   Let Them Eat Cake! By Ernest Stewart
"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." ~~~ Upton Sinclair "The OFSAA receives about one inquiry a year from a student seeking to dispute their eligibility, and that they're told the rules are firm." ~~~ Doug Gellatly Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues, You may recall what Jean-Jacques Rousseau said in his last book, "Confessions" published four years after his death in 1778:
Whether or not these words were actually said by Marie Antoinette, they were used against her and cost her her head, ending the French monarchy. Briton's lavish royal wedding of Prince Williams and his wife-to-be Kate Middleton will cost British taxpayers more than $48 million. That cost of $48-million for the royal wedding on April 29 at London's Westminster Abbey will be paid by British tax payers rather than the the Queen. Liz could easily afford it with her billion pound bankroll, but why pay when the serfs will foot the bill? Of course, actually it's the bride's family that's supposed to pick up the tab; but since mom and dad are airline stewardess and steward with a mail order company, I don't think they could afford it. Even though the $48 million sounds just a wee bit steep for a wedding, it's just a drop in the bucket for the actual costs, viz., some $9.6 billion dollars--as it's going to be a national holiday. With the British economy in the toilet and even worse than ours, it will certainly cost the little guy more than he can afford to pay for this circus. A national holiday for everyone except the Bobbies, Scotland Yard, MI5 and MI6 and the British gestapo, who will be working overtime to keep the royal couple away from the people, some of whom would like to see them hanging up-side-down from a BP petrol station! Ask Pater and his bimbo how that worked out for them last year! Wouldn't it be funny if during the wedding or reception someone bombed the happy couple and their guests into little pieces, much like the British have done to wedding guests at weddings and receptions all over Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan?! You know, like Willie's little brother "Prince" Henry did. It was Henry's job as a "FAC" or Forward Air Controller in Afghanistan to direct jet and drone attacks on weddings, schools, churches and other high interest targets! Hey, turn about is fair play, is it not? I see also that William wants to go overseas as soon as he can, which is strange for a newlywed, except in the case where the man can't stand being around his wife--which is what drives so many Americans to join the service--to get away from their harpies! So I wonder what's really going on now behind closed doors? You'll recall the Guardian reported recently that long before we attacked Iraq, lap dog Tony and the boys had the oil companies in to divide up the spoils before the war had begun--about 6 months before--and that wasn't an oil war, huh, Mr. Blair? Oh, please! In Other News A very "teachable" moment is occurring in my home state of Michigan via Rick Snyder and his Rethuglican allies in bringing total fascism to the state under the guise of "Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act." This little act of treason gives a Snyder appointee the ability to take over a city, tear up the union contracts, get rid of or overrule all elected officials, and force public schools to be turned over to private companies, amongst other things. As in all fascist takeovers, a self-generated crisis is the reason they use to give themselves this power, thwarting the Constitution and turning the state into a dictatorship! As you no doubt already know, this is happening all over America, and has its roots in the tax cuts and give aways to the Banksters and the uber-wealthy under the dictator Bush and President Obama, who created said financial crisis. Their ability to do so was brought about by the PENAC sponsored 9/11 attacks which we were told again and again changed everything. Even if you buy the Osama BS that he acted alone instead of in partnership with the Crime Family Bush/corpo-rat controlled CIA, which is no doubt the reality then he won, because we lost all of our remaining freedoms. You'll remember he attacked us because he was jealous of our freedoms and not because we've been on a murder/theft spree in the Middle East for the last 70 years! Even if that were true, the fascists in the corpo-rat boardrooms who pull the puppet strings of our "elected" officials were quick to take advantage of this god-sent crisis and use it to create the nightmare that we live in today. All good fascist takeovers of the last dozen centuries have always occurred when a public disaster occurs, whether brought about by another group or homegrown like our last three occurrences in this country. Like the false flag attack on Germany's Reichstag which was done by the Nazi's but pinned on the Communists, ours in this instance was blamed on Osama when he was just a CIA spook following ze orders. You'll recall another false flag was the attack on Pearl Harbor which was orchestrated by FDR and Churchill with the aide of the Japanese who went for the bait, which allowed us entry into the war against the vast anti-war feelings of most Americans. A mothballed fleet of obsolete battleships, placed in a harbor that was only thirty-feet deep so anything sunk could be quickly raised, and that was away from the mainland. As the British had cracked the JN-25 code in March of 1941 and given it to us in April we had been reading everything they sent since then and were well aware of their intentions months in advance of the attack on Pearl Harbor--the price to become #1 in the world was a mere 2,500 American deaths and the loss of one battleship--cheap enough no doubt! Of course, you need to have an enemy to focus the mob's attention on; in WWII for us it was the Japanese, and, reluctantly, the Germans. 9/11 had the Arabs, and today our perennial favorites--the Blacks. We've have a long list of American homegrown "enemies," stretching back centuries. First it was the centuries long battles against the Indians which went on until they were all but wiped out. Let's not forget the Germans, the Irish, the Chinese, the Catholics, the Jews, and for the last 150 years, the Blacks. Isn't it a strange coincidence that the first two cities taken over by Herr Snyder are Benton Harbor and Detroit--both cities with 90% black populations. This is just a foot in the door, so white Michigan, have no doubt you're on the hit list, too, just as soon as they get all the bugs out of the new system. Like in Washington, the attacks will be on the helpless--a favorite target of our leaders. The poor, the sick, and the elderly may soon face a final solution to their problems in legislation already passed or soon to be passed! We haven't yet come to the point of having to say Heil Snyder at the beginning and ending of every conversation, but soon baby, soon! And Finally In Ontario, a special athlete (autistic) is being kept from running on the track team in his senior year of High School because of a bizarre bureaucratic ruling. (According to The Globe and Mail: 19-year-old Andrew Towle, a track star for Ottawa (Ontario) Technical Learning Centre, will not be allowed to compete throughout his senior season because of a technicality which determined that he has been enrolled in high school for too many years. The ruling stems from Andrew being enrolled at OTLC in the 2005-06 school year, despite the fact that he didn't take a single Grade 9 level course in that entire school year."Why be this inflexible and bureaucratic with something that's so important to these student competitors?" Andrew Towle's father, Jonathan Towle, said. "It's just very unfair." While the OFSAA might have a strong case to bar Towle if he had used up a full four years of athletic eligibility, that simply isn't the case. The 19-year-old never walked onto a track until his third year at OTLC, when he showed up at a track team practice and was suddenly motivated to improve to be more competitive with his teammates. "Towle's improvement on the track also sparked a dramatic improvement in the classroom. A year after Towle's career was kickstarted at a random practice, the then-sophomore was winning races and finding himself well on his way to earning a spot on the OTLC honor roll!" "At my first-ever practice race, I finished in last, and I told myself I've got to do better," Towle said. "So I pretty much kept on going and my goal every time was to improve." Now, the senior is being deprived not only of his sports outlet, but also of a motivating factor for him to constantly improve his school work, as well. One of Towle's coaches said running is an ideal fit for athletes with autism. "I'm no expert, all I can tell you is that they seem to thrive," Vince Fay, the coach of Towle's club team, Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club, said. "Anyone who runs, you sort of go into your own world." Another Canadian prep sports official felt that Andrew provides a unique opportunity for OFSAA to re-evaluate an eligibility rule that definitely needs reworking: "OFSAA should determine athlete eligibility on more of a case-by-case basis," according to Jim Denison, director of the Canadian Athletics Coaching Center and a professor of physical education at the University of Alberta.I wrote Doug Gellatly Executive Director of the OFSAA a letter, you knew that I would, didn't you? Oh, and you can to, at: doug@ofsaa.on.ca Hey Doug,As always, if I get a reply folks, I'll publish it here! Keepin' On Another week and another brilliant edition of Issues & Alibis! How does he do it, week after week, year after year, I hear you ask? Well, folks, you know it don't come easy. You have to be centered and tenacious. All of it is out there, you just need the time and training to find it, and understand it, when you do. Sure, a good part of it comes directly to me from the various cartoonists and authors. However, that only happens after years of proving to them that sending in their material will be handled, written up, and displayed properly, in-other-words, trust--and trust isn't something that happens overnight. There are some serious dues that have to be paid to gain their trust, on top of some serious bills that have to be paid, too! Ergo, if this weekly work of art pleases and informs you do lend us a hand in paying these somewhat outrageous, heavenly bills. When compared to most Internet magazines, our bills are minuscule. No one is bringing in a 6 or 7 figure salary like they get at most other ezines; in fact, I'm not making a 2 figure salary; in fact, I've never made a dime out of this, nor do I want to. For example, that $50 grand that Common Dreams just raised for their quarterly expenses, I could run this magazine for nine years with that money, not three months! That's not what this is about; it's about getting the political truth out so that everyone who can get online and wants to know it can find it and use it to protect themselves and their families from the corpo-rat goons and their political puppets that do their dastardly deeds! And to do it so the poorest of the poor are included, as we charge no fees for that use and education! Help us if you can and we'll keep it up, week after week, year after year! Rock on, Ya'll!  06-01-1935 ~ 04-22-2011 Thanks for the pro-union and feminist songs!
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