Confession: Bad Kitty is an Aspie

What is an Aspie? It is someone with Asperger's syndrome. What is that? Asperger's syndrome is a very high functioning form of autism. I never knew I had it until I met someone else who had it who was much younger and I researched a lot more about it.

These are some of the differences between me and average people that I share with other folks who have Asperger's syndrome. These symptoms begin at a young age and persist unless they are worked on

• Awkward basic motor skills (bumping into things all the time to this day!)
• Obsessive interests
• Highly organized and obsessed with order
• Self stimulation to sooth (I called it Diddling! - just rolling my hand across the smooth texture of a blanket or sheet; it still works to this day, although I seldom do it unless I am tired)
• As I was not discovered to be needing glasses until I was 10 (and could not see faces) I avoided the eyes of others (I could not see them!); I could not see the faces of my peers and was always anxious. I knew that I was missing something - I just didn't know WHAT!
• I would talk to myself about my inner world; on and on, but I do not recall ever telling others and now in the present, I do go on and on about my interests and those who live with me do wish at times I would just be quiet. I do try.
• As a teenager, I had difficulties with teachers and figures of authority because allegedly "the social cues that define societal hierarchies are invisible.." (from Wired: The Geek Syndrome) I still see those social hierarchies as invisible and believe that is rather a bit of rot. Teachers are there to TEACH. Students are there to LEARN. What do social hierarchies have to do with that at ALL? If I am 15 and there to learn HISTORY, is not that teacher required to give me the respect I am required to give him? What damn social hierarchy? Teachers are frequently mean because they can be. That is pure monkey feces. Do not make excuses for that crap because I refuse to buy it.

Anyway, I started this journey this morning because I found a great blog on Psychology Today by a fellow Aspie titled Neurological Disorder or Natural Diversity. There are great links in there, including the one to the Wired article. Those of us wired this way, we just think differently. We process information differently. I overcame so much of that which made me a person who lived inside myself. But, fundamentally, I am at my core the person who sees pictures and hears the trees sing.

I remember razzle dazzling in the dirt and everything in the earth being alive and talking to me; no people, just the earth and me in harmony. I didn't really need people, just knowing my dad was around and I was safe allowed me to go on with my journey. Blind, but seeing more than most, singing my heart out trying to get all the sounds out of my head because they were so glorious, and just knowing that being alive was the very best thing, ever.

China executes 11-year-old

Chinese Class Clown Executed

Read this story folks. Yes, an 11-year-old boy was executed in China. Read about his crime. Read about how he had already done six months in solitary confinement. He was an 11-year-old boy who was murdered by his own government. Hey, what do we care? Right? We don't care as long as those Chinese Communists (didn't we NOT like Communists and use them as an excuse to do all kinds of nasty things; MY how things have changed!) give us that cheap stuff the United States has grown addicted to having. Rather, the society has been sold a bill of bogus goods you see -

HAVE IT ALL NOW AND PAY FOR IT LATER - the advertisement screamed at me. I thought to myself, this is what is what is so dreadfully, dreadfully wrong. I fear we certainly will pay for it later and at such a cost that a mere cat nor even mere silly mortal can imagine the price tag now.

A nation that was born of criminals and of war that seeks not to learn from its past and strive to be greater and better than any nation led by anointed kings or emperors deserves to fall like every other empire before it. That we are incapable of learning from history that war never has true victors and some are just war-like should be increasingly clear. Can a cat qualify as an expert? I want a gig!

Besides between hunger and China - this cat fears gettin eaten!
REOW!

Instability: You Think Gas Prices Are High?

Reported on CNN's website this headline four hours, 55 minutes ago:

Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket

Kind of scary stuff if you ask me. This is the link to the article, so please read it so we all know what I am talking about here.

This gist of it is that we are in serious trouble. All of us and that means TPTB* (The Powers that Be aka the various governments and other semi-quasi whatever agencies that control money and power in various countries) as well, are in huge trouble if large portions of the entire planet begin starving. No one can control starving people. No one can predict what starving people will do.

It is also just fundamentally not right to do this to other human beings. We, the United States of America, are funding a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is wildly unpopular. We respect the people of those countries and their fundamental RIGHT TO GOVERN THEMSELVES.

Perhaps if we opened dialog with countries that we had ideological differences with and said can we agree that we all have the same fundamental right to exist here on this same planet? If we all have the same fundamental right to exist, then no one may hurt or kill another even in the name of religion. For if we have the right to exist then nothing may compel us to harm another human. That must be the fundamental first thing that all must learn and internalize. Harming another is harming oneself.

Throughout recorded history there has been nothing but war and blood in the name of religion, which is supposed to be holy and sacred. That which is holy and sacred would not demand or ask blood of its children. It would be gentle and kind, merciful and forgiving, like any good parent would be. No good parent would want to see a child suffer, never mind millenniums of war all in said parent's name instead of humble kindness and mercy always tempered with tolerance and understanding. The light of goodness does not have to be so difficult.

People can agree to disagree once they have agreed on one fundamental thing: we all have the right to exist.

So, now what do we do about these starving people? Because if we don't do something, it will be us next.

Because fundamentally feeding another is feeding yourself.

Meow....

A Man of Peace Speaks, Will Anyone Listen?

Reports from CNN (story here) say that the Dalai Lama actually supports China's hosting of the Summer Olympics (this again from a man who has lived in exile since 1959). But he expresses regret that the Chinese government blames him for all their problems in Tibet, as expressed in that CNN AP report from Narita, Japan:

"I really feel very sad the government demonizes me. I am just a human, I am not a demon."

What is truly amazing to he supports the Chinese hosting of the Summer Olympics. But he asks, most reasonably, that no one, not anyone tell the protesters to stop their protesting. They have the right to be heard, a right which does not exist in Tibet, the right to freedom of speech. He has asked for non-violence all protests, in the great tradition of Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

This silly Bad Kitty reminds you, this is a humble man. He does not adorn himself, like the Catholic Pope does (no disrespect intended). He simply wants freedoms for his people. He wants his culture not to disappear. He wants peace and for people to have a voice in the world. What is so wrong with this?

What is wrong is that the world will listen instead to the big Bully China who beats and terrorizes at home and now in other countries if allowed. China allows no other "story" other than the one she tells. That is the "truth" - the party line. China and her enslaved people sadden me, but it would sadden me far more if the whole world were to simply allow this Dragon to smile and eat everyone up because she provides cheap goods.

I'm glad I'm a cat sometimes. Going for a roll in the sand and then I'm sleeping in the sand after I destroy something nice - my claws so need a sharpening. RAWR!

Federal Reserve is a Fraud Against the American People

Time to reveal the blatant fraud that has been committed against the American people since 1913 when two days before Christmas on a Sunday, when most of Congress were on vacation (as normal people would be), the Federal Reserve Act was passed in that same Congress.

What did President Wilson have to say about the Act that he signed into law? This:

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world."

From "Repeal the Federal Reserve Banks" by Rev. Casimir Frank Gierut

But let us go backwards a little bit. There was a secret meeting in 1910 which changed our country. Let us look at the players back in 1910 who were at this meeting.

• Nelson Aldrich, daughter married to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and close ties to J.P. Morgan
• Frank A. Vanderlip, president National City Bank of New York, associated with the Rockefellers
  
• Henry Davidson, senior partner of J.P. Morgan Comay
• Charles D. Norton president of the First National Bank of New York
• Col. Edward House, who would later become Pres. Wilson's close adviser and the founder of the Council of Foreign Relations
• Paul Warburg from Kuhn, Loeb, & Co.
  

They men met in seclusion for 10 days in Jekyll Island, Georgia. Warburg would later write that,

"The matter of a uniform discount rate (interest rate) was discussed and settled at Jekyll Island."

How do we know so much about this meeting? Simple, Vanderlip wrote about it in his autobiography From Farmboy to Financier:

"I was as secretive, indeed I was as furtive as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew,simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would have been wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress…I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition to Jekyll Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System.”

We were tricked by a bunch of greedy men. As early as 1896, populist William Jennings Bryan called for the unlimited coinage of silver if in his "Cross of Gold Speech". While silver may not have been the answer, the Federal Reserve Act, written in secret from the public and government was certainly NOT the answer either. Bryan (and I) want a government owned central bank which prints its own money whenever Congress needs it. I do not understand why we pay any interest at ALL to any private banks. We are the People and yet OUR money goes to PRIVATE individuals? WHY? They did this in secret and quite fraudulently.

I do not believe this was legal. I believe fraud was committed upon the American People.

I also believe that were it not for this fraud, that the IRS would not have continued its pursuit of a portion of a person's wages. The Supreme Court ruled that wages were a fair trade for a day's labor and thus not subject to IRS taxes, and yet every paycheck, for many people 1/4 to 1/3 is GONE and WHY IS THAT? To pay off these Private Bankers who quite honestly are rich enough. I mean, Goodness Gracious - I am only a cat and I know this is WRONG.

Why so much greed? Why so illegal and sneaky? We are such a great country and you MAY NOT STEAL OUR MONEY ANYMORE.

We do not have health care. We do not have houses anymore. We are growing angered at your GREED. Many more are educated. We are sick and tired of your PROPAGANDA. We see the TRUTH.

Marijuana is NOT dangerous. Alcohol is addictive and so are cigarettes. Stop being a hypocrite. Do not try to legislate morality. Heroin, cocaine and meth are BAD - weed is NOT. Stop lying to the children. Open your mind.

The world has changed. Change with it or you go down. I think it's all coming down anyway. But this greed must end. You committed fraud on US and WE DON'T LIKE IT. YOU HAVE ENOUGH. STOP. GIVE SOME BACK.

"I can lead a nation with a microphone"
and
"I can ride my bike with no handlebars"

Chaos in the UK over the Olympic Torch and in France the Torch Goes OUT

Is there any surprise the the Olympic flame was extinguished? CNN reported what appears to be the ugly reality, pictures included. You cannot have peace with China. These people will not have any peace because you MAY NOT DISAGREE with them. This is contrary to the way the rest of the world behaves. We have varying degrees of freedom and as bad as our governments are, they DO NOT KILL WHOLESALE THEIR OWN CITIZENS BLATANTLY.

Read what is happening. Do not stay ignorant. This story appears here. This quote comes from that news article.

The Mail described the Chinese guards helping escort the flame as a "mysterious private army."

"Wearing blue tracksuits, the hired 'thugs' barged protesters out the way and even shoved spectators in Downing Street, where the torch was greeted by [British Prime Minister] Gordon Brown."

Now of course, China is selling its side of the story, but there are photos. Just like the photos from Burma showing the murder point blank of the Japanese photographer (such a sickening thing to witness a murder). Again, I encourage you to click and look for yourself. Do the photos lie?

In France, the lovers of liberty, they are far more passionate about what China has done to its people and to Tibet. The Paris mayor has ordered a banner to fly over city hall to read "Paris City of Human Rights." How I love the freedom loving French today! For in this article (which you can read here) this quote appears:

In most cases, however, the torch passed through London without incident.

One must wonder what that writer was smoking when he read that. I read the first article and I certainly thought there was incident. Oh, perhaps that writer does not think having a private army of Chinese thugs being there to help suppress any dissenting voices means anything that s/he would label as incident. What a Brave New World we have entered indeed! Or am I Alice slipping down some strange rabbit hole?

Either way, the whole world is coming with this Bad Kitty, so just maybe people should pay a little attention to the sayings of a cat, just this once.

I have much to say on the Federal Reserve. They have committed fraud on the American People. But I will make a separate blog to detail it. I just have much to do, and typing with paws it rather difficult. Time for a good grooming and a visit to the litter box.

Maybe Bad Kitty will roll around in the sun a little bit too. RAWR!!!

University of Massachusetts and China

In the midsts of China's brutal suppression of Tibet, what does my alma matter, UMass do? They proudly announce that they are the FIRST university to enter an online agreement with China. I am outraged. I am furious. The story appeared yesterday on ZDNet, please read here.

I am the only one who has left a comment. I cannot believe this either. We are so apathetic here in the United States. We don't even seem to realize what a giant mess we are in, so maybe I should not be so harsh and condemning of my fellow citizens, but wholesale slaughter again! Every nine years the Chinese do this and they have more than enough people so they CAN! We hunger so badly for cheap slave goods that this doesn't bother us? It SHOULD because China will eventually rule us all. Look at the population and the size. We were afraid of Russia, why not China? This trading with her is not wise. Going to Beijing for the Olympics is not wise - no citizen of this country should give one dime to that Dragon who eats her own. She would just as gladly eat US. She has slept for a long time and is ready to rule again.

China is soulless, greedy and evil - at least her leaders. Let not her people suffer any longer because we are like her leaders - soulless, evil and greedy. Let us (US) show that we are compassionate, lovers of freedom and we will not stand for suppression of human rights - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech. Heck, how about FREEDOM!

Let FREEDOM RING!

And let it RING here at home too. Let the "Patriot" Act be gone! More on that in the next post! This Bad Kitty is letting it all out of the bag!