FRANTIC IN FRISCO

'The inmates ARE running the asylum." ad copy found at 25th & Balboa for Batman_Arkham Asylum

aloha again, still recovering from a 27 hour visit to Frisco.

first the good news,
my eldest son Z Man is NO LONGER A CANDIDATE FOR AMPUTATION.YIPPPEEEEEE!
he has been doing his excercises and is experiencing some nerve regrowth.

FRENZY
as i have mentioned, i drove a cab in Frisco from 1974 to 1980 and it was INSANE.
well, it is worse now.the streets are more crowded, the jaywalkers and wrong way drivers more flagrant and the homeless more verbal and/or truculent plus the working girls and Montgomery Street honeys now dress alike SIGH.
we slept at an elder/youth hostel at 312 Mason,at O Farrell, where our $100 a nite queen sized bed turned out to be a slab of foam and where we noticed, upon leaving, a bowl of free earplugs on the front desk.people were yelling,screaming and rattling bottles all nite long...all this a mere block from Union Square. Soul Mate went out exploring and wound up playing human bumper car with the surly morning crowds.
we were both wound up tighter than a $2 watch with all the craziness, traffic and unexpected long walks uphill carrying luggage.

we all had a good meal in the Castro with MY EX (*) her mohawk haircut and Z Man plus we had long talks about depression & disability,dating,sexual relations and Twinkling.the next day SM drove to the Mission where she tried to sell books while i watched the changing demographic of the local renters.
I USED TO LOVE LIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO but that was decades ago...i was SO HAPPY to return Home with its languid pace and the lack of tourists. now my back is screwed up and i have two appointments for chiropractic and massage coming up due to this excursion.SIGH.

i was going to write about the looming PANDEMIC PANIC and who stands to make a $50 billion profits from it.i am still collecting data for that blog..SOON i promise!

in other news,
Senator Max Baucus has delivered for his corporate masters.
Big Whoop, a 13% INCREASE OVER PRESENT RATES, oh yeah that'll solve a lotta problems with healthcare.

Mahayana y'all
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GODS WILL

A GUEST BLOG TODAY...

Germs and bacteria are creatures of God, ..... to murder them through medical treatment is to oppose the will of God.

You do not need Single Payer or any medical treatment whatsoever if you are going to be resurrected. Why waste money on doctors if soon you will have everlasting life?
(Don't allow ourselves to get buried too deeply as you will have to do a lot of digging when you rise from the grave....there may be a shortage of shovels.)

If it is God's will for you to get sick and die, it is clearly socialistic and devil worship to oppose his will. So don't delay your dying! Oppose Single Payer and DIE NOW!

(Earl Gilman is responsible for this stupidity)

MR.Gilman is a long time friend and mentor of Soul Mate, hope u like this change up.
virutal hugs
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DOUBTS

"Tell the truth but ride a fast horse!" French maxim

aloha again, thanks Pagani for your heartfelt response to my last blog.
Soul Mate predicted that you would have a very human response,plus she loves your art too.

HEALTHCARE FUN SONG ON UTUBE
www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-hipp/were-number-37_b_281979.html


RARE EARTH METALS
this one is new to me but NPR spent five minutes talking about these things which are apparently CRUCIAL TO GREEN ENERGY i.e. electric car batteries and wind turbines.they are found aplenty in Canada,Australia and ....CHINA. so once again it looks like we will be in hock to foreign powers to lessen our dependece on foriegn oil.SIGH.

WALL STREET PLUS ONE
PAUL KRUGMAN Nobel winning economist predicted last year that the Bush/Obama policy of backing truckloads of cash into Wall Street would insure that nothing would ever change there.DAMN looks like he was right again. all the MSM (Main Stream Media) are reporting BUSINESS AS USUAL again.Obama AKA CAPT. COMPROMISE as radical,fascist,communist, granny killing abortionist would be dictator? no, he's just another SNAKE OIL SALESMAN selling vaporware and promises. DOUBLE SIGH & CRY.

CHOP SHOP
my eldest son Z MAN lost the use of one arm in an auto wreck last year, apparently it is irreparable damage and MY EX (*) reports that specialists have informed her that, in similar circumstances, others have chosen to have the non functioning arm replaced by a prosthetic after voluntary amputation.it is his decision of course but in this process i have discovered a prejudice i didn't know i had.
I FIND PROSTHETIC ARMS CREEPY. legs OK but arms YEECH!
i have some friends who are paraplegics, should they have their legs replaced too? what about quads?? one of my county commissioners is a quad with limited movement except for one foot, should we replace him with a plastic robot? ( see the xlnt flim MY LEFT FOOT which won DANIEL DAY LEWIS an Oscar) SIGH yes i know it is irrational and i have no bias against power wheelchairs or assistants. i'm just another flawed human with a load of opinions okay?

in other news,
the MSM reports that people have lost both faith and trust in... the MSM.they blame blogs and bloggers.people like lil ole me? LOL!
i addicted to NPR, BBC NEWS,GOOGLE NEWS and anything else which stays still long enough for me to scan it. I JUST HAPPEN TO THINK ABOUT THE CONTENT AS IT RELATES TO MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, I MAKE NO PRETENSE OF NEUTRALITY. Christ, i thot that was a given when i looked it up on WIKI, yes believe it or not i do homework before i spew here...

Mahayana y'all
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SNAKES IN DA BRAIN

"About these Death Panels...Elected or Appointed?" snark overheard at a recent County meeting

aloha again,
still recovering from yesterday's Cowboy Breakfast here at the mobile home park.LOVED THE AUTHENTIC BISCUITS AND GRAVY!!! in keeping with the theme i wore a black cowboy hat and jeans, a purple western style shirt and a black 13 foot long hangman's noose a friend made for me years ago. just stuff i have laying around the house. gave up my cowboy boots when i got gout etc.

SNAKES
by now u know that this blog revolves around healthcare and cripness, here is another revolve...we have a friend, a sweet but rather unfocussed lil old lady (LOL) maybe we call her PANDORA? or MEDUSA?? with a huge ass dog. years ago she had minor female surgery and the ANESTHESIA was ten or 100 times the normal dosage, i forget which. this mistake put her into a half month long (?) coma and apparently caused some brain damage,undiagnosed. shortly after this she moved into a notorious drug nabe and interuppted some routine drug sales so... according to her, the drug lord started invading her house,rearranging or taking items and poisoning her huge ass dog.okay this much is plausible, so eventually she moved but her problems moved with her...even here to Santa Cruz where she accused her new landlord of being the pawn of the drug lord....so she moved again and again and sent us internet rumors verifying all of her PARANOIA. (what did crazy people do before internet access when they only had the voices in their heads to rely on?)

now here is the problem... she is NOT an activist, sh*t disturber, loony lefty radical (like me) or anything else threatening but now she is convinced that the cartels and CIA are targeting her in a remote woodsy cabin with DEW (Directed Energy Weapons as seen on the Science channel the same day we got one of her letters). she claims they are also tapping the WiFi connection to her laptop, simple enough to do too.

yesterday we were watching KATHRYN OLMSTEAD on CSPAN who wrote a book REAL ENEMIES about conspiracy theory and theorists (note she actually believes the Warren Commission which immediately disqualified her in my book, eh blog) and the psychology behind it. deluisons of granduer and importance and a usually impotent desire to make this crazy deeply flawed world make sense (she aslo quoted a need for fame and of course greed).

so here is my problem, our problem... our LOL friend thinks she has been targeted for assassination.she plans to attend a Zen meditation group to soothe the transition...in a world where COINTELPRO framed people, killed people and generally disrupted politcal process in the USA (thanx JEdgar) and the BUSH CRIME FAMILY sends the military to spy on Quakers and non violent protesters in FREE SPEECH ZONES (sic) What the Hell do we tell her? i am more aware of the DARK SIDE OF AMERICAN GOVERNACE than most yet she finds things that even i did not know which are credible , if used against someone like me or SM but against her are highly unlikely.we offer her love,support,consolation and encouragement but know a nursing home would surely hastend her demise, as well as being a Paranoid's worse nightmare...SIGH.

there is a Zen related saying IF YOU INTEND TO DIE, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!
she tends to be heading in this direction.

in other news,
per The Senile fishwrap- the county's biggest hospital's Pysch Unit is closing it's doors in 3 or 4 years and offering $5 million to the cash starved county to set up it's own facility.i am reminded of waht is said about Texas "too small for a country but but too big for an insane asylum".IMHO likewise Santa Cruz but we like it anyway.we shall see how all this turns out.enuff of this...

and yes i did say CRAZY.

namaste
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UNDERWHELMED

"The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed'." Dorothy Parker
just ask our Congress...

aloha again, just a quickie today (no,not That kind!) got a meeting & PT massage on my schedule.

UNDERWHELMED

saw FEARLESS LEADER on TV last night and it felt like stale beer to me,sorta flat. especially compared to his FIRED UP! barn burner speech on Labor Day.
i thot he might finally take the kid gloves off and , ask Pagani phrased it, "BUST A CAP IN SOME REPUBLICAN ASS". no no we got Capt.Compromise again SIGH.

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN THE USA???
YOU SHOULD LIVE SO LONG!

in the same news,
i finally got around to getting THE RANDI RHODES NEWSLETTER which documents everything she sez on her show. she cites chapter and verse and even has a video of MATT TAIBBI from Rolling Stone THREE THUMBS UP (no, not That way either).
i'm outta here....go out and enjoy Indian Summer.
speaking of which, has anybody else noticed that the Israeli policy with the Arabs matches what we did to the First Americans (sic) break every treaty while taking their lands,destroying their culture and treating them like dumb soulless beasts? just askin'...one of my friends was friends with the kid from Oakland who got shot in the face with a NEW IMPROVED TEAR GAS GRENADE while peacefully protesting the defilement of Arab land and the encroaching 'settlements' which actually look more like KALIpornia condos.as an old time comic usedta say DON'T GET ME STARTED!


namaste
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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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IN OTHER NEWS

"Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice."
Saint Jerome (not the patron saint of hunters?)

aloha again, had breakfast and got up another head of steam.here we go...

1. as a sign of his lack of judgment my youngest son (Aspergers) has some sort of job in Utah, the klan meeting disguised as a state. the Book of Mrmon declares blacks to be subhumans, the Mark of Cain or some such nonsense.letsa see if i remember this right, in upstate new york in the mid 1860s Joseph Smith was told by the angel Moroni (I Moron?) ,in a dream, to dig up gold tablets which had the Book of Mormon inscribed on them-in English apparently.so he dug up the tablets,wrote down the4 contents then reburied them SO THAT NO ONE ELSE COULD SEE THEM! the most Bitter Man I Ever Met was a GAY MORMON FROM UTAH. his soul was actually corroded by the hatred he'd encountered, good luck to you Merrill!

2. i finally figured it out.
Oliver Twist or some other Dickens novel was playing on TV as i channel surfed by and i realized that A PERFECT WORLD BY GOP STANDARDS would fall somewhere between Charles Dickens and Jack the Ripper-debtors prisons,alms houses,sprawling slums, no social safety nets,no public education,filthy starving lice and vermin infested beggars tugging at the silken coat tails of the uber rich. think about okay?

3. my friend GURA in Geezerville send me a YOUTUBE trailer for TAPPED about our bottled water addiction.me, i haved used stainless steel bottles for years now, gave my youngest one a bottle but he THREW IT AWAY ofr his own obscure reasons. a perfectly good $20 bottle too...speaking of YOUTUBE VAN JONES apparently once called the GOP assh*les in response to a question (just saw it on CNN) so the Big Smear began and now he has been forced out as Green Jobs advisor. my SOUL MATE- PC CASSANDRA is addicted to CSPAN and VAN JONES was one of the few people on it who i could watch without flinching,local boy makes good then is sacrficed on the alter of BIPARTISAN COMPROMISE...SIGH.

4.ELIOT SPITZER was on CNN today, before he was a comedy dirty joke punchline he crusaded against Wall Street greed and warned of the impact on the nation.Remember that? just a coincidence that he met his downfall,dressed in only black socks and a hard on, while there were still billions to be scammed. shades of J Edgar and Nixon's Enemies List but as Da Prez sez WE'RE LOOKING FORWARDS, NOT BACKWARDS.History will record us as the fools we are...

5. i was half asleep from a large breakfast but i think i heard that 3300 people committed suicide in KALIpornia last year (check out the NAMI site on sidebar) and only about 550 people have died of swine flu so far, guess where the money is going.SM got an armload of CDs talking about the $50 billion to be made from the vaccine scare. i've got something here on the floor with more details which i hope to blog about later.just keep your eyes and ears open okay? don't do anything rash (or pimply?)

6.Afghanistan...the Mongols conquered it by piling up severed heads higher than the castle walls, nobody else has succeeded since. the BBC and even NPR have reported massive fraud and ballot box stuffing. this is the democracy our peeps are fighting and dying for? opium/heroin production is down abot 5% so now they only account for 90% of the worlds output SIGH. the BBC reports that the Talibasn only conrols 2-3% of the opium trade, they banned it altogether when they ruled, and the rest in controlled by various warlords and transient allies...this is so much like Columbia and the Golden Triangle during the Viet Nam fiasco that i can't stand it.
WILL WE NEVER LEARN?
HOW MUCH OF OUR BLOOD IS CHEAP OIL WORTH?

i think that's it, gotta go pick up some pills to keep me going a bit longer. have turned down an invitation to the Greek Festival downtown, SM and her crew are going later today.her union is part of a LABOR DAY PICNIC tomorrow and i have to make a large sign for HOMECARE WORKERS (these earthly angels).

PS my friends are starting to refer to me as 'charles.com' or affectionately as 'that terrorist blogger CHARLES'...I LIKE IT!!!!!!

PS2 PAGANI-I LOVE YOUR FANTASY! sigh...

Mahayana y'all
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