Philosophy | Once Upon a Paradigm

I mean over the last week or so I have read twenty links regarding the theory that there are UFO’s on the moon and especially on the dark side of the moon.

I am fascinated by this theory because of all the auditory recordings indicating great structures on the moon and in the skies over the moon at the time of our landings.

And this nutsiness is underlined by the fact that many astronauts in space and simply in our Earth’s atmosphere have reported these UFO’s.

In the current time of drones and aircraft that we shall never be introduced to in the next decade; something is out there.

That is all I have this week.

Except:

DOES MASTURBATION CAUSE BLINDNESS?

http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/does-masturbation-cause-blindness/

I am not that sure of this conspiracy but the keyboard and the screen are getting harder and harder to perceive as I move on in years.

It has been said that the two biggest motivations of humans are to obtain pleasure and to avoid pain. I believe with some variations, this is mostly true. Add into this our instinct for survival and you can probably explain most behaviors. But I am just guessing here, I suppose. « Read the rest of this entry »

THE FUNK HOLE

July 9, 2012 § 10 Comments

I am viewing the entire BBC/PBS episodes of a great series that shall continue into the next year.

Most people live quiet lives of desperation.

So says McLuhan!

I have become caught up in a a BBC series entitled:

Foyle’s War

The mystery/cop series is set in Hastings, England during the Blitz and first aired in 2002.

I am currently viewing Set 2, Episode 4 (2003) entitled FUNK HOLES!

Delightful!

Michael Kitchen plays Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle; the chief police officer of Hastings.

I underline this particular episode because we find ourselves in FUNK HOLES.

What prey tell is a FUNK HOLE?

Well it seems that by 1940 during the Blitz, the economically superior classes left London and the larger cities and sought haven in the countryside hoping to escape reality.

And the country-gentry who owned large estates in the ‘country’ needed money.

So the country-gentry naturally turned their homesteads into inns or hostelries as they say.

Now the local markets, subjugated by new rationing rules and regs (much like us a few years later) found that they could not procure adequate products for their old markets let alone the new markets available for the noveau riche (who were not really that noveau! ha).

Therefore, the local markets which were cheating anyway, could no longer supply the richer folks in their own areas since the old more aristocratic Funk Holers would pay three or four times what the old market would bear for a simple pound of liver!

CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT!

I most probably heard those words from three primary teachers and then fifteen professors later on in life.

This series, which I most probably will critique later on, underlines the fact that there is more to historical eras than hats and pants and language and….

So many Brits were without allies on the national scene and without hope following the destruction of their homes. FDR loomed more magnificent in the minds of hundreds of millions of Europeans as the war waged on during our isolationist period increasing of course, following our entry into the war.

WE WERE ONCE THE SINGLE SYMBOL OF HOPE FOR THE SURVIVAL OF CIVILIZATION!

Ha!

Anyway, this blog is not a movie critique but an analysis of the FUNK HOLERS!

As this episode in Foyle’s War progresses we are introduced to the residents of these Funk Holes.

Besides cheating the locals out of their meats and their exotic foods (exotic in the sense of potatoes and carrots), the funk holers cheat. I mean they purchase all the available under-the-table commodities.

The one resident couple of a local funk hole that really got to me, ended up with canned ham which was directed toward their dog!

An amazing comment on humanity since in a previous episode we are confronted with a 1940′s version of Oliver where the waifs collected paper and metal for the war effort in an attempt to procure chocolate from the local parishes!

Why Oliver & Co. did not end up with the canned hams presents us with the concept of the aristocracy’s concept of ‘choice’.

THE PRESENT

Nowadays we have witnessed a new class of FUNK HOLERS.

They do not merely hide in the Hamptons or in the country side of Hastings hoping not be be found out, hoping not to be confronted and hoping that the present ‘difficulties’ shall one day be resolved.

We find people BRAGGING that they are indeed FUNK HOLERS.

Joe Walsh is an example of the present day braggerts; proud to be FUNK HOLERS.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/campaign/236435-tammy-duckworth-american-hero-has-her-heroism-attacked-by-joe-walsh-tea-party-bum

Joe finds himself confronting his own fascist/NAZI persona without one month served in the Armed Forces of anything.

And he finds himself in the FUNK HOLE and finds himself, once again, competing against a severely wounded and disabled veteran!

SO WHAT IS A MOTHER TO DO?

I mean this motherfucker will not even pay his proper child support whilst he spends his entire oratorical life espousing family values besides national duty!

Again, as I have underlined many many times, hypocrisy has no value as a category anymore.

John Kerry who chose to volunteer for his country’s armed forces rather than accept a printed message telling him that he was drafted, went on two tours (THAT’S TWO TOURS FOLKS) in that magic land of Siam. I mean during his first tour he certainly discovered that there was no Yul Brenner and there certainly was to be found no Deborah Kerr!

Well he gets wounded twice and at the 2004 Repub Convention, all of these FUNK HOLERS are wearing symbols making fun of John’s Purple Hearts.

TWO PURPLE HEARTS

And the repubs wear pretend band aids.

Whilst the FUNK HOLER Bush had no Purple Hearts, no tours of Siam and not one incident of combat because he used his aristocratic station in life to avoid conflict. Speaking of avoiding conflict, after a couple years, w bush found the terrors of the sky too much to his liking and so he hid away in his daddy’s campaign whilst the people in power destroyed any documentation that might have substantiated his true tao in life!

CHICKEN HAWKS!

As Cheney once said:

I pursued other options.

But let us remove ourselves from the battlefields for a second.

There are battlefields that involve no tanks, no drones, no rifles and no bombs.

The battlefield we currently find ourselves upon involves homelessness, hopelessness and unemploymentness.

The FUNK HOLERS have no idea what unemployment means.

The FUNK HOLERS have no idea what homelessness means.

The FUNK HOLERS have no idea of what hopelessness means.

The FUNK HOLERS have no idea of what context means.

The FUNK HOLERS have no idea of what a GODDAMN LOTTERY MEANS.

The FUNK HOLERS would have no idea what being a patriot really means.

MITT ROMNEY

Mitt Romney is the ultimate FUNK HOLER.

He hid in Paris to avoid a war that initially began because of French policies.

He hid in Massachusetts so that his governmental policies could be hid by rationalizations.

He hid his assets all over the globe so that he would not pay his share of taxes to his country of origin.

He hid his faith so that his faith, the core of his belief, would not be analyzed too closely.

He hid his his assets so that those assets would not be analyzed too closely.

He hides his real financial backers so that those corporate sponsors will be caused no harm.

He hides his true aims for AMERICA so that real Americans shall never be allowed to see the perils that they shall all experience once he reaches power.

So let us all give it up to the:

THE FUNK HOLERS

THE CREED OF FUNK HOLERS

1. Look, I am doing the best I can.

2. How else can my great grandchildren get into college?

3. My pets deserve something special from me!

4. Hernandez does a great job on my lawns as well as my sex craved wife.

5. I just love Negroes; my mother knew one.

6. Everyone should be free; just so that they can pay their bills.

7. Humanity shall always be confronted by warfare; just leave my family out of it!

8. But if you all do that, I lose my plantation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyU4W8iyeI

EATING BETTER FOR LE$$: BY AUNTIE SAM AND DD

May 28, 2012 § 11 Comments

EATING BETTER FOR LE$$

The Every ‘DAY’ Guide to Secure Healthy Nutrition for Mind, Body and $aving$

Food Insecurity and Very Low Food Security*:

In 2010, 48.8 million Americans lived in food insecure households, 32.6 million adults and 16.2 million children.
In 2010, 14.5 percent of households (17.2 million households) were food insecure.
In 2010, 5.4 percent of households (6.4 million households) experienced very low food security.
In 2010, households with children reported food insecurity at a significantly higher rate than those without children, 20.2 percent compared to 11.7 percent.
In 2010, households that had higher rates of food insecurity than the national average included households with children (20.2 percent), especially households with children headed by single women (35.1 percent) or single men (25.4 percent), Black non-Hispanic households (25.1 percent) and Hispanic households (26.2 percent).
In 2009, 8.0 percent of seniors living alone (925,000 households) were food insecure.
Food insecurity exists in every county in America, ranging from a low of 5 percent in Steele County, ND to a high of 38 percent in Wilcox County, AL.

*Per Feeding America

We are attempting to attack a problem here, there and everywhere because too many people do not know how to cook well on a budget.

AUNTIE SAM AND I DISCUSS WITH YOU:

HOW TO EAT BETTER FOR LE$$!

Poorer folks do not eat out or at least they should not!

Take out pizza is ten bucks minimum.

If you ate take out pizza all week (forget delivery, I mean you have to pay a tip) it would cost a minimum $300 a month and you would be receiving one meal a day—or two if you really wish to eat cold pizza at 12 midnite or 600:AM.

Of course, fast food and all processed food meals are loaded with too much of everything bad and very little of what’s good, in taste and nutrition, for us or our wallets.

I have spent hundreds of hours with food channel shows or with Martha over the last few years. I learned a lot from these programs even though I usually attack the subject with satire. And I have learned much from the diner shows, believe it or not.

Now I cook for me! And I can easily eat on $150.00 a month and eat nutritionally.We shall continually discuss how to save money at the grocers.

I would think that two would be able to eat for under $200/$225 a month. If you are living with three teenagers, I think you should need at a minimum $500/month especially if you have active boys! A teen age boy needs 4500 calories a day if he is active as I was in my day but we shall discuss this at length in further episodes—assuming this idea catches on.

Still learning about,but now know enough to be rid of gout, the onset of adult diabetes and a number of other ailments that were created mainly by the food I was eating.

So Auntie Sam and I decided that it might be fruitful for all of us to come together to share/discuss philosophically and realistically the type of diet that one could live on for $150.00 or so a month. These menus would be satisfying, nutritional, cheap and easy to prepare. All the Vitamins A and B’s and C and E and other needs should be taken care of in a 3 meal a day regimen.

Remember physical activity is of the utmost import in deciding a diet regimen. But if you skimp on dietary necessities you are open to arthritis, gout, diabetes, depression, anxiety, heart problems….

We hope to share with you good recipes, including nutrition and other economic assistsinthis endeavor.

Auntie Sam and I would like to begin a real look at nutrition and we welcome every recipe and other ‘food and nutrition fare facts, as well as hints on $aving$ you feel like contributing. Do you recommend a good coupon site on internet for printable coupons? Please share.

TO BEGIN:

Ah, spices are so important. Here is my basic spice and herb list:

Garlic Salt*

Italian seasoning

Cumin

Red Pepper flakes

Salt and Pepper of course

Chili Powder

Dried Onion flakes

Parsley flakes

Cinnamon

(*Auntie reminds me that garlic powder is healthier and more economical.)

If you have other basics that you believe are essential, please tell us.

We’ll continue to give you a ‘pantry’ list including condiments, staples and other foods that best deliver better food and nutrition for less.

But, here’s your first tasty recipe sampling:

My recipe for apple sauce that can be a side with pork or chicken or pancakes or waffles or integrated into a whole wheat coffee cake:

Three apples

Cinnamon

Lemon juice (bottled)

Orange juice

Pare the apples (now while I pare the apples I eat the peelings which are highly nutritious and good fiber for our digestive tracts).

Cut the apples rustically so that some pieces are larger than others.

Put the remaining apple pieces in a pan.

Stick on a low low burner and add a touch of lemon juice, a touch of orange juice and the cinnamon.

Cover with one of those holy pie tins you kept after you purchased a pie.

Check every few minutes, carefully turning the mixture with a wooden spoon.

Ten or fifteen minutes later (depending upon the type of apples you found on sale at the grocers) you turn off the burner. The smaller pieces have become sauce, the larger pieces (which you might even cut a bit) add substance.

There is absolutely no reason to add sugar to this recipe because APPLES ARE MOSTLY SUGAR. hahaha

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*Toward the beginning of every month I pick up 5 pounds of apples (Now I might wait till the first Sunday when the prices change) and I choose those apples that are on sale. It usually runs me four or five bucks and the bag lasts me a month.

Poached Egg ‘omelets’

2 eggs

crack eggs into poaching ‘cups’

top with your favorite omelet ingredients such as these options:

A bit of shredded cheese and/or

crumbled bacon or small chunks ham, sausage and/or

chopped vegetables like pepper, mushrooms, green onion, etc. and/or

chopped tomato and/or

well, whatever you want

As egg poaches, ingredients cook and blend into top of egg. Easy clean up, only a small portion of fats; depending upon your additions to the basic recipe.

You can put on whole wheat toast

(kids and adults love these)

cost – less than $1.00 per serving

CEREAL FACTS:

The average preschooler sees 642 cereal ads per year just on television, almost all for cereals with the worst nutrition ratings.
Compared to cereals marketed to adults, those marketed to children have 85% more sugar, 65% less fiber, and 60% more sodium.
Cereal companies together spend more than $156 million per year marketing to children.
Of the ten cereals with the worst overall impact (nutrition and marketing scores combined), six are products from General Mills, three are from Kellogg, and one is from Post.
Self-regulation by industry should not forestall needed government action. Self-regulatory pledges by the cereal companies have thus far been weak and have not shielded children from a barrage of messages to eat the least healthy products. Companies should be held accountable for the impact their products have on children.

IF CEREALS HAVE PRESERVATIVES AND OTHER ‘FAUX’ INGREDIENTS – THESE ARE NOT GOOD FOR YOU. CHECK INGREDIENTS AND NUTRITION INFORMATION ON PACKAGES. CEREAL IS EXPENSIVE. STEEL CUT OATMEAL IS INEXPENSIVE AND OH, SO HEALTHY. TOP WITH A BIT OF FRUIT, BROWN SUGAR, WALNUTS AND YOUR BODY AS WELL AS TASTE BUDS WILL THANK YOU.

Kellogg Mini-Wheats received the best nutrition rating; therefore, it is the only brand to receive a high combined FACT score.

The cereals with the poorest scores based on combined nutrition and marketing impact are Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Trix, and Reese’s Puffs.

Coming soon: Healthy, nutritious and economical homemade cereal recipes.

www.cerealfacts.org.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii88g-op4xo

NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE

May 22, 2012 § Leave a Comment

The Bard (ca. 1817), by John Martin

I am watching Dylan: Revealed.

On Netflix.

If you are looking for music like the Last Waltz you are going to be disappointed. There is little by the way of music.

But I learned something.

I watched Charlie Rose recently and he was interviewing an English Actor with whom I have little experience; and yet I am familiar with Bill Nighy. I always get a kick out of Bill.

He had a part in Love_Actually. (A silly nonsensical take on xmas in London!. But I loved the film—so what?)

Nighy went to all the proper British Schools for training and such. And in Love Actually he plays this nothing musician who apparently had one or two big time tunes and was lost forever as far as the public was concerned.

He ends up taking off all his clothes playing some silly xmas tune and is revived.

Bill is wonderful. He wanted to play in Pinter Plays or those written by Stoppard or Brenton or Gill…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_nighy

But he normally eschewed Shakespeare. And the manner in which he handles his anti-Shakespearean slant with Rose is wonderful. Hahahahah.

This actor maintained that Dylan was his favorite singer!

This comment from Nighy just amazed me!

WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS GUY THINKING ABOUT?

And then I relistened (is that a word) to some older Dylan songs.

And I thought:

WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS GUY TALKING ABOUT?

And….

Instead of staying mad and incredulous I thought:

Hell, I would rather listen to Dylan than anybody else.

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Tales from the Psychiatric Nurses Station – Child/Adolescent Part 1

April 8, 2012 § 1 Comment

It has been a while since I’ve written on here so I thought I would come on and say hello. Alot has happened on the unit that I have worked for about a year. Among the lack of sleep from my thoughts racing due to the kids on my mind from all of their traumas to being in school again to work on my Bachelors degree. I’d like to give you two the brief case studies on my most memorable patients and how they’ve impacted me.

Over the past year I have learned a lot about child and adolescent psychiatric care. Never before in my life did I think a small child would have to endure the pain, horror, and terrifying abuse that some of these children have had to face. Seeing the look on the faces of these children who have been sexually abused by relatives, family friends, or rarely strangers; rips at your very soul. I find sleep escapes as the child’s face enters my mind’s eye, an image of them cowering in the corner fills my thoughts. I’m paralyzed with reality and I am not a confused child who is inexperienced in the trials of life and all that is evil. I am not the abused. The same child has been to 4 or 5 different foster homes in the span of 4 weeks. She has no one to love her and she asks me “can you be my mommy?”

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Grey Matters….

March 13, 2012 § Leave a Comment

World Fertility Rate Map

With all the hoopla about access to contraceptives by women here as well as abortion rights and the paranoia both here and abroad about Islamic take over, I thought it might be of interest to look at the reality of what is actually going on. A comment in one of the other diaries reminded me of checking out some of the stories in Asia Times so I though I would cruse over there. « Read the rest of this entry »

RAYLAN GIVENS AND RONNIE PAUL

January 28, 2012 § Leave a Comment

Ronnie Paul, the acting Sheriff of Harlan County, Texas appeared before the trio of reporters for this ad hoc news conference in front of the 400 square foot headquarters.

Harlan County (one of 254 political subdivisions of the Longhorn State) is located in the SW portion of Texas, some 40 miles or so from the Mexican Border.

Folks never paid much mind to what went on in this neck of the woods. I mean there were less than 1500 residents. No I mean less than 1500 residents for sure but the Census people were once again fooled so that Harlan could maintain some State aid anyhow!

Ronnie Paul (no one really was sure of his real last name but last names never counted for much here anyhow) was a diminutive sort; looked frail but could cycle 25 files with ease. I mean he’s a damn septuagenarian and thin as a rail having to wear suspenders just to keep the bottom half of his uniform from falling to the ground.

Greying and with a face severely lined; Tammy Jane from Woosha’s Daily News just thought:

This is no country for old men!

What was that? Ronnie Paul inquired; for he had heard Tammy Jane loud and clear with the new hearing aid he just received from his on-line order to Dallas that month.

On Sheriff Ronnie Paul, I was wonderin if you have had the chance to hunt down Dickie Bennet yet? I mean we hear Dickie was responsible for the flailing of folks in the Chevy van just 7 miles down 72 from here due East?

Now Tammy Jane; we all know that a man in this here country is innocent until proven guilty but as far as that sad attack upon them liberal roadies from up north the investigation is continuing and we shall use all of our brains and all of our brawn and all of the tools that the great State of Texas has provided to right this wrong.

Well thank you for that Sheriff, but seein as this fine law enforcement machine there is just you and Curly Rand and he is just part time.

Shades of Barney Phife, thought Jimmy Bob Teraman from the Paris Tribune.

SHADES OF WHAT?

I was just wondering Jimmy Bob began attempting to hide any further contempt in this matter from the chief law enforcement figure involved in this tragedy, what types of clues and such you have discovered so far since this whippin took place more than a week ago?

Here it comes, thought Ronnie Paul. Few folks as nice in these parts as Jimmy Bob and Tammy Jane and just cause this unsightly matter had been reported as far away as San Antone they have to feign some sort of local concern so as to not look like the hicks they was.

If I might speak contextually Jimmy Bob and Tammy Jane; I have been in contact with the folks runnin the Gospel Health Institute and they tell me that them northerners are healin up fine. Now that Mr. White has lost a leg, but it was his left leg (not used so much as the right leg ya know) and some prosthetic device was going to be attached but he had no proper insurance.

And that darkie that was with him (was he called Aba Ibn or some such) well he is still in the coma condition but is expected to wake up any time now.

And the third victim, the lady in the pant’s suit, has claim some sort of physical intrusion into her private parts but she is getting around just fine.

As far as the perpetrators are concerned, we shall turn over every rock; we shall look under every outhouse, doghouse, tree house and whorehouse in these parts and outlying areas until justice is met!

The reporter from the Missouri Sun Times stepped forward.

Ronnie Paul stepped back a pace as he was astounded to see a cameraman come from behind the out of town northerner.

Why have not the State Police been notified of these felonies?

Why have Federal Police been treated in this manner?

Why does it appear that your office only seeks to cover up the mauling of good Americans?

And your name, the Sheriff inquired.

I am Randolf Scott from the Missouri Sun Times sir sent down here by my editor to gather some facts concerning this debacle.

Well the only debacle I see is a team of Northerners who wish to make good hard working Americans look bad so that you might sell more papers.

But I would answer your questions in the order presented.

First, I have notified the State Police, the exact time Curly Rand…er Deputy Rand discovered the carnage. And to be blunt the State Police is real busy handling all the felonies committed by illegals who slink into this county from the south every single day. And those same State Police are busy investigating other crimes committed by other minorities and such.

Second, these Federal Police had no business being here and causing much worry and fret amongst my fell Harlan County citizens. But nonetheless, we do not allow felony and mayhem in these here parts against any visitors.

Third, and most importantly, it appears that some illegals had a part in all of this criminal activity and local Minutemen have been notified; these illegals like baseball and a baseball bat was definitely used to injure the victims.

LOCAL MINUTEMEN! WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT…

Better lower your voice Randolf or you might find some accommodations in these here headquarters!

With that, Ronnie Paul got into his patrol car heading East on 72.

White and Abara and Smith had come down from St. Louis as part of a Task Force formed to investigate rumors of tax evasion in Harlan County. They had stopped for fuel at Vicky’s Gas and Watering Hole up on 72.

Next thing you know, Curly Rand shows up in his Pa’s patrol car the next day discovering two bodies on the ground with a woman in red ranting and raving about the impending Federal Invasion.

Curly duly called for an ambulance from the Gospel Health folks on the car radio (Curly’s phone was uncharged as is usual).

Although there were reportedly five locals including Dicky Bennet in attendance at the time of the perpetration, having sips on some sustenance in the back of Vicky’s, no one came forward with any information concerning the fate of the task force.

Five days following this terrorist act, Raylan Givens from the U.S. Marshall’s Service was sent to the vicinity of the chaos. This time he was stuck in a rented two door Chevy at least 15 years old so as to blend into the local environs.

Raylan stopped at Vicky’s acting like some transient who was taking advantage of an out of the way gas stop in order to continue onto better goals.

Raylan had been late because he was stuck in Federal Court with a local assistant DA procuring an order to show cause why the Federal Task Force victims were not being properly cared for at Gospel. The Order was really directed to the insurance company and an ambulance was already on its way to pick up all the victims and take them to a Federally Funded Facility in Dallas.

Broad at the shoulder but narrow at the hip, Raylan had the physique of a swimmer and with his cowboy hat on he almost looked like a caricature of a human being.

Raylan sauntered into Vicky’s.

A very tall woman with a wart on her chin wearing what appeared to be a jumper approached the client with a watchful eye.

Where you from stranger?

Harlan County actually.

Harlan County. Really? How come I never came upon your countenance afore?

Harlan County, Kentucky actually.

Raylan pull the star strapped to his belt to his buckle in order to disclose his business.

You’re a Fed aren’t ya?

Pretty observant maam.

I have a few questions though.

Where were you on Friday the 13^th?

Well I was here in the morning as always, just like now. Then I, I had to attend a baptism down in Paris.

You are Vicky, I presume?

Yes, Vicky Ann Heller.

How long you been operating this place?

Goin on ten year I suppose. Took it over from Uncle Joe after his arrest.

You mean Joe Tanner who is spending some time at Folsom for moonshinin?

She just stared at him.

Do you know a Dicky Bennet?

.Kind of wiry with a limp and a shaggy ugly beard?

Yep!

Yes, I do.

…..

Meanwhile Ronnie Paul, headed East as he left the press on 72 and as soon as he was out of sight took a hard left traveling NW on the Old Country Road. He had business to do.

There was business to transact at the still.

Ten miles from the turnoff was a huge hill filled with forest cover. He noted the steady wisp of smoke comin from his facility.

He parked further uphill from the still and walked down.

Curly Rand? Curly Rand?

CURLY RAND WHERE IN THE HELL ARE YOU?

The Sheriff heard a muffled call and so he headed for cover peering into his encampment. He took the spyglass from his pants pocket.

There, South of the still was Curly tied to a tree and there was that new brat Dicky Bennet with a baseball bat.

Ronnie Paul got to his knees and grabbed his rifle He was always a sure shot in circumstances like these.

The Sheriff pulled the trigger taking Dicky down.

Slowly he arose, rifle in hand approaching the scene of the crime.

You all right Curly Rand?

He then took the strap from around his son’s mouth and released him from the tree.

Ronnie Paul sunk to his knees in front of his recently fondled son.

The North was on the wrong side of the war.

The South was justified as Spooner said.

Slavery would have been abolished by the South sooner or later without any help from the blue coats.

Instead the Yankees just substituted the sons and the daughters of the South for the Black Slaves.

Those brave and true Sons & Daughters are now the slaves of the Yankee dogs.

And now.

Now the Feds just occupy us like they done before.

The Federal Government is the Northern government of old.

Tax, tax and tax.

That is all our foes know.

Spend, spend and spend.

That is all our foes know.

Don’t worry about it if we’re not a majority, all we need is a minority keen on spreading the brushfires of liberty in the minds of man.” That is what we need to do and believe me, the brushfires are burning, they will not be able to squelch the brushfires, they’re burning and they’re spreading and people are getting excited, because they’re starting to separate it out, what true liberty is all about, what market liberty, personal liberty is and what it means in foreign policy, what it means in our traditions, the American tradition, what it means because the Constitution confirms and confers with what I’m saying..

And we are being bushwhacked right now by some more of those Northern Blue Coats.

They are indoctrinating our children which is why we must get rid of the Department of Education.

They are stealing Texas Oil and claiming jurisdiction over our lands and our shores which is why we must erase the Department of Energy.

They are trying to tell us how, when, where and with whom we can trade our products and our resources which is why we must abolish the Department of Commerce.

They destroy our currency and that is why we must obliterate the Federal Reserve.

Their soldiers still occupy us which is why the Department of Defense must be severely decimated.

Their welfare plans are keepin our Negroes lazy and unproductive which is why we must remove the Department of Health & Human Services from our shores.

Their attempts to make us use their models for residency have fallen flat; they okay loans to miscreants; they prevent like people from living with like people; they pretend their morality is better than ours so we must fire bomb HUD into extinction.

AND WE AINT GONNA TAKE IT NO MORE!

THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND SEX

January 15, 2012 § 2 Comments

A Roman copy of Eros Stringing the Bow from the Capitoline Museum

I decided that enough was enough.

I was 29 and out of shape and drinking all the time and unhappy and…

Don’t get me wrong, I spent decades sober and feeling unhappy all the time, but I had caught something at that time and place.

I set down some rules and I would follow them.

So every morning I would get up at 5:00 AM for a change and have my cigs and some coffee.

Following this first rule, I would dress in shorts and a top and go for a five mile run (it started as two then it morphed to nine and then I settled on five)

But there was nothing on TV at 5:00 AM except for some exercise program where women would dress up like they were on this old show called Baywatch and stretch.

It was exhilarating really.

One morning my son, who was three, came out of his bedroom and sat down with me.

I had no idea why but I would grab some orange juice and hand him his cup.

Well, he liked these exercise videos. Hahahahah

The poor kid.

I was still smoking inside of the house at that time.

But then it became a regular thing.

I mean he would come out of his bedroom and come and sit with me as we watched these nubiles exercising. Hahahahahahah

I would give him his cup of orange juice, prepared before he arrived and he would sip and watch these girls. Hahahah

So now he comes a couple hundred miles to visit every other month (it was more like twice a year before he found his beloved with relatives up here) and we speak of the old days and the new.

He actually recalls these early days as I prepared to jog. Hahahahah

I blogged before about my childhood.

As I look back, my father had left instructions for my regimen while he was at work for my poor mentally limited mother. (He died when I was twelve from a multitude of sins)

I was to nap in the master bed at age three and four.

And there was a magazine left on the coffee table next to the bed.

I recall the name to this day.

It was cavalier magazine

There were wonderful things in those Cavalier Magazines

I mean you might read your child writings from 1001 Arabian_Nights

You might have read your child writings from Chaucer or Mallory or even Upton St. Clair.

But nobody every read anything to me.

There were no books in my home. And I can go into great detail upon this subject but it would break from my message here.

My kids always had books around them.

They had books on shelves around the house.

They had great encyclopedias.

I had books, just like I do now, laying around. You know those books that you have read and pulled to read again, the new books you are just introducing yourselves to, the old books that you should be reading but….well you just keep them handy!

My father was worried that I would become a homo. Hahahahahahaha

So he actually instructed my mother to make available soft soft pornography so that I would be drawn to the side of the light. Hahahahahahah

I never was caught up in this strange fear. Fear for the sexual preference of my own son. It never occurred to me.

I was in love with my Kindergarten teacher for chrissakes. Hahahaha Until she lifted me up and put me in the corner for some sort of infraction that to this day I do not recall. Hahhaha

Anyway, this exercise commercial was put on cable at five AM or so and my son was immediately drawn to it. Hahahahah

My son needed no reeducation regarding the matter.

My son needed no religious direction in the matter.

My son liked semi-naked women. Well, and naked women also. hahahahahah

I will never forget when we moved to Edina about 1992.

I walked into his room and there was this enlarged Playboy pinup on his wall. Really tame by the standards of this day and age. Hahahahaha

And I still had this voice in my head, and my boy was 14 and this voice said:

ALL RIGHTY THEN!

Hahahahahah

You cannot push these children into some category.

I mean they find those categories themselves.

I did not and never did need Cavalier Magazine to lead me to temptation. Hahaahahahahah

I only bring this up because these thoughts no longer embarrass me.

I certainly cannot believe these thoughts would embarrass my son. I have spoken about these thoughts with him.

I bring these thoughts up because of people like Rick Santorum and Gary Bauer and the rest of these so-Called Christian leaders espouse this conspiracy theory; that there are people out there ready and willing to turn our entire population into homsexuality.

What do I know?

I only know what I have experienced personally and through my personal contacts.

There are other theories for sure.

I mean the Spartan histories are interesting.

Semper Fidelis might have arisen from the Spartan ‘policy’ of bisexuality.

The Spartan children were sent to war camp when they were babies (I mean 6 or 8 years of age)

But they were betrothed to a woman of child bearing age in those days at 12 or 13 years of age.

Alexander of Macedonia, north of Greece, was leading troops at age 13 on his horse Bucephalus and

went to war.

There were jokes about Navy men when I was a kid before I even understood the sexual pejoratives at the time.

The Spartan idea had to do with your relationship to your team mate in the trenches!

Alexander was bisexual for sure. He had his true love(s) and yet fostered children by his royal wife.

Julius Caesar liked to f(*&k anything that walked.

I do not have all of the answers but I will tell you this from personal experience.

I never fostered some lust for a man. I never thought about sex with a man. I had no idea how this act could be accomplished until I was in my twenties. (Yeah I was that naive)

And after a few beers with my son, he never has either.

I was struck with Roman Catholic Propaganda that made all sex bad—as if that would deter the masses. Hahahah Let alone the clerics, hahahahah

Is this all Freudian denial?

I don’t think so.

The Roman Catholic Church has nothing to do with the education of my son. I made sure of that.

This fear from Rick Santorum and his followers of homosexual male haters and the gay conspiracy to make us all verboten to God—you have to understand that from a purely propaganda perspective Lesbian issues have never really troubled the Church. I do not know how to explain this but the nunneries were never a threat to the Church. Ever! Nuns having sex with nuns would lead to no children.

I have watched Ralph Reed, and Robertson and the late Falwell and Bauer and Hagge and scores of others who have strange longings as far as I am concerned.

I can understand the deeply religious abhorrence of abortion. I understand this; killing a potential human being is abominable. And I am not going to get into this issue here except to say that technology has changed over the decades and after 45 or 60 days a woman should make a decision. But then I am stuck with the health, welfare and survival of the mother and….see, I am stuck and so I lose the issue.

But damn, some conspiracy by gay people to somehow take over the universe is just comic book crap.

I mean aliens from Krypton are going to use death rays to destroy us all. Although they would certainly do well in Hollywood!

And I have said it before and I will say it again as others more talented have put it.

These so-called ‘family Christian folks against homosexuality’ have an inner problem demonstrating that they have real issues with in regard to their own sexuality.

I do not believe them! I do not believe the underlying theory of behavioral training, or the underlying theory of Satanic propaganda or the underlying theory that homosexuals might taint the potential fetus pool.

Oh and for those Catholic bishops out here:

I really am aroused by naked women.

Oh my God I am heartily sorry for having offended thee and I detest all my sins….

All these thoughts are undocumented; I mean there are no real links to facts.

But where in the hell are the links from these Christian anti-Gay evangelists?

hahahah

RON PAUL AND HENRY FORD AND NEWSLETTERS

January 10, 2012 § Leave a Comment

Henry Ford with Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone. Ft. Myers,

The secret to eternal youth may come in the form of stem cell injections, U.S. scientists claimed.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh made the discovery after breeding mice with progeria syndrome, which causes rapid aging, and injecting them with stem-cell-like cells derived from young, healthy rodents.

You never know when a healthy rodent might come in handy!

This Ron Paul newsletter scandal reminded me of something that occurred almost a century ago.

In 1918 Henry Ford took over a newspaper called the Dearborn Independent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Mental_collapse_and_World_War_II

Wiki provides a nice neat rundown of this fiasco.

It would be funnier if certain Germans did not embrace many of the articles appearing in that newspaper—most of which were authorized by Ford, personally if not written by him. Then the newspaper got into the book business.

The newspaper published The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was discredited by The Times of London as a forgery during the Independent’s publishing run. The American Jewish Historical Society described the ideas presented in the magazine as “anti-immigrant, anti-labor, anti-liquor, and anti-Semitic.” In February 1921, the New York World published an interview with Ford, in which he said: “The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.” During this period, Ford emerged as “a respected spokesman for right-wing extremism and religious prejudice,” reaching around 700,000 readers through his newspaper …

Later the most anti-Semitic articles were republished in another book that the Germans really liked.

In a letter from 1924, Heinrich Himmler described Ford as “one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters.”[59] Ford is the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf

By 1927 Henry was attempting to disavow the most terrible articles printed in his paper:

At a libel trial in 1927 he claimed he neither wrote nor had knowledge of the content of those articles Sound familiar?

http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/in-the-shadows/overthrow-fdr/gallery.html?curPhoto=8

Ford was being sued in Federal Court under a libel/slander theory.

http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/research/project/19

Within a year of this trial the Dearborn Independent was no more!

Many great writers have noted over the centuries that there never was and never would be an innocent man.

Ford was a violently dogmatic conservative and hater of unions but he invented the five dollar day for his workers.

His company eventually cut workers’ hours and established benefits.

He was also a big employer of Black Americans. He saw characteristics in the Black Man that most white employers ignored.

From a strictly capitalistic perspective, Henry I wanted to keep his trained work force. He was upset when he saw his managers having to train in new workers because his trained workers were quitting to make better money elsewhere.

It appears that although he was a pacifist/isolationist like Ron Paul, his factories geared up for the First World War. (Wiki notes that Wilson wished Ford to run as Senator to help him out with his League of Nations idea)

He kind of lost command of his faculties during the 1930′s following a few heart attacks, handing over formal executive powers to others.

I get on my high horse much too often; being prone to hyperbole and judgmental-ism; not that I am the only one with these afflictions!

Henry I made a vehicle to replace the horse. Oh he did not invent the car you might say.

But he did invent a manner of manufacturing that ultimately led to making a vehicle available to the masses; using laborers who could afford to actually purchase a vehicle they had a hand in manufacturing.

Just as an aside, the current epic television series about the building of the transcontinental railroad following the Civil War lays out all the terrible issues facing a new America including the Indian Wars and the abuse of minorities in the budding labor force.

I have to stand back and put things into context. And I must compare our new nation’s sins to the sins of other nations during the same time period.

The Russian Tsar might have freed the serfs in 1863, but it was surely a freedom granted in name only.

People were living in the sewers of London and Paris during this time period and needless battles were fought throughout Europe for no apparent logical reason.

I must conclude that Henry Ford was a great man of his time and this nation was better off with his insights and his ability to build an international manufacturing business.

I mean Edison was a prick from everything I have read but this nation was better off as a direct result of his inventions and his visions. He was terrible to his laborers.

I do not feel that Ron Paul in this day and age has accomplished anything compared with the masters of American Industry of yesteryear.

But his voice is a voice that must be heard.

And regardless of newsletters printed under his name and label a couple of decades ago, this nation is better off that he has had the opportunity to be heard amongst the cacophony of lies perpetrated by most of the other candidates running for the repub nomination.

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