These guys are my new favorite activist group. Wearechange.org is a group out of NYC who are 9/11 activists. Just in the last two weeks alone they've confronted David Rockefeller (at his house! God these guys have balls!), Rudy Giuliani twice in one day, and then again this week.
They asked John Edwards and Al Gore about the New World Order. They haven't posted the videos for John Edwards and Al Gore yet, but i can't wait to see it!
Giuliani IS SO FUCKING EVIL!!!! The video in this article i've posted is so crazy! I saw the other video they had where this girl who is a 9/11 family member, was shaking hands with Rudy Giuliani and asked him why on 9/11 he told in an interview to Peter Jennings that he knew the towers were going to fall, and why he didn't tell anyone to try to save the people. And then she added,"How can you sleep at night?", and Giuliani just looks up and smiles and lies and says he had no idea that the towers were going to fall, when that directly contradicts what he told Peter Jennings that very morning!!
This video the group just posted yesterday is even better cuz they're across the street from a fundraiser Giuliani is attending and there's a group of 9/11 family members across the street booing him!
So when he comes out of the fundraiser the We are Change people follow him with their cameras and ask him questions about 9/11 while he's trying to sign autographs. And Giuliani just stands there and grins the whole time!!!
Fucking incredible!!! These guys have balls, and they're protesting in front of all the right people, and actually getting media attention! Nice!!! :)

Giuliani Closed Off Streets to Avoid 9/11 Victims' Families
Some 50 Family Members and We Are Change Crew Demand Answers from Former Mayor on Trashing Remains of 9/11 Victims; Candidate Smiles, Laughs Behind Policy and Security Insulation

Aaron Dykes / JonesReport May 31, 2007

The We Are Change crew confronted Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani for a second time yesterday, after a question regarding Giuliani's prior knowledge of WTC collapse gained national attention two days ago.

The question on WTC collapse was based on statements Giuliani made to Peter Jennings where he admitted he was given prior warning to the collapse .

Giuliani's campaign stop was met by approximately 50 members of 9/11 victims' families who booed and protested the self-proclaimed '9/11 hero' who actually neglected proper handling of remains-- including reported use of remains to fill potholes on roadways. The outspoken criticism was met only with a heavy police presence and a barricade street.

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Apparently Rudy Giuliani considers it important to sign mindless autographs and simply smile his way through a crowd, but does not care to respond to the concerns of those most effected by the 9/11 attacks, despite the fact that he referred to himself as a "9/11 survivor" during the most recent Republican debate.

Members of We Are Change specifically asked him to address why he did not warn firefighters, police and other first responders that buildings would collapse in the WTC complex-- which might have saved hundreds of further lives-- despite the fact that he was told the buildings would collapse.

Giuliani did not speak with any family members on this stop, but his security forces pushed critics away from further coverage of the event, including members of We Are Change, as the video shows.

The group intends to continue pursuing Giuliani to expose his prior knowledge of collapse and obtain a satisfactory answer as the campaign continues.

Cindy Sheehan: Twin Towers' Collapse Looked Like Controlled Demolition
Anti-war icon supports move for new investigation into 9/11

Prison Planet | May 31, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson

Anti-war icon Cindy Sheehan has gone public on her support for the 9/11 truth movement after she told a radio show that the collapse of the twin towers looked like a controlled demolition and that there should be a new investigation into the terrorist attacks.

Sheehan, who made headlines this week after she distanced herself from the Democratic party and the establishment left, joined Alex Jones to share her views on her skepticism towards the official 9/11 story.

Sheehan said her decision to desert the Democrats was sparked last week when the Iraq war funding bill was passed and it was at this point she realized the Democrats had co-opted her simply to help them regain Congress and that they had no interest in ending the war.

Sheehan attacked Hillary Clinton as a "warhawk and a "warmonger" and said there was very little distinction between her and John McCain or Rudy Giuliani.

On 9/11, Sheehan expressed her support for the Jersey Girl's petition, which calls for a new independent investigation of the terrorist attacks, slamming the 9/11 Commission Report as a "total travesty and a smokescreen."

"George Bush and Dick Cheney held hands and testified behind closed doors, not under oath," said Sheehan, adding, "There are many things that just don't add up on that day."

Sheehan questioned why U.S. air defenses were distracted by drills and exercises scheduled for the morning of 9/11 and why standard operating procedure for intercepting errant aircraft was not followed for the first and only time in history.

"When you lose control of an airplane, you intercept it with a military jet and that should only take seconds - from what I understand it's not even an order to do that it's mandatory," said Sheehan.

Speaking on the collapse of the twin towers, Sheehan stated, "It does look to me like a controlled demolition - I'm not an expert - but it does look to me like a controlled demolition - I'm looking at common sense."

"I do see some very high profile people saying it was an inside job," concluded Sheehan.

Click here to listen to Sheehan's interview on the Alex Jones Show.

Never has the Natalie Merchant song "Thick As Thieves" spoke to the time we're living in so much.....

Remember how it all began

The apple and the fall of man
The price we paid
So the people say

Down the path of shame and let us dare
To bite the hand that fed us
Fairy tale, the moral end
Wheel of fortune, never turns again
Never turns again

The worst of it has come and gone
In the chaos of millennium
And the falling out
Of the doomsday crowd
Their last retreat is moving slow
They burn their bridges as they go
The heretic is beautified
Teach the harlots child to smile

Rocked again by indecision
Should we make that small incision
Testify, to the bleeding heart inside
We cut, we scratched
We ran, and we slashed
And when he opened up at last
Found a cul de sac
Deepened black
Of smoke and ash
Deepened black
Smoke and ash

The wicked king of parody
Is kissing all his enemies
On the seventh day
On the seventh week
The tyrants voice has softened now
But just for one forgiving hour
Before the rise of his
Iron fist again
Fist again

Ive come tonight
Ive come to know
The way we are the way well go
And to measure this
The width of the wide abyss

Ive come to you in restless sleep
Were all your dreams turned bitter sweet
With voodoo doll philosophies
Day gloy holy trinities
The wicked raft that leaves the shore
Of ferries drunken souls a board
Pilgrims march to compostela
Of visions of their saint in yellow

Follow deep in trance
Lost in a catatonic dance
Know no future
Damn the past
Blind war, ecstatic
To save their lives

WHY THE FUCK ISN'T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THIS?????!!!!!!!

New presidential directive gives Bush dictatorial power National Security & Homeland Security Presidential Directive establishes "National Continuity Policy" by Larry Chin

Global Research, May 21, 2007

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The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, signed on May 9, 2007 declares that in the event of a “catastrophic event”, George W. Bush can become what is best described as "a dictator": "The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government." This directive, completely unnoticed by the media, and given no scrutiny by Congress, literally gives the White House unprecedented dictatorial power over the government and the country, bypassing the US Congress and obliterating the separation of powers. The directive also placed the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic “security”. The full text is below. A critical analysis on the directive can be found here. This is another step towards official martial law (see “US government fans homeland security fears”), which suggests that a new "catastrophic event" 9/11-type pretext could be in the pipeline. National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51 HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20 Subject: National Continuity Policy Purpose (1) This directive establishes a comprehnsive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies. This policy establishes "National Essential Functions," prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency. Definitions (2) In this directive: (a) "Category" refers to the categories of executive departments and agencies listed in Annex A to this directive; (b) "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions; (c) "Continuity of Government," or "COG," means a coordinated effort within the Federal Government's executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency; (d) "Continuity of Operations," or "COOP," means an effort within individual executive departments and agencies to ensure that Primary Mission-Essential Functions continue to be performed during a wide range of emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies; (e) "Enduring Constitutional Government," or "ECG," means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers among the branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three branches of government to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency; (f) "Executive Departments and Agencies" means the executive departments enumerated in 5 U.S.C. 101, independent establishments as defined by 5 U.S.C. 104(1), Government corporations as defined by 5 U.S.C. 103(1), and the United States Postal Service; (g) "Government Functions" means the collective functions of the heads of executive departments and agencies as defined by statute, regulation, presidential direction, or other legal authority, and the functions of the legislative and judicial branches; (h) "National Essential Functions," or "NEFs," means that subset of Government Functions that are necessary to lead and sustain the Nation during a catastrophic emergency and that, therefore, must be supported through COOP and COG capabilities; and (i) "Primary Mission Essential Functions," or "PMEFs," means those Government Functions that must be performed in order to support or implement the performance of NEFs before, during, and in the aftermath of an emergency. Policy (3) It is the policy of the United States to maintain a comprehensive and effective continuity capability composed of Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government programs in order to ensure the preservation of our form of government under the Constitution and the continuing performance of National Essential Functions under all conditions. Implementation Actions (4) Continuity requirements shall be incorporated into daily operations of all executive departments and agencies. As a result of the asymmetric threat environment, adequate warning of potential emergencies that could pose a significant risk to the homeland might not be available, and therefore all continuity planning shall be based on the assumption that no such warning will be received. Emphasis will be placed upon geographic dispersion of leadership, staff, and infrastructure in order to increase survivability and maintain uninterrupted Government Functions. Risk management principles shall be applied to ensure that appropriate operational readiness decisions are based on the probability of an attack or other incident and its consequences. (5) The following NEFs are the foundation for all continuity programs and capabilities and represent the overarching responsibilities of the Federal Government to lead and sustain the Nation during a crisis, and therefore sustaining the following NEFs shall be the primary focus of the Federal Government leadership during and in the aftermath of an emergency that adversely affects the performance of Government Functions: (a) Ensuring the continued functioning of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government; (b) Providing leadership visible to the Nation and the world and maintaining the trust and confidence of the American people; (c) Defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and preventing or interdicting attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests; (d) Maintaining and fostering effective relationships with foreign nations; (e) Protecting against threats to the homeland and bringing to justice perpetrators of crimes or attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests; (f) Providing rapid and effective response to and recovery from the domestic consequences of an attack or other incident; (g) Protecting and stabilizing the Nation's economy and ensuring public confidence in its financial systems; and (h) Providing for critical Federal Government services that address the national health, safety, and welfare needs of the United States. (6) The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. In order to advise and assist the President in that function, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHS/CT) is hereby designated as the National Continuity Coordinator. The National Continuity Coordinator, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), without exercising directive authority, shall coordinate the development and implementation of continuity policy for executive departments and agencies. The Continuity Policy Coordination Committee (CPCC), chaired by a Senior Director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, shall be the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination. (7) For continuity purposes, each executive department and agency is assigned to a category in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and responsibilities in support of the Federal Government's ability to sustain the NEFs. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall serve as the President's lead agent for coordinating overall continuity operations and activities of executive departments and agencies, and in such role shall perform the responsibilities set forth for the Secretary in sections 10 and 16 of this directive. (8) The National Continuity Coordinator, in consultation with the heads of appropriate executive departments and agencies, will lead the development of a National Continuity Implementation Plan (Plan), which shall include prioritized goals and objectives, a concept of operations, performance metrics by which to measure continuity readiness, procedures for continuity and incident management activities, and clear direction to executive department and agency continuity coordinators, as well as guidance to promote interoperability of Federal Government continuity programs and procedures with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate. The Plan shall be submitted to the President for approval not later than 90 days after the date of this directive. (9) Recognizing that each branch of the Federal Government is responsible for its own continuity programs, an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall ensure that the executive branch's COOP and COG policies in support of ECG efforts are appropriately coordinated with those of the legislative and judicial branches in order to ensure interoperability and allocate national assets efficiently to maintain a functioning Federal Government. (10) Federal Government COOP, COG, and ECG plans and operations shall be appropriately integrated with the emergency plans and capabilities of State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to promote interoperability and to prevent redundancies and conflicting lines of authority. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate the integration of Federal continuity plans and operations with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to provide for the delivery of essential services during an emergency. (11) Continuity requirements for the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and executive departments and agencies shall include the following: (a) The continuation of the performance of PMEFs during any emergency must be for a period up to 30 days or until normal operations can be resumed, and the capability to be fully operational at alternate sites as soon as possible after the occurrence of an emergency, but not later than 12 hours after COOP activation; (b) Succession orders and pre-planned devolution of authorities that ensure the emergency delegation of authority must be planned and documented in advance in accordance with applicable law; (c) Vital resources, facilities, and records must be safeguarded, and official access to them must be provided; (d) Provision must be made for the acquisition of the resources necessary for continuity operations on an emergency basis; (e) Provision must be made for the availability and redundancy of critical communications capabilities at alternate sites in order to support connectivity between and among key government leadership, internal elements, other executive departments and agencies, critical partners, and the public; (f) Provision must be made for reconstitution capabilities that allow for recovery from a catastrophic emergency and resumption of normal operations; and (g) Provision must be made for the identification, training, and preparedness of personnel capable of relocating to alternate facilities to support the continuation of the performance of PMEFs. (12) In order to provide a coordinated response to escalating threat levels or actual emergencies, the Continuity of Government Readiness Conditions (COGCON) system establishes executive branch continuity program readiness levels, focusing on possible threats to the National Capital Region. The President will determine and issue the COGCON Level. Executive departments and agencies shall comply with the requirements and assigned responsibilities under the COGCON program. During COOP activation, executive departments and agencies shall report their readiness status to the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary's designee. (13) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall: (a) Conduct an annual assessment of executive department and agency continuity funding requests and performance data that are submitted by executive departments and agencies as part of the annual budget request process, in order to monitor progress in the implementation of the Plan and the execution of continuity budgets; (b) In coordination with the National Continuity Coordinator, issue annual continuity planning guidance for the development of continuity budget requests; and (c) Ensure that heads of executive departments and agencies prioritize budget resources for continuity capabilities, consistent with this directive. (14) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall: (a) Define and issue minimum requirements for continuity communications for executive departments and agencies, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President; (b) Establish requirements for, and monitor the development, implementation, and maintenance of, a comprehensive communications architecture to integrate continuity components, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President; and (c) Review quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities, as prepared pursuant to section 16(d) of this directive or otherwise, and report the results and recommended remedial actions to the National Continuity Coordinator. (15) An official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall: (a) Advise the President, the Chief of Staff to the President, the APHS/CT, and the APNSA on COGCON operational execution options; and (b) Consult with the Secretary of Homeland Security in order to ensure synchronization and integration of continuity activities among the four categories of executive departments and agencies. (16) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall: (a) Coordinate the implementation, execution, and assessment of continuity operations and activities; (b) Develop and promulgate Federal Continuity Directives in order to establish continuity planning requirements for executive departments and agencies; (c) Conduct biennial assessments of individual department and agency continuity capabilities as prescribed by the Plan and report the results to the President through the APHS/CT; (d) Conduct quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities in consultation with an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President; (e) Develop, lead, and conduct a Federal continuity training and exercise program, which shall be incorporated into the National Exercise Program developed pursuant to Homeland Security Presidential Directive-8 of December 17, 2003 ("National Preparedness"), in consultation with an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President; (f) Develop and promulgate continuity planning guidance to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators; (g) Make available continuity planning and exercise funding, in the form of grants as provided by law, to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators; and (h) As Executive Agent of the National Communications System, develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive continuity communications architecture. (17) The Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall produce a biennial assessment of the foreign and domestic threats to the Nation's continuity of government. (18) The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall provide secure, integrated, Continuity of Government communications to the President, the Vice President, and, at a minimum, Category I executive departments and agencies. (19) Heads of executive departments and agencies shall execute their respective department or agency COOP plans in response to a localized emergency and shall: (a) Appoint a senior accountable official, at the Assistant Secretary level, as the Continuity Coordinator for the department or agency; (b) Identify and submit to the National Continuity Coordinator the list of PMEFs for the department or agency and develop continuity plans in support of the NEFs and the continuation of essential functions under all conditions; (c) Plan, program, and budget for continuity capabilities consistent with this directive; (d) Plan, conduct, and support annual tests and training, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, in order to evaluate program readiness and ensure adequacy and viability of continuity plans and communications systems; and (e) Support other continuity requirements, as assigned by category, in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and responsibilities General Provisions (20) This directive shall be implemented in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. 19), with consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved. Heads of executive departments and agencies shall ensure that appropriate support is available to the Vice President and others involved as necessary to be prepared at all times to implement those provisions. (21) This directive: (a) Shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and the authorities of agencies, or heads of agencies, vested by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations; (b) Shall not be construed to impair or otherwise affect (i) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, and legislative proposals, or (ii) the authority of the Secretary of Defense over the Department of Defense, including the chain of command for military forces from the President, to the Secretary of Defense, to the commander of military forces, or military command and control procedures; and (c) Is not intended to, and does not, create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. (22) Revocation. Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998 ("Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government Operations"), including all Annexes thereto, is hereby revoked. (23) Annex A and the classified Continuity Annexes, attached hereto, are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this directive. (24) Security. This directive and the information contained herein shall be protected from unauthorized disclosure, provided that, except for Annex A, the Annexes attached to this directive are classified and shall be accorded appropriate handling, consistent with applicable Executive Orders. GEORGE W. BUSH

Ron Paul: Bad Foreign Policy Started with Woodrow Wilson

Only Ron Paul can beat Hillary Clinton!

Guiliani is a sucker of Satan's Cock!! I felt like i was watching some Nazi rally when the audience applauded when Guiliani and Tancredo endorsed torture. (that's not on this You Tube clip though. If you browse through the debate clips you'll find it, it's astounding.)

JFK Murder Plot "Deathbed Confession" Aired On National Radio Former CIA agent, Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt names the men who killed Kennedy Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, April 30, 2007

The "deathbed confession" audio tape in which former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt admits he was approached to be part of a CIA assassination team to kill JFK was aired this weekend - an astounding development that has gone completely ignored by the establishment media.

Saint John Hunt, son of E. Howard Hunt, appeared on the nationally syndicated Coast to Coast Live radio show on Saturday night to discuss the revelations contained in the tape.

Hunt said that his father had mailed cassette the tape to him alone in January 2004 and asked that it be released after his death. The tape was originally 20 minutes long but was edited down to four and a half minutes for the Coast to Coast broadcast. Hunt promises that the whole tape will be uploaded soon at his website.

Click here to listen to a clip of the tape.

E. Howard Hunt names numerous individuals with both direct and indirect CIA connections as having played a role in the assassination of Kennedy, while describing himself as a "bench warmer" in the plot. Saint John Hunt agreed that the use of this term indicates that Hunt was willing to play a larger role in the murder conspiracy had he been required.

Hunt alleges on the tape that then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the planning of the assassination and in the cover-up, stating that LBJ, "Had an almost maniacal urge to become president, he regarded JFK as an obstacle to achieving that."

Asked if his father followed the conspiracy theories into the Kennedy assassination, Saint John said the elder Hunt did follow the work of AJ Weberman, a New York freelance writer, who in the early 70's first accused Hunt of being one of three bums who were arrested in Dealy Plaza. The so-called bums (pictured above) were interrogated and later released by authorities shortly after the assassination. Weberman, one of the founders of the Youth International Party, the Vippies, published photographs of the tramps and found that two of them bore striking similarities to Hunt and Frank Sturgis, also named by Hunt in the tape as having been played a role in the assassination conspiracy.

Asked for his opinion as to whether his father was indeed one of the Dealy Plaza tramps, Saint John, in a stunning revelation, said one of the tramps indeed looked much like his father did in 1963 (see comparison above).

CIA operative Frank Stugis' striking resemblance to one of the "tramps".

Other researchers believe the "Hunt tramp" to really be Chauncey Holt, who apparently later confessed to the fact. Charles Harrelson was allegedly identified as the third tramp.

Saint John Hunt said that shortly before his death, his father had felt "deeply conflicted and deeply remorseful" that he didn't blow the whistle on the plot at the time and prevent the assassination, but that everyone in the government hated Kennedy and wanted him gone in one way or another. Kennedy's promise to "shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter the remnants to the wind" was being carried out and this infuriated almost everyone at the agency.

Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007


"I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, so we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise." - Kurt Vonnegut, from 'A Man Without A Country'

Rosie O'Donnell's and Elisabeth debate going into Iran and 9/11 theories

I'm not a big Rosie O'Donnell fan, never thought she was funny at all, but the last two weeks she's gone public on 9/11 on her blog, and here she said her views about the World Trade Center 7 collapse, on her t.v. show The View which is viewed by millions everyday. I never liked Elisabeth when she was on Survivor and i knew there was something about her that was demonic, and this clip definatly shows that side of her. She's a dumbed down Bush cheerleader who is still supporting the continual slaughter in our "war on terrorism" when the actual terrorists are the people Elisabeth says she trusts. She should drug out into the street and shot! Go Rosie!!

Pendulum

Jesus Christ been here and gone
What a painful price to pay
He's left his life in a thunderstorm
Tears cold dark eyes upon
Swing pendulum, swing low
Got no place to call my own
Oh my Lord don't you bother me
I'm as tired as a man can be
I'm as tired as a man can be

Jesus Christ been here and gone
What a painful place to leave
With frost on the limbs of a cherry tree
This cold, cold wind is buryin' me
Swing pendulum, swing slow
Got no time to call my own
Oh my Lord don't you bother me
I'm as tired as a man can be
I'm as tired as a man can be

-Mark Lanegan

Here i am. Up again at 6 in the fucking morning! The other day i woke up at 5:30 in the morning and couldn't go back to sleep.

Now here i am, up before the sun again. Aw, all the joys that come with working "grave yard shift." I use to really like it, well, i take that back, i still do in a lot of ways, but my sleeping patterns don't flow well with my kids' schedules. I feel so tired all the time, except....

When i'm cooking! Ah, i can't tell you how much i enjoy it! I feel kinda stupid saying that, cuz i never for once thought cooking was fun. I use to hate cooking. The other weekend i made these chicken enchiladas. FUNNEST dish ever to make!! From making the salsa verde to rolling the enchiladas, i thought that was the funnest dish i've made yet. And to my surprise when i deboned my chicken, i thought i'd be all grossed out but it was kinda fun ripping off the meat to a whole cooked chicken.
I kind of feel silly saying this, but it relaxes me, it really does, and i've heard so many chefs say that it is very relaxing to them. It gives me some focus, i only think about what i'm cooking, you can't let your mind wander to some other shit. You are completely and totally focused on cooking. I love it!! I love working with food, it's so fun!
And not to mention, a lot of the dishes i've been playing with (a good majority of them are Rachel Rays) are really healthy! I feel so much better about myself, and the food doesn't taste like diet food, it's really delicious. One of the reasons it's been so hard for me to eat healthy, is because all the stuff i had been trying that was "healthy" for you, had no flavor. Tasteless.
I really like that fact that when i cook for myself, i have total control over how much ingredients i use, and more importantly i KNOW what is going into my food.
I'm starting to get so grossed out when i look at the ingredients to a bag of chips, or some t.v. dinners i've been living off of.
It's been kind of fun having Justin try my food too cuz this is a man who once said to me,"if i could eat my food in pill form i would."
I'm hoping to kind of change his mind about food, that what your eating is life, its vibrate and wonderful. I've had so many different flavors flow through my mouth in the last 2 months. I feel so pissed at myself that for so long i've deprived my thousands and thousands of taste buds the joys of being used!
Like this weekend i discovered my new favorite candy! Dark chocolate covered coffee beans! FUCKING YUM!! I made a coffee shake with them that was awesome!! About a cup and a half of cold strong brewed coffee, about 3 big scoops of coffee ice cream, and about 6 or 7 dark chocolate covered coffee beans, blended together in a blender!
Oh my god, the best frozen coffee shake EVER!!!
I want to toy with the drinks a little and try cold espresso, but that's one barista no no, is you don't let your espresso go cold cuz it loses its flavor. But i have seen some frozen coffee recipes where it does ask for cold espresso.
Ah, to experiment with food, i love it!

Anyhow, in that aspect of my life at this point i'm feeling good about it and have accidentally put myself into a fork in the road.
I definitely have some sort of direction now of where i want to go, what i want to do in the grand scheme of things. Which really is a huge weight off my shoulders in a sense cuz now i have two things i can push for. If one thing doesn't pan out, i can try for the other. Or maybe i can bond the two somehow.

But all of this total fantasy at this point, of me leaving my current job and going off to be a chef or a barista somewhere, is TOTALLY teasing me right now! Jesus Christ, the last two months it has been SO hard for me to go to work. And when i'm at work, it has been so hard to make myself stay for an full shift. It sucks! I'm so sick of my job, so sick of the company i work for.
And i just get pissed at work and think about how much money i could of made making a latte right now, than hanging stickers on store shelves.
I see Starbucks everyday, especially early mornings on weekdays just pumping out the customers. One after the other, after the other. And I have to grip the wheel of my car, take a deep breath and count to ten cuz i get so MAD!!! That could be MY coffee shop pumping out the customers and actually giving them their money's worth for their coffee! Fuck man, each person walking out of that Starbucks at least paid $4 for their coffee. When you add that up, that's crazy profits.
And i have ideas in my head of what i want my shop to look like & to feel like. Almost to the point of where i'm already starting to create my coffee menu.
It's exciting to me, and i feel completely pumped about it! I threw out my idea to my brother, and he was surprisingly supportive, he thought it was a really cool idea.
I want like a Sisters Espresso environment where it's a kind of Victorian or European style house. I really want to go for the Amsterdam coffee house type look and feel. One thing i remember most about this one coffee shop we got our hash shakes at, i remember i loved the house it was in. It had an upstairs that was really cool, it had like glass on some of the floors so you could see downstairs.
It was kind of small but it had a cozy atmosphere to it.
My all white canvas in my head is starting to get paint splashed on to it now!

The depressing part to me though, is this future that i'm looking towards seems so long and bumpy right now. All i know is i'm gonna stick with my job now so i can prepare, practice and practice and practice.
I mean i'm still a little undecided about my espresso. I need to go back to certain coffee shops and compare their drinks to mine.


But anyhow, that's my thoughts for now. See ya...

Ron Paul on Federal Reserve, banking and economy

"The Project for a New American Century, as recently as September 2000, likewise, foresaw the need for “a Pearl Harbor event” that would galvanize the American people to support their ambitious plans to ensure political and economic domination of the world, while strangling any potential “rival.” Recognizing a “need” for a Pearl Harbor event, and referring to Pearl Harbor as being “lucky” are not identical to support and knowledge of such an event, but this sympathy for a galvanizing event, as 9-11 turned out to be, was used to promote an agenda that strict constitutionalists and devotees of the Founders of this nation find appalling is indeed disturbing."
- Ron Paul on the floor of Congress, July 10, 2003

Now the last two posts i have tried to put up here for my cheer leading for Congressman Ron Paul who is running for President have mysteriously been deleted.
Hmmm, i smell big brother...

Anyhow, I'm gonna try this again and see what happens. Ok, so here we go...

Ron Paul is a Congressman from Texas, he's a doctor (an OBGYN, ha) and he is the closest thing i can find that really stands true to what i want in a president at this point. He actually knows the real problems that are going on.
He's calling to abolish the Federal Reserve, who no one has tried to do sense JFK and Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately they both were assassinated for it. Ron Paul appeared in Aaron Russo's "From Freedom To Fascism" talking about how the Federal Reserve is private, and our income tax is going to pay these private bankers. Sad to say, but our income tax law is void. There is no law, and no body seems to have the balls to say it but Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is for marijuana rights.
And yes, he is a Libertarian Republican, and yes, i am whole heartily supporting him for President.
None of the main stream media has even announced on T.V. that Ron Paul is running, no one but Lou Dobbs i might add. Lou Dobbs interviewed Ron Paul last month about it.
Sometime this month though, CNN is hosting the Republican Presidential Debate and Ron Paul will be there. So I'll definitely be recording that.
Two years ago i probably would of never in a million years support a Republican. But i've come to realize, that the simply fact is... There is NO difference between say Barack Obama and Rudy Guiliani. No difference.
Now i'm not saying ALL Democrats are bad, there are some good ones, but the "all stars" at this point are all bought and paid for, especially Hillary Clinton.

Cynthia McKinney from Georgia i liked a lot, and she got it bad right before she was voted out of Congress.
She was the ONLY one to question Rumsfeld about the TRILLIONS missing from the Pentagon, which Rumsfeld was being questioned about on September 10, 2001. And the accounting office that held all of the Pentagons records, just happen to be located right where the "plane" had hit it.


Both parties are bought and paid for, the Democrats are total hypocrites and are no better than the Republicans. I'm convinced. I'm totally convinced.
So i'm supporting on of the very few Republicans who voted against the war in the first place, and voted against sending more troops over to Iraq.

Ron Paul is very similar to Dennis Kucinich. In fact i really believe these two should get together a Paul/Kucinich ticket, that could actually work.

The video i posted earlier is a speech he gave on the House floor on July 10, 2003. It was a speech called "Neo-CONNED!"
A man in Kentucky thought he'd be a good citizen, the way he was seeing his country fall to shit and he made a copy of this Ron Paul speech and gave a copy of it to a police officer.
The next day the police officer arrested the man and charged him with making a "terroristic threat."
Unfuckingbeleveable when you listen to the whole speech. All Ron Paul says is simply the truth. He tells of what the Neo Cons have done sense they took office.
The video i posted is where the speech really gets good, it's part 9 of 11 i think. The whole speech is about 45 minutes long.
But going through Ron Paul speeches i have to be impressed.

So check him out, he's the shit!

"Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy. A few have, and others will continue to do so, but too many—both in and out of government—close their eyes to the issue of personal liberty and ignore the fact that endless borrowing to finance endless demands cannot be sustained. True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society." -Ron Paul July 10, 2003

Neo Con Agenda By Congressman Ron Paul

Bill on the JFK assassination

People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." "Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?" - Bill Hicks


Hey long time no blog eh?
I've been in a weird mood the entire month of February. My reading into the JFK assassination, and what i feel is an awakening as to how corrupt governments conduct business, and that it is no different than what i watch on the Sopranos. That realization has really made me into a very angry person. "What use to seem normal to me, all of a sudden is insane."
I mean i always have been a person with a lot of pent up anger, and i think that's why i'm so shy sometimes around people, because if i really said what was on my mind, i'd probably get punched in the mouth.
Especially all month long in February i've been rather angry. Seeing our media totally having a public orgasm over the whole Britney Spears spoiled brat drama, along with the whole Anna Nicole Smith bullshit.
AHHH!! Just blogging about here i can feel my blood boil, the fact that these two dip shits are even being covered on CNN day and night pisses me off to no fucking end. They have a channel on t.v. for this mindless moronic shit, it's called the E! Entertainment channel!!

I'm so fucking pissed at our new media. I really just wanna pull my hair out!

But with them being so obsessed with that shit has actually opened a whole new door for me. I've started watching a lot of cooking shows and travel shows. I use to be a headline news whore, i'd have it playing on t.v. in the background while i cleaned the house. Not anymore. I spent my mornings fighting sleep during the weekdays watching Food Network.
Along with the travel channels shows on Europe especially Italy, ah Italy next year i will see you! :-)
I've been cooking A LOT more than i use to, and i have discovered i really like cooking! It's actually very therapeutic for me, just like making espresso, it relaxes me.
I've gotten some positive responses from people who have ate my cooking. So far only 2 people, just like with my coffee i'm not that self confident with my cooking to have people like say my mother try it just yet. My chicken jambalaya so far has had the best "that's good shit" response.
My personal favorite was this meatball pizza i saw Rachel Ray cook, who i love, besides her little air head comments she makes sometimes, i love the stuff she cooks! It was awesome!! I've made pizza before and it has never really turned out very good, but this time i didn't have to roll out the dough with the flour on the counter or anything (i hate working with dough, i suck at it!) it was really easy and it tasted so fucking good!
I already have 3 of her cook books.
Another chef i like on Food Network is Tyler Florance. He has a recipe for enchiladas that i wanna try really bad, cuz instead of chili like my mom uses he uses salsa verde for the enchilada sauce.
So yeah, even though my anger level has been raised by the stupidity of our mainstream media, it's balanced out and soothed with cooking :-) So it all works out i guess, i watch less news, which is good for me. Watching too much of it makes me very angry.

"An attack upon the king is considered to be parricide against the state, and the jury and the witnesses, and even the judges, are the children. It is fit, on that account, that there should be a solemn pause before we rush to judgment." - Lord Chancellor Thomas Erskine in defense of James Hadfield, charged with the attempted assassination of King George III


I finished Jim Marrs "Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy" today. Without any doubt in my mind, the best, most compelling book i have ever read as of yet!! I'm left in aw!! Now i'm reading "Rush To Judgement" which was written in 1966, 3 years after the assassination and it questions the findings of The Warren Commissions "lone nut" conclusions that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

I just wanted to quote the last part of Jim Marrs final chapter "Conclusions", it really took the entire JFK assassination into some kind of perspective and was truly moving, i got teary eyed finishing the book. Now keep in mind that "Crossfire" was published in 1989, and it echos the events of our country today.
When i finished reading this final part of the book, I couldn't help but think about what Jack Ruby told Earl Warren, the chairman for the Warren Commission, when he was telling them his life was in danger,
"I tell you that... A whole new form of government is going to take over the country, and I know I won't live to see you another time"
And he didn't.

Here's Jim Marrs ending to his fantastic book "Crossfire":

"What then is the legacy of President John F. Kennedy? The fact is that we will never know. His presidency always will be remembered, not for what he did, but for what he might have done.
But it may be worth considering what kind of America we might have today if President Kennedy had lived. Imagine a United States if there had been no divisive Vietnam War, with its attendant demonstrations, riots, deaths, and loss of faith in government. There may not have been the scandals of Watergate, other political assassinations, or the Iran-Contra Pentagon-CIA attempt at a "secret government." Detente with Communist Russia and China might have come years earlier, saving hundreds of millions of wasted defense dollars - dollars that could have been put to use caring for the needy and cleaning up the environment. Picture a nation where no organized-crime syndicate gained control over such divergent areas of national life as drugs, gambling, labor unions, politicians, and even toxic waste disposal.
It is possible to consider that we might have a nation where peace and prosperity might have been achieved without the need for a massive military buildup, or that we might have experienced a kinder and gentler nation all along.
John F. Kennedy was no superman. Today there seems to be a movement to focus attention on the "morality" of his private life. But history will eventually record that Kennedy truly believed he had the best interests of his nation at heart. He wanted to lead America forward.
Kennedy was in the mold of Mikhail Gorbachev, complete with his own American brand of "glasnost," or openness with the public- but he was premature.
America- at least the backstage rulers of America- was not ready for such innovation. So they killed him.
In the 1960's, many young people sensed what was happening. They tried to warn of the sins of "Amerika." But most people- this author included- didn't listen to them, just as many reading these words won't listen now. In hindsight, they were right. But how many of us can admit we were wrong?
Members of Kennedy's inner circle also came to understand what had really happened. But this knowledge came too late. The proof had been taken up and they realized the extent of the power arrayed against them. Some kept their peace, some soon retired from government, and others left the country.
Robert Kennedy, too, came to understand the tremendous power behind the events in Dallas. On June 3, 1968, just two days before his own assassination, the younger Kennedy told close friends: "I now fully realize that only the powers of the presidency will reveal the secrets of my brother's death." He obviously had come to realize that the truth of John Kennedy's death could only come after he gained control over the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and the Pentagon- all of which had become powers unto themselves.
But today all this is nothing new. We Americans have learned much about the connections of crime and spy agencies to the government and business communities in may cases such as Watergate, the John DeLorean affair, the Iran-Contra scandal, the assassination of Federal Judge John Wood and others.
The emperor has no clothes on- or in this case, American business and political emperors wear bloodstained clothing- but no one of any prominence wants to be the first to say so.
As we have seen, J. Edgar Hoover has experience in controlling major criminal investigations. By the 1960's, Hoover had undisputed power over the FBI and undue influence over government agencies. Lyndon B. Johnson had long since perfected the art of using federal bureaucracy to block and impede investigations into his dealings. And this time there were plenty of people willing to go along with them- people who wanted Kennedy out of the way.
Camelot was killed from within, by men whose fear and ambition overpowered their faith and loyalty to the United States Constitution and the people it was designed to protect.
An apt precedent for the Kennedy assassination can be found in William Shakespeare's immortal Julius Caesar, where Roman leaders- "all honorable men"- plotted to kill Caesar out of fear that they were losing total power in their country. Brutus defended his participation by explaining: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." Or to paraphrase the American officer in Vietnam who defended the destruction of a village: "In order to save the country, they had to destroy it."
The Kennedy assassination was a true coup d'etat- a sudden and violent shift in power to the right of this country. And that power- though weakened by revelations of corruption and unachieved goals- remains with us today.
Few people have shown a willingness to confront and accuse this power. But until the people of the United States confront the reality of Kennedy's death and face the power behind it, the wars, near-wars, the wasteful military buildup, foreign adventurism, death, squandered millions, trampled human rights, moral decline, and environmental pollution will continue.
The way to this confrontation lies within each individual citizen- in our minds and- perhaps more important- in our hearts.
One can almost hear the sad spirit of John F. Kennedy whispering from Dealey Plaze:
Et tu, Lyndon?"

Life Is Too Short To Drink Shitty Coffee...



Wow today....er, i mean yesterday was really an exciting day for me. Got my tax refund and a whole bunch of my coffee stuff got delivered today.
Last week i ordered Intelligentsia's "Rosters Choice" pack. It's a sweet package, you get 3 one pound bags of hand picked coffees by Intelligentsia's Director of Coffee, every month for 4 months, with your first shipment you get your first months bags of coffees, a french press, a coffee mug, a binder with "how to" cupping instructions, detailed notes of the origin of the coffee and the coffee farmers, and cupping notes on each bag of coffee you have been sent. I love it already! The coffee came in this cool wood container, and instead of using those packaging styrofoam nuts, they used the coffee bags they receive their coffee in, which i thought was really cool.
I thought there was more stuff in the box and i kept pulling out all of the coffee bags in the box, and green unroasted coffee beans that were loose in the bags went all over our kitchen floor.

Plus i also received my new syrups i ordered last week too. The bottles are huge, i didn't expect them to be as big as they are! I definitely won't be running out of those flavors of syrups anytime soon. My old bottles of syrups look so tiny compared to the Torani ones i ordered, they are like cafe size bottles!

I already love Intelligentsia's coffee, i pulled some shots tonight and the crema i got was awesome, and i actually pulled my first perfect shot! I was pretty pleased with myself.

So now i ordered some much needed cleaning supplies for my espresso machine, i think it already needs a good cleaning, especially the steam wand. I also ordered a latte art pitcher, a latter art video, some big ass cappuccino cups and about 6 or 7 more bottles of Da Vinci syrups. I really don't know where i'm gonna put all these syrups, i'm gonna have to do some major rearranging in our kitchen later today.
It's kinda cool though, our kitchen is slowing looking like a cafe!!
Oh yeah, and FINALLY i got to order my Ghirardelli chocolate sauces. 2 one gallon jugs of chocolate and white chocolate. I almost got the caramel sauce too but decided i could just go to Tony's Meats or somewhere if i really wanted good caramel sauce.

Ah!!! I'm in barista heaven!!

"Amused To Death" By Roger Waters


Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
This supermarket life is getting long
What is the heart life of a colour TV
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
News hound sniffs the air
When Jessica Hahn goes down
He latches on to that symbol
Of detachment
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
And the children of Melrose
Strut their stuff
Is absolute zero cold enough
And out in the valley warm and clean
The little ones sit by their TV screens
No thoughts to think
No tears to cry
All sucked dry
Down to the very last breath
Bartender what is wrong with me
Why am I so out of breath
The captain said excuse me ma'am
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

Paint It Black


Fuck yeah! 2 weeks after getting my espresso machine, and today is the first day i truely made professional style micro foam for latte art! There's my drink, see the shiny texture of the micro foam, and of coarse my "spilled paint". It looks more like a real bushy tree rather than a rosetta leaf.
That's awesome though, i'm getting so happy with myself.
The only thing that's killing is i'm finding it IMPOSABLE to find any store around here that has syrups, that are not the flavors:
Vanilla
Caramel
Hazelnut
Amaretto
Raspberry

Jesus fucking christ! Justin bought me Almond Crunch and Toasted Marshmallow, thank god too because i was going crazy using the same flavors.
Not only that but it's almost imposable to find any sort of chocolate sauce that isn't Hershey, Dove, or Smuckers, and the Dove chocolate that i've been using is still bottled by Smuckers.
I really want to use Ghilardelli chocolate, but i'm finding that you have to get that on line too. And until i get my tax refund i'm pretty limited on my spending for espresso shit. I was gonna get on line and look to see if there are any Godiva shops around here, maybe they'll carry chocolate sauce.
Jesus what a fucked up thing to try to find and finding it's imposable to find it!! It's just chocolate sauce!
Well i guess when you want really good chocolate that makes it more challenging.

I'm really happy i made micro foam, that fucking kicks ass!! The whole process i'm finding i actually prefer, because the way you hold the pitcher is definitely a lot more comfortable.

Nice!! :-)

...... HOLY FUCK!! I was just checking my blog to see how the picture looked, and i'm all staring at the picture and i just realized, i think i made a poorly shaped Apple!!!
Ah, i'm freaking out, i think i just made an apple, a shitty apple but hey!!! COOOOLLL!!! :-D

And The Truth Shall Set You Free...


WOW!! For the past two weeks or so when i haven't been making espresso, i've been completely and totally wrapped up in "Crossfire: The Men Who Killed Kennedy".
Kind of obsessed is a better way to put it. It fucking sucks you in man! I mean i always found the JFK assassination to be completely and totally fascinating in all since of the term.
But i'm reading shit and seeing shit, i hadn't heard before! It's almost like reading fiction, but then you have to shake yourself and realize, this is real history... THIS SHIT HAPPENED!!
I became so curious and so just wanted to see these photos and videos Jim Marrs talks about in the book, that are made public for all of us to see by the way,(from what they have released, a lot of it is still locked away not to be made public till 2029) that yesterday and the day before i watched "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" a six part documentary on the JFK assassination on Google Video.
MY GOD!!! it's fucking CRAZY!!!! Jesus, if you've never seen it, i highly recommend watching it some day (get some popcorn, it's a six part series, each part being about an hour and a half long, but its RIVETING!!). A lot of the witnesses who were in Dealey Plaza that day, they interview, which is really cool cuz this was made in 1988, a lot of the witnesses are dead today. They talked to the doctors at Parkland Hospital from the Governor Connally who was in the motorcade with Kennedy and also got shot.
And the craziest witness i think, is Ed Hoffman. A deaf mute who saw the assassin behind the picket fence, he said dressed up as a policeman, calming walked away from the fence with a rifle, he took apart his rifle and put it in a toolbox that a railroad worker had that was with the police officer, then calmly walked towards the railroad tracks!!!
And Ed Hoffman ran to tell someone what he saw after he saw the presidential motorcade drive by with the president's head blown off. And the FBI couldn't understand him and pushed him off because Ed Hoffman is a deaf mute!!! And he didn't come out for a long time because a man claiming to be with the FBI told him if he told anyone,"he might land up getting killed."
Then there was another witness who was right in front of the fence where the police officer would have been, Gordan Arnold. He said he was walking behind the wooden picket fence when a man approached him claiming to be Secret Service, telling him he couldn't stay behind the fence. So Gordan Arnold went around, then moments later he said shots came from behind the fence, and with him being a GI having been around gun fire, hit the ground and heard two more shots and didn't get up until a police officer was kicking him to get up. He did have a video camera with him and was filming when the shots were fired. Another police officer came up waving a gun and crying, then the other police officer asked him for his film, so he gave the camera to him, he took out the film and gave back the camera. After that Gordan Arnold ran to his car, drove out of the parking lot unchallenged, and two days later he reported for duty in Fort Wainwright, Alaska and didn't return to Dallas for several years. So no one ever really knew he was there, until the Mary Mooreman photo was able to be blown up, and photo experts were able to identify a man in a GI uniform standing in front of the fence.

With the Jim Marrs book and the documentary "The Men Who Killed Kennedy", the JFK assassination has taken a hold of me! WOW! It's just so crazy the six degrees of separation between everyone involved in the assassination, everyone is connected somehow even going as far as the witnesses who were at Dealey Plaza!
The Babushka Lady, many years later to be identified as Beverly Oliver, who was standing right by the presidential motorcade right at the third and fatal "head" shot to Kennedy. Turns out she was friends with Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald.
And really going into the life of Lee Harvey Oswald is amazing all in it's own. The way the Warren Commission painted him, was a crazy pro-communist lone nut. When in reality he was a marine who was under orders, following orders and just wanted to be a good marine.
Jim Garrison, the New Orleans DA who had the one and only trial on the JFK assassination, said that what the government did to Lee Harvey Oswald is one of the greatest injustices to ever happen in the United States of America.
Really the only reason i'm writing in here right now is because i need to take a break reading "Crossfire". Geez, this shit will make you go crazy if you keep looking into it and thinking it over.
The picture above, The Mooreman photo, taken by Mary Mooreman who was the closest to the shooting, is one of the most famous photos in the JFK assassination. Photo experts have blown up the picture and in the background by the picket fence you can see a police officer with a puff of smoke in front of his face, this man was named Badgeman, who researchers believe was the assassin on the grassy knoll who fired the fatal head shot, and forever changed history.
CRAZY!!!

It's all good...


Well, day 3 of my self barista training and i feel awesome!! Practice, practice, practice is the key i'm learning. Last night after dinner i made (or i should say attempted to make) Justin a mocha and i made me a Snickers Latte. The mocha sucked ass, i really need to use my measuring cups more. I just read this morning that i really haven't been using enough syrup, i've just been using a tablespoon cuz that's what it says on the bottle.
Anyway, when i made my Snickers Latte, i actually frothed awesome foam! The last 2 days i've really been struggling with the foaming of the milk process, but last night i got perfect foam! I was so happy i was fucking cheering in the kitchen! :-P

As for the shots i'm pulling that's another problem i'm gonna have to wait to deal with. My machine comes with these pressurized filter baskets for my portafilter, which is suppose to help get a lot of crema without the worry of how you tamp or the fine ground of the coffee.
But for a barista, that's throwing away the entire art of making espresso!!
The four M's for making perfect espresso are:

La Macchina (The Machine)

La Micselsa (The Coffee Blend)

Il Machindosatore (The Grinding)

La Mano (The Hand)

So really these pressurized filter baskets are an enemy to an aspiring barista like myself.
But yesterday i did get my double non pressurized filter basket, but i can't use it yet :-(
I don't have my tamper. I ordered it this morning, along with a knockbox which i need SO BAD!
So who knows when that'll come, but when it does i can really start to practice making better shots.
I think half the problem of my situation right now with my shitty shots is, i'm using Lavazza preground coffee that came free with my machine, and i'm also using Silver Canyon coffee that has been sitting in our cabinet for like 2 months, and not to mention i'm being forced to tamp with the shitty built in tamper on my machine that is useless.
And i refuse to buy really good coffee like from Intelligentsia or Counter Culture until i get my tamper. In the meantime i'll use Mile High Coffee's espresso blends and maybe even Novo's espresso blends.

Anyhow, for once in a long long time i'm just feeling total peace with everything in my life.
For once everything feels good. With me, paranoid fucker that i am, it feels nice to just sit back and take a deep breath and realize that my life right now, at this point, everything is Perfect.
It's a wonderful feeling.
Work doesn't bother me all that much anymore, it's actually been quite enjoyable lately. I've trained myself to just kind of ignore and accept Eileen's paranoid ramblings about our co-workers she doesn't like.
When i run out of stuff to do at work (which happens a lot) i've been forcing myself to stay busy instead of just picking up my "Crossfire The Plot That Killed Kennedy" book.
Although a good majority of that book i've read while at work :-P

Holy Fuck!!!

I just pulled a shot!!! I just pulled a shot!!!!
Wow, i'm freaking out, i got my espresso machine today! (i really got in on Tuesday, but let's not go into that wretched story for now)
I'm so excited i just made a vanilla latte and a Caramellow!!! It's so fun, i love, i love it, i love it!!!
It's a very messy process, but i am a beginner and it took me on the second try when i made the Caramellow that i started to get the know the process. I could already tell on my first try that i desperately need a tamper and a knockbox, that'll cut down the messiness a little.
Ahhh!! I can't believe i finally have my machine, now i will never sleep again!! Hee, hee :-)

Starbucks plans to ban trans fats

I dunno about this whole banning trans fat thing. I know it's being done with all good intentions being that we are the most fattest country in the world but i somehow can't get past the feeling that it's intrusive on our civil liberties. It's kinda like smoking, we know it's bad but it's our god damn right if we choose to smoke anyway.
And with Starbucks banning trans fats in their food is kind of ironic being that food isn't their #1 selling item, it's their lattes and frappuccinos that are the biggest selling items and they are the most fattening coffee drinks in the industry.

Big Brother is watching you.