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Monday, September 14, 2009

Black Sun Rebirth

gbeck
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/12/beck_ocd/index.html?source=newsletterGlenn

Beck -- germophobe

Today is a big day for Glenn Beck. Back in March, he announced the initiation of the “9/12 Project,” an effort to return the country to how he remembers it the day after the terrorist attacks. Now it's 9/12.

why his Fox News show opened today with an icon of a snake wrapping itself around the Capitol. “There is a plague,” he says. “There is a sickness, there is a disease, there is a cancer in our nation’s Capitol.” Beck even shows us a simulation of a swine flu epidemic to show that corruption can spread like a disease. Sounds pretty nasty.

The sum total of examples Beck offers of this cancerous plague of corruption fever are a throwaway reference to Charlie Rangel, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Duke Cunningham, Bill Jefferson and Fannie Mae.

HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BLOOD POISONING, STUPID

(“Poison” – references in Buchanan, Rich)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090928/klein
The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here
Lookout
By Naomi Klein

For more than a year, Israeli diplomats have been talking openly about their new strategy to counter growing global anger at Israel's defiance of international law. It's no longer enough, they argue, just to invoke Sderot every time someone raises Gaza. The task is also to change the subject to more pleasant topics: film, arts, gay rights--things that underline commonalities between Israel and places like Paris, New York and Toronto. After the Gaza attack, as the protests rose, this strategy went into high gear. "We will send well-known novelists and writers overseas, theater companies, exhibits," Arye Mekel, deputy director-general for cultural affairs for Israel's Foreign Ministry, told the New York Times. "This way, you show Israel's prettier face, so we are not thought of purely in the context of war." And hip, cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, which has been celebrating its centennial with Israeli-sponsored "beach parties" in New York, Vienna and Copenhagen all summer long, is the best ambassador of all.

http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Patrick%20J.%20Buchanan
Is America Coming Apart?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
09/11/2009

Flying home from London, where the subject of formal debate on the 70th anniversary of World War II had been whether Winston Churchill was a liability or asset to the Free World, one arrives in the middle of a far more acrimonious national debate right here in the United States.
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This is PJB: threading today’s events in WWII political terms. Almost unrivalled in ability for spontaneous historical matching.

On Wilson’s ‘primal scream’:

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Obama's actual speech proved about as controversial as a Nancy Reagan appeal to eighth-graders to "Just say no!" to drugs.

Yet, the episode reveals the poisoned character of our politics.

(Point: it wasn’t the text that elicited the scream – it was the totality of the situation: Circular Congessional well => font => symbolic womb-surround. Joe Wilcox is there as delegate South Carolinian, participating in the most momentous event of the new legislative session on 09.09.09 after a stormy, very divisive political year, turned especially sour since August. The President speaking => poisonous placenta corrupting fetal sibling blood

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If a married couple disagreed as broadly and deeply as Americans do on such basic issues, they would have divorced and gone their separate ways long ago. What is it that still holds us together?

Ans,: language (n Fichte’s sense of the German – formal container of content of communication.
politics: the discourse of Conjunction of Opposites (‘each side hgets its say” => the Hegelian Dialectic (pop)
tbc
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13rich.html?_r=1
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Obama’s Squandered Summer
By FRANK RICH
Published: September 12, 2009

THE day before he gave his latest brilliant speech, Barack Obama repeated a well-worn mantra to a television interviewer: “My job is not to be distracted by the 24-hour news cycle.” The time has come for him to expand that job description. His White House has a duty to push back against the 24-hour news cycle, every 24 hours if necessary, when it threatens to derail his agenda, the nation’s business, or both. This was a silly summer, as wasteful in its way as the summer of 2001, when Washington dithered over the now-forgotten Gary Condit scandal while Al Qaeda plotted. The president deserves his share of the blame.

…Wednesday night’s address on health care reform was inspired, lucid and, in the literally and figuratively Kennedyesque finale, moving.

….In the meantime, a certain damage has been done — to Obama and to the country. The inmates took over the asylum, trivializing and poisoning the national discourse while the president bided his time. The lies that Obama called out so strongly in his speech — from “death panels” to “government takeover” — ran amok. So did all the other incendiary faux controversies, culminating with the ludicrous outcry over the prospect that the president might speak to the nation’s schoolchildren on a higher plane than, say, “The Pet Goat.” (emphasis added)

Frank Rich allows Obama’s speech to bring off one of his patented ‘I can do this’ moments. But he (Rich) will not allow America to be pulled along: “We can do this.” He knows, as argued here, that there is a positive dark, not absence of light, side of the sun channeled by the inmates in charge of the asylum. (No metaphor is safe from Rich’s use(-ab)) And he has been missing in action.


Obama would have looked stronger if he’d stood up more proactively to the screamers along the way, or at least to the ones not packing guns

The power accorded Obama’s speech (brilliant, inspired, lucid, moving) is as that of light (the white sun reflected through the occupant of the White House) illuminating a rising tide of darkness. Because he didn’t come out and Shine, mushrooms grew, snakes slithered, and Bruno dropped trow in Ron Paul’s presence, all that. Everything become poisoned . Obama has got to quit governing in this harum scarum way, Rich declares, and address the cataclysmic cleavage: … health care reform, while an overdue imperative, still is overshadowed in existential urgency by the legacies of the two devastating cataclysms of the Bush years, 9/11 and 9/15, both of whose anniversaries we now mark. The crucial matters left unresolved in the wake of New York’s two demolished capitalist icons, the World Trade Center and Lehman Brothers, are most likely to determine both this president’s and our country’s fate in the next few years. Both have been left to smolder in the silly summer of ’09.

The numbers 9.11.01 … 9.15.08 (he omits the ’01, ’08 year designation for some reason; you supply it yourself) bookend the period for the unconscious, and memory, to range over.

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/14/dan-gainor-acorn-media-ignore/

ACORN Story Grows But Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It
This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings. But almost no one is covering it.

Bruce Springsteen once wrote: “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come).” I doubt he expected that story of love gone wrong would become ideal political commentary for the group known as ACORN.
The small scandal showing an embarrassing video of Baltimore ACORN staffers looking like they were giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel, is now national news. -- This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings!



IT WAS A STING
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/local/brooklyn/pimp_hooker_catch_klyn_staff_Js4YPEcsCcxLZhAEehLhmL
Updated: Mon., Sep. 14, 2009, 12:41 PM
'Pimp & hooker' catch B'klyn staff
By JEREMY OLSHAN


The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute.

Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their careers, counselors at the social-services group shockingly offer suggestions on how they can launder their earnings.

"Honesty is not going to get you the house," a loan counselor at the offices told two activists posing as a mortgage-seeking pimp and prostitute.
"You can't say what you do for a living."
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Let’s get this straight. The Fox News organization pulls off a sting (get connection: since they are the only ones covering it, one may assume there is an untraceable ‘understanding’) … then whine that other MSM aren’t covering it?

How could they not? (<= double ‘they')

“It’s got everything”.

This is the height of right wing New York type racism (whether Murdoch is one by blood or not). The stingers were only doing to Acorn people what Bruno did to Ron Paul. (James O-Keefe plays ‘pimp’, Hannah (palindroner) Giles plays ‘prostitute’ – another Cath-0-Jew thing, apparently.)

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-The mass “tea party” in DC – totally misunderstood – united at the fetal level, interpreted as racist, anti-Obama Oedipal level. It’s not racism, its fetal rage: a people robbed of their birthright by this fem-dem-blackman nannystate configuration. This can’t be grasped w/o understanding the two levels of trauma in individual psychological development: birth and sexuality (“Oedipal” refers to the earliest awakening to libido sensations connected with the genitals (age 6), but of course unrelated to any idea of conjugation or reproduction – unless depraved – until later (then recalled with fantasy-elaboration of that stage). What draws the masses together, claimed by Fox news rightists as a Glenn Beck production, is the deepst psychological chords of birth trauma – Joe Wilson emitting what he said emerged from his gut “like a primal scream”. In psychosemiotic terms, that is exactly what it was. The vocal chords of “Joe Wilson”, /normally laid-back, barely noticed backbench S. Carolina Republican Congressman, surrounded by all the symbolic reminders that exist of American history and shared group experiences; and by his colleagues; are spontaneously activated by flashback to birth trauma – “You lie!” repudiates Obamas text as fructifying token. What cried out was not a racist problem, per se; it is a racist stepfather problem.

Blacks have not been able to figure this out themselves, and have gone a little mad. They, and society, have pretty much normalized the close-to-consciousness friction at the Oedipal level. Pretty white Southron girls don’t need as much protection from horny black boys as they used to. But this re-birth threat, as if all of them, black skin itself, had been delegated by destiny to play some new kind of role in fostering America’s future.

Thus, “Kenya West” is moved to just step up and take the mic away from Taylor Swift in the MTV stage, shoving her aside for black beauty Beyonce --out birthing her where the oxygen is (except the girls get together and dance afterward).

And, again, with an age-gender twist on the unconscious racism issue, Serena Williams is called for a footfault while serving for a match point in the U.S. Open by a while line judge, costing her the match. Photos show she didn’t – it’s a rare call, leniency widely allowed. It is as if the white, older, no doubt ex-tennis playing female boss-of-the-moment belted out “No You Won’t” at the black behemoth. Let Beyonce take that!

Further: the race issue had emerged earlier in the Big Media contratempts between Cambridge Officer Crowley and black Harvard professor Louis E. Gates. The Oedipal group fantasy situation replays White Authority confronting a ‘boy’ doing nothing wrong, in his own house. Weirdly, Gates pops off with something like “I’ll see yo momma outside” – as if momentarily converted into Bad Black Dude white boys fear will get their mom. This was written in Crowley’s police report, but downplayed by the media, and overlooked, even doubted by myself, until reminded by B..

Finally: (this also from Brandon) on 911, death/rebirth day, a black rock group from ‘88 was reassembled in WNYC studios to perform

Dark Side Of The Sun
(Soundcheck: Living Colour Live (September 11, 2009) )

“Living behind the dark side of the sun ... you may see you may tell we’re still here you’re still there … promised made but nothing’s done … its cold and lonely but we still believe … if you come to help me your wasting your time (it’s ever..) a struggle behind the sun.”

An odd thought, unless taken as part of the template. Then, incredibly esoteric.

Thursday, September 03, 2009

3rd Eye Tracking

3rd eye tracking
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/thirdeyesteering/
Lizards
Use Third Eye to Steer by the Sun
• By Brandon Keim
• August 31, 2009 |
• 12:25 pm |
• Categories: Animals, Biology


A series of clever experiments into the reptilian “third eye” has confirmed that lizards use this patch of light-sensitive cells as a sun-calibrated compass.

To test how third eyes — technically known as parietal eyes — help them find their way, biologists at Italy’s University of Ferrara first trained Italian wall lizards to swim from the center of a small outdoor swimming pool to a hidden ledge at its edge. A fence was erected around the pool, so that the only visual point of reference was the position of the sun. The lizards passed the test.
The researchers next put groups of lizards in three artificially lit rooms for a week. In the control room, lights brightened and dimmed in sync with the rise and fall of day. Lights in the other rooms were set out of sync, causing the lizards’ body clocks to be artificially sped up or slowed down by six hours.
When tested in the pool, only lizards from the control group could find the ledge. Depending on the state of their body clock, the others swam too far to the left or right, as would be expected if they’d used the sun to navigate and were now confused by the disjunction between the sun’s location and where they expected it to be.

Finally, the researchers covered the lizards’ third eyes with paint or — in a later, more gruesome iteration — removed their third eyes altogether. In both cases, the lizards swam in random directions, no longer able to navigate at all.

The findings, published last Friday in the Journal of Experimental Biology, reinforce the third-eye-as-compass theory, at least in lizards. The eyes are also found in some species of amphibians and fish. If it works the same way in fish, that could help explain part of their navigational prowess.

Humans also have a version of the third eye system. Unfortunately for hikers and drivers, it’s located under our skulls. It’s essential for spatial processing, but not much help if you’re lost.
See Also:
• Reverse-Engineering the Quantum Compass of Birds
• Hacking Salmon’s Mental Compass to Save Endangered Fish
• Cows Really Do Have a Magnetic Sixth Sense
Citation: “Orientation of lizards in a Morris water-maze: roles of the sun compass and the parietal eye.” By Augusto Foà, Francesca Basaglia, Giulia Beltrami, Margherita Carnacina, Elisa Moretto and Cristiano Bertolucci. Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol. 212 Issue 18, September 15, 2009.
Image: Red Hand
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H1N1 <= Strange attractor in tokenspace

http://wcbstv.com/health/h1n1.swine.flu.2.1155084.html
Hands-Off Plan: Schools Ban Touching To Fight H1N1
Glen Cove District Students Urged To Have No Skin-On-Skin Contact With Swine Flu Outbreak Looming
Parents Told To Provide Kids With Tissues, Hand
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AEMAL02&show_article=1
Obama says Americans should get swine flu vaccine
Sep 1 02:17 PM US/Eastern
By JULIE PACE
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says that while swine flu vaccine will be voluntary, the government will "strongly recommend" that people get it.

Obama was briefed Tuesday on the nation's preparedness for swine flu by senior officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. He spoke afterward from the Rose Garden.

Obama said that the federal government is preparing at all levels for this fall's expected surge in swine flu cases. He said, "I don't want anybody to be alarmed, but I do want everyone to be prepared."
A White House report suggests up to half the U.S. population could be infected. Vaccine development is ongoing and it is likely to be available by October.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108604
POLICE STATE, USA

Cops jump on swine-flu power: Shots heard 'round the world
Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant


Posted: September 01, 2009
9:11 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
A "pandemic response bill" currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.
If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/31/kansas.swine.flu/index.html?section=cnn_latest
University of Kansas students isolated by the flu
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Spread of H1N1 among roommates illustrates how quickly virus jumps around
"It wasn't like I was licking the handlebars of the bus," freshman says
Girls quarantined in room, doing homework, until fever dissipates for 24 hours
The University of Kansas estimates about 1 percent of student body has H1N1
When Perry became ill it struck her suddenly. While shopping, she came down with a fever and started feeling like she didn't have the strength to stand, she said.
Perry's flu hasn't been confirmed as an H1N1 strain, but a third roommate, the first to get sick, they said, was diagnosed with H1N1. Then a fourth roommate got sick, illustrative of a spreading flu pattern the girls said is obvious from the empty seats in classes.



http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama’s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009
PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009

Before the Speech:
• Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions:

Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be President?
To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?

What do you think he will say to you?
• Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.
• Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?

During the Speech:
• As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:

What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/03/white-house-withdraws-students-help-obama/
White House Withdraws Call for Students to 'Help' Obama
President Obama's plan to speak to the nation's schoolchildren in a video address next week erupted into controversy as critics claimed he was trying to indoctrinate America's kids.
The Obama administration is rethinking its course recommendations for students ahead of President Obama's address to the the nation's schoolchildren next week, rewriting its suggestions to teachers for student assignments on how to "help the president."
White House aides said the language was supposed to be an inspirational, pro-education message to America's youths, but its unintended consequences were evident.
Among the activities initially suggested for pre-K to 6th grade students was to "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."
Another assignment for students after hearing the speech was to discuss what "the president wants us to do."
The Washington Times was first to report. Thursday that the plan was being reconsidered. Presidential aides also acknowledged to the newspaper that they helped the U.S. Education Department write the suggested assignments, which stirred criticism by many who say Obama is trying to indoctrinate the education
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http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14899
VIDEO; Compulsory Vaccination in America?
$1000 Per Day Fine & 30 Days In Jail For Refusing the Swine Flu Vaccine In Massachusetts

COUNTER ATTACK
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/090309/new_489061975.shtml
At a town hall meeting in Clarkesville last month, Broun called Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a "socialistic elite" and agreed with a constituent who said they might use a flu pandemic to declare martial law.

http://wcbstv.com/health/swine.flu.h1n1.2.1155168.html
Mayor To Announce Plans To CombatH1N1 In Schools
CBS 2 HD Has Learned Closings Will Not Be Routine; Bloomberg To Also Stress Isolating Infected Patients In ERs
Bloomberg will outline New York City's strategy to fight swine flu in schools.

An estimated 800,000 city residents got swine flu last year, so the city is gearing up for the new onslaught.

Last year many city schools were closed to prevent the spread of the h1n1 -- swine flu -- virus. But sources told CBS 2 HD on Monday that this year the schools chancellor will be much less likely to do that. The city's plan for the 2009-2010 flu season includes:

* Keeping schools open as much as possible

* Keeping flu patients isolated from other patients in hospital emergency rooms

* And urging people to seek other alternatives to emergency rooms to avoid over taxing the ERs

Getting the vaccine will also be important when it's available. In order to be fully protected New Yorkers are advised to get two doses of swine flu vaccine and one seasonal flu shot.

The big question is whether the swine flu vaccine gets here before the disease breaks out.
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http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/56413977.html?elr=KArksUUUycaEacyU
She's walking the tightrope on flu

David Joles, Star Tribune
Dr. Ruth Lynfield at the Public Health Virology Laboratory in St. Paul: “The prudent thing to do is plan as best you can.”
Minnesota's top flu fighter balances the worst-case scenario with plans and hopes for avoiding it.
By MAURA LERNER, Star Tribune
Dr. Ruth Lynfield knows the numbers sound terrifying: 30,000 dead. 170,000 hospitalized. More than a million people infected -- all in Minnesota alone. But she doesn't want people to get the wrong idea. As state epidemiologist, it's her job to lay out all the possibilities for the next wave of swine flu, including the worst-case scenario. Now, with summer winding down and students returning to school, she's out to make sure that Minnesota avoids the worst case and gets safely through the first worldwide flu pandemic in 40 years.
It's a challenge the transplanted New Yorker and pediatrician has handled gracefully since the virus surfaced in April. "She knows so much and she's so smart," said Dr. Sanne Magnan, the state health commissioner. "She's very good at grounding us," Magnan said. "We're lucky to have her." At public appearances, Lynfield, 48, has become known for her calm recitation of the facts, laced with a subliminal message rooted in her natural optimism: "It will be challenging, but we'll make it through." For months, Lynfield has been tracking the swine flu outbreak in Minnesota and refining contingency plans. She's helping to lead a small army of about 200 staffers at the Minnesota Department of Health who have been deployed to the flu watch.
In endless meetings, they chew over the details of one possibility after another. What if a plane arrives in Rochester and a passenger is infected with a particularly deadly strain? How would they notify the other passengers?
What about the infected person -- could the state force him to stay home? "If they're quarantined, yes," Lynfield tells colleagues at one planning session. "That's the point of quarantine."
What if the patient doesn't cooperate? Well, she replies, they could post a police car outside his home. "They ended up doing this in one or two cases in Toronto" during the SARS outbreak, Lynfield adds. "But we're optimistic it won't come to that."
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545142,00.html
So what are my options if I don’t want to get vaccinated?
Pregnant women, children and teens are at extreme risk for dangerous H1N1 complications, including death, and should be vaccinated no matter what.
Others, however, may have some leeway to play with.
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Garrido  Obama (mysterium conjunctionis)

It’s simple as this:. White skin/Dark soul  Dark skin/White soul.
These opposites are archetypal, but instanced in: Garrido: BAD DAD, injecting his sperm into little girls  Obama => GOOD DAD, injecting squalene in swine flu vaccination into America’s school children.






It’s come to me: the extended P1 juxtaposition of Girrado/Jaycee Lee little girl kidnapping and rape….and Blaring Trumpet of Preparedness: get U R Swine flu shot! What/why? (Why what?) Ans.: If (JC => America), kidnapped and raped by Bush, then Girrado => ultimate Bad Dad from unbeaten, undisciplined 60’s, crazed by drugs, driven by sex to serial rape, possibly kill (yet undetermined, as of this writing 9.2), not thinking he was doing anything wrong, but now has “turned my life completely around.” NYPost p. 9 had FATHER: SICKO CRAVED KIDS, next to pic of cute freckled 11 yr old girl.

Take-away unconscious sub-text: “That’s what 60’s Dad’s do, who rebelled against the (Kennedy)Vietnam war Fathers. Better for America to have had Bush, bad as he was he wasn’t this scumbag. “

As for the “Monster” tag, it is worth noting that: a. this is a token of the poisonous placenta; and b. moral censure for capturing sex slaves, as a male archetype, at least among Jews, is largely lacking in Deuteronomy 21.10-14 (not: to abuse). The figure of Rapist-Killer father is as old as carvings in pre-historic French caves. Child sacrifice rituals are still going on under the name “war”. Garrido’s uninhibited Id-libido discharge condition is psychic regression, to a level of uroboric, polymorphously perverse, barely human condition. As 60’s residue, it could be seen as the Woodstock Nation’s Dark Side. Taking the metaphor further, scientific studies have shown that a lizard’s 3rd eye steers it toward the sun. If the sun has been darkened, the aroused, insatiable snake brain compulsions will dominate human minds thinking they are following the Light. This can be read as Garrido’s inner trajectory, bestowing human form on Sol Niger. Now he sees the trajectory, himself – “disgusting, from beginning to end” – the Dark Side necessary to traverse to achieve The Light: “he’s turned his life around”.