The Ultraviolet Garden

Thanks to the Dave Chappelle on Twitter.

In December ’08 I posted a video about Bugliosi’s book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” here. (Truly awesome.)

I bought Dad the audio version (failing vision) and he sent it to me after he “read” it. I’d read Helter Skelter and Outrage years ago, so I was already aware of how awesome Bugliosi is.

Today I learned that his “Prosecution of George W. Bush…” has been made into a movie! It’s due out February of next year. I’m happy as hell.

Here’s a trailer:

Hot damn. I hope Vincent gets the support he needs for this endeavor. If I were rich I’d be his benefactor.

Not happy with my gallery. The problem is, one can’t comment on a single photo or even a single gallery. If you leave a comment on any photo or gallery—it’ll show up on ALL photos and galleries.

Unacceptable. I will find a way to fix that. Meantime, if you’re not specific in your comments I have no idea what photo or gallery you might be commenting on.

I don’t know if I want to add a five star rating system or not. Probably not. It shouldn’t be that easy for you to dislike my shit. I prefer forcing you to actually comment to tell me I suck. You don’t get off with just one click. You’ll have to contend with me I guess.

Haven’t been logging on to Facebook as much. It just really, really sucks over there. All the quizzes, for one (and I like quizzes). I wouldn’t mind them so much if everyone would occasionally post something other than that.

Also, it shouldn’t be notifying me via email that someone “also” commented on something, when I have not commented on it! But no, they want you to be notified, even if you just hit “like” and did not comment at all. So at least in this respect, Facebook doesn’t distinguish between “comment” and “like”.

Well. I didn’t like.

Elsewise, I found a neat resource: RR_LiveAudio.

That’s “Radio Reference” if you’re not a scanner head. Follow their tweets and the next time news is being made, you might be able to listen to the live radio chatter as it happens. This was the case re the Balloonboy. It was very interesting listening to what was going on as it happened.

I wouldn’t mind providing a feed to RR, but someone’s already providing coverage for my county. It’s pretty awesome.

War is now a permanent export of the USA. So are the attendant war crimes.

And anyone who thinks US security interests are being improved by those ghastly facts on the ground is a damned fool. —jk

Read more here.

I’ve currently butchered the Fluid Blue wordpress theme. I love the colors blue and orange together, but I’m not a web designer. I can’t necessarily say this looks better than the original Fluid Blue, but I don’t care. Long as my preferences have been incorporated.

I like the sub-page support; I don’t have to have an index in the sidebar, which is already a bit overloaded to me.

I got a rather sizable donation for one of my projects! I’ll be working on that late into the night probably. Somebody’s getting a present for their kindness and generosity. And this bloke has NO IDEA!

Muhahahahaa!

I hope to get caught up on some email; and other things I need to do. I feel frazzled! After tonight I’m going to try to slow down. I’m quite sure all those things I need to do will still be there.

These are some courageous people. Chief Gee’s lost some weight. And his smirk is gone. He actually looked kind of nervous. Click here to read about it and listen to the rest of what happened.

They are why I could never be a misanthropist. Not that I haven’t been tempted.

I feel the need to draw attention again to the following videos. These aren’t meant to be watched just once. It requires a shift in the way we think. Surviving police encounters—and knowing your rights and behaviorally asserting them as safely as possible—seems to be a bit like learning how to drive. You must first practice many times before you are able to drive without actually thinking about driving. Hopefully, by recalling these facts and scenarios, we as citizens will learn how to stay safer to a point where it becomes second nature. That’s why it’s so important to review these videos now and then.

It’s not enough to simply know these things. If we don’t incorporate them into our lives as good and safe habits, then knowing them doesn’t really do a whole lot of good, now does it?

There’s only one thing that the professor says that I disagree with. The rest of it is completely spot on. Those who know me probably wouldn’t find it hard to figure out which part I disagree with. (If you must know, it’s the part where he says that cops aren’t likely to lie on you! But that’s not pertinent. I am just being picky. I do think he’s dead wrong on that, though.)

Law professor and a police officer reveal why you should never talk to police.

Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters.

The Star has just published the following article about Benamar’s case.

Shrugging Off Torture

He’s the only known case of Extraordinary Rendition in Canada. What I’m mad about is that they still have not apologized for what they put him through. Stephen Harper came back saying that after they investigated themselves they found themselves to be innocent of all wrongdoing. (I will believe an investigation took place when I see proof of it, I don’t know if they had an investigation or an “investigation”. Or if they skipped the whole kerfuffle entirely and said, “Let’s don’t and say we did”.)

But it seems to me that they still have to explain HOW—and via WHOSE authorization—did he end up being delivered in the middle of the night in the back seat of a car and into the hands of his torturers in a Brooklyn jail in the first place! Don’t you guys know we torture people here?

Not only have they deeply affected Ben’s life forever, but we may not know how many other cases of Extraordinary Rendition there might have been. And why the fuck am I capitalizing that euphemism? Somebody please, slap the shit out of me. It’s kidnapping! Oh, excuse me: Kidnapping. (The truth is always worth capitalizing.)

Anyway, I’m very glad that the Star published the article. The story needs to be kept alive. When all the proceedings are done and the crowds go home, he still has to live with what they put him through.

How very dare you, Canada.

Here’s a clip I made from the movie Four Rooms. I love this movie. The first room I could do without but the rest of them are great. This is room 309. The Misbehavers.

I’m behind in a couple of things I need to do, but I’ve actually been making progress.

New photos of the cats.

I wonder if linking to one of my own pages will cause a trackback to appear. I’m about to find out.

Nice try, Michael. Not unexpected. I suppose you don’t have much else to do, legally. There’s not a lot of options open to you. It’s that damn video tape. If only it would go away.

Thanks for the heads-up, Noble.