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Well Dr. Wifey has scored a nice job at Johns Hopkins, so we are moving out of cow country and down to Baltimore. All though every move is stressful, even when you move around like as often as a gypsy, we have great hope that the new environs will have a lot to offer. We may even actually break out of our cocoons and leave the house! Being a great fan of rust and the decay of civilization, I’m sure Baltimore will provide a lot of images to base some prints off. We had seriously looked into moving back to Massachusetts, but the high cost of living was a real challenge. Never-the-less, I will not turn into a Ravens fan but remain faithful to the Pats even if they slide down the standings now that there surveillance system has been shutdown. My only regret in moving is that I won’t have the opportunity to vote to throw Senator Specter out of office. Not just because he is focused on the NFL spy-gate, but that he seems to think it is more important than investigating and holding hearings on the government’s domestic spying!

Although he isn’t my pick for prez. I would like to give a hearty hand clap to Senator Christopher Dodd for showing some leadership and spine by threatening to filibuster the latest FISA bill which would have given the telecom industry retro-active immunity for helping Curious George & Co. with listening in on our phone calls without a warrant. Maybe Obama or Edwards could pick him for VP, or at least AG.

“Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquistion!” How easily we forget though. Do Senators Schumer and Feinstein understand that during the Spanish Inquisition both Jews as well as Muslims were waterboarded? That means the Senators would have been considered targets of the Church, who only wanted to save their souls, and make sure their conversions were pure. But today they signaled that they would vote for an Attorney General who can’t say that this action is torture. Well I hope Mukasey can tell the difference between cremation when it is done to a dead body rather than a live one, without having some briefing from the Prophet in Chief.

Addendum to last post:

In celebration of Fredo Gonzales stepping down as Big Brother, I post this picture from the past. The special history behind this picture was that this dilapidated facade was just beyond the fence of the Charleston, S. C. Naval Yard. For those that are not in the know, this is the base that holds the Naval Brig, which for a time it turns out held Jose Padilla. Now I walked up in plain site to photograph this building, frankly it is visable from much of that street and I could have taken it from many more concealed locations. But no, I was about a hundred yards from the main enterance, and snapped away at this beautiful shell. The security guard came from his entrance post screaming that I should stop or be arrested. I tried to tell him, I was just an artist, but he was pretty irate. Well as a fair well gift to our outgoing Attorney General, I just want to apologize for my endangering National Security. Bad Artist! No rights for you!

You ever get the feeling that our Nation has been turned inside out. Not the everyday life – but what we stand for in this world. We of Alternative America need to rally and protect our ideals from the jingoistic bastards who are trashing the Constitution. Ever notice that THEY get upset about symbolic burnings of the flag – well no one ever symbolically burns the Constitution. The present administration unfortunately is actually destroying our most precious document!