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  • 4/19/06 This week people got all riled up that Rumsfeld was going to resign again. Here at Rumsfeld Invaders, we knew he wouldn't step down, because if he steps down, then the whole plan is done. Cheney and Rumsfeld are the inner circle. The only way to get them out is in handcuffs (or if Cheney shoots Rummy in the face on a duck hunting expedition and the shot lodges slightly close to his cold, cold heart). It is quaint and cute when people think Rumsfeld is in the same category as the other faceless bureaucrats. Iraq is HIS plan. He would never trust anyone else to carry it out. Which poses an interesting question for 2008. Cheney would like to remain VP. So that makes Jeb the front runner.
  • 3/5/06 New site for the RumsBlog: http://rumsfeldinvaders.blogspot.com/ See you there!

  • 1/26/06 Preamble to the Real State of the Union Address Ladies and gentlemen, we ask you for the duration of this article to suspend your sense of reality. What you are about to read may best be described as a show of creative indulgence well beyond the scope of Pixar's digital mouse, Shakespeare's unearthly sonnets, and indeed the wide berth of ancient myth and legend from which all of civilization springs. While the wheels of time have revolved since the bards sang of myth under the stars, humans still remain captives of time, bound to the oscillating arc of history. To the progress of time, we are no less secure in Hum-V's than Roman Senators were of the invincibility of their great empire. Yes, you and I are surfing on the crest of American prosperity, in our Tevas and togas. Ahead lie rocks and sharks. Only with a clear idea of our status can we navigate with safety.

    In Bush's State of the Union, we anticipate great optimism and great praise. We anticipate omissions of mistakes, dis-acknowledgement of corruption, macho posturing, repetition of simplistic slogans, veiled threats without explanation, the stoking of fear, and the aggrandizement of Strict Father Morality. What we offer is a contrast; a pre-emptive State of the Union Address; a metaphorical bag of "shh"; an intellectual middle-finger; a truthful lay-of-the-land; a survey of rocky shoals from which citizens and Senators alike may proceed on the arc of history with a true understanding of the ills and gains, both equally important, confronting the United States today.

  • My State of the Union: Crap, crap, lots of crap. More crap. Crap. That pretty much sums it up. Crap. Oh wait, I forgot one thing: crap. On the other hand...no, there is no other hand, only crap. Thank you. Good night, and good luck.

  • 1/10/06 Skull-ito (the Supreme Corpse- Part II) testifies with a straight face that what he believed in the past differs from what he believes now. He is flip-flopping like John Kerry! I thought Amerkins didn't like flip-floppers. But when it comes to judicial appointments, apparently it's good strategy. He answers all the questions with a wink to the anti-choice Christian Crusaders. Rumsfeld has flip-flopped many times on the Iraq war. First it was WMDs, then it was, um, democracy? I forget, there are so many fake reasons for the Iraq war, and all of them were created to distract us from the real neo-con objectives: spying on the left, consolidating the voting machines, returning us to a born-again Christian monarchy, and tax cuts for the cheating corporations. In fact, the whole war is a red (bloody) herring. This is really Feinstein's defining moment. A moment, not of strong rhetoric while standing by my values as they are flushed down the toilet, but a moment of standing tall, with middle finger raised high, and proclaiming, like a leader of this country, that certain things shall not stand. Skull-ito's nomination should be Harriet Miers-ified. (for more about Skull-ito's name, click here. In a nutshell, his "pro-life" theology will result in pro-death for the global ecosystem, civil liberties, and the Constitution- hence the skull) But the Right Wing Miersed Miers. Can the Left Wing do anything? I guess their strategy of waiting for the Repubs to drown in their own corruption will eventually Abramof-Syrianially work, but it would be nice, and maybe even inspiring to see some Dem leadership. You know, calling for things, introducing legislation, holding impeachment hearings. That sort of thing. That lame duck Dubya needs to fire that felon Rove like he said he would, and ask Rummy to have his head examined, by a whole team of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. They need a couple of commissions like the 9-11 Commission just for Rummy's head. Rummy really needs compassion and empathy. I mean, it really is heartbreaking to see a great man brought down to such AbyGhraib-ish depths of moral depravity. Although secretly, this is where Rummy and Cheney really thrive. Mold beetles and sewer rats. What? Oh sorry, my mind wandered again. Now, where was I? Oh, talking about crap. Real crap. Michael Crichton's book "State of Fear" is the worst piece of crap I have ever read. Is that really true? I mean, "The Scarlet Letter" was pretty bad. Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" was terrible. I didn't like "Heart of Darkness" although after seeing Apocalypse Now I grew an appreciation for it, though more for Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando than for the original author. No- Crichton is the worst. The characters are empty mouthpieces for poorly conceived opinions about the environment and climate change. Crichton amazingly sides with the Arctic Drillers contingent, and claims the environment always changes, so let's destroy it as fast as we can. His "vaguely military" supposed heroes Ayn Randify against the environmentalist-terrorist bad guys. Disgusting. But it is a window into how these depraved, immoral, soulless people think. They really believe that environmentalists are terrorists, and that people who care are simply misinformed. If you were really informed, then you wouldn't care, like the crew-cut, brusque talking assholes that Crichton worships. The only interesting thing I took away was that Republicans would respect environmentalists more if they were assholes too. At this point, with the feel-good goddess worship, the yoga, and the Priuses, the Repubs wouldn't even waste their bullets on us. But if we really were mean, then they would happily kill us, and feed us to cannibals. But I guess Crichton really had to stretch to make the bad guys good and the good guys bad. Even after reading Lakoff, and understanding the sad state of Crichton's mentality, I still think he should be placed under a gag order, alongside Bill O-Liely (the Splotch-o-rama), and forced to read Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman for 30 years. No, make that 60.
  • On the subject of books, here's a quote from James Risen's recent book "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration." It reaffirms the Rumsfeld Invaders website's intuitive foresight that Rummy calls the shots: "Then there's Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the yin to Tenet's yang. Rumsfeld is a renegade who steps over just about everyone in the administration, including Tenet, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and even Bush himself, to get his way. Aided by Vice President Dick Cheney and influenced by Defense Department neoconservatives, Rumsfeld manages to wrest control of every aspect of American international affairs." "To others in the administration, mystified by the process -- or lack of a process -- it eventually became clear that Cheney and Rumsfeld had a backchannel where the real decision making was taking place," Risen writes. "The result was that the Bush administration was the first presidency in modern history in which the Pentagon served as the overwhelming center of gravity for U.S. foreign policy."
  • Now for a lighter hearted quote: "Among a parade of ugly CIA interrogation techniques, one is to force prisoners to listen to Eminem extremely loud for long periods of time." My comment: Well, if you live near a high school or know any teenagers, you get this sort of thing at 7AM and 2PM. Perhaps the CIA are parents of 15 year olds.
  • 12/20/05 Somehow people are suprised that Bush authorized the NSA to spy on us Amerkins. They will probably also be shocked to hear that Bush did not win the 2000 election, when they find that out in 2009. No, this blogger lost his rose colored glasses a few years ago. Sure they're spying, I saw the movie "Echelon: The Secret Power," and I'll even admit it to the blogosphere. True, it is disconcerting to see the final scenes of "Syriana" where the American with the joystick watches the Emir's SUV caravan get stopped by goats, and in a fit of impatience ("I'm late to my kid's soccer game, it's a big one!") orders the target to be annihilated. I suppose the American audience only mourns the loss of George Clooney ("he had such nice eyes"). It is spooky to hear them count down, "4 miles... 2 miles" as people on the ground are oblivious to the coming shock and awe. Other than that, the movie was pretty dark, like the Denzel Washington version of "The Manchurian Candidate." You don't leave the theater uplifted. I appreciated the CLI (Committee to Liberate Iran) in the movie. They are like the Project for a New American Century (choke, gag). I think they should change their name to the "Project for a New Amer-hhhhhhhh choke gag hhhhhh (phlegm noise)." At the government briefings, they spell out the policy, as the actual government staff listen. How can the environmentalists get that role? Instead we are left to sulk and commisserate after each decision is passed down, with a footnote or a comma inserted from our hours of testimony. After the sobbing in our beers over the loss of another piece of our common heritage, we ask ourselves, "How can we get one of our people elected, so that we don't end up in this predicament next time?" And the answers are many: moral politics, framing, getting some guts (you Dems), being strategic (not going along with the Iraq War like a sheep), having a positive agenda (sustainable development, green jobs, energy independence through efficiency not drilling, along with the old social programs and health and education), getting some new blood in there, not the old curmudgeons with not an innovative bone in their body. Wow, this Blog is turning into a rant against Dems instead of a rant against Rumsfeld, as it was meant to be. But Bush does seem to be on the defensive, with the Libby and DeLay indictments, going into 2006 with the word Republican synonymous with "corrupt bad guys in Syriana." He even has to do press conference and rebut criticism, which he happily ignored during his free-ride first 4 years. There's still a long way to go, and it's too soon to be optimistic. But it's worth pointing out one good thing for the holidays. Tomorrow's Winter Solstice, so here's to a brighter future!
  • 11/23/05 It's a good old all-American thing to editorialize. Even Bush and Cheney agree that "we appreciate the debate" or "the debate is healthy" or "democracy means we get to debate." So I don't want to hear any wire-tappin FBI employee who takes their job very seriously try to intimidate people who have opinions. And I don't want to see any of these military tribunal-no lawyer-star chamber-McCarthyist-extraordinarily rendited shenanigans here on American soil. We already know that the far-right wing uses fear as a tactic, and all this talk about torture as if it's even an issue is their way to try to initimidate people who disagree with them. We all know the real reason they talk about torture. It's because they are sexually repressed by their warped religious indoctrination. I find the neo-cons very interesting though, in a sociological study sort of way. The way that Wolfowitz has to put up with the religious fundamentalists of the Republican Party. I wonder if that's why he asked to be transferred over to the World Bank. Or if it was just so he could be closer to his girlfriend. Hey, that's reasonable. No one ever accused Wolfowitz of being unreasonable. Well, that's not entirely true. Wolfowitz is a war mongering descendant of Genghis Khan. But I didn't say he was unreasonable. He just likes to lick his comb before running it though his hair.
  • On to another topic. The Democrats. C'mon people! Your most conservative, war mongering member of Congress, Murtha, who has probably been living with Cheney at the undisclosed location, has come out against the war! This isn't Michael Moore. This isn't Barbara Lee. This is a guy that the Bush people respect and admire, which is scary. We're in Zell Miller territory here. But the Nancy Pelosis and Hillary Clintons of the Dems, the pro-choice women, are saying that this Murtha dude is too left and anti-war for them. When the so-called Moderate Repubs (the ones who are not frothing at the mouth crazy) are finally able to end this war, the Dems will not be able to take any credit, and will sit there, Daschle-like, as they lose South Dakota. It would be sad, if I hadn't already given up on them in 1996. But just like discussing the failings of the newer Star Wars trilogy, it doesn't make it any better. The failings are still there, and neither George Lucas nor Mary Landreiu (D-Louisiana, voted to drill the Arctic Refuge and to prevent detainees at Guantanamo Bay from having access to courts) are improving or changing their ways. I got off the subject of Rumsfeld this time around, we'll get back to him soon. I hear he's been hanging out in Mongolia, where they gave him a horse. Speaking of Genghis Khan references...
  • 9/15/05 Bad news all around. Hurricane Katrina is huge. Climate change is happening. Just like it was predicted for the 21st Century. Florida got wailed on last year, and now New Orleans is gone. Like Bill McKibben said, sure they'll rebuild it...once. But what if this happens every year? These are troubling omens for the 21st Century.
  • One of the shocking things about the New Orleans tragedy is how FEMA has been transformed from a “Nurturant Parent” organization to a “Strict Father” organization when it was moved into the Department of Homeland Security. In its Strict Father mentality, FEMA sends soldiers with guns to defend WalMart from “looters.” But what is really needed is a Nurturant Parent which is what FEMA used to be. In its previous incarnation, FEMA would arrive with food, water, shelter, and buses to help people out of misery, and help them get their lives back together. Since the Department of Homeland Security was formed as a Strict Father response to terrorism, it has no Nurturant Parent DNA to help it understand that this is a different situation. The Command and Control structure of a Strict Father organization does not allow people on the ground to make more appropriate decisions, since in a military situation, the chain of command is so important. The Bush Administration is so deeply immersed in the Strict Father mentality, that it is totally oblivious to the need for a Nurturant Parent response. When Bush says there is zero tolerance for this and that, he has no idea that what is really called for is assistance. Apparently even hardnosed newscasters such as Wolf Blitzer are noticing this, meaning that the American people might suddenly realize that the Bush Administration only has one response to any situation: violence. Hopefully between now and the 2006 elections the Democrats can get in touch with their Nurturant Parent communication skills, and learn from Cindy Sheehan and other bereaved mothers on how to be strong, yet compassionate. The only possible silver lining would be if this serves as a wake up call, and invigorates the dormant Nurturant Parent perspective in this country.
  • After such a large disaster, all of us are feeling a bit more vulnerable (except for Rumsfeld, who can't admit that in public because it would make him look less manly, and he is insecure about that, which is why he keeps invading countries and then making up other reasons why later). Americans count on their government to be there in the worst of times – and it wasn’t during Katrina. We're in a new age now. And I don't mean "New Age." There are these creationists running the government. The lack of leadership is worrisome. One person may not be able to control the weather or stop terrorists. Still, I think that by working locally we can improve our community and quality of life by providing a chance to invest in an important need in our town or state. If you get bummed out, you can always watch the Supreme Court confirmation hearings to cheer you up. Oh wait, no never mind. My friend says if you get bummed out, you are not following the golden rule for the news media: The Daily Show is the only news outlet you should watch. Also, I encourage you all to donate to organizations which are trying to get Bush (and therefore Rumsfeld) out of office. You can also donate to rumsfeldinvaders, or buy t-shirts, etc..
  • 8/3/05 Hmm. Two days have passed since Monday, and there are still no credible candidates to run against Dick and Jeb in '08. Yikes. Sorry, that was a pretty scary thought to just offhandedly mention in an attempt at a joke. As I mentioned below, I think Nader is a pretty good alternative. But ballot access is just the first of many difficulties he'd have in unseating their cabal. Not that he shouldn't try. We should all try. It would be cool to have 100,000 independent candidates. Mostly residents of Ithaca, New York, Boulder, Colorado, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and several small coastal Northern California towns. We could probably drum up 100,000 people who know "what's goin' on," as Marvin Gaye would say. Or was that "Let's get it on"? How is that different from "Bring 'em on"? What I mean is to get 100,000 candidates with the kind of philosophy that doesn't involve invading countries and building global empire to preserve a wealth disparity which causes the majority of humanity to live on $1 a day, and lets a very small number dictate how others live while they deplete the resources that we all share. The global commons. Oh, and they change the climate. Climate change. It's a concern of mine. And it's related to the whole unsustainable oil/petroleum thing which is behind this war thing. Which is why we have this website.
  • Oh, I was thinking about Wolfowitz recently. He made a career move over to the World Bank. Following in McNamara's footsteps. Start wars. Bomb lots of civilians. Then move over to international lending to "help the poor." Hmm. What's the connection? The San Francisco Mime Troupe is doing a play based on John Perkins' book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. In the book, Mr. Perkins describes his travels to Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. His job was to convince Third World countries to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development-loans that were much larger than needed-and to guarantee that the development projects were contracted to U.S. corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel. Once these countries were saddled with huge debts, the U.S. government and the international aid agencies allied with it were able to control these economies and to ensure that oil and other resources were channeled to serve the interests of building a global empire. John Perkins book has exposed the world of international intrigue and corruption that is turning the American republic into a global empire despised by increasing numbers of people around the planet. The Mime Troupe's play is called "Doing Good." So now you have Wolfowitz, who thought he was Doing Good in Iraq, trying to Do Good all over the place. But the people he's thinking he's helping, I think he's hurting. That is why I went to Seattle to protest the WTO, and why I went to Cancun to turn this corporate globalization thing around. Other people have called it the Global Monetocracy. Which is a pretty broad term for all the white men who are interlinked through money and power to keep the system status quo, loaning money, paying interest, plundering resources, and keeping most people poor so that they can have cheap labor to make Barbie Dolls and pick produce in the hot sun. Yeah, real democracy would threaten some of that luxury. Especially when the natives get restless and ask for a piece of the pie themselves. Next thing you know, you got socialism, a bunch of communists, and then Joe McCarthy waving a list around trying to make people scared. Hmm, sounds familiar. Oops, I'm off the subject. Well, it's related, but let's get back closer to the subject.
  • Isn't this Blog supposed to be about Rumsfeld? Or "Rummy" as some people call him. I personally don't call him that, because he and I aren't that close. It has to do with the fact that I made a website which kind of makes fun of him. You might have heard of it, it's called "Rumsfeldinvaders.com." Ah, I know that joke wasn't that funny. Anyway, I actually don't know how Rumsfeld feels about this website. Maybe he likes it. I did send an email, via this website's emailer to him a few years back. But no response. He didn't write, he didn't call. Oy! After all I've done for him! Actually, I didn't ask for a response. And I didn't get one. But I didn't really want one. I only like affectionate and sensitive feedback, which takes into account my fragile ego. I only wanted compliments and emotional support, but you know, in a manly macho sort of way. Like a guy buying another guy a beer, or a friendly punch in the arm, but not too friendly. Just friendly enough that, you know, you can chuckle about how your arm hurts when you downshift your Hummer as you crash through the wilderness off-roading with country music blasting and an American flag waving behind you and the sun glistening off your "support the troops" sticker. I saw a funny sticker yeasterday which said "Support the Pimps" with the same yellow ribbon, and it was on a slightly lowered pick up with deep bass from the subwoofers, and the driver has slicked hair. Sweet. Yeah, maybe Rumsfeld likes this site, and visits it often. That would be nice. He could make me an informal member of the Policy Team which includes Richard Perl, who has more conflicts of interest than Dick Cheney. Well, OK, maybe not that many. Maybe as many as Tom DeLay. My advice would be different than Perl's and the Project for a New American Century's. My advice would be, downsize the military, put the money into renewable energy R&D (no, stupid, not nuclear), I mean solar and wind and hydrogen infrastructure and biofuels and capturing those cow farts/methane. You'd even have money left over to help out the teachers and the schools, the doctors and nurses and the health care system, and all the others who are trying to help make people's lives better, not worse. Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, bring the troops home now. We'll have to do something drastic about the ridiculous deficits these hawks are running up. It's really part of their plan to close down the entire social safety net in the US, including schools, hospitals, etc. They want to privatize everything and the war in Iraq gives them fiscal reasons to. Sorry, spent another $300 billion in Iraq, can't afford to provide anything to American people anymore. Grr. These guys need to go. We can't allow them to gut our services, so we'd need to work out some kind of plan to get out from under that debt these guys are running up. Taxing the rich would answer part of it, but we might want to think in bigger terms. It could involve a new kind of currency, and a new kind of system where the economy and the environment are systemically linked. So when your environment is doing well, and the plundering is managed, then the economy booms, and when the plundering starts getting out of hand, then the economy starts suffering so the feedback to the banks and investors is to invest in environmentally-friendly technology and practices, and the marketing and business world focuses on promoting environmentally friendly products and lifestyles. (My idea for that right now is with CO2/carbon credits, more on that later) Doesn't that sound like a nice thing? Who is opposed to that? Not many people. I think most people would support it. But Rumsfeld and his small group of people don't.
  • I don't know if I should really criticize a guy who is such a big supporter of AbuGhraib and Guantanamo. I hear that Rumsfeld is a big supporter of holding people without access to attorneys, and not charging them. The British hold people for two weeks and then let them go. But here in the enlightened US, or should I say, there in our Cuban and Iraqi prison camps, and probably Afghani too, you can be held indefinitely. And Alberto Gonzalez said that that's just fine and dandy with him. He doesn't stay up late at night worrying about the Geneva Conventions. And he is a bit late on his dues to Amnesty International. Well, for the record, and you know Blogs are the record, they can and will be used against you, this is freedom of speech, and the blog is a decentralized form of that, and the internet is a decentralized form of media, and if you have any questions, you can consult the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Article 1. I know the right wing is so excited about the 2nd amendment, and bearing arms is a very Rumsfeldian thing to do, but I like Article 1 even better. I don't even really like Article 2. Bear your arms to yourself. I prefer Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Peaceful protest, and using your words and the power of persuasion and argument in a democratic forum to emanicipate people and promote freedom and democracy.
  • 7/26/05 Wow. Blogging is difficult. There's so much to rant about. It's daunting. Where to even start? Well, here goes. I've noticed I swing back and forth between being more annoyed at Rumsfeld's overseas Invasions, and the domestic shenanigans that the neo-Cons are getting away with because everyone is so distracted by the Overseas stuff. I've referred to some of the domestic stuff as the Domestic arm of Rumsfeld's War, but in some ways it's the opposite. Or maybe it's just the chicken and the egg. The Conservatives have a pretty broad agenda, which, by the way, includes World Domination. I think it's in the footnote at the bottom of page 1,766,039,485. The liberals...sorry, what? Liberals? We don't have any in this country. The moderates...well, their agenda is basically to pay lots of lip service, and pretend to supply an alternative every 4 years. But, at 8AM after the election, they're pretty darn content to concede defeat, and go back to a fat cat lifestyle, agree with the protesters but not really do anything about it, not have to take responsibility for things going to hell in a handbasket. By the way, I should mention I'm talking about the Federal Level of the US government. I actually like a lot of pols at the local level in the Blue States. Even conservatives in Blue States seem to have a moral compass. A shred of human decency. They often understand that we all share the same planet, that hurting your neighbor is not OK, that pure self-interest will not necessarily raise all boats. If you live in a State where everything comes down to Jesus, gays, guns, and abortion, then you need to pack your bags and move. Depopulate the Red States. They'll lose Congrssional Seats (though not Senators, gosh blast it). Especially Florida and Ohio. Depopulate!
  • Even the McCain types are OK. I like what he's doing on climate change and campaign finance reform. I'd disagree with him on the military budget. I'd say you can slash that sucka by 80% without blinking. Put the money into environmental restoration, and a new Apollo Project to get us a hydrogen infrastructure powered by renewable energy. It'll be like the highway system, a new Commons, which helps employ inner city youth, and give people with psychological problems (like Republicans in Red States) a positive outlet for their gun-wielding energy. Alternative energy even fits into their anti-Middle East mind set. It's not really alternative anymore. We have the technology. It's the 21st century. Alternative was back in the 1970s.
  • What happened to the Perot people? I watched "The War Room" last night. Clinton probably would have had a much harder time getting elected if Perot wasn't there. Somehow, the Repubs have consolidated that wing of independents. They sent Buchanan in their to demoralize them. Maybe they could be re-awakened by 2008. Get an ex-wrestler, or ex-football player with independent thinking. Someone with broad shoulders. Conservative independents like that. Well, Perot's were narrow, but he was from Texas, so they liked that.
  • Nader is still alive and kicking. I have to acknowledge Nader for being a lone voice in the wilderness. He speaks truth to power, and he doesn't back down. I think that's why he scares the Democrats. They don't know what to do with a progressive with a spine. It worries them, causes them to doubt their wimpy ways. Democrats can deal with Conservatives. They can make deals. Cave in to their demands. They're really good at that. Lose to them in elections. They're perfecting the art. Not filibuster their ridiculous nominees to the Courts, even though they know the clock is going to be turned back to the 1950's or even 1850's. But they don't know what to do when Nader or his supporters demand alternatives to the corporate-globalization paradigm.
  • 6/27/05 Since this is the first RumsBlog entry, I guess I'll give an overview of what I hope to accomplish, and maybe some themes which may come up here. Then it's up to you whether you check back, or whether you send the link to all your friends, or whether you feel duped (as sometimes happens) for spending the hours between 1-3AM on the computer when it would have been much more productive to be sleeping. Some goals for this Blog:
  • Venting frustration at the way things are going in our country (inclusive of countries Rumsfeld has invaded)
  • Hopefully educating a few people about things which are totally obvious to me, but which never seem to make the news (The news is too full of gossip about celebrities to cover things such as why is our country going to hell in a handbasket courtesy of the Project for a New American Century)
  • Fun, politically incorrect editorializing with no oversight, because that's what the Internet is for.
  • Getting rich and famous for a brilliant idea: Rumsfeld Invaders- a combination of the Atari-based video game Space Invaders and the U.S. Secretary of Defense who thinks he is playing a large video game called World Domination. By speaking this truth to power, or at least to the Internet audience, I hope to bring about a regime change which will take people with destructive intentions out of the Federal Government, and replace them with peaceful hippies whose main goal is to make love not war. Oops, I got off on a tangent. I'm not even a hippie.
  • I also want to reach out to my target audience: 10 year old boys who play lots of video games. I played with lots of GI Joes and toy Star Wars stuff when I was growing up, but I didn't realize that it was part of our war culture making boys into soldiers. Now, I like Destiny's Child just as much as the next guy, but I want to show the youngins that you can think for yourself, be independent, don't be brainwashed by the military-industrial complex. This message is important for 10 year old boys to hear before they become cannon fodder for future imperialist ventures, but the message is also apprpriate for Americans of all ages who all thought the current debacle in Iraq was a Patriotic thing and thought the entire Middle East was responsible for 9-11 and so should be invaded. Sorry to tell you, you were brainswashed by the corporate media to think that. There are huge corporate industrial interests at work here. War is very profitable for them. You are pawns in their game. I hope that this website can help people, and be a fun game to play too!
  • I think there's some book called "War is a force which gives us meaning." I would like to put out there the idea that Saving the Earth is a force which gives us meaning. Saving the Earth does not mean imperialist wars for oil. Saving the Earth means reconciling economics with the environment (note to economists, this means economics has to change, not the environment). Saving the Earth means more ecological lifestyles (eating less meat, driving less, buying organic and sweatshop-free, pesticide-free). Saving the Earth means being nicer to each other (less road rage, more generosity). Saving the Earth means institutional change so that our society functions, naturally, in ways that support social and environmental well-being, bring prosperity to all people, and leave a legacy to future generations that they will call sustainable. OK, that's pretty good for a first Blog entry.