Escape the Okie Zone

Former President George W. Bush lied to FBI Director Robert Mueller in the Oval Office to protect White House programs that secretly eavesdropped on Americans, according to an upcoming book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tim Weiner.


In "Enemies," the former New York Times reporter reveals the extent of the bureau's long war against terrorists, spies and anyone considered subversive, including American presidents. Among its explosive claims, Weiner reports that the FBI was penetrated by agents working for China, Russia, Cuba and al-Qaeda and that the bureau gathered evidence that was sufficient to impeach Presidents Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan

Both men had sworn upon taking office to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Only one still held to his oath.


"The president pleaded ignorance of the law and the facts. He said he hadn't known there had been legal problems with Stellar Wind. He said he hadn't known [Attorney General John] Ashcroft had been in the hospital. He said he hadn't known Mueller and (acting Attorney General James) Comey had been blowing the whistle. He was almost surely deceiving the director, and deliberately ...

"Bush promised to put the programs on a legal footing. This did not happen overnight. It took years. But based on the president's promise, Mueller and his allies backed down from their threats to resign. Bush kept the secret for twenty more months."



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/bush-lied-to-fbi-director_n_1237262.html
 

still hoping to play a good game of chess with Max since it's been raining here for almost a fortnight (that's 2 weeks in Aussie lingo)
all the debris such as lumber, sticks, etc, have been coming down the rivers and they end up on our beaches. I'll take some pictures...
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I told you that a revolution was coming to the US as it has in Arab Spring. Well it finally reached here, but we do not really have freedom of the press as we used to think we did. The government is trying to restrict our freedoms as the 1% grow stronger. They have been going after journalist in our occupy movement, which rates our freedom of the press at about the rate of some 3rd world countries. sad

"But the U.S. tumbled almost as far as Bahrain did in the wake of the repeated crackdowns on journalists covering Occupy movements. Reporters Without Borders was explicit in its summary of its report, saying that "the United States (47th) also owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalist covering Occupy Wall Street protests."

The treatment of journalists by police was well documented throughout 2011. Reporters were beaten, arrested and prevented from covering police action against Occupy protesters. Tensions heightened so much that the New York Police Department had to meet with journalists and remind its officers not to mistreat them
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Yesterday was Australia Day. It's a chance for all Aussies to start drinking beer and have barbecues all day.

it would be great to have a good game of chess and a smoke on my pipe on this rainy day!

I had the barbecue out on the front lawn in spite of the mean looks from the bullys upstairs. It sure was nice to have a respite from all the rain. It's back to rain again. There has been a lot of flooding here on the coast.
Timber is floating down the rivers and our beaches are now flooded with lumber and debris!

rainy days sure help you apreciate it more when its sunny!


 "I shall be telling this with a sigh


Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.
"...Robert Frost
 
I took this pathway, that nobody expected me to take, and I would not trade this pathway for any other.
I had an herbal epipheny chatting with a new good friend, Mike, from England. Taking the pathway or road that nobody else took has helped me see      what is wonderful in life!

let's rock and roll, baby, yeah!

a favorite thing to do for Aussie after work, weed, wanking and wine!

Australia Day is coming up Thursday and we are trying to stock up on beer!


 

now?  fake nose job for fake news  so fox just uses her to give her american audience a hand job? does fake news believe she's pretty enough or fake enough to help her male audience to be distracted enough to believe her?

According to plastic surgeon Dr. John Di Saia, Megyn Kelly, an up and coming Fox commentator who did a piece for GQ with some pretty sexy images (Dec 2010.), shows that she’s likely had some work done on her breasts and possibly a nose job. She most likely enhanced her look with breast implants and refined her nose with rhinoplasty."

http://www.mydochub.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/15/megyn-kelly-plastic-surgery-and-baby-girl-yardley-evans/

"I had a very strong inclination that her nose was as fake as the "news" that she delivers. so I looked it up and found out that she was a very likely candidate. Most women show how obvious the plastic surgery is and usually doesn't compliment their looks. It's these type of women that are basically plastic inside and out.
watch this hilarious utube video of her...talk about how vain these gox anchors are!http://www.dlisted.com/node/28027

finally won the handicap surf swim race... I guess, 4:15 was obviously the best handicap to win the race!  I passed the others with lower handicap and won with 37 seconds between me and the younger bloke who started with 2 minute handicap!
then later I was smashed in the finals of this Oceans 38 swim meet up at Broadbeach!
I was happy to finish and almost came in 2nd last...
the early waves treated as poorly as I had been with these 10 to 15ft waves staring at me with me totally out of breath...
but I made it as I push up for air after the undertow sucks me backwards...

another cool day on the beach with my family

I had one of the best days with my family today...
we all woke up early, eager to get outside and seize the day
we sat down briefly on the chairs under the downstairs patio
while sipping coffee and oatmeal..
I say good morning to the not so friendly neighbors
who perhaps still harbor a grudge
and don't like to see us playing
on the communal yard that unfortunately might distract them from the gorgeous view...
we then proceeded down to the beach where I taught my honey to relax in the deeper ocean
while I had her arms on my shoulders and swam elementary double arm backstroke
at that moment I was my honey's lifesaver!
to reassure that the rip in the calmer waters would not take her
then a local couple up Ocean street sat down next to us
and then angela was taught by sally some yoga

later I went cycling with my son in our baby carriage with pillows

hurry up, daddy! its morning time!

just need a little sun before I go surfin', mate!

yep, I'm allright Jack!

what a nice view for a chair!

I've fallen and I can't get up!

Thanks for the wonderful pic of Buffy, Eric and LA! I wish your family a wonderful year, too!
She looks so adorable!



looking for a chair...


and the new day arrives, seeing the two chairs sitting in the vegetation,
but it's a beautiful day, and they don't bother me as much,
so  check out the waves sitting on my green chair that was an object of last night's chair throwing contest
I run down to the sea
 and feel the cool blue salt water as I duck dive to the last wave that crashes down on the sand bank...I race and face it head on with no fear
and dive for the bottom where you can grab the sand..
and pull myself away from the bullshit of Parthenon Place...

can you find the chair in the dune vegetation?

I took a very strong wave and I was standing up, so I waited thinking that if I wait long enough(2 minutes)
I'll come in last so my handicap wouldn't decrease in time for the next race...
unfortunately, I found out Cale started too early so was moved to 5th and the fast bloke behind him was not counted , since they didn't know his ability...
I could have easily beaten the first place finisher who counted, Grant, since I waited in the shallow water while he had to come out sprinting out of the water 50 meters down the beach.. oh well,
but at least I finally know that I can win this challenging race in the next week or two, since I have just the right handicap to do it!

I weigh my tactics
I see the way the rip is going
and I go with the flow
duck diving underneath
and I know that I'm making distance past the biggest waves (in life)
before taking the winning wave of my life
with the energy knowing that I can easily outsprint my opponents to the finish line...

I went to bed early tonight after going through the trauma of shopping with my wonderful  family...
and so I don't get the sympathy of those that are having to work for a living..
I was just figuring everything was going great with the neighbors of our lovely Parthenon apts..
 wreaking havoc with very loud parties overnight and even blokes sleeping on the roof (that should be a balcony)
"Hi"
 and find ourselves engaging in conversation with someone that doesn't want to talk to us..
so will it be the same ole same ole
or will eventually the folks that don't like us
 leave??
well, it's happened in the past and it will continue to happen
as people come and go,,,
but some are the keepers who accept us for who we are
and we don't have to change for them
 sometimes  people that like us will  serendipitously move in next door...and actually are happy to see us
so what can I do but just wave hello or don't even acknowledge them as we run by them
avoiding the angry stares of those 2 green eyed sisters
eager to sprint into our ocean beckoning us each morning...and pray that a shark doesnt eat us...
and taste the clear salt water in our mouth and look through the crystal blue sea
with the wonderful chance that a beautiful dolphin will swim by us with a smile
as she dives for brekkie..

My club is entering me in the open comptetion tube race and surf swim race. I will be competing against some the best  and youngest open comptetitors in Australia...perhaps even Ky Hurst, who has been the best for a decade!
Im not afraid to finish last! I'll get the loud ovation last finishers always get!

happy feet!

happy wife, happy family,,happy life.... no strife

It's cool having the spirit of xmas with other gold coasters!

for my wife to take down to our perch,


so she  sits on our little chair at the edge of the dune vegetation (grass) overlooking the beach..
(she'll be burned again, for not wearing her hat)\and frolics in the little pools or rivers of the rip during low tide...
while I look after colin
 he watches an aircraft movie about going back in time to       to just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, for about the 100 th time... he watches it about 3x a day...he's obsessed with jet fighters...
so I have to watch Colin and delay my morning swim...because "happy wife, happy life"

last evening, I had so many epiphanies, wishing I had a tape  recorder to ell u all of them...telling English Mike from downstairs, while sitting on our favorite perches on the edge of the dunes...of my dreams and wishes coming to fruition...
 cramped people in overcrowded cities
might give their left testacle for this lifestyle...
 folks here have this lifestyle/play as their priority
and their various careers most often come second
to their mutual love...so people

my son has just run down to see Mama!
and has left his movie back in time
putting that period of his movie on pause
and I walk down the stairs to make a
mental image of this beautiful connection
and seeing he can chose to inherit this
and be a fair dinkum Aussie born mate of this wonderful southern land.!
I'll bring down our beach tent and we'll camp out
withstanding the 30-40km winds from offshore..

time for a nap, from all this stress occupying the beach!

this movement has already happened with at least 90 percent of the people...maybe 99%/...
deciding to have your lifestyle as an intimate relationship with the majestic sea...
beckoning her lovers every gorgeous morning that she feels like having your company...
the lifestyle determines your career...

as usual, I did a bunch of writing and it was erased frm this damn computer!
I was telling you that we have a low carbon imprint lifestyle, with the TV and car not working... I could get into why the car isn't working, but maybe that's a good thing with the agro drivers here on the coast... so now I have to get all the groceries in my baby buggy hooked ingeniously on my bike.. Colin looks forward to going for rides with me and I get more exercise, so I've lost 4kilos!
I only have 11 more to go to get to fighting weight where I'll be on the younger side of my new age group for surf swimming competition with the lifeguards!
We go to be early , now without TV and Colin wakes us up soon after dawn, often as early as 5 am...so that is the best time to check out the calm Pacific in our backyard..and I won't miss out the lifeguard workout 200 meters up the beach at 6!
so what can I say, but happy days are here again...
and folks actually came to my birthday party on our lawn, without the hostile angry neighbors upset at us for having the cheeseburgers in paradise barbecue on the lawn overlooking the beach!
They have left...just like the angry hostile republicans will soon leave congress, and Obama will be able to his job, when they are gone!

PARTY FOR MY BIRTHDAY! Thursday..


logic... could life be any better?
but it might be harder to find anybody with a better lifestyle than us...
swimming in our backyard several times a day, with a chat with Stu and the lifeguards..
being with other who share this love for the sea
in what feels like a small town/community by the beach seperated by the Gold Coast 4 lane highway
so much to do all within a quarter/kilometer of our home...
and then training for our proficienies this saturday
with the English contigent of our club...
...moonlight beckoning me
and now rain comes across the sea..

another gorgeous day...
it's good that Dad's big TV went into a coma
so now I go to bed of about hrs earlier
each night
and waking up at 5am after the
sun has been streaming in for half an hour
I thought about LA's "cool change"  music
with the dolphins, and then I had my closest alien encounter with a dolphin
and wondered if he/she was smiling at me
while doing her/his fishing..
last night the almost full moon was so mesmerizing that I didn't want to go to bed
so I had to go outside away from the building and lamp lights
to absorb this moment of the moon shimmering above the clouds that were having fireworks
of lightning before the audience's eyes...

weekends are the busiest and most fun time of the week... culminating on sunday with the handicap surf swim race...putting on the brakes , so my handicap won't increase until I'm in shape...

ive been feeling better losing about 3 kilos in body fat, but increased muscle weight, seeing what my old body and lungs can handle!
..
losing the TV reception was the best part of our relationship..
now we don't fight over the volume and I have to let go of my obsession
with the news and how the world is    faling apart!
now, we are all asleep before 9
and I was awake before the rest of the family
when the ocean was still
and I had my most intimate
meeting with my dolphin
only about a meter away from me
and i wonder at first in admiration of such b eatuty and intelligence
swimming right beside me in the crystal clear water
and then wonder if it was attracted to the reflection of new waterproof watch!

then later I did the  timed swim with stu
so I can be proficient to continue lifesaving with the club and competing
after losing my extra american luggage!

my family  liked ur song, LA!

"it's a cool change!"

colin sat on my lap and watched it twice with me..

(awe of the santa monica pier)

it was very windy day with a strong southerly flow...


enough that I would see if i could catch my wife and child walking down towards Broad Beach..






(airport lax xmas tree)


it was a stormy and cloudy enough day to actually think of that moment when Dr. Zhivago runs after his family in the snowstorm to find out that they were peasants just trying to survive in the blizzard!

i thought they might have walked inland to check out the really cool multimillion dollar park, designed for education and athletics for young children...

a new place with sand the beginnings of sand castles... was started,,,

I swam and floated about a km before thinking where they might be...

( wondering if Stu was watching me float by in my mermaid club shirt and rip curl hat)

and then gradually walked back checking out the palaces

that might compose one floor of these 10 story residential apartments...

one of these gorgeous laps of luxury would be up for auction in this very down market....

and then while walking back to our humble abode (with a nice view)

i chatted with surf club mates

about the politics and the group think that might occur

among volunteers who should want to help

but still have a very strong motive for power...

for what was once an all male club...

this club started after the war, and the whole organization of surf life saving

has permeated and completely soaked into the coastal culture of greater Oz!

but even in something so utopian altruistic as the desire to help save lives in need of rescuing

but we cannot get away from that evil quest for power and control...

or even the makings of a Lady Macbeth
while macbeth stands back and gives the control to his lady...

the queen of the metaphoric chess game most call surflifesaving .....
a pawn in the game who has reached her 8th rank
and become queen/matriarch of her domain

wow!.. I could get carried away that thought and some might wonder who that queen could be in their club??

when perhaps they take a chance look at the blog

that fraternizes and utopianized this culture!

everywhere you go u can see microcosms of the quest for power in our various world governments..

and perhaps if we decide that the tables where we all be eventually invited to sit and discuss

will be round...

without the sharp corners that hurt when trying to make your way around your corner of the conversation...

we are in a change in our club government perhaps similar to the way other governments have taken over in the past...
but here in the closest place to living in a utopia that ive encountered, we had a nice day getting some Baramundi Monday specials at the surf clubs... with my family , ... trying to let go of the anger when our darling son peed on our newly put in bedroom carpet!... I think it was a lot easier to toilet train Buffy!