tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367100571508426212024-03-18T21:00:45.169-07:00The Second ThirdtruthSeth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-79261053415875645082020-12-06T16:27:00.001-08:002020-12-06T16:27:44.319-08:00A Time To Write<p>It has been a long time since i've blogged. Written. Emoted truth through lexical juxtaposition. Written. Quixotically juggled the bold notion of accurately assembling a panoply of metaphorical puzzle pieces into a true picture of the soul through prose. Written. </p><p>Now, perhaps is a time to write again.</p><p>Now, perhaps, is a time to write... </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>S.</p><p><br /></p>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-75677671730218677782009-04-24T13:46:00.000-07:002012-05-25T21:26:39.163-07:00'Joe The Plumber'(After Dark) crashes San Diego Tea PartyWho said ignorance and politics don't mix?:<br />
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After the sun sets, "Joe The Plumber" tells the truth... and on April 15, 2009, he confronted Tea Party Protesters in San Diego.Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-90760509709355719442009-02-04T01:56:00.000-08:002009-02-04T01:57:15.249-08:00Killing cancer: The "Walk Through Fire" Project<iframe src="http://www.indiegogo.com/project/widget/1297?account=4501&iggref=IPJT_WGET&tagline_len=115&title_len=48" width="310px" height="240px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-31991876200500004652008-06-21T17:33:00.000-07:002008-06-21T17:44:09.094-07:00Does the stock market perform better under Democrats or Republicans?<i><br />"According to Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's Equity Research, between 1945 and 2007 the S&P 500 rose 10.7 percent annually when Democrats occupied the White House, compared with a 7.6 percent annual increase under Republicans."<br /></i><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2192001?nav=wp">http://www.slate.com/id/2192001?nav=wp</a><br /><br />and<br /><br />In an interesting twist on spin, in 2005, the USA Today ran a story titled "<i>Democrats or Republicans? Just the facts</i>" The column answered the question: "<i>Has the stock market been better, on average, when a Republican or Democrat has been in office? Do you have a chart that shows this?"</i> The stats clearly showed that from 1901-2004, stocks rose an average of 13.3% per year under Democratic presidents, and 6.9% under Republican presidents. <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/2005-12-02-presidents_x.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/2005-12-02-presidents_x.htm</a><br /><br />but<br /><br />The story was changed, under the SAME BYLINE two years later. While the new headline said "Are Democrats or Republicans better for the stock market?", the actual question now answered was <i>"Do stocks perform better when a Democrat or Republican is elected president?" </i>That's some slick rewording indeed. <i> </i>The new answer: <i>"the stock market has gained, on average, 3.1% during election years that a Democrat was elected and 8.8% in years a Republican was elected."</i> ... but, of course, that's just during the actual election years, with absolutely no mention of the stock market average over the entire tenure of R vs. D administrations, a stat which clearly shows the stock market performs better under Democrats!!!!<br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/2007-07-12-democrats-republicans_N.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/2007-07-12-democrats-republicans_N.htm<br /></a><br />So much for a liberal media bias.Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-82921137366019009432008-05-24T01:20:00.001-07:002008-06-23T03:26:51.646-07:00Keith calls out Hillary<iframe src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/24798368#24798368" frameborder="0" height="339" scrolling="no" width="425"></iframe>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-30771314560254721502008-03-06T00:25:00.000-08:002008-03-06T00:30:30.019-08:00"we should be able to reconstruct imagery in dreams""[We] believe strongly that no one should be subjected to any form of brain-reading process involuntarily, covertly, or without complete informed consent."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/06/medicalresearch">http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/06/medicalresearch</a>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-7932057869647009732008-01-15T03:21:00.000-08:002008-06-23T03:26:00.353-07:00How to beat cancer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqsJe4oN8MwNiI97IJMKCfLAkixD29aeHl2DSy1qx6FIiAzlIfzY-17EWzzjIHf2IZ-2lxri1Ag6SzyXif29PCz0y81YhVh7cvZexTEIOpaTOtk2A7szhSWalQ2khzPzF3A8z_4jiwur0/s1600-h/audreyheal1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqsJe4oN8MwNiI97IJMKCfLAkixD29aeHl2DSy1qx6FIiAzlIfzY-17EWzzjIHf2IZ-2lxri1Ag6SzyXif29PCz0y81YhVh7cvZexTEIOpaTOtk2A7szhSWalQ2khzPzF3A8z_4jiwur0/s400/audreyheal1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215020452895598066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">for more details, please visit:<br /><a href="http://www.mindswell.org/beatcancer.htm">http://www.mindswell.org/beatcancer.htm</a></span><br /></div>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-70300438426866968272008-01-01T22:59:00.000-08:002008-01-01T23:09:16.843-08:00A 'medicine hunter' seeks herbal alternatives in Peru<span style="font-style:italic;">"People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today," Kilham said. "I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/01/business/drug.php">http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/01/business/drug.php</a>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-9558579766589284312007-12-30T03:44:00.000-08:002012-05-25T21:24:31.662-07:00Priests Must Stop Being Celibate!Catholic people are wonderful people. I have many Catholic friends. I mean no disrespect to them. I wish them all a Happy Easter Holiday.<br />
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The Catholic Church, however, is literally an abomination. This is not a few bad apples. Hundreds of priests molested thousands of children worldwide. The sheer enormity, the scope of abuse is stunning. This is a systemic problem specific to the Catholic Church, and there's a specific reason for it. <br />
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No other religious hierarchy demands celibacy, yet forbids masturbation. They went even further, of course, devising a doctrine which considers all sins on equal footing. For priests, masturbation is a sin, and raping a child is a sin. All sins are bad. They just count 'em up every week, go to confession, get forgiven, and continue on their way. Then they do it again. And again. <br />
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Their claim of "confession" as a cornerstone of Faith is hypocrisy shone bare by their response to the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church_sex_abuse_cases/index.html">NY TIMES reporting</a> (and others) on the vast monstrosity of abuse which has taken place. <br />
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The Church response to the magnitude of suffering Catholic Priests have caused around the world? They claim negative media coverage is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04dowd.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1270375294-QBVQ4bkdqgsRS4L0ODodhA">"prompted by the devil."</a> Not the sheer number of vile acts, mind you, nor the enormous number of Priest perpetrators whom the Church is claiming were prompted by the devil here, it's the media who published those stories! They're the evil ones - for publishing the Church's rap sheet for all to see. <br />
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Buddhist Monks who take vows of celibacy do so with the realization that the male human body, as a biological necessity, cannot be forced, by sheer will and prayer, to stop producing (and occasionally discharging) sperm. It's that simple. Monks refrain from having sex, but don't even consider a lifelong prohibition on ejaculation itself! It's inhuman. <br />
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Whether you believe in Jesus' 100% Celibacy, or believe he was married to Mary Magdalene, can't we all agree that a condition of the Catholic Priesthood shouldn't be to attempt, by sheer will, to prevent one's body from producing sperm that will eventually need to get out so more can be made? Why should entering the priesthood mean a life of celibacy anyway? What possible good does that requirement do, especially considering the magnitude of suffering it has caused?<br />
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For Easter 2010, the Catholic Church should resurrect itself by confessing its sins, apologizing with all required humility for its crimes, and dealing with the Karma of finally doing so.Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-7946944641552818272007-12-29T19:10:00.000-08:002007-12-29T19:18:42.899-08:00"True Giuliani"You can tell how sick a power hungry neocon is <br />by listening to his supporters. <br /><br />Rudy has quite a bunch in his corner: <br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/27/primaries.rudy.guiliani ">http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/27/primaries.rudy.guiliani </a><br /><br />Bunch'a whiteys all hopped up on murderin' muslims.Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-78242419166495983982007-12-27T06:44:00.000-08:002007-12-27T06:51:54.019-08:00Benazir Bhutto, assassinated?!?!?i'm shocked, shocked! <br />who on earth could'a seen that comin?Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-38267172859037011562007-12-27T06:02:00.000-08:002007-12-27T06:50:02.416-08:00The Devil's LawyerThe only creature more evil than the devil himself:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"Who wrote the emails?"<br />"<a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/27/cheneys-remarkabe-fourth-branch-argument/">It was David Addington</a></span>"Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-90635667356900240812007-12-23T23:53:00.001-08:002008-02-11T00:09:30.250-08:00introduction to the mouthI made this video before the 2006 elections:<br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Moyvvx9Q-5g&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Moyvvx9Q-5g&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-74640001705480233242007-12-23T20:10:00.000-08:002007-12-23T20:37:46.588-08:00Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status!!well, it didn't make the corporate newscasts, yet it's quite a development:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">'The actions of Lakota are not intended to embarrass the United States but to simply save the lives of our people'.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Following Monday's withdrawal at the State Department, the four Lakota Itacan representatives have been meeting with foreign embassy officials in order to hasten their official return to the Family of Nations.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Lakota's efforts are gaining traction as Bolivia, home to Indigenous President Evo Morales, shared they are "very, very interested in the Lakota case" while Venezuela received the Lakota delegation with "respect and solidarity." </span><br /><span><span><a href="http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/printer_73401.shtml"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/printer_73401.shtml</span></span></a><br /><br /><br /></span></span>'bout friggin' time!Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-78203745807131718692007-12-16T23:58:00.000-08:002007-12-17T00:43:29.843-08:00i wish we had a bidendoddi wish we had a candidate <br />with the guts and fierceness of joe biden<br />and the raw honest decency of chris dodd. <br /><br />in otherwords: an obama with experience.<br /><br />this election is gonna be somethin' else, <br />i tell you what. <br /><br />the writers are on strike to bore the masses<br />while fox and friends<br />stir their molassas<br /><br />and set<br />their sights<br />on the middle classes<br /><br />to which they will sell two<br />obnoxious braying asses:<br /><br />rudy and huck <br />crossdressing king and queen <br />of democracy fuck<br />see all they'll do<br />to make a buck<br />for<br />their<br />buddies<br /><br /><br />A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE:<br />a conversation in 2009:<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">someone: </span> <span style="font-style:italic;">"who did you vote for in '8?"</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">me:</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"> "i wrote in 'the ghost of paul wellstone'" </span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">someone:</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">"howdoya feel?"</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">me: </span> <span style="font-style:italic;">"good."</span>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-30695570858137469102007-12-15T12:01:00.000-08:002007-12-15T14:46:59.389-08:00ides of december < > ides of marchsitting still<br />up in the hills <br />on the ides of december<br />a time for reflection<br />a time to remember<br /><br />just past noon<br />take a deep breath<br />find my words...<br /><br />i've decided<br />to postpone my <br />pyromania art transmutation<br />until the ides of march<br /><br />impetus in part because i'm working on a few pieces<br />and want them done and ready before the big show<br /><br />i've devised a new pricing structure:<br />first piece is free<br />second piece is $100<br />third piece is $1000<br />additional pieces repeat cycle<br /><br />get 'em before they're hot:<br /><a href="http://mindswell.org/sethsart.htm">mindswell.org/sethsart.htm</a>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-52021640809224376022007-12-04T23:39:00.000-08:002007-12-05T00:35:18.144-08:00huckabee's smoking gun(s)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"...Shortly after taking office in 1996, Huckabee announced his intention to commute Dumond's sentence to time served. A public outcry ensued.<br /><br />Stevens, her father, and Fletcher Long, the Arkansas state prosecuting attorney who sent Dumond to prison, met with Huckabee to protest.<br /><br />"'This is how close I was to Wayne Dumond,'" Stevens says she told Huckabee at the time. "'I will never forget his face. And now I don't want you ever to forget my face.'"<br /><br />Stevens now says: "This isn't and was never about politics. This is about a rapist. This is about a murderer. ... I might never forget Dumond's face, but there are other women [for whom] Dumond's face was the last thing they ever saw on this earth... I would hope that Huckabee would remember the faces of his victims."<br /><br />Stevens, who had been silent about her rape and not identified in the press for more than a dozen years, finally spoke out publicly in 1996 after feeling frustrated by her meeting with Huckabee. Twenty women members of the state House of Representatives protested the commutation proposal. The editorial pages of some Arkansas newspapers questioned Huckabee's judgment and suggested he reconsider.<br /><br />What the public never knew, however, was that other women who had been sexually assaulted by Dumond had privately written Huckabee about their anguish. Their very private attempts at changing Huckabee's mind, they later told the Huffington Post, were based on concerns that speaking out publicly would have been too painful and traumatizing.<br /><br />One such letter was from the daughter of a Dumond rape victim:<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">"When you ran for office, one of the reasons I voted for you was the fact you are/were a Baptist preacher. I come from a very strong Baptist background... [O]ne of my grandfathers is also a preacher. I have always been a faithful church member where I am the choir director, yet this is one event that is not so easily forgiven.<br /><br /> I have prayed about these feelings, but once someone hurts your mother, or daughter the way this man hurt my mother I believe that you would feel the same...<br /><br /> Please understand that this letter is coming from my heart.... I would love to have the chance to talk to you about this matter as a daughter of a surviving rape victim."</span><br /><br />The woman provided Huckabee with her personal phone number in hopes that he or at least someone on his staff would call. She says that she never heard back.<br /><br />What was left unsaid in her letter to Huckabee was that she was three years old when, in the 1970s, Dumond raped her mother. The girl was in her mother's bed asleep when the rape occurred. Dumond held a butcher's knife to her mother's throat during the assault..."<br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html</a>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-24636798724412181802007-12-03T23:59:00.000-08:002007-12-04T00:21:21.439-08:00jen o' cyde - the siege of gaza<span style="font-style:italic;">"never again" "never again"</span> ...it's a jewish mantra. but all it means is never will WE, the chosen ones, be slaughtered again. hamas, on the other hand...<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />"Annapolis is almost certainly doomed because it repeats the same failed incrementalist approach taken by previous peace initiatives, from Oslo to the defunct, now-revived "road map"; because its success depends on the destruction of Hamas; and because it utterly lacks U.S. engagement."</span><br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/12/04/annapolis/" target="_blank">www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/12/04/annapolis/</a><br /><br />how is <span style="font-style:italic;">"destruction of hamas"</span> not genocide? <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"hamas"</span> can now literally be translated to mean the million+ people starving in gaza tonight. <span style="font-style:italic;">"hamas" </span>also stands for, of course, the democratically elected leaders of the palestinian people!!! won the election, they did. something's being spread in the middle east, but it sure ain't democracy. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">""The Israeli decision is a death penalty," Radi said. "Our reserve of fuel is almost zero and maybe it will run out by the end of today," he said adding two health centres had already been forced to suspend treatment during power cuts."</span><br /><a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03728828.htm" target="_blank">www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03728828.htm</a>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-10687935848106539702007-12-02T14:49:00.000-08:002007-12-04T02:49:46.541-08:00a new lifea story that shows both the worst and the best of humanity:<br /><a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=8454">formerly caged twins thrive with a new family</a>Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636710057150842621.post-41806264034116765332007-12-02T13:15:00.000-08:002007-12-04T02:50:34.442-08:00rove lies yet againi usually figure out the rationale behind rove's carefully crafted blatherings, but this new one about democrats pushing bush to war doesn't make any sense at all. what is the rationale behind proving to the world that you're willing to lie about something so preposterous as this?Seth Derek Aronsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08405080573232815024noreply@blogger.com0