Fighting drug addicts in Seattle

(Tyler Oliveira) I confronted drug addicts in Seattle! *Attacked*

Kundalini Syndrome: Third Eye or Schizo?

The Third Eye, Schizophrenia, and Kundalini Syndrome: I wasn’t ready for that level of manifestation

The third eye is the sixth chakra

(Eye Opening) In this video, I share my personal experience of a spiritual emergency, a spiritual crisis, kundalini syndrome, or psychic trauma (however one wishes to label it) that happened not too long after I had a life-changing experience of my third eye suddenly opening.

• The seven main chakras along the spine are nexus points associated with different areas of life, the lower three being rooted to the earth in the body, the heart being the centered transitional point, and the upper three "spiritual" spinning energy wheels, which is the literal meaning of chakra. The lowest is survival (lum), the next is sexual (vum), the third is digestion and assimilation (rum); the fourth is the heart (yum), a green-hued area vibrating frequency; the fifth is the throat (hum) about expression and speaking our truth; the sixth is the most famous, the third eye (aum or om) between the brows; the seventh is silent at the crown of the head, full release.

I ended up hospitalized for a week, heavily medicated, and diagnosed with "schizophrenia" and "bipolar disorder" ["mania"]. I am neither of those.

Western medicine doesn't know how else to label what was happening to me. I was simply having a spiritual awakening and did not have any guidance, so I slipped into fear.

The intention of this video is to give some advice so that others do not have to go through what I did.

Quotes from and suggested readings:

• Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening (affiliate link)
• Living with Kundalini: Autobiography of Gopi Krishna (affiliate link)
• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crises (affiliate link).

Check out this life-changing third eye experience I had, with accompanying quotes from masters and spiritual texts:

• The Eye Opening: Enlightenment is Possible (affiliate link)
• Audiobook now available: audible.com/pd/B09WCJWD1S.

Suggested video

• A Third Eye Experience: How it Opened and Revealed the Love-Light in Everything • My Third Eye Opened: How it Happened and i...

#kundalini #spiritualawakening #spiritualquotes #newage #raiseyourvibration #enlightenment #eyeopening #thirdeye #ajnachakra

• Eye Opening, Nov. 1, 2023; Vanessa, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Israel ceasefire deal, explained: six weeks

Israeli historian says Zionism entering its ‘last phase’ | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Ultra-processed foods: Joe Rogan on Time

Joe Rogan UNLOADS on Time Magazine for pushing ultra processed foods

(The Jimmy Dore Show) In 2023 Time Magazine ran a comprehensive story detailing the massive health risks associated with consuming processed foods (soda, chips, sugar, beer, pizza, candy, "natural flavors," preservatives, flavorants... But then in July 2024 the magazine undermined all that great reporting by running a [paid for?] piece suggesting not only that processed foods are not all THAT bad, but also that denigrating these products is — get this — racist.

Joe Rogan learned to be a stand up comic?

Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss a recent segment on Joe Rogan’s podcast ripping into Time Magazine for running an apologist's report for advertisers who are knowingly poisoning the American public for profit with no concern for the health consequences.

Co-host Kurt Metzger on Twitter (kurtmetzger) and website (KurtMetzgerComedy.com) #TheJimmyDoreShow

• Joe Rogan, RFK Jr., Jimmy Dore, Kurt Metzger (TJDS, jimmydore.com), Sept. 1, 2024: Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Crisis at the US-Mexico border (alarmism)

Daily Show; Jimmy Dore; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quartelry

Jon Stewart on bi migrant fearmongering, Ronny Chieng on Trump's Black AI attempt

(The Daily Show) March 9, 2024: Jon Stewart unpacks the GOP’s migrant crime fearmongering and brings in genius comedienne Desi Lydic to brainstorm on how Democrats might convict Trump. Ronny Chieng recaps Super Tuesday, the U.S. sending trivial and pathetic amounts of humanitarian aid to Gaza while generously funding Israel's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity (no matter that the International Court of Justice is onto both countries and pursuing prosecutions against them, for which they will diplomatically cover one another as they have done for a long time), and Trump’s attempt to lure in Black voters with AI.

(Jimmy Dore) Our open border policy is intended to destroy America

Jimmy Dore RESPONDS to immigration stance hypocrisy accusation

Tweedle-dumb and Tweedle-Dem (Money Party)

Jimmy Dore, with more information, makes an about face and agrees that the border needs to be shut down because this crisis is being manufactured intentionally for some other purpose, such as what favors the ruling class of billionaire donors/movers and shakers behind our one-party system, with two wings and two wingnuts (Trump and Biden) as the faces of each side when they don't decide anything they are not allowed to decide. In this sense, Trump might be 1% better than Biden because he frustrates the ruling class by not opening new war fronts, whereas Biden never met a military engagement he didn't like and support, other than Vietnam when he was at risk of potentially being drafted, not that that was going to be allowed to happen. Would Trump accept a new war if it meant the powers that be promised to get him (s)elected him next time. We think so. He's really no substantive alternative to the current system just more of the same with more bluster, self-interest, and stupidity to boot. Vote neither of the two evils. Go Green with Jill Stein. Go Independent with Andrew D. Basiago. Go Libertarian with RFK Jr. Anything might be better than more of the same old same old. Because as a wise observer once said, "If you think the System is working, you must be working for the System." Down with the System. Reform it, realign it, or revolt against it. This is no way for a free country to keep deceiving its citizens and the world.

#DailyShow #JonStewart #RonnyChieng. Subscribe to The Daily Show: Follow online Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

Learning to Love Midlife with Chip Conley

Chip Conley (The Wisdom Well Blog), Listenable Book, Jan. 15, 2024; Rich Roll) Jan. 11, 2024; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tami Simon of Sounds True interviews Chip Conley on his new book on Buddhist Radio (Something's Happening in Honor of Roy of Hollywood Tuckman on KPFK.org, Thursday at midnight, Feb. 2, 2024, in the second hour. It's a great discussion (available free in the archive.kpfk.org for 90 days).

Aging mindset shift that adds years to life

(Rich Roll) The Rich Roll Podcast. Modern Elder Academy Founder Chip Conley joins Rich Roll to talk about redefining midlife, the concept of "age fluidity," the age curve of happiness, his personal experience with prostate cancer, and more. To read more about Chip and peruse the full show notes, go here👉🏾richroll806 ✌🏼🌱 - Rich

Learning to Love Midlife by Chip Conley

(Listenable Book) It's the "dark night of the ego." New York Times bestselling author and co-founder/CEO of The Modern Elder Academy inspires readers to embrace "midlife" as a time of joy in this “clear blueprint for creating the lives we want” (Gretchen Rubin).

👉📚 Buy on Amazon amzn.to/3U1dLkP 👉🎵Audible trial amzn.to/3Nhmv20

The midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes, but this long-derided life stage has an upside. What if we could reframe our thinking about the natural transition of midlife not as a crisis, but as a chrysalis — a time when something profound awakens in us as we shed our skin, spread our wings, and pollinate our wisdom to the world?

In Learning to Love Midlife, author Chip Conley offers an alternative narrative to the way we commonly think of our 40s, 50s, and 60s.

Drawing on the latest social science research, inspiring stories, and timeless wisdom, he reveals 12 reasons why life gets better with age. They include:

🔔SUBCRIBE for free so as to never miss a video https://bit.ly/3NiXzqY 👉🌏 Super Cheap VPN Plan NordVPN https://bitly.ws/335u8 #ChipConley #LearningtoLoveMidlife #ChipConley

Israel has two CIAs: "ISIS" and "Mossad"

J. Dore, K. Metzger (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

“Mossad could stage false flag attack on U.S.” – concludes official United States Army report one day before the 9-11 false flag staged "attack," like the curiosity of Building 7, which collapsed spontaneously hours later and fell conveniently into its own footprint without being hit by a plane or anything. It seems a smoldering fire brought it down unexpectedly late in the day, not that anyone noticed or made much of it except Dr. Judy Wood (drjudywood.com).

• Mossad: Israel's CIA
• Israeli Secret Intelligence Service: Israel's ISIS
• Shin Bet: Israel's Secret Intelligence Service, no, the Israel Security Agency, no, the General Secret Service, no, the Agency for Secret Stuff, but not ISIS

Solar power creates FREE water in Sahara

How solar-powered machines are creating free water in the Sahara Desert

(Green oasis) June 16, 2023. Discover how harnessing the limitless power of the sun and the abundant moisture in the air has paved the way for a sustainable solution to the water crisis.

The water is in the air, distributed all around

From condensation magic to ingenious storage and purification processes, witness firsthand how these machines are transforming the arid desert landscape into an oasis of hope.

Get ready to be amazed as we uncover the secrets behind this awe-inspiring technology that is changing lives and providing a lifeline to communities facing extreme water scarcity.

Greta Thunberg laughing and smiling (video)

Greta Thunberg, Russell Howard; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Time traveler or reborn with same features as may happen when someone dies suddenly? (WQ)

Greta brings youth fury to the Madrid climate summit | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

• COP 29: UN Climate Change Conference 2022
• The new Culture of Evil Think | Meer

Greta Thunberg as she's never been seen before: memes, beans, climate activism book

Is it climate alarmism to save the planet?

(Russell Howard) Nov. 5, 2022. From The Russell Howard Hour, in this extended interview, Russell sits down with one of the strangest voices in the fight to ease the climate crisis, Asperger syndrome (or autism spectrum) activist Greta Thunberg.

They talk about all things from beans to time travel to activism.

The Facts and the Solutions

And she has a new book, The Climate Book, a handbook by numerous authors for anyone who wants to know more about the climate crisis.

ABOUT: Welcome to the official Russell Howard channel. Subscribe. Follow the show on Twitter. Follow Russell on Twitter. Become a fan on the official Facebook page. Watch new episodes every Thursday at 10:00 pm on Sky1 #RussellHoward.

• Websites: Greta Thunberg - Facebook
• theyearofgreta.com (illustrated)
• Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg)/Twitter
• Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) Instagram
• Fridays for Future (climate movement)
• GretaThunberg.com(?)

Is this photo proof that Greta Thunberg is a time-traveler here to save the world? (artnet.com)

Greta Thunberg-inspried climate strike in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 2019  (MHM55)

It's time to join a CULT, but which one?

10 most disturbing cults that are still active

(WatchMojo.com) Oct. 12, 2022. Happy Halloween, spiritual seeker. These dangerous and disturbing religious cults may not be in the nightly news anymore, but they are still very real and active. For this list, Mojo looks at bizarre cults that are somehow still currently active. The countdown includes the American sex cult The Shri Bhagwan Rajneesh Movement (aka Osho), Twelve Tribes, NXIVM, and more! Which of these is the strangest? Leave a comment. #Cults #Crime #History

Missing Natives: "Somebody's Daughter" (film)

Rain, Somebody's Daughter, Jan. 17, 2020; Xochitl, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The crisis of missing Native American females

“After watching Somebody’s Daughter many thoughts fevered my brain for hours,” commented Wes Studi, the only Native American actor ever to receive an Oscar.

“The search for a solution begins with first knowing a crisis exists,” Studi continued. The purpose of Somebody’s Daughter is exactly that – to alert the public and lawmakers alike that the murdered and missing indigenous women (MMIW) crisis exists and demands urgent action.

"Somebody’s Daughter is both hauntingly beautiful and emotionally devastating and should be recognized as one of the most important documentaries made on not only MMIW, but also on Indian Country in the twenty-first century" (Native News Online).

For the first time on film, tribal leaders reveal the devastating role of drug cartels and gangs in this crisis. Somebody’s Daughter focuses on higher-profile MMIW cases, some of which were raised during the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs MMIW/MMIP hearing in December 2018.

With historical points of reference, the stories of victims and their families are told through the lens of a legal and jurisdictional maze, revealing the socioeconomic bonds that constrict Indian Country.

Directed by Rain. Executive producer: the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. Consultant: award-winning actor Georgina Lightning. Cinematography: Alex Robinson.

• Website: somebodysdaughter-mmiw.com
• Facebook.com/Somebodys-Daughter-MMIW
• Request a screening for a community, organization, or film festival at request@somebodysdaughter-mmiw.com

Water Consciousness (video)

Alicia Murphy (aliciamurphymusic.com/water); Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Information on how to improve our behavior to help protect Earth's water. Highly recommended book. It has a lot to teach (instagram.com/aliciamurphymusic)

(LastWeekTonight with John Oliver, March 2, 2015) America’s crumbling "infrastructure": It’s not a sexy problem, it's a scary one. This is amazing. John Oliver covers the ins and outs of infrastructure. Yes, a million times, yes! I highly recommend watching the entire video. More

.

Water is essential to all existence on our planet

And it is part of a complex and extensive human-made system

Sister Se and Alicia Murphy

Growing up in Los Angeles, I never really thought twice about water. It was always there when I wanted it -- bottled, in the sink, in the yard.

I didn’t know the water I drank was traveling thousands of miles to get to me or even that there was a finite amount of it.

It took a journey all the way to Kenya, Africa for me to understand what water scarcity is and how it feels to have a genuine reverence for this life source.

Pure thinking vibrates water well = crystals

I carried my love for water to University of California at Davis to study it, and in June 2013 I graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Hydrology.

I have interned for various conservation agencies and organizations like Delta Stewardship Council, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, and Tidal Influence.

 

Now I am back in Los Angeles working as a environmental sampling technician, a water awareness advocate, and a musician. More

The writing is on the wall, Alicia: "Water is life" (aliciamurphymusic.com)

 
Thoughts on the Santa Barbara oil spill
Sometimes "bad" and "good" feel really relative [conditional]. But not now, not with this. This is bad, and it will always be bad. I firmly believe that we can develop and implement better forms of energy generation and energy storage. I do not believe that oil will always be Number 1. More

Reverse osmosis can’t reverse our choices

Desalination is often hailed as the savior of the California water crisis. Many people want to know what desalination is all about. Many people think that it is the obvious solution. I think desalination stations warrant a careful discussion because there are so many factors involved that shape their costs and benefits. Here are the… More

The story of bottled water

Bottled water is still as much of an as issue now as it was five years ago. It's unfortunate, but it's true. This video does a good job of identifying the differences and similarities between tap water and bottled water. It also… More

Titles matter
The Los Angeles Times recently posted an op-ed featuring nine water experts’ opinions on ways to save water. The article is titled “Shorter Showers? Nine more ways the State has to change its ways.” More

When the levy breaks and dam bursts, there goes the city. Then the real drought begins.

US mostly kills innocents with DRONES (video)

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org)

U.S. military-industrial complex kills with drones and sells them to the UAE (latimes.com)

United Nations Panel Slams U.S. Record on Police Brutality, Torture, Child Migrants & Guantánamo

As demonstrations and protests continue over the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the United States is facing pressure internationally over its failure to put a halt to flagrant police brutality. In a new report, the United Nations Committee Against Torture expresses deep concern over the "frequent and recurrent police shootings or fatal pursuits of unarmed black individuals." The Committee also criticizes a number of other U.S. practices on torture and imprisonment, Guantánamo Bay, and the custody of migrants including children in "prison-like detention facilities." Democracy Now! discusses the report’s findings with Dr. Jens Modvig, member of the Committee against Torture and one of two rapporteurs for its report.
 

A "Precise" U.S. Drone War? Report Says 28 Unidentified Victims Killed for Every 1 Target Murdered

Drone Warfare (codepink)

A new report finds U.S. drone strikes kill 28 unidentified people for every intended target. While the Obama administration has claimed its drone strikes are precise, the group Reprieve found that strikes targeting 41 people in Yemen and Pakistan have killed more than 1,000 unnamed people. In its attempts to kill al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri alone, the CIA killed 76 children and 29 adults; Al-Zawahiri remains alive. DN! is joined by Jennifer Gibson, staff attorney at Reprieve and author of the new report, "You Never Die Twice: Multiple Kills in the U.S. Drone Program."

Why do we, the USA, kill so many innocent civilians? It's profitable to use drones whatever it takes. Just ask Droney (Tom Tomorrow/thismodernworld.com).

  

Peace Activist Sentenced for Protesting at Drone Base Near Syracuse, NY

A longtime peace activist was sentenced today to one year conditional discharge for demonstrating outside the gates of New York’s Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, which is used to remotely pilot U.S. drone attacks. Mark Colville faced up to two years in jail stemming from his arrest last December. More than 100 people have been arrested over the past five years as part of nonviolent campaign organized by the Upstate Drone Coalition. Hours before he learns his fate, Colville joins DN! to discuss his activism and why he opposes the U.S. drone war. [Editor’s Note: this summary has been updated to reflect today’s sentencing, which occurred after the broadcast.] 

Father of Missing Mexican Student Speaks Out as U.S. Protesters Stage Day of Action Against Drug War

Mexican flag flutters during Cinco de Mayo liberation festivities (AP/huffingtonpost.com).

.

Protests at federal buildings in at least 43 U.S. cities today will call for halting American aid to military and police forces in Mexico until human rights abuses are addressed. Organizers in the United States are working with the grassroots movement in Mexico triggered by the disappearance of 43 students in September. Protesters are using the hashtag #UStired2 -- the English-language counterpart to the hashtag #YaMeCansé, a campaign in Mexico to protest state violence and human rights abuses. U.S. military and security aid to Mexico totals more than $3 billion since 2008. DN! is joined by two guests, Clemente Rodriguez, whose 19-year-old son Cristian Alfonso Rodriguez is one of the 43 missing students, and Roberto Lovato, a writer and visiting scholar at the U.C. Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research, and one of the organizers behind the #UStired2 initiative.

Ecuadorean Authorities Seize Climate Caravan Bus Carrying Activists Opposed to Drilling in Yasuni

A caravan of environmental activists traveling to the United Nations climate summit in Lima, Peru, has been stopped by authorities in Ecuador and had their bus seized. Activists with the group Yasunidos departed from Quito on Monday to denounce the extraction of oil from Yasuni National Park, an area of the Amazon renowned for its biological diversity. The group says they were subjected to seven or eight stops in the first 24 hours of their trip, and ultimately stranded by the side of a highway last night, when authorities seized their bus. DN! goes to Cuenca, Ecuador, where they’re joined by two guests, Elena Gálvez, coordinator of the climate caravan and a member of Yasunidos, a group that opposes oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, and Ariel Goodman, a journalist traveling with the caravan. More

911: The War Presidents' Wars on Mesopotamia

I. Rony, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Mail.com/news/world Sight: America's Middle East war "duties"

U.S. makes war on Middle East to gain full-spectrum dominance. But what about PR? Oh, show a burial: Maj. Xavier Miller, N.M. Nat'l Guard, in beret, leads burial of Sfc. Ken W. Westbrook at the veterans' section of the Shiprock, N.M. Community Cemetery. He was wounded to death on Sept. 8, 2009 when natives insurgents fought back in Ganjigal Valley, Afghanistan, while he was busy invading their country (AP).

Happy 13th 9/11 Anniv! Hey, guess what? Another war! You're welcome! (Johnathan Hobin)

.

US terror=pro-war propaganda

Pres. B.S. Obama echoed G.W. Bush's "coalition of the willing" invading Iraq and eventually killing more than a million people to promote "American interests" (read oil, Israel, and strategic influence of the Middle East).

 

The CIA's own Bush I, as President 41, was responsible for killing one million children with a devastating blockade and U.S. subterfuge.

I said, Stand up to your bosses, tell them no!

Of course, the USA is not guilty of anything because those dictators, like my little brother when I punch him, he's making me punch him. I don't want to punch him, but he forces me to. Just ask my mom. And when I beat him, it's because he had the audacity to do something, anything, to resist my punch. Here is how it works:
 

Five-Point War Plan

• 

  "War is Peace" (1984)

  (1) Set up and fund a dictator.
• (2) Act outraged by his outrages, which you help him commit (say, by giving him poison gas he then uses on a restive province of foreigners technically in a part of his own country).
• (3) Claim a "coalition" (like me and my other brothers) that you are joining even when everyone can see you are the kingpin with hangers on.
• (4) Show some "shock and awe" to expend as many munitions as will profit the war-profiteers, but don't call them "profiteers," go with "arms, weapons, defense contractors."
• (5) Bomb them to the Stone Age in the name of policing the world as part of a vague concept, such as White Man's Burden (which will have a very ironic twist as you get a half Black man to announce it).

Mesopotamia (next to the USA/CIA's Israel at left) closer to future target of Iran (detail)

 

If only I could speak as well as Barry.

(6)? No 6, no exit strategy. Who needs one? When you destroy Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Beast from the East, Islamic State (a stand-in for the Islam our Western Crusaders attacked. Oh, and don't forget the PRETEXT! The CIA/MIC/NSA/FBI/NSC must have said to the Military-Industrial Complex at their general meeting in Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, Bohemian Grove, or wherever else they meet nowadays, "We're going to have even progressives and bleeding heart liberals demanding blood and violent vegeance with these beheadings!" and the old white men smoking along with the others must have scoffed.

It's not our crimes, it's those finks!

PysOps PR is the military's best friend, and you're going to need it to fan the fires of racist hatred, to get the home crowd cheering for industrial-level WAR, and to avoid being dragged to the Hague's International Court for violations of international law, crimes against humanity, violations of the Geneva Convention, and assorted war crimes.

[If detonating and collapsing two buildings in your business capital won't work again, topple two "Americans" (US citizens) in vivid and gory detail. People always take the personal much more personally than some spectacular gore.]

We're on the same team behind the scenes

[Welcome to the club, Barry O! You're one of us now, the Old Boys' Network, the War President with a Nobel Peace Prize in his pocket. At least when you sold us out, you got something nice for yourself. That's good.]

 

Thirteen years after the September 11 terror [display, filmed in exquisite detail by operatives from Israel who knew the exact time it was planned and had to be crossing the street with the camera facing up to catch the perfect angle of a direct hit for an epic shot used to "prove" it was a spontaneous attack, followed by CGI enhancements to further prove it happened the way we said it happened], this was supposed to be a season of relief.

Change? No we can't. Bush made making war too easy: executive decree for Democrats.

 

It's true! I taught'im well. And he's a Dem

Iraq [was supposed to be] managing on its own [pulling itself up by the footstraps from the Stone Age we bombed it backed to with illegal strikes on civilian infrastructure like water, sanitation, and any kind of hygiene concerns] and most U.S. [ground] troops finally ending their combat duty in [innocent] Afghanistan.

 

Obama's horns make him look like antichrist

Instead, Americans are [cheering, demanding, growling for revenge just as planned by the people at the Company who plan such things by aiding and abetting "terrorists" to choreograph and document their war crimes so we will have a reason for committing our war crimes then] bracing for another upsurge of military engagement.

I can't believe this Black guy beats Bushes

[Isn't that a nice way of saying "waging war without declaring your internationally illegal aggression"? It's based on extending the definition of "defending America" to defending "American interests" then defining "interests" any way you want to.]

[This will take place] in a region where one [U.S.-sponsored] war blurs into another [the way our wars using our creation in Israel as proxy blur into endless conflict in that redheaded stepchild we call that restless Middle East, which just can't behave no matter how much we beat it].

Sleep, princess, sleep.

Across the world, a generation has now grown up amid this continuous conflict, and there's no end in sight.

[Congress. Congress? Congress could intercourse itself. What does it think it is, a moderating force, a check, a balance, a body with the power to "declare" war? The Bush Dynasty doctrine and its attendant laws means, "I don't need no stinking declaration," vote, or nothing!]

[Preemptive, preemptive, that's the word. And, anyway, my coalition says I'm not going at it alone. ISIS = Al Qaeda?]

He gets to capitalize on my political capital?

Close enough! I've got Congress's authorization in my pocket. If Col. Colin Powell didn't get in trouble for war powers abuses -- and if Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, and that other guy -- are still walking around freely, who's going to do anything about it?]

"The Cold War took 45 years," said Elliott Abrams, a longtime diplomat who was top Middle East adviser to President George W. Bush. "It's certainly plausible that this could be the same. ... It's harder to see how this ends." [Happy 13th 9/11 Anniversary!] More

• Beat and shoot your girlfriend to death? Cool. Sports star Oscar Pistorious found innocent. He'll be given back his gun and sent home.