ONE CANNOT HELP BUT THINKING
Smoking marijuana rather than ranting about it, one I cannot help thinking. I just watched Kevin Spacey in Beyond The Sea, the Bobby Darin story, and enjoyed it immensely, especially as Spacey was having since a good time wearing the tuxedos and doing his own singing, but there were moments when, in his Bobby Darin makeup, Spacey’s face morphed into that of an older Lee Harvey Oswald, which was cause for pause – especially as I may have the only one seeing it.. It does, however, give me a fine segue into some thoughts about what exactly our President is up to.

I’m a reasonably well known paranoid in paranoid circles, – see previous paragraph – and all my antennae are up and quivering. I seriously don’t like all the promotion of Patriot Act II, that’s going on, and how little is being said about how it one dangerous movie to play. This is the sucker with all the Gestapo clauses, and everyone should be very afraid of it because, once the Feds get these powers, it’s a hell of thing to pry them back again, and everyone, from Act Up to the Aryan Nation needs to be nervous of zealous overloaded, armed-for-bear law enforcement. Have the fundamentalists forgotten Waco so quickly? While Bush is out selling the deal on TV, we get all of these weird-ass news reports about rounding up Al Qeada "sleeper cells"and "sympathizers", plus "what-if" horror scenarios about terrorists poisoning school dinners (although I thought McDonalds had that well in hand), and a whole bunch of other demented War On Terror shit, that sounds a fuck of lot like round-up-the-usual Ay-rabs, and maybe we’ll have ourselves a lot of little Reichstags and a lot of little Rosenbergs while Bush attempts to once again ride his approval ratings from the depth of the crapper on amorphous fear.

And, on the subject of the antics of the current administration, kaymo sends us the following...
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believe you can do these things. Among them are... a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." – President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

He includes a provenance for when Ann Coulter calls it a phoney...

Citation for those who believe that this quote is too perfect to be true: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 8 November 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1147. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press,1996
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1

He also sends an H.P. Lovecraft link for those who like that sort of thing.
http://www.hplovecraft.com/

The secret word is Arkham