Young actor's murderer still on the loose - could this be the beginning of a spree?

I have recently received insider information from an actor working in New York, that Heath Ledger was killed by the Joker. Ledger was recently quoted as saying that playing the part of the psychotic Joker in the upcoming film, The Dark Knight, put such a strain on the actor that he could not sleep at night.

Ledger told The New York Times last year that Heath Ledger stressed a little too much over the role.
The interview was done in London during the filming of Batman.
'It is a physically and mentally draining role (his Joker is a “psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy” he said cheerfully ) and, as often happens when he throws himself into a part, he is not sleeping much," Heath Ledger told The Times.

“Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.”
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So there you have it. Now the Joker's started killing people out here in the real world. Well, kind of the real world. New York City anyway, not LA, or Tokyo or one of those DC cities. A proper Marvel city. I'm starting to see it more and more. Life drifting into the broad strokes of a comic book: pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chick Stone, and fuck sake let's say it, script by Stan Lee.
And that might be putting too precise a point on it. The inks aren't always by Chic Stone, and sometimes the pencils are by Steve Ditko. But regardless, like in the Mighty Marvel Age of the 1960s what we're seeing around us is a world shaped by the artists. A world that is running a few steps faster, and a fews steps deeper than what the writers are picking up or getting down.

Things are starting to happen which lead me to think that the dread iron system, whose shadow we have been cowering under since the birth of our New American Century, when on September the Eleventh the assault on the hearts, minds, and rights Americans began, but what I'm trying to say, is maybe that's ending now.

Yeah, so this is the thing. I might be fooling myself, and even if I am, its okay I need the break from the bleak. But I really am starting to think that maybe things are getting better. I really don't want to jinx it, but maybe the brutal and much loathed system, will just break. Fall apart like a poorly thought out Rube Goldberg machine. Not so bad. Weeds are springing up through the cement. Tree roots cracked it but the dandelions have the flowers now.

But it seems this is a transition period; reality is becoming less fixed, and change starts to happen faster and faster. New technologies are rippling into ever facet of life and every field of thought. And so the world starts to look more like a comic book. But I've said that already, so let's go to some examples:

Okay Tom Cruise is a lot of my evidence. I don't know when you first realized that he's a super hero, but for me it was a picture I saw on some tabloid last May that looked something like this,
I believe here he's pictured riding towards Avengers Mansion shortly before his falling out with Hollywood types he once considered nearly family. So far Tom Cruise seems a lot cooler than Tony Stark, who he was originally on the team to replace. Perhaps since Tom Cruise thinks he can move things with his mind, and did overcome his dyslexia through hard work, his mental powers make him more appealing than a gadget hero like Stark's Iron Man.
[Tom Cruise taking ‘Mission’ to Tribeca]

Also if you watched the latest Tom Cruise bit to hit the web, (but not the news, copyright is still ironclad for them) you may have gotten the impression that Tom Cruise's legacy will overshadow that of Scientology. I think he is using his mental powers and personal energy to summon forth something. And his image is starting to represent that something more than the dying cult he is presently apart of.
[Watch the Secret Scientology Tom Cruise Video]


And if Tom Cruise is our superhero, we know we're in the Marvel Universe since his arch villains are a shadow band of hackers known as Anonymous who have vowed to destroy Scientology. Sometimes, over the top is exactly the spot you need to hit. Seems like this could actually start some commotion.
[Message to Scientology]

I'll try to start posting more comic art and more evidences of this most enjoyable turn of events. And hopefully as my world outlook has been brightened, the stories I find and share will be a bit more upbeat from now on. But no promises.

Using the FOIA to Learn about the SEGNPMSS

I've always been interested in the Freedom of Information Act. Though, I've yet to actually use it to learn anything, I can learn about it on the Internet. Here's what I've learned.

How to use the Federal FOI Act
A booklet originally published in 1976, now in it's 9th edition. Seems to have the most basic instructions for how to use the FOIA. Apparently, step one is to simply write a letter to the respective agency asking informally for the information you want. Not all information is available, the exemptions are pretty common sense. The only one that surprised me was:
Exemption (b)(9) - Geological Information

The National Security Archive
This is a great resource that I'm really looking forward to digging into. The Nixon/Presley meeting documents are quite great and include a pdf of Elvis' handwritten letter to Nixon asking to be made a Federal Agent at Large in order to help fight the drug and hippie problems of the country. As I will probably remain too lazy to write any agency, and too uncreative to think of some information that needs liberating, this site will be the next best, and maybe better thing.

Barbara Schwartz
This is a interesting wiki about the person to apparently hold the most FOIA requests. She was the president of the Church of Scientology in Germany for almost a year in the 1980s. She has used most of her FOIA requests to try and unravel the mysteries of her own personal history.

Schwarz has written that she believes the Church of Scientology has been infiltrated by agents of what she refers to as "SEGNPMSS" ( "Still Existing German Nazi Psychiatrists' Mindcontroller Secret Service"). She blames Nazi infiltrators of the Church of Scientology for her involuntary expulsion as the president of the Church of Scientology in Germany. She continues to consider herself a Scientologist and defends the Church, "in its true form."[2]

The wiki is actually rather sad concluding with her being banned from the Salt Lake City Public Library, in part for being the FOIA Terrorist. More on this sort later.