Once again, I find myself returning to the theme with which this journal was begun, years ago now: that of recovering as an abuse survivor. The cycle is so easy to fall back into: there is some comfort in familiarity, and one's past marks one as a susceptible target. It is further complicated when the abuser is a family member. Sometimes, a ( Read more... )

it's Memorial Day here in the US ( Read more... )

The reason why government (and corporate) officials in positions of power seem so much more at home with totally extravagant gross distortions of fact, telling bold lies that bear not even the vaguest resemblance to truth, rather than just the slight twisting and prevarication that the rest of us are expected to engage in, is summed up quite well ( Read more... )

Well, it's been nearly a week now, and I've finally gotten my thoughts sorted into a semi-coherent form that I can write out. For the moment, I'm sidestepping the issue of his execution itself, because I don't feel qualified to offer a judgment on the method by which it was carried out, or even whether it was necessary in the first place. I'm ( Read more... )

So, as frequently happens to me when I'm in a half-asleep state, my mind started wandering into the realm of what's wrong with modern society, and how it got that way. After some discussions of the past several days, last night it drifted into the area of economics, where it quickly flooded with a deluge of disjointed thoughts, which somewhat ( Read more... )

I presented the following quote to a sampling of almost a dozen US citizens, ranging in age from 15 to 35, including one active-duty member of the US military, one who works for a municipal government office, and one who works in the field of education in a school. NOT ONE OF THEM recognized the author or source of the quote - not a single one:

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I'm convinced that conflating the idea of holding the Rothschild banking cartel accountable for their corruption, with a general anti-semitism, is the root of the majority of the economic problems in modern society ( Read more... )

This Is My Life, RatedLife:

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As defined by US law, "acts of domestic terrorism" are those which: "(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended- (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii ( Read more... )

After reading this article, and the comments in response to it, I've written up this brief summary of the events being discussed ( Read more... )