking out Saddam?' I would say it was essential."

He said that in his discussions with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, "I have never heard them basically say, 'We've got to protect the oil supplies of the world,' but that would have been my motive."

Greenspan said that he made his economic argument to White House officials and that one lower-level official, whom he declined to identify, told him, "Well, unfortunately, we can't talk about oil."

Asked if he had made his point to Cheney specifically, Greenspan said yes, then added, "I talked to everybody about that."
Greenspan said he had backed Hussein's ouster, either through war or covert action. "I wasn't arguing for war per se," he said. But "to take (Hussein) out, in my judgment, it was something important for the West to do and essential, but I never saw Plan B" - an alternative to war.

Greenspan's reference in "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World" to what he calls the "politically inconvenient" fact that the war was "largely about oil" has proved controversial.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates took issue with Greenspan on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. "I wasn't here for the decision-making process that initiated it, that started the war," Gates said. But, he added, "I know the same allegation was made about the Gulf War in 1991, and I just don't believe it's true."

Critics of the administration have often argued that while Bush cited Hussein's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and despotic rule as reasons for the invasion, he also was motivated by a desire to gain access to Iraq's vast oil reserves. Publicly, little evidence has emerged to support that view, though a top-secret National Security Presidential Directive, titled "Iraq: Goals, Objectives and Strategy" and signed by Bush in August 2002 - seven months before the invasion - listed as one of many objectives "to minimize disruption in international oil markets."

- Bob Woodward, The Washington Post

Che Is A Left-Wing Lie

“He has so many defenders. They have forged the cult of an untouchable hero.”

- Jacobo Machover, author of The Hidden Face of Che.

The article (linked above) continues:

"Machover, a Cuban exiled in France since 1963, blames the hero worship on French intellectuals who flocked to Havana in the 1960s and fell under the charm of the only “comandante” who could speak their language.

They turned a blind eye to anything that did not fit in with their idealised image of Guevara."

“The legend forged around Che is first and foremost a French creation that became international with time,” says Machover. Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist author who visited Havana with Simone de Beauvoir in 1960, also played a role, describing Guevara as “the most complete man of his epoch”.

Yea, I believe this. In France, when I lived there, Che was everywhere. Nightclubs and bars especially. And the french do admire anyone that speaks french, a language I never took to because it came off too fruity (Poo-poo, La-la, Koo-koo - What grown American man wants to sound like that?). Machover must be in a kind of hell there as well, with so much Che worship, knowing Guevara was just another corrupt, cold-hearted, killer.

I wish the Left had more invested in truth than in beliefs. We'd all be better off. I saw that Democratic politicians started attacking Gen. Petraeus's testimony before he even made it. Is that helpful?

What about reality?

Caught In A Hippie Cult Of Liars

"It wasn't true,...we just decided to make it a bit more romantic."

-- Janis Raven, public relations person for the, recently deceased, English entrepreneur, Anita Roddick (above) who deceived everyone - including people in Third World countries - after she stole her concept for The Body Shop.

"Among the major corporations which have enlisted these firms are AT&T, GM, Ford, IBM, Calvin Klein, Westinghouse, Dupont, Scott Paper, Campbell Soup, Lockheed, RCA, Procter and Gamble, All State Insurance, NEC, Boeing Aerospace, General Foods, GE, and McDonald's in-short, approximately 20% of the Fortune 500 corporations, plus innumerable smaller companies,...

...The IRS, CIA, the Army, Navy, and Air Force have all engaged these training companies. Many of the trainers, however, use techniques and promote philosophies at variance with the moral and religious convictions of employees,...Most often, these techniques and philosophies arise from the broad and variegated matrix of the so- called New Age Movement (NAM). And this fact has caused a great deal of controversy,...The core of the controversy is highlighted by Arthur Johnson's statement that 'There's a fine line between corporate culture and corporate cults.'"

-- Lawrence A. Pile giving a breakdown of some of the many companies that hired Werner Erhard (above) est, and/or The Landmark Forum, and other '70s cult-inspired groups, to "motivate" their employees. These teachings, which have now saturated Western culture and are now accepted as fact by some, were found to be deceptive and dangerous, resulting in massive lawsuits.

"I am still doing the same thing as in 1968."

-- Joel Rosenman (above) one creator of the Woodstock festival, who is now caught in Norman Hsu's pyramid scheme of Democratic fundraising.

"Dolphins, penguins, who gives a shit,...?"

-- Sting (above) the supposedly-socially conscious Sting (above) whose chef testified he is married to a woman with a "grandiose ego"; from an article called Superstar Hypocrite, which details his many deceptions, "green" pronouncements, and various ethical issues.

"Fads like astrology and be-ins, free love, newfangled drugs, the Hare Krishna movement,...dropping out,...generally thumbing the nose at the Man".

-- Charles Isherwood, describing the themes behind Hair - "one of the last Broadway musicals to saturate the culture" - which is returning to the stage for another run at ruining it, in The New York Times.

"At the heart of [Carlos Castanada's] movement was a group of intensely devoted women, all of whom were or had been his lovers. They were known as the witches, and two of them,...vanished the day after Castaneda's death,...A few weeks later, Patricia Partin, Castaneda's adopted daughter as well as his lover, also disappeared. In February 2006, a skeleton found in Death Valley, Calif., was identified through DNA analysis as Partin's."

-- Robert Marshall, in an article on "The Godfather of the New Age" for Salon.com.

"One afternoon, a young Malaysian woman had a psychotic breakdown, attacked ashram workers and was dragged away by police. I later found her at the police station, half-catatonic, mumbling 'darshan, darshan, darshan' over and over again. At dinner another evening, [my friend] pointed out a wan Austrian woman tugging around a listless little boy. She was frenzied because she'd had a dream in which Sai Baba instructed her to abandon her 7-year-old son and live on the streets as a beggar, and she didn't know whether she had the 'strength' to do it."

-- Michelle Goldberg, with an article on Sai Baba (above) the pedophile Indian guru who sells incense all over the San Francisco Bay Area, also in Salon.com.

"If he sidles up to someone who loves Tito Puente, he’ll be quick to say, 'Oh, I’ve been listening to him for years!' If he meets someone who hates Tito Puente, he’ll shed a single tear and bite his lip that he just couldn’t get Puente’s albums banned, because of that awful Republican-controlled Congress,...you can sometimes catch the duplicity.

With Hillary it’s much harder. She plans everything. Her notion of spontaneity is changing her brand of day planner without having a meeting about it first.

Bill could speak with a forked tongue on the fly. Off the cuff he said he agreed with the minority but would have voted with majority when it came to the first Gulf War. He tried pot but didn’t inhale. Monica Lewinsky had sexual contact with him, but he never had sexual contact with her.

What Bill says with rakish bluster, Hillary pulls off with schoolmarmish fog."

-- Jonah Goldberg, on Bill and Hillary Clinton (above) the '60s generation's first White House couple.