7:05 pm CST
DREAM: We're investigating the Bush Crime Family …

My partner says, "To understand them, notice how they dress. Clothes make the man."

"But they all look alike," I say. "They all wear suits."

"Not always," she says, "and not all of them. Look …"

I see an ambulance racing through sunlit streets. Inside, a man in a white doctor's coat is trying to save someone's life, shouting instructions over the phone to the Emergency Room …

My partner and I step outside a building. She points to several winter trees; sitting on the barren limbs are men in vulture costumes, maybe fifty in all.

"Men in vulture costumes," I say.

"No, they are vultures, and they're waiting for something to eat."

We leave for a few moments. When we return, I see one of the strange human-headed vultures chewing on something pink. "That one's found some carrion," I say.

"But the others are still waiting, watching and waiting."

The vulture men have dark complexions and dark eyes, their eyebrows are heavy, their faces impassive; they slowly turn their heads from side to side, looking for carrion, patiently waiting, watching and waiting …

7:01 pm CST
Today's News Roundup:

Impending Staged Capture of bin Laden

Two More Bioscientists Dead

Flashback: The Mysterious Deaths of Top Microbiologists

Colin Powell: No Plan to Encircle Russia

Michael Hasty: Paranoid Shift

I've heard of painting a town red--but an entire planet?:

NASA Accused of Doctoring Mars Photos to Make the Planet Seem Red

With cold premeditation and malice aforethought, they smuggled the inch-long toy guns onto school grounds and pointed them at other students, making them feel "unsafe":

Boys Suspended for Tiny G.I. Joe Guns

5:09 pm CST
You may remember that after the planes hit the World Trade Center towers--an epic disaster that vaporized the flesh and bones of every human being in the fireball's path, incinerated both planes' cockpit recorders and black-box recorders, and melted structural steel designed to withstand a Hellish heat of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit--the passport of suspected hijacker Mohammed Atta was found intact, in pristine condition, lying in the twisted, smoking rubble.

How this miracle occurred has never been explained--but that is the way with miracles, they cannot be explained, only taken on faith.

That it happened cannot be denied because it was reported as FACT by the authorities and the mainstream media. Also, it is a well known FACT that, in major news events of this kind, miracles routinely occur, the best known example being the discovery of the Magic Bullet on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy. The Magic Bullet, you will recall, is the bullet which tore through both Kennedy and Governor Connally's bodies, shattered Connally's wrist, and emerged in pristine condition--in fact, was in better condition than if it had been fired through a bale of cotton, possibly even better condition than when it left the factory. Thus, there is a precedent for such miracles. If the laws of physics, probability, and Reality Itself could be suspended on November 22, 1963, then why could they not also be suspended on September 11, 2001? Indeed, the FACTS, as reported by the major media, show that that is precisely what happened when Mohammed Atta's passport survived the crash intact.

And now, we learn in this AP story that, not only did Atta's passport survive the crash, so too did the passport of another hijacker, one Satam al-Sugami.

Yes, it is true. At the moment the plane crashed into the building and exploded, al-Sugami's passport flew out of his carry-on luggage (or his pocket, we're not sure which), fell through the inferno, and floated down to the sidewalk below. Within minutes, it was picked up by someone whose attention was not focused on the flaming wreckage raining down from above and turned over to the proper authorities. And, like Atta's passport, it was found to be intact and in pristine condition.

So there you have it. The miracle was even greater than we at first thought. For it happened to not one, but two passports. As I say, there is no doubt that this happened because both the government and the mainstream media say it did.

Speaking of 9/11, John Buchanan the 9/11 Truth Candidate has a highly useful 9/11 links page on his website.

2:33 pm CST
Today's News Roundup:

"Never mind":

Bush Backs Away from Iraq WMD Certainty

Cheney backs away from Iraq WMD claim

Anti-War News:

Iraq Activist Kathy Kelly Sentenced to Federal Prison

Daniel Ellsberg: "US and British officials must expose their leaders' lies about Iraq--as I did over Vietnam."

Just what we need--another intrusive, unconstitutional government program to "protect" us:

U.S. to Start Airline Background Checks this Summer

Scum:

Children Sold Into Slavery by UN Charity

Infowars Archive on the Pandemic of Women and Children Being Sold into Sex Slavery by Governments

We will all sleep better tonight knowing that Wal-Mart limits how many batteries you are allowed to buy:

Wal-Mart's ignoble war on drugs

Put out those joints, flush your stash down the toilet, throw your drug paraphernalia into somebody else's trash--and do it quick. Otherwise, you'll be labeled a terrorist and you know what that means:

Rep. Kirk (R) Advocates Combining Counter-terrorism and Counter-narcotics Missions

4:25 pm CST
This new email worm they're talking about in the news today really is a bad one. So far I have received three emails attempting to infect my computer. The first arrived last night, before news about the worm broke; the subject line said "test" and there was a suspicious attachment with the suffix "scr." I killed the email right on the spot. Good thing I did. Here's two stories about the worm:

E-Mail Worm Snarls Computers Around Globe

New Worm Spreading Rapidly Across Internet

Whenever there's a new email worm or virus on the loose, I'm always suspicious that it was born in the bowels of the NSA or CIA or some other agency. It provides the perfect pretext for laws controlling Internet use, doesn't it? Controls such as Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean's idea to require use of an ID card before you can log on to your computer. Read about it HERE.

Speaking of sinister, invasive ID technology check out this story from the Sacramento Bee: Finger-Scan ID Systems Are Being Used by Growing Number of Retailers

8:35 pm CST

Somewhere there is an alternate reality in which the recent meeting of the media moguls, network anchormen, and Field Marshall Tom Ridge regarding the "next terrorist attack" (referenced below in a previous blog entry) was surreptitiously videotaped by a previously unknown Fifth Column dedicated to restoring the Constitution. Subsequently, the video is posted on the Internet to be mirrored and replicated many times all over the World Wide Web. Even the dullards mind controlled by the mass media get wind of this development; after viewing the video, which reveals their beloved and trusted talking heads in a light much different than ever seen before—i.e., coldly going over their scripts for the next government-sponsored atrocity—there is much restless MOOOOOing in the herd. Tom Brokaw's first hint of trouble occurs while he is eating lunch in a posh Manhattan restaurant; a crowd gathers around his table, demanding to know why he sold his soul, sold his fellow Americans down the river, and violated every Holy Tenet of Journalism by whoring for the New World Order. Choking on his ocelot soufflé, he is unable to come up with a satisfying answer, thus is savagely torn apart by the maddened mob. (Old King Pentheus never met a worse fate.) Several blocks away, Peter Jennings hears about the horrible tragedy and realizes the game is up; he'd better leave town—hell, leave the country, go back to Canada, go anywhere--and do it fast or suffer a worse fate. But fellow CFR member Diane Sawyer, also panicked (she did not attend the infamous meeting, but will the herd make so fine a distinction?), runs outside ABC Studios and hails the next cab before Jennings (who has been busy training a young male intern) can zip up his pants and reach the elevator. What happens next to Jennings cannot be described in polite company; suffice to say, that when the Herd gets hold of him, it is horrific in the extreme and has something to do with a lit Roman candle. Sawyer's fate, however, is no better; she has the bad luck to hail a cab driven by a Middle Eastern man who remembers all her Good Morning America lies, whereupon she is abducted and sold into sex slavery and, after much trading (no one can tolerate her for very long), ends up in the hands of a bunch of baboons in the wilds of Africa. Other network newscasters and moguls meet terrible ends as well, whether they attended the meeting or not. The herd is in a lynching mood and the general attitude is: "If you're mainstream media, you're the enemy." Realizing this, Dan Rather, who did not attend the meeting (only on account of the fact that he will retire after the November election, thus will no longer be an anchorman after November, when the next terror attack is scheduled), hides under his bed, sweating and soiling himself as he contemplates his fate …

But this is only a fantasy. There is no Fifth Column to save you; there was never a videotape made of the meeting to be posted on the Internet. It is, then, up to you to save yourselves. This has only been an imaginative depiction of something which may, or may not be, occurring in another universe, another reality—another dimension beyond time and space, a place we call … the Twilight Zone …

7:16 pm CST
Ismael Cavazos is a fellow cartoonist and Austinite who has been contributing political cartoons to the Austin Advocate for the past two years. He also has a great website which I highly recommend you visit HERE.

4:01 pm CST
If you live in the Baltimore area, check out the "Comics on the Verge" art show at the Maryland Institute College of Art.  The original artwork of my story Cindy the Tattooed Sunday School Teacher will be on display, along with work by my comics colleagues Max Andersson, Debbie Drechsler, Peter Kuper, Gary Panter, Art Spiegelman, Ho Che Anderson, Mary Fleener, Mark Landman, Archer Prewitt, Ted Stearn, Peter Bagge, Rene French, Carol Lay, Brian Ralph, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry   , Bill Griffith, Mark Martin, Ron Rege, Jim Woodring, Ivan Brunetti, Gilbert Hernandez, Mats!?, Spain Rodriguez, Charles Burns, Jaime Hernandez, David Mazzucchelli, Jonathan Rosen, Weissman, Dave Cooper, Peter & Maria Hoey, Tony Millionaire, Richard Sala, Julie Doucet, Kaz, Mark Newgarden, and David Sandlin. The show is curated by Paul Candler, and will be on display from January 30 through March 14. Opening reception will be Thursday, February 5. Wish I could attend, but I live way down here in Texas and have my hands full editing the upcoming Fantagraphics book The Bush Junta. However, many of the above-named cartoonists will be on hand. For more information, go HERE.

3:54 pm CST
At this writing, it would appear that the 2004 presidential election will be between Kerry and Bush, leading many to tag the contest "Skull vs. Bones":

Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush

Dem Mena Bones and Kerry

Kerry's Top Ten Contributors

Other interesting links I picked up today:

Gordon Thomas writes: The Coming Storm: Explosive Hutton report may shatter U.K./U.S. political and intel relationships

Korean Cell Phone is Mobile Media Player with Mysterious "Mind Control" Option

Carl Jung, Agent 488: Famed Psychologist Worked for OSS during WW II