So… in the mythos od wingnut welfare, what position does FSA hold?

… Sher Zieve, a wingnut who is not just a nut but is, arguably, actually crazy, as in shouting at strangers in the park crazy.

How about “crazy as a shit fight in a monkey house” crazy?

od = “of” for those of you without your Official Fascist Decoder Ring.

That’s just spectacular even among the pantheon of wingnutty craziness!

dunno, doesn’t seem any crazier than an average bill kristol column.

oh, and would all sn denizens please go see “Mad Money” this weekend? i…sigh…i need the money. not that i’ll ever see any (more).

also, it’s pretty good! and it’s a class comedy, as in about the middle and lower middle class!

seriously, this weekend is the only one that matters. i’ll, i’ll do something really stupid if you all would. perhaps get in touch with sher and ask her on a date.

I bet she has an evil sock puppet named Mutton Chop.

That’s pretty crazy. But we shouldn’t entirely discount the recent innovatizingation by Mushroom Scientist Gary Novak. He apparently has expanded from overthrowing all of our modern scientific concepts to explaining The Spirit World.

The truth about the Spirit World

Most of what happens in material life is shaped by the spirit world. There are many different groups in the spirit world based on histories, moral states and degree of spirit powers. It’s the average of all those influences which determines everything in material life.

Influences from the spirit world are the basis of a large amount of fraud in physics. Normally, there are methods of verification in science. But physics seems to be different. The abstractness seems to be conducive to breaking all of the rules that normally apply to science.

Atheists, including most scientists, say there needs to be evidence or proof of the spirit world before they consider the subject. There is any amount of proof, and they defy it, while they contrive and claim someone else needs to do the proving…

…Proof 2 — Brain Chemistry

The amount of contriving by atheists gets extreme when they claim molecules in the brain think. The molecules in the brain have been analyzed down to parts per trillion, and they all have functions unrelated to thought. To claim the most complex function known can be performed by molecules which cannot be located is deliberate fraud. It’s nothing resembling science…

…Heterogeneity

The basic source of higher spiritual states is heterogeneous spirit substance. When two types of awareness substance are combined, they form heterogeneous awareness substance. It perceives an infinite number of realities simultaneously. The result is perception over a wide expanse of time and the ability to perceive forward and backward in time.

What can be perceived can be influenced to some extent. Therefore, heteros have some ability to influence molecular motion…

…Spirit Cannibals

Evil spirits acquire heterogeneity by stealing awareness substance from other persons. By repeatedly and aggressively stealing spirit substance they can acquire more power than anyone else. They become extremely evil by using sin to subdue the victims. It’s analogous to depraved psychopaths stealing nuclear weapons, except that the spirit cannibals can control all matter and motion instead of just creating explosions. Being total cowards, they victimize the most vulnerable persons. Persons who are well off are generally left alone, and they don’t see what is happening.

The original spirit cannibals took control of the universe before material life began, which would be something like five or ten billion years ago. There are more recent spirit cannibals including spirits created by the original spirit cannibals, and there are different spirit cannibals for some strange reason.

Reincarnation is, of course, pretty much rejected by all mainstream Christian churches.

Is that why she wants to destroy Christianity?

Slap a bonnet on her and she’d be Miss Prissy, the hen that stalked Foghorn Leghorn.

What’s with the soft focus in the picture?

She reminds me of the Timecube dude.

the_millionaire_lebowski said,

January 15, 2008 at 5:07

What’s with the soft focus in the picture?

And the wig on her head.

Did somebody say Spirit Cannabis?1!!

Not only do my molecules think, they can actually kick your molecules ass(es).

And if you think you can disprove my theory by merely proving molecules don’t have asses, you are nothing but a sad little tool of big science™.

For I can establish the frigger homey doop healy meager chunk…

mikey

Is that Penny Marshall with a bob?

I always wondered whatever happened to Robert E. McElwaine.

This information came in the form of knowing many things (including the death of her husband) which would occur when she was an adult.

This is a problem I have with people who exhibit schizophrenic type behavior.

1. If they are schiz it is mean to make fun of them.

2. If they are just bloviating megalomaniacs, I miss out on a chance to make fun of a bloviating megalomaniac.

Arrrgh!

Nice photo. The soft focus makes Penny Marshall look a little better.

I see I’m not the only one who picked up a Laverne vibe.

Her photo looks like an experiment: What would Moe Howard look like as a blond?

And that lady is still standing in the middle of the street with the kid. Doesn’t she care that the terrorists have driver’s licenses now?

1. If they are schiz it is mean to make fun of them.

See, I ain’t buying it. Sickness or not, if they decide to participate in the national conversation, and they choose a position that supports hatred and violence, they cannot then be offered a pass for mental illness.

Think of it like this. You’re sitting in a hole at three aye emm. Suddenly, in the moonlight, you see three guys running at you. Two of them have weapons and want to kill you. One REALLY wants to tell you about her childhood. Problem is, you have no real good way of figuring out who might be who. Given the situation, you shoot all three. Tomorrow morning, you might feel bad when you discover that one had a satchel charge, one had an RPG and one had a self-published book on doilies. But you don’t stop fighting to try to sort out who’s serious and who’s crazy.

Y’know?

mikey

How do Christians stand up to the bullies? First, advise those companies who support these Leftist positions with their advertising that we will not buy their products and services.

“Yes, hello, Proctor & Gamble? I am representing a coalition of psychic earthquake detecting Christian weblog readers who believe your products are encouraging the destruction of our nation and our religion by helping Osama bin Laden and…hello?…Is there someone there? I don’t hear you, but I feel your presence. I know your robots are listening to me.“

To get that soft focus effect they shoot the photo through gauze but I’m thinking Zieve’s photo should have been taken through burlap.

Zieve — that’s kind of an unwieldy name. I wonder if she’s ever thought of just going by Sher.

Can I get rewrite?

Scene: a villa on the outskirts of Lahore. Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri are sitting in Barcaloungers drinking tea and watching “The View” on satellite TV

Osama Bin Laden: Christians? well, Okay, but I’d rather go after Britney first. She’s totally freakin’ crazy. Did you see those shots of her wearing her old wedding dress?

Although some of the received data could be regarded as “negative”, it also allowed her to save the lives of one of her brothers and a sister. While in seventh grade science class, she saw a map of the Pacific Ocean and told her teacher that the included volcanoes were called the Ring of Fire and that there would be massive and simultaneous eruptions in that area. That same year, Ms. Zieve was “led” to the library book Many Mansions by Dr. Gina Cerminara. After reading the first chapter (which discussed reincarnation), she told her then disbelieving mother that now “it makes sense!”

I assumed that, somehow, the Ring of Fire and Many Mansions were all prelude to explaining how she saved her siblings’ lives, which is what she led off with. She had me at the start, and then she lost me.

By the way, were there “massive and simultaneous eruptions in that area”? Are we just supposed to accept them as a given? Is she writing about how she lived through Krakatoa?

I’m confused.

Scary looking broad! She reminds me of my third grade teacher, who never smiled and would threaten paddlings at any misbehavior.

#

Doc Washboard said,

January 15, 2008 at 5:27

Is she writing about how she lived through Krakatoa?

I think she smoked too much Krakatoa.

This is what happens when you impulsively decide to get a haircut at a bris.

Wasn’t her maiden name Aramchek?

I went and read* the article, and noticed that she missed a golden opportunity to tie this into Scientologofascism. Or is Scientology considered a subsidiary of Islamofascism in Wingnutistan?

*by “read”, I mean, “I visited the link and hit “CTRL F”, then searched for the word ‘Scientology'”. I just visited a creationist site earlier, and I try not to mix my crazy; it gives me a bad hangover the next day.

Doc, I’m confused, too. Let’s go kill some Christians.

I miss tbogg.

Dammit…

mikey

But, after the Northridge quake in California, she was led to write her novel Journey which regards the changes to come. …

I had just finished taking a pee when I felt the telltale rattling. I grabbed my TV because it was up on a stand and I didn’t want that glass smashing on the floor with me still in my bare feet. I held on, the rumbling stopped, I looked at my CD collection scattered to every corner of my room, put some clothes on and went outside in case there were aftershocks.

So, I experienced the Northridge quake too but, funnily enough, it didn’t compel me to write a book acknowledging the voices in my head, just to move to a more modern apartment.

Thanks mikey. I don’t see a self-published book on doilies, so…

This information came in the form of knowing many things (including the death of her husband) which would occur when she was an adult.

I guess we should be relieved the death of her husband didn’t occur when she was a child. But I know I’m not the only one wondering if she told him and how he died.

Slip and fall during a bath?
Slip and fall in a during a bath in bath salts and he just happened to pull the radio in when he fell?
Slip and fall into a giant meat grinder …

Gavin adds: Also click here to review Family Security Matters’ board of directors!

W. Thomas Smith Jr.? Ain’t that the guy who made up a bunch of crap about Lebanon in NRO? Wingnut welfare truly knows no bounds.

Pretty sure it was doily related…

mikey

Arky – Professional Peace Disturber said,

January 15, 2008 at 5:48

I guess we should be relieved the death of her husband didn’t occur when she was a child. But I know I’m not the only one wondering if she told him and how he died.

Slip and fall during a bath?
Slip and fall in a during a bath in bath salts and he just happened to pull the radio in when he fell?
Slip and fall into a giant meat grinder …

Slip and fall onto a kitchen knife 37 times while the two of them were home alone.

Arsenic & Old Lace.

This information came in the form of knowing many things (including the death of her husband) which would occur when she was an adult.

This is quite an odd construction. I mean, while I was still a child, I figured out that I myself would die and it would occur (I hoped) when I was an adult. And now I’m an adult, so when I die, will that prove I’m psychic?

Could she choose a less attractive picture of herself? She looks like Dr Zaius without the facial hair.

Is the stern, unamused look supposed to let us know how serious she is?

I have a theory that my company has just managed to block this site at work. Therefore, I think all companies are fascist and that this chick needs help. QED. Goddammit.

She predicted earthquakes and volcanoes on the Pacific Rim?

I’m missing something here.

But you don’t stop fighting to try to sort out who’s serious and who’s crazy.

So the golf clap shaggy dog was just friendly fire.

FSM? The acronym seems somehow familiar.

Bingo

This is also central to the point that I can no longer enjoy my lunch hour, which is also fascist. Who knows, I might write a book or something. Damn. Bitches.

I can’t help wondering whether Sher Zieve was hanging out with Philip Dick a few decades ago. She may well appear, thinly-disguised, as a character in Valis.

I’m really sorry to hear that Kate. I know this site makes my lunch hour much more pleasant.

Yikes, the resemblance is closer than I thought.

http://drzaius3.ytmnd.com/

And now I’m an adult, so when I die, will that prove I’m psychic?

Jennifer! Call me at 1-888-999-7777! And for just $9.95 for the first minute and $1.00 for each additional minute, I can answer that! and many! other questions!

Kate said,

I have a theory that my company has just managed to block this site at work. Therefore, I think all companies are fascist and that this chick needs help. QED. Goddammit.

My Borg banned this site, Atrios, Digby, FDL, etc.

And they sent a memo to everyone about it.

And I think I was the only one visiting them.

I can haz a new Borg. plz?

And why isn’t that photo shopped.

I do love this site, atheist. It’s pissed me off, this site blocking. Where the hell am I supposed to fuck off at work now, I ask you?

Damn liberal Hollywood. If only something like…oh, I don’t know…I’m just gonna throw this out…a graphic depiction of Christ’s crucifixion (sorry for the rhyme) could somehow make a dent at the boxoffice.

But no, such a thing could never happen, given the persecution of Christians by our popular culture.

ittdga – this is a new development, and they’ve blocked world o crap and norbizness, yet I can get Jonah Goldberg. I cannot get Digby, but I can get FDL, and I’ve not tried Atrios. God, this is so effing irritating. It’s not like it’s porn.

She’s the ham sammich in the SadlyNo delicatessan of wingnut delights. Iceberg lettuce extra.

Jon Stewart in drag could mimic her look.

It’s a muppet. I dub it Frumpy the Bear.

You can always enjoy Tristement, Non!

Nous interrompons notre assurance pâteuse régulièrement programmée de Pantload, pour vous apporter le plus en retard de Sher Zieve, un wingnut qui n’est pas simplement un écrou mais sommes, discutablement, réellement fous, comme en crier-à-étranger-dans-le-parc fou. Sher est un rédacteur de contribution des personnes de sable de “The viennent ! Les Personnes De Sable Sont Coming!” ; sujets de sécurité de famille d’aka où sa dernière colonne est consacrée à expliquer comment Hollywood conspire avec Al-Qaeda à assassiner des chrétiens. Non, sérieusement:

And of course, there’s always, Tristemente, ¡No!

Realmente, la declaración de Behar’s sobre voces locas de la audiencia de la gente tiene Sher todo en una torcedura porque ella también oye voces misma. No, seriamente:

Kate:

This may not be something you’ll want to try, but I wonder if there is some kind of “anonymizer” service that would allow you to bypass the block?

ittdgy: Aren’t you always fascinated that there might be others at your work on this site? I’m telling you, it would improve my view of my office, for sure.

Tell me how. I’m sure there has to be a way.

Let’s go! with the original Deutsch!

Wir unterbrechen unsere regelmäßig zeitlich geplante teigige Pantload Deckung, um Ihnen das späteste von Sher Zieve zu holen, ein Wingnut, der nicht eine Nuß gerecht ist, aber sind diskutierbar wirklich verrückt, wie im verrückten Schreien-an-Fremd-in-dpark. Sher ist ein beitragender Herausgeber “der Sand-Leute kommen! Die Sand-Leute Kommen!” aka Familie Sicherheitsbelange, in denen ihre neueste Spalte dem Erklären gewidmet wird, wie Hollywood mit Al-Qaeda sich verschw50rt, Christen zu ermorden. Nr., ernsthaft:

Holy cow, check out “Ask Willa” Former CIA Agent on the Family Matters web site.

The dangerous and heroic world of espionage animates our imagination in a way that creates exciting and mysterious heroes such as James Bond. But what about the heroines? Who are these women who risk their lives to keep our nation safe? And what is their real life world all about?.

In FSM’s new series, Ask Willa, you’ll meet one such woman. Using the pseudonym Willa, this former CIA operations officer worked to protect our country for over 30 years.

In her column you’ll be taken into the life of a real operative – a sometimes frightening and always challenging world. Find out if you have what it takes to do the work of Willa, master spy…read here!

I’d like to ask Willa what it’s like to have your identity made public by the VP of the United States.

Dear Readers,

Since this is my first article, let me explain that my name is not really Willa. That’s my pseudonym (pseudo), well, part of it anyway. The rest remains classified. During my thirty-plus years as an operations officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations (DO), I used a pseudo for everything I wrote. The pseudo is not a name you say aloud to someone, rather it is a name that is used in all communications. The purpose is to protect the identity of the case officer who is writing or being written about.

I’m guessing Willa would not like to have her true identity compromised. I’m also guessing Willa loves Dick Cheney.

Kate:

Try browsing here at work, see if they have blocked this:

http://www.freezoo.org/

You put the web page you want to go to in the center of the “FreeZoo” page and it comes up, but with a freezoo.org URL

Of course, if they are actively checking on you, it won’t help. But if they just have a passive blocker, this may be a way around it.

But, be careful

i love ask willa!

“Dear Readers,

let me explain that at the end of each sentence i use a period, like this. this ends the sentence so that another one can begin. i only use it when i write, not when i speak, although there is…look, it’s complicated. let’s just leave it at that.”

and you know, i bet she hasn’t done enough splainin for that crew over there. i can picture many a head scratching: “so a pseudo does what now? it writes reports and don’t tell no one? or it don’t get written about and that ain’t a real name for the CIA?”

Thanks, atheist…I don’t think we’re in the worst of it, they’re just probably trying to block something else, but I hear you…delightful, I’m trying that out tomorrow. Thank you.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. Tallulah Bankhead suggested the use of linoleum for her own head shots. My guess is that Ms Zieve’s photographer favors cast iron.

I can’t decide if I should be scared of mikey now or not. I promise not to run at you with a gun, okay? Even if I only want to talk about my schizophrenic childhood.

As a schizophrenic, I would argue that it doesn’t excuse certain types of behavior. If you’re an asshole in public, there’s no good reason to assume that it’s only because you’re mentally ill. Quite often when I’m an asshole in public it’s got nothing to do with teh crazee. So my advice would be to make fun of the behavior of a specific person, rather than making fun of the entire class of persons with some characteristic or another. The asshole, if you will, not the stereotype. It has the advantage of being less lazy, too, since there are plenty of reasons to mock any given person that don’t rely on mocking people you don’t know into the bargain.

Wow, Cher has really let herself go.

Ahh, dammit.

Now I feel bad.

The funny and the old poppypants (thanks Pinko), they are too close together in the wild.

Sidhe. I’m so sorry. I judge my own mental stability so harshly, I guess I don’t always stop to think about anybody else’s…

mikey

Willa does not sound like a plausible name for a secret agent. Just sayin’

Willa sounds like a name some Christy homeschooling hausfrau would give her unfortunate daughter.

she was led to write her novel Journey which regards the changes to come. …

Ah ha! Another gem to add to my “unintentional Humour” shelf!

That’s my pseudonym (pseudo), well, part of it anyway. The rest remains classified.

That’s funny as hell right there. I’m not going to reveal my classified pseudonym, but I’ll use part of it because that’s not a security breach at all.

Damn. Evil spirits have stolen my awareness substance. Or maybe I’ve been drinking.

I guess we should be relieved the death of her husband didn’t occur when she was a child. But I know I’m not the only one wondering if she told him and how he died.

“The prophecy… Must come TRUE!”

“Uh, honey? Whatcha doin’?”

“The PROPHECY… Must come TRUE!” *swish, swish*

“Um, okay… I’ll do that… now put down that kniiiiaaagh!”

My bad, mikey. I was clowning a bit.

And I actually do agree. Schizophrenia and anything else is not an excuse to be an asshole without repercussions, I’ve always thought. Treat any person like any other person, treat the behavior of any person like you would if it were any other person’s behavior. It’s not perfect, but it’s not the worst way to handle it, either.

I got lemon chicken and grilled ambrosia apples on wild rice, if you like. No Spam, even.

Is there someone there? I don’t hear you, but I feel your presence. I know your robots are listening to me.

El Cid FTW!

But that Family Security Matters site… Did you notice they have an “enfactlopedia”? Which I guess is like an encyclopedia, but with FACTS!

If Hollywood is so fucking liberal, then why aren’t all the money-men and money-women in Hollywood supporting the Writers Guild strike, gladly sharing the wealth, royalties and profits garnered from repackaging and selling of the WGAs creative output through DVDs and over the Internet? Huh? Huh?

I’m not fooled. Just like everywhere else, Hollywood has liberals and conservatives and everywhere in between. And just like everywhere else, certain types believe in “trickle down economics,” with those controlling the money flow trying to “trickle down” as little as possible…that is, the ultra-conservatives with a “voodoo economics” Ronald Reagan viewpoint and a total hatred of all unions and American working families.

So, Hollywood is “liberal,” implying that all of Hollywood is “liberal”? Hardly.

Jesus even the first sentence is screwed up:

As Christians throughout the world continue to be oppressed and even murdered by Islamofacists

Should it be fascists? I guess since it’s a made-up wingnut word her poor old spellcheck can’t help her tired blonde be-wigged brain.

The rest of the article is even crazier than the quoted sections.

An even larger problem is that of Christians in general largely ignoring the oppression of their brethren by radical Islam

Yeah and where is this going on exactly? Saudi Arabia is about the only place I imagine – America’s “bestest buddy” in the universe. Everywhere else from Saddam-era Iraq (Christian VP!) to Indonesia to Pakistan, Christians do very fine fuck you very much in majority-Muslim countries.

Meanwhile try being a Muslim is USA for about a week and see which one you’d rather be.

And then the last bit of EXTRA crazy is she throws in a hyper-link – the text is supposedly about American “leftist collaborators” but the link goes to a page about Beslan which last I remember took place in North fucking Ossetia. And then half the page is ranting about how George W. Bush should stop collaborating with the Saudi gov’t!

This lady IS shopping cart on the sidewalk crazy.

What the… huh?

Currently, [Rick] Senninger creates and distributes the first inter-active radio show that provides the public direct two way communication with service men and women who are in theatre.

I thought that they were Christians? On their site they are selling a T-shirt that says ‘FSM’ — isn’t this the Flying Spaghetti Monster? So — Christians or Pastafarians? Enquiring minds want to know.

Currently, [Rick] Senninger creates and distributes the first inter-active radio show that provides the public direct two way communication with service men and women who are in theatre.

Surely, even Broadway stagehands can afford telephones?

El Cid wins the thread:

I don’t hear you, but I feel your presence. I know your robots are listening to me.

Wins it, takes its scalp, and does a little victory jig as the crowd goes wild.

Doy gracias que he vivido hasta que pudiera oir sus palabras tan agradables.

During my thirty-plus years as an operations officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations (DO), I used a pseudo for everything I wrote.

Man, the signature on her [?] Christmas letters must be odd.

Wishing you a joyful New Year,

“Willa”

I’m still of the mind that FSM is a spoof that leaves Landover Baptist in the dust, and “Willa” (as in Cather?) is the main reason why.

I’m not saying there aren’t complete spazzes and cartoonishly serious assclowns in the CIA. However, she [?] reads like what rubes living in places that are 100 times more likely to be hit by a 50 ton meteorite made of solid gold than islamotarrists would expect from a Company Man (or Woman).

Mrs Landingham, noooo!

So wait, she used her psychic powers to save her siblings but not her husband?

tigrismus said, January 15, 2008 at 16:19

So wait, she used her psychic powers to save her siblings but not her husband?

No, tragically it was just the opposite — she realized, horrified, that it could only have been an accidental release of her godlike psychic powers which caused the earthquake in the first place, and she has lived with this awesome knowledge ever since, exerting all her energies 24 hours a day in mental exercises specially designed to hold her intellectual output to an absolute minimum.

Hence, her columns — a natural, albeit horrific, trade in which there are those who must read this drivel or face a telekinetic unleashmentifying of such magnitude…

The truth about the Spirit World

Most of what happens in material life is shaped by the spirit world. There are many different groups in the spirit world based on histories, moral states and degree of…

Sorry that is as far as I could get. The stupid is overpowering.

Sorry that is as far as I could get. The stupid is overpowering.

I am sorry. This means that you have never encountered this:

Energy Misdefined

Here’s the problem: If a small rocket engine adds a one pound force for one second to a spacecraft moving at 25,000 miles per hour, a lot of energy is added; but if the same rocket engine adds a one pound force for one second to a roller-skate, a lot less energy is added. Same transformation; different energy. With the corrected definition of energy, the same amount of energy is added in both cases.

This proof shows that momentum is all there is to energy. ½mv² is just an equation. How could they both be conserved at the same time when they have different dynamics, which was the original question? The decision to conserve them both was rationalism for convenience, not a law of nature.

The most basic problem with the current definition of kinetic energy is that it is not defined relative to impact points. Just as heat cannot be measured and defined apart from impact points, neither can kinetic energy. Impact points are where the transformation occurs, and energy must be defined in terms of transformations…

…Philosophy

There is no complete proof of anything. If someone will not accept the obvious as fact, no one can force them to. Proof can only be spoken of as a figure of speech, which means accepting the obvious as fact.

Thankfully all those slavishly faddish “Newtonians” can throw away their Galilean acceleration assumptions and their Cartesian coordinate graphing, ’cause dude here has finally showed them what they had never before considered: the obvious.

But then, I forgot, you also did not see this:

About The Author

Mushroom Research

In graduate school, I studied yeast physiology and stumbled onto the basic control mechanisms for mushroom formation. I was then driven into seclusion by mental pain, so I moved onto the previously vacated family farm and did mushroom research. Mental pain is not depression or schizophrenia. It is memories of pain too close to the surface and contacted by external stimuli.

“Mad, they called me! At Graduate School they laughed at me and called my research claiming that some vague photos I took clearly showed that mushrooms were evolving into a multi-cellular organism was mad! But I showed them! It was merely Mental Pain!!!“

I studied yeast physiology and stumbled onto the basic control mechanisms for mushroom formation. I was then driven into seclusion by mental pain

The forbidden text in which I found this hideous knowledge remained in my possession, however, and I continued my work in a dank, unwholesome cellar in an unutterably hideous house of antique vintage. The fungous life I drew forth from that abhorrent abyss served me better than any mere humans would have done, though their flabby, phosphorescent shapes were more noxious than possible for Earthly life, and were instead vaguely but insistently reminiscent of the eldritch things written of by the Mad Arab…

It is memories of pain too close to the surface and contacted by external stimuli.

Sounds like PTSD, which absolutely is a mental illness though clearly not schizophrenia. Of course, perfectly nice and decent people get PTSD as well, and the same can obviously be said of most mental illnesses*. I suppose if you’re used to thinking they’re punishments from God or whatever-the-fuck you’re going to want to pretend they’re absolutely nothing to do with you, and you might use transparent euphemisms like “mental pain” to do it.

* Possibly not sociopathy or psychopathology. I could be wrong. But neither of these are punishments from a pissy deity nor something someone has somehow brought upon themselves, so even then, a certain amount of the stigma is rather idiotic.

tigrismus: You think you are joking. But maybe you are not. There is also this:

Geology of Soil Origins

One of the first things kids are told in regard to science is that soil is created from rocks which are broken down by plant roots. That concept never did seem credible to me…

…The answers were created by an earthquake which occurred in the area in February 1983. Earthquakes were supposed to be impossible in the area, because there is supposedly a plate of granite under all of South Dakota at a depth of about 1800 feet (600 m). But the occurrence of the earthquake means there are two plates of granite rather than one…

…What the U.S. Geological Survey said about my analysis was that the snails were probably from the cretaceous age (only about 90 million years ago) existing in Pierre shale and originally in shallow seas. Obnoxious…

…The USGS also said that “Very small (3.0 magnitude or less) earthquakes in your area are probably caused by compressed land continuing to rebound from the last glacial period, not from tectonic activity.”

Absurd. I don’t remember the magnitude of the quake (probably about 5.5), but it split my woodframe house leaving the plaster cracked, and it cracked the concrete basement floor. Claiming that compressed land creates an earthquake, where there is supposedly no fault line, 10,000 years after a glacier is obnoxious.

The soil, of course, fell down from space, part of it while the earth was forming, and presumably some more after a planet exploded where the asteroid belt is. A significant amount also results from volcanic debri.

That’s a hell of a gutsy guy to say that “presumably” a planet in the asteroid belt exploded and gave us much of our soil. Some so-called “scientists” might be sort of reluctant to make those presumptions, but not Mushroom Scientist Gary Novak (Not The Drummer).

“the eldritch things written of by the Mad Arab…”

Ahmed the I Just Get These Headaches strikes again!

Gary Novak teh Pantload of Science?

Replacing “mushroom research” with “mushroom consumption” might explain Gary, but how does Cheetos explain teh Pantload?

The answers were created by an earthquake which occurred in the area in February 1983. Earthquakes were supposed to be impossible in the area…

Tell that to the people who lived through the 58 that occurred from 1872 to 1983.

Seriously, though, just wait until he hears about SINK LETTUCE, Tatsoiggua, the Sleeper of N’Kohler, and its formless spawn!

There is a guy near my house who has cut his fence into jagged patterns, painted it purple, and decorated it with swirling astral shapes, giant animals, and his own musings. Things like, “Books are good – ALL THE WORDS!!! each page.” and, “Universe is krrrrtttteeeevitieeeee.” Through gaps in the fence you cans see bizzare towering sculptures that he has made of trash and bits of wood.

He spends most of his day trying to recruit ladies to enroll in his “elecromagnetic self-defense” class, but he alway devotes at least a few hours to riding a bicycle in little circle in a parking lot as fast as he can go, so that the Earth’s gravitational field is rejuvenated.

I dunno though, I kind of like the old bastard. Compared to your mushroom man here he seems downright sane.

I also love how he thinks that erosion and root action as causes of soil creation are just not credible, but all soil falling from space? Totally believable.

I can’t help myself, thanks El Cid.

“Tornadoes always occur before rain, which may not occur at all..”

The Eater of Teh Mushrooms has obviously never seen a rain-wrapped tornado, I’m inviting him to Oklahoma for the Spring. He can’t stay at my place tho.

As a child, Sherrie Zieve received personal information regarding her life.

It’s called a “Permanent Record Card,” Sher.

tigrismus said,

I bet she has an evil sock puppet named Mutton Chop.

Garcon! A new keyboard, please?

Needs more cyclopean cow-bell.

‘Family Matters’? She looks kind of like Urkel, now you mention it.

Joy Behar is on to something. She just didn’t take it to it’s logical conclusion. All religion is schizophrenic. Julian Jaynes had a bit to say regarding this in “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” He basically says all the ancient Sumerians and Classical Greeks valued those crazy enough to listen to those inner voices that it formed the basis of their religions. Everyone heard them to some degree, but as people started writing and started listening to their literature instead the voices from the left side dwindled away. Today you are labled crazy if you listen to those inner voices. Unless you are claiming it is God talking to you. Then you can find a sizable percentage stupid enough to believe it too.

Is the government spying on paranoid schizophrenics enough?

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_is_the_government

10. The Earth quakes and the Heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and on other days it just rains.
11. Indeed do many things come to pass.

Umm…Thorazine.

Sand people? Didn’t she notice that these blast points are too accurate to be sand people? Obviouslty the work of imperial stormliberals.

I used a pseudo for everything I wrote
Including graffiti, and dirty limericks.

There was an old man of [redacted]
Whose [redacted] was exceedingly [redacted].
Except in the winters,
Because of the [redacted],
So he’d [redacted] and [redacted] to [redacted].

“Willa”.

From her bio:

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Sher Zieve is an author and political commentator. Her columns have appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Boston Star, Massachusetts Sun, Sacramento Sun, and in international news publications. She is a frequent guest on national radio talk shows.

Since The Dallas Times stopped publishing in 1888, she may very well have witnessed the great Krakatoa eruption.

“After reading the first chapter (which discussed reincarnation), she told her then disbelieving mother that now ‘it makes sense!'”

Did she really now? (Looks past her in desperate search for others to talk to.) Does that…mean anything?

“Throughout the years, Ms. Zieve has in business and thought it best to keep her experiences quiet.”

Oh-ha ha! Yes, I know what you mean! She has in business–well, who hasn’t? Excuse me, I think I see someone I need to think I see I have to talk to I think…

Dr. Laura’s psychic sistah! She communicates with SPIIIIIRITS! Woohoo, spookeeee!
As the Dead Kennedys famously shared: “God told me to skin you alive.” Wonder if that’s the kind of life-affirming messages she’s getting? Maybe in this case a targeted dose of Thorazine would be helpful . . .

R.V. Dump confirms my spoof theory.

The Boston Star – Does not exist. I can find a few mentions of it in the late 1880’s and that’s it.

The Oregon Herald – Awesome. It does exist, on-line and anyone can submit articles. You don’t get paid, but you do get a byline.

The Massachusetts Sun – I find three mentions as in web articles: “Joe Blow told the Massachusetts Sun … ” but nothing on the paper directly and it isn’t listed in the New England Newspaper Association.

The Sacramento Sun does exist – Sorta. It is an online news feed for local papers and wire services. In other words, you can’t write for the SacSun.

Hats off to the folks of FSM!

The Massachusetts Sun appears to be online only. I’ve never heard of it, and every link except the DVD and Bahrain hotel reviews seems to go offsite, to local newspaper or TV news sites, even the opinion pieces. No ads that I can see. A front page poll reads: “Doo you believe the death of Princess Diana was an accident, or murder” Class project? If not, ouch.

Thanks tigrismus. Here is the The Sac Sun.

Look familiar?

[ahem]

http://www.sacramentosun.com/

HA! Check out the DVD reviews for each site…

You mean they’re all DVDs that have been out from a while to a long time?

I just can’t click on any of these links. I don’t want teh stupid cluttering up my Temp Internet Files. It’s amazing to me that Clif & our other Sadly, Noverlords can travel into the vast wasteland of wingnut sites and return with sanity intact.

No, though that’s funny too(as is the misspelled Princess Di poll on both sites); the reviews at both sites are by the same guy. I’m guessing there may be only one or two employees total, and no local employees at all.

Yep. I was actually feeling very nerdish last night so I did some searching on him (I didn’t think he existed). He’s just a film critic who only appears online. I suspect those reviews appeared timely and the people (person? program?) that runs the Sun “papers” gets them on the cheap because they are all sooo old. I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t know they’re being used.

Oh well, if my computer is attacked by nine zillion pop up windows and starts running really slow I’ll know where I picked up the cooties.

Rick Senninger arrested

http://blackandright.mndnet.com/2008/05/07/rick-senninger-host-of-otw-arrested-in-florida/

Sally Jessy, noooooo!