A long long time.

I know that i have failed to write forever but I am resolute to begin at once and continue to ask the hard questions and give the simple answers.

But in the meantime I feel an update is due:

1. Moved to Virginia with my wife and dog.
2. Live in Fredericksburg, which I lovingly call Frednecksburg.
3. My wife works and I don't, sadly it is not a fun as it sounds.
4. Live with my in laws until our new home is built. Based on the speed of construction so far we will move in in May 2020. The same year I will be ready for children.
5. It rains here every fracking week!
6. It snows here starting in November and ends in April. NO JOKE! we had a White Easter thats why the Bunny survived Dick Cheney couldn't find Peter Cottontail in the snow!!!!!
7. Virginia is filled with patriotic flag waving people. Lots of Red, White and Blue even if it is the Confederate Flag.
8. Virginians like the majority of the southerners I have met run out everyday to see if the newspaper headline reads: (anyone of these would make them happy)
Yankees Surrender!
Former Slaveholders to receive reparations for lost Property
The South has Risen Again!
George W. Bush Reelected to a Third Term
9. People in Virginia do not know how to drive. If they spent a week in California or Arizona they would be dead on the highway.
10. People here talk about the "War of Northern" aggression as if happened yesterday and if they had been fighting they would have do this and that differently. Much like Republicans and the War on Terror.
11. The Bill of Rights in the South is made up of only a few lines from the First Amendment and the whole of the Second. The Parts about Religion and Guns, as long as its their religion and their guns.
12. I turned 25 years old while living in a retirement community.
13. I love my wife and do not tell her this enough.

Well their is my update.

From a Free Thinking Enemy of the State

Bush Administration Unveils Nuclear Weapons Complex Blueprint
By Ralph Vartabedian
The Los Angeles Times

Thursday 06 April 2006

The administration's proposal would modernize the nation's complex of laboratories and factories as well as produce new bombs.

The Bush administration on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the United States' decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.

The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation's massive system of laboratories and factories for nuclear bombs since the end of the Cold War.

Until now, the nation has depended on carefully maintaining aging bombs produced during the Cold War arms race, some several decades old. The administration, however, wants the capability to turn out 125 new nuclear bombs per year by 2022, as the Pentagon retires older bombs that it claims will no longer be reliable or safe.

Under the plan, all of the nation's plutonium would be consolidated into a single facility that could be more effectively and cheaply defended against possible terrorist attacks. The plan would remove the plutonium now kept at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by 2014, though transfers of the material could start sooner. In recent years, concern has sharply grown that Livermore, surrounded by residential neighborhoods, could not repel a terrorist attack.

But the administration blueprint is facing sharp criticism, both from those who say it does not move fast enough to consolidate plutonium stores and from those who say restarting bomb production will encourage aspiring nuclear powers across the globe to develop weapons.

The plan was outlined to Congress on Wednesday by Thomas D'Agostino, head of nuclear weapons programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration, a part of the Energy Department. While the weapons proposal would restore the capacity to make new bombs, D'Agostino said it is part of a larger effort to accelerate the dismantling of aging bombs left from the Cold War.

D'Agostino acknowledged in an interview that the Administration is walking a fine line by modernizing the U.S. nuclear weapons program while assuring other nations that it is not seeking a new arms race. The credibility of the argument rests on the U.S. intent to sharply reduce its overall inventory of weapons.

The administration is also moving quickly ahead with a new nuclear bomb program known as the "reliable replacement warhead," which began last year. Originally described as an effort to update existing weapons and make them inherently more reliable, it has been broadened and now includes the potential for new bomb designs. Weapons labs currently are engaged in a design competition.

The U.S. built its last nuclear weapon in 1989 and last tested a weapon underground in 1992. Since the Cold War, the U.S. has depended on massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons to deter attacks. By contrast, it would now increasingly rely on the capability to build future bombs for deterrence, D'Agostino said.

The blueprint calls for a modern complex to design a new nuclear bomb and have it ready in less than four years, allowing the nation to respond to changing military requirements. Such proposals in the past, such as for a nuclear bomb to attack underground bunkers, provoked concern that they undermine U.S. policy to stop nuclear proliferation.

The impetus for the plan is a growing recognition that efforts to maintain older nuclear bombs and keep up a large nuclear weapons industrial complex are technically and financially unsustainable. Last year, a task force led by San Diego physicist David Overskei recommended that the Energy Department consolidate the system of eight existing weapons complexes into a single site.

Overskei said Wednesday that the cost of security alone for the current infrastructure of plants over the next two decades is roughly $25 billion. Security costs have grown, because the Sept. 11 attacks have forced the Energy Department to assume terrorists could mount a larger and better armed strike force.

Peter Stockton, a former Energy Department security consultant and now an investigator for the Project on Government Oversight, criticized the plutonium consolidation plan in House testimony, saying it delays the difficult work too far into the future. Stockton added in an interview that the plutonium transfer at Livermore could be accomplished in a few months.

Until now, Livermore lab officials have sharply disagreed with the idea of removing plutonium from their site, saying it was essential to their work. On Wednesday, a lab spokesman said the issue is "far less controversial" and the "decision rests in Washington."

The Bush plan, described at a hearing of the strategic subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, would consolidate much of the weapons capacity, but not as completely or quickly as outside critics would like.

The overall plan would not be fully implemented until 2030. A critical part of restarting U.S. nuclear bomb production involves so-called plutonium pits, hollow spheres surrounded by high explosives. The pits start nuclear fission and trigger the nuclear fusion in a bomb.

The plutonium pits were built at the Energy Department's former Rocky Flats site near Denver, until the weapons plant was shut down in 1989 after it violated major environmental regulations.In recent years, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has attempted to start limited production of plutonium pits and hopes to build a certified pit that will enter the so-called "war reserve" next year. Los Alamos would be producing about 30 to 50 pits per year by 2012, but the Energy Department said that is not enough to sustain the U.S. nuclear deterrent.

In his testimony, D'Agostino estimated plutonium pits would last only 45 to 60 years, after which they would be too unreliable and might result in an explosion smaller than intended. Critics outside the government sharply dispute that conclusion, saying there is no evidence that pits degrade over time and that the nation can maintain an adequate nuclear deterrent by carefully maintaining its existing weapons.

From the Fairy King

The Theory of Cloyance:
The Effects of Earth’s Rotation on the Intellectually Challenged
For the past several years I have watched and learned how stupid people,
particularly those who have absolutely no business behind the wheel of a
motorized vehicle, tend to cut corners when turning to the east or the
west. This results in hitting curbs or cars in oncoming traffic lanes,
plus the occasional phonepole and pedestrian.

The reason? These people are trying to compensate for the rotation of
the planet when they turn. The result is a person too stupid to drive
but too ignorant to realize it. This is a naturally occurring effect on
stupid people, which I refer to as Cloyance: the effects of Earth’s
rotation on the intellectually challeneged.

Do you suffer from Cloyance?
The effects of Cloyance are fairly easy to spot. Symptoms include:
• Confusion when dealing with animate or inanimate objects.
• General stupidity when interacting with people.
• Overcompensation when turning east or west, resulting in collision
with inanimate or animate objects (such as curbs) or people.
• Sudden loss of gravity, resulting in spontaneously being thrown into
the air for no apparent reason… usually the direct result from an
unexpected impact with an inanimate or animate object or person,
whether real or imagined.
• Sudden overcompensation or undercompensation with the rotation of the
Earth… resulting with unexpected impacts with doors, walls and/or china
cabinets (particularly with the toe).
• Spontaneous combustion do to natural occurring phenomenon… such as
breathing.
• Spontaneous combustion when employing open flames near flammable
objects or materials… such as lighting a cigarette at a gas station
while pumping gas.
• Opening a door on a passenger airliner to smoke a cigarette while in
flight… at several thousand feet above sea level.
• Choking on pretzels…I mean come on, who the hell chokes on
pretzels???

In some field studies, participants have undercompensated in relation to
the Earth’s rotation and had to hold on the objects such as flagpoles
and cars to keep from being violently thrown into walls and other
inanimate or animate objects. In a lot of field studies, most
participants have been unable to form a single intelligent or coherent
thought.

Through careful analysis of this naturally occurring affect I have come
to the conclusion that all stupid people must die. Otherwise, we will
continue to experience stupid people driving on the wrong side of the
road, smashing into our homes, generally being morons (both in public
and in private), and with willfully choosing to become a republican or
a democrat.

Lobby your congressman today to put an end to stupid people.
Do your part in helping to make a brighter, more intelligent future for
our country and our world.

Truth not Lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill Moyer, 73, wears a "Bullsh*t Protector" flap over his ear while President George W. Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

- Sacred Ground -

By: Starhawk

When I was eight years old, the librarian at my elementary school handed me "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." The book took me into a magic world, where animals talked and nature was shimmering with enchantment. I devoured the book and avidly read the rest of the series, over and over again. Narnia was my comfort when I was sick and my escape when life was boring and dreary.
The books made me aware that something was lacking in my daily routine of school and Hebrew school, of TV cartoons on Saturday mornings and games of handball in the apartment garage. I longed to step into another world, one that would be wilder, more fluid, and more infused with wonder than the decidedly unmagical San Fernando valley where I lived.

That longing began my own spiritual search. I had a strong Jewish upbringing, and many years of Jewish education. I read Bible stories in the original Hebrew, and learned the wisdom of my ancestors encoded in the Talmud. But there was a different kind of Mystery I sensed in the Narnia books, something that was less about study and prayer and more entwined with nature and wildness, freedom and courage.

I know "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is seen as a Christian story, and certainly C.S. Lewis meant it that way. Sometime in my ninth or 10th reading of the book, I suddenly caught the echoes of Jesus’ story in Aslan’s sacrifice. Being Jewish, I was probably slow to grasp this, as the whole story of the crucifixion was alien territory to me. I was dismayed, and immediately felt guilty. Would Narnia have to go into the category of attractive but forbidden Christian things, like the beautiful carols I didn’t sing at school, or the Christmas trees I secretly desired? My mother would never have forbidden me to read the books any more than she would have stopped me from helping a friend to decorate a Christmas tree. It was my own sense of exclusion—that if the essence of this secret world was Christian, it could no longer be my secret world.

No, I swiftly decided; the Christian imagery was only one part of the book, after all, and subtle enough that possibly no one but I had made the connection. I could ignore it and continue loving the books and slipping between their covers into Narnia.

Grasping the book’s underlying symbolism didn’t make me a Christian. Perhaps it made me a writer: It was my first realization of the multiple layers of meaning that literature can convey. And "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" conveys more than Lewis may have intended.

Edmund is a child, who betrays his family out of just those childish impulses that we’ve all felt at some time: resentment, spite, the urge to get back at an older brother. He gives in to the worst side of his nature, with dreadful consequences that require a huge sacrifice to redeem.

Aslan chastens, forgives and protects him, as adults do for children. Like the God of my own upbringing, he functions as a protective father. And like Christ--but also like all the dying and reviving Gods of nature--he is resurrected.

But Lewis is a mystic, and Aslan is a deity who bursts out of the confines of any dogma. His sensibility is as Pagan as his theology is Christian. The book is steeped in the imagery of nature, and while the Christian mythology is covert, the Greek mythology is front and center, with fauns, naiads, dryads, and centaurs playing starring roles. God is a great lion you can romp with--what a powerful image of deity-in-nature!

What I miss most in Lewis’ books, now, is some powerful, positive woman figure. J.R.R. Tolkien gives us Galadriel, Arwen, and Eowyn who chafes against the restrictions of her gender. But for Lewis, positive visions of female power are limited to little girls and mothers.

And yet the White Witch is also, ironically, an icon of the White Goddess, the ancient, pre-Christian Goddess of Old Europe, in her death aspect. She is evil, but she is also powerful. And somehow, as a young girl reading these stories, I took away some hint that it is possible for a woman to be something radically different from a mom, a social worker, a teacher, a nurse, or any of the role models around me.

And it is Lucy, a young girl, who opens the door to Narnia and leads the others in, who holds to her own truth against opposition and betrayal. Although her brothers fight the physical battles, Lucy fights a moral battle with her own family, staunchly defending the truth of her experience in the face of their united disbelief, and Edmund’s outright lies.

I can look back from an adult perspective, now, and see all the ways in which Lewis’ vision was constricted by the attitudes of his time, his fear of women’s power, his unquestioned assumption that people of his own race and class were the only ones who really matter.

But what stays with me are the deeper lessons in the books, the values that still, today, transcend denominations and offer a needed antidote to a world of reality TV shows, cutthroat businesses, and attack-dog politics. The books teach us that courage, friendship, and loyalty are good, and sneaking, lying, sniveling, and betrayal are bad. That people need to take care of each other, stand with each other, and look out for those who are younger or weaker. That sacrifice is sometimes necessary to save what we love.

That book the librarian handed me, so long ago, set me on my own spiritual journey. Whenever I caught a whiff of Narnia, of a world behind the world, more fluid and magical than this, I pursued it. I read fantasy, mythology, history, anthropology. I went out into nature, listened to the wind in the trees and the waves on the shore. And ultimately, I found my way to the Goddess, the great cycle of birth, growth, death, and regeneration that moves through nature and human culture. For me, Aslan is one of her names.

Now, of course, I know that that magical world exists, right here. Animals do talk: All it takes is the will to listen and the ears to hear. All of life is constantly communicating, and magic is simply the training of the mind to be open to the conversation going on all around us. Nature does shimmer with enchantment, and her powerful but fragile life does require all of our courage and loyalty, and sometimes great sacrifice, to protect.

I’m looking forward to the movie. I hope it does justice to the book. And I hope it introduces a new generation of children to enchantment, and to those values of caring, courage, loyalty and truth that are necessary to preserve a world where true magic can flourish.