Well, it's heating up. With the easiest way to measure and describe "radiation" : Heat. Temperature. Caloric Index. Right now it's at the level to actually light concrete on fire. I was going to subtitle The Japan Syndrome but that whole China Syndrome schtick is outdated by several decades. Melt a hole through to China, yeah. So I restrained myself from including it. There's amerikkka's very own ticking time bomb right outside of Dallas. At Glen Rose. You might say, as I sometimes do when I forget to use quantum logic, you know, the core of any unit of mass, time, space and energy being at the same place at the same time (it just seems redundant) and to mangle a line from Huxley, everything belongs to everything else. But I digress. The fastest shorcut not involving quantum theory is there are no significant mountains between here and there. The Rolling Hills, the exact name thereof, is where the reactor is, at Comanche Peak. If you go southwest you have Ranger Peak, the highest geologic feature in Texas east of the Pecos and named after the Texas Rangers, cops not baseball, had an incident with the Comanches in which for a change didn't involve getting the Rangers slaughtered. They're not as bad-ass as they portray themselves. And that's not in the way. The Llano Estacado, "Staked Plains" but they're no barrier. Maybe for riding a horse or walking, but for airborne fallout, nah. And Comanche Peak has started experiencing seismic events. This was discussed when several events happened, Haiti, Fukishima, Deepwater Horizon,and the Upper Big Branch Corporate Mass Murder of 29 miners. All of which, including the Comanche Peak reactor, have ties to Halliburton, Bush and Donald Trump, the Koch family and the Corporate Big Pigs are talking much smack about releasing all of these bastards from the fetters of "unwarranted safety regulations" including and especially for the Fracking companies... who apparently broke the substrate in North Central Texas to the point there is measurable and sometimes palpable (no need to get out your dictionary it's "able to be felt by the human body") earthquake activity all over North Texas. Which the Frackers say is impossible. They simply have to lie. And their Big Pig comrades like Trump and Don Blankenship and Bush and Cheney and Perry and Doug Lamborn and basically their entire rat-bastard families tell us that it's none of our business and included in the proposed destruction of all regulatory measures, they'll have police and courts prosecuting and imprisoning citizens who dare ask for details of what is done to our water, air, basic ability to walk outside without getting radiation poisoning... Just like they've been doing, essentially, only now it's on the way to being official. We'll be prosecuted for exposing or trying to expose THEIR crimes. They all try to act all "tough" and "macho" about it but they're essentially coward bitches who hide behind the Peasant Army and the fascist police and courts. The richest bitches
Dirty Laundry
Items that do not need airing
The Jihad in Mumbai
Some are more familiar with the way the British occupiers pronounced it "Bombay". It's got a huge Muslim presence, so does India in general. Under the British "protectorate" because it's not polite to call them Imperialists anymore. Even though the Queen does still hold the title of Empress. That's beside the point. Under the protectorate Britain called the following "India"; Iran, Pakistan, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka which used to be Ceylon, there's been a lot of name changes, Thailand was Siam until I was 11 years old, you know, and knowing the younger readers think I'm ancient... but no, these changes were pretty much around my lifetime. But there's a Church in Mumbai. No big deal, right? Before the English took possession of the entire region after the Napoleonic wars, we are taught in Merka are used to calling it the War of 1812, which "our" participation was mainly getting stomped by the British a few times and calling it a draw, and Andrew Jackson simply taking Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, the Mega-Rez called Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, in case you're not paying attention you notice that there's a lot of native names, and Indiana was ceded to the Tribes "for as long as grass grows" you know the lying spiel... The British and their allies took a lot more than that. Like India. The "French and Indian War" was referred to as the 7 Years War and still is called that everywhere except to our bumpkin backwater podunk pseudo-democracy 'merka. Even Canada refers to the proper name. Churchill called it the "REAL" first world war. It was that big. So were the Napoleonic Wars. /history lesson, for now. Anyhoo... this church surrounded by a huge Muslim majority, and a lot of Hindu and Buddhist populations, is the Church of St Thomas. The Thomas who refused to recognize Jesus resurrected. Doubting Thomas. That St Thomas, yeah. He founded the church in Mumbai. It's first century CE or AD whichever floats you boat. There's a lot of hoo-haw about Muslims burning churches and the people of those churches. Like the Church in Antioch which was pretty much destroyed by U.S. bombing raids. There's a big lie making the scene, has been since the Crusades, that all Arabians and Turks and Persians (Iran, Afghanistan...) are forced to be Muslim. Which is Bullshit. The Abyssinian Catholic Church in Iraq, you remember Iraq, right? "Our" country tore the place apart and are forcing the people of Iraq to pay for the damages. For Real. Ten percent of the pre-ameriklan conquest population were Christian, AND there are synagogues in most of the countries especially the Big 7 that are banned from immigration, the ones where Donald Trump and his asshole Wall Street Comrades don't own the entire country, And Churches. The Church of St Thomas has been in operation for 2000 years and likewise in Syria (Antioch) and this puts the lie to the lips of those who claim a huge persecution against Christians and Jews. How many churches
Ray Charles died the same day as Reagan
Damn, I sure do miss Ray Charles. Some people say that Black folk protecting their families and communities is equivalent to the Klan. Which is bullshit. Let me quantify that. 93.7 cubic kilometers of bullshit. One group that fought against Civil Rights and to this day claim that Equal Rights means Special Rights... is a group associated closely with the Klan called the John Birch Society. The Birchers. Named for a racist Baptist preacher/missionary who used his pulpit as a cover for being an anti-Chinese spy in China. And got his stupid ass shot off. Ronald Reagan was Treasurer for this bunch of Right Wing Terrorists. Want me to tie them to religious terrorism? Easy. I worship sometimes with Southern Baptist congregations. I'm not really that damn picky. I know, socially it's a downgrade from my usual friends, whores, drunkards, sinners, you know. Jesus said something about that in relation to John the BAPTIST. Who was a Nazarite, like Samson. A lot more to it than not cutting one's hair or beard. It's an order of priesthood, and yeah, they did some stuff that would be called Terrorism if any group of Middle Eastern religious or ethnic groups, like Samaritans who were Israelites but not Jews did it. Like Irgun and Likud they would beat up on any imperial troops. Yeah, Jesus' cousin was a Zealot and probably had people killed, not just Romans but collaborators with the Romans. When Arabs or Persians or Afghans do it it's called Terrorism. When Israel or the U.S. do it it's called Exceptionalism. Reagan and the Birchers were very much in favor of Exceptionalism. Back to the Baptist connections. Quick quiz here, does any of my readers recall why exactly there is a denomination called Southern Baptist and why the Southern Methodists broke off from the general conventions of the Baptist and Methodist churches? Waiting waiting wa.. times up. They broke off over the question of Should Missionaries (like John Birch) be allowed to be slaveowners and vice-versa. The Southern Methodists didn't change the name of their college in University Park Texas. But they did reconcile with the United Methodists IN MY LIFETIME. The Southern Baptist Churches never did give in and say that, hey, Slavery is Wrong. And they're still associated heavily with the Ku Klux Klan. Now, I don't hate white folks. Even the ones who hate me. I ain't going to vote for any Klan collaborators though. They (Republicans and especially Reaganites) refrain from screaming their hate in my face on one special type of occasion. An Election. At that point they get positively lovey-dovey about how much they enjoy and hope to serve Blacks, Indians, Mexicans, Disabled people, poor people in general... And they actually believe that we're all stupid enough to believe them. So, now, just before an election Bill O'Reilly, Chickenhawk Supreme, author of a book about a fellow Chickenhawk Bitch-ass coward named Ronald Reagan, well, he got that book turned in to a movie and the premiere is tonight on television.
So called “patriots day” 911
Means I get to pick up your lost or blew-off-your-antenna because-you-don't-know flag-etiquette-and-put-a-87-cent-walmart-flag-on your-motor-vehicle and you're about as smart as you are a "real" patriot. Get a grip. If you expect people to stand up for your national anthem (not required) or say the pledge of allegiance (also not required) or stand up every time The Flag passes by (again, not required) first you can line up and take turns helping yourself to a Texas size All-you-can-eat buffet of Kiss My Liberal Ass. Then you can hop out of your vehicle, (after first coming to a full stop, I know it sounds obvious but some people are REAL dumb) and pick the flag off the side of the road.Why not, eh? If you say you love your police state government and you love your flag, pick the motherf- (ahem) cloth idol up when you drop it.If I had the foolish habit of saluting the flag each time I pass it, I would have to glue my right hand over my left chest, just from the ones you idiots let fly off your vehicles and leave in the gutter. Hey, that's real patriotism, ain't it? There's a lot of evidence, not real proof of course, that your rich-bitch masters who you also wish me to revere as "leaders" set up 9-11. Like no colonels or generals killed at the Pentagon and there were no trade ministers, CEOs of any corporations, especially banking, just a bunch of lower management and labor employees in the Twin Towers. On a Not-Holiday Tuesday in September in the mid morning. I'm calling shenanigans. I also ain't going to fly any flags or do any useless praise for the Police State being spread across the world, violently, at a taxpayer expense of trillions of dollars, to somehow "avenge" 9-11. Note: one of the flags I pulled out of a ditch was just outside Woodland Park some years ago, I was out walking that ribbon of highway and saw above me that endless skyway, and saw below me a place to duck behind a tree to relieve my bladder. And... there, a familiar pattern showed up... and I said to myself, as I often do, "Self, another one of those fake 'patriots' lost a flag, and was too god-damned lazy to pick it up". What's the excuse, y'all? If you're heading into Woodland freakin' Park are you seriously that damned pressed for time that you can't pull over, pull your idol out of the mud and then go on your way? What is there in Woodland Park that won't be there in five minutes? Did you think the whole town would be dismantled and moved or be deserted by the time you get there? Here's a nice part. It was in a rat's nest and really dirty. When I got into Woodland Park I stopped at the Fire Station and asked if they have any kind of, you know, protocol to give the flag a military funeral as prescribed in the Flag Code. They
Deportation and Ethnic Cleansing
That should be "deportation IS ethnic cleansing" and it shouldn't even be on the agenda in "the land of the free" like the lying song says. Nay, verily. But it is. The part about deporting anybody who is awaiting citizenship for even traffic violations has been kicked around, and really should be kicked out. It is in it's entirety Racism. When people who chant loudly about deporting "aliens" the first image they put in each others stupid little pointy head is "Mexican". Which to them means anybody who has a spanish surname and dark skin. Even the Native Americans who were bought and sold back and forth between Spain and French in what was later known as the Louisiana Purchase. When the U.S. racist government, at the time presided over by slave holding Plantation Aristocrats, it got the name Louisiana Purchase but there wasn't any clear boundaries. This goes with my post that Zeb Pike was an Illegal Alien. European kings who had never set foot in America sold Euro-American dictators not only the land, but the people on the land. And sped up the already official policy of deporting Americans based on our ancestry. And religion. A lot of the ethnic cleansing take-america-back-to-the-1840s racist movement circles around Religion. Muslims of course, and to the Hate Party that means stereotyped Arabic persons and American Black Muslims. Once the Hate Party gets past the current eulogies for Muhammad Ali, who they considered a traitor while he was alive, "They" are going to jump right back into the "Deport All Muslims" sinkhole they dug for themselves. The deportations began long ago. After "french and indian war" victories by the British and their allies, much more complex than I just wrote but an order of magnitude more complex than the Hate Party describe it... And before a group of exiled British Aristocrats like Washington and Jefferson, deported from England for not being the "right kind of christians" declared independence from their Parent Corporation, maybe y'all have heard of that... But in this inter-Regnum inter-bellum period the English overlords started deporting Native Americans. Who were graciously granted by King George Hanover and King George Washington the prizilege of moving their entire nations to the Ohio. Even this wasn't enough for the colonists. Oh, hell no! They made it a condition "intolerable" in the Declaration of Independence, along with the abolitionist movement in England. Their parent corporation. Oh, the Horror! Not being allowed to set up plantations on Indian land (ahem... that's every square inch of America, y'all) and having their Human Property taken away from them, must have given the Plantation Aristocrats night terrors. Daniel Boone, perhaps unintentionally, set up an incursion into the Ohio Territories, the Indian Nation. He's considered quite the hero for breaking the treaties before the ink was dried. If Davy Crockett, who many Americans can't tell the difference between him and Mr Boone, actually was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, the greenest state in the land of the free and all that other
And Korea…. being rolled over by a new empire
Alternative Title, Why there actually IS a Communist half of Korea. Probably more than half now. They didn't change their language or identity for centuries under the rule of Chinese and Japanese emperors. It is a very big feeling of pride and nobody should ever forget it. So what does our Empire do? For one, they're running whole villages of farmers off their ancestral lands, the ones built up literally from swamp into productive farmland by their ancestors and themselves, as it's an ongoing process. They Worked For Their Land. Not the US Government or even the Seoul Government. And now, in the name of "Freedom", the US military are stripping the land from the people who made the land. It's not the first time, God knows. The whole American Empire has been built on stolen land. From the first successful english colony at Plymouth, which they named after a port in the country which basically ran them off. The very first "free" Market Capitalist theft in America, the first Corporate Thieves. Or technically, the first English capitalist thieves. Not good at any kind of labor, especially farming, and they used their seeds to make beer the first summer they were here. Then the stupid bastards almost starved, they were rescued by a thousands of years old neighboring Socialist economic bloc rescued their shiny white english buttocks, Then they had a massive feast to celebrate, which the Socialist Neighbors actually catered, after which the english said, hey, good grub, thanks for saving us, now Get Off Our Land. It's been that way every since. Some of them, like the Heritage Foundation, are actually proud of that shit. They got the land seizures subsidized and got the land for little or no money out of their own pockets. We've got one such land thief made into an Idol at the corner of Platte and Nevada. Not really AT the intersection, IN the intersection Credited with "creating" Colorado Springs. Our Father who is art in the intersetion. You can't adequately see to make a left turn onto or off Nevada or Platte. People have died from trying. That's the level of Hatred for Native Americans or (Remember the Koreans? I do) Korean natives and their cultures. Their Non-White Non-English much more civilized cultures. The Anglo establishment in The US, a tiny minority even for White Americans, have a doctrine called Dominionism or Manifest Destiny which teaches that they, The English Episcopalians, (doesn't help to be Generic White or Generic Christian, most whites and Christians in America are not invited) are Annointed By God to control not just America but the entire world. WTF? I grew up attached to that culture. And I never got un-astonished (I'm from Texas, we make up words a lot) by how fucking arrogant they are. In the Korean situation, the Seoul government has sold itself entirely to the Dominionist Empire. There were in the link repeated Here, a probable 10,000 "free" Korean cops and soldiers clearing out two ancient villages to make
Open an older controversy
Sometimes I check the news stories to see if Eric is all right. Of course, the local newspropaganda outlets are pretty much all wrong all the time. Like this one issue from a few years back, a Council Critter name of Daniel Chacon took issue over Tribe not bowing down to his Royal City Council. The "free" press proved themselves to be the watchlapdogs of the local establishment. With no further ado, the first thing that comes when we're searched on Google is this ridiculous video that calls Eric "cowardly" for supposedly "attacking" our beloved Civic Leader D. Chacon. In His Absence. Come on, now. That's, to use a W.W.One trench slang, over the top. Seriously, how do you "attack" somebody without him being there? You would think that the minions of the local propaganda outlets like KOAA and the Gazette would at least TRY to learn how to use the English or any other language before, you know, using the language. I know, the incident took place years ago. But that's what the search engine comes up saying every time. Calling some squirrel-like humanoid or human shaped squirreloid or maybe a person sized hemorrhoid a name, like crybaby fascist lackey (I think that's what I wrote when this was actually new) is not an attack. An attack is when you strike somebody with a body part or other object. Somebody call whine-one-one because we need the hyberbole police and a waa-mbulance The cops behind whom Mr Chacon and his fellow lackeys hide attack people all the time. Usually when such a person is handcuffed. That's my English lesson for the day, I hope the Chacon crowd can understand. I as always am "larnin' all them yankees to talk english good like me" To the best of my knowledge the Shitty Hall folks only speak English, and that poorly. You're welcome.
Brexit and the Impending Apocalypse
Just so there's no confusion, I'm not going to ridicule people for saying the end is near. It might be, or not. This is more of a treatise on Jingoist Pulpits. I know that politics is a major part of a preachers life just as it is for any other. You get 50-100 people together in a church, every one of them has some sort of political opinion. I personally have several... hundred... or so... But when I was a kid there were dire warnings that the proposed at the time United States of Europe was the Antichrist. Kind of jingoist in that nobody ever (in America at least) trots out The Revelation to question America and the notion of United States. States being sovereign entities. Like Shakespeare in Hamlet "there is an odor of decay in the STATE of Denmark", and the character Mike Stivik tells the character Archie Bunker exactly that and gets the reply: "shows how much you know, Denmark is not a state... (dramatic pause) ...it's a city in Colorado". Provincialism strikes yet again. But get the notion of a United States of Europe and people get flat out irrational. So all this begs one question, if the EU breaks up, does that mean the Apocalypse is canceled? I'm of the opinion that everybody catches the bus. That's a metaphor for 'dying'. We either catch it as individuals, as groups of individuals and at some point all individuals en masse. That's easy to process. I've heard the Apocalypse just over the horizon along with the Rapture, which isn't even mentioned in the Bible, it's an interpretation of several verses in different books of the Bible glommed together. A lot of Christians say we all get to escape the torments of the final days. That is, "all" Christians who believe exactly the same way as the person preaching it. With exceptions on the definitions of course. But one thing is certain, if you ain't rapture-ready you ain't entitled to the benefits of Heaven if you catch the bus the old fashion way. It's not a matter of how many people get on the bus with you. Rapture theory clouds that notion a bit and gets people thinking 'oh, hey, I don't want to miss the rapture' but if the extreme views of the Rapturists is true in every aspect, you would only have 7 years to catch the bus at the Second Coming anyway. What's that, you ask? What about that "behold I come as a thief in the night, no man knows the time" well DUH! But, here's one very strongly hyped sign of the end... breaking up. And it goes back to Jingoism. Americans and ONLY Americans are moral enough and smart enough to enjoy a united culture with a single currency. No arguments are permitted. And as a bonus we get to tell everybody to go to hell. Literally. You don't know when the bus is coming, cool. Live your life like it's coming in the next
Happy Birthday, Sgt Kovic
I don't know if Ron Kovic reads this blog from a backwater county in Colorado, but if you know him, contact him and say Jonah ain't forgotten him. It's a little more than a week early. But there's so much bullshit hooplah going on and is expected projected injected infected inspected to be a long while before anybody can focus on sanity. Maybe AARP will do a "look who just turned 70" article.
More Fallujah
I feel that it's my duty as a Christian but even more deeply as a human being to remind people of stupid shit like this. You remember when exactly the name Fallujah crept into the American Psyche? I do. It was when the Bu'ush regime kept banging away about the Ba'ath party under Saddam had done a heinous slaughter... against Fallujah. This works along with the story I heard straight from some of the American airmen involved where the USAF was patrolling the Northern No Fly Zone to protect... wait for it... Dramatic pause here... So you'll remember... the irony.... The Kurds. And one of their jackoff pilots shot up a flock of sheep including whoever was tending the flock of sheep. In Kurdistan. That's the same place the USAF stood down and allowed the Turks (NATO) forces to bomb the living fuck out of Kurdistan... yeah, that happened. At least once. Didn't get much press at the time, now, did it? THIS IS NOT ANCIENT HISTORY. The PNAC (who are enjoying a resurgence) laugh about their Corporate Advertising "free press" have gotten Americans to think in sound bites, and the People have the attention span of a goldfish and wouldn't remember something six months after it happened. We have had visitors to the site (this one, the one you're reading unless some other enlightened souls pick it up and reprint it) who claimed to be U.S. Marines and advocated turning Fallujah into a sheet of glass. Maybe they were grunts. Who knows? People lie a lot on the internet (that's a Dog Bites Man story like Gee, it sure is hot in Texas or Damn, the Government has been lying to us) But these guys did at least believe that notion to be valid. Drop a Hiroshima on the town. They probably don't recall where exactly they posted it. Some people are really proud of having no real attention span. They consider it to be patriotic. The bastards who herd these sheeple have a formula, called the News Cycle. The theory, actually practiced and actually successful, is that when a particularly embarrassing incident happens, they simply wait for the next News Cycle because the Horreure Du Jour will knock out any conscious recall of their prior fuckup. And I would bet there will be twice as many people angered enough to remember that I dropped two F bombs in this narrative, twice as many will recall that than the number who will remember anything else in the post. So I'll put in a Jewish concept even though I am most likely pure Goy. It's called Mitzvah. Kind of like the Bar or Bat (first is boy child other is girl child) Mitzvah that Jewish kids have to make at age 13 in order to be accepted as adults in the Tribe. They have to first prove to a rabbi they know exactly what they're saying, that they have studied the Whole Law and understand they can't possibly KEEP the Whole Law
I could have done the agent-provocateur thing on Orlando
Probably would have talked myself into believing it was right, too. I could have become a poseur, which is French and derogatory, means a cheap actor, and it's easy to pronounce, just say "poser" and there you have it. I could go to a mixed forum and say that, sure, the guy thought to be the gunner in Orlando might have "confessed" or boasted over a cell phone to 9-1-1 that he was doing it for Isis. (maybe he did it as a jilted suitor of one or more of the fellows on the dance floor, or one of the ladies, but the Isis thing is the official story and they're sticking to it) and say "but hey, the homo crowd deserved it." I could pick any of a long list of homophobic organizations, usually religio-affiliated. The Klan for instance. Rouse a few rebels. Draw out a little extra heat to pour onto Mediterranean Ethnic types. And the sad truth is, nobody really has offered proof that the shooter was Isis affiliated. So far. Leads to a whole herd of waddiffs... Waddiff they have pegged the right shooter but the wrong motive? Waddiff that was a deliberate ploy on his part? Waddiff he was instructed by a party unknown to do it, for the personal satisfaction of that party? I like the word party because it can be singular or plural at the discretion of the reader. Waddiff the motive of such a party was politico-religious but for a far different philosophy than ISIS? There is a suspicion, never actually proved nor disproved, that Marinus van der Lubbe was a gullible fellow and the Nazis wired him up to do it. "wired somebody up" is a gang term for this kind of action. Waddiff the war party did it to convince skeptics to join in his-her-their Holy War (another ubiquitous word, doesn't say WHICH version of Holy War) and vote for or against a politician in the upcoming elections? There is a great big pile of money involved for investors in the war. Historically they have been like the Bush crime family, selling arms and other supplies to all sides in any given conflict. While not committing themselves to personal danger by enlisting, or if one of Their Demon Spawn got caught in the Draft, they would make sure he had a cozy stateside duty station. At that point it's all gravy for Wall Street in general. Some of the investors ARE (or were, this has gone on far more than one lifetime, they were doing it in the Crusades too) generals and admirals. Poindexter-Secord-North leaps to mind. How much do you think they're vested in this particular conflict? And this could be recycled for a long series of "particular conflicts". In WW2, certain groups (cough cough wink nudge we know who that might be, eh?) there was a certain American family who were selling guns, ships, cloth for uniforms, commodities etc to for instance the Royal Navy of the British Empire AND to
Seriously, ‘Pocohantas’?
Both major parties are throwing the election. Look for somebody to come riding in on a white horse declaring himself a messiah. In other news, 15 minutes of nationwide airtime about Las Vegas and football, in combination. Beer and circuses. 15 minutes of coast-to-coast is a big deal for what is a really trivial story, another town wishing to spend stolen money to subsidize a group of pampered millionaires who are paid to run around on a field chasing a ball. And their psycho fans. To distract people from thinking about the impending fall of their empire, and keep them from thinking long enough to question the wars. The emperor diddles while Nova Roma burns.
How do you know it’s summer in Louisiana?
Two ways, one is that you walk out and the heat and humidity knock you down and kick all the will to live right out of you... or there's a combo of hurricane and poorly maintained infrastructure which makes people float face down in the French Quarter. Sorry for a) using somebody else's commercial and b) coming out with such a dark intro into Climate Change. Not really. I'm not sorry. But you notice the people who tell us it's not climate change but instead a "slight weather adjustment" also use the term "Market Correction" when they really mean a crash so bad it has the feel of a Biblical famine? But of course, anthropogenic climate change is just a myth. Just look at Pike's Peak. Notice something there? No ice cap. Nope, none. And it's not even summer yet.
Where were you born?
¿Donde naciò? No worries, that's about the least important part of Who You Are. I mean, the Fascist Police State and its Racist MinuteKlansmen worry about that, it's their only real priority. They screw up Amerika constantly with their bigotry and sheer amoral ignorance to the point of criminality on their part. That would also include the Government Appointed Border Patrol. La Migra. THEY are on my short list for deportation. As for any minuteman who objects to being called the racist he truly is, suck it, Bubba. I'm compelled to tell the truth and shall not apologize.
But Little Johnnie can’t read? Why?
I'm starting this with the documented statistic that half of the adults in Tarrant County Texas are functionally illiterate. Yes, one of the three most heavily populated counties in the state, and 50% would not be able to clearly read and comprehend these two sentences. Meanwhile, back at the ranch and Allen and McKinney school districts are paying more than 60 MILLION dollars apiece to build high (schools? nay, verily) school football stadiums. Got to have Temples to worship the oblong ball. Never mind the concurrent and consequent price paid by people being ignorant as the day is long. But, hey, they's jus po' folk and everybody knows po' folk ain't got no need for book learnin' and such. It's the epitome of the "Texas Miracle" ex-Governors Bush and Perry boast so loudly as their major contribution to society. Here's a little bit of information from CBS News about it, with more links. You know, football is more important than people actually being able to read. It's not just Texas, Colorado is turning in that direction as well. Witness the hysteria about the Super Bowl twice in the past three years, starring the Donkos. Two and a half years ago I was parading around with a ladle and a 55 gallon drum of HaterAde (figuratively) but the first 5 minutes of the game convinced me to give the fans a break from me mocking their silly-ass obsession. I'm surprised that Doug Lamborn didn't have a Congressional Investigation into that. Dismayed, that is. It would be a huge comparison to the rubber-stamp Congressional Investigations into the illegal wars, torture and widespread police brutality incidents. And rip-off oil company and banking deals. Why not? Because so many Americans can't read due in large part to the culture of Entertainment rather than Education. Bread and Circus... The Empire is spiralling down to the depths of Hell and the ones who are profiting from it, throw distractions at the peasants. My brother lives within spitting distance of the Cowboys arena in Arlington. Which the PEOPLE of Arlington are subsidizing. If the Free Market Champions who own the profits of the Cowboys can't afford to invest their own money in "their" team maybe they should get off the Corporate Welfare gravy train. My family, none of them rich, are required to pay extra taxes so pampered millionaires can prance around chasing a ball on a very expensive lawn. Why don't the Tea Party and the Doug brothers, Lamborn and Bruce, and other tax warriors pick up on that? Maybe for the same reason the number of Tax Refugee multi-millionaire Warmongers who infest our neck of the woods aren't being audited by these Fearless Watchdogs of the Public Purse. Because it's cheaper and faster to rig elections and bribe government officials than to do anything to make the world better. I'll end this the same way it started. 50% of the voters in Tarrant Co Texas wouldn't be able to read a single sentence of this, and the rich bitch
Founding the Anti-American Fathers
Like Jeffery Amherst, George Washington, Ethan Allen and Jefferson, just to name a few racist bastards (self made, to avoid confusion with those who are born to an unwed mother.) and were accomplices with each other to use germ warfare against Chief Pontiac and his allies during the 7 Years War. Which was a global conflict. Winston Churchill referred to it as THE first world war. With such a hooplah raised in Europe, where the most bloody and savage fighting took place, it's no wonder "Historians" (All hail Official History, and none may dare to gainsay it!) have an easy time oh my brothers such a very easy time of dismissing the deliberate unleashing of smallpox on Americans who just happened to be Native. As a "myth". or slander to the mighty White English Race, all hail the mighty White English Race. This is the issue for which Ward Churchill got fired and had to endure most of a decade fighting that decision in court. Some of the local racist historians have spoken much vehement talk about Mr Churchill and mostly about the facts he tirelessly states. Why would they spend so much effort to smear him, if the Smallpox Blankets had not been real? Why would they preach such hatred to the point of declaring that Ward Churchill should only be allowed to teach history on Death Row. A thinly veiled threat, really. These "historians" have some ties to the Klan and Minutemen and other racial hatred mongers. Who themselves have used hanging to silence people who dared question their version of historic accuracy. Nowadays they just shoot them in the desert. In the back. In counties where the Sheriffs, coroners and judges can be reliably willing to call such killings "suicide" or "natural causes". One fellow in El Paso Texas was shot several times with a bolt action rifle, any of the shots would have killed him instantly. County Coroner ruled it a suicide. God Damn show off suicides, always trying to make the cops look stupid... the same office but not same Coroner who ruled Bobby Fullers death to be "natural causes". ahem.... He was found dead in his car soaked in gasoline.... that's the guy who had the hit song "I fought the law, and the law won" Now you can understand why such Pigs attack me every time they get me into their custody. I don't spare their non-existent consciences. I got started on this post because I went up the street to Territory Days yesterday. Strong native presence there this time. Some in the past have been so dizzyingly anti-Indian it .. well, it made one dizzy to hear that kind of crap. No matter how they slice it, though, it's still going to be a massive celebration of 523 years of Invasion and violent Occupation.
A K A Pork sandwich… killer pigs on a roll…
El Paso County SD /CSPD and paramedics murdered another one, Erica Klag, age 40 and arrested for failing to appear on a traffic ticket. Gave her the Death Penalty ad hoc for having a seizure. The Para's said she wasn't having a seizure. The pigs put her in a holding cell in restraints, where she went into cardiac arrest. Jail so-called "medical" staff responded and sent her to Memorial where she died. These "Medical" staff are employees of Correctional Health Care Inc, the Triple Lie, as they correct nothing and give no care and have no idea what Health is. The same group of sorry sell out rat bastards who assisted in the torture and murder of John Walter two years ago. I bet that all the "health care" and Ku Klux Kops had a massive orgasm when they learned that they had killed another one. Sick perverted sadists. They get sexually aroused by the use of force, That's why they became cops in the first place. Their Nazi mommas taught them to be like that.
North Korea national debt $10B, $3B being domestic.
Yeah, THAT N Korea. The N Korea who, 60 some odd years ago, faced down the armies not only of the United Imperial States but those of the United Nations. And have kept their sovereign status ever since 1947. To put it poetically, they rolled the asses of every nation in the world, or at least those who swarmed the peninsula, rolled them up into one collective ass and then proceeded to kick that ass. Although, from Tae Kwon Do class I learned that the ass is the least effective place to kick somebody. Lots of fat, muscle and ligaments surrounding some massive bones. But I once again regress. The U.S. has, by contrast, trillions of dollars in debt, the vast majority of which is War debt, even though, as in the case of Korea, the United States has not actually declared war since Germany, Italy and Vichy France declared war in December of 1941, in response to the Empire of the United States declaring war against the Empire of Japan. When German et al made their declaration the United Imperial States responded in kind. Just a formality, one which has not been given by the Empire again. Instead the Empire has used the tactic which is considered to be Terrorism when a non-US non-client puppet dictatorship like Kuwait or Israel does the same thing... Take the entire and best munitions available and bomb the living dogshit out of the rival state. Trillions of dollars of said weapons, plus some for the Client Dictatorships, plus all the other costs of doing Terrorism around the world, just in a very methodic and high tech way so they can deny they're committing Terrorism. And N Korea, long accused by the CIA of sponsoring Terror, has an external debt of $3B. When comparing the two models of economy, Remember that a Trillion is 1,000 Billion. And the US blew past 3 trillion at least a decade ago. I believe we're looking at 20T in our rear view mirror fading quickly on the horizon. According to the CIA. Maybe the U.S. Imperial Government could spend their military money a little bit teeny weeny little bit more to the Frugal and actual Conservative side, and simply forget all about keeping the soldiers (American and Clients) alive, healthy and well paid. Just hire Suicide Bombers. You only pay a suicide bomber once, and apparently they cost way less than the quarterly maintenance on a tank, warship or airplane. Since the shadow government of the US creates the conditions that foster and nurture the level of zealot behaviour and thought one needs to be a suicide bomber. Just sayin' is all. And while on that subject, why not pay the Suicide Bombers we've created (so far) DIRECTLY instead of the voodoo economics scenario used by Poindexter/North/Secord/Bush the Elder/Reagan/Reagan's Dope-dealing sons/Casey etc which is actually treasonous even to this day, Selling Colombian coke to Cuban immigrant mobsters and using the profits to buy shitloads of weapons and sell them to all sides in Lebanon, El Salvador,
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Maybe it's because people who are god-damned sick and tired of the Gazette taking the Right Wing stance of always giving the Pigs a blanket amnesty for any crimes they commit. Typical wingnut behavior. Nothing to see, citizen, nothing to see. The story now is that they took him to a hospital. Probably after beating him to death. "Him" being Jeremy Thompson. And the people who have learned, through many many many many Deaths In Custody and the typical coverup efforts would demand the Gazette and all other LameStream Media outlets actually grow a set and actually ask real questions rather than just covering up for their darling pigs. To those true patriots who demand accountability from non-elected bureaucracies like the police state in all it's inglorious manifestations, I say thank you. If a prisoner, even in self defense, even if it's accidental like getting bodily fluids on a PIG while the PIG and his PIG Comrades are beating him down, always while he's handcuffed or similarly restrained. The way their nazi mommas taught them to fight... but I do digress... If the person makes contact with the cops, even in self defense, the PIG system will have him charged with Assault on a "peace" Officer and will try their mightiest to give him a life sentence. Shit, the lying Kolorado Kangaroo Kourts system will prosecute the victims of police violence even if no semblance of an assault occurred. The Gazette will report faithfully to their PigMaster's script, Back The Badge, always give the police benefit of the doubt. And they'll always do exactly the opposite for the victims of brutality. We the People must Obey and Grovel at the feet of the police. Alle Sieg Heil am Der Amerikanisch Gestapo!
Independence Day
Not quite the July 4th holiday. More like the commercial hit movie of that name about an Alien Invasion being repulsed, from 1996. For those unable to do simple math, that's 20 years ago. So The Army (which army? you may ask) is using the success of the film as a recruitment advertisement. Yes, dear readers, even in the culture of fear created in part by the Pentagon, as a service to their Rich Masters, the army and so forth and so on find it necessary to spend taxpayer bread making ads to let people know they can get a job killing people. Because, you know, some of us might forget that such an opportunity exists.
More US Navy Piracy and other Racist Pig Actions
Arrrhh this be a bump of a prior theme, that of the US Military and specifically the Navy committing acts of Piracy such as their seizure of the Morning Glory, a privately owned oil tanker which was transporting its cargo Which Unfortunately For The Shippers came from a region of Libya which is not in the direct control of The Empire. So the REAL Neighborhood Bully (Reagan fans can suck it) robbed the owners of the cargo and the Fox Propaganda Team proclaimed those owners to be Terrorists. The picture is a National Lampoon issue called "The Revenge Issue". And shows a Racist picture of a clearly Arabic man being punched in the face. Why? Because OPEC nations had demanded a fair price for their product. Can't let that happen, now, can we? The rest of the world owes us Homage and Tribute. Or at least they owe it to our Royal Masters. I'm not supposed to use the F word very often or even at all, but you know what? Flog that. Our friend Bruce Gagnon of Space4Peace details another instance of the pack of Pirates using public funds for private profit by taking control of the rest of the 7 Seas. Like the Aegean, Black, Adriatic etc. I should memorize them. The Morning Glory incident happened in the Mediterranean. The waters of the fabled 7 Seas provide access to the world market for like, everywhere in Europe. Maybe that's too generic a term, but lets see.. Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Turkey, Greece, you know, if you read or watch news just every top story of "liberation" by the US and NATO will be about a country with oil being freed from the responsibility of selling their national products at a price that is more agreeable to the citizens of that country. At Gunboat Point. Makes me really God Damn Proud to be an American, tell you whut... And this protects our Freedom ... To Obey. If we talk back to the Protectors they'll lock us in a jail cell and beat us. I know they did that to me. They sometimes beat somebody to death. Like the Fremont County pigs did to John Walter. Like the Denver County and Adams and Jefferson etc pigs did to Marvin Booker and so many others I lost count a long time ago. Oh, yes, we really have "freedom".... to Obey. If I say that to the face of a Pig meaning any cop, I'd be arrested then beaten as soon as they have me handcuffed, outnumbered and in a cell far from the view of our fellow "free citizens" Some of whom would say that I deserve it, because they're willing slaves of the system. And also all the others around the world who are beaten into submission, at least temporarily, by our Army/Navy/Airforce/Marines death merchants. Obey or Die. I have a tee-shirt for sale on cafepress, a few actually, this one has the legend "Y'all can just line up and take turns helping yourself to a Texas
International StarWarz Day
May the 4th be with you... That started as an intellectual or at least nerd pun. The underlying fear slowly builds up. As does the deficit, the vast majority of which is subsidizing wars which in turn are a giveaway to corporations like Monsanto and Boeing and General Electric. Any of our readers Green Berets or some similar elite unit? I know the puppetmasters don't allow you to think for yourself, but you can do it anyway. That "Freedom for Those Oppressed" motto is bullshit and you know it. Just like the Strategic Air Command that now is incorporated (a devastatingly apt term) into StratCom aka The Artist Formerly Known As SDI or popularly Star Wars. The motto was "Peace Is Our Profession" which the men and women of SAC modified unofficially to add "but killing is our hobby". It was for the longest time a rebranding of Bomber Command. The mission was and still is to keep a sham Pax Americana peace-by-terrorism, the Two-Superpower model was called Mutually Assured Destruction, or the MAD doctrine. The theory that the Soviets wouldn't bomb us because we would automatically destroy them. The Third World would be left to grow a new civilization. So, soldier/airman/sailor/marine, what if the Mayan rebellion in the Yucatan actually does something like burn down the Monsanto mutant GM corn being grown to make fuel for American SUVs? Something that would have a very legitimate reason. The land was appropriated at US gunpoint from the Native Americans such as the Maya and pushed the Zapatista movement to rebellion? Will you go there, blindly following corporate orders and blindly believing the bullshit about liberating the people? Because Monsanto's paid-under-the-table Congressional Representation which is supposedly "ours" but really only the part of "our" and "us" who are 1%. By the way, that 1% meme isn't going away no matter how much the Corporates pay (then deduct from their taxes) to ridicule the notion... God I love concatenated sentences... but bring it back around, Monsanto's highly privileged slaves will be all over the news media screaming about Terrorism. That Freedom for Those Oppressed doesn't apply to Those Oppressed by US and British Corporations. The Mexican, Guatemalan, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Costa Rican etc people have had just under 2 centuries of being managed from Washington and London. Some American and British right wing will automatically jerk their knees by saying "Better than Madrid" which implies that the 1% are a slightly more benevolent dictatorship. But the policy of giving communal land, seized literally at gunpoint, to Monsanto and the rest of their Banana Republic accomplices makes people starve. The corn that was grown before the Monsanto Mutant was forced upon them was actually edible. And even the Madrid dictatorship didn't take that away from the people. But we'll use all the Star Wars technology to do it on behalf of rich bitches like Bush, Clinton, Trump, Romney, the usual band of merry pirates who strip the wealth of the world on the backs of virtual conscripts, the Economic Draft. Get the 99% to
Did you know that priests and doctors are combatants?
I hadn't thought of it until a MAS briefing in Tech School (School of Health Care Sciences Sheppard AFB Texas) for which I have the lame ass excuse of being only 18 at the time. But, yeah, under the Hague and Geneva Conventions, medics and chaplains are indeed considered combatants. In one way, it's a protective barrier, civilians could face charges within their countries, probably not very enlightened but with the aura of Civil Authority. (like: Texas, the US in general, etc...) Even in a Declared State of War, they could be jailed as criminals and given whatever civil sentences exist, including mutilation, death, beatings... but in War there are rules that sometimes apply. Unless the U.S. or Britannia over-ride it by calling it an Insurgency or (like Grenada) a Rescue Mission. Then there's the Fremont County Paramedics... who served their pigmasters faithfully in the beating death of John Walter. And the privateers who run the jail as a for-profit business. I know the Medics got away with it (minus the eventual settlement of the civil suit) Yep. Smooth clean getaway on their part. I used to watch "Emergency" in the 70s, thought Paramedics were cool. These assholes ruined that impression forever. See, at the Fremont County "Justice" center, the triple-lie "Correctional" "Health" "Care" corporate nurses and 1 doctor who nobody ever sees and the one Nurse Practitioner who sometimes is seen.. They ALL leave after the (mis)Medication Line in the evening. So if the coward scum like Sgt Green and Corporal Maas decide to beat down a prisoner while "restraining" him, they have the County Paramedics come to so-called examine and treat the prisoner for any injuries inflicted. And then to lie their collective arse off when somebody files a lawsuit against the murderous fascist freaks. Perverted bastards, the whole lot of them. They take the jobs simply because it gives them a steady supply of victims. Sadists like that are drawn to positions of power. They literally get off sexually to exercising power against unwilling partners. The more violent the better. They can't get off that way to a prostitute who pretends to be the Comte de Masoch to their Marquis de Sade. Unwilling and helpless or no jollies. The real thing or nothing. Rapists in the most raw sense of the word. Vermin, really. In an advanced and enlightened society it would be legal to hunt them, possible a bounty. The Paramedics would have one really important protocol when it comes to Chest Pain. They would be REQUIRED to check the person sporting the chest pain for heart attacks. Or pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchitis etc in descending order. Somewhere in their list would be Broken Ribs. Painful, they are. Why didn't the ParaMurderers not do those protocols? I knew John Patrick Walter. He would have complained about 9 broken ribs. There's more. I've experienced some very strong blows to the chest in my years. Even a few automobile accidents, being hit by cars. Falling in the mountains. It's redundant to say "on rough ground" because that's
Happy (International) Labor Day
Because the official one will be (a) months away and (b) it's going to be a party for office workers more than laborers. All the bars and restaurants and stores will be open. THEIR employees ain't going to have the day off. But since this is also a Communist holiday, and of course in Northern Europe an ancient celebration of spring, well, I can't really write about it without being called a commie. Too bad. It doesn't bother me any. Communism as an economic structure has been continuously practiced for more than a century and has proved more stable than Capital. In just my lifetime we've been subjected to recession after recession or as the Wall Street Elitists (not the same thing as being elite, just thinking that they are) "market corrections" more times than I have kept count thereof. the "corrections" actually put more control of resources into fewer pockets/hands/bank accounts and especially if there's massive bail outs. The ones who engineer these "corrections" know full well what they do. Nice for them, but for those who have been repeatedly impoverished by the same scam being perpetrated over and over and over... shit, we don't even have to participate in the scam to be steamrollered. Although Steam Rollers are kind of outdated, the name lives on as a verb. And as the first sentences said, the Corporates have taken Labor Day and are selling us a shadow of what it is supposedly the meaning of actually celebrating Labor and our contributions to the world. Try to have a good time anyway. Sometimes it actually works.
The Queen can’t name her own successor, get it right.
One of the few good things coming from the Cromwell Regime civil war in England was the Union Constitution. That's the "British Empire" as represented by the Union Jack flag. Their constitution was much more liberal than that of the US and a hundred years earlier. My apologies, IS more liberal still. And one part of it is that the succession is decided in Parliament. But there was another (yet another) gaudy news headline on a gossip "news" paper at the checkout line in King Soopers. Stating that QE2 had chosen Prince William to succeed her on the throne. By the way, all through the time I spent thinking of this and now writing it, I've had this Python routine being an obsessive waking dream... "strange ladies lying in puddles distributing swords is no basis for kingship... true executive authority comes by a mandate from The Masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony" and you either know the rest of that or you really should buy the DVD of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and just damned learn it. It is worthwhile. What Mrs Saxe-Goetheberg needs to really do is make a big grand gesture, not the one involving the middle finger nor the brit version which is a backward peace sign... Instruct the Prime Minister to push a bill in Parliament to dissolve the monarchy, have all her heirs executed and abdicate. Charlie and Camilla almost got their asses dragged out of their limo and street justice would have prevailed, blue blood would have run in the gutters of London etc... 5 years ago more or less. I was impressed that the London Anarchists had found a neat way to block and defeat "kettling" and that the issue at hand was BessTwo planning a royal pain in the ass I mean "Royal Wedding" which cost the people millions of USD (only in euros) while and at the same time the Tory government which licks her feet was demanding austerity measures for the peasants. But in return of the original thread, even though the most recognized Hereditary Dictator on earth, she is powerless to name her successor in advance. I don't know if Will and Kate actually are the sweetest people in the world. Wouldn't matter. Nobody is actually born to serve under or rule over any other person. It's that simple. As for the niceness of any of the Royals, their family has trained their bastard get to be nothing like nice for generations. Nature v Nurture but they sure have a lot of the latter. And it's almost universally bad. The family has Dracula, Jack the Ripper and the Bush family tagged onto them. Very ugly indeed.