SEEN IT, DONE IT
Sent by Mr MR
"United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballotsyesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam." – Peter Grose, in a page 2 New York Times article titled, 'U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote,' September 4, 1967.

QUOTE
"Personally, I've decided to stop evolving. No point, really. Evolution is so 20th century." – Maureen Dowd

The secret word is Enough.

(Total reverse order.) OH, THE CROW IS BACK.

AND IF THAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH THE CROW HAS BECOME NOTHING MORE THAN A PLUG!

FUCK THIS SHIT (in a dull, weary, and defeated tone)
I have been advised on the comments board to be more in touch with my feminine side. Well hell. How many sides are required on this rolling penny of damnation? Mark the to-do list and the task agenda. My feminine side, my feline side, my avian side, my canine side, my paranoia, extreme narcissism, megalomania, masochism, and sundry phobias, and then at least ninety minutes in the lizard brain, unless that’s covered by watching TV. Damn it all, the entire drift of my fiction for at least the last decade should have clearly demonstrated my growing disgust at my human side. Or maybe it’s time to just shut the fuck up. Or retreat into my study with a bottle of whiskey and a pistol.

(If you don’t hear a gunshot in the first hour, though, don’t come a knocking. After more than a half a century, I may actually be happy, or quiet. Also I’m fairly sure an antique .38 cap and ball, double load, Navy Colt can pump a ball through the kind of glue and sawdust doors they have round here. And if that doesn’t work I’ll go for the .45 1911 standard auto.)

The secret word is Death

NOW SHALL WE CONSIDER HEDY LAMARR?
From HCBeck...
"Any girl can be glamorous," Hedy Lamarr once said. "All she has to do is stand still and look stupid." The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time. Read more...
http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/lamarr.html

CRYPTIQUE -- The crow is slow. Where is the end of this tether?

Iraq’s had their election, the Shi-ites are apparently in power, so our boys can come now, right?
Yeah but...
ALL EYES TURN TO GOBBLER’S KNOB
Just three shopping days to Groundhog Day. (So where are all my gifts and cards?)

The secret word is Rodent

CRYPTIQUE – Raving Monster Looney Party of Islam

MONDAY READIN'
I have been a Gore Vidal fan as long as I can remember, and his latest take on George Bush indicates that he’s far from flagging...
"So here we are, in the middle of the unfinished Iraq tragedy, and the President, in his inaugural address, is serenely declaring war on the rest of the world. Instead of talking about how the hell we get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, we are talking about going into Iran."
And here’s the rest...
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=39&contentid=1843

While Maureen Dowd in the NY Times has been discussing sex and torture, if you have a mind for it...
"A female military interrogator who wanted to turn up the heat on a 21-year-old Saudi detainee who allegedly had taken flying lessons in Arizona before 9/11 removed her uniform top to expose a snug T-shirt. She began belittling the prisoner - who was praying with his eyes closed - as she touched her breasts, rubbed them against the Saudi's back and commented on his apparent erection."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/opinion/30dowd.html?oref=login&th

Plus a bunch of stuff on the sign of Satan and what is laughably called the first family...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/210105devilhand.htm

AND FINALLY THE QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The death camps were created by men with a high opinion of themselves-some of them well-educated and possessed of refined manners-but without conscience. And, where there is no conscience, there is no tolerance towards others...no defense against evil...and no limit to the crimes that follow." – Dick fuckin’ Cheney at Auschwitz in his parka and wooly hat, I suppose proving that in addition to no conscience, he has no manners.

The secret word is Weimar