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2006.06.21 -- Editorial
This week you get the three in one wrap up on subjects ranging from just taking care of business at TOCC.tv, the shake-up at CBS news as Dan Rather throws in the towel and Katie Couric readies her putsch, and China revs up for more efficient killing.
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2006.06.14
 USA Today reports (June 13) that the US Senate is now just one vote short of passing a flag burning amendment. According to the article by Andrea Stone, the first official vote in the Senate since 2000 is set for the week of June 26. The Congress has already passed the amendment, and already all 50 states have passed non-binding resolutions endorsing the amendment. Even if the Senate passes the amendment, three fourths of the states will still have to go through the official ratification process for the amendment to become law. The Supreme Court has previously ruled that such laws are unconstitutional. In the article, Paul McMasters of the non-partisan First Amendment Center, is quoted as saying the Senate is trying to provide "a radical solution to a non-problem. It's unwise, uneccesary and un-American." I couldn't have said it better myself. Follow the link for my own commentary, complete with a flag burning video, that I first published on June 30th of 2005.
A Note About George Casey |
2006.06.14 -- Editorial
Apparatchik Deny Denier
Dismissed As non-Reflective Anomaly
2006.06.07 -- Editorial
I'm saying that Speedo Gonzales, Troy King, and others are overstating a single crime in an attempt to satiate their own sexual compulsions, while attempting to inflame the baser emotions of the general public, and to desensitize them to the larger scheme of Big Brothers control.
2006.05.31
Memorial Day and the beginning of summer leaves me preoccupied with other pursuits and so this week I am running another photo. In honor of those who have fought for this country in good faith; with a satirical twist, I call this one "Maple Hill Patriot." Subtitled as a reminder, "The dead aren't coming back." I photographed this tattered flag as I found it during a photo shoot in Huntsville's Maple Hill Cemetery during 2005.
2006.05.24
With Dubya Bush having already committed all the eligible troops, and all the national guard, to whoop ass in Iraq, guard the southern border of the homeland, and prepare for another float-a-rama in New Orleans, I imagine he'll be calling just about anyone, or anything, to help him with his eavesdropping scheme.
I shot this little fella last summer, and as June now approaches, and with little else to say about Dubya this week, I thought he made good subject matter. Looks rather delicious doesn't he? I guess after watching so many episodes of "Survivor Island" the idea of eating bugs just comes naturally. I wonder if he'd be good sautéed or maybe dipped in chocolate? Probably be best with a six-pack to chug it down. [Click on the headline or furry leg for blow-up.]
2006.05.17 -- Editorial
Even twenty years ago, I would have never, in my wildest dreams, imagined that so much obvious corruption in the White House would be so casually accepted by the American people.
2006.05.10 -- Editorial
Multinational corporations now tell the school board what to do. Back in the days before deadbeat working moms, kids knew what to wear to school, ate healthy meals at home, and Ritalin was unheard of.
2006.05.01 -- Photo Essay
Immigrants gathered in downtown Huntsville in an unprecedented march and show of force on "The day without immigrants." Reports in Huntsville and around the country indicate that many businesses, and even the national economy, did indeed suffer from the missing immigrants who took the day off in order to underscore their presence in American business and economy. Interestingly, these marchers carried American flags, and only one Mexican flag, and were not heard singing the "Mexican American National Anthem," perhaps paying heed to criticisms previously levied at those activities.
2006.04.26 -- Editorial
(And Apparently The Great Pretender Too)
Let's just call it organized crime. Shades of Halliburton. Six retired generals not fond of Rumsfeldt chime in on cue. So what? The American public sleepeth in short cycles, and the wolf is awake for 100 years.
2006.04.19 -- Editorial
When it comes to baby killing, Alabama does not mince words. Mommy, you can have your cake and eat it too. If you kill a pregnant woman in Alabama, the Brody Act makes it possible to charge you with two deaths if the unborn baby dies too. All the while, the Alabama legislature made a deliberate effort to protect "legal" abortion. Mommy alone decides whether baby killing is legal or not.
2006.04.12 -- Editorial
The bottom line is that Universal health care and Mitt Romney will only make all matters worse. In the long run universal healthcare will caramelize the negative processes that ultimately destroy the notions of democracy, freedom, liberty and the ever more impossibly elusive “American Dream.”
2006.4.4 -- Abyss
Mr. Jim casey tunes into Sirius radio and gives Howard Stern a Sirius blessing. Check out this short editorial with a special Abyss presentation.
2006.03.29 -- Editorial
Millions of American jobs were lost due to NAFTA and GATT because we wanted to help. Our factories have closed up, our unions have closed shop, our discretionary income has steadily dropped, homelessness has steadily increased, and our middle management has all but ceased to exist. We have done enough.
2006.03.22 -- Editorial
The time has come to cut our losses and prepare to leave Iraq. George W. Bush should clean up the mess he made before he leaves office.
2006.03.10 -- A Special video Presentation
Well, maybe W Bush is smarter than we think. After all, we could go ahead and sell New Orleans to the Middle Easterners. This video is an artistic impression created in 2002 and really does seem appropriate in context of all circumstances.
2006.03.08
Well, maybe not always. Kudos to the University of South Alabama newspaper for standing by it's guns and printing the so-called "offensive" cartoon depictions of Mohammad. If Muslims want to live in this country we have a C-o-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N. If you don't like it, go back to China.
Sister Christian, did you say I can't do that? Of course I can, I'm NOT federally funded, I'm not the NEA, and I can excercise freedom of speech if I like. And I do.
Backwards Alabama? Well, we know that we are, at least some of us. The latest infractions deserve national attention. First, note that in Alabama the politically powerful AEA has made it clear that NO ONE counts except for school children. A new tax free day for school supplies is in the works while complete families living in abject poverty are expected to pay taxes on essential items like food. Eat your pencil **** Riley. (oh, I see you already did.)
Not only that, but now the Alabama legislature wants to require people running for the elected office of judge to be approved by the Alabama State Bar first. Imagine that, the crooked lawyers are about to get their very own branch of government. The point in elections is that the people can choose whoever they want to serve, if they choose someone who isn't "qualified" according to usual standards, then they would be sending a message that there is a problem in government, and they are excercising their right to make serious changes. Why would the Alabama legislature disallow the right of government for the people, and by the people?
Got Moohamad? Click on the link for a classic Abyss cartoon by Mr. Jim Casey.
2006.03.01 (2005.08.31)
(Maybe Ever'thing Don't Change So Much In New Orleans After All)
While visiting family in New Orleans in 1991 I strolled through the French Quarter looking for interesting photos. In light of the tragic event now in progress there, I am presenting just a few still life photographs, both dramatic and comedic (in a macabre sorta of fashion), that seems to illustrate something of the spirit of New Orleans. The first photo shown here I believe to be of the same Walgreens that CBS News has featured in recent reports about looting. I guess in New Orleans ever'thing has changed quite a bit.
2006.02.22
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Flag Burning Video |
Go ahead; enjoy the flag burning video a few more times...
2006.02.15
But Is Cheney Using His Whittington...Or Less?
Go ahead; enjoy the Flag Burning Video one more time.
2006.02.08 -- Editorial
Back by popular demand, this column first appeared on October 4th of 2001, less than a month after the 911 event.
As violence has erupted by Muslims offended by cartoon depictions of Mohammed, this satirical piece seems apropos. In light of the Bush administrations condemnation of the free press which carried those depictions, a review of this column is a requisite exercise of my inherent and constitutionally recognized inalienable rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of press.
Bush's stance on this issue has been well illustrated in our own country as protestors have been carried away simply because they were not liked by the Bush administration, illegally squelching those inherent rights. Last weeks column below perfectly notes, and is the most recent example of illegal Bush extremism, when Cindy Sheehan was hauled away and arrested prior to the State of the Union Address.
2006.02.01 -- Editorial
If W Bush is concerned about American's financing terrorism...then stop importing oil...
2006.01.25
2006.01.18 -- Editorial
Trust the doctor to tell me when I'm sick and only have six months to live? That's so ludicrous that it begs the intelligence of a drunken dog.
2006.01.11 -- Editorial
The long term implications are almost incomprehensible, hence the much ballyhooed launch of Howard Stern on Sirius. Even though the event is shrouded on the second place service, and under the torrid incantations of Mr. Stern, the reality is that the event is really of Satellite radio in general.