May 2005.
But I stray from coherant thought don't I? It's hard to keep up and write about it while trashed folks. Well actually it's very easy and I have hopes of making it pay the bills but thats another brain fart. Where to start where to end? I guess I should go right for the throat of the rabid venom machine that Fox news is. "Returning troops and who helps them and where they get help". Nice message that never mentions Bush and cronies refusal to give National Guard troops the same medical care. It isn't like they haven't done forced reenlistments and treated troops like shit with not enough armor and supplies, but here they go shortchanging the troops and "FOX screws" goes and runs a special about all the fine and good help the maimed and mutilated get once they come into this country. Without one mention of Bush screwing the troops at every turn. Fair and balanced. My ass. "As me grandma was want to say when confronted my liars and thieves."
Yes I know I double space alot. My keyboard is almost as twitchy as my thumbs. Lets get over that and move along shall we? No. Okay fine I know my grammer sucks and my punctuations for shit. I really just want to move along with this m'kay? No?!? Alright dammit, I know my writing should have more depth and my rants a few more links backing up my simpleminded opinions, but............ This is my blog and I really want to just move along. Good? Fine.
How can I stop persecuting the media enough? They are and can only be guilty in the grande charade that is the War on Terror. Is it just a case of a larger portion of America waking up, or the media format of the internet allowing us to gather in greater numbers than geology once allowed? Our voices louder thanks to the internet. But that isn't my media rant. How is it that we know what they don't, or aren't reporting? Allowing the charitable stance of saying they are slackers who aren't as good as your commen blogger still begs the question, "But now that they know why aren't they reporting?" Which leads to where we should have started. They knowingly and with pattern are bending the news to the administrations viewpoint, becoming a tool or politics. But ever has it been so to some varying degree or another.
Back in a day when witchhunts for commies claimed HollyWood. Back in a day when the Federal Government allowed their agents free reign to scour the public for the evil blight on this great land of the day. Nothing like today. And they dragged citizens forward and accused them of crimes that weren't really crimes, and many were scared enough to turn in friends and family allowing this abuse of civil rights to continue. Nothing like today. And the media got in the game and it became a grande obsession of the whole country to root out the commie pinkos fascist liberal fag nigger kike spic wop beaner mick beer drinking pretzel eating hitler loving bastards. Until someone woke up and realized it was our own citizens we were jailing and treating like shit, and we hadn't caught no one worth talking about.
But instead of reality and serious thought to what is good for all in the world we get actor presidents. We get actor governors. We get actor mayors. Why? Because thats all we want. Good image and good PR. We care less for some poor schmuck who steps forward with all the facts if the challenger has a few good slogans. We all want to cheer and hoot and holler, unless you're a serious threat to a presidential election, in which case they'll label you insane and make fun of you twenty four seven for weeks on end, "Yeeeaaarrgghh!".
And I haven't the spirit to argue the court nominees or the filibusters or the nuccuuler option on the Senate because I believe it's all floor show and sham. Curtains on the windows of what is really going on and important. Meant to lead the dogs off on a false scent while real stories fly by day after day after day. And me the idiot drunkard I am seeing real stories slipping by day after day, and knowing our great and grande media isn't reporting on them with the same dog drooling over a bone vengence they gave Nixon and Clinton, well me fine friends tis but another example of not a media complacent, but a media owned. Expect no assitance from them. And even the triumphs one makes are but subterfuge to distract from greater and grander stories. We are living Robert Ludlum novels and it's becoming so surreal. At least to me. And that's because I drink. Alot. Lucky me. Because if this shit was real and I was sober............................
A man decides to have a face-lift for his birthday. He spends $5,000 and feels really good about the results. On his way home, he stops at a newsstand and buys a paper.
Before leaving, he says to the sales clerk, "I hope you don't mind me asking, but how old do you think I am?" "About 35," was the reply. "I'm actually 47," the man says, feeling really happy. After that, he goes into McDonalds for lunch and asks the clerk the same question. The reply is, "Oh, you look about 29". "I am actually 47."
Later, while standing at a bus stop, he asks an old woman the same question. She replies, "I am 85 years old, and my eyesight is going. But when I was young, there was a sure way of telling a man's age. If I put my hand down your pants and play with your balls for 10 minutes, I will be able to tell you your exact age."
As there was no one around, the man thinks, What the hell and lets her slip her hand down his pants. Ten minutes later, the old lady says, "Okay, it's done. You are 47." Stunned, the man says, "That was brilliant. How did you do that?" The old lady replies, "I was behind you at McDonalds."
"It is the VETERAN, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the VETERAN, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the VETERAN, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the VETERAN, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the VETERAN, not ! the politician, Who has given us the right to vote."
During class, a teacher trying to teach good manners asks the students "Michael, if you were on a date, having supper with a nice young lady. How would you tell her that you have to go to the Bathroom?" "Just a minute, I have to go piss." "That would be rude and impolite!!! What about you John, how would you sayit?" "I am sorry, but I really need to go to the bathroom, I'll be right back." "That's better, but it's still not very nice to say the word bathroom at the table. And you Peter, are you able to use your Intelligence for once and show us your good manners?" "I would say: Darling, may I please be excused for a moment, I have to shake hands with a very dear friend of mine, whom I Hope you'll get to meet after supper."
A growing number of people who believe God and Jesus actually meant what they said when they spoke of helping the poor, the sick, the old. Who believe that the Christian Right has lost sight of all this in an effot to gain footholds into politics. And why would religion want to have footholds into politics? Well to make sure laws are passed or not passed that respect their religion. How against the constitution is that? Can it get any more apparent?
And I a small voice on the side of the Christian Left am assualted by not only the fanatics who have taken up the Bible like a shield in their quest for political power, but the Liberals and Left who claim it is all our fault for allowing this to happen. All the Christians fault for fanatics who forget "Thou shall not kill.". When the people in question who tout said Christianity are doing meetings with the Reverand Moon. Someone who claims to be Christ or the second coming or God. No where is this being dragged out by my Liberal friends and cohorts. Sure they will gladly bash Republicans for the pedophilia, the car crashes, the drinking, wife beatings, drug charges, not drug charges. But mention that they hang around lunatics who think they are God doesn't seem to get much mention.
Now I have to laugh when I think of all those times George Bush Jr mentioned he spoke with God. With this bunch and their connections and their actions I just have to wonder which God and if he was available by telephone. Because really folks, do you think God is a Republican? Jesus wasn't the kind to put up with people turning his temples into places to make money. He didn't seem to like the way the rich treated the poor. He wasn't really happy with the rulers of the land. Seems that Jesus might have issue with the blowhards of Right Wing radio that justify torture and death as a means to an end.
And I blog not just because I want my voice heard. But because I want my voice heard as a Christain. A member of the growing Christian Left that doesn't buy the lies. That knows when lines have been crossed and who is crossing them. A growing group that wants to take back their Bibles and their religion. Get used to us. We're gonna be here a long time.
Before performing a baptism, the priest approached the young father and said solemnly, "Baptism is a serious step. Are you prepared for it?"
"I think so," the man replied. "My wife has made appetizers and we have a caterer coming to provide plenty of cookies and cakes for all of our guests."
"I don't mean that," the priest responded. "I mean, are you prepared spiritually?"
"Oh, sure," came the reply. "I've got a keg of beer and a case of whiskey."
Case in point. Drowning Mexicans. If they were able to video the shit, couldn't they have done something to keep them from dying? And before a one of you right wing cocksuckers who claim to love this country and God so much opens up with a retort, please for a second consider what reaction you would have if Mexicans stood by while Americans died just because they were American. The right wing is starting to show it's true colors when something like this will be debated and defended. Standing by while another dies because of race, or color, sex or sexual persuasion, religion or nationality is something that goes against everything that America is supposed to stand for, but everything the Bible which these fanatics are using as an excuse for these actions stands for.
Yeah I'm tired and fed up. I'm tired of Liberals and Democrats confusing what Christians are and what these fanatics are. I'm tired of the Republicans trying to act like they are Christians when everything they've done for the past seven years looks so evil. And I'm tired of Americans who claim to be Christians following these freaks like sheep when all they have to do is open up that book they claim to believe in and see what God and Jesus think about going to war to bring about Democracy.
A junior partner in a law firm was sent to a far away country to represent a long-term client accused of robbery. After days of trial, the case was won, the client acquitted and released.
Excited about his success, the attorney e-mailed the firm: “Justice prevailed.”
The senior partner replied in haste, “Appeal immediately.”
Thank you. That is all.
Irishman went to a pet shop and asked how many budgies were in stock. "We have 99" replied the shop owner "Give us the lot" said the Irish man, paid for them and left. He went to a tailors shop and had 99 pockets sewn into a jacket, put a budgie in each pocket, went up to the Post Office Tower and jumped off. He hit the ground with an almighty smack and lay there groaning until a passer-by came and asked him what had happened. "I don't know sur" he replied "but that's the last time I try that budgie jumping"
But that's not what I want you to wonder about. To worry about. To think about. Instead I would direct your attention to the ring to the right where we have a lake in Russia vanishing. It go poof. Like as in evaporated over night? Leaked into the ground? Stolen by aliens with a huge thirst? The ramifications of this being a natural occurence should worry vulcanologist and geologist. A lake being displaced speaks of much larger more dangerous events. Big time events. Movie of the week events.
Did I for a minute there help you forget the old man in his undies? No? Too bad. It's gonna be seared into your retina forever thanks to the media machine in full swing. Avert your children's eyes people. No reason to harm their tender minds forever as well. Which brings me to twisted thoughts. Governor Bush. The brother of the evil overlord currently acting as president. The spawn of a previous overlord who acted as president. Soon to be running for president himself so "The Sith Take Control III" can take it's place in terrible trilogys. Well he signed into law the Florida State Fruit is now the orange. I'm from Florida. Was born here, live here, grew up here. I always thought the orange was our state fruit. Turns out it wasn't but now is. Good for oranges. Nice to see gay people have forgiven oranges for all the gay bashing Anita Bryant was said to have committed. But thought I to myself, what was the state fruit before then? For some reason Pee Wee Herman came to mind and I knew I was just wrong, wrong I say, I'm just not right.
A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the other end. After an hour of gathering up his courage he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?" To which she responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "No, I won't sleep with you tonight!" By now, the entire bar is staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table. After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations." To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you mean $200!"
So what's the connection shared by George Bush and the good Reverand Moon? What's the connection shared by Moon and other world leaders? Looking above and beyond the stories of Moon's strange actions past and present who all is connected to him and his belief? Removing the Jim Jones element of Moon believing he is the messiah, we are still left with a belief that would be very appealing to certain types of Christians. So not only does his money and reporting through his growing printed news services hold effect on leaders of both religion and politics, he also has a belief and formula to bring about the rebirth of religion in America, Christianity to be precise, and to take it to the political arena to make changes in the legislative process.
Now there have been repots of Moon using not only his money but his operatives in helping certain politicians gain office. He has gone from being an immigrant to this country to become a very very influential person worldwide. And his belief that he is the next messiah shouldn't disturb most of us in the least. Unless........... But............. Well.......... Do we really want our political leaders beholden to a man who believes himself the second coming? Do we worry at all that some of our leaders may believe it as well? That Moon has been establishing people in key positions for more than a few years, working from within the system to change it? And it's not just Moon.
There is a strong movement across our great country from numerous groups who may or may not be connected to move into small communities with a poor economic base. Then buy homes and fix them up along with others who follow in soon. Using the towns low population many of these groups soon number enough voters to gain spots in town councils representing the communities. All are pushing a strong return to Christian values. A return to the church. Putting religion into politics from the ground up. And it's not that I'm against religion, Christian or otherwise, it's that they are changing the law making what they believe to be sins illegal. So if you do what they think is a sin you are punished. Sure your head might not be cut off, or your hands, or whatever, but...........
We are still being punished in an effort to make us conform. So in our country so long ago it became acceptable to punish people for doing what they said we couldn't. We allowed them to tell us what we could put in our bodies. We allowed them to control what com es out of our bodies. We soon let them control what we saw, read, heard. And before you know it we let them control what we think. We accept each new assualt on personal freedom as punch drunk boxers too stupid to just fall down.
So before you know it we are being controlled by politicians who believe the law of the land should come directly from the Bible. That if it isn't followed they have the right to punish you. And I ask exactly how different is that from the Mullahs in other than severity which I believe many good Christian followers wish they could fix as well. So I end on these many ponders and questions. Is George Bush a Moonie? Who in the White House was Gannon giving the Oval Office treament to? Are Christian values way up there in politics land lies, dirty deals, pedophilia, greed, hate,? I mean these guys not only know their seven deadly sins they display them daily.
But enough enough. Bashing Republicans for being liars and cheats is too easy. Its like saying water is wet. Everyone knows water is wet and expects it to be wet. The only time people sit up and notice is if the water does something unusual, like be honest and care about the people. That'd make em sit up wouldn't it? And why the push to pass a law allowing a person not born here to run for president? Moon for president in 2008? I mean Arnie brings back memories of Nazi experiments to make the super race with Hitlers genes and his Austrian accent while he gave those moving George Bush campaign speeches just gave me the shivers. What Jewish person in the world shouldn't get the shivers when an Austrian accented person starts whipping people into a frenzy of nationalism?
But what if Moon wanted to be president? What if he walks among us in places of power attended to by his faithful cronies and lapdogs who wallow in the bliss of his money and publicity. Yeah a bit over the top there. Too bad. But I speculate on things that lead to other things that lead to Washington and the newspapers there and Brazil and oil and submarines and strange ties and things to the yakuza and North Korea and a wonderful world full of complicated strings being tugged expertly by a master who had the patience and strength to realize his dream. A person who used obsession to gain the desired results. But still obsessed. Still a loon. And our leaders accepting the loon and his beliefs while running on a Christain bandwagon political run.
But do we doubt that religion has never reared it's ugly head in politics before. I say ugly because religion and politics don't mix. They are two different ideals entirely. One ideal the belief in freedom of choice and equality, the other one of subservience to a deity. The one mans word is law, the other God's word is law. But still we must be reminded of prohibition the failed experiment from our past that many desire to repeat. There we see religion and morality being taken to the political stage and forced upon many who did not agree. And as many should note things became worse because of prohibition not better. To further demonstrate we have prohibitions against drugs of many kinds and incarcerate many of our own citizens. The fear of prison often leads to violence among many groups for varying reasons thanks to the prohibition of drugs. The gangs who deal drugs would be forced to seek work elsewhere or find something new to exploit were drugs legalized. Hard to buy Glochs and bad rides selling ice cream to fat kids.
An Irishman, an Italian, and Banta are in a bar. They are having a good time and all agree that the bar is a nice place. Then the Irishman says, "Aye, this is a nice bar, but where I come from, back in Dublin, there`s a better one. At MacDougal`s, you buy a drink, you buy another drink, and MacDougal himself will buy your third drink!" The others agree that sounds like a nice place. Then the Italian says, "Yeah, that`s a nice bar, but where I come from, there`s a better one. Over in Brooklyn, there`s this place, Vinny`s. At Vinny`s, you buy a drink, Vinny buys you a drink. You buy another drink, Vinny buys you another drink." Everyone agrees that sounds like a great bar. Then Banta guy says, "You think that`s great? Where I come from, there`s this place, Ludhiana. At Ludhiana, they buy you your first drink, they buy you your second drink, they buy you your third drink, and then, they take you in the back and get you laid!" "Wow!" said the other two. "That`s fantastic! Did that actually happen to you?" "No," he replied, "but it happened to my wife!"
But that's enough for now. Here's some more crap I had stashed away with no intention of posting because it's demented. It's time clean out some of these folders so you get to see what trash I'm throwing out today. Njoy.
But here I am back to blogging and feel some of you expect something political to balance out all the games and porn. I managed to make it almost all the way through my blog roll. Once again I'm removing alot of blogs I just plain don't like. And seeing as how I keep adding new ones all the time there will eventually have to be some method to my madness. So for now I'm removing right wing liars and hate merchants. Before long I'll remove some of the silly links I've added. But that list is large. The "links to the left" are getting very big and cumbersome. Once I've gone and confirmed they are still current. Read some of what they have to say. Then move on the the next down the list. Well folks I get huge amounts of stuff crammed into my brain and often can't pull it out at a whim. I could make stuff up like a madman. I'm good at that. Some call it thinking on your feet. I'll just call it lying and be proud I'm good at something. Then I wonder what if anything any of us can do to stop the dominoes from falling.
And another stashed away glimpse into obscurity.
I walked quickly off the street down the steps into an alcove. Like many in this neighborhood it smelled of urine and old drunks. With a quick rap on the door to announce my arrival I waited. A small slot in the door slid aside to show a pair of black beady eyes checking me out.
"Who ya looking for slick?" the eyes inquired.
"I was told the fish was fresh." my cryptic reply.
The door behind be opened and the eyes shut the slide closed with a parting comment, "Stay in the main hall until you get to room seven. Don't go anywhere else."
With no further fanfare I slipped into the darkness of the waiting hallway. Gone from the outside world. Disappearing into shadows as easily as a magician's white doves. I had followed the instructions to the letter. First driving my car several miles out of the city and parking near a mini mart. Then using the payphone to call a cab which I road until I was within a mile of my destination then got out and took the bus. Riding several blocks out of my way I hopped off the bus and headed down into the subway. There I went to a row of phones and dialed the number given to me.
Well all for now. Let's see what I can cook up for tomorrow.
A drunk is sitting at a bar, and says, "Bartender! Another drink." The bartender shakes his head and says, "No you've had enough."
"Well," the drunk says. "How about if I show you something really cool? Then will you give me a drink?"
"Sure," the bartender says. "But it's gotta be pretty cool."
The drunk takes a tiny piano and a frog out of his pockets and sets them on the bar. The frog starts banging away, playing a beautiful song. The bartender gives him a drink. The drunk downs it, and orders another.
"No way," the bartender says. "Now you've really had enough."
"If you give me a drink, I'll show you something even cooler," says the drunk. The bartender agrees. The drunk pulls out a rat, and sets it next to the piano. The frog starts banging away again, and the rat starts singing to the music. The bartender is amazed, and gives him another drink.
A man who had been watching all this comes up to the drunk and says, "You've got a million dollar act there. I'll give you $500,000 for them right now."
"Not for sale," the drunk croaks.
"Ok, $500,000 just for the frog."
"Not for sale."
"Ok, $500,000 just for the rat."
The drunk agrees, and the man pays him and leaves.
The bartender says to the drunk, "What did you do that for? You broke up a million dollar act!"
"Not really," the drunk says. "You see, the frog's a ventriloquist."
Now for some stuff I've hidden in some folder meaning to use but haven't got around to.
THE DIMMU BORGIR SONG. Now I really have no idea what the heck this is. From first looks it would be some metal of the metalist calibre, though I have seen more foul and blasphemous, but it has a twisted side that strikes on of insanity. So a terribly twisted lifeform that has mutated and burst forth in moments of lucidity before it whithers and dies.
But that could lead to the electronic commerce society envisioned by our uber militant Christians. Direct deposit. Government being able to follow every purchase. Companies being able to track your buying and selling patterns to further fleece you of what little you have. Insuarance being denyed thanks to a list of medical bills all easily tracked. And no black market. That crucial place where people can get things outside of the normal avenues. Things governments outlaw, or refuse to sell, or don't want you to have. Because I support the black market. It is one of the things that helps protect us against intrusive laws, and dictorial governments.
"General Consensus" Now I'm way too busy working, living life, doing this page, ect to start a new page. Even one as simple as "General Consensus". Imagine a cute little picture of some crazed Napolean looking loon. That would be the header. And imaine questions of the week with a comments area. At the end of a week one could post the "General Consensus" of reader's responses. A silly stupid idea that has potential and merit. And I am too busy, tired, lazy to follow through. Someone should rip this idea off.
Failure and treason. I feel. "I" feel, that my country or at least it's elected leaders have failed in it's supervision. To illustrate my point, that which makes "me" feel the way I do I simply have to point out our own judicial system. Point out our own growing prison populations. Point out the failures to protect the oldest in our society against the predatations of big businesses greed for profit. Direct one's attention to the sales of arms and weapons to nations we still consider enemies of our country. The ongoing sales of our lands and businesses to foreign investors. And the plutocratic way our current system of representation points at failures at best. The profits made for companies connected to our elected officials speaks of a greed that borders on the treasonous. The aid given Saudi individuals just after the attacks on The World Trade Centers lay within the definitions of terrorism as outlined by the FBI's own publications. And the ongoing deciet in the push to follow a prewritten agenda just boggles the mind. As such I feel the current administration of this fine country deserves to be taken to court and tried as criminals of the state.
Boris Vallejo. Today I'm gonna find one of his pictures. I grew up reading alot, and some of what I read were fantasy works illustrated by Boris Vallejo. His works are part of a popular culture we all take for granted until we are beaten around the head and shoulders with it. Artistic expression has never truly known such a time as this. Millions of people are currently making money being artistic. The market has never been larger. It really isn't a good time to be a starving artist living in a bottle.
Please accept this may sound self defeating but hear me out a bit. A chain of events has been set into motion that will continue despite anyones best efforts. The best we could all hope for is sitting in our own backyards with our family, watching a nice warm fire. And wars don't provide that. Somewhere people are dying. How often is it because of us? Because of our governments policies. Please my Canadian friends do not think I let you off the hook. Where exactly does your produce come from? Who picks the coco beans for your chocolates? Many of us live fat and happy and bitch and whine about everything. At least with the blogosphere we can start learning to bitch in the right directions. And one of those right directions is Africa. Why are people starving there? Why is it a country that produces as many diamonds as they do is soo broke? Why is the country soo poor? Or better yet why are the rich so rich and the poor so much more poor? We all live in comfort with hospitals as close as a drive away. We have computers and houses over our heads. We have electricity and most likely food for our bellys. We condemn a war for all the deaths it is causing and for it's immorality. What exactly are we doing for the rest of the world? Is the Middle East the hot "in" topic and anything else though decent and good to mention not worth capturing a jaded publics eye? Bahhhh. I babble. Too much input for such a small brain. Give me a day to regroup and assimilate all the crap I've sucked in and I'll disgorge something at least worth poking with a stick. Out.
Yeah that's it for today. I gotta save something for later now don't I?
Brenda O'Malley is home making dinner, as usual, when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door. "Brenda, may I come in?" he asks. "I've somethin' to tell ya". "Of course you can come in, you're always welcome, Tim. But where's my husband?" "That's what I'm here to be telling ya, Brenda." There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery..." "Oh, God no!" cries Brenda. "Please don't tell me." "I must, Brenda. Your husband Shamus is dead and gone. I'm sorry. Finally, she looked up at Tim. "How did it happen, Tim?" "It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat of Guinness Stout and drowned." "Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me true, Tim. Did he at least go quickly?" "Well, Brenda... no. In fact, he got out three times to pee."
Damn I'm going off again. Tangents and paths I've already thought out, and here I go trying to explain them without the full fleshing out they had in my own mind. My children are taught to stand in line. To be on time. To raise their hands. To take orders. To accept leaders. To salute a flag. To believe Bush and cohorts have their best interest at heart. They are tuaght to accept other races, religions, sexual persuasions. But they are not taught to be individuals because that isn't really what is wanted now is it. What is wanted is good little robots and clones to be pumped out to fill the service industry jobs our land needs filled. Some may rise to the top of this grand scam, and by so rising they only bring about more problems for themselves by the raised expectations of all those around them. Expecting they do better and excell when they probably just want to play and be kids. But the times for childish things are behind us. I should support my kids efforts in every way to advance in today's changing world in any way possible. Even if I believe that the current state of things is wrong on soo many levels. So even in this the world seeks to change me and mold me in to something I not only don't want to become, but something I despise with my very being.
During one of my recent DHMV classes for the DUI I was charged with. For those just catching up I beat the charges so to speak, but still have to take the classes because I blew a .08 on the breathalyzer even though the reason I beat the case was because the breathalyzer works for crap. Well during one of the classes the nice lady was explaining how much money was lost yearly due to non productivity due to workers drinking. And while all the heads nodded on cue thanks to the streamlined courses, I found myself wondering, "So?". Because why the hell should I care that corpoartions and big business lost money? They aren't paying my bills. If anything they are causing me to pay more everytime one of them needs the government to bail them out. They cost me more everytime one of them is allowed to screw over pensioners and stockholders. They cost me more money everytime one of them goes bankrupt. But which group were the recent bankruptcy laws aimed at? Big business that cost the taxpayers millions of dollars a year? Or citizens already being screwed at every turn by this one of that one in the name of making a profit?
And the prison comes out. I walk the hallways of the school seeing the institutional feel of the hallways. Seeing the marked times and movements. The orders and conferences should those orders not be met with a satisfactory response. The training of my offspring into good servile workers for our future. Now don't get me wrong. I want them t o know hard work pays off. But it doesn't. I want them to know that long hours and dedication are guaranteed to get you ahead. But they don't. I want them to know that it's best to tell the truth. But it isn't always. And I want them to know it isn't right to fight or hurt people. But sometimes we do. So school teaches them alot of things they are soo proud to come home and tell me about. Things that I smilingly accept so as not to twist their little minds. Things I disagree with to my very core. And I smilingly listen and congratulate them on a job well done.
Some see the fences as a way of keeping the unwanted out. I see them as a way to keep people in. Some see the system as helping. I see it as destroying. Some believe we should all do what is good for the whole. While I believe the whole is nothing if it tramples the individual. And again I am reminded that they overtaught many of us. They didn't need to train us to think if they didn't want us to later in life. They shouldn't have told us to ask for more if they weren't willing to let us have it. And they shouldn't have told us we were free unless we really were. But thanks to subtle nuances and shadings of dialect we do know we are so much better than those other guys. We know those other guys are not free. We know their government can lock them away for long terms for no good reason. We know the bad guys trample the little people and take what small money they have saved in the name of the state. We know that the other guys let religion run their country whereas we do not. We know the bad guys bombs civilians and we do not. We know the evil doers will stoop to new lows in their quest for power. But our people do not. What we know and what we believe are so far from the truth as to give merit to the term living a lie.
And I go to school with my children for their sake and live the lie. I eat the gruel and mouth the words and smile the fake smiles people use when they know they are living the lie. And towards the end of the function they served cookies and koolaid. Dutifully the people marched up and took their cookies and koolaid and went outside to let the children play and interact. Happily the children ran forward to claim their treats. So happily I almost cried. I walked past the tables refusing to accept the koolaid for soo many reasons. My emotions rushed to the surface to only be shut down again. Jim Jones offered them koolaid. And much as the children here rushed forward I am willing to bet more than a few did there as well. Mad mother fuckers believing they are God telling people grander lies than we are taught now taking the children to their graves for their fucking incoherant crap. And no matter how well you dress up the Nazi formula I will not drink the koolaid. I see through the gauze of perceptions to what is and what is not. Were it not for my family I would easily disappear into the vastness that is humanity to never be seen again. And it was all set off by a glass of koolaid and the self important looks of our children's teachers preaching the lies from a schoolhouse pulpit.
But I bet that's the last damnded time the teachers ask me how I'm doing.
George W. Bush takes his fancy new hot air balloon out for a ride. After soaring over the country side for an hour he realizes he is lost. After spotting a young girl on a farm below he descended and shouted, "Hey little girl, can you help me? I promised a friend an hour ago I would meet him, but I don't know where I am." The young girl replies, "You are in a hot air balloon over my daddy's corn field making a racket and scaring the chickens!" Peeved, Bush says, "Your daddy must be a Democrat." "He is," says the girl, "but how did you know that?" "Well," answers Bush, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I still have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost. You aren't being much help." The girl below responds, "You must be a Republican." "I am," replies Bush, "but how did you know?" "Well," says the girl, "You're way up there full of hot air looking down on the world, you don't know where you're at and you don't know where you're going. You promised something to somebody you can't deliver on, and you were in this spot before we met but somehow your predicament is all my fault."
We are at war and people are dying. Every day of the week. Ours, theirs, and innocents in between. Budget battles, and filibusters, and Social Security may all be grand subjects of debate because they are important. Jesse James Hardy and Eminent Domain may be a warning to all citizens, but it still isn't the real news. The big story. The big story is the dying in Iraq. And we don't hear about them. Sure we get snippets, and the tickers running across the bottom mention the latest numbers, but there isn't any indepth reporting. When was the last time we saw reporters huddled on the roof of that building in the Green Zone? It isn't like they've moved out into the streets. Instead we just aren't getting news out of Iraq. Instead the big story is being ignored in favor of all the more important topics.
And I have to wonder if there still were stations doing panel discussions, how long it would be before exit strategy was discussed. A topic no one in Washington wants to talk about. Seems all the touchy subjects are no nos in medialand nowadays. They won't talk about the dying and the dead. They won't show caskets of returning soldiers for fears of offending someone. They won't mention the failures, no exit strategy, embezellment, oil price gouging, lies, deciet, and treason. What they will give you is tripe designed to distract you from the real issues that they are failing to cover.
Now I've thrown a bit of the blame for this at the viewer, consumer so to speak. I do know they like to be entertained ect. But it isn't all their fault. I've thrown some at the editorial staff within the big stations. But again they get edicts from above of what to report about and what not to. How their take on the situation should be. And when to smile and frown as the owners decree. So we can easily place some blame on the owners and stockholders feet. But.................... Yes, but, they answer to government regulations, and investors, and big deals, and agendas much larger than those just trying to pay their mortgage. With the example of the good reverand Moon I hope you looked into yesterday I displayed how a religious nutball gained riches enough to buy his way into our political process. And how using him as but one example we have to wonder about the agendas of some of the other billionaires out there. How many others are trying to become King of Kings as is the natural order of things.
But this is all old news. We all know the press is owned. What we really need to be asking is what the real agenda is and who is really behind it. My money was always on some clown in the Middle East, maybe one of those rich oil selling countries, but lately I've wondered about who really owns America's markers in the Orient. As a matter of fact I'm betting he has long fingernails which he taps together while muttering "Excellent". And Ninjas. You know he has Ninjas. And those big goldfish, koa. Must be nice being an evil oriental criminal mastermind, with a big house filled with nice gardens. Or a ninja.
A young mother was having a consultation with a doctor. As they spoke, her Little Johnny could clearly be heard terrorizing the people in the waiting room - yet she made no attempt to restrain him. Soon they heard some clattering in an adjoining room, but still she did nothing. Finally, after an extra-loud crash, the woman casually told the doctor, "I hope you don't mind my Little Johnny playing in there." "No, not at all," said the doctor calmly. "I'm sure he'll calm down as soon as he finds the poison."
Why is it that I bring this up now? With Baptist churches throwing out members for not voting Republican I had to point out some silliness that just doesn't make sense. Jerry Falwell that hotbed of Christian Rhetoric once said something that amounted to having the good reverand Moon kicked out of the country. But a short few years later old Jerry is accepting aid from Moon to keep his college up and running and to bail him out of some serious debt problems. So now Jerry does appearances at Moon's speeches. He sold out. His religion says there will be false prophets and he embraces the first one that comes along and gives him a bag full of money. Is this the Christian Right we are following into the future of America?
Now once again I expect you to use Google to do your own research on what it is I am babbling about. I don't have every fact and snippet in front of me but am working off of memory. But facts show Moon with an ever growing network of groups and such that over time he has become quite the player in Washington. Yet we don't hear much about him or his nutball ideas. Nutball ideas that should repel any true Christian, but which seem to be gaining acceptance among the Right Wing groups coming out of the woodwork. Groups soo dead set on stopping abortion at any cost that they will bow to a new master and savior while accepting his money to further their own agendas. One has to wonder about the real faith of these people who are currently speaking about all of their faith when it goes flying out the window with a few good bribes. Is this the Christian Right people are follwoing? Are they being led to bow before their new Father?
And Orwell must be laughing or crying at how close he came to the name of the next master and symbol of oppression. It isn't Big Brother, it is Father. Seems Moon calls himself Father as do some of his followers and children. And if it wasn't so scary because it could be true one would have to laugh at the secret ceremony crowing Moon King of all Kings. Seems he talks to spirits and the spirits all say we should worship Moon. Well I talk to spirits too. Jack, Jim, and sometimes Jose if I'm in a tequila mood. They all seem to thik I should tell the good reverand Moon to kiss my ass. God doesn't have to sneak in the back door. God marches right on up and knocks it down and comes in. Moon has followed a path and timetable he outlined for himself some time ago. He has shown himself to be a very shrewd person with a good intellect and good planning. But if he believes what he says we should all be very afraid that he moves in political circles in Washingtonso freely and with so much influence.
This really doesn't have the impact without all the factoid tidbits. But it ties in with our current political arena and the crossing over of churches into political reaction committees. The new laws passed allowing churches to spend so much of their tax exempt dollars on politics. We are having a crossing over and the mullahs are vying for position. It's not enough they control our worship and how we worship and to who we worship, but now they seek to become out government so as to outlaw the things they haven't been able to convince us are sins. So before long you'll be free to do as you please within the law because the laws will be rewritten to make anything besides the vision illegal. Who's vision I'm not really sure of. Moon's, Falwell's, Bush's, or some guy hunkered down in the Middle East. But our country has indeed entered a religious war and as I suggested many months ago it was just a matter of time before our citizens became the enemy.
I for one do not like the direction these goons are taking Christianity's image. And I am ashamed you so called educated liberals out there believe for a second it is how the majority of Christians feel. For all the sites I see bashing Christians as the problem I have to wonder if you were paying attention when you gave all those lectures on the evils of prejudice and bigotry. The nutballs are in charge. What they really believe is subject to debate. But from the looks of things, just like the old days, money buys influence.
One day, a mom calls her son Jack and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get it started."
Jack asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"
His mom says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a tiger."
Jack decides to go over and help with the puzzle.
She shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.
Jack studies the pieces for a moment, looks at the box, then turns to his mom and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a tiger."
He takes her hand and says, "Second, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then," he sighed, "let's put all these Frosted Flakes back in the box".
Immigration. Those pesky Mexican workers who come North to wash our toliets, scrub our kitchens, mow our lawns, pick our produce, and for some Americans take our jobs. We hear how it's because of those pesky corporations the government caters to so they can stay lucrative and compete globally with their subsidies. We here how it infuses America with new blood and generates the economy. And we have all of course heard about the dreaded Social Security mess that illegals immigrants have no concern over since they don't claim tax returns of which they are owed money.
One Mexican a little money. Many Mexicans alot of money. We all mutter about making it work and we easily could, Social Security that is, if we rolled back the tax cuts it would help, and if we rolled back the prescription drug scam we'd definately be doing better, and if we pulled out of Iraq and started paying them reparations we'd be well on our way, but, I say but people, but........................................ If we outlawed them illegals. Made them get out and not be able to work here, well folks the losses to our tax base would make everyone cry. It's one of the reasons they like em working as illegals, If they made it legal then they'd be eligible for their tax returns and refunds which are never claimed and put billions as in more than one into those tax coffers some of which is Social Security.
Well as I was saying Joe schmoe who works 50 hours a week at Anyjob Corp, gets home after a commute and just wants to loosen his shoes, shirt, tie, belt, pants, mind. The Ms Mrs Miss often wants the same. To unwind, relax, let the cares and worries go away for a few. Because like I've said we have more cares and worries thanks to civilization and technology not less. So when they get their news they accept whatever source they are getting it from as close to truth as possible because they wouldn't allow anyone to lie to you over the TV now would they? And the advertisers love us one and all. Us blind little consumers. We marketable commodities selling our country and birthright for bad patriot propaganda and cheap plastic crap made in other countries.
So while I applaud the efforts of our congress critters trying to call Bush to the carpet I don't see anything coming out of it unless the press climbs out of his ass. The obvious failures over time being beyond the possibility of coincidence or poor editorial planning can only mean exactly what they mean, the press is owned. The list of credible witnesses to all that is currently being reinvestigated that have had their names slandered is long. The patterns fall into place and nothing as silly as impeachable offenses against our nation, our people, our soldiers, and their families, will stand in the way of GWB's triumphant finish before heralding in the next Bush.
And I regret that my words could be considered as backed by any weight. I am but a Drunken Monkey that blabbers about my opinion on numerous subjects. And George Bush and companie offer a myriad of topics to choose from. So I often fall into the tired path of bashing him as soo many do. But it is my opinion and I back it as such. I think.
All that stutter had to do with anti defamation laws. See I got it into my head that I am suprised Bush and cohorts haven't been suing people on the internet for defamation. See in Texas that grand old state they have lots and lots of laws to protect the folks. Can't have too many laws can ya? And Oprah that female who forgets of a mans needs has moved her offices to Texas to be near an ongoing trial she has with cattle ranchers down there. Seems she or a guest or two on her show defamed beef. GASP! They mentioned madcow and the practice of feeding cows dead cows. No the cows are not cannibals, they process it into the feed. But nothing is really being done about it, "SUPPOSEDLY" ha, damnded anti defamtaion laws. So Oprah is being sued.
Which brought out the article that talked about defaming veggies. Seems FARMAGROSANTO or some conglomerate of companies using bio engineered foods and grains and stuff may be making killer weeds, they kill other plants not people you silly, and may have possible ills effects on humans that haven't been studied. And they got legislation passed in a whole lotta states saying you couldn't talk bad about their stuff. So dissing a carrot or brussel sprout could get you court time, if you're famous. Us nobodies can say whatever we want unless we get too well read then watch out, the cauliflower police are out in force. What has the world come to when we make it illegal to talk bad about vegetables, how they are grown, who grew them, and what chemicals they may or may not have used? What kind of world is it when we are adding more stupid laws every session without getting rid of any of the other really dumb ones that aren't working because nobody wants to admit they've made a mistake.
A man was helping one of his cows give birth, when he noticed his 4-year-old son standing wide-eyed at the fence, soaking in the whole event. The man thought, "Great...he's 4 and I'm gonna have to start explaining the birds and bees. No need to jump the gun - I'll just let him ask, and I'll answer."
After everything was over, the man walked over to his son and said, "Well son, do you have any questions?"
"Just one." gasped the still wide-eyed lad. "How fast was that calf going when he hit that cow?"
There was this little boy about 12 years old walking down the sidewalk dragging a flattened frog on a string behind him. He came up to the doorstep of a house of ill repute and knocked on the door. When the Madam answered it, she saw the little boy and asked what he wanted. He said, "I want to have sex with one of the women inside. I have the money to buy it, and I'm not leaving until I get it." The Madam figured, why not, so she told him to come in. Once in, she told him to pick any of the girls he liked.
He asked, "Do any of the girls have any diseases?" Of course the Madam said no. He said, "I heard all the men talking about having to get shots after making love with Amber. THAT'S the girl I want."
Since the little boy was so adamant and had the money to pay for it, the Madam told him to go to the first room on the right.
He headed down the hall dragging the squashed frog behind him. Ten minutes later he came back, still dragging the frog, paid the Madam, and headed out the door. The Madam stopped him and asked, "Why did you pick the only girl in the place with a disease, instead of one of the others?"
He said, "Well, if you must know, tonight when I get home, my parents are going out to a restaurant to eat, leaving me at home with a baby-sitter. After they leave, my baby-sitter will have sex with me because she just happens to be very fond of cute little boys. She will then get the disease that I just caught. When Mom and Dad get back, Dad will take the baby-sitter home. On the way, he'll jump the baby-sitter's bones, and he'll catch the disease. Then when Dad gets home from the baby-sitter's, he and Mom will go to bed and have sex, and Mom will catch it. In the morning when Dad goes to work, the Milkman will deliver the milk, have a quickie with Mom and catch the disease, and HE'S the son-of-a-bitch who ran over my FROG!
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Seems an elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%. The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, "your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again."
To which the gentleman said, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will three times!"
And who can doubt it a mess. The mess is bad and needs to be fixed. Instead of ideas and plans to fix what we started we turn our political eye towards the Social Security disaster. A disaster that could most likely be fixed with but one sweeping reform in the tax cuts Bush pushed so long and hard for. Our soldiers and their families are told they need to make the supreme sacrifices. Our citizens are told we must sacrifice some of our civil rights. Our poor are told they need to sacrifice their benefits. Our elderly their savings, and their hopes of fairly priced drugs. Seems the only ones not being asked to sacrifice anything are the rich. Many of us are told we should do this or that or the other thing for the good of the country and our fellow man. And many of us do every damn thing that comes down the pike. But the Bush tax cuts are off the table when it comes to fixing Social Security. The numbers thrown around and the year it may fail bantered about among all the brightest of pundits. Yet so few of them ask why we don't just repeal the tax cuts to save Social Security. Seems the more popular of punditry moves in the upper circles and some things you just don't mention. Especially if it effects your own pocket. Perhaps it's time we started questioning the experts motives. Perhaps it's time we all started thinking for ourselves. But like I've said before. Thinking can hurt. It's hard work. And not alot of people really want to do that much of it.
A professor at W.Virginia University is giving a lecture on the supernatural. To get a feel for his audience, he asks: "How many people here believe in ghosts?" About 90 students raise their hands. "Well that's a good start. Out of those of you who believe in ghosts, do any of you think you've ever seen a ghost?" About 40 students raise their hands. "That's really good. I'm really glad you take this seriously. Has anyone here ever talked to a ghost? 15 students raise their hands. "That's a great response."
"Has anyone here ever touched a ghost?" 3 students raise their hands. "That's fantastic."
"But let me ask you one question further... Have any of you ever made love to a ghost?" One student in a flannel shirt and baseball cap way in the back raises his hand. The professor is astonished. He takes off his glasses, takes a step back, and says, "Son, all the years I've been giving this lecture, no one has ever claimed to have slept with a ghost. You've got to come up here and tell us about your experience."
The redneck student complies with a nod and a grin, and begins to make his way up to the podium.
The professor says, "Well, tell us what it's like to have sex with a ghost."
The student replies, "Ghost?!? Sheeyit..... From back there it sounded like you said 'goats'".
But in the same group are men sleeping with their students. Society as a whole gives these much more severe treatments and ridicule. While an older woman with a younger man usually just raises eyebrows. And I have little sympathy to the poor poor little school girl who threw her snatch at the hot teacher who didn't marry her and take her off on some really wonderful honeymoon that'd make all her friends jealous. I've known school girls. More than a few bragged of older men as conquest just as young boys did and do. So often the real predator is not the adult alone, but the adolescent who often helps the situation along happily. No instead what I see here is a failure to maintaine a proper work ethic. You're a doctor you don't screw clients. You're a policeperson, you don't screw the criminals. You're a stripper you don't screw customers, for less than a fifty. These people are not the pedophiles everyone pictures as pedophiles.
What people picture are the sick fucks who kidnap small children in whatever way, have their sexual kicks with the small child as if it were a play toy, and not some crying pitifull wreck that probably wants to go home to it's parents. What people picture are the sick fucks who kill the children after to try and cover up their sickness and failure to keep it in check. Pictured are crying parents who have lost loved ones to some sick twisted fuck who could have moved to some country that condones that sick fucking shit. So we will have laws passed soon. Good laws to protect the innocent from the sick fucks mentioned above.
Problem is................. Ain't there always when government nitpicks shit to death. There are people who will fit into the profile that have no business being there. Young men screwing slighty younger women who has parents that don't like it that some lucky young lad has their sweet innocent little girls ankles wedged tightly behind her head as she screams the name of several deities and a rock singer or two. I being a father have looked through the rolls of sexual offenders in my area. Seeing a few here and there that seemed to young I did a little looking into it. Not all of them were touching some small child as being a sexual offender would suggest to us normal folks who don't understand the legal ramifications of screwing a sixteen year old when you are eighteen. Instead they are grouped into a classification that with the new Florida laws would cause them great harm in society. An ankle bracelet wherever you go. Near constant probation. I'm sorry folks but being a teenager once who knows how teenage girls can act at times I have to wonder if maybe we would like to look over this law a bit more before everything is signed.
But we won't. Why? Because it's good air play to just about everyone. No one wants s mall children buggered up the ass and killed except the people we hear about nightly on Fox. Jeb Bush gets to back a bill that almost everyone can stand behind because no one wants children molested. It's Terri Schiavo minus the right to choose a death with dignity. It doesn't have a whole lot of baggage that can be dragged out into court and be turned around to bite a politician' ass. It's a good idea for all. Except those who slip through the cracks.
But what do I think about what someone who actually molested a small child? What should happen to them? Seeing as how many kill the child for fear of being caught and having to do time in prison. Seeing as how they couldn't control an urge most accept as wrong. Well they decided right there for themselves. Better death than prison. Better death than facing the music. While they decided a small life should end to absolve them of guilt. I would demand their lives be ended as well. Those who did not kill their small victims? Prison. I doubt they could ever be released and not think the same thoughts even if clinically castrated. And if they repeated the act they would be more likely to kill the young victim.
But enough of that. We will all hear plenty of recommendations from this expert or that expert in the coming weeks. And we know we will be able to trust their clinical answers to all these tough questions. Us lay folks need to just lay back, lay down, and trust our leaders are doing their very best for all our wellbeing. Or as we like to say it at work, "Shut up, bend over, and take it like a man." No I do not work at a gay bar. I think.
Two campers are walking through the woods when a huge brown bear suddenly appears in the clearing about 50 feet in front of them. The bear sees the campers and begins to head toward them. The first guys drops his backpack, digs out a pair of sneakers, and frantically begins to put them on. The second guys says, "What are you doing? Sneakers won’t help you outrun that bear." "I don't need to outrun the bear," the first guy says. "I just need to outrun you."
Gotta problem with that?
