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The Reason Why Is GOD Made The Ground and The Sky The World Was Messy and Empty It Was Dark Over The Face of The DEEP And The Ghost Of GOD Was Flying Over The Waters And GOD Said LET THERE BE LIGHT And there was Light

A New Hope (1977) Luke and Biggs Darklighter at Tosche Station "What good's all your uncle's work if the Empire takes it over? You know they've already started to nationalize commerce in the central systems? It won't be long before your uncle is just a tenant, slaving for the greater glory of the Empire."

They say airbrushed models and celebrities are unrealistic, but I think they are more realistic. It is the photograph that is unrealistic to begin with. We don't usually notice someone's pores when we see them face to face. When we are in the presence of someone their pores get airbrushed out by the animated spirit of their living existence, which can be unfathomably bright. That draws our attention, so we don't even notice unimportant details. The camera doesn't see like we see though, and the photograph it produces cannot capture the experience of seeing someone face to face. Instead the camera brutally captures everything that an eye without a human brain perceives, and conspicuously documents unimportant details. Airbrushing and photo shopping make the photo more like real experience. Unless you think you'd be noticing this Victoria Secret model's pores if you were face to face with her.

1. Not every fan is going to be able to see the episode the night it comes out. 2. People checking their FB or Twitter feed might see anything I post, including spoilers about the episode. 3. The other fans want to enjoy every bit of the suspense that I got to enjoy when I watched the episode. 4. Even if a plot development may not be a total surprise, spoilers still KILL ALL suspense about that plot point. 4a. Even if you know something's probably going to happen, you don't know which episode you're going to get it in. 5. Game of Thrones is one of the most popular TV shows ever, with so many really devoted fans like me... 6. So when I'm excited about something that happened in a new episode, I discuss it in private conversations on social media or in person with other people who I know have already seen the episode. 7. Not on a public feed that someone casually scrolling through might have their experience ruined a little. 8. If you're a good fan...

Stop yelling at me. You don't even know what I'm going to say yet. Look, this isn't because I support Trump. Because I don't. So there, now that I've made everybody hate me, let's just look at this and consider a new idea that hasn't occurred to you and maybe you can think about it. I'm just calling it like I see it... At the Golden Globes Meryl Streep took a moment that was all about honoring her and her lifetime achievement, and gave it away to Trump for more free publicity. His worst detractors just can't help themselves. They're actually his biggest fans. Meryl Streep said: "There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective, and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabl...

This one goes out to all the students grade slaves who had to start a new week of school today. You are beautiful and worthy and good, and if you feel lonely or alienated or looked over or not understood, all that confusion and angst isn't your fault. You're feeling it because you're good and you know intuitively that all the crushing weight of the rigid system around you and the bullshit social pressures are not the way life should be or has to be. I love you and I think you are wonderful. "Subdivisions" Lyrics Sprawling on the fringes of the city In geometric order An insulated border In between the bright lights And the far unlit unknown Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone [Chorus:] (Subdivisions) In the high school halls In the shopping malls Conform or be cast out (Subdivisions) In the baseme...

I loved you, prison guard. I know you loved me. I had no choice and no escape from the cinder block walls for an eternity of those bright adolescent hours that should have been all mine to have and to hold for better or worse and spend in brilliant bursts of godlike play that could have only made it better. But in that dreary prison place, I felt that I had yet escaped from some even darker, more sickly and sorrowful hole, and that you, my prison guard, were at least some fashion of a mother to me.

"...that Silicon Valley and Washington intelligence people move back and forth professionally and consider themselves to be in the same industry." Great insight from a delightful Reason article about the science fiction prophet, Philip K. Dick. Libertarians will want to do something about this problem. They will need to persuade the public that if you move from Silicon Valley to working for the Washington regime, you're not in the information technology industry anymore. Not even close. You're in the organized crime industry.

I made another Pinterest board this week entitled " Police Being Bullies ." I made this to support the Peaceful Streets Project , which is having its 2013 yearly summit this weekend.

Over the weekend and into this week, I've been in the process of moving. I won't have Internet again 'til tomorrow (writing this on the fly in a public wifi spot. When the dust settles, content will flow again. In the meantime, this short story by Philip K. Dick was the basis for the Total Recall Films in 1990 and 2012. Enjoy: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

Here's a video I made: The battle for the mind of North America is being fought in the video arena. Help Ben Swann win that battle! Invest in Ben's Kickstarter here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/439668500/liberty-is-rising-truth-in-media-project-0 Ben's website: http://www.BenSwann.com Illustration by: http://www.meiskastarner.com/ Video and concept: http://www.humblelibertarian.com/ Voice-over: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome Music: http://birthcontrolmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bcep2 ...no, I'm not saying 9-11 wasn't real. I'm saying the impact it had on most of you wasn't. I know you probably don't like that either.

From Wolfgang Gartner, Illmerica... Warning - graphic cartoon violence:

My mom was waiting on the other side of the TSA line with her camera ready, all excited about taking my picture on Uncle Sam's lap. Stupid. Sometimes she is so embarrassing. She made me step out of line and give her the jolly ranchers that fell out when the TSA officer made me empty my pockets. Those were my jolly ranchers. My friend Evan gave them to me at school. And I even traded him something that took me a whole hour to make with my other friends that we learned at camp. Then I had to go back through the security line twice! Like I'm a criminal or something. The mall Uncle Sam looked really fake this year. Half of his fake bushy eyebrow was coming off. I keep trying to tell everybody I'm too old for this, but I don't have the heart to tell my mom that I don't believe in Uncle Sam anymore. Plus I want the presents. My dad even told me if you don't believe in Uncle Sam, he won't visit and leave presents. I saw them wrapping one of the p...

Not Mos Eisley...

"I've got to erase a lot of stuff-- a LOT of stuff."

"O can't you see You belong to me?" "Every Breath You Take" Lyrics Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you Every single day Every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I'll be watching you O can't you see You belong to me How my poor heart aches with every step you take Every move you make Every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I'll be watching you Since you've gone I been lost without a trace I dream at night I can only see your face I look around but it's you I can't replace I feel so cold and I long for your embrace I keep crying baby, baby please Every move you make Every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I'll be watching you

An animator's mom hadn't seen (or heard of) the Wachowski's classic sci-fi film The Matrix. They watched the entire movie together and right after she told him what it was all about:

At the center of corruption is the Federal Reserve who has gained enormous amounts of control over America’s economy, with disastrous effects beginning to show. Standing opposite, is the band of Rebels who have vowed to take back the freedom they once knew… and they won’t go down without a fight. Monetary mayhem. Explosions. Romance. Silver Circle plans to take indie animation to a whole other level. David Morgan of Silver-Investor.com will be helping put on a one-night event to remember at the Magic Lantern Theater in downtown Spokane.

Some great publicity for Silver Circle at The Washington Post: 'Pasha Roberts, who grew up in McLean with a DARPA dad and who himself has a degree in financial engineering from MIT, has something of a built-in audience for his feature film debut. Three, actually, he thinks: libertarians, animation buffs and “the precious-metal coin collectors are really into this, too.” “Silver Circle” is an animated love story/hyperinflation dystopia set at the Federal Reserve. It had its Washington-area premiere this weekend: one screen, one theater, a one-week run at the Regal theater in the Ballston Common mall. “Did somebody find a money clip?” a man, one of about 40 people in attendance, hollers into the darkness just before the film began Friday evening. “Wait, is there free money here?” someone asks. “It’s Federal Reserve money,” a third person responds. “Not worth anything anyway.” “Silver Circle” is that kind of movie. Made for around $2 million, funded primarily by Roberts’...

Birth Control, a local Nashville goth band has a slick album with seven tracks, each about something spooky, including it would seem, one about the global financial and political establishment. Good stuff. Lyrics below. Old Boys Club by Birth Control It's a slow world, afraid of change so we're here to facilitate an old boys club just layin' low cuz we dont want the world to know we got bankers, business, kings and queens we just wanna have a word in peace we aren't trying to hurt anyone just as long as we get what we want Closed doors and open minds we won't leave anyone behind just as long as you're rich and white then everything's gonna be all right we got bankers, business, kings and queens we just wanna have a word in peace we aren't trying to hurt anyone just as long as we get what we want bankers, business, kings and queens we just wanna have a word in peace we aren't trying to hurt anyone just as long as we get...