Civilization can no longer afford the hypocrisies and violence of institutional religion.

Institutional religion is a game. It has rules and punishments, but it has NOTHING to do with the human heart.

The human heart doesn't need institutional religion. Jesus wasn't a "cleric" and neither was Mohammed or the Hebrew Prophets. These men didn't have "institutional back up", such as gargantuan buildings and game rules written by men in dress-like institutional uniforms.

These last eight years have put religion under a spiritual microscope and what we have seen is beyond loathsome. Mostly, we have seen religious fanatics who justify murder in the name of God. Indeed, God, for them, is virtually a synonym of murder.

We also shouldn't forget such IQ refuse as those who actually believe the world is going to go boom in next week or two (Armageddon). Such thinking (and similar nonsense’s) is grounded is abyssal stupidity and is more dead weight of institutional religion.

Is the human race ready yet to face the fact that most of what passes for "religion" is moral trash and criminal stupidity? It's time for this meaningless free ride to end. It's time for civilization to transcend religion.

"Religion" is a tricky word because some of us can play the religion game in a tongue in cheek manner, while remaining committed to the transcendence of spirituality and morality. This is probably harmless enough since the individuals who do this know full well the human heart is all, and such religious peripheral game playing can have a certain pragmatic value.

But this is light years away from the Homo sapien morons and cowards who have handed over their lives to cult leaders and Pope types. The first step of spirituality is realizing that TRUTH HAS NO AUTHORITY and when it comes to transcendence or "God" (if that word works for you), you are 100% on your own. Indeed, the more you depend on the cult "leaders" is the more you kill your own soul.

George Bush is an archetypal boot licker of religious masters. So is John McCain. These two spiritual vacuums are the essence of what spirituality ISN'T.

However, this isn't so much a spiritual critique of certain individuals (however evil); it is rather a critique of institutional religion, or just religion itself for that matter.

To say it point blank, religion is mostly a lethal virus in civilization, but we keep looking the other way and acting as if religion is kind and helpful. Yes, about as kind and helpful as eating ground glass.

Religion is now the enemy of civilization. How can we think otherwise? Has it come to the aid of bleeding human beings during these last Bush/neocon/Nazi-like eight years?

Has it heroically stood up and pointed out that Bush's neocon cabal answers ONLY to the Israeli lunatic fringe right wing, and that this "ally" (what a laugh!) has been wagging America's foreign policy nonstop for the last eight years (actually much longer)?

Has it DEMANDED that we put 9/11 under a microscope, since hundreds of internet sites are overflowing with evidence that the Bush/Republicans didn't just "screw up" with 9/11, rather they played a dramatics role in ENGINEERING it.

Has it come to the aid of the American people to protect us from being driven bankrupt (along with the country at large) because of the manipulations of Texas energy corporations and such monsters of greed as Cheney/Halliburton? More specifically, where has religion been while the gap between the increasingly non existent lower and middle classes and the vampire rich is greater than it has ever been in American history. Jesus' heart went out to the victims of elite greed, but the American pulpits are occupied only with immoral, Bush-validating wimps.

Show me a clergyman, and I'll show you someone who can’t even spell the word morality and compassion.

We could go on and on, but the moral is simplicity itself. Religion has now bonded itself with political evil and has become in every respect like the spiritual filth Jesus whipped out of the "temple".

The human race is doomed unless and until it wakes up to the reality of dead weight religious evil, since, to use our children's language, it as gone over to the dark side.

Please do not read this as hyperbole or jive. The churches have abandoned us. Period. And a few token remarks by Pope X, Y, or Z mean nothing. Judge them by their fruits indeed. Most Americans in one way or another are dying in a ditch, but the institutional priests (of all religions) keep averting their gaze.

The moral, social power of religion could (and should) be awesome. It should be in the face of the evil which is murdering America. But, to borrow a phrase of T. S. Elliot, religion isn't even letting us die with a bang, but with a whimper and we should NEVER FORGET IT.

Prettified speech notwithstanding, where do Hillary's loyalties lie?

Too much water (e.g., racism, sexism, assassination innuendos, and kudos for McCain, etc., etc.), have passed under the bridge in the last year or two to suddenly regard Hillary as even a team player for the Democratic Party, much less a committed supporter of Barack Obama.

Hillary, exactly like her husband, is an archetypal politician (ugh!), which means zero commitment to values, morality, and the American Constitution, and 100% commitment to the "Clinton Me". This pair of egomaniacal game players with the American institutional soul have been the other side of the evil coin of Bush/Republican fascism from day one.

Hillary has been the incarnation of the Republican/Democrat, without whom the neocon cabal could never have stolen our country. We must never forget that (a.) Hillary has always danced to the strings of the neocon cabal, and (b.) the neocon cabal has always danced to the strings of the Israeli lunatic fringe right wing.

And these Hillary/cabal policies have led us where? To two oil wars, for openers, which are costing us BILLIONS, into which we keep pouring our cannon fodder children (never forget Hillary's voting record on these money cow wars for America's vampire rich!). Also Christmas tax breaks for America's elites and back breaks for the rags of what is left of our middle and lower classes. Again, check out her voting record "against" the middle and lower classes. The mutual adoration society between Hillary and our 0.05% astronomically rich is putrid to behold.

Hillary keeps bragging about her feminist supporters (gee, isn't that called sexism?), but probably the greatest tragedy of all is the fact that when we finally had a shot at a woman in the highest office, it turned out to be Hillary Clinton, who is an absolute contradiction and disgrace to all the values of the Goddess. Yes, yes, YES, America needs "Goddess energy", but Hillary probably set that vision back at least a decade, with her groveling racism and Clintonian "victory at any cost".

Simply put, the Clinton's DLC (because it was their toy) has always been part of our national problem, never the solution. It was a Clinton invention and lived where the sun doesn't shine in the Bush/Republican body politick. Ol' smiley Bill was always sucking up to the elites and "readjusting" the Democratic Party into closet Republicans. And like husband, life wife, Hillary was doing the same.

So, our work is cut out for us. Yes, we must come together as a nation to rid ourselves of these Republican Nazi-like fascists, but it's going to be a high wire act to allow Hillary into the policies and appointments of these next several months.

Realistic pragmatics, compromise, and positive judgment calls, yes, by all means. But realism includes not forgetting precisely those people who have betrayed (over and over again) those values and policies where "talking the talk" means NOTHING, and walking the walk means EVERYTHING.

We haven't come this far by being gullible fools.

Is this the beginning of the bounce after hitting bottom?

Are we being rolled out of intensive care back to health? Forgive the metaphors, but it’s hard to talk about immensity any other way.

The agony of our country has many parts:

(1.) The dead center of everything is the neocon cabal which has hijacked our country for the Israeli lunatic fringe right wing. Call the author anything you like, BUT MOST OF AMERICA KNOWS THIS IS TRUE. The Likud Party nut case religious fanatics and billionaires of Israel's right wing extremists have totally dominated our foreign policy for the last eight years (actually more).

(2.) 9/11! This will be the watershed event of America since the Civil War. The depths of this treason are sunk into bottomless hell. The Bush/Republicans didn't just "screw up"; they almost certainly facilitated the event. Literally hundreds of sites on the net are burgeoning with facts, scientific analysis, and hundreds of observations which powerfully indicate this event was not only "allowed", it was ENGINEERED. And by whom? Well, who was in office and who were they answering to? Questions, questions, questions of national/international treason . . .

(3.) Money cow oil wars for America's vampire rich, fought, of course, with our cannon fodder children for Cheney/Halliburton vampires of greed. The gap between the pig, pig rich and what's left of America's middle and lower classes has never been so great. America is now unequivocally a Dictatorship of the Rich, ruthlessly defended (from us!) by what is now an Elite Police State.

(4.) The utter soul selling of America's news media and "entertainment" industry. A few heroes and exceptions prove the rule, but otherwise it’s all follow the money. And the money trail leads where? To the neocon acronyms, of course, that are now America's masters.

(5.) The rape and murder of Mother Nature during the last eight years and trashing of most of our hard and heart won environmental protections is heartbreaking beyond words. It's also a recipe for Homo sapien extinction.

This list, sadly, could go on and on, but the big idea is that as a nation we are dying. This is no exaggeration. Our Constitutional Republic, as stated above, has been in intensive care.

We all know the feeling. The feeling that international vampire elites and religious psychopaths have bonded with American Nazi like fascists to engineer a literal coup d'etat in our country.

We have been living in national chaos and agony since Bush came to power (not in the stolen year 2000 Presidential election, but after the treasonous 9/11 infamy). Bush was in the political toilet "before" the timely 9/11, but then he got to play the game which is finally showing signs of pulling him back into the hell he crawled out of.

May I use a dated word and say that the "vibes" of where we are now are significantly different. You see, I want this piece to be a song of hope. Things are being said all over the net which were taboo before. Are we FINALLY getting our second wind? Are we finally acknowledging that 9/11 was infinite treason? Are we finally acknowledging that our foreign policy has been a tail wagged by the Israeli right wing for the last eight years. Are we finally demanding that we get our media back (in any case, we have the net, so screw this army of Judas').

The United States of America has not only been in intensive care; we have virtually been in a coma of despair, loss, and murder of our children in Bush Oil Wars. We have basically lost EVERYTHING!

. . . but here we still are. Here you are and here I am, still breathing, still fighting the good fight, and suddenly much more aggressively setting the stage for the biggest political/social/patriotic SMACK DOWN of local and international evil for the last several millennia.

There's a good time coming and it ain't so far away.

The seabirds from the continent of justice and rationality are increasingly filling the sky.

Look up! Sea birds of America's resurrection are everywhere!

Compare where we are now to eight years ago, or four years ago, or even to one year ago.

Sometimes things happen so slowly it's easy to miss them, but where we are NOW is light years away from most of these last eight years.

Bush is back in exactly the same toilet he was before 9/11! Look at the polls. Most people think he's mangling America (certainly the middle and lower classes). Which, of course, he is. Arguably, no man in the history of the world is responsible for so much global misery as this virtual anti-Christ of the early 3rd millennia. Not only in the sense of Muslim genocide but also in the sense of the rape and murder of Mother Nature which is affecting BILLIONS of people.

But now we can openly say these things. Millions and millions of Americans (and Earthlings) are now convinced that 9/11 was absolutely an "inside job" (aided and abetted by our number one "ally"). This isn't tin hat stuff anymore; rather it's a growing tsunami of scientific and historical facts and studies. 9/11 didn't just "happen" to us; it was planned and engineered by American traitors, and financed, as always, by international vampire elites.

And oh yes, now we know all about the elites. We have FINALLY "grown up" enough as a country to realize that 0.05% of America is treating all the rest of us like cattle. They wean us and poison our food and double our work loads. It isn't even a "class war", since they've got all the power and pseudo laws.

But the difference is that now we KNOW this, just like we KNOW that 9/11 was engineered by Bush/Republicans (and pseudo Democrats), just like we KNOW that global warming (etc., etc.) is completely avoidable, but since it works to the temporary advantage of the fascist Bushsheviks, it will only get worse and worse.

But perhaps the biggest seabird of American rebirth is Barack Obama. God bless and protect this man from innuendo murderers like the Clintons.

And here's the biggie. The grace that's finally pouring back into our country is that Barack Obama is a symptom and expression of values and policies that used to define America. He's the tip of an iceberg of massive, massive change.

Just as he modestly said the other day, he's standing on the shoulder's of Teddy Kennedy . . . and MILLIONS of passionate progressive Americans. The Clinton's are political cancer, but the Clinton's no longer have a national wave to catch. For them, it's over. No more Bush Democrats. That wave has come and gone and Hillary can make as many puss drenched remarks as she likes, but we now know she's a psychopathic clown just like Bush himself (Bush in a dress?).

The super, super positive thing I'm trying to say (and thank you for your patience) is that Barack Obama is not a random event. Rather he's a symptom of who and what America has become and is still becoming. God bless him for being the tip of a mountain, but God bless us for being that mountain.

The Bush neocon juggernaut is dead and now only weakly answers to the Israeli lunatic fringe right wing -- whose acronym lobbies seem increasingly worried these days.

See, we ALSO know and can talk about the Israeli lunatic fringe right wing, i.e., those "advisors" of Bush whose Likud Party type agendas for the last eight years have been murdering our children, economy, constitution and the fragile ecosystem of planet Earth. But these people have never given a rat's ass about the well being and safety of the United States of America. But not for much longer . . .

Because if you look up, you will see seabirds of national change everywhere. Bush is being vetoed, 9/11 is considered an inside job even by the families whose loved ones were killed. Texas energy corporations are being congressionally investigated (just look their executives teeth dripping with the blood of America), and the un-American neocons are increasingly naked.

Listen to the national outrage about Hillary's innuendo assassination of Obama and no brain McCain doesn't seem to be taken seriously even by barnyard animals.

Seabirds from the mountain and with or without traitor Hillary, this mountain, like a volcano emerging from an ocean, is going to be the rebirth of our beloved Constitutional Republic.

Keep the faith. One way or another, this race is already won. The political pendulum has already swung back and our prayers are being answered.

God bless and protect Barack Obama, the next President of the United States, and God bless us all everyone (quoth Tiny Tim).

Hillary-Assassination-Seed one ups Johnny Apple Seed.

Hmmm. Now let's think about this. A few days before Hillary-Assassination-Seed began sowing her seeds, we kept hearing about the possibility that she might be the Vice Presidential candidate with Barack Obama.

The idea didn't seem to have a lot of support (or maybe it did and we just didn't know it), but apparently it WAS a possibility considered very seriously by certain movers and shakers.

And then suddenly Hillary starts sowing her seeds.

Happy seeds for her since they raise the possibly of “defeating” Obama by electing him and then (let's see, what was that word?) oh yes, the assassination word.

Wow, would that be an end run to end all end runs or what?

Look, in all seriousness, that's a word that should NEVER have come out of the mouth of the Clinton camp. Do we or do we not know that our country is still populated with violent white supremacists and is it or is it not the case that Bill/Hillary just can't seem to shut up these days about racism, racism, and more racism?

So, how about NOT throwing gasoline on what is already is blazing fire. Remember the recent Huckabee assassination "jokes" in front of the NRA?

How about not sowing seeds into the "Let's assassinate another Presidential candidate" camp? How about not sowing seeds into the "Let's assassinate another black hero camp". And how about not sowing seeds into the "Let's assassinate another President" camp?

Of course, none of these scenarios were explicitly stated by "the Clintons" (two bodies, one psyche)? No, they were not, but that's the thing about seeds, isn't it? They just have to be tossed about there and, gee, who knows what will happen.

"Food for thought", that's the phrase that exactly fits her remarks, "food for thought" - - and we bloody well know it.

Under certain conditions, "saying certain things" can be a mortal sin (to borrow a Catholic theologism). And this wasn't a gaffe or a goof, this was a moral sin whopper.

Let's pray it hasn't impregnated folks who for whom precisely such food for thought is tasty indeed.

God Bless and protect Barack Obama, our next President of the United States.

The United States of XXXXXXX the radical Israeli right wing

Every country has a right to influence other countries within the limits of a level playing field, but Joe Lieberman's antics of late remind us that the United States of America for the last eight years has been a tail wagged by Israel's Likud Party types.

Who cares about the acronyms, the bottom line is that from the year 2000 on, America stopped belonging to Americans. If the average American really took in this fact, one wonders what would be the result. From Wolfowitz on, the so called neocons have NEVER been concerned with the well being and national security of the United States of America; rather their umbilical cords are directly and only connected with the Israeli lunatic fringe right wing.

Of course this is all "justified" in the name of lobbies, but lobbies aren't supposed to DICTATE the foreign policy of other countries.

None of this is complicated. The facts are legion and despicable and nearly all of Bush's "advisors" have been dragging our bleeding and now nearly bankrupt country straight to hell.

If the neocons had ANY positive concern for The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, why is our country in every way going down for the third time? Indeed, since we ARE going down for the third time 100% because of their “leadership”, so much for their positive concern. Apparently these Likud Party type advisors don't give as rat's ass about America for Americans, but only America as a puppet for the militant, self centered agendas of extremist right wing Israeli's.

No connection should be made here between the political obsessions of these Israeli extremists and either the Jewish Community of the State of Israel in general. This has nothing to do with culture or the complex state of Israel, containing as it does, the Labor Party, as just one example of policies and values far more liberal than what's left of our Democratic Party.

No, the focus is only and specifically on the lunatic fringe right wing of Israel. However, the infinite tragedy is that it just this relatively small combination of religious fanatics and vampire rich banker politicians who have totally taken over America's State and Defense Departments. Many of them also brag (probably correctly) that they pull the strings of nearly all forms of the American media.

Astoundingly, Israel in the only country in the world where Bush's popularity is around 66%.

When you compare that to the toilet numbers he is getting in the United States of AMERICA, it is clear where his loyalties lie.

We have the absolutely insane situation of a President, nearly all of whose advisors are committed to another country, and who is himself with his Baptist Big Bang Armageddon lunacies ALSO committed to another country.

And here all this time we thought this was the United States of America.

If we paraphrase Jesus' dictum, “Ye shall judge them by their poll numbers” then hell will freeze over 25 times before George W. Bush gets a 66% vote of confidence from Americans. Maybe that's because, for us, this isn’t the United States of the radical Israeli right wing.

One thing is certain, until we TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK from Bush and his "advisors" and return America to Americans, the American Dream will continue to be flushed down Middle Eastern toilets.

The second most repressed atrocity in America

Of course 9/11 comes first. Wherever you are on the continuum of "inside job" to criminal negligence (are you listening Condi?), this horrific event will inevitably define who we are, much like the Civil War.

Post 9/11, like post Civil War, America has been changed to the core, and if the "inside job" interpretation proves the historically correct one, what tsunami of patriotic rage is waiting for us just around the corner?

But what about number two, i.e., the "other" atrocity; the one we take for granted to the point of invisibility.

It's not complicated or even traditionally political, but it has led America to brink of utter destruction: morally, financially, and ecologically.

But we're not supposed to talk about it. Indeed, many (most?) so called "liberal" sites won't even permit Americans to dialogue about it.

Forget the Republicans; this subject is taboo even in our own internet living rooms.

Number two is the simple fact that the foreign policy of America has been led around by the nose by the Israeli extremist right wing for the last 8 years -- actually longer, since this political coup d'etat started well before the stolen year 2000 presidential election.

It's important to fully take in the outrage that America stopped belonging to Americans when Bush surrounded himself with "advisor's" who have never given a rat's ass for the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Most of these people are Likud Party types (e.g., Joe Lieberman) whose umbilical cords are foully connected to the right wing lunatic fringe of another county.

And may we stop in its tracks any implication that this is talking about the Jewish community. It is in NO WAY WHATSOEVER talking about the Jewish community. It is talking only about the virulently right wing political/religious force which "contaminates" Israel, just as much as our psychopathic murderers in the name of God contaminate our Constitutional Republic (at least what is left of it).

It's an old analogy, but it works exactly to say the foreign policy of the United States of America has been reduced to a tail wagged by the right wing extremists of Israel. And this has been going on eight years! America stopped being America when Bush sucked up to his advisors, nearly all of whom answered (and still answer) directly to the Israeli lunatic fringe right wing.

Well, they've had a good run. What do you think of the results? Look where these "advisors" have lead us: to financial ruin, the suicidal rape and murder of Mother Nature, and war after war after war.

So, what do you think? Do we finally get to talk about what these gangsters have done to OUR country? Do we finally get to point out where the Israel's right wing extremists have manipulated our beloved republic?

Think about it. Has there ever been a period of eight years during which our country was going down for the third time, and NEVER FORGET that this is all the inevitable consequence of allowing Liked Party types to DICTATE (that's the word!) the national and international policies of our sovereign nation.

"Sovereign nation"! What a laugh. Not for the last eight years.

You know what? Here's one American who thinks if we can only rid our government of these cancerous "advisors", we will be able to at least have a fighting chance to save our nation.

But so long as the tentacles from the Israeli extremist right wing continue to DOMINATE EVERYTHING in our Defense and State Departments (as two examples), the American Dream will continue to be flushed down toilets NOT "made in America".

So, repression number two: the infinite tragedy that we allowed our nation to be taken over by a "silent revolution" of Israeli right wing lunatics and that they have guided America straight to hell.

God, I want my country back. Don't you?

Americans for Americans. How about that? Not the fanatically religious, vampire rich, militant criminals of another country with dreams of Muslim genocide.

God Bless America