Islamism in Australia, Germany, France, etc…

These videos exemplify a common element of societal disruption in the West: Islamic immigrantion. Europe, it seems, “is suffering from what we might call Islamolepsy, the kind of rigidity found in schizophrenia and hypnotic trances, now transposed upon a collective cultural sensibility and reducing it to a condition of social and political helplessness. It does not know how to fight back… Sharia law is gradually being introduced in Britain— a harbinger of things to come in other EU countries…There are currently 6,000 mosques in Europe and the number is growing…” –From an article by David Solway in Pajamas Media.

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And by no means let us forget the USA (below)

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Related: for more information go here and here.

Related: Paris a warning for the West. Here.

Related: Even burgers aren’t safe from Islamic immigration. Here.

Related: In Merry Ol’ England Islamism is getting so bad it can even affect what you’re allowed to buy in a drugstore. Here.

Related: Islam in Russia–not a pretty sight. Here.

Related: Sweden losing democracy and free speech to political correctness (because of Islamic immigration). Here.

Related: Islamic residents of Germany threaten attacks. Here.

Sounds like the birth of formal religion

“Some 12,000 years ago in a small sunlit cave in northern Israel, mourners finished the last of the roasted tortoise meat and gathered up dozens of the blackened shells. Kneeling down beside an open grave in the cave floor, they paid their last respects to the elderly dead woman curled within, preparing her for a spiritual journey. They tucked tortoise shells under her head and hips and arranged dozens of the shells on top and around her. Then they left her many rare and magical things—the wing of a golden eagle, the pelvis of a leopard, and the severed foot of a human being…”  Here. Hey, can you imagine arriving at the Pearly Gates with somebody’s foot? They’re probably still talking about that one up there.

“Meany pantsers”

“OMG! All those meany pantser, objectifiers on twitter didn’t understand that picture was code and a public service! I’m a giver! I was trying to let them know balloon boy was safely hidden, tucked away in my cleavage. Hello? I was holding a book! Everyone knows reading is hard. The purty picture on the book was code, too, obvy. Andy Warhol – a sign that the balloon boy people were just trying to steal MY 15 minutes of fame thunder…”  Meghan McCain (author of
Dirty Sexy Politics –Kindle edition) on meany pantsers.

Flight 93 memorial–mosque?…

If you think putting up an imperialistic mosque at  ground zero is suspicious, or at least distasteful, get a load of the 9/11 Flight 93 memorial: Here.

Windows

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen suing Apple, Google and nine other companies over “patent infringement.” Why stop when you’re on a roll. Paul also plans to sue makers of glass Windows for houses, Windows of opportunities, and of course Windows to the soul, as manifested in poetry and song. We wish Pauly boy good luck on his most awesome legal venture.

Feet. Density. Numbers per square…

“I continue to think those numbers are too dense. Five square feet per person means a space 24 inches deep by 30 inches wide; 2.5 square feet per person is one 12 inches by 30 inches…” On first glance this seems insane, but then becomes quite fascinating. Here.

And the twain shall NOT meet

California Assembly religious police issue fatwa agaisnt bare shoulders for women

Women demand bare breasts be legalized

I thought so…

“Call us cynical but we wonder whether Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s passionate backing …of the controversial mosque near Ground Zero stems … from the Mayor’s belief in the “virtues of Islamic finance?” Does the Mayor’s unshakable support have anything to do with The Bloomberg (company) becoming a ‘single provider of information that caters to the Islamic business market’?  A Bloomberg five-year business plan for an Islamic finance portal via a Bloomberg hub at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is already a reality…” Read the rest of this article here.

Update on Bloomberg: follow the money.

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You know you I just can’t get over how many Liberals like Bloomberg support this mosque (“We are all muslims now”). Now there’s even a move on to provide public funding for it, led by Bloomberg. So now I’m wondering, considering that sharia law, which devout muslims, including the ground zero imam, support (it’s an intrinsic part of their everyday lives),  calls for the death penalty for homosexuality, are these Liberals in effect revealing a sinister and secret hatred for gays (as well as women)? Multiculturalists, like Bloomberg, cannot have it both ways; you cannot logically support a group that calls for the death penalty for those of another group that you also supposedly support.

Your government hard at work

I don’t know about you but this country frightens the hell out of me. You know when I hear people say they love America I wonder exactly what the hell do they love about it. Wonder what it’ll be like in ten years? “Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements. That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant…” Here

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Related: More kreepy kops on the prowl.

Related: This is scary: Hospital mall kops help a patient.

Rising unemployment

Just wondering if letting in a million new citizens, plus tens of thousands of illegals, each year is the best way to fight unemployment.

The persistence of ignorance

Reading news stories from around the world today is like reading chapters in Charles Mackay’s  1841 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. The persistence of ignorance does not seem to be abating.  “…A crowd gathered around two brothers and their sister. Tears streamed down their mother’s face as she cast out her children from the family, accusing them of causing the premature deaths of two of their siblings with black magic. ‘I am afraid. They are witches and they can kill me as well,’ she sobbed.” Here. Another such story, also involving “witchcraft’ in Africa, involves albinos:  “As many as 10,000 albinos are in hiding in east Africa over fears that they will be dismembered and their body parts sold to witchdoctors… The killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania, who are targeted because their body parts are believed to have special powers, have sparked fears among the population in the two countries…” Here. Belief in witches is of course not confined to Africa; it’s a belief widely held in India and SE Asia. There are strains of it in S America; also Haiti, Cuba, and among other islanders. Historically speaking it’s a belief that once terrorized Europe. It’s a belief widly held by Christians and Muslims today. Here’s a short overview.

Turns out New Orleans is a lot like Old Orleans

“…My neighbors and I parted ways, and within half a block everything changed. I saw a group of kids on bikes ahead of me and turned to avoid what looked like trouble. Two stray dogs came charging toward me, but I was too slow to realize it was because someone was about to club me from behind. Because it was from behind, I never got a good look at who it was, but he probably used a two-by-four to hit me, a popular weapon in New Orleans these days…” Here.

Happy times…

Oh boy actor Don–Miami Vice– Johnson is sososososo happy his co-star Lindsay Lohan from Machete is out of rehab. Oh boy he is SO happy. Here, I’ll quote: “God bless her. I care about her as a person.” Nothing like a person caring for someone as a, er… person. Yeah, you gotta admire the man for his feelingness. And let’s not forget actor Danny Trejo: “She’s in control, she is professional, and she can really bring it.” Not bring it on, mind you, just bring it. Yeah, let’s be honest; there is nothing like being able to bring it. Yeah. Hey, we should all bring it. Bring it, I say: Bring it. BRING IT. It’s like being there, but bringing it.  And what about the director of Machete (Robert Rodriguez, the guy behind Planet Terror)? “She is going to be very happy. This is the best thing for her right now, to see this movie.”  Well it’s obviously the best thing for everybody right now, what with the economy and all. Yeah. Happy happy…

A truly cynical breakfast orientation

“For years I’ve been talking to Miranda and her brother, Joe, about appreciating the sources of our food. I’ve introduced them to the farmers who provide our fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs and meat. They’ve met many cows, chickens and hogs who even more directly provide us with that food. But what they hadn’t seen was how those happy hogs become the ribs, bacon and sausages on our plates. Miranda agreed to see it; Joe stayed home…” Bacon and bloodshed.

Extremely super peripheral extrapolation (or astral vacationing in the Valley of Ennui)

“…All good things must come to an end, and that includes our Universe itself. It’s 13 billion years old, but what will happen in a trillion years? A quintillion?  That’s a seriously long time from now. By then, all stars will be long dead, and (if modern quantum theory is right, and we’re pretty sure it is) even black holes will have evaporated. Not only that, but matter itself will have fallen apart: protons, long thought to be utterly stable, may disintegrate after about 10 ^39 years. So in that long distant future, the Universe may be nothing more than an ultra-thin soup of electrons and low-energy photons bumping around an eternal nothingness…” Here. (Hey, cheer up, boobie, there may be endless universes–ask Steven Hawkins and friends).

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Related (sort of): Ennui hits Chicago police force.

Tenets of law from the ground zero mosque

The bottom line

Tenets of Islamic (sharia) law, which the imam behind the ground zero mosque says is compliant with the U.S. Constitution: a short selection, compiled by former muslim Nonie Darwish, from the “clear cut laws in Islam decided by great Imams after years of examination and interpretation of the Quran, Hadith and Mohammed’s life.”

1-  Jihad defined as “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion” is the duty of every Muslim and Muslim head of state (Caliph). Muslim Caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Sharia and unfit to rule.

3-  A Caliph is exempt from being charged with serious crimes such as murder, adultery, robbery, theft, drinking and in some cases of rape.

8-  A Muslim who leaves Islam must be killed immediately.

19-  Homosexuality is punishable by death.

22-  Divorce is only in the hands of the husband and is as easy as saying: “I divorce you” and becomes effective even if the husband did not intend it.

30-  To prove rape, a woman must have 4 male witnesses.

……it goes on but I think you get the idea; so just how compliant is sharia with the constitution?

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Related: “Moderate Muslims” threaten the rad thing if mosque at ground zero is nixed. Here.

Border war

The war along the Mex-Grand Banana Reupblic’s  border. Such violence is gradually spreading into the U.S. Beacuse the elites that run our country want to establish the North American Union (modeled on the European Union), consisting of   Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, they refuse to protect our borders with other than an ongoing  token attempt at security.

Reporting the drug war. My hat off to the brave Mex journalists covering the war.

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Latest update on the war: 73 bodies discovered along U.S. border (actually the Mex/Gringo border). The dead are migrants that had been headed to the U.S. Here’s another story on this.

Just say No

“Look at all the pretty colors, man”

Will the government ban digital drugs? Will a SWAT team’s canine unit rip off your earphones (and most likely your ears)? Worry. Worry now, fools.

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Related: Back in the eighties President Reagan and his wife worried about just such a shortage of drugs. Though in those days of course these weren’t digital drugs, but the real thing.

Intransigence during the early 20th century

“We are not afraid to maul a black man over the head if he dares to vote, but we can’t treat women, even black women, that way. No, we’ll allow no woman suffrage.”–a Mississippi man back when…  Here.

“Beauty in a hamburger bun”

“Consider …the hamburger bun. It requires a certain kind of mind to see the beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet it is anymore unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a favorite fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures and colors in a butterfly’s wings? Not if you’re a McDonald’s man. Not if you view the bun as an essential material in the art of serving a great many meals fast. Then the plump yeasty mass becomes an object worthy of sober study…” –Ray Kroc, the man who put the franchise in McDonald’s. Whatever you think of mass produced food, you have to admit Kroc (d. 1984) loved his job, and it showed over the years in the company’s success. Probably the only CEO today to be compared to him is Steve Jobs.

A, er, pushing the perspective…

“Recently the Australian Curriculum Studies Association and the University of Melbourne’s Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies issued a booklet, “Learning From One Another: Bringing Muslim Perspectives into Australian Schools,” which maintains that “every Australian school student would be taught positive aspects about Islam and Muslims — and that Australia is a racist country.” Here. Of course, in the mother-of-all-multiculturalism. the U.S., they’re already implementing this perspective in some schools. Here.

I think someone should point out to such severely blind-sided multiculturalists that pushing Islam is also, simultaneously, pushing Sharia law, which is intrinsic to the Muslim view. Sharia law as, for example, practiced in Iran and under the taliban,  calls for the killing of gays and the stoning of adulterers.

The post racial world…

Cops say that because a group of 30 to 40 African American males were roaming the Des Moines fairgrounds deliberately targeting whites for ‘beat whitey night’  this could be construed, in some minds, as something possibly–just possibly mind you– racially motivated. Here.

You won’t read much of this anywhere in the national so-called mainstream press and blogs but you can imagine how it would be reported if the story involved the reverse: if thirty or forty white thug racists had a “beat blackie night.”

Related: Elsewhere, recently,  in the post racial world: black and Mexican racial strife escalates  in NY, Hispanics targetd in deadly attacks.

Here’s a local report

The Office (what would Toby say?)

“…But it did get my attention when I started leafing through this year’s press releases from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and found a case where a supervisor allegedly said that women should outfit themselves in Vaseline, and nothing else; one where a manager in human resources…allegedly inquired as to the color of an assistant’s panties; and a case against a company president who the EEOC says pulled a subordinate’s pants down in front of her coworkers…”  And let’s not forget the case of “the sewing machine operator who stood bottomless in front of coworkers…after the boss removed her pants.”  Here.

“Illusion of change”

“Obama is an illusion of change,” said the former supporter. “He is a lot like Bush in many ways. It is a fallacy to believe he really cares about unemployment when he hired an economic team comprised of Volcker, Geithner… these men were in the last three administrations and they don’t really care for the poor and working class of this nation.” Yeap, it’s the old CBO– ClintonBushObama  Here.

The Yes Men

“We trust you appreciate the importance of avoiding confusion among the public concerning Canadian governmental affairs and that you will assist us in preventing this hoax from spreading further.” Here. Don’t forget The Yes Men Fix the World (I watched it on Netflix Streaming). You may not agree with all the Yes Men’s conclusions but they are inventively hilarious and their dupes are spectacular. Caution: these forays into deception are not corporate friendly.

The corporate-owned banana republic, the internet, and you

Today the United States is the most frightening country on the planet.

Bedbugs have escaped from Ohio–now massing on the East Coast

Yes, bedbugs have escaped the hell hole of Ohio and are moving into our Eastern cities, affecting lifestyle and affecting even our simple daily habits. They’ just like the goddamn taliban. “”…I don’t go to the movies anymore, I’m not sitting in those seats, and don’t sit on wooden benches,” said Gale A. Brewer, a member of the City Council. When she sees a mattress in her path, she said, she crosses the street…” Here.

Update: My god, man, they’ve breached the defenses of the Empire State Building: they are inside. Everyone…to the sea, to the sea… Here.

Downward acceleration physics…

Note: all secrets are eventually revealed. Someday people will know in no uncertain terms just how evil successive American governments, and the secret elite that controls them, have been, from what the government knew before the “surprise” attack on Pearl Harbor to the implemmentation of offical Multiculturalism to the destruction of the World Trade Towers to the invasion of Iraq and to government/corporate plans for the World Wide Web…

The Google-Verizon Big Brother Plan or The Evil Empire Strikes Back

“…article about Google’s plan to kill the web has been completely de-listed from Google News. This is completely unprecedented and underscores how keen Google is to prevent people from finding out that it is a CIA-NSA front that is preparing to completely end the Internet as we know it with the Verizon net-neutrality killing deal…” Read more here.

Girls just wanna have–enhancement

So what’s doing in the body enhancement culture of plastic and photoshop? Here’s a take on the subject.

And the winners are…

Congratulations. Man and wife win this weeks coveted scumbag-couple-from-under-the-rock award. There was a lot of competition too, but our couple made it to the finish line first, and that’s the name of the game. The competition? Well, better luck next time. Hey, Hollywood, reality show anyone?  Here.

Ah yes, the Grand Banana Republic gets more banana by the day…

Life in the Grand Banana Republic: kop threatens a citizen with rape. You have to wonder, with the thousands of police brutality videos and eyewitness accounts,  just how many thousands more of these fascists get away with threats and violence because no one had a camera. On the other hand it’s becoming a crime to film police.

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Update: By jove, we’re getting just like that little nasty banana republic in the Pacific–the Phillipines (here), ot maybe like the Indonesian Islamic Security forces.

Let the thrid worlding begin…

Actually it’s been in progress for quite awhile. There’s a good piece in Infowars on Ten signs the U.S. is becoming a third world country.  Here’s a short synopsis in five:

1. Rising unemployment (poverty), a declining  middle class
2. Declining civil rights, Corporatizing media, and militarization of police
3. Increasing political/corporate corruption
4. Crumbling infrastructure
5. Declining currency worth, capital controls, and a debt to GDP ratio of 85%

News from the filthy dirty infested U.S. interior

The bedbug infestation in Ohio, especially in Cincinnati, is so bad that some residents have resorted to sleeping on the streets. And remember, where there are bedbugs there are cockroaches, although of course nothing’s as bad as the city’s  human infestation. Hey why not try washing yourselves for a change.   Here.

Update: Department of Defense now on the job (could be as difficult a mission as eradicating the taliban). Here.

The 2014ers

• A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet.
• The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.
• Czechoslovakia has never existed.
• Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.
• The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing. Here.

About the 2050ers
Er…don’t ask.

“It’s all about oil” (of course)

“Shortly after the Marines rolled into Baghdad and tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein, I visited the Ministry of Oil. American troops surrounded the sand-colored building, protecting it like a strategic jewel. But not far away, looters were relieving the National Museum of its actual jewels. Baghdad had become a carnival of looting. A few dozen Iraqis who worked at the Oil Ministry were gathered outside the American cordon, and one of them, noting the protection afforded his workplace and the lack of protection everywhere else, remarked to me, “It is all about oil…” Here.

Comrade Pelosi, the anti-free speech warrior, unsheaths her sword…

Warrior Princess against lawful opposition (Xena would never do something like this)

The great ground zero mosque controversy…Pelosi: Opposition to the Supreme Command Mosque of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is unAmerican and must be investigated, comrades; we must know where their money’s coming from: true, not a direct quote, but it’ll do. Here. Maybe she should be more concerned with who’s funding the mosque (Saudi Arabia, Iran? here). Better yet, she should investigate who’s funding congress. Obviously the cougar’s leather panties have gotten too tight.

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Related:

Ground zero Shariah? “…Maybe the Imam’s goal is not simply to force a provocative “insensitivity” about 9-11 on the American public, with the help of America’s elites.  Maybe the Imam’s long-term goal is to force Shariah law on the American public – of course, again, with the help of America’s elites…” Here. Note: go to the link to  read about the Ground Zero Mosque’s 6 mystery floors.  “We suggest  that they’ll be used by the Shariah Index Project.”

Muslim who opposes GZM says he has been threatened with physical harm by Islamic developer. Here.

Looks what’s going on in the grand ol’ mother country:

“American Muslims are 10 years behind the struggle.”– Cleric Anjem Choudary

Related:

A couple of examples of the sharia-implementing stealth jihad (get people more and more accepting of it as something inevitable):

Sharia law injects it’s venom into the free secular world, well, in this case Disney World (btw,  it’s called stealth jihad–”little by little”): Here.

Sharia law and football: Whatever happened to seperation of church mosque and state? (Under sharia law there is no seperation.):  Here.

Trekkies

Looks like some people finally took Rodney King’s advice, as in Can’t we all get along? That would be a first. “The scenario might have seemed unlikely: prominent Muslims and Jews from the United States, trekking across the Atlantic in mournful, spiritual solidarity to visit two Nazi concentration camps. Together…”  Well, sorry, but unfortunately I can’t find anything cynical about this little trek right now…seems OK…but let’s see what happens. Here. Oh, here too.

Sign of a dying empire

The spread of unemployment: U3 unemployment statistical timelapse vid

Story here.

Related: You might be interested to know that multi-millionaire teary-eyed religious fanatic and all around chump change freakazoid Glenn–’four eyes’- Beck blames unemployment on–the unemployed (here).

Ladies and gentlemen, directly from the early sixties in stereo–it’s the Faith Tones

Jesus Use Me–from the decade that gave us the official beginning of the end of Christianity. I’d love to listen to some of this old vinyl but I’m afraid it could be the audio version of the Spanish Inquisition (and you know how unpleasant that was)….wait a minute, on second thought diid that title –Jesus use me– mean, well, take my body lord and use it, baby, or am I writing too much into that line? At least bless me if I’m wrong.

States of the human condition (cont.’)

“I just wanted a multigrain bagel. I refused to say ‘without butter or cheese’.  When you go to Burger King, you don’t have to list the six things you don’t want.” Here.

“One of the most shocking things to me is when a man shows up with candy bars and Skittles in one hand and condoms in the other…” Here.

Aerial looting

“Aerial imaging technology is being used by the government to spy on Americans in an effort to collect revenue and enforce ordinances on swimming pools without safety certificates, junk cars being stored without permission, unlicensed porches, and a myriad of other petty transgressions that the state is feeding off in complete violation of the Fourth Amendment to suck citizens dry of whatever income they have left after being looted of trillions of dollars in wealth that the state has transferred to foreign banks…” Here.

Corporatism (i.e., unbridled capitalism) gotta go

I watched this documentary the other night on Netflix Streaming. Incredibly, the U.S. is even worse off now than it was when Moore made this film.

Some items of corroboration

• U.S. economy near point of no return
• The financial conspiracy
• Jobless millions signal death of American dream
• Economic fear
• Wall St and second wave of recession
• Third World America
• Ugly world of monopolies
• Commercial real estate getting ugly

Teachings from the mosque

Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid tells it like it is. Obviously the man should have his own talk radio show. “There are rules of shari’a in everything. We counted almost 70 rules about how to urinate and defecate. In contrast, how do those beasts in the West answer the call of nature? They stand in front of other people, in toilets at airports and other public places. They do not care about covering their private parts. Even their underwear is colored and not white, so it can conceal all that filth. We are a nation [Saudi Arabia] that has long known the meaning of cleanliness, what to do when nature calls, and what the rules of hygiene are. The others, to this day, live like beasts. To this day, many of them are not circumcised, even though the World Health Organization has advised to circumcise people as a treatment for AIDS, because it has been scientifically proven that circumcised people are less susceptible to AIDS, and are less likely to spread it than uncircumcised people.”

(Note: this was originally a video shown on Memri TV)

“Heaven and Halal”

So the guy from Red Eye wants to test Islamic tolerance (i.e, to endorse the mosque’s own website, which says it’s ‘trying to promote integration and tolerance’) by proposing a gay bar next to the proposed N.Y.C. mosque near ground zero…Good luck. “Right now the working name of the bar is Heaven and Halal. “It will be two floors – one serving Halal food, and other other serving cocktails. There will be 72 of them. And they will be virgin…” Here.

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Related: Ground zero imam’s ties to terror.

American piss and feces culture

”I went onstage and immediately, before I even got on stage, DUDES were throwing HUGE STONE ROCKS in my face, beer bottles that slit my eye open, almost burnt my hair on fire cuz they threw fire crackers on stage, and they even took the sh*t out of the port-0-potty and threw sh*t and piss at me when I was onstage.” Gathering of the Juggalos

My pharmacist the witch doctor

Somebody showed me this in her new pharmacy textbook. It’s from the first main page of  Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, in which a list of terms and definitions for the modern scientific pharmacist are given. Take special note of the last entry–shaman. Is that a term that should have a place  in a modern medical textbook?

Apothecary Latin term for pharmacist

Clinical pharmacist Pharmacis who monitors patient medications in inpatient and some retal settings

Dogma Code of beliefs based on tradition rather than fact

Inpatient pharmacy A pharmacy in a hospital or institutional setting

Outpatient pharmacy Community pharmacies or pharmacies in outpatient hospital settings

Pharmacist Person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients

Pharmacy clerk Person who assists the pharmacist at the front counter of the pharmacy; the person who accepts payment for medications

Pharmacy technician Person who assists pharmacist by filling prescriptions and performing other nondispensing tasks

Protocol Set of standards written by hospital or insurnace company for patient treatment

Shaman Medicine person who holds a high place of honor in a tribe

shaman /’amn/, /’em-/
noun (PL. shamans)
a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practise divination and healing

Thesaurus: a medicine woman, healer; witch doctor…

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BTW, here are some lyrics to sing while waiting for the shaman to fill your prescription:

I told the witch doctor
I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor
I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor
He told me what to do

He said that

Ooo eee,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang…
Ooo eee ,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla ,bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang

The ship of fools

Ship of fools.

Generally I hate symbols, which is why I can’t stand reading parables or symbolic literature (because it consigns art and literature to cold mathematical models*), but I thought this pic was pretty neat.

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*That is not to say symbols haven’t had their moments. Symbols are now and have been in history a way of  out foxing censors (think  Da Vinci paintings, for example) by hiding criticism of political or religious dogma in a double-entendre mode.

State of the human condition (cont.’)

The duhhhhh factor

Hey, bro, can you spare a C-note for a cup of Starbucks coffee?

Peter Schiff, who before It Fell told us of the Coming Fall, is now warning: “We’re in the early stages of a depression.”  ………”In August 2006, Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, offered what many considered to be an outlier prognosis for the economy: The exuberance would end, real estate prices would crash back down to earth, and consumers would revert to saving from spending. In short, a deep recession was in the works. As outlandish as he may have sounded at the time, he was right. Four years and the worst recession since the Great Depression later, Schiff stands alone again with a bleaker diagnosis for the economy: an inflationary depression…” Here.

Update (as of 08/12/10): It ain’t pretty.

Update: It ain’t pretty II

Update: It ain’t pretty III

Update: This sounds scary and  certainly lends itself to the This ain’t pretty category: Financial writer says “Protect your property with high-voltage fences, barbed wire, booby traps, military weapons, and Dobermans”  Dobermans? Well I guess whoever’s capable of  getting through the first four defences won’t be that much troubled by a couple of snapping guard dogs. I mean the intruder would have to be like Robocop–or Stallone in First Blood.