HERE COME THE Bogeymen AGAIN

This is the type of site that makes my blood clot in my veins: Restoration: Reaching America’s Oldest Cultures through Practical Acts of God’s Love.

Christians poking at American Indians again – in this case the Hopi, one of the last groups to keep their mother goddess (mostly ‘cause they plunked their villages on mesatops and carved trails up the mesas so narrow no one could get their horses up them).

What makes this dud of a group think the Hopi want to be “reached”? In my head I see a cartoon of the Hopi running for their lives across the desert at the sight of these “Restoration” bogeymen.

I mean, haven’t the Christians done enough bone-breaking damage to the Hopi? First the Spanish Conquistadores called them "heathens" and tortured them for gold.

A little later Spanish missionaries tortured them in the name of Christ. In addition to torture they pumped the Hopi into forced labor, “summoned” Hopi women for sexual favors, and tried to take down the Hopi Mother Goddess. Hopis caught practicing their age-old religion were either “whipped or executed” (Billard 1979: 174).

Although usually peaceful and nonviolent, the Hopi have never been shy about fighting for their rights. So after being manhandled by the Spanish for a few decades they banded together with their Pueblo cousins and in 1680 royally routed these Spanish rogues.

Then in the mid 1800s in stomped the Anglos with their missionaries and government policies (Dozier 1970: 88). From about 1900-1920, the Mesa villages snapped and popped. For adults there was the U.S. Religious Crimes Code, designed to root and stomp out Indian religion.

For kids there was an even finer delight: the Indian boarding school. Against their parents’ will children were carted off to these re-education camps and cracked open like nuts (Dozier 1970: 115). Pueblo English professor Paula Gunn Allen says “…millions of Indian people were educated in boarding schools … wherein serious sexual and other kinds of physical abuse, neglect, terrorization, starvation, and humiliation were the order of the day…” (1992: xiii-xiv).

Just in case they don’t know squat about their Christian history I’m sending Restoration a copy of this post
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Billard, Jules B., The World of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1979).

Gunn Allen, Paula, The Sacred Hoop (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).

Dozier, Edward, The Pueblo Indians of North America (Case Studies in Anthropology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970).

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Thnx to Ale Paiva for the foto

HATS Off TO MEDUSA COILS

Ever wondered what’s happening in our glorious Goddess community? If you haven’t already, trip on over and check out Medusa Coils. You’ll find little vignettes of who’s said what and doing what in the English-speaking Goddess world.

Everyone’s all friendly over there and insightful to boot. I say hats off to labrys, Medusa and Silver Serpent for keeping this fine blog.

TO RECOVERING Christians ET AL.

To All Recovering YAJites*,

Bless you dear ones, for you have been burned.

But listen dudes and dudettes, ya get burned by one hot stove, d’ya give up cooking? Not. Just because Jehovah, Allah and Yahweh did you dirty doesn’t mean all deities will.

When the Guiding Mother Goddess was our mainstay humans lived peaceful, egalitarian lives. Institutionalized warfare didn’t exist. Large-scale snooty snobbism didn’t exist. What could be wrong with letting yourself fall for a deity like this?

Love,
Athana
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Thnx to obyvatel for the foto
*YAJ is the god YahwehAllahJehovah, the god of Abraham. YAJites are those who follow YAJ.

RU Worried YET?

Wake up and smell the stinky feet in bed beside you, dear readers. They’re called “Christian Reconstructionists,” or “Dominionists” and they want to bring back death by stoning for “gays and nonbelievers” among others. What's more, they might just be getting too big for their britches:

“Two really devilish guys materialized
in Toccoa. Ga. last month to harangue true believers on the gospelof a thoroughly theocratic America. Along with lesser lights of the religious far right who spoke at American Vision's "Worldview SuperConference 2006," Herb Titus and Gary North called for nothing short of the overthrow of the United States of America.

“Titus and North aren't household
names. But Titus, former dean of TV
preacher Pal Robertson's Regent University
law school, has led the legal battle
to plant the Ten Commandants in
county courthouses across the nation.
North, an apostle of the creed called
Christian Reconstructionism. is one of
the most influential elders of American
fundamentalism.

"’I don’t want to capture their (mainstream Americans') system. I want to replace it,’ fumed North to a cheering audience. North has called for the stoning of gays and nonbelievers (rocks are cheap and plentiful, he has observed). Both friends and foes label him ‘Scary Gary.’

SNIP

“At the heart of what was taught by a
succession of speakers:
o Six-day, ‘young earth' creationism
is the only acceptable doctrine for
Christians. Even ‘intelligent design’ or
‘old earth’ creationism are compromises
with evil secularism.
• Public education is satanic and must
be destroyed….

“It would be easy to dismiss the
Reconstructionists as the lunatic fringe, no more worrisome than the remnants of the Prohibition Party. But. in fact, they have rather extraordinary entree and influence with top-tier Religious Right leaders and institutions.

“James Dobson's Focus on the Family
is now selling DeMar's book, America's
Christian Heritage. Dobson himself has
a warm relationship with many in the
movement, and he has admitted voting
for Reconstructionist presidential candidate
Howard Phillips in 1996.

“TV preacher Robertson has mentioned
reading North's writings, and he
has hired Reconstructionists as professors
at Regent University. Jerry Falwell
employs Reconstructionists to teach at
Liberty University. Roger Schultz. the
chair of Liberty's History Department.
writes regularly for Faith for all of Life,
the leading Reconstructionist journal.

“In short, Dobson, Robertson, Falwell
and the Southern Baptist Convention (the nation's largest Protestant denomination) may not agree with everything the Reconstructionists
advocate, but they sure don't seem to mind hanging out with this openly theocratic, anti-democratic crowd. It's enough fur Americans who believe in personal freedom and religious liberty to get worried about - before the first stones start flying.”


From “WARPED WORLDVIEW: Christian Reconstructionists Believe Democracy Is Heresy, Public Schools Are Satanic And Stoning Isn't Just For The Taliban Anymore -- And They've Got More Influence Than You Think.” By John Sugg, published in Church & State; Jul/Aug 2006, Vol. 59 Issue 7, p11-13.

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Thnx to floter for the foto

HOLY christian JIHAD

Yesterday Cousin Harold ripped me off a piece-of-trash email that’s circling the Net and trying to pump us all full of fear. First it says Islam is "the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States" after which it shouts, “most … clerics of Islam have declared a holy war against the infidels of the world…”

I don't know about the first part, but the second is not true. Most Islamic leaders don’t push violence any more than Christian clerics do. Also, this circulating foolishness totally skips over the part where Jehovah and Jesus too push the idea of killing heretics:

Here’s Jumpin’ Jehovah: "If you hear that in one of the towns ... there are men ... saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ ... it is your duty to ... put the inhabitants of that town to the sword; you must lay it under the curse of destruction -- the town and everything in it" (Deuteronomy 13: 12-16).

And Mr. Jesus: "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned" (John 15:6).

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Thnx to graceland32 for the foto

CRASH

Big computer crash you don't even wanna hear about. I've spent the last week in India and Mexico with techies, trying to iron things out. Finally I'm back on line. Never mind that most of the sites I surf to look beamed in from Mars -- at least I can get to them.

It's good to be back!

TO Anti-War & CLIMATE-CHANGE ACTIVISTS

A friend of mine named Duff said she’s having trouble flagging you down on something big.

Right now most of the world has been bamboozled into following religions that are going to wipe us off the face of the planet – you included. Maybe you personally don’t think you need religion, and that's fine. But anthropologists know that the majority of the world does, always has, and probably always will.

And if you don’t help the world see their religions are lethal – and help throw them some healthy religions as substitutes -- then nothing else you do will ever matter. Nothing you can do will ever cap religion. Darlings, you might as well spit in the wind.

Actually, we all have “religion.” There’s no choice in that. The only choice is which religion you’ll follow: Yahweh, Allah, Jehovah or Vishnu, the way over half the world does now? One of the Eastern religions? All the mainstream Eastern religions I know also pump up war, violence, and a one-sided male-over-female mentality – even Buddhism. Or is your religion money? Or science?

We all have answers to the big questions -- Where did I come from; What’s the purpose of life; Where do I go after I die. How you answer is your religion. Maybe without knowing it, Science is your god. The purpose of life, says the God Science, is to study it. And since it stands in the way of accurately studying things, the Big Sin is emotion. The supernatural, says The God Science, is for fools. The God Science says humans came from 32c worth of chemicals, period. End of sentence.

Can you see how such a god, if left free to romp around the sandbox, might lead to the invention of WMD? If the point of life is to scrutinize the universe, and fear and love are abominations, then study has total free reign -- no matter where it leads.

Of all the hundreds of world cultures anthropologists have studied, every single one has had religion – and religion based on the supra-natural. When anthropologists find such “universals” they know they’re on to something big, something fundamental to human functioning (other universals include the incest taboo, gender roles, myth, language, art, cooking, games, moral standards, and a few more.).

A solution to the war gods is a Guiding Mother Goddess. We are what we worship. If people worship a mother goddess, they’ll treat others the way a healthy mother treats her children: with unconditional love and regard. Instead of punishing, they’ll teach. Instead of bumping everyone into piles called good, better and best, they’ll see everyone as equally valuable.

If you have a negative reaction to the idea of a Mother Goddess, consider this: the Abrahamaic religions have spent 2000 years making damn sure you do. They knew the greatest threat to their existence were the Mother Goddesses, and they used every trick in the book – most hitting below the belt – to con humanity into having just the reaction you’re having now.

But even the Inquisitors couldn’t scrub out the notion of Mother Earth, Gaia, the ancient Goddess Gaia. Not only has the world shrunk to a village, it’s shrunk to a village speaking a hundred different languages – almost all of them sick war-god languages. To survive now, we need one mutually intelligible language. I propose it be a language of love -- the language of our common Mother, the Great Mother Goddess, Gaia.

Hymning TO DADDY WAR GOD

In your megachurch this Sunday, here's a sprightly little tune to sing along with "Onward Christian Soldiers" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic":

“Christian, dost thou see them
On the holy ground?
How the troops of Midian
Prowl and prowl around?

"Christian, up and smite them,
Counting gain but loss;
Smite them by the merit
Of the holy cross.”

In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins said he used to sing this hymn in church Sundays (Dawkins 2006: 245).

Babies, as long as we drop on bended knee in front of primitive desert war gods, we will ... always ... have ... war.

GET YOUR Hands Off MY GODS, DUDE

Evidence has it that Robin Hood was not a man but a god (just one bit of evidence: in a 1639 pamphlet published in London he’s depicted by the Church as a pagan god).

At the same time, Maid Marian seems to have been “the Goddess Maerin, or Marian, or Mari-Anna, the Saxon wudu-maer, literally the Mary or the Mother of the Grove” (Barbara Walker 1983: 858; Robert Graves 1991: 396).

So why not revive Robin and Marion’s true identities?

King Arthur too seems to have been a god demoted by Jehovah the Jealous to mere mortal status.

Likewise, before Jehovah trotted in to Britain and sank his hooks in them, many of the women in the Arthurian legends were goddesses too.

And while our old gods Robin and Arthur push truth, beauty and justice, Jehovah, who stole their lands, pushes – what? -- mostly himself.

Mostly all Jehovah digs is allegiance, the licking of his boots (“Do not worship any other god, for the lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” ~ Exodus 34: 14).

So the upshot is, we with British heritage are hiding our shining, superior deities simply because this green-eyed dud named Jealous has demanded it. Hm.
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thnx to Bekisjak for the foto of what's heralded as the grave of Arthur at Glastonbury

Traveling WITH THE GODDESS

Karen Tate asked me to let you know about her 2008 Sacred Goddess tours to Paris and Turkey.

I hafta admit, after reading her tour descriptions (HERE and HERE) my mouth’s watering. Gathering around old goddess places with a group of like-minded people, and with an ordained priestess of the Goddess (i.e., Karen) to guide us? Oh, my!

Karen’s lead tours all over the world. She’s the author of Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations, which I highly recommend for a worldwide grounding in the history of the Goddess.


The TURKEY Tour: October 15-28, 2008

Did you know Turkey used to be called “Nourishing Mother”? I didn’t.

“…Few places,” says Karen, “offer so many exciting activities and varied sacred sites of the Goddess [as Turkey]. Visit temples of Athena, Aphrodite, Cybele, Mary and Isis. Stand in the temples of Artemis, including outside Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Explore Hecate’s only standing temple and the famous Neolithic site of Çatal Hoyuk. No longer swept beneath the sands of time, Goddess sites come alive on our journey, giving you the rare opportunity to connect with the Divine Feminine among Her ancient stones, on Her still potent sacred soils.”

For more info on the Turkey tour, go HERE.


The PARIS Tour: May 23-30, 2008

Did you know Paris has hidden places where the Goddess used to be?

In Paris, says Karen, “Goddess Spirituality [is] hidden in plain sight…. From her newly defined sacred place, the Louvre Museum, visit her many faces embraced across continents…. Wonder at Mary Magdalene’s temple in the heart of Paris…. Uncover places once sacred to Isis, the Druids, and Celts. Visit a sacred well beneath a cathedral replete with symbols and imagery of Goddess from a past long forgotten…. Meditate on the ancient roots of the Black Madonna and the Blessed Virgin…. Contemplate controversial sites made famous in The DaVinci Code.”

For more info on the Paris tour, go HERE.

BTW, both men and women are welcome on both tours.

HATS Off TO TAWFIK HAMID

Here’s a dude who deserves a dance in the park with his favorite woman:

He's TAWFIK HAMID, and he says to his fellow and sister Muslims, “It is well past time that Muslims cease using the charge of 'Islamophobia' as a tool to intimidate and blackmail those who speak up against suspicious passengers and against those who rightly criticize current Islamic practices and preachings”

Hats off to you, Mr. Hamid!

To read Tawfik Hamid’s article in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal go HERE.

Of course what I'd really like to hear Mr. Hamid say is he plans to lead Muslims back to the beautiful, glorious, sparkling spiritualities they practised before the war gods hit them. The spiritualities they practiced back when they were what we now call Ubaidians and Halafians, and had no war whatsoever, no snooty snobbism, or poverty, or violence, or bully-boy rulers. That's what I'd really like to hear him say. But at this point, I'm very, very glad for small favors.
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thnx to anna.benedetto for the foto

THE MISTAKE Began WHEN....

“The mistake began when God was created in a male image…. That makes life so perverted and death so unnatural. We should have imagined life as created in the birth-pain of God the Mother. Then we would understand why we, Her children, have inherited pain, for we would know that our life’s rhythm beats from Her great heart, torn with the agony of love and birth. And we would feel that death meant reunion with Her, a passing back into Her substance, blood of Her blood again, peace of Her peace! Now wouldn’t that be more logical and satisfying than having God a male whose chest thunders with egotism and is too hard for tired heads and thoroughly comfortless?” (From Eugene O’Neill's Strange Interlude).

MOTHER-MOTHER Land

New article out today in The New Yorker on bonobos:

“Who could have imagined a close relative of ours in which female alliances intimidate males, sexual behavior is as rich as ours, different groups do not fight but mingle, mothers take on a central role, and the greatest intellectual achievement is not tool use but sensitivity to others?”
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Thnx to tintinian for the foto

A DUDE LIKE Braveheart

What choice do mamas have these days?

Here’s the liberal Christian approach:

“Now Junior, we want you to grow up to be just like God. Just don’t be jealous like him. Or petty. Or unjust. Or unforgiving like he is. Or a control freak. Or vindictive or bloodthirsty like he is.

"Or an ethnic cleanser. Or misogynistic, homophobic, racist, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic or capriciously malevolent. Otherwise, just follow his every lead.”

And here’s the fundamentalist approach:

“Look, junior. There’s God with his white beard. He’s a warrior dude like Braveheart. The Bible tells us so in Exodus 15:3: “The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is his name.” If you’re stubborn, Junie, or work on Sundays God says you should be electrocuted (well he said “stoned,” but we’re not that primitive anymore) (Deut. 21: 18-21; Exodus 35:2).

"Some people call him Jehovah, but it says right in the Bible that his real name is Jealous (“…the Lord whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God” Exodus 34:14). So be just like him, Junie: a jealous warrior dude who electrocutes people for sneezing.”

[Does this sound like a president you know?]
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Thnx to zeynep'arkok for the foto

I WANNA Burn FOR YOU

When I visited her last month in the Midwest, my friend Kathy gave me a soda-cracker size radio ya hook on your belt and plug in your ears.

Even though my treadmill fuzzes up my other radios, it doesn’t this one, and as I treaded this morning, I heard an aching male voice belt out a powerful tune with this refrain:

“I wanna yearn for you,

“I wanna buuuurn ….

“With passion all over you,

“And only you.”

Coulda knocked me over with a toothpick when I discovered I was listening to a Christian music channel. This dude was singing not to a person, but a god – no doubt Jumpin’ J. Jehovah, or his second, Jesus.

To my mind this brings up a bagga questions.

O Is this sex sublimation? Or not?

O Who listens to these songs? Dudes who can’t find live persons to get personal with?

O Do repeat listeners feel an actual sexual attraction to J.J. (or Jesus)?

O In fact, what is the relationship between spirituality and sexuality?

O Unlike Jumpin’ J., the Goddess expects and encourages us to enjoy all our senses -- to the fullest. So should we sing songs like this for Goddess?

O Why or why not?
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thnx to Buck82 for the foto

WIFE Kills PREACHER, Shocks THE NATION

A few snippets from the saga of a Tennessee Church-of-Christ church:

…One Sunday morning, a church member noticed Mary had a black eye, and he saw something else he didn't like at a church supper.

Rudy Thomsen: Mary was just bubbling, just … just talking to everybody and grinning and cutting up and just having a big time. And then Matthew walked in, and it was like you had taken a switch and flipped it. And her head went down. Her hands came together. She walked around. Totally different than she had been just a second before.
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Mary told the jury that in her marriage, abuse started within a few months.

Steve Farese: Tell the jury how he had been physical with you. Mary.

Mary Winkler: Pushed me down. Used his belt. Kick.

Mary testified Matthew spanked the children, and occasionally it got out of hand. She said his actions when Allie was a baby were particularly upsetting.

Mary Winkler: If she was crying and she -- it was time to go to bed. And he would suffocate her to get her -- go-- get quiet and go to sleep.

Steve Farese: What do you mean by suffocate her?

Mary Winkler: He'd pinch her nose and hold her mouth.

Steve Farese: And would -- would you let him do that to your child?

Mary Winkler: I just couldn't stop him.
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Mary said she asked for a divorce, which is a taboo in the Church of Christ, and a career-wrecker for Matthew. He said no.

She told the jury she lived in constant fear.
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Mary Winkler: He threatened me with a shotgun many times, putting it my face or waving it towards me. He told me if I ever talked backed to him that he would cut me into a million pieces.

And then her attorney showed the jury that shoes just like [ones Matthew forced Mary to wear] were found in pornography -- pornography on Matthew's computer.

It was a preacher's secret: hundreds of Web pages of porn. Mary testified Matthew forced her to look at porn and then forced her to have oral and anal sex.

Read the rest at MSNBC.com.

Mystified is what I am. Totally. Why would this story shock anyone? This is the land of Jehovah the bully-boy.

Right in the Bible bully-boy says women are evil. You know, Eve chowed down on that apple.

And right in the Bible J. says men are to “subdue” the earth and everything on it. The kid cried and the dude couldn’t sleep. The woman wouldn’t do what he said. What else could he do but cut off the kid’s air supply, and crawl deep into his bag of tricks to subdue the woman?
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Fotos of (1) the shoes and wig Mary testified Matthew made her buy and wear during sex; (2) the Winkler family

THE MOTHER Rule

A new book on Jesus has hit the streets: The Political Teachings of Jesus, by Tod Lindberg, June, 2007.

From a recent review in the Wall St. Journal:

“Mr. Lindberg deliberately presents Jesus' political teachings without any reference to his religious ones. This strategy may at first seem misguided; after all, Jesus regarded right conduct as a form of obedience to God. But Mr. Lindberg believes that Jesus' teachings deserve our attention whether or not they have the force of divine law. They offer, he says, a "coherent account of how to live in the world"....

“The revolutionary idea finds its most powerful expression in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The familiarity and brevity of the Golden Rule sometimes obscure its radical implications. Unlike the Ten Commandments or various secular codes, it does not list a series of prohibited acts. Instead, it provides a way to think about how to behave toward one's fellow man.”

I like the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have other do unto you.” But I think Jesus stole it from the Mother Goddess’s Mother Rule, “Do unto others as you see healthy mothers do unto their children.”

The Mother Rule is better than the Golden Rule ‘cause you can see it in action. You can look around and see how healthy mothers treat their kiddies.
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thnx to ej for the foto

Tearing IN TO JESUS' HELL

In the 19th century, cutsie-pie christian ministers tore into the hearts of little kids with stories like this:

“’Of two little maids of sixteen, one cared only for dress, and went to a dancing school, and dared to disport in the park on Sunday instead of going to mass: that little maid stands now, and forever will stand, with bare feet upon a red-hot floor.

"The other walked through the streets at night, and did very wicked things; now she utters shrieks of agony in a burning oven. A very severe torment – immersion up to the neck in a boiling kettle – agitates a boy who kept bad company, and was too idle to go to mass, and a drunkard; avenging flames now issue from his ears….’” (Walker 1983: 389 quoting from Homer Smith, Man and His Gods, Boston: Little, Brown, 1952).

It’s hard to believe anyone in the ‘good old days’ ever chugged into adulthood with garbage like this thrown at them every week. And thrown at them I might add by dudes they were taught were crème-de-la-crème.

It’s so obvious the christian underground torture chamber was a political-control tool it’s kinda embarrassing even to bring it up. I mean, you should feel insulted I even think I have to.

Evidently approved even by the "Prince of Peace" himself, the old torture chamber was “perhaps the most sadistic fantasy ever conceived by the mind of man” (Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia 1983:387) and “though the possibility is seldom recognized, there are many indications that the Christian vision of hell in its sadistic horror was one of the leading causes of disillusionment with Christianity itself” (Walker 1983: 390).
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thnx goes to milson for the foto

GOODBYE GODDESS, HELLO Pinched Space

Jared Diamond asks easy questions:

“Japan’s population increased by an astonishing factor of 70 during [War-God] Yayoi times [300 BC to AD 300]: What caused that change?” (Go HERE, to Discover Magazine, for more of Diamond's article, titled "Japanese Roots").

The answer: The jump from Goddess to War God.

Goddess says it’s women who know when to make babies.

Before the Yayoi, the Goddess-loving Jomon took care of Japan for 10,000 years (See their goddess figurines below). For 10,000 years they never overpopulated those islands – not one inch or iota.

It took the Yayoi less than 700 years to get the islands crawling with human flesh.

Why? ‘Cause their nervous-ninny War-God constantly shrieked in their ears, “There’s never enough! There’s never enough!” [Search on this blog under "Starvation Culture" for more on this.]

So this Yayoi War-God dude, he turns women into breeding machines, brood bunnies bearing barnfuls of babies who become soldiers taught to steal stuff from the neighbors across the mountains. (Today this same dude whispers about stealing from the oil-rich in neighboring boroughs, counties or countries, or from those across the Big Pond).

Prying THE SCOOT OFF THE HOOK

I almost have tears in my eyes from listening to MSNBC’s Keith Obermann spitting words at the TV screen about the way Prince Bumpkin – er… President Bush – “pardoned” his friend Mr. Scooter Libby.

You may not be familiar with the story of Mr. Scoot, but it’s a tale worth hearing, ‘cause it’s really about you and the fair land we live in. The land that just might come back and bite you in the tush (yes, even you, fair reader), if we don’t all pay attention to who’s trying to ruin – er, run us.

Ya see, it’s pretty obvious that Princy Bushhead – er… President Bush – said to ol’ Scoot, “Scoot,” he said, “If’n you go and lie to the law about the crime Dick the Chain and I committed, well, we’ll see you don’t ever go to prison for it.”

And that’s exactly what Primpo Bushman did – he took the sacred U.S. Presidential Pardon and scraped it thru the mud and pardoned ol’ Scoot for lying his head off in front of a big ol’ grand jury.

And here’s what Keith O. said that almost made me cry:

Mr. Bush, you have “ceased to be the president of the U.S.”

“We have a winner in the worst-president-in-history contest.”

“If Mr. Bush and Cheney were true patriots, they’d resign.”

“Even Richard Nixon knew when to resign.”

“Bush and Cheney are two men who are now perilous to our democracy.”

"It's July 4," said Keith. "We already decided in this nation we would not abide leaders who made up their own rules."

Finally someone on the TV screen (the mainstream srcreen no less) seeing what I’ve been seeing for the past seven years!

For small favors, Great Mother, thank you, thank you!