Déjà vu - Strappado Wrack - Why Mars Space Exploration?

With all the excitement over the Mars rovers, the cries for a visionary manned exploration program are back with earnest. If you are romantic, then maybe you are moved. But if you are a student of history, the fundamental question of purpose needs to be asked. What is the point of sending living beings to distant planets, when our own earth is a confused mess? The analogy of criticism for a Columbus voyage doesn’t wash. The age of discovery involved expansion and exploration that increased commerce and offered hope for a new future. Long space journeys only gratify the egos of governments.

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Déjà vu - View from the Mount - Leader Worship Don't Vote - Revolt!

Cannon Fodder presents a simple quiz: Politics, Patriotism and Protest!  Take the test and gauge your loyalty.  

1.   It is never right to kill another person.

2.   Political leaders usually act in the best interest of their countries.

3.   If a political leader has done something wrong, it is all right to get rid of him or her by whatever means necessary.

4.   "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

5.   In certain situations it may be justified for a political leader to bend or break the law for the good of the country.

6.   People should never compromise their ideals or beliefs.

7.   "My country right or wrong" is not just a slogan; it is every citizen's patriotic duty.

8.   No cause, political or otherwise, is worth dying for.

9.   "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant taste of death but once."

10. "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is [often buried] with their bones.

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Déjà vu - Totalitarian Collectivism - Private Prisons and the Enslavement Society

What more time-honored practice in the long history of state-sponsored servitude than the institutionalization of prisoners? Incarceration for offenses against government laws is a cornerstone for power and survivability of any regime. Prisons may have been hellholes over the centuries, but seldom has the internment of convicted lawbreakers been a growth industry for private profit. It almost makes one wonder exactly who are the crooks. While most hard-pressed citizens want a safe and secure society, few ever give even a passing thought to the insatiable corporatist criminalization of the criminal justice system. Just how many Americans agree with the proposition, if you did the crime, you need to serve the time.

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Déjà vu - Radical Reactionary - AIPAC Zionists - the Archenemy of the American Nation

The habitual pilgrimage to kiss the ring of the “Khazar conspiracy” is upon us once again. The late great and trustworthy friend Alan Stang sheds light on the political movement called Zionism. “Presumably the Jews in Israel are Zionists, or they would leave. But there are only a few million Israelis. In the United States, there are scores of millions of Christians in mainline churches who are Zionists and who support Israel as staunchly as any Israeli, with funds as well as prayer.” He continues, “Consider that tens of thousands of Jews not only are not Zionists; they fervently oppose Zionism. They believe that Zionism is condemned by Holy Scripture.”

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Déjà vu - Inherent Autonomy - Fear of America First by GOP Establishment

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only”, is just as true today about the true conservative movement as it was back in Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, era.

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