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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 10:52 AM
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Hey! Buzzflash published my "Poltergeists In the White House" commentary
Edited on Mon Nov-13-06 11:12 AM by symbolman
Where I attempt to let folks know that there's a Silent COUP going on right now with "Poppyists" Taking over the White House in FULL VIEW, while the Media keeps harping on "How did those damn Dems win with No Plan?"

Here's a Link if you'd like to read it, and pass it along - for those too young to remember Bush Senior, he's a Bigger crook than his idiot son, and has more Crooked Pals than you can shake a stick at - most of the criminals HE PARDONED Himself!

The link:

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/553
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 10:58 AM
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1. good one symbolman kick and NOM nt
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Mortos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 11:00 AM
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2. Good article
One point of spelling though, isn't it poltergEIst?
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reichstag911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 11:04 AM
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3. Yep...
...the OP should have Buzzflash correct the spelling.
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 11:05 AM
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4. Tell Buzzflash
Edited on Mon Nov-13-06 11:14 AM by symbolman
It's their baby now :)

Damn German words.. you just keep adding to them until they're as long as your arm, and contain an entire story in one word, with sections from the 12th century up to the end of the word that will add a New American Technical term..

Strange language, tho Joeseph Campbell, the great Symbol Writer said that you HAVE to understand German to enjoy the great Philosophies of the world.

But the old National Lampoon once said that Germans "Knew nothing of Sexual Reproduction until the 13th century, having previously reproduced by raiding Warthog litters.." :)

But that's not very nice, funny, but not nice :)


ON EDIT, SENT TO BUZZFLASH FOR CORRECTION - THANKS!
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 11:07 AM
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5. It's a good piece Symbolman nm
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 11:11 AM
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6. I passed the spelling error along to them to correct
Edited on Mon Nov-13-06 11:13 AM by symbolman
good catch, thanks for that..

Don't want to be a LOOSER like them freepers :)


Thanks for the Comments, appreciate it, please spread the word around, we don't want these CRIMINALS running the White House.. that would make TWO Bush presidents that American Hasn't Vote for in this Election :)
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 05:11 PM
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7. Damn! You sure know how to communicate.
That is an excellent piece.

Ortega- there is a name I totally submerged into my subconscious.

Thanks, man. We owe you a hell of a lot.




Eternal vigilance is the only way we're going to keep them at bay.
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 05:28 PM
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8. My ability to communicate gets me in a Lot of Trouble
unfortunately :)

I forget things like deportment, and tact, but THIS is just way too OBVIOUS and seems like it would be easily communicated, just a generational Gap and lack of media coverage, a dead piece of history with Bush Senior's papers all locked up by his son the first thing, as soon as he STOLE into the White House..

But I appreciate the remarks, this was a little "test" by me, to see if I could write something quick and cogent that people might want to read in my own style - I'm writing a book (been working on it for five years now) and I have hopes that it will blow some people away, a wide range of people, even have Hollywood interest in it already, and met with Ralph Steadman to see if he'd do the cover - an environmental book that's a mix of Hunter S. Thompson, Bukowski, Hemmingway, Salinger (at least I HOPE it comes off as a mix of these sensibilities), with lots of action from when I was flying around in Choppers in Alaska, crashing in the Tundra, being chased naked from a village with hachets and shotguns TOWARD OUR camp where the Vietnam Vet pilots were pulling THEIR pistols.. crazy stuff like that.. but with a MESSAGE that I think will be heartfelt by Very Many if I'm successful..

Just wanted to compare a 10 minute info piece with my work, and damn if Buzzflash didn't pick up on it :)

Ain't no Will Pitt of course, so it makes me feel Good to see them put it out there..

Digressing, but really do THANK you for saying that. :)

Oh, I wrote a Book with NO WORDS once (many people said, "Oh, SURE you are..") LOL.. and it's why I am called "Symbolman" -- I won a Hollywood award for Animating the Book called "Symbolman" and you can see the Animation HERE:

http://www.symbolman.com

An entire book written with international symbols so anyone on the planet can read it :)

Nice to be appreciated, thanks again...
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 07:10 PM
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9. Right on.
I'm not sure how to put it. You cut through to the meat. There is something of a laser to your thoughts. No bullshit. I think that's it. You have focused on being honest. And it shows.

I'm so glad I barely missed 'Nam. I was terrified. And I was there when everyone came back. The nightmares. It sounds like you've got a few stories of your own.


We've got a golden opportunity here. Perhaps two years maximum, to pull off some miracles. I hope this happens. I don't want to be let down again.
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 03:55 AM
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12. I'm amazed at the description of my style
I never looked at it that way, but I Like hearing it.. funny, it's like being in a wrestling match, in the thick of it you have no idea how to WIN, and all you need is for someone in the bleacher to say, "RAKE HIS BALLS!" and Voila, you WIN :) (did some wrestling in high school, then there was the NUN wrestling, but that's another story :) )

I'm very appreciative of your remarks and I enjoy your posts and intellect - hearing this from someone like you makes me feel all the better about spending five years on this book, maybe it won't be time wasted. Maybe a book CAN change the world, I know I've been remade by books like Siddhartha, etc..

Another couple of months and I'll be THERE, the long awaited FINISH - I had NO IDEA how HARD it is to write a damn book, makes me appreciate Will Pitt's silver tongue a bit more.

Born with a silver tongue in his mouth, heh...

PM me and send me your snail mail and I'll make sure you get a copy of "The Jesus Bolt" when it's done - I'd like to know what you think of it.

And thanks again :)
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 09:07 AM
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22. One more question
in your sig picture, WHAT have you done to Santa? WHERE is the REST OF HIM?

All I see is the Beard sitting there of its own free Will.. my god, there are EYES in that BEARD, what kind of Mutant is that?

Was that created with illegal Stem Cells?

That is one cute pic, and a hella great Xmas card.. I'd love to see Santa's Beard HOP off his face and start cleaning itself :) Talk about blowing the lil kiddies minds..

Is that YOUR cat?

Catwoman must be alerted at ONCE :)
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lala_rawraw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 10:06 PM
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10. Congrats!!!!!
:beer:
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 03:47 AM
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11. What are YOU talking about?
YOU are on Huffington Post regularly, Damn you, Damn you to hell! :)

Kidding, I'm very glad that you are still speaking up - I thought for a while there that it was getting too dicey, especially for you with loved ones being Jack Booted, to stand up and be heard.. but I can see that you have something that seems to be missing from many people these days, RAW GUTS.

Stamina, strength, Integrity, spunk, moxie, whatever you want to call it, and wish I saw MORE of it :)

Thanks for the kindness, it's all we've got in the end...

And I hope all is better with the Loved Ones, I'm hoping the Dems will FREE a LOT of people AND maybe you can start writing about REPARATIONS at that point, hint, hint, for people ABUSED like what you've described.
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lala_rawraw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 06:07 AM
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16. thank you,
she is out, but she won't talk. the little she said is stunning. the women were in lock up for 19 hours a day. they were not given much toilet paper and no fem products. they were chained face down on the floor of a van during transport across state lines. they were taunted. she is in counseling, but not telling us much. she may have post traumatic shock, we simply don't know. but she is back home. thanks for asking and for all the support. btw, the other women are still in there.
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 06:25 AM
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17. No way to treat a Lady.
well, anyone, but women especially. Chaining a woman FACE DOWN during transport? I don't think they even did that to "detainees" in Iraq from the smuggled pics I saw, hoods and floor chains, but not FACE DOWN, that's uncalled for, brutality for no reason.

I hope the counseling works. SOmetimes we can go through difficult and exremely traumatic times and bounce back. I had some Nam pals who lived a full and happy life, and I know they saw and did terrible things.

Some of the nicest ladies I ever met, the most gracious had tattoos on their arm, there was no reason to bring it up, and they didn't talk about it either, but they GLOWED with something most people don't have. They had been Deeply in touch with themselves, more than any of us can imagine, they've been to the edge and back, and have what I think most religions would call GRACE. And a dignity that is so much more precious than some people can even imagine.

I hope the counselling helps. Sometimes there are things better left unsaid.

But I DO hope to god there actually IS a thing called Karma, and that any bastard that would CHAIN ANY woman face down will get to stand in front of someone or the Universe itself and TRY, just TRY TO DEFEND that Action.

Indefensible, period. But in the end, their weakness can become her strength, there are transfers taking place in this world between people, some balance is achieved and in the end SHE will be filled with the strength and dignity her captors LOST with their actions.

I wish her nothing but Healing, and hope that the others who are being treated like common criminals stand together and somehow hear that MANY of us are working HARD to get them FREE.

I had no idea it was that bad, I am so sorry.

Give her time, it takes time when you find out that human beings can be monsters, most of us never imagine it, Kubblar-Ross was raised in a Concentration Camp and knew that well. SOunds like she's been throught roughly the same experience.

The soul was tattooed too.

Now she has the sun and wind in her hair I hope, and loving family to surround her and protect her and that's a GOOD thing.

All the best to her and you.
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lala_rawraw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 07:46 AM
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20. I will pass it on, thanks
And I think we need to keep the pressure going now that Bush has said outright immigrants have no rights, illegal or resident legals alike. This cannot stand. Not sure what else to do but keep writing about this and hope people notice that their neighbors are disappearing.
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 08:44 AM
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21. Notice how the word "detainees" sprang into being?
All of a sudden even Police in the neighborhood streets weren't "arresting" anyone, they were "detaining" people.. and of course the word "detain" seems fairly innocuous to most folks. "Oh, I had to detain someone for a second and then they were on their way, nothing more than an Inconvenience.."

If you ARREST Someone THEN they have RIGHTS, but as far as the Bush Admin and their Psyops folks are concerned if you call them a "DUCK" then they don't have any rights, because they are NOT a Human Being under "arrest".. they are a "DUCK" and have no Human Rights either.

REFRAMING is being used to REINTERPRET "law". Words ARE DANGEROUS. The Pen IS Mightier than the Sword. But their "Pens" ARE their "Swords", especially with Gonzales at the helm.

IN the old days the CIA used to operate in Secret. NOW they are ALL OVER the front pages, PROUD articles showing them using a DRONE to fire on a 7 foot tall Arab, as there can be no other TALL Arab in the world than Osama Bin Laden. The OLD Bush Regime operated in SECRET, but NOW here they are strolling in the front door of the White House free as they please, and HOW do they get away with it?

The MEDIA of course, and once again it's REFRAMING debates, the minds of Joe Sixpack, REInventing their own History ala Winston Smith, and bouncing Lies like Ping Pong Balls between Publications for Credibility ala Judith Miller, their Waterbearer for the Plame scene, the bringer of Mushroom Clouds.

What Bush is saying is that NO ONE has any Rights, the immigrants are just the trial balloon, the test subject for legal precedence, just like with Welfare people, they use those who have the LEAST chance of defending themselves to create those Precedents and then make a Grab for the rest of us.

Unfortunately LaLa, your loved one is being used as a "guinea pig", and that old saw about "They came for the XXXX and *I* DID NOTHING.. THEN they came FOR ME.." is more true than it's ever been.

You keep hammering them, if I can get your back, I'm THERE.

Maybe someone should stand up and ask Mr Bush what part of Christ's statement, "How you Treat the LEAST of my Brother's and Sisters is how you treat ME.." he doesn't understand?

Be strong, we are MANY and we ARE America, and WE remember that Statue in the Harbor of NYC that says "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

THAT is the America WE ARE.
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lala_rawraw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 02:35 PM
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23. how about
something like a moment of sanity just for a while, i could be happy with that
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2714648&mesg_id=2714648

i could not figure how to put the code in, but lord, this just made working all night to meet a deadline seem very long ago:)
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 04:07 AM
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13. Kudos!
It's a message that needs to get out LOUDLY.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 04:31 AM
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14. Great article Symbolman
Wake them up.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 04:46 AM
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15. EXCELLENT! ... KICK ASS symbolman!


:kick:
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joanski0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 06:32 AM
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18. I read your article on Buzzflash
first this this morning. I thought it was excellent. It made me kind of afraid. Aren't we EVER going to get rid of THOSE people?
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 07:44 AM
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19. If only Orkin REALLY got rid of Pests, eh?
Instead of us being able to call ORKIN on these guys, we see Cheney's office with a BIG SHREDDER Truck sitting outside for a week BEFORE the elections, and THAT alone gave me hope. Like cats covering up their own crap, they are flailing.

But the Big Boys like Bush Senior are far more scary. They've already got their fingers in so many PIES. Hell, Bush Junior GREW UP kissing these Saudis on the Lips his whole life, but they'd just tell him to "run along" the Big Boys had things to discuss.

If the American public isn't OUTRAGED by this, despite the soft pedaling of the media, sighing, "Oh Thanks god, a CENTRIST.." When he is Nothing of the Kind, then they've done their job well, keeping us fat dumb and happy -

but we all need to start SCREAMING, "I DIDN'T VOTE FOR BUSH SENIOR TO RUN MY GOVT -- OR his SON for that matter.. I VOTED for a DEMOCRATIC OUSTER OF THESE VERY SAME PEOPLE, Not ONCE, but THREE TIMES, if you could the sound THUMPING Bush Senior Got when we ELECTED President CLINTON, instead of HIM!"

Like I said before, if we are going to bring PAST Presidents into the fold, then I want President CLINTON. Bill, that is :)

Shout it from the rooftops. we DID NOT VOTE for Bush Senior OR his Criminal PARDONED partners.
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SalviaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 02:58 PM
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24. Great commentary!!
I do not trust Poppy or Baker/Hamilton or anyone else the repubs choose. Why should I. They have already shown us who they are.

I can hardly stand to watch corp media but when I do I see them trying to rewrite reality by having Republicans tell us what Democrats think. Where are the Democrats. We can speak for ourselves. On the Today Show yesterday in the first 10 minutes they featured McCain; today it was Rudy. They are such shills.

They also did a bit on the new MS-Ipod and had a disclaimer that the same company who owns MS owns them (the Today Show). They should have to have disclaimers with political reports too.

I love your work Symbolman!! Thanks.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-14-06 02:59 PM
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25. yes!
I like the drift
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