You! I hope.

Got a call yesterday from the more-or-less manager of a soup kitchen that just started up a few months ago near downtown. Business is booming. And “soup kitchen” isn’t going to cut it; that was the original concept, but more is needed. These people need full meals. Kids and families, seniors, homeless vets. The kitchen does two lunch sessions a week. They could do 7 easy if they had the food and volunteers.

They are jammed. Over 200 people showed up at the last one. With 4 volunteers and 1 cook, scramble scramble and hope the food lasts.

I understand this is happening all over: food pantries are running low, charity providers are strapped for cash, donations, volunteers.

So here’s my plea: if you have anything to spare, now would be a good time. Spare change from the dresser drawer, an extra loaf of bread, a can of soup, a bag of rice or beans.

Get it down to a relief kitchen and lend a hand if you are able.

Thanks for your help.

Do not tell me that video games have no relation to mass murder in the 21st century.

Maybe you’ve got $10 extra this year.

Maybe you’ve got $5.

Maybe you’ve got $1.

You are looking to give it away. Here’s a suggestion.

Water for People: http://www.waterforpeople.org/

There is a GENERAL STRIKE called for Friday, 12-21-07.

The purpose of the strike is to call for restoration of the Constitution and full criminal investigations and investigation hearings on the motion to impeach the President and Vice President.

All citizens not employed in public health and welfare positions, please stay home from work. This coincides with Iraq Moratorium Day for December.

(Cross-posted with no apparent effect whatsoever at the Orange Maelstrom of Irrelevance).

I just got one of the new passports, with the embedded chip. There is a logo on the front cover to let you know The Regime is Protecting You. Of course if you would like to destroy that chip, there is no shortage of online how-to advice. That tactic is not my style. I like to keep my options open.

This diary is called “The Regime Arrives” because until the advent of the electronic passport, there was a loophole in the web of State Control on citizens. That loophole is closed. Your identity and key information can be read at a distance if you are carrying a new passport. Your digital photo is added to a Federal database and no doubt mathematically abstracted into a vector string that represents your facial signature…probably available to certain trusted purveyors and consumers of security camera systems and imagery monitoring.

Who you are, where you are, where you are going, who accompanies you, what you are doing, what you are reading, what you are communicating, what you look like…all now fully open to Federal government scrutiny without a warrant, or probable cause.

The government has decided to change the definition of privacy.

The American people should only expect government and business to “safeguard” their communications, while having complete access to them.

This means that pesky Constitution and Bill of Rights can finally be burned and the Archives converted into something useful, like an OpCenter for the Global War on Individual Rights.

A Tragedy

Narrator: “In the blessed days of His Evangelical Majesty was heard the cry.

In the distance, a clamor….

The Loyal Servants of the Collaboration Congress, presided over by His Faithful Lady, Nancy Pelosi, who prays for H.E.M Bush on every day.”

In chorus, her retinue enters from the Right:

Collaboration Congress: “Woe! Woe, and woe! For in our Land prevails that which displeases His Evangelical Majesty. The relics of an age past, the contemptuous and despised Constitution and Bill of Rights, we come to bury thee this day! O Lord Cheney, faithful and tireless help to our Heavenly Prince, hear us!”

crossposted at the Orange Place Where There Be Hillarites