Defending Obama as if he were an Islamic Terrorist

This post was originally written before Obama was elected. Looking in on this abandoned blog I attempted to edit and inadvertently republished yesterday. I wish I had noted the exact time but , what are you going do? This thought is out of time and a lot of water has flowed over the historic dam , and two presidents as well..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... This country is deep into Israel because we are Christian crazies . Let me repeat that because I don't like the layout of this page , This country is deep into Israel because we are a bunch of Christian Crazies .All that stuff about "end of Times " , "Armageddon" , and ".... I spoke with JEEEEEsus this Morning and he told me ,.."will not allow this country to abandon Israel . It is intrinsically embedded in the brainwashed minds of this phony country that promised "Freedom of Religion" as long as it was still Christian or Jewish. I am not a deist , personally , and I am not an Obama man . I do not believe in the concept of "Messiah" . I don't believe in "monotheism" much less Jesus as the "son of god" , the fairy story ripe from the lips of Akhnaton , another , former "son of god" and major bullshitter . I don't care what the founders of this country imagined . We are in another world , another time . I really thought that a "Constitutional Convention" was going to come about in the late sixties but , obviously , I was wrong .The waving of the flag has been used to hide the flaws in our system . The election of Obama will not be a resolution for me but McCain would be a terrible defeat . Once there was a vision of revolution , a revolution that got rid of the aristocrats . Those countries , France and Russia did kill their rulers . America had mentioned in it's inception that when people become subjugated by other people they should have the right to rebel . Unfortunately , this schizophrenic thought was accompanied by slavery and the founding fathers built in their own aristocracy . Every four years there should be a revolution but it has become an eight year deal and further because of the way we , as a people ,have allowed the congress to act and perpetuate their own agendas which have been guided by lobbyist and special interest groups . The last twelve years results have been a perfect example of how far we can go astray . While I won't work actively for the election of Obama I will vote for whatever Democratic dog they put up in the hope that this cycle will be broken . I wish there were a way to stop these people , stifle their plans , stop the Republicans and the Democrats . I think that Nader has some very important points but he is obviously a wasted vote in our time . This "pro Israel" deal isn't a prerequisite to being a democrat or republican and George Bush can sure prove that particular point . His foreign policy was so bereft that he wouldn't participate in the Palestinian problem at all . Bill Clinton did make an effort . The final straw of Arafat reneging on the deal was a terrible blow to the entirety of it all but at least he died well . It does seem to me that somewhere along the line America should concentrate on it's own business and not Israel's , the Palestinians, Iran , Iraq, Afghanistan , or Russia's . The little cities like "New Orleans"and it's people should be cared for . The soldiers of America should be brought home and used prudently . It is a travesty that we became an aggressive Nation ,isolating ourselves as we have . This is worse than Nam or it's character which was rotten to the core .The current conflagration can be linked to big business , corruption , and manipulation on the grandest scale and worthy of the Machiavellian characterization that comes with it .It is not a patriotic event at all . The idea that an American presidential candidate would be or could be backed by a terrorist is ludicrous . This current last ditch effort of the McCain campaign to besmirch Obama is indicative of the tactics used on McCain by Bush in the primaries of 2004 . These underhanded techniques are similar to the lying that got us involved in Iraq in the first place . It is a shame to see McCain lowering himself to this level . Perhaps he will actually retire from the Senate after this failure in his last run for the presidency. Here is a man , another man , who can't be trusted and who has fallen to his own greed and lust for power instead of striving for the greater good he could have achieved . There is still life here in America and maybe the pseudo-revolution will take place this time, this election . The revolution here doesn't require actual terrorist just an intelligent vote .

Long Time No See

Yea , a lot of the blogs are gone . I didn't come back. I must have forgotten till now , signing in this old thing. I had better watch what I say , censorship is rampant . I forgot too much and the more I learn the less I know , as you may or may not recall . Maybe I'll get back some other time...

"You Leave Me Breathless" Kind of exposed here in my living room on a cold day , this song has become one of my favorite ballads of late.

"Be My Love" With Len Cohen on drums and me playing the organ . Remixing old recordings I have added them to slide productions from "Kizoa". the slide format I have been using for a year or so.

Copy of End of Love Peace - Kizoa Movie Maker - Video Editor

I have been working on slides . The logo is imposing from this particular site . The link features a full screen view as well as the ability to turn on or off the music . The photos are very high resolution ,clear , and starling . Hey , I haven't posted anything for so long . I signed in to make a comment elsewhere and so stopped in here for a moment to share this

http://www.kizoa.com/Video-Editor-Movie-Maker/d41787464k8053573o1l1/end-of-love-peace

will opens a separate page which this page stays open. Copy and paste it . I can't seem to get the damn thing to work for me ..Hey ,onward !

I have included a painting I call "I Lost the Sunshine and Roses.."

"Drinking on the Boondocks C2" We went to a place in the mind called the boondocks ,sometimes near water ,sometimes under the Arch in Washington Square.Singing outside the apartment took away our inhibitions but maybe the booze helped some,too. We sang because we liked singing. It made us feel rich,happy,and at home even when we were so far away.Pete and me really were the heart of the Dreamers though it seemed like it was Jerry and me .. haha , maybe we were a menage ,switching partners every other month. Any way you label it , we sang to keep the demons at bay,laughing all the way.I don't really sing like that anymore and I haven't drank a drop since August 2002 ,but I still look back and smile.

"Drinking on the Boondocks of 3 Diff B" Sometimes I just can't get what I want( Is this something that is universally profound or what !) I tried to use the original acrylic , a large ,gaudy poster that is tall and thin. The idea was to make it more subtle by incorporating it into another ,larger composite .. haha , Well, it is still a theme I can come back to as I have burnt out with it for now. I painted for hours ,sprawled on floors across the country ,paint flying everywhere until my eyes were blurred. Now I find myself achieving the same loss of eyesight , blur, yet still I get hung up in the intricacies of the dimension , trying to leave and going further till I don't trust my eyes anymore.We take sight for granted like cool clear water , the focus and colors of everyday filtering through all the time but even water is finite and is taken for granted too much. Better hit the shower..

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"(Bobby Dylan)

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fools gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proved to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.

So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to you ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.

As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their marks
Made everything from toy guns that sparks
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.

You loose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand without nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despite their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platforms ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God Bless him.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

Old lady judges, watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.

While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me ?

And if my thought-dreams could been seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.

"The Beautiful Twins"

You will find a repaired photo of Mhai Scott in my adjusted now called "Justifiable Homicide".composite .Justifiable homicide is what they called the action of the Virginia police who killed a little Chinese woman ,Mhai Scott who had a knife. You have to wonder exactly what kind of training it takes to shoot someone with a knife. I mean a bat might have been a better decision than a bullet.It seems to me that a long broom might be an antidote to a knife , that is the stick could keep a small Chinese woman at bay while the other police could surround the woman , knock her over with their Billies..or swat at her with newspapers. Damn, you could throw apples at her and get positive results without having to kill her with your gun. Prince Georges County and Montgomery County are no different and they have been pushing the boundaries of the law since long before 2001. It has only gotten worse. It is a wonder that there aren't more people flipping out ,waving knives on their three day a week jobs for Walmart,KMart, TJMax, McDonalds,and Home Depot where they are under the wire without benefits, no idea what their schedule is , and sharing housing with others.They said she was threatening them . Boy , grown men , grown men who are supposed to be trained to handle situations not shoot , whitewash , and ask questions later.

The point is that these killings are constantly happening all over the country and it is not a racial situation. It is a human situation facing the citizenry of the United States. The sensational - racial amplification takes the focus off the real situation that the police , the government , those forces we invest our trust in to do the right thing are not doing the right thing. How long is the police state going to be supported with fear mongering. In Boston , they shut down the entire city for one boy after the local security dropped the ball . In DC 2002 , they shut down the entire Beltway looking for the wrong truck. This testing of a free society has resulted in the loss of a free society.Everybody is holding on for dear life . You people who work for the government , the military , and even private industry since the January 2010 Supreme Court Ruling can't openly express an opinion that is counter to what you know is dictated to you by your boss.Facebook,Google, MSN,Twitter, etc. etc. are all now in the pocket of Obama.Democrats are not Democrats. Republicans are posturing opportunist preaching like Moses , like Akhnaton , like Taliban from the point of view of "God"told me this morning and all that shit.There is no free speech. It doesn't even matter what you do , it is what you say . The thought police are here and they shoot first , whitewash , then ask questions later.

Corporates say its the fault of the unions that they moved abroad but we know that NAFTA didn't help the US . Corporations would still have child labor if they could and don't forget slavery. We are not that far off ,in fact this Corpocracy is just another form of slavery. Stop waving the flag and saying ,"..but this is the best country in the world ." and all that shit .It isn't and hasn't been for a long ,long time . We have become the Nazis.There is no common sense in our congress, the TSA, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon ,or any of the letters out there trying to hold on to their budgets in spite of them already being fat ,inflated beyond our understanding because the real budgets are secret. Doesn't everybody want to have more toys ? Why do we have to support men with toys that kill? They are not protecting us , they are making it worse for us , the US in the world . You don't have to shoot and then make up stories about why you had to shoot . This has become the US Foreign Policy . Drone Warfare creates more "Justifiable Homicide" in the name of the American People .The label "Collatteral Damage" doesn't do much to cover up what should be called "Murder" . Bradley Manning blew the whistle on "Murder" ,murder similar to war stories I heard from men at Travis Air Force Base in San Fransisco in 1965 but ,then again , those "Atrocities" were not collateral damage but what we became supporting a questionable foreign policy .Hey , all you "Letters" ,come and get me and let me fucking retire in prison or shoot me and put me out of my misery but don't tell me you are protecting me . You are a greater danger to me than any terrorist blowing his ass up . One day the far left and the far right will come to agreement on this fact and this will be the end of the war games , the corporate take over of our democracy , or these states will lose the epithet "United"."

Lt In the Depths of the Blues Detail

American Diatribe or Little Boy Lost

Right now it is dangerous to point out the deficiencies in the current administration.The Wiki-Leeks Guy , Manning , a young man in the military,a "Whistle Blower" that saw atrocities commited by our military, exposed them ,acting on his beliefs ,was tortured for a year before he was brought into court to admit his guilt. Is that Military justice here in America? The Obama Administration has continued the Bush policy, the "Patriot Act' and the amplified "Patriot",the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an act that should be recognized as treasonous to the basic aesthetic American Civil Rights that were guaranteed in the Constitution ,those "Inalienable Rights" that we once cherished.Tis is all done in the name of protection or the illusion of protection.I don't believe for a second that the wars in Viet Nam , Iraq, or Afghanistan have protected me in any way. I have been in harms way many times but not in war but here in the States. I would like to be protected from the police. Even bringing up the subject is a dangerous thing to do .The police of PG County Maryland were out of control before the attacks of 9/11 and their abuses escalated afterward like Johnson's Viet Nam.


The current volunteer military should know what they are doing before they sign their lives away and trust this government.Signing that contract is endorsing what ever policy the administration of either political party puts on our flag , that pretense of acting in the name of me , you,and the rest of the American citizenry.Pre-emptive strikes are accepted as the American way.Drone strikes without regard to the innocent lives afected and sometimes snuffed out . The term"Collateral damage" has brought about the acceptable spin that negates the term that should be used ,"Murder".Torture and occupying countries are now what the American military does for us.They are creating more enemies than friends and not protecting us at all.Our government is neglecting the basic need for government in the first place of protecting our own territories and shores,for instance the New Orleans flood of 2005 and in 2010 the protection of our shores was somehow given to BP Oil along the Southern Coast and not our military. When people say that they are fighting for me , that is a lie , a spin created to perpetuate this myth that America is the greatest , the most powerful , able to leap tall buildings in a singly bound , and all that jazz. Raising the flag has become a diversion from what ever secret comes to be seen that they have determined shouldn't be seen ,like those Wiki Leeks ,or for instance or in the early seventies, "The Pentagon Papers".America has faltered.


We are being run by the corporates who have been considered citizens since January 2010. The last election was the first time that they were able openly to buy out the candidates.Don't believe the current "Spin" being told by the corporate press or the imaginary television journalist that the excessive ,undisclosed campaign funds didn't affect the last election. The current congress are still paying back their benefactors and will continue to ignore the American people in favor of their money sources.The current congress has said and done nothing about the " Citizen's United " decision. They are working as a team ,both Republicans and Democrats to undermine our democracy in favor of the "Corpocracy" that they are supporting .


Any one who joins the military will be subjected to what the corporate masters decree and not representing American citizens any more than our congress represents us anymore. Our military , including the National Guard , has been tied up in Afghanistan for over ten years ,they are spread across the world. The bases in Germany ,Italy, in fact throughout Europe are worthless except for what they cost . That is where the money has gone . Privatizing Social Security is a terrible price for individual citizens to pay and could be analogous to the current ten percent thievery on the table in Cyprus.


Man , the police will not protect you but will come after you have been stabbed.If you get caught in the mess of the Justice System , they will throw the book at you ,lie, make up charges and then you will plea bargain in an attempt to extricate yourself . That is the justice department's job ,a habit of lies which allows criminals to get off easy and the innocent to pay through the nose ,if they can afford it . The military is a political pawn , a mythological representation of National Defense. They are not defending anyone anymore . They are aggressors. We are now an aggressor Nation. Wasn't that what Germany and Japan achieved in 1941 ? So we have both the "Gestapo" and the "Brown Shirt Gang" invading ,peacefully killing in our name .Supporting the "Good Dictators" like "The Shah of Iran",Sadam ,Musharraf, Mubarak,not to mention previously supporting and arming Osama Bin Laden are all the self serving bad policies of past administrations acting on our behalf. At present the Obama administration is tetering on the policy of supporting the Syrian Insurgence who well might actually be Al Caeda .The International Conglomerates that own this country have profitted on each of the wars. Our National debt continues to goe up, the economy is shaky for the individual citizen, but Wall Street thrives ,like right now . No, I don't support this military or this government.The problems are systemic and deeper than mere political parties.It is dangerous to speak out against this administration,even more so than against the Bush criminals who were pardoned before they were brought up on charges in one of Obama's first acts as president in 2008.Kind of reminds me of "Ford"pardoning Nixon yet Obama isn't supposed to be a Republican.

The Mailman Takes a Bite

The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, a law which requires the Postal Service to do something that no other business or government agency has to do–pre-fund its FUTURE retiree health care benefits.The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) stipulates that the USPS is to make payments of $5.4 - $5.8 billion into the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund, each year, from 2007 to 2016 in order to prefund 75 years of estimated costs. This requirement also explicitly stated that the USPS was to stop using its savings to reduce postal debt, which was stipulated in Postal Civil Service Retirement System Funding Reform Act of 2003.] This is in addition to deductions from pay for federal contribution to social services. This pre-funding method is unique to the USPS. In June 2011, the USPS had to suspend its weekly payment of 115 million into the fund because it had reached 8 billion dollars in debt and the retirement plan had a surplus of 6.9 billion dollars. This hasn't been being reported by our corporate media puppets, by that I mean ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,FOX,etc etc.. Another fact not being widely circulated is that independent agencies and the government itself have concluded that the USPS has overpaid into its two retirement systems.It is unfortunate and hypocritical that the Obama administration has advocated the elimination of Saturday delivery service as part of the deficit-reduction package while insisting on the need for job creation. If they simply transferred the overpayment in the retirement system into the future retiree health care obligation ,and eliminate the entire "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act", the Postal system could go back into the black. It was making money before the creation of this terrible manufactured financial crisis designed to break the one of the largest unions and dismantle our reliable public service. The capitalists pigs will privatize and get another big profit on the backs of Americans who will pay a lot more to Fed Ex and Ups ,who's stocks are soaring in anticipation. There is nothing Obama can say for me that will change my opinion of his hypocrisy.He might mention "Citizen's United" in his "State of the Union" .. but fat fucking chance ! His policy has been to endorse the Republican ,Corporate take over of this entire country.He is a phony ! "...The King is in the altogether, But altogether the altogether, He's altogether as naked as the day that he was born. .." I am not sure what the founding fathers had in mind when they endorsed the right to bear arms but I have to wonder if they still had the memory of the King of England and a general mistrust of giving power to a government only to see it become corrupt.Large guns like AK - 47s might be the only deterrent to the current corruption of our system. I have no idea what is in the minds of people who are buying AK-47s yet I know that in my mind we are on the edge of a failing system which includes corruption that I am not sure we can resolve by trusting corrupted legislators . The problem is systemic ,built in ,bought in by the corporates and banks who are not working toward democratic ideals but across the boundaries of states and countries toward their own interest which is always the greedy ,"More ,more , and more". A Revolution probably won't come but it should never be out of the question,especially if the "four year revolution"plan doesn't work anymore.

Feed My Fish Until I Get Back, Please .. "Ten Fish Going In"

Election Day

 
 "Time , time ,time ... What has become of me ?" (Paul Simon's "Hazy Shade of Winter")

  This blog was spared the rhetoric of the election .Today , as it is over, I can be glad I don't have to review it all too much. I did write this note on election after going to the polls . I can't remember an uglier election. The negative ads permeated the airwaves with the support of the "Super Pacs" . I don't know if this is the election they paid for or not.

     I goose stepped in and voted like the rest of you Nazis in the longest voting line of lifetime and the worst election, and to add to it ,a masquerade ,a fraud filled with sound bites that mean nothing while democracy fades.I handed my drivers license and they refused it opting to hear me yell my info at them as if they were hard of hearing or just your run of the mill "Ferners" to the "Claghill family"as I came down from the mountains to deal with the city slickers. I commented ,"So it is illegal for you to read my license."I hadn't gone there to have a jive conversation with bureaucrats , I hate this bullshit. This might be the last election for me with either outcome."Common Sense" has become one of those dinosaurs that used to exist...Wait a minute did this country ever have any "Common Sense". If there are any questions just play a flag waver.The power of this country is that we are stupid enough to push the red button ,turning it over to people we don't trust and who don't represent us once they are elected. "Have one doubt and they call it treason.." (Try To Make it Real Compared to What ?")The Constitutional Convention of "1968" never happened and they are still pretending that this mutant "Corpocracy" works.

   The presidency has too much power ,power that has accumulated from Lyndon Johnson on.The presidency has to be taken down a couple of notches .I doubt that he will volunteer to lose power any more than the congressmen will accept term limits.If Obama wants to dance in the middle of the street that is his prerogative but that would probably be a suicidal dance.He isn't stupid but half of this country doesn't agree with the other half, the Republicans don't agree with each other , and the Democrats don't agree with each other.It is even deeper than racism.
 
Incidentally , about fighting for the right to vote , about the military incursions where people have lost their lives in what has become the unilateral aggressive policies of the US. The wars called Viet Nam ,poverty, drugs , through Afghanistan are not defensive or protecting anything. Certainly not protecting my right to vote ,my freedom, the "American Way", and all that "Superman" flag waving bull that gets a knee jerk from too many people.I would like to be protected from the Prince Georges County Police and I don't even live in Prince Georges County.We have a police state that is beyond the crime of being black.They apply their boots to the neck of the rest of the people as well,that is the other 88% of us.I still maintain that the intrinsic systemic problem is not just coming from totally Republicans or Democrats. "Systemic Corruption" is universally abusing all American's civil rights and has ruined this American illusion of Democracy.

An Unforgettable Eyeful and Again This Year

Earlier ,last Monday morning , 9/11/12 I wrote :

 "Unforgettable Eyeful E 11" It was a dark day in spite of the clear blue sky just like today.The Afghan Culture is one with child brides in the tradition of Muhammad and the wife whom he married when she was six years old ,Aisha .He supposedly consummated the marriage when she was nine and he was 54. This subjugation of women continues to this day throughout the entire Third World Islamic Countries including India and Pakistan in spite of current laws prohibiting the abuse of children. This is a fact that the US cannot change with vengeful wars , the propagating of corporate democracy ,or forcing our pseudo - Christian morality which is seen as evidence of the infidel to the Muslims.We have to recognize the mood of this country that was vengeance after 9/11 and the mistake of our vitriol at that time.It is time to leave Afghanistan.


Later ,the next day :

Yesterday the attack in Libya was supposed to be in response to a film "Innocence of Muslims".I have tried to view that film and found it very disjointed .The one thing that is prevalent in the news on Youtube as well as the film clips are the commercials that one has to go through to get to the bad film.I will try later to see what exactly is so insulting that men would take up arms and kill about but I am afraid that I am biased and see groups of religious zealots as generally nuts.This is certainly on a par with the earlier riots over the cartoons of Muhammad.

Again , I want to emphasize that the entire Muslim population of the United states might be growing but the more reasonable ,actual count was about 2.6 million in 2010 . This is a very small percentage of 360 million people. The continued Molly Coddling of the Islamic faith with the "Politically Correct" responses by our media sources is insulting. I just don't get it . I have been wished "Happy Ramadan" by CBS while they don't seem to want to mention the word Christmas ,opting for "Season's Greetings".(Those of you that know me know that I am not a deist at all. I am a researcher , a student of Barbara Thiering,who is also not a deist .Some of you know me as "Zoot_Bruno",my Yahoo flip name which I kept even as a commentator on the 18th Dynasty and my Qumran research. I don't take any of this as the word of god or written in stone,in fact ,to quote myself , "What is written in stone is not written in stone.")

It has been suggested that the riots now continuing in Egypt as well could have been planned for the 9/11 date.Yesterday , I noted that our media had played down the date after replaying the films for ten years,after reading the names of the three thousand and showing the reading live for ten years,after showing ceremonies of the attacks for ten years . Yesterday , I didn't see one post pertaining to the event of 9/11 on Facebook, Not one . The only people that noted it were the people who killed that diplomat last night in Libya.

What I have seen of this film seems a bit foolish , childishly mocking , and hard to take seriously at all. I doubt that it will ever become a film and it hardly represents the US Government or it's policies toward Islam.It also seems funny that so many Muslims have noticed this film and pretend to have viewed it ,being taken aback by it,considering it has only been out for a short while . Nobody here noticed it because it is made so bad.The only place it has been available is Youtube.Is there a Google search mechanism for bad movies? Is that all the Muslims are searching for?

Incidentally , my earlier post about Muhammad and his wife ,Aisha , the six year old,are facts . I would be honored if I could be killed for bringing the facts to light to uninformed Americans. I didn't write it mockingly but in protest of the abuse of the women of the world , the female children specifically, a protest written from a free country ( at least on paper so far ).

America has wasted it's resources and good young men in the Middle East too long . If we need another base , why not just build the damn airport in the middle of Israel and get it over with .If they don't like it it ,pull out of fucking Israel too. Quit Molly Coddling the Muslims like they are children ,pull out of and stop supporting Pakistan,India, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Egypt , Jordan , the Palestinians , and the rest of the African tribes and nations that are so backward as to bite the hand that feeds them. They are not supporting the US or us.

   Still later in that week I wrote in response to the continued riots of people pretending to wear their god on the sleeve as an excuse for their ridiculous stand and expecting the rest of the world respect their idiocy :

        Why is there a need to defend Muhammad ? Do all these people have computers ? Have they all seen this stupid movie that I can't seem to stomach for more than a few seconds ? Again , I just don't "Get IT! "

  Look, we are living in a reactionary age . America is reacting to instead of leading the world . We have gone backward since the Reagan era ,since the Islamic Fundamentalist took hostages in Iran . The right wing, "Christian Fundamentalist" thought that they were the answer or perhaps ,once again , the climate of this country made them the answer. This answer was to show that the American Christians can be more primitively intolerant than the Muslims. Maybe they succeeded .

  All the crime shows on television these days continue to repeat that same plot that involves ,'They shot one of our own.." so throw law and order out the widow ,kill the perpetrator . We are aggrandizing and being entertained by plays that repeat the idea of officials who represent law and order being out of control. The Wearing of emotions on the sleeve ,responding to metaphors as if they are real,and negating social order is exactly what we are witnessing in the riots of Libya and Egypt right now . It has become entertainment . This is backward ,counterproductive.

  The imitating of the violent attack on the consulate of Libya and further acts of violence should be equated with a plague of children murdering adults who suggest that there is no Santa Claus. Free speech is not up for grabs . There should be no apology for a film or any other form of art ,bad as it may be to anyone . There have been worse works by people called art ,including some of my own paintings and music.This attack was coordinated and probably not committed by a mob of irate religious idiots who were told about yet another cartoon in the world that pointed to their idiocy.

  I want to remind you that historically monotheism has bread intolerance from it's inception . In the first Theocracy of Akhenaten  , the first law of monotheism was enforced by penalty of death ,namely that there would be no other god than the Aten and that worshiping Akhenaten , the self proclaimed son of god ,was the only way for the citizenry of Egypt to achieve reincarnation and the acceptance of the Aten through the new concept of his new version of the cult of Atenism . This very first commandment of Moses ,"Thou shalt have no other god before me "continued the same promise and threat as did Constantine's Edict of 323 , and the canonization of the Qur'an , mythically in 651 though the oldest Qur'an we have is from 150 - 160 years after the death of Muhammad(632). There is no evidence of Qur'ans having existed before the ninth century.

   This main tenet of all the Abrahamic faiths also happens to be the main argument between the three.While all speak of one god , they all seem to be different incarnations.Referring to redacted text from times long ago before the earth was even allowed by religion to go around the sun has no logic.If America is trying politically to get back to some better time ,responding in kind to people trying to get back to the "Dark Ages" is a big mistake and going a bit too far. 

To me, an infidel , a non believer , a person who does not accept monotheism or any of the tenets ,myths, miracles,or unsubstantiated promises of the organized religions , this is ridiculous.
 
The image of Santa Claus not as a jolly fat white man but as a dark Arabian -Jewish - Fagin or "Witchy" kind of character is the correct analogy of an insult that has brought about so much calamity(This same caricature ,ironically ,could well be used to depict Muhammad as well). Suggesting that Santa Claus can't fly up and down chimneys, that there are no flying reindeer pulling his sled ,and that he has no red suit is an affront to children everywhere and they should rise up and kill the parents who would embrace this notion.  Again ,"The imitating of the violent attack on the consulate of Libya and further acts of violence should be equated with a plague of children murdering adults who suggest that there is no Santa Claus."

   There has to be a better way . Leave them , no more corn ,no more money , no more Billions of dollars per country . Don't sell them any more guns . Yea ,right..Even though the United States is the biggest seller of weaponry in the world ,holding 80 % of the market . 50 % of what the US sells is going to Saudi Arabia . A large percent of the other thirty is going into other Middle Eastern countries . The US corporates are the only entities profiting from this business .

 
 

1St Amendment Still Up for Grabs

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The1st Amendment is a problem to corporate greed so watch out for those that would stifle voices,for instance Ron Paul at his own party's nomination event.The illegal arrest of the 26 year old former Marine in Virginia who posted remarks on Facebook is another terrible example of the abuse of the 1st Amendment right to free speech.He was set free as there were no legitimate charges there.The question remains as to how far he will take his possible litigation against a police state.

    Corporate entities have been fighting Union labor since Unions were invented. The Union force has dwindled considerably not to mention the factories of Pontiac and other empty cites , for example in Michigan. The Republican Party takes pride in putting union workers in their place. This includes teachers, police , and the government organizations. The first major crack down was on the air traffic controllers in the first few months of the Reagan administration. The current Republican platform is not one that is interested in protecting the American worker at all . Their platform openly is continuing down the path of "Trickle Down"( Voodoo) economics.Dismantling the regulations that have protected the citizenry from the greed of monopolies , the excesses of commercial banking (now deeply a part of investment banking), and the inequality of citizens economically that were once made equal in the voting booth has been achieved by corporate strength in campaign donations.

   One by one the corporations and conservatism have been dismantling our democracy.

   The first amendment cannot be taken for granted . Servicemen and even those that have retired ,our veterans are subject to scrutiny and the individual worker also is tied politically to their place of employment especially if it is a conglomerate. What you might write or even "Like" on the inner space of the Internet ,including Facebook , is open for discussion and approval by your employer. In that Facebook is a relatively new medium ,only popular for a few years so far, this is an ongoing situation.

   So they take away another Marine , so what ? So they take away a former Marine , so what ?  Boy,.. Marines?  It makes you wonder who is next . Who me ?

This cam recording is worthless after a minute yet it does illustrate the moment of this guy's arrest  by our current police state.
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Odds and Ends

The painting is named "Shattered Hammer Nebula C"
(Here is a closer examination link in the actual size ) :
  "Blow up"

      I was surprised to see the more recent resurgence of angel myths but the idea is strong and does predate monotheism. Speaking of monotheism, I don't believe that Akhenaten was the son of god or that the Aten is the only god .I personally don't believe in the other gods of Egypt ,Rome ,or any incarnation of deity or mythical spirits. Akhenaten's heresy, a religious revolution from the top, was also a political move against the powerful cult of Amun Ra but the results was to outlaw all the other temples of Egypt in favor of his "One true God". His was the first theocracy,the initial step into monotheism , and the first introduction of intolerance which continues today in every form of monotheism,each of which include an angel mythology and explanations of their purpose in the various dogmas.The Taliban are a modern continuation in this tradition of intolerance and morally subjugating people in the name of a superior knowledge of the nature of existence. The subjugation of women is the first step to subjugating men in all the male oriented - monotheist dogmas from Judaism on.In reality the basic principal of "Do unto other as you would have them do unto you" is universal and a ten commandments was never necessary. The first commandment is necessary in monotheism."Thou Shalt Have No Other God Before Me"also happens to also be the first commandment of Akhenaten punishable by death.Incidentally,denying the Nicene Creed also was punnishable by death.The Council of Nicea (about 325) under the Emperor - Pope Constantine dictated the edict to the Cardinals who were threatened with death if they didn't agree with the Creed's dogma. Created by Constantine,this was similar to Akhenaten's laws of intolerance and brutality disguised in the will of his imaginary god who also preached love .The Nicean Creed became the center of the new Christian monotheism that survived the Roman persecution ,outlasting their Essene Jewish root cult who also had planned to take over the Roman Empire.The Essenes failed in their plans but ,after Constantine, the Christians were successful and never looked back.

     It is interesting to me that there was an cartoon picture to depict a fantasy woman as an angel posted by a young woman who was defensive of her belief in "Angels". The Essenes didn't allow a women in the Temple much less married men or non-celibates until the few years that Jesus acted as their Priest-Pope-King , also considered a heresy ,but that is another story."You've come a long way, Baby."

      As for "Coming a Long way,baby".... I recently came across the report of a study of Sambian men.The Sambia believe that seman is the essence of manhood and all Sambian boys must injest quite a bit of it. When they start to develope a manly phisique their elders say , "See, it's working!"Now the adolescent boys get fellated by a new crop of prepubescent boys. So what is the rate of homosexuality among Sambian men? Roughly 5 % which is about the same level of homosexuality found in Western societies.By the time a Sambian reaches his twenties ,95% of them marries a Sambian woman in spite of his initial introduction to sex.So,even if a society urges us to participate in a specific sexual practice during our formative years,this doesn't necessarily determine our adult desires.(I have paraphrased from "A Billion Wicked Thoughts"Sai Gaddam and Ori Ogas 2011)

     The gay population of the entire world might be as much as 5 percent.Political pandering doesn't change the actual percentage of minorities.What does change the importance of minorities is that under fifty percent of the entire actual electorate come out to vote and in some communities there might be as little as 25 percent participation.Minorities that coordinate and come out to vote thus become more powerful to the candidates.One has to wonder what became of the majority rule idea that was the heart of democracy.

     Our Democracy has changed a lot in recent years. The repeal of the Glass Steagall Act in 1999 ,a regulation which separate Investment and Commercial Banking ,has brought a similar outcome of greed that made the stock market crash in 1929.After 2008 the Glass Steagall should have been re established but the regulations are weaker and the banks are still gambling and making a lot of money at it,that is when they aren't losing a lot( 2 or 3 billion by Chase last week). Congress fell to the pressure big money interest and second guessed their own regulation in that long fought mistake. The Supreme Court was also was re guessing at a law enacted by congress a long time ago, a congress that knew they could be compromised by corporate money.The Supreme Court under the pressure of big business in the decision of January,2010 made corporations individual citizens and made it possible to donate undisclosed amounts of money to campaign funds.These two main points will be hard to get around as the congress is bought and sold by the banking industry and corporate entities.This problem is across party lines.Plutocracy is now out of the closet and Democracy is off the table.

Mini Rant ,Corporate WWII,and Gun Control

"A mini rant".. (haha , indulge me ) I don't see the revolutionary scenario to be far fetched . Part of the the original intent of the the right to own weapons,as opposed to bearing arms against fellow citizens ,may well have been in remembrance of the tyranny imposed on the colonies by England.Before the Constitution or the second amendment were invented,the Declaration of Independence, in the early sentences established, "..endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." It would seem that this early statement tried to provide and establish another check to whatever government was to come about in post revolutionary America.Historically,revolutions can come from both the left or the right ( and even the top about 3200 years ago )but a prerequisite these days is having munitions and the willingness to counter those forces, police or military who are enforcing the oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of any ruler or ruling party. If our democracy is compromised , if the corporates really have created a plutocracy, and our votes have no meaning , then revolution will be put on the table. A new "Constitutional Convention" might be a start but recognizing the problem is the first step in any delusional or physical addiction.Going to war ,policing the world ,waving the flag , and supporting government policies that do not represent the people of America is not the resolution but a group of diversions. Currently, as an example of what may not be the will of the citizenry or really enacted in the protection of our citizens, I would like to point out that the current "SOPA Bill" will be exercising a new form of censorship on the our Internet in the guise of combating supposed "Piracy'. This bill is primary endorsed by corporate strength and could be compared to what happened last year in Egypt when their Internet was actually shut down during their revolution by an American company.China's censorship of their Internet is also analogous. Corporate WWII Corporations ,as a community put Americans to work in the WWII effort but were financed by the US Government.It was not a donation by those corporations who sometimes,like Ford Motors, sold to the Germans as well. The United States corporations also provided arms, locomotives, trucks, boots and many other items to its allies throughout the war under Lend-Lease. A total of $50.1 billion was spent: $31.4 billion to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to Free France and $1.6 billion to China.The defeat of Japan began demobilization and the return of the U. S. people and economy to civilian production. However, substantial military production continued for the "Cold War" between the U. S. and Russia following WWII. Our country came out of the depression after the war swinging .The industries that made the tanks , planes , and war supplies provided the American wealth that supported Europe and helped to rebuild the war torn world. Without reiterating the obvious list of military involvements since WWII ..In the Reagan administration the US went from the largest creditor nation to the largest debtor nation. The enormous corporations have survived and thrived and now have succeeded in controlling policies of our government which have included the bank and industry bail outs of the last four years and the compromising of our democracy.Corporate interest are communicated to congressmen by lobbyist and backed up by campaign support in the millions of dollars.Congressmen are supposed to be our representatives ,our elected lobbyist ,representing their individual state's constituents. The current conservative Supreme Court has recognized corporate campaign financing as a right ,similar to the individual rights of American citizens but no American citizen donates money to finance even two minutes of political ads for their candidates on television.The decision of January 2010 was in favor of corporate interest and not the interest of the American individual.It has insured plutocracy and compromised the "one man ,one vote" system that was the promise of our representative democracy. The only way to overturn this bad decision is for congress to create a new law but there is no Bill on the table and won't be in this election year.It may never be anything other than a campaign promise like the promise of term limits which comes up every once in a while but goes nowhere. Gun Control Issues and Texas These three very informative articles on the subject and your area reveal some of the problems of becoming a cowboy. Gun ownership is an American deal as are the questions of legislating regulations governing our rights.Americans own an estimated 270 million firearms – approximately 90 guns for every 100 people.The low ranking of Texas laws in comparison to other States might have a lot to do with the lack of age restrictions.There is a lot going on down there including Mexican Cartels and the open prairie kind of paranoia.The thing is police everywhere won't help you till after you are shot ,stabbed ,or robbed and then it is too late. http://www.lcav.org/statistics-polling/gun_violence_statistics.asp Carrying a gun increases risk of getting shot and killed http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17922-carrying-a-gun-increases-risk-of-getting-shot-and-killed.html Gun violence and gun control in Texas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_and_gun_control_in_Texas

There Is No Democracy

The last time I had this much trouble voting I coincidentally moved out of that county.This time I am very close to not voting in the general election. I don't think I have ever felt this abandoned by this country ever before . Even when Nixon was President I felt some hope that there might be a better time ahead . Carter came out of the woodwork and I had never heard of him ,Clinton was the same , and now Obama.I have come to a place where it doesn't matter to me anymore .The only thing I am doing is voting against the other party. My party doesn't represent me . I don't know who they represent but it sure doesn't seem to be the constituency.



I have no idea why the medical bill has been more important than the aesthetic value of or at least the illusion of democracy in America.There is no more illusion for me. It is over. All I can do is watch the concept fail as the people are urged to wave their flags and go to war.It is analogous to Communism in Russia. The idea seemed good on paper but the practice came down as a totalitarian regime.Many times it looked like the totalitarians had a leg up on democracies because they didn't have to answer to the people . Now American democracy doesn't answer to the people.



I didn't vote today though I went to two different polling centers. At the first I had a good conversation with an older man working the polls for the Democrats. While we were speaking a woman came up and complained about the new redistricting which she didn't know about,something about Van Holland's district being changed . I went in to vote and found that I couldn't vote at that particular place. I went to the out of the way place designated for my neighborhood and gave my address,full name,repeated my name several times, having to spell my last name again and again , then was asked to reiterate my age to them.At this point I was tired of playing this game . I suppose they might have given me a blood test but it was all a ridiculous charade conducted by petty authoritative little people. Who would impersonate me ? Drive to the out of the way polling place,give my address,spell my name several times .. I mean , to add to the supercilious , there is this bureaucratic nonsense. Intrinsically ,I already was questioning the reasoning of voting in the primary for a candidate who has spent too much money on the expensive paper in my mailbox and the intrusive phone calls to warrant the position they are running to control.I didn't really want to endorse any of the candidates.The only ones I knew anything about I didn't like anyway.I did walk out , to hell with it !



If the charade is exposed to light , the parade is off . Yes, the last time I had so much trouble was in 2002 and I voted for Johnson in Prince Georges County who was indited and sent to jail this year (ten years later),his wife soon following after. His campaign was about cleaning up the PG County Police force. That didn't work but at least I moved to another county but we are all in the same county , the same state , the same country , and the same world . Everybody wants to get in our boat and our boat is taking on water.



There is no more democracy. Somebody should have warned the Egyptians ,the Iraqi, and even the Libyans. I wonder who would warn them ? Could we count on Halliburton or the big oil companies ? Gee, what a great example of a rhetorical question !

Little Gigs

When I see the advertizements for individual gigs on Facebook from other musician friends it only reminds me that we are in a much different era. Professional musicians are papering the house instead of going from town to town entertaining the locals.Yea , yea , there are the shows , those venues of indifferent bigness but that is another illusion that really doesn't support many people for very long.Musicians were traveling across this country long before I ever went to work. Road life was a way of life and being a musician was also a means of support as well as an art.When did it change? I don't know ,it was a gradual thing like the climate of the world changing or the cowboys vanishing as the trains took the cattle across the country instead of trail driving men.Where did the cowboys go ? What did they do ? I might find out ,or maybe I won't.



This morning I woke up thinking of gigs ,past gigs .For some reason I was hung up remembering singing "Can't Turn You Loose" in front of a band(the Otis Redding song)and it wouldn't stop playing round my mind. That wasn't my usual fair ,really ,yet it was fun and exciting to see the crowd moving to the rhythm . Each gig has it's character , the individuals , the weather conditions, the load in and out, as well as the excitement of the audience's reactions as a whole and individually.I can float thorugh decades of gigs in my memory ,entire eras that are gone now . Somehow this morning ,I found myself remembering DC in 1964 playing the stringed bass at the "Brass Rail"with Charlie Hampton and Philly Joe Chavis.Buck Hill often sat in with us .Steve Novacel stopped in and I would switch to piano and Charlie picked up his alto or flute. The club was a nice little jazz scene five nights a week. On NY Avenue there were clubs in a row that sometimes I would peek in or have a beer between sets. There was another place called "New York ...Something" that had other musicians from out of town . It was before the rock thing took over everything . I would catch strange combos ,combinations that seemed unlikely like violin ,trombone , and piano .Such strange combos that I had to wonder how they did it . A Duo with Violin and drums seemed kind of brutal.



Ten years later ,I remember a violinist , Morgan Bear, who was a local booking agent here ,booking society music . He sold continuous music for the four or five hours they palyed and that would get down to strange combos ,too,as the musicians had to leave the stand occasionally. The trumpet players lips would fall off . Even the drums and bass had to stop sometime but the music went on . Out of Morgan's office there was another fellow ,Tommy Miropolis, a drummer who used to work for Liberace . He gave me some work . I played pop music then ,mingling in jazz ,but popular songs and what were becoming soul oldies.It is ironic that another agent there, Gene Donati , wasn't interested in pop and wasn't even booking any acts ,didn't give me a contact at all , but it wasn't too much longer that his jobs became so pop oriented that the pop format became known as a "Donati gig"to the musicians in DC. When I met them , they looked down their noses at popular music in favor of the standards ,two beat, and maintaining the society and political jobs of Washington DC.



One morning Miropolis called me and asked where I was playing. I didn't think too much about it at all and told him , "The Back Alley" a place I had been for a little while playing solo piano and singing. I played five or six nights a week there .There used to be other guys too.One of the guys was "Trey Hur", who played a knuckles O'Toole kind of bar room piano of real old songs. He once was a winner on the "Gong Show". My pop format kind of overtook the sing along thing somewhere along the way.I never papered the house or solicited friends to come to my scene as I met new friends and entertained the local people who lived in which ever part of town I found myself for a few months.Schmoozing on the phone with owners and maintaining contact ,over time ,I would go back again and again ,as I did in the "Back Alley". That afternoon , as I started at happy hour , I noticed Morgan Bear's man,Tommy walking through the place . He didn't stop to say hello but seemed in a hurry. I knew he was trying to cop the gig . I did speak with the owner later who quipped ,"Friend of yours? ..Yes, ,with friends like that ,pal.." Anyway , while I maintained contact with Tommy , I didn't mention my gigs to him anymore but Gigs come and go.



One time when I was out of work Tommy gave me a contact ,a position at a strip club to make a few bucks. I went out in the afternoon and met cab drivers at the hotels across town and told them that I would give them two dollars for each man they brought to the club. Later , I would be outside the club ,sometimes acting as a doorman ,but paying off the cabbies as they came and went . The "Show Palace" was on 11th Street when it was a strip mall ( haha .. real strippers , that is ) .There was a comedian-MC introducing the girls ,doing schtick between acts ,saying things like ,"Oh Newark , yea ..and he would have a joke about Newark or what ever town . The comedian was Jay Leno and he was doing the same act he does now,really.He was a nice guy at the time and seemed genuinely interested in you when he spoke with you ,just as he seems to be at the distance of TV.The girls were very attractive and were dressed in very little between their exotic dances.They tantalized and came to the tables to speak with customers who often bought them drinks .They ordered champagne but the waiter would bring ginger ale and charge the customer for champagne.That was like working at a carnival and I didn't do it very long and didn't keep touch with the Morgan Bear office too much after that.