Monthly Archives: September 2003

Pickups

I just got back from Belleville picking up CD-Rs and a few groceries. As I was getting on the highway, there was an oldman hitchhiking; I pulled over and asked him where he was headed. “Mrulshwdrf,” he told me, gazing wildly somewhere toward the middle of the car's hood, spit covering the front of his old suit.

Um…?

“Ok, well… I'm going up 37 to Tweed. Is that the way you're going?”

“Surfide,” he told me, then asking, “Tweedroad?”, as he continued to drool on himself. I don't think he was drunk; his eyes were all white, and I assume he was blind and half-mad from years of living in a forest. Eventually he decided that he wasn't headed the same way as me and stumbled off.

About two minutes later I saw other guy, a mid-thirties clean cut hippy wearing a yellow hat holding a sign that said “OTTAWA”. I pulled over and told him I could take him as far as Tweed and he hopped in. He turned out to be a home-care nurse that spent his off weeks hitch-hiking around Canada. The first thing he did was gesture at the clock and ask me, “is that the right time?”

He'd been waiting there for something like two hours, which by my estimate would mean that around five hundred cars, probably 90% of which at least would have had space for him — and this guy exuded “harmless”… I think it's pretty pathetic that people are so unwilling to help others. It's inexcusable that he had to wait for that long.

Anyway, the reason I was picking up CD-Rs is that I'm making a pile of copies of all my images, source code, and so on to send to various people for permanent archival (in case “something bad” happens to me I guess) — I have between two and five million images in my archive (and that's just from the past few years, not from day one), so as you can imagine I'm going through a couple spindles!

Documentation

I read recently the following. I've boldfaced the line that really struck me,

Not that the Bush administration ever really understood what freedom really meant. They believed it was something granted by government, or the military as a proxy for government. They believed that freedom is something that exists because of the people running the government or the laws that manage society.

In fact, freedom means the absence of government. It can never be granted by the state. It can only be taken away by the state. If a government manager desires freedom for a society, his only path is to get out of the way. That is something the Bush administration refuses to do at home or abroad. They can say they want freedom, but in this case, freedom is reduced to a fiction.

It's true. Free is the “natural state”. Free is dangerous too, because it gives people more “freedom” to take away their neighbor's freedom (ie. crime)… As such, we institute restrictions to freedom (laws) and enforce them (police and military). Anyway, it's something to remember when you watch the government — the government exists not to grant anything, but simply to act as a tool to maintain freedom for all the people.

Along those lines, censorship strikes again. The document, “The 'Presidents Bush' are Satanic society members (and Prescott Bush financed Hitler from 1922 onwards.)” aka “The George W Bush Interview: The questions the Media omitted to ask” was recently wiped off the web by blogspot. I've permanently archived it here.

I did want to point out one thing though that the author forgot, just in terms of the first point, about how Bush commuted only one death sentence, that of Henry Lee Lucas… He killed people whose innocence was proven by DNA testing, he killed a severely retarded manchild, hell, he even made fun of a born again Christian that he killed (let me briefly interject that story):

Karla Tucker, 24 years old, had been a junkie since she was ten, when her prositute mother began pimping her out. In 1984, after being awake for two weeks, along with two "friends" she was accused of a double homicide which she has no memory of and there was little evidence of — and it certainly was not premeditated. Her "friends" were freed after giving evidence against her and Tucker was given the death penalty.

Larry King (as reported in Talk magazine) asked George Bush what he thought Tucker would say to him if they could talk (she was a born again Christian and even pro-death penalty groups were asking for her sentence to be commutted). Bush scrunched up his face, and in a squeaky "pretending to be a girl" voice mockingly said, "Pleeease! Don't kill me!"

Anyway, that's kind of messed up, and you have to wonder if Bush sat in front of TV watching the bombing runs he'd ordered making the same jokes to his friends, but this time with a Middle Eastern accent. Anyway, back to Henry Lee Lucas. Here are some quotes directly from Bush himself regarding that case:

"I take every death penalty case seriously and review each case carefully. The first question I ask in every case is whether there is any doubt about the individual's guilt or innocence. This is the first case since I have been the Governor when the answer to that question is yes. I believe there is enough doubt about this particular crime that the State of Texas should not impose its ultimate penalty by executing him ... I feel a special obligation to make sure the State of Texas never executes a person for a crime they may not have committed."

Now, as you know Bush is a member of the Skull and Bones “club”, a Satanic order that spun off of the Thule Society which Hitler was also a member of (and as you should know by now it's public record that the Bush family funnelled money to the Nazis and did everything they could to support Hitler in that timeperiod). What you may not know — it's described in lurid detail in Lucas's autobiography (published long before the speech above) but was stricken from the courts — is that Lucas claimed to be a Skull and Bones “employee”.

That is, he claimed to work for various Satanic orders like the one that Bush continues to publicly swear allegience to, stating that he had a job “fetching sacrifices” for them and so on. Is it true? Who knows… All we know is that a 200+ person serial killer, perhaps the most prolific in US history, is the only man ever freed from death row by George Bush.

www.bmezine.com/bushfraud

Hmmm….

I'm trying to come up with an ad for the new Machinegun magazine for BMEshop. I haven't done this sort of thing for a while so I'm not that good at it any more I think.

Good deal?

I noticed this Invader GT sitting on eBay (here); right now it's at $1000 and there's no reserve… I honestly don't see it going a lot higher. Invaders are weird looking cars as is, and the guy has really bad pictures up of it… But if someone wants a really cool little project car that won't cost a lot of money to work on, this could be it (it's in NY right now).

Quite a number of variations on the Invader GT were built (I think); this one looks like a slightly later one with a lowered roofline and a little bit sleeker appearance. To the best of my knowledge you should be able to get the doors and so on from either Sun Ray (who own the Bradley GT molds) and Kaylor (who build electric versions of this car in a much more radical style), but my personal advice would be to cut the roof off it and turn it into a dune buggy (right photo).

PS. That said, although there is a slight resemblence, it's no Probe/Centaur (ice ice baby).

Experience stuff


There's been some discussion lately on whether an experience should be posted to BME if it includes or even advocates “bad ideas” — drug use combined with body modification, fake IDs, questionable aftercare, or even low-end studios. Here's the “offical word” on that question:

The purpose of the experience part of BME is to document this subculture. It's not there to make judgement calls or specifically to educate (although if an experience blatantly lies in a way that'll hurt people it shouldn't be posted without a clarification); it's literally there to record history. There are other sections of BME that have an educational role.

Anyway, I don't know if it helps illustrate “bad ideas” documented as an experience, but I've just submitted one of my own stories to the experience engine, talking about some very questionable tattoo decisions I made both in terms of safety and quality. If you're interested in doing some reviewing, it's the one titled “Three layers: Do as I say, not as I do”.