Obama is IRISH!!

Performed by Sunday Session MC Shay Black at the Starry Plough Pub in Berkeley, CA, this song was originated by the Corrigan brothers in Moneygall, Ireland with new lyrics contributed by EVERYONE. Sample verses:

You don't believe me, I hear you say

But Barack's as Irish as our own JFK

His grandaddy's granddaddy came from Moneygall

A village in Offaly, well known to you all.

O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara

There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama.

From the old Blarney Stone to the green hills of Tara

There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama.

The Cuddly Menace

"You cannot imagine my horror when my eyes met pages filled with saccharine, pastel artwork depicting cold-eyed androids that were clearly not of our realm. In a Beautiful Mind moment of schizophrenic clarity I saw the book for what it was: not a gentle introduction to life's most profound curiosity, but a primer for the parasitic offspring of an invisible invasion!"

MY LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK ABOUT ZOGG = H. P. LOVECRAFT LITE 

The Meat of Torah

A student approached Rabbi Hillel and asked:

"O Rabbi, can you explain to me 

the essence of Judaism

while I stand on one foot?"

"Certainly," answered Hillel: 

"Whatever you would not have done unto you, 

do not do unto others."

"Of Torah, this is the meat. 

All else is commentary."

Let The Rich Bail Them Out

Senator Bernie Sanders voted NO on the proposed $700 billion US government bailout of failing Wall Street financial firms.

 "If a bailout is needed. if taxpayer money must be placed at risk, if we are going to bail out Wall Street, it should be those people who have caused the problem, those people who have benefited from President Bush's tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, those people who have taken advantage of deregulation who should pick up the tab, not ordinary working people"

Sanders proposed a five-year. 10 percent surtax on families with incomes of more than $1 million a year and individuals earning over $500,000 to raise $300 billion to help bankroll the bailout.

His fellow Senators, however, set aside the amendment on a voice vote.

Read Sander's full Senate floor speech here in which he elaborates on the bailout bill's flaws.

From Truthout.org.

Psychedelic Mind Tools Revisited

"The waves of mass psychedelic utopianism have come and gone, but the hippie movement of the late 60s echoes in the rave scene of the 90s. And there's a small but devoted community of scientists, spiritual seekers, artists and grown-up hedonists exploring the value of these drugs.

The "Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics" conference. held in New York Sept 19-21, sought to present an older and wiser psychedelic movement. focusing on medicine, art. spirituality and culture. It drew around 300 people, a mix of academic and hippie types, with the white button-down shirts slightly outnumbering the dreadlocks and the NASA T-shirts.

Psychedelics are "the most powerful psychiatric medicine ever devised" said psychotherapist Neal Goldsmith. who curated the speakers. But because the way they work as medicine--when used in the proper setting--is by generating mystical experiences, "science has to expand". Solid research, he added, could change government policy, which classifies psychedelics as dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use."

Read more of Steven Wishnia's report on the Horizons conference at AlterNetLink.

Thanks to Gaby for sending me this article.

Thanks to Ron Cobb for the cartoon.

Mad Mullah Bush Hands Over Trillion USA Dollars to Failed Fat Cat Bankers

SunTzu's Art of War: Know Thy Enemy

"Ana raicha Al Qaeda" is colloquial for "I'm going to the toilet". A very common and widespread use of the word "Al- Qaeda" in different Arab countries in the public language is for the toilet bowl. This name comes from the Arabic verb "Qa'ada" which means "to sit" pertinently on the "Toilet Bowl". In most Arabic homes there are two kinds of toilets: "Al-Qaeda", also called the "Hamam Franji" or foreign toilet, and "Hamam Arabi" or "Arab toilet" which is a hole in the ground. Lest we forget it, the potty used by small children is called "Ma Qa'adia" or "Little Qaeda".

So, if you were forming a terrorist group, would you call yourself "The Toilet"?

Text from WhatReallyHappened.com

Image from Santa Cruz Comic News

Fresh New FLURB!

Bizarre and prolific sci-fi author Rudy Rucker has once again released selections from his private collection of weird, barely legal and transgressive assaults on the status quo by himself and his Aegean stable of literary companions. Yes, Friends of the Real, even in today's New Dark Ages of Bush, Cheney and McCain, some fresh new Flurbish Flowers can push their way thru the mind-numbing concrete of Mass Media Hypnosis. FLURB. FLURB. FLURB. It's good for you. Especially noteworthy is Bruce Sterling's " Computer Entertainment Thirty Five Years From Today." Read FLURB or be tossed to the curb. It's that simple.

Tantric Jihad! the video

From Bruce Damer's God Farm Doctor Jabir issues a fatwa that exhorts us to improve on heaven and create a better world.

Quantum Tantra Romp

QUANTUM TANTRA ROMP

Found it on Nick Herbert's blog

Exercise my underdog.

Got the message, did the math

Venerate your pussycat.

Here's an easy path to God

Exercise my underdog.

Quantum physics in one's lap

Venerate your pussycat.

Cuppa coffee, pint o' grog

Exercise my underdog.

Some tabs of E, a steaming bath

Venerate your pussycat.

Petting in the Heisenfog

Exercise my underdog.

Then Reality pet us back!

Venerate your pussycat.

Once we'd got a taste of THAT

Venerate your pussycat.

Who wouldn't want to do it better?

Exercise my Irish Setter.