* CONDOLEEZA RICE, THE ONCE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE AND NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, AS WELL AS A RUMORED TO BE ONCE AND/OR PART TIME MISTRESS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, WAS NOT SO LONG AGO A TOP EXECUTIVE IN THE OIL WORLD, HAVING WORKED FOR SEVERAL COMPANIES. ONE OF THOSE WAS CHEVRON - WHERE MS. RICE ENJOYED THE HONOR OF *HAVING AN OIL TANKER NAMED AFTER HER* - THE USS CONDOLEEZA RICE . . . SHE WAS ALSO AT ONE TIME A TOP CONSULTANT WITH THE UNOCAL CORPORATION, WHERE SHE WORKED CLOSELY WITH AND SIDE BY SIDE THE FUTURE 'PRESIDENT' OF AFGHANISTAN, HAMID KARZAI, WHO WAS ALSO A UNOCAL EXEC.
THE CORRUPTION IS SO RAMPANT AND WIDESPREAD, FOLKS, THAT EVEN I AM ASTOUNDED. AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE . . .
Leaving a wave of controversy in its wake, one of the most visible reminders of the Bush administration's ties to big oil - the 129,000-ton Chevron tanker Condoleezza Rice - has quietly been renamed, Chevron officials acknowledged yesterday.
"We made the change to eliminate the unnecessary attention caused by the vessel's original name," said Chevron spokesman Fred Gorell.
The double-hulled, Bahamian-registered oil tanker carrying the moniker of Bush's national security adviser was renamed the Altair Voyager, after a star, Gorell said.
The unannounced decision to rechristen the tanker was made by Chevron officials in late April, after "we had been in discussions with (Rice's) office," said Gorell. Asked if Rice or the White House had specifically requested the name change, Gorell said, "that's not for me to discuss."
Rice's spokeswoman, Maryellen Countryman, did not return calls on the matter yesterday.
The Chronicle reported a month ago that the White House had faced questions over the appropriateness of the tanker's name -- particularly as California struggled with the effects of an energy crisis.
The giant vessel was part of the international fleet of the San Francisco- based multinational oil firm, christened several years ago in honor of Rice, a longtime Chevron board member. Rice, a former Stanford University provost, served on Chevron's board from 1991 until Jan. 15, when she resigned after Bush named her his top national security aide.
But critics said the ship served as a giant floating symbol of the Bush administration's cozy ties to the oil industry.
"It does underscore that there's never been an administration in power in this country that has been so close to a single industry -- in this instance, the oil-and-gas industry," Chuck Lewis of the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity said last month when the watchdog organization first raised the issue.
The tanker's name also raised more serious questions of possible conflict of interest for Rice because Chevron does business on six continents and 25 countries and has been sued for alleged human rights abuses in Nigeria.
Last month, White House spokesman Scott McClellan insisted that the issue of the tanker had "already been addressed" by Rice, and he added, "she will uphold the highest ethical standards in office."
Chevron officials argued last month that the ship's name was entirely appropriate because it was a special honor for Rice -- part of a longstanding tradition of naming ships after members of the Chevron board. They noted that George Shultz, David Packard and Kenneth T. Derr were all afforded similar honors, and that those names did not change even when honorees went into government service.
"We would not be renaming the Condi Rice tanker," said Bonnie Schiken, spokeswoman for Chevron, in early April. "If you remember, Carla Hills was on our board, and went off the board to take a role in the administration . . . we did not rename the tanker."
Pat Moloney, executive director of the Pilot Commission and master of the historic liberty ship Jeremiah O'Brien, said yesterday, "In the old sailing ship days, they'd say it was bad luck to change the name of a ship."
But in modern times, it's not only common but prudent, he said, noting that the infamous Exxon Valdez was changed to the Sea River Mediterranean after its environmental disaster.
Chevron's move "makes good sense . . . because the ship has potential for high profile," said Moloney of the Condoleezza Rice. "The companies don't want an asset like that with an obvious political liability.
"As soon as I heard she was named (to the administration)," he said, "I figured they'd get out the paintbrush."
16 September 2008
The Puppet Masters . . .
Gee, anybody think that maybe, just maybe...the Puppet Masters within the current administration know something that the rest of the country, I mean the sheeple, as well as the rest of the world, do not? And that this thing that they know, this information, has something to do with, is related to, or heck, is the reason why they are so cavalierly (is that a word?) bankrupting this nation into oblivion.?
Let's see, those folks that call themselves the People for a New American Century (PNAC), or hmmm...the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Carlysle Group...I bet there is a whole contingent of Americans that have already purchased property in many remote, sunny, and warm parts of the world...Costa Rica...South America...Europe...wherever their computer models have told them will be a comfortable place to live after what is going to happen soon happens.
What is going to happen soon I say? What does that mean?
It is going to get a lot worse...before it even thinks about getting better. And when I say 'it', I mean the state of things here in the west, particularly in the U.S...And when I refer to the state of things, I mean the way this country will end up after the devastation of the cataclysmic end-time events that is soon to be a part of our reality. Besides acts of God, i.e. natural disasters...earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and even realer Acts such as asteroid/comet impact (now we're talking) including residual long term effects which I won't get into here, I am thinking of such things as, of course, thermonuclear events....not to mention the Eventual Inevitable....the televised, live visitation from Otherworldly Intelligences....anyway.....
Major things are going to happen...soon...waaaaay before the immense, insane debt that we are racking up daily to the rest of the world, to like, other countries, such as China, etc...people that don't really like us a whole lot...is even anywhere close to being paid off....
I mean, we'll be lucky if the aforementioned country does not one day land on our western shores, after a large chunk of it has fallen into the sea of course, only to put out its palm and say 'pay up, sucker', bringing along with them their good friends from Moscow while their at it...
hey, that's an idea....
cont'd........
Let's see, those folks that call themselves the People for a New American Century (PNAC), or hmmm...the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Carlysle Group...I bet there is a whole contingent of Americans that have already purchased property in many remote, sunny, and warm parts of the world...Costa Rica...South America...Europe...wherever their computer models have told them will be a comfortable place to live after what is going to happen soon happens.
What is going to happen soon I say? What does that mean?
It is going to get a lot worse...before it even thinks about getting better. And when I say 'it', I mean the state of things here in the west, particularly in the U.S...And when I refer to the state of things, I mean the way this country will end up after the devastation of the cataclysmic end-time events that is soon to be a part of our reality. Besides acts of God, i.e. natural disasters...earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and even realer Acts such as asteroid/comet impact (now we're talking) including residual long term effects which I won't get into here, I am thinking of such things as, of course, thermonuclear events....not to mention the Eventual Inevitable....the televised, live visitation from Otherworldly Intelligences....anyway.....
Major things are going to happen...soon...waaaaay before the immense, insane debt that we are racking up daily to the rest of the world, to like, other countries, such as China, etc...people that don't really like us a whole lot...is even anywhere close to being paid off....
I mean, we'll be lucky if the aforementioned country does not one day land on our western shores, after a large chunk of it has fallen into the sea of course, only to put out its palm and say 'pay up, sucker', bringing along with them their good friends from Moscow while their at it...
hey, that's an idea....
cont'd........
12 September 2008
Sad...
Its sad...I am getting worried, afraid that McCain could actually win this thing. I feel, that it is quite possible that Americans have become so jaded . as I have stated before...words don't really mean anything anymore anyway, do they? What is a president? He is someone who simply presides...sits over something...really not much at all, in the big scheme of things, especially when the House and Senate are of a different party. What can he do? Really change things? The idea is laughable. the Puppet Masters will always be the Puppet Masters...and those Pulling The Strings will always be just that, regardless of whoever is 'presiding' over whatever, whenever....
Even myself...I find myself seriously considering voting for McCain/Palin, simply because McCain has devoted his whole life to public service, is getting old, and should be rewarded somehow, and because Palin is a woman, is attractive, and is halfway intelligent., and I am so happy to see a woman on the ticket. That is Real change, for a change, in one sense...
After all, they are just puppets anyway, not the masters...and never will be...
Fuck it....Long Live President Sarah Palin !!! ...lol...
At this point in history, all a President needs to have is a sincere desire to do what is good, and right, for the country...all He or She has to do is know right from wrong. It's as simple as that. Forget 'experience', or 'foreign policy', etc...as stated above, Those who are Really controlling the world will move it in the direction they want to, accomplish what they desire, whether or not who they want in office actually makes it there(though they usually do)...
On the one hand, I now find myself unhappy that Obama did not choose Clinton as his running mate. I really like Biden, and have lots of respect for him, but lets face it, a vice-President doesn't amount to a whole lot. Doesn't do very much, or get much done, as regards anything major. Aside from making public speaking appearances in lieu of No. 1., or maybe state visits, when the Prez can't make it. Granted, Al Gore got some stuff done, like for the environment. And Bush 1 also, but lots of devious covert type stuff...like Cheney.
In that respect, I would have preferred Hillary, because I feel she would have used her vast experience to get some real things done...or heck just because she is more attractive.I feel Biden is just gonna do a lot of sitting on the sidelines, in a back seat, and without much press...
more soon...
Even myself...I find myself seriously considering voting for McCain/Palin, simply because McCain has devoted his whole life to public service, is getting old, and should be rewarded somehow, and because Palin is a woman, is attractive, and is halfway intelligent., and I am so happy to see a woman on the ticket. That is Real change, for a change, in one sense...
After all, they are just puppets anyway, not the masters...and never will be...
Fuck it....Long Live President Sarah Palin !!! ...lol...
At this point in history, all a President needs to have is a sincere desire to do what is good, and right, for the country...all He or She has to do is know right from wrong. It's as simple as that. Forget 'experience', or 'foreign policy', etc...as stated above, Those who are Really controlling the world will move it in the direction they want to, accomplish what they desire, whether or not who they want in office actually makes it there(though they usually do)...
On the one hand, I now find myself unhappy that Obama did not choose Clinton as his running mate. I really like Biden, and have lots of respect for him, but lets face it, a vice-President doesn't amount to a whole lot. Doesn't do very much, or get much done, as regards anything major. Aside from making public speaking appearances in lieu of No. 1., or maybe state visits, when the Prez can't make it. Granted, Al Gore got some stuff done, like for the environment. And Bush 1 also, but lots of devious covert type stuff...like Cheney.
In that respect, I would have preferred Hillary, because I feel she would have used her vast experience to get some real things done...or heck just because she is more attractive.I feel Biden is just gonna do a lot of sitting on the sidelines, in a back seat, and without much press...
more soon...
nine eleven truth . . .
Here is an neat idea...
Maybe Sen. Obama could do something really bold, in the name of truth, honesty, and justice (difficult for a politician I know), and decide to move things in another direction, and tell the American public that he feels(knows) we haven't been told the truth about 9-11, and vow to 'get to the bottom of it', and expose the REAL truth about that day, the reasons for it, and the people behind it...
Probably a tad too bold, huh?
If it were me, at this point, I would give it some serious consideration, if I really wanted to win the White House in November...
Heck, what would he have to lose?
Oh, almost forgot...his life.
If only someone running had the courage to tell America that it was a priority...
First and foremost for all the families affected by that horrible act, to expose the truth, and bring the closure that is needed...if no one does this, it will remain a festering thorn in the side of this nation, from a global perspective, for quite some time to come...
Just a thought, on the anniversary of that sad day, from someone who's family was affected...
Maybe Sen. Obama could do something really bold, in the name of truth, honesty, and justice (difficult for a politician I know), and decide to move things in another direction, and tell the American public that he feels(knows) we haven't been told the truth about 9-11, and vow to 'get to the bottom of it', and expose the REAL truth about that day, the reasons for it, and the people behind it...
Probably a tad too bold, huh?
If it were me, at this point, I would give it some serious consideration, if I really wanted to win the White House in November...
Heck, what would he have to lose?
Oh, almost forgot...his life.
If only someone running had the courage to tell America that it was a priority...
First and foremost for all the families affected by that horrible act, to expose the truth, and bring the closure that is needed...if no one does this, it will remain a festering thorn in the side of this nation, from a global perspective, for quite some time to come...
Just a thought, on the anniversary of that sad day, from someone who's family was affected...
31 August 2008
This is insanity. This McCain thing. At the moment I am really too stunned to speak.
Sarah Palin? God help us. It is getting more and more ridiculous as each new day arrives. And I mean everything, both here and abroad. This is really turning out to be quite the time to be alive on this planet, I must say...more...
Sarah Palin? God help us. It is getting more and more ridiculous as each new day arrives. And I mean everything, both here and abroad. This is really turning out to be quite the time to be alive on this planet, I must say...more...
25 August 2008
I am, and I am sad to say it, a bigtime conspiracy theorist. The reason I say sad to say it is because it is a stressful existence, to be like this, as well as a lonely one...though not as lonely as it once was not too long ago. Once you are a conspiracy theorist, it doesn't get any easier. It only gets more difficult. Like being a Christian, it is the most difficult time in history to be a con-theorist. And that is due to the spread of information, what with the internet allowing the ebb and flow of opinions, thoughts, and ideas to travel to all ends of the globe virtually instantaneously, only to build up exponentially until the inevitable happens; the theory or idea reaches the mainstream media or the forefront of daily news, where now the so-called 'myth' must be promptly de-bunked by those who are responsible for the universal mind control of America: the people who 'create' news, who release whatever information they want to release to agencies like the Associated Press, FOXNEWS, and CNN, etc...the experts news...I mean bad news...I mean information...I mean disinformation...so what ever They are attempting to 'debunk', I don't give a shred of credence to...whatever they are saying, I will not believe. In fact, just the opposite: any so-called theories they are trying to lend doubt to I will most likely accept as truth, based solely on the fact that they are trying to tell me not to believe it...
We all should know by now, that it is about six or seven guys that control 90% of all the media in the United States...all the T.V. stations and their respective news outlets, as well as all the print media and their respective new outlets. I am talking about television such as ABC. CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, etc...Iam talking about The New York Times, The Chicago Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner, The Houston Chronicle...you get the idea. Now that they have passed those federal laws a few years ago...under the direction of Colin Powells' son, any single person, company, or entity can own as many media companies, T.V stations/newspapers as they can afford. There used to be, a few years ago, limits as to how many, for instance, newspapers one man could own, or television stations. Not any more.
And guess what else? These guys I am talking about.....and this is where it gets fun, just happen to be of the Jewish persuasion. Hmm....
So...Jews control 90% of our countries' media. Let us think about this for a moment. Actually we should do some serious thinking, long and hard, about the reality of what is going on.
I like to call it ' The Ghost Government '. That is, the 'Entity ' that controls and shapes our thoughts, desires, our likes and our dislikes...our hopes and dreams. Yes, it is television that is and has been our mother and father, right out of the womb. Teaching us. Guiding us. Forming our sense of judgment. it is said that we as Americans have witnessed over 10,000 murders(deaths) on television by the age of 12. We have been taught to ' laugh at death ' from t.v. . They have made murder funny, that is, they have place killing in a context of humor. That is most likely, and most often. Otherwise they have placed it in a context/cloak of ' justice '...that is, ' of course it right to kill the bad guy ! '...
Since day one they have been working very hard at, and succeeding in, making us think and feel precisely how they want us to. There is a Secret Agenda within the Zionist controlled media to prepare/program us...emotionally, psychologically, and physically, for what has happened and, more importantly, What Is To Come. . .
So now, let us fast forward to 2008... and we smile at death, laugh at killing, say ' Hell Yeah ! ' and ' Kill Em' All ! ' to murder...provided it's the bad guy who's getting killed, and it's the good guy killing. The ' Right One ' defending, or self-defending, whichever it may be, his/her so-called ' rights ', and the ' Wrong One' , the ' Evil Doer ', the ' Bad Guy ', that sees their demise. Hell, they deserved it, the stupid fuckers! The assholes...the scumbags.... Good and Bad and Right and Wrong are now reasons enough to take another's life, and do it with a clear conscience...with complete disregard for the laws of man. We are being programmed to...
Continued . . .
We all should know by now, that it is about six or seven guys that control 90% of all the media in the United States...all the T.V. stations and their respective news outlets, as well as all the print media and their respective new outlets. I am talking about television such as ABC. CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, etc...Iam talking about The New York Times, The Chicago Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner, The Houston Chronicle...you get the idea. Now that they have passed those federal laws a few years ago...under the direction of Colin Powells' son, any single person, company, or entity can own as many media companies, T.V stations/newspapers as they can afford. There used to be, a few years ago, limits as to how many, for instance, newspapers one man could own, or television stations. Not any more.
And guess what else? These guys I am talking about.....and this is where it gets fun, just happen to be of the Jewish persuasion. Hmm....
So...Jews control 90% of our countries' media. Let us think about this for a moment. Actually we should do some serious thinking, long and hard, about the reality of what is going on.
I like to call it ' The Ghost Government '. That is, the 'Entity ' that controls and shapes our thoughts, desires, our likes and our dislikes...our hopes and dreams. Yes, it is television that is and has been our mother and father, right out of the womb. Teaching us. Guiding us. Forming our sense of judgment. it is said that we as Americans have witnessed over 10,000 murders(deaths) on television by the age of 12. We have been taught to ' laugh at death ' from t.v. . They have made murder funny, that is, they have place killing in a context of humor. That is most likely, and most often. Otherwise they have placed it in a context/cloak of ' justice '...that is, ' of course it right to kill the bad guy ! '...
Since day one they have been working very hard at, and succeeding in, making us think and feel precisely how they want us to. There is a Secret Agenda within the Zionist controlled media to prepare/program us...emotionally, psychologically, and physically, for what has happened and, more importantly, What Is To Come. . .
So now, let us fast forward to 2008... and we smile at death, laugh at killing, say ' Hell Yeah ! ' and ' Kill Em' All ! ' to murder...provided it's the bad guy who's getting killed, and it's the good guy killing. The ' Right One ' defending, or self-defending, whichever it may be, his/her so-called ' rights ', and the ' Wrong One' , the ' Evil Doer ', the ' Bad Guy ', that sees their demise. Hell, they deserved it, the stupid fuckers! The assholes...the scumbags.... Good and Bad and Right and Wrong are now reasons enough to take another's life, and do it with a clear conscience...with complete disregard for the laws of man. We are being programmed to...
Continued . . .
23 August 2008
They are saying that Biden does not represent in any way Obama's motto of change, since, after all, he has spent the last 35 years in Washington, most of that time as a senator...that he is exactly The Opposite of what Obama is preaching. but there is always two sides to a coins, two sides to every story...
As I see it, Mr. Biden is in the perfect position to affect change in this country. There is a popular Buddhist precept, and it goes something like: ' One cannot know the value of peace unless one has lived through the war '...
In this sense, it is Joe Biden who knows intimately the inner workings of Washington, The White House, the way the world works, etc...and, after so much time observing, learning, working, and communicating with the leaders of american and foreign government, I am confident it is precisely He who knows how to bring the change we all need. It is his lifelong dedication to public service and his experience that has earned the respect of his colleagues in the senate, the members of Congress, the American public, and those abroad....as Obama said...a Statesman. And I wholeheartedly agree. He may not be the perfect public speaker that Obama seems to be, but he is genuine and honest. To me, that is everything. Should he be something else?
To watch Barack speak is an immense pleasure. To observe a man, especially one of african-american descent, speak as he does, brings joy to my heart. This man says exactly what needs to be said, when it needs to be said. And he RARELY refers to cue cards. That's huge. The words are there, already, in perfect position, in the man's head. But more importantly, it is his heart that is in the right place. It is together, the heart and the mind, of Senator Obama, that is working so perfectly in harmony, synchronistically, that makes everything this man says come out better than anyone else since Kennedy, in my opinion.
It is not surprising that the man is African-American. Not in the least. It is this I feel, along with the qualities and values and feelings that his race brings to the table, that gives him the ability to ' straight talk ' the issues in ways a white man could not. His opponents only wish they could be him, could speak as he does, as real as he does. That is precisely it: Real Talk. Thats what Barack gives us, and that is what we all need right now. Its what the world needs. No more bullshit. Because that is all we have been fed for the last eight years. And we have been eating it up, happily, since day one. Now, if 9-11 had never happened, it most likely wouldn't have gone down the way it did.
Anyway, back to the point...it is these feelings, such as anger, frustration, courage, determination, strength, being fed up, being sick and tired of being sick and tired, feelings the African-American people can easily identify with, real feelings, deep rooted and true, that gives Barack such an eloquence of thought and speech, that if you are really listening to what the candidates have to say, there is hardly any way you can possibly believe in your heart that McCain is truly the better choice for Prez....unless, of course, you are racist, or financially dependent on the G.O.P. i.e. in the pocket of....
Biden said something about ' it is not a position that is suited well to on-the-job training '...or something to the like...
For some reason people are wanting the potential president to already know how to be president. WTF !!!??? Where else has this happened? IT DOESN'T. Unless you are living in a monarchy,which this is not. It is as if we are afraid that the prez-elect doesn't have enough experience...experience doing what? being president? of course he doesn't!! Why should he? Being president IS an on-the-job training gig. Like being a parent. If you haven't done it before, you do it on the guidance of others who have. people who have more knowledge and experience than you...
Do people really feel safer voting for McCain, simply because he has so-called 'experience '? Experience doing what? getting shot down on his second or third day in action and being a prisoner for five years? That is his experience? give me a break.
Just as Bush, the blubbering idiot, did what needed to be done when it needed to be done, regardless of whether or not the choices were good or not, Obama will do what he needs to do, when he needs to do it, at appropriate time and place. It is because of exactly WHO the next president chooses to surround himself with. And I am sure that Sen. Obama will have the best advisers, and will appoint the best people to positions in the Cabinet that he can find...
If Obama does not get elected, the rest of the world will once and for all know for sure that either Americans are completely retarded, or, the elections are , as they have been the last couple of times for sure and also in the past, completely fixed...by the real Evil Doers, those puppet masters, who do, and always have been ,secretly pulling the strings behind the scenes in our government...more.....
As I see it, Mr. Biden is in the perfect position to affect change in this country. There is a popular Buddhist precept, and it goes something like: ' One cannot know the value of peace unless one has lived through the war '...
In this sense, it is Joe Biden who knows intimately the inner workings of Washington, The White House, the way the world works, etc...and, after so much time observing, learning, working, and communicating with the leaders of american and foreign government, I am confident it is precisely He who knows how to bring the change we all need. It is his lifelong dedication to public service and his experience that has earned the respect of his colleagues in the senate, the members of Congress, the American public, and those abroad....as Obama said...a Statesman. And I wholeheartedly agree. He may not be the perfect public speaker that Obama seems to be, but he is genuine and honest. To me, that is everything. Should he be something else?
To watch Barack speak is an immense pleasure. To observe a man, especially one of african-american descent, speak as he does, brings joy to my heart. This man says exactly what needs to be said, when it needs to be said. And he RARELY refers to cue cards. That's huge. The words are there, already, in perfect position, in the man's head. But more importantly, it is his heart that is in the right place. It is together, the heart and the mind, of Senator Obama, that is working so perfectly in harmony, synchronistically, that makes everything this man says come out better than anyone else since Kennedy, in my opinion.
It is not surprising that the man is African-American. Not in the least. It is this I feel, along with the qualities and values and feelings that his race brings to the table, that gives him the ability to ' straight talk ' the issues in ways a white man could not. His opponents only wish they could be him, could speak as he does, as real as he does. That is precisely it: Real Talk. Thats what Barack gives us, and that is what we all need right now. Its what the world needs. No more bullshit. Because that is all we have been fed for the last eight years. And we have been eating it up, happily, since day one. Now, if 9-11 had never happened, it most likely wouldn't have gone down the way it did.
Anyway, back to the point...it is these feelings, such as anger, frustration, courage, determination, strength, being fed up, being sick and tired of being sick and tired, feelings the African-American people can easily identify with, real feelings, deep rooted and true, that gives Barack such an eloquence of thought and speech, that if you are really listening to what the candidates have to say, there is hardly any way you can possibly believe in your heart that McCain is truly the better choice for Prez....unless, of course, you are racist, or financially dependent on the G.O.P. i.e. in the pocket of....
Biden said something about ' it is not a position that is suited well to on-the-job training '...or something to the like...
For some reason people are wanting the potential president to already know how to be president. WTF !!!??? Where else has this happened? IT DOESN'T. Unless you are living in a monarchy,which this is not. It is as if we are afraid that the prez-elect doesn't have enough experience...experience doing what? being president? of course he doesn't!! Why should he? Being president IS an on-the-job training gig. Like being a parent. If you haven't done it before, you do it on the guidance of others who have. people who have more knowledge and experience than you...
Do people really feel safer voting for McCain, simply because he has so-called 'experience '? Experience doing what? getting shot down on his second or third day in action and being a prisoner for five years? That is his experience? give me a break.
Just as Bush, the blubbering idiot, did what needed to be done when it needed to be done, regardless of whether or not the choices were good or not, Obama will do what he needs to do, when he needs to do it, at appropriate time and place. It is because of exactly WHO the next president chooses to surround himself with. And I am sure that Sen. Obama will have the best advisers, and will appoint the best people to positions in the Cabinet that he can find...
If Obama does not get elected, the rest of the world will once and for all know for sure that either Americans are completely retarded, or, the elections are , as they have been the last couple of times for sure and also in the past, completely fixed...by the real Evil Doers, those puppet masters, who do, and always have been ,secretly pulling the strings behind the scenes in our government...more.....
Biden.
Wow...I am so happy to have just heard the news...that Sen. Joe Biden is about to receive the nomination for Vice President...what a fantastic decision Obama has made...!!!
I have always been a big fan of Mr. Biden, and I was quite disappointed when he did not do much better in the primaries, much less receive the nomination for Prez.
I have been a bit worried about Obama lately as regards his chances now that his numbers have apparently slipped from where they were a couple of months ago...the number that the powers that be/ the media has been doing on him is disgusting...twisting this whole thing around, somehow putting McCain on a pedestal and making him seem like The Chosen One; much better than Obama could ever be, especially in the areas of national security....the surge, the surge, and more of the surge...I sincerely hope the american public is as sick and tired of hearing this same old crap over and over as I am....tunnel vision one track mind ... an insult to our intelligence, saber rattling and all.... nothing is changing with this man...it's safe to say i strongly dislike the man...
He doesn't even know how many houses he owns...
Biden will, as he has already been, a great asset to the operation of this nation.
No doubt McCain will try to pull a fast one, somehow coming up with that female midwest governor, if not Romney or Jindal, to offset gender-wise or age-wise his own shortcomings in those respective areas...
All I can say is...Do Not Trust John McCain...
I shall honestly say a prayer for the success of Obama and McCain , and if they do not make it to the white house...I will be very afraid for the near term future of this country. Very afraid.
I have always been a big fan of Mr. Biden, and I was quite disappointed when he did not do much better in the primaries, much less receive the nomination for Prez.
I have been a bit worried about Obama lately as regards his chances now that his numbers have apparently slipped from where they were a couple of months ago...the number that the powers that be/ the media has been doing on him is disgusting...twisting this whole thing around, somehow putting McCain on a pedestal and making him seem like The Chosen One; much better than Obama could ever be, especially in the areas of national security....the surge, the surge, and more of the surge...I sincerely hope the american public is as sick and tired of hearing this same old crap over and over as I am....tunnel vision one track mind ... an insult to our intelligence, saber rattling and all.... nothing is changing with this man...it's safe to say i strongly dislike the man...
He doesn't even know how many houses he owns...
Biden will, as he has already been, a great asset to the operation of this nation.
No doubt McCain will try to pull a fast one, somehow coming up with that female midwest governor, if not Romney or Jindal, to offset gender-wise or age-wise his own shortcomings in those respective areas...
All I can say is...Do Not Trust John McCain...
I shall honestly say a prayer for the success of Obama and McCain , and if they do not make it to the white house...I will be very afraid for the near term future of this country. Very afraid.
14 August 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
WHY is it our job...and seemingly, always, our responsibility, and obligation...to be involved, in any way at all, with the conflict in Georgia? Oh yeah, I almost forgot...It's the same old song and dance. OIL. Yes, OIL. ( Here's a lil' secret:... say something over and over and over and over again, like terrorist, insurgents, i.e.d., bomber, or, say, the word OIL, and eventually, it has no meaning anymore. means nothing. begins to go in one ear and right out the other., without stopping for a definition on the way...)Yes, once again, it is FOR THE LOVE OF OIL that the U.S. is even involved with that country to begin with. In fact lets put the cards on the table, and call it what IT IS.. It is the U.S.A., the USA, or USER, of the rest of the world and its resources, including its people, that the U.S. cloaks under the garment of ' freedom ' to infiltrate the rest of the world. Start coups, change governments,etc., etc., let us not pretend that the U.S. was not directly responsible for the breakup of the Soviet Union. Of course they were. And are. And why? Oil i.e. MONEY and POWER. Just like Kuwait was the 19th province of Iraq, Georgia was part of the U.S.S.R., which sounds a hell of a lot like the U.S.A., only in russian. Imagine, russian agents, KGB, infiltrating our country, and breaking up the U.S.A.. into smaller nations, some of which are controlled by THEM, with THEIR AGENTS in positions of executive, legislative, and judicial power.? How would we feel about that? Lemme guess. I know how I would feel. But, uh, you....You simply do not feel anything at all. Did you hear that? I said, you have been programmed to NOT FEEL, especially from the sound of mere words. Silly, don't you know that words do not actually mean anything? Idiots. Anyway, back to the subject...
Why must we have to deal with this? Why is the news media making it sound like it is our problem, and a major one at that? Why not let the U.N.. handle it? Isn't there like 190 something countries in the world? Isn't that why there is a U.N.? To intervene, to mediate, to find some way of finding a peaceful resolution to disputes, conflicts, and situations just like this one? Here's an idea...why don't we do something UNHEARD OF....why don't we stay the f%*k out of someone else's business for once, and let them handle their own affairs, work out their own problems...heck, let em' shoot each other to oblivion, if that's what is to be...or let the rest of the world fix it, after careful review and thorough consideration. Again, that is, if it is to be.....
Why should we care so much.? .I mean, don't we have enough problems? PLEASE ask yourself that. Do we not have enough shit to deal with already? Duh...lemme guess? YES, WE DO... ..
Oh ...yeah...THE OIL. That is why, it is all of a sudden our problem, the one between Russia and Georgia. But think about it for a second. Would Russia go to such great lengths as to start all this trouble, knowing how the world, in particular the U.S., would react....for no reason, for nothing ? Because it's cool? Because it sounded like a fun idea one day, and they just decided to go with it? Do any of you actually believe that anyone in our government gives A FLYING FUCK about the peace. prosperity, or the lives of Georgian, or Ukrainian, or Uzbek citizens? The answer, for those of you scratching your head, is NO...It is the oil, American money, bank accounts, and wallets. of, you know who, BushCo. and friends...the new Georgia was and basically is an invention of the U.S., as is the other ex Soviet Union states, especially the ones ending in -stan....where there are heaps and heaps of you know what...black gold, aside from Afghanistan, where WE ARE, finally, happily, IN CONTROL OF THAT countries' main product, OPIUM...you know HEROIN, and, i.e., pain meds, since that is the root of all opiate based narcotics, which, I might add, generate an AWFUL LOT OF MONEY for those who peddle in that business, i.e. the American Pharmaceutical Industry - in the world (which is a LOT of f%@&ing DRUGS), and Afghanistan controls 80% of the world's output...gee, another coincidence, isn't it? ...why again did we go into that country? To oust the Taliban? NO, NO, and NO. In fact, when the Taliban gained power, in 1999, opium production was the LOWEST in recorded history. Three years later, when we regained control, it was the HIGHEST. Do you also know that the U.S. invented the Mujaheddin? But that's another story.. Ever.Aside from dope, it was once again guess what.? 1, 2, 3, all together now...OIL! And precisely, it is just that pipeline that is running from the north to the south opf that country,. the one coming from another one of those ex soviet states, namely Uzbekistan, that, oh yeah, we have a controlling oil interest in as well. Our infiltrations in the name of freedom have been largely conceived in order to use that 'freedom' precisely for ourselves, to rape plunder, and pillage the rest of the world, its resources, and its people, i.e. take whatever the hell we want, whenever the hell we want to take it, for whatever goddamned motherf&$%ing reason we choose to invent...i.e. freedom to fuck up the rest of the world, ruin it, destroy it even, as well as our own country, and our own selves. Personally, I am sick of it. I am tired of it...I am sick and tired of it....Sick and tired of being sick and tired of it.. And, now, so is the rest of the world. I mean, who isn't? You?
And now, so is Russia. One reason, hmmm, lemme see...uh....the Georgian defense minister just happens to be a Zionist Jew. Surprised? I have to admit I was a bit when I heard it. But not a whole lot. The Israelis, if y'all didn't know, have been supplying advanced weapons, military hardware and training to the Georgian military for approximately the last 7+ years, or just about as long as BushCo. has been in power. One could even venture to say that Georgia's army is really an offshoot of the I.D.F., or the Israeli Defense Forces, as well as our own C.I.A.. Happy happy fun fun.....
We have a state named Georgia, ladies and gents. Named, surprisingly, after Georgia. Think about it. Every other state is named after an english county or town, or has adopted a spanish or french name, or finally, and thanfully, by God,has taken an indian name. Then , we have lil' ole' Georgia. I never heard of a Georgia in England, France, or Spain...have you? Has anyone given that any thought? I doubt it..People here, ignorant sheeple, I mean Americans, do not like to think any deeper than just to scratch the surface of a particular issue. Maybe they are simply not capable of it. Maybe, just maybe, the Idiot Box, the Brain Vacuum known as American Television has done so much irreparable damage to our brains, that they are beyond repair, and we are sadly beyond hope....
Or maybe the country of Georgia has been named after our Georgia...again I doubt if anyone has ever even recognized that there is such a coincidence between the name of an american and a russian state; that they both have the same name. In fact, the origin of the name is still disputed, with some saying that it comes from the Cult Of St. George, whose popularity had spread throughout the region, or on the other hand, that it comes form the name Ghurj, a Persian Empire term for the peoples that inhabited the region ( 5-600's, a.d. ), also known as Ghurjistan.
So, let's see, where are we? Oh yeah. Folks, you DO KNOW that the U.S. OWNS that country, financially, through its OIL companies, right?...I mean, what else is Georgia famous for? Their potato dumplings? Believe me, they do not contribute one iota whatsoever to the countries' annual G.D.P. Natural gas, oil products, and hydroelectric are Georgia's main source of revenue. And so, we also CONTROL that country, by proxy, using the ISRAELI MILITARY, in conjunction with our own C.I.A., I am assured....Putin & Co. have been sitting quietly, watching all this develop over the past 7+ years, and now they have decided...that they are tired of it......I know I would be...As an outside observer, I'd have been fed up with our bullshit oh , right about just after we staged the attack on Pearl Harbor, killed Kennedy, killed Martin Luther King, Invented AIDS in a military lab, staged 9-11, etc., etc.,.etc. . . ..
Remember that so-called coup several years ago in Venezuela? Oh yeah, I mean, student uprising...? Suuuuuure it was a student uprising.... more like the U.S.C.I.A.. in that country, giving money, weapons, and more military training to underground factions, in a failed attempt to overthrow that country. Let's see, altogether now: 1...2...3...FOR OIL !!! Can you believe it? Or do you just not want to?
So finally the russians are tired of the bullshit games that we have been playing in that region, and have decided to try a little game of their own....hopefully to nip this shit in the bud...so that maybe we will think next time we start supplying and training the respective militaries of the rest of the ex-soviet states, such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine, as well as taking political seats of power. ...just getting my thoughts out...to be continued....
WHY is it our job...and seemingly, always, our responsibility, and obligation...to be involved, in any way at all, with the conflict in Georgia? Oh yeah, I almost forgot...It's the same old song and dance. OIL. Yes, OIL. ( Here's a lil' secret:... say something over and over and over and over again, like terrorist, insurgents, i.e.d., bomber, or, say, the word OIL, and eventually, it has no meaning anymore. means nothing. begins to go in one ear and right out the other., without stopping for a definition on the way...)Yes, once again, it is FOR THE LOVE OF OIL that the U.S. is even involved with that country to begin with. In fact lets put the cards on the table, and call it what IT IS.. It is the U.S.A., the USA, or USER, of the rest of the world and its resources, including its people, that the U.S. cloaks under the garment of ' freedom ' to infiltrate the rest of the world. Start coups, change governments,etc., etc., let us not pretend that the U.S. was not directly responsible for the breakup of the Soviet Union. Of course they were. And are. And why? Oil i.e. MONEY and POWER. Just like Kuwait was the 19th province of Iraq, Georgia was part of the U.S.S.R., which sounds a hell of a lot like the U.S.A., only in russian. Imagine, russian agents, KGB, infiltrating our country, and breaking up the U.S.A.. into smaller nations, some of which are controlled by THEM, with THEIR AGENTS in positions of executive, legislative, and judicial power.? How would we feel about that? Lemme guess. I know how I would feel. But, uh, you....You simply do not feel anything at all. Did you hear that? I said, you have been programmed to NOT FEEL, especially from the sound of mere words. Silly, don't you know that words do not actually mean anything? Idiots. Anyway, back to the subject...
Why must we have to deal with this? Why is the news media making it sound like it is our problem, and a major one at that? Why not let the U.N.. handle it? Isn't there like 190 something countries in the world? Isn't that why there is a U.N.? To intervene, to mediate, to find some way of finding a peaceful resolution to disputes, conflicts, and situations just like this one? Here's an idea...why don't we do something UNHEARD OF....why don't we stay the f%*k out of someone else's business for once, and let them handle their own affairs, work out their own problems...heck, let em' shoot each other to oblivion, if that's what is to be...or let the rest of the world fix it, after careful review and thorough consideration. Again, that is, if it is to be.....
Why should we care so much.? .I mean, don't we have enough problems? PLEASE ask yourself that. Do we not have enough shit to deal with already? Duh...lemme guess? YES, WE DO... ..
Oh ...yeah...THE OIL. That is why, it is all of a sudden our problem, the one between Russia and Georgia. But think about it for a second. Would Russia go to such great lengths as to start all this trouble, knowing how the world, in particular the U.S., would react....for no reason, for nothing ? Because it's cool? Because it sounded like a fun idea one day, and they just decided to go with it? Do any of you actually believe that anyone in our government gives A FLYING FUCK about the peace. prosperity, or the lives of Georgian, or Ukrainian, or Uzbek citizens? The answer, for those of you scratching your head, is NO...It is the oil, American money, bank accounts, and wallets. of, you know who, BushCo. and friends...the new Georgia was and basically is an invention of the U.S., as is the other ex Soviet Union states, especially the ones ending in -stan....where there are heaps and heaps of you know what...black gold, aside from Afghanistan, where WE ARE, finally, happily, IN CONTROL OF THAT countries' main product, OPIUM...you know HEROIN, and, i.e., pain meds, since that is the root of all opiate based narcotics, which, I might add, generate an AWFUL LOT OF MONEY for those who peddle in that business, i.e. the American Pharmaceutical Industry - in the world (which is a LOT of f%@&ing DRUGS), and Afghanistan controls 80% of the world's output...gee, another coincidence, isn't it? ...why again did we go into that country? To oust the Taliban? NO, NO, and NO. In fact, when the Taliban gained power, in 1999, opium production was the LOWEST in recorded history. Three years later, when we regained control, it was the HIGHEST. Do you also know that the U.S. invented the Mujaheddin? But that's another story.. Ever.Aside from dope, it was once again guess what.? 1, 2, 3, all together now...OIL! And precisely, it is just that pipeline that is running from the north to the south opf that country,. the one coming from another one of those ex soviet states, namely Uzbekistan, that, oh yeah, we have a controlling oil interest in as well. Our infiltrations in the name of freedom have been largely conceived in order to use that 'freedom' precisely for ourselves, to rape plunder, and pillage the rest of the world, its resources, and its people, i.e. take whatever the hell we want, whenever the hell we want to take it, for whatever goddamned motherf&$%ing reason we choose to invent...i.e. freedom to fuck up the rest of the world, ruin it, destroy it even, as well as our own country, and our own selves. Personally, I am sick of it. I am tired of it...I am sick and tired of it....Sick and tired of being sick and tired of it.. And, now, so is the rest of the world. I mean, who isn't? You?
And now, so is Russia. One reason, hmmm, lemme see...uh....the Georgian defense minister just happens to be a Zionist Jew. Surprised? I have to admit I was a bit when I heard it. But not a whole lot. The Israelis, if y'all didn't know, have been supplying advanced weapons, military hardware and training to the Georgian military for approximately the last 7+ years, or just about as long as BushCo. has been in power. One could even venture to say that Georgia's army is really an offshoot of the I.D.F., or the Israeli Defense Forces, as well as our own C.I.A.. Happy happy fun fun.....
We have a state named Georgia, ladies and gents. Named, surprisingly, after Georgia. Think about it. Every other state is named after an english county or town, or has adopted a spanish or french name, or finally, and thanfully, by God,has taken an indian name. Then , we have lil' ole' Georgia. I never heard of a Georgia in England, France, or Spain...have you? Has anyone given that any thought? I doubt it..People here, ignorant sheeple, I mean Americans, do not like to think any deeper than just to scratch the surface of a particular issue. Maybe they are simply not capable of it. Maybe, just maybe, the Idiot Box, the Brain Vacuum known as American Television has done so much irreparable damage to our brains, that they are beyond repair, and we are sadly beyond hope....
Or maybe the country of Georgia has been named after our Georgia...again I doubt if anyone has ever even recognized that there is such a coincidence between the name of an american and a russian state; that they both have the same name. In fact, the origin of the name is still disputed, with some saying that it comes from the Cult Of St. George, whose popularity had spread throughout the region, or on the other hand, that it comes form the name Ghurj, a Persian Empire term for the peoples that inhabited the region ( 5-600's, a.d. ), also known as Ghurjistan.
So, let's see, where are we? Oh yeah. Folks, you DO KNOW that the U.S. OWNS that country, financially, through its OIL companies, right?...I mean, what else is Georgia famous for? Their potato dumplings? Believe me, they do not contribute one iota whatsoever to the countries' annual G.D.P. Natural gas, oil products, and hydroelectric are Georgia's main source of revenue. And so, we also CONTROL that country, by proxy, using the ISRAELI MILITARY, in conjunction with our own C.I.A., I am assured....Putin & Co. have been sitting quietly, watching all this develop over the past 7+ years, and now they have decided...that they are tired of it......I know I would be...As an outside observer, I'd have been fed up with our bullshit oh , right about just after we staged the attack on Pearl Harbor, killed Kennedy, killed Martin Luther King, Invented AIDS in a military lab, staged 9-11, etc., etc.,.etc. . . ..
Remember that so-called coup several years ago in Venezuela? Oh yeah, I mean, student uprising...? Suuuuuure it was a student uprising.... more like the U.S.C.I.A.. in that country, giving money, weapons, and more military training to underground factions, in a failed attempt to overthrow that country. Let's see, altogether now: 1...2...3...FOR OIL !!! Can you believe it? Or do you just not want to?
So finally the russians are tired of the bullshit games that we have been playing in that region, and have decided to try a little game of their own....hopefully to nip this shit in the bud...so that maybe we will think next time we start supplying and training the respective militaries of the rest of the ex-soviet states, such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine, as well as taking political seats of power. ...just getting my thoughts out...to be continued....
12 August 2008
I cannot tell you precisely how upset i am...but let me just say that I am very very...
I am crying ...for my girlfriend...and losing sleep over it...
I believe that Debbie is one of the best attendants someone can have. Besides being a genuinely nice person, she is intelligent, reliable, and honest. These qualities are not easy to find nowadays. If I had someone like this helping to take care of me, I would be so happy, and I wouldn't want to lose her. I would do whatever I could to show her how much I care and appreciate that she is there for me..
It seems like you do not see it that way...like maybe you think since Debbie is a nice person, that she is a sucker, and can be taken advantage of. Its sad...that nice people nowadays are treated this way...
Let's see...why would someone want to be an attendant? That's simple...for the money...that's all, just for the money. Not because it's fun, not because it is fulfilling, not because it is helping them get closer to some kind of goal or dream in their life. So, it is unfortunate, that it is this way, for the money, because people that are there just for the money are not the kind of people I would want taking care of me. They really do not care about you, are not your friend, are usually always looking for an angle to exploit, or some way to get over on you, take advantage, and possibly steal from you, etc...especially since the job's pay is pretty shitty to begin with. I wouldn't trust this person, and I know I wouldn't want them in my house...
Then there is the other kind of attendant. The naturally caring type, the kind that get genuine satisfaction out of helping people.The kind like Debbie, or the kind like myself. For some people, you couldn't pay them enough to want to be an attendant. Who wants to help someone shit, piss, wipe their ass, wash them, and feed them? The only kind of person that wants to do this is a parent, for their children. How can someone want to, or even feel good about helping someone who doesn't want to help themself. I grew up in a family of alcoholics, and there is nothing more unattractive than a drunk person. And it seems like that's what you and Nick like to do whenever possible. Get drunk. Who the fuck wants to sit around and watch Nick and Vanessa, Mr. Cool and Mrs. Exciting, get drunk...loud...belligerent...act like buffoons...make fools of themselves, and their attendants...puke on themselves..etc...etc...? I'll tell you...Or maybe you can already guess.
Debbie is a very good attendant in my opinion, I am sure she is one of the best you have ever had, or will ever have, and it hurts me that she is not appreciated. And that you,you will not try to put yourself in the her shoes. Try to put yourself in Debbie's shoes for once. She has worked every day, 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, for months and months on end, non stop, with no end in sight, until just before I came out to visit. And now she has to do it again! 7 DAYS A WEEK, 12 HOURS A DAY!!! this is DISGUSTING, and UNFAIR! But you don't care about that, do you? It's not healthy for someone to work this much, even if the job is something THAT THEY LOVE TO DO!! And believe me, this is not something that anyone loves to do! It is the opposite, genius...People need a break, at the least, a day or two off per week,or they will burn out, or go crazy, or become ill, or worse...
This has been an unfair ABUSE OF MY GIRLFRIEND!!!Now she is sick, and cannot take a day or two off...and why? because there is no one else to help her take care of you...and why? because you fired that person!
Because you do not give a shit about anyone but yourself! Are you ignorant, or just stupid? Lemme guess...oh yeah...both. Don't you realize that YOU ARE LUCKY TO HAVE ANYONE EVEN WANT TO SHOW UP TO TAKE CARE OF YOU! Carrie showed up for work, at least, and didn't steal from you...you should NEVER have fired her without having someone to instantly replace her, so Debbie would not have to suffer because of you.You, who does not appreciate her at all, only thinks of Vanessa... I am so fucking pissed off right now I can not take it. I heard you say you always get what you want in the end. Well, that is not true, because the end hasn't come yet Vanessa. Most likely you are going to end up back at your parents, or in an institution for the rest of your life, with nobody wanting to have to deal with you. That will be the end for you, if you are lucky. Nobody wants to help an asshole, or a jerk, or a bad person, or a person that doesn't deserve it.
What is it, are you mad at the world, and you hate everyone? And you want to take it out on everyone that you can? And abuse whoever can walk and talk, because you are bitter and resentful? You think you have it bad? You think your life is rough?
Your life isn't rough at all.Maybe you do not realize, but there are people out there who have it A LOT WORSE THAN YOU. You are lucky...you have a roof over your head, a nice place, all the food you want, all the drink you want, a boyfriend who probably loves you, that you can have sex with, your painting, computer, internet, people to take care of you around the clock....almost everything your little heart can desire...aside from your disability...
There are people out there, with C.P., that have NONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE. no boyfriend, no one to love them, no internet, no place of their own, no hobbies, no restaurants, no drinking, no fun, etc., etc., nothing at all like what you have....
you need to stop being an evil person, because of whatever reason i don't know, You are mad at the world, hate everyone, hate yourself....and start being a good person, appreciating the things you do have.
09 August 2008
outline for book ' The Big Lie '
Chapter 1 - The Law of Nature
Chapter 1 - The Law of Nature
- the virus - to infect the seed
- the creator concept
- fear
- gravity - finding the center
- translating the ion
- failure to find the center
- u.s.a. - the modifier mentality
- when two souls are gray
- sick sex
- my controlled experiment
- alien concepts
- how i found the center
- the law of nature pt.2
- illumination/disinfection
- transformation/oneness
04 August 2008
Michael Anthony ( April 30, 1968 - ) is an American artist, working primarily as a painter of canvases. He is also a writer of poems and short stories, as well as an amateur photographer and musician. He is best known for his 'Insight' series of paintings, begun in 1997, as well as his all night philosotheological dissertations . . .
== Early Life ==
Anthony was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Xavier Mannone. He was named after the Michael Anthony of the The Millionaire TV series of the 50's. The name on his birth certificate was Michael Anthony Mannone. It was later discovered that Michael was conceived during Mr. Mannone's overseas tour of duty in Vietnam, where he served as a helicopter pilot for four years. This eventually led to the divorce of Mr. Mannone and his mother Carol Ann (b.Carol Ann Webster,1943), in 1972. Michael's real father, Ronald Dominick Ricci, son of Dominick and Josephine Ricci, was never really in the picture. He was the estranged husband of one of his mother Carols' best childhood friends. Although they were in love, and despite Ronald having proposed to Carol, she wouldn't marry him. It was well known that he was a ' player ', a flirt, and a cheater. The details are not pretty. A good looking italian-american restaurant owner at a young age, he was the object of many a young girls affections, in Bostons' predominantly irish suburbs of the 1960's. Ronald was known to be talented and somewhat creative, having acted and sung in high school plays, playing several musical instruments, and having a passion for drawing. Michael's mother Carol, daughter of Ray and Irene Webster, was an attractive girl of irish-scottish descent, and 27 when her son was born. Despite rumors to the contrary, her and Ronald truly were ' in love ' when they decided to go along with the pregnancy. Abortion was simply not an option back then. After all, anyway, she was married. However, the child didn't belong to the husband. Growing up, Michael was repeatedly told that he was a ' love child '. Carol's father, Ray (1913-2006), was a descendant of Noah Webster, famous for, among other things, his Webster's Dictionary, and his ' Blue-Backed Speller '. Unfortunately, Ray was adopted, and was considered an outsider to most of the Webster family for his whole life. He went to a private boy's school founded by Henry Ford, and later became head landscaper at a Ford Motor Co. plant in Massachusetts, where he worked for many years.
In 1973 Michael's mother remarried. The new husband was Edward Michael Ridge, a longtime friend. Shortly after, Michael was adopted by Mr. Ridge, and took on his last name, becoming Michael Anthony Ridge (Michael Ridge). This was the name he was to use for most of his life, professionally, as an artist, yet one he always had difficulties relating to. Edward Ridge was fair skinned, with a pale complexion, freckles, reddish hair, and blue eyes, just like his mother, while Michael was more olive toned, with dark brown hair and eyes. He has stated that from his earliest memories, he has always felt somehow alienated, an outsider, from the world in general as well as his own family.
Shortly after their marriage, Michael's mother was involved in a serious car accident. She had been working as the hostess of a restaurant, and was on her way to a Valentine's Day party, with the elderly father of the restaurant's owner in the passenger seat. She somehow lost control of her new 1972 Cadillac, a wedding present, and struck a telephone pole at over 60 mph. After spending over a month unconscious, with over 100 stitches in her head, and after having part of her brain removed, she finally woke up, and began to recover. She was left with amnesia, having no memory of her life before the accident, and mild permanent brain damage, including no short term memory function and no peripheral vision. Mr. Anthony states 'not only did she not recognize me, she refused to believe that I was her son. I'll never forget the blank look in her eyes as she aggressively denied me. It would be quite some time, years, before she finally accepted the fact '.
His childhood years were mostly uneventful, in one sense, but tinged with a deep sense of loss somehow, and from someplace he did not yet understand. He withdrew into himself, and found that he had highly adaptive and creative abilities, as well as a good capacity to discern, comprehend, and work through any problems or challenges that came his way. Being very mechanically inclined, he was constructing, creating, building, and drawing since age four or five. He won a statewide drawing contest in the first grade, addressing a then local and current issue of vandalism. Among all competing first graders in the state, Michael's advanced, intricate, and colorful drawing took first place. There was an awards ceremony, and at the age of six, he won his first trophy, a plaque with his name and accomplishment. His self esteem had been comforted with this recognition.
However, there were some events, maybe a half dozen or so, by the age of 7 or 8, that really had a profound effect on him, and he is even today somewhat amazed that he survived them. It started when he was four. He . . .
== Early Life ==
Anthony was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Xavier Mannone. He was named after the Michael Anthony of the The Millionaire TV series of the 50's. The name on his birth certificate was Michael Anthony Mannone. It was later discovered that Michael was conceived during Mr. Mannone's overseas tour of duty in Vietnam, where he served as a helicopter pilot for four years. This eventually led to the divorce of Mr. Mannone and his mother Carol Ann (b.Carol Ann Webster,1943), in 1972. Michael's real father, Ronald Dominick Ricci, son of Dominick and Josephine Ricci, was never really in the picture. He was the estranged husband of one of his mother Carols' best childhood friends. Although they were in love, and despite Ronald having proposed to Carol, she wouldn't marry him. It was well known that he was a ' player ', a flirt, and a cheater. The details are not pretty. A good looking italian-american restaurant owner at a young age, he was the object of many a young girls affections, in Bostons' predominantly irish suburbs of the 1960's. Ronald was known to be talented and somewhat creative, having acted and sung in high school plays, playing several musical instruments, and having a passion for drawing. Michael's mother Carol, daughter of Ray and Irene Webster, was an attractive girl of irish-scottish descent, and 27 when her son was born. Despite rumors to the contrary, her and Ronald truly were ' in love ' when they decided to go along with the pregnancy. Abortion was simply not an option back then. After all, anyway, she was married. However, the child didn't belong to the husband. Growing up, Michael was repeatedly told that he was a ' love child '. Carol's father, Ray (1913-2006), was a descendant of Noah Webster, famous for, among other things, his Webster's Dictionary, and his ' Blue-Backed Speller '. Unfortunately, Ray was adopted, and was considered an outsider to most of the Webster family for his whole life. He went to a private boy's school founded by Henry Ford, and later became head landscaper at a Ford Motor Co. plant in Massachusetts, where he worked for many years.
In 1973 Michael's mother remarried. The new husband was Edward Michael Ridge, a longtime friend. Shortly after, Michael was adopted by Mr. Ridge, and took on his last name, becoming Michael Anthony Ridge (Michael Ridge). This was the name he was to use for most of his life, professionally, as an artist, yet one he always had difficulties relating to. Edward Ridge was fair skinned, with a pale complexion, freckles, reddish hair, and blue eyes, just like his mother, while Michael was more olive toned, with dark brown hair and eyes. He has stated that from his earliest memories, he has always felt somehow alienated, an outsider, from the world in general as well as his own family.
Shortly after their marriage, Michael's mother was involved in a serious car accident. She had been working as the hostess of a restaurant, and was on her way to a Valentine's Day party, with the elderly father of the restaurant's owner in the passenger seat. She somehow lost control of her new 1972 Cadillac, a wedding present, and struck a telephone pole at over 60 mph. After spending over a month unconscious, with over 100 stitches in her head, and after having part of her brain removed, she finally woke up, and began to recover. She was left with amnesia, having no memory of her life before the accident, and mild permanent brain damage, including no short term memory function and no peripheral vision. Mr. Anthony states 'not only did she not recognize me, she refused to believe that I was her son. I'll never forget the blank look in her eyes as she aggressively denied me. It would be quite some time, years, before she finally accepted the fact '.
His childhood years were mostly uneventful, in one sense, but tinged with a deep sense of loss somehow, and from someplace he did not yet understand. He withdrew into himself, and found that he had highly adaptive and creative abilities, as well as a good capacity to discern, comprehend, and work through any problems or challenges that came his way. Being very mechanically inclined, he was constructing, creating, building, and drawing since age four or five. He won a statewide drawing contest in the first grade, addressing a then local and current issue of vandalism. Among all competing first graders in the state, Michael's advanced, intricate, and colorful drawing took first place. There was an awards ceremony, and at the age of six, he won his first trophy, a plaque with his name and accomplishment. His self esteem had been comforted with this recognition.
However, there were some events, maybe a half dozen or so, by the age of 7 or 8, that really had a profound effect on him, and he is even today somewhat amazed that he survived them. It started when he was four. He . . .
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