CRANK CALLS

"When pulling oneself up by own bootstraps, be careful not to fall on ass.HA HA!" HO CHI ZEN

"Keep the change." Cindy Sheehan,Gold Star mom/activist

aloha again, before i forget- check out the latest from OREGON PAINTER (Pagini) a haunting landscape.YOU GO GIRL!

CRANK CALLS
SOUL MATE/CASSANDRA is a labor activist/writer so every year we go to the local LABOR DAY PICNIC. our first one we were here less than a month and had no idea what we were in for. if was nice and she got to put face on on her email compatriots.so this year i made a sign and we got a table for the union etc etc plus she set up to sing with the RAGING GRANNIES we she is now active in. imagine my surprise when some local solons began sitting at our long plank table.
some backstory...
since about december 08? i have been e mailing Senator Boxer (DiFi is a lost cause,why bother?) and US Rep.Sam Farr about healthcare and other related issues about once every ten days. SM/C even went to two of his town hall meetings.
so Sam Farr ends up sitting at our table eating undercooked chicken while waiting to give his speech.so introduce myself and he probably thinks i'm just some local nut until i give ex State Assemblyman Jon Laird a healthcare button and Santa Cruz City Councilman Tony Madrigal makes a point of coming over to shake my hand.so now i am a local nut with contacts, i sent him a follow up note reminding him of the incident.

BLOODY HELL
speaking of Healthcare, i am intently watching the Kabuki dance in DC and how FEARLESS LEADER has given away the notion of CHANGE (see Sheehan quote).SENATOR MAX BAUCUS (corporate hack) has come out AGAINST SINGLE PAYER OR THE PUBLIC OPTION in favor of the toothless impotent CO-OP notion which with have all the impact of a wet noodle against a rhino.SIGH. i am wqaiting with baied breath for FEARLESS LEADER'S speech tonight, has his found his balls at last? for Ted Kennedy if not for us??? @BIPARTISAN COMPROMISE (sic) as i asked someone at the picnic HOW DO YOU COMPROMISE WITH SOMEONE INTENT ON CUTTING YOUR THROAT? ASK THEM TO CUT YOUR JUGULAR ONLY HALFWAY???

Check out Matt Taibbi's article in the Sept 09 issue of ROLLING STONE,delicious & depressing in its detail.{HOWARD thqanx 4 the heads up!}

MONEY TALKS B.S WALKS
meanwhile the Supremes are about to decide the future of democracy (literaslly) via it's future decision ON CORPORATE PERSONHOOD (sic) which has a long ugly history of corrupting government. there are now SEVEN LOBBYISTS PER EVERY CONGRESSPERSON...wag the dog anyone? STAY TUNED.

in other news
SM/C try to be fair to each other. so once when she dragged me to a particularly excruciating political meeting i said YOU OWE ME .it was GAY PRIDE WEEK so i found a NUDE POETRY READING in San Francsico, there was a clothes check at the door and both the audience and poets were nude including 80 year old Beat Godess RUTH WEISS who took a shine to me. since it was a mostly gay crowd SM/C was fairly confortable except for the gaggle of lesbins who kept ogling her lasciviously.we both had a good time...i told this sotry to some new friends to test their open mindedness, they passed with flying colors. even BIG MOUTH BLOGGERS need friends.

DO CHECK OUT PAGANI AND HER PAINTERS, she has talent to burn.I LOVE HER WORK! i hope to post some sundry pix here before Xmas,we shall see.went to a Lyme mtg in Watsonville last night and my back is still barking protest, check out the side bar here and on the various blogs, tell me if we missed anything.

MAHAYANA Y'all
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