"It's pretty conclusive and it doesn't look like there are any loopholes. As far as I can tell, it's over."-- David Liberman, attorney for the Hare Krishnas, on the latest court ruling against the cult - finally barring them from their long-time practice of soliciting donations at Los Angeles International Airport - which is music to my ears, courtesy of CBS News.
"Pssst…looking for some start-up funding? I may have your angel. The Seagram’s sisters—aka, Clare and Sara Bronfman. Yes, the daughters of mega mogul Edgar Bronfman, Sr. They’ve already plowed millions (we’re talking close to $100M) into an investment scheme of self-made self-help wannabe whiz, Keith Raniere—and lost them. Where was that psychic they were talking to? So maybe they’ll be looking for a new opp—esp. now that word on the street is that daddy Bronfman is a bit pissed.-- Lawyers and Settlements
Clare and Sara apparently got a bit 'taken in' by Raniere and his NXIVM group-awareness seminar company. So much so that their daddy refers to it as a 'cult'."
"Abandoned neighborhoods. Boarded-up harbor facilities. An oil refinery submerged under several feet of brackish water. The Statue of Liberty slowly sinking into the sea.-- Nicolai Ouroussoff, reminding those of us who are old enough to remember the '70s - an extremely unhinged era, that featured everything from outrageously dumb fashion, and Area 51 conspiracy theories, to fears of "global cooling" - just how stupid this entire line of un-reasoning is, for The New York Times.
'Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront,' a new show at the Museum of Modern Art, reflects a level of apocalyptic thinking about this city that we haven’t seen since it was at the edge of financial collapse in the 1970s, a time when muggers roamed freely, and graffiti covered everything."
I don't know what's happening to Americans anymore. I recently had a gagging fit while listening to a woman speak over the phone. She had this condescending way of talking, that made her sound like she was holding in air after each sentence and, with the phones receiver at my ear, it became so sickening to listen to that I almost couldn't keep my food down. I wondered, "doesn't she hear herself? Does she think that makes her sound attractive? Or superior?" I really couldn't tell. Needless to say, I made sure it wasn't a long phone call. 
My take on all this: Americans are becoming more European by the day. Every time I went to Europe, I marveled at the outrageously bizarre facial structures I encountered, and the equally bizarre behavior. Men who wore sweaters around their necks like old women wearing shawls. Tons of gorgeous model types dating ogres who had tons of gorgeous "old money". Blatant racism. I was glad to know we were nothing like them - until now. Now, all the weakness, sickness, and depravity, I saw over there is here - in full force. We seem to be as irrational, and into cheating on each other (and - they go hand-in-hand - lying to each other) as much as the French. We've lost our sense of direction, and ourselves, like the Germans. Our country is in decline, like England. Why, if it wasn't for good ol' boys with shotguns in the back of their pick-ups, I'd think we might as well hang it up.
DJing a party in Europe one time, I witnessed the funniest thing: once I put on an Arab track, all the white women jumped up to do that weird belly dancing shit while the men just sat there, kind of demoralized by the spectacle of the phenomena. That's what I see becoming of male American liberals if they insist on going down this road we're on. 
First, protected by the safe guards of this country, they're going to let women run shit. But then, once they and the liberal women destroy those safe guards all together, men who aren't feminized (Arabs, Chinese, etc.) are going to take over - and (you know) the women are going to leave the liberal American men sitting there, demoralized, because they weren't man enough to stick up for themselves. (If by chance they decide to, they'll be killed, because the rule of law as we know it won't be there.) And the liberal women, being pretty heartless and calculating (like those gorgeous European model types with the rich trolls) will laugh at them and go with whoever's strongest, whether we're talking power or money or some such. Shit, liberals are such collective pussies, I doubt even that scenario will play out because those liberal men will be defeated, and made into slaves, before any challenge is even possible. Really. 
Nah, I'm just fucking with you: those American patriots with the pick-up trucks won't let that happen. As usual, they'll step up and die, protecting your punk asses - and the country - before things get that far. They always do. That's the reason why liberal men are able to sound like a bunch of mincing women today:
Jesus, you know a guy is really dumb when he can barely scrawl the "O" in his own well-practiced signature. Anyway:
"How naive we liberals are: knowing how much you hate bad behaviour in your opponents, I honestly thought you'd be back here to cajole your side for some unconscionably bad behaviour of their own viz 'Tea Party Patriots' have cut thrown bricks through windows of democratic members, they have been calling for people to be hanged, threatening people's children, today they cut someone's gas lines, and 10 members of congress have extra security detail -- as does our President every single day."
So I thought a list of Leftist misbehavior ought to remind Democrats - who are now against all manner of bad behavior after they've lied to the American people to get what they want - they somehow miss the news when it's their side acting up (over everyday, normal politics) and/or their memories get really, really short when it's convenient. (They've even forgotten they're 9-11 Truthers!) 
Also, this list is so long, when I originally replied to SFTG, I had to break it into three replies. So, here goes, with ZOMBIETIME images of what they're fighting for - which can't be described as "American values":
"October 15, 2004: Bullet Placed Upright Outside The Door Of Littleton, New Hampshire, Victory 2004 Headquarters.
October 15, 2004: Broken Piece Of Ply-Board Thrown At The Glass Window/Door Of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Republican Party Headquarters.
October 14, 2004: Potato Guns Fired At St. Paul, Minnesota, Victory 2004 Headquarters.
October 13, 2004: A Kerry Supporter Caught Stealing A Bush Sign In Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Pulled A Knife On The Signs Owner And Was Arrested. (Linda Redeffer, 'Cape Man Claims He Was Threatened At Political Rally,' Southeast Missourian, 10/16/04)October 13, 2004: Window Smashed At Laconia, New Hampshire, Victory 2004 Headquarters.
October 13, 2004: Signs Ripped Down At Nashua, New Hampshire, Victory 2004 Headquarters; Perpetrators Swore At Headquarters Staff When They Tried To Replace The Signs.
October 13, 2004: Walls And Windows Of York, Pennsylvania, Victory 2004 Headquarters Vandalized With Pro-Kerry Spray-Paint And Signs Outside Destroyed.
October 11, 2004: Windows Broken, Petty Cash Stolen And Computers Tampered With In Burglary At Spokane, Washington Victory 2004 Headquarters. (David Postman, 'President Bush's Campaign Office In Spokane Burglarized, Vandalized,' The Seattle Times, 10/11/04)
October 11, 2004: Missouri Yard Signs Shredded With A Knife, Burnt And Discarded Behind A Building.October 10, 2004: Threatening Note Found On Elderly Veteran's Bush-Cheney '04 Yard Sign In Ballwin, Missouri, Saying 'You Vote For Bush, Then Later Down The Road You Die,' Adding 'You Will Burn In The After Life For The Suffering And Pain That Your Vote Will Cause Me.'
October 10, 2004: Office Windows Broken And Field Director's Laptop Bag and Purse Stolen In Burglary At Canton, Ohio Victory Center. (Edd Pritchard, 'Campaign Office Burgled Sunday,' Canton Repository, 10/12/04)
October 9, 2004: Raleigh, North Carolina Supporter Had Several Bush-Cheney '04 Yard Signs Stolen On Separate Occasions Culminating In Attempted Arson Of Her Car.October 9, 2004: Bush-Cheney Signs Near Vail, Colorado, Cut In Half And Burned In Ransacking. (Matt Zalaznick, Op-Ed, Welcome To The Tea Party, Vail [CO] Daily, 10/9/04)
October 9, 2004: Oxnard, California, Support Placing Bush-Cheney '04 Yard Signs Knocked Down And Had All Her Signs Stolen.
October 6, 2004: Organized Protest At Westmoreland, Pennsylvania Victory 2004 Headquarters, Protesters Entered Headquarters Premises. (Matthew Junker, 'Protester Disrupts Kerry Rally,' Tribune-Review, 10/7/04)October 5, 2004: Protestors Storm, Ransack Bush-Cheney Headquarters In Orlando, Florida. 'Local 6 News reported that several people from the group of 100 Orlando protestors face possible assault charges after the group forced their way inside the Republican headquarters office. While in the building, some of the protestors drew horns and a mustache on a poster of President George W. Bush and poured piles of letters in the office, according to the report.' ('Protestors Storm, Ransack Bush-Cheney Headquarters In Orlando,' Local 6 News, 10/5/04)
October 5, 2004: Organized Protests At Bush-Cheney '04 And Victory Headquarters In: Albuquerque, New Mexico (Protesters Entered The Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters Premises)Canton, Ohio (Protesters Attempted To Enter The Victory 2004 Headquarters Premises)
Dayton, Ohio (Protesters Attempted To Enter The Victory 2004 Headquarters Premises)Columbus, Ohio (Protesters Attempted To Enter The Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters Premises)
Charleston, West Virginia ('Business Briefs,' Charleston [West Virginia] Gazette, 10/6/04)
Kansas City, Missouri (Protesters Entered The Victory 2004 Headquarters Premises)Des Moines, Iowa ('Union Protestors March On GOP Headquarters,' KCCI 8, TheIowaChannel.com, Accessed 10/12/04)
Concord, New Hampshire Dearborn, Michigan (Protesters Entered The Victory 2004 Headquarters Premises) (Chris Christoff, Dawson Bell And Patricia Montemurri, 'Citizens Get Into The Mix Of Campaign Clashing,' Detroit Free Press, 10/6/04)Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Protesters Entered The Victory 2004 Headquarters Premises) (Greg Pierce, 'Inside Politics,' The Washington Times, 10/7/04)
St. Paul, Minnesota (Protesters Entered The Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters Premises) (Patricia Lopez, 'Protesters Raise A Ruckus At GOP Office,' [Minneapolis, MN] Star Tribune, 10/6/04)
Tampa, Florida (Protesters Entered The Victory 2004 Headquarters Premises) (Jim Stratton, 'Protesters Alarm Bush Campaign Workers,' Orlando Sentinel, 10/6/04)
Miami, Florida (Protesters Entered The Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters Premises) (Jim Stratton, 'Protesters Alarm Bush Campaign Workers,' Orlando Sentinel, 10/6/04)
Warren, Ohio (Protesters Attempted To Enter The Victory 2004 Headquarters Premises)
West Allis, Wisconsin (Protesters Entered Wisconsin Party Headquarters Premises) ('WisPolitics: Protestors Storm GOP Victory Center In West Allis,' WisPolitics.com, 10/6/04, , Accessed 10/6/04)
Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Protesters Entered The Victory 2004 Headquarters Premises) (Dan Majors, 'Hethinks They Doth Protest Too Much,' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10/7/04)October 5, 2004: Gun Shot Fired Into Knoxville, Tennessee Victory-Bush Headquarters. 'Gunshots shattered the plate-glass front doors of a local Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters Tuesday morning before volunteers reported to work. Police believe someone pulled up to the Kingston Pike Shopping Center storefront of Bush-Cheney Victory 2004 and began firing.' (Duncan Mansfield, 'Shots Fired At Knoxville Bush-Cheney Office; No One Hurt,' The Associated Press, 10/5/04)
October 3, 2004: Burglary at Thousand Oaks, California Victory 2004 Headquarters Where A Bush-Cheney '04 Banner Was Stolen From Outside The Premises.
October 2, 2004: Collinsville, OH, Resident Chains Down Bush-Cheney Signs After Several Signs Stolen And One Was Replaced With Kerry Sign. (Bush-Cheney Signs Going Missing In Collinsville, The Associated Press, 10/2/04)
October 1, 2004: Swastika Burned Into Grass On Bush-Cheney Supporter's Lawn In Madison, WI. ('Swastika Burned Into Grass On Bush-Cheney Supporter's Lawn,' WISC-TV Website, 10/1/04, , Accessed 10/12/04)October 1, 2004: Laptops Of Executive And Field Director Stolen From Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters In Seattle, Washington. 'Three computers loaded with confidential campaign plans were reported stolen early yesterday in a burglary at President Bush's Washington state campaign headquarters. Someone threw a rock through a window of the campaign's office in a suburban business park, taking laptops belonging to key campaign workers from the desk of the Bush campaign's state director, Bellevue police and Republican Party officials said.' (David Postman And Ashley Bach, '3 Computers Are Stolen From Bush Campaign Office,' The Seattle Times, 10/7/04)
September 28, 2004: Vandalism Against Springfield, Missouri Victory 2004 Headquarters Where Perpetrators Broke Bottles And Spit On The Headquarters And Wrote The Anarchy Symbol On The Sidewalk With ChalkSeptember 22, 2004: West Elmira, New York, Resident Found Swastika Drawn On Bush Campaign Sign In His Yard. (John P. Cleary, 'Swastika On Bush Sign Troubles Resident,' [Elmira, NY] Star-Gazette, 9/23/04)
September 13, 2004: Swastika Drawn On Lawn Of Duluth Resident, Whose Signs Were Defaced With Words 'Nazi' And 'Liar.' (Mark Stodghill, 'Campaign Vandalism Increases,' Duluth News-Tribune, 9/14/04)September 10, 2004: West Virginia Victory Field Director's Car Tires Slashed Again And Note Left His Windshield Stating 'Go Home Or Die.'
September 4, 2004: West Virginia Victory Field Director's Car Tires Slashed.
September 3, 2004: Windows Broken, Anti-Bush Messages Scrawled At Gallatin County Republican Headquarters. 'The headquarters of the Gallatin County Republicans was vandalized early Friday morning in a crime one Republican called an 'act of terror.' An unknown vandal or vandals spray-painted peace signs on the windows and anti-Bush messages on the outside walls. A rock was thrown through a double-paned window next to the main entrance to the building, and the front door was coated with eggs and possibly cottage cheese.' (Walt Williams, "GOP Headquarters Vandalized In Political Protest," Bozeman [Montana] Daily Chronicle, 9/4/04)
September 2, 2004: Gun Shot Fired Into Huntington, West Virginia Headquarters. 'The Secret Service was contacted Friday to help investigate a shot fired at the Cabell County Republican headquarters in Huntington. Supporters of President Bush had gathered at the 4th Avenue headquarters Thursday night to watch the president accept his party's nomination. About two minutes into the speech, someone fired a shot through the front window of the building.' ('Few Leads In Shooting At GOP HQ,' wowktv.com, 9/2/04)
September 1, 2004: Bullet Hole Found In Front Of Miami, Florida, Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters.
July 31, 2004: Windows Again Broken At Morgantown, West Virginia Headquarters.
July 2, 2004: Windows Broken At Morgantown, West Virginia Headquarters."
Good times! Now, please, let's stop pretending like we've never seen this level of anger before; and remember - just because "payback's a motherfucker" - you big mouthed kids don't start getting scared out there just because, now, anything can happen. I know, I know: 
"A north London economist has been forced to deny he is a religious cult's holy savior after a bizarre series of emails and personal visits.-- Scott Warren, admitting, once again, there are NewAge cults operating openly in "atheist" France - also their perfect God has a stu,..a stu,...a st-st-st-stutter and dreams are worthless - all as poor Raj Patel endures more NewAge nonsense, in The Daily Mail.
Raj Patel came to the attention of Share International members after he appeared on U.S. comedy show The Colbert Report to promote his book about the global financial crisis.
The group's leader Benjamin Creme made an announcement soon after telling members their god had recently appeared on U.S. TV for the first time.
His dark skin, slight stutter, birthplace of London and birth year of 1972 as well as other features match those of the divine being the group calls 'Maitreya'.
Frustratingly for Mr Patel, from Golders Green, it is also written that when identified, Maitreya will deny his divinity - echoing the famous scene in Monty Python's Life Of Brian where Graham Chapman's title character is confronted by followers who believe him to be the messiah.
Two followers even flew from Detroit to San Francisco to meet Mr Patel at a book signing.
'I started getting emails saying "Are you the world teacher?",' he told The Sun.
'Then it wasn't just random internet folk,. but also friends saying "have you seen this?".
'It's absurd to be put in this position when I am just some bloke.'
Of the two men who flew to meet him in California, he added: 'They were really nice straightforward people. They said they thought I was Maitreya. They also said I had appeared in their dreams.
'I said, "I'm really flattered you came all the way here, but it breaks my heart you spent all this money to meet someone who isn't who you think he is".'
Creme, originally from Scotland, started the cult in the 1950s and it has since expanded to Amsterdam - where its headquarters are, London, France, Germany, the U.S. and Japan.
He has refused to say whether he accepts Mr Patel's denial.
He started Share International with the aim of 'making known the fact that Maitreya - the World Teacher for the coming age - and his group, the Masters of Wisdom, are now among us, emerging into the public arena gradually, so as not to infringe human free will'."
"A rite of spring allegedly turned deadly for a New Mexico man.-- Lindsay Goldwert, giving us a bit of the ol' "bubble, bubble, toil and trouble" - the photo's quite fetching as well - as another Wiccan goes from witch to WANTED, in The New York Daily News.
A woman claiming to be a follower of Wicca, a pagan religion often associated with witchcraft, is accused of killing a man she'd met an Albuquerque hiking trail with a dagger she said was to be used in ritualistic celebration of spring.
Angela Sanford told police that victim Joel Leyva, a man she had only just met, tied her arms, made 'inappropriate sexual gestures,' and took the dagger from her, ABC News reports.
Sanford told police that she feared Leyva was going to rape her, and decided to take charge of the situation by wriggling free of the ropes and allowing him to believe he was being seduced. She allegedly pushed Leyva on his back, removed her clothing except for her underwear, and knelt on the ground over him. She then then stabbed Leyva 'three times in the stomach area.'
Sanford allegedly left the scene, eventually asking a hiker to use a cell phone to call police.
But investigators found multiple inconsistencies in Sanford’s story of attempted rape. Leyva was actually stabbed 11 to 13 times in the head and torso, police said.
According to police reports, none of the witnesses saw Sanford fleeing the area or calling out for help, and her clothes were found folded at the scene."
"Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.-- Laurie Goodstein, showing Catholics and NewAgers have two things in common now - deliberate child abuse and a bizarre fixation on putting appearances over ethics - as they prey, and prey, and prey, for (what can only be called in the church) The New York Times.
The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was protecting the church from scandal."
"Americans who suggest Barack Obama should rot in hell are apparently deadly serious.-- David Gardner, noticing that under-handed NewAge politics, and hardcore religion, mix into a really "toxic" brew - one that's sure to take the meat off the bone - as the crazy beliefs this blog exposed, years ago, make it to The Daily Mail.
Nearly a quarter of Republicans believe the Democrat president 'may be the Antichrist', according to a survey.
An even greater number compared him to Hitler."
