MIND GAMES

"Ideas are more dangerous than guns.We wouldn't let our enemies have guns,why should we let them have ideas?" JOSEF STALIN

aloha again, just noodlin today too early (sic) for heavy duty screeds..

RACISM
the BLIND governor of new york declared that many White Peoiple GET UNCOMFORTABLE when TOO MANY darkies are in power.didja know that he was BORN BLIND IN HARLEM? i am remnide that a study found that a blind person listening to sports could tell who was black or white (imagine that and why) blacks like Terrel Owens were born GIFTED while whites like Pete Rose WORKED THEIR ASSESS OFF.just listen to any NFL game and you can hear this creeping ing in.it oftens sours the experience for me but then i like to live WITH MY EYES OPEN.

the NatGeo channel had some visual buffet doc claiming that Race is merely a SOCIETAL CONSTRUCT and that we can breed like dogs with anyone else on the planet since we are all 99.9999% alike.is that the good news or the bad?

i mark Jan 2oth 2009 the day that the racist substrate officially lost its mind. now them claim that Obama's per forma speech to schoolchildren thsi week is some kinda Nazi Mind Control/sublimnal hypnosis.i wondered what Faux News would talk about once they got tired of kissing the Bush/Cheney collective ass.speaking of Cheney...CHENEY/PALIN 2012??? isn't 2012 supposed to be the End of Days? their election would confirm it.JESUS H. F*CKING CHRIST or KALKI?

DAMN
i am a writer, i write the way other people masturbate, don't snicker. i had a cheap screenwriting program which it spelled out as a Keeper to two different peeps at the local PC repair shop, the good one, guess what? yeah, at least i have back up CDs of all but three of my usually unsold works, but still .oh yes and they , the company, has apparently gone outta business since my e mail bounced back.

IN DEEP SH*T
one other thing...like living in Frisco once the schools open and most of the tourists go home the weather here is PERFECT.so it is like thrusting knitting needles in your eyes, and often ears, to sit at a county meeting and listen to the looming devastation the KALIpornia budget cuts are having.i wrote a very dark and what i thot was a somewhat satirical blog about Alzheimers patients wandering into traffic and onto freeways...adult day care has been cut from five days to three,including Alzheimers clients.there at least a dozen other cuts equally distressing.

GOOD NEWS?
MY EX (*) is moving to Sacramento, which means my one winged eldest son will be going to and maybe get a somewhat decent education at the local schools, if they are still open.
when i was a child KALIpornia and new york were one and two in quality education.i went to public schools all my life and look how i turned out...OKAY YOU CAN SNICKER NOW.did i mention that per CNN & NPR KALIpornia now ranks DEAD LAST IN PER CAPITA STUDENT SPENDING behind all the Deep South Cracker barrel states? SIGH & CRY.

STATE OF CONFUSION
this is the GOP stance on education, charter schools for the rich and poverty with high drop outs (@ 40-50% among the darkies) for the poor while you ship all decent paying jobs offshore with your secret bank accounts...NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON?! do i hold mindless joy at the thot of the next Dim admin in Sacto??? BITTERLY- NO, the same peeps own the Dim O Publicans.there is talk again, even on NPR, about breaking KALIpornia into tow to fiver separate states,it is insane that Wyoming and Montana have the same amount of Senators ad this nuthouse.like all good and even half assed ideas here this will never happen.i think someoen in the 1860s first proposed this as a solution ( Emperor Norton?) and look how far it's come.

if i had anything else to say i have forgotten it. i leave you with a cheery thot,no really!

"DIP YOURSELF IN BOLD COLORS AND PAINT WITH YOUR LIFE." Dina Babbitt,artist
Amen to that.

Mahayana y'all
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GONE PHISHING

"Life is like an iceberg,usually 90% is below the surface." Ho Chi Zen

aloha again, didja miss me? perhaps just a lil?

STEAMPUNK'D
no, unlike any Normal Person i did not take a vacation from cable madness and TMI hurly burly. my creaky cranky steam powered Turing Engine vintage PC sprang a leak, a leaky firewall actually and i got Punk'd by some PHISH malware. cost over two hundred to trash and refresh the hard drive, luckily being a mildly paranoid old fart I BACK UP ALMOST EVERYTHING. a line i want to use...last year nearly half my crip friends died or committed suicide (good bye Xmas list!) so this year, in a bid for attention my PC did the same thing, i know, lame heh? so be it.

THANX to friend THOMAS LEAVITT (see Comments) for taking time from his grueling schedule to get me on line late last night, just in time for a bout of carousel insomnia. toss & turn, turn & toss,,,C PAP health benefits IMHO are vastly overrated.ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz...

R.I.P TED KENNEDY
of sourse Soul Mate AKA PC CASSANDRA, PC as in Prematurely Correct, you might remember that Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy but cursed in that no one would believe her...anyway SM had questions FAQs about various aspects of the Kennedy mythos. i told her as a CRANK NUTJOB CONSPIRACY THEORIST i preferred theories that don't depend on Magic Bullets that violate the laws of physics as we know them. i was okay with this but later mildy pissed to watch a few minutes of the NatGeo mockumentary where people who disagree with the BUSH CRIME FAMILY B.S. about 9-11 are labelled TRUTHERS, just like this racist right wing BIRTHERS nonsense.SIGH, what did i expect...think NatGeo is run by Rupert Murdoch owner of FAUX NEWS (sic).
what else?

are you watching MSNBC? not a lot of news but it's nice to hear opinions i agree with for a change.i listen to NPR but BBC gives you more news bites per minute and TMI about things and places you never hear of. i compare my mind, when well, to flypaper...just about everything sticks to it.
THANX PAGANI and MUCH THANX TO MY RESPECTED ELDER HOWARD who likes my blather.
Pagani thot of Obama as Rodney King like , is that graphic enough?
Thomas made a comparison of the ruthless GOP to DEATH STAR DARTH VADER versus the Dims as BAMBI. i am reminded of some rape victims
RED MEAT & RAPE
that Jaycee Dugard case comes to mind,Stockholm Syndrome yada yada.FAQ violent sex offender is paroled after a dozen years of a 50 YEAR SENTENCE then he and his wife kidnap and rape an 11 year old girl (very photogenic and blonde for the cable audience) and has two children by her. THIS PERP IS ON PAROLE and NOW they worry that he is also a serial killer of prostitutes in nearby Pittsburg!!! EGADS!

betcha this is gonna be RED MEAT for Gov Assh*le and the other Dim O'Publicans who are against releasing a single pothead or shoplifter from our vastly overcrowd prison system despite athree judge federal mandate.SIGH, combine this with the fact that over SEVEN THOUSAND MEXICANS HAVE LOST THIER LIVES DUE TO CARTEL VIOLENCE AND TURF WARS it is to weep.the WAR ON DRUGS is,as usual, another war on the poor. a black comic comic in the 60s, i forget who said-NOW THEY GOT A WAR ON POVERTY TOO? HELL, POVERTY IS ALL WE GOT LEFT!

i got lots more ammo from reading the daily fishwrap but its been 92 & 93 here the last two days BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL and the Lockheed Fire fumes are no longer assaulting me so after i rebuild my Email account i am going shopping for goodies and try to enjoy the day before the inevitable crash from three hours of sleep. BTW does the PT in Physical Therapy really stand for PHYSICAL TORTURE? i got stories...

BTW2
for those of you nitpicker who notice recent changes in the header. i was 'suckered' into blogging, altho is is rather addictive and pleasureable.as part of the OUTREACH efforts of the SANTA CRUZ COUNTY DISABILITY COMMISSION ...www.SCCCOD i suggested we start a blog to fill in the gaps in coverage due to savage and ruthless budget cuts.i was to be one of several people contributing but the monitor of all input etc.
WEEEELLLLLL, the suits in legal pooh poohed the idea, once i had already gotten up & running, ans the management types in Human Resources (sic) said the county had never had a blog and didn't need one now...then my friend and compatriot TICK died andso i am out here naked,on my own,running my big mouth for all and sundry.NOW YOU KNOW... THE REST OF THE STORY (sic).

this IS fun.
Mahayana y'all
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HEARTS N MINDS

"When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." LBJ

aloha again, just a short screed today.

BIPARTISAN COMPROMISE???
are the Dims OUT OF THEIR MINDS or just ignorant of history?
under FDR the GOP fought to kill both Social Security and Unemployment Insurance. under Truman they fought and killed Single Payer then under LBJ they fought to kill Medicare using the usual "socialized medicine" mantra then under Bush 43 they inserted the absurd and crippling donut hole in Medicare Part D...

so with just this brief glimpse at history does OBAMA MAN's insistence on Bipartisan Compromise make any sense? this is like King Soloman and the divided baby, it's truly pathetic and awful. both CNN and MSNBC are bleating this morning that the Dims might try to go it alone on Healthcare Reform, really? after the GOP inserted 163 amendments into the House Bill,while the Senate is dragging its corrupt bought & paid for Gucci clad feet as usual? SIGH.

when the GOP is is power they have assh*les like Tom Delay,Newt Gingrich,Dick Armey and Trent Lott to enforce discipline.when the Dims are in power Nevile Chamberlin's ghost arises to take control of the appeasement process.IT IS TO WEEP...

Howard can you add a Comment with more detail?

Mahayana namaste
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PLAYING WITH FIRE

"Expectations breed disappointment." Ray on NPR's CarTalk

aloha again, spoke too soon about the Lockheed Fire.since it spread yesterday my eyes are watering, my nose and sinus cavity are severely congested, fine ash smears the car and i feel like crap.i am about forty miles south of the conflagration as the wind blows (sic).

BEACH BLANKET BELLYDANCE
a friend of ours danced at a local bellydance fest last night ,heavy on the Beach Boys and modern dance. i must confess to never having seen anything like it. if it weren't for the fire and strong perfume permeating the venue i might have enjoyed it more. odd that the overweight women turned out to be the best and most sprightly dancers,Soul Mate agreed altho she liked the 'fairy' in the aqua outfit and wings.they do several shows like this every years, check out anything with Cece involved okay?

PAGANI ECONOMY
you Madame are a COLLAPSATARIAN (sic) a wise friend of ours ( thanx Howard) send us a article describing people who want the current plutocracy/kleptocracy to fail so that something sane and fair can be built among the ruins FINALLY! bailing out AIG & WALL STREET is just putting more lipstick on a dead pig, the rich get richer and the poor get screwed AGAIN.
business as usual is what got us into this mess, FREE TRADE AIN'T FREE!

watching Obama trying to convince the shredded middle and working class that his watered down bipartisan efforts are GOOD and that astroturfing Howling Mobs corporations are NOT THEIR FRIENDS...SIGH.
BTW I TOTALLY TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU, whatcha gonna do when the job wells run dry? SOCIALISM, OR BARBARISM, OUR CHOICE??? check out our European allies and dystopian sci fi for the answers.more SOYLENT GREEN anyone?
www.CNN.COM reluctantly i must commend CNN for doing an admirable job yesterday answering healthcare related questions for a full hour without the usual hype and flummery then just to poison the well after Obama's Colorado stump speech they had the usual astroturfing lobbyists and obstructionists pontificating.check out www.factcheck.org for a more clearheaded and not ratings 'controversy' inspired coverage.i think of the whole Climate Change BS which Fox and others still declare as CONTROVERISAL despite overwhelmong evidence to the contrary.HMMMMM, SOYLENT GREEN IS LOOKING BETTER & BETTER...BTW our senior Fox addicted friends here blame ENVIRONMENTALISTS for all the KALIpornia fires SIGH. apparently an enduring drought and bone deep budget cuts to everything have nothing to do with it. goddamn treehugging dirty hippies still screwing up the planet again.

speaking of dirty hippies,
40th ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK. does anyone see more than just another marketing ploy involved here? i mean the anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki did not inspire CDs and tee shirt sales nor did the Manson Murders (who in the newsrooms is keeping track of that crap???)
i confess, neither Woodstock, Altamont (which i attended) not 9-11 changed my life nor inspired a jingoistic fetishism in my parched sanity addicted soul.

in other news, speaking of sanity. heard a rational approach to healing vs.traditional allopathic medicine on the radio yesterday (KUSP FM) with Dr.Bernie Siegel who actually advocates LISTENING TO PATIENTS. WOW, WHATTA CONCEPT!!!!! www.berniesiegelmd.com check it out.

a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire decide to become roommates in England... sounds like the being of a truly paranormal & porngraphic joke or limerick doesn't it? actually it's a new BBC TV series, check out TRUE BLOOD instead,if you have HBO or rent the DVD, i also liked TORCHWOOD better than this thin gruel.aloha y'all.

Mahayana namaste
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NO JAM TODAY

"You get jam yesterday and jam tomorrow but NO JAM TODAY!" Red Queen ALICE IN WONDERLAND

SNARKY ALERT!
aloha again,
by now you know i have a Big Mouth. in person i am much the same, so much so that yesterday at an unnamed county meeting, about the KALIpornia cash crunch fx on us crips and the frail elderly and kids, the chair gave me a list of words to AVOID per the KALIpornia EDD (Employment Development Department). my reaction? "Cool, i'll put them in my next blog." look for the words in CAPs okay?

a CRIP'S story

john was a typical RETARD; AFFLICTED with a SPASTIC colon,STRICKEN with a DEFECTIVE brain, MAIMED by a serious auto accident and a VICTIM of lousy doctoring. his main squeeze joan, was an UNFORTUNATE semi DEFORMED GIMP INVALID often CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR while not dancing naked at the Itchy Kitty in Reseda.
john was often seen as LAME CRIPPLE when trying to stuff dollar bills into bouncy hip shaking G Strings but joan liked his funny CEREBRAL PALSIED ass anyway.john was both EPILEPTIC and ARTHRITIC and was often viewed as CRAZY,INSANE or PSYCHO when he asked cabbies to drive him to the Itchy Kitty.he looked like a POOR DEAF AND DUMB old CRIP with his soiled baggy clothes,big head,wobbly erection and SPASTIC WITHERED limbs...

you get the idea.
you're supposed to use the PC verbiage of PWD-Person With a Disability.bullcrap, we are reclaiming CRIP et al like the gays reclaimed
QUEER. "WE'RE HERE,WE'RE CRIP-GET USED TO IT!"

in other news, the Lockheed Fire ( now 4100 acres per the radio news) is burning the remoted hilly area north of here,near Davenport and the local nude beaches. unlike last years fires no ash is currntly falling on me or my unit, no not That Unit you dirty minders.
SOUL MATE is in Seaside today so i am painting my plain tee shirts 3/$10 at Longs, with nasty or enigmatic slogans and pictures.SM once made the mistake of buying me a black tee saying I DON'T GIVE A F*CK WHAT YOU THINK now lives in fear of where i may decide to display it...he he he.
aloha all you SLITHY TOVES.

Mahayana namaste
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HOLLAH HOLLER

"I personally believe we developed language because of our deep need to complain." Jane Wagner (Lily Tomlin's writing partner)

aloha again, this loooks to be another twisty maze of a blog but i will try to keep it readable.here we go...

@ TOWN HALLS
Soul Mate went to see US Rep.Sam Farr (Dim- Carmel et al) a couple of nites ago, the night before he was shouted down in Monterey (more conseratives than S Cruz) here he had the usual NIMBY loudmouths plus some halfwit who played the ukelele everytime she disagreed with someone's opinion (of course our daily fishwrap had her in full color on the front page the nest day) SIGH.

i initially was set to write my usual kneee jerk Progressive screed but Soul Mate & Randi Rhodes radio has convinced me otherwise. (www.randirhodes.com)
1. for every 1000 hours of right wing radio there is one hour of progressive radio in the USA...
2.the BUSH TAX CUTS to the Uber Rich totalled $1.7 TRILLION while the Universal Health Care (ObamaCare) which is TOO EXPENSIVE (sic) totals about $1.7 TRILLION.did i miss the uproar and outrage of the former???
3. we live in the Second nicest ROP (Resident Owned Park) mobile home park in Capitola.one must be at least 55 to own here and the age range is from about 55 to 98.as the YOUNG OLD me and Soul Mate deal with people daily who are old enough to be our parents or grandparents.they are not generally bad people...BUT they listen to Fox News and religious TV like it's gospel.in response to an innocent question about Obama Soul Mate got the knee jerk response HE'S A SOCIALIST!
4.Lyndon LaRouche and his disciples were giving out free pamphlets which have a picture of a smiling Hitler photoshopped next to a smiling Obama, the contents of this rag are about what one would expect...
5.Rhandi Rhodes has pointed out how IRRATIONAL most of the arguments are at these town halls and that FEAR ITSELF is the key. sorry but i,for one, did not see my world change after 9-11.as a student of history i could imagine this as equal to the panic and hysteria after Pearl Harbor.

SOLD AMERICAN!
let's face it, the AMERICAN DREAM has been outsourced and the American Public fed on a steady diet of racism,xenophobia and jingoism for the last eight years.whatever most white people believed about America now lies in bitter ashes around their feet while 'terrorists' like Death Panel Sarah Palin,Rush,Glen Beck ,HANNITY, BILL O' & Micheal (Weiner) Savage whip up deepseated anxiety and outrage.WHITE MEN ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES!???
Obama is a Kenyan socialist, oh really? Obama is a euthansia fascist? Obama is a Hitler clone looking to kill 'useless eaters' like your granny and disabled kids? c'mon all this BS can't be true at once. but that's where the irrational fearmongering and the Big Lie of Josef Goebbels comes in. niggerss and kikes are running the White House and some spic is now on the Supreme Court.is it any wonder that the nutjob survivalist militias are on the rebound?

WHAT NEXT?
America is still a profoundly racist country, not Everyone but still enough to matter.the Anti Prop 8 gays want to wait until 2o12 so more non homophobic High School age students will then be able to vote.is that our only hope? to wait for the "Greatest Generation" to die off so that we can get Universal Healthcare and full Civil Rights for all? say it ain't so...PLEASE!

i am bumming my self out now so i will stop.

in other news, go to Rhandi Rhodes website to get more info on HMO's profits and their CEO salaries, it will blow your mind & piss you off!

Mahayana namaste y'all
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WHEN IN ROME

"The Romans more deadly still are they,for you find in them an arrogance which no reasonable submission can elude.Brigands of the world, they have exhausted the land with their indiscriminate plunder, and now they ransack the sea.The wealth of an enemy excites their cupidity, his poverty their lust for power.East and West have failed to glut their maw.They are unique in being so violently tempted to attack the poor as the wealthy. Robbery,butchery,rapine,with false names they call Empire and they make a wilderness and call it peace."
-Tacitus ( back to shorter quotes next time...)

aloha again, i think i have mentioned that i am a History buff as well as a news sponge.anytime i watch something about the Fall of Rome i wince at the similarities.you will too???

@SLAVERY
i have been bummed out this week after reading the MENDOCINO PAPERS Part One by Bruce Anderson.I CANNOT recommend the book, which is apparently self published, a rambling unedited jumble of facts and pointed opinions. with no chapter breaks to ease the appalling tales. did you think slavery ended after the Civil War, except for sharecropping etc,i sorta did.apparently in KALIpornia it was legal to enslave local Indians until recently, this practice did not end when the California Missions went under. as NON PERSONS local Indians had no rights or legal identity( despite living here over 12,000 years) so could be killed or raped or herded around with impunity. the MENDOCINO INDIAN WARS (sic) happened after Charles Stone and his buddy Kelsey (founder of Kelseyville in Lake County) both infamous rapists and pedophiles of Indian children, went Too Far and were captured then dismembered by local tribes. in return a Mendo Militia was authorized to raise Hell and make the earth run red with Indian blood, which they did very efficiently even unto tribes who had never heard of Stone or Kelsey....North of Santa Rosa the history of Indian affairs is UGLY!!!!
i learned some of this when i lived in Mendo ( outside Willits) five bitter years before moving back to civlization (sic).i was told by first hand hearsay that as recently as the 1950s you could buy Indian slaves in downtown Ukiah, the county seat, after Sunday church services.SIGH.

as a child my father told me to always keep a few dollars in my pocket,no matter what. i did not understand why but he PROMISED i would when i got older. two weeks ago on NPR i think, they told tales of southern states anti black VAGRANCY LAWS , that if you were an outsider hobo or black traveller with No Money in your pocket you could be sentenced by the local bigots to a virtual life sentence of hard labor at Parchment Farm or some other sweltering prison hellhole.this only ended in WWII when FDR stopped the practice to block Nazi propaganda on the subject and to send a segregated army overseas to defeat racist Facism.SIGH.

last night i watched a docu on WILD WEST TECH, the subject was Brothels and whores in the Wild West.it was ugly and grim as expected, one point i especially noted was the enslaving of Chinese women to fill the brothels of San Francisco, Silver City,Denver etc etc.a practice which continues , more or less unchanged, to this day.SIGH.

THE DOOMSDAY GAZETTE...
BOO HOO, all this week our local fishwrap and various tentacles of the MSM ( Main Stream Media) have been shedding crocodile tears about how the KALIpornia Dream is OVER! SCREW YOU ALL!!! don't sit in NYC or Atlanta and punditcize how KALIpornia is doomed just because we have a lazy and impotent misgovernment.this country survived 8 F*CKING YEARS of THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY,, we are NOT Too Big To Fail but i predict that we ,in KALIpornia,shall get past the idiocy and sleaziness of the Sacto Solons (sick) and their heartless ways.
a meeting i went to this week predicts that 23% of disabled people on IHSS in Santa Cruz County, who get help to survive Independently and escape nursing home imprisonment (people just like me frankly) will fall by the wayside and be left on their own as the Gov refuses to RAISE TAXES on the rich & wealthy energy corporation or REPEAL Porp 13 which doomed this state, along with lobbyist friendly Term Limits, to this precipitous HELL.

i was going to pontificate about the Health Care forum RANT- A -MOBS but i've bummed you out enough for one day.
the weather here is PERFECT and later me and Soul Mate are going out to see the SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE make fun of the rich & powerful & impotent.

in other news,
www.elderjusticenow.org there are currently efforts underway to pass a National Elder Abuse Law to protect the usual victims.check it out.

Mahayana namaste
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