Drunken Pumpkin

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Beautiful.

In reply to her husband who had asked how she felt.
Died June 28, 1861

On June 13, 2007, the White House received two subpoenas from your Committees requesting documents relating to the replacement of United States Attorneys, calling for the documents to be produced by June 28, 2007. I write at the direction of the President to advise and inform you that the President has decided to assert Executive Privilege and therefore the White House will not be making any production in response to these subpoenas for documents.

That bit pretty well says it all. If you would like to read a full transcript of the letter, it can be found at Forbes.com

This study paper analyses the extent to which clandestine organizations embedded in the military and intelligence branches of government have been infiltrated by different ET factions, and the threat this poses to the sovereignty of humanity. The study begins by describing the dynamics of the interactions between clandestine organizations and various ET races. Emphasis will be on describing the different intervention philosophies and activities of ET races, and in identifying how this impacts on the decision making and organizational structure of clandestine organizations embedded within military and intelligence departments of the US and other national governments. The evidence used in framing the analysis provided in this paper is primarily drawn from the testimonies of participants in clandestine government organizations which serve as the strongest evidentiary source for analysis of the ET presence. These individuals participated in ‘black projects’ which have the highest security classifications in the US and other countries, and carry severe penalties for divulging to the general public. The fact that many of these witnesses have been able to make these testimonies public in various lectures, videos, websites or books, suggest that an ‘acclimation program’ is occurring whereby the general public is being prepared for the more disturbing aspects of the ET presence. The recommendations made at the conclusion of this paper are designed to assist in developing an adequate response to the infiltration of clandestine organizations by various ET factions.

The full study report is available here

Note: Even though I found the title to this post funny, I know that it will confuse some. The title should be interpreted as “The Central Intelligence Agency must declare No Diplomatic Exchange with Extra Terrestrials As Soon As Possible.”

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

“If we did not evolve from apes, then where did we come from?” Human
Devolution is author Michael A. Cremo’s definitive answer to this question.

“We did not evolve up from matter; instead we devolved, or came down, from the realm of pure
consciousness, spirit,” says Cremo. He bases his response on modern science and the world’s
great wisdom traditions, including the Vedic philosophy of ancient India. Cremo proposes that
before we ask the question, “Where did human beings come from? we should first contemplate,
“What is a human being?” Cremo asserts that humans are a combination of matter, mind, and
consciousness (or spirit).

I find it interesting that Jeff posted a quote from Walt Kelly the same day he posted an article of letters to president Bush asking him to make our country something we could be proud of again.

Kelly was very fond of placing seemingly nonsensical quotes in the mouth of his character Churchy le Femme. His other famous one is “We have met the enemy and he is us.” I like that. Kelly was also very politically active and was one of the first non political cartoonists to use real people in his strip as a way of attacking the politicians of his time. Most notably Joseph McCarthy made a number of appearances as a poacher in the swamp that the characters lived in.

The true irony of Kelly’s position is that during the Senate hearings on comics and juvenile delinquincy Kelly testified that comics do have a rather serious effect on children and need some sort of oversight, but comic strips and comic books were different. Comic strips had no need for oversight as they had more editors than a book. Granted, that may come from the fact that Kelly had failed miserably at producing a successful, clean comic book before beginning Pogo Possum.

I find this ironic in that Kelly opened the door for creator’s rights in comics by being the first artist to ever fully own their creation, which allowed Charles Schulz and Bill Waterson to have rights that were ordinarily assigned to the syndicate that published them. And his political satire paved the way for Bloom County and Doonesbury. In fact, Bloom County followed a tradition of Pogo by having characters run for president each election cycle. To be such a proponent for freedom and then say that some other group should not possess that same freedom is truly bizarre to me.

The world truly is full of insurmountable opportunities. So, vote your conscience and write your representatives. Tell them that you love your country and you don’t want the best advice when traveling abroad to be “pretend you’re Canadian” anymore. It’s hard to be loved when you’re a country as big as ours, but there’s no reason that we should be hated as much as we are. Ask them if we still think that we are a city on a hill as our forefathers said we should be, and just what is it the rest of the world is seeing. And, most importantly, don’t trust our media. Read newspapers from across the world, a huge number of them are online and free. If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of us, ask them, they’ll tell you.

Okay, political commentary is over from me. I’ll be back with more silly nonsense about Pumpkins and Amish dolls later.