Dick Cheney's Acid House

[Minstrel Boy]

Posted to my blog here.

Dick Cheney's Acid House



You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that'll never cure your ills - Bob Dylan

From The Huffington Post:

Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to the cardiac unit of the Vail Valley Medical Center. Contrary to Associated Press reports that he went to see orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Steadman, for a knee injury, Vice President Cheney went directly to the cardiac unit to see Dr. Jack Eck and his team. The Vice President checked into the hospital under the name of Dr. Hoffman.

Interesting choice of alias for the Homeland's Regent. The most famous, or perhaps infamous, doctor to bear that name is Dr Albert Hoffman: the "father of LSD."

Dr Hoffman writes, in LSD: My Problem Child, that the most significant insight he had gained by his LSD experiments is that "what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego."

Were you able to read that without recalling the notorious words of the true voice of the White House, spoken to Ron Suskind last Fall? These words:

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

The cocaine metaphor is a common touchstone for critics of the administration. That might have been the poison of choice for the empty suit at the top, but it's not his administration, it's Cheney's, and cocaine doesn't make pharmacological sense of the bad trip he's sent us on. The White House is not a crack house, it's an acid house.

I don't know whether Cheney's choice of alias was deliberate, though with this man, I suspect everything either is, or deliberation is irrelevent. Why not "Mr Hoffman"? Let's remember, as much as we'd like to forget, that it's not too long ago that he wore a green parka and wool cap with the words "Staff 2001" to an Auschwitz memorial service.

And it must said, there is a resemblance:

The other Dr Hoffman


When was it, exactly, that we entered this altered reality? How long is it you've been shaking, sweating, and seeing things that shouldn't be there? The United States, in every tragic sense, is an altered state; an experimental subject of dark actors and mad doctors. How long before the Acid Empire, like Frank Olson before it, falls from a great height?

It's been quite some time that America's been drinking the Kool Aid, but it took Dr Cheney to spike it.

[bahrbearian]

1. Great Post

Nominated

[deminks]

2. 'Bad Trip' Cheney

I guess that it was Cheney (or KKKarl) who said that "empire" line to Suskind. If he used the Dr. Hoffman alias, it is like every other thing he does - he knows not of what he speaks.

go F yourself, Dickie boy. Thousands have died for your bad trip.

:grr:

[slay]

21. He is a bad trip

Even my worst trip on LSD was never at bad as the Cheney/BushCo nightmare. :wow:

[SmokingJacket]

3. Great post!! nt

[libodem]

4. darn...just his knee

shoot...well at least that can be painful...I for one am hoping his heart will explode....

[lonestarnot]

5. And his head too!

[JohnyCanuck]

6. Just so long as there is no collateral damage

I wouldn't want any little kiddies or innocent grandmas taken out by that explosion.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. "hoping his heart will explode"...

Does he have one?

[DemonFighterLives]

7. Oh dicky boy, the dickster

Mr. New World Order man is really tripping. He thinks dubby and the gang will totally finish off the good ole USA and trounce the world.
Trippin Mo Fo!
:silly:

[Tesla]

8. I say one good trip to Cedar Point Ohio

may do it, put him on that new 0-G ride!!!!

[DemonFighterLives]

9. Oh Wow Man

Is that like psychedelic nirvana?

[dxstone]

10. And what a wrong strange trip it's been! n/t

[Karenina]

29. True, that.

[Boxerfan]

11. Lysergic Acid Dialthylamide or LSD25

I think the premise,theory of an altered reality are correct but only in a "managed plane" fashion,IE media control & basic soundbite repetition(mind control for idiots).

Acid gave many of my generation greater insight into the miracles available if we would only availe ourselves in a journey of peace & cohabitation VS dominance & annialation...

Peace love & hippy shit Y'all!

[slay]

24. I hate that people have been denied

the choice of using psychodelics or not (by the government that is). I mean, what's the problem here, you can always choose 'not'. :hippie:

[Ishoutandscream2]

12. On a post yesterday, many were commenting that the Dick

was looking worse than usual. Maybe all of the "negativity" toward he and his fellow war criminals is finally getting to him. It has not been a very good couple of weeks for the administration, and maybe the stress is taking its toll.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Is that what they were talking about when they said Laura went

on a "Private Trip"?

[Tesla]

14. I think they NEED a good trip, and make them watch Fahrenheit 911!!

Give them a little different perspective on things!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. I'm glad

I took the antidote.

[Beam Me Up]

16. Whoever controls your perception of reality controls you.

n/t

[Minstrel Boy]

17. Funny thing about Cheney and Frank Olson:

It was Cheney who, with Donald Rumsfeld, conspired in 1975 to cover-up the circumstances of Olson's state-induced, and LSD-assisted, death.

[seemslikeadream]

18. At least he left his big foam finger in the car...

http://www.tonkinese.net.nyud.net:8090/media/images/cheney_sblower.jpg
http://www.tonkinese.net.nyud.net:8090/media/images/cheneyicefishingTAS.jpg

http://www.tonkinese.net.nyud.net:8090/media/images/post132150cheneyflav8po.jpg

http://www.tonkinese.net.nyud.net:8090/media/images/dick.jpg

[Gabi Hayes]

19. har de har HAR......great pictures, great post....and

I never noticed the first line to that song

what a perfect analogy for the supine WH press corpsE, yes?

I said to John Dickerson, I said, on the radio, awhile back that he and his bunch were doing all they could do keep up the pretense that the emperor had any clothes, and that they were doing a great disservice to the nation by refusing to follow up on the occasional, unanswered, of course, difficult question proffered up by the weak-kneed minions of the fourth estate

he blathered something about concomitant lack of access, to which I replied (getting cut off mid-way), and loss of cushy, work free job? How hard is it to be a stenographer to the like of bush?

[seemslikeadream]

20. Huey and the Ballad of a Thin Man

Thanks Gabi




Among his tales of police brutality and revolutionary fervour, Seale inserted a chapter entitled ‘Huey Digs Bob Dylan’. The setting is the home of radical lawyer Beverly Axelrod in 1966: Newton and Seale are laying up the pages for the first issue of their party newspaper, cunningly titled The Black Panther. ‘While we were laying that paper out, in the background we could hear a record, and the song was named “Ballad of a Thin Man” by Bob Dylan. Now the melody was in my head... but I didn’t really hear the words. This record played after we stayed up laying out the paper. And it played the next night after we stayed up laying out the paper. I think it was around the third afternoon that the record was playing. We played that record over and over and over.

‘Huey P. Newton made me recognize the lyrics. Not only the lyrics of the record, but what the lyrics meant in the record. What the lyrics meant in the history of racism that had perpetuated itself in the world. Huey would say: “Listen, listen – man, do you hear what he is saying?” Huey had such insight into how racism existed, how racism had perpetuated himself. He had such a way of putting forth in very clear words what he related directly to those symbolic things or words that were coming out from Bobby Dylan. ‘I remember that the song got to the point where he was talking about this cat handing in his ticket and he walked up to the geek, and the geek handed him a bone. Well, this didn’t relate to me, so I said: “Huey, look, wait a minute, man”. I said, “What are you talking about a geek? What is a geek? What the hell is a geek?” And Huey explains it.’

Newton’s explanation runs for almost a page: ‘“a geek”, he tells Seale, “is usually a circus performer”, who has been badly injured and can’t work any longer. But he knows no other life than the circus, so he agrees to do the lowliest jobs just to stay in the community. Maybe he even agrees to eat live chickens in a cage as a freak attraction.’ Newton continues: ‘These people who are coming in to see him are coming in for entertainment, so they are the real freaks. And the geek knows this, so during his performance, he eats the raw chicken and he hands one of the members of the audience a bone. ‘Then to put it on the broader level, what Dylan is putting across is middle-class people or upper-class people who sometimes take a Sunday afternoon off and put their whole family into a limousine, and they go down to the black ghettos to watch the prostitutes and watch the decaying community.(...) That makes the middle-class and upper-class people, who are down there because they get pleasure out of it, freaks.

And this goes into the one-eyed midget. What is the one-eyed midget? He screams and howls at Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones doesn’t know what’s happening. Then the one-eyed midget says, give me some juice or go home. And this again is very symbolic of people who are disadvantaged. They’re patronizing Mr. Jones, the middle-class people. You know, they’re not interested in them coming down for entertainment. But if they’ll pay them for a trick, then they’ll tolerate them, or else they’ll drive them out of the ghettoes. This song is hell. You’ve got to understand that this song is saying a hell of a lot about society.’

Seale digests this explanation, and notes: ‘Bobby Dylan says, you don’t know what’s happening, do you, Mr. Jones? And to hand him the naked bone was too much – was really too much.’

An insignificant if amusing interlude, you might think, suggesting that Huey P. Newton missed his vocation as a literary critic. But as Seale explains later in the chapter, ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ came to occupy a key place in the imaginative landscape of the Panthers: ‘This song Bobby Dylan was singing became a very big part of that whole publishing operation of the Black Panther paper. And in the background, while we were putting this paper out, this record came up and I guess a number of papers were published, and many times we would play that record. Brother Stokely Carmichael also liked that record. This record became so related to us, even to the brothers who had held down most of the security for the set.
http://www.judasmagazine.com/pages.asp/peterdoggettj1.asp

[BMG]

22. I wouldnt want to imagine Cheney on acid.

My subject title says it all.

[Ragnar]

23. I've dropped acid with Republicans.

I would not recommend it.

[dbt]

25. A Slick Kick:

When logic and proportion
have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen's off her head,
Remember what the dormouse said:
Feed your head
Feed your head

:hippie:

[Doomy]

26. I thought is was Timothy Leary

that invented LSD. He was cool and very smart. The Moody Blues did a song about him. They are still around. I went to their concert 2 years ago and me and my friend Bucky did a little grass. They were great.

[kohodog]

27. Damn, Can you imagine tripping with Cheney?

Just the thought is enough to make you insane.

[slay]

30. That's got "bad trip" written all over it

:wow: