Marc Perkel Rantz

UAE gave $1 million to Bush library

Here's the Story. Why am I not surprised? Now we have a 45 day waiting period so that the UAE can bribe all the right members of Congress to get their blessing too. Somebode track this to see who gets money from the UAE during this period. Here's an exerpt.

A sheik from the United Arab Emirates contributed at least $1 million to the Bush Library Foundation, which established the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University in College Station.

The UAE owns Dubai Port Co., which is taking operations from London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which operates six U.S. ports. A political uproar has ensued over the deal, which the White House approved without congressional oversight.

The donations were made in the early 1990s for the library, which houses the papers of former President George Bush, the current president's father.

The list of donors names Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan and the people of the United Arab Emirates as one donor in the $1 million or more category.

The amount of the gift grants them recognition on the engraved donor wall in the library entrance or on the paving bricks that line the library's walkways, according to library documents.

Why not run our own ports?

Letter to the Editor

I have a radical idea. Why not have America's ports run by Americans? Why do we need any other government to run our ports? Are we some third world country that needs other countries to come in and take care of us?

New Church of Reality Interviews Posted

I've been working on the web site again and found a few more interview that I had done that I haven't yet posted. So I finally got around to editing them and uploading them and there are two new interviews that you probably haven't heard before. In particular the Cup of Joe interview is both interesting and entertaining. Probably you could learn more about me than you want to know.

Here's the link. That's 5 interviews on it now and if you don't want to read the site you can just listen and get an idea about what the CoR is all about.

Here's The link.

If you like what you hear then try to see if you can get me on more interviews. We need more exposure and I love doing these interviews and it's a good way to get the Sacred Message out there. Get people talking about reality and thinking about reality.

Why not have Americans in running our ports?

Letter to the Editor

Everyone is arguing about if we should let the foreign Arab countries run US ports. Especially countries involved in the 9-11 hijackings. I have a radical idea. Why don't we let United States companies run our own ports. Maybe it's time to start doing things ourselves rather than rely on the Muslims and the Communist Chinese to take care of us. These kind of decisions makes it seem as if America is deliberately trying to destroy itself.

Brownie feels Abandoned

Letter to the Editor

Michael Brown, (Brownie) former head of FEMA who was fired from the Bush administration for being incompetent testified before Congress that HE feel abandoned. That is TOO funny!

My own lying eyes

Letter to the Editor

With the new Abu Ghraib torture pictures that just surfaced you have to wonder when Bush tells us, "We do not torture." What am I to do? Am I supposed to believe him or my own lying eyes?

Church of Reality Speaks Out against Muslim Violence

Unlike some religions the Church of Reality isn't afraid of a little humor. We aren't afraid of someone being critical of what we believe in. We don't turn violent over mere words or symbols. This cartoon was chosen because it is offensive. I didn't pick this one because I liked it but because I didn't like it. It represent how many religions really view Realists and what they think is going to happen to us in the after life.

Muslim violence is fundamentally wrong. I say to Muslims, what is your religion about? Realists believe that you are what you do. What you do reflects what you really believe in. We do not care what you say you are about or what your holy books say. We do not care about the history of your religion. What matters to us is what you do in this life in the here and now. I see violence, burning, anger, murder. That is what you are doing and it's all over some stupid cartoons. It is what you do who defines what you are and after seeing the cartoons I have to say that the behavior of the Muslim world shows the cartoonist had a point. Islam's public face is violent. Your faith is weaker than your anger.

Those of you who claim that Islam is about love and peace I say, show it to me. I say take control of Islam or split off and form your own religion. Show us by your behavior who you are.

The Church of Reality expects no loyalty from it's members that would override good judgement. If we do not do what the name of our religion symbolizes then members are to leave this religion and form a new church that really is dedicated to the pursuit of reality the way it really is. We are a religion that is based on the {ln:Principle of Wisdom} which does not allow us to let anger rule what we do. We do not let ourselves be controlled by the words of others. We contain our emotions and think things through. If someone draws a cartoon about us then we look at that to see if there is something to be learned that we are overlooking. Maybe the Muslim world should look at the cartoons and try to understand why Mohammed is depicted with a bomb on his head. From what I see from the way Muslims are behaving the cartoon makes sense to me.

What you do reflects what you believe in. If you are violent then what you believe in is violence.

The Church of Reality challenges Islam to show wisdom. We challenge you to show the world who you are and what you stand for. We challenge you to show us that you can stop the violence and live in a world as productive members of society. We want to know that you aren't going to go out and start killing people every time someone pisses you off. From what I can tell your behavior is an insult to your God. You look at the news and you tell me, is this what God wants you to do? Is this an example of the way people of God behave? Do you want to stand before God and explain that you represented God in this manner and face his judgement? I would think not.

The civilized world is watching Islam. We are asking ourselves if we want to share community with you. We are asking ourselves if you are safe to be around or are you going to slit our throats while we sleep. We Realist believe in freedom of religion. But that freedom stops when we feel that a group threatens civilization. What we see in the news is worrisome.

I am my own phone company

I am in the process of becoming my own phone company. Using Voice over IP technology like Vonage and Packet 8 but doing it muself. Basically it's just open source software called Asterisk that I have running on one of my email servers. Not only is it incredibly cheap, but I can do a lot over very cool stuff. I have total control over my inbound and outbound call routing.

I'm considering offering it as a service for friends and such. Still exploring what it's capable of. I need a name for the business and web site (other than Perkel Telephone). Looking for ideas.

One of the things I can do is break Caller ID blocking. I'd like to test this further. So - I'm looking for someone who has a problem with a stalker who is calling you all the time harrasing you with caller ID blocked. Looking for someone who is being harrased a lot so I don't have to wait very long to see how this works. So if you are someone who has a stalker and you want to bust them then email me and let's set something up. You must have a telephone feature that will forward your number if you don't answer. (no answer forwarding). I've tested this on Verizon cell phones and it works.

Muslim Violence will not stop Free Speech

Letter to the Editor

If Muslims think they are going to stop free speech through violence they will soon see that it's not going to work. As it turns out some of the cartoons are accurate. Islam is a violent religion that is focused on world domination and oppression. The can claim that they are a religion of peace and love but what you do speaks louder than what you claim to be. Muslims stone women to death for being raped. They behead people for speaking freely. They leave a trail of death and destruction that reflects what they really believe. This latest campaign of violence is not winning over the hearts and minds of of people who love peace and freedom and it doesn't make us want to have Muslims as part of our community.

Islam is a dangerous psyco religion

Reaction to Muslinm cartoon by Islam shows that the point of the cartoonsis actually true. Muslims are dangerous crazy people who advocate violence and are quite comfortable to murder and destruction. The expect us to give up our rights to talk about them the way they want. No fucking way.

Christians are crazy people too by they don't turn violent every time someone draw a cartoon about Jesus. Of course they want to rule the world and hope to be as crazy as Muslims, they just don't have as much faith.

Jews - somewhat more crazy in some ways than Christians. Tell some Jews that they aren't God's chosen people and they get offended. Tell them they are acting like Nazi's in Palistine and they go ape shit.

So is say to the Muslim world - fuck you - we say what we want. get used to it.